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Chapter 21: They Call It Sharptooth Love Part 1

Petrie, still suffering from his injuries, was lying down in his family’s nest. “These past days have been really stinking,” he complained. For almost two weeks now, he was barely able to move, let alone fly.  Eventually, his mother came by. “You have to cheer up Petrie,” Tera advised her son. “Mr. Belly Dragger says you should be better in about another week or so.” “Thanks,” said Petrie.  Tera sighed, she wanted her son to be able to do things despite the fact he was temporarily handicapped. “I know,” she said eventually, “I heard your friends are going to be hanging at the waterhole, I’m sure your uncle would be willing to fly you down there. “Well, Pterano is blaming himself about all this, ëm positive you’re right about that mom,” Petrie chuckled, a bit jealous watching his siblings flying around the valley.

Meanwhile, Littlefoot was still catching up with old times with his family. “So what brings you guys back to the Great Valley?” the young rex asked.  Well, we heard from a fast biter we met that the Time of the Great Giving was coming up, so we thought it would be the perfect time to see you again,” Tyran explained. Littlefoot nodded. Shorty and Littlefoot each looked at each other, smiling. “Shorty likes Ali?” Littlefoot said mentally. “Littlefoot likes Ali?” Shorty thought. Well, she likes me more,” they both thought at the same time.  “Well, you two boys probably have a lot of catching up to do, so your father and I will let you have some alone time,” Saura said. “Thanks mom,” the brothers replied, and walked off. “I can’t believe this,” they both thought. “I wonder what this jerk’s thinking right now.”  They both gave each other a smile that the other could tell was fake. “So, what’s new bro?” Shorty asked.

Meanwhile, Ruby was walking around Sharptooth’s cave, practicing the occasional pounce or two. When Sharptooth came by, he gave a little laugh. “If that’s what your like when no one else ia around, I’d hate to be a leafeater,” Sharptooth said sarcastically. “Oh, give me a break will ya?” Ruby chuckled. “You know I’m one of the best hunters in the fast biter class,” “You’re right there,” Sharptooth replied, but noticed Ruby looking odd. “Anything the matter?” the big rex asked the young velociraptor. “Hey Sharptooth…” Ruby began to say, “Have you ever cared deeply for someone?” Sharptooth briefly misunderstood the question. “Well, I care for you, all your friends and the Valley residents, but….”  Ruby explained more. “You know, it’s weird. Whenever I’m hanging with my friends…..no, mostly when I’m hanging with Chomper, I get this weird feeling in my stomach. It feels like I ate something bad, but at the same time….it feels good…” It only took Sharptooth a brief moment to realize what she was saying.

AT THE WATERHOLE…..

Chomper, Cera, Spike, and Ducky were the only members of the gang there presently.  “Wonder where everyone is?” Chomper asked. “Who cares, looks like we got the whole water hole to ourselves,” Cera smirked. “You have a point there Cera, you do, you do,” Ducky laughed, doing several jumps out from below the water, an impressive sight, although Cera, Chomper, and Spike got soaked. “Could you try to be less extreme with the splashes please?” Cera said. “I am sorry Cera, it’s just that I always found Petrie’s stunts really amazing, I did, I did,” Ducky smiled. Chomper laughed. “Oh great, now we got a swimming version of Petrie,” he laughed. “But haven’t you noticed Ducky; being stuck in water really limits your ability to do many tricks,” Cera informed.  “I know,” Ducky admitted. “But these are pretty cool.”  Spike meanwhile, was just happilt swimming around.

Spike had swam a little distance off from everyone else, and somebody had caught eye of him. This certain someone went mostly underwater, her eyes being the only part sticking out of the surface. Slowly but surely, she began secretly swimming up on Spike….

(Once again, insert theme from Jaws here.)

Then, the young belly dragger showed her complete form to Spike, but he just smiled happily. It was someone he knew well: Tippy!  “Tippy didn’t know you’d be playing here tonight Spike,” she laughed surprised.  Spike made some noise back, suggesting he was also happy to see her, but of course Tippy couldn’t make them out.  “Great to see you too,” she replied.  Spike looked back and saw that his friends had already seen Tippy, so it was Ok if he wanted to go play with her. “Hey Spike, follow Tippy,” Tippy said, swimming in one diection, Spike following. “Tippy just found the coolest thing in the water today, and Tippy wants to show it to Spike,”  Spike looked quite intrigued: eating and having fun were probably his two favorite things in life, his 5th or 6th most favorite thing was also Tippy….

“Love?” Ruby asked in surprise. “You mean what I feel around Chomper is love?” she asked Sharptooth. “Yes Ruby, I know what love is like, and that’s what you’re feeling,” he said, with a smirk saying. “You know I’m right.”   “But I didn’t know you could feel love when you’re young,” Ruby said, “I thought it was something only grownups felt,” Sharptooth let out a happy sigh. “Oh Ruby, Ruby, Ruby,” he said in a father-ish voice. “For someone as intelligent as you, you still have a lot to learn in life.”  “Like what?” Ruby asked. “While, sometimes even sharpteeth as young as you have these feelings towards another sharptooth,” Sharptooth explained. “While, I have kissed him  a few times, but…” Ruby stopped, Sharptooth grinning right after the 4th word in her sentence. “So you do care deeply for him, don’t you?” Sharptooth smiled. “Yeah, I guess..” Ruby finally admitted with a smile. “I mean, he’s very cool and he’s always been nice to me,” she explained.

Up in the sky, Pterano was giving Petrie a ride on his back.  “Where to nephew?” he asked. “The waterhole, uncle,” Petrie said. “Understood,” replied the flying sharptooth. “When you want to come back to the nest, just let out a roar, and I’ll come back for you,” he instructed. “Got it,” Petrie replied. Pterano got sight of Chomper, Cera, and Ducky, and flew to the ground. “Hi guys,” Petrie waved. “Petrie!” Chomper and Ducky said happily.  “We made this for you while we waiting,” said Chomper, and he pointed to some leaves and branches that he and Cera stuck together. “You can use it to float on the water without sinking,” Chomper explained. “Really?” Cool,” replied Petrie. “Guess what Petrie,” Cera said, thinking he would laugh at what she was about to tell him, “While we were waiting for you, we saw Ducky doing some stunts of her own.” Petrie looked at Ducky, and smiled. “That sounds awesome, show me what you got.” Ducky nodded, then swam underwater, and then with all her might leaped into the air.

Shorty and Littlefoot were still chatting, each with Ali on their minds. “So, how’s hunting been?” Shorty asked. “Good. Chomper and I are among the best in the hunting class,” Littlefoot replied, trying to remain to small talk. “While, I managed to take down an adult spiketail all by myself,” Shorty bragged. “Boy, was Ali impressed…” that finally made Littlefoot stop pretending.  “Where did you meet Ali?” he asked. “When me, mom, and dad visited the Land of Mists,” Shorty explained. “Did she mention me?” Littlefoot questioned.  “No, I didn’t tell her that you and me were brothers.” “I’m sure if she knew that she would’ve mentioned that she already likes me,” Littlefoot grinned. Shorty frowned angrily.  “No way, she totally liked me more than you,” the rex said confidentally. “Why would she? Ali is the type of dinosaur who likes really nice people, which is a little more than I can say about you.”  “Well, I’m least I’m more brave and tough,” Shorty retorted. “Take that back,” Littlefoot grunted.

Tippy and Spike meanwhile were almost at the place Tippy mentioned earlier. “Tippy can’t wait to show Spike this,” she said in anticipation.  The two belly draggers eventually arrived at their destination:  a decent-sized circular-shaped part of the waterhole with a whirlpool spiraling in the center! Spike looked nervous, but Tippy soon calmed him down. “Don’t worry Spike,” Tippy comforted, “Tippy’s done this several times before, there’s nothing to worry about, watch.” Tippy swam under the water. It was about only 8 feet deep, so they weren’t at any risk of drowning, but then the cool part came: If you swam into the whirlpool, it was a pretty AWESOME ride. “Ya hoo!” Tippy cheered as she was spun around, this was an experience for a dinosaur like a waterslide was for a human.  Spike made some happy grunts and quickly swam forward, joining Tippy in the fun.

Chomper was wondering where Ruby was.  “I wonder why Ruby hasn’t shown up,” he asked, thinking about her. “Everything’s better when she’s around,” Chomper quickly put his hands over his mouth, but luckily Cera misunderstood this comment. “What do you mean when she’s around? If I’m around, anything’s better,” Cera bragged. “Thank goodness for over-inflated egos,” he thought thankfully. “Rock jump!” Chomper cheered, and jumped into the waterhole in the style a human would do a cannon ball. “Careful, will ya?” Petrie asked, holding onto the makeshift flotation device. “I don’t wanna drown.” “Sorry Petrie,” Chomper smiled back.  Ducky began swimming several laps around the area the gang was gathered at, Petrie watching her all the while.  “That’s great Ducky,” he smiled. “It is Petrie, yup yup yup,” Ducky replied whenever her mouth wasn’t underwater.  Chomper was doing some backstrokes, he had gotten swimming lessons from Ducky in both this and the previous reality, and they had had a great pay-off, there was never a repeat of the incident where he nearly drowned. (See The Mysterious Island and the episode The Missing Fast-Water Adventure.)

Shorty and Littlefoot kept arguing. “I’m am more Ali’s type,” Shorty said. “No I am,” Littlefoot said back.  “Well, let’s just ask her who she likes more next time we see her,” Shorty said sarcastically.  Then, the brothers started calming down. They realized how dumb they were acting over a girl.  “We shouldn’t let this get so important Shorty,” Littlefoot said. Shorty started smiling. “Yeah, I shouldn’t have brought this up bro,” he said. “Truce?” Littlefoot said, holding out his hand. “Truce,” replied Shorty, and the two sharpteeth shook hands. “Now let’s go find my friends and play,” Littlefoot smiled. But just as they were about to leave……

“Shorty? Littlefoot? I haven’t seen you guys for a while!” The brothers turned around.

It was Ali.

(Hope you liked the pairings, wonder how the Ali love triangle will end. Sorry if Littlefoot was a bit OOC. Anyway, read and review!)

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an interesting turn of events.

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(Here’s the conclusion of the two-parter.)

Chapter 22: They Call It Sharptooth Love Part 2

A young girl t-rex was looking at the two brothers. “Ali?” Littlefoot asked surprised. “Yeah, it’s me,” replied Ali.  “You two friends or something?” she asked. “Uh, no…..actually we’re brothers,” Shorty replied. “Wow, that’s cool!” Ali commented.  “My herd and I came here for the upcoming Time of the Great Giving,” she explained. “Wow, me too!” smiled Shorty. “Great to see ya,” Littlefoot commented. Suddenly, Littlefoot felt Shorty tap on his shoulder. “Hey bro, could you follow me over there?” Shorty whispered, with some anger hidden in his voice. “Yeah…..” Littlefoot nodded, playing along. “Where you guys going?” Ali asked.  “Oh, just some brotherly stuff,” Littlefoot smiled back.   “See you later!” Ali waved, and walked off, Shorty and Littlefoot smiling at her. “Oh Littlefoot…” Shorty began.

Back at Sharptooth’s cave, Ruby was still talking with the leader of the Sharptooth Great Valley. But, she was at a little loss for words. “Chomper’s always been my friend, even though I’m a little older than him,” she explained. “His positive attitude, his good strength, his sense of humor, that’s what I like about him A lot.” Sharptooth gave a happy sigh. “And how do you think Chomper feels about you?” the big sharptooth asked the young fast biter. Ruby blushed. “He likes me, and I know it,” she smiled.  “Ever since the night I told him about my family…” Sharptooth frowned. Ruby had told him what happened to her parents as well as Howler and Edge, and he knew she didn’t like talking about the tragedy.  Ruby felt grateful to Sharptooth and all her friends, simply because they cared about her.  “Yeah, I don’t think my feelings are one-sided,” Ruby smiled, thinking about Chomper’s face. :- )

Tippy and Spike were still having fun in the whirlpool. “Tippy knew Spike would like this!” Tippy cheered happily. Spike made noises that suggested he was agreeing with that comment. Tippy meanwhile, was remembering something “Tippy should go get them,” she thought. (Yes, I think Tippy even talks in the 3rd person when she thinks) Using a little muscle, Tippy got herself out of the whirlpool. Spike made a sound that suggested “Where are you going?”, and Tippy replied. “Tippy’s just going back to her sleeping place to get something,” she explained. The belly draggers smiled at each other and Tippy walked off. “Tippy really likes the gifts Spike gave Tippy.” She thought, remembering what she had discovered a few days ago. As she was heading back, she passed by where Chomper, Cera, Petrie, and Ducky were.

Chomper looked bored, tossing a few stones up into the air. “What’s going on with you?” Cera asked. “I just wish Ruby was here,” Chomper replied, staring up at the full moon. “Why her? I’m the better fast biter,” Cera replied, again using her own brand of Cera-logic.  Chomper laughed a bit at Cera’s reputation problem, but it wasn’t teasing laughter. It was nights like these that reminded Chomper of the night he and Ruby went to the top of Saurus Rock.  Ruby and Chomper had grown close over the past couple of weeks, and it was different from the “nanny” type relationship they had in the past reality. “Headus up,” he suddenly heard Cera’s voice call, as she jumped into the waterhole, creating a big splash.  “Watch it Cera,” Chomper laughed, getting a little drenched by the jump. “Can’t help it,” Cera smiled mischievously.  “I guess you’re right there,” Chomper replied with a little laugh.

In a small alcove on one side of the valley, the two sharptooth brothers were still arguing about Ali. “She likes me more,” Shorty said. “No, Ali likes me more,” Littlefoot retorted. “Well it’s clear we aren’t getting any results arguing like this,” Shorty said. “You have a point there,” Littlefoot replied. “So let’s settle things right now.” “How?” asked Littlefoot. “Simple,” repliedShorty. “We wrestle each other. The first one to pin the other down for 5 seconds wins the game…..and Ali’s heart.”  “You’re on,” replied Littlefoot, jumping up and down a bit to prepare. The two brothers DID care for each other, but they loved to get into tussles about the most pointless things before Littlefoot decided to live in the Great Valley. “Let’s have our battle over there, at the Pine Cone Arena,” he laughed.

Tippy made it back to the area of the Valley where the belly draggers slept. “Tippy? I thought you were going to play at the waterhole with your friends,” Tippy’s mother said. “Tippy is mom,” Tippy replied. “Tippy just wants to thank Spike for the gifts he gave me.” Tippy’s mother nodded. Tippy walked over to the place where she spent the nights. For some time now, someone had been taking rocks, and using a careful process, made them into the shapes of hearts. (For my story, the heart is still used as a symbol of love in TLBT universe.) Tippy thought that it had to be Spike who made them, since she always suspected that Spike liked her. She lifted them up with her tail, and put them on her back. “See you later mom!” Tippy called. “Be back before it gets too dark,” the belly dragger mother advised. “Tippy will,” she replied.

Sharptooth was giving Ruby some advice. “Well, I personally believe, you don’t have to do this, but if you care deeply for Chomper, I feel admitting it to him is the best thing you can do.” “You really think so?” Ruby asked. “I do,” Sharptooth replied.  “I guess I should join my friends now before it gets too late to play,” Ruby commented. “See you later,” Sharptooth waved. “I will,” Ruby replied, hugging Sharptooth’s foot. Ever since she began living with him, Sharptooth was like the father Ruby had lost all those years ago.  The fast biter than quickly hurried off.

Cera had gotten board, so she decided to head home. “Dad and Cira are probably worried about me by this point,” she explained as she left.  Petrie was watching Ducky happily swim around. He let out a sigh. “Ya know, I think after I get better I’m going to give up stunt flying.” “Don’t do that Petrie, oh no no no,” Ducky replied. “I think you’re very good at that. You just had a bad day. Everyone has a bad day once, they do, they do.” Petrie let out a smile. “Thanks Ducky,” he smiled. Petrie never knew why, but he found Ducky extra cute for some reason. It was odd, especially considering he was a flying sharptooth and Ducky was a swimming sharptooth, but he still liked her. All of a sudden, Ducky leaped out of the water and did a few flips before she landed back in the water again! “That was amazing!” Petrie complimented, clapping a bit, “Thank you,” smiled Ducky, who proceeded to do another jump.
However, the ripples of the water unintentionally knocked Petrie off his floatation branches! “Agh!” he panicked, going under the water. “Sorry, sorry!” Ducky said, quickly swimming under him and carrying him back to the surface. “You guys better be careful,” Chomper said, as Petrie was put beside him. “We know,” Petrie said, apitting out a little water. “Anyone else getting hungry?” Chomper asked. “I could go hunt down some swimmers,” Ducky said. “I could, I could.” “I’ll come with you,” Petrie smiled, but when he tried to move, he quickly said. “Never mind.”

Shorty and Littlefoot were in the middle of their battle for Ali. “Get off,” Shorty laughed, as Littlefoot tried sitting on him. He was able to force his brother soon off of him. “I’m not done yet,” Littlefoot said. They rushed toward each other and tried knocking the other over in a sumo-like stance, shorty even trying give a little bite to Littlefoot’s arm. “Ouch,” said Littlefoot. Shorty then managed to trip him with his tail. “This is it!” Shorty said triumphant. “1….2….3…” Suddenly, they heard footsteps. “Hi Shorty, Littlefoot, are you guys play fighting?” Ali asked. “Uh…..yeah,” they lied, not wanting to tell her the truth. “There’s someone I’d like you to meet,” Ali smiled. “Who?” the brothers asked confused.  Then, another young sharptooth walked up to her. “This is Rhett,” she smiled. “He travels with my herd.” “Hello Rhett,” Littlefoot and Shorty said confused. “Ah, you’re Littlefoot and Shorty, Ali’s talked a lot about you two,” Rhett smiled.  Then……Ali gave Rhett a kiss! “See you around,” Ali smiled, and she and Rhett walked off. Shorty and Littlefoot just stood there, eyes wide open. Later, when Tryan and Saura caught up with them, Tyran asked. “So how was your day boys?” “Surprising, dad,” the both replied, still in the shock of the moment.

Tippy had gotten back to the little whirlpool. “Tippy wants to thank you for these Spike,” Tippy smiled, showing him the heart-shaped rocks. But when Spike saw them, he made a confused grunt. “You mean these weren’t from Spike?” Tippy said confused. Spike made a noise that suggested. “That’s right.” Tippy still liked the rocks, but she still asked. “If they weren’t from Spike, then who gave these to Tippy?”

Pterano and Tera arrived to take Petrie back to the nest. “Bye Chomper,” Petrie waved as he was taken off into the sky. “Bye Petrie,” Chomper called back.  Chomper looked around. He was all by himself. He was just about to hgead back to his family’s cave when he heard Ruby’s voice. “Chomper! Wait up!” the fast biter called. “Ruby,” Chomper said, feeling lucky he hadn’t left earlier. Ruby took in a deep breath, and she finally said. “Chomper….I like you,” she admitted. “And I like you too Ruby, you know that,” Chomper smiled back. “A lot….” Ruby added. “A lot?” Chomper said, surprised, but then the most surprising part of all came. Ruby leaned over a bit, then kissed Chomper……..directly on the lips! And it wasn’t a brief kiss either. It was a deep kiss, hat lasted over 10 seconds. Chomper at first was caught off-guard by it, but then he started kissing back . He never felt so happy.

Meanwhile, on the stone wall near by, the mysterious fast biter from Chapter 13 was watching them carefully…

(Hope you liked this chapter, especially if you love pairings. Dark fox Tailz gave me the idea for the Rhett part. Also, the identity of Tippy’s secret admirerer will be revealed in a later chapter. I also wanted to bring back the mysterious velociraptort, you still don’t know his purpose….)

Next Time on The Land Before Time: Sharptooth Valley: When some of the valley member’s personal belongings go missing, Cera takes it on herself to solve the mystery, but is what she discovers much more mysterious than a simple thief?



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Chapter 23: Inspector Cera Part 1

Petrie was still cooped up in his family’s nest, nothing to do. Luckily for him, Mr. and Mrs. Belly Dragger said he’d be healed in time for the Time of the Great Giving. “This place is so dull,” he sighed. Pterano, Petrie’s mom, and his siblings were all gone somewhere else, so he didn’t really have anyone to talk to, right now. However, he did have his snuggling stick. (From the “Days of Rising Waters” episode.) It was a good luck charm for him, and he liked having it whenever he felt scared. (Which, in this reality, was not as often, but still.)  This time of the day, most of the herds were out hunting, so he had a lot of peace and quiet in the part of the valley he was in. “No sense staying awake,” he chuckled, “Might as well take a nap.” Petrie lied with his back on the ground, and tried to doze off. After a little while, his eyes began staying shut, and he began to snore. But as he was sleeping, a mysterious shadow appeared near him….

Meanwhile, Chomper, Ruby, Littlefoot, Cera, and Spike were returning from another successful hunt. Actually, scratch that. A mostly successful hunt.  Cera hadn’t really caught any prey in the recent hunts. Her big ego as finally catching up to her. Ruby had shown of the two fast biters in the main gang of seven, she was the far more talented one. The others wouldn’t say Cera was bad….it’s just that Sharptooth suggested that Hyp might be a good hunting coach for her. (Chapter 9 reference.) “Whatever,” Cera grumbled. “You didn’t do too bad Cera,” Ruby commented. “You lured that spiketail into position for the rest of us.” “Yeah, but that’s all,” Cera complained. As they got back in the GV, Chomper’s mom looked confused. “Hey mom, what’s going on?” Chomper asked. “The shiny stone you won for me is missing son,” Terri said. “It is? Did you lose it?” asked Chomper.

“No, that’s weird, someone must’ve taken it,” added Dein, who had just walked up. Then, Petrie’s mom flew up. “You’re Petrie’s friends, have any of you seen his snuggling stick. It’s gone missing.” “Another missing thing?” Littlefoot said, surprised. “Maybe there’s a thief going around,” suggested Terri. Cera smiled at this comment. If she didn’t have the most brawn out of all her friends, maybe she could use this opportunity to prove she has the best brains. She always loved mystery stories told to her by her dad, Veli. Ruby and Chomper said, “We’ll go look for everything this way, you guys take everything that way.” “Got it,” Littefoot, Cera, Terri, Dein, and Tera said; while Spike nodded. The rex and fast biter took off. “Let’s head to your cave first, Mrs. Chomper’s mom,” said Cera. “OK, follow me,” said Mama Sharptooth. Chomper and Ruby were having a discussion while searching for the stick and the stone.

“That was really weird,” commented Ruby. “Who would want to steal your mom’s shiny stone or Petrie’s snuggling stick?” “I’m just surprised her still holds onto that,” Chomper said. The two love-biters (lovebirds) shared a laugh.  “Maybe Hyp, Nod, and Mutt,” Chomper said, “those bullies don’t really like us.” “What about Guido?” Ruby suggested. “He seemed jealous of Petrie.” “He learned his lesson, plus he still is also hurt a bit,” Chomper replied. At this point, Chomper and Ruby had arrived at Sharptooth’s cave. “Hey Sharptooth,” called Ruby. “What is it Ruby?” Sharptooth asked. “Chomper’s mom’s shiny stone is missing, and so is Petrie’s stick. Do you know where could find those?” “No idea, I’m afraid,” Sharptooth replied. “Our sniffers don’t work on things like that.”  You’re right….HUH?!” Ruby went over to her sleeping place. “Howler’s tooth! It’s gone!” she screamed. “I gotta find it!” Chomper looked concerned. Chomper knew how important Ruby’s little brother’s tooth meant to her.

MEANWHILE, AT CHOMPER’S FAMILY’S CAVE…..

The group had arrived at the scene of the theft. “You notice anything weird befre you found your shiny stone missing?” Cera asked. “Whoa, you sure want to take charge of this, don’t you Cera?” asked Littlefoot. “I’ve always wanted to be a mystery solver,” Cera explained, memories of Veli telling her many stories about Sherjaw, the greatest fast biter mystery solver of all time. “There was one thing,” Chomper’s mom commented. “Someone had placed some of those disgusting tree fruits near our cave’s entrance.” “Ah ha!” Cera deduced, “Our bad guy used those to cover his scent and hide his scent.” The group agreed with Cera there. Spike made a noise suggesting: “Hey, check this out,” the friends and family came over, and they noticed a weird track in the mud near the entrance. It looked like a straight line, but it didn’t look like a print from a hand or foot. “That’s odd,” Cera commented. “Come on, let’s head to my nest,” Tera said.

