CHAPTER TEN
Friends? What's a friend? Are you making up new words. Phyco says, without a tone of care hearing they are planning a mutiny.
Well, I'm a friend. said Chomper. He brings Tiny next to him and points at her. And Tiny is a friend too.
Yes, I'm your friend says Tiny.
Friend. said Phyco, smiling and showing all of his pointy teeth. Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend! I have friends! Woo hoo! he cheered.
Quiet, or Shredder will find us and you'll have dead friends. Tiny warned him.
I don't want dead friends. Phyco said.
Then don't let Shredder find out we are plotting to overthorw him. Chomper said.
Overthrow Shredder. Sounds like fun. I should try that. Phyco says. His stomach growls. But first, I'd like to get something to eat.
For the record I never cared about your size either, and I am brave to, but nice, maby I should get to work on that. said Phyco.
Actually their is a difference between being brave and having every ability to ever feel fear again beaten out of you. Tiny pointed out.
There is? Give me a example. Phyco asked.
We'd better be going back. I wish I didn't have to, but don't want Shredder knowing where my true loyalties lie. He told me that we were hunting Clubtails. I happen to have a soft spot for Flatteeth. But we need to get back or Shredder will throw us into a tar pit. said Chomper. The three return to the pack, who, luckily, diidn't know that they were gone.
Ok, ready? said Shredder, finishing a talk to the pack that the three had missed. Chomper, Phyco, and Tiny, not wanting to look like they had been gone, nod to show that they agree, having no idea what he had just said.
Tiny, Chomper, Phyco. I'd like you three to lead the way if you don't mind. said Shredder. The three look at each other nervously but comply.
I'm ready to take what I said back now Tiny, sorry for calling your mate a freak, that was very hypocritical of me. Now lets get some food. Phyco said.
Apology accepted. said Chomper and Tiny together.
Technically, she's not my mate till our union ceremony. I was going to ask about that. I'll bet you'd know. In this pack, how does one take a mate? How soon is the union ceremony after the two make a proposal? Chomper asks him.
Meanwhile, the two Egg Stealers are on their way to look for a new home yet again, constantly checking their surroundings as they move just in case something else tries to get ahold of them. They spot a green handsom looking flier gracefully moving about in the wind.
"I don't see one of those very often." said the male.
Guido, who normally wouldn't pay attention to Egg Stealers, talking, hears the words 'very often', realizes what it means, and crashes into a tree. The two Egg Stealers come to stare at him. "You mean, there are MORE like me?" he gasps in shock. "Have you seen them? I thought I was the only one left of my kind!" he says to them.
"No, not for a long time. I only say very often because, I don't like the idea of something becoming extinct, not even Two claw sharpteeth, as menacing and awful as they can be. Hopefully we will go a good long time before we see two claws again. But good luck trying to find what is left of your kind, if there are any." said the male Egg Stealer.
"Actually, I know exactly where the rest of your kind are. During the day of the Great Earthshake every member of your kind to be on this side of the split were relatives, and thus as they began to, well, die, they had no way of producing offspring without, well, incest." said the female Egg Stealer. "There are several of your kind around, but they are on the other side of the Great Divide. I don't think there are any on this side, except you."
"I would have at least let him have more hope then that. Weal, we better keep moving, those sharpteeth may have changed direction and started heading our way. Or we may be lucky and they may have found clubtails to satisfy them for all we know. Crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside. But I don't want to risk not having such luck." said the male Egg Stealer to his wife.
Guido spots anohter creature like himself, only with blue features instead of green like his. "What is that? Can it be? You Egg Stealers were wrong. There is another Glider on this side of Great Divide." he said. "Wait, come back!" he called after the Glider, taking off after her.
"Well, you're wrong again." said the male Egg Stealer to his wife.
"Well, unlike you, I guess I'm wrong sometimes." said the female Egg Stealer. Her mate snorted.
Meanwhile, the pack took off. They smelled some Clubtails. Guess the herd is that way. said Phyco.
Actually, it's not. said Chomper.
But they went that way. argued Phyco.
I have lived with Clubtail herds. I know the signs of them being there. Based on what I know, they should be this way. he said, pointing to the left. The pack loses them, going after what they think is the herd.
Meanwhile, Chomper, Tiny, and Phyco come to the place where the herd is, though the herd hasn't seen them yet. Told you. said Chomper to Phyco.
Tiny told them We must not strike until all of us are in proper position, but the others have gone the wrong way. I'm not sure we should try this with only the three of us.
We don't want this herd hunted. We want it saved. said Chomper.
How are you going to warn them? scoffed Phyco.
Just watch. said Chomper. He snuck behind some Clubtails. "Excuse me. I'm afraid your herd is in danger. There is a pack of dangerous Sharpteeth coming." he said to them.
One of the Clubtails says "Look, it talks."
Another laughs "What, have you gone soft on your family? Here is how nature works, you're supposed to try to eat us, and we are suppose to try to not be eaten. We understand it is the way things are so we won't hold a grudge if you try to survive this thing called hunger."
The others nod.
The second Clubtail says "But that certainly don't mean we are just going to let the predator win nature's cruel game."
The herd begins to form a circular formation, tails sticking out to swipe at anything that comes close, young in the middle.
A third Clubtail says "Mabye he holds a grudge on these other sharpteeth." The defensive formation is complete.
"I'd like you to leave here. The one that they call Sharptooth is coming. Also, I need you to go to the Great Valley and warn them that a big pack is going to attack. It's worse than I had thought." Chomper told the Clubtails.
He, Tiny, and Phyco move closer to the Clubtails. Tiny and Phyco have their claws raised, but Chomper doesn't.
The first Clubtail laughs. "You're kidding? Sharpteeth don't attack once clubtails have formed the circle, it would only result in them getting pummeled to a pulp by our bone crushing tail." he says not understanding that this Shredder character would not care if that happened to his own pack.
"Come on, you've got to leave here and go to the Great Valley and warn them." Chomper says to the Clubtails. He, Tiny, and Phyco try to get at the circle of Clubtails to move them.
"Well this is quite rare, I guess maybe there is a reason for it. Which way to the Great Valley?" asked a Clubtail.
Guido, meanwhile, had caught up with the cute blue Glider. "I'm from the Great Valley." he said.
"Bet it would be fun to live there." said the blue Glider.
"You can come with me. I thought I was the last of my kind." said Guido.
"I thought I was the last of my kind too." said the female Glider.
Guido spots Chomper. "there's my friend." he said.
"Why should we trust him? He's a Sharptooth! And, anyway, we don't care about the Great Valley and its weird ways." said a Clubtail. He moved to strike Tiny and Phyco. The Clubtail knocked over Tiny and moved to strike her. "Noooo!" yelled Chomper. Without pausing to think, he struck the Clubtail in the chest, killing him.
Guido, who hadn't heard the conversation, opened his mouth in astonishment. "Chomper, what?!"
