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I have a lot of ideas I want to explore with this fanfic, and let's just say this fanfic isn't the only Dinosaur Train thing I want to upload.

I am unable to watch Season 5 episodes and "What's at the Center of the Earth?" due to geographical issues, so anything from that never happened in this fic.

And lastly, I'd like feedback on my writing so I can improve it.

But without further ado, enjoy the beginning of this fanfic!","writing":"The world of Fenhue, a world in which mana power flowed in it's atmosphere, while the mana power caused some people to get the ability to bend certain elements to their whim, it is best utilized with technology called ManaPhones, allowing people to do extraordinary things, of course, these were expensive, so most people's lives were unchanged, but those lucky enough to have one could utilize the mana power to do things like teleport to work and watch scenarios from other worlds.\n\nTobias was one of these ManaPhone owners, the Earthbender was sat on his soft orange chair in his bedroom, it had been a long day today, and the red and white furred dragon was pretty worn-out, Tobias wore a white robe, a blue vest and green pants, he scratched his brown hair as he tried to figure out what series to watch next on his laptop, he had been teaching Earthbending to his students all day and just wanted to relax.\n\n[i]Last Airbender? Nah, I think I should take my mind off of bending for tonight, maybe some Dragon Tales.[/i]\n\nTobias loaded up the app he watches his series on when he was suddenly interrupted by a loud knock on the door, he sighed in annoyance as his spare time had been interrupted, he walked in annoyance to the front door.\n\nOpening the door, he was met with a stoic female Dry Bones wearing a red scarf, and an orange sleeveless jacket that fit around her shell, this was Autumn, she was an Airbender, And was the one who usually came up with the lessons for the other teachers, at least when she wasn't teaching Airbending to others, she seemed to be pretty passionate about that.\n\n``Oh it's you.'' Tobias sighed in annoyance as he realised he would have to discuss bending lessons with Autumn, again, ``Lemme guess, more earthbending lessons?''\n\n``No, this is more important.'' Autumn replied, ``I asked Esteban and Karis but they didn't want anything to do with it, let me inside so I can explain.''\n\nTobias let him in, as he made her some tea, he wondered why Esteban and Karis didn't want to help Autumn, Esteban was always up to a lot of challenges and was pretty strong, and Karis is pretty versatile and knows what to do in a lot of situations, why didn't they want to help?\n\nTobias placed the two hot mugs of tea on the table Autumn had sat down at and sat at the table with him, she took a small sip of her tea, while she was an undead being, it didn't mean she couldn't eat or drink, it was more of a recreational thing than a day to day thing.\n\n``So, what's so important that even Karis didn't want to do it?'' Tobias asked Autumn in a confused tone.\n\nAutumn looked at Tobias, ``Well, the thing is, considering the circumstances, they wouldn't have been able to do it.'' she began as she took another sip of tea, ``Esteban is bad at talking to people, and his bad temper would have been very detrimental to the mission, as for Karis, she unfortunately had a field trip to attend to and wouldn't have accepted anyway.''\n\n``Yeah, but what is it?'' Tobias asked as he took a sip of his tea.\n\n``Well, it appears bending abilities have been discovered in another world.'' Autumn explained, ``I need you to explore this world and find the source of the power, we need to know what's causing it.''\n\nTobias took another sip, ``I can do that.'' Tobias replied confidently, ``Just find me another earthbending teacher to replace me and I'll be on it.''\n\n``I knew you'd want to do it.'' Autumn replied, ``Besides, you'd be great for the job, you are a fan of dinosaurs after all.''\n\nTobias took a sip of tea as he wondered what Autumn meant, would he be going to a world full of dinosaurs, while he was familiar with a lot of dinosaurs, he didn't know how he could actually work with them considering the size of some of them, he looked at Autumn nervously as the thought of a fully grown T-Rex earthbending crossed his mind.\n\n``Don't worry.'' Autumn replied reassuringly, ``The dinosaurs here are, friendly to say the least, have you seen the series Dinosaur Train?''\n\nTobias nearly choked on his tea when he heard that, he was going to the world that introduced him to dinosaurs ten years ago! He got hooked on the series when he got his first ManaPhone and watched the scenarios until the website stopped uploading new ones, since then he wanted the coordinates to the world so he can go there himself.\n\n``Course I have!'' Tobias eagarly explained. ``I love that world! I can't wait to see what's been happening since they stopped uploading new scenarios.''\n\nAutumn finished her tea, ``Usually that means nothing interesting has happened since then.'' she explained, ``Of course, that will change soon, with you going there and all.''\n\nTobias finished his tea, ``Will I be going with someone or is it just me?'' Tobias picked up the two empty mugs and took them to the sink.\n\n``You'll be going with my son, Avatar Tiangui.'' Autumn replied.\n\nTobias assumed as much, being the avatar, Tiangui possessed the power of all four elemental bending techniques, and was the most important person in the world, sorting things out for people and being an ambassador to stop civil wars, not to mention sometimes completely changing the world radically.\n\n``Me and my son will meet up with you tomorrow.'' Autumn explained as Tobias finished washing the mugs, ``For now, prepare yourself, sometimes scenarios can be inaccurate.''\n\n``Understood.'' Tobias chuckled to himself, ``I can't wait for tomorrow!''\n\n``Right, I'll see you tomorrow then.'' Autumn left the house through the front door into the darkness of the night, meanwhile, Tobias decided to play video games for a bit on his Nvidia Shield, a bit of retro gaming always soothed his mind before bed, and what better game like Earthbound?\n\nThe next morning, Tobias was packing things for the trip when someone knocked on the door, he opened it to see Autumn with a purple Paratroopa, that was Tiangui, the avatar, ``Hey!'' Tiangui greeted Tobias joyfully, Autumn tried to not pay attention to her peppy son, though you could easily tell he was bothering her.\n\n``Hey.'' Tobias greeted him back nervously, he couldn't believe he was going to work with the avatar! Autumn then handed him a piece of paper with numbers on it.\n\n``These are the coordinates for Pteranodon Station.'' Autumn explained, as the duo put the coordinates in the phone ``Here lives two families, one of these are the main centre of scenarios, you should be able to get the most information out of them about this world, not to mention easy access to the world's best source of transportation.''\n\nTiangui looked at his phone, ``Whoa, check this out!'' Tiangui pointed at the relatively large number on the screen, ``It would take one third of our mana power to teleport there!''\n\n``Ah, does it?'' Tobias looked at his phone and frowned, he was right! This meant he would only be able to go there once a day unless he brought a couple of portable ManaPacks with him, heaven forbid what would happen if he forgot to charge.