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"Going on an adventure with all my friends is so cool!"Ali rejoiced as she walked next to Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby following in the two longnecks' wake as they broke out of a forest after an hour-long journey, climbing the Great Wall of the Great Valley, crossing some plains and balancing over a log crossing a ravine so deep that Ali could only fathom how little would be left of any of them if they slipped. They had been traversing a forest for a long while now but, finally, it seemed like they had found what they were looking for at last. A large mountain came into view but not just any mountain, no. It was no more and no less than the fabled Saurus Rock, a rock formation resembling a longneck which was the stuff many legends were made of. A lone longneck, called the Lone Dinosaur, had once saved the Great Valley from the meanest sharptooth ever to walk the earth - or so her friends had told her earlier in the morning while trying to persuade her to go on this adventure. Admittedly, it had been a lot of fun thus far, especially since a certain longneck hadn't gotten wind of their adventure...
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"Where the hell is Ali?!" Rhett had been combing through what felt like the entire Great Valley on this fine morning, only to realize that neither the girl he loved more than his own tail nor her obnoxious friends were anywhere to be seen. Had they ditched him? Him, the great Rhett, scarer of the sharpteeth?
"How dare they do this to me!?" he lamented but, ultimately, there was little he could do but to keep on searching in the faint hope that he'd happen to stumble across them by accident...
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"An entire day without Rhett, I feel so happy!"Ever since arriving at the Great Valley for their annual visit, the beige-coloured longneck had been following her around, forcing his way into their games and just spoiling any opportunity to be alone with Littlefoot. There was something she really wanted to tell the boy, something that she could only share with him if they were entirely alone, but, thus far, Rhett had always been around, like an obnoxious sharpbeak waiting for a weak dinosaur to die at last. It was truly annoying to say the least and Ali was by far not the only one who shared that opinion. The gang had had to resolve to leading her on a surprise adventure, getting up before sunrise just to make sure that Rhett wouldn't be able to tag along, spoiling their rare time together again.
Rhett was probably the type of dinosaur she would never want to befriend but Ali had always been alone without any friends in her herd so she had readily accepted Rhett as her friend back when he joined the herd and started playing with her, only realizing much later what a prick he could be at times. He wasn't a friend anymore in her opinion, more like someone to pass time with out of sheer boredom, someone who was pale compared to the awesome group of friends who she was travelling with right now.
Now, as she stood in front Saurus Rock, intrigued by its history and amazed by its unique shape and the ring of teeth (was one of them actually a real Sharptooth tooth?!), she suddenly felt extremely appreciative.
"Thanks for taking me on this surprise adventure without Rhett, it's the best you could have done! Thank you so much, guys!"