Dino Tears:
The moment that Elliot, the D-Team and the guard captain arrived on the hill overlooking the targeted village, looks of shock and despair went through their faces. Usually, the thieves the future King informed the children about were known for taking all the food, water, clothing and livestock of each settlement, and then leave. But this was worse than that.
The entire village had been destroyed. Huts were completely ransacked, the fields were destroyed and barely a trace of anyone living here could be seen. Elliot lead the congregation down towards the ruins, with Chomp and his passengers not far behind, yet as they moved closer, nothing had changed in the gloomy sight that laid before them.
"Elliot, I thought you said those thieves only take the resources from a village, not completely waste them," Rex said to the wind warrior, who just looked around the ruined settlement.
"They don't...this isn't like them at all..." Elliot responded worriedly to the Dinosaur King, before bringing a couple of fingers to his lips and letting a sharp whistle fill the air. The D-Team was confused as to what was meant to happen, before suddenly seeing a bald eagle and a peregrine falcon land on his shoulders, the very same ones that showed in Sugi's battle with Gigas and Armatus. "Captain Malcolm," Elliot called, with the said man riding his horse up to his side. "Take Trixie and your half of the group left of the village with one of the war machines, recover any resources that the thieves may have missed." He told him whilst gesturing the falcon onto Malcolm's outstretched arm, before turning to the head female guard. "Captain Amia," he then called, with the experienced woman immediately standing to attention on the second war machine. "Take your half of the group - and Javelin - right, search for any villagers that may have tried to find shelter. If any of them were to die, we'd be seeing corpses." The female gave a nod in the understanding of his reasoning. "To everyone else! Secure a wide perimeter and venture on ahead. The D-Team and I will gather everyone back here when it's time to depart, you're all dismissed." he stated, the guards all gave a nod, and went into their separate groups.
"So...how can we help?" Max said to Elliot.
(Intro theme.)
Elliot had Max return Chomp to his chibi form with the other dinosaurs and then asked them to follow him through the village away from the guard.
"So, what are we doing exactly?" Zoe asked Elliot.
"Looking for clues, Miss Drake, something that can give us a hint on what really happened here," he responded, whilst Sugi gave a growl and moved away to search in a different direction. Meanwhile, Sheer kept a steady eye in the sky, looking down at the congregation with a confused mindset.
This is all very odd... what could've really happened here, and where are all the people? she thought to herself.
"You said these thieves use catapults, right?" Max asked.
"Yes, along with war beasts, using animals native to my birth region of the Highfells, and I don't mean your average horse. You'd know if they were here if you saw wheel tracks or large round footprints." Elliot confirmed, whilst glancing down to the ground while walking along.
"Well, whoever was here, they must've been a different group if these slit-throats you mentioned don't completely ransack settlements like this, there's absolutely nothing here." Paris observed.
"Paris is right, maybe we should-"
"Shh!" Ace suddenly hissed, cutting Zoe off and causing everyone to stop in their tracks. For a moment, silence filled the air, which confused them all at first.
Then...
A sound...
Soft...full of sadness.
Crying...
"You hear that?" Terry whispered.
"I think we all do." Elliot replied to Terry, before walking ahead to find the source of the sound beyond the village outskirts.
"Who do you think that can be?" Tank asked.
"I don't know. Stay here, I'll find out." Elliot said to the group before Sugi reappeared at his side and followed him onward.
Sugi and Elliot followed the sound towards a cave in the wall face overlooking the village, where by now they could clearly hear the sound of a wailing girl, like an infant wanting its mother. However, the problem was because the sound seemed to be coming from everywhere, it was too hard for the ear to pinpoint the hiding place where the person may be hiding.
"Think you can sniff her out, girl?" He asked the Sabre cat, who nodded before proceeding deeper into the darkened space, sniffing the air as she went, while her bond brother followed with a lantern in hand. "Hello?" he called out, making the sobbing come to a stop with a soft gasp. "Whoever you are, please come out. Whoever attacked you, we're not them. We won't hurt you." he finished softly, letting the cave walls carry the echo of his voice. A shift in the rocks to his left drew his attention, as he sharply turned, making Sugi do the same with a growl. Then slowly but surely, a girl barely looking older than 8 years of age, with dirty brown hair, hazel green eyes and wearing a beige torn dress, holding a teddy in her arm. At the sight of her, Elliot gave a shocked gasp.