Petrie was waiting impatiently for his mother and friends to arrive. “Have you seen them?” he asked Rinkus and Sierra, who had been flying past. “Just Chomper and that fast biter friend of his,” Rinkus commented. “Thanks anyway,” replied Petrie. Soon, everyone arrived. Littlefoot noticed something along the path leading up to the nest. “More of those gross tree fuits,” he noticed. “So chances our, the person who took the stone and the stick are the same guy,” commented Cera.  “You mean someone’s going around robbing us sharpteeth?” Petrie said in surprise. “Looks like it,” Cera said, although the adults didn’t want to say something that far. “It’s probably someone who doesn’t like us,” Petrie said.  “Like I think,” Cera said, talking while seemingly imitating Sherjaw. “I’ve narrowed it down to 4 suspects.”

Chomper, Sharptooth, and Ruby were searching the Great Valley, meanwhile, for Howler’s tooth. “I just can’t lose it, it I can’t lose,” Ruby said, sounding almost scared. “That little tooth is all I have left of my brother!”  Chomper and Sharptooth both understood Ruby’s pain better than perhaps anybody else in the Valley.  “We’ll help you, don’t worry,” Chomper said. “We’re always here for you Ruby.”  “Thanks Chomper, and thank you too Sharptooth,” Ruby smiled.  But then her faze turned to one of puzzlement. “But besides you guys, who even knew about the tooth?” Ruby asked. That was a good question. “Maybe there was someone else,” Chomper suggested.  “Someone who knew you before you came here to the Great Valley.”  But that created even more questions: Ruby’s family didn’t really know many sharpteeth back in the Mysterious Beyond that Ruby knew of, so….how?

Meanwhile, the Dinosaur Detectives were formulating a plan to solve the thefts. “We should split up, and each look after a different suspect,” Cera suggested. “Mrs. Chomper’s Mom and Dad, and Petrie’s mom, you find Guido. Littlefoot, me, you, and Spike will track down the bullies.” “Got it,” replied Terri. Cera could be a good leader if she was in the mood.  The sharpteeth divided into 2 groups of 3, and took off. “So, looks like two adventures in one day huh?” smiled Littlefoot. “First the hunt, now this.”  “And I’m gonna be the one who solves it all!” Cera bragged. Littlefoot and Spike let out a sigh. This fast biter could just not pass up the chance to brag, could she? The sharptooth and belly dragger had gotten used to this, though. Cera was as much of a braggart asa some of the other kids in he GV.

“What do you little biters want?” Hyp asked, coming into view. “Oh nothing,” Cera said in a tone that made the trio realize something was up. “We want to just, just cause we’re curious…..where were all of you earlier this afternoon?” “Just hanging out by the Secret Caverns,” Mutt teplied. “Can anybody besides you prove that?” Cera asked. “What’s with the questions dweeb?” Hyp asked. “No reason,’ Cera replied, though they could tell there was a reason. Littlefoot, feeling a bit embarrassed about Cera’s questioning skills, put his hand over his face and sighed. “This isn’t getting us anywhere,” he said under his breath. He wanted to help Teei and Petrie too, but he was beginning to doubt if these methods were working.  Spike was sniffing the ground around them, then he noticed something odd. He looked up at Hyp’s hand, and Littlefoot and Cera noticed this. They had a new question for him.

Meanwhile, the parents had arrived at the nest of feathery flying sharpteeth like Guido stay. “He’s around here somewhere,” Dein said. “But I doubt it could’ve been him,” said Tera. “Even if he’s got better, he still couldn’t fly at this point and I’m sure someone would’ve seem him.” “But if this is the kid who took the prize my son won for me, I want to find out,” said Terri.  Soon, Guido’s trail was picked up by Tera’s sniffer. “Oh hey there Petrie’s mom,” Guido waved. “Ok small guy,” Dein said slightly impolitely. “Do you swipe my mate’s shiny stone? “Me? Of course not,” Guido replied. “First of all, even though I can’t fly, someone would see me if I walked all the way to your cave.” “Maybe you took a secret path,” Dein retorted, but Guido chuckled. “Come on…what kind of path is there that can get me across the valley?” The grownups admitted he had a point. Then, Terri noticed something. “Why does your foot claw have blood on it?” “Stepped in the prey Glider caught for me,” explained Guido.

Back with Spike, Cera, and Littlefoot, they were still in the middle of their mini-interrogation. “How come all your claws on your right hand are broken Hyp?” Cera asked.  “Was climbing the Great Stone Wall, and I nearly slipped, and my claws got suddenly broke on a branch, you understand?” Hyp replied matter-of-factly. “Sure we do,” Littlefoot and Cera replied sarcastically, while Spike made a noise that sounded sarcastic. “Well, then maybe you’ll understand this!” Mutt laughed suddenly, throwing a big pile of mud at the gang. “Whoa!” Littlefoot said, managing to jump out of the way, but unfortunately, his fast biter friend was completely covered in mud. “Ha ha!” the bullies taunted “Now leave us alone, will ya?” and walked off.  Cera huffed. “You guys  keep looking around, I’m gonna go to the waterhole and wash this off, OK?” “Sure thing Cera,” replied Littlefoot.

Cera grumbled angrily on her way to wash the mud off. “Big meanies,” she complained. “I hope it was them, just so we can rub it in their faces.”  As she was getting close to the waterhole, she suddenly bumped into a big fast biter. “Excuse me,” Cera apologized. “Whatever,” the fast biter replied in a monotone voice. Cera looked up and noticed this fast biter looked completely serious and didn’t seem to care. Cera also didn’t recognize him. So, using her Cera-logic, she decided, why not question him? “Where were you this afternoon?” she asked like a mystery solver “Go away young one,” he replied in a stern-but-not mean voice. “Hmph, whatever,” Cera muttered and went off to find her friends.

The fast biter looked in his right hand. He was holding a tooth. “It’s better to not get involved in things much bigger than you are.”

(Hope you liked the chapter/ Hope you liked the main plotline mystery and the stolen stick and stone mystery, the filler mystery will be solved next chapter. Reply or PM with thoughts or theories, since I want to kow what you think, and then I’ll know if you’ll be surprised by the truth.

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Chapter 24: Inspector Cera Part 2

Ruby was looking all around the Great Valley, panicked. “It can’t be gone!” she cried. “It just can’t!”  Chomper felt bad for his close friend. “Even though they are always in my memories, if Howler’s tooth is gone, it’s like another part of him is gone.” A tear began to form in Ruby’s eye.  “Ruby…” Chomper said, not knowing any other words to say.  Ruby managed to sniffle the tear. (At this point, she sang the Remembering song, but I just don’t like retyping the songs, ok?) Chomper came up to his fast biter friend and gave her a hug. “It’ll be ok,” Chomper tried to comfort. He gave Ruby a hug, as did Sharptooth who had to lean down greatly, but he still attempted it. “Thanks guys,” Ruby smiled. “Don’t worry, we won’t give up on finding that tooth,” Sharptooth explained. “Ok, let’s go,” Ruby smiled, gaining confidence, and the two little sharpteeth and the one big one took off again.

Meanwhile, Cera caught up to Littlefoot and Spike. “You look mad Cera,” Littlefoot said, noticing the mad look on his friend’s face. “Something happen?” “Yeah, I met this really rude fast biter when I went to clean this mud off of me,” Cera replied.  “He wouldn’t answer my question.” Spike laughed a little. “Don’t tell me you suspected some random dino of being the thief,” Littlefoot said. “Good mystery-solvers don’t jump to the conclusions.”  “I AM a good mystery-solver,” Cera replied.  “We just haven’t had results yet.”  Spike made a noise that suggested, “Let’s go.”  Cera and Littlefoot agreed with him there. “Maybe Chomper’s parents and Petrie’s mom have been more successful than we have been,” Littlefoot suggested.  “Couldn’t hurt to find out,” Cera smiled, and the trio took off. (Hey, two consecutive paragraphs ending in the same two words. Gets repetitive, doesn’t it?)

The friends met up with Dein, Tera, and Terri back at Chomper’s cave. “Nothing?” the grownups asked, forwing slightly. “Nothing,” Littlefoot and Cera sighed. The two groups of mystery-solvers did decide to share the information each one found out. “So, there wass leafeater blood on Guido’s foot claws and Hyp’s claws were completely broken,” Cera and Terri said in unison.  Tera flew over to the weird print outside the cave. “This is odd,” she soon deduced. “Look at this everybody.” “What is it?” Cera asked. “This print came from something dragging across the surface.” “You mean a belly dragger did this?” Cera asked, again jumping to conclusions. “No, too small to be from a belly dragger,” Tera replied. “Looks like a foot print.”  

“Ah ha,” Cera said confidentally.  “We can just match the footprint size to the size of our suspects’ feet and we have our answer.” “Alight problem Cera,” Litllefoot commented. “This print is too small to be from either the bullies or Guido.” Cera frowned. Her investigation wasn’t bringing any results.  “Oh just great…” she started to complain. “My friends’ stuff is missing, our suspects have both been proven innocent just now, and we have no leads whatsoev…..AGH!” This entire rant, Cera was walking around in angry circles, so she failed to notice the entrance to a hole hidden amongst the grass, so she quickly fell down it. “You OK Cera?” Littlefoot called, Petrie’s mom flying down to check on her. “Yeah, don’t worry,” replied Cera. “Where’d this stupid hole come from anyway? “ However, in the back of Cera, Spike, and Littlefoot’s minds, this felt somewhat familiar…

Chomper, Ruby, and Sharptooth meanwhile, were continuing the hunt for Howler’s tooth.  “Who else knows that you live with Sharptooth Ruby?” Chomper asked. Sharptooth responded to this question. “Your friend Littlefoot’s grandparents do,” he explained. “But we know them, they’d never do something like this.”  Ruby thought about that comment, as it raised another question: Why would anyone swipe her brother’s tooth in the first place?  It didn’t make sense at all. “Let’s split up,” Chomper suiggested, and Ruby and Sharptooth agreed with this idea.

MEANWHILE…..

A flash of insight hit Cera, Littlefoot, and Spike. “I think I know what happened,” Cera laughed in a small bit of triumph. She looked up at Littlefoot. “You thinking what I’m thinking?” “Yeah,” Littlefoot nodded and smiled in response. “Hey Petrie’s mom,” Cera said. “Could you do me a favor?” “What is it?” Tera asked, not figuring out what the children had figured out. Cera whispered something into Tera’s ear (Mainly so I don’t tell you the solution beforehand.) “Sure,” Tera replied, and flew deeper into the underground caves. Terri lowered her big t-rex tail, and Cera climbed up it to get out of the hole. She and her friends had figured out who the thief was, and the proof would be arriving shortly. “So what’s our next move, Mystery-solver Cera?” Terri asked as if it were a game. The young rex, fast biter, and belly dragger all shared a similar smile. “Our next move is catching the culprit,” Cera laughed in silent victory.

A FEW MINUTES LATER…..

“Hey what’s up guys?” Guido asked, as Littlefoot, Spike, Cera, Dein, and Terri gathered around him. “We know it was you Guido,” Littlefoot said. “Who? Me?” Guido laughed. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “You might want to change your story boy,” Dein laughed in a stern way. “But how could I have taken the shiny stone and Petrie’s snuggling stick without anyone noticing?” Guido retorted. ”Someone would’ve seen me since I can’t fly right now.”  “Simple,” Cera replied. “You used the underground caverns to navigate without being seen or sniffed.” “It was such a simple trick,” Littlefoot went on. “And you planted the treesweets to cover your tracks.” Guido clapped his hands. “Nice mystery-solver work, but two more things: Where’s your proof and how did I cover my footprints?” Soon, they heard a voice coming from underground. “That’s coming right up kid,” Terri laughed.

“Hey! Lemme go!” a voice said. Tera flew up from the underground caverns…..holding a little t-rex. “You had our friend Lizzie help you.” “You stood on her back when you got out of the caverns, and she put her feet together and dragged them across the ground to confuse us with that footprint.” Guido looked nervous at this point. “But where’s your proof?” Spike made a noise suggesting “Right here,” and the belly dragger pointed to Lizzie’s shoulder. There was a little cut on it. “Mrs. Chomper’s mom, please sniff and compare.”  Terri put her sniffer next to Guido’s foot, than the cut on Lizzie’s shoulder. “A match,” she confirmed. Guido sighed. He walked over and pulled off some leaves that were covering a hole. He took out Petrie’s stick and Terri’s shiny stone, and threw them to the gang. “Here ya go,” he gave up simply. “But why did you do it?” “Because of Petrie,” Guido replied. “Huh?” went everyone.

“A few days ago, I was in the waterhole when Ducky came up to me. She told me that Petrie considered giving up stunt flying, and she wanted me to help him convince him not to.” “I don’t get it,” replied Littlefoot. “Even if you didn’t find me out, I was going to tell him that he wouldn’t get his snuggling stick back unless he could do something really impressive. It wasn’t that mean.” “But why did you take my shiny stone also?” Terri asked. “Just so it wouldn’t be obvious.” Guido replied.  Soon afterwards, Guido was given a punishment by the leader of the feathered flyers, and Cera began jumping up and down happily. “All right! I AM a great mystery solver. I’m the smartest fast biter there is!” Dein was about to make a comment, but Littlefoot said. “Eh…let her brag. She deserves it.” Cera ran off, still bragging over-cheerfully.

Meanwhile, Chomper, Sharptooth, and Ruby were slowly losing faith in their efforts. “It’s no use,” Ruby sighed, looking up in the sky watching the flying sharpteeth herd return from the daily hunting trip. “I’ll never find…huh?” she looked inside Sharptooth’s cave. Howler’s tooth was there!  “Oh my goodness,” Ruby said, running over to it and giving the little fang a hug, even. Chomper and Sharptooth smiled.  “Glad whoever took it was gracious enough to return it,” Sharptooth smiled, but he still didn’t know who took it.

Cera meanwhile was still laughing in victory. The Bright Circle had gone down, so she decided it was time to  return home. “This has just been the most perf…..AGH!” Suddenly, a big tail swooped out of nowhere from one of the exits to the Mysterious Beyond and slammed Cera against the stone wall! “What the?” Cera said, in pain and shock, looking up and seeing a big longneck! She screamed in terror as she just managed to roll out of the way of a stomp. Chomper and Ruby, now glad about finding her brother’s tooth, were having a nice csual stroll, when Cera, getting a scrape on her stomach recognized their scents. “CHOMPER! RUBY! HELP!” she wailed. Chomper and Ruby heard their friend’s scream and came running. When the longneck realized that reinforcements were one the way, it gave one final tail swipe, slamming Cera into the wall, and then it quickly retreated into the Mysterious Beyond.

Chomper and Ruby arrived just in time. “Cera?!” they both screamed, and ran over to her. Ruby checked her breathing. Cera was still alive, bleeding from the head and stomach a little. “Some….psycho longneck attacked…..me,” she huffed, still conscious. “And I…..don’t even…get why.” Cera then passed out. “We gotta get her help!” Chomper panicked. Sharptooth soon arrived, and they high tailed cera over to Mr. and Mrs. Belly Dragger.  Littlefoot, Spike, Ducky, Petrie, Veli, and Cira soon arrived. Veli was horrified at the news. “If I find that longneck…” Veli vowed angrily. “I am gonna kill him so painfully for what he did to my innocent daughter!” Mr. belly Dragger looked at Cera’s parents. “She’s going to be OK Veli,” he assured. “The herbs I’ve collected will heal her wounds, and she’ll just need more rest.” That comment helped with the pain, but it didn’t take Cira and Veli’s anger away.


MEANWHILE, IN THE MYSTERIOUS BEYOND……

The longneck that attacked Cera walked over to a shadowy spot. “There…I took care of it,” he panted. A mysterious figure in the darkness laughed, in a “yeah right,” tone of voice. “You’ll let my family free now?” the longneck asked. “Pitiful fool,” the figure responded. “Not only is that girl fast biter still alive, but you didn’t even attack the right one, I guess I can’t trust your type for simple plans….or my overall goal.” “NO!” yelled the longneck “You can’t!” “Oh, but I can…” the figure replied, and before the longneck could do anything, the figure attacked it.


(By now you’re wondering: What the heck’s going on? Well, just keep Reading and Reviewing and you’ll eventually find out….)

Next time, on The Land Before time: Sharptooth Valley: Petrie and Guido finally recover, and it a multi-chapter story arc, Redfoot puts his master plan to eliminate all the sharpteeth into action….

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(This is it. The “Redfoot’s plan” Chapter arc.  I got the title and the concept of the plan from a Fraggle Rock episode.)

Chapter 25: The River of Life Part 1

Redfoot, Icky, Ozzy, Kevin ( a spiketail), and Platy (A swimmer) were walking through the Mysterious Beyond. “So when are they supposed to show up Redfoot?” Icky asked.  “When we need them,” the longneck grinned back. “How do you know they won’t get hunted down or anything?” Kevin asked. “Don’t worry, I’m sure,” Redfoot grinned. ”This is their “Time of the Great Giving”, they’ll all be gathered in the valley today.”  On Redfoot’s back were all the black plants from chapter 20. “So what are here for?” Icky asked. “You out of all the leafeaters knew this place the best before the sharpteeth took it over.” “Icky, I need you to stay high in the sky and make tell me if any of the sharpteeth look like they’re about to leave the Valley.”  “Got it,” nodded Icky flying off. Redfoot smiled. His plan would go down as one of the greatest moments in leafeater history, in his mind.

Petrie, meanwhile, was very happy. After several weeks, the little flying sharptooth had finally recovered. “I’m back in action!” he cheered. “That’s great to hear,” Littlefoot smiled. He and his friends were now all perfectly healthy now, so they could play and go on more exciting adventures. “This is the life,” Cera sighed happily, floating in the water. The gang was watching the grownups prepare for the Time of the Great Giving, gathering prey for a big feast,  setting up games for themselves and the children, and preparing the waterhole for the annual Big Swim.  Chomper took a big look around the Great Valley, and let out a big smile. Life has been good since he made his reality-altering wish.  He had more friends of his own kind, he was still able to see Rory, Rita, Myra, and Greg once in awhile (there meetings were done in secret), he had a girlfriend now, and bes of all, if he said he was having friends for dinner, no one would be creeped out or find that comment odd!

Littlefoot was hanging with his grandparents now, as well as his parents and Shorty. The two brothers looked embarrassed when Ali walked past, waving “hi” while holding Rhett’s hand.   “What’s wrong boys?” Saura asked, curious about her children’s lifes. “Nothing special mom,” Littlefoot replied, laughing a bit at the memory of the Ali incident.  Petrie, his siblings, as well as his mom and Pterano were flying all around. Petrie was staying around the waterhole, showing Ducky  some tricks he had thought up while in was in his state of dino-crippledness. “That’s amazing Petrie, it is, it is,” Ducky complimented. “I know,” the flyer blushed.   Chomper was eating with his parents. “Thanks for catching this mom and dad,” Chomper said. “Thanks for helping us son,” Dein replied. In the middle of chowing down, Ruby came into the cave. “Hey Chomper,” Ruby said. “I wanna show you something.” Chomper looked at his parents. “You can go son,” Terri smiled. “Thanks mom!” called Chomper, waving and running off with Ruby. Terri smiled: seeing her son and Ruby reminded herself of a younger her and Dein, minus the fighting part.

Outside in the Mysterious Beyond, Redfoot, Ozzy, and Platy were secretly patrolling the outside of the GV. “So where’s this secret spot?” Ozzy questioned. “Hidden in the southern most side of the valley,” Redfoot explained. “It’s a spot none of the sharpteeth know about.” He let out a chuckle….a laugh of evil, to better describe it. Soon, footsteps could be heard. Eventually, 14 big longnecks came into view. The leader of the group stepped forward.  “Been awhile since we heard from you Redfoot,” he said sternly. “But my sources tell me this strategy of yours can’t fail?” “You got that correct,” Redfoot replied. “While, we’re glad to do our part,” another one of the longnecks in the group said.   Redfoot took a look at the valley walls and laughed. “Those bloodthirsty dimwits won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. Now, go guard all of the exits to this place,” he said to the longnecks. They nodded and walked off.

Cera was hanging with her sister, father, and Cira. Veli had always been slightly overprotective to her daughters, and since the night Cera got attacked by the longneck, that quality went into overdrive. Even though Cera was fine, Veli kept her oldest daughter with them for now. Tricia was jumping up and down happily. “Swimming! Swimming!” she cheered. The baby fast biter was starting to learn words (in her native tongue, of course.)  Petrie meanwhile, smelt Guido coming up behind him. “Hey Petrie!” Guido laughed, zipping past him. “Hey Guido,” Petrie laughed with a side back. Ducky’s plan had worked: Petrie was eager for stunts again, because he wanted to prove to Guido that they weren’t easy.  He could tell by the flyer’s expression what he wanted to do.  They flew off, and Tera caught a glimpse of her son. She heaved a sigh. Pterano was nearby. “Brother…you just make sure they don’t do anything stupid again.” “Of course,” Pterano smiled, and flew after his nephew.

Ruby showed Chomper to a secret wall in the valley. “I’ve been working on it for a while,” Ruby commented. “Working on what?” Chomper asked, eager to know. “You’ll see,” Ruby smiled. As they walked along the path, Chomper noticed a lot of smashed tree sweets in the ground. He soon found out why. On the wall in front of them, there were several stains from the tree sweet bubble juice. The marks seemed random,  but then Chomper looked closer.  The markings looked like a rex and a fast biter….kissing.  Chomper was still young, but her knew what this meant.  “Ruby…it’s beautifu,” Chomper smiled. “I call it a wall marking,” Ruby said back. (I think the term “picture” doesn’t exist in the LBT universe.)  Chomper then gave Ruby a kiss. But for the first time, it was him who gave the initial kiss. They suddenly heard footsteps. “How cute,” smirked Sharptooth, who had just come by. “Sharptooth? How come you’re not with everyone at the celebration?” Ruby asked.  Sharptooth chuckled a bit. “You know I’m always busy being one of the leaders of the valley. Now that I know everyone’s having fun, I like the opportunity to relax.” “Good point there,” Chomper smiled. The 3 decided to take a walk. Chomper smelled a longneck in the far distance, but he decided it wasn’t important.

Icky, meanwhile had kept to the skies. Staying in the shadows, he noticed that pretty much all of the sharpteeth had gathered in or around the waterhole.  He flew to the southern-most wall where Redfoot, Kevin, Platy, and Ozzy were. “All clear,” Icky said. “Thanks, you can head back to our valley Icky,” Redfoot said to his associate. “But that won’t be our valley anymore” he laughed mentally. Icky saluted Redfoot and flew off.  Aqfter a few more minutes of walking, the group arrived at their intended destination. “None of the sharpteeth know about this location,” the scarred-eyed longneck explaine. The 4 had arrived at what seemed like one wall, but Redfoot knew more.  As he was doing his job, Kevin kept placing fruits around the area so they couldn’t be traced by anyone. Redfoot then applied all his muscle to lift up a giant rock. Under that rock, in a little cave, was a small stream of water. “What’s so important about this?” Ozzy asked angrily. Redfoot chuckled, still holding up the rock. “What you don’t know Ozzy, is that water from this little bit flows into the rest of the valley’s waterhole.” Ozzy thought for a minute, then he finally figured out Redfoot’s plan. “Ingenious….” He complimented in an evil tone. “Now drop the plants in!” Redfoot ordered, straining. Ozzy, Platy, and Kevin agreed. The black flowers fell into the water. When they did…. A weird pollen began flowing out……

In the water hole, everyone was having a good time swimming. Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Spike, Tippy, Shorty, Ali, and the rest of the kids were splashing each other and having “who can hold their breath underwater the longest” contests. The only ones not near the water were Chomper, Ruby, Sharptooth, Petrie, Guido, and Pterano.  Tippy swam up to the gang. “Can anyone tell Tippy who keeps giving Tippy these heart-shaped stones?” the belly dragger asked.  Everyone nodded no. “Oh well,” smiled Tippy and swam off. At this point, Ali noticed something. “What’s that?” she asked Rhett, noticing weird specks appear in the water. “No idea,” Rhett replied.  Ali started feeling weird. “Something wrong Ali?” Rhett asked. “I think I need some rest…” Ali replied. The two sharpteeth helped each other out of the waterhole. Soon enough, Rhjett began to feel odd too. But they weren’t the only ones.