\n\n``Yes, it would.'' Autumn began, ``And as a reminder of last night, you need to find where the source of bending is coming from and see if it's permanent or not.''\n\n``What do you mean if it's permanent?'' Tiangui questioned as he looked through his phone, ``Only I can remove someone's bending!''\n\n``Well, sometimes it can be a crazed fan trying to cause more scenarios for the series in order to revive it.'' Autumn explained, ``But sometimes it can be worse, like if someone planted ManaTech into their world.''\n\n``I see.'' Tiangui nodded.\n\n``In any case, you should get going.'' Autumn reminded them, ``Good luck when you get there, and don't show them any tech unless you need to, understand?''\n\n``I understand.'' Tobias smiled, at least he was preserving the world's progression. They then used their ManaPhones and teleported to Pteranodon Terrace.\n\nThe two's world turned white around them as they teleported as soothing spacial sounds filled their ears, soon the sound faded and their world turned to normal, they were standing on a wooden board, they looked around to see some train tracks, around the board was some plants, they were very, prehistoric, the air smelled much cleaner, and to them was a large building with a brochure stand and a ticket booth with a very surprised orange troodon inside it.\n\n``Hey!'' Tiangui exclaimed loudly, ``We made it to Pteranodon Terrace!''\n\nTobias was excited too, now he could finally meet the dinosaurs he grew up with! But then he noticed the very confused troodon staring at him, ``Don't worry, we're real!'' Tobias decleared to the Troodon.\n\nThe Pteranodon Terrace Troodon (Or PT-Troodon) stared awkwardly at the alien duo walking towards them, he had no idea what to say to them, nor what they were capable of, he closed the booth's window nervously, much to the duo's equally confused reactions.\n\n``Hey!'' Tiangui opened the window and looked inside, ``Are you okay?'' Tiangui saw the PT-Troodon anxiously trying to contact someone with a screen and some buttons, he then turned to Tiangui.\n\n``W-what are you?'' the troodon asked in confusion as he shyly walked towards Tiangui.\n\n``I am Avatar Tiangui!'' the Paratroopa announced confidently, he dragged Tobias to his left, ``And this is my friend Tobias!''\n\n``Hey!'' Tobias waved and smiled, PT-Troodon looked at him, they didn't seem harmless, but where did they come from, his thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of two young children talking, he recognized them immediately, it was Buddy and Tiny, occupying them was another Pteranodon, this one was larger then Tiny, though his height only reached to that of an eight-year old child, this was Mr. Pteranodon, \n\nBuddy was a green-eyed orange Tyrannosaurus with a line of blue diamonds on the centre of his face, and Tiny was a blue-eyed green Pteranodon, and so was her dad Mr. Pteranodon, Tiny's eyes were wider than her dad's though, and she had eyelashes.\n\nTobias turned around to see them taking notice of the new creature looking at them happily. ``Whoa, who are you?'' Buddy asked Tobias in amazement, ``I've never seen a creature like you before!''\n\n``I'm Tobias!'' the furred dragon began as he squatted down to talk to the kids, ``I'm a furred dragon.'' he pointed to Tiangui, ``And that's Tiangui, he's a Paratroopa.''\n\nThe kids looked at the Paratroopa talking to the troodon, he then walked back and began to talk to Tobias, who noticed Tiangui looked very unhappy.\n\n``So basically.'' Tiangui began as he scratched the back of his head nervously, ``There have been reports of weird activity at this place called the Big Pond.''\n\n``That's where we're going today!'' Tiny announced in excitement.\n\n``Yeah, but we can't go there.'' Tiangui groaned in annoyance, ``We kind of needed to book tickets a day in advance.''\n\n``Well, actually.'' Mr. Pteranodon handed Tobias two tickets to the Big Pond, ``All of us were supposed to go today, but unfortunately my wife came down with a cold while playing with the kids yesterday, and Don and Shiny volunteered to help take care of her while we fished for food.''\n\nTobias took the two tickets from Mr. Pteranodon, ``Ah, thank you!'' Tobias smiled as he looked at the two tickets.\n\n``My name is Tiny!'' Tiny began to introduce her family, ``This is my brother, Buddy, and this is my dad, Dad!''\n\n``Call me Perry.'' Perry told Tobias, the furred Dragon took notice of this oddity, but remembered Autumn's warning about scenarios being inaccurate, he guessed his wife also had a name.\n\nSuddenly, a loud whistle was heard, it was the Dinosaur Train, it pulled over at the station and stopped, and then out came another troodon, he was slightly more orange, more bigger, and he wore a red hat and a vest-like uniform, it was the Conductor of the Dinosaur Train, or as Tobias called him, Ductie.\n\nDuctie walked outside, ``All aboard!'' he announced, all five of them got onto the Dinosaur Train's main section and sat down, though Ductie stared sternly at Tobias and Tiangui as they walked by him, especially Tiangui, he wrote a note down on a spare piece of paper, he then closed the door and the Dinosaur Train started it's way to the Big Pond, Tobias and Tiangui were sat behind the Pteranodon family as Ductie made his way to the latter.\n\n``Hello Pteranodon Family!'' Ductie greeted them with a smile, using his toe claw to punch holes into their tickets, he did the same with Tobias and Tiangui's ticket.\n\n``That's my new friend Tobias.'' Buddy pointed to Tobias as he explained them to Ductie, ``He's a furred dragon, and that's his friend, Tiangui the Paratroopa!''\n\n``Avatar Tiangui!'' Tiangui announced to everyone, Ductie flinched in shock, before returning to a more relaxed expression.\n\n``Avatar, huh?'' Ductie chuckled to himself, albeit with a hint of nervousness, ``That sounds, interesting.''\n\n``Yep!'' Tiangui stretched his body, as he began to ramble about his adventures, Tobias peeked over at the Pteranodon family, they had clearly noticed Ductie's reaction to Tiangui.\n\n``Why is the conductor acting so weird around your friend?'' Buddy asked in concern, ``He's not dangerous is he?''\n\n``He shouldn't be.'' Tobias assured the Pteranodon Family, ``Though I do wonder why Ductie is acting like this around him.''\n\n``You mean the Conductor, right?'' Perry corrected Tobias.\n\n``Yeah.'' Tobias nodded, he looked at the subject of the conversation intently, ``I just like to call him that.''\n\n``But you've never even met the Conductor!'' Tiny pointed out, much to the realization of Tobias, ``What do you mean you like to call him that?''\n\nThe now worried furred dragon tried to think of a reason as he stared anxiously at an expecting Tiny, but before he could, the whistle of the dinosaur train was heard, Ductie pulled out his pocket watch, ``Well.'' he exclaimed loudly in order to shut up Tiangui, ``Looks like we're at the Big Pond!''\n\nTiangui stood up, ``But I haven't finished explaining-''\n\n``BIG POND STATION!'' Ductie shouted, much to Tiangui's annoyance of being shut down, the Dinosaur Train parked at the station, the team of five got off and began to set off to explore what was wrong in the Big Pond.\n\nWhen they got there, they were met with a weird ostrich like dinosaur, his head and legs was green, the front of his small crest had some orange on it and had a pale yellow beak, his feathery body was striped orange and green, and the protruding feathers on his arm, the bottom of his neck and his tail were green, it was Keenan the Chirostenotes.