Mona's Story part 2

Before time and space as we know it, there was another, different universe. It had different laws, principles and creatures that were actually able to survive. One Race had flourished to such an extent it had started colonizing nearby planets. The exterior of the race resembled the teenage mutant ninja turtles of earth’s television, and the mind was vast. It was concealed and protected under the shell. It did not need much, that race, to survive. Their basic needs consisted of large amounts of heat; nitrogen based atmosphere and air, and a little sustenance, or food. They ate of the large fields, where they grew plants of enormous size and a dark green tough leaf. They slept under overhanging rocks. The shelters were even sometimes completely surrounded on three sides, but those were rare and only for those (now I mention the name of the species as I have forgotten to do so before, they call themselves the “snaps” or this is the sound that they make which signifies them, for their language consists of snaps of their “beaks”) snaps able to hire other snaps to dig a shelter out for them, or they are lucky enough to stumble upon one.

Space travel was only natural for them because they could never really look up, but devised special packs which gave them flight and eventually became an integral part of daily life, used for travel and used for teaching the snap littles who were taught under the protection of the leafies, the plants they grew, for there were predators to the little ones. The predators had a body almost completely devoted to the consumption of the littles, but these predators were becoming scarce with a smarter food source and no brain to tell them that an easier prey resided in the rivers, made of H2O like earth, instead of the rivers of lava, which flowed in abundance. The prey was all jaws, small but keen eyes that saw only movement and in black and white, great talons for picking up the snap littles and wide back feet with strong legs for bounding over the great landscape and into high overhangings, or even the taller plants that might hide a little snap. Soon the snaps built themselves a civilization high in their reddish, pinkish sky and had evolved in such a way as to have a neck that may look all around for the oncoming, high-jumping predators.