The young apatosaurus was crying and screaming as drops of water flowed down his body. His father tried to get him out with grab of the mouth, but the little dinosaur groaned in pain afterwards. A wave was coming nearby and he couldn't do anything.
Arlo's right front leg was crushed by a pile of large rocks preventing the little reptile from escaping. The boy was bleeding terribly from this limb and getting weaker.
The young apatosaurus already knew that there was no time to rescue him.
Through the blurry vision, the little dinosaur saw his father trying to get him out without any damage to his health, as a result, involuntarily crushing the leg of offspring more.
Poppa Henry, who stood on the mountain nearby, tried with all his strength until the last moment.
he adult apatosaurus saw his son being swept from the face of the earth with the help of a wave. Something that was horrific to his watery eyes.
"ARLO!"
After awakening, Arlo saw the darkness. Incredible and indescribable blackness that was the only thing he could observe from each of the direction.
Feeling a strange position, the young dinosaur moved once left and right to make himself comfortable. This, however, did not help him feel better, but worser than before.
When he did, he felt a sticky and wet substance going down his spine.
Arlo with the only felt limb, travelled his claw along the structure on each of the wall in the direct contact.
He understood something scary with appearing terror in the eyes. He... He... He had claws. The young reptile felt fingers he had never had before.
In a state of fear, adrenaline and hyperventilating, Arlo began to throw his head toward the unseen wall just to get out of this spherical prison. It worked when illusion of the light began to flow into the room in which he was trapped. The young dinosaur decided to continue its motion beating with his head harder and harder.
Astonishment came over him when he realized that the wall was fragile and easy to destroy like an... EGG!
It wasn't scary though, as the another shock was waiting for the young dinosaur as he raised his head up. He looked frightened and quickly hid back in the place from which he almost came out.
In front, above the young dinosaur's head, stood two muscular reptile shadows in a bipedal position. One of them slowly lowered its head down to help the little t-rex hatch.
"Everything is fine, small" he heard a thick tone of voice from outside. "Daddy just wants to meet you and see how you are doing"
Arlo closed his eyes and whispered nervously under his breath in the hope that it is just a dream.
Shivering with fear and swimming in a sticky liquid, suddenly more sun rays flew over his new appearance. Opening gingerly his eyes, Arlo had finally chance to see the stranger in the light.
A scar wandering from top to bottom of the left part of the narrow snout with a croc tooth's remnants visible left in the gums. The brownish-yellow color of the scales and finally its sharp teeth.
It was no doubt a tyrannosaur. The most brutal carnivore among other carnivores who lived in those places. Its massive skull could crush many a small dinosaur on the way.
Arlo was pulled up to the direct contact with him, when the source of his only shelter was taken from his nose.
"Welcome to the world, son" the t-rex smiled, when he was sure enough the young dinosaur was staring at his eyes. "How are you feeling here?"
Arlo intriguedly blinked and let out a soft growl in response. In the another blink of his eyes, he gasped at this reveal. It wasn't the sound of the apatosaurus, but a high-pitched roar of the carnivore.
"Very well" the adult dinosaur smirked with a glee. "You will be strong like your daddy... and your sister, who sacrificed the tip of her tail in order to survive"
"Butch..." the feminine voice right next to him spoke. "Don't say words like this to children"
"Why not?" the male t-rex asked. "My little son must know that the wild world is not safe and must learn to live away from the danger"
"Butch..."
The adult t-rex rolled his eyes and sighed, when he felt her glare.
"Fine..." he growled. "I will stop saying this"
Arlo didn't understand something here. Poppa Henry was his father, wasn't he? But if he was a tyrannosaur himself, it meant...
The young dinosaur's eyes widened in shock as soon as he understood what happened.
He has hatched again!
However, the young tyrannosaur was horrified by something else than that. After leaving the shell and trying to scratch the neck, nothing happened, he felt literally nothing.
The young dinosaur glanced down and went pale.
He lacked the right claw, with the only remaining thing being upper arm. He didn't have the limb he needed most for life of the predator.
His new father and mother also seemed to spot that.
"Oh, poor little guy" the reddish adult female t-rex said, looking at Arlo's limb from the closer look. "His bones did not form accurately. He is like a tulip amongst asters"
Arlo noticed that his new parents were not the only ones who found themselves in a stone cave.
A few meters behind his new parents, the young tyrannosaur could see the shadows of two smaller carnivores sitting next to the wall.
When they both emerged from the darkness, they revealed their appearances. One a little obese in the shades of the orange-yellowish scales and the slender reddish-orange one with a long noose.
"Can we see our lil' brother?" the reddish-orange t-rex asked with a calm high-pitched voice.
It was a female.
"Yes" Arlo's new father replied calmly. "Have your moment with a new member of our family"
Before a few seconds passed, born anew dinosaur felt four pairs of eyes on himself. He admitted that he wanted to be the center of attention, but not like that.
"Hey, where is his left claw?" the chubby orange-yellowish meat-eating reptile asked, as soon as he spotted it.
There was an awkward silence in the cave, when Arlo's new parents exchanged glances between each other. They had a lot to explain to their older children.