(Have you ever had a day in your life where everything changed forever? I have. Hi my name is Eep Crood. I'm going to tell you the story about my home, AAAH valley. I know it's a weird name but it's not like I picked it. It was named after the last words of its founder, who forgot to check if anyone was already living here. Life here in the valley can be… hard, but what matters most is having people to watch your back.)

A rock moved away from a large pile of stones and made way to a sight of a group of lyoties chewing on bones. They looked at the large hole before a large man came out whooping hollering while flailing his arms to scare them off and sent the lyoties running. "Ah, today looks like another good day." the large man said stretching his arms.

"Grug look out!" called a female voice before something small and fast came barreling out of the cave towards him.

He turned before it knocked him over on his back while feeling it start biting at his head. "Sandy." he said before pulling a baby girl off his head and held her by the scruff. "We talked about this, daddy's head is not prey."

She let out a growl while reaching for him as he stood back up and held her out before a woman walked out.

"Oh how cute, she's trying to assert her dominance." the woman said before taking the from her husband. "That's my girl."

"She's an early bloomer Ugga." The large man said. "Not really sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing." He muttered quietly.

"Don't worry Sandy, someday you'll be ready to hunt prey all you want." smiled Ugga tickling her daughter's belly.

The baby giggled and squirmed in her mothers arm.

"Oh and Grug you forgot your power carcass." Ugga said to him holding out a dead, and flattened beaver.

"Right!" he said before taking it and stuffed it in his pelt by the tail. "Thanks, that would have been embarrassing. How do I look?"

"Like a real hunter. Fierce and intimidating."

"Thanks, maybe this'll make the prey run off scared, making it way easier." he said before kissing his wife.

"Uh mom, Gran's sleep hunting again." Said a rotund boy walking out dragging a sleeping old woman who was gnawing at his backside.

"Try to play dead and then she'll think she's won." the woman said.

"Okay." he said before dropping face first into the dirt and went totally limp. The old woman slowly stopped biting and smiled before letting go and rolled off him.

"Hehehe, I win." The woman spoke in her sleep.

"Eep! Come on honey you'll be late for school." Grug called towards the cave.

"Be out in a sec! I'm just trying on my new tiger pelt!" called a girl's voice before footsteps came out with another girl. "Ready!"

"Oooh Eep you look good in Tiger, very fierce." Ugga said looking over her eldest daughter.

"Thanks mom, I wanted to try something new out for once." she said looking down at the pelt.

"Just as long as it doesn't attracted the one thing I hate the most." Grug stated.

"Bear owls?" Eep asked.

"No, boys." he said with a deep tone and narrowed eyes.

"Dad." she groaned with an eye roll.

"Ugh are you still doing that eye roll thing pat made?"

"There aren't even any boys I like, anymore." she stated to her father.

"I just don't want you on go through that whole 'crush' thing again." Grug said as he moved beside her.

"Dad! Can we please not bring that up?" Eep shrunk not wanting to relieve the embarrassing time she tried crushing people with a rock.

"Grug shouldn't you get going to the meeting rock?" Ugga questioned.

"Right, the Valley Leaders work is never done." he said puffing out his chest, "well except for night when the moon comes out, I really hate that guy." he said and looked up at the moon giving him the stink eye.

"Bye guys." waved Eep running out. "Come on Thunk, if we're late Teacher Squawk will put us in Deep Trouble."

"Coming!" he called running after her just as Gran began to wake up.

"Huh," she blinked and looked around. "How'd I get outside?"

"You were sleep hunting mom, again." Ugga said to her mother. "I need to head out to gather, you look after Sandy."

"Oh alright, but if she tries to bury my cane again we're gonna have a problem." the woman said using her cane to pick up the wild child by the pelt.

Eep and Thunk hurried off to school when Eep was pounced on by a girl with long dark hair, in a purple pelt and buck teeth. "Hi Eep!"

"Hey Lerk." Eep greeted one of her closest friends while on her back and blew a little hair from her face

"Are you ready for today's lesson?" Lerk asked jumping off Eep and let her stand up.

"It all depends on the lesson." Eep replied and dusted herself off.

"Did you get a new pelt?" Lerk asked moving around Eep and rubbing the fur. "It's nice."

"Yup, and it's totally me." she said with a smile while posing. "I hope it lasts me for a while."