\n\n``Hi, Keenan.'' Buddy and Tiny both greeted him with a surprised tone in his voice, obviously they hadn't seen him in quite a while, since it had been over a year since they had solved the mystery of some missing eggs, it was then they noticed how panicked he looked, ``What's the matter?'' Buddy asked in a concerned tone.\n\n``It's my sister!'' Keenan began to explain, as he looked behind him alertfully, ``She's trying to find some stupid cave.''\n\n``You have a sister?'' Tiny asked in surprise, ``What's she like?''\n\nSuddenly, Keenan turned forward, gasped and hid in a bush, the team watched some creatures that looked a lot like Tiangui, except for some minor differences, they were wearing a red helmet, shell and shoes, plus he had a visible beak on his face, not to mention the skin was a tad more tanned than Tiangui's, they were patrolling the area, looking for intruders.\n\n``What are they?'' Perry asked Tiangui curiously.\n\n``Fire Bros.'' Tiangui began to explain snarkingly, ``It appears they've been hired by Keenan's sister to guard the Big Pond, though it begs the question how she got the money to do such a thing.''\n\n``What's money?'' Buddy asked, but his answer would have to wait because they were then discovered by two Fire Bros.\n\n``Halt!'' one Fire Bro barked at Tobias, ``No one is permitted to enter the vicinity!''\n\nThe Pteranodon family and Keenan backed away when they heard the stern voice of the Fire Bro, ``Whoa, whoa.'' Tobias tried to simmer the Fire Bro down, ``We just heard about some weird things going on in the Big Pond, and by the looks of it, we've found the source.''\n\n``Then leave.'' the other Fire Bro commanded, he then took notice of Tiangui, ``Though we may need your assistance.''\n\n``I'm not helping you.'' Tiangui announced calmly but sternly, ``I wanna know what's going on first.''\n\n``Can we at least do some fishing while we're here?'' Buddy nicely requested, the Fire Bro shook his head, ``Please?'' Buddy asked in a more cute and polite manner, much like how he does with his parents.\n\nUnfortunately, it wouldn't work this time, the Fire Bro stepped forward angrily and produced a fire ball in his hand, Perry squawked in fear and grabbed Buddy and Tiny and wrapped his wings around them for their protection, Keenan cowered behind him and curled underneath him.\n\nTobias sighed in annoyance, Guess I'll have to explain bending to them when it's over. He thought as he got into a fighting stance along with Tiangui, Tobias thrust one half of his body forward and made pieces of earth swiftly protrude from the ground, the Fire Bros quickly jumped above this and launched fireballs at Tobias, who blocked the attack by making an earth shield from the ground.\n\nMeanwhile, Tiangui stood on top of a log on the ground and launched a gentle breeze that flowed behind the two Fire Bros, who turned around, Tobias stared in mind annoyance, it was easy to tell he just wanted to show off being the avatar, as when the Fire Bros launched a stream of fire at him, he yelped in panic and slipped off the log, obviously despite all the training he had done, he had no experience in a real fight.\n\nKeenan slowly uncurled and watched the fight with The Pteranodon family, they had never seen such abilities before, but when Keenan nearly got hit by a fireball that Tobias deflected with a rock, that was when Perry decided enough was enough, he quickly lead the kids back to the station, only to be confronted by another pair of angry Fire Bros, Perry gulped at the sight as he realised he was in trouble.\n\nTobias saw the dinosaurs getting captured before he was shot in the back by a fireball, knocking him unconscious, Tiangui tried to launch a stream of water from behind but missed, the Fire Bro duo turned around, Tiangui fell backwards onto his rear end.\n\n``F-fine!'' Tiangui surrendered, he stood up in a bad attempt to look brave, his trembling voice clearly not helping his situation, ``W-what do you want anyway?''\n\nOne Fire Bro got out his ManaPhone, he looked at it for a bit and then put it back, ``Come with us.'' one Fire Bro commanded Tiangui in a calmer but stern tone, ``If you try anything, we won't hesitate to fight back.''\n\nTiangui was reluctant, but decided to help anyway, obviously since he had no fighting experience he wouldn't stand a chance against them, ``Fine.'' he said this as he sighed, the Fire Bros nodded and began to follow them.\n\nMeanwhile, Tobias came to his senses, he looked around to see he was inside a small cave, he looked forward and saw a Chirostenotes guarding the entrance, he thought it was Keenan, but upon further inspection, she looked more feminine, she had a white head, her crest was yellow, her beak was orange, her legs were a more pale yellow, her body was turquoise with white stripes on her back, she also had purple feathers.\n\n``That's my sister.'' a gruff voice pointed out, Tobias turned around and saw Keenan staring at her spitefully, behind him was the Pteranodon family, Perry was comforting his scared children.\n\n``Ah, I see.'' Tobias smiled as he scooted over to Keenan, Buddy decided to speak up.\n\n``Kiera is your sister?'' Buddy checked with Keenan to make sure he heard right, ``But she's really nice, she would never do this!''\n\n``She used to be.'' Keenan explained, then he sighed remorsefully, ``Then something happened, she had to stop babysitting kids.''\n\n``Why did she have to stop babysitting?'' Tobias asked in confusion.\n\n``She won't tell me.'' Keenan grumbled as he circled and laid down, ``Everytime I brought it up, she always got so sad, I never understood why.''\n\n``It must have been pretty bad.'' Tobias looked at him pitifully, the Pteranodon family felt pretty bad as well, he patted the ground next to him and signalled Keenan to sit with him, ``Tell you what, why don't you sit here and explain what you were doing in the Big Pond?''\n\nKeenan didn't know whenever to trust Tobias, but he figured his current situation, it couldn't be any worse, he got up and sat beside Tobias, who wrapped his arm around the omnivore, he twitched when he felt his soft arm on his body, but soon, he got used to it, he felt a bit safer, they looked at each other curiously.\n\n``You can tell me anything.'' Tobias smiled reassuringly, ``Nobody will think any less of you.''\n\nKeenan thought for a moment, then sighed angrily, ``Well, we woke up earlier than usual.'' Keenan began, ``Kiera grabbed a small, black thing, she talked into it and explained that she was ready for the attack.''\n\nTobias got out his ManaPhone and showed it to Keenan, ``You mean this?'' he asked Keenan, who nodded, ``This is a ManaPhone, it allows people to communicate from long distances, but it also has the power to let people teleport to other worlds.''\n\n``That would explain the Fire Bros appearing out of thin air when she made the call.'' Keenan cracked a smile, as he held Tobias's ManaPhone, ``Anyway, I was driven out of the nest by them, and that was when I met you.''\n\n``Where are your parents?'' Perry asked Keenan, concerned about his safety, ``Surely they must have tried to reason with her!''\n\n``I only live with my sister.'' Keenan looked sad when he said this, ``My parents are dead.''\n\nAn atmosphere of pity for the chirostenotes filled the cave, ``I'm sorry I asked.'' Perry apologized as he looked away sadly, Buddy stroked Keenan's shoulder in an attempt to comfort him, ``Is that why, Kiera stopped babysitting?''