The Ascent Of The Squibbon

In the following years The Thing Makers two sons would quickly learned how to make tools out of stones and branches becoming the two best foragers in the troop alongside there mother as such she gave them the names Stone Thrower and Stick User.

Following the death of there father the dominate male both brothers vied for the spot ultimately being settled by a fight Infront of the rest of the troop.

Using a large stone that he had found Stone Thrower ultimately bested his brother and he left the troop minus one eye stalk.

For many days The Thing Maker mourned the loss of her son Squibbion's were a social species and Thing Maker in particular was extremally close to both her sons as they were the only to other Squibbon's like her but they would not be the last.

Normally a Squibbon without a troop would be a dead Squibbon doomed to be the meal of a Arboreal Neck Snare a large raptorial Blish or a large riverine Silverswimmer however Stick User was not a normal Squibbon with his smarter brain and ability to make tool's he survived on his own for weeks until he game across another Squibbon troop upon which he easily beat the dominant male and take his position.

Ultimately both brothers would go on to have many children several of which would have the gene for higher thinking..

In the following 100,000 years Squibbon's with higher thinking would go from a freak singularity to the norm they began to make more complex stone tools used to gather plant's and eventually turn the tide on there predators.

The Squibbon's lacked the unmatched endurance of early hominids to hunt so they had to use something else. that hominids lacked there ability to climb tree's.

The Squibbon's were still arboreal and unmatched by any modern primates in the trees the Squibbon's also had the advantage of having 10 fully prehensile limbs allowing them to hold things well they moved through the trees.

Armed with unmatched acrobatics and intellect the Squibbon's quickly began to rise up in the northern forest quickly began to hunt larger prey then Blish and Silverswimmer's ranging from large deer like Desert Hopper relatives to Shovel Tusker's to the larger Silverswimmer's and eventually even the mighty Megasquid.

Hunting the Megasquid was very risky business to hunt such a creature Squibbon troops would taunt Megasquid's by throwing rocks at it shooting at it and waving there spears violently getting the Megasquid to pursue them.

The troop would then lead the Megasquid into the a body of water usually a swamp or marsh were the lumbering and cumbersome Megasquid would become unable to move properly.

From there the troop would go on the attack throwing there spears into the Megasquid's soft mantle slowly letting the Megasquid die from blood loss and exhaustion trying to get out of the quagmire if successful one Megasquid could feed the troop for days.

With the Squibbion's of today eating more meat then before the extra protein fueled the growth of there brains further pushing them forward towards greater things to come.

Once a unstoppable hulking terror this Megasquid know finds itself outmatched by it's smarter more agile cousin.