So here is the newest chapter! Thank you for not giving up on this fanfic, I really do love you guys!

Anyway, here's a heads up. Amelia and Hess are kind of like a reflection of my friend, Judy and me respectively. That's not really her real name by the way; it's just a nickname I gave her. If you read the first chapter notice, there's note I had dedicated to Judy about how I was writing "the dream".

Like Hess, I'm a little impulsive and childish, like trying outdoor activities like flying fox or other high elements and love roller coasters and scary movies. On the other hand, Judy is almost a complete opposite of me. She's cool and rational and great in academics, scared of heights and hates roller coasters. I mean I had to persuade/convince her to play with me this scary game called "Escape" at the arcade (Okay I admit I still haven't gotten her to play the game yet to this day).

But in a way, our clashing personalities make us such good friends.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Croods except my OCs characters and the plot.

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So right now they were all sitting silently and quiet in the cave. Yeah, you read right; cave. Well, actually it's a bit more of a hideout. Even though the Croods were now peacefully living under safety of a beautiful, cooling beach, a cave was still an idle home to live in no matter what ways you like at it. It provides basic shelter from rain and lightning and…. Never mind, getting back on track.

The Croods had returned to their cave, albeit reluctantly and bringing back two new and strange guests along the way. It wasn't really their choice; one of their "guests" was injured and kept moaning about her twisted ankle. So finally, the head of the family took the girl on the back and carried her home, with his family and the other girl in tow. The uninjured girl, better known as Amelia, was silent and kept glancing at her companion almost every second, and every glimpse that Grug took, he could always see her hands fingering that strange, cursed item that could easily and spontaneously sprout fire.

Flashback:

"The future?" All the cavemen echoed as one.

"Uhhh…. Well, you see-" Amelia halted in mid-sentence, thinking of how to elaborate and simplify the long, complicated and complex explanation when as usual her friend cut into the line.

"We are NOT telling you anything until you get this leg up and going again. ASAP."

" What does that me-"

"As soon as possible. NOW!"

Flashback end

Bright golden sunlight peeked into the mouth of the cave. At least there wasn't any safety protocol anymore. It was much better, and the Croods could go out and do anything they wanted without sneaking out and hoping some predator wouldn't just jump out and tear their heads off unsuspectingly.

Somewhere at the back of the grotto, Hess was perched on some giant bolder with Ugga kneeling down and applying some mystifying and weird-looking gel. Hes gave out a contented sigh at the contact of the gel on her ankle. It felt so icky and gross, yet cooling and refreshing…"Man…this feels so much better that my ankle's feeling alright already!"

A motherly smile appeared on Ugga's face for a moment, seeing the youngster's grin really gave her a sense of satisfaction. "Yes, it will heal up your ankle instantly as soon as the gel sinks in and you will be running around soon as if nothing happened."

"Really? You serious?" The older woman gave a nod of affirmative. "We really need this at home. What's this stuff called, Ugga?" Hess excitedly enquired. As soon as her question was answered, Hess was telling herself to forget it as the gel had a long, awful and ridiculous name that she rather not disclose.

"You got the treatment. Now talk." Grug demanded. Hey, he may have changed, but old habits die-hard. And he had to make sure these strangers weren't a threat to his family. He was standing at the opening with the macawnivore right behind him and ready to make a move on the one(s) who singed his vibrant fur, glaring at the two girls.

All of the Croods leaned in as their adoptive member asked. "So, what do you mean when you girls said you were from the future?"

Amelia went and positioned herself beside Hess calmly as the people of the present stood before them with edgy looks on their faces and hearts that were burning with curiosity. "We meant what we said. We are from the future." If you could hear, she empathized a lot on the word 'are'.

The middle child of the Croods had quite a dazed expression on his face, as he did not understand the situation completely. And so, he had to open his mouth to ask more about the whole thing, which in turn also confirmed the older Croods' doubts as well.

"When you say future," Thug begun, "You mean days that hasn't happen but will?"

"Well it already happened for us, but yes."

"Which means, that you guys are from the time that is… ahead of us?"

"Yesss?"

"So that means you guys know what is going to happen?"

"Uhhh...from the time before us, I guess so?"

