2010 B.C.

This is the story of Hec the Hectorectoropitmus and his Fantosaur friends. Hec himself is about the size of a Arabian horse, in fact looks a lot like an Arabian horse except for his floopy mule-sized ears. Hec has a mottled coat in shades of green and brown that would be very fashionable today as camouflage and six-sided, leathery scales on its hindquarters which is from where the HectoRecto part of the name is derived. Hec fits in very well in his Pecant Grove where he spends most of his time because Pecants are 90% of his diet.

Pecants are a juicy tomato like fruit that grow all over Ameritor wherever there is abundant fresh water. Most Hectorectoroptimi are very happy spending their whole lives in Pecant groves and grazing on Pecants. However Hec tasted caramels at a party given by some friends and now Hec has a problem. After tasting caramels at that party he now craves caramels.

A Rateuknow is a Cocker Spaniel sized beast with the all the distinguishing features of a rodent - small beady eyes, long pointed, whiskery snout and those big gapped front teeth that allow rodents types to chew through about anything. Our Rateuknow, named Ratso, was particularly good at annoying just about every creature that lived in Ameritor except one and we will meet him later.

Ratso wanted his fellow Fantosaurs to think he knew lots of things that he didn't actually know. You know the kind. However Ratso did actually know how to make caramels and that's why Hec and probably every other creature in Ameritor put up with Ratso even though they didn't like him. This adventure is about Hec's unhealthy desire for caramels and the fact that only Ratso the Rateuknow knew how to make them. The Chronicles of Courage begin . . .