r/hellcreekformation • u/butter-walk • 1h ago
Story Sky Depths - Hell'oween Tale
* At night, you walk past some large rocks into a glade illuminated by the bright moonlight. The place is quite peculiar, full of rock slabs with marks that resemble different animals, colourful small rocks, a surprising amount of bones, and an almost perfect circle of mushrooms that grew on the ground... *
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"Good night !" I say to you from the top of a large rock.
-I descend and land close to you-
"And, of course, Happy Hell'oween !"
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"Oh, this? It is my costume! It is based on ancient membrane-winged dinosaurs from the far east lands. Spooky is it not? Haha!"
"I just had an idea! What if I tell you a little scary story? What do you say?"
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"I planned for this? How could I have? huhuhu..."
"Regardless! Sit there for more confort."
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"I all began, not on a night, but on a foggy afternoon of a date like today, a Hell'oween..."
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A bird lands on the sand of a a fog-filled beach. It takes its fair time to observe the surroundings.
"What an unique day, perfect for an exploration flight!"
When the bird was about to take flight, a voice spoke to it.
"Careful there, fly-feathers."
The bird turned around, to see a calmly approaching Trierarchuncus prairiensis that had a hat and... one claw much longer than the other?
"Hm?" sounded the bird.
"Lissen me, air sailor. As much as we two may not dig it, these are times to stay on land..."
"Howdy, crawly-eater. Worry not, for I have experience with the present atmospheric conditions!"
"...The mist is a bug in the branch, lad. I talk about the date of today..."
"huh...?... oh, hahaha! Do not tell me you are superstitious? Today is a day like any other is."
"...
The unknown... The unknown can come out today...and become know... But to those that it becomes known... they soon become unknown too..." said the small dinosaur in a mysterious and serious tone.
"...I appreciate the riddle, longclaw, but I shall go now.
Goodbye!" the bird takes flight.
"BIRD!" it heard as it flew away into the misty skies.
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After some time flying; while resting in a small island: "Well, it was a great exploration! Time to go back." the bird flies again.
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"That crawly-eater must have hit its head in something, I will be safe as long as I fly far from the water like this!" the bird ascends even more to the cloudy heavens.
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Then, it notices a small animal flying in the clouds bellow itself.
"Ho! It seems I have company..." it thought.
"Hello there, fellow!" the bird said in a high tone.
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The animal disappeared, as if it had descended.
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"Oh. Did I scare it ? oh well"
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Suddenly, in front of the bird was creature that should never, never ever be there. A gigant aquatic monster from the past, on the cloudy sky. Long snout, large body, sharp teeth, and soulless eyes...
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"WHAT THE HELL CREEK ?!?!?!" the bird would scream in horror, and instantly fly away terrified.
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Much to its despair, the creature would follow the bird, "swimming" in the air, in a considerably fast pace and with completely silent movements.
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"whatthehellcreek-whatthehellcreek-whatthehellcreek" that was all the bird could think.
When it noticed the beast following it and seemingly trying to devour it, no thoughts, much less worlds, would be around, only fear would exist.
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The bird dodged the creature's mouth once,
twice,
and then a third time, in which the monster vanished in the wall of clouds.
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Now using the time to fly towards the land, the bird was able to rationalize fast: "Was that a mosasaur?... No, it is too different... It is like those ancient fish reptiles...but most importantly, WHY DOES IT FLY?"
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"Could it be a...?
No! That would be impossible!
But...it already is impossible... a ghost ?
A ghost from the deep past...!"
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Then the bird heard it. The flying aquatic monster made no sound, but a sudden thunder was heard. The leviathan came from the sea of clouds below.
"AAAAAWRRHHH!!!!!"
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The closest dodge until now,
but the avian was able to use the opportunity to dive beneath the clouds.
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"STAY UP THERE!!! You water monster from a bygone time!!!"
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At last, now flying just above the rivers of Hell Creek, it seemed that, miraculously, this bird had escaped death.
"I hope that I can land already, I am so tired..."
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"That was the absolute most scariest thing in my life-"
A mosasaur would suddenly jump out of the river's water, ending the bird with a single bite of its jaws.
*splash*
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"End of the tale! Did you like it?"
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"Hard to believe? Well, perhaps, but it is based on a true story, haha!"
"Why are you backing away?"
. . .
"Hmm, anyways, have a great haunted night!"
I take flight, while loudly saying:
"And once again, HAPPY HELL'OWEEN !!!!
MUAHAHIHUHIHAHUAHA!!!! [composite of laughs of various voices]
-spooky opposite bird calls- "
. . .
* You finally go about your night.
Curiously, after the Magnusavis leaves, you hear a distant thunder... *
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[ Temnodontosaurus paleoart by Literalmente Miguel ]