"Which means-"

"Yes, that's the basic definition of the word 'future' Thug!" Hess finally cut in after hearing several similar different meanings of the now sickening word. "You aren't very bright, are you?"

"Huh?"

"Forget what I asked."

Ugga narrowed her eyes sharply. "I'll appreciate if you do not insult my son." Frankly, Grug wasn't looking very happy either.

Amelia hastily grabbed her friend roughly by the shoulders, not caring when she gave out a yelp as the two of them faced the bigger and stronger looking prehistoric men as she tried to lower their wrath. "Hehehehe…. please don't mind her, Hess gets impatient really easily."

This made Gran chuckle in delight. "Ah, I can relate to that."

…And her daughter exasperated. "Mom! You're not helping."

Eep was the one who continued the interrogation with the time travellers.

"So, how far along the future do you guys come from?" That question would have sounded purely out of concern for the misfortunate time travellers if its wasn't for the edge in her voice that was targeted at Amelia who was still bewildered at the reason why the teenage cavegirl had such a grudge against her. Everyone other than Guy and Amelia could see through her façade easily; even Hess, who for an unexplained reason wasn't really bothered at pointing it out.

"How many years?"

"Yes."

"Well, this is going to be difficult to say…"

Both Amelia and Hess laughed at that. "All right," said Hess. "Don't say we didn't warn ya. This'll really mess with your head." She grinned impishly at Amelia, who returned a sly smile. "You gonna tell them or should I do it?"

"About uhhh…about a thousand- no, a million years so." Amelia spoke.

All the Croods' minus Sandy (she's only four) jaws hung slack from their proper position. "Did you say a million years?"

"She said so," Hess piped in. "Actually, its probably more. This time period where you guys live in is prehistory. Or should I say BCE, Before Common Era. It depends on whether you count in Jesus-years or normal ones. Its really hard to say."

"…What?" Guy said in place of his adopted family.

Amelia after that quickly slammed her hand on Hess's mouth to stop her talking. "Yeah, so basically we're from a million years or more from here." Amelia stated to calm the agitated Croods. "Even though this idiotic girl is really reckless and rude, she's a natural genius at math and is a history lover. Two things that stand out from your normal punk personality." Her tone was laced with envy and jealousy. Two things that I can't have. Amelia thought angrily.

She then turned to find Guy smiling at her. "When I was a kid, I always wanted to know what the future was like. I never thought it would come true." Amelia smiled back at him in spite of herself. Icing-like chills ran down her spine when she did that which made her realized that Eep was growling. Seriously, what is that girl's problem? Amelia thought. She had been glaring at her since the moment they met. If this fanfic was a manga/comic there will be an arrow pointing at Amelia with the word 'clueless' on it.

"Just one more thing," Guy spoke, which broke Amelia's trance. "How did both of you come here? I mean I know you girls are from the future, but I'm very sure a person's live only runs forwards not backwards."

That question instantly turned Amelia's and Hess's expressions around. Hess's face arranged itself into a scowl and her head turned to one side to avoid eye contact with lips pressed together while Amelia became sullen and depressed all of a sudden.

Guy was already becoming guilty just after asking his question.

"We didn't…. come here out of own will. Hess's uncle is an inventor; A crazy madman to be exact. Long story short, I accompanied Hess to meet her uncle one day and he showed us his newest invention; the time travelling machine. We, well more like Hess didn't believe him and he got provoked by her statement and decided to use as us test subjects and got his butler to throw us into the machine itself." Amelia sighed softly before continuing. "And apparently, it did its job so perfectly that we ended up at a time that existed before history, which is here. The only good thing was that he was merciful enough to leave us with each of our own survival bag."

"Stupid geezer!" Hess shouted as she kicked a rock that was sent flying out of the opening. The Croods hung back in silence. "If we ever get back, I will personally kill that old man!"

Awkward silence hung over the atmosphere for a while. "So, what now?" Someone asked.

"Oh wait! Its hunting time soon!" Ugga cried out. "Yeah." All the Croods started agreeing with each other one by one, trying to lessen the gloomy atmosphere.

"Hunting time?" The girls chorused.

