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Thank you for both of your reviews FABCHICKXO, and I was just kidding about you being a new victim. Yey! I can use your title, woot. But yes, old Buck is hard to imagine, ey? I tried my best to keep him in character even if he was at his old age, so I'm glad you liked the chapter.

A Weasel For a Knife, Chapter Eleven

"Who is that?" Sid looked at Pett, who in return chirped happily.

Lois gently shooed the bird off and it obediently flew away, back to the others. She turned to Sid and replied, "That's my dad's pet, Pett."

"Your dad's pet's name is Pett?"

"Yeah!" Lois giggled, "Isn't he cute?"

Diego leaped off of Momma's back, and walked over to the two, "Who is your dad?"

"Buck, duh." she crossed her wings, "Didn't I tell you already?"

Diego gave her a strange look and shook his head. He waited for Sid's response, "Sheesh, and you all thought I was strange."

"Hey, what's that suppose to mean?" Lois pouted.

"Nothing, nothing!" Sid said, and hurried along, followed by his kids and Momma. Diego gave Lois a smile, "Don't mind Sid."

"Oh yeah," Lois replied, flying over to the tiger and perching herself on his back as he proceeded further into the tunnel. "He's narrow-minded, but we all love him." she paused, then, "Although we only met for an hour."

"You're a good citizen, Lois," Diego said, "I'm sure you have plenty of friends."

"Nah, not really. I prefer to stay with papa more," she answered back, "He's more entertaining than most of the animals here."

"A weasel living in the jungle by his own wits, and slowly loosing his mind each day," Diego nodded, "I'd say he's entertaining, but... yeah, Buck's a good guy. I just never imagined him to have a family, that's huge."

"Surprising, huh?" Lois smiled softly, and Diego returned a nod. They entered the backyard where everyone was waiting.

Momma dinosaur had taken a spot in the middle of cliff outside and began to rest, while Doktor examined Sid who was chatting with Manny and Ellie, from his spot rubbing his chin, and the dinosaurs were playing with Peaches and the opossums.

Diego watched as Lois flew over to Buck and greeted him a hug. The two began chatting and Lois flew away for a moment, and came back with apples for both her the weasel. Diego smiled at the happy family.

Just then his vision blurred, and Diego shook his head to try and rid of the unclear vision. He hadn't noticed that Doktor had been watching him, and the dinosaur hurried over.

"What's wrong, lad?"

"It's..." Diego trailed off, his right hind leg began stinging with pain, "It's my leg."

"..." the Doktor glared, and hit Diego with his cane.

"Ow, what the..." Diego stumbled back, taken aback, "what'd you do that for?"

"You've got four legs, CAT." Diego pouted at the comment, "Tell me which leg is it!"

"It's my hindleg, the right one."

The Doktor circled Diego, and bent down to examine the tiger's leg. He raised his cane and poked it. Diego cried out and stumbled forward, he growled at the dinosaur.

"What are you trying to do--"

"LOIS!" yelled the grumpy hypsilophodon, startling everyone in the area and making Momma wake up from her nap. Then, with a soft voice, "Could you please come here, dear?"

Lois gave her 'father' a strange look, who in returned shrugged, and she flew towards the Doktor, and landed beside Diego.

"What's wrong?"

"The tiger says his leg hurts."

Diego shrugged, "I don't know what happened, something just stung me."

The Doktor pouted, "Well that doesn't really help."

"Hmm," Lois rubbed her chin as she looked at Diego's leg, "He was beside a lot of bushes, and flowers. A flower root might've stung him, nothing serious."

"Ah yes," the Doktor nodded, he reached for Lois' head and patted the bat, "Thank you dear, I'll take care of your friend for now."

Diego looked back and forth at the two, bewildered, and turned back to the Doktor who had disappeared. He looked to his left and saw that the medic was digging through a shelf of cracked eggshells and pulled a few leaves out.

"If you don't mind me asking--"

"SHH, DON'T TALK!" snapped the dinosaur, "Now go to the medical bed and stay there. Don't move. I'll be putting some herbs on that sting of yours and if it's gone tomorrow morning, you'll be fine."

"And if it isn't?" Diego's hazel eyes followed the doctor to the other side of the cave.

"Then that means you'll die within eighteen days, now get your aft up and go on the bed!" Doktor raised his cane, and watched in amusement as the tiger obeyed and laid down on the bed. He smiled, "Good boy."

Dawn drew in, and everyone had breakfast. Momma, Egbert, Shelly and Yoko said their goodbyes to Sid, while Pett kept helping himself to fruits on Doktor's trees. Diego was relieved that the stinging feeling on his leg had gone, and he felt better than ever.

Buck hopped off his hammock and stood in front of the herd that gathered for their journey back to the ice age. Lois wasn't far away, as she was perched on a branch of a plum tree, picking plums for the Doktor.

"Thanks again, for saving us." Manny said. Buck waved him off, turning to leave, "No worries, mammals. Now, let's get you back to--"

He never finished his sentence when a pterodactyl swooped down and snatched him off the ground. Lois gasped and dropped the plums she had been picking, she went in pursuit after the flying creature, "Dad!" she called after him dramatically, but was struck down by another pterodactyl that surprised her from below.

"Lois!" Buck struggled, and gasped at the flock of pterodactyls that had started to ambush the herd down before. Knife in hand, he raised his limb, and cried out in pain when the pterodactyl purposely let him hit a rock before continuing it's flight.

Rudy's tooth slipped out from the weasel's gripped, and as Buck desperately tried to grab for it, it kept falling, until it struck the ground.

Pett was too frightened, and he hid himself between the large bushes surrounding him. The pterodactyls weren't there to eat, but to distract the herd. They soon retreated when Buck had been taken, and a few of them was struck by a log thrown by Manny.

"YOU RUINED MY LAWN, YOU INSANE BIRDS!!!" Doktor waved his cane, "I WILL GET YOU!!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" Diego got the dinosaur's attention, "Where are they taking Buck?"

"We need to get to him!" Crash cried, worried about his and Eddie's 'master'.

"I know, I can lead the way." Lois said, "They're taking him to Rudy."

"What?!" Manny exclaimed, "Rudy has minions?"

Lois nodded, "Apparently so. We have to get to the Abyss before Rudy hurts my dad!"

Oh no, Buck!