“On the count of 3,” Guido began. He and Petrie’s next stunt was this: The had placed a dead swimmer high on a cliff at an angle where it would eventually fall off. They were trying to see if an, for lack of a better word, in-flight meal was possible. “You two!” Pterano called, laughing a bit at the sight “You’re missing the celebration. Stop this nonsense at once.”  Petrie looked a bit disappointed, but he was still in a good mood. “Ok uncle, you’re right,” he admitted. Pterano planned to do more stunts when he returned to traveling the Mysterious Beyond, but he didn’t want his nieces and nephews following in his foot steps quite yet. Flying near ground level, they eventually saw Sharptooth, Chomper, and Ruby. “Hi Petrie! Hi Guido! Hi Petrie’s uncle!” Chomper smiled, waving to his friends. “We’re heading back to the celebration,” explained Pterano. “So are we,” responded Ruby.  But when the 6 got back to the main valley, something was wrong. Everyone was on the side of the waterhole, looking sick and weak!

“Chomper…? Ruby….?” Littlefoot called, tired. The friends rushed up to him. “What’s wrong?” Chomper asked nervously. “Tippy doesn’t know…” Tippy replied. “We were just swimming in the water when these weird specs started showing up,” Cera finished, coughing a little. “And we don’t feel so good, we don’t, we don’t,” Ducky finished, still in the water. Sharptooth and Pterano soon had an idea of what’s going on. “Don’t tell me…” Pterano whispered horrified. He flew inches over the water, making sure none of it got in his mouth. He noticed the specs everyone mentioned. “Mom?! Are you all right?” Petrie said, flying over to his mother. “I don’t feel too good son,” Tera replied. “I feel very dizzy.” Pterano examined the specs, and noticed they were black. “No…” he muttered, “The Black Plant of Death?” “The what?” Ruby asked. “The Black Plant of death,” Sharptooth replied. “It’s a rare plant in these parts. If you ingest it’s pollen, you get sick, and if you eat the flower directly, you die in 24 hours without the antidote.” “But how’d it get in our water?” Chomper screamed. Sharptooth had a bad feeling he knew. “Wait here,” he ordered everyone.

Sharptooth dashed over to one of the Valley’s exits, staying beside the wall. When he got close to one of the exits, he eyed out of it carefully. He could see several big, yellow longnecks. “I was right,” Sharptooth thought. He quickly returned to the herds. “The Fearsome 14.” He muttered. A lot of the adults gasped, but the kids mostly looked confused. “Who?” asked Chomper. “Tfe Fearsome 14,” Sharptooth said again. “A group of evil longneck who devote there lives to killing sharpteeth.” The children gasped. “That’s horrible, it is, it is,” Ducky coughed.  Sharptooth and Pterano looked at each other. “It has to be Redfoot  behind this,” Pterano muttered, “He’s always been trying to get rid of us.” “BUT WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!” Guido panicked. “There’s only  of us in good condition to fight, but there’s no way we can take them all on!” “Then we have to solve this problem at the source,” Sharptooth said. “We have to track down Redfoot and make him get rid of these flowers. He knows that if one of the sickened sharpteeth try to live, the 14 will kill them.” “But how do we get out of here?” Chomper asked. “Petrie, his uncle, and Guido can fly, but us…” “There’s a secret exit to the Mysterious Beyond from my cave,” Sharptooth explained. “Chomper, you, I, and Ruby can take it.”  Sharpteeth looked at all his fellow valley members.

“Everyone, you must stay strong,” he said, sounding like a true leader. “You must not give up hope and surrender to the enemy. The 6 of us WILL solve the problem, and save your lives.” “But we’ll need help,” Chomper said. Sharptooth thought a moment. Most of the sharpeeth who lived in the Great Valley area gathered here and got sick. Then he remembered… “We could find Doc.”


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Chapter 26: The River of Life Part 2

Before embarking on their quest, the 6 sharpteeth in good health had one task to complete: They had to gather up every bit of prey they had in the Valley and gather it in the central area.  (In this reality, sharpteeth only eat leafeaters, not other sharpteeth, since it seems like Redclaw wanted to kill Chomper just as much as his friends in the previous reality.)  Luckily, they had had  a lot gathered for the Time of the Great Giving. It was about 5 day’s worth of food, if everyone ate only what was necessary. “You’ll be fine Ducky, I promise,” Petrie said, flying to the swimmer. He let out a smile, he wanted to try his best to improve the mood of the moment. “Here, I grabbed this one just for you.” Petrie handed Ducky a rather decent-sized swimmer corpse. “That’s nice Petrei, it is, it is,” Ducky said. “Yup yup yup.” Petrie tried to smile even though he could tell there was a tickle in the swimmer’s throat. The swimming sharpteeth managed to swim into an area of the water where the current went in an opposite direction, so they could avoid the toxins.

It was time to depart. Sharptooth, Chomper, Petrie, Ruby, Guido, and Pterano gathered in front of everyone again. “We will get read of these bad plants,” Chomper promised his friends. “I believe in you Chomper,” Littlefoot said. The two rexes shared a brotherly smile.  Dein and Terri weakly walked over to their son.  “W’ve seen you grown since you were a hatchling so,” Terri comforted. “We have faith in you.” Mother and son shared another hug.  “Thank you mom,” Chomper cried slightly.  “We have to go now, because we can’t go later,” Ruby commented. “Yeah,” said Guido.  Everyone sick sharptooth took a look at the 6. They said their goodbyes, and Sharptooth led them back to his cave. “This wall here…” Sharptooth said, pointing towards a rock with little cracks on the side. Sharptooth then used all his strength to move the rock. It was revealed a large tunnel was hidden behind it. “And to think I thought I would never have a use for this,” he commented. Pterano and Petrie flew ahead.

“So what’s the plan?” Chomper asked Sharptooth as they walked through the secret tunnel to the Mysterious Beyond. It’s about half a day’s walk to the leafeater valley,” Sharptooth explained. “Once we get there, we’ll find Refoot or one of his cronies when they’re alone, and force them to tell us where he planted those deadly plants and where we can get the antidote.” “But how will we find that out?” Ruby asked.  “Simple,” Sharptooth replied. “I have the ability,” he said in sharptooth, “to speak flattooth,” he said…..in flattooth! Chomper looked amazed. “You can speak leaf-eater too?” h said surprised. “Of course, it’s a talent I learned before coming to the valley with all the herds.” “As can I,” added Pterano. “You don’t think physique is the only talent I got from traveling the world.” “But first we need to find Doc for another ally in our journey.” Chomper wondered about that. He was afraid of Doc in the previous reality ever since he left the GV, so what was he like now, as a big t-rex?  Chomper knew he’d find out eventually. Soon, a light was seen in the distance. “The Mysterious Beyond..” commented Ruby.  The 6 emerged into the wide open space. None of the other exits faced this side of the Valley, so the Fearsome 14 were unaware that six sharpteeth managed to escape.  “So where’s the Lone Dinosaur?” asked Guido. “Give me a minute young glider,” Sharptooth said. Sharptooth stood perfectly still, and concentrated. He began sniffing the air very carefully. He didn’t want anyone else making a noise or movement. Scent after scent went through Sharptooth’s sniffer until one very one was traced. The smell of the order was small, meaning Doc was a distance away, but the odor was still there. “Follow me,” he ordered his group. Pterano could also track Doc so he stayed ahead too.

A DISTANCE AWAY…..

A grinning Redfoot, Platy, Ozzy, and Kevin returned to the leafeater valley. “What are you smiling about?” asked Rita, who was playing with Greg, Myra, and Rory. “I’ll tell you soon young one,” he chuckled in his slightly evil tone. Rita shrugged. Redfoot acted like this all the time, so it didn’t bother her now more than usual. “Redfoot’s sure been happy lately,” commented Rory, who had just been found in his hiding place by Greg. “Ever since I found those black plants for him, he’s always been in a good mood.” “Maybe he got over Screech and Thud’s deaths,” suggested Myra.  But a weird feeling was coming over Rita. “What’s wrong Rita?” asked Rory. “You ever….feel like something bad’s happening around you?” “Why do you ask that?” Greg asked confused. “I…don’t know,” Rita replied honestly.  She decided to ignore the feeling.

Meanwhile, in a small canyone in the Mysterious Beyond, a BIG (rivaling the size of Sharptooth) sharptooth was practicing his fighting skills. He smashed big rocks with his tail like they were nothing.  “No sweat,” laughed Doc. Then, the big dark-green rex had a scent reach his sniffer. “Could it be?” he asked with a smirk, recognizing the smell.  Surely enough, Pterano, Sharptooth, Chomper, Guido, Ruby, and Petrie came into view. “Sharptooth!” Doc grinned. “Haven’t seen you in a while!” Sharptooth gave a little smile towards his old friend, but his expression turned serious again. “I’m afraid we can’t catch up on old times now,” Sharptooth said, “We have a major crisis on our hands.” As the two big rexes were talking, the kids were sharing a conversation. “I can’t believe that any leaf eater would do something this terrible,” Guido said. “They just don’t understand the Circle of Life, Ruby muttered. “We don’t kill just to kill, we kill because we need to survive, but none of those leafeaters understand that.” Chomper was surprised, how Ruby knew so much on a deep suggest.  “Ruby, can I talk to you for a second?” Chomper asked. “Sure Chomper,” Ruby replied.

A few moments earlier, Chomper had found a unique rock, and it looked even more nice than a shiny stone.  But one neat thing about the rock was that there was a tiny hole in it. “I wanted to show you this,” Chomper said. He took a long, thin vine from a tree and put it through the hole. He then tied the vine. “A gift,” Chomper said. Ruby smiled. “Chomper…I’m flattered,” she said. “It’s a shiny stone you can always have with you. It’s like always having a part of me with you.” The fast biter and rex grinned at each other, and kissed. However, Petrie and Guido saw them. “Oooh…” Petrie laughed. However, they didn’t look embarrassed.  “We have to stop Redfoot,” Chomper said, remembering their goal. Chomper took this mission very personally. In the previous reality, he and Ruby’s efforts to save the Mysterious Beyond proved unsuccessful, so maybe he could make up for it now and save every sharptooth in the Great Valley.  Sharptooth and Pterano meanwhile had finished explaining the situation to Doc.  

“Sounds like something Redfoot would do,” Doc commented, “I just never imagined he’d be able to accomplish it.” “We’ll need your help to infiltrate their Valley and find some answers.” Pterano. “You didn’t even need to ask,” the scarred-eyed rex said.  “Children, it is time to leave,” Sharptooth called. Chomper, Ruby, Guido, and Petrie nodded. “What’s that Ruby?” Sharptooth asked, noticing the rock attached to the vine. “A gift from Chomper,” Ruby smiled back.  Sharptooth remembered the discusiion they had a while back about Chomper, so he knew what this meant.  Petrie then asked “Where are we going to spend the night?” Pterano knew the answer. “A short distance outside their valley is a place called Pointy Canyon. It was one of my first stops on my world travels with Rinkus and Sierra,” he explained, “and in that area there are many big caves we can rest in.”  Everyone nodded. As the 7 kept walking, Chomper looked up at Doc. This rex’s strength was just as impressive as the longneck-version of Doc in the previous reality. And best of all, in this reality he’s on Chomper’s side.  :- )

MEANWHILE…..

In the leafeater valley, Redfoot had called a meeting for all the flatteeth dinos. “What’s this about mom?” Rita asked confused. “I heave no idea dear,” Julie replied.  Redfoot stood on a place that made him higher up the rest of the dinosaurs, except for the flyers of course. Redfoot took a second to clear his throat. “My fellow leafeaters,” Redfoot called loud. “I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that in a matter of a few short days, the Great Valley will be ours again!”  A lot of the dinos looked confused, they didn’t get how. “Myself, Ozzy, Platy, Icky, and Kevin recently infiltrated the outer wall of the Great Valley and found the water source.” Everyone listened intently, however, Greg, Rory, Rita, and Myra wondered one thing: what about Chomper? “Then, with the help of the Black Plant of Death, we infected the water there. Now, all of those stupid predators are sick from the pollen released. And if they try to leave, one of the members of the Fearsome 14 will kill them.” The reactions of the crowd were mixed. Some were overjoyed, some doubted the plan would work, and a few looked shocked. Rory was one of those ones. “What’s wrong Rory?” Myra asked. “He….used me,” Rory said wide-eyed.

Meanwhile, back in the Great Valley, the land sharpteeth could still walk around, even if their strength wasn’t that high. “”This is hopeless,” sighed Cera (Who I believe in both realities was a bit of a pessimist.)  “You can’t give up on your friends Cera,” said Shorty who had just walked over. Shorty liked to tease most of his brother’s friends, but he knew that this was jokes. “How are mom and dad doing?” Littlefoot asked. “Good, they’re sharing their portion of the rations,” Shorty explained. Littlefoot looked around. The kids were doing their best to entertain themselves by playing verbal-only games in an effort to keep happy.  Tricia was being cuddled by her parents, Cira singing a fast biter lullaby. At this point, the sharpteeth were noticing that their voices were changing. This was another sign of the sickness. Littlefoot took a little drink from the small water sources they could find. Everyone had to be careful to not take anymore that necessary. “Wherever you guys are, we believe in you,” Littlefoot thought.  He was the optimist typically.

Eventually, Chomper, Ruby, Guido, Sharptooth, Doc, Pterano, and Petrie arrived at Pointy Canyon. “Here we are,” said Pterano. Sharptooth and Chomper squinted, and in the distance, they could see big stone walls. “The flattooth valley…” Chomper said.  “Correct, young biter.” Sharptooth responded. The 3 adults looked at each other. “When we were right outside of the Valley, we could recognize the scent of 5 leafeaters who most likely were the ones who poisoned our waterholes.” Pterano explained. “Really uncle?” Petrie asked, surprised his uncle was able to figure that out. “Correct nephew.”  “Now we should gather inside and rest,” said Doc. “We’re going to need all our power for tomorrow.”

(Hope you liked Part 2.)

Next time on TLBT: Sharptooth Valley: The 7 make their strategy to break-in to Redfoot’s valley, Chomper and Ruby get some time alone (while acting as spies.), and the identity of Tippy’s secret admirer will be revealed!



A LITTLE BONUS……(Just something I thought would be cute, and holiday appropriate.)

The sharptooth version of the gangs walked on stage and faced whoever is reading this.

Chomper: Happy celebration time everyone!

Ruby:  Over here, it’s the time of the Great Giving, and we hear from some human called “Brekclub85” that you humans are celebrating a celebration called “Thanksgiving.”

Cera:  We hope you and your family and friends and any other sharpteeth you now have a safe and happy celebration time.

Ducky: Yup yup yup!

Spike: (Grins.)

Littlefoot: And as a little gift to you, we had Brekclub85 send a fresh, prepared, good tasting longneck carcass to each of your families for a nice Time of…I mean Thanksgiving meal.

Petrie: Happy Thanksgiving to all, and…

EVERYBODY (Shows their teeth.) To all a good bite! (They all laugh happily, and walk off.)

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(Here’s part 3 of the Redfoot storyline, hope it’s more dramatic and action-packed!)

Chapter 27: The River of Life Part 3

It was nearing sunset. The 7 sharpteeth were still planning their “search-and-discover-information” mission.  The kids were eating a clubtail that Sharptooth had went out to get for the group.  Even though it was enough to fill their stomachs, they still felt weird inside.  “I’m scared guys,” Ruby admitted. “What if we don’t succeed? What if every sharptooth…you know…” Everyone shared a moment of silence to think about that horrifying thought, as much as they wanted not to.  “And what if we never see our friends again?” Petrie asked.  “I know,” Guido continued. I want to be able to see….” He paused. “Who?” asked Chomper. “Ip,” Guido said, talking fast so the words he said weren’t very clear. “Who?” everyone asked again. Guido sighed. He finally muttered: “Tippy.”  Everyone went wide-eyed. “Guido…you mean it was you,” Petrie smiled in anticipation. “Yes, I like Tippy.” Guido huffed. “I sent her those heart-shaped rocks.” “But she’s a belly dragger, and you’re a flyer,” Petrie laughed. “So what? A belly dragger and a sharpbeak. I’m sure it could work.” “Yeah right,” laughed Petrie. “Don’t give up hope Guido,” Ruby smiled. “Just because you and Tippy are different in appearance….very much…doesn’t mean you can’t like each other.” She wicked at Chomper when she said this comment.  “Thanks Ruby,” Guido smiled back.

Meanwhile, Rory, Rita, Myra, and Greg were walking through their valley, eating a few berries. “I can’t believe this,” Rita commented. “I mean, I know Redfoot despises sharpteeth, but I never thought he’d go this far.”  “I worried about Chomper guys,” Rory said, “He even helped me get those plants…before I knew what they were.”  “But what canwe do?” Myra asked, jumping into the waterhole. “Do what brothers?” asked a swimmer, emerging from the water. “Oh, hey Mo.” Rita said. (In this reality, Mo is a Ducky-type flattooth swimmer.)  “We’re not your brothers ya know,” Myra commented. “Well, you guys know we’re all brothers in some way,” Mo smiled. The gang stayed silent for a few moments.  “What are you kids talking about?” a bigger swimmer asked, emerging from the water. “I don’t know mom,” replied Mo.  “Oh, hello Elsie.” Greg said. “Hi Greg,” Mo’s mom replied.  “Would you mind stop stealing treestars from us sometimes?” Greg laughed. “You know I’m just hungry, it’s like instinct.”  

“Children, come here,” Sharptooth instructed, calling from outside the cavern the group had camped out in. “What is it?” asked Chomper, hoping they had a plan figured out.  “You see this mud?” Pterano asked, pointing his claw towards a puddle of pure-black mud. “What about it uncle?” Petrie asked, confused.  “It’s called the No-Smell Mud,” Pterano explained. “Why’s it called that?” Chomper asked. “See for yourself kid,” replied Doc. “Cover yourself in it.” Chomper thought these were weird instructions, but he obliged. He coated himself with a leayer of mud, only his eyes were seen clearly. “Now everyone, can you smell Chomper?” Pterano asked. Everyone nodded yes.  “Now then Chomper, will you walk a distance that away?” Pterano requested. Chomper agreed, and walked about 55 feet away. “Can you smell him now?” Pterano questioned again. Everyone used their sniffers, they could still smell Chomper’s trail…but only to where he was before he applied the mud.

Meanwhile, outside two of the Great Valley, two of the Fearsome 14 were having a discussion. “Why can’t we just go in and pick them off one by one?” he asked annoyed. “Patience Aster,” Legend, the leader of the pack instructed. “Redfoot specifically instructed us to let the sharpteeth die of starvation and only attack if they try to leave.” “Yeah, but I just want to see those moronic poachers suffer.” Aster replied. “You just can’t wait,” Legend commented.

The group was amazed at the discovery Doc, Sharptooth, and Pterano had just made. “So what’s going to happen?” Guido asked. “Here’s our plan kid,” explained Doc. “Step 1: Myself and Sharptooth will track down Redfoot, but we’ll need the help of the flyers. Step 2: one of you kids will assist Chomper in tracking down one of the 5 leafeaters that we have deduced are behind the poisoning of the water.  Step 3: Pterano will be the “Flyer in the air” (Eye in the sky) for Chomper and his partner to make sure they’re safe, and Step 4: Whoever doesn’t go with Chomper will come with us and stay on the sidelines.” Everyone listened intently. Sharptooth let out a sigh and looked down at the children, “However, if any of you want to back out because you might be afraid, we will let you.” Chomper, Ruby, Petrie, and Guido all thought for a moment. They all had some fear inside them, but they knew they had to do this if they wanted to save everyone back in the Great Valley.  “We’re ready,” they all said in unison. Sharptooth looked proudly towards all of the children. “Now, who will volunteer to accompany Chomper?” “I will,” Ruby replied only a second later. Petrie and Guido grinned, they knew why.

Meanwhile, back in the Valley, Tricia started to cry from her sickness. “Tricia…you’ll get better. Our friends will save us, I promise,” Cera said. The fast biter held her little sister close to her. In her mind, however, Cera was having doubts. She knew that life isn’t like a good sleep story, things don’t always turn out just fine in the end. Cera carried her sister over to her parents. “Daddy?” Cera asked. “What is it, my daughter?” Veli asked, coughing a bit. Cera turned her head and squinted to see outside one of the valey’s exits. “Why are the leafeaters being so mean?” Cera started to cry when she said that.  Veli and Cira looked down at their daughters, then they held them close. “I don’t understand them Cera,” Veli replied, speaking the most honest answer he could. From what I’ve heard, they believe in a so-called “Circle of Life”, but they totally disregard us sharpteeth and just classify us as dinos who kill just for pleasure and selfishness.” Cera teared up more at that comment. “Then daddy, Cira…isn’t what they’re doing exactly that?” For once in her life, Cera didn’t feel like bragging, she didn’t feel like she knew everything. She was confused….as a lot of the sharpteeth were by all this.

“Ok, just a little more hear,” Guido muttered, using his feathers to make the mud coatings over Ruby and Chomper move even, so they wouldn’t leave a trail of drops. “That tickles,” Chomper laughed a bit.  Guido smirked, and deliberately tickled him a bit more.  “Luckily this mud doesn’t smell bud, because my sniffer would feel bad,” commented Ruby.  Sharptooth looked up at the sky. “The Bright Circle is starting to go down,” he commented. “We must put our plan into action tonight.”  “Agreed,” the group nodded. Pterano would go with Ruby and Chomper to protect them, and Guido and Petrie would go with Sharptooth and Doc for protection.  Pterano was coming down from the sky after taking a brief examination flight.  “I overheard someone say…” Pterano began to explain, “That Redfoot is planning to take a walk alongside the Valley walls on the Mysterious Beyond side. He thinks we’ve all been infected.”  Sharptooth grinned. “Typical of Redfoot to make a miscalculation.” Pterano looked at Chomper and Ruby, covered in the smell-blocking mud. “I found a side entrance and there are many thin paths along the valley for navigation.” Chomper and Ruby nodded, knowing their goal.  “This is it team. Now’s our best time to strike.” Redfoot and Doc leaned over, and the 7 all put their hands together. “For us sharpteeth,” Chomper said. “For us sharpteeth!” he group all roared, lifting their hands up. They then went their separate ways.

Meanwhile, the Bright Circle was going down. Ozzy saw his brother leaning against a wall.  “Well brother, I’m sure you’re pleased with the announcement earlier today.” “Don’t talk to me,” muttered Strut, and wandered off. “What’s your problem?” Ozzy said, slightly offended.  Strut walked angrily away. He felt Redfoot, his brother, and the others were being completely out of line.  As this happened, he passed the leafeater gang. “What can we do about this?” Rory asked, concerned for Chomper. “We can just hope Chomper doesn’t live in the Great Valley,” said Myra. “Myra,” said Rita, who could tell the threehorn was being helpful.  Mo and Elsie were also with them. “I wish Redfoot didn’t have to go this far, but you know him, he’s incorrigible,” Elsi said. “Yeah,” Mo, Rita, Rory, Greg, and Myra replied. “While, I hear my mom calling,” Greg said. “Talk to you tomorrow guys.” “Good night Greg!” his friends called back, the spiketail rushing back to his family’s cave.  After this, the group split up.  And at this point, a mud covered t-rex and fast biter were navigating their way behind some bushes. “The flyer’s scent..I smell it coming from that cave,” Chomper pointed.

Elsewhere, Redfoot was walking around the outside of the valley, soaking in the triumph of his plan, if you will. However, a short distance away, Doc and Sharptooth were following him, Petrie and Guido staying for safety. “We must do a two-sided attack, we must have him cornered,” Doc explained. “Got it,” replied Sharptooth. He looked at Petrie and Guido. “In case this doesn’t work, we need you two to never make your presence know.” “Why?” asked Guido. “You’ll understand later,” replied Sharptooth. A few moments later, they got into attack position. Redfoot, however, began sensing someone near them. “Who’s there?” he yelled, swinging his mighty longneck tail, but no one answered. “Hmmph.” He grunted. Then, Sharptooth and Doc jumped out from behind some rocks. “Sharpteeth!” Redfoot yelled at the top of his dino lungs. “Redfoot…” Sharptooth said in leafeater. Redfoot’s eyes widened.  “You… you were the one who lead the sharpteeth in the struggle which ended up in you taking the Great Valley from us!” Sharptooth laughed. “Took it from you, you biased buffoon?”  he laughed. “You were running it pretty terribly.”  “Why you..!” Redfoot muttered. “Now, tell us where you infected the valley’s water!” Doc yelled. The struggle began soon.