"Yeah. You know, hunting. Actually, we don't have to hunt anymore but it's just a family tradition. And for fun too. We're doing it just for kicks. We usually like to go to a certain area to hunt." Eep told them happily. Her expression returned to glowering at Amelia.

"I try to stay out of it." Guy said as he relaxed for a while against the wall. "Their way of hunting and my way of hunting are extremely different. You guys can hunt too, right?"

"We don't hunt," Hess replied smoothly. "We don't hunt in our time. We just go to the supermarket and buy take-outs or ingredients to cook at home."

"What's 'buy'? And what's a 'supermarket'?"

"Uhhh…. We'll explain later."

"Wait if you don't hunt, how do you eat meat?" Thug jumped in them gasped. "Unless you don't eat meat!"

"Of course we eat meat! The day I become a vegetarian is the day I wear a dress!"

Afterwards, Hess started frowning at Thug. "Hey you, how old are you? Looking at you, I think you're around the same age as us but you pretty much act like an elementary kid."

"What's 'elementary'?"

"Just answer the damn question please."

"I'm nine." Thug replied beamed like being nine was the best thing in the world.

The eyes of Hess and Amelia who was standing beside her started widening into saucers. "Hahahaha. I'm sorry what?"

"I'm nine."

"Wow. That's… That's quite hard to believe, since your size is very… husky." Hess started scratching her head at that point.

"Hess!" Really, Amelia wished Hess would just stay quiet for once.

"Anyway," Guy started, "My method of hunting is setting up traps."

"So, you two wanna help me set up the traps?" He asked. But anyone could tell that his questioned was focused on Amelia. His eyeballs were practically moving around wildly and trying to avoid eye contact with the pretty girl while his cheeks gave off a reddish glow. (I, the narrator meant that in an embarrass manner.)

The brown-haired girl looked at the Homo Sapien in surprise. Analyzing her reaction, Hess sighed in annoyance. Looks like her best friend had attracted yet another guy again. But she wasn't going to do anything about it. Even though she was protective of Amelia, she knew which kind of boys to beat up. Guy was a sincere and nice…guy (Dunno what to put in). She could tell just by looking at him and she knew he wasn't going to play around with Amelia like she was the next big thing. Amelia was just naturally beautiful, and there's no helping it if boys and le- never mind, can't help but be attracted to her. (I'm not sexist.)

Plus, she could tell there was something between Guy and Eep. On the entire journey to the Croods' hideout, the two of them were glued to each other's side the whole time. Other than the girl being broader than the guy, the image of them together just felt really right. The only sad thing was that now Guy kept giving a lot of small glances towards Amelia like a moth drawn to the light; not that the girl noticed though. So much for her being the smarter one of the two. Eep had noticed it as well and she was definitely angry about it (That was probably an understatement). But she also looked very dejected. Hess felt a little apologetic towards Eep.

She was broken out of her trance by the very person she felt sympathetic to when Amelia was about to reply to Guy's proposal. "NO! I'll go with you and set up the trap Guy!" She sounded a little too…desperate for takes. Not that Amelia and Guy could tell.

"Yeah! Okay. That ,uh, will be good." Guy said with a very baffled tone.

"Come on! Its time to leave!" Ugga called out. All the Croods headed outside, minus their guests and Eep and Guy.

"Eep?" Grug called as he noticed a member of his family missing. "I'm setting the trap with Guy!" His oldest daughter cried out. Grug just shook his head as he and the rest took their positions outside in their normal formation.

"Wait, the baby is going along as well? But she's too young to-" Suddenly the little girl started emitting snarling and growling. Amelia caught her voice.

"That kid ain't normal!" Hess exclaimed while frowning. "I mean normal kids don't bite and growl like dog with rabies!"

"What did you say about Sandy?"Ugga's sensitive hearing had unfortunately picked out something Hess said about her youngest child.

Hess gulped. "I uh-said your baby girl was cute and cuddly!" She did not want to ignite a mother's wrath. The lady was pacified after hearing that.

Amelia just smacked her forehead.

"Come on family!" Grug shouted. The five, well four with Sandy on Ugga's back, got into a straight line position like racers on the starting line with knuckles driven to the ground. "I wanna see some action! We do this fast! We do this loud! We do this as a family! And we never be afraid!"