It's the same girl that Seth shot.
His breathing grew shaky as he kneeled down, dropped his lantern and opened his arms. "Rosy...!" he called out softly. For a moment she stood there with teary eyes, then dashed for Elliot's arms, dropping her teddy on the way. They embraced, with Rosy's tears being reborn anew, though this time with relief, sadness, shock and desperation. "D-Team!" he called out the cave entrance. "I found someone!" It wasn't even two minutes later by the time they and the dinosaurs arrived, when Terry too gave his gasp at who he saw.
"It's you..." he said, making the young girl turn her attention towards the red Rex, but made no move to draw him into a hug. Instead, she hid her face in Elliot's shoulder.
"What happened here?" The future King asked her.
"They were meant to protect us..." Rosy said shakily, muffled by the wind warrior's neck, before yelling at the top of her lungs. "THE GUARDIANS WERE MEANT TO PROTECT US!"
"Young one, you need to calm down!" Rex told her gently, yet firmly. "Can you tell us what happened?"
DK
The waves crashed against the shoreline and thunder roared in the sky above Arendelle's queen as she stared out towards the abyss, wearing an entirely new outfit comprised of an ice blue over-jacket and belt on top of a shorter version of her dress, all the while wearing ice blue leggings and boots. For a moment more she stares outward towards the sea, preparing for her recent method of training her powers as she has done for weeks, before turning and walking towards a nearby rock formation, while removing her jacket, belt and boots, leaving her barefooted.
She stops and turns back towards the sea, and began to make a change to her hair into a more ponytailed look, before using her feet to get a feel of the smooth stones on the ground for grip, then suddenly sprints towards the waves.
She just about reaches the point where the land meets the sea, and then her powers take over as she literally begins to run on the surface using her feet and powers as stepping stones, so far things went smoothly before another large wave starts to rise and block her path, she then begins to lose her footing as she desperately tries to climb over the wave, but it is of little use as it crests over, forcing her back to land.
She marches back to her start point, now completely drenched hair to toe. "Okay..." She whispers to herself before sprinting back towards the water for a second attempt, she slides onto the surface water, diving through the next wave, and climbing it to the top of a slippery sea stack. Then using her powers again, she slides back down towards the water and continues running, before a wall of fire suddenly appears in front of her and she skids to a stop, distracting her long enough for a much bigger wave to force her back to the beach again.
Elsa pants heavily with her hands on her knees, trying to get her breathing under control, before a massive dark grey clawed foot slams down in the stones in front of her vision, making her yelp and jump back with flailing arms and landing on her backside in shock, before looking up and gasping at the sight of a massive pink and grey Acrocanthosaurus looking down at her and making eye contact.
"I must admit," he starts off. "I am impressed by your determination...or your foolishness," he finishes, before walking towards the oceanfront and staring into the torrent. "Not even I would attempt something like this. Your powers for a mere human of your stature, are also quite impressive."
"Who...who are you?" Elsa asked the giant predator as she rose to her feet.
"You may know me, as your opposite," he replied before turning his head to face her. "Aside from our appearances: whereas you are the embodiment of joy, peace and winter, I burn as hot as hellfire, and cause destruction where I please. Where you see concepts like friendship and unity as a strength, I reject it for weakness," he then turns his body to face her fully, while giving a mental smirk. "You are also foolishly hopeful, thinking that your parents are out there somewhere, hoping for their firstborn to come and save them," he said before laughing darkly.
"I'll ask again nicely one more time for that tone with me about my mother and father. Who, are you?" Elsa snarled, hiding the pang of sadness and nostalgia - but also anger - at how he had mentioned her parents.
"Impatient much, Your Majesty?" he laughed. "Very well...I am your opposite as I said...I, am Pyro." Pyro introduced himself whilst making his sail glow with heat.
