"The fic A Sharp-tooth's Heart awaits you…"
"I'm your guide, Sora W.T.K."
"His name is Rex, a sharp-tooth, but not like any sharp-teeth we've seen…"
"Longer arms…"
"The ability to stand straight…"
"And wings of a flyer…"
"A sharp-tooth unlike any other…
"But now…Sharp-teeth are stalking the valley…"
"And the sharp-tooth responsible for this is…"
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03

ZILL
ENEMY OF THE HOUR
"Zill…"
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Under the moon at night, standing in front of the protective mountains surrounding the Great Valley, a couple of silhouettes are approaching the mountains, a bit haunched on the legs, their tail long and firm behind them, and short, small arms but with devastating claws on their torso.

"There it is." The tallest, bold-looking one says, grinning and revealing his sharp teeth.

The shortest one looks at the mountains, marveling how high and steep they go. He blinks and looks at his companion. "How do we get inside?"

One of the silhouettes approaches a set of bushes laid on the foot of the mountains, the bushes eerily brushing against a wind that is nonexistent. The figure grins, taking a step closer to the bush, the moonlight hitting him across the muzzle and soon on the body, a velociraptor…

"Over here, Bull." The velociraptor whispers, pushing through the bushes with his muzzle and revealing a small cavern, too big for a large sharptooth, mainly the T-Rex, to fit, but for a velociraptor the size was just right.

The short velociraptor, Bull, looks at the little cavern in amazement; he never expected such a find around here. Bull is a young velociraptor, a year or two after growing up to adulthood. His skin color is a charcoal black, perfect for camouflage in the depth of night, only the stripes of red on his tail and back to give it away. Bull is known in his herd to be selfish at times, those times of selfishness has caused casualties during hunts when with his pack, his attitude of being easy to anger has got him into many fights, but nothing has taught this dinosaur any lesson, his cold-heartedness leads him to many lonely times and has gained him much enemies, but he always has had Zill on his back to keep him company.

"How…" He begins, slightly amazed at this find. "…How did you find this, Zill?"

The tall velociraptor, Zill, just chuckle, showing off his razor sharp teeth in a grin as he narrows his eyes to his partner, this dangerous velociraptor is older than Bull by a few minutes, but unlike his partner Zill's skin is of a brown color and some light-brown on his belly and chest, but as if a gift he has stripes of black on his tail and back. Zill however, is a much worse velociraptor than Bull, he has never gotten out of being selfish and has caused much more casualties in hunts than Bull could even manage to make, and his cold heart has made Zill the grumpiest and angriest one of the herd, always doing things alone or hurt whoever tries to help. Yet, no matter his traits, Zill has rid of his selfishness whenever it came to help Bull, and these partners are pretty close, even though they fight a lot at times.

Zill couldn't help but continue grinning, a devious thought in mind as he recaps how he found out about this cave to the valley…

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"I won't ask again…" Zill warned, standing over a severely injured duck-bill, gashes and cuts riddling his body and losing blood at a dangerous rate. The duck-bill trembled, in fear of the velociraptor's speed and agility, but soon he casted his fears aside and tried to get up, but to no avail, Zill just pinned the duck-bill down with his foot, long and sharp claws threatening to slice into his skin and sever the spinal cord.

"I know you know a way into the Great Valley…" Zill repeated, glaring down at his helpless prey. "I won't ask again, how can I get in?"

The duck-bill trembled, he feared for his life, and spilled the beans. "P-P-P…Please don't kill me…There's…" The duck-bill stammered, thinking twice about telling the velociraptor the blind spot in the wall, where a small cave lays that leads inside the valley, but a squeeze to his back caused the duck-bill to yelp and continue telling.

"Aagh! OK OK! You…You'll find a patch of green food at the southern wall of the valley…Behind it lies a cave…It leads you inside…"

Zill grinned to himself, happy to find out what he was searching for. "Thank you very much." And with that, the velociraptor lowered his head to the duck-bill, clamped his mouth shut on the duck-bill and with one swift motion the leaf-eater's neck is snapped, followed by a short feast of duck-bill…

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"Let's just say I had to eat for information." Zill grins; bringing pleasure to himself as he remembers that delicious meal he had out of that poor leaf-eater, it is the law of life for meat-eaters to slay leaf-eaters for food, but what he had done was breaking the law. But he didn't care, as long as it promises him a huge feast after crossing the protective walls of the Great Valley…

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Inside the Great Valley, close to the waterfall of the Valley, Littlefoot and his friends are enjoying a nice day of playing around, laughing and playing around games like tag and racing, their joyful laughter everlasting. But everything of course has its endings, the bright circle is slowly descending down and to disappear into the ground, stars slowly fading in into the darkening sky, ready for another night of shine and beauty. Rex watches these miracles in the sky, lying on his back with his arms folded behind it, staring up at them.

