The Moment you've all been waiting for....Mainly I've been waiting for it LOL

Dang, to write this thing with a torn tendon was hard...you have no idea.

But I hope you enjoy, I really hope you do :D & Happy Valentine's Day!

Every second felt like a minute.

Every heartbeat was a pulsing thud of pain in our chest.

Every breath felt like our lasts.

As we waiting.

Waited for a miracle.

Or Death.

Atlas stared at the clock, trembling and groaning to himself as the hand struck the 12th minute in an agonizing dong.

"We're sitting ducks!" Atlas growled, pacing back and forth, his Indosuchus tail swinging from side to side. His eyes narrowed and teeth curled inwards as he spoke outraged, "If that stupid Triceratops ditched us-"

"She would never lie to her word," Shadow hissed to the older carnivore, "She's going to get it open, I know it."

"When huh?" Atlas was growing impatient, slamming his foot into the earth to make it shudder, "At the last minute?- that's way to long, we'd be dead by then."

"We can't give up hope yet-"

"I'm not!" Atlas snarled, "I'm just worried that's all. Because if we came all this way for nothing....then..." He trailed off, staring at everyone. I glanced to my left, seeing the recently-arrived Pterodactyl family clutch onto their little ones, and some colorful others that weren't part of his kind.

Perhaps they were Quetzalcoatlus?

"Stella can get it open," Shadow stated determined shifting his feet on the ground as he laid, "I know she can..."

"Yeah," Atlas growled sarcastically, "Keep on believing Tyrannosaur, you're doing great."

"What's wrong with you?" He hissed back, "You don't even believe in things besides your own self interest, not even in anyone else! My dad told me you didn't believe in me coming back, and I know it." He narrowed his eyes towards the Indosuchus, while everybody shifted back, giving some space.

After a sense of some peace, Shadow looked down and grumbled, "You.....You don't how it feels, to lose everything. Because when you do, you're wish you'd believe more than you had before."

"I have enough faith," Atlas called back.

"In whom though?" Shadow snarled, "Yourself?"

Shadow and Atlas just mischievously shot annoyed looks at each other, before the sudden thuds of pounding feet vibrated the earth.

"Everyone," Thunder's voice called as he 'thundered' his way into the caverns, face covered in ash and eyes glowing with a dark look, "You better come outside and see this."

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A hot basking wind blew into our faces as we walked towards the edge of a cliffside, staring out at a burning world. My eyes watered the first time I walked back outside, while burning glowing specks of ash rained down, or flew nearby our dry scales. Trees stood like torches in the night, while the smoke controlled the skies, and everything glowed orange, lava mixed with its fiery cousin.

I frowned.

"I don't see anything Thunder," I clicked, licking my lips as I stared out again, seeing only disasters wrecking the life out of the world.

"Look again," He grumbled once. I sighed through my teeth as I lowered my snout, squinting at the land below once more. Anxiously, I tapped my toe-claw on the earth, watching cautiously as if expectant to some arrival. But then came a rumble in some direction to my right; in which Thunder was staring out at, and when my beady eyes fell upon the culprit of the noise, my heart sank.

I thought it was a mountain at first, camouflaging with the canyons and ridges elsewhere. But every blink I took, it grew in size. I'd say, it was taller than anything I've ever seen before. A memory fell into my mind, an old one when I was held captive in the clock.

The time I was human.

"Yellowstone is a......Supervolcano"

I shuddered.

I've seen volcanoes before, have even felt its power near my home once. My dad showed me one once when I was 13 years, and I could remember the tremors that shook the ground, the orange lava that baked the earth and cracked the roots and bark of trees, and the light smoke that discolored the clear blue skies above.

But one that was a hundred times its size could be worse. No wonder we've been having so many earthquakes, so much fires, so much smoke.

So much death.

"We'll die if we stay here," I whispered.

