Moods and Scenarios
With an undignified yawn and stretch of his limbs, Max slowly stumbled his way out of the super king-sized bed he and Zoe were sharing, courtesy of Elsa. He rubbed the heaviness off of his eyes he made his way around to his girlfriend's side of the bed and kneeled down so that his sight was aligned with hers, and gently stroked her cheek with the back of his knuckles with a smile on his face. If he were to be honest, he never imagined one of his best friends being his romantic other, but as the events during Christmas drew nearer, he felt as though maybe he was wrong. He asked her for lunch out a day after they had included Kui into the herd, that day lead to a positively romantic date in town the day after. One thing lead to another, having their first kiss a day before their campaign in Arendelle, and here they are now, completely inseparable like Elliot and Elsa. And he couldn't be happier, except maybe that fateful day when they met Chomp and Terry for the first time.
Either way, he was sure to ask her to marry him when they get older, if their relationship would last that long.
His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a slight groan, and his lady managed to peel open an eye and smile at the face that greeted her. "Morning, Sleeping Beauty," Max said, rather cutely in the pinkette's ears.
"Good morning, Maxi," she replied, before pulling her lover into several pecks and a long kiss to the lips, though not as passionately as the queen and her fiancé.
"How'd you sleep, Zoe?"
"It was alright, considering you kept snoring through the night..." Zoe replied groggily, playfully tapping him on the nose.
"Ahh, hehehehehe..." was his sheepish reply.
"Ahem!" Zoe and Max both turned their heads to a very weary-eyed Terry, who along with the rest of their dinosaurs were sleeping on a very comfortable furry rug by the window, with the rest of them still asleep. "While I don't mind you two hopefully soon being a mated pair in the future, some of us do like a good sleep in after a hard day's situation..." They didn't need to know what he was referring to.
"Terry, that's like us saying the same thing about you and Ally, or Chomp and Paris." Zoe replied, Terry was about to retort before a knock on their door sounded off.
"Sir Taylor and Lady Drake?" the voice of Kai sounded through the door.
"Yes?" they both called.
"Sorry if I have awakened you. Breakfast is available in the dining hall whenever you and your dinosaurs are ready, everyone else aside from Queen Elsa are waiting for you now."
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"Just three days now, I'm so excited!" Anna squealed with a skip in her step, while Aki, Rapunzel, Eugene and Spike walked alongside her.
"You're really not short of energy, Your Highness," Aki said with a friendly giggle.
"Well, Elsa is Anna's sister, and both girls have known Elliot since they were toddlers," Rapunzel said with a smile on her face, just as they arrived at the door to the dining room opened up, and seeing the rest of their friends already inside at the table, feasting on pastries, cereals, fruit and more.
"We weren't sure what to think of him for a while when we first met him and Sugi, but, now we consider him as family," Eugene explained.
"Well well well, look what her Highness dragged in." Dr. Owen called out, making Anna smile and a grin appear on Spike's face.
"Dug up anything new?" Spike grinned, giving a thumbs up, making the royals look to him in confusion.
"What?" Rapunzel and Eugene went with a raised eyebrow.
Oh no, please! The whole D-Team and Patrick mentally begged, not in front of royalty!
"Just a funny bone!" both Dr's yelled, bringing every other head in the room pointing at them as they began their wacky dance. "We are dino digging friends, fossil hunters to the end! Woods and mountain peaks we roam, hauling dino fossils home! D-I-N-O spells dino! Spells dino yeah!" They were bent over backwards by the end.
"Uh..." That was all Anna could mutter while everyone else, minus the other royals sweatdropped, but their performance didn't stop the Corona Princess from giggling at the sight.
"Good morning, Your Highnesses," Dr. Owen said to the princesses kindly. "Where's Queen Elsa and the young Elliot lad?"
"Elsa's having breakfast in her study, she has some documents she needed to sign, and a meeting with the council she's organising later this morning." Rapunzel replied, who along with Anna, Eugene, Aki and Spike took their seats at the table.
"What for Princess Rapunzel?" Ace asked, looking up from his raised bowl of beef.
"They apparently have a request of meeting you guys." Anna replied.
"They do?" The kids asked simultaneously.
"Actually, Princess Anna, didn't you say that one or two of the council had some problem with Elsa and Elliot getting married in one of your letters?" Aki asked.
"Yes, that's Senator Yaris of House Filhorm, he's one of the older people on the council and is very against my sister's magic and Elliot's ability to talk to animals of his choosing," Anna replied with a frown on her face, still not understanding the snobbish man's dislike of her brother figure.
"So that's how he's able to communicate with Leah and Violet, interesting..." Ace commented.
"Hey, bro," Terry whispered to Chomp, seeing as how everyone else was distracted.
"Hmm?" Chomp replied.
"How would you like to help me with a little plan I have in mind?" Terry said in his ear what Anna told him yesterday, and Chomp widened his eyes in astonishment.
"Sure, Terry, I'm in."
"So anyway, Your Highness, about my question?" Dr. Owen asked.
"Elliot and Sugi like to hunt for their breakfast when it comes to providing food for themselves, says it gives them morning exercise and works up the appetite at the same time," Kristoff said, before taking a bite out of a pain au chocolate he put on his plate.
"But what exactly is there to hunt that is suitable for Sugi to catch?" Zoe asked, obvious confusion in her voice.
