The tour vans arrived at the paddock, and everyone was looking out, only to be met with the same result as last time.
"The dinosaurs reigned over Remnant for 165 million years, but the Tyrannosaurus was rather late in coming, appearing in the last 3 million years, ruling all of the Kingdom of Vale. Tyrann-"
Ruby turned off the radio, trying to find the T. Rex.
At that moment, Ian was also recounting history. "God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs."
"Dinosaurs," said Ellie, "eat man, woman inherits the Earth."
Willow smirked at Ellie, and the men just stared at Ellie.
Arnold then came on the radio, saying, "We'll try to tempt the Rex. Wait for a bit."
Then, from the ground, came a cage, and inside it, was a goat, chained to a post.
"What's going to happen to the goat?" asked Pyrrha.
The bars then lowered, and then Pyrrha realized with a sick stomach, "IT'S GOING TO EAT THE GOAT!?"
"Excellent," said Nora.
"What's the matter kid?" asked Gennaro, "You never had lamb chops?"
"I'm actually vegetarian," replied the Mistral Champion.
In the control room, Jacques was looking at the cameras, and switched to the rear van, where Ian came up to the camera, and said, "Now, eventually, you do have, dinosaurs, on, on your dinosaur tour, right?"
He then knocked on the camera, breathed on it, and did all sorts of things.
"I really hate that man," said Jacques.
Soon, the caravan was setting off, and Ruby was looking disappointed.
"You okay Rubes?" asked Yang.
"Yeah," said Ruby, "I was just... hoping to see real dinosaurs on the tour."
"Well," said Weiss, "I was expecting something much more malicious, like a death pit with these things."
"I still don't trust that man," said Blake, "Jacques may be faking everything."
Just then, Ruby jumped out the car, and took off.
"RUBY!" cried Yang.
"Let's make sure they don't do anything stupid," said Weiss, as the Checkmate Duo followed them.
"Stop the program," said Jacques.
"How many times have I told you?" asked Muldoon, "We needed locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors!"
All the while this was happening, Dennis was working on something. On his desk, was the shaving cream can.
"Doesn't anyone else think that we shouldn't be out here!?" asked Donald.
"I saw something," said Ruby, "I was curious."
Just then, a groan was heard, and Alan said, "Stay here."
Ruby then followed, despite protests from Yang and Weiss.
Up in the clearing, was a jeep, with a vet, and a dinosaur on the ground! The dinosaur had a massive body, with a small head on a long, short neck, four elephant like feet, large bony plates along it's back, and the tail ended with four bristling spikes. This, was a Stegosaurus.
"Look at this thing!" said Jaune.
"Oh, this was one of my favorites when I was a kid," said Alan, "And now I see she is the most beautiful thing ever."
"That is an impressive display she has," said Nora.
"Those plates were thought to have been used for thermal regulation," said Ruby, "But it seems that this is also warm blooded, so they must be for display, and intimidating rivals."
Ellie then looked at the tongue, and saw that there was something in it.
"Micro vessels," whispered Ellie.
Ruby was taking pictures with her scroll, and Alan was on the stomach, listening to the animal breath.
"Her eyes are dilated," said Ellie.
The vet took a look, and said, "Well I'll be damned."
Ellie then looked around, and noticed something.
"Is this West Vacuo Lilac Berries?" she asked.
"Yeah," said the vet, "We know they're toxic, but the animals don't eat them."
"Are you sure?" asked Ellie.
"Pretty sure," said the vet.
"One one way to be sure," said Ellie, "I need to see the dinosaur's droppings."
"D-D-D-Dino, droppings?"
"What's that?" asked Nora.
"It's better if you don't know," said Ren.
Soon, the group headed off, looking for the droppings.
Muldoon was getting a call, and just finished, "That storm hasn't changed corse, we'll have to cut the tour short."
"Tell them to get back in the vehicles," said Jacques.
"We'll pick up where we left off tomorrow," said Muldoon.
"Alright," said Arnold, "Last boat leaving for the mainland is leaving in 3 hours! Last chance to leave!"
Jacques then slammed his cane down, and said, "DAMN!"
Team RWBY was with Ellie, Grant and Ian, and saw the giant piles of dino doo doo.
"That is one big pile of shit," said Ian.
"Swear jar!" said Ruby, pulling out a jar from no where.
Ian looked at it, and then put in a few coins, as Ellie dug through the dung.
"You're right," she said, "No trace of Lilac Berries. It's so odd though."
"She's very tenacious," said Ian to Alan.
"You have no idea," said Alan, as Weiss stepped in some poo, and was wiping it off.
However, Ruby felt her foot kick something, and she looked down.
"Could these be...? Maybe."
Ruby rejoined the group, and was hugged by Yang.
"Ruby! Where did you go!? We lost you!"
"Sorry Yang," said Ruby, "But I found something that might help."
Ruby then picked up some smooth stones, and Weiss said, "You're collecting rocks?"
"Not just rocks," said Ruby, "They're called gastrolith. Some animals, like birds, and a few reptiles, don't have the teeth needed to chew their food. So they swallow these to help grind the food in their stomach. And every now and then, the stones are regurgitated, all smooth like this, and new stones are swallowed to replace those."
"And some dinosaurs like Stegosaurus have been theorized to swallow gastroliths as well," said Alan.
"And that solves this how?" asked Nora.
"When the Stegosaurus swallowed the stones," said Ruby, "She must have also unintentionally swallowed some of the Lilac Berries as well. And I can prove it too."
Ruby then showed them a bit of a Lilac Berry that was with the stones.
"Well, look at you," said the vet, "You might be a great detective as well as a Huntress."
Just then, thunder roared across the sky.
"Um, Doctors," said Genarro, "May I suggest that we head back to the vehicles!?"
"If it's alright," said Ellie, "I'd like to stay with the Steg."
"I would as well," said Willow, "I don't often get close to something this magnificent."
"I've got a gas powered jeep," said the vet, "I can drop them off at the Innovation Center."
"Mother," said Weiss, "We'll see you there."
The Schnees hugged their mother, and headed back to the cars, as lightning lit up the sky.
(So, for those of you who don't know about this, an early draft of the script actually called for a Stegosaurus and not a Triceratops. And the reason the dinosaur was sick was also cut, but they would have shown gastrolith as well, and concluded that they would also swallow the Lilac Berries unintentionally, which is why there was no trace of them in the doo doo. That's all for now. See you all in the next chapter!)
