So...here's chapter 8! School's been in my way and it's been a busy weekend but I managed to get this small chapter finished. Enjoy! :)


Crash and Eddie gaped in awe as a giant plant, being nearly fifteen feet tall, opened up. It was pink and fleshy on the inside but glowing green with faint blue stripes on the outside. A row of strong hair like stems lined each side of its mouth. The alpha Deinonychus never stood a chance. It looked over its shoulder, just starting to jump as the Venus flytrap snapped it up. Slowly, the plant rose back up and held the flailing raptor in its 'jaws'.

"Holy smokes," Eddie's jaw dropped, not caring too much about the now nervous chirps of the female raptors behind him and his brother. He had seen Venus flytraps before but never ones of that size.

"Let's run while they're distracted," Crash pulled his brother's arm.

Eddie dove down on all fours, chasing after Crash. Only now did the remaining raptors realize that their quarry was escaping. It didn't take very long for the females to catch up to the possums.

"Do the zigzag!" Crash yelled, narrowly avoiding the snapping jaws of one of the beasts.

Eddie jerked hard to the left, powerful teeth clamping shut where he had been moments ago. He could feel the raptor behind him, her hot breath on his tail. He dashed suddenly to the right, missing her jaws. Back and forth the two went, managing to confuse and avoid the huntresses.

A cliff face that shot straight up out of the forest floor brought their running to a halt. They had reached the point at where the Lower Glowing Forest met with the Upper Glowing Forest. Crash and Eddie turned around to face the raptors.

"I love you bro," Eddie whispered, eyes wide with fear.

"I know," Crash answered.


Frost stopped, hearing the nervous chirping from a pair of Deinonychus. Judging by how defused the sound was, she was still a far ways off. If the two brothers were being attacked by a pack of raptors there was no way she could make it there in time. It was too hard of terrain to travel very fast. The forest floor was faster, but more dangerous.

"Jus' my luck," Frost bared her fangs in a smirk as she spotted large herbivores down below.

A Parasaurolophus lifted its head lazily. Chewing on some leaves, it barely noticed the fisher slipping down a vine above its head. It stood on its hind legs, reaching up to the delicate yellow flowers hanging down from a purple vine that wrapped around a tree.

Frost hung upside down, her feet gripping the mossy vine tightly. She pulled a thin vine from around her shoulders, loosening the noose. Ever so silently she lowered it down around the head of the dinosaur.

The Parasaurolophus looked up, the flowers falling from its mouth. It jerked its head away a little too late. Bellowing through the cavity in its head, it alerted the rest of its herd.

Several glowing herbivores lifted their heads, halting their eating and starting to scatter. Frost yelped as she dropped down on the back of the dino. She gripped both ends of the makeshift reigns in her paws, sinking between the neck and shoulders of the creature.

"Steady girl, steady," she said soothingly, patting the herbivore's glowing hide. "C'mon, now. We have a mission."


Crash and Eddie shivered in terror as the two female Deinonychus closed in. Their teeth chattered together; Eddie was even chewing his claws down to a nub. Pterosaurs shrieked in the forest and several shot out of the canopy into the late night sky.

The twins turned to each other as the raptors turned their heads, looking back into the denser forest. Both females seemed concerned, judging by the rapid clicks and chirps that were being exchanged between them.

"What're they saying?" Eddie whispered, leaning in Crash.

"I don't know. I don't speak dinosaur," Crash replied, shrugging his shoulders.

A sharp bellowing, like that of a battle cry, echoed from the dense foliage. The sound of falling plants and breaking saplings got closer as whatever the raptors had been fretting about approached.

A large glowing orange creature with vibrant pink stripes crashed out of the trees. It sounded a warning through the bony crest on its head as it reared up on its hind legs. The raptors screeched, their golden eyes having gone wide with fear. They skittered out of the way as the giant herbivore crashed back down.

Crash and Eddie glanced behind the side of the Parasaurolophus, seeing the retreating tails of the Deinonychus. Slowly, they raised their eyes up the front legs of the herbivore, finally looking high enough to see into the beast's deep brown eyes.

"Uh…hi," Eddie cautiously raised his paw and waved at the creature.

It looked at him dumbfounded.

"Hi," said a gravelly voice coming from the Parasaurolophus.

"Woe, you can talk?" Crash's arms dropped down by his sides, awestruck.

"Yeah," the voice answered.

"That's so cool!" Eddie jumped up and down, excited by a talking dinosaur.

"No, not really," the voice replied.

"What do you mean? You're a talking dinosaur!" Crash raised his arms up, gesturing to the massive bulk of the herbivore.

"Up here genius," the voice said, irritated.

Crash and Eddie scooted to the side, looking in the crook between the neck and shoulders of the dinosaur. Sure enough, there sat a silvery gray pelted mammal.

"Who are you?" Eddie questioned, crossing his arms over his chest.

"What are you?" Crash narrowed his eyes at her.

"Rude, aren't we?" she growled, baring sharp fangs. "Frost's the name, fisher's the species."

"Do you live down here?" Crash asked, relaxing a bit.

"Yes," Frost laid the reigns down, placing her paws on her hips.

"No way! No one but Buck can live down here," Eddie objected, raising his finger.

"No one but Buck can live in the rest of Dino Terra; no one but me can live in the Glowing Forest," Frost corrected. "Now get on. We have to get back to the hollow. It's too dangerous to stay on the forest floor for long."

"How can we be sure that you're not going to feed us to your pet dinosaur?" Crash questioned as he put a paw under his chin.

"Well, for one this is a plant eater," Frost said slowly, her patience wearing thinner than she thought possible. "And two, if you don't get on those raptors will come back and finish the job."

"Good point," Eddie zipped up the leg of the Parasaurolophus, sitting atop its shoulders.

Crash followed, perching himself by his brother. They rocked back and forth as the powerful muscles beneath the rough hide moved as the herbivore started to walk where Frost was leading it.

After a few minutes of silence, Eddie said, "I wish we could see Buck while we're down here."

"Yeah, he's probably off fighting Rudy though," Crash agreed, a look of longing in his eyes.

"Buck? He's back in the hollow," Frost added in, looking over her shoulder. "He got himself hurt and lost in this forest of mine."

"No way! There's no way that Buck got lost!" Crash said, his mood getting riled.

"And there's no way he got hurt!" Eddie threw in.

Soon they fired off a barrage of questions.

"How'd he get hurt?"

"Has he fought Rudy recently?"

"How bad is he hurt?"

"Does he still have his knife?"

"How much farther to the hollow?"

Frost shook her head, wishing that she had never told them Buck was with her. Soon enough, he could answer all of their questions. Before the twins knew it, she pulled the creature to a halt. As she jumped off, removing the reigns, and started to scale the one hundred foot climb up to the hollow the twins followed.

"This may take a while!"


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