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Chapter 9: Mentor Position
Morning rose in the Great Valley, Ruby woke up and found out that Chomper is not there with her, she then ran out and started looking for him, but could not find him, she then went to the others, soon she talked to Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike waiting for her and Chomper, Cera noticed that Chomper is not with Ruby as she asks, " Where Chomper?"
Ruby says, " I don't know where he is, where he is I don't know."
Ducky says, " I hope Sharptooth didn't get him, oh, no, no, no."
Petrie adds, " While me was flying, me no find, Miller anywhere."
Cera then asks to herself, " Where could they be?"
Then they all hear a female voice say, " They both have left."
Everybody looks and see's Dara, as she says again, " They left very early, they both are trying to catch up to Doc, Littlefoot, and Richard, before Sharptooth does, I going to catch up to them."
Cera then says, " If you going, we coming with you, were they're friends."
Dara was going to say no, but then she starting thinking, then she made her mind, " Alright but follow me."
Then Dara, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, and Ruby left the Great Valley making a third departure, the gang are on their way to find their friends.
The sun is out in the Mysterious Beyond, Doc had decided that it is time to start Richard and Littlefoot's training. They all stood by a pool of bubbling sinking sand. The grey goo splattered near they're feet as the old Longneck towered over his young students. " Okay, boys. From this day forward, you're gonna have to grow up fast. I have no time for childish games. Is that understood?"
Littlefoot nodded sharply.
Doc turned to Richard, as he says, " I only have two mouths until I am an adult, so you have my understanding."
Doc then says, " Good. Then lets begin." Doc then used his mouth to lifted Littlefoot in the air, by Littlefoot's tail, then set Littlefoot down, situating his feet on one different rock, then Doc turned to Richard and asked, " Are you ready?"
Richard says, " Yes, lift me up."
Doc then did the same thing to Richard, then set Richard down, on the other rock, then Doc says to his students, " I'm going to teach you, hopefully, how to block and dodge when you have no place to run." Doc lightly flicked his tail across the ground, gathering together small stones and pebbles. " I'm gonna throw these at you two. Try to dodge them."
With a swift flick of his tail, Doc sent two pebbles flying at both Littlefoot and Richard. Richard dodged his, as he says, " Whoa, damn." But Littlefoot had only time enough for reaction. He halfway screamed just before the rock struck his nose. " Ow!"
Doc says, " I said dodge." as he flicked two more stones.
Richard dodged again, as the stone passed him he said, " Whoa, holy shit!"
Littlefoot ducked the first one, then Doc flicked two at the same time, Richard and Littlefoot dodged at the same time, as Littlefoot says, " Ha, I did it! No, we did it!" Just as he turned back, another stone hit Littlefoot in the leg. " AH!" He buckled from the impact just as another stone slammed against his neck.
Stunned and confused, Littlefoot lost his balance and bumped into Richard making him lose balance. They both collapsed into the bubbling sinking sand. The thick goo pulled on their bodies, dragging them down toward oblivion. Littlefoot struggled, kicking his legs and trashing about, Richard tried to safe him, while trying to move, but that made them only to sink in faster.
Littlefoot and Richard's lungs ached, they burned for air. All of a sudden, they both felt a great force pulling them up. The burst from the black muck and gasped, drawing in much needed oxygen. They coughed and sputtered, spitting out the sandy sludge. Littlefoot and Richard looked up and saw Doc's goo covered head biting down softly on their tails. Doc had plunged his head in and rescued them.
Doc carried Littlefoot and Richard back over to ground and set the young Longneck and teenaged Fast-biter down. " Thanks." Littlefoot wheezed.
Richard says being thankful, " Yeah, thanks a lot, Doc."
" Not exactly the best job I've ever seen." Doc remarked. " You both need to keep your minds on the situation at hand, and you Littlefoot, you must not act like a little kid."
Littlefoot says, " But I am a little kid."
Richard says, " Doc, even though I'm a CIA agent, I'm a teenager still."