"Uh guys, class?" Thunk reminded pointing off in the distance.

"Oh, right! Let's go." Eep dashed off with the others behind her.

Meanwhile over at the meeting rock Grug was speaking with most prominent inhabitants of the valley

"Okay everyone settle down, settle. First order of business, yesterday we only lost two people on the hunt, an all time best if I do say so myself." he smiled at them. "However, that means we're gonna need to really pick up the slack until we can get more people, but that does mean extra food for everyone. We're gonna have to take a few cuts from the bait's share."

That got him a few groans.

"I know, but with super Predator season around the corner we can't afford to be reckless. Unless you want to be a Teranacondas lunch. Trust me it's worse than you might think."

That got them grumbling, but complying from the group who did admit it made sense.

"Alright then, now would anyone else like to say something?" he asked befor a hairy arm came up. "Ho boy. Yes, Old man Root."

"I sensed a change in the wind," the hairy said man looking left and right. "somethin's comin' towards the Valley. Somethin' none of us has ever seen before."

"You said that last week and all we got was a slight cool breeze." Grug replied.

"This time is different." he said with a hardened look. "I seen black clouds floatin' up to the sky every morning for the past few days now and they were closer each time."

"Uh huh, well right now we worry about hunting, then worry about dark little clouds." he said before looking to a rather slender caveman fussing with his hair. "Snoot how good is Bulk at hunting?"

"He's somewhat below average," Snoot replied with a dull tone. "not like Sulk with all his powerful muscles."

"Wait, isn't Bulk the big one?" Grug questioned raising his eyebrow.

"No he's the smaller moodier one," snoot corrected. "with the skunk pelt and the bones stuck through his ears."

"Then why name him Bulk?" Grug asked and scratched his head.

"We had high expectations since he was born first, okay." Snoot said crossing his arms in irritation. "Let's just agree the names stuck and get on with this thing."

"Okay, Snoot I want your sons on the hunting field tomorrow, the bigger one will be a hunter and smaller one will be bait."

"But they have school tomorrow." Snoot countered.

"Not anymore." he remarked. "Hunting for food is more important than school, unless you'd rather be bait and get a smaller portion than average."

"They'll be on the field first thing in the morning." Snoot said quickly with a nervous smile on his face.

"Good, and Amber I want you to teach Snoot's bigger son how to bonk." Grug said pointing to a blonde woman with a rock in one of her eyes.

"Amber can do that no problem. Have Pat join in to so she take over family job one day." the woman replied. "Maybe you have Eep join hunt too."

"Nononono no." Grug said shaking his head. "Uh uh, not gonna happen."

"Oh really?" frowned Snoot. "Why can't your daughter join if our kids are going to participate?"

"Well Eep is...well Eep." he replied. "She's not hunter material. We all now how she can be, she's a delicate thing."

At school Eep yelled out as she was flailing about while trying to hold on to a Ramu as it ran around. "Calm down!"

"Well done Eep, don't let go!" called a man with purple hair sitting on a rock with a stick in its hand. "If you lose my lunch you fail the test and be sent to Deep Trouble like all the rest." he said pointing his stick at a hole in the ground with a pair of jaws at the edges.

"Go Eep!" Thunk called.

"You can do it!" added Lerk.

"No talking in deep trouble." the teacher frowned before snapping his fingers which was followed by his pet lizvult dumping spiderants into the hole.

"AHH!" they cried out as the creatures crawled over them and the sadistic teacher laughed at their misery.

"I got it Teacher Squawk!" Eep called out while trying to keep her grip.

"Ramu are fast, but the more they run the faster they tire out, it also helps tenderize them too." smiled the man licking his lips as the animal ran around in circles, zigzags, and even serpentined. Yet Eep would not let go. "Try harder!"

"Come on...just slow down already!"

"Ooh I can tell this one's going to be particularly tasty." The man smiled before the ramu charge at him. He let out a girlish scream and ducked behind the rock as the horned bird ran off. "Eep, come back!" he cried out "I want to eat that Ramu!"

"I can't!" she yelled as they got further away.

"Oh boy," Squawk said growing nervous. "okay, no big deal Squawk. You only lost the Valley leaders daugher, you've covered up worse, right?" he asked before looking over to Deep Trouble. "Then again, maybe hiding down there for a few week or two might not be a bad idea. Just in case...oh students." he said in the hole. "I have an assignment for….extra credit, alright? You have to pretend Eep was absent today, in return no deep trouble for anyone, for a few days."

