As the juvenile Tyrannosaurus looked up at the cracked sky, whose organic rain and horrifying sounds painted an image more terrifying than the clashing cacophony of thunder and lightning, it saw that as soon as the extraterrestrial animals hit the ground that they were dangerous. The thudding sound that they made on impact was loud enough to cause everything near the collision zone to go deaf. T’s mother, who was worried for her and her son’s safety, gently tugged on T’s tail, nodding her head toward the forest, for despite its problems, it was the lesser of two dangers. What T saw before entering the forest was at once both electrifying and horrendous rolled into one. The animals that fell from the sky could do so much more than the animals of his world. They were larger, faster, stronger, and more ruthless than even a Tyrannosaurus. Some had great balls of fire shoot from their mouths to burn a fully grown Patagotitan. Others were like the giant Pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, only much larger. Creatures were hitting the ground that immediately slithered into the sea, and some creatures hit the ground and took off running. One of the creatures, a flying wyvern named Rathalos, gracefully flew down from the sky. It saw T and his mother staring at it and immediately charged toward what it considered to be prey. T’s mother immediately picked T up in her mouth and proceeded to turn around and run into the thick of the forest, for which the Rathalos was too occupied with larger feasts to follow.

  T and his mother thought they were safe until a giant rock came and smacked T’s mother in the head. The creature holding the rock was a Kulu-Ya-Ku, a giant bird wyvern creature that was almost the size of a T. Rex. It was still a force to be reckoned with, but T’s mother had no doubts that this beast would provide for a great meal for her and her young. She scratched her feet into the ground to signify that she was ready for the hunt. The Kulu-Ya-Ku was standing there, twitching its head in confusion at the Female Tyrannosaur’s body language. When the mother Rex took off at the bird wyvern, it was taken by surprise as it finally knew what she was trying to do. It leapt up into the air and dropped its meal, an egg that it had scavenged nearby. T, not wanting to miss the moment to see his mother hunt something that she had never seen before, started to follow her and chase the giant bird deeper into the forest.

  After what felt like a long time, T and his mother caught up to the Kulu-Ya-Ku. The mother Tyrannosaur had the bird cornered and was about to go in for the kill when the grey animal jumped from the forest floor onto the cliff that nestled above the spot where T and his mother were just about to have the dinner of a lifetime. T and his mother both roared at the meal that could have been. The Kulu-Ya-Ku proceeded to appear like it was laughing at its newfound rivals. Suddenly, as the giant bird was about to leave, a Great Maccao came out of the thicket and charged at the Kulu-Ya-Ku. A turf war broke out… The Kulu-Ya-Ku and Great Maccao started circling each other. The Kulu-Ya-Ku, who was just trying to survive in a world that was brand new to it, versus the Great Maccao, who just did a hunt back in its own world, but was uprooted to this one. Its hunger was vast, and it, too, was around the size of a Tyrannosaurus… Both bird wyverns started charging at the other; their talons drawn for combat. The Great Maccao leaped and tried to claw at the Kulu, who proceeded to swiftly jump out of the way in time.

  T’s mother’s stomach was growling intensely. T felt no such hunger, for he was more entranced by the combat that was happening before his eyes. After watching the fight for a few minutes, T’s mother nudged T, signifying for him to follow her. She had found a path up to the cliff that the two bird wyverns were clashing on. And after what felt like a long time, both the Kulu-Ya-Ku and the Great Maccao were starting to show signs of fatigue. They were drooling, and the Kulu in particular was starting to limp. The Great Maccao was on the precipice of victory, finally able to enjoy a hard-fought meal. It did one last jump and dug its claws into the Kulu-Ya-Ku’s side, bringing it down and finally silencing the birdlike creature. Feeling like its victory was earned, it started to chomp down on its defeated opponent, but its victory wouldn’t last long as T’s mother jolted out from between the trees and grabbed the Great Maccao by the neck, picking it up slightly off the ground and into the air, thrashing it around, violently, until it went limp. T, who initially thought that these new creatures that fell from the sky were invulnerable, was starting to realize that they were just a new introduction to the food chain, thanks to his mother. He had to be careful, though, as while this battle was relatively easy for his mother, other fights would not be so easy. Especially if it were against one of the giant creatures that he saw rain down earlier that morning.

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  As T and his mother started to gnaw at their food, T’s tail began to twitch. He and his mother looked up into the clearing and saw… nothing. Instead, they felt the vibrations of something much larger and far more monstrous than anything they had yet seen. The trees nearby started to emit loud cracking noises, and if they looked deep into the thicket, they could see that the forest was bending. T’s mother, who was feeling the fear for her and her child’s lives, picked T up in her mouth and carried him to safety in the bushes and trees on the other side of those that were giving way, and as the creature started to get closer to the duo, T’s mother crouched down in the thicket. Her eyes looked up at what she thought was something that was both magnificent and terrifying rolled into one. It was big, much bigger than a T. rex; in fact, it was also the colour of the leaves of the trees in the forest. Her tail was lowered so as not to give her and her son’s position away. The beast was starting to munch on the meal that she had tried so hard to obtain for her and T, when suddenly it lifted its head, slowly from the carcass, and sniffed the air. If there’s one thing that a Deviljho likes more than food, it is fresh food. The female Tyrannosaurus was just about to turn and run, knowing that she would be unable to bring down this behemoth, but she was paralyzed with fear. Luckily for her, the brute wyvern was starting to follow the scent, which was one that it was accustomed to, not the Tyrannosaur family.

  T’s mother opened her mouth, letting her baby step off of her lower jaw gently so as not to be noticed by the giant beast. T, who was still in awe of the creatures but fearful of their powers, leaped down from his mother’s bottom jaw. He and his mother started to head back to the nest. Hopefully, nothing would pose a challenge when they got there. After they got to the nest, T’s mother decided to survey the area one last time before they slept. As they slept, they were hidden from the beasts that would hunt them. Hidden from the world that was once theirs, but has been taken over by creatures of otherworldly might. The forest was vastly different tonight; the sounds that these skyfallen animals made were chilling. T’s mother looked at her baby, wrapped her tail around him, and held him closely. The forest, which used to feel like home, was starting to feel far more alien.