"You'd be surprised, Lady Drake...You'd be surprised." Kristoff said.
(Intro Theme)
The hunters of Arendelle were indeed doing what they do best.
Hunting.
They arose at the crack of dawn and set out into the woods, and immediately getting lucky with finding the fresh hoof marks of deer and musk oxen once they were three miles from home. They traced the tracks to its source on an open plain near the foothills of the north mountain, where they were clearly able to see all kinds of fair game. A large group of ten oxen and nineteen red deer, all grazing on the lush grass thanks to the rain overnight, were plentiful enough to choose at their leisure. But they must choose wisely, taking something too big like a bull musk ox would be too wasteful, and taking a calf or fawn would be too small and would fill them with guilt later on, hence why they follow two rules. Only take what you need, and always go for something in between.
They scanned the herd for their ideal meal, and half an hour passed when they found the perfect target, a fit and healthy buck.
Elliot dismounted Sugi, and both of them crouched into the tall grass out of the tree line, stalking forward ever so slowly watching their step as they went, while the man looked around the area, and saw a formation of rocks and boulders on the far side of the plains, perfect for an ambush point. He gained the feline's attention and made a few gestures they practised on their hunts over the years. This was basically him saying - 'When I give the signal, drive him towards me,' - Sugi growled softly in response to this in understanding, and went ahead, while Elliot peeled off to get into position. This was their most classic tactic when they hunt together, they use Sugi's speed and stamina to chase and corral the target, and Elliot utilised his longbow and arrows to strike without warning, a perfect, clean ambush.
It wasn't long before they both found their spots. Elliot behind the tallest rock and Sugi hid by a bush. Elliot raised his head over the top, surveying the herd one last time in case of any other predators. Luckily no serious predators like cave bears or cave lions came this far south of the Highfells to feed, but hungry wolves still had to be taken into consideration. Large numbers and their pack hunting strategy make them a serious threat, even to sabertooth cats as big as Sugi.
Happily, the coast was clear and the two of them were free to start whenever they were ready. With that, Elliot readied his bow and raised a closed fist, sending a message to a still crouched Sugi to prepare herself for her role in the hunt.
That fist was then snapped into the form of the claw.
That...was her signal.
With a roar, she pounced out of the grass, and the herd wasted no time in fleeing, including the target stag. She uses her speed and agility to corral the herd towards Elliot's ambush point, roaring and lunging at animals that tried to break off in a separate direction to keep them in line. The wind warrior already had an arrow knocked to the string, and his focus locked on to their chosen target.
In no time at all the hunter had the stag in his sight, and let his arrow fly. The arrow struck true, and the target fell and rolled along the ground with an arrow in his neck. The rest of the animals let out terrified grunts and groans and peeled away from the trio. Sugi and Elliot let the rest escape to live another day, as their breakfast-to-be was waiting for the final kill.
The wind warrior leapt down from the rocks, and slowly walked towards the weakly whimpering animal. Despite the thrill and adrenaline of the chase, he nor Sugi took pleasure in taking the life of an innocent animal. He slowly knelt beside the stag and pulled out his knife, and then spoke softly into his ear, "Know that we take no pleasure in this...brother." With a final desperate whimper from the suffering animal, Elliot swiftly set his knife into the stag's heart, causing all movement and noise to come to a silent stop. "May the Dragon Lords of paradise welcome your soul...where it shall live on forever." He whispered the Northern Highfells rite of passage, then cleaned the knife on his trousers before setting it back in its scabbard on the back of his waist.
"That's the warrior hunter I remember." Elliot froze at the sudden voice and turned to see four individuals he remembered from the later years of his awful childhood with wide eyes.
"Queen Tyeema?"
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Elliot and Sugi had finished their breakfast alongside their guests, and by now they were just about to pass through the castle gates when they saw Olaf and Sven pushing a table with a massive triple-decker cake covered in light blue icing and sunflower patterning. "Elliot! Sugi! Hi!" Olaf waved enthusiastically with a beaming smile, while Sven groaned in greeting.
"Olaf, Sven, what exactly are you two pushing?" Elliot asked, as he dismounted Sugi and the snowman leapt onto the reindeer's back.
"It's an ice cream cake! Like the one that we used for Anna's birthday last year! Only this time, it's for your wedding with Elsa."
"I thought the wedding wasn't until three days from now..." Elliot said while raising an eyebrow.
"Maybe she wanted it earlier. I can't blame her, this cake is delicious!" Olaf exclaimed, hopping onto the table and prepared to stuff his face.
"Oh no, little guy!" Elliot said, pulling Olaf away from the cake and setting him on the ground. "That's not yours," he told him with a grin. "Anyway, could you help me find Elsa? I need to talk to her and the D-Team."
"TERRIBLE WORKMANSHIP! THAT'S WHAT THAT IS!" All four immediately snapped their attention to the castle's armoury where Elsa's scream came from, which was so loud it would make Brontikens shake in his boots. Even Sugi gave a jump and arched back at the sound.
Everyone stood motionlessly with wide eyes for a few moments. "Oookeeeyyy..." Elliot started off again, turning to the animals and snowman and pointing in the direction of the shrill sound. "Follow the screaming of the angry queen..." With that, the four walked off. The cake could be taken in by one of the servants once they saw it.
