Chapter 8: The Return
After Q buried his brother's body, he went back to the valley, and he didn't know it yet, but yet another dinosaur took interest in him, and was watching Q with her yellow eyes.
The gang didn't know what happened, so when Q came back, Ducky asked what he had feared, "Where is José?"
Q could only muster enough to say one word, "Dead." tears quickly filled his eyes and he went back to the Secret Caverns.
The others couldn't believe what they had just heard, "Oh, no! But... How José die?" Petrie questioned, but only Q could answer that.
They went to the Secret Caverns. When they got there, Q was looking at a tooth in his claw.
"What that, Q?" Petrie asked, but Q just looked at them with a glare that was telling them to get out, now.
They did, except for Cera who said, "Come on Q! We... Uuuhhhhh..." Q stared at her as if he was going to attack her if she didn't get out, and his eyes started to glow again, and Cera bolted for the exit.
The tooth in Q's claw, was José's tooth. He found it shortly after Tina left the cave.
The gang tried to bring him all of his favorite things, sweet bubbles, a hive of Stinging Buzzers, they even brought him some fish they found in the fastwater, but Q just did nothing.
His depression would last for a long time.
4 weeks later:
Q decided to go back to his brother's grave, only something was wrong... the grave had been dug up, and José's body was gone!
He started thinking, "Who could have done this? Why was José's body gone?"
Now, all Q had left was his brother's tooth, and nothing else.
Q didn't have a lot of time to suspect anything, before he heard Ruby calling him, "Q! Where are you? It's time to rest!"
Q didn't respond verbally, he simply began to fly to his sleeping place.
While he did this, a voice in the distance said, "Yeah that's right. Fly away and come back, little one." but Q didn't hear it.
He went to sleep, but that night sleep stories about José came to haunt him.
"Come on bro. I really want to show you this place. I know your going to love it." José said.
"Alright. But you'd better try and keep up with me if you want to get there first." Q responded.
"You'll never get ther first, you don't even know where we are going." José commented back. Q realized his brother was right, "Good point." Q answered.
"Alright, here we-" was all José managed to say before his throat was slit.
Q looked as his brother fell off the cliff, and he heard a voice behind him, "Why hello there, Q. We meet again."
It was Tina, who was still missing an arm.
"Tina I thought I told you to stay away." Q snarled.
"You told me to stay away from you, not José.Now, I can finally finish you off, too."
At that moment, Q heard a faint thud behind him, it made him realize how high the cliff was. He turned around at the noise, and then Tina pushed HIM off and said, "Now your whole family is dead. So long!"
He suddenly woke up and yelled at Chomper & Ruby. They woke up, but there was something wrong with them, they both had José's face. Then, other five appeared, and they all had José's face, too. He got up and ran away until he saw every single adult waiting for him outside.
He was going to tell them what happened, but all the adults had José's face, too. He woke up for real.
"GAAAAAAAHHHHH! (Panting) Oh José, how I wish I could bring you back.
He went into the Mysterious Beyond where the grave was, and José's body was still gone.
But then, Q noticed Fast Biter tracks leading away from the grave and he followed them. "Maybe I'll can find José's body and put it back."
He was following the tracks, up until he fell into a hole.
"WHOOOAAAA! Oh! Not again! OW! OOF! Oh, that was a bad fall." Q groaned.
"Well... I can make it much worse, Q." Q didn't like that voice.
Tina was back... for REAL.
"Tina... why have you come back? Do I really need to kill you after I told you to stay away? Well at least you're all alone."
"Think again, little biter. She's not alone." a hatefully familar voice said.
"Redclaw...?" Q said, his mouth agape.
"Yes. It's me." Redclaw said, apparently, he was back from the dead.
"Get him, dad." Tina said
Q knew he had to fight, as he didn't know how to get out of the cave he was in.
Halfway through the fight however, Q heard a noise that sounded like amen being torn off. Suddenly, Tina's other arm flew, and hit Q. "AAAAAAHHHH!" Tina screamed in agony. Q was shocked by this, "Wait. WHAT?! If I didn't tear off her other arm, then who did?" Q questioned.
"I did." a third voice said.
Q looked up to see a fully grown, orange Fast Biter jump out from behind Tina's body.
The Fast Biter said, "Let's get rid of these 2, once and for all. Remeber, use your abilites to your advantage, and I'll do the same."
Q didn't think of who this Fast Biter could be, so he and the Fast Biter went after Redclaw.