"Hahaha! You can't expect the granny to-" The family set off with a cheer before Hess finished. "Hunt." She finished.

"Whoh. She's like the healthiest and most energetic granny I've ever seen!" Hess remarked. "Can't she be mine instead?"

"Hess!"

"What? I'm stating the truth!"

"Trust me." Eep warned. "You do not want her. How are the Grans in your time?"

"They can hardly walk and are extremely nice I guess. Well most of them. Some of them give us cookies."

"Cookies?"

"Some special snack?"

"Anyway…"Guy stretched the word, "The two of us are going off to do our own way of hunting. We're usually like to see whether trapping or the Croods' way of hunting is more useful." He and Eep then look and smiled at each other mischievously.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your moment," Amelia apologized. "But shouldn't you guys get going in case your family steals your kill?"

"Oh right." Guy then stood up. "Belt! Emergency Idea Generator! I need to come up with a brilliant plan to beat the Croods to the chase first!"

"I'm sorry, who are you talking to?" Amelia sweat dropped while asking as something small and furry and brown uncurled itself from Guy's waist and looked up with big round turquoise eyes before immediately whacking Guy's head with a rock using a long arm. "OW! …Oh I got it!"

"Ooohhhh. That has got to hurt." Hess grimaced with scrunched eyes as she examined the creature. Amelia was a completely different story.

A shrill scream escaped from her throat as she threw her arms around Hess like vines in a violent embrace so tightly that Hess's eyes almost budged out. "Can't breathe…"Hess wheezed out.

"WHAT IS THAT?" By then Hess's face was turning blue.

"It's a sloth, honey." Hess replied after prying the petrified girl off her body and inhaling a huge amount of fresh oxygen. "How did we not notice it in the first place?"

"I have no idea." Amelia responded after collecting herself.

"Oh, sorry. Forgot to introduce him." Guy said sheepishly.

"This is Belt," Guy introduced as he pulled the sloth from his waist and held him up so that the girls could have a proper look at him. "Cook, conversationist, navigator." Belt made a half attempt wave for them. "Also, keeps my pants up." Guy then placed Belt back around his waist.

"Very helpful."

"Yeah."

Restlessness started filling up Eep. "You two stay in the cave. We're heading out and we'll come back with the food, 'kay?" She then proceeded to quickly pull Guy out of the cave by his limb.

"OOWWW! My Arm! My Arm! Eep! EEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPP!" Guy's voice could be heard as the ex-cavegirl carried him away.

Now that they were alone again, Amelia and Hess finally eased up. Hess laid her body on the giant bolder she was sitting on while Amelia sunk down to the ground as she propped her head against the side.

"Now what?" Amelia asked after a while.

A wicked smile surfaced on Hess's face. I don't even want to know after seeing that. Amelia thought nervously.

"I'll tell you what I'm doing; I'm gonna see their hunt!" Hess declared excitedly.

She just HAD to say it. "Hess! You heard Eep telling us to stay in the cave!" Amelia rebuked.

Hess just gave out an exasperated sigh. "It's a cavemen hunt! Something you'll never gonna see in a lifetime!

"Plus, can't you see why Eep doesn't like 'ya?" She pressed on even though knowing it was diverting from the current subject.

"No…"Amelia stopped. "Wait, you can tell why?" She asked desperately.

Hess just looked at her with a pointed expression." Really? Are you that clueless? Other than Guy, everybody could see the reason. I mean the answer is as clear as daylight!"

"Just tell me please."

Hess only sighed in annoyance before responding. "Guy likes you. Simple as that."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait! Guy likes me?!" At that moment Amelia was stunted.

"Duh! Another guy has fallen for you once again!"

"But how does that relate to Eep's hostile behavior towards m- wait, Eep likes Guy!" Amelia realized.

"Yes! You finally got it! Thank god!" Hess burst out while throwing her arms up in the air. "What is wrong with you today, 'Lia? You're usually much more perceptive than this."

"I-I dunno."

"I don't think Grug likes this little love triangle as well, but he didn't really do a thing about it. He probably even likes the fact that Guy likes you so that his little girl will remain single."

"Really?"

"Yeah. And I think there was something going on between those two lovebirds before you came along."

"You mean that I-I pushed them apart?!"

