The Obelisk

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The Obelisk

-Chapter 24-

Forest burst from the trees.

“Forest!” Spark yelped.

“Where Ripper?” Rust asked.

“What’s wrong?” Crimson yelled.

Forest bent over, panting hard. “It’s a trap!”

“What?” Spark, Crimson and Rust cried.

“We have to get out of here,” He yelled. “I don’t know who’s side she’s on, but it’s not our side. She doesn’t really know Peeri at all.”

“I knew it,” Spark snarled softly.

“What are we gonna do?” Rust yelled.

“I say we take her on!” Crimson yelled.

“She’ll kick your butt in a heartbeat and you know it,” Spark said to Crimson. “We have to run.”

“And quick,” Forest added. “She was right behind me. She could come any seco—”

Ripper burst from the forest, bashing the top of her head into Forest, flinging him acrossed the landscape.

“FOREST!” Spark screamed

Forest slammed straight into a rock, pain reverberating through every bone and muscle. He collapsed to the ground beneath him, unable to move.

“Gues I’m gonna have to go with plan B,” he heard Ripper hiss. “Kill one of you.” Forest opened his eyes and saw her turn to him with a malevolent smirk.

Before she could do anything more, Crimson leaped forward with a roar of fury. She landed on Rippers neck and sunk her claws into the Velanosaurs scales and bit hard.

Ripper let out a bellow that shook the earth and rung in Forests brain. She reached up with one talon and yanked Crimson off of with brute force.

Crimson jumped back up, hissing, as Spark ran forward and bit into Rippers leg. Rust jumped next, digging his back claws into her heaving side.

Ripper shook herself vigorously, roaring. She wacked Spark aside with her tail, flung Rust off with one jump, and ran forward to clap her talon over Forests head.

“Hope you had a nice life,” she hissed. She opened her mouth, exposing her sharp teeth.

This is it.

“No!” The others screamed.

This is where I die.

And Forest couldn’t even fight back, because of the pain he was in. He just stared up as Ripper lifted her neck high, preparing to finish him with one bite.

And then something whammed into Ripper, and a hard rock or tail whacked Forest in the side of the head, making him dizzy.

Ripper roared and fair it her attacker, who was bigger than her. They grappled at each other’s claws and tails, and the last… thing… Forest saw… was the opposing carnivore throw Ripper down the nearest hill…. before Forest closed his eyes and everything went…. Dark.

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