"See what I mean," Atlas grumbled on the opposite side of Thunder, possibly agreeing to my click, "Faith ain't gonna get us anywhere if we're still here. Now c'mon, we should head back-"

His voice suddenly cut off as a short tremor made the ground rise and fall like a miniature wave. Atlas stumbled in his walk, then miraculously caught himself at the last second, lifting his tail for balance. My feet shifted a bit when I felt it, and pure horror slid into my soul.

"What was that?" Shadow called, backing up alongside Feather and the rest of the gang. My heart began to race as I stared once more at the mountain, seeing strange waves of earth flowing on its sides, rippling trees and triggering avalanches to fall from its core.

Before reaching us.

Everything around us suddenly jolted again, a larger vibration in which wobbling the earth. I fell without question, without even saying a word, landing on my side with a hard thud.

Nobody even had time to say, 'run', for we had already begun doing this action before the tremors struck. Thunder sprinted ahead of all of us, panic rising in his rumbling steps.

My heart was racing faster and faster, seeing trees fall and rocks uproot from their once earthen home.

It only accelerated when the cavern entrance of the clock shuddered, then began to break.

My eyes widened, and quickly I skidded to a stop.

It's going to block us!

Shadow saw it too, along with everyone else, but Thunder kept going, believing that he could make it.

"NO!" Shadow roared, "DAD WAIT!"

The cave shuddered again, and immediately, the rock began to fall.

And Thunder was right underneath it.

I almost believe that he'd run right underneath to his own safety. But out of nowhere, h e stopped with his three-toed feet, shifted his body underneath the entrance, and caught it between his shoulders with a painful roar.

"AGGHH!!....G-GO!" He rasped. I shook myself out of some trance of awe, and raced ahead, sliding into the black depths of the cave. Queen and Breeze were already there, holding onto each other as the ground quaked around them. Shadow followed along, with Atlas and Feather on his tail, before Thunder suddenly stumbled. He squeezed his eyes as he prepared to move away to safety, but the weight kept him pinned in one position.

A fatal one.

"DAD C'MON!" Shadow screeched. The cave shook again, causing the T-Rex to lose balance, his feet and legs quaking from the extremity of the agony pressing onto his body. Shadow began to rush towards him, only to stop and yelp as more rocks separated him between his father.

He couldn't hold it for long.

He lowered hard again as another horrible groan and crack sounded, his knees bouncing for suspension, but yet failed to get him away from harm's way. On the third stumbled, all of his eyes locked onto his son, while his feet shifted to the side, losing balance.

Losing strength.

"Dad please don't...," Shadow was in tears already, "No..."

Thunder seemed to mouth something to his son, something that I couldn't decrypt, but to Shadow it sent a chill through his spine, a wrecking ball that shattered his soul.

Another hard tremor passed through the earth, dropping huge chunks of rocks at Shadow's petrified body.

"Shadow look out!" I roared out, yanking him by his tail backwards. We both fell and yelped simultaneously, yet when we glanced back up from our fall, we could only watch helplessly as the weight piled onto the poor dinosaur, as the rocks fell all over, covering the entrance and locking it tight.

And Thunder, the last adult T-Rex, vanished in the rubble with one last defiant roar.

The echo lasted forever, even though the tremendous quake that rippled the earth.

And everything besides the trembling earth, silenced.

"Dad?" Shadow muttered. The dust of the cave began to clear, revealing a huge wall that loomed over all of us.

Thunder was nowhere to be found.

"No...No!" Shadow cried out, rushing towards the wall. I stood up slowly, trembling from the quake to watch the young Tyrannosaurus struggle to reopen the collapse.

The wall groaned and shuddered in the quake as Shadow dug his shoulder and back, enforcing his remaining strength to pry it open.

But I knew, despite my struggles to not accept it, he was gone.

"DAD!? Can you hear me!?" Shadow slammed his shoulder into the wall, shaking the cave, "DAD!"