"When you put it that way, yeah pretty much." Amelia started sinking down into gloominess after hearing that.

"Anyway, you can just sit inside here sorting out this love problem of yours. I'm going to that hunt." Hess promptly walked outside, not caring about what was going to happen next. Amelia, not daring to leave her friend alone followed suite.

"You don't even know where it is!" Amelia shouted as she followed her best friend outside.

"I know that. Which is why I'm asking this champ here to take us there." Hess raised her finger, and following the direction, Amelia gasped.

"Hestia! You are not going to-"

"Hey you! Wake up!" Hess walked right to the big colorful napping cat and gave it a huge shove with a leg.

The cat instantly stirred after its rude wake-call up and gave a loud roar right in Hess's face, spit and slobber all covering her face. Not that she cared this time round. Her eager to witness the hunt had overwhelmed her fear of the macawnivore. Hess just simply raised an arm to wipe off the goo from her face.

"I know you can't hurt us and I'm very sure you know where your family went. Now take us there -Whatever your name is that I forgot." Hess commanded.

"Hess! This is not a good -"

"Take us there!" The cat merely looked at the furious puffing girl before curling back up and returning to sleep.

"Dammit! What does it take to get this cat to do what you wa-" Before she finished her ranting, an idea poped up in Hess's mind and she ran back into cave.

"Hess!" Amelia called out anxiously as she came face-to-face with the prehistoric cat. Cold sweat dripped down her forehead. Please. Please. Please. Please. She begged. Chunky's huge head inched closer to her figure and its stinky breath blew her full on the face, her hair and clothes swaying as it so. Please! Amelia mentally screamed.

And like as if the heavens heard her pleas, Hess came rushing out with something in her hand that Amelia could not make out.

"Hey kitty! You want…tuna fish?" Hess held up her arm and the smell of the food wafted through the air. Chunky's nose turned towards the direction of the delicious smell and crept towards Hess (and away from Amelia to her relief) and its expression looked as if it had seen the light. Amelia soon realized that what Hess was holding was a can, and that she had gotten the cat where she had wanted it to.

"Here." The can was emptied of its contents and Chunky swallowed its snack greedily in one bite.

"There. You happy satisfied now? Can you take us there now? Please?" Hess asked once more but in a more polite manner. This time she had no rejections. The cat lowered its body down with pleasure and Hess got onto his back readily and stretched out a hand.

"You coming?" Amelia glared at her before taking Hess's hand and climbing up behind her. Chunky stood up once his riders were settled on his back and set off.

"I hate you, you know that?"

"Love you too, sis."

AN: I know that by the end of the movie that the Croods has adapted to a new lifestyle, but I don't want them to completely abandon their old lifestyle. I mean they were carnivores and suddenly they become vegetarians? Sorry but for me it's just too weird. And I don't want them to completely change. If you don't you like it, you can stop reading.

After a hectic session of travelling through the woods while clinging on to the fur of a prehistory feline that was their only line of safety from falling off to the ground in an unsightly and painful manner with bizarre-looking multicolor leaves and twigs getting stuck in their clothes and hair, Amelia screaming like some deranged lady from an asylum for her dear life and Hess whooping loudly in glee and delight, they finally arrived at the scene, and Amelia was looking worse for the wear.

"That was fun, don't cha think so, 'Lia?" Hess asked as they both shook off the remaining leaves and twigs stuck on their body. Chunky stayed behind.

"Yeah, I totally agree." Amelia muttered with an irked expression.

"I know right?" Hess replied, unaware of the sarcasm in her friend's voice as she walked right up to the edge of the cliff that allowed them to watch the hunt safely from above with Amelia right at her tail. They both froze up at what they saw with invisible question marks appearing all over their faces in bewilderment.

"This is, this is a hunt?"

"This… is not what I expected."

Hess and Amelia surveyed the area as the scenario rolled on. Honestly, the whole thing looked like a game of cat-and-mouse, except that there were several mice on the field in the form of one Homo Sapien and six other Neanderthal species of human beings. And the supposing cat was in the form of some kind of …blue/purple turkey and fish hybrid. (I know that I am not original…)

"Uhh- I'm gonna call that thing…a turkeyfish." (Refer to the bird in The Croods's clip The Trap.)