"I said I wanted Elliot's weapons arranged by Craftiness!" Elsa's hiss sounded from inside the armoury door. "Staffs." suddenly, his staff and the Helbert that Rex used in December flew by, causing the animals and Elliot to take cover behind the closest fountain. "Blades." They all jumped when his sai blades, throwing knives and Zoe's fan got thrown into the fountain water with a splash, which was when they noticed the D-Team hiding behind a pillar. "Swords!" He heard the kids yelp when his khopesh, katana and long sword embedded themselves into their hiding spot. "Then the axe and shield." And finally, Max's axe was hurled into Olaf's head, causing it to roll along the ground, with him laughing along the way, and the shield to fly like a Frisbee out the courtyard gate. It was at that moment did he finally see his love, with a mad scowl on her face walking out the door with an icy trail following her, while muttering, "Stupid, balding, muscle-bound, idiot!-", before turning back to the door, "IF HE USED THEM ON YOU, YOU'D NEVER FORGET HOW CRAFTY THEY WERE!" whilst flailing her hands angrily, before stomping off like an angry T-Rex. "Grrr! Blades, Axe, Swords, Staffs..."
Once everyone was certain the coast was clear of angry Snow Queens, Elliot, the animals and the D-Team came out of their hiding spots and went over to each other.
"Sire!" The blacksmith called, a beefy man with a blond moustache and bald head with a peg leg. "Thank the Lord you and the Guardians are here, Queen Elsa and Princess Anna have become unbearable!"
"Well, in Her Majesty's defence, Mr Gobbs, you did have my weapons in the wrong order she wanted, even if that order doesn't make sense," Elliot muttered the last part.
"That because an hour after she came out of a meeting with the council she told me to sort them by length, an hour before the meeting after having her breakfast it was by deadliness, and lo and behold, half six in the morning she tells me to order them by name! Did you even give each one of your weapons their own nickname?!"
"No, I didn't, and yes, I will admit that is very...weird, what's got Anna so p'ed off then?"
"Kai overheard a lot of shouting from the two and Mr Bjorgman once the meeting was over, but he couldn't make heads or tails of what it was all about."
"Actually," Max voiced, turning both adults heads to the brunette, "I think we might know..."
Flashback...
"Thanks for showing us the way to the council chambers, Mr Kai." Chomp said to the royal butler, with the rest of the D-Team walking alongside him.
"Yeah. We probably would've ended up on the wrong side of the castle if it weren't for you!" Zoe joked, earning a small humorous laugh from everyone.
"My pleasure, young guardians, if you require anything else, I-"
BANG!
The door suddenly burst open with a fuming Anna stomping out, with an equally mad-looking Elsa on her tail with ice spreading as she walked. "I cannot believe you Anna! You know better than to cause a scene in council meetings!" Elsa told Anna angrily.
"Well, what was I meant to do, Elsa? Just sit there and let that jerk Senator Yaris insult Kristoff and tell you about how the love between you and Elliot is fake?!" Anna yelled back.
"That meeting was organised specifically for the D-Team's formal recognition to Arendelle's government, and I will not have you disrespect a member of the royal council. When I tell you to do something, you obey." The queen hissed.
"And let the ones we love just get ridiculed by him?!" The princess yelled again, which was then answered by Kristoff coming up to them.
"Look Anna, I don't know much about royal procedures but I think Elsa's right, there's a time and place for-" he started.
"So you're both happy with how he's treating you and Elliot, Kristoff?!" Anna yelled, cutting off her lover.
"Fricking hell, Anna! I don't like it either, but as a member of the royal family of Arendelle I expect you to act like it during these meetings, why don't you just grow up and learn to deal with it?!" That sentence from Elsa was the cherry on top of the badly made cake, and her own words began to terribly seep into the queen's heart, the more she realised what she had just said. The tension was so thick that no one, not even Spiny dared to utter a word at the scene.
Tears of hurt and anger began to seep out of Anna's eyes, which started the feeling of guilt and regret in Elsa's chest. "I forgot how such a cold-hearted witch you can be...!" A quiet gasp from everyone around them sounded from Anna's silent snarl, which replaced the queen's one of guilt with that of cold rage.
"Very funny..." the queen hissed dangerously. "Any more witty comebacks, or are you done being a child...?" Anna's response to that last sentence was sharply turning with a yell, and running off with tears of rage cascading down her cheeks.
End of flashback.
"After the princess ran off, Kristoff tried to be the voice of reason, but the queen wouldn't have any of it." Tank informed.
"Hmm..." Elliot pondered, right before the D-Team's dino holders went off.
"Another dinosaur has appeared," Zoe told everyone. "And by the looks of things, it's coming from..." She trailed off after seeing an unfamiliar island on the map.
"The Southern Isles..." Elliot told them, after having a quick look. "Max, why don't you and Rex go on ahead with your partners while Zoe and I see if we can sort things between Elsa and Anna? I'll have Rapunzel help her." Elliot suggested.
"That alright with you, Zoe?" Max asked his girlfriend.
"Sure, I can always meet up with you guys once things have cooled down." Zoe replied with a smile.
"You and the others need to be careful out there, Chomp, I'll come to help you as soon as I can," Paris said, nuzzling her mate.
"I will, Paris." Chomp replied, returning the affection.