\n\nKeenan shook his head in disagreement, ``That wasn't the reason.'' he explained, ``That thing that ended her career, it happened while my mom was still alive.''\n\n``I see.'' Tobias gently pushed Keenan closer towards him, he was now leaning on Tobias's side, it was then a very defeated Tiangui appeared in front of Kiera, ``I'm the avatar.'' he sighed, worn out and humiliated, ``I'm the one you need, just please let these dinos go!''\n\n``He tried to make a run for it.'' the Fire Bro explained to Kiera. ``But he didn't get very far.\n\n``He didn't put up much of a fight, did he?'' a disappointed Tiny asked the same Fire Bro, who shook his head.\n\n``Thank you for coming.'' Kiera seemed relieved as she looked at her ManaPhone, ``This is the cave with the treasure according to the phone, two of the Fire Bros found them, and they seemed to have gotten the wrong idea.''\n\n``What do you mean?'' Tiangui asked, he pointed at Tobias and the dinosaurs, ``You mean this isn't a hostage situation?''\n\n``Umm, no.'' Kiera laughed nervously, ``I didn't expect to get Buddy and Tiny involved in this.'' a silence filled the room, the Pteranodon family seemed relieved that nothing was going to happen to them, though they were confused on why the Fire Bros took them into the cave they just happened to be looking for in the first place.\n\n``Just come with me.'' Kiera ordered the confused Tiangui, ``You can come too,'' Tiangui, the dinosaurs and Tobias followed her towards a door with four elemental signs, Fire, Air, Water and Earth, along with four red and white targets.\n\nTiangui knew what he had to do, he shot a fireball at the fire target, a strong breeze at the air target, and a large rock at the earth target, they protruded into the wall, he then grabbed a water bottle, he waterbended it's contents into a small stream of water and launched it into the water target, it protruded into the wall, which then caused the door to open.\n\n``Couldn't you have just hired other elemental Bros?'' Tobias asked in confusion as they walked onward deeper into the cave, ``Why did you need the Avatar?''\n\nKiera was silent for a brief moment, then spoke up, ``I don't really know anything about this.'' Kiera confessed, ``Honestly, this is my first experience with bending and ManaTech.''\n\n``But then how did you get that ManaPhone?'' Tiangui asked Kiera, who remained silent, this time not answering at all.\n\nThey entered the end of the cave, nothing was inside it but a stone tablet on a pillar of rock, before anyone could ask anything, Kiera ran towards it and picked it up, ``Bingo.'' she smiled for the first time since anyone saw her today, ``I have it.''\n\nTobias and Tiangui immediately recognized it, ``Put the Mana Container down.'' Tobias ordered in a more serious tone as he walked forward towards Kiera. ``You have no idea what power that thing possesses.''\n\n``It's not for me.'' Kiera explained, it was then a rather unsettling yellow troodon walked into the area, he wasn't wearing the regular Dinosaur Train Industries uniform and hat, instead he wore a green hoodie, and had three orange feathers on the top of his head.\n\n``Thank you for getting me the Mana Container.'' the troodon stared at a rather shocked Buddy and Tiny, Perry sensed something was off about him, and pulled the kids back a few steps. ``And as we agreed, Your secret is safe.''\n\nKiera handed the troodon the Mana Container, he held it in his hands for a brief moment before Tobias spoke up, ``So you were the one behind this?'' he asked the troodon in surprise, ``Why would you do this?''\n\nThe troodon smirked at Tobias as he turned away from him, he then tossed the tablet as far as he could, it smashed into the ground.\n\nA large beam of energy shot upwards, vaporizing the cave top open and making a large hole in it's place, and then an explosion boomed in the sky, a shockwave spread across the Big Pond as ManaEnergy rained from the sky as it flashed white and then turned back to a normal blue colour.\n\n``Welp.'' the troodon clapped his hands once and sighed in relief, ``Mana energy is now available in the Mesozoic era!''\n\nThe Pteranodon family gasped in shock, ``What do you mean?'' Perry asked angrily, ``What have you done to our world?''\n\n``Well.'' the troodon turned around swiftly to Perry, ``Let's just say power beyond your wildest dreams will be appearing everywhere, Mana energy is flowing everywhere! Through all the Time Tunnels and every crevice and time period, give it time for the true effects to happen though, but then again, some of you might already be affected.''\n\n``Affected?'' a very worried Tiny repeated, worried, she turned to Tobias, ``We're not gonna die, are we?''\n\n``No.'' Tobias explained as he walked back to Keenan, ``Nothing should change as far as I'm concerned.''\n\nThe troodon turned to Kiera, ``Now then.'' he smugly began as he stared at a worried Kiera, ``I think I have another task for you, lest I tell everyone what you did!''\n\n``But you said-'' Kiera was interrupted by the troodon pulling her towards his body as she quietly yelped, ``Let's just say I'm not done with you yet.'' he muttered angrily to her.\n\n``Get your claws off my sister!'' Keenan growled, he ran towards the troodon, who responded by punching Keenan's left side, knocking him off his feet as he slid a very short distance on the ground, Perry gasped in shock when that happened, but as much as he wanted to attack him for that, he knew he wasn't strong enough to put up much of a fight, so he remained put.\n\n``This is the only first step of my plan, after all, and once all is said and done, you can go back to living a normal life.'' the troodon exhaled and smiled, ``Or as normal as things will get here now.''\n\nThe troodon then grabbed his ManaPhone from his pocket and teleported out of the world with Kiera, Keenan tried to catch him but failed, leaving him standing in the place where his sister once was, he collapsed to his knees and looked at the ground, mad at himself for not being able to save his sister, even though he knew it was impossible.\n\nTobias walked over to Keenan, who turned around, Keenan looked away miserably as Tobias patted his back as a sign of pity and comfort.\n\n``Thank you.'' a very lost Keenan whispered under his breath.\n\nEveryone was left with a feeling of uncertainty, Perry looked at his two children and wondered about their well-being and future, Keenan had basically had his sister stolen from him and had no idea where she was, literally everything changed in that one moment for the dinosaurs in this world.\n\nBut this was one of many changes, as little did they know that their lives would be changed forever, of course, there were a lot of mysteries, like how did that troodon get a ManaPhone, and what he has in store for Kiera, and of course the effects of the explosion, want to know what happens next? Find out next week!\n\nTo Be Continued.\n\n","writing_bbcode_parsed":"The world of Fenhue, a world in which mana power flowed in it's atmosphere, while the mana power caused some people to get the ability to bend certain elements to their whim, it is best utilized with technology called ManaPhones, allowing people to do extraordinary things, of course, these were expensive, so most people's lives were unchanged, but those lucky enough to have one could utilize the mana power to do things like teleport to work and watch scenarios from other worlds.

