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210 JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO It seemed that it would never end, and as the quivers of arrows were emptied, Bardala and Tital floated down to pull arrows from the dead bodies. They gathered only four before they noticed that only four attackers remained. These last four were struggling to fly towards the basket with the newly hatched baby Raptor, which was continuing to screech loudly. They fired the last four arrows of the battle, and all the adult Gigantoraptors were at last put down. The now exhausted human warriors floated back to the ground, and were stunned by the sheer number of creatures that had been killed by them. “Another big task for Mahucutah and his helpers. It will take them some time to cleanup this mess,” Ronú said as he wiped his forehead. “It’s going to take his crew quite a while to make Raptorjerky out of all these beasts,” said Jonathan, removing his archer’s glove. Brilloso came running up, with Moka riding on his back. Moka chattered excitedly, and was pointing behind himself, hoping to be understood. His wild gestures, however, told Bardala and Tital all they need to know. They looked past Moka, and saw two other monkeys carrying another who was dripping blood on the ground. They lay the limp, young looking monkey at Bardala’s feet, just as f