Writing is fun, I tried using the advice I was given as much as possible here.
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Chapter 2
Days had passed, the small family's trek continued with no success of finding food. Littlefoot walked forward his head down now used to the pains of hunger in his stomach. He licked his dry lips and looked behind him to see Yara at his flank, her eyes fixed to the ground. Sighing Littlefoot faced forward placing his tail around his sisters neck in comfort but he knew the only thing that would help was food and water,-especially water but they haven't even been able to find a drop. He felt Yara shake of his tail and smiled when he saw her come up to his shoulder. He took a look at her face and gave her a quick nuzzle "I know how you feel, Yara. My mouth feels as dry as the land we are walking in."
Yara glanced at him sadly "Yeah..there has got to me water around here somewhere..there has just got to!" her eyes got wide "It can't really all be dried up can it?." she came to a sudden stop surprising Littlefoot into stopping beside her "But what if it is? What will we do?" her voice rose in a panic "Do we just walk and walk till we drop down dead never to rise again? Do we-" she was cut of by Littlefoot's tail on her mouth, she looked into Littlefoot's eyes as he moved his tail "Was I doing it again?" she asked meekly.
"Yeah you were, but this time I don't blame you. I'm worried to." Littlefoot's head bowed "But remember what Mother always says? 'Worrying gets you nowhere, in fact it holds you back." Littlefoot glanced ahead to where the adults were talking amongst themselves "Everything will be ok, you'll see."
Yara titled her head "Do you really believe that brother? Do you really think we will find this Great Valley Mother tells us about? It sounds like a sleep time story to me." she closed her eyes ans sighed dreamily "But oh I hope in my heart it is real, and we can find it.". Opening her eyes again she gave a small smile "Hey, Littlefoot do you think there will be..others like us there.?".
"Others like us?" Littlefoot asked "Maybe...Mother said many herds were headed there. So who knows what kind of creatures we will see." Littlefoot went quiet as the siblings watched an insect buzz past.
Tora stopped and turned back realising her children were falling behind "Littlefoot, Yara come quickly now. We must not dawdle."
"But Mother, we're tired. And hungry and thirsty." Yara complained slowly walking forward, Littlefoot at her heels "When are we going to find some water?".
Tora looked around at the tree tops before spotting something, smiling she spoke to her children "Littlefoot, Yara come here I found something you two would love.". Lifting her head she grabbed two lone tree-stars on top of the otherwise dead tree and bought them down placing one each in front of her children "These are called tree-stars they are very special, and the Great Valley is full of these wonderful leaves."
"A tree-star.." Littlefoot gazed down at his as if it was the most wonderful thing he ever saw. He touched it and was surprised at the soft texture considering how dry everything else was. He gave a sniff and almost drooled at the aroma it delivered. Taking a deep breath he gave it a lick, his eye widening. He never tasted anything like it, oh if only he could savour that taste forever. He gave it another lick, tasted just as good as the first time-if not better.
Watching her brother, Yara shook her head in amusement before sniffing her tree-star. The smell drifted up to her nose almost making her drool in anticipation. Taking a deep breath she took the first bite, she sighed happily as she took in the flavour-oh this was divine she could eat this stuff forever. She ate the rest slowly wanting to savour every bite of this amazing piece of greenery. When she finished she sighed in contentment glancing over at Littlefoot who was now laying on his back batting his with his feet. "What on earth are you doing, brother?" she asked "How many times does Mother need to tell you not to play with your food?".
Startled Littlefoot jolted up the tree-star settling beside him "Oh..uh..nothing.." he looked embarrassed and quickly began eating his green treat slowing down after a few bites like his sister to savour the moment of their first tree-star. When he finished he grinned up at his sister "Was that as amazing for you as it was for me?" he need not ask, Yara's grin gave him all the answers he needed. He ran forward and nuzzled Tora on the leg, Yara following suit "Thank you Mother."
Tora chuckled "Oh you two are more then welcome." she gave her children loving licks on the head "Once we get to the Great Valley, you can eat more tree-stars then you could imagine even existing.". she nudged her children forward and began walking "We have a long way yet, we must follow the bright circle past the rock that looks like a longneck, and past the mountains that burn, but we'll get there."
