Dianasaur- First Memory

     The earliest memory I remember from my childhood was...

     It was a dark and stormy night, I curled up tighter and snuggled closer to my mother. She shifted slightly and put her arm over my body. I was no more than a year old and already I had far bypassed my siblings in size, stamina, and appetite. I was nearly the same size as my mother and ate larger portions than she did. As
I shifted, my stomach rumbled uncomfortably. I extracted myself from my mom's warm embrace and set out into the cold night.It wasn't the first time I had left my family in the middle of the night in search of a midnight snack, and it was most certainly not the last. I set out for a thicket of trees absolutely teeming with easy prey who weren't suspecting a thing. I remember feeling joy beyond compare that my mom and my brothers and sisters kept to dinosaurs of their own kind and were not social with the dinosaurs living within the forest, because if they had been I would have felt a lot more guilt than the guilt I did feel at so easily sneaking up on and killing those pathetic weak creatures. My only consolation was that they died quickly and felt no pain. I crouched in the tall grass, my natural born hunting instincts beginning to kick in. For once, I was relieved at the way they overtook my body and prevented me from changing my mind about this little night time venture. My actions came from instinct alone. Perhaps in the future I would be able to rely on my experience rather than giving in to my instincts blindly. For the time being though, my instinct saved me, I was alert to every sound within the forest and many outside of it as well. When I heard a twig snap behind me, my muscles tensed nearly painfully, and in one swift motion I whipped my head around towards the source of the sound. When I had thoroughly searched the area though, I found it completely empty, devoid of any living creature besides myself. After searching the whole section to the best of my ability, I continued warily on my way. Then I heard a rustling in the leaves overhead, and I was knocked to the ground by something that fell from above me. A sound of surprise escaped the creature (for it was living) . With one strong shove I knocked the other creature from my back, and continuing the motion I moved to get on top of it. The other dinosaur was fast, but not fast enough. I pinned it to the ground preparing for the kill.
     "No! Wait!" she (for it was most obviously a girl) begged. "Spare my life and you wont regret it!"
     She caught me off guard because I was confused and escaped my grasp.
     "What kind of dinosaur are you?" she asked tilting her head slightly while hovering in place, and I knew she was just trying to distract me further. I glowered at her in silence, upset my prey had escaped. "Well, can you talk?".
     "Yes, I can," I uttered offended that she'd even ask. Then returning completely to myself. I asked with my usual sass, "well what kind of dinosaur are you?"
     She looked at me seeming surprised that I had to ask, and then she straightened her back in way that could only be pride. " I am a pterodactyl, and technically we aren't dinosaurs at all!" She exclaimed with a great amount of pride and defiance.
     Instantly I felt that I could relate to this foreign creature, and all thoughts of attacking and killing her disappeared. I was surprised by the sudden burst of emotion that I had never truly felt before. The surprise must have been obvious on my face because the strange creature asked, "what?"
     "I just-" I shook my head not being able to find the words.
     She nodded in understanding, changing the subject she asked, " what's your name?"
     "Dianasaur, it's Dianasaur. What's your name?"
     "Juladactyl. What were you doing out here in the middle of the night?"
     " I was about to ask you the same thing, but I suppose you deserve an answer... I was out hunting for a snack, I got hungry," I said slightly embarrassed admitting it. "What about you, why were you out so late?" I questioned her.
     "For the same reason," she conceded without any embarrassment at all. Noticing my slightly envious stare she said, "you know the best way to not be embarrassed is to not get embarrassed."
     "Well, I guess we all can't be as amazing as you" I said with a mildly impish smile. Then we both burst into laughter [or as close to laughing a dinosaur (or pterodactyl) can get]. We smothered our laughter into quiet giggles and then just overly large grins.
     "I can show you where I usually hunt if you want," she offered. " I would really like it if you taught me some of your hunting techniques, I've been watching you the last few nights and you're really quite good" she added mildly embarrassed.
     "You know the best way to not be embarrassed is to not get embarrassed," I said noticing the look that had adorned my face many a day. Then we both burst into our strange laughter again.

     That is how I met Juladactyl and we became the best of dino buddies. She became my best friend through the ages.

The Tragic Story of Dianasaur

sorry about being late, but here's the rest of my story...

