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Chapter 6: The GetawayLittlefoot's Grandparents and the Threehorn tried to calm them down, but they were unsuccessful because the great heat and the nascent weak earthshakes put the scared saurusses in a panic.
The Threehorn had had enough. He considered himself as the leading dinosaur of the herds since he was the strongest and the toughest of the Valley, and being the leader meant he had to protect them. Since they were panicked, they didn't know what to do, but he kept his head cool.
He used his whole strength to roar louder than he ever did in his life.
"SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLEEEEEEEEENNCE!!!!!!!!!"
Abruptly there was silence. Just the continuous grumbling out of the ground could be heard.
"We'll use the fire paths now to leave the Great Valley as soon as possible! In case we get separated we'll meet at the Great Water. There's a small oasis where we can stay for a while. Good luck all!"
Nobody asked questions. The herds walked in different directions as fast as possible.
"Mother! Why do the other herds take different fire paths?" Littlefoot asked.
"It's not very wise if all use the same fire path!" Littlefoot's Mother explained to her little son.
Littlefoot didn't understand why the Great Valley let such odd things happen. Thus he asked,
"Why is it better if we separate? You always tell me that we should always stay together
so that the Sharpteeth can't attack us?!"
His mother replied panting since they hurried a lot, "You know, Littlefoot, we made this rule
because..."
"LOOK OUT!!!" Littlefoot's Grandpa shouted.
Above them something cracked due to the newest earthshake. The Longnecks started to run. Suddenly some boulders broke off the Great Wall which the Longnecks just climbed. The boulders fell down. Littlefoot's Mother was the last of them.
She ran for her life and for her son's. Littlefoot became panicky as he saw the boulders unstoppably flying towards him.
"Mother, run faster!" he said vigorously to his mother.
Littlefoot's Mother ran even faster. The little Longneck saw the boulders came closer and closer.
He covered his eyes with his front legs. Then the boulders crashed into the ground with a very loud
bang, missing his mother's tail only by hairbreadths. Littlefoot's Mother as well as the other three
Longnecks stopped running to take a deep breath because Littlefoot's Father and the Grandparents also had to run very fast.
Littlefoot opened his eyes and looked down to the formerly friendly Great Valley. Around the formerly
best watering place, some trees had already burned. Steam came out of the cracks in the ground. The multiple watering places of the Great Valley already started to boil away.
"That's just a very good example of that you firstly, always have to keep your eyes opened, secondly, don't talk except it's necessary if you're in danger so you can react to dangers quickly, and thirdly, don't travel alone, there you're right, little one!"
Littlefoot's Mother slowly recovered from her sprint so they went on their way.
"If Grandpa hadn't kept his eyes opened, my tail had been hit by the boulders so we couldn't go on
our way!" she explained further.
"Right, and if all of the dinosaurs had chosen this fire path your mother wouldn't been able to run away that fast since there would have been a congestion!" Littlefoot's Grandma added.
"Let's just disappear as fast as we can!" Littlefoot's Father shouted.
The four Longnecks ran along the fire path. Without a break, some little stones rained down from
above. Meanwhile, the ground was trembling without an interruption. It became stronger and
stronger. When they finally arrived at the top of the Great Wall a big cloud of smoke rose above the
Great Valley. Littlefoot looked back at his home, becoming very sad. He'd never see the Great Valley again. Another earth tremor brought him out of his thoughts so he could concentrate on the danger from the Great Valley.
His parents and grandparents ran out of breath. Grandma especially seemed to be at the end of her
strength. Her advanced age made it even worse.
"Should we slow down a bit, darling?" Littlefoot's Grandpa asked, worried.
"Just a little bit!" she wheezed. "If you need to, just leave me behind and safe your own lives!"
"We don't leave anyone behind!" Littlefoot's Father combatively shouted. "We're a herd and a family
so we hold on together until the end!"
"I think it's best if Grandma leads us!" Littlefoots Mother finally said. All agreed.
Now they walked slightly slower. Littlefoot didn't dare to look back since a scary rumbling came from
the Great Valley. But finally his curiosity was stronger than his fear. He turned around so he could
just see the Great Valley. They had already made a big distance.
Suddenly the earth started to tremble stronger than ever before, the rumbling increased and then
Littlefoot saw how the catastrophy happened. The ground bursted open and an incredibly big
ball of fire mixed with black ash shot out of what was once their home, with an inconceivable force. Littlefoot became panicky.
"It's happening!!!" he screamed in fear.
The Longnecks stopped immediately, turning around. They briefly saw the huge ball of fire
before all of them were torn down by an impactful shockwave...
