"Come on guys, you've got to be faster than that!" said Tarazed as he flew away from his friends. "Otherwise you're never gonna catch me!" Rigel and Aludra were running after Tarazed, laughing all the way.

"Yeah, you keep thinking that bird-brain!" Aludra said. "Just you wait!"

"We caught you every other time Tarazed." said Rigel. "What makes you think this time will be differ..." He then stopped running when he heard the sound of something big moving through the trees, and started to look around, trying to spot what it was. "Guys, stop. Do you hear that?" he said. "I don't think we're by ourselves here."

Aludra stopped and put her paw to her ear, listening for the sounds Rigel spoke of. "Yeah, I hear it. What is that?"

"Hear what? You're not gonna trick me into stopping guys!" said Tarazed as he kept flying. He could not hear what the other two could, the sound of something putting weight on the tree branches.

Rigel and Aludra stood gazing up into the trees, looking branch to branch, seeing nothing but leaves with sunlight coming through every now and again. Rigel heard movement again, and looked in the direction of the sound, where a dark figure perched in the trees caught his eye. As the figure began to move, Rigel let out a cry of fear. "Oh no, everybody run!"

A loud screech rang out from the trees as a green reptilian creature jumped down from the canopy towards Rigel with blinding speed. He took off in a run to try and escape, while Aludra stood paralyzed with fear for a split second before running away herself.

Though Rigel was running as fast as he possibly could, the creature was much faster, and the gap between the two was closing quickly. He ran through the underbrush, using his small size to go through and under obstacles that the creature would have to go over or around, but it was still catching up. Rigel ran through small shrubs and around rocks, until he saw a rotten log up ahead, the same one he had used a few days ago. He ran into the log and waited for his attacker. While he was scared out of his mind, he had an idea. He didn't know if it would work, but it was his only hope.

After running a good distance away, Aludra quickly looked back to see the creature chasing Rigel. She suddenly stopped and turned towards the direction that Rigel was running. "What am I doing?" she thought. "I can't just run away, I have to help Rigel." "Tarazed!" she called out. "Tarazed where are you! Rigel needs us!" Hearing this, Tarazed flew back to his friend to see what was going on. "What is it Aludra?" Tarazed said. "No time to explain! Follow me!" said Aludra as she ran after Rigel and the creature.

"Hiding, huh?" the creature said as he came to the log Rigel was in. "Don't you know that won't work? You must be desperate already." It then bent down to look into the log, and was greeted by Rigel kicking a cloud of dirt right into it's face. "Aaargh! You little son of a bitch!" It yelled as it tried to wipe the dirt out of it's eyes. Taking advantage of the distraction, Rigel then ran out from the log in the direction of his stone and tried to put more distance between him and the furious creature. He still wasn't fast enough to outrun it, but at least the dirt in it's eyes blurred it's vision and forced it to move a bit more slowly to avoid hitting anything.

"I was just looking for a quick meal, but no, you had to make it difficult!" the creature yelled angrily as it began chasing Rigel again. "Now you are going to get it!" Soon Rigel saw his stone up ahead. He didn't know why he was running to the stone, it couldn't help him, and he knew that the creature would catch up with him soon, but he couldn't help but run towards it. He could hear the creature's footsteps getting closer behind him, and he began to give up hope. "Alright little guy, if you just stop, then I promise I'll make it quick." the creature said. "There is no reason to make this harder than it has to b-AAAGH!" Upon hearing the creature's cry, Rigel looked back to see Aludra kicking it in the back of the neck, her foot wreathed in flames.

"Take that you stupid lizard!" Aludra said as she landed on the ground after the kick. "Don't you dare mess with my friend!"

The creature looked back at Aludra, with pure anger and hatred blazing in it's eyes. "Well, I guess my meal will be bigger than I thought!" It then spread out it's arms as the leaves on them began to grow longer and sharpen to a fine edge. "Oh, really?" said Tarazed as he flew up behind it and dug his talons into the burned spot. "I don't think so mister!" "Damn it, where are you all coming from?" The creature said as it thrashed around trying to shake Tarazed loose. Seeing his chance to fight back, Rigel ran toward the creature and buried his teeth into it's leg, twisting and pulling to open up a large wound. "Gah! I'll kill you all!" The creature said while still thrashing around. "And you can be sure it will hurt!"

"Yeah right!" said Aludra. "I'd like to see you kill us after this!" She then jumped into the air, her foot once again being covered in flames, and kicked the creature as hard as she could in it's face, leaving a nasty burn. The creature finally shook Tarazed off and gave out a terrible shriek, before slashing at Rigel with one of it's leaves. Rigel let go of the creature's leg and quickly moved out of the way of the leaf, before kicking more dirt into the creature's face and the wound made by his teeth, and biting down on the creature's leg again and again. Seeing her opening now that the creature was blinded by the dirt and pain, Aludra ran toward it, jumped high into the air, and smashed her foot into it's face, causing it to collapse into a motionless heap. "We did it." Rigel said, tired out from running. "We actually beat that thing." He then thought he heard a strange voice coming from behind him, causing him to turn and walk slowly to his stone, where he fell to the ground in exhaustion and was bathed in a bright light.