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Chapter 13

"Welcome to Australia, the Land Down Under!" Eliza exclaimed as she, Darwin, and the two reptiles wandered away from camp. Both predators looked at her in confusion and slight curiousity.

"Land Down Under? Why do they call it that?" Locktooth asked. Eliza paused at the question.

"I don't really know." She continued walking. "I think it's because it's just under the Equator."

"What's that?" Ravana inquired this time. The human girl smiled.

"Nevermind." She scanned the place for a moment. "We should find a waterway or something. A place for you two to hang out."

She's been nicer to them, they have noticed. Eversince that 'almost-freezing-to-death' accident, she hardly reprimanded them for anything they do. It was a relief, as they were starting to find her attitudes a bit annoying.

Needing a better view, she climbed up a nearby tree with Darwin. The reptilian predators watched.

"Have to learn to go up these trees." Ravana muttered to his gator friend. "That's how she got away from me back home." But the dragon knew climbing would be difficult with his size. He was once able to scale trees as a hatchling, but he's definitely grown since then.

Locktooth looked from Ravana to the tree. Unlike the dragon, he's never climbed a tree a day in his life. Closest thing was sunbathing on a log. How hard could it be? The child and monkey can do it, why couldn't he?

The komodo caught the look in his companion's eyes and grinned. "It's tougher than it looks."

"Doubt it." Locktooth replied with his own grin. Ravana chuckled.

"I'd like to see you try then."

How could he resist the challenge? Games like this were getting frequent. Like seeing who (to Darwin's dismay) could keep the most Cheese Munchies in their mouths. Or who could could give the monkey the longest fright. Or who was willing to risk more getting caught by the other humans. Eliza never liked that one....

Locktooth moved closer to the tree and looked up towards its branches where Eliza and Darwin sat, holding their own conversation. He dug his front claws into the bark and immediately knew that this was indeed hard. Walking was work, but this....this was more than work. He was no quitter though and tried to pull himself up.

Ravana decided not to let his friend 'outdo' him and joined the effort. Back home, many of his smaller prey escaped him by climbing. If he can overcome that obstacle, nothing would be safe. That was enough motivation for him. Naturally, he had stronger limbs than the semi-aquatic gator and managed to get just a bit higher. But then his claws started to skid and he tried using his tail to stay up.

Eliza looked down and laughed a bit. "What're you guys doing?"

"Climbing." Ravana answered with a grunt.

"What does it look like?" Locktooth added in an almost frustrated tone.

"No offense, but you both know you can't climb." the girl continued.

"We'll change that....." the green reptile growled before skidding off and glaring at the tree. "....Eventually."

Eliza shook her head. She didn't believe they can pull off such a feat, but they sure had spirit to try anyway. She climbed down with Darwin. "Keep practicing and you'll be naturals." Might as well encourage them, make them happy. Ravana huffed as he backed off the tree.

The human started walking again. "There's a watering hole just over there."

Locktooth was in the lead in no time. Nothing made him go faster than the prospect of getting into water. Ravana chuckled as the gator practically threw himself into the water with a splash, but was then distracted by a group of strange creatures on the other side of the water. They were unlike anything he's ever seen.

"What're those?" he asked the human as he settled at the bank, Locktooth swimming close to the shore, eyeing the unknown creatures as well.

"They're kangaroos. Think of them like....." She tried to think of an animal both knew well. "Think of them like deer or something."

"They're deer?!" Locktooth said in surprise. Eliza shook her head.

"No, of course not. Just.......They eat grass and they move fast."

Food. That was the two reptiles immediate thought. They looked at each other and grinned as the girl continued. "Now Darwin and I are going exploring. Stay here." She took the chimp's arm and literally dragged him off, him groaning in protest and grumbling how he should've stayed in the comvee.

"I don't know about you, but I wanna try those.......kangaroo things." Locktooth stated before submerging and swimming towards the targets. But when he tried the classic lunge attack, they bolted off quite readily, as if they were expecting it to happen. The gator grumbled to himself as he returned.

Ravana stood. "I'll get em. You always caught me food, I guess I should return the favor. I'll be back."

Locktooth nodded and watched as the dragon went off after their potential victims. Submerging once more, he soon found out why those hopping things took off so easily. Couldn't be. He was more than surprised to see creatures that looked vaguely like him.

Only more than twice his size.....

Not a very exciting chappy, but it was made to see if anyone's still paying attention. It's been more than a year since I've updated, but know that this story is far from dead. Please review and I'll keep making more chappies no matter how long it takes!