A.N. Well, here's the fourth Chapter. The gang have been rescued by the weasel and now they are about to be introduced to him.
In a watering hole right next to the site where the group disappeared with the weasel, the dinosaurs began to leave.
When the coast was clear, the weasel emerged his head from the water underneath a big duckweed on his head, (for camouflage). He also had a dinosaur tooth attached to the end of a piece of branch with vines wrapped around it, making it like a knife or machete.
Then, the group appeared from behind some bushes they were hiding behind. Judy and Nick began to approach the weasel.
"Thanks for saving us back there," Judy said to the weasel.
"Yeah, if it wasn't for you we would've been..." Nick said until he was cut off when the weasel threw the tooth knife at the ground right in between Judy and Nick.
The weasel was then twisting his own body to dry himself off, like a cloth (much to the others disgust.) He then untwisted himself and got on all fours and approached Nick and Judy and sniffed them all over the two, which made them uncomfortable.
"What are you doing?" Judy asked as the weasel was sniffing her ears. He then observed Nick's tail.
The others were simply watching from behind with confusion, until the weasel jumped right onto Bogo's face.
"Ahh," Bogo shrieked with surprise as the weasel was on him.
"Buck," the weasel simply said as he crawled onto Bogo's back.
"What?" Bogo asked confused about what it mean. The weasel was then on his head.
"The name's Buck," the weasel introduced himself, now hanging onto Bogo's horn. "Short for Buck-minster." He then went up to Pennington and looked inside her trunk. "Long for Bu." He then went onto Snarlov, opened his jaw and looked at his teeth. "Hm, a little dull."
Buck then went onto a big stone next to them and faced them.
"What are you all doing here?" Buck asked the group as he got off the rock.
"Our friend was taken by a dinosaur," Prowlson answered.
"Your friend was taken by a dinosaur? Well...he's dead," Buck told everyone with a stern look. Then he put on a smile. "Welcome to my world. Now a, go home." He then grabbed his knife from the ground. "Off you pop."
"Not without Marcus!" Judy told Buck firmly, until Nick put his paw on his shoulder.
"Carrots, don't let this weasel get to you," Nick advised her.
"Your right. But still, we came all this way and we're going to find him," Judy said with the others agreeing.
"Guys, I found some tracks," Prowlson informed the others as she pointed to dinosaur tracks on the ground.
"Let's move out," Panton ordered everyone. But then Buck appeared hanging from a branch upside down in front of Bogo's face, which surprised him.
"If you go in there, you'll find your friend," Buck said to them sounding normal with his arms folded hanging upside down. "In the AFTER-LIFE," He said with a creepy look on his face.
"And what makes you say that?" Mchorn asked the weasel. Buck then dropped down from the branch onto one of the dinosaur footprint.
Buck then put his finger on the ground and looked at it. He then licked the ground and swirled the saliva in his mouth then he spat it out.
"Mummy dinosaur, carrying her three babies, and some floppy brown thing," Buck concluded after analysing it.
"Yeah, we're here for the floppy brown thing," Bogo told Buck.
"You got all that from the tracks?" Nick asked the weasel.
"No, not really. I saw them come through here earlier," Buck informed them. "She's heading for Lava Falls."
"Lava Falls?" the crew said in unison.
"Lava falls. That is where they care for the new-borns," Buck told them. He then began to draw on the ground with a stick. "But to get there, you got to go through The Jungle of Misery, across the Chasm of Death, to the Plates of Woe."
"That sounds easy enough," Nick commented which gave him a glare from Judy.
"Okay. Good luck with the slow decadence into madness, we're gonna go now," Panton said to Buck as they tried to leave, until they were halted by Buck.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. You think that this is a tropical getaway? You can't protect your friend, buddy," Buck warned them. He then went onto Bogo's head. "What are you gonna do, with those flimsy horns, when you run into the beast," he said after getting off Bogo and pointing in the direction of the track.
"Beast?" Judy asked in concern.
"Yes, my dear," Buck confirmed. "I call him, Rudy"
"Oh really?" Mchorn asked sarcastically. "I was expecting something like Sheldon, or Tim."
"So, this Rudy, is really that dangerous?" Judy asked Buck.
"Aye," Buck simply replied.
"Aye?" Nick responded.
"Aye aye. He's the one that gave me this," Buck told them as he pointed to his eye-patch.
"He gave you the eye patch?" Nick asked jokingly, which gave him and elbow to the gut from Judy.
Buck then looked up at Bogo.
"Welcome to my world," Bogo said, repeating what Buck said to them earlier.
The group then made their way down, following the tracks.
"Abandon all hope, he who enters there!" Buck called out to them.
"Alright, we get it. Doom and despair, yada, yada, yada," Panton responded as the group walked away.
Buck stood there, facing the direction the group went off in.
"(Sigh) Their doomed," he admitted to himself.
He then turned his attention to a medium sized rock.
"Yeah, I know right?" Buck asked the rock.
Buck was talking to the rock as if it could talk back. Probably from living alone for so long.
"Of course, they are out of their out of their element down here. ... Your right, they will need help. ... Why me? ... Yeah, I am more skilled, but why should I bother. ... Oh, don't give me that look. ... Okay, okay. I'll follow them from a distance until they need my help. ... I'm going, I'm going." Buck then started to leap across the branches in the direction the group went in.
"First mammals I've talked to in years and I've got to keep an eye on them," Buck said to himself as he kept leaping.
A.N. Well, that's the fourth chapter folks. Buck is following them until they need help. And they'll probably need it. Please leave a comment. Until next time.