"Pyro...?" Elsa said softly, testing the name on her tongue, before answering to her mounting confusion. "But...aren't you meant to be on the Space Pirate's ship?" she asked him.
"No...I am a member of the Alpha Gang, so to speak. Since I have a love of causing chaos, why would I join a herd of fools?" Pyro replied, whilst rhetorically asking that ending question with another chuckle.
"Well, if that's true...then how come we're speaking now?"
"That question shall be answered once we meet on the field of battle," Pyro said as his sail began to glow again and fire gathered up in his mouth, making Elsa back up in mounting horror knowing she was about to be burned alive. "But for now...Time to wake up," he says at the last second, before releasing his deadly breath.
Elsa snapped back to reality at her desk with a shock, slightly panting as she did. "You back now, Elsa?" Anna's voice sounded, turning the queen's attention to her right towards the sofa, where she saw her sister sitting with Olaf next to her. "You looked like you were in your own world again!" she giggled.
"Yeah, I bet Elsa's world is the sweetest-" Olaf leapt to his feet, "Romantic-" did a twirl, "Hug-filled world ever!" and then hobbled towards his creator, taking her hands in his twig arms. "Am I right, Elsa?" He asked the queen innocently, before noticing the look on Elsa's face, evaporating his smile. "What's wrong? Guess you weren't in that world if you're looking shocked like that."
"Is something wrong, Elsa?" Anna asked.
"It's...I think...We need to talk to Guru and Beta," Elsa replied, rising from her seat and leading the duo out of the study.
DK
Five minutes had passed since finding Rosy in the cave, and by now both captains and their men had regrouped. "Find anything?" Elliot asked Amia.
"No one, sire, my group had ditched the war wagons and searched on foot to no avail," she replied, before glancing down to the young girl behind his legs with a smile. "Saying that, however, I am relieved to see you have done better at our job than we did."
"You did the best you could, Captain." Rex encouraged the older woman, who nodded back in gratitude.
"I still wish we knew what's going on here..." Chomp commented.
"What about you, Malcolm?" Elliot asked.
"We only managed to recover a couple of blankets sire, not exactly life-saving, but it's something," the other captain replied, with a couple of his men presenting said items all rolled up.
"Can I say something, Elliot?" Max suddenly spoke, turning all Arendellian eyes on the brunette. "You might be a little confused, but, if you look at these huts...wouldn't you say that's dinosaur damage?" Everyone looked at the ruined homes and could easily see what Max was talking about. Some homes were stomped and trampled, while others were toppled over via tail attack, as shown by the markings on the ground.
"You have a point..." Elliot observed, but before he could say anything else, one of the other members of the female guard spoke up.
"Sire, someone's heading our way on horseback," she told him, turning everyone's attention towards the horizon, and sure enough, a man on horseback began riding down the hillside.
"You over there, are you okay?" Malcolm called out, but got no reply. Instead, he kept riding until he was a few feet away from the group, where at which point everyone - minus the D-Team and their dinos - was in for a shock at who stood before them.
"Hello, Elliot...it has been some time..." he said with a sickening grin on his face.
"Hans Westergaard...!" Elliot growled, drawing his katana and pointing it at him. "No way you could've done this!"
"You know him?" Paris asked, more curious than anything else.
"We have a history..." Elliot replied dangerously.
"Relax, Takkar, I mean no harm. I just need you, the guard and the guardians to deliver a message." Hans replied, his grin unwavering.
"What message?" Malcolm accused, gesturing the rest of the men to aim their crossbows. At which point, Hans pulled out a card with a strange black symbol with a white background.
"Tell your fiancée and Anna that I'm back..." he started calmly, "And more prepared than ever!" he exclaimed, bringing the card up to his throat, and a sudden streak of black energy zigzagged around the group, before landing back next to the former prince and allowing something to form in a black glow.
Said form was grey all over, with a taint of orange on top of its head to the tip of its tail for colour, with the form of a medium-sized Sauropod. It roared to announce its entrance, making Rosy shake with fear at seeing the same being that totalled her village. "What the- a Camarasaurus!" Max identified.
"He has a dinosaur?!" Tank exclaimed.
