Part VI: The Revelation
Although General Chomper's attack did startle the alimon, he did have one trick up his sleeve. As Chomper was about to plummet his horn through the alimon's side, Chomper looked into the glowing red eyes of the evil alimon. Somehow, almost like magic, Chomper stiffened in mid-attack. His jaws were slightly open, and one leg was off the ground. Then he stood straight up, something bone-crusher sharpteeth would do if they were resting, or wanted to get a better view of something. None of these Chomper was intended on doing. He opened his mouth to speak, but something was keeping the words from exiting his jaws. His eyes widened in fear, realizing his whole body had a reddish glow around it.
Morro and Spellbound watched as Gris kept Chomper in this freezing trance. Then they watched the X-marked alimon slowly approach the general, sharpening his claws along a boulder on the way. "He's going to kill him." Spellbound said dully, not showing much emotion. "Should we do something?" He turned to Morro.
Morro didn't answer. He was already walking out towards Gris, who somehow didn't notice him. Perhaps he was letting his pride get the better of him, or perhaps he wasn't smart enough to look around. As Chomper struggled to break free of this mental grip, Morro leapt towards the evil-hearted alimon, and sank his tooth-studded jaws around the back of the gray alimon.
Snarling in surprise, Gris could not keep his concentration on General Chomper and fight off Morro at the same time. Reluctantly, he released his hold on the blue giant, and fought back at Morro. While Morro and Gris struggled with each other, Chomper shook himself back to reality, and stared down at the alimon.
"You..." He spoke softly. "You look like... "
"Uh, yeah." Spellbound interrupted him. "Of course I do. So why are you standing there, gawking at me?" He narrowed his eyes. "Are you trying to decide whether or not you should eat me!"
General Chomper's eyes widened slightly, but he had no time to respond when he and Spellbound both heard a terrifying scream. They quickly looked over to see Morro on the ground, his throat ripped clean off! They could see the vertabrae of the neck exposed completely, and Gris swallowed the chunk of flesh before getting off of the unfortunate alimon.
"Morro!" Spellbound shouted as he rushed towards Gris. "I'll get you, Gris! I'll get you!" The enraged alimon springs forward and attempted to bite Gris's head. But the evil alimon manuevered out of the way gracefully before swinging around and striking Spellbound across the back, ripping off huge chunks of flesh and leaving deep gashes across his back. Chomper could have sworn he saw bone sticking out.
Spellbound got up, but screamed in agony as he tried to do so much as bend his spine a little to run. He fell right back on the ground. "It seems your plan won't work." Gris said mockingly, gently cupping the injured alimon's head with his paw. "But don't worry...I'll make this nice and quick for you..." He dropped Spellbound's head, but quickly grabbed it again, this time gripping around the head, not just the chin this time. He then grabbed the base of the neck, forcing him to support himself on two legs, which alimons can do really well.
General Chomper realized suddenly just what Gris was planning to do. "Hey pal, why don't you try me on for size!" With that, the Carnotaurus made a mad dash forward.
"What the?" Gris looked up, and could see the giant's mouth closing in around him. Screaming in surprise, he leapt out of the way, forcing Chomper to bite into nothing but air. He reared his head back up, and let out a ferocious roar. Gris growled, hardly phased by Chomper's brave act. "You are either very brave, or very foolish, Chomper." Gris said, looking up. "If you kill me, it does not matter. My pack will decimate this valley!"
General Chomper glared. "We'll see about that..." He lowered his head, and as Spellbound got up to his feet, Chomper gripped Gris's head, and ripped it clean off before the alimon could do anything to protect himself. Spellbound screamed in surprise when he saw the headless body of Gris land in front of him. He backed away, and looked up to see Chomper crushing Gris's head. A few huge drops of blood hit the ground. One hit Spellbound, and he shook his head.
"So...whose side are you on now, pal?" Spellbound said almost sarcastically as he craned his head up to meet with the dinosaur's eyes.
The evil glint was now gone from the creature's eyes, and a genuine smile streaked across his face. "What do you think?" Suddenly General Chomper lifted up his head when he heard the sound of running, coming towards him. Spellbound turned around, and sniffed the air. Chomper sniffed as well, and recognized the scent. "Yu!" He shouted, and as if on cue, a green velociraptor emerged in front of them.
"General Chomper!" Yu shouted seriously, eyes dangerously narrowed. "You have no idea what I have been through trying to search for you! This crazy threehorn has been chasing me for hours! I finally lost him back at Smoking Mountain." He pointed towards the mountain, and growled. "And now that I'm here..." He got into a fighting stance. "How about you and me, one and one?"
