"He might fight them off, It's a possibility that he can make it. I hope he will live. No… he WILL survive, h-he has too..." As I looked around I saw a massive cliff circling the little pond with many bushes around the edge, I hadn't actually acknowledged the scenery around me, we were lucky not to have fallen off the cliff and I was sure lucky the grass around the cliff continued to stay long accept for short clumps which I would have to avoid as I thought out my plan to follow moma's scent trail.

I turned my attention to the battle where I watched my father trying to outrun them but they clung on to his sides like a tick, eventually they dragged him down and he collapsed sliding a bit from the speed he had picked up, he tried to get up but a golden albino Utahraptor jumped on his neck and tore out his neck, I watched with horror as this unfolded before me, my father lay dead as the rest of the Utahraptors began feasting, tearing flesh off of him and throwing it in the air as it fell into their mouths to be swallowed in a flash. My legs buckled and I had to stop myself from crying out, I managed to pull myself up again. Turning my head from my fathers resting spot, I ran my mind barely noticing anything, it was only focused on the image of my father, mauled by the giant mega pack of the Utahraptors. I stopped near a cliff and found a very tiny little hole that nothing would notice unless you were very small, I ran towards it and tried to fit in but it looked larger from a distance, close up I realized I was too big to fit. I collapsed again, and finally let out my tears as they streamed down my scaly face. it was as if my family wasn't meant to survive this harsh world. But I quickly brushed that thought away my mother was alive and Vut and I were alive, that's what mattered. I ran, the thick grass that I pushed my way through cutting me with its sharp stems, I couldn't see my mother anywhere, or Vut, my mind replayed the image of the utahraptor ripping out my fathers neck unwillingly, over and over in my mind, I began to feel angry… 'Why did this have to happen, WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS?!" I kept running and running my anger growing as I imagined every grass stem I bustled through a Utahraptor that had murdered my father, but I soon stopped to lay down unable to run any farther, my lungs ached and so did my feet, I started sobbing, I had just lost my whole family, and now…

I was lost as well, but suddenly I turned, looking up as I was hearing a chirping noise and little eyes poked out of a bush I got up crouched fear pulsing through me as blood rushed to my head but it was just a small herbivore and the sight of it made my mouth water and I noticed I was practically starving. I scanned the surroundings before hunting, around me was a cluster of trees and the long grass I had just burst through, I hadn't even realized I had passed the grass and had started walking on flat dirt and mud that stuck to my feet. I then looked at the growth around the herbivore, a bush, a big patch of tall grass and a pine sapling. These were not much help as they were far from the herbivore as it was in the middle of the clearing so I knew it would have to be the element of surprise and speed that finished the kill. I crouched in the tall grass moving carefully and silently as too not disturb the grass, then I lunged for it, remembering how the utahs had ran in one direction, waited to see which direction the prey went, then changed course and blocked it. The world around me seemed to slow down as I raced towards it, caught by surprise it didn't move, staring at me with fear in its eyes then realized what was going on and began to run but it was too late for I was already upon it after noticing which way it had began to run. I had almost fallen over changing the side I had been running for but I managed to keep my balance, I bit at its legs until it fell where I quickly finished it by biting its throat. The warm taste of blood flooded my mouth and I bit into the kill, tearing pieces off and gulping them down with glee. Then I quickly left, being fed, my mind whirled to the fact that a huge dinosaur, might smell the blood and come to eat. I started to run,the image of the Utahraptors bursting from the undergrowth suddenly only pushing my fear further, blood pulsed quickly through me, my mind was drifting as I ran, again I didn't take care of my surroundings and my mind switched to the replay of my father dying, but suddenly I hit something, a rock I had bashed into I wobbled and tipped over and suddenly there wasn't the reassuring ground beneath my feet anymore, I was falling off a cliffside into rushing water below I opened my mouth to roar for help, but water only came flooding in, filling my lungs and my nose

I opened my eyes, everything was sore. I closed my eyes again, groaning in pain, and focused on the sounds around me as best I could with my body feeling like I'd been squished by a tree, soft footsteps, I sniffed gingerly and instantly the smell of blood gushed into my nose. I opened my eyes again and attempted to pull myself up, but within trying pain gushed through my body and I yelped, laying back down. After a few minutes the pain subsided, although it still hurt to get up it didn't as much as the first time when I tried again, and looking around another one of the herbivores I had killed before I fell off the cliffside, I noticed that this herbivore had soft fur on it with the whitish tanish tints here and there and the streak of black from its eyes to its back I wondered how I didn't notice it the first time but then a voice caught my attention. "Well, awake now are we? Your lucky I saved you, you would of drowned." A rough yet soft toned voice slowly getting louder as the soft footsteps turned louder.