"Take a look at her forehead!" Terry yelled, not believing what he saw. "It's got the Space Pirate's mark written on it!"
While that went on, Sheer only had one thought going through her mind. No... it cannot be! she thought in fear, and then started flying back to the ship as fast as her wings would allow her.
"Come on, guys!" Rex called to Max and Zoe as he recalled Ace.
"We're with you!" Zoe yelled back with the both of them doing the same with Paris and Terry.
"DINO SLASH! FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"
"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW HER AWAY!"
"DINO SLASH! PARASAUROLOPHUS, BLOOM!"
The three dinosaurs landed, with Terry and Ace roaring at their opponent and charging immediately, while Paris hung back in case they needed healing, and Elliot and the guards retreating to a safe distance. The Camarasaurus, however, charged as well and knocked away Ace like a bowling pin before going into a headlock with Terry. "Hang in there, Terry!" Max called out. Terry roared in response and backed up a bit, giving him the opening he needed to bash the Sauropod to the ground with his tail.
"Hmm, I expected as much," Hans said, before pulling out a move card. "Wall Smash!" he then yelled. His dinosaur got back on her legs and rammed into Terry and Ace, but it didn't stop there, however, as the Camarasaurus kept on running until she smashed them both into a wall and out the other side, where she was finally allowed to roll on the ground with pain.
"Ugh! Not good, that Wall Smash is very powerful when used by a dinosaur that big!" Chomp said, which was Zoe summoning Paris's first move.
"Nature's Blessing!" Zoe yelled as a leaf tornado surrounded the Hadrosaur, but the former Southern Isles Prince wasn't finished yet.
"Galli Rush!" Suddenly a small, beaked Theropod dinosaur, with a dark red base colour with black patterning for secondary colour appeared right in front of Paris and began to furiously peck at her gut, cancelling her move and forcing her to the ground.
"A Gallimimus?!" she said in shock before the chicken-mimic gave her a nasty head butt before scampering off. "Come back here!" she yelled, embarrassed by the fact that she was downed by something much smaller than her full size.
"I'll get him," Ace said, before dashing off after the smaller opponent.
"Alright, that does it!" Zoe said, before turning to her lover. "Wanna try the combo we practised with Idunn and Adgar's move cards, babe?"
"Right with you, Zoe! Ready guys!" Max called out to Paris and Terry.
"Ready!" They called back, as Zoe got her newest move ready.
"Skydive!" the pinkette yelled as she slashed the card. Flia then literally dived from the sky with her feet outstretched, and managed to lift their original enemy with some powerful flaps, she then carried the Sauropod high into the air and released her while doing a backflip.
"Your turn, Terry!" the Quetzalcoatlus called down.
"Here we go, pal!" Max said as he slashed his move. "Flare Sword!" Terry roared as fire formed into its giant sword form and then slammed it into the Camarasaurus as it got close to the ground, making her roar in pain and defeat. "Oh, yeah!" The kids cheered, knowing that the battle was won from such a combo.
But then to everyone apart from Hans's shock and horror, his dinosaur didn't glow blue and return to her card. Instead, she slowly began to disintegrate with white sparkles from her tail upwards. "Oh no...She's disintegrating!" Paris cried in terror.
"Zoe! Nature's Blessing now!" Terry yelled desperately.
"Don't bother," Hans called, looking only mildly disappointed at the loss of the battle. "This dinosaur was only an expendable asset," he said, before turning his horse away from the saddening scene.
"You...you're just going to leave her...?" Amia asked in shock and disbelief, not believing what he was saying.
"I am. But if I were you, I wouldn't try to stop the process. She would be too dangerous to be kept alive for you. This creature was created for the master himself, with the sole purpose of chaos in mind." Hans told them, before spurring his horse to gallop off.
"COOOWAAAARRRD!" Elliot yelled at him, before turning his tearful eyes to the heartbreaking scene. The Camarasaurus still laid there, with half of her body gone. She managed to open an eye and stare at Terry. The T-Rex felt too many negative emotions running through his mind to be able to do anything, and he knew that saying "Sorry..." would be pointless. A tear falls from both their eyes, Terry from helplessness, and the Camarasaurus from pain.