I bowed my head, swallowing in regret as Shadow's cries and pleads continued, but after a few minutes passed, he gave up, sliding his body low on the rocks to the earth where he sobbed.

"Why!!" He wailed horribly, "Why couldn't it be me? He's suffered enough...why take him away from me..."

I stayed quiet, looking away at time, and feeling a piercing feeling in my gut.

Don't cry, I swallowed and choked on saliva, don't you dare cry...

"I....d-didn't even t-tell h-him..." Shadow stammered in his wet words, "I n-never-r told him how much I loved him...I-I never apologized....I-I never..." He wiped a tear away, glancing at me, "I d-didn't want t-to be a-alone..." He broke down again, sinking lower to the floor, whereas I could only stare at his tail and back.

And despite all my holdbacks, the tears rolled down my cheeks with ease, sorrow snatching me in seconds. I closed my eyes to shake away the pain, but to see an innocent Tyrannosaurus watch his only father...

Without another thought I broke down in tears before I could finish, ignoring the horrible sounds of ripping soil.

As the clock sailed into the 8th minute.

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"Thunder?" I gasped awake, feeling the weird painful sense ebb away. As a shadow, I could feel others feelings. Feel their pain, their sorrow, their anger. Even their physical pain. But seconds earlier, an explosion of agony shook me awake to my senses, lasting longer that I'd hope. It felt like being crushed, as if all your muscles and bones got compressed together.

And thus followed by an array of dark sorrow.

No... I thought speechlessly, he can't be....

"You...." I felt pain and anger surge through me as the vine-type shadow arms held me down, "You murdered him!"

But it said nothing in return.

I didn't dare shed a tear, nor show my weakness towards the creature, but deep inside the pain was enormous. I swallowed sadly, choking back tears, and tried to shake away the thought.

Until the image of flecks of blood staining ramshackled rocks drew itself in my mind.

Thunder's blood.

My old mate's blood.

A bubble of fire shook me in the restraints as I felt Shadow's sorrow sink into me again, and I thrashed to break free.

"YOU KILLED HIM!" I cried through foggy tears, "How could you kill him you murderer! You murderer!"

I somehow ripped away from the holds, letting out a war cry as I raced towards the clock.

I never reached it, and only found myself getting slammed right back against the rocks where I previously was. My vision blurred as my skull vibrated, and when I came too, I came face to face with the same sharp tentacle that stabbed me before.

And it was ready to do it again.

"Wait, wait wait!" I cried out, seeing it attack, "I-I could help!"

What? My mind cooed strangely, what are you even saying?

Somehow it worked, for the tentacle froze in mid-air, a few centimeters from killing me for the second time.

I nodded solemnly.

"Yes! I could....uhh.......help you....with this 'end of the world' thing you're doing. Surely a 'shadow wouldn't disobey your commands....right?"

YOOOUUU JUSSTT DDIDD, it answered, twisting the sharp point in mid-air. Panic rose in me, but despite this my beak rambled on.

"Yeah....but....you're....." I thought quickly, "You're doing it wrong....right? I mean, isn't it fear that supposed to make you stronger? You're not even showing fear."

THHHEYYY AAARRREE ALLLLRREEEAAADYYY AAFFRRRAAIIDD...

"Not quite," I chuffed, "You see, you're doing something totally different. Aren't I the one who could stop this, by which means help you?

YOOOUUU ARREE UNNBERABBLLLYY NAAIIVVEE...

"At least I've made my point," I hissed, "How 'bout you let me go. I'll promise you that I'll make things easier." I remembered something that the old Shadow did, where he could conjure strange weapons out of thin air.

I recalled it when he beat Whiteclaw to his death once.

But Whiteclaw killed it with fire...so I need-

OONNNEE CHHHAANNCEE, the voice in the dark hissed, OOORR YOOUU DIIIIEE.