To his surprise, Chomper just turned his head away, as if trying to pick up the scent of something else. "We have to find the other sharpteeth." He said to Yu, as if he were oblivious to the fact they were supposed to be enemies now. "We have to find them, before it's too late!"
"Why do you care?" Yu asked, putting his hands on his hips angrily. "You are the cause behind all this! You are the one who wanted to destroy the Great Valley!" General Chomper winced slightly as Yu said these things. "Now you actually care! Why would I trust you!"
"Because..." General Chomper turned around. "I was under a spell."
Spellbound stepped forward. "It is true." He explained slowly, so that Yu could understand him. "Gris had tricked him, and had him trapped in some sort of mind-control." He wasn't sure if that was the right word. "But he broke free after he found out the truth. Now he wants to help." He looked up at Chomper a bit nervously. "I think he does..."
"Of course I do!" Chomper said confidently. "I want to get even with those no-good alimons!"
Yu still looked suspicious, but nodded his head slowly. "All right..I'll believe you." He looked at Chomper, and glared. He pointed at the alimon. "But only because of what he just told me! You'll have to prove your loyalty to me when we go find the others." He began walking away. "Provided that they will even want to see you."
General Chomper gulped nervously. "I know..." He and Spellbound began walking towards Yu's direction as the raptor began leading them to where he had last spotted Littlefoot.
"Where is Cera's body?" Ali asked, completely ignoring everyone's surprised reactions. "The flamebreath rests within it, and we must awaken it, fast!"
"It is over in one of the forests." Littlefoot said. "I think."
Ali glared at him. "You THINK?"
"S-Sorry..." Littlefoot apologized to her, like she was the grand leader or something. "I've just had so much on my mind...and so much happened...that I just lost track of some earlier events..." He bowed his head. "I'm sorry."
"Then we'll just have to sniff her out." Rex said softly. "Maybe if we sniff hard enough, we'll get her scent, and find her."
"Or we'll get the scent of rotting flesh." Littlefoot said sarcastically.
"Perhaps, I could be of some assistance." A voice from behind shouted. The group turned around and saw a familiar figure stepping out, with two smaller ones. They recognized them as Chomper, Yu, and Spellbound. Chomper did not hold any evil look in his eyes any longer, and he approached slowly and cautiously, like he was afraid of them now.
"CHOMPER!" Littlefoot snarled. "What are you doing here?" He positioned himself to charge at the blue sharptooth.
"Yeah!" Shorty stepped up. "Shouldn't you be, like, ordering your damn sharpteeth to destroy this valley, or whatever you damn plan was!"
"No time to explain!" Chomper said, although he was feeling bad. "We have to stop those alimons!" Everyone looked at Spellbound. "No! The ones with the X's on them! They tricked me! They are the real enemy!" Chomper shouted frantically, but knew deep down they will probably just dismiss him off as crazy and insane.
"Are you out of your mind!" Rex shouted, but not in an angry tone. "Even if you are telling the truth, and this is all real, how are you going to convince both our troops and your troops, as well as the Living Dead, to listen to you and attack the X-marked alimons!" He outstretched his arms quickly. "That's insane!"
"See?" Yu said, smirking. "I knew someone was going to call you insane for some reason." He looked up at Chomper, who was glaring at him.
"So why should we believe you?" Littlefoot asked carefully. He remembered what happened when Dark Rex had taken over Rex's body and tried to kill him. "How do we know you aren't trying to trick us?"
General Chomper sighed sadly. "I'm afraid you'll just have to take that chance, and trust me." He looked at Littlefoot hopefully. "All I can say is I'm very sorry for what I did, Littlefoot." He took a step closer. "Very sorry." When Littlefoot closely looked at Chomper's face, he could see a hint of a tear, and he gasped. "I know I cannot change what I did, but I can prevent it from getting any worse."
"You can trust him, Littlefoot." The longneck's attention now turned to the alimon standing next to Chomper. "He saved my life. No one truly evil would have done something like that. You can trust him now, Littlefoot." He nodded, and gave a small smile to the Carnotaurus.
"Well..." Littlefoot said thoughtfully. "I'll guess I'll give him a chance..." He glared. "But if he tries anything stupid, I'll kill him!"
"Relax Littlefoot." Ali said. She looked at Chomper, no anger, hate, or fear in her eyes. Chomper smiled at that. "Will you take us to where you killed Cera?"
Chomper nodded slowly. "Certainly, but first, we have to stop my troops from attacking your troops."