With one last exhale, the dinosaur's head fell to the ground and both eyes closed up again, allowing her now-lifeless body to be completely disintegrated, and disappear from existence. For a moment, everyone just stands there, looking at where their opponent lost her life, before Terry, Paris and Sugi all roared into the air in mourning, pouring their hearts out as they did.
After that was done, Terry looked to Max and the other dinos with heart-wrenching eyes, where he saw his human partner holding a weeping Zoe in his arms, and Rex with his dino friends looking up at him with a sad expression on his face. The knowledge that he had just killed a fellow dinosaur was too much for him to bear. He then looked to Max's dino holder, something Chomp caught on to.
"Terry?" he asked meekly, with his bro running up towards Max and snatching the dino holder with his teeth, before running off crying. "Terry, wait!" Chomp and Paris cried.
"Where're you going?" the kids called to him.
"Leave me alone...Stay away!" Terry cried, before disappearing into the woods.
"Terry!" Max yelled to him desperately to come back, only for it to fall on deaf ears. He tried to go after him, only to feel a firm hand on his shoulder and turned to see Elliot looking at him.
"You won't keep up with him on your own," he told him, with a small smile on his face and gestured towards Sugi. Max smiled and nodded his head in thanks before both briskly walked up to her and mounted up.
"What are we to do, sire?" Malcolm asked.
"As soon as Ace is back, take the girl and ride back to Arendelle with the rest of the D-Team and be sure to inform Queen Elsa on what had transpired. Sir Taylor and I will locate Terry and try to get him to come home," Elliot told them all. "With your permission, King Rex," he added whilst looking to the Dinosaur King. He knew of the law and what happens to those who kill other dinosaurs.
"Why are you asking me permission, Elliot? I'm not going to shun him for something he never meant to do. Guru and I will discuss if a trial is necessary, but everyone including myself will still accept him as a member of the herd." Rex told them both.
"We should call for Ally as well, maybe she could help in consoling him." Tank suggested, with Rex nodding in opinion, just as Ace returned with a card of the Gallimimus in his teeth.
"Where's Terry and the Camarasaurus?" Ace asked.
"That's probably the last thing you want to know at this moment, Ace..." Rex told his friend, before he and Zoe returned him and the other dinos to their cards.
"What of the rest of the people from the village, sire? Hans must know where they could be..." Captain Amia voiced.
"Right now our top priority is finding Terry and bringing him home, once the morrow arrives, we will do something about it. Godspeed, everyone," the future King said to the guard.
"Come on, Chomp!" Max called to his other buddy, who quickly ran up and lept onto Sugi's back since he couldn't turn back into his card, and the four took off after the grieving T-Rex with Javelin and Trixie flying after them.
"Mount up! Time to go home!" Malcolm called out, hoisting Zoe onto the back of his horse while Amia did the same with Rex.
DK
"You saw him in your dream?" Guru asked the Snow Queen, with Beta, Adgar and Iduna by his side, having just been told about Pyro making an introduction to the Queen of Arendelle.
"Yes, I was training with my powers on a thundery beach southeast of the kingdom when he made a fire wall out on the water," Elsa told the Ampelosaurus.
"You know, Elsa, I still don't know about you pushing yourself that hard being a good idea, you could get seriously hurt or worse." Anna pointed out with concern in her voice.
"I'm sure your sister knows what she's doing, Princess Anna," Adgar reassured her, before setting his sights on Elsa again. "Still though, I don't know why someone like him would just pop into your dream for a talk."
"When it comes to him, I wouldn't be surprised if he was capable of doing absolutely anything," his mate Iduna replied.
Meanwhile, Spectre was looking out of the viewport on the ship's bridge, having a hard time digesting what Sheer just told him. "You are positive?"
"That dinosaur had a white version of our mark, boss...there's no way it could be anyone else but her," she told him grimly.
"This is bad, really bad. If the Alpha Gang becomes aware of her and join forces, no one in the Earth's timeline will be safe," he said, before turning to his lieutenant. "And that is something we cannot allow."
"What will you have the boys and I do?"