"That's debatable."

They continued watching the scene like it was some type of new movie from the 80s with a few winces and cringes on their faces.

"Oh man, that is NOT good."

"You said it."

Mindless chatter was exchanged with each other as they carried on watching the unsuccessful hunt in curiosity and interest. Even though it was a little too painful to watch, it was also entirely humorous in another point of view and so; they couldn't help but laugh a little unconsciously. They were lucky that the Croods were not up there with them to see them guffaw at their misfortune.

"That looks a puppet right? Probably Guy's creation."

"It seemed to have failed."

"I can see that."

After a few more minutes had passed by, Hess finally moved away from her position. "Okay, enough of this funny business, we gotta help them."

"And how should we do that? Even HE doesn't seem to be bothered." Amelia mocked with an incredulous look as she pointed at Chunky who had curled back up into a ball and went back to a catnap.

"Huh." Hess uttered, staring at it.

"I TOLD you not to have high expectations of this hunt. Looks like I'm right." Amelia had a smug grin to match her tone. She crossed her arms over her chest and leaned on a nearby tree.

"Shut up."

Hess started looking desperately. She really wanted to help the Croods to get out of their predicament. If it weren't that hard to watch she would have taken a video of the whole thing. And every funny situation had to come to an end.

Amelia just gazed at her with boredom etched all over her expression, wondering what the reckless girl would do next. It quickly morphed into a look of horror and realization in a split second when she saw the familiar eureka smile emerged on Hess's mouth as she inspected the trees in their surroundings, more specifically; their branches and twigs.

"Do you remember what we learnt from the club a few days ago?"

"Oh you are not of thinking of doing that!"

Meanwhile… (Warning: Dramatic and EXTREMELY Stupid)

Guy knew that it was their biggest mistake of their lives when the Croods chose that particular turkeyfish as their prey. Sure, sometimes hunting wouldn't go as plan and go all awry, but this was a different case.

The first thing he noted of the gigantic bird was of its color and size. Instead of having blue and purple feathers like a normal turkeyfish would, it was greenish purple and in addition, it was twice the normal average size of an average turkeyfish. It looked somewhat of an abomination or a hybrid, and in the Croods' point of view, there was much more to eat and would have made an excellent exotic dish.

Guy had warned them to back out, but the Croods just wouldn't take heed; they were stubborn after all, and they were not going to miss out a chance of once in a lifetime. Knowing that, the only thing Guy could do was stay back and help out. But the one thing he never realized was that all of them participating the hunt had severely underestimated the prey.

Despite its plump and dumb-looking appearance, the abnormal turkeyfish was actually extremely smart. Cautious, cunning and sly, it had easily evaded his and Eep's traps and effortlessly avoided the Croods' hunting formation and somehow unknowingly turned the tables around in a split second and suddenly they were the ones running for lives.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!" Terror surged through his entire being as he sprinted as fast as his lower limbs could carry him as the predator had now targeted him as its next meal. At that moment, his legs felt constricted like they had limited space to stretch. Immediately, he realized his pants was the one limiting his movement and cursed his invention. I'll alter this pants by giving it more holes at the knees…IF I LIVE THAT IS! He gave out another yelp as the turkeyfish's beak snapped inches away from his back. This is not even logical and irrelevant! How can a predator be this smart? Its always the other way round! The bigger they are, the dumber they would be! (From what I have seen on tv shows…)

All of a sudden, the bird rocketed out of balance and fell to the ground sideways. Guy managed to spin himself around and saw Eep clambering over the creature's back and punching it; not that her actions did much damage to it but made it more agitated instead.

"Don't you even dare touch a single hair on his head!" Eep yelled as each punch to the neck was synchronized with every syllable.

Right then, Guy saw how brilliant Eep was under the sunlight in spite of the dangerous situation. Everything seemed to slow down in that instance, Eep looked like a warrior queen; beautiful and lovely yet dangerous and wild at the same time. But even so, she was a mother goddess in his eyes. For some reason, this made his heart tighten into a ball and unconsciously wished that he could be better just for her. (Imagine this in a slow motion way, like those typical romantic scenes ya know)

He was broken out his daze when the turkeyfish lowered its ginormous beak upon Eep's muscular form.

