Full Summary:
There is a tree in Terra Nova where all animals converge once a year. The scientists of Terra Nova know nothing of this tree until a girl from 2149ventures through the portal. What happens when the animals of Terra Nova start to converge on the
settlement? Will a secret from the girl's past be brought to light? And why does the convergence only happen once a year? Are the animals trying to tell the people something? Or is the Tree a way of communicating between this world and the next?
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The Tree:
They pushed onwards, always moving. It happened only once a year and it didn't matter if the animals were Carnivores or Herbivores, they all converged. It was a special tree, one where everything became one. The tree gave the dinosaurs and creatures
a chance to change how they were seen. It was something of a miracle. It wasn't even supposed to exist in this time period but it did. The dinosaurs knew not how it came to be here only that for as long as they had been alive they had been converging
on the same spot.
And it wasn't just the land animals either. The tree sat on a rock in shallow water between a beach and the ocean. The land animals would stay either in the shallows or on the beach and the creatures of the ocean would stay just off shore, where it
was still deep. They would stay the entire day and would just stand there. It had been overlooked by the people of Terra Nova because they couldn't harvest the tree for fear that some ocean creature would attack.
The tree was nearly 4,000 feet tall and as wide as four school buses. It predated the Terra Novans, predated the portal, predated most of the dinosaur species, and predated the birth of the time period. In fact, the tree had been born right as the
time period had been. Humans had lived here before the dinosaurs did and they had worshipped the tree before it had ever been in the ocean. Where it stood was where the center of the human town had been. The human town no longer existed but that
didn't mean its people didn't exist.
The people still existed, but they weren't seen in this world. They weren't seen in any world. And only one person could get them to come out of hiding. But that's for later on in the story. For now, let's just get back to the beginning of a wonderful
story!
Equinox:
The Carnotaur's arrived first. They were the first to get to the tree. And they waited. It wouldn't be long now, before the rest of the dinosaurs and creatures showed up. As they waited they waded into the shallow water and out again. Their young
stayed on the shore and drank some of the sea water but not much. The Carnotaur's knew better than to attack any of the Herbivores headed this way, towards the tree. This was a sacred place and every creature on the continent knew how to get here.
The Brachiosaurus arrived next closely followed by the Pterosaurs. The Slashers arrived next followed by the Brontosaurus. The Ancestral Komodo Dragons showed up next with their young and all followed closely by the Ankylosaurus' and their herd. The
Nykoraptors showed up next closely followed by the Empirosaurs. The giant dragonfly's and the Ovosaurus are the last to show up, though there are many more dinosaurs from the ocean to still show up.
Like the humans of Terra Nova and the humans that once lived around the Tree, the dinosaurs and creatures of the time period now waited for the Equinox to make itself known as this was the reason they all gathered at the tree every year. It was said
to be a magical day, though known only to humans as to why. And so the waiting began.
As the Equinox began, all dinosaurs: herbivore, carnivore and sea alike lay down or sat depending on what kind of animal it was. The sea creatures, though they could not stop swimming, did stop swimming in circles. They kept themselves afloat by moving
their tails back and forth but that was it. They were used to this yearly pilgrimage, though they knew not why they were called to the tree.
But unbeknownst to the creatures watching the Equinox, they were being watched as well. Humans from the settlement of Terra Nova had seen the weird migration and had followed. They stood in awe at what they saw, video-taping to some point what was
going on. They would show the scientists back in the settlement when they got back, if they could get back without alerting the carnivores that they were there.
But it didn't matter. Though the carnivores (all of them) smelled the humans, they did not leave the area surrounding the tree and the humans left in silence, never to witness something so miraculous ever again.
And so the story of the Tree begins…
More to come in next chapter…
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