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Chapter ten: Pondering thoughts

When Lucy awoke, she felt better, a lot better. Maybe having that dream calmed her down. Sure felt like it, but she still felt like a log had been thrown into her face.

She grunted as she sat up and rubbed her back; it was sore from being in a hunched over position for hours on end. As she felt the muscles relax, she looked around slowly. Nothing could be seen within her range of vision except the familiar scenery of lush green vegetation.

"Looking at this…our world looks like a prison cell," she thought.

After her back was less sore from all the gentle caressing, she slowly stood up and stretched it once more to make sure its range of motion was working properly. Once she was satisfied by the results, she started to walk forward, but in no direction she knew of. This part of the Valley was all a mystery to her, which meant she would have to explore some more.

"After this I'm through with any exploring and looking around. I'm sticking to that bed at-" She stopped herself when she realized she was about to say, "Kouta and Yuka's." Although she had stopped herself from saying it, she couldn't help but feel a small twitch in her rib cage where her heart was, the homesickness was beginning to set in. When this was all over and she could get back home, she wouldn't waste any hesitation, she decided with firmness.

As she kept walking, she felt her mind wandering off on her and she let it. Everything had changed, she no longer wanted to kill anyone, well, almost no one.

"Maybe…maybe I won't kill any more, maybe I'll be…ah forget it," she muttered in her mind.

Her mind was getting restless as she walked farther ahead, most of her was wondering what Kouta, Mayu, and Yuka were doing right now. "Probably at home, not even caring about me, but if they're at that house…why is Nana-chan here…?" The question had never been answered, she didn't even think Nana knew why she was here, maybe it was destiny, or maybe coincidence. Then she thought about it harder, they were both diclonius, did that make a difference? Two diclonius, enemy diclonius, in the same world together both brought here for unknown reasons. It just didn't make any sense to Lucy, but she was confident she would figure it out…eventually. Right now though, she had a task and she was getting it done one way, or another. The problem was though, that she had no idea how to get back to her new home and she soon started to panic, it had been quite some time since she had started walking, and she didn't recognize any of the sight's at all.

"Okay, just calm down, you'll find your home soon; it's only a matter of time, yeah…only a matter of time…" she said matter-of-factly.

Suddenly, she heard rustling in the bushes. She tip-toed over to where she heard it as quietly as she could and saw two hollow-horns (Lambeosaurus) talking to each other.

"…I heard the council say they were going to drive her out of the valley," one said.

"I don't understand why they didn't do that when she first arrived. If you ask me, she's nothing but trouble," the other commented.

"I agree, but she's really done nothing to harm anyone; she even helped in that Sharptooth invasion! And that grumpy old Three-horn is starting to like her, or so I've heard," the first one said.

"You don't really believe that stuff, do you, Geo? Because I don't believe it for a second."

"I suppose, Sondar, but you know those two Longnecks have adopted her, don't ya? And whatever they say goes…" the one called Geo said warningly.

"Whatever," Sondar sighed. "But, I'm telling you, one of these days, she's gonna mess up, and big time."

"Maybe, now let's go," Geo sighed and walked off, leaving his companion to catch up.

Lucy was surprised they haven't even noticed her, but thanked the celestial beings above that they didn't. She had gotten plenty of information from them and she didn't know how to respond to it.

The council was really going to kick her out? If they had wanted to all along, why didn't they just do it when they first found out about her, why now? It confused her, but also gave an excuse to some eavesdropping. If she could figure out more about this from them, she should be able to give a worthy testimony at the council when one might be brought up, but for now, patience was key, and she was good at that. After all, she had waited eight years for her chance at freedom; she could wait a few days for some worthy information.

So, in secret, she slipped into the shadows and followed the two mouthy dinosaurs.


Nana had been sleeping for a couple of hours before chatting woke her up.

"Where do you think Lucy could be? It's been almost a day now," a feminine voice asked.

"I don't know dear, but I'm sure she'll come home soon," a deeper voice replied.

Nana opened her eyes slowly and looked around, she had been sleeping in a spot right next to Grandma and Grandpa Longneck and it looked she had barely moved since her decent into sleep. She got up and rubbed her eyes and then made an attempt at a greeting towards the Longnecks.

"Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Longneck," she said groggily.

"Oh, good morning dear. How was your sleep?" Grandma asked, lowering her head down to Nana's eye level.

"It was nice, thank you for asking." She had to keep polite because that's what Papa had taught her good girls should do. "And Nana's a good girl," Nana confirmed in her mind.

"That's good to hear, now, have you seen Lucy anywhere lately?" Grandma asked, concern creeping into her voice.

"Lucy-san…" she mumbled and them shook her head rapidly in a swift "no" motion.

"Oh…well, she's been gone for a long time and-" She was interrupted by a loud yawning and they all looked over to see Littlefoot starting to wake up.

"Good morning, Littlefoot," Grandpa greeted his grandson.