"Ugh! You just couldn't stay dead could you, boy?" Redclaw hissed.
There weren't many places in this cave that he, this Fast Biter, or Redclaw could go.
After many attacks, Q decided enough was enough. He thought of the most ferocious Sharptooth he could think of and he became it.
He charged at Redclaw, who was busy handling the Fast Biter, and knocked him over and stayed on top on top of him and said, "This time, you will never harm me or anyone again, Redclaw. Say goodbye!."
Redclaw said nothing, and Q cut his throat. But THIS time, he made sure Redclaw would never live again.
So, with those two taken care of, he went to the Fast Biter and said, "José? Is that you?"
The Fast Biter said, "Yes. It is me, little bro."
Q squealed with delight, yet he wondered, How could José seem dead, the come back to life?
He didn't ask THAT question, but he did ask this, "José, since when have you been able to speak Flattooth?"
"Since I first met those Flattooth friends of yours." Q didn't need to ask any more questions, minus one, "How do you expect us to get back to the Great Valley from here?"
His brother only said this, "Visualize where you want to be, then you close your eyes. Like this..." He stood there a few seconds, closed his eyes and disappeared. Q thought, "OK. If I have to do that, why not?" So he imagined being next to José, then he closed his eyes.
When he opened them, José was waiting for him to appear.
"See? Easy, isn't it?" José said to him.
He had only wished the adults would at least let José in, as he learned to eat what Q eats, fish, greenfood, and bugs.
His brother understood the problem Q was faced with, but then he suggested to José, "Maybe you can transform into a leafeater and pretend to be a young Flattooth looking for a safe place to live." "Sorry Q." José replied.
"Well, why not? Is there a problem with that idea?" Q asked in suprise. "Because, no matter what dinosaur I turn into, I'll still have sharp teeth. Look."
So José turned into a Threehorn and opened his mouth, "See?" He still indeed, had sharp teeth.
Q asked, "Will I still have sharp teeth?" José said, " Sometimes you will, but mostly not."
Q was not expecting that answer. "What do you mean sometimes?" Q asked, very curious.
"You were the odd one of the family. It all depends on a few things, though." his brother replied.
"I can't tell you every one..." He pointed to Q's colored snout, indicating to him that he was part Rainbow Face, meaning there are some things Q knows, that no one should know. "...But, I can tell you it mostly depends on your emotions. If you are feeling very angry, you will keep your sharp teeth. Or if you are feeling calm... you will not have sharp teeth."
Q wondered if he'd have flat teeth as a Sharptooth if he was calm. He had to ask, "Do my teeth depend on the creature I turn into?" "Oh yes it does. What? Were you thinking you might have had flat teeth as a Sharptooth?! Really, now. That's silly!" José chuckled.
Afterward, they went to find the Gang. Nobody was able to see him because José disguised as a look-alike of Topsy, who ran directly into José
"Hey! Watch where you're-" Topsy stopped, he looked at José in shock. Then, Topsy began to stutter.
The gang saw them, Cera was the most confused, "Why does that Threehorn look just like my dad?"
Q wanted to answer her, but he couldn't tell his friends about what happened... yet.
Topsy quickly ran to Grandma & Grandpa Longneck to form a meeting about this mysterious Threehorn. When they did, José tried not to let them see his teeth, while everyone was talking about him.
After a while, Topsy caught a glimpse of José's teeth and said, "Everyone, stop for a moment. I want to know why this guy has been so quiet. Open up and let us see." José had to obey, as he had heard all about Topsy and what he's done in the past many times from mom and dad.
As soon as José opened his mouth, everyone gasped, even Topsy, who said, "What?! I've never heard of a Threehorn with sharp teeth. Who are you, and where do you come from?
José decide to tell them that he came from a family, but he wasn't going to tell them where he really came from.
After José said he was actually a friendly Sharptooth, Topsy told him to prove it, so he did. He had returned to his original form and everyone was shocked, they had never seen or even heard of a Sharptooth, or any creature for that matter, to be able to do what José had just done.
He said, "I can speak Flattooth, and I'm friendly like Q." murmurs began to arise in the crowd.
"And how do you know of Q?" Topsy chimed in. Q came over and said, "Because he is my brother."
Topsy's jaw dropped, "Are you saying that this Fast Biter is your brother?"
Q needed to say one word only, "Yes."
There you go! I decided to bring back José so the gang, and the residents can come to get to know José. Please remember, Read and Review, and leav any supporting feedback you may have about this story so far.
