The Story of Cleo, Episode 14: Backstory, and Cleo's Revenge

Luke woke up earlier than the rest if his family. It is still fairly dark, but he makes his way over to the carcass of the Stomatosuchus. After stuffing himself, he looks at his sleeping family. Then he starts walking away. When Cleo wakes up, she finds that, once again, Luke is gone. She growls to herself, and that wakes up Reyna. Reyna groggily gets up and finds her brother is not here. She calls for him, but he is too far away to hear. Theo is now awake, and despite the fact that Luke tried to kill him, he calls out for him too. Roman, Terry, and Kate wake up and start calling for him too. Cleo knows it is useless. Luke would have stayed with the family if he wanted to, and it is apparent he doesn't plan to return. Luke couldn't have picked a worse time to leave the family. Summer just arrived, and it is hotter than it has been in centuries. The watering holes dry up. Rivers that survive summer every year evaporate, and plants are very quickly. Herbivores are scare, and female Deltadromeus have become very rare for Luke. Luke is very hungry and hasn't eaten for a week. He just has a drink of water when he sees, and smells something. He sees a dead Sarcosuchus on the banks of the river he was drinking from. He also smell something very faint, very old, but still unmistakable. It is the smell of his father. He looks over to the Sarcosuchus, and his brain tells him that it is the one that killed his father. Luke wishes the Sarcosuchus was alive so he could kill it personally, but he takes the meal as a change in his luck. He goes over, and starts scraping the scales off. After exposing a little area of flesh, the smell of food washes over Luke. It is a great smell, and he is very happy. Luke just stands there for a little bit, taking in the great smell. After doing a bit more smelling, Luke takes a bite out of the carcass, then another, them another. Soon he is full, and is about to go to sleep when he feels tremors in the ground. Luke looks up to find a Carcharadontosaurus walking into the clearing where Luke is. Luke gets up and roars at the Carcharadontosaurus. The Carcharadontosaurus is surprised to see the little Delta roaring at him, acting like it is brave. In truth, Luke is terrified, and is about to turn and run. As he goes to do that, the Carcharadontosaurus runs for Luke. The Deltadromeus indulged himself in to much food, and is too tired to run very fast. As Luke is running, he is suprised to see how slow he is, and thinks that if his mother were here, she would be scolding him for eating so much. He wasn't regretting it to much until he felt the jaws of the Carcharadontosaurus start to close around his back. A sudden adrenaline rush sends his legs into running mode, and he shoots off. He isn't going fast enough. The Carcharadontosaurus swings his arm and hits Luke, sending him flying. Luke lands hard, but he gets up. Unfortunately for him, the Carcharadontosaurus swats Luke with the side of his head. Luke is in great pain, but as the Carcharadontosaurus nears him, his body goes into autopilot. The Carcharadontosaurus is about to bite him, when Luke jumps over the head of the large Allosaur and lands on the other side of it. Before the Carcharadontosaurus has time to react, Luke turns around and bites the neck of the Carcharadontosaurus. He holds on and starts to claw at it, making long gashes in the skin. The Carcharadontosaurus lifters his head up and starts shaking it around with Luke still on it. The Carcharadontosaurus finally manages to throw Luke off, and when the Deltadromeus lands, he blacked out. The Carcharadontosaurus is about to kill Luke with a bite to the head when he hears something. The Carcharadontosaurus turns around to see Cleo, standing in all her glory. Recognition dawns on both of the two predators face. They met after Cleo's parents died, and Cleo had woken up in the jaws of the large Allosaur. Hatred passes through the face if the Carcharadontosaurus, and Cleo feels the same. Cleo and the Carcharadontosaurus charge each other. The two dinosaurs collide and it becomes a pushing match. The Carcharadontosaurus at first gets the upper hand and pushes Cleo back a good distance, but Cleo is a lot stronger than she looks, and she pushes back as hard as she can.