"Mornin', Grandpa. Say," Littlefoot started, looking around, "have you seen, Lucy anywhere?"

"Not lately, Littlefoot," Grandpa answered.

"Oh…well…when she wasn't with Nana when she came, I started to get a little worried," Littlefoot admitted.

"As were we, young one, but don't worry, she'll come home soon," Grandpa assured.

"Don't hold your breath," Nana muttered, rolling her eyes.

"What was that, Nana?" Grandma asked.

Nana's face turned pale when she realized the Longnecks almost heard her. "Oh! Uh…heh heh heh is it going to rain, heh heh, because it looks gray and…I'll just be quiet now, heh heh heh…" She let the sentence trail off.

The Longnecks looked at her weirdly.

"Anyways…as we were saying," Grandpa said as he gave a glare at Nana, "we're sure she'll come home soon, Littlefoot."

"I sure hope so…I'm worried about her…" His tone then turned brighter. "Hey, Nana, why don't we go to Thundering Falls to play with my friends?" His only attention was a glare from his grandparents. "Er…our friends?" he said quickly.

His Grandparents were relieved of their gazes.

"Sure!" Nana agreed and got up.

Littlefoot followed her example and got up himself and started to walk in the direction of the thundering waterfall.

As they were both walking away, they stole a glance back at Littlefoot's Grandparents, and saw that they were both busy with their morning duties of eating and walked off to meet the gang.

What they didn't notice though, was when they were out of sight, Grandma and Grandpa started to talk quickly and urgently.

"You think they're gone?" Grandma asked.

Grandpa looked up to see no one there. "Yes dear, no one's there."

"I…" Grandma was speechless.

"I know what you're thinking, but like I said to Bron, she hasn't done anything to arouse suspicion, I can't see why the council would…" He let the sentence trail off as he and Grandma heard some noise in the brush.

"What was that…?" Grandma started.

"I don't-"

"Emergency Council meeting at the rock circle!" A Flyer (Pteranodon) blasted through the undergrowth flying frantically to get them, but the old Longnecks couldn't be more relaxed.

"Same old same old?" Grandma asked casually.

The Flyer gave a quick nod of his head.

"All right, tell the council we'll be there shortly and if we're not there in ten minutes they can start without us," Grandpa ordered.

"Yes, but-"

"But what?"

"But, uh…never mind…" the Flyer stammered.

"O…kay… anyways, go. We'll be there as soon as we can," Grandpa said.

The Flyer got up and gave his wings a test flap before taking off into the sky.

"Puh, Longnecks, always so slow…" he muttered as he flew off toward the rock circle.

Grandma and Grandpa looked at him as he flew off and then heaved a sigh.

"I suppose we should be going," Grandpa sighed.

"I suppose so, but I just hate council meetings and especially since this one's about…" Her sentence was interrupted when her husband nuzzled her.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine," Grandpa said ending the nuzzle and walking off.

Grandma stared in despair at her mate. "I just hope you're right," she muttered and walked to catch up with him.


Littlefoot and Nana were walking in the direction of the Thundering falls and on the way were making conversation.

"So, how do you know Lucy?" Littlefoot asked.

"Well…uh…" Nana hesitated, but Littlefoot was determined to find out.

"Well…?" he pressed.

"Okay." Nana took a deep breath. "Lucy-san and I were in a facility on a little island close to the mainland. I don't know how she got out but somehow she managed to and Papa told me that I was to retrieve her and so I followed his orders as usual and he told me I should only bring her back and not to fight her but I disobeyed and we got into a fight because she refused to come back with me and she cut my arms and legs off and I almost died and then Papa saved me and dropped me off at the mainland, and then I was almost killed again by a guy I never really caught the name of and then I found Mayu and then we were at the house and then I saw Lucy-san and Papa told me that I was never to mention her or to fight her again, but I just couldn't control myself and ended up smashing her into a wall and then Kouta-kun kicked me out of the house but Mayu assured me it was okay and I stayed there for a bit until Mariko-chan came and I almost got killed AGAIN, but Lucy-san and Kouta-kun came and saved me and then Mariko-chan got into a fight with Lucy-san but I found Papa and then we found Mariko-chan but not Lucy-san and then Papa almost killed her but then Mariko-chan almost killed me and then they went down to the bridge and then exploded when the bomb inside Mariko-chan went off and then some guy almost killed me and the Lucy-san killed him and then soldiers almost killed Lucy-san but somehow she ended up here and then I came here and we met back up. Yeah, me and Lucy-san go WAY back," Nana finished quickly.

Littlefoot stared at her dumbly.

"You didn't catch any of that, did you?"

"Noooope," Littlefoot answered.

Nana slapped her forehead. "Long story short, we lived together. That better?"

Littlefoot nodded.

"Okay, how did you guys meet each other?" Nana wanted to know.

