Chapter 1: Dawn
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It was the Cretaceous period, and the sun slowly crept over the horizon, as it had since the dawn of time. A pair of Tyrannosaurs were already awake and caring for their baby. Not long after they prodded him awake, the juvenile Tyrannosaur got the idea to leave the nest, though the parental pair were not having any of it; they just kept nuzzling him back in with their snouts. The baby was getting frustrated. After all, what was he to do? He wanted to see the world, too, but his parents wouldn't allow him. It wasn't until later on in the day that the father Tyrannosaur looked at him, then held his head up high into the air, and started to sniff. He picked up the scent and started following it. The juvenile dinosaur, realizing that this was his chance to see a bit of the world, followed suit.
The dino duo arrived in the forest. The trees were massive; however, it was the butterflies that caught the juvenile Tyrannosaur's attention. As the father wasn't paying attention, he did not see his son heading into danger.
As the baby Tyrannosaur, who's named T, was wandering through the forest, his eyes grew wider. Everything from the sights to the sounds was brand new to him. However, T got a little ahead of himself and decided to leap before he looked, which led him into the darker part of the forest, where the canopy was so dense that he could barely see anything. He heard it, though. Giant stomping noises that sounded much like the ones his parents made were approaching him, and fast. T decided that his best chance of survival would be to hide in a bush nearby. He thought it was a good place to hide– until he heard the sniffing. The giant crept closer and closer as the sound became louder, and the vibrations heavier. It became unbearable to the juvenile, so he decided to run.
T took off, hoping that the other Tyrannosaur wasn't able to detect him. But as he ran, the heavy vibrations stopped. Thinking that the coast was clear, T started to slow down. Accepting that his life was safe for another day, he walked back to his father.
When T got back to his father, whose name is Rex, he nuzzled up to his leg. The older dinosaur looked down, realized that it was his son, and scooped the baby up with his mouth to make sure that he was safe on the return journey. There was no luck today, but maybe tomorrow would bring something more bountiful.
Tomorrow arrived, as it always had. T, who was still a little shaken from the threat on his life yesterday, was reluctant to leave the nest. It took a lot of unvoiced encouragement from the parental dinosaurs to get him to change his mind. This time, things were going to be a little different as both parents were going to teach him how to hunt.
The three entered the woods, but things were a little different this time. While the world yesterday seemed big and grand, a world that was begging to be explored. Now was too much for T. No, he decided that the best place to be was with his parents. Moments felt like hours as they waited to catch the scent of something, when suddenly the Tyrannosaur couple started to pick up the pace and headed deeper into the forest. T, who was still tiny compared to the Tyrant King and Queen, managed to keep pace with his parents, though it was difficult.
When he finally caught up to them, he saw it, something that was entirely new to him. It was a dinosaur, like him, but this time it was different. The dinosaur he saw walked on four legs, and unlike him, the new dinosaur had three horns on its face. It stood its ground against T's parents, scraping its manus against the ground, signifying that it was ready to fight, or die trying.
The pair of Tyrannosaurs started to jolt at the terrified Triceratops, but the horned dinosaur wasn't one to back down from a fight, so it retaliated. This caused the Tyrant pair to split apart, hoping that one of them would take their three-horned opponent by surprise with a flank. However, they saw that the Triceratops wasn't aiming for them… It was aiming for T. The juvenile, who was now less afraid after seeing how brave his parents were, decided to charge the beast head-on. This triggered the parental instincts of the Tyrannosaurs, and they moved to intercept the attack. A loud tearing sound could be heard in the forest that afternoon, but only one animal could feel it; it was the father Tyrannosaur, who took the attack for his son. The mother Tyrannosaur saw that the Triceratops' horn was stuck in her partner's stomach. She opened her mouth and chomped down on the neck of the Triceratops, ending its life and providing nourishment for her and T over the next few days. Sensing things were going to turn dark, she looked at Rex, realizing that his wound was too great, and that he probably didn't have much longer to live. Wanting him to stay with her and T, but noticing that the horn couldn't be removed from the abdomen of the Tyrant King, she left it there. He was unable to move, no matter how much he struggled in motion, his body slowly starting to give way. It wasn't long after that when he succumbed to his wound, leaving the mother Tyrannosaur and their baby to fend for themselves. They stood there for a moment in time, almost as if they were mourning.