Tobias was one of these ManaPhone owners, the Earthbender was sat on his soft orange chair in his bedroom, it had been a long day today, and the red and white furred dragon was pretty worn-out, Tobias wore a white robe, a blue vest and green pants, he scratched his brown hair as he tried to figure out what series to watch next on his laptop, he had been teaching Earthbending to his students all day and just wanted to relax.

Last Airbender? Nah, I think I should take my mind off of bending for tonight, maybe some Dragon Tales.

Tobias loaded up the app he watches his series on when he was suddenly interrupted by a loud knock on the door, he sighed in annoyance as his spare time had been interrupted, he walked in annoyance to the front door.

Opening the door, he was met with a stoic female Dry Bones wearing a red scarf, and an orange sleeveless jacket that fit around her shell, this was Autumn, she was an Airbender, And was the one who usually came up with the lessons for the other teachers, at least when she wasn't teaching Airbending to others, she seemed to be pretty passionate about that.

``Oh it's you.'' Tobias sighed in annoyance as he realised he would have to discuss bending lessons with Autumn, again, ``Lemme guess, more earthbending lessons?''

``No, this is more important.'' Autumn replied, ``I asked Esteban and Karis but they didn't want anything to do with it, let me inside so I can explain.''

Tobias let him in, as he made her some tea, he wondered why Esteban and Karis didn't want to help Autumn, Esteban was always up to a lot of challenges and was pretty strong, and Karis is pretty versatile and knows what to do in a lot of situations, why didn't they want to help?

Tobias placed the two hot mugs of tea on the table Autumn had sat down at and sat at the table with him, she took a small sip of her tea, while she was an undead being, it didn't mean she couldn't eat or drink, it was more of a recreational thing than a day to day thing.

``So, what's so important that even Karis didn't want to do it?'' Tobias asked Autumn in a confused tone.

Autumn looked at Tobias, ``Well, the thing is, considering the circumstances, they wouldn't have been able to do it.'' she began as she took another sip of tea, ``Esteban is bad at talking to people, and his bad temper would have been very detrimental to the mission, as for Karis, she unfortunately had a field trip to attend to and wouldn't have accepted anyway.''

``Yeah, but what is it?'' Tobias asked as he took a sip of his tea.

``Well, it appears bending abilities have been discovered in another world.'' Autumn explained, ``I need you to explore this world and find the source of the power, we need to know what's causing it.''

Tobias took another sip, ``I can do that.'' Tobias replied confidently, ``Just find me another earthbending teacher to replace me and I'll be on it.''

``I knew you'd want to do it.'' Autumn replied, ``Besides, you'd be great for the job, you are a fan of dinosaurs after all.''

Tobias took a sip of tea as he wondered what Autumn meant, would he be going to a world full of dinosaurs, while he was familiar with a lot of dinosaurs, he didn't know how he could actually work with them considering the size of some of them, he looked at Autumn nervously as the thought of a fully grown T-Rex earthbending crossed his mind.

``Don't worry.'' Autumn replied reassuringly, ``The dinosaurs here are, friendly to say the least, have you seen the series Dinosaur Train?''

Tobias nearly choked on his tea when he heard that, he was going to the world that introduced him to dinosaurs ten years ago! He got hooked on the series when he got his first ManaPhone and watched the scenarios until the website stopped uploading new ones, since then he wanted the coordinates to the world so he can go there himself.

``Course I have!'' Tobias eagarly explained. ``I love that world! I can't wait to see what's been happening since they stopped uploading new scenarios.''

Autumn finished her tea, ``Usually that means nothing interesting has happened since then.'' she explained, ``Of course, that will change soon, with you going there and all.''

Tobias finished his tea, ``Will I be going with someone or is it just me?'' Tobias picked up the two empty mugs and took them to the sink.

``You'll be going with my son, Avatar Tiangui.'' Autumn replied.

Tobias assumed as much, being the avatar, Tiangui possessed the power of all four elemental bending techniques, and was the most important person in the world, sorting things out for people and being an ambassador to stop civil wars, not to mention sometimes completely changing the world radically.

``Me and my son will meet up with you tomorrow.'' Autumn explained as Tobias finished washing the mugs, ``For now, prepare yourself, sometimes scenarios can be inaccurate.''

``Understood.'' Tobias chuckled to himself, ``I can't wait for tomorrow!''

``Right, I'll see you tomorrow then.'' Autumn left the house through the front door into the darkness of the night, meanwhile, Tobias decided to play video games for a bit on his Nvidia Shield, a bit of retro gaming always soothed his mind before bed, and what better game like Earthbound?

The next morning, Tobias was packing things for the trip when someone knocked on the door, he opened it to see Autumn with a purple Paratroopa, that was Tiangui, the avatar, ``Hey!'' Tiangui greeted Tobias joyfully, Autumn tried to not pay attention to her peppy son, though you could easily tell he was bothering her.

``Hey.'' Tobias greeted him back nervously, he couldn't believe he was going to work with the avatar! Autumn then handed him a piece of paper with numbers on it.

``These are the coordinates for Pteranodon Station.'' Autumn explained, as the duo put the coordinates in the phone ``Here lives two families, one of these are the main centre of scenarios, you should be able to get the most information out of them about this world, not to mention easy access to the world's best source of transportation.''

Tiangui looked at his phone, ``Whoa, check this out!'' Tiangui pointed at the relatively large number on the screen, ``It would take one third of our mana power to teleport there!''

``Ah, does it?'' Tobias looked at his phone and frowned, he was right! This meant he would only be able to go there once a day unless he brought a couple of portable ManaPacks with him, heaven forbid what would happen if he forgot to charge.