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Yara relaxed at her brothers side, the family finally found a small oasis and they all eagerly quenched their thirst, and to add to their luck there was just enough green food for all of them to hold of those hunger pangs for a while. Yara could not stop thinking about that tree-star and how now everything else seemed so bland compared to it. She closed her eyes picturing the valley in her mind-oh how she wished they were there now and not out in the middle of who-knows-where. With a sigh she flopped onto her side trying enjoy the little rest stop before they once again had to wander aimlessly through a wasteland.
Littlefoot feeling Yara's movement glanced at her "You thinking about the Great Valley too?" when his sister nodded he rested his neck across hers "Me too." his gaze turned to their grandparents who were dozing together while Tora stood nearby on guard. His head shot up when he thought he heard something in the distance. He stood up upon hearing it again-laughter. He stared in the direction it came from.
"Littlefoot?" Yara rose her head "What's going on-" she cut herself of when she too heard the laughter "Who is that?" she asked nervously. Scrambling to her feet her eyes fixed on the tall grass the laughter seemed to be coming from. She snapped out of it when Littlefoot began walking forward. She gasped and grabbed his tail in her mouth when she knew she has his attention. "Littlefoot are you crazy? You can't go over there it might be dangerous."
Littlefoot gave Yara a quick lick "Sis, I love you but you got to learn to relax. I'll just go take a quick peek, and if it's dangerous I'll come back and tell Mother, then her and our Grandparents can deal with it, okay?"
"F-f-fine..but be careful. And if you're not back in a couple minutes I'm coming after you." Yara backed off giving Littlefoot space "I just don't want to lose my brother."
"And you won't. I'll be back before you know it. Just stay here with Mother." without giving Yara a chance to change her mind or raise the alarm Littlefoot took off towards the grasses using the laughter as his guide. He stuck his head out on the side and gasped at what he saw-creatures he never seen before. Horned creatures, two of them had three while the smallest only had one on her nose. The smallest one with Littlefoot realised was a girl charged butting one of the larger grey ones on the head laughing all the while. Littlefoot tilted his head trying to figure it out, watching again as the yellow skinned child charged again. He jumped when he heard rustling behind him he turned his head in time to see Yara nearly crashing into him "Yara? What are you doing here?" he whispered.
"I was worried about you!" Yara exclaimed a little to loudly which caught the attention of the yellow child.
"Hey whose there? Come out and fight!" she bellowed stomping the ground staring at the tall grasses.
Littlefoot mistaking the sign as an invitation to play leap out of the grasses ignoring Yara's protests. When the yellow girl gave a cry and charged forward Littlefoot followed suit only neither met their target. Littlefoot skidded to a stop when the large grey male jumped in front of them. Littlefoot backed off in fear as he stared at those large horns, he backed up straight to Yara ran out in defense of her brother. Littlefoot glanced at his sister then back at the large male.
The large male snorted again and spoke "Come Cera, three-horns never play with longnecks." he spat that last word out like it was poison as he stared down at Littlefoot and Yara only backing off a bit when Tora came up behind them.
"Three-horns never play with longnecks!" Cera copied her father as he grabbed her by the tail and Tora grabbed her two children. With just a nod the two parents carried their children their separate ways."
Tora carried her children back to the now awake Grandparents and gently dropped them giving them firm but relieved licks."
Littlefoot frowned thinking "Longneck? Mother what is a longneck?" he asked.
"Thats what we are, dear." Tora replied lowering her head so Littlefoot and Yara could climb aboard "We are named after our long necks you see?".
"Oh" Littlefoot replied joining his sister on their mothers head "But why can't we play with that three-horn? Yara and I were having fun." at that Yara whipped her head around, the expression on her face read that encounter was not fun for her at all.
"We all stick to our own kinds, we don't mix." Tora replied as the small herd began moving "Longnecks stick with longnecks, three-horns with three-horns, flyers with flyers we never do anything together, always been that way." she could sense her sons disappointment and chuckled "Oh don't worry, when we get to the Great Valley there will be many many longnecks for you to play with."
Yara sighed heavily "I wish we were there now."
"We all do, Yara." Tora replied "But we'll get there, I promise you."
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Theres chapter 2. Some Littlefoot and Yara interaction.
And they have met Cera which I have put my own twist on.
