"Welcome to A Sharp-tooth's Heart."

"I am Sora W.T.K, your guide."

"The behavior of a sharptooth puzzles us all. Attacking those of his clan…"

"Letting the children escape…"

"Protecting those who oppose him…"

"While this behavior may be puzzling, there are others who puzzle us even more."

"A clan…"

"A clan named…"

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ARICH
THE MYSTERIOUS CLAN
"Arich…

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The fight between Yu and Bull's clan is still raging on and leaving bad results in its wake. Blood from wounded sharpteeth are smeared all over the dirty ground. Neither clan is showing any signs of backing down, but as they fight, the risk becomes even greater. Already corpses from fallen sharptooth litter the ground while small carnivorous dinosaurs take this chance to have a buffet and devour anything they can find and reach. The leader of Yu's clan, Yu's father, is still going strong in this fight, but even the mighty can fall. His teeth and claws drip bloods from the ones he has slain, his own blood drips from his chest and muzzle, this velociraptor has seen better days, but this day is just pure bad luck…

"So, what's your next move?" A velociraptor, who just got off of killing a member of Bull's clan, steps up right next to Yu's father asking in their native tongue, or sharptooth language in this case. "They're stronger than we thought."

Yu's father ponders about what to do now, his blood dripping to the ground from his wounds on his muzzle and chest, he watches as the fight resumes and more blood smearing the ground…

Then, a roar and growl comes out from the Father's mouth, "Regroup and attack in groups."

BACK AT REX

Rex runs frantically to catch up with his friends, but it seems he isn't catching up to anybody. Running through bushes, tripping over some rocks, it seems as if nature itself is preventing him from getting to his friends. He can't even see them anymore, and flying to find them in the sky is out of the question, the treetops are too close to each other to prevent him to fly. Pure…bad luck…

"Littlefoot!" Rex cries out, "Where are you?! Yu! Chomper! Cera! Spike! Ducky! Petrie! Anybody hear me!"

"I can…" A voice is heard from behind Rex.

"No…" Rex whispers as he recognizes the voice, he slowly turns to meet the unknown…

"Kumo!"

Kumo walks out from behind a tree, staring at Rex, "I don't get it, why do you care for leaf eaters when it's our nature to eat them? How different you are from us?!"

"Well for starters," Rex begins, "I'm not a cold blooded killer like you. Second, I don't toy with the minds of my friends and pass on as me to make them hate me. And third…" Rex flexed his claws and got into position, "You just really stink."

Kumo chuckles at that rather tacky remark, "You can put that stance away, I'm not fighting you."

Rex remained quiet, there's not much to talk about after that. Not willing to let his guard down, Rex kept in position and strafing away from Kumo as he got closer.

"I'm serious here kid," Kumo continues, "I'm not interested in killing you anymore, I got other matters to attend to, like catching Bull."

That statement confused Rex, "What do you mean? Wasn't he part of your clan?"

"No!" Kumo suddenly shouted, "I was never part of his clan anyway! I just want to go after him for my own reasons!"

"For your own reasons?" Rex thought out loud, and then thought about the situation at hand. If he helps Kumo in catching Bull, it would benefit him as well by having that dangerous sharptooth out of the children's way.

"Alright," Rex replies, "I'll help you. But remember I WILL attack if you try anything funny!"

Kumo again chuckles, "Suit yourself. But let me suggest we are better off ambushing Bull, he's faster than his brother, though he's a coward and might want to outrun us."

Rex stays quiet as Kumo goes ahead to the direction Bull was headed. If anything, he wasn't going to take any chances in going in the lead to leave his back wide open for any sneaky attacks from Kumo.

"You coming?" Kumo asks without looking back, knowing Rex is staying behind.

"Yeah, whatever…" Rex replies, not having his complete trust on the sharptooth in front of him.

SOMEWHERE ABOVE A CLIFF

"It's all falling apart…" A black and red dinosaur said to his partner, a scar on his nose, "It'll all be over if this keeps up…"

A group of five; a group of those black and red dinosaurs that have been following and stalked Rex and Kumo, and looking over the cliff is the one with the scar from his back to his chest. He stayed silent though, as he watched the war between two clans take place far away in the distance.

"We have to come up with something," The youngest one of the group said, a scar on his left cheek, "It is our duty to make sure those two aren't brought to any harm."

"Kind of too late for that, isn't it?" The sarcastic remark came from a dinosaur of the group, the second youngest of the group with a scar across his right eye.

"What do you suggest?" The dinosaur looking over the cliff finally spoke.

"Lend a hand…" The scar-free and muscular one of the group spoke out, "We have been observing that sharptooth for some time now, and as far as we've seen he has grown a bond with Yu and his clan."

"Are you suggesting…" The dinosaur looking over the cliff thought a loud, "Bring the tables around and help Yu's clan?"

"You catch on quick," The scar-free dinosaur replied with a smirk.