"Nothing to locate her as of yet, if she is indeed in this time period we must look for clues of her whereabouts. If she isn't, then we will locate her ourselves and prepare for anything she may come up with. Don't forget how diabolical she has been known to be."
"I know...I have seen the way she uses his dinosaurs, in our texts...never gives them second chances when they fall in battle." Sheer's voice took a saddening tone at that.
DK
Terry had no idea where he was, or where he planned on going, but he couldn't care less right now. After knowing what he did, there's no way he would be accepted by the herd ever again. Their saviour-turned-killer, like Killer the Torvosaurus. Yes, he was a murderer that eventually got accepted by the herd, but Terry was as said, one of their saviours! He could just imagine what was waiting for him, his brother and Ally with scorns on their faces and attacking him viciously, with everyone else just standing by with a scowl on all their faces and his surrogate sister Elsa freezing his heart and turning him into an ice sculpture, and Elliot destroying him with a wind blast. He couldn't pluck up the courage to ever go back to his family, how could he ever go back and face them? The proud warrior T-Rex had been loved and respected by all of the heard, even by the moody ones like Trooper and Diamond, but no longer trusted for the crime he made. He knew the law and respected it always. How would his previous mate and children see him now? Or maybe Seikatsu herself? Probably wishing they never had the curse knowing someone like him, and would probably banish him to Chi's eternal wrath for his deed.
At this moment in time, he was laying on the ground under a temporary home he had made from rocks and fallen tree logs to shelter him from the rain that continuously came down around him, near a small pond with a waterfall above him. Talk about perfect weather for his still slowly falling tears. He hadn't eaten since that morning and his stomach began to grumble in protest. But Terry himself ignored his appetite, and just tried to focus on his emotions, but no matter what, he couldn't stop the flow of tears cascading down his face.
Just then though a bright light filled his eyes, and he blinked several times before his vision adjusted. What stood before him was one of the most astonishing creatures he laid his predatory eyes on. It was a snow-white horse, shining as bright as the summer sun, with majestic-looking eagle-like wings and a horn on its head. The T-Rex and this brand new creature stared eye-to-eye before it raised its wings and walked a few a meters away before looking back at him as if it was expecting something. Terry came out of his nest and walked after it with Max's dino holder still lodged in his teeth, who then turned its attention forwards again, now certain he would follow her.
This carried on for a few miles, the both of them walking side by side, with Terry still confused on where this strange being was taking him, that was until a hole in the trees came to view. The creature lead him out of the tree line, to a hilltop, where down below rested the last place he felt welcomed anymore.
Arendelle.
"You want me to go back...?" He asked the creature, who in response turned to him and her horn glowed like a rainbow, allowing a white mist to appear above them. There, an image slowly began to form, one of where they previously were before, which at that moment crying could be heard as an all too familiar Allosaurus appeared.
"Ally..." he said softly.
"Terry?...Terry," the visionary Ally called in despair. "Wherever you are, please let me see you! Or at least just, hear me out. King Rex told me and everyone else about what happened, and now everyone from the herd, Arendelle, the D-Team and the Space Pirates are looking for you." This immediately filled Terry with fear, but the shaky voice of Ally continued. "T-Terry we're all worried about you! W-we all want to see you and support you in this! I-I can't bear the thought of you leaving our family for what happened in that battle!" He was unprepared for what she said. "What would I tell our children when they hatch?! [gasp] Please, come home to me babe! I want the Terry I first met in Barcelona all those months ago! How do you think Chomp would feel if he'd never see you again?...Please, Terry...What happened wasn't your fault, no one's blaming you at all, and we're afraid for you! Not of you...! I love you babe...come home...!" She lost it at that point and laid on the ground weeping her heart out, and then the cloud disappeared, leaving the creature and Terry with two thoughts in his mind.
They're worried for me... what am I doing? he thought. "I know now what I have to do but...how can I face everyone at once?" he asked, before shaking his head as a sudden sting ate at his mind, before vanishing as quickly as it appeared.
"You can start by finding your mate," an angelic female voice spoke, making Terry snap to attention and scan the tree line for the source.
"Hello?" he called over, before feeling the creature's hoof patting his leg, turning his attention back to her.