The kids are getting tired, and the sun setting, Cera stops to catch her breath and slumps down to the ground, panting after playing a good game of Tag. "Shouldn't we go home now?" She asks between breaths.

"Yea, we should." Littlefoot replies with a yawn, nodding at Cera with a stretch.

Rex however, remained oblivious to what his friends are talking about, just staring up at the darkening sky, closing his eyes and beginning his usual daydreams of flying as high as any flier could, eyewitnessing everything the world could offer for a view…But, his daydreaming comes to an end as something at the back of my head nags at him…The talk he had with Littlefoot's Grandpa…A flying sharptooth…A meat-eating enemy of the leaf-eaters…Him? A sharptooth? A sharptooth who eats both meat and green food…For them, it's a mystery, but for us humans…They are called omnivores…

"C'mon Rex!"
Rex's eyes shoot open and catch the sight of his longneck friend looking down at him. "C'mon, we gotta go home too before it gets late."

Rex blinks as he watches Littlefoot walk out of his lying down view; the flying sharptooth sits up and scans the area, noticing the others have already left for their nests. Everyone except for Cera, who has gotten used to walking to her nest with Littlefoot, as her nest is located near Littlefoot's.

But as Rex stands up and follows both Littlefoot and Cera, some rustling in the bushes a few feet away from them are being made, two pairs of eyes watching the children, the stalkers sticking their heads out of the bushes, Zill and Bull.

Bull keeps his eyes glued to Littlefoot, his mouth watering as he stares at an easy prey, yet tasty little longneck walking before him. "Haaaa…" He sighs, hypnotized as every second he stares at the longneck the hungrier he gets. "I want to sink my teeth on that one." He smacks his lips, practically drooling.

Zill could say the same thing, but at his first sight of Rex the velociraptor's eyes grow wide, unable to believe what he's staring at. "Isn't that…"

Bull looks at his partner, confused at what Zill is looking at with wide eyes. "That's a longneck." Bull replies, believing Zill was referring to Littlefoot.

Zill growls, unable to believe how absent-minded his partner could be, he pushes Bull aside and snarls. "Not him!" Grabbing his partner by the neck, he aims his head and points at Rex. "Him!" He continues after giving Bull enough time to check the flying sharptooth out, "Isn't he supposed to be against them?" Bull looks at Zill, nodding fearfully at his partner, and letting go of Bull's neck, Zill glares at the children with a snarl. "Let's move…"

The children, oblivious to the two sharpteeth following them, continues on their way to their home, Littlefoot however, felt a chill go up his spine, he feels something isn't right, and his head quickly turns at the sound of rustling leaves from the bushes close by…Yup, something isn't right…

Rex blinks, listening to their rhythm in footsteps, a pair of footsteps short, he stops and looks over his shoulder, noticing Littlefoot has stopped. "Littlefoot? Something wrong?"

"Hm?" Littlefoot turns his head to Rex, engraving his puzzled look into Rex's mind. "I thought I heard something." He confessed, turning his head again to where he was looking at before. Rex and Cera look at each other, confused, then they look around, wondering what is it that Littlefoot heard, or what they are even looking for.

"There it is again." Littlefoot announces, hearing the rustling once again, the tone of his voice taking in that scared tone. Cera heard it too this time, blinking as she scans the area, "Where is it coming from?"

They are certain they're alone at this part of the valley, the grown ups aren't close by for another minute walk or two, and most of the other children of the grown ups are probably not allowed to go far from the nest at this time of night. But no matter how hard they try, they cannot pinpoint the location of the sound, it's as if it's coming from everywhere, leaving them vulnerable for whatever is about to jump at them.

From behind, Littlefoot catches a sudden move of the bushes and a concentration of loud sounds, he quickly turns and immediately catches the figure of something jumping out of the bushes, and those sharp claws already tells him what it is. "Sharptooth!"

Rex turns, catching the figure jumping to his direction, but with great reflexes the flying dinosaur manages to jump out of the way, barely missing the sharptooth, and he could've sworn a claw of his grazing against his skin.

Only one word escaped from his snout. "Run!"

That verb engraved into their minds, the three children began their run for their lives, but before they could've gotten far, another sharptooth jumps and lands in front of them, cutting them off of their escape route, trapping them between the two meat-eaters.

Rex could only growl as he looks to each side. "Ugh, we're trapped."