" Not anymore. You are warriors, now. Your fighters. You have to stay in a combat state of mind all the time." Doc said. He then lifted both Littlefoot and Richard back up and placed them both back on the rocks in the sinking sand. " Now, try it again."
Littlefoot asks, " What?"
Richard then says, " You got to be kidding me."
As they both regained they're balance, as Littlefoot asks, " Already? We almost died just now, and you want us to try again?"
Richard then says, " Even though you saved us, but are you training us or killing us, which one are you doing?"
Doc then says, " I will drill this into both your heads, no time to rest. Keep in both your minds who your eventual enemy is, the most dangerous Sharptooth in existence. Both of you don't worry to much; if you both fall in again I will drag you both back out and we will continue until you both have it down so well, that you both can fight with your eyes closed." Doc grinned.
Littlefoot signed in despair, as Richard mutters, " This is bullshit."
Miles away from Doc, Littlefoot, and Richard, Chomper and Miller are running, as Sharptooth is chasing after them, Chomper sprinted as fast as his legs could carry him. His muscles ached, his chest burned. While Miller was used to running, because he was a United States Marine, he fought in Iraq along side with his troops, but now since he is Fast-biter in a dinosaur time, he was used to it, Sharptooth is gnashing his teeth right after their tails. Miller is shooting his Milcor MGL grenade launcher at Sharptooth, Sharptooth backed off, long enough for him and Chomper to scramble under a rock outcrop, too low for Sharptooth to follow. Chomper thought that they could be safe there. But Miller knew that they have to move again soon, until the rocks above them lifted away as Sharptooth tore rock back with his jaws.
Chomper and Miller started running again. The mountain of muscles and teeth continued the chase, shaking the earth with each footstep. Chomper glanced over his shoulder in terror. Then he tripped and knocked down Miller as they both fell forward, crashing to the ground. Sharp points of pain shot through Chomper's face and Miller's side as they scrapped against the ground. They both skid to a stop and they groaned in pain.
Sharptooth stood over the young Sharptooth and adult Fast-biter, staring down at them. " Disappointing." Sharptooth grumbled. " Not very fast, nor are you very strong. Miller can out run me better then you can, but with you right behind him, he is not very fast either. I'm beginning to wonder if taking you, weakling as my disciple was a good idea, or if I should've just killed you on the spot, and toke Miller along with me instead." Sharptooth stepped away as Chomper and Miller got back to their feet.
" I just need to work more." Chomper said.
" I think I know where your weakness comes from." Sharptooth said talking to Chomper. " Your diet. You only ate bugs while in the valley, didn't you?" Chomper nodded. " I though so. You need real meat. Meat is power, it fills you with the strength of the animal you killed."
" What do you mean?" Chomper asked.
Miller puts his clawed hands on his eyes as he shakes his head, while Sharptooth says, " Didn't your parents teach you anything? By killing another creature and consuming it's flesh, you absorb it's strength." Sharptooth turned back to Chomper. " You must make a kill."
Chomper asks, " What?"
" The more you kill, the more meat you eat, the stronger you'll become. It is that simple." Sharptooth said.
" I can't. I swore to Littlefoot and the others that I would never kill another dinosaur." Chomper pleaded.
Sharptooth says, " You cannot survive otherwise. I'd bet that you've started to feel it already, the hunger gnawing at your stomach. The bugs that used to satisfy you for hours now leave you feeling like you've not eaten at all. You are a predator, it is what you are and you cannot change that. The only way you can survive is by eating the bodies of other dinosaurs. No way around it."
Miller says agreeing with Sharptooth, " Even though I don't like to say it, but I have to agree, I eat meat, Richard eats meat, but only we do it far away from the Great Valley, to avoid causing a problem, it's the same thing, we have to meat, while leaf eaters have to eat green food, not the other way around, and you know that." Sharptooth nods his head, that Miller agrees with him.
" I know that, but I don't want to. I want to live alongside other dinosaurs. The whole world is afraid of us, and I want to change that." Chomper retorted. " I will never kill another dinosaur."
Miller see that Chomper has kind heart to not only himself, and his friends, but to all of the other dinosaurs out there, Sharptooth snorted. " Very well. Then both of you go about it alone." Sharptooth turned and started to walking away.