``Yes, it would.'' Autumn began, ``And as a reminder of last night, you need to find where the source of bending is coming from and see if it's permanent or not.''

``What do you mean if it's permanent?'' Tiangui questioned as he looked through his phone, ``Only I can remove someone's bending!''

``Well, sometimes it can be a crazed fan trying to cause more scenarios for the series in order to revive it.'' Autumn explained, ``But sometimes it can be worse, like if someone planted ManaTech into their world.''

``I see.'' Tiangui nodded.

``In any case, you should get going.'' Autumn reminded them, ``Good luck when you get there, and don't show them any tech unless you need to, understand?''

``I understand.'' Tobias smiled, at least he was preserving the world's progression. They then used their ManaPhones and teleported to Pteranodon Terrace.

The two's world turned white around them as they teleported as soothing spacial sounds filled their ears, soon the sound faded and their world turned to normal, they were standing on a wooden board, they looked around to see some train tracks, around the board was some plants, they were very, prehistoric, the air smelled much cleaner, and to them was a large building with a brochure stand and a ticket booth with a very surprised orange troodon inside it.

``Hey!'' Tiangui exclaimed loudly, ``We made it to Pteranodon Terrace!''

Tobias was excited too, now he could finally meet the dinosaurs he grew up with! But then he noticed the very confused troodon staring at him, ``Don't worry, we're real!'' Tobias decleared to the Troodon.

The Pteranodon Terrace Troodon (Or PT-Troodon) stared awkwardly at the alien duo walking towards them, he had no idea what to say to them, nor what they were capable of, he closed the booth's window nervously, much to the duo's equally confused reactions.

``Hey!'' Tiangui opened the window and looked inside, ``Are you okay?'' Tiangui saw the PT-Troodon anxiously trying to contact someone with a screen and some buttons, he then turned to Tiangui.

``W-what are you?'' the troodon asked in confusion as he shyly walked towards Tiangui.

``I am Avatar Tiangui!'' the Paratroopa announced confidently, he dragged Tobias to his left, ``And this is my friend Tobias!''

``Hey!'' Tobias waved and smiled, PT-Troodon looked at him, they didn't seem harmless, but where did they come from, his thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of two young children talking, he recognized them immediately, it was Buddy and Tiny, occupying them was another Pteranodon, this one was larger then Tiny, though his height only reached to that of an eight-year old child, this was Mr. Pteranodon,

Buddy was a green-eyed orange Tyrannosaurus with a line of blue diamonds on the centre of his face, and Tiny was a blue-eyed green Pteranodon, and so was her dad Mr. Pteranodon, Tiny's eyes were wider than her dad's though, and she had eyelashes.

Tobias turned around to see them taking notice of the new creature looking at them happily. ``Whoa, who are you?'' Buddy asked Tobias in amazement, ``I've never seen a creature like you before!''

``I'm Tobias!'' the furred dragon began as he squatted down to talk to the kids, ``I'm a furred dragon.'' he pointed to Tiangui, ``And that's Tiangui, he's a Paratroopa.''

The kids looked at the Paratroopa talking to the troodon, he then walked back and began to talk to Tobias, who noticed Tiangui looked very unhappy.

``So basically.'' Tiangui began as he scratched the back of his head nervously, ``There have been reports of weird activity at this place called the Big Pond.''

``That's where we're going today!'' Tiny announced in excitement.

``Yeah, but we can't go there.'' Tiangui groaned in annoyance, ``We kind of needed to book tickets a day in advance.''

``Well, actually.'' Mr. Pteranodon handed Tobias two tickets to the Big Pond, ``All of us were supposed to go today, but unfortunately my wife came down with a cold while playing with the kids yesterday, and Don and Shiny volunteered to help take care of her while we fished for food.''

Tobias took the two tickets from Mr. Pteranodon, ``Ah, thank you!'' Tobias smiled as he looked at the two tickets.

``My name is Tiny!'' Tiny began to introduce her family, ``This is my brother, Buddy, and this is my dad, Dad!''

``Call me Perry.'' Perry told Tobias, the furred Dragon took notice of this oddity,  but remembered Autumn's warning about scenarios being inaccurate, he guessed his wife also had a name.

Suddenly, a loud whistle was heard, it was the Dinosaur Train, it pulled over at the station and stopped, and then out came another troodon, he was slightly more orange, more bigger, and he wore a red hat and a vest-like uniform, it was the Conductor of the Dinosaur Train, or as Tobias called him, Ductie.

Ductie walked outside, ``All aboard!'' he announced, all five of them got onto the Dinosaur Train's main section and sat down, though Ductie stared sternly at Tobias and Tiangui as they walked by him, especially Tiangui, he wrote a note down on a spare piece of paper, he then closed the door and the Dinosaur Train started it's way to the Big Pond, Tobias and Tiangui were sat behind the Pteranodon family as Ductie made his way to the latter.

``Hello Pteranodon Family!'' Ductie greeted them with a smile, using his toe claw to punch holes into their tickets, he did the same with Tobias and Tiangui's ticket.

``That's my new friend Tobias.'' Buddy pointed to Tobias as he explained them to Ductie, ``He's a furred dragon, and that's his friend, Tiangui the Paratroopa!''

``Avatar Tiangui!'' Tiangui announced to everyone, Ductie flinched in shock, before returning to a more relaxed expression.

``Avatar, huh?'' Ductie chuckled to himself, albeit with a hint of nervousness, ``That sounds, interesting.''

``Yep!'' Tiangui stretched his body, as he began to ramble about his adventures, Tobias peeked over at the Pteranodon family, they had clearly noticed Ductie's reaction to Tiangui.

``Why is the conductor acting so weird around your friend?'' Buddy asked in concern, ``He's not dangerous is he?''

``He shouldn't be.'' Tobias assured the Pteranodon Family, ``Though I do wonder why Ductie is acting like this around him.''

``You mean the Conductor, right?'' Perry corrected Tobias.

``Yeah.'' Tobias nodded, he looked at the subject of the conversation intently, ``I just like to call him that.''

``But you've never even met the Conductor!'' Tiny pointed out, much to the realization of Tobias, ``What do you mean you like to call him that?''

The now worried furred dragon tried to think of a reason as he stared anxiously at an expecting Tiny, but before he could, the whistle of the dinosaur train was heard, Ductie pulled out his pocket watch, ``Well.'' he exclaimed loudly in order to shut up Tiangui, ``Looks like we're at the Big Pond!''

