Miss.Ecofreak: I'm back! Did anyone miss me in those... like 10 hours I've been sleeping? I would have loved to opdate once more yesterday too, but it was late.
Zakura: three times in one day is still a lot of updating for one fic. Last time you did something similar you updated Dork Period, DorkX and the Ancient ones at once.
Miss.Ecofreak: more updates mean more reviews. Here's another chapter. (Update nr 1 22 of April)
CHAPTER 11
A NEW ROSE
As the years went by, the ottsels grew into a more advanced society thanks to the chinbit-technology.
Mountain Lake Town had now expanded, and for two years the ottsels had been working on a tunnel mowing straight trough the mountain and into another cave-system at the other side, with help from the inhabitants of that cave-system.
This was the chinbit village of Teddy Hills, where the Angora-chinbit-clan lived.
The Angora-clan looked different from the Lionhead clan, but their technology was the same thanks to their advanced ways of transportation and communication.
The Lionheads had a mane around their necks, and most of them had large ears pointing upwards (although some had interbreed with the chinbits of Mountain Lake Forest, the Lop Clan, making their ears weak and flat to the head).
The Angora-Clan had tick coats to survive in the cold snow, their ears where small to prevent heat from escaping.
Buster had built a new laboratory in Mountain-Lake Town, and with help from a team consisting of both ottsels and chinbits, he was working on a weapon to defeat the dreaded X-D03.
Although Buster was scared of making the same mistake he did when he tried to defeat the predators around Tunnel Town, he still tried to experiment with small doses of dark eco.
"I think I might be able to stabilize it, maybe. Don't worry. I wont use it if it doesn't work" he assured Rambo.
"And how do you know if it works?" Rambo asked.
"I'm a scientist Rambo. We're testing it out on plants, dark eco seems to have an interesting effect on them" Buster pointed at a glass container, inside was a small pot with ten big plants in it, dead from low nutrition, the plants looked funny, they were completely purple, no other plants on the precursor-planet had that color.
"They started reproducing in an extreme rate" Buster said. "We planted two days ago, yesterday all of these were alive, but it became too crowded in the pot so they died over the night."
"Charming" Rambo said. "Might get useful if we ever got hungry and there were no plants around to eat".
"I don't think you want to eat these Rambo, they are still filled with dark eco" Buster said.
"Great. Now it has broken my appetite too" Rambo said.
"I'm glad it has some positive effects" Buster said and giggled.
Rambo glared at him for a moment, but decided to change subject.
"Have you figured out what to do with the dragon yet?" he asked.
"No" Buster said quickly. "I have no idea."
"Are you sure? Balder said you told him that you had a plan" Rambo said.
"He probably only said that so that you would stop yapping, obviously it didn't work" Buster said. "How about giving me some peace and quiet so I can think of something?"
"Fine, I'll leave the genius to himself then" Rambo said and walked out.
As soon as Rambo had left, Balder came into Buster's office.
"Why don't you just tell him what we've been working on? He's going to figure it out sooner or later anyway" he asked.
"If I do he's only going to bother me even more, you have no idea how much he was yapping when I tried to create the eco" Buster said.
"Yeah, and that was a big success" Balder muttered
"Come on Balder, I've learned since then. And I'm pretty sure this will work" Buster said.
He pressed a button on his desk, and one of the walls in his office moved away, revealing a hidden cupboard behind it.
Inside was a glass container, with lots of wires attached to it, inside it was a big egg.
"Completely sure?" Balder asked.
"Don't worry, even draco-birds have been known to befriend ottsels if they are the first thing they see when they hatch" Buster said. "And I've created this one using some of the DNA from draco-birds. I think that's what Jingo did as well, only he enhanced it with dark eco."
"And you haven't?" Balder asked with a hint of suspension in his voice.
"What are you taking me for? I've seen what damage that eco can do" Buster said, staring at his son's metallic foot. "I've used red eco, and some yellow and blue to make it faster. I even added some green eco so that it will heal quicker".
"Its going to need it, it'll have to fight a dragon that is a few years older than it" Balder said.
"Don't worry; I've got it figured out. See, with draco-birds the females are often the bigger, this one's been cloned from a female bird so it'll probably get bigger than the dark makers' male dragon."
Lio popped his head into the office.
"What now?" Buster asked. He was getting pretty sick of all the interruptions.
"Excuse me if I interrupted something important" Lio said.
"Of course not, I was only trying to save the world. What do you want?" Buster asked.
"We need some help to check over an injured tree wolf-cub some chinbit-children picked up close to Tunnel Town, we suspect it might have eco-poisoning" Lio said.
Buster sighed.
"Hard to believe that a few years ago I was fighting to exterminate those wolfs, now I spend my time saving them" he said and followed Lio out to the wolf-cub.
Balder giggled; picking up tree-wolf-cubs seemed to be a habit the chinbit-children had.
An adult tree wolf was hardly higher than a chinbit when it stood on its four feet, but yet they where the most dangerous predator the chinbits faced.
But as cubs, they were almost mouse-size, and chinbit-kids found them cute.
Maybe it was the similarity between the two species.
The tree wolfs had the same lion-mane the Lionhead clan had, and it had the same fluffy squirrel-tale all chinbits shared.
The problem of course was that the cubs didn't stay cute and cuddly for long, and as they grew older, their predator-instincts made them dangerous.
Balder was about to leave the room when he heard a cracking noise.
He turned around, had something broken?
But he couldn't see anything, and there was the cracking noise again.
His attention now fell at the dragon-egg in the glass-container; it had two cracks on it.
Balder thought for a second weather he should get his father or not as something busted out of the egg.
The baby-dragon stared straight at his face, looking just as innocent and sweet as the tree-wolf-cubs, yet Balder knew from personal experience that it would grow into something far more dangerous than any natural predator on the precursor planet.
But she did seem different from X-D03.
The main difference was the color.
She was almost completely pink and had red stripes going down her back.
She had no horns, but it was probably because she was so young.
Next came the size, she was only half Balder's size, way smaller than X-D03.
Her eyes were blue, and looked like the worlds biggest puppy-eyes at the moment.
The dragon-child put its feet at the glass container and twittered like a bird, as if she was asking Balder to let her out.
"You know, I really should get going" Balder said.
The dragon whimpered.
"No really. Dad can help you when he gets back; he's just looking at an injured puppy right now so…."
Now the dragon started crying, it really didn't want to be left alone.
Although it was a big crime against Balder's survival-instinct, he walked up to the dragon and lifted the glass container of.
As soon as the container was removed, the baby-dragon jumped at Balder, and started licking him in the face like any other puppy.
"Okay drop it little girl" Balder said and picked the dragon of his stomach. "Who knows what kind of deceases you carry?"
The dragon squeaked happily, its temperament was nothing like the first dragon he met. Maybe it was only the dark eco that made him evil after all? And this dragon might stay nice if she was raised around ottsels.
"I have to admit. You are kind of cute" Balder said. "But hey, you need a name, a better name than what of the dark makers' dragon."
He thought for a moment of what could be a good name for the little dragon, and then he thought of something.
"I want to name you Rose, after my mother Snowrose" he said. "I'm sure she would like that."
The dragon twittered again, she obviously liked the name.
Not even my mom could have disliked that one he smiled.