"Alright then, it's settled," Rex stated, before connecting his dino holder to the Space Pirate's ship. "Spectre, do you have a teleporter on your ship? Max and I need to borrow it for another dinosaur rescue."
"Not to worry, Ancient, hold on." Spectre replied, before a multi-coloured glow surrounded the boys, and then vanished.
"So that's how you pop up from place to place, huh..." Elliot observed with a look of surprise on her face, making Zoe look at him with a smile and giggle. "Mr Gobbs, when I get back I'll need to borrow my long sword, you'll know why once we're back with Elsa," he told the head blacksmith, who nodded before saying.
"I'll have it sharpened for you sire, but if I may?" Elliot nodded. "Seriously, who in their right state of mind would name an axe 'Daisy'?!" and then walked back into the armoury - right when the future King heard snickering from his left.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up..." Elliot droned before the humans, animals and dinosaurs walked off after Elsa.
"Hey, uh, Elliot?" Olaf voiced, with his head still impaled and detached from his body.
"Hold on, buddy."
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With a flash of light, the boys and their dinos ended up in a forest of dead trees, something which immediately set them all on edge. "Man, hasn't even been a minute and this place gives me the creeps..." Terry said.
"You can say that again..." Chomp commented.
"Well that goes to show, the sooner we find the dinosaur, the sooner we can leave this place, so let's get looking," Max stated before the four heard a roar. "And this is turning out to be easy already," he said with a smirk.
"Don't be so sure, let's go take a look." Rex said, and with a nod from Max, the four ran off.
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"My lord, the creatures are getting closer!" A Southern Isles guardsman told the King. King George Westergaard of the Southern Isles was Hans's oldest brother at the age of 39, with a brown small moustache with matching coloured hair and a golden crown on his head.
"Just tell me if the people and my family are safe, soldier," he told the man sternly.
"Everyone is barricaded in the underground shelter bellow the palace, my King, it would take the strength of a thousand men to break through the doors." The guard replied, just as the throne room door was busted open, and the face of the dinosaur was shown.
It was a hadrosaur that was green all over with greyish-white legs and underbelly, with a row of small spines on its back from head to tail. This was Edmontosaurus. "Hello there, old man," the voice of Gothel sounded, who walked through the door with her dinosaur following. "Mr Hans Westergaard sends his regards," she told George, whose eyes widened in shock.
"Hans...Oh my God..." he whispered in fear.
"You and the rest of your brothers never really treated him fairly. Didn't your mother ever tell you to treat all family members with love?" Gothel asked teasingly, before noticing Max and Rex outside the window. "Hmm, where's the girl?"
Meanwhile, the boys had just arrived outside the Southern Isles Castle. "The dinosaur must've gone inside." Ace hypothesised.
"Thanks for pointing that out dingus, now tell us why it would do that!" Tank told him impatiently, wanting to pick a fight with the new dinosaur already.
"You there, children!" The guardsman ran up to them. "You need to get as far away from here as you can, our defences have been compromised!" he told them.
"But what's going on, sir?" Max asked, right before a knife was thrown into the man's chest, and fell to the ground dead. They all gave a terrified gasp at this and turned to the castle door when they heard chuckling.
"Don't bother with him, palace guards only get in the way." Gothel said to the D-Team.
"Who are you? And why did you do that for?" Terry demanded with a growl.
"Don't be so hasty, my friend," Gothel commented with a laugh, before pulling out a card. "Why don't we just get to know each other with a little game?" she asked, putting the black and white card to the side of her neck, where like before it went completely black, and then zigzagged around the D-Team, before landing next to Gothel and forming the Edmontosaurus.
"An Edmontosaurus!" Rex identified.
"Let 'em have it Chomp," Max said, forming the Triceratops back into his card.
"DINO SLASH! TRICERATOPS, ROAR!"
Chomp landed as a battlefield appeared. "Don't hold back big boy, show me your all!" Gothel demanded.
"I'll show you, alright!" Chomp roared as he charged, meeting the hadrosaur in a headlock.
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Meanwhile, on Elsa's training ground, the queen was back in her new outfit and just trudging back to her start point, being completely soaked once again. She was able to pass the point where Pyro's firewall appeared, only to be flipped over by the largest wave she encountered so far.
With an exhale, she collapsed and laid on her back on the smooth stones of the beach. That was when the fight with her sister earlier this morning started to crawl back to her. She really couldn't fault Anna for what the Senator said in the meeting, first he disrespected Kristoff, then called Anna incompetent to lead, and dared to indicate that the love between her and Elliot should be frowned upon, she just wished that her sister had not snapped in said meeting, with the rest of the council there to see it. Right now, though...she just wants to apologise to her for the terrible things she said to her, especially what she said about needing to grow up.
She wished she never had organised that meeting.
Elsa was sucked out of her thoughts when she opened her eyes and the muzzle of a very familiar sabre-tooth cat filled her vision, who gave a gentle croon in greeting. "Hi, Sugi," she said in a depressing voice, raising her upper torso into a sitting position and started giving her gentle strokes on the side of her head, causing the cat to purr.
"I thought I might find you here," Elliot voiced, turning the queen's line of sight to her left where she saw her lover walking over to her. "Heard that you may have had a rather tense moment with Anna." He only got a weary "Mmm" from his lover, and then lowered himself next to her, and wrapped her into a hug. He didn't care about the feeling of water seeping into his hunting gear.