Tiangui stood up, ``But I haven't finished explaining-''

``BIG POND STATION!'' Ductie shouted, much to Tiangui's annoyance of being shut down, the Dinosaur Train parked at the station, the team of five got off and began to set off to explore what was wrong in the Big Pond.

When they got there, they were met with a weird ostrich like dinosaur, his head and legs was green, the front of his small crest had some orange on it and had a pale yellow beak, his feathery body was striped orange and green, and the protruding feathers on his arm, the bottom of his neck and his tail were green, it was Keenan the Chirostenotes.

``Hi, Keenan.'' Buddy and Tiny both greeted him with a surprised tone in his voice, obviously they hadn't seen him in quite a while, since it had been over a year since they had solved the mystery of some missing eggs, it was then they noticed how panicked he looked, ``What's the matter?'' Buddy asked in a concerned tone.

``It's my sister!'' Keenan began to explain, as he looked behind him alertfully, ``She's trying to find some stupid cave.''

``You have a sister?'' Tiny asked in surprise, ``What's she like?''

Suddenly, Keenan turned forward, gasped and hid in a bush, the team watched some creatures that looked a lot like Tiangui, except for some minor differences, they were wearing a red helmet, shell and shoes, plus he had a visible beak on his face, not to mention the skin was a tad more tanned than Tiangui's, they were patrolling the area, looking for intruders.

``What are they?'' Perry asked Tiangui curiously.

``Fire Bros.'' Tiangui began to explain snarkingly, ``It appears they've been hired by Keenan's sister to guard the Big Pond, though it begs the question how she got the money to do such a thing.''

``What's money?'' Buddy asked, but his answer would have to wait because they were then discovered by two Fire Bros.

``Halt!'' one Fire Bro barked at Tobias, ``No one is permitted to enter the vicinity!''

The Pteranodon family and Keenan backed away when they heard the stern voice of the Fire Bro, ``Whoa, whoa.'' Tobias tried to simmer the Fire Bro down, ``We just heard about some weird things going on in the Big Pond, and by the looks of it, we've found the source.''

``Then leave.'' the other Fire Bro commanded, he then took notice of Tiangui, ``Though we may need your assistance.''

``I'm not helping you.'' Tiangui announced calmly but sternly, ``I wanna know what's going on first.''

``Can we at least do some fishing while we're here?'' Buddy nicely requested, the Fire Bro shook his head, ``Please?'' Buddy asked in a more cute and polite manner, much like how he does with his parents.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't work this time, the Fire Bro stepped forward angrily and produced a fire ball in his hand, Perry squawked in fear and grabbed Buddy and Tiny and wrapped his wings around them for their protection, Keenan cowered behind him and curled underneath him.

Tobias sighed in annoyance, Guess I'll have to explain bending to them when it's over. He thought as he got into a fighting stance along with Tiangui, Tobias thrust one half of his body forward and made pieces of earth swiftly protrude from the ground, the Fire Bros quickly jumped above this and launched fireballs at Tobias, who blocked the attack by making an earth shield from the ground.

Meanwhile, Tiangui stood on top of a log on the ground and launched a gentle breeze that flowed behind the two Fire Bros, who turned around, Tobias stared in mind annoyance, it was easy to tell he just wanted to show off being the avatar, as when the Fire Bros launched a stream of fire at him, he yelped in panic and slipped off the log, obviously despite all the training he had done, he had no experience in a real fight.

Keenan slowly uncurled and watched the fight with The Pteranodon family, they had never seen such abilities before, but when Keenan nearly got hit by a fireball that Tobias deflected with a rock, that was when Perry decided enough was enough, he quickly lead the kids back to the station, only to be confronted by another pair of angry Fire Bros, Perry gulped at the sight as he realised he was in trouble.

Tobias saw the dinosaurs getting captured before he was shot in the back by a fireball, knocking him unconscious, Tiangui tried to launch a stream of water from behind but missed, the Fire Bro duo turned around, Tiangui fell backwards onto his rear end.

``F-fine!'' Tiangui surrendered, he stood up in a bad attempt to look brave, his trembling voice clearly not helping his situation, ``W-what do you want anyway?''

One Fire Bro got out his ManaPhone, he looked at it for a bit and then put it back, ``Come with us.'' one Fire Bro commanded Tiangui in a calmer but stern tone, ``If you try anything, we won't hesitate to fight back.''

Tiangui was reluctant, but decided to help anyway, obviously since he had no fighting experience he wouldn't stand a chance against them, ``Fine.'' he said this as he sighed, the Fire Bros nodded and began to follow them.

Meanwhile, Tobias came to his senses, he looked around to see he was inside a small cave, he looked forward and saw a Chirostenotes guarding the entrance, he thought it was Keenan, but upon further inspection, she looked more feminine, she had a white head, her crest was yellow, her beak was orange, her legs were a more pale yellow, her body was turquoise with white stripes on her back, she also had purple feathers.

``That's my sister.'' a gruff voice pointed out, Tobias turned around and saw Keenan staring at her spitefully, behind him was the Pteranodon family, Perry was comforting his scared children.

``Ah, I see.'' Tobias smiled as he scooted over to Keenan, Buddy decided to speak up.

``Kiera is your sister?'' Buddy checked with Keenan to make sure he heard right, ``But she's really nice, she would never do this!''

``She used to be.'' Keenan explained, then he sighed remorsefully, ``Then something happened, she had to stop babysitting kids.''

``Why did she have to stop babysitting?'' Tobias asked in confusion.

``She won't tell me.'' Keenan grumbled as he circled and laid down, ``Everytime I brought it up, she always got so sad, I never understood why.''

``It must have been pretty bad.'' Tobias looked at him pitifully, the Pteranodon family felt pretty bad as well, he patted the ground next to him and signalled Keenan to sit with him, ``Tell you what, why don't you sit here and  explain what you were doing in the Big Pond?''

Keenan didn't know whenever to trust Tobias, but he figured his current situation, it couldn't be any worse, he got up and sat beside Tobias, who wrapped his arm around the omnivore, he twitched when he felt his soft arm on his body, but soon, he got used to it, he felt a bit safer, they looked at each other curiously.

``You can tell me anything.'' Tobias smiled reassuringly, ``Nobody will think any less of you.''

Keenan thought for a moment, then sighed angrily, ``Well, we woke up earlier than usual.'' Keenan began, ``Kiera grabbed a small, black thing, she talked into it and explained that she was ready for the attack.''

Tobias got out his ManaPhone and showed it to Keenan, ``You mean this?'' he asked Keenan, who nodded, ``This is a ManaPhone, it allows people to communicate from long distances, but it also has the power to let people teleport to other worlds.''