“Hey mom, where’s dad,” Greg yawned. “Knowing your father, he’s probably bragging to his friends about how is assisted in the sharpteeth’s inevitable demise.” Dil replied. The big mother spiketail and her kid shared a laugh. “Yup, that’s how dad would act,” Greg said, starting to fall asleep “But how you would probably act too mom,” he mentally added. Dil gave her son a nuzzle, then proceeded to go to sleep. Icky soon flew down. “What a day!” he laughed. “A good breakfast, and I helped..” before he could wake his “family” up, someone grabbed him. Ruby jumped in and covered his mouth with her hands, and she did something very careful with her teeth. She bit his legs, but her teeth didn’t bite them, more like, she trapped his legs in the gaps between his teeth so he ouldn’t move. “HEY?! WHAT THE?!” he yelled muffled. “we gotta go,” Chomper said, worried they might wake someone up. He then saw the sleeping spiketail. “Greg….?” Chomper muttered surprised. “Who?” asked Ruby. “Never mind,” replied Chomper. Pterano was waiting for them outside the cave.  “We have to go kids,” Pterano called, eyeing the valley to make sure no one saw them. He lied down so Chomper and Ruby could climb on. Pterano had gained a lot of muscle over his time traveling the world doing stunts to impress the young sharpteeth.  Chomper and Ruby climbed on, Ruby holding Icky down and silent. However, before they could take off….

A tired Rita walked up and saw a flyer, which she thought was a flatooth flyer, with two other dinosaurs on it’s back. Chomper stared at her, and recognized her. He went wide eyed. Rita couldn’t recognize the figure at first, but those little red eyes…she’d recognize them anywhere. “Chomper…..?” she asked, in surprise. Chomper didn’t know how to react. He started sweating. “Go, go,” he whispered to Pterano, and they took off. “huh?” Rita said, watching the 3 (actually 4) dinos be taken away. “What was he…?” she thought, not getting what was going on.  She just stood there. “Coming Rita?” she heard Julie, her mom call. “Yeah mom,” Rita replied back, a little unsure.

Meanwhile, the battle of Sharptooth and Doc Vs. Redfoot was raging on. “Relying on tail whacks? What a pathetic line of attacks,” Doc laughed, though Redfoot didn’t understand him.  Redfoot was struggling, he could tell he would lose the fight at this rate. The only wound he could inflict was one on Doc’s leg. Even though it was very noticeable, Doc, with his years or training, could withstand any pain. Redfoot was getting desperate, when he looked up at the stone wall.  At the top, there was a MASSIVE amount of losse rocks that were kept in place by the fact that nothing had disturbed them. “Heh,” Redfoot laughed evilly. “What’s so funny?” Sharptooth asked in flattooth confused. “This,” replied Redfoot, and with all his might, swung his tail at the stone wall. The two big rexes looked up, and saw the rocks falling down! “Oh no!” Petrie and Guido panicked from the sidelines. “Get outta the way!” the two rexes yelled to each other. When the rocks laned, they created a massive dust storm that filled the air for a few minutes. When it cleared, Redfoot saw that rocks formed a massive pile on the ground, and on some of the rocks…was blood.

Meanwhile, Pterano, Chomper, and Ruby returned to Pointy Gorge, holding Icky captive.  “LET ME GO! LET ME GO!” he yelled in that kind of obnoxious voice of his. “Quick, tie him up with a vine!” Ruby yelled, still holding him still with her teeth. Ppterano flew over, and with Chomper’s assistance, tied Icky up. “What are you going to do to me?” he said scared, “What I am I saying, they can’t talk.” “Oh yes we can,” Chomper and Pterano replied in leafeater. “You can talk?!” Icky yelled shock. “Yup, and you’re going to tell us everything we need to know to stop Redfoot’s plan.” “Hmph! Why should I help a bunch of sharpteeth?!” Chomper chuckled. “I can give you 4 good reasons: Mouth,  throat,   stomach,  and intestines.” Chomper, in both realities, would never be a mean or evil sharptooth, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t act the part if necessary.  Icky started to panic. “Ok, all I know, is that he found the secret spot that was connected to all of the waterholes of the valley,” Icky said. “Look, I only know that’s it’s somewhere along the walls, but I don’t know where it is and how he found it. I swear!” Icky cried. Pterano looked at Icky, after eyeing him, he said. “I can tell he’s telling the truth.” “Ok, but what do you know about the antidote?!” Chomper yelled. “Think hard!” Icky thought for his life. “There is a plant that neutralizes the effects…” he panted. “But Redfoot and some of the others have it guarded. You’ll never get past it, at least as far as I know!” Chomper knew this was all the info they’d get for now. “What should we do with him now?” Ruby asked in sharptooth. Chomper and Pterano looked down at Ickyy. “We’ll just leave him tied up,” Pterano said. “Yeah, I don’t want to be like a leafeater and be a heartless murderer.” Chomper concluded.  Icky just stood there, while Chomper angrily tossed him some berries. He couldn’t believe what the little rex had just said.

Meanwhile, back at the sight of the battle, Redfoot looked victorious. “Now, none of these stupid sharpteeth can stop me!” he laughed evilly, and walked off. When he did, Petrie and Guido quickly flew up to the rocks. “Oh no, they’re dead…” Guido began to cry. “No, we’re not,” called Doc’s voice suddenly. He and Sharptooth emerged from a gap in the wall that Redfoot did not see. “You’re alive!” they cheered, and the rexes flew up and hugged the rexes’ heads. “But how?” asked Guido. “We jumped back there when we saw the rocks,” Doc explained. “But what about the blood?” Petrie asked confused. “Simple,” replied Doc. “I trained my eyes to be able to see in dusty mists or winds.When the dust was around us, I rubbed my hand over the wound on my leg and rubbed blood over some rocks. Now Redfoot thinks we’re dead.” “How will that help us?” Petrie asked. “He’ll let his guard down,.” Sharptooth concluded.


(There, so far the longest chapter yet. The drama is really picking up! Read and Review!)

(Bet I tricked ya into thinking Doc and Sharptooth were dead, didn’t I?)

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(Here’s Part 4, hope you enjoy it.)

Chapter 28: The River of Life Part 4

Sharptooth, Doc, Petrie, and Guido managed to make it back to Pointy Canyon. “We’re back,” Petrie called to Chomper, Ruby, and Pterano.  When they got inside the cavern, Doc noticed Icky tied up. “We caught him,” Ruby explained, “He was involved with the poisoning of the waterhole, but he doesn’t know where Redfoot put the plants.” Icky gulped nervously “7 sharpteeth?! One of them is gonna eat me for sure!”  But he was confused, not to mention shocked, by what Chomper did and said earlier. Icky’s essentially his enemy, but he gave him food instead of letting him go hungry while he’s tied up.  “But he did however,” Chomper said “Told us where we can find the antidote.” Sharptooth looked down at Icky. “Is that true, flyer?” he grunted in leafeater. “Yes, it is!” cried Icky. “It’s in Redfoot’s cave, but he always has someone guarding it, I swear!” Icky panicked more as Sharptooth eyed him closely, but Sharptooth said, “He’s telling the truth.” And Icky was. But Sharptooth thought about something else, “Pterano, I need to fly into the valley next morning and spy on Redfoot. If I’m right, I’ll know how we can get the cure.”

Rita had a hard time sleeping that night, ever since she saw Chomper’s eyes. Rita and her mother (Julie) had a special ability, similar to the one Sharptooth had: the ability to look into someone’s eyes and tell how they feel. When she saw Chomper, she could see in those red eyes that he had a great burden inside him, and that he was desperate to accomplish his goal.  She was tired when she met up with Mo, Rory, Greg, and Myra. “You look tired Rita,” Rory said. “Hey…could I talk with you guys in private?” she whispered, hoping no one else would hear. “Sure brother,” replied Mo. “She’s not your bother!” Myra yelled, but not in a mean way, “And she’s not even a boy!”  “Just come on…” muttered Rita, taking them to a shady part of the leafeater valley. “I saw Chomper here in the valley last night.” “WHAT?!” Greg, Myra, and Rory yelled. “What’s he doing here? Trying to grab a quick bite I bet,” Myra said. “Myra,” Rory said angrily. The two threehorns did like each other, but Myra could say some mean things sometimes. “But when I saw him…I could tell he was scared. Scared by Redfoot’s plan. He doesn’t want the sharpteeth to die.” “As he should be,” a voice said from beside them. It was Strut.

“Who are you?” asked Greg. The friends had seen Ozzy and Strut around the valley, but they never really (And it seemed like no one) ever talked to them. “My brother assisted  Redfoot in poisoning the water of the Great Valley, and I want to stop it and save them.” Myra looked confused, she didn’t want Chomper dead because she knew that he could “speak.” “But what about the rest of the sharpteeth?” Myra asked. “Don’t they make this world only worse?” Strut laughed, kind of bitterly. “If you children only knew..” he laughed. “What?” they all asked. “About the importance of the Circle of Life.”  “We’ve heard of that already,” Rory sighed, remembering a long talk from his parents about it. “But they don’t know the whole story,” Strut replied “They only see the importance of themselves, not sharpteeth.” “What do you mean?” asked Mo. “I got a question,” Strut began. “About how much food in these areas are there for leafeaters?” “Enough for everyone to survive,” Myra replied.  “And how many flatteeth get hunted down a day, do you think?” Everyone felt awkward by these questions, but Rita replied, “Lots…?” “Exactly,” Strut replied. “If all the sharpteeth in the area died, leafeaters would keep repopulating, but there’d be less food. Eventually, probably in only a few cold times…..you’d all be dead.” Strut concluded. “That’s not true!” Myra yelled. Mo didn’t know how to react, but Rory and Rita said “You…you’re right.” Suddenly, they heard Redfoot shout out “May everyone in the Valley gather in the center area please?”

Redfoot stood atop a rock, looking proud at himself. “I’m sure all of you will be pleased to hear that last night I disposed of the two sharpteeth who managed to escape the Great Valley!” “Chomper, oh no!” Rita yelled, but only Strut and her friends heard her. “Correct, two big sharpteeth who tried to ambush me, I crushed them under some rocks.” Rita, Rory, Greg, and Myra looked relieved, they knew Chomper wasn’t a big sharptooth. “And to celebrate our soon retaking of the Great Valley, we will hold a celebration feast tomorrow night. “ Pterano was secretly perched atop one of the Stone Walls. “Just what we need,” he grinned. One particular thing about the leafeaters in this valley, is that Icky is the only flyer. All the rest are land walkers. Pterano looked around. Atop the walls were the same kind of slightly loose rocks Redfoot used to escape. Sharptooth had explained the concept of his plan, but he didn’t know how’d they be able to pull it off. Pterano flew back to his fellow sharpteeth.  

Back in the cave, Sharptooth came up to Chomper. “Pterano told me…that a leafeater saw you last night, and called you by name. How is that?” Chomper looked nervous, he didn’t know how to respond. Should he tell how he made a reality-altering wish, and how he knew Rory, Rita, and Myra from the past? That probably wouldn’t work. Chomper remembered his connection in this reality. “You see…when I was an egg that longneck thought I was a leafeater egg, so she and her friends took me away when the we took over the Great Valley. They hatched me, ya see, and well, I learned the flattooth language a bit, then my mom and dad were able to find me and took me back.”  Sharptooth grinned. “I’m glad to hear you have friends of both kinds, young one,” he commented. Chomper looked confused, but he replied “Yeah…I’ll admit I eat leafeaters like every other sharptooth, but I, unlike Redfoot and his meanie helpers, don’t just kill everyone of the other kind.” Sharptooth smiled at Chomper’s wisdom “For someone so young in life, and still have many things to learn in life, you already know many things.” Chomper felt proud about himself. Pterano came flying in. “It’s just as you guessed,” he said to Sharptooth and Doc.

Nightfall came. Strut had decided to take a walk outside the leafeater valley, when he heard footsteps coming behind him. He had a feeling he knew whose they were. It was Rita and Rory. “We want to find Chomper,” they both said. Strut let out a smile, “I figured as much.” “But how are we gonna find him?” the threehorn asked. “Leave that to me,” Strut replied, “I willing to bet there are other sharpteeth with your friend.” Strut began sniffing the air. “Strut, what are you doing?” they asked the fast runner, “Using my sniffer to find any group of sharpteeth nearby.” “How can you do that?” Rita asked confused. “I’m an omnivore,” Strut replied. Rita and Rory looked confused. “It means I eat both vegetables and meat.” Rory and Rita looked disturbed for a second. “Yes, I’ll admit I’ve had meat before, but I can choose. I have both kinds of instincts.”

Greg, Mo, Elsie, and Myra, meanwhile, walked over to Redfoot’s cave. The longneck was just lying down, basking in victory. Greg decided to walk in first. In addition to being the one to kindly ask Redfoot to stop (fat chance that’ll work, eh?) his plan, he was wondering where his dad went. His mom said that “The useless flyer realized he was of no help and decided to leave.” It was like his parents to talk like that to each other, but he just felt something wrong. “Uh…Redfoot?” he asked in his most polite voice possible. “What is it, young spiketail?” Redfoot replied. “Myself, and some of my friends were wondering….what do you think you’re plan will accomplish?” Redfoot grinned, another chance to brag.  “A glorious new age, where we’ll be free of the sharptooth threat, and us flatteeth will live on for many generations!” Greg chuckled nervously, about to play Sharptooth Supporter. (Devil’s Advocate.)  He tried to explain to Redfoot the correct reasoning that Strut had used, but Redfoot only laughed. “Foolish child, you really believe that there would be not enough green food and that we’d starve to death too? What a joke.” “We’re not joking,” Mo said, walking up. “We’re asking you…to make the sharpteeth’s water clean again?” Redfoot laughed, minor anger in his voice. “Are you insane? Letting the sharpteeth live would ruin the Circle of Life.” “But you don’t..” Elsie tried to say, walking in, but Redfoot replied. “Out.   OUT!” the 4 nervously ran off.

Back in the Great Valley, Cera, Littlefoot, Spike, and Ducky were sharing a clubtail that Mr. Bladeback (a spinosaurus, not based on any of the original valley residents) had given them. “Thank you very much,” Littlefoot said, his throat still feeling bad. “I hope our friends can save us, yup yup ypu,” Ducky said, trying her best to stay in a good mood, as hard as it may seem. The sharpteeth had clean water, but they could only drink little amounts so the swimming sharpteeth could stay alive. Outside along the GV walls, Aster was getting more annoyed. “Seriously, can’t we just finish them off already?!” “I don’t even know why we accepted you into this group,” Legend chuckled, “We only accept competent sharpteeth killers” “Shut up,” Aster muttered angrily in reply. He thought it was ridiculous how they just couldn’t go in and finish the job.

In the cave in Pointy Gorge, the sharpteeth were eating a longneck who did not live in the leafeater valley. “Tastes good,” Guido said. “We must satisfy our appetites tonight young ones,” Sharptooth explained, “Tomorrow evening before the Bright Circle goes down we must make our move.” “We have one problem though,” Doc said, “How will get everyone besides Redfoot into the necessary positions?” Sharptooth thought for a moment, but then suddenly Chomper smelled something. “I smell… a longneck, and a threehorn, and a fast runner,” he commented, but then he sniffed again. “Rita? Rory?” he said, wide-eyed. “Who?” Petrie, Ruby, and Guido asked. “The leafeaters who accidentally stole his egg, and taught him how to speak leafeater,” Sharptooth explained for Chomper. “And former t-rex and fast biter before my wish,”  Chomper thought.  “Let me handle this,” Chomper said. He ran out of the cave. “Rory? Rita?” he called in leafeater. “Chomper?” Rita’s voice called in the distance. “Rita! It’s me!” Chomper yelled, running over to her, Rory, and Strut.  “Chomper, it’s great to se ya!” Rory said, but it was hard for a threehorn to give a hug, so he did’t try that. “What are you guys doing here?” Chomper asked surprised. “We want…to help you stop Redfoot’s plan and save the sharpteeth.” Rita said. Chomper looked surprised. “Really?” he asked his friends. “Really,” Rory nodded. “And who are you?” Chomper asked Strut. “I’m Strut,” the fast runner smiled, “And next to your friends, I probably have the most common sense in that joint.”  “Follow me,” Chomper said, leading them back to the cave where everyone was staying.

Meanwhile, Greg, Mo, Myra, and Elsie couldn’t believe what they just heard. “Redfoot’s….really that clueless?” Myra said, semi-horrified. “We have to stop him,” Mo said, “Otherwise….we’ll all be doomed sooner or later.” “Where’s Rory and Rita?” Elsie asked. “And, has anyone seen my dad? This is getting really odd,” Greg commented. “I haven’t seen him since last evening.” His friends nodded no.

Chomper led Rita, Rory, and Strut into the cave. “Is this more food?” Guido asked, forgetting Sharptooth’s earlier words. “No, they’re my friends, don’t hurt them,” Chomper replied in sharptooth. “We want to help you,” Rita said, gulping at the sight of two big sharpteeth, 3 flyers, and a fast biter, but managed to keep her cool. “And I think we know how you can help,” Pterano said in sharptoooth. “HEY?! Aren’t you my son’s friends?! Help me!” called Icky. Rita looked surprised. “Isn’t that Greg’s dad?” Rory asked. Chomper chuckled nervously. “Yeah…we needed him to get information, but we didn’t hurt him or anything.” Rita and Rory felt relieved, and Rory even laughed a little at the sight, Icky had annoyed him in the past.  “So here’s our plan,” Sharptooth began explaining in leafeater, Rita and Rory amazed by his ability to do that.

“Thanks to Petrie’s uncle Pterano, we now know of Redfoot’s call for a celebration. As you two already know, the leafeater valley is divided into 2 sections, with a narrow gorge separating them. Ironiclly, Redfoot gave me the idea for the next phase of our strategy. You lure everyone into this side, leaving Redfoot by himself in the other half, his side with the cave. After you do that, we’ll block the divide with rocks from atop the tone wall. Then we’ll battle Redfoot with all of our allies.” Rita, Strut, and Rory listened carefully.  “But what if we’re not strong enough?” Ruby asked. Sharptooth had an idea.. “I thought about that Ruby…” Sharptooth began, “Let’s just say, compared to Redfoot…we are in a better state mentally.”

Later that night, after giving Icky some leaves from the cave, our heroes decided to go to sleep and rest up for tomorrow. Chomper and Ruby cuddled with each other. Rita and Rory saw this. “Heh, Chomper has a girlfriend,” Rory laughed. “Maybe I do..” Chomper laughed in leafeater, slightly sleepy. “Aren’t you the same way with Myra?” Rita taunted. “Shuddup,” Rory laughed.

(There’s part 4.)

Next time on Sharptooth Valley: The River of Life story arc concludes. Will our heroes defeat Redfoot, and if so, will it be in a battle of strength or a battle of logic?

[brekclub85]

(Here it is: The final Chapter of the Redfoot arc.)

Chapter 29: The River of Life Part 5

Greg, Myra, Mo, and Elsie were gathered near the exit to the Mysterious Beyond. “Our sniffers don’t work so well,” Greg commented, smelling the air, “But I can tell that Rita and Rory went into the Mysterious Beyond.”  “I hope they’re all right,” Myra muttered.  “They went to find Chomper, let’s just hope no other sharpteeth found them first,” Mo said. The 4 flatteeth realized they had to stop Redfoot’s plan, or it would mean the eventual death of all the dinosaurs in the area.  They had to stop that.  “We have to find our brothers,” said Mo. “THEY’RE NOT YOUR BROTHERS!” Myra yelled, getting annoyed by Mo’s traditional saying, not realizing the deeper meaning.  “But finding your friends will greatly help us,” Elsie smiled, concerned for both types of dinosaurs. Myra nodded. “Ok Greg…use your sniffer and try your best to find everyone, all right?” “Got it,” the spike tail nodded. It wasn’t going to be easy.  The 4 leafeaters, without anyone else knowing, took off out of the leafeater valley to find Rita, Rory, and Chomper. They knew this was their best (and only) bet.

Back in the cave where the sharpteeth group was staying, everyone was waking up. Icky was still tied up, and Ruby gave him his mealtime leaves, which he ate well still being in fear of being eaten. “Don’t worry,” Chomper smiled with a laugh. “We’lll let you go when this is all over,” he said in flattooth.  Icky nearly passed out in shock.  Rory and Rita, meanwhile, we slightly disgusted by the sight of 7 sharpteeth eating meat (Well, Guido was actually only having bugs), but they had learned one thing from this entire ordeal: it was only their instinct. They knew they couldn’t help that.  Sharptooth came over to his new leafeater, albeit only temporary, allies. “So you know how to lure all of the other valley residents into the other half of the valley?” “We do,” the threehorn and longneck nodded.  “Since most of the dinos there believe anything he says, we’ll just say he told them to go there.” Sharptooth smiled, “That’s using your brains.” Petrie, Ruby, and Guido looked confused. “What’s he saying?” asked Ruby. “I don’t know, probably just gibberish that leafeaters understand,” commented Guido. “Yeah, I mean, leafeaters can’t talk,” Petrie concluded. Chomper overhearing this just laughed slightly and put his hand on his face.  Just then, another smell reached his nose. “Don’t tell me…” he thought, walking out of the cave.

Meanwhile, back in the Great Valley, times were getting hard. The supply of prey, bugs, and clean water was running low. Littlefoot, Ducky, Spike, Cera, Shorty, and Tippy hanging together. “This is getting bad,” Littlefoot muttered. “Yeah, if they don’t get the cure soon, either we’ll die of starvation or those longnecks will kill us!” Shorty yelled, the stress of the situation starting to get to him. Ducky frowned, and started to tear up a bit. “I hope they make it back soon, I do, I do…” “We just can’t give up on them guys,” Littlefoot said. Outside the valley, Aster was getting impatient. “I don’t know about you, but if Redfoot doesn’t show up when the Bright Circle goes down tonight, I’m just going in there and killing them myself!” Legend wanted to live up to the code of this group, but he could tell the younger longneck wouldn’t listen, so he didn’t say anything.
Greg, Myra, Mo, and Elsie arrived in the general area of Pointy Canyon, Greg sniffing the ground while Chomper was doing a similar thing just around the bend….when they bumped heads. “Hey?! Watch it will….Chomper?!” Greg said in happy surprise. “Greg! Myra!” Chomper smiled, “And you two are?” “I’m Mo, and this is my mom Elsie,” Mo smiled. “I remember you!” Chomper said. “How?” Elsie asked. Chomper went wide-eyed, realizing he probably wouldn’t be able to explain his reality-altering wish he made. “Er….I think Rita mentioned you once,” he laughed nervously. “We wanted to help you stop Redfoot’s plan,” Greg said. “Really, thanks, we’ll need all the help we can get.” “We?” they all asked. Then, Sharptooth, Doc, Ruby, Guido, Petrie, Pterano, Strut, Rita, and Rory came into view. “Hey guys,” the leafeaters smiled at their friends, but gulped when they saw the sharpteeth. “Don’t worry, they are my friends. They wouldn’t hurt you.” “Ok…” Myra said nervously.  Sharptooth and Pterano began speaking flattooth, which amazed the new arrivals. “You can talk?!” they said surprised. Pterano laughed, “Hey, for many cold times I didn’t think your kind could talk either.”  Then they explained their strategy for getting the cure for the Black Plant of Death’s toxins.

