On the first night of travel, I stared up at the night sky. I wondered for the millionth time what my purpose was in life and why I was called Speedy. I knew that my primary purpose was to be a hunter and maybe that’s why I’m called Speedy. But wait there more to it than that? Amidst the colorful streak in the sky, I saw a new tiny white dot, like a star, and I felt something deep inside me telling me that something catastrophic was going to happen that was going to change reality as I know it. I knew that I had to go find out what the thing was. So I stopped what I was doing at that moment, changed directions, followed that feeling deep in me, and let it take me to where I needed to go. It took me millions of years to get there. On the way there, I became nocturnal, hunting at night and sleeping during the day. This felt more natural than hunting during the day. The night was cool, but my feathers kept me very warm. I also had a cooler blue patch on my snout to keep my face warm at night when hunting. I started to hunt eggs by stealing them from the dinosaur’s nest, it was hard because the moms would come after me, but I hid every time and managed to survive. I loved the taste of eggs so much, I still continue to eat them to this very day. One of the eggs, though, I lost during dinnertime, I stole it from a nest with a large, orange, blue-striped dinosaur with sharp teeth. I escaped from the mother dinosaur and ran to another nest on a cliff, overlooking the sea. I jumped in and saw three juicy eggs waiting there for me to eat. I was going to eat all the eggs, when I heard the sound of flapping wings and knew that the mom was coming back. So I dropped the egg that I had stolen from the large dinosaur in that nest with the three other eggs that I so wanted to eat and I fled as fast as my long legs could carry me. The mother never saw me leave…
I also hunted small lizards! The meat was very cool because of the desert winds and because the animal didn’t have any kind of protection against cold like I did. Despite this, I loved the cold meat so much that I still continue to enjoy eating this kind of meat to this very day. After I had eaten my fill, I would groom myself, making sure that my wings, body, and tail feathers were sparkling clean, just in case I had to impress a mate. That NEVER happened! The moonlight seemed to glow on my feathers as I ran across the desert to my destination. I seemed to camouflage into the darkness of the desert better than during the day. My blue body feathers seemed to blend in against the blue night sky filled with stars. My orange and yellow feathered crest, wings, and tail helped me match the desert sand in low light conditions. Combine the two colors together, and basically no one could see me in that dark barren landscape. On the way, I saw many terrifying things that I wish I didn’t have to see. These things would haunt me forever. Lava erupted from volcanoes all over the place, causing dinosaurs to fall into the hot liquid. Wildfires were around every corner, burning the dinosaurs to ash. I heard their roars and it sent chills up my spine. I decided to hide in a hole in the trunk of a tree not to be burning. I did this to stay away from the congested air. I came out again after taking a short break and continued my journey. I leaped from rock to rock, careful to not let any part of my body touch the lava lake all around me. The temperature was boiling hot and I almost died of heat exhaustion and smoke acidification, but I finally made it to a large body of water. I was afraid to drink any water because I could sense that the water had turned deadly. I didn’t know how, but I decided to stay away from the water and let the wind cool me down. I looked down, checking to see if I was injured. I wasn’t and that made me happy. I wagged! Then, I looked up and saw a 100 foot tall wave heading towards the land where I was standing. I ran away from the sand just as the Earth started to quake. The ground began falling in behind me as I ran across the sand. Lava erupted from the quaking ground as I ran, I dodged the lava, leaping from rock to rock, I almost fell because of the groundquake. But finally, after a lot of struggle to keep my footing, I ran into the hot lava and fire forest. The temperature from cool to hot was so abrupt that I almost fainted. I ran to a safe place where there was no lava or fire. There was a hole leading underground, so I leaped down the hole and fell down it and landed in a nest in a small cramped space big enough for me to move in a small circle. I stood up on my feet and stretched my neck down under me to see if someone or something was under me. There was no one, so I curled up into a ball and fell asleep. I woke up a few times. The first time I woke up, I heard and felt something so unbelievably dangerous that I was frightened, I didn’t know whether I would survive or not. I was in a life or death situation. I couldn’t sleep, I was so scared. The event seemed to last forever, before finally stopping. At long last, I was safe. I fell asleep once more. The other time I woke up, I heard something like SkyWater, but it smelled dangerous. I also heard a howling wind that was stronger than the wind of a sandstorm. I didn’t know what it was, but I could sense that it was dangerous. But it wasn’t underground so I could sleep easier than before with the other natural disasters. I woke up again and again and heard more dangerous SkyWater, felt more dangerous underground stuff, and smelled some dangerous stuff in the air on the ground level. It all scared me, but I managed to fall asleep at long last. When I woke up for the final time, everything was quiet, so I decided to go up to ground level to look. I leaped out of the hole and when I looked around, destruction was everywhere. Dead, burnt dinosaurs and trees were scattered everywhere. I couldn’t even fathom what happened to the ecosystem…