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Note: Thanks for the review Jessangel249, knowing that many OCs aren't really appreciated at times... I was a little worried that Lois might be one of those OCs. If she is, I have nothing against whoever thinks it, because we all have our own opinions.
Weeooh, wimoweh, Chapter Six
The old raptor sighed, his scales were brown, with patches of green, and he had enough of children for the day, as they have bothered him about getting food and complaining about the audience whenever they would throw fruits at the untalented brats. Rascal (that was the old raptor's name) didn't need anymore trouble.
He glanced at the two, and an idea popped into his head as he glanced at Lois. A mischievous grin spread across his face, that only the flying fox bat would know the meaning of. Lois shook her head.
"No, nuh uh, Rascal."
Rascal set the torch down on a nearby branch that was shaped to be a holder for the object, and he turned back to the two with his grin again.
"You must sing, or no food for the lad, lass."
Diego was amazed at this small information, he turned to Lois, "Wait, you can sing?"
Lois shook her head, "I'm not singing today." she turned back to the raptor, "I'm not singing any other day. If you want someone to sing, ask Buck!"
The raptor gave a small shriek of fear, holding his cane close to him and slumping his shoulders, "Anything but that insane weasel."
It was Lois' turn to grin, "Then you'll be happy to offer my friend some food."
The two was taken aback when the raptor started waving his branch cane at them, sending Lois flying into the direction of the stage curtain along with Diego, who dodged a few swings here and there. They were pushed out of the curtains and in front of the many dinosaur audience by the elder, and with a glare from Rascal they glared back.
"Not a chance!" the dinosaur hissed, "Perform, or no food at all, and option number two would be is to be served as food."
Lois gulped, but Diego kept glaring. He's had experience with elders before, and he found them strange. Especially saber elders, with their complaining and how the world should end sooner. It drove him crazy, and thinking that one day, he would be some deranged smilodon tiger like his grandpa. Thank god he was still young, but Diego figured that the elders were only loopy from starvation.
"Of course, you wouldn't want that now, would you?" the raptor disappeared back stage.
Rascal didn't need an answer, he knew it already. He walked over to a nearby branch and pulled, a grin creeping into his face again.
The massive area was occupied by all types of dinosaurs, small to large, carnivore to herbivore, maybe even both of the food lifestyles. Even a few insects were here and there.
The trees that surrounded the land created a roof of which made the place look like night. The torches that surrounded the interior added to the night effect, and a bar made of branches and leaves was at the far corner, near the where the entrance should be; somewhere where dinosaurs can relax and hang out with their comrades. A pathway started from the entrance, and lead to the stage on which were Diego and Lois were on. The surface was a massive flat rock, supported by large logs and at each side were two massive trees where the curtains of leaves hung.
Everyone had turned their eyes to the couple, and the spotlight appeared before the tiger and the flying fox bat when a small portion of the roof was opened. Lois had figured it had been Rascal's doing. She huffed.
Strange. Diego had never performed in front of gazillions of adoring mammals, especially dinosaurs, and he didn't plan on it. Turning to Lois he whispered, "Lois, I'm not cut-out for this."
Lois pouted, "You think I am? Go make yourself useful and play those drums."
She gestured for him to go to the handmade bongo drums at the corner of the stage.
Great. She was actually making him do something foolish. He was tired, and hungry, and he sighed heavily as he gave in and settled himself in front of the bongo drums (made of bones and dinosaur flesh). Giving the instrument a strange look he knocked on them, cueing the first note. He looked up at Lois who seemed to have been having some difficulty of her own.
Turning back to the drums, Diego cracked his knuckles and smirked, "Let's get this party started, pal." he said, talking to the object as if it were real. Diego, making sure that his claws were retracted, tapped the drums a few times, earning a response from Lois with a perk of one ear that had been drawn back by fear.
She gave him a sheepish smile, and he gladly returned it with an encouraging one. She turned back to the crowd.
"Hey, you guys!" she called upon a group of the same dinosaurs, "Could you please clap in this pattern?"
She began clapping, the sound jungle-like. After the group of dinosaurs have mastered it, Lois smiled and moved onto another group, "Snap your fingers!" the cluster of dinosaurs obeyed.
Lois kept moving from one group of dinosaurs to the next, giving them each a role to play on her and Diego's musical performance before she raised her wings in the air and brought them down. That was the cue of silence, and everyone fell to no volume of noise.
A squawk from a nearby pterosaur, and Lois tapped a lone foot. One, two, three, she was tap dancing across the stage and when she abruptly stopped to catch breath, she shrugged at the stunned dinosaurs and Diego.
"Sorry." she raised her wings, and the whole crowd sang in union, playing each of their roles.
While the deinonychus dinosaurs continuously sang,
'Wee-ooh wim-o-weh. Wee-ooh wim-o-weh.
Wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh
o-wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh o-wim-weh.
Wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh
o-wim-o-weh o-wim-o-weh o-wim-weh.'
Lois sang the verse,
'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.
In the jungle, the quiet jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.'
Booming with the drums, Diego smiled in union with the audience and Lois. He noticed that Rascal had stepped out from backstage from the corner of his hazel eye. He turned to the elder raptor and smirked, "You have to admit, we're good."
Said raptor nodded, smiling and he soon disappeared back stage again. Flames burst into life from behind the curtains, another effect to add to such an entertaining performance.
'In the village, the peaceful village, the lion sleeps tonight.
In the village, the quiet village, the lion sleeps tonight.'
Soon there were insects chirpping, pterosaurs making clicking sounds and squawks, apatosaurus' humming, and maracas made of bones being played by raptors blended into the musical celebration. A few dinosaurs were dancing here and there, and others were enjoying a nice cup of river water, toasting each other for being a part of something so great and big.
'Hush, my darling, don't cry, my darling, the lion sleeps tonight.
Hush, my darling, don't cry, my darling, the lion sleeps tonight.'
A vine slithered unnoticed onto Diego's side of the stage. It was quick, and the smilodon tiger never saw it coming as it jabbed it's tip onto his leg. He yelped and pounced towards the audience. Oblivious to the fact that the tiger had just gotten stung by a root of a plant, they caught him and sang, raising him up in the air, and passing him to each dinosaur in the crowd. Lois was already beside him, swaying her wings back and forth to the music's beat.
"Diego, that was amazing!"
The tiger's ears perked up, "I never even knew I could do something like that!"
"Well you did, and I'm your first number one fan. Now come on, wave your arms, kittycat!"
'Whuh whuh whuh wim-o-weh. Wee-ooh wim-o-weh wee-ooh
wim-o-weh wee-ooh wim-o-weh.'
'Whoa ohhh, whoa ohhh, whoaOH! I'm on my way...'
Fireflies exited through the stage, flying around the crowd and the two ice age mammals. As they were gently set on the ground, Diego leaped up with a 'Woo!' and joined the crowd at their dance. Standing on his hind legs, moving back and forth, spinning and clapping his hands. He smiled at Lois when she flew by in circles, followed by a cluster of fireflies.
The vine that had stung the smilodon tiger slithered slowly out from the stage, uncoiling itself from a nearby tree, and back into the rain forest... satisfied, to have gotten a victim.
Please review, thank you! For those of you waiting to find out what Diego's horrible fatigue is... we're getting there. So sit tight, and get yourself ready for future chapters.