"Go, Terry...They all need you, and you're going to need them too," the creature spoke. Terry widened his eyes in surprise but his questions could be saved for the next time they met. Right now, he had an Allosaurus to find, but first, he walked up towards the edge, inhaled deeply, and roared his heart into the sky, a signal for all those looking for him.
Ally was first to hear his roar, and instantly responded to the calling of her mate with her own, before running off to find him at the source of his call.
Then a group comprised of the dinosaurs Hana, Killer, Toro, Chomp, Ace, Paris, Lucky and Meg answered his rallying call. On to another comprised of Guru, Kui, Tank, Spiny, Mia, Torch and the Deinonychus who too gave a roar. Eventually, everyone in the herd gave out a call of rejoicing, knowing that their friend, saviour and family member was okay. That was when Terry turned away from the cliff and started running through the trees again.
Leaving the strange creature with a small smile on her face.
DK
Elliot gave a sigh as he entered the bedroom he shared with his fiancée later that night. As soon as Ally got reunited with Terry, the Allosaurus called the rest of the herd over to them, and everyone showered him with the acceptance and comfort of the herd, and a stern reminding from Chomp not to scare people like that again. Terry apologised for running off on everyone and returned Max's dino holder, with Spectre informing everyone that he will investigate why that Camarasaurus disintegrated rather than returned to its card. After that, and when everyone returned to Arendelle, Elsa, Anna, their cousins and everyone from the kingdom had welcomed him with open arms and re-acceptance, and the queen had told her dinosaurian brother that herself, Anna and Chomp were always there for him if he ever needed someone to talk to about his problems. However, there was to be a trial after Elliot and Elsa's wedding, but deep down, he wasn't afraid anymore. He now knew that he'll always be wanted and loved by the herd. And he knew he could never thank them enough.
"What, a day..." Elliot commented as he got into bed next to his love, who gave a giggle at his voice and lowered the book she was reading.
"For all of us, my dear...all of us," she said quietly, snuggling up next to him who wrapped his arms around the woman of his heart.
"Elsa?"
"Hmm?"
"You remember when we were younger and we had that game we invented? You know, the one where we pretend we're saying our wedding vows while surrounded by enemies left and right?" Elsa giggled at this fond memory.
"Yeah, I do. We were so silly during our childhood...I remember we would say 'Eww!' whenever we kissed," she looked up at Elliot. While she said that last part, they pulled each other in for a particularly passionate kiss. It still takes Elsa everything she had not to swoon very hard whenever his tongue entered her mouth to dance with its mate.
"It's getting harder not to make love to you again, Elliot...harder and harder as the days decrease in number towards the day of our wedding...you know that right?" Elsa asked him seriously.
"I know, my love... but it'll be worth it in the end, I promise you that," Elliot then blows out the candle on his side of the bed, but then gets out of bed tells Elsa to rid herself of her bedclothes. This got her excited and slightly warm between her legs as she uses her powers to evaporate her nightgown and turns her back to him, and then gets even more excited when she feels her fiancé too is now naked in bed with her and even more so as she feels a slight hardness against her back. "Comfortable?" he asked teasingly.
"Mmmhmm!" she replies now starting to shake in anticipation, she feels her man wrap his arms around her waist and kiss her cheek, making her bite her bottom lip so hard it's a wonder how it's not bleeding.
"Goodnight, my love," Elliot whispered.
Elsa's reaction was exactly as predicted.
And instant.
"OH YOU SON OF A-!" Elliot had taken a firm grip on her waist to stop her squirming. "I'm laying in my own self made puddle that you, badger kid! That you are especially responsible for! And you think it's so funny to get me so excited over nothing...!" she grumbled the last part.
"Yes, my Queen, I find it amusing how you squirm under my control, but believe me, I want to take you just as much as you want me to. Before we go to sleep, however..." Elliot seducingly trailed a hand down to the section between her legs and gave the sweet spot a little rub, making Elsa moan uncontrollably and bucking her hips in wanting some more friction. "Now now, my Queen, I only wanted a sample," he took his finger into his mouth and sucked it clean. "Mmm...candy floss flavouring, just as I remember...You're going to be on cloud nine on the wedding night."