"So you know about what I...you know..." Elsa couldn't finish her sentence due to the guilt.
"I can imagine that she's very upset," Elliot replied. "But, you know, it's fights and arguments this severe that can make your bond as sisters stronger in the end, you know that, love," he told her while gently rocking her. For a long moment, he just held her, with the young queen burying her face in the valley between his neck and his shoulder, not long after that did he feel the tell-tale feeling of tears of his skin.
"Am I a bad person, Elliot?" Elsa asked her fiancé with her voice muffled.
"No," he told her, gently pushing her face away so he could cup one of her cheeks so he could stare her in the eyes, wiping away tears with his thumb as he did. "If you were really a bad person, there's no telling the kind of chaos you could cause with your powers. You could be using them for conquest, power and intimidate those around you..." he told her with honesty before a small gentle smile appeared on his face. "But you don't. Instead, you use them to bring happiness, joy and good ol' fashioned snowball fights to everyone you care about...Your mother and father would be every bit as proud as Anna and I are of you for the woman you have become...and as long as you'll have the two of us. We will always be there for you." She had a teary-eyed smile on her face as she snuggled into her lover's warmth.
Unbeknownst to both humans and beast, though...
"Well isn't that the most touching thing you've ever heard!" Zander said, who, along with the Alpha Gang, were hiding behind a rock and heard and saw the very touching scene.
"I've always had dreams of being able to hold a girl in my arms and saying those kinds of things." Ed smiled.
"Whatever, sweet or not that old lady is no way as good looking as me," Ursula replied, glaring daggers at the trio.
"Well in Her Majesty's defence, she is rather soaked, you know," Zander commented, earning Ursula's heated glare and a bonk on the head. "OW!"
"If we're done Zander, might I suggest you get a dinosaur out here so we can get on with this?" she hissed, handing him Brontikens's card and an Alpha Scanner.
"Okay, coming up!"
"Time to teach that witch and her wild man lover why you don't put the Alpha Gang in a cell..." Ursula silently declared.
"COME ON OUT BRONTIKENS! GO SHOW THOSE TWO WHAT YOU GOT!"
Elsa, Elliot and Sugi were shocked out of their thoughts once they felt the earth rumble, and looked up to see the Apatosaurus right in front of them with shock. "You..." Elsa barely whispered in terror.
"Greetings, Queen Elsa... we meet again," was his reply, before turning his eyes on her fiancé. "I assume you to be 'Elliot Takkar', correct?" Sugi leapt in front of her hunting brother protectively and growled viciously at him once those words left his jaws.
"Ahahahaha!" They heard Ursula laugh, and turned to face the Alpha Gang.
"Why can't you piss off again or stay in a cell?!" Elliot yelled at them.
"Why would we do that? We had a feeling that those brats wouldn't be here and with them absent, that witch is ours for the taking." Zander told him with an ending chuckle.
"You fuckers lay a digit on Elsa, and you'll see your heads being picked off by vultures!" Elliot threatened them.
"W-who knew getting you worked up with empty threats would be so amusing?" Ursula chuckled. "Finish him and his fuzzball friend, Brontikens, and we'll take the witch home!" she called out.
"Very well," he replied before advancing forward, to which motion Elliot mounted himself and Elsa onto Sugi's back.
"Get us out of here, Sugi!" he yelled, but before Sugi could even make a move, Brontikens raised one of his feet and slammed it into the ground, sending out a concussive blast of stones that made them fly into the cliff wall off the beach, knocking Sugi and Elliot unconscious.
"Elliot!" Elsa cried.
"Hahaha, now I believe you have nowhere to go," Ursula said, walking over to them with the rest of her team. "Now you can either come with us willingly, Your Majesty, or... well, not in such a lively condition." She smirked at Elsa, who in turn glared at the smug greenette with a deadly scowl.
"Elsa!" All of them turned to the sound of Anna and Rapunzel's cries and found them on top of a ledge overlooking the beach with Zoe by their side.
"Huh! What's the girl doing here!?" Zander yelped.
"Anna, Rapunzel, Zoe! Elliot and Sugi are hurt!" Elsa called up to them.
"Help's on the way, Queen Elsa, hang on!" Zoe yelled, before recalling her dinos.
"DINO SLASH! GUSH OUT SPINOSAURUS!"
"SPRING UP, PARASAUROLOPHUS!"
"Get away from her, you creeps!" Paris yelled with a roar.
"You leave the nice beautiful lady alone!" Spiny added, also with a roar.
The Alpha trio yelped in fright with both dinos roaring at them. "Go on Brontikens, go beat them up!"
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"Electric char-!"
"Max!" Rex called out, causing his friend to miss his swipe.
"Uh, Rex, what are you interrupting me for?" Max asked his best friend in annoyance before he noticed his dino holder going off and Zoe appeared on the screen.
"Max! Rex! We need help!" Zoe exclaimed.
"Zoe, what's going on?" Max asked his girlfriend.
"The Alpha Gang, that's what! They're after Elsa and Elliot!" Zoe exclaimed, which unknowingly caught Gothel's attention.
"Rats!" she hissed to herself.
"Max, you go back and help Zoe fend off Brontikens, Ace, Tank and I will take it from here with the Edmontosaurus." Rex told Max.