"EEP!" He felt as if his heart was torn out of his chest as the predator descended for the kill. Guy just stood, legs frozen into ground like they were carved from it.

As if the heavens were watching over these pitiful souls, a blur figure slammed into the turkeyfish and Guy realized that Grug had beaten him to the chase and pulled Eep out of the turkeyfish's grip.

Guy managed to pull himself to a nearby boulder and hid behind it. Peeking from the back, he observed the field. The turkeyfish had thankfully switched its attention from him to Eep and Grug unfortunately as he watched the daughter-and-father pair run off in the distance with the bird at their backs. At the corner of his eye, Thug stood at one side with a indecisiveness scribbled all over his face in imaginary ink, face scrunched as if wondering whether to help out or retreat. On the other hand, Gran stood at another side, leaning most of her weight onto her cane and breathing heavily through her mouth. She was an impressive elderly who could do amazing physical feats, but even she had her limits. Lastly, Guy caught Ugga's figure with Sandy on her back racing towards Grug and Eep.

Angrily, Guy threw a punch against the boulder. His planning had failed and the Croods weren't able to subdue their meal. Without his thinking, he was nothing. He had no strength like his adopted family and now he couldn't protect Eep, the girl he likes-wait, Eep? Guy blushed and shook the thought out of his head. Not the right time to think about Eep! He told himself. He leaned his entire body against the boulder and tilted his head up. Up on one of the hills, two humanoid figures seemed to appear and vanish soon after. Guy once again cleared his head. He was probably subconsciously sinking into his despair and wanted to see those strange travellers one last time and his mind could have conjured up a distorted image of them.

Looking back at the field, Guy realized he had to help, even if it meant self-sacrifice. "Hey!" He shouted bravely and stepped out into the open where he could be seen clearly.

"Come And Eat Me And Stay Away From Them!" The mutated turkeyfish spun around to the source of the calling and found its original prey standing there, waiting for it to gobble it up. It let out a half cry of delight and half gurgle and changed its course before charging towards its intended target.

"NNNNOOOOO!" Eep and the rest screamed in horror and tried to run into the creature's path to no avail due to its great speed overpowering theirs.

Guy forced himself to close his eyes and waited for his own demise. His live and memories passed through his shut eyelids in a flash. If this means that they'll live, then I have regrets. I lived a good life. I just wish I could spend more time with Eep…wait what am I saying?

Suddenly, Guy heard soft whistling sounds flying through the air and finally something extremely heavy falling with a slam! right in front of him. Heart pounding and breath labored heavily, he forced himself to crack open one eye. His jaw fell right open at what he saw.

Right before him was the fallen body of the magnificent turkeyfish. It was slumped forward facing Guy, its face making small movements before relaxing forever. Six sharpened twigs sprouted from its back where its heart would be with red liquid gushing over in a pool of blood. The Croods were also having similar reactions as him as they had stopped charging forward with feet now grounded into the earth as they gazed in amazement or horror at the dead bird.

"Whoooooo!" A whoop of glee echoed in the area and all who were present lifted their sight upwards to see the owner of the voice.

"See 'Lia! I told you it would work!" The voice rang through the air once again. Two familiar figures stood at the edge of a nearby cliff towering the scene. Upon looking closely, they could all make out a crescent-shaped branch in each of their hands.

Of the pair, Hess was the one standing in the front. Her head held high up and her back straightened in a proud posture. A smug grin graced her lips while her right arm was holding on to the strangely bended branch that was still pointed at the turkeyfish's corpse. Behind her, Amelia faced the open with sunken shoulders and a hunched spine. Her expression was unseen behind her glossy bangs but her form gave out a dark and annoyed aura. Another weirdly bended twig hung slackly from her left hand as she dropped it and stepped forward to address the people of the current period as loudly as she could.

"I am so sorry everybody! I promise I will tell you everything once we are back at your home!

"And by the way, what we did just now was called 'Archery'!"

Thank you so much for waiting for one WHOLE year for me to update this fanfic and I am SO SORRY for what I never did! And thank you so much for putting up with my crap writing and awkwardness!

All of you really are the best!

Merry Christmas!