AVA tales

[dinosauria101]

So this is basically for writing tales of AVA, like I was doing a lot of in Life Before Man.
It can be with any animals you wish

creature386

Infinity Blade

If you'd like to do so, feel free to import any parts of your Life Before Man stories with AVA in them over here!

[dinosauria101]

1: American mastodon vs Mapusaurus
The Mapusaurus circled aimlessly, looking desperately for something to eat. This new habitat was daunting; there were no other dinosaurs to speak of, it was rather cold, and the setting was COMPLETELY different from Huincul. In fact, just earlier that day, it had come here by going into a deep cavern, but already home seemed a distant memory. What was there to eat here? What wouldn't the Mapusaurus want to cross paths with? What were the living conditions? All those questions would soon be answered
It was May, and despite a late cold front, the area would warm up the next day with conditions improving to stake out the area. The Mapusaurus decided to lie down and sleep; maybe tomorrow would be better. It woke up in the middle of the night to something pawing at its head. It was a scavenging short faced bear; having never seen a sleeping Mapusaurus before, the bear decided to test it for any danger. The Mapusaurus then stood up, revealing its full 8.5 ton demeanor, and roared at the bear. The bear ran off quickly in fear, and the rest of the area was put on edge by the carnosaur's intimidation tactic. The next day, the weather was better, so the Mapusaurus headed to the local watering hole, where all kinds of animals gathered. Today, there were lots of animals at the watering hole, such as American mastodon, Columbian mammoth, Smilodon populator, long horned bison, American scimitar, Equus giganteus, and American lions, to name a few. The carnosaur's presence was unsettling as no one had ever seen such a large predator before, but confrontations generally occurred away from the water hole, so they simply gave the carnosaur its space and let it drink. The Mapusaurus, not looking for any confrontation either, simply did as was expected and drank. However, it did decide to go after an American mastodon later on. In a few hours, when everyone calmed down, it began to stalk. The chosen prey was an 11 ton bull, who was surprisingly unaware of the situation, and wouldn't have been if it wasn't for that darn American scimitar! Spooked by the carnosaur, it ran off and roared a warning. The mastodon then turned around to see the carnosaur just about to pounce, and immediately went on the defensive. The Mapusaurus was determined. It got close and tried to outflank the mastodon - thwarted. It tried again - thwarted. Then, the mastodon made a fatal mistake. It bellowed to herd members for backup, which caused it to raise its trunk. The Mapusaurus took its chance not a moment to soon and grabbed the trunk in its jaws, ragdolling and severing it. It was then easy to finish off the mastodon, and the Mapusaurus enjoyed a good meal. Now it was the king here.

[creature386]

I don't think there are that many AVA scenarios in LBM. There's a "fight" between a Teratosaurus and a Plateosaurus, but I don't think it counts.

Anyway, these two probably do.
Lila vs Fabian

There was someone out there who would listen to Fabian. Someone who could understand his pain. Someone who would answer his calls.
Fabian felt a stinging pain in his cheek. He struggled to get it free, only to be wrenched around hard enough to feel his legs buckle. His mandible fell in the opponent’s jaw. He tried to respond by digging his teeth into the enemy’s upper jaw, but they were subpar to the opponent’s serrated razors.
These jaws belonged to a creature about his size and stature with a purple crest.
It was Lila.

Fabian was having his own problems meanwhile, his jaws still interlocked with Lila’s. At least the blood made his throat less dry. The Plateosaurus swept Lila’s jaw with his claws, but she suppressed any feeling of pain. Her own claw-swipe hurt much more. It was Lila’s goal to push Fabian down and then go for the neck as originally planned.
The young Plateosaurus’ legs considered betrayal, losing more and more life with each push. But Fabian resisted.
It took a gust of wind to sweep him and his foe off their feet. Fabian’s face smacked into the ground, his blood splashing all over the sand. Grains and blood competed for making him cough as much as possible. His inner universe was black. He sought order within chaos, life in a blizzard of sand. Even as he regained footing, Fabian had no idea where he was or what was around him, except for the teeth in the skin of his neck.
Lila had found his neck, she was not limited to face-biting anymore. Unfortunately for her, she did not dig deep enough to hit an artery. With Fabian’s resistance, releasing and biting again was not an option. As soon as she felt the next impending gust, her next plan was set in stone. As a predator, she did not just have the sharper teeth, but also the sharper mind on her side. When the storm approached, she did not resist. She let the wind haul her entire weight onto her prey.
Fabian squealed. He kicked around like a helpless toddler, indifferent as to whether any of his punches hit.
Lila could smell his blood. Even with the bad sight, she knew exactly where his neck and his jaw were. Fabian’s swinging limbs were the last obstacle to cross, but they were about as effective as a garden fence against a tank.
However, the real obstacle between Lila and her food was her overconfidence. As she was standing, her center of mass was higher than that of her lying opponent, too high to resist the wind. She stumbled onto her foe headfirst. Fabian took the opportunity to shake her off and reverse the roles between predator and prey. With his weight on her back, Lila’s arms were rendered useless. Fabian’s bites and scratches revealed killer instincts not even he knew of. He could not tell how much time had passed or when he would be satisfied. Lila’s movements slowed down with each strike she endured. He might have killed her had his lack of breath not gotten the better of him.
Lila freed herself.
Both enemies exchanged as much of a glare as one could without directly seeing the other. Lila only backed away once she heard Aconia’s footsteps.
Aconia had found him despite all the darkness between them. With the bull in their vicinity, no Norian predator was large enough to threaten them for now. Moreover, all possible predators would be occupied with all their mired conspecifics, so they could calmly drink the water and enjoy the plants once the storm would sink.
Still, the loss of the heard meant danger in the long term.