``That would explain the Fire Bros appearing out of thin air when she made the call.'' Keenan cracked a smile, as he held Tobias's ManaPhone, ``Anyway, I was driven out of the nest by them, and that was when I met you.''

``Where are your parents?'' Perry asked Keenan, concerned about his safety, ``Surely they must have tried to reason with her!''

``I only live with my sister.'' Keenan looked sad when he said this, ``My parents are dead.''

An atmosphere of pity for the chirostenotes filled the cave, ``I'm sorry I asked.'' Perry apologized as he looked away sadly, Buddy stroked Keenan's shoulder in an attempt to comfort him, ``Is that why, Kiera stopped babysitting?''

Keenan shook his head in disagreement, ``That wasn't the reason.'' he explained, ``That thing that ended her career, it happened while my mom was still alive.''

``I see.'' Tobias gently pushed Keenan closer towards him, he was now leaning on Tobias's side, it was then a very defeated Tiangui appeared in front of Kiera, ``I'm the avatar.'' he sighed, worn out and humiliated, ``I'm the one you need, just please let these dinos go!''

``He tried to make a run for it.'' the Fire Bro explained to Kiera. ``But he didn't get very far.

``He didn't put up much of a fight, did he?'' a disappointed Tiny asked the same Fire Bro, who shook his head.

``Thank you for coming.'' Kiera seemed relieved as she looked at her ManaPhone, ``This is the cave with the treasure according to the phone, two of the Fire Bros found them, and they seemed to have gotten the wrong idea.''

``What do you mean?'' Tiangui asked, he pointed at Tobias and the dinosaurs, ``You mean this isn't a hostage situation?''

``Umm, no.'' Kiera laughed nervously, ``I didn't expect to get Buddy and Tiny involved in this.'' a silence filled the room, the Pteranodon family seemed relieved that nothing was going to happen to them, though they were confused on why the Fire Bros took them into the cave they just happened to be looking for in the first place.

``Just come with me.'' Kiera ordered the confused Tiangui, ``You can come too,'' Tiangui, the dinosaurs and Tobias followed her towards a door with four elemental signs, Fire, Air, Water and Earth, along with four red and white targets.

Tiangui knew what he had to do, he shot a fireball at the fire target, a strong breeze at the air target, and a large rock at the earth target, they protruded into the wall, he then grabbed a water bottle, he waterbended it's contents into a small stream of water and launched it into the water target, it protruded into the wall, which then caused the door to open.

``Couldn't you have just hired other elemental Bros?'' Tobias asked in confusion as they walked onward deeper into the cave, ``Why did you need the Avatar?''

Kiera was silent for a brief moment, then spoke up, ``I don't really know anything about this.'' Kiera confessed, ``Honestly, this is my first experience with bending and ManaTech.''

``But then how did you get that ManaPhone?'' Tiangui asked Kiera, who remained silent, this time not answering at all.

They entered the end of the cave, nothing was inside it but a stone tablet on a pillar of rock, before anyone could ask anything, Kiera ran towards it and picked it up, ``Bingo.'' she smiled for the first time since anyone saw her today, ``I have it.''

Tobias and Tiangui immediately recognized it, ``Put the Mana Container down.'' Tobias ordered in a more serious tone as he walked forward towards Kiera. ``You have no idea what power that thing possesses.''

``It's not for me.'' Kiera explained, it was then a rather unsettling yellow troodon walked into the area, he wasn't wearing the regular Dinosaur Train Industries uniform and hat, instead he wore a green hoodie, and had three orange feathers on the top of his head.

``Thank you for getting me the Mana Container.'' the troodon stared at a rather shocked Buddy and Tiny, Perry sensed something was off about him, and pulled the kids back a few steps. ``And as we agreed, Your secret is safe.''

Kiera handed the troodon the Mana Container, he held it in his hands for a brief moment before Tobias spoke up, ``So you were the one behind this?'' he asked the troodon in surprise, ``Why would you do this?''

The troodon smirked at Tobias as he turned away from him, he then tossed the tablet as far as he could, it smashed into the ground.

A large beam of energy shot upwards, vaporizing the cave top open and making a large hole in it's place, and then an explosion boomed in the sky, a shockwave spread across the Big Pond as ManaEnergy rained from the sky as it flashed white and then turned back to a normal blue colour.

``Welp.'' the troodon clapped his hands once and sighed in relief, ``Mana energy is now available in the Mesozoic era!''

The Pteranodon family gasped in shock, ``What do you mean?'' Perry asked angrily, ``What have you done to our world?''

``Well.'' the troodon turned around swiftly to Perry, ``Let's just say power beyond your wildest dreams will be appearing everywhere, Mana energy is flowing everywhere! Through all the Time Tunnels and every crevice and time period, give it time for the true effects to happen though, but then again, some of you might already be affected.''

``Affected?'' a very worried Tiny repeated, worried, she turned to Tobias, ``We're not gonna die, are we?''

``No.'' Tobias explained as he walked back to Keenan, ``Nothing should change as far as I'm concerned.''

The troodon turned to Kiera, ``Now then.'' he smugly began as he stared at a worried Kiera, ``I think I have another task for you, lest I tell everyone what you did!''

``But you said-'' Kiera was interrupted by the troodon pulling her towards his body as she quietly yelped, ``Let's just say I'm not done with you yet.'' he muttered angrily to her.

``Get your claws off my sister!'' Keenan growled, he ran towards the troodon, who responded by punching Keenan's left side, knocking him off his feet as he slid a very short distance on the ground, Perry gasped in shock when that happened, but as much as he wanted to attack him for that, he knew he wasn't strong enough to put up much of a fight, so he remained put.

``This is the only first step of my plan, after all, and once all is said and done, you can go back to living a normal life.'' the troodon exhaled and smiled, ``Or as normal as things will get here now.''

The troodon then grabbed his ManaPhone from his pocket and teleported out of the world with Kiera, Keenan tried to catch him but failed, leaving him standing in the place where his sister once was, he collapsed to his knees and looked at the ground, mad at himself for not being able to save his sister, even though he knew it was impossible.

Tobias walked over to Keenan, who turned around, Keenan looked away miserably as Tobias patted his back as a sign of pity and comfort.

``Thank you.'' a very lost Keenan whispered under his breath.

Everyone was left with a feeling of uncertainty, Perry looked at his two children and wondered about their well-being and future, Keenan had basically had his sister stolen from him and had no idea where she was, literally everything changed in that one moment for the dinosaurs in this world.

But this was one of many changes, as little did they know that their lives would be changed forever, of course, there were a lot of mysteries, like how did that troodon get a ManaPhone, and what he has in store for Kiera, and of course the effects of the explosion, want to know what happens next? Find out next week!

To Be Continued.

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