Sharptooth, Pterano, Chomper, and Strut told them everything they had thought of. “Can we count on you and your leafeater friends to accomplish this, threehorn?” Sharptooth asked Myra. “Yeah…you can.” Myra gulped. Despite the fact this big sharptooth could speak her language, he was still the BIGGEST sharptooth she had ever seen, and next to him was Doc, the second biggest!  “Then we must get into action before Redfoot announces that the celebration is starting,” Pterano said in both languages.  “Good thinking uncle Pterano,” Petrie replied.  Pterano looked at Chomper and Ruby. “I can give you two children a ride, if you feel it’ll help you keep your strength,” he commented. “No thank you,” they replied. The group set off. As they were walking towards the epic showdown, Rory made a comment. He knew this was no time for laughs, but he felt he had to say it. “It’s funny, in the past we’d go along with whatever Redfoot said, but know, our lives depend on us stopping him.” The other 13 in the group nodded, though mostly just the leafeaters, the younger sharpteeth had never seen Redfoot before (In this reality, at least.).  They stopped at the wall just outside the leafeater valley. “OK, Strut and I will handle blocking off the space between the two halves,” Pterano said in both tongues. “That means you kids won’t be able to help out in the battle.” “We understand,” Rita, Rory, Myra, Greg, and Mo replied. Chomper, Petrie, Ruby, Guido, Sharptooth, and Doc would wait right outside the valley’s entrance, and enter as soon as Pterano and Strut did the deed. “Now children…hurry!” instructed Sharptooth.

The leafeaters rushed into the valley, and Strut held onto Pterano’s back while he flew to the top of the wall. Greg soon saw his mother. “Hey mom?” he acted. “Yes Greggy?” Dil smiled back. “Redfoot came up to me earlier this morning, and he told me to gather all the spiketails in the western half of the valley for some reason,” he lied convincingly. Dil nodded, and said “Sure…I’ll help you find everyone, besides you’re lazy, no-good not to mention not-here father!” Greg laughed, remembering where Icky was, but of course didn’t say anything. He and Dil managed to track down all the spike and clubtails. Rita found her mother, and gave a similar lie.” So could you help me find everyone?” she smiled politely. “Sure dear,” Julie smiled back. “I’ll just get Redfoot..” “No! Uh, he says he doesn’t want to be disturbed until the celebration’s ready,” Rita lied, and her mother believed her. Rory, Mo, Elsie, and Myra all did their part, leading the remaining threehorns and swimmers to the other section of the valley.  As they were walking through the narrow gorge that divided the two halves, Rory looked up and could see Strut and Pterano out of the corner of his eye. “What do you see son?” Rory’s father asked. “Nothing,” replied Rory. Soon, every leafeater besides Redfoot was all round up in the western part of the valley.

Redfoot was in his cave all day, failing to notice the mysterious movement of his fellow flatteeth. He looked proudly at his collection of plants that supplied the cure for the black plant’s toxins. “My pretties….no sharpteeth will ever get your hands on you and save their stupid species.” Just then, he started to here a rumble. Pterano and Strut, seeing that it was all clear, began knocking rocks into the narrow gorge. “What’s going on?!” Dil and Julie yelled. Their children laughed nervously. “Yeah…sorry about this mom,” they said in unison, “We’ll explain it to you later…”  Redfoot rushed out of his acve. “What was that noise?!” he yelled, but then saw that the giant portion of the valley in front of him was abandoned practically. “Huh?!” he yelled, but his confusion was soon answered: Sharptooth and Doc charged in, in full-on battle mode! “YOU! I thought  had finished you off!” Redfoot yelled, swiping his tail, but the two rexes managed to dodge it. “Like usual...you thought wrong!” Sharptooth said. (Doc only knows sharptooth in this reality.)  Petrie and Guido flew towards the cave, as they were told (with Chomper translating) by Icky that that was where the plants with the cure were held. “I see you!” Redfoot yelled, and knocked the two flyers against the wall, knocking them out. He was about to crush them with his foot when Pterano flew into action. “DON’T YOU DARE ATTEMPT TO HURT MY NEWPEW!” he screeched, biting Redfoot’s foot, preventing the stomp.

Back on the other side of the valley, everyone was confused, but they could tell that sharpteeth were fighting Redfoot. “Did you help them?!” Julie yelled at her daughter, kind of figuring things out. “MOM! You don’t understand about the Circle of Life! If all the sharpteeth die, then we’ll eventually die!” Julie looked taken aback.  Then, Rory and Myra came up. “Greg and Mo just found a tiny tunnel we can use to get back to the other side!” Rita nodded, and ran with her friends. “Rita!” her mother yelled, shocked again. “Sorry mom!” Rita yelled back. Indeed, there was no way anyone besides little dinosaurs could fit through this tunnel.  The 5 leafeaters quickly scurried back to where the action was taking place. Chomper and Ruby were staying along the alley walls. Chomper, even in the heat of the moment, did admit he wanted the sharpteeth to be saved without having to kill someone. “I’m going…to try to reason with Redfoot,” Chomper said. Ruby looked shocked “No! Chomper! I don’t want to lose you too,” she cried slightly, remembering he mother, father, Howler, and Edge. Chomper gave Ruby a kiss. “I’ll be fine, you just hide,” he smiled.  “Don’t you understand Redfoot?” Chomper yelled in leafeater. “If you go through with your plan, everyone will die sooner or later!” “That’s not true!”  Redfoot yelled, swiping Doc with his tail, temporarily knocking him out. “The world would be a much better place without you pathetic scavengers!”  Sharptooth looked angry, but noticed something. Redfoot was weakening….but not physically, psychologically. Sharptooth then decided to play a little mind game. “You think that just because that sharpteeh killed dinos you knew, it gives you the right to kill them back?!”

“SHUT UP!” Redfoot yelled.  Redfoot went to crush Chomper, but Sharptooth tackled him. “You think sharpteeth don’t know the difference between right and wrong? What about your kind, depleting the world of all it’s plants!” “THAT’S NOT THE SAME!” Redfoot yelled, sweat developing on his head. “How?!” Pterano laughed, still in battle. “In both cases, both types of dinosaurs are taking life away, it’s no different at all.” “It is different!” Redfoot said, knocking Pterano to the ground, while Petrie and Guido had managed to wake up. “WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY REDFOOT?!” many voices suddenly called. Everyone turned their heads. It was Mo, Myra, Rita, Rory, and Greg. “You don’t know anything about how the world works!” Greg called. “You can’t understand the concept of instinct!” Rory yelled. At this point, even when dodging Sharptooth’s attacks….a tear was developing in his eye. “And if your definition of a sharptooth is a heartless murderer….You’re no better than one!” Rita yelled to finish off the trio of insults. Then, Redfoot froze in shock. His stillness caused everyone else to stop moving too. Then, he fell to his knees. It wasn’t the result of a blow inflicted by an of the sharpteeth….it was the realization that they were right. Sharptooth looked down at Redfoot. “Go ahead….finish me off,” the longneck muttered sadly. “I won’t do that,” Sharptooth replied, “You still have something to do if you want to truly save the leafeaters.”

It was almost time for the Bright Circle to go down. Legend was waiting outside the Great Valley, when he noticed Redfoot approaching. “Ah! Come to watch the demise of the…huh?” he said, noticing the 7 sharpteeth behind him. “I gave up. Call off the Fearsome Fourteen.” Legend looked surprised, but he was a wise longneck, he soon understood. “I think I know why you’re calling us off,” he commented, but didn’t sound angry. “But there’s one particular longneck the sharpteeth should know about.” Over the next few minutes, Redfoot, Legend, Sharptooth, Chomper, Ruby, Petrie, and Guido walked over to all the longnecks and said (The ones who could speak leafeater at least) to leave. Aster, meanwhile, was by himself when he spotted a perfect opportunity to attack some sharpteeth: two young t-rexes, two belly draggers, a young fast biter, and a young swimming sharptooth were close by each other (Sound familiar?) “You’re dead sharpteeth!” he yelled, and began charging. Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Spike, Tippy, and Shorty, all too weak to fight back or run began to scream, but suddenly a big rex jumped in from the sidelines and fatally bit Aster on the neck. “Huh…?” Aster went with his dying breath, his last sight being a old, dark gray rex that attacked him. “Didn’t you know?” Doc asked. “You mess with any sharptooth, you mess with me.” “DOC!” the little kids cheered, and went over to him “YOU GUYS MADE IT!” cheered Cera.

“You did, you did,” smiled Ducky. “It’s all over kids, you’ll be fine soon.” Doc comforted. He went over to Aster’s dead body. “You’ll need this, you probably haven’t had a good meal in awhile I believe.” Everyone nodded, and Spike of course began digging in before anyone else. Meanwhile, Redfoot showed the secret rock with the stream that connected the Great Valley’s waterholes. “You put in the healing herbs,” Redfoot sighed. Petrie and Guido nodded and dropped them in, causing the black plants to shrivel up, and the specks they left behind began to clear. Soon enough, they spread to all the major waterholes. All the sharpteeth saw this sight, and tears of joy began filling their eyes. After the job was done, Redfoot turned to leave. “I hope you’re more aware of how the Circle works,” Sharptooth said. “Yeah..” Redfoot said, slightly depressed. As he was walking away, Chomper quickly rushed up. “You did the right thing,” the little rex smiled, he honestly didn’t want to see Redfoot feel sad after he finally understood. “Whatever…” was Redfoot’s last word before setting off for the leafeater valley again.
Sharptooth looked at Redfoot as he set off into the distance. By the expression on the longneck’s face, he couldn’t tell if he was half the longneck he once was…or more than the longneck he once was.

Over the next few days, the sharpteeth of the Great Valley began to recover. “Chomper, Ruby, Petrie, and Guido did it!” Tippy cheered when the 4 heroic young sharpteeth rejoined their friends. “Yeah, we did,” Guido smiled, giving the belly dragger a big hug. “Thanks Guido,” Tippy replied confused. She didn’t quite get it. “So what should we do now?” Littlefoot asked. The regular hunting parties were back and running again, so they had time for fun. Chomper remembered why he initially made his wish: to have more sharpteeth friends to play with. “Race ya to Saurus Rock!” Chomper laughed, getting a head start. “Hey!” laughed Cera, “Get back her!” the friends all began running the race. But then he looked odd. He looked back at Ruby, Guido, and Petrie. "Does anyone else feel we forgot something?"

MEANWHILE, AT POINTY CANYON....

"HELP!" called Icky. "Anybody!" The flyer eealized he'd been adandoned. He sighed. "Ah don't worry dad, I didn't forget you," Greg smiled, walking in and untying the vines

(There! The Redfoot saga is finally complete. But don’t worry, the story isn’t over quite yet. There’s at least 9 more chapters, we still have Ruby’s backstory to resolve, remember. Anyways, Read and Review!)

(Also, a later chapter will explain more clearly what happened next to the leafeatters in their valley.)

Next time on The Land Before Time: Sharptooth Valley: With things pretty much back to normal, Cera and Ruby, with their rivalry picking up again, decide to have a contest to see who is the better fast biter. Who will win?

[Explorer]

Good work with the plot, Brek! I'll be waiting for the next chapter to come up!

[The Great Valley Guardian]

AH! Another great chapter comes to an end. And Redfoot learns a valuable lesson about life and the constant balance they live with every day.
I can't wait to see how Ruby and Cera rivalry take over again in the next chapter. This ought to be fun!

[brekclub85]

(Here’s a more filler, comedic chapter, hope you enjoy it.)

Chapter 30: Fast Biter Face-Off

With the Time of the Great Giving over, it was time for some of the sharpteeth to leave the valley. “Bye mom, dad, and Shorty,” Littlefoot said, smiling at his brother and parents. “I love you son, I promise we’ll visit soon,” Saura said, picking her son up and giving him a nuzzle. “Mom…” Littlefoot muttered, the little rex blushing. “See you around bro,” Shorty grinned, the brothers’ little feud over. Littlefoot and Shorty did a Hi-5, and soon Shorty, Saura, and Tyran took off. Ali, Rhett, and the rest of their herd had already left. Chomper and the rest of the gang were waving goodbye to Doc. “Just remember kids, if any leaf eater gives you trouble, just roar for me and I’ll come.” “Thanks Doc...for everything,” Chomper, Ruby, and Petrie smiled. “Don’t mention it. It’s how my life goes,” Doc grinned, and then the Lone Dinosaur took off.

Chomper was now happy he could just hang and go on adventures with his friends…but there was a teeny problem now. Cera and Ruby’s rivalry, which for a while everyone thought had gone away, had resurfaced. Ever since Ruby now had bragging rights (Even though she wasn’t the bragging type) for being one of the 7 sharpteeth who had helped save the Great Valley, Cera got jealous because she now wasn’t the most popular fast biter girl, even though Ruby didn’t want all the extra attention.  One day later, the gang was hanging out in a VERY big tree, it’s branches strong and wide enough to support the whole group. “This place is cool,” Petrie grinned, slurping up a few ground crawlers who emerged from holes in the tree. “Yeah, we never would’ve found it if it weren’t for Spike,” Littlefoot smiled.  The belly dragger grinned proudly.  “Hey guys, I’m coming,” they overheard Ruby call. She climbed up the tree and joined her friends. “Sorry I took so long, you know how everyone wants to talk to the “Amazing Fast Biter Girl.” (Sound familiar?)  “Don’t rub it in,” Cera muttered jealous.  Ruby could see what Cera was feeling right now.  “I don’t really want all this attention Cera,” Ruby replied, “But you know how everyone is. I can’t really stop them.”

Cera calmed down a bit.  However, as the day went along, the following things occurred:  1. They were playing at the waterhole and most of the young fast biters wanted to talk to Ruby.  2. The gang was going to go out for a hunt, but once again, young fast biters (Plus a belly dragger or bladeback or two.) wanted to talk to Ruby.  3. Chomper’s hunt was unsuccessful. 4. Spike accidentally knocked over some trees and it took a while for the gang to climb over them to get back to the GV. But those first two things really annoyed Cera.

The next day, the gang decided to hang out at Littlefoot’s sleeping area, hoping their would be any more of the sharpteeth equivalent of the paparazzi.   “Glad we’re out of the way,” Petrie smiled. Cera still looked jealous. “Cera, what’s wrong?” Chomper asked. “It’s no fair,” she complained aloud, waking up Littlefoot’s grandparents. “Why should Ruby get all the attention, she’s no stronger or faster than me.”  “Well, she did help save us,” Grandpa Sharptooth noted, overhearing the conversation. “Yeah Cera, don’t worry about it,” Ruby said, trying to get her friend in a better mood. “There has to be a way to prove which one of us  is the better fast biter. “Cera, you shouldn’t…” Littlefoot began to say, but Ruby had an idea. Ruby didn’t really like having a rivalry with one of her friends, but Cera had just given her an idea.  She liked competition, even though she wasn’t extremely competitive. “Yeah, I have an idea for a contest…” Ruby smiled.

“Oh no,” muttered Chomper, Littlefoot, and Petrie (As well as Spike making anoise suggesting that) and putting their hands on their faces. “We’ll have two challenges,” Cera said, catching Ruby’s drift. “One to see who is faster and one to see who is the better hunter.” “Oh no,” the guys repeated again.  “Agreed!” smiled Ruby. “We’ll start today after lunch.”  “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go prepare,” Cera grinned, and ran off.  “You kids today and all your competitions,” Grandma Sharptooth laughed. “While, it’s just that Cera’s jealous of Ruby,” Littlefoot explained. “And the only way to get her to stop is to have this little challenge,” Ruby finished. “That’ll calm Cera down.”  Petrie had an idea. “Hey Littlefoot’s grandpa and grandma, want to be the judges?” he asked. “Certainly Petrie,” Grandpa Sharptooth replied, “I used to judge all the Pine Cone teams when we first came to the Great Valley.”  “Cool,” replied Chomper. Even if there might have been some changes to the adult’s pasts in this reality, Chomper was able to find out more about them in this reality.

Veli and Cira saw their daughter preparing for her little contest. “Don’t wear yourself out before the game,” Cira advised, watching Cera run around. “Don’t worry about it Cirs,” Cera replied. “I’ll prove I’m faster than Ruby.” Veli didn’t know what to say: usually he would tell her that fast biters are the best, but this time her opponent WAS a fast biter, so he was at a loss for words.  “Just try your hardest,” he instructed. Cera grinned. “Don’t worry, I will,” she laughed.  Just then, she smelled Petrie coming up. “The games are about to start,” he said. “Hope you already had lunch.” “Yeah, a little longneck I caught by myself,” Cera replied. “Meet us by the waterhole,” her flying friend called, and flew off. “Heh heh, Ruby’s going down..” Cera laughed. Cira frowned. “Cera, she’s your friend…don’t let this go to your head, OK?” “Sure Cira,” Cera replied, but she didn’t sound 100 percent sure.

Petrie and Grandma Sharptooth were waiting by the waterhole, as was Ruby. “OK, here’s the first part of what your friends call the “Fast-Biter Face-Off”, a race from here to the Hidden Canyon,” Grandma S. explained. “There won’t be an official winner of the contest until we see your performances in both the race and hunting portion of the games, understand?” “We do,” Cera and Ruby nodded. “Your friends and my mate are waiting for you there,” she said. “Take your positions.”  Meanwhile, in the Hidden Canyon, Chomper, Littlefoot, Spike, and Grandpa Sharptooth were standing by the exit. “Did we have to have the race go here?” Littlefoot asked, holding his nose to block out the occasional stench of tree sweets. “It’s the spot in the valley that’s furthest from the waterhole,” his grandpa replied, “It’s our best bet.” Then they heard a big roar coming from Grandma Sharptooth which meant “Go!” “And it begins…” laughed Chomper.

The race was neck and neck. Cera and Ruby were following a mostly straight path, though Cera attempted a short cut by jumping over a few belly draggers.  “Watch this Cera!” Ruby laughed, and managed to make an impressive jump over a big pool of water. “Darn it,” muttered Cera, who had managed to keep up though.  The two fast biters were right beside each other, and they were nearing the tunnel to the Hidden Canyon. Suddenly, Terri walked by the entrance. “Get outta the way!” Cera called, the two velociraptors were going to fast to stop in time. Chomper’s mother managed to move just in time. “What was that?” Terri asked, not knowing about the game.  Inside the tunnel, there was barely any room for one fast biter to be ahead of the other, so they were neck and neck once again, and they were only speeding up. Soon, their friends saw them emerge from the tunnel.

“It’s going to be close,” Chomper smiled, though he was rooting for Ruby of course :- ) Then the friends rezlied something: They were standing in the middle of a narrow gorge, and that they took up every inch of space, and that Cera and Ruby were rushing towards them and didn’t look like they were going to be able to stop themselves. “Move!’ Littlefoot yelled, and he, Chomper, Spike, and his grandpa quickly made it into the Mysterious Beyond to avoid the collision. The two fast biters managed to stop themselves. “So, you are about equally fast,” Grandpa Sharptooth smiled, “But for the final portion of the Fast Biter Face-Off: You both have an hour to go into the Mysterious Beyond and hunt down only one leafeater for prey. Whoever brings back the bigger leafeater wins.” “That’ll be me,” Cera bragged. “Then…GO!” Grandpa S. roared, and Ruby took off. “No fair getting a head start!” she complained, the two fast biters running in different directions.

Ruby was familiar to these parts of the MB when it came to hunting, she knew what to look for. She began sniffing the air. “Hmm… just like I thought, there are spiketails nearby.” She then got into stalking mode, trying hard not to make a sound. 3 spiketails were eating leaves, and they looked about Hyp’s age. “Perfect…” she said under her breath. Cera, meanwhile, was having know luck. She had walked down into a gorge, and she couldn’t smell any leafeaters nearby. “Oh no…everyone’s going to think Ruby’s better for sure…” she thought nervously. Then a smell caught her sniffer. “A clubtail?” she realized, following the trail.  When she found the source she saw a rather big clubtail….that was already dead! Cera sniffed the corpse closer, it couldn’t have been dead for more than a day, so she had a plan. “If I bring this back, everyone will think I caught it…” she laughed in her mind.

Ruby meanwhile, went in for the kill. Two of the spiketails managed to scramble out of the way, but one was rather unlucky. He tried to run off, but Ruby pounced on it’s head. The spiketail’s attempts to shake her off proved to be in vain, as Ruby bit down into it’s neck.  It’s life was over soon. The other two spiketails quickly fleed in terror, but Ruby didn’t need to chase after them, she had gotten her prey. “Now to get back to the Great Valley,” she said, dragging the spiketail’s body.  It wasn’t a too far walk back, so she had no trouble hauling the body.  Cera meanwhile was having a little trouble, but she knew it would be worth it. “Maybe everyone will start paying attention to me for once,” Cera thought happily.  Back outside the Great Valley, the rest of the kids were just running around having fun while Littlefoot’s grandpa was taking a nap.  Soon, Spike smelled the two fast biters, and motioned towards his friends. “Wake up grandpa,” Littlefoot smiled. “Huh? Wha? Oh your friends are back,” Grandpa Sharptooth said, waking up. Ruby and Cera dropped off their prey for the judging.

“Let’s see… a decent sized spiketail was caught by Ruby…but an even bigger clubtail was caught by Cera. I guess she wins the contest.” “All right!” cheered Cera jumping up and down. Ruby didn’t look disappointed thought. However…..Chomper noticed something. “I think I’ve seen that clubtail before,” he commented. Cera quickly and briefly let out a nervous frown. “Yeah, remember that hunt that went wrong last night I mentioned? I was chasing down that clubtail and it fell down a gorge. Look…that was a bite mark from me on it’s hind leg.” Cera looked humiliated. She had lost. “Yeah Cera…you didn’t hunt that down at all, did you?” Littlefoot frowned. Cera gave up. “Ok…I was just jealous of all the attention Ruby was getting, I wanted people to just pay attention to me for a little while, ya know?” she frowned. Ruby walked over to Cera. “It’s ok Cera, it doesn’t matter if one of us is faster or better at hunting than the other. We are still friends.”

Chomper smiled, “Yeah, that’s all that’s important.” “Let’s go get Ducky and Petrie,” Littlefoot smiled, “We should play a game of Biter in the Center.” “Yeah!” Chomper, Ruby, and Cera smiled, as did Spike. Ruby and Cera’s rivalry was finally over.

(Read and review. I wanted to have the next few chapters have a lighter feel to them.)

Next time on The Land Before Time: Sharptooth Valley: A flattoth flyer sneaks into the great valley and begins annoying the gang, and it’s clear he isn’t going to stop. Will the gang be able to solve this problem calmly, oir will the flyer taste good with ground crawlers?

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The overall idea is good, although it might seem made like random due to a few factors.
But its good, no comments on that

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(Here’s Chapter 31, a more comic-intended one.)

Chapter 31: Pest From a Nest

You know, in the time of the dinosaurs, intelligence was measured differently then it is today.  Most of the dinosaurs’ decisions were driven by instinct, so you couldn’t really call one dinosaur stupid and another dumb. However, there were some choices made they could be described as just flat-out dumb, as I will describe in this chapter. One thing the leafeaters should know, is that no matter how confident they are in their strength, wit, or cleverness, it was NEVER a good idea to sneak into the Great Valley and try to annoy the sharpteeth just for your pleasure. Now I will tell you the story of one Guido-type flyer who learned this lesson…..

It was a nice sunny day in the Great Valley.  “Come on,” Cera waved to her friends, the fast biter leading the way.  “Where are we going anyway?” Littlefoot asked. “Cira’s secret mud pool, she’s letting us use it,” Cera smiled to Littlefoot, Chomper, Ruby, and Ducky (Who was following in a small stream nearby.)  Petrie was out with his uncle, mother and siblings as that day it was the sharptooth flyer herds’ turn to hunt.  “It’s just through this small canyon.” Cera said.  “Too bad Spike can’t come, “ commented Chomper. “Well, my mommy said Spike ate a bad swimmer last night and he has a tummy ache and he should spend the day sleeping, he should, he should,” said Ducky.  The 5 friends went through the canyon, though Ruby looked a little concerned. “What’s wrong Ruby?” Chomper asked. “Those logs…I’m worried they could fall and block are path,” “Don’t worry about it Ruby,” Cera grinned. “Last one in’s a rotten hatchling!” “Get back here,” Chomper and Littlefoot laughed, following here towards the mud.