Liliensternus (coalition of four, if one includes the young) vs Plateosaurus:

Her family plotted the entire hysteria. It was them who let their roars thunder through the shadows of the sandstorm. They knew of the mire.
Lila’s parents walked across the upper crust as if it was normal ground. Their long toes and splayed, bird-like feet were like snowshoes in a blizzard.
One animal was trapped worse than the others with both forelimbs seized by Earth’s slimy claws.
Even if the Liliensternuses could not see her, they could not mistake her smell. It was the sentry.
The mother and her young roared at their target while the father moved in a different direction. A common tactic mankind knows from wolves and lions; turn the prey’s attention on some pack members while the others outflank it.
The father rammed his teeth into the distracted sentry and dug as deep as he could. He reveled in the cathartic slaughter of the beast that used to cast terror in his heart. But now, it was as helpless as a Ceratodus on land. With their large gapes and sharp teeth, the Liliensternuses did not have to kill their target with the first bite. Like sharks, they could cut out chunks of flesh and come back later for more.
Lila’s mother had her eyes on the sentry’s neck, but even in the dirty darkness, she could sense the neck’s motion. It was too much of a threat, too motile for an easy bite. There was no need to take the risk.
Both of Lila’s parents latched onto one of the sentry’s flanks and let gravity pull their claws through her thick hide. If they could spill out enough lifeblood, they would have enough food for days. But the sentry was not going to let that happen. She shook the assailants off earlier than they might have hoped.
Distracted by his less-than-gentle landing, Lila’s father overlooked a weapon he had hoped to be stuck in the mud.
The sentry sent him flying with a single tail whip. At least ten caudal vertebrae cracked as his back hit the ground, but this was not his greatest worry.
With his body close to the enemy’s head, the sentry could lift him with her jaws and shake him like a rag-doll.
His family watched in horror. Their jaws hung not from astonishment but from preparation for the next attack. Unfortunately, the sentry remained a formidable opponent. However, the bloodshed would eventually take its toll. The sentry would die in the same belly-down posture as every mired animal. All of the adults were lost.

[creature386]

By the way, wouldn't this belong here?
theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/431/write-own-battles

[dinosauria101]

Not sure. You can move it if you want or you can leave it.

[dinosauria101]

Here's my material from Life Before Man: 8 Pachycrocuta vs Megaraptor

And here would be a Part 1 of my draft for Number 2:
The Megaraptor had just eaten a good meal, and was now satisfied. It lay down for a rest to digest its food, and all seemed tranquil. Then, an immense volcanic eruption began, only a few kilometers to the west. Megaraptor had never been in danger of the volcano before, as it had been dormant for its entire life. However, that changed, and all the animals in the surrounding area had to run like mad to escape with their lives. Not an easy task for a 1.5 ton theropod with a full stomach! Fortunately for the Megaraptor however, the eruption was some distance away, which gave it a fair bit of leeway to escape. Not everything was in its favor however, and soon it ran into a large cloud of smog caused by forest fires ignited by lava bombs. The smoke burned its eyes and throat and greatly impeded its breathing, the combined effects of which caused the Megaraptor to pass out.
Some time later, it came to in a new location (Zhoukoudian in Pleistocene China). The air was cooler and less humid, there was a mysterious green plant growing straight up from the ground all around, and there were no palm or monkeypuzzle, but rather spiny trees and maidenhair-like (but different) specimens. The Megaraptor got up, dazed from the smog. It did not recognize its surroundings, and as such, decided to take a look around. It could not see anything even remotely similar to the animals it was familiar with. There were heavyset horned creatures (woolly rhinos) drinking from a nearby river, immense hairy creatures with curved spikes in their mouth (woolly mammoths) traversing on the plains, and long-legged creatures with ornate projections on their heads (Megaloceros) in the forest, just to name a few. The Megaraptor did not even know what to make of all the oddities this new location had! It decided to head off into a secluded area, just in case there was any danger (the Megaraptor would become the top predator, but did not know that at the time), and decided upon a cave.
It heard cackling in the cave, saw eye silhouettes, and felt the presence of something else. However, that something else (a clan of Pachycrocuta) felt the presence of the Megaraptor as well, and seeing as they could sense it was many times their size, they dragged their kill elsewhere in their lair, with better lighting but less accessibility so they'd be safer and could see around them better.
The Megaraptor also decided to head off elsewhere, and coincidentally ended up very close to the Pachycrocutas (but accessibility was not a problem for the Megaraptor because of its much larger size). It was a clan of 8, and they had happened upon a dead woolly rhinoceros juvenile. A perfect meal for the Megaraptor. It got close, growled, bared its teeth, and even took control of the carcass directly in order to assert its dominance.
The Pachycrocutas thought their numerical advantage could help them scare the Megaraptor off and as such they tried to fight back. However, the Megaraptor was equipped with the size, weaponry, and ferocity to keep possession of the carcass, and when the Pachycrocutas came close it grabbed one in its maw and mauled it to death on the ground.
The remaining 7 Pachycrocutas retreated, and the Megaraptor roared after them, having asserted its dominance.