"You got it Rex, good luck!" Max told him, before calling back Chomp and teleporting back to the Pirate's Ship in a flash of light.
"Bah, curses!" Gothel muttered, before speaking into a small round device on her wrist. "Alpha Gang, come in."
"Gothel, you better be keeping those brats busy, the girl and her dinos have just turned up!" Ursula exclaimed into the speaker.
"I was just calling up about that. The boys have just been informed of your attack and the one named Max has just left the Southern Isles."
"WHAAAAA!?" The trio's voice shrilled, before Ursula turned to Zander.
"Zander, get those dinosaurs back in their cards and grab the queen, now!"
"Coming up, go Spectral Destroy!" He yelled, allowing Brontikens' attack to immediately begin charging up.
"Here we go, Paris!" Zoe called out, before summoning a brand new move card that Spectre gave to her earlier that day. "Let's go! Two Platoon Crush!"
Paris glowed green as Charles was summoned first from the ground up in front of Brontikens, which caught him by surprise, however, he then heard something massive from behind him and turned to see Gertie who had stomped up behind him from the ocean. "What's this?" he said to himself in mild shock.
"This is for turning me into a crisp in Australia!" she told the smaller Sauropod. She and Charles reared up high onto their back legs, and slammed their front legs back into the ground, causing Brontikens to fly high into the air. As he fell to the ground, the Supersaurus and Seismosaurus slammed their long necks against the Apatosaurus together like a giant crushing machine, before releasing him and letting him fall to the ground.
"Nice move," he told the mated pair, before rising back to his feet, albeit very weakly. "But I'm not finished just yet."
"How can you survive such an attack?" Anna asked in complete shock while holding a still unconscious Elliot's' head in her arms with Rapunzel wrapping her now loose hair around him.
"Hehehe, he's much more powerful than you think, Highness, now if you'll excuse us I believe we will be taking your sister now." Ursula declared before laughing and grabbing her Alpha Scanner and Armatus's card.
"ALPHA SLASH! CLOBBER 'EM STEGOSAURUS!"
"Howdy, ladies!" Armatus greeted whilst Ed followed suit with a new card.
"ALPHA SLASH! COME ON OUT MAPUSAURUS!"
Screamer the Mapusaurus landed in between Brontikens and Armatus and made a deadly roar. "Surprise motherfucker!"
"Wait a moment, aren't you meant to be on our side and a girl?!" Anna said, not noticing the evil aura the clone gave off.
"Eh, you're probably talking about my D.N.A donor, essentially, but I'm no female thank you very much!" he snapped, as the battle re-began.
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Back in the Southern Isles, the Edmontosaurus wasn't exactly faring well against Ace and Tank's teamwork despite his larger size. "Okay guys, hopefully, this doesn't end like last time."
"Oh, I'm not finished yet, boy!" Gothel called to him, as she brought up another card and placed it at the side of her neck. "Not when I have reinforcements, so to speak." The card zigzagged around the heroes and landed by the Edmontosaurus, forming into a large Tyrannosaur in yellow with red tattoo-like markings on its back. This is the form of Tarbosaurus.
"A Tarbosaurus! We're gonna have to work together on this one, guys!" Rex called out to his dinos before Gothel pulled out two move cards.
"Let us see how you like Diving Press!" The Edmontosaurus kicked up some dust into Ace's face while glowing green, causing him to roar in pain, and then leapt high into the air and dive-bombed the Carnotaurus into the ground. "And now Crimson Flame!" The Tarbosaurus roared and charged towards Tank in a red glow, knocking her onto the ground with her tail, before pressing her down with her foot, before spewing fire onto the Saichania, making Tank roar in pain.
"Guys!" Rex cried.
"We're okay, Rex." Tank called, as their opponents backed up allowing them to stand.
"But we need to him those two hard, and fast." Ace told him. Rex nodded in agreement before summoning his most powerful move cards
"Ultimate Wind and Earth!" Rex called out. Ace and Tank both roared as their respective elements combined as they started charging, Ace leapt into the air a flew like a missile while Tank ran through giant shards as she matched his speed, until they literally rammed their opponents head-on, causing them to fly back into the castle walls by mistake. "Ooooo... hit the castle, yikes...!" Rex groaned to himself. The bodies of the enemy dinos fell to the ground and disintegrated as they got defeated like before with Hans's Camarasaurus, a sight that racked Ace with shock and sorrow at the sight since this was the first time he has seen it happen.
"Gah no, we were too powerful again!" Rex yelled.
"Rex, what in the name of Seikatsu just happened?!" Ace asked Rex with shock and fear in his voice.
"Well played, Dinosaur King," Gothel called over to them, who turned their attention to the sound of her voice. "Until we meet again. Oh, and tell Rapunzel I said hello, would you?" she told them, before wrapping her cloak around herself and mysteriously vanishing without a trace.
"Hey, get back here!" Ace snarled.
"She's already gone Ace, come on, we gotta get back to Arendelle right away," Rex told them.
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The battle for the royal sister's freedom was far from done, and by now Elsa had even joined the fray with her powers whilst Anna and Rapunzel dragged Elliot and Sugi to cover. Screamer was snapping jaws with Spiny, Paris was in a headlock with Armatus, Charles was getting his neck bitten at by Gigas on his back, Gertie was trying to stomp and tail swipe The Professor and Elsa had summoned a giant Snow Golem to battle Brontikens. The entire battle had reached a stalemate, even with the giant Sauropods and the Snow Queen herself on the hero's side.
