//------------------------------// // A dawn hunt and arrivel // Story: Time trouble // by Dynomation //------------------------------// The loud roar echoed through Everfree, never had a roar carried so far, it was beyond any creature in Equestria. “Shut up, I`m trying to sleep” stated a small feminine voice from behind the creature, turning the large creature seem to stop with annoyance. He looked at the two creatures in the clearing with him, one was massive with an elongated neck and tail, covered in light brown scales, with small ivory bumps alone it`s sides, with a row of spines along it back. Sleeping like a log, heavy snoring echoing from its nostrils. The smallest of the three creatures was hidden from his view. “Fine” groaned the standing creature. Ever thing felt wrong with his body, for one cognitive thinking, shoot up, he might even be able to count to 7 before using he`s claws! Also he claws, arms much longer making him a quadruped and his ankles had increased in size as well. His nostrils flared as he began to savvy his new surroundings, mammal everywhere?! Reptiles ruled the earth, and what was that sweet smell, he hadn`t a clue! Everything was alien even the plants on the ground, instead of ferns, small single leaved plants. “Were are we?” he asked himself, there defiantly wasn`t anywhere near the watering hole! The light levels increasing slightly, the only active one sore his chance for the hunt, ‘No animals awake yet, time to get an ambush ready!’ Leaving the clearing as quickly as possible, he had seen herbivores walk so he was getting used to it pretty quickly, but it was still an awkward walk to do and even stranger to watch. He was stumbling through the forest like a baby Allosaurus that`s just hatch, hopefully something was as easy to hunt as that. The dense forest canopy let the light through in streaks, eliminating parts of the forest, sure his eyesight was sharp but his nose was better for navigating this forest. Scanning from his height of 7 feet tall, his large head scanning like a bloodhound looking for a scent. Finding a scent he recognized he moved through the forest, with elegance now even jumping over a few logs, fast foot fall with the least noise as possible. Looking he found it a water source, finding a large bush he hunkered down ready to strike, let the wait begin. Spike was the only one still groggy enough to not know what was going on, he court something about a roar in the night? But other than that nothing made any scene! “Spike are you getting this?” asked Twilight, looking at the young drake. “Aahh… no” he said with a claw pointed in the air that deflated as the sentace went on. “Right I`m going to explain this one more time Ok?” replied the frustrated lavender alicorn. “Ok” “Last night a meteor landed near Canterlot-“ she was interrupted by the dragon “So that not unusually, it happens all the time” he said with a hint of annoyance and a face of ‘Why wake me about a rock’ “Luna didn`t summon it, and about 2 hours later a roar wakes the whole of Ponyville! I think their connected, Luna is coming down within the hour, both of us and her a going to find out where that roar came from, I want you to say here and reassure ponies everything is alright” “Oh” said Spike, He looked out a window to find a crowd of ponies crowding around Princess Luna “Give me the hard job” he grumbled. After Luna and Twilight got into Everfree the mood changed, normal animals would be chattering away in the bushes, but the forest was completely quiet. A twig snapped somewhere deeper in the forest, followed by a larger thud and a tree crashing down and a voice saying “Wait up, I can only walk so fast” it was deep and slow, very gentle sounding. “Come on we gotta find Cerato before he starts eating someone he shouldn`t!” stated a young female voice, she sounded about the CMC age. Both the alicorn looked at each other in question before they could speak something jumped out of the small line of trees. A small reptile like pony with claws where her hooves should be, her ‘mane’ was a small spine with a flap of scales extending joining the back of her neck. A long saurian tail extending behind her, sharp cone like teeth extended from her ponylike mussel. To bat like wings were on her back, with 3 talons on her wings with fingers and the fourth was the wing itself. Light orange fuzz covering her chest and back. She looked up at them with massive green eyes a contrast from her orange and yellow scales, the silted pupils looked up at them for a moment. “What?” said the ‘filly’ and Twilight at the same time. A large light brown head poked out of the trees “Everything Ok Saura?” he looked at the two alicorn’s for a moment. Luna was internally surprised, she wasn`t expecting something of a dragon size to be in Everfree without anypony noticing. “Dippy do you get the feeling you’re not in Wyoming anymore?” asked the small creature. “Yeah all the time were from Utah, what about it?” asked the large head on a long snake like neck. Saura the small Rhamphorhynchus stood with a difficult choice ‘tell Dippy they weren`t in Utah anymore or keep him blissfully unaware?’ she didn`t get to decide. “What are you doing in Equestria Dragon?!” boomed the large midnight blue mammal. Dippy heard the sentence for a moment it wasn`t the word that started his primal instincts but the volume, he made him panic. Rearing up and bellowing a whale like cry he stormed out of the trees on a panicked stampede, breaking trees with a whip like tail. Cerato had dozed off waiting for something to eat, a familiar cry of his old friend echoed in his ear holes, jumping up he ran for where the earth shaking foot falls came from. Saura looked at Dippy run off away from the two mammals “Grraahh” she shouted in frustaration “I just finish explaining that this stuff won`t hurt him, NICE JOB MAMMALS!!” The ‘that stuff’ was pointed at by the ‘filly’ the grass, before Twilight could ask something the small filly took off “Hey does anyone else smell a forest fire?” she asked Twilight and Luna looked at each other “Ponyville!” Cerato lungs and hollow bones rushed with air, he`s stamina was far better than any predator from his home, charging through the forest he smelt fire, and a panicking Diplodocus. Standing on a hill near a set of weird caves he looked at a fire with Dippy rearing up in a panicked rage. “Ohh Stegosaur”