HEY EVERYONE! Sorry for the late update…I kinda got writer's block, but thanks to a reviewer, Ninja of Night, I got over it! WOOT! And I've gotta surprise for ya'll! (NOT mimicking Joe, I actually have a slight Southern accent.) I've been keeping a close eye on my story stats, and this story has 1,097 hits already! I'm amazed…I am probably the least seen person on the planet as far as I'm concerned. THANK YOU EVERYONE!

The Great Gathering

"Momma!" Chomp said. "There's gonna be a gathering at the lake, can we go? Please, please please pleeeeaaaaase?" The eggs had hatched, finally. There was a Mapo, a Teffla and an Aeros.

"It's a sick joke, I can tell you that much…" Rupert grumbled when the eggs hatched. Dina couldn't have been happier. The kids were named Whirlwind, Tsunami, and Tornadus. After they got to the lake, Dina's eyes widened in disbelief.

'There's so many!' She mouthed to Rupert. All kinds of vivosaurs were eating, sleeping, chatting, and even play fighting! The kids ran off. Dina and Rupert decided to split up for a bit. Tsunami, the Mapo, accidentally ran into an adult Breme.

"Sorry!" She said quickly. "Hey, you look like my big brother Chomp!" She and the Breme chatted for a bit. Chomp was walking around when a young female Paraloph, who was his sibling's age, stumbled over to him.

"Do you want to play?" She asked. Chomp smiled and agreed. Whirlwind, the Aeros, was sitting on a rock, when a Spino about Chomp's age ran over to her, and gently nudged her off the rock.

"I'm the king of the mountain!" He called, letting out what was supposed to be a roar, but came out as a raspy squeal. Whirlwind tackled the Spino and they wrestled over who was king/queen of the mountain. Tornadus, the Teffla, was laying beneath a bush when an adult Coatlus flew over to him.

"Howdy!" The Coatlus greeted. "What are ya doing sittin' under a bush?" Tornadus shrunk away from the Coatlus.

"…I'm really scared…" He confessed. "There's so many other vivosaurs here! And they're all so big" The Coatlus smiled.

"That ain't nothing' to be scared of." He said. "You could make a ton of friends!"

"R-really?" Tornadus asked. The Coatlus nodded.

"Course ya can!" He answered. "The vivosaurs in this here clearin' are real nice." Tornadus smiled. He liked this Coatlus. He looked around and frowned again.

"But they're all so scary…" He expected the Coatlus to laugh, but the Coatlus just patted his head gently and said,

"That don't matter one bit. They may look mean an scary on the outside, but on the inside they're real nice."

"Are you sure?" Tornadus asked. The Coatlus nodded again.

"Positive." He replied. "Looks shouldn't matter. What counts is how ya act." Rupert smiled when he saw Tornadus playing with a Coatlus. Tornadus was the coward of the bunch, and Rupert and Dina worried about him quite a bit. Suddenly, he felt something hit his foot. He looked down and saw a baby Amargo had tripped and fallen onto his foot. Rupert bent down and nuzzled the little Amargo back onto it's feet. The Amargo looked at him with wide curious eyes. The Amargo got up on it's hid legs and place it's front legs on Rupert's snout and licked him. Rupert smiled. Dina saw this and let out a quiet laugh. It was fun watching Rupert play with kids. She looked back at the Plesio who she was looking after while his mother was off doing something important. The Plesio was playing with his older sister, who was much older than he was. Tsunami ran past laughing with a young Guera behind her. An old Smilo was telling stories to a group of young Vivosaurs, and Dina spotted Chomp among them, and smiled. Chomp loved listening to stories. She saw another elder, a Hopter this time, teaching some younger Pterosaurs how to fish. She noticed Tornadus talking to a Coatlus and Ptera. She saw the Plesio's mother returning, so she got up and walked over to her timid 'son'.

"Tornadus?" She called. Tornadus bounded over to her.

"Hi mama!" He said. "This is Joe and Sarisa!" Dina smiled at the two Pterosaurs.

"Hi." She greeted.

"Howdy there- Wait…Dina?" The Coatlus exclaimed. It took Dina a moment to register what was going on.

"Joe?" She asked. "What are you doing here?" Tornadus looked back and forth between the adults, then slowly creeped away form the scene.

"Same thing as you." Joe answered. "We haven't got the slightest clue what happened to us. We just woke up in this here valley outta nowhere." Dina looked over to Sarisa.

"Who's that?" She asked. Joe smiled.

"This is Sarisa, an old friend of mine." Joe answered. "Dina, what's going on?" Rupert asked running over to them. "Wait…Joe? Is that you?" After introductions, Joe looked over at Dina.

"You've certainly been busy, now haven't ya? Seein' how you've got a lil' family now. I'm guessin' Rupert's the father?" Dina blushed.

"You're half right…" Dina answered. "The kids are adopted, but the youngest, Tornadus, Whirlwind, and Tsunami, we received as eggs. So as far as they're concerned, they think that we're they're real parents…" She looked over at the kids who were playing with a Dimetro, Dacerus, Hoplo, Nycto, Megath, and Kentro. The Kentro's and Dacerus's mothers were watching carefully, warning their kids not to hurt the others with their spikes. Chomp was standing on the sidelines.

"So where did Chomp come from?" Sarisa asked.

"We found him when he bit Rupert's tail shortly after we woke up." Joe burst out laughing, and Sarisa was trying hard not to laugh herself. Rupert shrank back in embarrassment. After everyone got together, and started talking, Joe suddenly suggested something that no one would expect.

"Maybe someone sent us here." He suggested. Everyone stared at him with an Are-you-kidding-me? look on their face. "Well that could happen…"

"Joe, that is one of the biggest clichés in the book, and it's used by almost everyone nowadays…" Raptin muttered.

"It was a good guess though." Sarisa said, trying to cheer Joe up.

"And it's probably what happened too." A mysterious voice said.

Sorry for this chapter being so short, I couldn't think of anything else to put. Just be lucky I was able to update at all. The Gremlins keep attacking me. Review if you like the story please!