Dinosaur Planet

Chapter Six: Royal Pain

Fox arrived in a cave that seemed to be frozen. "Why did I get myself into this?" he asked himself. He walked out of the cave and looked at the ship that seemed to be hovering in the sky. "What in the…?" was all Fox could say. He hid behind a corner in the cave and watched as two Sharp Claw warriors walked out of the ship with a small dinosaur that seemed to be on a leash. They began to hit him with clubs and they laughed while they were doing it. Fox flinched at the sight of the cruel behavior "That must be the Prince Tricky. Well, time to go save him." he said. He watched even more as they both pushed the prince into another cave. He got up from his spot and walked over to the next cave.

"Hey you there. Let that small kid go or…" he was saying, until one punched him and they bot jumped onto a hovering machine. There was one more left and he decided to take the chance and go after them. He jumped onto it and chased them. 'I hope this thing is easy to control.' he thought. He saw one of them and smirked. 'You may have got a low blow, but I never let a debt go unpaid.' he thought and rammed into the hovering machine. The Sharp Claw looked behind him and saw Fox right on his tail. He quickly swerved and tried to trick Fox into hitting a log that was halfway covered in snow. Fox swerved to his right and missed the log by a foot. "You'll have to do better than that!" Fox yelled. He rammed into the hovering machine again and watched as the Sharp Claw warrior fell off of the hovering machine. The Sharp Claw warrior tumbled in the snow as the hovering machine ran into a tree and exploded into a heap of metal and fire. Fox smirked and sped towards the other warrior. The other warrior sped into a tunnel and looked behind him. Fox didn't see that a thin wall of snow separated the tunnel and he veered to his right. He was on the other side of the tunnel from the Sharp Claw warrior. He could hear him cackle as they sped towards the exit.

Fox watched as the warrior sped out the exit of the tunnel. "I've got you now." Fox said and rammed into him from behind. The Sharp Claw warrior tried to slow down, but Fox moved out of the way and was riding right next to the hovering machine. "See ya later." Fox said and veered a hard left. The force threw the warrior off of the hovering machine and making him tumble in the snow. The hovering machine flipped into the air and hit a log. Then it hit a wall and shorted out. "Man, that was all too easy." Fox said. He smiled and looked ahead of him. He noticed that he was heading straight for a cliff. "Oh crap." he said. He tried to stop, but he mashed the brakes too late. He jumped from the hover machine right as it crashed into the icy lake below him. But he had jumped off too late and fell into the icy lake as well.

Fox surfaced quickly and swam to land. He wrapped his arms around him and began to shiver. "Damn, that's cold." he said. He looked up and saw that he was being closely observed by the prince of the EarthWalkers. The small dinosaur began to laugh and speak in his native language. "What?" Fox asked. The prince repeated himself and tried to speak even slower. Fox just rolled his eyes and hit a button on his communicator wristband. "… good thing you have fur or you would be a frozen popsicle by now." the prince laughed. Fox clenched his fists and walked towards the EarthWalker. "Why you little…" Fox began. But the prince backed away and took a defensive position. "You'd better watch it. My father is the King of the EarthWalkers. He'll get you if you try to mess with me." he said.

Fox looked at the little prince with sad eyes. "Tricky, your father has been captured and your mother is sick." Fox said. Tricky had a look of concern on his face. "Is she alright?" he asked. "I don't know. That's why I'm going to take you to her now." Fox explained. He looked around for a way out of the snowy trench. "Um… do you know a way out of here?" Fox asked. "Yeah, follow me." Tricky told him. They treaded on a snowy terrain for at least thirty minutes. Suddenly Tricky squealed. "I'm hungry." he complained. Fox looked at him with a confused expression. "And what can I do about that?" he asked. Tricky nodded towards a blue looking mushroom. "Do you see those? Those are called Grub Tubs and they a great food source for EarthWalkers. The only problem is that I can't get them because they move too much for me." Tricky said.

