06-22-2018, 07:04 PM
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Charlie's assumption proved correct, as the teal colored raptor lagged behind. Delta's exploration of the territories previously contained knowledge of only the Ascendant's land, more or less, as that was the last place she'd seen Blue. But when her search failed, she found herself wandering with her other sisters - after all, three utahraptors needed to hunt more and bigger prey to feed all their stomachs. It took a massive amount of territory to sate their appetites, especially with how tiny the warmblooded creatures seemed in comparison to dinosaurs.
Huffing in the smells, trying to pinpoint anything of interest whether prey or threat, she hissed slightly as the ground beneath her gave way to crumbly particles. Sinking into the beach's sand, Delta hissed angrily, quickening her pace - which only kicked up more of the stuff, her increased speed doing nothing to stop her feet from sinking into the ground. Finding this terrain unpleasant, she shuffled ungracefully to the water's edge and felt the ocean waves cross over her legs time and time again. Still, sinking into the now wet sand seemed almost worse, creating an annoying sensation on her scales and between her toes. Just about done with the beach, she huffed and started turning back to the tree line.
But she stopped, dead in her tracks as she heard Charlie's startled cry. Swiveling her head to face where her younger sister was - further up the beach, she could even spot the striped utahraptor against the monotonously uniform sand - Delta quickly accelerated into a fast run. Instinctively answering Charlie's broadcast call with her own, the utahraptor already decided on attacking the large crocodile. Those she could understand better, perhaps because her species encountered ancient crocodiles millions of years ago, and the crocodiles remained mostly unchanged after all this time.
Jumping up, she quashed the large crocodile beneath her clawed feet, her sickle claw lowering as she swept the foot in a slashing motion in an effort to pierce the reptile's tough backside. "Jump neck!" Delta babbled to Charlie, gambling that one of them would be successful at dealing a crippling blow to the damned thing.
Huffing in the smells, trying to pinpoint anything of interest whether prey or threat, she hissed slightly as the ground beneath her gave way to crumbly particles. Sinking into the beach's sand, Delta hissed angrily, quickening her pace - which only kicked up more of the stuff, her increased speed doing nothing to stop her feet from sinking into the ground. Finding this terrain unpleasant, she shuffled ungracefully to the water's edge and felt the ocean waves cross over her legs time and time again. Still, sinking into the now wet sand seemed almost worse, creating an annoying sensation on her scales and between her toes. Just about done with the beach, she huffed and started turning back to the tree line.
But she stopped, dead in her tracks as she heard Charlie's startled cry. Swiveling her head to face where her younger sister was - further up the beach, she could even spot the striped utahraptor against the monotonously uniform sand - Delta quickly accelerated into a fast run. Instinctively answering Charlie's broadcast call with her own, the utahraptor already decided on attacking the large crocodile. Those she could understand better, perhaps because her species encountered ancient crocodiles millions of years ago, and the crocodiles remained mostly unchanged after all this time.
Jumping up, she quashed the large crocodile beneath her clawed feet, her sickle claw lowering as she swept the foot in a slashing motion in an effort to pierce the reptile's tough backside. "Jump neck!" Delta babbled to Charlie, gambling that one of them would be successful at dealing a crippling blow to the damned thing.