" Hey, where are you going? You can't leave us out here!" Chomper and Miller started racing after Sharptooth, as Miller calls out to Sharptooth, " Hey wait a minute, Stop! Where are you going?"
" I'm leaving and sure I can leave you two alone. You've weak, your training has gone nowhere, and you don't take my or Miller's advice, and Miller is not fast with you right behind him. Besides, it'll be faster and easier for me to catch the Longneck runt and his teenaged Fast-biter friend without dragging useless dead weight around." Sharptooth barreled away, his clawed feet pounding into the earth with each step, leaving poor Chomper and a not so happy Miller behind in the dust.
" WAIT!" Chomper shouted, as Miller calls back, " STOP, FREEZE!" They both ran as fast as they could after Sharptooth. But the titanic dinosaur was gone. Chomper and Miller slowed to a stop; as Chomper panted and gasped for breath. He was already tired from the supposed training Sharptooth put him through earlier. And Sharptooth was right; Chomper's stomach felt empty.
Chomper and Miller glared in the direction Sharptooth ran off in. as Miller says to nobody, " Fine, leave! We don't need you! Who needed you anyway?" Miller turned to Chomper and says, " Come on Chomper, let's go."
Chomper says, " I can use my sniffer to find Littlefoot and Richard."
Miller says, " Let's hope your sniffer finds them."
Chomper then started sniffing and followed Littlefoot and Richard's scent, Chomper knew Richard and Littlefoot's scent well enough that he and Miller can follow them without the help of that oversized behemoth.
They tiny blue Sharptooth, and the black Fast-biter continued on his way. They walked along that way, following Richard and Littlefoot's scents for the next several hours. Eventually the sky began to turn orange as the bright circle descended towards the mountains. Chomper rested up against the side of a rock, completely worn out. Miller stand guard, Chomper's stomach growled, as Chomper says, " I know tummy. I know you're hungry, but I don't have have any food for you right now."
Miller says to Chomper, " Don't worry, will find something."
But Chomper knew he would need food, having not eaten since leaving the valley. Chomper stood up again and started to search. Chomper sniffed along, looking for bugs and other small things. Chomper found a colony of grubs under a rotting log, Miller stood guard on a look out, even as Chomper ate bugs, but even so his stomach yearned for more. Sharptooth was right. Chomper needed more than bugs to live.
While searching, Chomper saw the body of a young spike frill laying motionless. Driven by hunger, Chomper made his way slowly towards it. When he came to stand over it, he stopped. He swore to Littlefoot and his friends that he would never kill another dinosaur. And it just didn't seem right for Chomper. He didn't want to become like Sharptooth, a merciless creature that lived only destroy and kill, taking strength from others. But his belly ached for food. And besides, this dinosaur was already dead. He could eat something that dies on its own.
Chomper opened his mouth and bit down on the spike frill. Instantly the creature jolted up, screaming and wailing, kicking in all directions. Chomper pulled back, releasing the small dinosaur. It took off and ran away into the darkness. Miller came running with an AK-47 fully armed. Chomper's heart raced. It was only asleep, not dead. He panted, calming himself down. As Chomper and Miller begin to turn away, the ground under his feet started to rumble. This rumbling wasn't from an earthshake, this was more like footsteps. Many, many footsteps.
Chomper and Miller looked back over their shoulders and their blood ran cold. And entire herd of spike came charging out of the shadows of the rocks. Over twenty full sized dinosaurs changed for Chomper and Miller, their huge horns horns all aimed right for them. Chomper screamed and started to run, as Miller shot a few spike frills with his AK-47, spike frill got killed from gun fire, then he ran to follow Chomper. Not very far, Sharptooth was walking, until he heard a scream, but it was from a leaf eater, he then ran back to the source, he saw Chomper and Miller, he saw spike frills ran at them, he saw Chomper run, while he saw Miller shot a few of the spike frills with his AK-47, Sharptooth was glad to see that one was brave to kill, but even Miller did kill, Sharptooth wants to see Miller make a kill with his teeth and claws, he saw Miller start to run after Chomper, as Sharptooth plans an attack, and runs up a hill, getting ready to make a few kills of his own, meanwhile Chomper's legs burned as he sprinted, kicking up a trail of dust in his wake, as Miller followed him, but the spike frills stayed right on their tails. Chomper gasped for breath, struggling to keep himself going. But the spike frills would not give up their chase.