I felt the pressure on my body release as I waddled forwards, and with all 'tentacles' on my side, watching as I slowly made my way forwards, swallowed worriedly as I edged towards the clock. I thought of something in my mind, and surprisingly, it began to construct what I thought, in both hands.

Thunder's bloody image convulsed me with rage, quickening the process of the weapons. One was something I didn't think of at first, which felt like some kind of powder, and the other was memorable in a way. Without warning, I spun around quickly and swung my shorthand with the grey powder, in which I threw right at the creature. The tentacles shrunk backwards as the powder fell upon them like fresh snow, then flickered around, swallowing in the dust.

WWHHHAATTT IIISSSS TTHHIIISS???

"I don't know," I shrugged, "But I'm about to find out." I clicked the other human-made tool on and tossed it right at the powder I threw before, and instantly the entirety of the creepy creature caught fire in a wild explosion. My ears literally died as screams and high pitched roars shattered everything around me, seeing the tentacles violently slither around in mid-air, while the water itself boiled with heat. My brain shook painfully in my skull, and quickly before the fire died, I stumbled towards the golden clock, slamming my paw into its surface, before transferring the golden power within me into the clock.

"Please hurry," I pleaded, watching the flames cook up the shadow, roaring in agony.

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The ground continued to shake as we held our grounds, avoiding the constant falling pebbles and rocks from above. Shadow stayed on the wall however, eyes red and soul broken by his lost father. The Pterodactyl family was trapped on the other side of the cave, and without much of a choice squeezed the two small Quetzalcoatlus though the smallest little opening in the broken wall.

"None of us can fit," The heartbroken voice of Cal called from the other side, "I'm sorry."

My heart gaped in a big hole as I felt his voice shake me to the core. My mouth trembled.

"No....Cal....we're not leaving any more-"

"Please Deinonychus," He whispered, "There's not time left to save us.. I rather you save her kind than mine. Lavender never had a chance to see her family grow. But I know that you can protect them. You can keep her legacy alive."

"But-"

"Please kid...." He croaked. I sighed and clicked back, "Okay."

Softly with slightly poking teeth, I picked up both flyers and took them towards the clock next to Queen and Breeze. But my heart shattered inside my chest, fragments of it cutting my breath like knives as I struggled to not cry.

We lost another family.

It seemed as though everything was becoming hopeless.

But then, a miracle in which we hoped for happened during the last 5 minutes of the 32nd day.

One in which brought out the joy in all of us.

There was a flash of blue at first, then a zap of electricity that caused the cavern to flash white.

A huge spiral suddenly erupted through the wall of the Countdown clock, curling on and on for eternity. My eyes widened.

"It's OPEN!" Atlas shrieked, "Yes!"

"And you didn't believe in her," Queen grumbled with a sarcastic grin, "Nice."

I stared at the wobbling blue glowing portal, shifting and growing a bit larger by the second, then sank low again though the quake.

"Let's go while it's still there!" He called, before departing towards the clock. But some gut feeling somewhere around me made my stomach writhe inside, and without warning I screeched.

"Atlas stop!"

The Indosuchus somehow listened, slamming his feet into the hard earth to pause. Out of nowhere, a huge avalanche of rocks and boulders, large enough to crush a long-neck, crashed into the earth, closing up the portal in a matter of seconds. Atlas threw his head back as the wave of dust floated around, and only when the dust settled was the true problem revealed.

"NO!" He cried, "How-"

"I take back what I said," Queen grumbled underneath her sour breath.

The ground shook again as Atlas snatched rock after rock, pulling away the crumbling that blocked our way out.

He only got so far when he reached the huge boulder.

With as much force as possible, he pressed his entire weight upon the rock, pushing as hard as he could to move the rock. But nothing could move the monster that casted a deviled shadow over the Indosuchus.

My eyes fell upon the top of the trembling clock, swallowing hard as it ticked another inch.

2 minutes left.

