Chapter 3: Following

Chapter 3: Following is the 3rd chapter of Dinosaur Creek Part 1 and the overall 3rd chapter of the series. It was released on June 13th, 2021.

## Synopsis

As the grey-skinned girl is chased into an alleyway, she picks an escape through the sewer hatchet. But to confuse the detectives, she makes a nearby door move to make it look like she escaped into the building. The detectives, Owen Spencers and Emily Tops, believe she went inside the building and head in to look. Tex, who was still following them, eventually goes inside the building as well to investigate them even further.

Meanwhile, Shane and Blaster partake in buying human toys, which include a large train set and toy triceratops for Shane. Shane is irritated at Blaster’s purchase, but Blaster is happy about it. The two then pass by an open sewer hatchet in an alleyway. Curious, Blaster loses the train set and jumps down, much to Shane’s dismay, but he follows anyway to make sure then don’t get separated. They also take this chance to take a break form their human forms since they're not surrounded by humans.

Meanwhile, Caren and Rover pass a stand-alone book stand run by an overweight man named Dom Winters, going by the nickname “Doctor.” Doctor claims to be selling books that no one reads in libraries anymore. Caren admits she can’t buy a book, so Doctor offers her to stay and read one, which intrigues her. He pulls up a seat and allows her to read a book while Rover lays down on the ground to rest. Caren then asks why he is selling books on the street, to which he responds by explaining how technology sold today is keeping people from buying his books, which caused his old library to close down. To get rid of his books while still making money, he sets up book stands on the street to sell to passing customers. Feeling aorry, Caren declares she feels honored to read on his his books before diving into her first book: *The Art of Combat*.

At the abandoned building, Emily and Owen continue to search for the grey-skinned girl inside the three-story building. Tex at one point hides under a table when he follows Emily up the third floor. She almost suspects Tex hiding undernetah the tabel, but she turns away when he stays silent. However, when Tex has his hand out in the open, Emily

accidentally steps on the marble of his morph bracelet, breaking it and causing Tex to turn back into his dinosaur form. He frightens Emily when he transforms and breaks the table right in front of her, but she backs up into a door opening in the building and falls out. Tex catches and saves her in time, but as they land on the ground, he triggers a small earthquake, alerting the people nearby. Needing to hide real quick, Tex opens up the sewer hatchet and escapes down there. Owen comes out just as the hatchet closes and tries to calm down a crowd of people who are concerned about the earthquake. Down in the sewers, Tex places Emily down, where she expresses surprise that she is to see him fully.

The grey-skinned girl wanders to the end of the sewer cave and finds Elder. He nearly accuses her of being a Terrarium spy before jumping into the moat beneath him and starts swimming across. However, she notices something swimming in the water and, turning into her anthro form, an ophthalmosaurus, dives in to save him. But the two are then chased by a full-sized Sarcosuchus crocodile. Shane and Blaster then reach the end of the sewer tunnel that leads to the river and finds the two. Blaster saves the two by flying down and pulling them out of the water and bringing them back to the sewer exit. The opthalomosaurus girl gets a look of Blaster for the first time in his pterosaur form. When he asks if she's alright, she simply replies "I am thanks to you."

## Characters

* Tex
* Emily Tops
* Caren
* Shane
* Blaster
* Morgan
* Rover
* Owen Spencers
* Elder
* Dom "Doctor" Winters

## Trivia

* This chapter marks the first appearance of Dom Winters.
* This is the first chapter where Morgan and Elder's dinosaur forms are revealed.
* Despite Blaster throwing away the train set he bought, Shane holds on to his triceratops plushie.
* The book Caren reads is title *The Art of Combat*.