Chomper and Miller zigged and zagged though the maze of rocks, but no matter where he turned the stampeding dinosaurs would not let his escape. Chomper and Miller made a quick turn around a jutting rock and skid to a stop. His escape route was blocked. A dead end of dusty brown rocks. The snorting of the spike frills behind them caused to turn around, with hearts pounding in their chests. They backed up until their backs was literally against the wall. No where to run, no where to hide.
The spike frills charged.
Chomper couldn't turn away from the impending doom. All his attention was focused on the pointed horn aimed right for them. They were going to die. They knew it. Chomper closes his eyes and winced, while Miller pointed his AK-47 at the Spike frills hoping to kill a few more of them, they both are awaiting for the pain that would come.
As the lead spike frill came close, a dark shadow loomed overhead, Miller saw it. The shadow grew larger, falling over Chomper, Miller, and the plant-eater. Suddenly the spike frill's legs caved under it as the shadow caster crashed on its back, digging in claws and teeth. The herbivore cried out in pain. Miller could not believe what he was seeing, Chomper dared to open his eyes. The spike frill thrashed about with another large dinosaur on its back.
Sharptooth.
Sharptooth locked his jaws closed and yanked his head back, tearing a chunk of flesh from the plant-eaters back. The spike frill hollered in pain. Sharptooth quickly swallowed the meat before bringing his jaws to the creature's throat. With a sharp jerk, he tore the flesh away and kicked the dying animal aside. Sharptooth turned to the rest of the herd, which now stood in complete silence and fear.
The still warm blood dripped down the face of Sharptooth. A growl developed in his throat and he bellowed a roar at the standing herd. They turned to run, but Sharptooth gave chase. He leapt into the air, coming down on the back of another spike frill. Again he dug in his claws and tore at its flesh.
The terrible carnivore moved from one dinosaur to the neck, his teeth and claws bringing death to each one. All Chomper and Miller could do was watch in horror and the entire herd fell to Sharptooth's strength, Miller felt like he was inside of a horror movie, he watched the killing as Miller says, " Oh my god. Holy shit."
Repulsed, but unable to turn away, Chomper watched as Sharptooth held the last adult in the herd up by it neck. The spike frill struggled and kicked, squealing for its life. Sharptooth clenched his jaws and the horrible sound of snapping bone filled the air. The Spike frill fell limp.
Chomper coward along side Miller. Before them the field of death. A single survivor, the young spike frill. Paralyzed with fear. Sharptooth stepped over to the dinosaur and flicked it with his tail, sending the little creature to Chomper's feet, as Sharptooth says, " Kill it."
Chomper and Miller asks, " What?"
Sharptooth says to Chomper, " That's the whole reason you got in trouble, isn't it? It would be a waste now not to. From now on, you only eat what you kill. I killed all these dinosaurs, Miller killed a few with his weapon, which I really would like to see him kill a dinosaur with his claws and teeth, but you, you've killed nothing. If you want to eat anything, you will kill that hatchling." Sharptooth then began to feed on the carcasses.
The hatchling spike frill shivered in fear. Chomper and Miller looked sorrowful at the poor desperate creature. With a quite whisper in the leaf- eater language, they said, " We're sorry."
Then Chomper and Miller closed their jaws over the hatchling's throat, suffocating it.
Sharptooth looked and smiled, now he saw Miller and Chomper kill a dinosaur, just like a normal Fast-biter and Sharptooth would do, then after the young spike frill was dead, Miller went back and brought back some dead that Miller shot with his AK-47, then everybody started eating.
What will happen to everyone, will Richard and Miller investigate what caused Sharptooth's madness to happen in the first place, will the case be solved? read chapter 10 to find out, review and so long.