"Well, I was about to fall off a cliff but then Lucy saved me," Littlefoot said.

"Ah," Nana answered.

"Hey! There you are!" They looked up to see Cera heading towards them quickly.

"Hi, Cera." They both greeted.

"Yeah, whatever, now would ya hurry up, we were waiting for you all morning! What did you do, tell your whole life stories to each other?" Cera asked rhetorically.

Nana opened her mouth.

"Forget I said that…anyways, come on!" Cera ordered and ran off, leaving the two alone.

Nana and Littlefoot looked at each other and bursted out into laughter which caused Cera to turn around again.

"What's so funny?" she muttered.

"Oh, nothing...ha heh heh ha," Nana said with a goofy laugh.

"Hmph! Would ya hurry it up?" Cera demanded.

"All right, coming, Cera," Littlefoot sighed and then took off running. "Race ya!"

"No fair!" Cera laughed and ran after him followed by Nana who was also laughing.

As fast as their race started it stopped when Littlefoot dove onto the shore by the falls.

"I win!" he exclaimed but was cut off when Cera jumped on him.

"Oof!" he grunted as the Three-horn piled onto him followed by the diclonius. Soon, it was giggling doggy-pile of laughing girls.

"Now, what's so funny?" Littlefoot muttered, but only made the girls laugh harder.

"I agree, yep yep yep! What is so funny?" a small voice chimed followed by a loud confused grunt.

They all looked up to see Ducky who was on Spikes back.

"Oh, hey, Ducky," Littlefoot greeted. "Hey, Spike."

"Hello, Littlefoot and Nana," Ducky said as she and Spike watched Littlefoot grunt and groan until he popped free from the pile, leaving the two girls in an upside-down position.

"Hi, Ducky and Spike," Nana greeted from the ground.

"Heh, so, where have you two been all day? Huh, huh?" Ducky asked curiously and looked down to Spike who looked back at his adoptive sister.

"Don't ask," Cera mumbled.

Ducky and Spike both turned their attention to the upside-down Three-horn and both looked at each other again and came to a choice of not asking them.

"Never mind…come on! Everyone's waiting for you," Ducky said. "Let us go, Spike," Ducky said to her brother.

Spike nodded and started lumbering away.

Littlefoot, Cera, and Nana all looked at each other and then ran off laughing to catch up and join their friends.


Lucy had been spying on the two Hollowhorns for a while now and nothing had come up. She growled at her luck, annoyed to have found nothing in all the hours she had been at it.

Soon, she had had enough of this, seeing as it wasn't doing her any good, and walked off, when she heard something.

"This sure happens a lot here, doesn't it?" she remarked inwardly and started stalking towards the sound as suddenly as it started though it stopped and then Lucy heard the two Lambeosaurus' start a conversation again and turned her attention to them.

"Nothing good to eat around here, is there?" Geo said.

"Nope, you know what? I heard there were two dead Sharpteeth with their heads right off their bodies," Sondar recalled.

"No way," Geo scoffed.

"Way! It was all bloody when that Swimmer found it, and get this…," he started, "the blood was still warm, like it had just happened recently when she found it."

"I won't believe that," Geo muttered.

"It's true!" Sondar exclaimed.

"Maybe…but how on earth could a leaf eater do that?"

"Because maybe…it wasn't a leaf eater…" Sondar whispered.

"Yeah, I'm sure a Sharptooth would turn on their own kind in a matter of seconds," Geo scoffed.

"I wouldn't be so sure…"

"You don't mean…?"

Sondar nodded fiendishly.

"Would ya just drop it!" Geo dropped the leaves in his hands and slapped Sondar's face.

"Ow!" Sondar complained.

"I am getting sick and tired, of you going on about that! It's not true, if it was, then the problem would be solved by the council already!" Geo exclaimed.

"Hmph! Whatever…" He turned his back on Geo.

All Geo did was just turn back to his eating.

While all this was happening, Lucy was growing more and more knowledgeable of the situation, but at the same time, a bit frightened. She wasn't surprised that people had seen the Sharpteeth she had killed, but it was a pretty close call; she was almost spotted, she had to be more careful should she use her "hands" again. She looked up again to see they had both gone their separate ways and that only one was left.

Nodding to herself, she got up stealthily, and ran away.

As she was making her escape she looked back to find no one was following her. She smiled and turned her head in front of her and as she did so, she noticed a large tree in her path.

"Crap…" she sighed as she took the hit from the trunk head on.

While on the ground, trying to regain her senses she heard a sound. A groan maybe? She looked up and saw a blurry figure right in front of her face. As she narrowed her eyes to make them focus, the figure started to become more defined and almost…bird-like. When she fully figured out what it was, she realized it was a feather-covered prehistoric bird, and it looked almost as disoriented as her.

End of Chapter Ten

Okay, it be done, now who's this bird-like thing on Lucy? Friend or Foe? Find out the answers in...the next chapter! Review please!