[dinosauria101]

Palaeoloxodon namadicus vs 3 Mapusaurus
The Mapusaurus trio wandered on. What WAS there to eat? This place was basically Huincul minus everything else. No Argentinosaurus, no Skorpiovenator, not even any more Mapusaurus. On the 3rd day, however, they hit paydirt. They found an immense, 22 ton Asian straight tusked elephant. And, the attack was on. It had seen them, and was aware of their presence. However, the key advantages they brought to the table were a good numerical advantage, a weaponry advantage, and experience at hunting large prey, as well as weighing about as much as the elephant together at 8.5 tons each (contrary to what some biased users on a certain website think, all those were more than enough to win the fight). The first Mapusaurus outflanked the elephant and delivered a slicing bite to the flank. The second repeated, but the third dodged the tusks and damaged the trunk a bit. The elephant tried to gore and charge, but the Mapusaurs were just too quick. Eventually it had lost a lot of blood and was badly injured, and the great pachyderm sank down dead. This would be one good meal.

[dinosauria101]

Giganotosaurus vs Tarbosaurus
The huge carnosaur took a look around its new surroundings in the Nemegt. It was very hot, dry, and sandy, nothing like the Candeleros. There was also a sandstorm, which wasn't helping matters. It hunkered down and headed to a cave. There, it found a dead Therizinosaurus. However, it could smell the presence of another theropod, and roared in an attempt to assert dominance. Almost as quickly, the roar was returned. A Tarbosaurus had killed the Therizinosaurus and saw the Giganotosaurus as competition. The 2 theropods began sizing each other up, and the realization of the carnosaur's size advantage and the tyrannosaur's size disadvantage (7 vs 8.2 tons) by each of them was almost in series. Nonetheless, the battle had to begin. The Giganotosaurus made the first move, quickly intercepted by Tarbosaurus. It then turned into a jaw grappling match, with the carnosaur carefully trying to keep its mandible out of reach of the tyrannosaur's crushing bite. It succeeded in doing so long enough to position its upper jaw elsewhere, and quickly after, the laceration of one of its eyeballs forced the Tarbosaurus to release the Giganotosaurus. The Giganotosaurus siezed its chance. It grabbed the Tarbosaurus by the neck, tore out a piece of flesh, and stood back. The attack had done its job, and finally Giga had a decisive tyrannosaur victory. It would be settling down to both Tarbosaurus and Therizinosaurus for dinner that day.

[dinosauria101]

Elasmotherium vs Mapusaurus
Our Mapusaurus had finished the American mastodon after several days, and decided to head off, back to Huincul. Unfortunately, a wrong turn was made along the way, and instead of the correct cavern, it headed to Beringia and Siberia. This was inconvenient; after a 2 month journey, home was still further! Oh well, at least there was food.
Zygolophodon was going extinct, and the carnosaur helped itself at every Zygolophodon carcass it found, but one day it would have to fight. One morning, when it bent down to drink, an Elasmotherium was approaching. It mistook the theropod's silhouette for a rival, and prepared to charge. The Mapusaurus sensed something behind it and noticed the Elasmotherium, about to charge. It was on! The Elasmotherium began charging, which was lethal. The Mapusaurus barely sidestepped in time, with the rhino's horn almost crippling a leg! Then, the carcharodontosaur went on the offensive, attempting to outflank and land a bite on the rhinoceros. This did not end well; the Elasmotherium gored a leg and a sharp twinge of pain shot through it. But fortunately, this was not fatal, and having a size advantage over a prey item can come in handy. It was able to grab the Elasmotherium in its jaws when it got close once again, and after having a chunk of flesh bitten out, the Elasmotherium weakened quickly. Dinner was served for Mapusaurus. But next time, a little more caution would be a wise idea.