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MemberTyrannosaurus RexJan-13-2014 5:06 AMI didn't know where else to start, and I guess it's nice to know how they went.
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Terrance's Demise
Five years after returning home from the strange place, Terrance was feeling different. He had an idea on what was going on, and he looked at Thorn. She looked at him dead in the eye, and she got the idea when he closed his eyes, lowered his head, and gave a soft growl. She mirrored the action, and Terrance walked away.
After walking a few miles, Terrance arrived where he wanted to go, the site where his parents had died. He lied down, and went to sleep, reliving his life in a dream.
The dream started the day he hatched, small and defenseless. He saw the pile of leaves he hid in when his parents were hunting, the Dromeasaurus pack that ate the eggs that didn't hatch. Fast forward a couple years, and he sees Thorn hatching, and a few months after that, the game they were playing before their parents died. The struggle for him to raise Thorn and keep himself alive was vague in his memory, and then he saw the highest point of his life, the battle with the pair. After that was the fire that destroyed the territory, and the new territory they found. He relived the moment when they were attacked by the siblings, and then he remembered saving Tommy and Sammy's parents. He saw Sylvester, and then the flood where he was lost. After that, he saw the their first meeting with Sammy and Tommy, and after that, the hardest fought year of his adult life, the year they were separated. Then he saw the battle with the siblings, and after that, the battle with the Torvosaurus trio where they reunited with Sylvester. After that, he saw the few years after they returned, and then everything went black.
Terrance breathed his last breath, and if he could have, he would have cracked a smile seconds before his death, knowing Thorn would be alright on her own. Terrance died the same day as his parents, and on the thirty year anniversary of the battle with the pair.
Terrance was destined to do more than just become a skeleton and be mounted in a museum millions of years later. He was destined to come back, because "If the history of evolution has taught us anything it's that life can not he contained. Life breaks free, it spans new territories, it crashes through barriers, painfully, even dangerously. Life finds a way."
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MemberCompsognathusJan-13-2014 6:41 AMTerrance was my favorite character :'(
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DinoSteve93
MemberCompsognathusJan-13-2014 8:27 AMGreat, emotionally short beginning. R.I.P. Terrance.
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MemberAllosaurusJan-13-2014 8:37 AMSad, but great short MrH!
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Gojira2K
MemberCompsognathusJan-13-2014 9:08 AMVery sad, but great.
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Lord Vader
MemberTyrannosaurus RexJan-13-2014 2:53 PMThanks guys. Remember, the 65 million years later part literally means human interactions, I just didn't know how to start, so this is how I decided to.
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MemberCompsognathusJan-13-2014 2:57 PMI know, and it's fine. It's already a great input! ;)
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MemberTyrannosaurus RexJan-13-2014 2:59 PMThanks. I was kind of worried that people wouldn't like the way I started. It's actually in human time in chapter 3, so Thorn's out tomorrow and then back in the third one.
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MemberTyrannosaurus RexJan-13-2014 3:07 PMForgot to say this, but yeah, Resting in Piece Terrance, and Resting in Pieces Terrance's enemies.
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MemberCompsognathusJan-13-2014 3:32 PMGreat job. Very bitter-sweet.
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MemberTyrannosaurus RexJan-13-2014 3:59 PMThanks Rex Fan.
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Alphadino65
MemberTriceratopsJan-13-2014 6:46 PMA terrific, heart-wrenching way to begin your new story Mr Happy. If there was any way for Terrance to pass on, it wasn't by losing in a battle. It was to die having lead a full life and reliving his past in a dream on his own terms.
I'm really excited to read the rest of what you have in store!
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MemberTyrannosaurus RexJan-13-2014 6:52 PMThanks Alphadino. I mention something about him going on his own terms tomorrow.
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Carnosaur
MemberCompsognathusJan-13-2014 7:52 PMgood stuff...can't wait for tomorrow's post
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