As the wind howled and the ground shook, in a nest overflowing with eggs, one egg rolled from the nest, its mother chasing after it. When it rolled into the water though, she had to stop, because she didn't know how to swim. The egg lay at the bottom of a deep river. A Dark shadow approached the egg, its mouth open and it... Was asleep? Its fin-leg-thingies were moving but its eyes were closed. The egg shook, it was time for it to hatch but it was impossible for the little dinosaur to breath underwater, so she tried not to hatch, but the egg was just about falling apart around her, one tap, one bump and the shell would shatter. The large animal was green and scaly and when it went past it bumped the egg, this not only broke the shell but also woke up the prehistoric crocodilian. When the very crocodile-like thing saw the young dinosaur struggling to reach the surface, her heart just about broke. The baby dinosaur reminded her of her own eggs which were going to be hatching soon. She scooped the dinosaur up in her mouth and rushed to the surface. When she came up, she opened her mouth to allow the baby dino to breath. She rushed to land remembering that her eggs would be hatching any minute now. When she reached land the young dinosaur just about jumped from her mouth. They walked side by side to the crocodile-like-thing's nest, where her eggs were. The baby dinosaur's tiny steps could hardly keep up with the larger creatures huge ones, and every now and then the dinosaur would wobble and fall over, and the gentle motherly creature would patiently help her up... again, and again, and again, and again, and... (well you get the idea). They reached the nest just in time to see the eggs hatching. The crocodile-like-thing looked at her babies and said, "oh my little archosaurs, your even cuter than I imagined!" She looked at them with pride, but the young dinosaur couldn't understand why she thought they were so cute. As she looked at them in confusion, the mother named them all, and when she came to the little dinosaur she said, "and I'll call you Dianasaur." So if you hadn't already guessed, you know now, that small little dinosaur that was saved by a dinosaur of another species was me. Without that kind-hearted archosaurs I wouldn't be here right now... but still, sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I had been raised by my biological mother, and had siblings of my own species, whatever that is. My mother (the kind archosaurs that saved me) didn't know what species I was. As I got older, I grew farther and farther apart from my siblings, they were strict herbivores, but sometimes I craved meat, not that I didn't like grass, leaves, and other plants, it's just that I think whatever species I really was were omnivores (that means they eat plants and meat). Also, I stood on my hind legs, while my brothers,sisters, and mother stood on all four legs. The biggest difference of all though, were my large green eyes, my mom said she had never met a dinosaur with eyes my color, so as distinctive as they were I still wasn't able to tell what species of dinosaur I was even with something so unique. So, I grew up strong, independent, and as an outsider even among my siblings who I know loved me very much and I loved them with all my heart, but we were just so different...


Well, that's my story, a near death experience, a surprising and lucky save, a life as an outsider, a stranger among my closest friends, and learning to be strong, ignore the many cruel things people can say, and to be independent at a very young age, too young. Some say it made me hard, but it just taught me how cruel life could be to someone so young. Despite all these difficulties, though, I had an amazing family that helped make it easier at every turn.

The Story of Juladactyl

Ok I know I'm a little late but anyways here we go...

There once was a beautiful bird-thinga-ma-jig who was headed to her nest. Then, all of the sudden, the ground began to shake and the bird fell from the sky as the wind tore her wing clean off as she shrieked, (which, by the way, is not a pretty sound) knowing that she could be heard throughout the entire jungle! High upon a rocky ledge, an egg in a nest made of twigs, feathers, leaves, and the bones of devoured animals, began to tumble, hurtling toward the jungle floor, when all of the sudden a crack appeared in the shell until out popped a bird looking like the thinga-ma-jig mentiond earlier. It continued to tumble until it hit the ground with a loud thud. As soon as the creature was on its feet it heard a shrill noise bouncing off of the jungle floor. Then, seeming to come from out of no where, a bird fell straight through the trees landing in front of the newly hatched baby. The bird instantly recognized the baby as her own, even having only seen it as an egg. The mother picked up her baby and climbed upon the ledge, avoiding the pain where her wing should have it been. When they reached the nest they discovered the other eight eggs had also hatched. The father took the place of the mother, teaching the baby pterodactyls how to fly and catch food.  The babies grew up into children, growing kind, forgiving, and strong. And thus ended the birth of Juladactyl.

The Preview of the GREAT Juladactyl

There once was a beautiful bird-thinga-ma-jig who was headed to her nest. Then, all of the sudden, the ground began to shake and the bird fell from the sky as the wind tore her wing clean off as she shrieked, (which, by the way, is not a pretty sound) knowing that she could be heard throughout the entire jungle! High upon a rocky ledge, an egg in a nest made of twigs, feathers, leaves, and the bones of devoured animals, began to tumble, hurtling toward the jungle floor, when all of the sudden...

 On Monday, the 21 (I think), see what happens to the AMAZING Juladactyl.
                           Juladactyl out!

Dianasaur... sneak preview

This is Dianasaur and on Tuesday I'm going to post about how I ended up with just a generic name that doesn't sound like a specific dinosaur name... or at least the story I want people hearing ;) and I'm going to give all of you a sneak preview...

As the wind howled and the ground shook, in a nest overflowing with eggs, one egg rolled from the nest, its mother chasing after it. When it rolled into the water though, she had to stop, because she didn't know how to swim. The egg lay at the bottom of a deep river. A Dark shadow approached the egg, its mouth open and it...

More on Tuesday :)

~Dianasaur

First Blog Post

Yes! I got a new blog today! I'm thinking I'm going to have to share with my four friends so it's pretty exciting. I hope to be able to get all of us posting randomly and maybe you'll get to know a couple of my friends a little better. Were the five dinos just cause. There's me, Juladactyle, Dianasaur, K-Rex, Annisaurus, and Broncatasaurus. Sorry if I spelled anybody's name wrong. So I hope I'll be able to post a couple times a week, that's my goal anyways. But we'll see how it goes.
                         Juladactyl out!