Meanwhile, out in the Mysterious Beyond, a flattooth flyer was bragging to his friends. “I don’t believe you Guider,” one of the flyers said. “It’s true,” Guider replied. (Guider is Guido’s flattooth type, though there’s no connection between him and Guido, I just couldn’t think of another “dino-ish” name.) “It’s true,” Guider replied. “I’ve beaten up and scared off dozens of sharpteeth,” he bragged. The two flyers looked unimpressed. “Prove it,” they muttered in unison. “How?” Guider asked in reply. “Simple,” one of his friends replied, “Sneak into the Great Valley, and get a tooth from one of the sharpteeth’s mouths, then we’ll believe you.” “That’s easy,” Guider laughed. “I’ll be back before the Bright Circle goes down.” Guider then flew off. The two flyers still standing on the ground looked at each other. “Yup, he’s sharptooth food,” they said in unison once again. Up in the sky, Guider gulped.  “Yeah…heh heh, this is much easier said then done,” he thought nervously.

Meanwhile, the gang was relaxing in the mud pools. “You’re mom knows the best mud holes Cera,” Ruby complimented, “Because if she didn’t know them, we probably wouldn’t be here.” Cera looked slightly flattered, though she said “She’s technically not my mom, ya know…” Suddenly, they heard a rumble. “What’s that?” Chomper asked. Turns out, Ruby’s past concern was right. The logs on the side on the canyon tumbled off the cliffs they were on and into the canyon, blocking the gang’s way out! “Oh no,” said Chomper and Ruby, trying in vain to push them away, but it didn’t work. “What are we going to do?” Cera didn’t look nervous. “Don’t worry, my dad and Cira know we went here. When they realize we’ve been gone for a while, they’ll come for us, don’t worry guys.” Chomper and Ruby looked relieved. Chomper remembered one instance from the past reality where he and Littlefoot had gotten trapped with Littlefoot’s grandpa’s friend Saro behind some rocks. Luckily he knew this time the problem would be solved shortly. “Yeah, let’s just have some fun guys,” Littlefoot said, swimming in the mud while Ducky did a few jumps in the small waterhole nearby. “Ok,” Chomper and Ruby grinned, diving in and making a big splash.

Guider was up in the air, trying to avoid being seen while trying to find a sharptooth whose tooth he could attempt to yank out. “Maybe there’s a dead one somewhere in the valley,” he whispered, but he could tell that wouldn’t be the case.  “What am I going to do?” he asked himself nervously, “If I don’t return with a sharptooth tooth, I’ll be the laughing egg (laughing stock) of all the flyers.” Then Guider noticed logs that were blocking a canyon, “What’s over here?” he wondering, gliding down and stopping atop one of the logs. He looked down, and noticed two t-rexes, two fast biters, and a swimming sharptooth all either in a mud pool or a waterhole, and that they all appeared to be kids. Guider realized something. “Heh, this’ll be my chance…” he said. “If I can trick one of these sharpteeth into biting something hard, that’ll make a tooth fall out.” Guider knew that fact because his parents told it to him once. “But what can I use?” He then spied some rocks. “Ah ha,” he grinned.

Chomper’s sniffer started acting up. “I smell something guys,” he informed his friends, “It smells like…a flyer. A leafeater flyer,” he figured out. Littlefoot also smelled the air. “You’re right Chomper,” he noticed. Cera then grinned mischievously. “So who wants a little lunchtime snack?” she asked. Just then, Guider flew across the log and onto a cliff above. “There it is,” Ducky noticed. “I saw it, I did, I did.”  Chomper noticed the cliff where it landed on. “I’ll handle this guys,” he told his friends, and climbed out of the mud pool. He wasn’t hungry, so he was hoping he could tell this flyer to get away.  Chomper carefully scaled the cliff to where Guider was. “Look…I don’t know you, but you probably should get out of here,” he whispered to Guider in leafeater. Guider looked surprised. “A…..talking sharptooth? Is this a sleep story?” Guider said, confused. “No, it’s not,” Chomper laughed silently. “Well….I guess you’re not as stupid as all the others.” Chomper looked offended. “”Sharpteeth aren’t stupid!” Chomper said angrily. Guider let up a smug grin, “Lemme guess…you wanna eat me now?” he asked. “No!” Chomper said angrily. “I’m not dumb enough to try to eat you, I know you’re just going to fly away and make me look dumb.” Guider frowned. “Now just get out of here!” Chomper yelled angrily.

Guider flew away, but only to a nearby edge. “Well, that was weird,” he muttered to himself. “How am I going to get a tooth out of one of their mouths?” Then, he noticed something weird lying on the ground near him. It looked like a stick, but it was covered in a weird, rock-like substance. In fact, it was probably just an oddly shaped shiny stone. He felt the stone, and realized something. “I heard about these rocks…..they’re the hardest things in the world. If I can trick one of those dumb sharpteeth into biting these, a tooth will fall out for sure!” Guider laughed to himself, he was sure his plan would work. Meanwhile, Chomper got back into the mud pools.  “So what happened?” Littlefoot asked. “Eh, I scared him off,” Chomper replied in sharptooth. The gang was trying to continue to relax, when all of a sudden… “OW!” Cera yelled. “What was that?” Ruby asked. “Someone through a rock at me from above!” Cera replied. Everyone looked up. It was Guider.

“Why is that flyer back?” Littlefoot asked, dodging a few rocks that Guider through down at the gang. “Because he’s a meanie,” Ducky said, diving underwater.  “Come on, you dumb scavengers I know you want to try to eat me!” he taunted, though only Chomper understood.  The gang looked around, they was nothing to take cover under besides the mud and water, and only Ducky could stay under there.  “What are we going to do about this annoying flattooth?” Cera complained, running away from the falling rocks.  “Chomper, you can speak his language, can you tell him to stop please?” Ruby asked. “Certainly,” Chomper replied, wanting to help his friends. (Especially Ruby :- ) )
“Um…could you please leave me and my friends alone?” Chomper asked, trying to be polite as possible. “I can’t!” Guider laughed back, throwing a stone that hit Chomper’s foot. “I’m trying to prove to my friends that I can slay sharpteeth, so I need to bring back a sharptooth tooth!” Chomper looked angry. “Well, you’re not getting mine, or any of my friends, or the teeth of any sharptooth in the Valley!” Chomper yelled. “We’ll see,” Guider laughed meanly.  

“Littlefoot, Chomper, Ruby, help me with this!” Cera called, trying to throw the rocks back at Guider. “Yeah, that’ll get him off our backs!” Littlefoot smiled. Chomper decided to go along, because even though he didn’t want to se guider dead, he wanted him away from his friends. What the gang wasn’t focusing on, however, was that Guider had the long rock held in his feet. “Take this!” Cera yelled, and managed to graze Guider with a rock. Guider came up with a plan. He fell to the ground like he was knocked out, but he was secretly only acting. “Yeah, that’s show you!” Cera laughed. “I get to eat him, since I got him down.” The fast biter ran over to the “knocked out” body and was about to bite the flyer’s feat when Ruby yelled, “Cera wait!” She ran over to Cera. “If you bit his feat, you would’ve bitten into that rock and maybe loose a tooth.” Guider slightly opened his eye, and noticed his trick didn’t work. “Darn it,” he muttered, and quickly flew into the air. “What are we going to do?’ Littlefoot asked.  Ruby began thinking of an idea. “I have a plan, a plan I have…”  she smiled.

Meanwhile, Cira, Dein, Terri, and Veli were gathered around the waterhole. “It’s weird, I haven’t seen Chomper in a while,” Terri said, thinking about her son. “Oh, Cera took him and the rest of her friends to a mud pool I know,” Cira explained. “But don’t you think they would’ve come back by now,” Dein commented. The two sharpteeth and two fast biters began thinking about something. I remember hearing what sounded like logs falling earlier this afternoon,” Veli said. “You don’t think they got trapped at the mud pools do you Veli?” Cira asked concerned. “I’m not sure, but we should check it out,” Veli said. “Agreed,” added Terri. “Show us the way,” Dein said. Cira nodded, and the 4 sharpteeth set off to find the kids. They hoped nothing had happened to them. Cira showed them how to get to the mud pool.
“Come on, I know you wanna bite me!” Guider taunted, bopping Littlefoot on the snout. Since he figured out tossing rocks wouldn’t work, he figured a more direct way of taunting the gang would work. Littlefoot was extremely tempted to make the feathery flyer his next meal, but he didn’t want to risk loosing a tooth and satisfying the flyer’s demands. “Ruby, is your plan almost ready?” Cera asked, not wanting to have to tell everyone later that a feathered-flyer was able to escape from her, a fast biter. “Almost…” Ruby whispered in reply. “Just have to aim right…” Littlefoot was following instructions Ruby had given him earlier, and walked near the edge of the water. Ruby was standing atop the cliff Guider was on earlier. “Be careful Ruby..” Chomper advised nervously.  Littlefoot was in position. “Here I go!” Ruby yelled, jumping off the cliff in a pounce-like stance. “Huh?” said Guider, hearing Ruby’s words as roars, of course. Ruby landed on Guider, knocking him into the water, while Ruby landed safely on her feet.

Ducky smiled, Guider was knocked out cold yet again. “That’ll show that meanie that sharpteeth aren’t stupid, it will, it will.” Then the swimming sharptooth felt her stomach rumble. “I’m hungry,” she commented. “You can have him Ducky,” Chomper smiled. Thank you Chomper,” replied Ducky, and began swimming over to Guider. But then Ruby noticed something. A small smirk appeared on Guider’s face! “Ducky wait!” called Ruby, but it was too late. Ducky had bit right into the stone which Guider had hidden on his stomach (Which was camouflaged by the water), and one of her front teeth loosened, and fell out. “HA!” Guider laughed triumphantly, grabbing the tooth and quickly flying into the air. “You sharpteeth will never outsmart a leafeater!” he laughed, and flew off.  Chomper, Littlefoot, Cera, and Ruby quickly ran over to Ducky. They could tell she was in pain. “It hurts, it does, it does,” Ducky said, slightly crying. “It’ll be ok Ducky,” Chomper comforted. “When we loose a baby tooth, a grown up tooth takes it place.” “Thank you Chomper, but I just feel bad that that flyer got away with taking it.” “Yeah, those leafeaters make me mad!” nodded Cera. “Well, there’s something Sharptooth once told me…” Ruby began to say.

“What did he say Ruby?” Littlefoot asked. “He says that if you do good things, good things happen to you, but if you do bad things, bad things happen to you.” “Is that for real?” Chomper asked. “Who knows,” Ruby replied back. Just then, they heard some voices call from the other side of the logs. “Kkids, are you back there?” Dein and Terri called. “Yeah mom and dad, we need help,” Chomper called back, glad to see his parents were there to help them.

Meanwhike, Guider was getting thirsty. After managing to successfully take a sharptooth’s tooth, he was getting cocky. He looked at a waterhole, and since he saw that no other sharpteeth were around, he decided to get a drink from there. He landed beside the waterhole. “Ha, no sharptooth can outsma…” CRUCNH. A belly dragger emerging from the water stepped right on Guider, crushing him. “Be back before dinner Spike,” Mama Swimming Sharptooth called to the belly Dragger. Spike looked back and nodded yes. As he was taking off, Mama S S called “Um, there’s something on your foot.” Spike looked down and saw a dead, slightly bloody and drushed feathered-flyer stuck to his foot. He smiled and tossed it in the air and ate it in one gulp. That my friends, is what you call karma.

(There’s 31, Read and Review. Remember this chapter was mainly for laughs.)

Next time on Sharptooth Valley: Chomper meets up with his leafeater friends and tries to teach them the Sharptooth language. Will he succeed? Also, Chomper cathces a better look of the mysterious fast biter….

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(Chapter 32 is here!)

Chapter 32: Welcome to Sharptooth 101

The cold time was nearing. A few, tiny bits of snow could be seen on the ground all over the Great Valley and Mysterious Beyond. Out in the Mysterious Beyond, Rory, Rita, Myra, and Greg were taking a walk.  “You guys sure it’s safe to wander around these parts?” Myra asked. “Don’t worry Myra,” replied Rita, “The last time Chomper ran into us out here he told us no sharpteeth go around these parts when they hunt.” “You sure?” Myra said nervously. “Myra!” Greg said, annoyed. Ever since Redfoot’s plan was stopped, Chomper had only seen his flatteeth/former sharpteeth friends a few times. Both sides were aware that it would be risky to keep seeing each other as time went on, but they wanted to see each other as many times possible before that. “Speaking of Redfoot…” Rory commented, “Has anyone seen how he’s been doing? I haven’t heard him say a word in weeks.”  “Yeah, I mean, the longneck’s a jerk….but I hate to see him like that,” Myra concluded. This has been what the leafeater valley has been like since the foiling of Redfoot’s plan:

Redfoot had stepped down as one of the major leaders of the leafeaters, he prefers to just be by himself now. Icky, Dil, and Rita’s parents were now in higher positions of power (although Icky and Dil are sure that the power is going to go to the other’s head.)   Mo and Elsie have commented that Redfoot seems to spend most of his time at waterholes, just staring at his reflection….  Strut said that “he is learning.” Ozzy, furious at his brother for defending sharpteeth, left the valley, and was soon hunted down by the belly dragger herd on their day for hunting. Strut said that Ozzy walked himself into that. The 5 friends occasionally visit Chomper in some secret spots out in the Mysterious Beyond, but they know those times can’t last forever.  In the present, Myra suddenly froze. “Did you hear something?” she asked nervously. “What?” asked Rita. “Sounds like a…” A big roar was heard. “SHARPTOOTH!” they all yelled. They began to run when they started to hear laughter. “Don’t tell me…” Rory realized. Chomper then came out of a bush, laughing slightly.

“That wasn’t funny Chomper,” Myra sighed angrily. Chomper smiled back, “Actually, that’s why I came here.” “What do you mean?” asked Greg. “Well, if you guys knew how to speak sharptooth, you would’ve known that all I said was “Hey guys, it’s me.”” “So what are you getting at Chomper?” Rita asked. Chomper let out a grin. “I was thinking…would you guys like it if I taught you how to speak sharptooth?” Rory, Rita, Greg, and Myra looked confused. “I didn’t know that sharptooth was a language. I always thought you communicated just by your actions.” Chomper frowned, but only a teeny bit. “Of course it’s a language. Besides, a lot of the sharpteeth I know don’t think leafeaters can talk,” he explained. “Really?” Rory said, amazed.  “But how will knowing how to speak sharptooth help us?” Myra asked. “Just think….” Chomper replied, “Probably one day you’ll be out here when there’s a sharptooth hunting nearby, and I won’t be around to help you, you just might be able to trick him into thinking you’re sharpteeth, which could save your lives.”  Rita looked intrigued. “Good point,” she commented.

“But how much will we get to learn?” Myra asked doubtfully. “We won’t have much time  before we have to head back to our valleys.” Chomper let out a smile. “Don’t worry, I mean, I managed to learn how to speak flattooth after only a day with Little….I mean, you guys, so teaching you how to speak sharpteeth can’t be too hard,” Chomper laughed, just barely managing to have to explain his wish to anybody.  “So where should we start?” Rory asked, more eager to learn than the rest of his friends. “Let’s start off with something simple: Hello,” Chomper replied. “Now pay attention everyone,” he instructed. “Listen carefully.” Chomper then proceeded, as slow as he could, to say “Hello” in sharptooth. Myra, Greg, Rita, and Rory listened hard. “You guys try now,” Chomper smiled. Rita went first, it was hard for the longneck to imitate roars.   On her first attempt, it sounded like she was doing a “Joke” roar instead of a real roar. “You just said: High, low,” Chomper explained. “Hey, this is hard!” Rita replied, not angry at Chomper at all, she just wanted to explain her mistake.

“It’s hard learning how to speak differently, I’ll admit,” Chomper nodded. “But you guys can’t give up just yet.”  “That’s the spirit,” Greg agreed, while Myra was still doubtful. “This is hopeless,” she said under her breath. “Come on Myra, I know we can do it,” Rory encouraged. Myra looked back at Rory, the threehorns sharing a smile. “Ok Rory….I’ll try,” Myra blushed.  Chomper climbed atop a rock, making him look like a teacher more. “Learning how to speak sharptooth isn’t hard. All you need to know is how to roar correctly, with the occasional growl or click.” “Sounds peaceful,” Myra said sarcastically, but Rita shot her a look.  “Ok, now I’ll teach you guys how to say “I am” in my language,” Chomper explained.  Chomper let out a short roar with a little click following it, which meant, as he explained, was “I am” in Sharptooth.  Greg tried to imitate the language first. It was a rather impressive attempt. “Well done Greg,” Chomper said the spiketail, impressed.

Myra hadn’t given up hope, but she did think the day was getting boring. She looked around the nearby area and noticed that there was a big mound of snow on a cliff right above where Chomper and her friends were. She secretly smirked, wanting to play a joke. “I’m going to get some green food,” she said to Rita, Rory, and Greg. “You guys want anything?” “I would like some sweet bubbles please,” Greg commented. “You ALWAYS want sweet bubbles,” Rory teased. “Hey, I’m not fat,” Greg replied, getting the context of Rory’s joke.  “I dunno, if I was a sharptooth, I’d think you were the tastiest looking.” Chomper looked annoyed, he was hoping they weren’t making a “sharpteeth are mindless killers” joke. “Be serious guys,” Chomper said. “We will,” Greg and Rory replied.  Chomper began teaching them more complete sentences in sharpteeth, some important ones (To use in the whole “Save your Life” method Chomper suggested earlier) were “I’m just hunting a longneck.” Rita seemed creeped out that Chomper chose that sentence to teach them, but Chomper’s explanation was:

“Most sharpteeth think longneck is the tastiest kind of meat.” Rita looked freaked. “Don’t worry, I prefer flyers,” Chomper said, realizing that probably wasn’t the best line to use to calm her down, but Greg let out a smirk. “My mom would probably like it if you said that to my dad,” he laughed, his parents still quite the VERY odd couple. The mood then calmed down again.  Chomper was impressed at how successful he was. Despite failing at being able to teach the sharpteeth of the previous reality how to be friends, he was more successful here at his teaching position. Ducky, he guessed, was right when she called him a good teacher.  Rory noticed that Myra had been gone for a while now. “Does anyone know where she went?” Rory asked concerned. “I’m UP HERE!” they suddenly heard Myra laugh. Rory, Chomper, Rita, and Greg all looked up, and saw a big snow ball falling towards them! “Oh no…” Rita muttered, it was too late for the 4 friends to get out of the way. The snow landed on them, covering them completely. Myra chuckled to himself as she came back down. “Very funny Myra,” Rita muttered annoyed as she climbed out of the pile.

“I thought that was cool,” Rory laughed, the threehorn jumping out of the snow. “I didn’t Chomper said, “This cold stuff really bothers my tail if some gets on it.” “Same here Chomper,” Greg agreed. Rita looked at the sky, “The Bright Circle will be heading down soon. We should all head home.” “Good point Rita,” Chomper said. Suddenly, they all heard a big roar. “A bigger sharptooth?!” Myra said nervously. “Let me handle this,” Chomper smiled, and he roared back with a sentence he had taught them earlier. The bigger sharptooth was Growley (from Chapter 18), and he replied. “Ok, I’ll go somewhere else to find dinner.” “Thanks Chomper,” Rory said thankfully as they heard Growley walk off. “Don’t mention it,” Chomper said, running back to the Great Valley. The friends of both kinds knew that their visits couldn’t last forever, or much longer, for that matter, so they knew they had to enjoy the time they could spend together as much as they could.  Chomper soon returned to his home.

When Chomper got back, he decided he wanted to take a walk along the Great Walls so he get see from its awesome view again.  “I love this place,” Chomper smiled, happily watching all the sharpteeth/former leafeaters getting along. He was a little distracted by watching some bladebacks in a game of Biter in the Center, so he didn’t notice a fast biter standing by himself on the walls standing a few feet in front of him. Chomper bumped into him, and fell down. “Ow, sorry Mr.” Chomper apologized, hoping he didn’t disturb the fast biter. “It’s all right young one,” the mysterious fast biter replied, even though he never actually looked down at Chomper. Chomper thought that this fast biter was acting weird.  “What are you looking at?” Chomper questioned, he could tell there was something up with him. “Nothing that you should get yourself involved with little biter,” he said sternly. “How rude,” Chomper thought to himself as he walked away. But as he was heading down to the Valley’s ground levels, he looked back and noticed something odd. The fast biter was staring….in what seemed to be the direction of Sharptooth’s cave. “Huh?” Chomper silently muttered, confused by what he had just seen.

Chomper arrived at the Hot Waterhole, where the swimming sharpteeth would stay as the days got colder. Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Spike, Guido, and Tippy were all playing there. “Does anyone know where Ruby is?” Chomper asked. “Tippy doesn’t know,” the belly dragger replied. Littlefoot got out of the water. “When she woke up this morning, she wasn’t feeling too well so Sharptooth told her to stay in whatever cave she stays in,” he explained. (The kids, besides Chomper, still aren’t knowing of the fact that ruby lives with Sharptooth.)  “Oh, Ok,” Chomper smiled back, but then frowned at the memory of his recent encounter. “What’s bothering you Chomper?” Littlefoot asked concerned. “Well, you see..” Chomper began, then explained the mysterious fast biter he saw. After his story, Cera suddenly went wide-eyed. “What is it Cera?” Guido asked. “3 weeks ago, before the Time of the Great Giving when Guido stole those things, I saw a fast biter exactly like that at the waterhole,” she explained. Chomper looked intrigued. ëDid you notice anything about him Cera?” Chomper asked. “Well, there was one thing odd. He was holding a tooth, and it looked to small to be from a grownup’s mouth.” After a few seconds, Chomper remembered “Ruby’s brother’s tooth!” “Something wrong Chomper?” Littlefoot asked. “No, nothing,” Chomper quickly replied. “Come on, let’s play!” Chomper jumped in the water and enjoyed playing with his friends, but this fast biter thing was bothering him.

“So that fast biter is watching Sharptooth and Ruby’s cave, and he also stole Howler’s tooth and returned it. What exactly is going on here?” he thought.

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Next time on Sharptooth Valley: With Ruby still sick, Chomper gets his friends to help him track down the mysterious fast biter. His identity and intentions will soon be revealed…..

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Chapter 33: The Secret Revealed

That evening, Petrie, his mother, and siblings, all gathered at their nest to say farewell to Pterano. He had decided to travel the world again. “There’s still many parts unexplored, and more young sharpteeth to impress with my stunts,” he said, all his nieces and nephews hated to see him go.  Petrie gently flew over to him. “I’ll miss you so much uncle,” the little sharptooth flyer said, giving his uncle a hug. Pternao started to slightly tear up right now, but he didn’t want the children to think he was a “Sentimental Tree Goop” (Sentimental Sap). “Farewell sister,” he smiled to Tera. Tera stayed silent for a bit, but she finally said “See you around Pterano.” The siblings had finally stopped being annoyed by each other. Tera still didn’t like the thought of her children following in Pterano’s stunt flying claw prints, but she accepted the fact he enjoyed doing them. “Goodbye,” Pterano smiled, and flew out of the valley. He was eager to continue his personal journey of impressing every sharptooth he could.

Sharptooth, meanwhile, was trying to make Ruby feel better, as she still felt unsually warm on the forehead. “Are you sure you don’t want anything else?” he asked, concerned for the young fast biter. “No, I’m fine, I just need rest,” Ruby smiled back, sounding different in the voice a bit.  “Hi Ruby,” they heard Chomper’s voice call. Chomper walked into Sharptooth’s cave holding a bigmouth carcass, which Chomper knew was Ruby’s favorite. “Thanks Chomper,” Ruby coughed a bit. “No problem,” Chomper smiled back. “My parents and I were full, so they said I could share that with someone, so I wanted to let you have it.” “That’s sweet of you young one,” Sharptooth grinned. Sharptooth, Dein, and Terri were the only ones aware of the fact that Chomper and Ruby were pretty much in love. “So how was your day Chomper?” Ruby asked. “Good, got a lot of things done,” Chomper smiled, remembering his little “class.”  But then he remembered the mysterious fast biter he saw, and started to frown. “Something wrong?” Ruby asked. “Uh…no, nothing is,” Chomper replied. If something was going on here, he didn’t want Ruby to be worried. “See you tomorrow,” Chomper smiled, kissing Ruby on the cheek then walked home.

