I woke up when I heard hissing and yelling. "LEAVE HER ALONE! SHE'S MY FRIEND!" I heard Fungus's voice, yelling at something defensively, but I heard a new voice, although it sounds close to Fungus's but it was noticeably lower pitched. "Since when do you have friends?! Your as useless as a leaf, nobody would want to be with YOU" Said the unknown voice, I opened my eyes, as I saw a bigger juvenile carno, unlike Fungus's red tinted face, it was blue, thus it was another male. "W-what's going on?, Fungus… whos that?!" I said, my fear rising, but I was determined to help Fungus. I got up and stood beside Fungus, but I stepped back as the other juvenile almost rose up taller, it shook it's blue head, 'H-he's pretty big…', but I shook my head..
"He's my annoying older brother, Venus." Venus stode across the cave toward us, like he was the owner of us. Fungus stepped in front of me, blocking him, they both growled at each other, they circled, sizing each other up. I suddenly realized what was happening, well… guessed, they were fighting over me. I sucked in a breathe, frightened for Fungus, His brother was so much bigger than him, I guessed he was the first to hatch. Venus suddenly lunged for Fungus, but Fungus evaded him, and crashed into him with his side, then quickly tripped Venus with his tail, but Venus bit the end of it as he crashed down, and pulled himself up using his tail like a rope, Fungus yelped in pain and surprise, and Venus flung him into a wall with his tail, Fungus lay there panting heavily, blood seeped from his tail, but he got up, but collapsed again. Venus loomed over him, Fungus closed his eyes as if giving into his fate, but I sure wasn't ready for him to die, for two good reasons, for one I sure didn't want to be paired with Venus, and for two, I liked Fungus, although I wasn't sure if it was mutual, I didn't care, without a second thought I leapt protectively in front of him, before his brother could deliver a finishing blow.
Venus looked surprised, but he stepped back, annoyance clear on him, he grumbled to himself as he backed down, I helped Fungus up, he staggered a bit, I was ready to catch him if he fell, but he revived quickly, and looked at me thankfully, and walked over to the stream, after taking a few sips he slowly laid himself down with his bleeding tail in the lake. I looked back over to Venus, I took a step forward intending to intimidate him, but then suddenly the room got dark, and he was covered in blood, and it was dripping from his teeth, his eyes were black slits, with Fungus below him, dead, I gasped and blinked, then it was gone. Shaking I went back to Fungus and laid down beside him still shaking from the vision. Venus went out of the cave, but then the roof of the cave shook and few pebbles fell off it, and a large stomp was heard, and Venus came racing back inside, a look of fear in his face, Fungus chuckled, I was also finding the look on his face funny, but I was more worried about the stomp, Venus quickly regained his calmness, and looked slightly embarrassed, but curled up at the other end of the cave with dignity. "What was that?!" I asked, fearfully. Fungus had a thoughtfully expression on his face, then answered. "I truthfully don't know." But he was interrupted by his ever annoying brother. "Wow, YOU don't know something?! But I thought you were the all knowing one!" Venus said in a sarcastically taunting voice. "AHEM, Sorry about that? Did you hear something?, anyway… I think it must be a big dinosaur, since the stomp was so loud, plus Venus is so stupid that if it was something like a ceratosaurus he would have challenged it." Fungus said, I managed to stifle a laugh, and Venus looked like he wanted to burn Fungus in a fire, which made not laughing even more harder, Fungus chuckled as well, and looked at me affectionately, and I smiled at him. Fungus was the only person who could make me laugh after I lost my whole family. I rested my head again, and closed my eyes, and I fell asleep again, although it wasn't peaceful, It was the exact opposite, It was a nightmare.
I was in the cave again, but suddenly I was suffocating, with some red sticky liquid, I suddenly realized it was blood, I swam to the cave opening and dived through the tunnel, only to be met by a Venus that was HUGE! He was the size of the allosaurus that had invaded her nest earlier, I was frozen with fear, and it suddenly started throwing its head around, the blue hypnotizing me, but suddenly I heard Fungus, I saw him, but he was smaller than usual, and Venus taunted him. "YOU THINK YOU CAN STEAL THE FIRST GIRL WE FIND? NEVER! SHE WILL BE MINE." With that, he squashed Fungus beneath his foot, I heard the bones shattering. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" I screeched, fear engulfing my senses. I lept at the giant Venus trying to bite him, but he just picked me up with his now large arms, and shushed me calmly. Then I woke up with somebody nudging me gently, I yelped, and jumped up, I could see daylight coming through the entrance, I looked down to see a startled Fungus. "Are you okay? You were screaming in your sleep!?" Fungus said, concern in his eyes. "I-I was?" I said, remembering the nightmare, I calmed down, took a deep breath and lay down next to him again. "Yeah, you started screaming 'Noooooooooooooooooooo' …" Fungus said gently.