"HELP ME!" Atlas roared. Feather blinked out of her terrified trance and rushed towards the male carnivore, adding more weight to push the rock.

Though it slowly budged only a bit, it wasn't enough for our size to squeeze. My eyes darted around wildly, thinking of what to do, when they strangely fell upon Breeze, the Zhuchengtyrannus egg, and the two Quetzalcoatlus.

They could fit.

Then the craziest idea popped into my head, and I didn't even have time to swallow the plan in.

"Queen!" I roared, jumping away from another falling rock, "Grab Breeze and follow me!"

The carnivore, struck with confusion followe along anyways, snatching her younglings and egg to follow along. I grabbed the flyer's tails without them noticing beforehand, then sprinted in mere seconds to the struggling Indosuchus. Atlas from above eyed me.

"What are you-"

"Open it as far as possible!" I hissed, "They need to get in first in case....."

"In case of what?" My face flushed white in fear as I stared at the clock again.

1 minute, 30 seconds.

"Just do it."

Atlas sighed, then pushed again, crying out painful roars as he and Feather continued to push, opening the portal even more. When it was wide enough, I cried to the younglings in my jaws:

"Stay in there and don't move!" And with one swift accurate toss, the two colorful ones tumbled into the portal, vanishing mysteriously in a flash of blue. Breeze and her mother looked worried just by the sight of it.

"C'mon!" I cried to her. But both remained still.

"We don't have time!" I roared, "You gotta get her in before it closes!"

Queen looked shocked and scared, more than her hatchling did, and quickly, she placed Breeze back on her feet after being carried from the tip of her jaws, and stared at her.

She had no words, but rather rushed a bit closer to her and held her for as long as she could between her neck and chin, squeezing and squeezing stronger than she had ever done.

Never wanted to let go of her future.

Her love.

"I love you...Both of you..." She sobbed, pulling away, "And don't you forget it." Breeze seemed sad and confuzzled, yet didn't have time to speak, for her mother was already pushing her and the egg in. Breeze spun around, nudging the egg into the portal with boiling tears for the last time, then smiled a bit at her mother, who also followed along with the facial change.

And just like that, she too was gone.

Queen broke down instantly like Shadow, pressing her sides on the wall as if she were about to faint, then wept in painful last tears.

I was speechless.

She acted as though she knew that death was coming for her.

For all of us.

"ARRGGH!! C'mon! We're almost there!" Atlas cried in harsh growls, "Just a bit further and it'll be wide enough-"

Suddenly, through the quaking noise, the cave suddenly was bombarded by rocks and stones from above, dropping loosely onto the bouncing earth like rain. I jolted away in a reaction, hiding behind the cover of a fallen rock while watching everything collapse in horror. Atlas and Feather got pushed back and tripped on their own feet, though Feather was the one who fell. Atas kept his shoulder on the rocks, but instead his force turned against him.

And the portal began to quiver out of existence.

"No, no, no!" He cried, slamming into it again and again, "No NO!"

Queen knocked the distracted T-Rex from his lying spot, only to get slammed by a huge boulder, dropping her hard. Queen's tremendous roar shook the cavern harder as I heard the sound of ripping flesh and a breaking bone, and Shadow screaming in horror. Atlas pressed on harder and harder in panic, and before his body fogged up in the falling dust, he fell backwards from the stronger quiver, tail traveling behind to follow. I ducked quickly before I was buried alive in the dust and pebbles, and when all went still, darkness fell over our bodies.

And it was dead silent.

I choked, coughing hard as I brushed away the bits of rocks that contaminated the air, then stood up shakily. My feet were like jelly, and after growing used to the tremors, walking on silent soil was tricky. I stumbled and leaned against the wall as I walked, squinting to see through it all.

Queen was wailing louder and louder on the right side of my ears, and as Shadow went to tend to her, a gasp of shock told me that what had crushed her was worse than imagined. Feather croaked some Indosuchus dialect, while Atlas went to help her friend to her feet.