"Ok!" The students said in unison.

Meanwhile Eep was still clinging to the Ramu as it ran up stream and out of the valley. "Come on! Why won't you just stop already?" she questioned as it thrashed and bucked violently. "I'm not letting go! Ngh! So you might as well give up! It'll take a lot more to shake me off!

It snarled and kept going while trying to bash her against some of the rocks yet she hissed yet still held on despite the nicks and scratches. The ramu reached the limits of its patient and flipped on it's back and tried to flatten her. She lost her grip and it rolled off her.

"Gah, ow. Okay that was a good move." she winced and rolled on to her stomach, before looking at the enraged creature as it hissed at her. "Uh, you're not gonna take that all personally, right?"

It scratched at the ground and charged as it screeched.

Eep curled up into a ball waiting for the attack when suddenly the creature was snagged by vines and seemingly jumped out and wrapped around it.

"Huh?" Eep looked up in confusion as it was pulled back and out of the trees came a group of animals. But unlike the animals she usually saw these animals stood on two legs and were talking.

"Hold it down!" a wolf called out to wildcat. "Don't let it get away!"

"I'm on it." spoke the wildcat holding the animal down with it's body.

"Wha…" Eep got out as she watched them subdue and bind up the Ramu, leaving it to struggle, before they moved aside and a Warthog jumped on it holding a sharp rock in front of its eye. The rock was moved to its horn and dragged against it making the Ramu shudder and stop fighting.

The warthog raised up the rock before the other animals raised their arms up and cheered.

Eep gulped and was completely shocked before the warthog looked at her then jumped off and moved slowly towards her. She began to panic and move her battered body back if fear. Suddenly it pushed its head up to reveal a boy's head underneath, looking at her with an inquisitive expression.

"Hey, you alright?" he asked as Eep looked up in a astonishment. This was a creature she had never seen before.

He smiled before reaching out to her. She saw another furrier head look at her from his waist and reacted the way any rational cavegirl would, she kicked him back sending him to the dirt with an 'oof' before the others rushed over to help

She ignored the pain in her body and scrambled to get away. But, having forgotten about the nearby river, she accidentally fell in and was swept away by the current. "Ahhhhh Help me!" she cried out struggling against the current trying to stay afloat as she watched them getting further away.

Her struggle seemed never ending until the water poured over a cliff and she fell into the valley swimming hole. After surfacing she coughed and gagged while swimming to the shore and collapsed huffing and puffing to try and catch her breath. "What...was that?" she questioned and looked up at the falls.

(Later back at School)

"I'm getting tired of this Squawk." Said Grug holding the teacher by his pelt as he glared. "Where. Is. Eep?"

"Better talk." said Amber standing next to Snoot. "You know how Grug get about daughter."

"I keep telling you she never showed up for class today!" He lied and pointed to the children. "Ask my students, they'll tell you the same thing."

"Thunk." Grug said looking at his son. "Where's Eep?"

"Uhhhh…" he spoke looking anywhere but his dad nervously as he tried to think up an excuse.

"Thunk, tell me the truth." Grug spoke in a demanding tone.

The boy gulped and grew nervous before seeing his sister approach. "Oh, there she is dad! safe and sound."

Grug turned and smiled. "Eep! Oh thank goodness, I was wor-wait, why are you wet? And are those scratches!?"

"Don't worry dad, I'm fi-Ahh!" She winced and held her side.

Grug ran over and looked her over with a frown. "They are. Eep what happened? Tell me everything."

"We'll see, I was trying to catch this Ramu, I held on as it ran out of the valley-"

"You tried catching a Ramu AND you went outside the valley!?" he spoke up in shock before turning to the teacher. "Did you know about this?"

"Uh eheheh, possibly?" he spoke nervously while backing up.

Grug growled and turned back to Eep. "Eep, if there's two things I don't want you doing, it's hunting, and going outside the valley."

"But dad-"

"No buts," he said to his daughter before grabbing her arm and dragged her away. "I'm taking you home right now. You too Thunk, let's go."

"Yay!" cheered his son as he followed his dad and sister.

"Amber, Snoot, I'll be down at the hunting field tomorrow to see how things are going." Grug finished before taking his children home.