Chapter 10

The raptor was quick, but Diego was not gonna lose it. He ran after it, climbing over rocks and dead trees. He was about to catch it when his vision began to blur, his breath was becoming short. He was losing his edge. He wanted to stop and rest, but the thought of Ellie being killed made him shake it off, yell in a loud voice, and chase after it with his edge restored.

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The raptor landed on top of the platform, ready to strike and kill Ellie. But Diego jumped up, drew his swords, and stabbed deep into the body of the raptor. He then pulled his swords out of it and chucked the dead body of the cliff.

"Yeah!" Diego cheered. "Take that!" He did a victory dance. "I'm so quick that I'm wanted for speeding!"

"Hey, speed outlaw." Ellie called to him. "Giving birth over here."

"Oh, yeah." said Diego, sheathing his swords as he went into the cave and came over to Ellie. "You okay?"

"Am I okay?!" Ellie asked as she felt the contractions. "Do you know anything about childbirth?"

"I saw I guy deliver a horse once, but that's about it." Diego replied. "But no need to worry, Manny's coming."

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Manny punched and kicked several of the raptors. Most of them tried to latch themselves onto him with their teeth, but he threw them off. When he saw that more were coming, he drew Soto's sword off his back and readied himself.

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Ellie groaned in pain as she felt the baby trying to pass through her. "Diego, I'm scared. Can I hold your hand?" she extended her hand.

"Uh, sure, if it would make you feel better." He replied. He extended his hand and she grabbed it and squeezed, making Diego's facial expression turn to pain. "Just go with the pain." He winced.

Ellie screamed. "It's just a contraction, and my hand's not even broken." Diego spoke, unaware of what she was screaming at.

"No! Look!" Ellie pointed at another raptor that had come up. Diego dropped his bag off his back, drew his swords from it, and attacked the wiry dinosaur. He sliced at its snout and kicked it off the ledge.

He looked down and saw more coming, ran back to his backpack, got his compact bow and arrows, and began firing at them, shooting them and sending them plummeting back to earth.

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Buck, Crash, and Eddie soared through the sky on the pterodactyl, trying to find Sid. "Look! He's right there!" Crash pointed to Sid, who was jumping from Rock to Rock on the lava.

"Roger!" Buck yelled.

"No, Sid!" Eddie argued.

"I know; Roger!"

"How about we name the pterodactyl Roger, and then we stick with Sid?" asked Crash.

"Ah, forget it!" Buck groaned. He whipped the vines and made "Roger" fly towards Lava falls. However, they caught some unwanted attention, as several other flying dinosaurs were coming after them.

"We can't rescue your friend like this!" Buck yelled. He made "Roger" go down and into a hole in the side of the falls.

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Another raptor leapt onto Manny's shoulder. "Bring it on, you chicken-headed freaks!" Manny yelled, slamming the one on his shoulder into a rock with a sickening crunch.

More of them kept coming, Manny picked up a huge rock and tried to close the cave with it, but several other raptors were climbing their way up the dead trees.

Manny stopped trying to close the cave, ran to the dead tree, and swung his sword into it, slicing with one swing. The tree gave way and caused a rock avalanche to cover the cave.

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"You're doing fine." said Diego, trying to calm Ellie down. "Don't worry about a thing."

Unfortunately, another raptor climbed up and was ready to strike. Diego groaned tiredly. "Excuse me." He said to Ellie before going off to face the raptor.

He hit it with the handle of his knife and went to go back to Ellie, but two of the raptors pulled him back and off the ledge. "Diego!" Ellie yelled.

Diego came back up strangling a raptor while one was trying to bite his shoulder and other arm. "Just breathe! That's the important thing!" He punched the raptor he was strangling and threw the one that was biting him off his shoulder. Another raptor jumped on his back and pulled him back down.

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Buck, Crash, and Eddie sailed through the sky, trying to outfly the other flying dinosaurs, but it was no use. "Grab that ammo!" Buck commanded, pointing at some berries on a tree. Crash held onto Eddie's belt as he leaned in and grabbed the berries.

They pulled their slingshots out of their pockets and began firing the berries at the flying dinosaurs. "This is awesome!" Eddie shouted, hitting many of them.

"Light him up!" Crash shouted, and they fired two berries into the gullet of a dinosaur, causing it to inflate. "Whoo!" they both cheered.

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Sid jumped from rock to rock to rock, trying his best not to fall into the boiling hot lava, or fall down the lava falls. He tried rowing the lava with a stick, but it just caught on fire. He put the fire out by stepping on it, but almost slipped into the lava after a chunk of rock broke off.

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"Let's get us our kid!" Buck shouted, as they flew towards lava falls. However, he didn't see the flying dinosaur that rammed right into him, knocking out Roger and causing them to sail into the chasm.