"O-oh. I was just having a bad dream.. Nothing to worry about." I said sheepishly. "Alright." Fungus said, although he didn't sound like he believed me. Venus was still asleep across the cave, and I got up to sip some water, Fungus followed me. I was still drinking when Fungus's nose drifted closer but I could still hear him sipping, but then I accidentally almost fell and our noses touched, he gave me a shy and surprised expression, then smiled fondly and I could feel I was smiling too. Venus snorted in contempt. Me and Fungus sighed at the same time, then giggled. "Alright love birds, time to hunt again." Venus said, making the words 'love birds' painfully clear. "Okay Mr. Grumpy, where are we going to hunt."
"PFFFFFFT" Fungus said, as he was trying to hold in his laugh, I made sure to have my chin up like I owned this place as I strode along like I owned the world, Venus gave us a look of aggravation, but soon led the way outside. The cool breeze cooled my scales immediately, I shook from the coldness, but stopped as Fungus pressed up against me I stopped shaking, Venus shot us a disdainful look but continued as he sniffed the air, and picked up a scent. We were soon on the trail of a young herbivore, I could smell it was different than an Oreo or Taco, Fungus whispered to me that it was a 'Maiasaurus', I soon saw it, but it smelled us first, it was about the size of Fungus, a little bigger though, Venus and Fungus soon circled it, splitting up to cover it from both sides, I didn't know anything about this creature, but from the determined look in its eyes, I knew it was something that attacked back. Venus ran forward, but then jumped back before the creature turned swiftly and bit the air, it realized it just made a mistake before Fungus leapt onto its back and secured a grip on the back of its neck, but then it bucked and kicked out its hind legs, this seemed to be part of the plan as then Venus whacked it with his strong broad tail… then noticed the maia had almost knocked Fungus off its back, it had successfully hit Venus as I noticed him in a heap of ow next to a tree, I leapt in front of it, ducked down as the tail swung by me as it attempted to whack me, the maia kept trying to jerk Fungus off its back but also simultaneously focus on me, but when it finally gave up on me and started to focus on Fungus again I ran foward one way, it turned to confront me, but I quickly changed direction and had managed to slide into its head, I crouched a bit and latched onto its neck onto it. I let myself fall so that my body weight dragged down the maia, which it did, and when It finally collapsed Fungus jumped off at the last second, breathing hard and I tore out its neck and slithered out from underneath its head, Fungus gave me an approving look and began to eat, Venus recovered from the swing and wobbled over and began feasting as well, I dug in, it tasted much better than anything else I had tasted, after a few minutes of gouging ourselves, we sat down together to chat.
"So what's your favorite food?" Venus asked. "Maia. For sure." I said licking my maw. "Carnotaurus." Venus said, answering his own question, Fungus looked as if he had said nothing, but I, however, looked as if Venus suddenly had sprouted wings. "WHAT?!" I screeched. Venus started laughing, I looked at Fungus with my mouth open, he didn't notice me and just rolled his eyes at his brother. "HEHEHAHAHAHA!, I was just joking!, My favorite food is Maia as well…" Venus said still laughing, Fungus sighed as he noticed my very, VERY upset expression. I stood up, and walked too Venus while he was still laughing, I bonked him on his head with my tail, then stomped off grumbling with dignity. I could hear Fungus guffawing at the sight of that. I kept walking away, irritated, but then there was water at my feet, so naturally I leaned down to drink it, but I realized it was red…. It was blood. I jumped back a little, holding back a yelp. I heard footsteps behind me, I turned seeing Fungus with Venus behind him but quickly catching up since he was larger, Fungus stopped in his tracks when he saw the blood, however, Venus crashed into him, "Why did you stop worm" Venus growled. "Look for yourself Mr. Stupid." Fungus said growling back but in a teasing manner. Venus shot him a glare but soon realized the blood in the river as well. As they kept growling at each other, I went up river, because I smelled a familiar scent, and as I got closer I could smell it more clearly, the blood was from a small herbivore, a Psittacosaurus to be exact… my mother hunted them for us when we were still young… I shook my head to clear it before my mind started filling itself up with sad forgotten images of my family, dead or lost, I had friends now… friendish friends I guess. After clearing my mind I continued, and I got close enough to hear flesh being ripped off the carcass, I saw another young carno juvenile, she was roughly the size of Venus but smaller.