"Very well…" The other said as he turned away from the cliff, "Jaser, Pascal," He address the two youngest member of the group, "You two find and stick with the sharptooth, you'll know who we mean."

Pascal nods, "We'll keep an eye on him," He then glances at Jaser, "Don't go overboard and make a mess of things, eh Jaser?" He kids around sarcastically.

"Cut it out, you're the one who should leave the jokes behind and concentrate on our objective." Jaser replies defensively.

Jaser is the youngest of the group, the sharptooth with the scar his left cheek. He's basically the more determined one of the group, always willing to find a solution and keeping his group on their toes.

Pascal, the second youngest, a scar across his right eye. He's the joker, the happy-go-lucky one, the comic relief of the group as you might say. He's the one that relieves the group from stress and sadness.

"Alright…" The dinosaur continues, "The rest of us will go and lend a hand on Yu's clan."

"Hmph," The strongest one begins, "I don't have any complaints, as long as Tamal doesn't spoil my fun…"

Tamal, the darkest one of the group, he's basically more mysterious then the others by the way he approaches newcomers and other dinosaurs. He's the one with the scar on his nose, not to mention the quietest one.

"…Keep your guard up Braun…" Tamal says, barely a whisper, "I do not intend on saving your tail again like last time…"

The strongest sharptooth fumes up. His name is Braun, the biggest and toughest of the five, the big brother of the group. His scar-free skin proves that his might is the cause of many opponents falling before they get their claws on him, and he's easy to get angered.

Braun practically races up to Tamal, "Watch your tongue, Tamal! Or I'll snap your neck so slow that you'll have time to savor the pain!"

The threat however, didn't seem to face Tamal, "…Whatever…" He says lowly and turns to the sharptooth with the scar from his back to his chest, "When will we begin, Druce?"

Druce, though being the one with the most awful scar, he is the wisest of them all. Not as dark as Tamal is, but still mysterious. He's the leader of the group, not even Braun gets in his way, if he doesn't want to be banished from the group.

Druce glances at the war in the distance, then to his group, "Immediately…"

BACK AT LITTLEFOOT AND THE OTHERS

"Littlefoot!" An exhausting Cera cries out from behind, "Slow down! You're going too fast!"

"We can't slow down now Cera!" Littlefoot replies from way ahead of the others, "I last saw Rex somewhere in this place, and I'm not stopping till I find him! He could be hurt!"

Petrie attempts to stay airborne long enough to get to Littlefoot, but even the little flyer can't seem to rival Littlefoot's speed. "Littlefoot!" Petrie managed to say between breathes, "Stop! The others can't reach! Slow down Littlefoot!"

"I can't Petrie," Littlefoot replies, "Rex could be hurt! I gotta find him!"

"Rex can take care of himself, we must hide!" Petrie adds, barely keeping himself in the sky.

"You can go hide, I'm going to find Rex!" Littlefoot replies determinedly.

"But Little…Foot…Awww…" Petrie fell down to the ground; he's all pooped up and tired.

Littlefoot however, isn't stopping for anything, all he has in mind is Rex, if he's OK, if he's hurt, where is he? Littlefoot isn't going to be distracted from finding Rex.

BACK AT REX AND KUMO

"You got us lost, didn't you?"

"…"

"Well?"

"…"

"I'm waiting for an answer."

"……"

"Kumo!!"

"What!"

"Where the heck did you took us?!"

Rex looks around, he has never seen this place before, nor has he visited it. The trees are more huddled up together, moss are practically on every tree, rocks riddled on the muddy ground.

"I'm going around the estimated path, kid." Kumo explains, "We'll outrun Bull and your friends this way so we can catch up and even get ahead of them."

"Why do you care for my friends?" Rex asks, trying to walk through a muddy path, his feet and claws getting dirty in the mud, "A while ago you wanted to kill them, and now you want to protect them from Bull?"

"I'm not protecting him, kid!" Kumo exclaims, "I just want Bull…"

"For what?! Why do you want him so badl-"

"Shut up!" Kumo cuts him off, "I just want him…"

"You want to protect your pride, isn't it?" Rex asks as he stands on a boulder, his feet and hands covered in mud, "He probably has made you look bad in the past that you want to get even?"

"…"

"Well, I guess I don't have a say in this, but that's plain-"

"Hello!" A face pops up in front of Rex's face.

"Aaaaah!" Rex screams, falling off the boulder and falling into the muddy ground.

"Hm?!" Kumo exclaims as he quickly turns around.

Pascal hangs from a tree branch by his feet, his hands on his stomach laughing his head off, "Hahahahahahaha! That was funny! Do it again!"

Rex spits out mud and wipes his face from the mud, standing up from the muddy mess that he fell in.

"That was funny," Jaser commented as he climbed down from another tree, "But we're not supposed to joke around."

"I know I know, lighten up, Jaser." Pascal said as he jumped down from the tree branch he was hanging from.

