Live Or Die

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Live Or Die

Chapter 10: Bob’s plotting

Bob was perched on a rock on the riverbank, his eyes squinted, his focus on Ares. Miranda was fastening more stone tiles to his saddle for him to ferry up to the roof where me and Harvey were working. Ruby’s workplace had been completed, and she was working on something inside. On the right side of the house we had installed the stone patio for Harvey’s workshop, but the interior was empty. Ruby’s workplace was half the size, and if you walked through it you would find a leisure room we made. Whilst Ruby was working away, and me and Harvey were tiling the roof, Dasha was calving tiles out of stone she had mined and handing them to Miranda, who ferried them up to us. Jude was stood outside next to Bob. Bob was watching Ares with intense hatred. Jude was supposed to be watching the sleeping raptors, but he was puzzling over the house instead.

“It is an odd house.” he began to say aloud. Bob squarked in acknowledgement. “It has a funny design with stones on the roof instead of the floor. It is not thatched. It has a funny chimney. We all sleep together even if we are not in the same family.” Bob stood up and stomped, but it just sounded like a little tap. He breathed in, and let out a heavy sigh. “I agree my feathered companion. I too feel distressed by this.” Jude got up and walked over to the front door of the house and pushed it open. Harvey yelled down from above, saying:

“Hey, I’ll put a lock or three on it. Should probably add a handle, too.” Jude looked up at him and walked in. He took a seat round the central table with the fire in the centre, balled his hands together and sighed, deep in thought. Bob used all of his effort pushing the door open, but he collected himself and walked through like a cowboy would in a wild west movie. He plonked himself in his dodo bed and stayed awake, menace and malicious ideas in his eyes.

After we had tiled the roof, Miranda helped Harvey onto Ares’ back and I clasped onto his talons. Ares carried us down, dropped me, then Miranda and Harvey hopped off. We walked inside and sat down. I wiped the sweat from my brow as Dasha walked in with the crude stone pickaxe Harvey had made her. she left it leaning on the wall and sat down round the table with us, but I got up and sat down in Ruby’s little sewing room.

“Hey Ruby” I began, and she broke her concentration and realised I was there. She set her sewing needles down and went over to sit with me. I leaned back and smiled. I enjoyed her company, and I think she enjoyed mine. “So… whatcha making?” I smugly enquired. She smiled and replied

“Oh, a little something.“

“A little something along the lines of?”

“A little something.”

“Ah, I see” I smirked and she giggled. Then Dasha walked in, also asking what Ruby was doing.

“Hey you two.”

“Hey”

“Hi Dasha!”

“What are you making over there Ruby?”

“Oh, don’t worry about it.”

“Yeah I just tried asking her but she wouldn’t say. What over there Ruby?”

“Nothing”

“Come on Ruby. Can’t you me with a little secret?”

“Nope”

“Oh I see how it is.”

“Can you trust me?” Ruby looked at me, leaned forward and told me no. Dasha leaned forward and asked:

“Reeeeaaally?” Ruby shook her head. I sighed and got up, leaving Dasha to interrogate Ruby.

Realising we needed food for both us AND the raptors AND bob, we decided to all head out into the jungle in search of something to eat. Ruby was holding Bob in her arms as she rode Violette, and Miranda was flying low to the ground above us as we trotted through the woods. As we searched about, we began talking about what we’d been through.

“There used to be two more lizards. Perhaps you may have taken one.” Jude said to Miranda.

“Yeah… A r-raptor would be nice.”

“We used to have two dilophosaurs too” Dasha added.

“What happened to them?” Miranda asked, fearful curiosity in her voice.

“This *(Harvey used some language I’m not going to repeat here)* came along and killed them.”

“Oh… they don’t sound very…”

“Sane?”

“Smart”

“Clever”

“Rational”

“Reasonable”

“*(Harvey also used that language here.)* bloody-“

“Yeah… all of those I guess.” Jude seemed distant, distracted. He was at the front, and suddenly told us to stop. We heard a rustling ahead of us. Out from the bushes, on the back of a raptor and with his grunts on trikes behind him, Raphiel emerged, a pike in his hands and startled.

“You… YOU!” He swung his raptor round and called out to his followers. “MEN, ARM UP! READY WEAPONS!” I heard bowstrings pull back and weapons clatter. “Funny that I should run into a band of barbarians like you in a place like this.” He brandished a pike. “I thought I scared you off last time!” Miranda worriedly asked us

“Um… Guys, w-who’s that?” Harvey answered,

“The *(Yeah Harvey used bad language here AGAIN)* who killed our dinos.”

-Next in Megalodon! Also, the first Live Or Die was in Dinopithecus. Story starts there =D

-Nightfall

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