Rebellious

Åra, Ära and Öre had been on the iguanodon queens side most of the time. But that was until the three dinosaurs had learned that despite how much they helped the dinosaurs they would still spread their plants to the top world. These plants that had on numerous occasions tried to grab others. At one time they had even tried to grab Åra, causing great panic with Öre and Ära as they fought the vines off their friend and partner. 

The three grey dinosaurs had spent a while debating it. They couldn’t imagine living among the amount of plants around them if those plants were trying to attack them every other day. And even worse would be if they were trying to take their rubber duckies away from them. Imagine if the vines took over their home warehouse. They feared for all these potential situations they could end up in more than anything. 

That’s why the three of them had decided to fight in the rebellion. Although they wouldn’t actually fight the other dinosaurs. They could at the very least destroy their efforts to plant stuff. And that’s what the two raptors and the shucho decided on doing. They would follow the Atlanteans around and dig up any plants they planted. Causing, hopefully, a lot of them to never actually root and grow stronger. They had to try and keep themselves hidden as they did. Because neither of them wanted to fight any of the big, scary dinosaurs. Especially not Ära. He was absolutely terrified of the iguanadons especially. 

They took it easy as they walked. Åra would walk first. Keeping a watchful eye on the other dinosaurs ahead of them as they slowly and carefully undug any seeds or plants. Åra was the bravest of the three that’s why she kept a watch. She could also fight better than any of them so both Öre and Ära felt safe if she kept the watch. During the times the other dinosaurs rested they would also rest. It was surprisingly hard work as they walked after and undid all the work of the Atlanteans. 

“I think we’re making great progress.” Åra nodded as she quietly talked to both Ära and Öre. Ära responded in his normal, mute way by gesturing with his tiny arms and nodding in agreement.

“I am so scared though. What if they realise what we are doing here and try to attack us.” Öre looked almost pale as she spoke about the potential of being attacked by all those dinosaurs. “I still can’t fight as well as you can Åra..” She turned her gaze down to the ground as she spoke in her low, unconfident voice. Ära gestured in a way that meant that he too would be too bad at fighting to even attempt it against the iguanadons. His face fell as well when he thought about it.

“Don’t worry,” Åra said confidently. “If we just keep doing what we currently are doing we will be fine. We’re far behind them. All we need to do is keep track of them and it will be fine.” She nodded eagerly. It was true that it would take quite a bit for them to actually figure out that they had three other dinosaurs walking behind them, uprooting all the progress they were doing with the seed planting. And if they were to turn around the three of them could probably manage to realise it before they had to fight them. 

At least that was their plan. It was the beginning of the day when they were following the trail left by those dinosaurs planting the seeds. Perhaps it was someone's gut feeling or just pure unluck that made one of the iguanodons turn around. Whatever he wanted to do behind him they didn’t know. But in a panic Åra turned around hurriedly to whisper to the other raptor and sucho.

“Someone is coming, someone is coming!” Despite her low voice there was panic in it as the three of them hurried to run away and hide. It was hardest for Ära to hide as he was by far the biggest of the three of them. But Åra kept pushing him further into the thicket.

It felt as if they couldn’t breathe. If they took a deep breath it was as if the iguanadon could hear them and would somehow be able to tell where they were and what they were doing. All three of them could feel their heartbeats in their chests as they stayed as low as possible to the ground. 

Everything they could hear was a low, surprised “what” as the iguanodon passed by the uprooted plants and the unearthed seeds. For a moment it seemed as if the other dinosaur was simply walking around trying to figure out what could possibly do all of this and then his hurried footsteps quickly turned back to where he came from.

“We have to leave now.” Åra hissed towards her partners. “Quickly.” She tried to shove the shucho but he was quite frozen to the ground. 

“Comon Ära!” Öre had joined the both of them and was also shoving Ära. Their combined effort somehow made him move despite his size and as they were quickly making their way away from the scene of the crime they could hear the hurried footsteps of other dinosaurs clearly joining the first iguanodon. They had been discovered for sure. But at least it would make it somewhat harder for the dinosaurs to complete their mission of spreading these bloodthirsty plants around the island. Even if it was just a little.

All three of the three gray dinosaurs were too afraid to continue their rebellion at this point. They didn’t stay around in the area but instead hurried back to Atlantis to pretend as if they were still helping the community get back on their feet. Despite the fact that they had rebelled against the dinosaurs the three of them would help with the repairs. And perhaps, if they felt brave enough again they could potentially turn back and uproot some more plants again. 

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