CS (Classic Series) #3- Velociraptor vs Protoceratops

VELOCIRAPTOR VS. PROTOCERATOPS

A Protoceratops wanders an oasis in the Gobi Desert during a storm. She is looking for a mate, and has stayed at the watering hole for many days, waiting for a male to appear. Thus her name is Upendo or lover. She bellows a mating call once again. What she doesn’t notice is a small, light weight foot land on the brink of the forest, sickle claw gleaming.

The Velociraptor too is looking for a mate. But it is a mating ritual for the male to hunt a powerful adversary, even if he’s not hungry. Once, he even tried to wound a Tarbosaurus, in order to impress a female. Now, he sees a female appear and she is interested. Now all he has to do is kill a prey animal and give it to her as a final act of kindness. That is why his name is Tamba or strutter. He stares at the protoceratops, ready for a fight.

Tamba shrieks as he sprints towards Upendo. She runs immediately trying to outrun her attacker. He easily catches up and slashes the Protoceratops. She shrugs it off and spins around, trying to outmaneuver the raptor. He flips around and follows easily. He slams into her and the ceratopsian rolls across the hot sand, into the water. He sprints forward to end it, but she turns and headbutts him. Teeth flies out of his mouth and blood pours out of his gums. The Velociraptor shrieks and jumps on top of the ceratopsian, and a lightning flash illuminates the killing claw swing downward, snapped down towards the herbivore.

Upendo bucks and thrashes, trying to throw the raptor off, but in the lightning the Velociraptor sees the potential mate watching the fight and grabs on even tighter. He bites the back of the Protoceratops, getting his hold even tighter. The ceratopsian does something unexpected, she rolls. He is now under the heavy Upendo, and she takes advantage and pushes him into the mud of the shallow water. He shrieks and swings his hand claws at her. Unbeknownst to both of them the storm’s wind has picked up and sand starts to blow wildly. Tamba’s potential mate has left in the violent blowing.

The raptor is angry, wounded, and worried that he might get killed in the battle, he needs to finish this now. The adrenaline is running through both of their bodies and the Velociraptor notices the exposed neck of his adversary. Tamba reaches up and kicks towards the ceratopsian’s throat, as the sickle claw snaps forward, entering the windpipe and jugular of Upendo. She dies instantly, but before Tamba can even move, a nearby sand dune tips over, covering both of them locked in battle, and smothering him.

WINNER: Velociraptor, sort of...

The fossil shows that the Velociraptor won the battle, but got smothered as he was making the killing blow.