"What happened?" Feather mumbled. Atlas turned his head in my direction, then towards the clock behind him.

"Its gone."

Gone?

"Oh.....oh gosh no...it can't be-" Atlas pressed his nose into the golden surface, already starting to sob, "No...." My eyes slipped towards the clock's numbers again, and sank even deeper.

30 seconds.

"It can't be gone," Atlas was scarred with tears and a dark growl in his throat and flash of sharp teeth strengthened his anger and sorrow, "No....It's gotta come back."

And we waited.

...20...

19...

18...

Nothing.

"IT HAS TO COME BACK!" He roared, crashing his shoulders into the clock, "We're going to die, COME BACK!!"

"Atlas!"

"COME BACK!

15...

"C'MON!" Atlas slammed his shoulder into the clock again, making it wobble and shake. But the blue portal that once pointed the way to safety was gone for good.

And I knew it.

"Feather c'mon!" Atlas wept and cried, slashing the metal in ear breaking screeches. Feather was frozen at first, but in sync with her friend, swiped her tail into it, coming back with a huge bruise condemning her scales to a purplish tone.

But no dent or scratch fell upon the metallic doomsday clock.

10...

"Guys," My voice trembled as the darkest thought scrambled into my head, "It isn't going to open anymore."

9...

Atlas just turned to stare at me, his bony face turning white in the realization of what was to come.

8...

Queen let tears wash down her face, and seeing a mother this horrified about death me quake in sorrow as the impenetrable noise screamed everywhere; for I could just imagine the earth falling apart not far from here.

No, don't cry...

7...

I turned to Shadow, watching him tremble in tears, body still leaning upon the closed rock before him that crushed Thunder.

6...

"Whiteclaw," Shadow broke down into tears, "I'm scared." Another horrifying quaking jolt accelerated my heart, and off balanced, everybody in the caverns fell to the side in pure fear.

5...

"What's happening?!" Some voice screamed. Rocks from the ceiling fell all around us, and the cave slowly began to crumble.

4...

I backed up further to the nearest wall away from the noises, sinking lower and lower as the noise shook everything, following by a increasingly brightening white light that seeped through the cracks of the cave.

3...

Shadow was saying something to his lost father, something that I couldn't hear, for he was sobbing uncontrollably.

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"NO!" I growled, breaking away from the tentacles of death that restrained me, and with the last bit of strength ebbing inside, I thrusted my claw into, instead of the smooth walls of the clock, the gears itself, locking it into place and trapping its movements.

Freezing everything.

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2...

I didn't even bother staring at the clock anymore. I just squeezed my eyes and curled my tail to block off my sight, not even bearing to look.

1...

The ground was making everything bounce, and in primal fear, I whimpered in the darkness, gritting my teeth.

Just end it, I thought as I whimpered in tears, End it for me, Just make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!

0

I held on to the earth in pure horror, anxiously waiting for the quick death to come. To feel the pain, to feel everything tear me apart.

But the noise suddenly silenced.

The light froze white.

And the shaking paused.

All I could hear were my own shaky breaths in total blackness, scorching my skin though hyperventilation.

But nothing happened.

Did I die? I thought, was it really that painless?

I popped an eye open.

Nothing really did happen.

In confusion, I glanced up at the clock.

It was frozen.

The gears were shaking magically, and weird electric movements were cracking the golden surface all around. The hand was literally an insect away from the 33rd number, and the seconds were trapped at 1 and 0. It almost looked like a crossed out circle.

The clock continued to groan and tear itself apart, flashing and shaking wildly, and grabbing everybody's attention.

"What's happening?" Atlas's worried voice called. I squinted my eyes at the cracking wall, seeing the numbers flare red and bright, while the clock twisted and turned in pain.

One name immediately splashed over me.

"Stella?"

Suddenly, something mind blowing happened.

Our worst nightmare.

Our worst enemy.

The cause of all of this.

