Chapter 1:2
Lucky First-Timers
Soundtrack: Fireflies Instrumental
Deciding that you want to join your fellow small ones in hunting the small, crunchy prey, you move forwards to join them. Before you can get more than two steps, Mother gently picked you up in her jaws as you automatically lay limp. You can see her sharp-('fangs,' the unknown sound barks)-fangs, as she lifts you up and slowly, gently places you back in the middle of her nest. She holds you down for a moment with her arms, before cleaning of the fluids you hadn't noticed covering you. You whine-hiss in complaint as she tenderly laps the red liquids-('blood,' the invisible thing caws)-off your scales, removing the scents of the All-You-Have-Ever-Known and replacing it with the scent of the fluids-('saliva,' the unseeable being purrs)-saliva in her jaws.
After her-('tongue,' something trills)-tongue has masked the scents of blood and new life, Mother purrs softly, 'Go, learn/play/hunt with your siblings,' her voice compels you as she nudges you towards your fellow small ones. As you internally wonder what she meant by siblings, you pad over to a big,
yellow/brown, small prey. It notices you, and starts to expand large, transparent thingies-('wings,' the inside voice huffs)-wings and begins to flap them. You hold it down with one of your forelimbs and attempt to bite into the small prey's head. The hard casing of the small prey protects it from the sharp fangs of your jaws though. You try to bite into other bits of the small prey, but nothing gives way. Disappointed by the lack of crunchy meat, you decide to toss it around for a bit instead.
After a time, having growing bored of the hard, yellow/brown, small prey, you let it go and move on to other, easier prey. Taking in the available small prey, you observe a pitch
black small prey with its transparent wings already out. You take in the lack of hard casing, and decide to stalk in closer to have better chances of catching this, likely, faster prey. Sneaking through the grass, you get within a nest's distance of the black small prey before one of your siblings scares your small prey. Fortunately, your sibling scared your small prey in your direction. Taking a chance, you leap for the small prey. You manage to grip one of its wings in your mouth and shake to rip it off. The black, smal prey, now flightless, tries to scurry away. You pin it down with a leg and kill it with a claw strike to the head. You rip into the black, small prey meat with vigour and enjoy the juicy meat it provides. You only leave the transparent wings behind when your down.
Feeling almost full, you suddenly take notice of a brilliant, large,
blue small prey fluttering its way across the field. You charge outright at it as it flutters your way. You jump and inpale the big, blue small prey as soon as your within pouncing range. You manage to land on top of the prey, pinning it. You decide to finish off this prey by lowering your head and killing it with a final bite. You enjoy what flesh is to be had, however little there maybe in the case of this small prey, and finish the meal off with the blue wings of the creature. Licking your lips and looking around, you notice that your one of your fellow small ones, 'siblings Mother called them,' you think to yourself as the connection is finally made, is resting in the nest by Mother. You look around and notice that the other sibling is still hunting the small prey, now stalking it carefully from the taller grass rather than charging it head on like they did before.
You look between the two, trying to decide whether you try to convince the hunting sibling to join you in taking down a furry prey or join the resting sibling in snuggling with Mother in the nest. You decide to test one of the furry prey, to figure out how dangerous it is. You screech a battle-cry, and charge the furry prey head on to scare it into action. The furry prey, now that you are closer to it, has large ears and has been cautiously observing you since you and your siblings started to hunt in the tall grass clearing around the nest. It rises form its four-leg feeding stance to a two-leg stance that makes it a little taller than you and hisses a warning with sharp teeth bared. Coming to an immediate stop, you turn tail and race back to the nest convinced that the furry prey is too much to take on for now.
As you make it make within a Mother's length of the nest, you slow your pace and steady your breathing rate. You slowly, calmly, stride back into the nest and join your sibling in resting and snuggling alongside Mother. You look over to your older sibling, from your position in front of Mother, to see that that have taken Mother's back as their's. Looking for another place where you could rest beside, or on top of, Mother. Finally deciding to lay beside Mother, you dig into the soft dirt with your leg claws-('feet,' your inner voice huffs)-feet a couple times, then nestle into the resting place you made by her. You lean into Mother's warmth and close your-('eyes,' the inside sound purrs)-eyes before unawareness grabs you.
You awake to the sound of Mother cawing harshly to something. You immediately awake and take in the various signs of incoming Others, all of them about the same size as Mother. The Others carry scents similar to Mother, but different enough to cause concern and caution to arise from the murky depths of your inners. You look around, seeing nothing but your siblings, and sense the Others surrounding the clearing. Panicked by the sudden presence of intruders, you choose to...
Choose One.
[X] Posture threateningly, and hiss.
[X] Kaw for your siblings and rally them.
[X] Hide behind Mother.
[X] Run for the tall grass and hide there.
[X] Run for the mounds behind Mother and hide in one of them.
[X] Write-In Option (Under 50 Words Please)
QM Note: Okay, finally managed to figure out how to get this out. Sorry it took so long guys. Quick question, do you guys have any preferences for what the males of the Dull-Back pack look like? Do you want them to look like small versions of the females, or something a little fancier. If you want somethig fancier, please suggest but remember nothing to fancy. Something akin to Blue's design from JW would fit the bill for a male Dull-Back. I could give suggestions if people decide that the male Dull-Backs should have brighter colours than the females. Sorry if this rubs anyone the wrong way, I'm just used to visual sexual dimorphism in bird species and figured it was probably used by dinosaurs too. That and male Dull-Back raptors weren't shown in the film if you don't count the brown/black striped raptors of Lost World: Jurassic Park as males for the females in the first movie.
Anyways, while this chapter was a bit of a pain to get out (mainly cause I had to figure out how to work the rolls in) it was definitely worth it. I like it and I hope that you guys like it too. As always, if you guys notice spelling/grammar errors point them out to me. Editing is always appreciated.
Edit: Oh, and voting ends Saturday, June 20th 2015, at 12:00 noon (EST). 