T and his mother decided to head back to the nest after a very long day. Their stomachs were full, but their hearts were empty. When they got to the nest, they decided to lie down and sleep.
Morning came again, but this time, things were different. It was just T and his mother. His father sacrificed himself for T's safety. The juvenile Tyrannosaur decided that it was time to grow up and head out on his own. He looked over his shoulder and realized that his mother was asleep, so he headed off.
T got to the watering hole that his parents would take him to for a drink. Wondering how it felt, he slowly went up to the blue body in front of him and stuck his foot into it; the water provided a cold but refreshing feeling. This brought a sense of joy to T, who splashed around and flailed his tail in the water, disrupting the nearby fish and other dinosaurs. The day would bring more surprises, though, as above him, the sky started to crack. What appeared to be giant creatures began to pour from the crack like rain from a cloud. T, who was feeling nervous at the sight of this organic rain, started to run back; however, standing behind him was his mother, who had just arrived to see the new creatures arriving from above. They could both sense that things would be different from this point on. They were no longer going to be the apex of their world, as something bigger, stronger, and meaner was coming. The nature of survival was about to change.
Chapter 2: Confrontations
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As the juvenile Tyrannosaurus looked up at the cracked sky, whose organic rain and horrifying sounds painted an image more terrifying than the clashing cacophony of thunder and lightning, it saw that as soon as the extraterrestrial animals hit the ground that they were dangerous. The thudding sound that they made on impact was loud enough to cause everything near the collision zone to go deaf. T’s mother, who was worried for her and her son’s safety, gently tugged on T’s tail, nodding her head back toward the forest, for despite its problems, it was the lesser of two dangers. What T saw before entering the forest was at once both electrifying and horrendous rolled into one. The animals that fell from the sky could do so much more than the animals of his world. They were larger, faster, stronger, and more ruthless than even a Tyrannosaurus. Some had great balls of fire shoot from their mouths to burn a fully grown Patagotitan. Others were like the giant Pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, only much larger. Creatures were hitting the ground that immediately slithered into the sea, and some creatures hit the ground and took off running. One of the creatures, a flying wyvern named Rathalos, gracefully flew down from the sky. It saw T and his mother staring at it and immediately charged toward what it considered to be prey. T’s mother immediately picked T up in her mouth and proceeded to turn around and run into the thick of the forest, for which the Rathalos was too occupied with larger feasts to follow.
T and his mother thought they were safe until a giant rock came and smacked T’s mother in the head. The creature holding the rock was a Kulu-Ya-Ku, a giant bird wyvern creature that was almost the size of a T. Rex. It was still a force to be reckoned with, but T’s mother had no doubts that this beast would provide for a great meal for her and her young. She scratched her feet into the ground to signify that she was ready for the hunt. The Kulu-Ya-Ku was standing there, twitching its head in confusion at the Female Tyrannosaur’s body language. When the mother Rex took off at the bird wyvern, it was taken by surprise as it finally knew what she was trying to do. It leapt up into the air and dropped its meal, an egg that it had scavenged nearby. T, not wanting to miss the moment to see his mother hunt something that she had never seen before, started to follow her and chase the giant bird deeper into the forest.