"Okay." Ali said.
Meanwhile, the Living Dead continued to decimate the sharpteeth just as quickly as the sharpteeth were decimating the live dinosaurs. A sharptooth struggled as a living dead duck bill sank its dirty teeth into its neck, choking it. A large sharptooth kicked some threehorns away, causing them to break their legs as they hit the ground heavily. A flyer skillfully manuevered away from some of the sharptooth flyers, and they got caught in a tree.
An alimon reared onto her hind legs as she lunged onto the back of a therizinosaur, and bit into its long, vulnerable neck. The therizinosaur roared, and tried frantically to get the little vermin off. But its arms were too short, and the female alimon managed to break the longclaw's neck. The body fell to the floor with a heavy thud.
"You'll never win!" A leafeater said as he tackled a sharptooth.
"Maybe not, but I'll see to it you don't win either!" The sharptooth lunged forward, and bit into the neck of the planteater.
"Take this!" Rex shouted as he clawed an evil alimon across the chest. Blood splattered all over him as he let the dead alimon drop to the ground.
"I'll make you pay!" Chomper shouted as he drove his horn throw another evil alimon as he and the others raced to where the others were fighting.
"How come they appeared so fast!" Littlefoot shouted. "There weren't this many when the battle stared!"
Yu kicked away another alimon and responded, "Chomper killed Gris, but before that, Gris must've sent some kind of signal! The alimons know he's dead, and they must be trying to fulfill their leader's dying wish!"
"Oh that's great..." Shorty said as he crushed the head of a male alimon. Blood oozed all over the ground. "Just what are we supposed to do? Keep fighting?"
"That's the point!" Littlefoot shouted. "We have to fight if we wanna reach the others in time!" Littlefoot charged forward, sending a couple alimons flying through the air, and landing on the ground. The alimons quickly got up, but Spellbound jumped on top of the white alimon, and drove his claws into the alimons chest, and ripped out the heart. Blood poured from the chest, spraying onto his face and everyone who was nearby.
The two remaining alimons of the group were frightened of this display of brutality, and were about to take off when they found themselves in Chomper's massive jaws. "Going somewhere?" He asked darkly as he quickly crushed his jaws on their small bodies. Blood and guts splattered and stuck to his face as a loud cracking sound could be heard.
"I see them!" Rex shouted gleefully, despite the situation. "The troops! They are right up ahead!"
Loud roaring and clattering echoed in the dark skies as predator and prey clashed in an endless bloody battle for dominance over the valley. Blood and flesh dropped on the floor. Stench of wounds filled everyone's nostrils. Screams of pain danced with roars of triumph in the air. Claws met horns and armor, and teeth sank into skin, piercing the delicious flesh underneath.
Bodies fell onto the ground as the rain began to fall, making the blood runny and mix in with each other to form a few large rivers of blood, and they flowed downhill. Bones cracked, and heads were ripped from their bodies. Backs were broken, and limbs ripped clean off before the final killing blow.
"STOP!"
Suddenly, every dinosaur stopped, both sharptooth and leaf-eater, as well as all the Living Dead who were present. They slowly got off of each other, and looked towards the group racing towards them. The sharpteeth smiled as they saw their leader approaching. Surely he must've captured those leaf-eaters and traitors, and he was going to end the war now! The leaf-eaters cowered in fear as Chomper approached them, but suddenly the Carnotaurus leapt onto a large boulder.
"Stop this senseless fighting at once!" The leaf-eaters looked at each other, rather confused. The sharpteeth were confused too. What had gotten into the general? "We've all been tricked! We've been living a lie!" Chomper shouted loudly so that everyone in the troops could hear his words.
"What are you saying?" A sharptooth shouted. "You told us it was our destiny to rule this valley!"
"Yeah! What has gotten into you?" Another sharptooth shouted.
"The alimons!" Chomper exclaimed. "The alimons with the X marks on their shoulders, they are the ones who tricked me and put me unde a spell. They put us all under a spell! They are using us for their darn purposes! They are having us do their dirty work for them!" Chomper closed his eyes tightly, before screaming, "THEY HAVE USED US FOR NOTHING BUT GAIN!"
Everyone in the group was quiet. They stared at the sharptooth like he had lost his mind. Chomper's glare softened, and he took a step back. He wasn't sure if his troops would obey him now. He didn't seem like the same Chomper they had grown up with.
Then a single figure stepped forward. It was Blueye, who had survived the attack of the Living Dead. She looked up at Chomper with her blue-shaded eyes, her slit pupils slightly dialated.
"Lead the way."