"Well, well, well." Zill begins, grinning and exposing his sharp teeth as he and Bull circle around the group of frightened children. "What have we here?"
Bull chuckles, eyeing the children and mentally picking which one to eat first. "Seems like we have some delicious food on our sight."

Zill's eyes scan the children, first at the longneck, then at the three-horn, but…His eyes glue into Rex, this dinosaur has caught the attention of him since he looked at him from the bushes. A grin in his face, Zill walks up to the winged sharptooth and wraps his tail around him across the floor, eyeing Rex right in the eye, a muscle in his face twitches as he could've sworn he heard a whimper escape from Rex's snout. "What are you doing around with leaf-eaters, huh?" Rex gulps, having a sharptooth this close is too much for comfort for him.
"Yeah," Bull joins, giving off a big grin as he approaches Rex from the left, eyeing at Rex's left eye. "You should be eating them, not playing with them."

Rex's chest has begun heaving for breath as his heart pounds away in fright, wishing so badly to back away from these two. "Just…Just…" He stammers, trying to talk through his frightened state. "Just leave us alone!" He manages to cry out though.

The two partners though, couldn't help but laugh. "We just want some food!" Zill announces, grinning and gesturing his head to Littlefoot and Cera. "And your 'friends' would do nicely." Zill chuckles, he feels some promise of sharptooth instinct in this kid, judging by the build of him and the claws on his hands and feet, he's willing to give him a chance at least before labeling him as a worthless leaf-eater lover. "You can join us if you want."

Rex gasps to himself, the idea of him eating his own friends disgusted him, but losing them to these two sharpteeth just made him angry. "Leave them alone…" He growls, trying to keep his anger in so he won't launch into a fight and commit suicide.

While Zill and Bull are harassing Rex, Littlefoot and Cera are left unguarded and watching the scene lying before them, Littlefoot turns to Cera, and whispers lowly so the two sharpteeth velociraptors wouldn't hear. "C'mon Cera, we need to go and get help."

Cera blinks and turns her head to Littlefoot, whispering back. "Are you crazy, Littlefoot? We're not fast enough to lose them."

Littlefoot shakes his head, sighing. "C'mon Cera, this is our chance." He pleads, glancing over at the velociraptors and his friend. "Rex will be alright. I mean, he can fly, right?"

Cera ponders of this predicament, they can just stand around and wait for the sharpteeth to make up their mind and eat them, or they could get lucky and find a grown-up and teach those two sharpteeth a thing or two and they're out of this mess. Either way, Cera can't find any other objections to this plan. "Ok…But keep quiet."

"How did you two get in here anyway?" Rex asks, demanding to know how these two sharpteeth managed to get into the valley, no sharpteeth could have the enough stamina to climb over the mountains, and even if they reached the top, they would somehow disappear from the face of the earth, and to this day nobody, not even the residents of the valley, knows the reason to this.

Zill chuckles, "If I tell you, you will have to personally hunt your 'friends' down and give them to us."
Rex growls. "No way! Keep it to yourselves then!"

SNAP!

"Hm?" The two sharpteeth velociraptors, as instincts, turn around to face both Littlefoot and Cera, the two children have tried to escape, but in their wake Cera stepped on a dried up branch, causing the branch to snap and catch their attention, and as shown in their faces, Zill and Bull were not happy.

"Oops." Cera whispers, looking down at the broken branch under her paw. Cera and Littlefoot look back with a gasp, seeing both Zill and Bull growling and approaching them; it makes Littlefoot nervous and he gulps, suddenly throwing his head forward and shouts to his three-horn friend as he breaks out into a run. "Run Cera!"

Cera's eyes widen, turns her head forward and follows Littlefoot in a running fit. "Like I have a choice!"

The two sharpteeth snarl as they watch their prey escape, they sprint and begin their chase to catch the children who were on the menu for them. Rex gasps, "Uh-oh."
Uh-oh is right, his friends are in trouble, and those sharpteeth can easily catch up to them unless he does something, he summons up his courage and takes flight with the use of his wings, intending on trying to fly ahead of them and think of a way to save them.

'C'mon Rex, think.'
Rex looks around, landing on a hill and setting his back against a boulder, plotting on what to do.
'What can you do?'