"Why won't they go down? I don't get it!" Zoe said to herself.
"This battle is taking much longer than I would prefer," Ursula said, before turning to Ed. "Ed, summon someone to take the Professor's place so he can capture the queen." Ed was about to do so before two very distinctive roars caught everyone's attention.
"Oh shit, I know those roars!" Armatus said, before getting bashed away from Paris by Chomp with an electric charge, causing him to turn back into a card as he crashed into the cliff wall.
"That's what you get for messing with my girl!" Chomp yelled.
"My knight in shining armour, how heroic." Paris joked as the two of them nuzzled and giggled.
"Well, I try!" he joked back, causing them to laugh even more.
"Hey! No love on the battlefield!" Screamer roared, running in and bashing the Triceratops away from his mate, only to get immediately answered by Terry biting into his neck.
"It's very rude to interrupt a moment between lovers, you know!" He told the clone Mapusaurus, before throwing him into The Professor, which caused them to crash land right underneath Gertie's front feet.
"OH SHIT!" they yelled, before the Seismosaurus crushed them back into their cards.
Meanwhile, Charles had had enough of Gigas's attack, so he reared up again, which forced the albino Rex to let go and land on to keep his footing, and turned his frustrated gaze onto him. "Uh, nice Sauropod...!" Gigas said nervously while backing up, which was answered by Zoe grabbing another move card.
"Super Impact!" she yelled.
Paris glowed green and ran towards Charles, who lowered his neck for her so she can jump on. "Hit 'em, hard babe!" Chomp called out to her.
"I will, Chompy!" she cried back in excitement.
"Go get 'em!" Charles told her, before whipping his neck forward and releasing the now spinning and flying Hadrosaur. She first hit Gigas into the sea, carding him to card on impact, and then span around while attacking Brontikens who had just tail swiped Elsa's Snow Golem to the ground, causing the already weakened Apatosaurus to roar in pain, before she leapt off, panting from her raging adrenaline as she landed back by her mate's side.
"Wow, that felt really good!" she half-panted half-laughed, before noticing everyone else giving her a look. "Does that sound wrong?"
"Ultimate Fire!" Max called out, Terry roared as he erupted into his fire and charge, and causing a direct hit on his side, which made Brontikens slide back, before stopping and collapsing to the ground.
The Snow Golem stomped up to him and lifted his head with one of his giant ice clawed hands to meet his eyes. "Don't come BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" he roared in his face, spraying snow all over his muzzle, whilst Brontikens wasn't intimidated.
"He's had enough friend, put him down," Terry said to him, while receiving a grunt in reply, before dropping the head to the ground, before Brontikens got carded.
"That's him down!" Max and Zoe high fived, before turning to see Elsa marching up to the now quivering Alpha Gang, 'cos seriously if looks could kill, Elsa would've turned them into ice statues without needing her powers, never mind the fact that Chomp and Terry were just by her side.
"Her Majesty has a real big bone to pick with you, so my advice - start writing your prayers." Terry advised them.
"Um, look m-maybe we can make some kind of deal-" Ursula had her lips sealed shut before she could finish her sentence.
"I'm not so sure we will be making any deals here. Coming back after escaping your prison cell is one thing, but to attack me and the ones I love...that, is a capital offence," she snarled dangerously low, making the three sweat bullets as she turned to her creation. "I want these three out of my sight, and out of my kingdom," she emphasised, to which the giant nodded, grabbed the three and their cards and threw them far out to sea.
"Bye-bye, old lady!" Max and Rapunzel said together.
"Who do you brats think you're calling old?!" Ursula yelled.
"I think it's you..." Zander and Ed commented.
Elsa had a satisfactory smirk on her face as she looked out to sea and retrieved her overjacket, boots and belt until she noticed a timid-looking Anna walking up to her. "Elsa..." Anna started off. "What happened in that...I know it's not up to me, but-"
"Anna." The redhead looked up at the sound of her sister's soft voice, when she saw a now upset Elsa, with opened outstretched arms. That was the only signal she needed to rush in and wrap her arms around the queen tightly, who returned the embrace with equal vigour, where at which point both girls had tears of relief, forgiveness and guilt coming from their eyes.
"I'm so sorry, Elsa!" Anna cried. "I was angry, and what I did was stupid!"
"Shhh..." Elsa replied, kissing her sister on the cheek and whispering in her ear. "I've said things I never should've said as well, Anna. I regret all of it!" she ended with a whimper, causing their embrace to grow tighter after Anna gave a sob and the older hiccuping intake.
Everyone smiled at the scene, with Spiny not to burst in tears before all the dinosaurs got recalled and Rapunzel joined in the hug of her cousins before an "Ahem!" caught their attention. "Excuse me, Your Majesty," Mr Gobbs started, causing the hug to break so the queen and princesses could look at him. "I do not mean to interrupt the moment, but I think you'll be happy to know I've got Lord Takkar's weapons arranged by craftiness, just like you wanted them," he told her with a smile on his face.