After what felt like a long time, T and his mother caught up to the Kulu-Ya-Ku. The mother Tyrannosaur had the bird cornered and was about to go in for the kill when the grey animal jumped from the forest floor onto the cliff that nestled above the spot where T and his mother were just about to have the dinner of a lifetime. T and his mother both roared at the meal that could have been. The Kulu-Ya-Ku proceeded to appear like it was laughing at its newfound rivals. Suddenly, as the giant bird was about to leave, a Great Maccao came out of the thicket and charged at the Kulu-Ya-Ku. A turf war broke out… The Kulu-Ya-Ku and Great Maccao started circling each other. The Kulu-Ya-Ku, who was just trying to survive in a world that was brand new to it, versus the Great Maccao, who just did a hunt back in its own world, but was uprooted to this one. Its hunger was vast, and it, too, was around the size of a Tyrannosaurus… Both bird wyverns started charging at the other; their talons drawn for combat. The Great Maccao leaped and tried to claw at the Kulu, who proceeded to swiftly jump out of the way in time.
T’s mother’s stomach was growling intensely. T felt no such hunger, for he was more entranced by the combat that was happening before his eyes. After watching the fight for a few minutes, T’s mother nudged T, signifying for him to follow her. She had found a path up to the cliff that the two bird wyverns were clashing on. And after what felt like a long time, both the Kulu-Ya-Ku and the Great Maccao were starting to show signs of fatigue. They were drooling, and the Kulu in particular was starting to limp. The Great Maccao was on the precipice of victory, finally able to enjoy a hard-fought meal. It did one last jump and dug its claws into the Kulu-Ya-Ku’s side, bringing it down and finally silencing the birdlike creature. Feeling like its victory was earned, it started to chomp down on its defeated opponent, but its victory wouldn’t last long as T’s mother jolted out from between the trees and grabbed the Great Maccao by the neck, picking it up slightly off the ground and into the air, thrashing it around, violently, until it went limp. T, who initially thought that these new creatures that fell from the sky were invulnerable, was starting to realize that they were just a new introduction to the food chain, thanks to his mother. He had to be careful, though, as while this battle was relatively easy for his mother, other fights would not be so easy. Especially if it were against one of the giant creatures that he saw rain down earlier that morning.
As T and his mother started to gnaw at their food, T’s tail began to twitch. He and his mother looked up into the clearing and saw… nothing. Instead, they felt the vibrations of something much larger and far more monstrous than anything they had yet seen. The trees nearby started to emit loud cracking noises, and if they looked deep into the thicket, they could see that the forest was bending. T’s mother, who was feeling the fear for her and her child’s lives, picked T up in her mouth and carried him to safety in the bushes and trees on the other side of those that were giving way, and as the creature started to get closer to the duo, T’s mother crouched down in the thicket. Her eyes looked up at what she thought was something that was both magnificent and terrifying rolled into one. It was big, much bigger than a T. rex; in fact, it was also the colour of the leaves of the trees in the forest. Her tail was lowered so as not to give her and her son’s position away. The beast was starting to munch on the meal that she had tried so hard to obtain for her and T, when suddenly it lifted its head, slowly from the carcass, and sniffed the air. If there’s one thing that a Deviljho likes more than food, it is fresh food. The female Tyrannosaurus was just about to turn and run, knowing that she would be unable to bring down this behemoth, but she was paralyzed with fear. Luckily for her, the brute wyvern was starting to follow the scent, which was one that it was accustomed to, not the Tyrannosaur family.
T’s mother opened her mouth, letting her baby step off of her lower jaw gently so as not to be noticed by the giant beast. T, who was still in awe of the creatures but fearful of their powers, leaped down from his mother’s bottom jaw. He and his mother started to head back to the nest. Hopefully, nothing would pose a challenge when they got there. After they got to the nest, T’s mother decided to survey the area one last time before they slept. As they slept, they were hidden from the beasts that would hunt them. Hidden from the world that was once theirs, but has been taken over by creatures of otherworldly might. The forest was vastly different tonight; the sounds that these skyfallen animals made were chilling. T’s mother looked at her baby, wrapped her tail around him, and held him closely. The forest, which used to feel like home, was starting to feel far more alien.
Nilava_Sinistar on Chapter 2 Thu 28 Aug 2025 04:24PM UTC
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