LATER THAT NIGHT…

“Goodnight Chomper,” Terri smiled to her son, falling asleep beside her mate. “Night mom,” Chomper said back. As the two bigger sharpteeth had fallen asleep, Chomper however, stayed awake. “The fast biter I saw…could it be?” he thought to himself. He was remembering everything Ruby was able to tell him the night they were at Saurus Rock about her past.  He had felt terrible about finding out her siblings were dead and that her parents were murdered, but the scary part was that Ruby didn’t know who or what species was the killer.  And the EXTRA scary part was that whoever it was is still out there! “And she did say she thought someone was spying her, it has to be….” Chomper deduced, thinking of the biter he saw atop the Great Wall.  “I have to make sure nothing happens to Ruby or anyone else.” Chomper thought about how he could do that. He remembered the fact that none of his other friends were aware of Ruby’s past. “We just have to track that fast biter down and make him confess what he was doing..” he planned, beginning to doze off.

The next morning, Littlefoot, Spike, Petrie, Cera, and Ducky were at the waterhole. Littlefoot, Cera, and Petrie were playing a little round of the Great Log-Running Game. “I’m gonna beat you guys,” Cera laughed. “Don’t think so yet Cera,” Petrie replied. “I’m used to stunts like this.” And the sharptooth flyer was correct. Littlefoot and Cera eventually lost then balance and fell into the water. When they surfaced, they spat out some water and shared a laugh. “That was great Petrie, it was, it was!” complimented Ducky. “Thanks,” Petrie blushed, happy to here compliments from her especially. Chomper soon caught up to his buddies. “Good morning Chomper,” greeted Littlefoot. “Morning guys,” Chomper replied. “You should jump in the water in these parts is fine,” Ducky said, because the upcoming cold time limited the areas of warm water, but this part was particularly nice. “Ok,” Chomper grinned, jumping in. After creating a little splash, his thoughts from last night started to resume.  “Thinking about something?” Petrie asked.

“Hey guys…..remember that fast biter that I saw last night and that Cera saw a while ago?” Chomper asked his friends. “Yes,” Littlefoot, Ducky, Petrie, and Cera replied while Spike made a noise that suggested “Yes.”  “What about that weird biter?” Cera asked. Chomper was thinking about how to word this.  “I just….have a bad feeling about him. He creeps me out,” Chomper said. “What are you getting at Chomper?” Littlefoot asked. “I just have a feeling…that he’s up to something.” The gang looked surprised, that had never seen Chomper so worried about something before. “So what should we do?” Petrie asked. “”I hate to say this….but maybe spy on him,” suggested Chomper. Cera laughed a tiny bit, remembering the little incident that occurred on the night they followed Terri, Cira, and Tera on their little mother’s night out.  But Littlefoot looked into Chomper’s eyes, and since they shared a brotherly bond despite not being related, he could tell this fast biter, for whatever reason, was seriously bothering him. “I’ll help you Chomper,” Littlefoot assured his friend.  Spike nodded, and so did Ducky and Petrie. But Cera had a point to make.

“If we are going on another spying adventure, we have one little problem,” Cera commented. “What?” asked Littlefoot and Chomper. “Do you remember his trail? Be cause I sure don’t.” Cera replied. Chomper paused, that was a good point. Cera then grinned. “Well then…I guess we’ll just have to track this fast biter down just by his appearance!” Chomper let out a little smile, maybe he was wrong about what the fast biter was doing..but he didn’t want to risk it. Chomper and Cera then described the fast biter’s appearance to the rest. “He’s mostly blue, with a green stripe from the left side of his belly to the right.” Cera remembered. “Yeah, and he eyes are the same color as the Bright Circle,” Chomper recalled.  “Ok, we should probably split up so we can cove the whole Great Valley,” Littlefoot suggested, taking his role as the unofficial leader of the group. “I’ll take the skies and along the Great Walls,” Petrie smiled. Spike made a noise. “Spike and I will look around the waterholes, we will, we will,” Ducky said. The swimming sharptooth and belly dragger took off into the water. “Where should we go?” asked Cera. “We could check all the caverns,” Chomper thought. A fast biter living by himself could easily be comfortable in one of those. “I think I’ll look around the main parts of the valley,” Cera said, then fast biter ran off. “Guess it’s just you and me buddy,” Littlefoot smiled. “Yeah,” replied Chomper.

Back in Sharptooth’s cave, he and Ruby were trying to enjoy themselves despite Ruby’s temporary sickness.  “Is there anything else I can do?” The big rex asked. “No, I’m fine,” replied Ruby. But there was something on Ruby’s mind. “Actually, there IS  one thing bothering me..” she admitted. “What is it?” asked Sharptooth. “A few weeks ago…I just felt this evil glare,” Ruby said, although she felt she exaggerated that. Sharptooth looked surprised and worried.  He had a theory who could have been the one who had did that, but he wasn’t sure of the dino he was thinking of’s identity.  Meanwhile, a distance away, atop the Great Wall, the fast biter was still staring down at the cave of Sharptooth and Ruby. However, he could feel…two presences by him. He knew he couldn’t afford to be discovered, so he slid down a slight angled side of the wall into a far-off entrance into the Secret caverns. About 30 seconds later, Petrie flew near the the part of the Great Wall where the fast biter was just moments earlier. “Darn, I could’ve sworn I saw a fast biter by himself here, but I guess he either wasn’t or he left.”

As Cera was looking around the main, out in the open parts of the valley, she suddenly heard her parents calling her. “What is it daddy?” she asked Veli and Cira who had just approached her. “Could you baby sit Tricia again Cera? Your father and I have business to take care of,” Cira explained. Cera sighed, she’d rather be on a cool spying adventure than babysitting her little sister, but she obliged nonetheless. “That’s my daughter,” Veli smiled, and the two adult fast biters took off.  Cera saw Tricia nearly instantly try to chomp on a few passing stinging buzzers and dragonflies.  “That’s a good biter,” Cera smiled, Tricia looking fierce in a cute, infant-type way though. “Let’s go sis, I have something important to do.” “OK sistuh,” Tricia replied, her words still not completely clear. Cera smiled and put her sister on her back.  “Hang on Tricia,” Cera instructed friendly, and began running off.  Elsewhere, Littlefoot and Chomper were walking through the Secret Caverns. Littlefoot’s sniffer began catching a trail. “What do you smell Littlefoot?” Chomper asked. “Hold on,” Littlefoot replied. The two t-rexes took a few more scents. “A fast biter, a grownup too,” Littlefoot realized. “good, we have to find out who this guy is,” Chomper said hopefully. At the same time, Littlefoot’s curiosity about something was beginning to perk up. “Hey Chomper…why is finding this fast biter so important to you?” he asked. He didn’t sound rude or suspicious, just curious.

Chomper paused. Besides Petrie and Guido, none of his friends really had an idea that he and Ruby liked each other a lot. Also since he realized that before he made his wish, he wasn’t able to further help his friends because he was forced to leave the original leafeater Great Valley, he wasn’t able to help his friends anymore, so he wanted to help everyone he could in this reality. He felt he could trust Littlefoot with this knowledge. “Littlefoot…You know how your grandparents like each other and my mom and dad like each other?” Chomper began. “Yeah….” Replied Littlefoot, getting a tiny idea of what his friend was getting at. “While, me and Ruby…we kind of like each other like that.” Chomper finally concluded. Littlefoot smiled, he knew what it’s like to when you like someone like that, even though he wasn’t as successful as Chomper. Suddenly, the two little sharptooth got knocked over. The mysterious fast biter quickly dashed pass and bumped into them, knocking them down. “I’m ok,” Littlefoot said, getting back up. “That was the fast biter!” Chomper realized. “Then we got to follow him!” Littlefoot said. But as the two rexes were chasing the grownup, Littlefoot asked “But what does this guy have to do with it?” “I’m afraid he wants to hurt Ruby!” Chomper called back, not wanting to lose the fast biter. Littlefoot looked scared, he wasn’t going to let anyone hurt his friends!

The fast biter dashed out of the Secret Caverns and stayed along the walls of the GV. “I can’t let them find out who I am,” he thought. “Because if it gets out, they’ll find out.”  But as he went along, he passed a younger girl fast biter carrying an even younger one on her back. It was someone he recognized. He tried to run past unseen, but his trail caught Cera’s sniffer. “Wait a minute…” she realized, and then she saw the fast biter trying to sneak away. “Get back here!” she yelled, Tricia struggling to hold on. Littlefoot and Chomper soon caught up to Cera.  “We saw him!” Littlefoot panted. “I know!” Cera replied, still running. “But where’s he heading?!”  “Probably to Sharptooth’s cave!”
 Chomper yelled. “But why would he be going there?!” Cera yelled. “Because that’s were Ruby is!” Chomper yelled, suddenly getting a burst of speed and pulling ahead faster than the rest of his friends. Cera and Littlefoot exchanged a brief confused glance, but kept on dashing.  Petrie had landed near the waterhole, where Spike and Ducky had unsuccessful results. “I didn’t find the fast biter, I didn’t, I didn’t,” Ducky sighed. Suddenly, they saw the fast biter zoom by, followed by Chomper, then Littlefoot and Cera. “Petrie, Spike, come on!” Littlefoot yelled as they passed by. “That’s the fast biter Chomper and Cera were talking about!”

Most of the herds were either hunting right now or in the part of the valley not near Sharptooth’s cave, so the gang was on their own (As they always are when something bad is happening.).   The fast biter was nearing Sharptooth’s cave. “OH NO YOU DON’T!” Chomper roared at the top of his young lungs, and pounced. The commotion attracted Ruby and Sharptooth’s attention. “What’s going on?” asked Ruby, coughing slightly.  “I’ll go check it out,” Sharptooth said, proceeding to walk outside out of the cave. Chomper had managed to pounce at the fast biter’s feat, knocking him down. “Don’t you dare get near Ruby!” Chomper yelled, ready to attack. With the hunting training he had in both realities, he could attempt to injure a grown up. “Kid, you don’t understand!” the fast biter panted. Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, and Petrie soon showed up. Sharptooth immediately saw the commotion. “Chomper wait!” he said firmly. “But…but..” Chomper breathed in deeply, “This fast biter wants to hurt Ruby!” “That’s wrong Chomper,” Sharptooth said. “You see… a few cold times ago…I was asked….”  

“Asked by who? And what, asked to hurt Ruby?!” Chomper yelled, rage in his voice.

The fast biter was catching his breath. “No…her parents asked me….to protect her.”


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Chapter 34: Search and Do Not Destroy

The 9 sharpteeth who were right outside Sharptooth’s cave right now were now all confused in some form or another.  “Protect Ruby?” Chomper said, surprised at what he just heard.  At the same time, Littlefoot, Petrie, Cera, and Spike were unaware of Ruby’s past. “Ruby…what’s going on here?” Littlefoot asked. “I want to ask that question as much as you do Littlefoot,” replied Ruby.  “You live with Sharptooth?” Cera said surprised. Ruby realized it was time to fess up about that part to the rest of her friends. “Yes Cera, I live with Sharptooth, and he’s like a dad to me.” “But what about your parents?” Petrie asked, having completely no idea about what happened to them. Ruby looked at Chomper for a few moments with a face suggesting “I’m going to tell them about them.”  “They…..they……died a few cold times ago, back in the Mysterious Beyond, along with my brothers.” Everyone who was hearing this info for the first time gasp, except Tricia who didn’t really understand what they were saying.  Chomper, Sharptooth, as well the fast biter who everyone had just met knew about this.

Ruby began explaining everything that had happened. “One night, so long ago, on my star day, I was beginning to notice that my parents had been going off many nights without my knowing why, I decided to follow them.  When I found them, they were in a canyon. They were talking to somebody….somebody who I couldn’t see who they were or what kind of dinosaur they were.  The weird, evil figure was saying something to them that sounded like “You weren’t successful.” I still don’t know what that means,” Ruby explained, coughing a bit sadly.  The gang looked sad at this story, but they knew the worst part of it was yet to come.  “And then…the mysterious one threatened to kill me and my brothers!  My parents tried to fight them, and then…..and then…..the mysterious dinosaur attacked then…and then they……ki-ki-killed them. “ Everyone looked horrified, including the sharpteeth who already knew this story. Chomper put his hand on Ruby’s shoulder, trying his best to comfort her.  “Ruby, that’s horrible,” Littlefoot said, he couldn’t believe that tragedies like that happened to one of his friends!  “But I still can’t figure out one thing…” Ruby said.

Cera had set Tricia down gently on the ground, so she could go play. The little fast biter ran around and play-growled. “I still don’t get who you are,” Ruby said to the mysterious fast biter. The fast biter stood up, lying down since Chomper pounced.   “I am sorry I have remained secretive for all this time, but with what I am about to tell you, you will understand why, young fast biter.”  “Who are you anyway?” Cera questioned suspiciously.  “Again, I apologize for my anonymity.” The fast biter responded. “My name is Zidane.” (Main character’s name in Final Fantasy IX, I used it cause I thought the name was cool.)  “Ever since I was born, I’ve been an orphan. I managed to learn how to survive by myself, and I applied those skills to my life in the Mysterious Beyond.” “Look, we don’t want to here your past, we just want to know how to you’re connected to Ruby!” Cera said annoyed. “Don’t rush me little one,” Zidane replied calmly.
“Back then, sharpteeth were selfish unlike now where they get along perfectly. But I wasn’t like that. Over my life, I had developed my agility, strength, and intellect to high levels, and I wanted to use these abilities for a good cause. I began to develop a reputation for myself…” “You mean like my uncle and his stunts?” Petrie asked. “Ah yes, I’ve heard of your uncle Pterano young flyer, but my reputation was quite different. I let myself become a bodyguard,” explained Zidane. “What’s a bodyguard?” asked Petrie, never having heard  the term before. “Someone whose goal is life is to protect someone else or others,” Sharptooth replied. “Oh,” Petrie understood then.   “For multiple cold times, a few sharpteeth asked me to protect their family members or friends if they sensed danger was around me. The one thing they could tell about me was that I had a good heart and not go back on my word.” “Whoa….” Ruby, Chomper, Littlefoot, Petrie, and Cera said, while Spike also looked in awe.  Ruby still felt a bit sick, so she was laying on the grass, not wanting to spend the extra energy to stand up. “And one day, many cold times, they came to me.”

“My parents?” Ruby asked, something still bothering her throat. “Correct,” Zidane replied.

FLASHBACK…..

Zidane was staying the night in an old unused cave. He was used to spending nights in conditions like this, so it didn’t bother him.  He was about to fall asleep when he heard a voice call “Um…are you the fast biter known as the Sharptooth Protector?” a male adult fast biter asked nervously. Zidane looked at the FB who had just entered and could tell his mate had came with him. “That is correct,” Zidane replied, getting up to appear more respectful to his, for lack of a better term, future clients. “I am Zidane, who are you two?” he asked with respect to the two fast biters who had entered. “I am Allo (pun on allosaurus) and this is my mate Poda.” (Pun on theropoda.)  “Pleased to meet you,” replied Zidane, “I take it that you are here asking for my services?” “Yeah, but not for us….for our children.” Poda replied. “You see, I’m afraid we can’t give you much information. We believe we are being watched.”

THE PRESENT….

“Watched? What did they mean?” Ruby asked, finally knowing that there was something odd going on with her parents long ago. “I’ve made some deductions since then, but…”

THE PAST….

“Two dinosaurs, we’re afraid to say who, have forced us to work for them. They….they threatened to kill our children if we don’t assist them in their deeds. We need you to watch them…in case we can’t protect them,” Allo said, showing clear fear in his voice. Zidane looked at the fast biter parents, and he knew he just had to accept this request. “Don’t worry, I promise I will protect your children,” Zidane assured Ruby’s parents. “But I need to know where I would be able to find them.” Aloo and Poda then told their of their usual nesting areas.”
THE PRESENT…

“ And for around an entire cold time, I watched over you Ruby, and your brothers, making sure no one tried to attack them.” Zidane said. “Then what happened?” Cera asked, wanting to know what happened next. “Then, that one particular star day of Ruby’s came,” Zidane sighed, hating the memory. “I was watching her brothers Howler and Edge when I saw Ruby come running up in terror. The bad feelings I had been having that day. From your fear I realized that your parents had been murdered.”  “Don’t remind me,” Ruby said somberly.  And then the earth shake occurred. I was knocked out, and when I awoke, I was afraid you all had perished. I went on with my life feeling bad about failing to protect Ruby and her siblings. But one day while hunting, I saw the fast biter hunting class track down a herd of threehorn, and I saw that Ruby was still alive. I realized my duty was not over, so I decided to stay in the Great Valley watching over her.”

“Bye why would you think Ruby is in danger?” Littlefoot asked. “I think whoever killed her parents would assume she’s dead too.” Zidane looked sternly at Littlefoot, “I guess I didn’t mention one of the comment Ruby’s father made,” he explained. “He told me that the two dinosaurs who they were threatened to work for are NOT risk takers. They probably figured out that Ruby survived and was saved by Sharptooth.” “But why would they come to the Valley trying to hurt Ruby?” Petrie asked confused. “The only reason I can assume is that they thought Ruby saw who they were and figured that can’t risk Ruby identifying them to someone.” Zidane explained “But why would they be worried about that?” Chomper asked. After a moment of silence….the sharpteeth began to realize something. “Unless…it’s someone we already know,” Littlefoot said in grim realization.  Ruby looked afraid. “But who?!” she asked scared.  “Do you children have any theories?” Zidane replied.

The gang stood still for a moment contemplatively. “Well, it would have to be someone who hasn’t been here since we took over the Great Valley,” Chomper noted. (During this entire sequence, imagine very brief flashes of every character in the story’s faces, to make it more action-packed.)  Little did Chomper, his friends, and Zidane know that two particular dinosaurs, more evil than normal dinosaurs, were watching them from atop the Great Wall, hearing every word……   “And even if it wasn’t someone who lives here, it has to be someone who we don’t know personally or go with a herd,” Littlefoot commented, ruling out his parents, Shorty, and Ali’s herd as the possible villains.  “And somebody,” Ruby coughed, “That if they weren’t around, we wouldn’t wonder why.” “But who could that be?” Petrie asked. Petrie knew that his uncle couldn’t have been a bad guy, as he knew his uncle well and could tell there was no evilness inside him. “I don’t know, but I have a suggestion,” Zidane commented. “Maybe Sharptooth, since you’re the leader here, you should have some of the sharpteeth, preferably some of the adults form some sort of group devoted to protecting Ruby.”  What happened next took them by complete surprise.

“I’m afraid that won’t be necessary,” the group heard a voice call from above. Everyone looked up. It was Rinkus.  “Hey, you’re one of those flyers who traveled with my uncle,” Petrie commented. “What are you talking about?” “I was guessing you were about to figure me out,” Rinkus laughed.  There was a moment of silent realization.  “It…..it….was you…who killed Ruby’s parents?!” Chomper yelled angrily. “Correct brat,” Rinkus laughed.  “You monster!” Sharptooth yelled. “But….why?” Ruby asked sadly.   “Why? Why you ask?” Rinkus asked. “Your parents were nothing more than useless assistants to me.”  Chomper, Ruby, Sharptooth, Zidane, Cera, Spike, and Petrie all were feeling rage at this moment.  “WHAT DID YOU EVEN FORCE THEM TO HELP YOU WITH?!” Ruby asked enraged.  “To locate the stone,” Rinkus grinned evilly. “What do you mean stone?” Littlefoot asked.  “The Stone of Cold Fire,” Rinkus concluded.

“The Stone of Cold Fire?” Chomper thought in shocked remembrance. “That’s what granted my wish back then!”  “Why would you kill dinosaurs over a stupid stone?!” Cera yelled angrily. “Because it can grant the wishes I desire,” Rinkus said. “But that’s just a myth!” Chomper yelled, but he knew that wasn’t quite the truth. “But what are your stupid wishes?!” Cera yelled. “Simple. Myself and a lot of the other flyers in the Mysterious Beyond realize that it’s finally time for our kind to rule supreme as we’ve always meant to be!” “But I’m a flyer, and I think that’s crazy!” Petrie yelled, staying beside his friends.  “You’ll thank us later,” Rinkus laughed. “Your uncle little flyer was completely unaware of our REAL intentions for following him on his world traveling mission. Myself and my associate Sierra needed an excuse to go for point to point in our search for the ancient stone without being attacked or questioned. Then when we got news of the general area of the Stone of Cold Fire, we staged that accident so we could have an excuse to stop following that moronic daredevil.” Now Petrie was offended.

“But why did you threaten my folks into helping you?!” Ruby coughed again “You never heard of the saying “Two heads are better than one”?” Rinkus laughed, “It was quite simple. Myself, Rinkus, and our secret army of flyers realize our quest be made much easier if we having the weaker, and less intelligent dinosaurs of both types be forced into this little labor of ours,” Rinkus laughed. “And when we found out about the Great Valley, we thought it would be a perfect base camp for our group, we have all the time in the world to search for the Stone of Cold Fire without a threat of assault. No one would suspect us, everyone here is to nice and too dumb.” Now EVERYONE hated Rinkus more than you could imagine. “But we thought all our efforts would be blown when we found out that that little girl fast biter saw us and survived the earth shake.” “But I didn’t even see you!” Ruby retorted sickly.  “We couldn’t take that risk, could we?” Rinkus laughed. “That’s why that day at Crumbling Rock we attempted to destroy the surface you were on and plunge you to your death!” “You heartless fiends!” Zidane yelled, looking into the face of his enemy.  “And when that failed, we tried having a longneck we had forced to working for us attack you one night, but there was a little mix-up.”

Cera remembered something. “That night, when I was attacked by that longneck,” the fast biter realized. “Correct…..we intended it for your friend Ruby there to die but that stupid longneck made a mistake because of the darkness,” Rinkus concluded.  Chomper, as much as he was angry and shocked, was curious about one thing. “But why would your tell us these things?” He asked, “Now we all know all about you!” “Because now we have a reason for all of you to look for the Stone.” “You’re crazy!” Cera yelled, she, like all of her friends, was horrified that any dino could be this cruel. “Oh, believe him, you have a very good reason to help us,” Sierra commented, flying beside Rinkus. In his claws was a little pink fast biter…. “TRICIA!” Cera screamed in terror. “Lemme go, lemme go,” Tricia cried, still not that good at words.  “We have a little ultimatum for you: Find the Stone of Cold Fire and bring it to Black Rock in 3 days, or the baby fast biter dies!” Rinkus laughed, and the evil flyers took off, the gang looking terrified at what just happened.


TO BE CONTINUED…………..

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Chapter 35: Cold Hearts and Cold Fire Part 1

“Tricia! TRICIA!!” Cera screamed at the top of her lungs watching the two diabolical flyers disappear from sight.  Every sharpteeth who was present at the scne was horrified by what had just transpired.  “Those monsters…” Sharptooth said with rage in his voice. Ruby was just staying still in shocked silence.  Those two flyers, those two fiends, were responsible for the loss of her family so long ago. And now they had abducted the little sibling of one of her friends?!  “I…I can’t believe this…” Ruby said in a silent yet horrified tone.  Chomper came up to Cera and Ruby.  “Cera…we’ll stop them, we’ll get Tricia back,” he and Littlefoot tried to comfort, but it wouldn’t help Cera at all. “But they have a huge army on their hands, what are we going to do?!” Cera yelled. She couldn’t keep calm in a situation like this, but could you really blame her? “We have to inform all the adults in the valley,” Zidane commented. “I have a feeling we’ll need all the help we can get….”  The gang gave a somber-and-serious nod.

Up in the sky, Rinkus and Sierra were flying towards their lair, Sierra holding Tricia in his claws. “Lemme go!”  Rinkus looked down at the little pink fast biter and chuckled. “Sure we could let you go brat…but you realize how big of a fall that would be, correct? You’d never survive.” Tricia couldn’t quite understand the flyer’s words, just starting to speak herself, but when she looked down, she saw that it was QUITE a distance down. She started to cry silently and decided to stay quiet, she didn’t want to die. Smiling at the fact the little fast biter had finally shut up, Sierra looked at Rinkus.  “You certain this’ll have everyone finding the Stone of Cold Fire for us?” Sierra asked.  “Of course, you know those fools back in the valley. They’ll do anything to protect one of their own, instead of realizing that the only one in life you can help are yourselves.”  “I’ll admit, I’m glad we don’t live in that valley of fools anymore,” Sierra laughed. “Playing “Buddy-Buddy” with all those non-flyers was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life.” They shared a laugh.

