[Trade] The way of living

The way of Living- (Age-up for : Eden )

Writing by: Lil Monster

Da gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/xxinsanenightmarexx/gallery

Word count: 1,500+

Dino’s Included: Eden (4800) , Soul (819)

The clicking of long nails across a rocks face echoed from in the large cave, bones littered the ground from past meals with many figures resting while restless scrawny hatchlings played near them jumping back when the adults growled at them. In the corner a much smaller utahraptor hatchling sat curled in a ball as she opened her pale eyes being away from the much larger hatchlings who were practicing fights for when they were older, she wasn’t one to fight due to being the runt. A harsh voice calling her name “Eden come here.. Now” as a much larger utahraptor one who spotted black and white scales her different colored eyes locked on the pale runt who stumbled to her feet to slowly trot over keeping her head held low as she squeaked “Coming.. Soul” she said quietly looking back at her comfortable spot she had found and now had to leave.

Eden was the smallest of the last clutch the pack had and was Soul’s daughter , due to her pale scaling she was bullied often of meals and many other things within the pack's ranks. As she got to Soul feeling her sharp claw run along her back as she made Eden sit down, before Soul’s harsh voice entered her ear “ you see your hatch mates Eden, you must get strong like them there is no room for failure in this pack do you understand” she growled towards her causing Eden to curl under her claw in fear and today the young outcast hatchling was going to learn the ways within pack ranks and what it looked like to fall behind your fellow packmates as Soul did not tolerate weakness in her packs even if it was with her own offspring. As Soul stood she mentioned to the others to stop their roughhousing before nudging Eden down roughly to the hard rocky cave floor.

“Show me what you have learned Eden, Weakness is not welcome here you understand that i am sure” she growled through a grin as Soul sat back down on a rocky ledge she had been resting on narrowing her eyes on her pale weak offspring hoping maybe she was wrong but wasn’t holding high hopes. Eden turned towards her mother trying to reason but it was no use. She was the smallest and wasn’t a fighter , but she had to try and prove herself given so many chances, she stepped forwards stumbling over letting out a small sigh as she growled hissing at her much bigger clutch mate who in return hissed back before lunging forwards at Eden causing her to fall backwards on her tail as she let out a squeak of fear.

So far it wasn’t looking good for Eden as Soul was losing her patience, letting out an annoyed growl through her jaws. “Get up Eden, this is pathetic” she grumbled before stepping down off her ledge holding her head high as the rest of the pack bowed to her. Eden curled into a smaller ball as she watched her mother stand above her as she shook in fear, this wasn’t the first time she had felt this way and she had a feeling something bad was about to happen but what?

“ See this pack, this is weakness and from my own offspring we cannot home weakness as it will be our downfall, a weak pack member is no pack member” she said looking down at Eden who was stunned from the words that left her mothers jaws. Before a quick nip was given to her on her tail , the hatchling letting out a painful squeak as she stumbled away from her mother , she was being taught what it was like to be on the bottom of the pecking order and how harsh it was to be there. As the other packmates watched on at the example Soul jumped back up to her rocky ledge before watching Eden stumble off back to her corner in the cave but it wasn’t enough to please Soul as she narrowed her eyes at her daughter before growling as she scolded her from afar.

Eden didn’t dare to look at her mother as she looked away holding her head low to the ground in submission, she was weak and always different from the others when they had hatched coming out alot paler and  smaller then her clutch mates. But that was the harsh reality within Utah packs well at least hers, if you were weak you were at the bottom of the pecking order straight and simple, you needed to prove yourself within the pack and Eden just couldn’t no matter how hard she tried to prove to Soul it wasn’t enough. It got even worse at meal time along with play time between the hatchlings she was always bullied and picked on, which Soul did not like to see.

The sound of footsteps could be heard outside the cave as a few adults had returned with a kill, a young parasaur as they dragged it inside dropping it on the rocky cave floor. The hatchlings being called over to eat as Eden eyed the prey before feeling her stomach rumble underneath her , she needed to eat. Soon getting to her feet she walked over slowly sniffing around before getting ready for a bite of fresh meat, feeling a push from a much larger clutch mate as he let out a growl at her. 

“Come on.. I just want some then I’ll leave it alone” she said quietly as she looked behind him at the carcass that was going fast. But it wasn’t that easy learning the hard way of the pecking order was a large part and she was once again getting bullied off which was normal. Eden stepped forwards before she was met with another harsh snap from him, causing her to back away watching him return to eating. Soul had been watching before eating her fill as she snapped at lower ranking packmates off the carcass so she could eat, ignoring Eden who was now eating scraps off the cave floor. As the meal came to an end the pack had laid down to rest , Eden picking up scraps of meat that were left over before she went back to her spot in the cave laying down letting out another sigh. This was the life of being the runt and learning the way of living in a pack dynamic , it was a harsh reality for some utahraptor hatchlings and sadly being born weak and frail wasn’t the idle thing others were too forgiving with.

Her mother had been like this since the day she had hatched, noticing the paleness of her runt hatchling and outcasting her at such a young age was nothing new to Eden as she struggled to keep up with the pack and how things were run. Often bullied off food, and other things by her much larger clutch mates was nothing but normal to the young hatchling and all she could do was roll with the punches , but maybe an even harsher reality was leaving the nest but she was much too young. The thought crossed her mind but did she dare leave? She would die if she did. Soul watched Eden as she finished her meal approaching her before letting out a growl “ you need to do better Eden, you cannot do nothing and be passive” she said to her before laying next to her narrowing her eyes “ this is the way of living in the pack, and you were dealt a bad hand, try and make up for it you don’t want to be a frail utahraptor do you now” she said before laying down her head and closing her eyes not giving any time to listen to her daughter who stayed quiet moving around uncomfortably due to her mothers closeness to her as it wasn’t normal.

She was weak that’s all she was and an example for learning her mother used constantly , to show to her other siblings who were much stronger and favored over her. Eden kept quiet as the harshness of her mothers words gripped her mind tight , it haunted her but she needed some sleep. With the end of a harsh lesson learnt that day she chose to sleep over trying to argue with her mothers ways of teaching that were not fair to her as she closed her pale eyes to get some rest that she could, she did need as much as she could get due to the harsh life she lived everyday.

Eden looked up, opening her eyes once more, looking outside the cave as much as she could mumbling words to herself “ I am weak, is that all I am? Maybe I should leave so I don’t have to live this harsh way of living…” she mumbled to herself before letting out one more sigh and closing her eyes as she dozed off to sleep once again. The way of living was a much harsher lesson for some dinosaurs not everyone got a easy ride wouldn’t that be nice..