A dragon devouring faeries (TOME 15 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

Fangs and Claws.

BOOM BOOM BOOM was a Carnotaurus at night, looking for prey. He knew that young beasts no bigger than raptors were around.

Arnold, Louis and their dragon brothers were in the predator zone, between the Vespalian hive and the Village, along a wild, almost tropical river.

Vespalians were also hunting on the prowl in swamps, mistaking their green armor of chitin and cartilage for moss, algae, and water lilies.

"Maya will kill us! " said Vermithrax...

"I think she's going to quit..." laughed Glacias.

"Shh. He'll hear us."

The wild Carno sniffed the air and headed north, smelling meat or a carcass.

BOOM BOOM BOOM made his steps.

They were hidden in thick thickets, flat on their backs and covered with mud so that their smell would not betray them.

Louise: "Do you think it was really necessary to be muddy like pigs?"

Vermillion: "And me, what should I say with my pink color that can be seen for miles?"

Arnold: "And to think that in a few months you'll be their size..."

Louise: "Oh yes... a sumo carno fight!

Vermillion: "What's a sumo wrestler?

Arnold: "I'll show you on the video... it was a sport where the fighters were Gods!!!"

Vermillion, immediately interested. "Was it good? "

Louise: "yes but you have to be big and fat.. but you stokes your fat in the tail, right?"

Vermillion did not grasp and Arnold did not insist.. No need to spoil the hunt.

Vermithrax: "I have found a shallower part of the river with rocks. It is safer to cross. "

Glacias: "Yes, there are terrible crocs, how did you say Deinosuchus?? yes, dinos fangs. Their jaws are ten times more terrible than the carnos that run fast. "

Louis: "It's dangerous! I can see why Dad insisted that humans have mixed families with the Vespalians. They would be torn apart, even with weapons..."

Glacias: "They hunt on the prowl and weapon or not a surprise attack is always devastating. A neck in the back of the neck or a blow with the teeth, and it's over!

We used our senses and we found a carcass of freshly killed carno.

A remnant of a crocodile? A cannibal fight? A trap?

It was the law of the jungle.

Behind us, below us, was a long river surrounded by liana trees and all kinds of ferns and shrubs and it was extremely noisy. The sound changed at night and during the day. Every now and then a roar but toads, monkeys and all sorts of insects made the jungle like a kind of orchestra and the changes in melody or silence meant the presence of a predator or a group.

"UWA!!! UWAH!!! UWAH!!!!"

Vermillion: "Oh no!!! raptors... real ones... they hunt in packs!!!"

Arnold: "I feel they have spotted us and they must be sizing us up.. answer them! "

Vermillion: "UWAH!!!! UWAHHH!!!!"

The predators answered Vermillion's call.

"ROuhah Rouah!"

Vermillion: "I think they are coming as friends!"

Arnold and Louise stood in the middle of the dragonets that provided a bipedal stance like the raptors and the sound came closer.