Blew up.

A huge eruption of fire ripped from the inside of the clock, spewing metal and gears everywhere. Shadow and I ducked, seeing the flesh of the machine fly everywhere, falling back into nothing but debris. Another huge explosion lit the trapped cavern, breaking the bonds that trapped the portal before from the blockage. A flaming gear rolled passed both of us, and as if it were in slow motion too, rolled around in a circle until rumbling to a stop.

And everything went still.

"STELLA!" I cried. But screaming wouldn't do anything now. Fire licked the sides of the clock to a blackened tone, while light smoke floated freely from its own ashes.

She, and the clock, were gone.

"Breeze?!" Queen's eyes were wide, "No....No....no she's alive....she's gotta be alive?" She dragged herself towards the destroyed clock and pressed her snout on the hot metal, then roared,

"BREEZE! Little one!"

But all was silent.

"Where's Breeze?" She began to weep, scattering the pieces of the clock everywhere while Atlas fell silent along with a trembling Feather, "Where's my daughter? My hatchlings...."

"That was our way out," Shadow muttered in terror, "The only way out."

"What was she doing?" I choked. Shadow swallowed.

"I think she was trying to stop time."

"But time never stops....," I whispered, feeling the fear rush over me again, "Oh no."

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a huge explosion rocked the sky and the air itself, blowing a warm foul breeze upon all our bodies. A blast wave of wind shook the cave, and quickly, I bent my knees to feel the sharp slamming feeling slide me backwards.

Everybody fell silent, suddenly realizing what was to come.

It was still happening.

My eyes lowered towards the ground, seeing pebbles bouncing up and down in a little earth dance. My body began to shake as well, and despite being on the ground, it felt like hell to keep balanced. Shadow stumbled backwards, then forwards as the earthquake strengthen, before falling onto his back. I watched uselessly as rocks fell upon the poor Tyrannosaurus, burying him instantly in a cloud of death.

"SHADOW!" I turned to my right where the clock was, seeing Atlas fall, his tail limply following behind, while Feather's roars of sorrow shook alongside the quake. Queen's head bashed against the wall twice with such abrupt fury, that her entire body went limp as well, blood dripping down her scaled snout.

It's over, I thought in sorrow, It's the end.

I looked up terrified as the white light turned red, and the shaking made the world fall to pieces. A strange noise, like a roar within the wind, or a sandstorm's rumble sounded beyond the walls, and instantly, I knew what had come.

For what laid outside was a wall of ash tearing across the landscape, destroying everything.

And bound to destroy everyone.

I jolted back, closing my eyes, and whimpered endlessly, my sight itself shaking in my skull.

The whistes grew louder.

Louder...

Louder...

I squeezed my eyes and turned my head away at the last second in a painful cry.

Before the crack of a cavern wall shattered everything around me.

I saw death fly through the wall before he attacked me. It was like a wave almost, a wave of fire busting into the room. The clock tore apart and melted quick. Atlas and Feather vanished next, before an unconscious Queen was consumed by the eruptive force, her body being thrown violently backwards.

And then it hit me.

The intense heat boiled my scales and cracked my flesh once it licked me. When its jaws finally fell all over my body, I felt my skin get torn from my flesh, and my agonizing cries silenced, inaudible to the roars of the firestorm. Blood got splattered right out of me in seconds.

It all happened so fast.

I never had time to accept the pain.

My body got ripped from the earth violently, and the pain ultimately exploded inside me as I was thrown. My vertebrae struck the wall of the cave, breaking a bunch of bones simultaneously in excruciating cracks.

I wasn't so sure if I screamed.

And when the ash, glass, fire, and everything finally consumed me into darkness, tearing though my flesh like paper, when the pain became unbearable, and when the screams, wails, and horrible sounds of my friends dying roared in my ears, I lost consciousness.

And fell.

Into nothing......

Nothing.....

Nothing....

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..

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