He almost loses his balance as the boulder he's leaning on gives way a bit, he gets his back off of the boulder and looks at it, measuring it and looking down at the hill where a narrow pathway exists. "This'll do." Rex places his humanoid paws onto the boulder, takes a deep breath and pushes against it, his strength alone just budges the boulder slightly to the edge, and he looks below at the pathway, seeing Littlefoot and Cera run right through it. Rex nods to himself and pushes at the boulder, and it gives away and falls down to the pathway, breaking way for other rocks to join in into the rockfall and land onto the pathway, blocking it with the boulder and all the rocks that fall down after it. "Phew…" Rex sighs as he flies down the pathway, "I hope that'll slow them down." He continues as he rests his back against the boulder, Littlefoot and Cera in front of him, catching their breath. It's sad to mention, but this plan won't work for long, anyone with the common sense to search can go around this pathway and ambush them from their only escape route, in fact, Bull and Zill could already be circling around the place and waiting at the end of the pathway to ambush them…
"Don't think this will stop us." Or in this case, from up above.

Rex growls, unable to believe how fast this plan flopped. "I should've known."
The three kids look up, the two leaf-eaters gasping as they spot Zill and Bull standing on top of the blockage glaring down at the children, the blockage wasn't high enough to keep them from jumping to the top of it and jumping over it, Bull hisses, making the children jump back in fright, "You made us mad. Now you three will pay with your blood!"

This was that last fright, in instincts of their childhood hearts the three children take off running in direction to the grown-ups, they need help fast, before they end up on the menu for these two sharpteeth, but it seems as if every time they find a break toward freedom, something has to come and close them down from the path, Bull runs ahead and jumps, blocking the path of the children, Zill closing from behind and pinning them, the night just seems grim at them.

Bull chuckles, eyeing at the three children, happy for himself as he notices the fear he has struck into them, cutting off their escape and leaving them vulnerable. "Which one are you going to eat first?"

Zill grins, salivating as he slightly opens his mouth, imagining how delicious these three kids will taste, his eyes scanning each of them until they stop at Littlefoot, the look sending a chill up Littlefoot's spine. "I think I'll take the longneck first."
"Hey!" Bull cries as he slightly pushes Zill, "I wanted the longneck!"
Zill snarls, turning to Bull and pushing him back. "Sorry, but he's mine!"
Bull growls, snarling at the top of his lungs and lunging to his partner. "You always get the good ones!"

Littlefoot, Cera and Rex blink as they watch the two sharpteeth velociraptors arguing and fighting against each other, it is apparent that these two argue over the simple things, and thinking twice before trying to separate them is a tempting idea. These two can go on forever, a little tip that nags on the back of Littlefoot's head, he gulps and looks at Rex and Cera. "Now's our chance!" He whispers to his friends, glancing at the two sharpteeth between seconds to make sure they are still fighting, "Let's run for it!"

Rex and Cera nod, the three of them silently turning around and sneaking off away from them, hoping that those two sharpteeth would fight long enough for them to make it to the grown-ups and warn them about these two.

However, even in the midst of a fight, these two sharpteeth are very much aware of their surroundings, in the corner of their eyes they catch the children sneaking off, it provokes a snarl to escape from Zill's throat and push Bull away, glaring at the children. "They're getting away!"

Littlefoot, Rex and Cera look back and gasp, the two velociraptors are charing right to them, and before they had a chance to turn and continue in running away…

Littlefoot stares in horror as the two velociraptors easily noticed them trying to sneak away, and as if by a snap of a finger the two sharpteeth charge for them, with the exception of Zill who jumps into the air, intending on landing onto Littlefoot, the razor sharp claws on his feet ready to pierce and tear through the longneck's skin. For Littlefoot, time seems to have slowed down, paralyzed by fear, by shock, by trauma, he clearly knows he won't be able to get away from this, even if he runs out of the way Zill will be fast enough to stop and snag him into his mouth, chomping down and tearing the flesh he has to offer.

But a save comes for Littlefoot, his eyes widen as Zill is suddenly thrown aside, a gash across his face opens and blood is sprayed out of it, and all that blood is sprayed unto the face of the only thing closest to a sharptooth that could save Littlefoot and Cera…Rex.

Rex couldn't believe it himself, using his never-used claws to injure someone to save his friends, he never expected he would do such a thing, and now he regrets it as Zill's blood is sprayed all over his face, staining his blue-green skin. For him also, time has slowed down as he is slowly falling to the ground on his feet after such attack, Zill shrieking in pain as the blood oozes from the gash on his chest. And as Rex's feet touch the ground, for everyone, time resumes on its normal pace, Zill landing unto the ground with a thud, groaning and snarling in pain from the wound on his chest. For Littlefoot, Cera and Bull, they're all horrified, staring with bulging eyes at the bloodied mess that was once Rex, his claws dripping from Zill's blood and his face tainted in it, Rex is just staring down at his claws, holding up his hands in front of his face.
'Did I…Just do that?'
Rex gasps to himself, seeing the crimson color of blood dripping from his claws.
'I don't know why but…I…liked…it.'
The truth sank in, he shakes his head as he realizes what just happened.
'This must be what grandpa was warning me about!'