He tried to chase after the grub tub, but it constantly hopped out of reach of the young and inexperienced EarthWalker. "Here, let me get that for you." Fox said and unsheathed his staff. He grabbed it in a fighting position and it extended. He whacked the grub tub and picked it up. He then smiled and gave it to Tricky. He happily munched on the grub tub. "Thanks. Now we can go." Tricky said. On the way, Fox saw some more grub tubs that seemed like they were sleeping. 'Plants can't sleep. But plants can't hop either so just expect anything. Well I'm going to take the safe road and load up on some of these.' Fox thought. He whacked some more and put them in his backpack. Then he shortened the staff and put it back in his backpack. They kept walking and then they reached a thick wall of snow.

"Great, now how am I supposed to get through this?" Fox asked. They both thought for a moment and then Tricky jumped. "I have an idea." he said. He dug through the thick wall of snow and made a small hole for Fox to crawl through. Fox ducked and crawled into the snow and got onto the other side of the wall. "Thanks Tricky. I guess I owe you one." Fox said. They treaded on and Tricky saw some more grub tubs. "Ooooh, food." Tricky said and ran towards them. He failed to realize that there were Sharp Claw warriors setting a camp right there where the grub tub was. Fox tried to stop him, but they had already started pounding the young and inexperienced prince with clubs.

Fox ran towards the warriors and unsheathed his staff. He whacked the first one across the head and he disappeared in a pale blue light. The second warrior tried to swing his club at him, but Fox was too quick for him and he poked the warrior in his chest near his heart. He also disappeared in a pale blue light and Fox put the staff back onto the rear of his backpack. "Are you insane? You never run out in front of the Sharp Claw warriors. You can get seriously hurt." Fox stated. Tricky lowered his eyes to the icy cold ground. "Sorry Fox." he whispered. Fox thought that the king would have at least taught him some survival skills. "Alright fine. Let's just go." Fox suggested and they both continued to walk on. They saw a huge mammoth and it woke up abruptly.

"Sir, can you help us. We're kinda lost and we were wondering, how do we reach the exit?" Fox asked. "If you give me three Alpine roots, then I will give you far more than the directions out of here." the large mammoth proposed. "Ok, how do we find them?" Fox asked. "They usually grow in soft areas in the ground. You can see the stem of them if you look closely." he said. Fox began to crawl on the ground and he started looking for the roots. After about half an hour later, Fox gave up and got up from the ground. He dusted himself off and looked around. "This is POINTLESS!" he yelled. "Don't worry Fox, I can find them." Tricky said. Fox raised an eyebrow, "How is that?" he asked. "My nose." Tricky said proudly. He began to sniff around and then he stopped abruptly. He started to dig and seconds later he pulled out a root. Fox became wide-eyed, "Unbelievable." Fox muttered.

He did the same thing to another spot of the snowy terrain. After two minutes of searching, Tricky found all three Alpine roots. "See Fox, I am useful." he said proudly. Suddenly something clicked in Fox's head. He remembered how a certain vixen said the same exact quote. "We really need to hurry back. Sam had to be waiting at least two hours." Fox said to Tricky. He took the Alpine roots from the young prince and offered them to the mammoth. "Alright, here is your Alpine roots." Fox stated and handed them to the huge mammoth. The mammoth swiped them away with his trunk. He then began to much on the Alpine roots with delight. After he was done stuffing his face, he belched very loudly and then looked very embarrassed. "Oh my, sorry about that." the mammoth said. Soon he pulled out a medium sized brown leather bag with a picture of a scarab on the front of it. "Here, this is a scarab bag. You are definitely going to need this on your journey." the mammoth said and handed Fox the bag.

Fox inspected it before becoming satisfied. "Thanks. This will really help us a lot." he said. The big mammoth stomped one time and a huge block of ice flew out of the frozen lake and onto the surface. "Push that block near that ledge over there and follow that one path downward. You will reach your way out." The mammoth said and nodded towards a ledge that was a little high from the ground. "Thanks sir." Fox said. Fox and Tricky began to push the block of ice to the ledge. When they finished, Fox wiped the cold sweat away from his face and then began to climb. "C'mon Tricky, let's get out of this snowy wasteland." Fox suggested and they both began to walk towards the exit.