"I had better be if I'm letting you get away with that." Elliot chuckled at her response.
"Goodnight, my love," he whispered to her ear.
"Goodnight, meanie..." she grumbled.
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"YOU FOOL, HANS!" The cloaked figure yelled, shooting purple static and fire at the former Prince, which made him scream in pain and the Alpha Gang back up in fear with Pyro and Brotikens looking on with an emotionless expression. "This is precisely what I told you not to do! How dare you defy me?" he demanded, ceasing his attack.
"Forgive me, my master, I just wanted to get back at the Arendelle Princess earlier and grew impatient!" Hans pleaded. The cloaked man growled in response before going up to a table packed with fossils from all kinds of dinosaurs. He walked to the skull of what looked to be a Hadrosaur of some sort and then unleashed his static on it. It slowly glowed green, and a card slowly came from the forehead. He grabbed it with his hand, and then his free hand shot static on it again. Slowly it began to change the card altogether, the grass symbol slowly turned into a black version of the Space Pirate's, and the grey slowly turned into white, until the process was complete.
"Gothel!" he called, signalling the entrance of his third henchman. An elderly-looking woman with black hair and hazel grey eyes wearing a red dress came in, nodding in greeting to Pyro who nodded back.
"You summoned me, my master," she addressed him whilst doing a curtsy.
"Hans - thanks to his incompetence to follow orders - has drawn some premature and early attention. I need Project I to be finished ahead of schedule, so that we may move on to our next task."
"I'm not surprised, if I am honest, my Lord." Gothel replied, before sending a smug look over to Hans, who glared back in response. "Perhaps Dr. Z will be of assistance."
"I was about to recommend as much," the figure replied, widening Dr. Z's eyes in the process.
"Me?"
"Of course, good doctor, your craftsmanship in the creation of the Super Alpha Controller, would be of much use for my plans," he told him, before turning to the trio. "As for you three..."
"Yes, sir?" they spoke simultaneously, not wanting to face his wrath as well.
"I have a mission for you."
Next time...
Anna: "Just two days now! I'm so excited!"
Olaf: "It's an ice cream cake!"
Terry: "How would you like to help me with a little plan I have in mind..."
Chomp: "Sure Terry, I'm in."
Elsa: "TERRIBLE WORKMANSHIP! THAT'S WHAT THAT IS!"
Elliot: "Okay, follow the screaming of the angry queen."
Elsa: "If it involves me turning that old man into an ice statue, let's hear it."
Well here it is, Project I Chapter 3.
By now everyone should be aware of who the cloaked figure is, but no spoilers for everyone else, please!
Now as for what happened with Terry and his breakdown, the thought of a main character committing a crime he never meant to do was inspiration from The Prince of Egypt, specifically the scene where Moses (hope I spelt that right, don't criticise me) kills one of the slavers by shoving him off a catwalk trying to save a slave's life from constant whipping, and running away leaving behind those he cares about, including his brother. I will say now: Terry is a creature of a good heart, and that he's everything against breaking dinosaur law. I only wanted to explore how he would feel if he indeed took away a life, since I personally imagined him feeling immense regret and fear of how those he cared about would see him at that moment, hence him running off with Max's dino holder so he couldn't be recalled. As for the creature he saw in the forest, I wanted to bring more of my original story The Snow Queen and The Hunter into the mix of things, hope you all don't mind.
I also wanted for him and Ally to be in a situation that would make their love for each other grow stronger, and maybe develop more on her character. I will just quickly say now that she has not laid her eggs just yet.
Also, we will get the thieves vs dinosaur battle, looking forward to writing that. And don't worry, how Elsa saw Pyro on her training grounds in that vision of hers will be revealed soon enough.
As for that moment, with Elliot and his lady...just wish me luck as that moment on the wedding night will be my first...intimate scene, and will be smutty, you've been warned.
Finally, yes, Mother Gothel and Hans Westergaard are playing critical roles in the story, along with the outlaw figure we saw in the previous chapter, his name will be given once the fourth chapter's out.
Toodles! :)