"And who said I wanted them that way?" The queen snapped, causing everyone to look at her in surprise. "Doesn't anyone in this world listen to me?!" she yelled and was about to march up to the frightened man before Rex suddenly appeared in front of her.
"H-hold on Queen Elsa, maybe think on this for a moment..."
"Yeah and besides, Max and I just came up with a very cool idea." Anna added bubbly.
"If it involves me turning that old man into an ice statue, let's hear it." Elsa snipped, causing the old blacksmith to hold a large round rock as a shield.
"I uh, I think I hear me lads calling," he said, before dashing off.
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The rest of the afternoon was filled with laughter, as it turned out, since Anna's and Max's idea was actually a spring snowball fight with Pawpaw, Shep, Elsa, Olaf and all the children of Arendelle on one side, and the D-Team's main dinosaurs, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, Mia and Iguano on the other, while everyone else, including the Space Pirates, watched from the sidelines. At which point Rex and his team had returned from the Isles and Elliot and Sugi had regained full consciousness in time for the 5-hour long game, and despite the giggling-like-a-maniac children's vast numbers and the queen on their team, the eight adult dinos proved to be very worthy adversaries. However, one girl among the fun commotion caught Terry's attention more than anyone else.
Rosy.
She was a giggling mess every time she caught Terry with a snowball to his face, and every time it would bring a smile to his heart while he batted large snow lumps at groups of the children, while Chomp threw snow lumps at the children with his head, and the rest of the dinos used their tails to combat the little ones. All that the Rex cared about at that moment of happiness was that maybe, just maybe, he had regained the girl's friendship. It only ended once the royals and Elliot had noticed the sun going down and announced the end of the game, which at that moment Rosy had confirmed Terry's suspicions by walking up to him and laying a kiss at the tip of his nose, and walked off with the rest of the orphaned children with a smile on her face.
What he didn't know nor cared about, was that Elliot was telling Elsa and Anna about five unique individuals he saw on his morning hunt.
Now, Terry was walking through the Space Pirate's ship to see Ally, with Chomp and Paris by his side. He wanted to spend some time with his mate before the day was done. What he didn't expect to see was Minx the Gallimimus running up to him. "Terry, you're on your way to see Ally, right?" She asked rapidly.
"Yeah, why what's wrong?" he asked in concern.
"This way, quick!" She told him, leading the trio down another hallway, towards a large room, though not as large as the main hall...and what Terry saw nearly made their heart stop.
There he saw Ally laying on a large mattress in the shape of a nest, with three eggs by her side. She heard footsteps approaching and looked to see a wide-eyed Terry looking down at her and the eggs. "How...when did...?" he started.
"Just five minutes ago, babe..." Ally told him shakily with love in her voice. "We're going to be parents, Terry...you and me." She whimpered, Terry couldn't hold in his tears of joy of being a father again and nuzzled his mate like there was no tomorrow.
"I'm going to be a father again..." he whispered tearfully, which Ally heard him say. She was curious as to why he would say "again", but that could come later. "I love you, Ally..."
"I love you too, Terry..." she whispered back.
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As per usual with the Alpha Gang, the mood was not so magical and joyful.
"I did my job, they did not do theirs, simple as that!" Gothel snapped irritatingly, with the Alpha trio looking down in shame.
"No matter, Gothel. Project I is almost ready for its card infusion, so it's up to you to make sure it goes accordingly so we may move on to our next task, go and assist Dr. Z in the lab," the cloaked figure told her.
"Of course, my liege, good day." Gothel replied before exiting the room.
"As for you three fools," he told the trio, who looked up in fear at the sound of his voice. "While you did fail, your punishment will be merely...embarrassing for you." He chuckled in the end.
"And that is?" The trio asked together.
"You, are on kitchen duty with the android tonight," he told them.
"WHAAAT!?" they exclaimed.
"Unless you want what I previously gave Hans after his failure..." he growled, as purple static and fire swirled around his hand, scaring the trio off. "Idiots..." he groaned before turning to his right. "Mr Sykes." He summoned the western bandit figure.
"Yes, boss." he replied.
"Contact the slit-throat's gang and the Wyuumii tribe in the Highfells, let them know that the Duke of Westelton and I will be paying them a visit soon." The cowboy nodded at his employer's command and left for the computer room in his cabin above ground. With him gone, the cloaked figure removed his hood and looked into the large monitor screen showing the map of Norway. "Both of your days of reckoning are soon, Ancient and Queen Elsa. Once Project I is complete and the following operations are ready for deployment, nowhere in the timeline will be safe...for anyone."
Anna: "I wish you two would tell me what you have in mind..."
Chomp: "Sorry, Highness, big secret."
Duke: "Stop that monster!"
Rod and Laura: "DINO SLASH!"
Good god, that was a lot of writing and brainstorming!
Project I Chapter 4, as ordered. :)
Damn, the Alpha Gang's gotta get its act together, wouldn't you fine readers say?
Anyway, the creatures of Project I will be making another appearance in three or four chapter's time. I'm sure you all know what they are, but please, no spoilers.
Also, I've had a change of heart about the identity of the cloaked figure, my original idea on who it was meant to be will show up at some point, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
As for how Zoe was able to use Two Platoon Crush, well, I thought, since the D-Team has Charles and Gertie, surely they would be able to use it somehow, right? I don't know, I just thought it'd make sense.
Anywho, let me know what you think and until next time...
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