Soon, Rinkus and Sierra were coming up on a mountain. It looked like every other mountain for the most part, but there was a cave in this mountain. How does this vary from other caves-in mountains? While, the entrance to the cave/ the hole is in mid-air, so it was impossible for any type of dinosaur, sharptooth or leafeater, who isn’t a flyer to enter. Waiting at the entrance to this cave was a flattooth flyer named Dack who was in Rinkus and Sierra’s group devoted to having flyers take over the entire world. He soon noticed the leaders of the army approaching. “Good day,” he grinned evilly. He soon noticed the little fast biter in Sierra’s clutches. “Another hostage?” he asked. “Not just another hostage,” Rinkus grinned back, “This one may be the key to our ultimate goal of finding the magical stone that will grant our wish.” Dack looked impressed. “Really? I never thought a mere child could be that important.”  “She’s not a flyer, how important could she be?” Sierra laughed evilly.” Take her to the holding caves,” Rinkus instructed to Dack.  “Understood,” replied Dack. Sierra set Tricia down, but Tricia knew trying to run was hopeless.

That night in the Great valley, Sharptooth had called an emergency meeting for all the grownups, and the kids who had witnesses the kidnapping (Chomper, Ruby, Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike.)  Veli and Cira had been informed about what happened to Tricia beforehand, because Sharptooth knew that had a right to find out about all this as soon as possible.  Everyone at the meeting could tell Veli was trying to not let his rage slip out, but he wasn’t being successful.  “Everyone…I have some unfortunate and urgent news,” Sharptooth sighed, beginning the meeting. “For the past couple of weeks we have been deceived.” “Who are you talking about?” Mr. Belly Dragger asked confused. “Two flyers, by the names of Rinkus and Sierra have been using the Great Valley as a resting place while they’ve been secretly doing evil deeds.” “Evil deeds? What were they?” Mama Swimming Sharptooth asked from the nearby waterhole. “They’ve been trying to locate something known as the Stone of Cold Fire that can supposedly grant a wish that they will use to have their gang of flyers take over the world.” All the sharpteeth looked either horrified or confused. “Magic? Don’t they know there’s no such thing?!” Growley yelled from among the crowd. “What else did those 2 do?” Terri asked, standing by her mate and son, Chomper hadn’t told them about the Tricia part yet. Sharptooth paused, then he finally said “In a cowardly move, they abducted one of our own. They kidnapped a young fast biter named Tricia.” There was a big gasp.

MEANWHILE, AT THE LEAFEATER VALLEY…..

It was a pretty basic evening. But, at the leafeater valley, for the children at least, that meant it was a pretty dull evening.  Rory, Rita, Myra, Greg, and Mo were sitting on a log by a little pond, throwing stones in it to amuse themselves. “There’s nothing to do,” Rory sighed bored. “If we had more friends, we might’ve had more to do,” Myra nodded. Outside of this little gang of five, most of the leafeater kids stayed to themselves. Unlike sharpteeth kids, leafeater young ones were very independent and preferred sticking to themselves. “Well, we have each other, right guys?” Rita smiled to her friends, trying to brighten the mood. “Yeah, you have a point there Rita, “Greg said, the spiketail knowing on some yummy treestars.  “Being around others close to you makes everything better,” Mo agreed. “Tell that to my mom and dad,” Greg laughed.  You could still hear the sounds of the flyer and spiketail arguing about another pointless subject. “But I love em anyway.”

“Yeah..” Rita laughed a bit. The longtail got up to take a sip of water, but then she froze. She stood perfectly still, and began to shake. “Rita, what’s going one?” Myra asked, rubbing to her side. “It’s those feelings again,” Rita shivered.  Rit had inherited another trait from her mother, the ability to “feel” danger when it’s in the area. “I feel so cold,” Rita shivered again. “It’s like….there’s something very bad, I mean VERY BAD out there in the Mysterious Beyond,” Rita said, no other description to how she was feeling. “Maybe we should find Strut,” Myra suggested. “Good point Myra,” Rory agreed. The friends took off to find the fast runner. “Just stay with us, you’ll be alright,” Rory tried to ensure.  But the leafeaters were nervous. The last time Rita felt this way was when Redfoot had set his plan into action….

Back at the lair of the Evil Flyers, Dack was taking Tricia to the Holding Caves. At this point, Tricia could no longer hold in her tears. “Pathetic…” Dack muttered to Tricia. “I know you’re too small to comprehend this, but tears don’t help you. Crying only makes everything look more useless than it already is.”  Dack pushed a boulder blocking a little tunnel out of the way. “In you go,” he smirked sinisterly. Tricia tried to bite Dack’s wing, but the evil flattooth flyer managed to fling her into the little cave beforehand. Tricia landed with a little impact against the wall, giving her only a little bruise thankfully. Before Tricia could run back out of the cave, Dack moved the boulder he had initially had the cave blocked with pushed back into position. It was clearly too big and heavy for Tricia to move by herself.  There was enough space from the rock for Tricia to breathe, but that was about it.  “You better consider yourself lucky,” Dack cruelly called to the young fast biter. “We typically kill our hostages and don’t give them any chance. But I’m feeling….generous today, he laughed.” Tricia only continued to cry.

Back at the meeting in the Great Valley, Sharptooth was explaining about that demands Sierra and Rinkus had left them.  “THOSE………!” Veli laughed. (I probably shouldn’t type the words Veli had used, because I would probably get in trouble for cussing in one of my stories.)  Normally Cira would try to calm her mate down, but this time she understood. She decided to stay quiet, worried to death about her daughter but didn’t know how to handle the situation right now.  Sharptooth let out another sigh. “I’m afraid that, until anyone can think of an alternative method, the only way to ensure Tricia’s safety is to find the Stone of Cold Fire within the time limit they gave us.” Veli at this point had gone into fits of rage saying what he would do if he ever ran into Rinkus, Sierra, or one of their gang.  Chomper meanwhile noticed Ruby slip off by herself from the crowd. “Can I go talk to Ruby mom?” he asked hoping she’d say yes. “You may son, that is alright,” Terri replied. Chomper quickly followed Ruby to a small field where she lied on the ground. “They’re out there Chomper,” Ruby said sadly.

“I know,” Chomper replied somberly. “It was them. They were the ones who killed my parents. They were the reason I lost my brothers and nearly died myself. They were the reason I nearly lost you that day at Crumbling Rock. They were the reason Cera nearly got killed by that longneck.” Chomper never saw Ruby looking so serious before.  But he knew she had all the reason to be.  “Ruby…we’ll stop them,” Chomper tried his best to assure. “We’ll avenge your family and anyone else who was hurt by those flyers.”  “We will,” Ruby replied, “We must.”  Ruby then looked at Chomper’s eyes. “I know this may not be the time to focus on this, but I really want to…” “Huh?” Chomper asked. Ruby then proceeded to give Chomper another kiss on the lips! Chomper blushed briefly, but proceeded to kiss Ruby back. The rex and the fast biter were truly in love.  However, this entire time Chomper was thinking up a plan on how to stop the flyers, and he wanted to gather his friends….

Speaking of flyers, Petrie and his siblings were back at their family nest. “I can’t believe those evil flyers tricked Uncle Pterano!” one of Petrie’s sisters said. “Uh huh!” everyone else nodded. Petrie noticed that his mom was standing a little distance away by herself. “I’m going to talk to mom,” Petrie said to his brothers and sisters. When he flew over to his mom, Tera could tell it was Petrie without even looking. “It’s started,” she said sternly. “What’s started?”  Petrie asked confused. “I didn’t think he was right at the time, but now…” Tera said, thinking about everything she had just learned.  “What are you talking about mom?” Petrie asked still confused. Tera paused. She then said “A while ago when your uncle came to visit us, he had something to tell me….”

FLASHBACK……..  (To about the end of the Bad to the Beak two-parter.)

“Pterano, I don’t want you to stay here. You’re a bad influence, and now Petrie and one of his friends has been hurt!” Tera argued to her brother. “You make excellent points sister,” Pterano commented, “But I have an alternate motive for returning here.” “What do you mean brother?” Tera asked confused. “Those two flyers you met today, Rinkus and Sierra…” “What about them?” Tera questioned. “Ever since they joined me on my travels around the world, I’ve had a bad feeling about them,” the big sharptooth flyer said. “I need you to promise me that if you see them act oddly, you’ll inform me immediately.”

THE PRESENT……..

“At the time I thought your uncle was just being paranoid, but now…” “Then why would Uncle Pterano leave if he was suspicious of them?” Petrie asked. “Actually….” Tera began.

FLASHBACK……… (Shortly before the beginning of The Secret Revealed.)

“So you’re finally setting off eh?” Tera asked her brother.  “To tell the truth sister,” Pterano said in response. “I’m not going far. I’ll be within an hour’ distance of here.” The mother flyer sharptooth looked surprised. “If you see Rinkus, Sierra, or both do anything suspicious, promise me you’ll track me down and report it.” Tera looked amazed at how much her brother was concerned about this, but nodded in agreement.

THE PRESENT…..

“So Uncle Pterano felt they weren’t good from the beginning?” Petrie asked. “Yes Petrie, and I’m afraid he was right.” Tera concluded.

Chomper and Ruby meanwhile were gathering up all of their friends and meeting by the waterhole. They had Ducky, Spike, Littlefoot, Tippy, and Guido come with them to the waterhole. “Tippy wonders where Cera is,” the belly dragger commented.  “She’s staying by her parent’s side, they need all the support they can get now,” Littlefoot explained, hating the memory of the pain he saw on Veli and Cira’s faces. “Can we have your guys’ attention?” Chomper asjed politely, climbing atop a rock to make himself looking more powerful. “We’ve been thinking of a way we can stop the evil flyers and rescue Tricia,” Ruby explained. “How?” Guido asked “They have a large amount of flyers in their group.” “That’s our plan,” Chomper replied. “If we’re going to save the day, we are going to need help.” “I’m sure most of us here in the valley would gladly help,” replied Guido. “It’s not just that Guido,” Ruby replied.
“This may be the most dangerous thing we’ve ever done guys,” Chomper reminded them. “We’re going to need ALL the help we can get. We’ll need everyone we can get: even ones we might not have gotten along with…” Ducky thought of Hyp, Nod and Mutt. “We’ll need everyone we know who is on our side…” Ruby thought of when Doc joined them to help stop Redfoot’s plan. “We need to find every friend or family member who lives out in the Mysterious Beyond that we can…” Littlefoot thought of his father (Tyran), his mother (Saura), Shorty, as well as all the rexes in Ali’s hered (Yes, even Rhett.)  “Simply put, we need everyone we know.” Chomper thought of Myra, Greg, Rita, Rory, Mo, and Strut, who he was sure would still be willing to help him, because if the flyers got ahold of the Stone of Cold Fire, everyone would be in danger. The gang shared a smile of agreement. “Yeah, we’re all in this together guys,” Littlefoot smiled. “We are, we are,” added Ducky. Chomper, Littlefoot, Spike, Ruby, Tippy, and Guido all put their hands/claws together. Ducky just looked towards the group, being bound to water.

(There’s that chapter, hope it’s a good start to the story arc. Read and review!)

Next time on the Land Before Time: Sharptooth Valley: everyone splits up to find their friends while others search for the stone, and the leafeater gang (plus Strut) go out into the MB to find out what Rita’s bad feelings are.


 

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Chapter 36: Cold Hearts and Cold Fire Part 2

Back at the leafeater valley, the Gang of Five was trying to locate Strut. “I’m….so cold g…g…guys,” Rita said, you could clearly see the shiver’s on the longneck’s neck. Her friends wanted to solve this problem.

Just then Rory saw a fast runner resting beside a tree. “It’s Strut!” Rory smiled, the threehorn running ahead of the rest of the group. As everyone caught up, Rory noticed he was sleeping. “Hey Mr. Strut, wake up!” Rory called, giving him a few nudges.

Strut’s eyes began to open. “Oh, it’s you children,” he smiled, getting up while sounding like her clearly wanted to still be asleep.  “Is there anything you need my assistance with?” he asked. Myra came in front of everyone.

“Yeah…..Rita’s having some problems,” Myra explained. Strut looked surprised, but then nodded. Ever since the Redfoot incident, most of the flatteeth realized he was wise, and often came for him with advice. They also came to him asking for relationship advice for some reason, even though he says he’s no good in that category.  “What trouble are you having Rita?” Strut asked.

“It’s something I inherited from my mother,” Rita began. “Ever since I was little….I had these weird feelings. Whenever something really…..bad, evil, or scary was happening around me….I would get very cold. And it wouldn’t go away until I knew what was going on or until the problem was solved.” This made Strut intrigued.  He was thinking of what they should do, as he had a great respect for Rory, Rita, Greg, Mo, and Myra, as they were the first ones in the leafeater valley to really understand the world besides him.

Meanwhile, back at the Great Valley, the friends were figuring out where they would be able to find everyone they were looking for.  “Littlefoot, do you know where your parents and Shorty would be?” Ruby asked.

The little sharptooth nodded yes. “Yeah, they didn’t leave too long ago, and there’s this spot I know they love to visit: The Meadow of Jumping Waters.”  “Never heard of it,” replied Ruby.

Chomper was about to make a comment, but he remembered that unlike the previous reality, none of his friends (Besides Littlefoot apparently) had been there before. “Tippy knows where her aunt and uncle are,” the belly dragger then said. “They are part of a heard of belly draggers and sharpbeaks.”

Guido let out a happy sigh. “Sharpbeaks and belly draggers……what a good mix.” “What does Guido mean?” Tippy asked. “Nevermind,” Guido smiled to Tippy.  Chomper was wondering something else. “I wonder why Petrie hasn’t come here,” he said.
Back at Petrie’s family’s nest, Tera was still explaining things to her son. “I was intending to leave tomorrow morning before everyone else set off,” she said to Petrie. “I know where to look for Pterano, and I know we’ll need his help.” Petrie looked at his mother, surprised by this information. “I want to come with you mom,” the little sharptooth flyer said.

“Petrie, I feel this journey would be safer if you stayed with your friends. If those flyers were suspicious that Pterano knew about them….” Tera tried to say, but Petrie kept saying he wanted to come along. Tera finally gave in.”Ok, but you’ll have to stay by me,” Mama Flyer instructed.

The friends had gathered at Sharptooth’s cave, where the leader of the Great Valley as well as Zidane had showed up. “How’d the rest of the meeting go?” Ruby asked, wondering if the adults had came up with a plan also.

“Progress wise, we did make some,” Sharptooth replied. “However, Veli was so infuriated he had to walk off by himself.” “We all could understand why,” Ruby frowned. “I know,” Sharptooth replied. “We decided to split up into two groups: One for fidning the flyer’s hideout and the other to search for this “Stone of Cold Fire.”

“We have a plan too!” Chomper said, running up to the big rex. “We know that we need all the help we can get to stop those mean flyers right and rescue Tricia right?” “Correct,” replied Sharptooth.  “Well, what if we tracked down all our friends and family members from the Mysterious Beyond and get them to join us, kind of like how the flyers have an army?”

Zidane took a moment to think about what the little rex just told them. He looked at Sharptooth. “Chomper has a point,” he said. “If the clues Ruby’s parents gave be about the flyers are accurate, they may be more dangerous then we realize.” Sharptooth looked back at Zidane.

“They have a point. We’ll announce this strategy to everyone tomorrow morning,” Sharptooth said. “Right now, I feel we all need our rest for tomorrow,” he said to the kids. Littlefoot, Spike, Tippy, and Guido nodded, then walked off. “Um…could I spend the night with Ruby?” Chomper asked. “That is alright young one,” Sharptooth assured.

That night Zidane decided to guard the outside of Sharptooth’s cave even though the danger wasn’t currently in the Great Valley. As the big sharptooth settled down to sleep, Chomper went over to Ruby. “It’ll be ok Ruby,” Chomper tried to comfort. “We’ll stop Rinkus and Sierra, we won’t let what happened to you happen again.” Ruby looked at the rex she was in love with.

“I dunno Chomper……I never knew anyone who could be that mean before. They have to dangerous, and I’m sure they are ready to kill us if they wanted…” she began to cry. Chomper looked sad, and cuddled Ruby close. “You must believe Ruby,” he said, remembering an incident in the past reality where he, Littlefoot, and a longneck named Saro were trapped behind some rocks and it seemed hopeless but they were eventually rescued.

But at the lair of the flyers, Dack spoke to Tricia again. “Ok runt, I’m required to give you food, so here you go,” the flyer said, throwing something into the small dark cavern. Tricia ran up, but she saw that it was something disgusting: green food! “It’s either that or you can starve yourself,” Dack called cruelly. Tricia continued to cry and sadly bit into the horrible-tasting leaves and berries. Just then, Rinkus and Sierra flew up to Dack.

“Well, it’s only a matter of time,” Rinkus grinned.  “Soon, we’ll have those fools back in the Great Valley searching for the Stone, and they couldn’t use it if they found it since we, the almighty flyers are the only one who knows the chant needed to use it’s magical powers.” “What about the fast biter?” Dack asked.

“We’ll take her to Black Rock for the time limit we set for everyone,” Sierra explained. “And wheter or not they have found the stone, murder is always more fun if there’s someone there to witness it.” Tricia couldn’t understand their words, but they knew these flyers were pure evil……

THE NEXT MORNING……

At the flattooth valley, Rita, Rory, Myra, Greg, and Mo woke up earlier than everyone else on purpose so they could get Strut to come with them out into the Mysterious Beyond. “Hey Strut, where are you?!” called Myra. “Hhh, we don’t want to wake anyone up,” Myra whispered. Strut soon came into view.

“I’m here, don’t worry,” the fast runner smiled. “Thanks Strut, we figured we’d need a grownup to help us with this, but we doubted our parents would let us do this,” explained Rita.

“Especially my mom and dad,” laughed Greg.  “So where do your feelings lead you Rita?” the spiketail asked.  Myra also wanted to help, though she personally didn’t belief in any kind of sixth sense, she felt this would at least be an adventure. “Let us go brothers,” Mo said.

“We’re not your brothers already!” Myra said, still not understanding Mo’s deeper meaning.  But as the 5 walked out of the valley, someone saw them.

“What’s Greg doing with his friends and that weird fast runner?” Icky asked himself, watching his son walk out of the valley. The one thing he and Dil could agree on was that Greg was important, but they each kept trying to “out-parent” each other. Icky considered to wake up Dil, but he realized this was another chance to prove he was the better parent, so he decided to follow in secret.

BACK AT THE GREAT VALLEY…….

As the Bright Circle began to arose, so did all the sharpteeth. Ruby walked out of the cave and noticed that Zidane was wide awake.  “Don’t tell me you fell asleep..” she yawned.

“No. Never went to sleep actually,” Zidane replied. Ruby looked amazed. Was it possible for anyone to stay awake that long and not even look tired?  “In the years I spent improving my strengths in the Mysterious Beyond, I heightened my other abilities. I won’t say I’m the greatest fast biter ever, just a very unique one.”

But there was one thing Ruby still wanted to ask Zidane. “What did you take my brother’s tooth? It was very important to me, important it was to me, even though you returned it….”  Zidane let out a sigh.

“Another thing your parents had told me is that some of the dinos working for the ones that threatened them had been watching you, and they probably noticed that you held onto it, and I figured they had not found out what cave you lived in here. I deduced if they found the tooth inside the cave, they would know where to attack you. I tried to protect you by doing it, but I regretted taking something important so I returned it.”  Ruby didn’t feel mad at Zidane for this after he explained. “It’s ok, I’m not bad,” Ruby said. Chomper and Sharptooth began to wake up.

Back at Petrie’s nest, he and Tera woke up his siblings/her children.  Tera had came up with a good excuse for her and Petrie’s absence. “OK kids, me and Petrie have an important goal that Sharptooth requested us to do,” Tera said.  “What does he want mom?” Glider asked.  “Er…he said he’ll ell us. Just stay with the herds.” “Ok mother,” the young flyers replied.  “Petrie’s so lucky,” one his brothers said jealous, wishing he could go with his mother.

“Morning Ruby,” Chomper smiled. “Morning Chomper,” Ruby smiled back, and they shared a kiss.

“Young love,” Zidane smiled. “I think I was there the night you two started falling in love with each other.”

Ruby blushed. “Ok, I’ll admit I think that’s weird,” she laughed a bit. Sharptooth smiled, but then resumed a stern look. “We have to gather everyone now.” He let out a mighty roar signaling another big meeting.  All the rexes, fast biters, belly draggers, swimming sharpteeth, sharpteeth flyers, and bladebacks (and any other type of carnivore dinosaur) gathered in the near the waterhole so the swimming sharpteeth could listen in.

“Attention everyone!” Sharptooth called, sounding like a true leader as he always did “Our mission to save the fast biter Tricia has changed slightly. We all probably have family or friends who live out in the Mysterious Beyond, correct?” Lots of the carnivores nodded “We decided in a time of crisis like this, we need every ally we can get. In addition to the trying to find where these flyers are hiding in addition to some of us searching for the Stone of Cold Fire, we need some of us to find every dino we can to assist us in case we have to resort to invading and killing the evil flyers.”

“I’M GONNA TEAR THE THROATS OUT OF THOSE BACKSTABBING NO-GOOD FLYERS!,”  Veli yelled at the top of his lungs, the thought of his young daughter in danger seemed to be giving him extra power and speed. Cira was equally concerned, but she was trying her best to have Veli keep calm.

Eventually, Mama Swimming Sharptooth spoke up. “I remember during the hunting classes that lots of other swimmers live out in the Big Water, I don’t know how they can help us, but we will try if we can find them.” “Always appreciate a try,” Sharptooth smiled back.

Tippy talked next, looking at her mother. “Mom? Do you remember where the herd Tippy’s uncle and aunt stay with?” the belly dragger asked. Tippy’s mother thought for a moment, then she remembered. “I do Tippy, they aren’t too far away.” “I’ll go with you,” Guido said, quickly flying up. “Why Guido?” Tippy asked. “I just want to help,” Guido replied.

Littlefoot walked up to his grandparents. “I think my parents and Shorty and their herd would be at the Meadow of Jumping Waters right now,” he explained. “I’m sure Tyran is strong enough to assist us in something like this,” Grandpa Sharptooth commented. Sharptooth grinned confidently at all the results they were getting.

“So it is settled. We will devide into three groups. One for finding supporters, one for searching for the Stone of Cold Fire, and one for sniffing out Rinkus, Sierra, and their army. Please choose now which group you would prefer to go with, you will be not forced to go with one you don’t want to.”

Sharptooth, Chomper, Zidane, and Ruby agreed to look for the Stone.  Dein and Terri also came along with this group to watch over their son.  Mr. Belly Dragger came because of the minor knowledge he had about the Stone.  Grandma Sharptooth also went with this side. Also, various sharpteeth who will remain unnamed came along.

Veli was taking the leader of the hunt for the flyers group, no surprise there. Cira accompanied him, of course, as did Cera.  Growley, Grandpa Sharptooth, Mr. Bladeback, as well as most of the bladebacks in the GV, Petrie’s siblings decided to come along with this group too.  A lot of the other good flers came with this group, and a some other t-rexes.

Littlefoot, Ducky, all the other swimming sharpteeth, Spike, Tippy, and pretty much all of the belly draggers, Guido, and most of the other fast biters would go on the search to find every they could who’d be able to help them. “We must succeed, we must, we must,” said Ducky.

Not every sharptooth was leaving the valley. Some of the bigger rexes and bladebacks stayed behind to make sure no one tried to attack the Great Valley or anything while they were gone.  After a good lunch of spiketails and longnecks to get some protein and energy for their quests, the groups gathered by the exits to the valley. Sharptooth let out another roar.

Chomper looked around until he could see his friends. “This is it,” he said, knowing that what lied on the road ahead, it wasn’t going to be easy!

TO BE CONTINUED…….

Next time on The Land Before Time: Sharptooth Valley: The groups set out to do what they need to, Tera and Petrie find Pterano in addition to the gang of leafeaters, Mr. Belly Dragger shares more knowledge about the stone, and more about Rinkus and Sierra will come to light.

(Read and Review!  Oh yeah, one thing I want to make clear even though I think I mentioned this at the end of one of the early chapters, is that the wish will NOT be undone at the end, I want to avoid going into the most clichÈ of clichÈs when in comes to stories about life-changing wishes.)