Crusher had begun to cuddle up with his sleeping mate, who dozed off happily, but picked up on a disturbance.

He proceeded to follow and investigate with vigilance.

Rexy was still asleep, curling up around next to the nest with their sleeping hatchlings.

The king had kept on tracking the source, but couldn't figure out what it is.

As he was far away at the nest, he was caught off guard when something slammed into him, falling onto the ground.

Stunned as he fell before getting back up, he realized it was none other than his old enemy, Black Tooth, who was thought to be dead long ago.

"You...."

He growled with wariness in his eyes, circling around his long time arch nemesis.

His arch rival, also glared back at him.

Only that he has a slight upgrade to his body. Being that he has longer claws, which are more usable now, and perhaps his weakness was his arrogance.

Crusher quickly charged forward, with jaws open wide, immediately going for the kill, gripping his throat, snarling with anger.

Black Tooth growled in anger as he tries to shake him off.

This was now a fight that is to the death.

Crusher drags him onto one tree, releasing his jaws as his enemy stumbled and crashed into it, stunned for a brief moment before he looked to see the king charge to grip his throat once again.

He dodged out of the way, narrowly missing as Crusher hit a tree, also stunned, shaking it off.

Black Tooth took this moment to slash away at the king's face with his right claw, then at his body, causing him to leak blood.

Then he bit his neck, preparing to crush it, but Crusher shook it off, fighting back even harder, using everything he had.

He gripped the other's tail and dragged him around, causing him to stumble and fall.

Black Tooth got up once more, charging and biting a chunk of Crusher's body off, ripping it.

Crusher roared in pains he began to leak more blood.

Using what strength he had left, he roared in rage as he rams into the enemy, pushing him before biting into his enemy's muzzle, crushing his upper jaw and the upper portion of his skull.

His anger went overboard as Crusher gripped his enemy's throat once more, crushing his neck, and also crushing his legs, rendering him useless.

Once his enemy was killed, Crusher roared triumphantly as the victor once more, but soon after, after so much stress and trauma put on his body after all he went through and did in his entire life, he falls to the ground.

His heartbeat getting weaker by the minute after beating so rapidly, and himself losing more blood.

Overloaded anger and stress caused the mighty king Crusher, to finally, die after a rough life and years of marriage to his queen, Rexy, who has yet to find out of his death that was falling upon him.

Accepting his fate was inevitable, and that what's done is done.

Rexy has yet to find out about the matter herself, as she was asleep at the nest.

But when she woke up, her mate wasn't there.

Rexy blinked in suspicion and proceeded to follow and investigate what was taking her mate so long to return.

But by the time she got there, she could not believe that the very Tyrannosaurus she married, is dying.

From too much stress and the trauma he had to endure.

Tears began to form onto Rexy's eyes, as she tried to restrain herself, approaching her frail and weakened mate.

"Crusher..."

Her voice began to crack.

She knew what was coming. Her mate is going to die.

Crusher looked up weakly at his mate.

"Rexy.."

Crusher said, almost at the edge of death itself, requesting something else of her.

"Yes?"

Rexy asked in response to his answer, trying not to cry.

"I'm glad to have picked you as my first, my everything, Rexy."

Crusher said, his face paling.

He's definitely about to die.

"I'm glad to have married you as well, Crusher."

Rexy said, voice cracking even more.

"Promise me you will look after them, protect them with your life, to the end of time. Especially our son, Junior. Promise me."

Crusher said once more.

Rexy nodded, her eyes watery and puffy, red as well, smiling sadly.

"I promise I will. They're all I have left of you."

She said, breaking down into tears as her mate took his last breath after making a final request.

"I love you, Rexy."

Crusher stated.

"I love you too, Crusher."

Rexy answered sadly, sharing one last kiss with him, as he kisses back, nuzzling briefly before he passed away.

Crusher's breathing ceased to a stop as he, the mighty king, finally died, leaving Rexy to sob and break down into tears all the way, grieving for the loss of her mate.

"Crusher.."

Rexy sobbed, feeling like she failed him, failed to protect him.

"I'm sorry. I failed you."

She says with a cracked voice.

"You had trusted me.. and I have failed you."

Rexy laid her head next to her deceased mate, crying non stop.

Her hatchlings also woke up to the source of the crying.

Running over, they saw in shock, gasped as their mother broke down in tears of how she failed to protect their father.

Chirping sadly, they too began to cry, over the fact that their father, also their protector, is dead.

Gone, but never forgotten.

They all curled up and cried with their mother, grieving.

Crusher Junior, the eldest of them all, cried too.

He looks up to his father as a role model, a father figure. But now that he is no longer with them physically, he has accepted that what's done is done.

Junior grieved in silence, as his father would have wanted him and everyone else to carry on.

And he will always be there for them, in spirit.

Always have, and always will be.