Lotus studied the branch of a tree as a line of ants marched up and down it in an orderly fashion. She looked at it and wished she could interact with other tyrants as well as these ants could with each other. She knew patrol duty was lonely and that it was the only way she could contribute to her thunder but she really wished she could do something better than wandering around pointlessly. There hasn't even been a Mountaineer sighting in three sun & moon cycles she thought to her self. She looked off in the direction of the Canyon Runner's territory with a long half sigh half tortured groan. I wish I could see him one more time. It's been 5 years since the last time I've seen him. The video of him walking away with an angered look after their verbal fight kept replaying in her mind as though it was taunting her with the regret of not joining him. *Crack*. She snapped her head around just in time to see a shadow lung at her with lightning speed. She flopped to her back and kicked with all her might sending her attacker flying and slamming into a tree. She got to her feet just as the attempting killer lunged at her again, jaws gaping. She ducked under and grabbed the aggressor by the throat and flung them to their back. " I may be small," she snarled at the attacker ", but I'm not too small to kick you're tail up that snout of yours! Who are you and what are you doing on our territory!" she growled in so much aggression, she even kinda scared herself. Just then she realized that the attacker was another Tyrant, and not just ANY Tyrant. It was her BROTHER. She gasped in awe. " SPRUCE!!!" she yelled not even caring if the rest of her tribe heard her. " IT'S YOU!!! IT'S YOU!!! I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT'S YOU!!!" She shouted with glee prancing in a circle around him.She rubbed her snout against his neck and into a hug-like position. She sat there breathing in his new and unfamiliar scent she didn't quite recognize.
Spruce was confused. First he thought he was attacking his thunder's dinner, the next he was all of a sudden being hugged. The stranger pulled back from the embrace with a light and gentle gaze into his eyes. He was confused. He wasn't used to all the trees so his eyes didn't adjust to the dim lighting of dusk. He tried so hard to see who it was and why they were so gleeful to see him. Just then a firefly , as though a miracle , flew by the stranger's face just bright enough to see that it was his SISTER!! He couldn't believe it!! His ACTUAL SISTER!! ALIVE, HEALTHY, and THRIVING!! He shook the worry from his body and joined her in the happy moment of bouncing joy. He stopped and said " WOW!! HAH!! I CAN'T bel-IEVE it!! You're ALIVE!!" "ME!?!" she shouted in teasing response " I thought YOU wouldn't survive out there!! I always believed that they wouldn't accept you and would kill you because you're a scavenger!! Anyways you were made for the cool damp swamps, not hot and dry canyons!" " I know but," he said with a hesitant pause " I want to be in a Thunder I know can support each other and survive. As a scavenger all I heard were negative rumors about our original tribe." She looked at him with what he suspected was disbelief." We've survived this long, and they are a much more sustainable tribe than you'd expect." she said confidently. " Well" he paused " come and join the Canyon runners! It's a much more organized and well established tribe. Plus, no one would come looking for you anyway."
Lotus Couldn't believe her ears. She looked at him with a disdainful stare. " WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?! I HAVE FRIENDS HERE!!!" He looked at her with confusion" Oh, really!?! A 15 YEAR OLD FEMALE that is smaller than a 10 YEAR OLD MALE that is only a patrol look out is high in the food chain and well respected!?! HMM!?! I don't believe it.". Just then came crashing through the shrubs " WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?!" he/she spotted the orphan tyrant and snarled " you TRAITOR!!" he/she glared at him. " GET AWAY FROM HER YOU DISGUSTING TRAITOR!!!"
Hopefully someone can continue this and fill in the tyrant that calls spruce the traitor.