"You little…"
Rex snaps from his absent state and turns around, seeing Zill trying get up to his feet, a hassle due to his weak state from the gash on his chest, the blood dripping to the ground, a thing which Rex has a tough time taking his eyes off of, he can't help but notice the almost uncontrollable urge to jump at him, slash him up real good and devour him, like any good sharptooth does to its prey. He can't help it, it is an overwhelming feeling.

"Go!" Rex shouts, turning his head to Littlefoot and Cera. "Go! Get out of here! Don't even think about turning back!"
Littlefoot snaps from his shocked state, gasping and staring at his bloody friend. "But…But what about you?"
Rex shakes his head, glaring at Rex and giving off a good shout. "GO!"

Littlefoot flinches, his hearing ringing after that shout, he has never heard a shout from Rex, and after that, he doesn't intend on hearing another one. Littlefoot has no choice but to obey him, not wanting to suffer the same thing Zill suffered, he turns around and looks at Cera, the three-horn is also not happy about this choice, but they have no choice as they begin their run out of there. Rex sighs, looking down at the ground…

"Grrr! Don't just stand there!"
Rex throws his head up and turns around, seeing Zill on his feet, though fumbling as the pain on his chest is unbearable. "Go after them!"

Bull just stands there, shaking and trembling in fear of what he's staring at, he can't believe how a kid like Rex could've snuck up on Zill and wound him like this, just staring at Zill's wound is enough to send chills and fear down his spine.

"Ugh…" Zill grimaces, standing straight and glaring at the direction Littlefoot and Cera ran to. "Fine then…" Against all the pain he has, Zill started to run, running after the two kids, wanting to tear into them and make the one who wounded him suffer for his friend's death…

Rex stares with widen eyes; he can't believe how Zill can still keep going after such a wound to his chest. "Oh no!" He won't let Zill do this; he spreads his wings and flies after him, he won't let him kill his friends, he'll tackle him or throw rocks at him, anything to stop Zill from killing his friends. And ahead of him, Zill falls to the ground, gasping for air as the wound on his chest is draining him of his oxygen more rapidly, and from behind him, Rex is catching up. But something was nagging him, and he can't control it, it just controls him, he drops and lands onto Zill, forcing the velociraptor to let out a shriek of pain as the weight slams unto him.

Bull is trying to catch up to his partner, but his legs are still trembling, slowly walking after Zill and the flying sharptooth, his mind still in horror of what that flying sharptooth has done in a second, Zill didn't see that coming, heck, not even Bull himself saw it, it was all in just a rush…

SNAP!

Bull throws his head up from its down position as he hears that sound, sending a chill down his spine as his mind registers what he just heard. "No…" He whispers, he recognizes that sound anywhere, he hears it every time he's on a hunt, he can't believe what he just heard…And now, a faint sound is being carried in the wind, and he also recognizes that sound. "No…" He whispers again, this time turning around in fear and flees, running to the opposite direction he was headed and toward the cave that led them into the valley… "That kid…he did it…He…" He stammers, going through the cave and into the Mysterious Beyond, still unable to believe Zill is gone. "He killed Zill…" He falls to the ground, reflecting on what has happened in the Great Valley, and whispers his last words before drifting to sleep, from exhaustion and fear.
"My brother…"

But as Bull grieves of his brother's death down below, at the top of the mountain, two figures are looking down at him, these two figures standing on all four, each of them owning an elongated neck and a squared-off muzzle, one of them of black skin color with red eyes and a scar over his squared-off muzzle, the other one with brown skin with splashes of white here and there.

"Hm…" The one with brown skin hums. "He found another hole in the wall…" He looks over to his black and red partner, seeing him looking down at Bull with a thoughtful look. "What should we do to him?"

The black and red dinosaur continues looking down at Bull, keeping quiet for a bit. "…Let him go…" The brown and white dinosaur seems shocked by this statement, but the black one continues, "Order the others to descend the mountain, and block the entrance of that cave…"
And so it was done…

TO BE CONTINUED…
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"Here is the next phase."
"Danger is lurking around the valley."
"Rex has found out his biggest trouble."
"Things are looking grim as darkness shrouds the Great Valley."

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04

DANGER
INSTINCT WITHOUT CONTROL
"Danger, Instinct without control."
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"Join me next time for another chapter of A Sharp-tooth's Heart."