The Story of Cleo, Episode 7: The Next Generation

Cleo is very hungry after she ran away from the Carcharadontosaurus, and is looking for a good river to fish from. She keeps walking, but her legs are still healing, and every step hurts. She is wandering large rock when her legs give out from under her. Cleo falls, but she is not hurt. She looks around and sees a rock that she can hoist herself up with. Cleo puts both arms on it and tries to push herself up. No luck, she is just too heavy. She tries again, but this time pushes her legs into the ground. This combined with the stability of a rock is enough to get her up onto her feet. She stands all the way up, and starts looking once again for any kind of food. A couple hours later, she wander upon a dead sub-adult Paralititan. Knowing whatever killed it couldn't be far, she starts eating very quickly. She then notices that there are very little injuries in the sauropod. She is curious about this and looks over the its head. There are a few holes in the neck, but that is it. She feels the ground vibrate as something big comes near. Cleo turns around to see a Horror Mouth staring down at her. There is blood on its longest teeth, most likely the teeth that punctured the sauropod's jugular and let it bleed to death. Cleo had already had a good share of food, and the Spinosaur is much bigger than her, so she just runs away at top speed and avoids any fights. The food revitalized her, and after slowing down, she returns to wandering for a constant food source. A couple years later, it is mating season and Cleo is finally old enough to mate. She only has a few months to find a mate, so to make it easier to find her, she gives off loud mating call, and her skin has temporarily changed to a bright red yellow and green color. She keeps giving off loud mating cries, but no one is responding. It is the last week, and she needs to find a mate soon. Finally, she hears a response, and she gives another cry as she runs to where she herd the response. Another cry comes, and it is closer now. They are homing in on each other. Cleo and the other Deltadromeus, named Draco. They go over a mating dance to ensure there bondage. A couple weeks later, a batch of eggs are laid. Which only two eggs will survive. It is almost time for the eggs to hatch, and Draco is out hunting. Cleo is watching the eggs expectantly, but when her mate doesn't come back for some time, she goes off to look for him. Only minutes after she leaves, a lizard comes to eat her eggs. At that same time, two of the eggs hatch, and out from the eggs emerge a boy and a girl Deltadromeus. The boy is named Luke, and his sister Reyna. After emerging from their eggs, they look around, and see a lizard eating their un-hatched siblings. They instantly huddle together, even though they haven't seen a lizard before, but instinct tells them it is an enemy. The lizard sees them, and decides to attack, being twice their length. It charges Luke, but he has lighting fast reflexes and jumps out of the way. The lizard turns around in time to see Reyna run at it and hit its face with her short yet sharp toe claws. Neither Luke or Reyna know what they are doing. Their body is on autopilot, and it is telling them to attack the lizard. Luke now runs at it, and also hits it with the only claws he has, his toe claws. The lizard is confused and bleeding. It decides the fight isn't worth it and just runs away. Unfortunately for it, the Deltadromeus's autopilot downs want it to get away. Cleo and Draco come back from their hunt. Carrying a huge Stomatosuchus that just one Deltadromeus can't move alone. They stand where they are when they see what's going on. Luke and Reyna are chasing the lizard around, and every time they catch up to it, they claw at it, making it bleed even more. Finally it stops because of exhaustion and is quickly overrun by the two baby Deltadromeus. Luke and Reyna look over to their parents without fear, even though they don't know who they are until Cleo goes over to her children and puts down scraps of food for them. After eating, Luke and Reyna go and play fight. Already becoming like their mother.