I crouched so I didn't scare her, but as I was getting ready to introduce myself, I stepped on a twig. 'CRACK', I cringed at the sound, but the smaller carno heard it, and turned quickly, I stood up, seeing as hiding was no use, It looked scared. "T-Take the food!, Just leave me alone… p-please…." I tilted my head, confused, then understood after a moment. "No, I'm not trying to steal your food, or hurt you, I just wanted to introduce myself…. I'm Mayple, what's your name?" I said, studying the carnos color scheme, the carno didn't have any distinctive bright colors on its head, so it wasn't a male, it seemed like she was greenish with little specks of red or brown, or a mixture of both. "O-oh, me?, I, uhm, Im Raspberry, you can call me Berry for short." Raspberry said smiling, but she still seemed tense like she thought this was a trick, she must have been through some traumatizing stuff, like me. "Nice name, I have a pack if you want to follow me, although one of my packmates is very grumpy, it's not a trick but I understand if you don't believe me." I said as I was turning to lead the way, I could tell she hesitated before following as I heard her footprints only after I took a few steps. After a few minutes we found Venus and Fungus still sitting my the shore, it looked like they were about to fight again, I sighed slightly annoyed, I could feel Raspberry scrunch up against me. "Fungus, Venus, This is Raspberry, the one who was causing the blood in the river." I said, Fungus smiled at her, Venus rolled his eyes as if he was annoyed his brother was so kind. "Fungus is the one with the red markings, he's very sweet, Venus is the one with the blue markings, he is the grumpy one I was talking about." I whispered to Raspberry, I heard her giggle quietly, I smiled as she stopped cowering behind me and instead walked up too Fungus and Venus smiling at them. I sighed and sat down as I watched them chat, they were so different and yet, I had somehow made they work together as a pack, although Venus and Fungus were still cold to each other, they actually were getting well together, and now I wasn't the only girl in the group, that is if she decides to stay. "So want to join our pack?" I asked, Venus snorted as if he didn't believe they were a pack, Fungus just looked hopefully at Raspberry. "Mmmm… Yes!" Raspberry said after some thinking, I could tell she was smart and thought before she did anything, Which explained her hesitation before she followed me, or said yes. I smiled, then yelped and jumped up as something slimy touched me, I turned around to see a tiny slug, and sighed in irritation as I heard Venus laughing again, even Fungus was chuckling, but he quickly stopped and looked around innocently when I shot them a glare.
"HEHEHAHAHAHAHA! SCARED OF A SLUG, HEHEHEHAHA!" Venus kept laughing, I awkwardly sat down clearly aggravated. Raspberry sat down next to me. "Don't listen to them, I have an idea to get back at them." Raspberry murmured quietly, I listened as she whispered the plan. We both got up giggling quietly as we moved towards the river that had stopped running red with the blood since Raspberry had finished the carcass, We both gathered some moss under the river, and while Venus was still laughing we crept around him using the shadows to our advantage then ran foward and dumped it on his face, Venus screeched in response and started running around in circles then stopped and it slid off his face to reveal a very salty expression. We all started laughing our heads off, then I realized he had crouched and had a sneaky smile on his face. "RUUUUUUN!" I yelped still laughing and we all ran back to the cave from the angry Venus, Raspberry didn't even hesitate from going inside the cave because she was having so much fun. I felt the familiar small space scratching against me then widening out, it was dimmer than in the morning since the sun was setting. We all collapsed on the far end of the cave panting, still giggling. Venus came in last and he sat down by the entrance, even he was smiling, which was surprising. "Wanna see the sunset?" Fungus said when we all caught our breath.
I nodded. "Yerp!" Raspberry said smiling. Venus was already snoring in the corner so we didn't disturb him, only giggled at his loud snoring. Fungus squirmed outside first, I followed but I yelped in pain as I stepped on a particularly sharp rock, but continued. After outside we waited for Raspberry then climbed on the hill the cave was inside, it was beautiful since the cave was situated on a grassy hill which had a small waterfall, and as we watched the beautiful sunset the sound of the waterfall added an even special effect on the beautiful colors in the sky, the yellow near the sun that faded into orange and red, that then blended into glorious purple blues, with the stars starting to shine. "Mayple your eyes are as beautiful as the sunset." Fungus said fondly, I smiled at him. "Thank you." I responded shyly. Raspberry giggled at us as we continued to watch the sunset.