Rex continued to wipe his body from all the mud, but it's not going along so good. Kumo eyed the new dinosaurs and turned around, "Friends of yours, kid?"

Rex looked at Kumo, "No, I haven't seen them before in my life. And the name's not kid, it's Rex."

"…"

BACK AT THE BATTLEFIELD

The war rages on. Yu's father takes down another enemy, though a blind spot in Yu's father's eyesight lets a sharptooth of the opposing clan to sneak up on him and sink his teeth unto the sharptooth's body. Yu's father roars out in pain and falls to the ground, the attack has weakened him to go on. The sharptooth that has attacked Yu's father steps up and places his foot on the weak and wounded sharptooth, prepared to thrust the claw on the back of its foot into the back of Yu's father, devastating the sharptooth's spine. But in a moment that seemed like forever, a black figure zoomed and tackled the sharptooth off of Yu's father, pinning it to the ground and crushing the sharptooth's skull with a mighty blow to its face.

"Hmph, that was a close one, guys." Braun expresses as he gets off of the now dead sharptooth.

"At least you're fast as you are strong," Druce compliments as he helps Yu's father back on his feet.

"Hmph, like I asked for your opinion." Braun responds.

"Pick up the pace, Braun!" Tamal demands as he catches up to his two members, "This is no time to be slacking off."

"You show up late and have the nerve to complain?!" Braun glares at Tamal, "For your information, I can take care of all these sharptooth without breaking a sweat!"

Tamal chuckles, "That's the spirit! Let's go!"

Braun and Tamal rush off into the fight to lend a hand to Yu's clan. Druce stays behind to take care of Yu's father, who's been too wounded to fight. But that won't stop Yu's father from fighting on, he struggles to get up and to continue fighting, but Druce keeps him from getting up.

"You're too wounded to fight, its best you stay here and recover. My clan, the Arich clan is here to help you" Druce tells Yu's father.

"You can't tell me what to do…Druce." Yu's father replies in his usual sharptooth's language.

BACK AT REX AND KUMO

"So your names are Jaser and Pascal…" Rex comments, "You two look just like that other sharptooth I found with the same skin color of yours."

Jaser begins, "Yeah well, we've been keeping an eye on y-" But he is immediately cut off by Pascal, who manages to stop Jaser from finishing his sentence.

"Wha? Keeping an eye on what?" Rex asks, wanting to hear the rest of that unfinished sentence.

"Hehehe, he means we've been keeping an eye on leaf-eaters! Yeah!" Pascal makes a quick safe.

"What?!" Rex exclaims, stopping in his tracks and stares at Jaser and Pascal, "You found my friends?!"

This made Kumo stop in his tracks, if they found Rex's friends, that means…

"You mean a longneck and another group of leaf eaters with two sharpteeth?" Jaser asks.

"Yeah!" Rex exclaims with joy, "Have you seen them?!"

"Yeah!" Jaser replies, "We even know where they are!"

"Really?!" Rex again asks in joy, "Can you take me to them?!"

"Sure!" Pascal answers, "Follow us!"

With that, Jaser and Pascal races to the west. Rex smiles and follows Pascal and Jaser with happiness overflowing in his heart, while Kumo patiently follows them. They run through trees, bushes, boulders, everything standing in their way, Rex really wants to see his friends again, and this is his chance.

BACK AT LITTLEFOOT AND THE OTHERS

The children are lying down to rest next to a cliff. Littlefoot's search for Rex has leaded him to this cliff, and still Rex is no where to be found. While the others are resting, Littlefoot swings his head back and forth, searching his sight distance to see if he could spot Rex anywhere close. But nothing…

"We'll find him Littlefoot," Chomper comforts Littlefoot as he walks closer to him, "I'm sure we will."

"Thanks Chomper," Littlefoot sadly expresses, then looks at Chomper, "How's your wound?"

"It's OK; it's not bleeding or hurting anymore." Chompter reports, "I'll probably leave a scar."

"Hm, glad you're OK…" Littlefoot expresses, still sad about not finding Rex.

Chomper tries to comfort him, "Cheer up Littlefoot, he'll show up when you least expect it."

When you least expect it is right. Right now, at the top of the cliff, Rex and the others make it to the same area. Though Rex is a bit disappointed, as he leans on a giant boulder and sighs. "Here? It's just the edge of a cliff!"

Pascal chuckles, "How blind can you be?" He grabs Rex's head and makes him look down, "Down there!"

Rex gasps and smiles, Littlefoot and the others! They're down there!

"Littlefoot!!!"

TO BE CONTINUE…
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"Here is the next phase."

"The end is here"

"A reunion is short lived as a sinister sharptooth springs a trap on the children."

"The final battle is here, one clan will rise."

"And the other will fall."
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A SHARPTOOTH'S HEART
THE FINAL SHADOW
"A Sharptooth's Heart, The final shadow."
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"Join me next time for another chapter of A Sharp-tooth's Heart."