I turned around it was another much larger Carnotaurus juvenile and from its red tinted face it was a male as well. "Are you going to eat me?" I asked my voice quivering. "Eat you? Why on earth would I do that? I've got plenty of herbivores to snack on." Said the juvie, chuckling as if he thought I would of asked something different. "What's your name?" I asked, the fear in my voice replaced by curiosity. "Why should I tell you?" He said hesitating. "Im Fungus."... "Im Mayple" I got up deciding that was the end of the discussion, I started to walk away but my feet trembled and started to ache. "Woah, sit down, you're safe here that Utahraptor pack that's near here followed your scent trail and decided you died so it's gone, hopefully." Fungus said with a little bit of hidden fear in his voice though he hid it well much better than my parents ever did, if they ever even tried too. "Fine, do you wanna join my pack?" I said, if I was gonna stay here with a stranger might as well be a stranger in my pack I thought to myself. "your pack? Where's your pack mates then?" He asked chuckling again. I looked down remembering you had to have members in your pack to have a pack. Tears welled in my eyes again as I pictured Bibbly dead in my parents nest and the death of my father, and the fact that I lost my mother and Vut, I started crying again. "Woah! What's wrong with you?" He asked sheepishly, I answered gritting my teeth as I tried to hold back the tears. "If you must know my father and sister died and I lost my brother and mother!, so I have no pack!" I said, my voice cracking with pain and grief. "What? How did that happen?" He asked, not even trying to hide the guilt of making me start crying in his voice, though he attempted to hide the curiosity in his voice. "My sister, Bibbly died of starvation and my father died saving our family from a pack of utahraptors, and I-I…. I LOST THEM! THEY LEFT WITHOUT ME…. I LOST MY BROTHER AND MOTHER!" I said, crying loudly now and I cuddled in a ball of sadness and closed my eyes. "Woah.. Sorry, my siblings left me and our parents left us before we were even juveniles when our nest got invaded by a pack of Dilophosaurus." Fungus said sadly. "It's worse when you watch them die.." I said in a whisper. "Woah.. Y-you watched them die?" Fungus said sympathetically. I stopped crying, but I was still sniffling. "So.. Is "Woah" your favorite word or something?" I asked trying to change the subject, I had uncurled from my 'ball of sadness'. "I guess, so" Fungus said clearly glad to change the subject as well. It had been only a few hours since I had ate but I was already hungry again as I didn't eat a lot when I started panicking by the thought of another dinosaur finding me nearby. I sat down and looked around at the small furry herbivore and sniffed, it smelt of rot it must have been a few days old. "I'm hungry… Could we go hunting?" I said silently. "Sure I was about to ask you that as well' cause you were eyeing that Oreo" Fungus said lightly giggling when he said 'Oreo"as if it was a joke. "What's an Oreo? My f-family called them Oro's" I said guessing it was another word for oro but I still stuttered at the word family. "Its their nickname, I haven't a clue why they came up with the name Oreo but they did." He said clearly displeased to admit that he didn't know something. "Alright let's go then before it gets very dark." I said noticing the sun beginning to set although the sky was beautiful I knew certain dinosaurs hunted only in the darkness having better eyesight. "Yes before the Dilophosaurus come out." He said and started to trot away sniffing the air. I didn't ask what a Dilophosaurus was since I knew it had to be one of the dinosaurs that prevailed at night… I followed him, since he knew this area, I mean, I guessed he did, he trot around in it like he owned the place anyway.

We stopped at a cave, a small cave, barely big enough for us to fit into, I felt uncertain about this… "Well, What are you waiting for? Go on in." I hesitated, then went inside, I scraped myself against the walls for a few footsteps, then it the walls suddenly wided. I gasped in awe when my eyesight finally adjusted to the darkness, it was a big cave, and it seemed like Fungus had dragged in some moss and grass from outside to make beds, I was looking around and exploring, it seemed like an underground tunnel, a small stream was going through the walls, I guessed it was from outside. Fungus suddenly stepped in, although I hadn't noticed yet, he dropped something, I yelped, leaping a little into the air, then turned around and let out a sigh of relief when I saw a chuckling Fungus next to some fresh moss. "Hehe… I scared you didn't I." Fungus said, still giggling, the look of annoyance I gave him said it all. "Sorry… But here's some moss for your bed tonight, sleep tight Mayple, If you get thirsty the stream is right there for ya." Fungus said smiling, he had stopped giggling. I sighed, suddenly realizing how tired I was, I sat down on the moss, circling a bit before settling down. "Thank you Fungus." I said closing my eyes. "No problemo, Mayple." Said Fungus's voice next to me, I giggled quietly when I remembered his bed was on the other side of the cave, he must of moved closer to me, I felt something spark inside of me when I felt him cuddle with me, I sighed, finally being happy again, and drifted into sleep.