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Guan and Goanna inspect the wall, searching for the entrance, while the other adults wait patiently and keep their eyes out for trouble.


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Zila was also trying to find the entrance and Tops muttered "This is point less this whole wall filled with leaf vines" Tops jumps up on his hind legs and push forwards "Seeahhhh!" Tops fall throw the leafs.

Cera puts her head through "Looks like you found it daddy"

"Surpising..." Tops grumbled then he heard a roar.

Zila looked "Topsy found it! quick get through his coming!"

Chaser was just near them but on the cliff top right above them "Grrr! you lucky leaf eaters, your lucky I made a wrong turn or I would have you lot as meals! I will be waiting out here... I will get you on the way out" Chaser sneered.


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Spikefoot guides Donna and Goanna through the passage, followed by the other children and the other adults.

Guan looks up at the sharptooth before looking at Zila.  "Have you ever tried to shut that thing's beak to keep it from talking?" he remarked.

Odon glares down at Guan.  "You should not be making comments like that about an enemy you have not fought yet.  Now let's get going."

Guan sighs and carries Turio, Petrie, and Ducky on his back through the passage.


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They walk up the path to see massive trees with leafs far larger then they seen with a large lake as far as they can see with trees on the other side and small islands all over the lake with plants and lots of swimmers walking, baving, talking or eating.

"Welcome to the Great Lake... amzing isn't it... I am suprised to see such a sight" Zila said with a warm smile.


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Most of the children watch the lake in astonishment at its amazing beauty.  Even Grandpa, Grandma, Odon, and Spikefoot were speechless.


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Tops looked up "Those tree stars are massive!" tops gasped

Cera nods "I like them they look tasty" Cera said looking at the leafs.

Turio looked at his dad "this is the place your grandparents said father! it great!!!" Turio cheered.

"I know son it is... worth the journey" Zila smiled.


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Donna slowly approaches the shore of the lake, peering at the mirror image of the sky reflecting off the water.  "It looks just as beautiful as Sky Blue Lake, Daddy!"

"It sure did," replied Spikefoot as he stands next to her.

Donna stands nearby.  "Look at all the swimmers!  How many herds do you think are here, too?"

"The numbers here look much bigger than Zila's herd when we were young," answered Odon, looking back at Zila.  "Is that right?"


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"Yes there is a lot more then what we seen... this place only gather so many when the event happens." Zila said to Odon and Spikefoot.


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"Can we play with the other swimmers, Daddy?" Donna asks.

"Wait," interrupted Odon, standing next to his neice.  "You're still too young to go swimming in deep water, and we don't know how deep the water goes."

"Your uncle has a point," Spikefoot added, lowering his head to his youngest daughter's level.  "But I'm sure there may be a place by the river where you can swim, and I'll be right beside you."

"Thanks Daddy!" replied Donna, nudging her father's cheek.

"Hey Turio," Guan said.  "You see anyone here you know?  Like from another herd?"


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"Only that one at the far side the red scale swimmers they live in hot hot place with hot waters. they like the hot water we met once or twice." Turio said to Guan "And some of them your age I think."

Zila looked at Spikefoot "There is no rivers only the ones that go under the lake small little holes that let water out into the river outside. Plus I don't know how but the water stays at the same level oh and it not deep for the most of the lake..." Zila walks in and it only comes up to the knees. "It might be a little deep but not much to worry about. the deepest point is right in the middle where it goes down to a bit" Zila said to Spikefoot and the other kids "Plus there is a lot of swimmers that would come to the aid of others to help if having trouble to swim. some of them if you ask the Red Scale Herd they might be able to teach your kids to swim and maybe a few adults too" Zila chuckled a bit looking over at the red scale swimmers talking and chatting amoung them and kids around them playing in the water with a round object throwing it back and forwards.

"And that is?" Tops asked

"Oh that a weed ball. the plants that grow in the water the red scale herd knows how to shape some into a round shape they call a ball and let the kids play with it throwing it around and hitting the water it makes big splashes and it wouldn't hurt anyone if it hits them on the head. it will go squash and just easily pull off and the adults will reshape it" Zila said to Tops.


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Spikefoot watches Zila get into the water up to his knees.  "Well, that alone will be helpful.  And that the other swimmers will help is also good.  I guess I'll you kids go and play.  We may even take some time to teach you some more swimming lessons," he said to Donna with a smile.

"Thanks, Daddy!" Donna cheers and looks to her older siblings and friends.  "C'mon guys!  Let's go play!"

Donna and Goanna head off towards where the Red Scale Herd are playing.

"Goanna, don't go doing that swimming sharptooth act around the swimmers!" Odon called, hearing a moan from Goanna in reply.

Littlefoot looks up to Grandpa.  "Can I go play as well?" he asks.

"Of course you can," Grandpa chuckled.  "Have fun and be careful."

"Thanks Grandpa."  Littlefoot looks to Cera, Tops, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike.  "C'mon everyone!  We can't let Donna and Goanna have all the fun!"

Guan looks back at Turio.  "Wanna come along?"


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"Yeah alright" Turio nods.

Goanna gets there and all the sudden 2 swimmers around Guan's age burst their heads out the water and all do a tail splash with a wave of water hitting Goanna and she was knocke on the wave backwards the wave catches the others and it dies down with the 2 red scaled swimmers laughing.

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Sila double whammer!" both clapped claws together.

"Now now twins that not the way to treat guests before they are asked to play wave splash" the father of the two sisters spoke.

"Sorry..." both of them said at once.


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Goanna was caught completely off guard by the sudden wave of water caused by two young swimmers, whom both look older than her, and sits on the shore, stunned and dripping water.  She shakes off the water and looks around.  "Wave splash?"

Donna looks back at her sister and breaks into laughter.

Guan also saw what happened and stifles a snicker.  "I suppose they did that to you too?" he asked Turio.

Littlefoot speeds ahead of the group to join Donna in meeting the Red Scale Herd.


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"Yes silly we use our tails together and make waves big enough to knock you off your feet into the water getting you very wet" Jila laughed

"Yep we do it because its great fun and can't get boried of it" Sila smiled at her twin sister.

"Yes they did. they are twins. they love playing water splash" Turio nods to Guan.


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"Well then, let's go say hi to them," Guan said.  "I think I'm big enough to withstand their game."  He smirks.

Goanna glances at the twin swimmers and grins.  "Well I know of a game I love to play as well...and it's called swimming sharptooth!"  At that, she dives into the water, swimming around the red scale swimmers.

"But Daddy told you not to play that game!" Donna shouted but to no avail.

"Is she going to get into trouble?" Littlefoot said as he meets up with Donna at the shore.

"One way or another..."

Spike was only half-way along the shore when he spots some deliciously green treestars, each one bigger than him, hanging off a low branch, and takes a sharp right turn and munches on the thick leaves.

"Looks like Goanna went diving into the water," said Odon while he and his brother watched with the other adults.  "She must be playing swimming sharptooth again."

"That mischevious game of hers will get her into trouble," Spikefoot sighed.  "I'll go get her before she gets herself or someone else hurt."


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the father of the twins came over "Did I hear Swimming Sharptooth... young lady that game isn't a game, that is a bad joke that goes wrong no one likes it and just saying it once you play it here I will tell your parents at once of your little game. this is a peaceful place and the old swimmer wouldn't stand for games like that" the red scaled swimmer told Goanna.

"Yeah we" Jila started

"Hate that game" Sila finished.

The red scaled swimmer walks back to his herd. "Lets play Water Splash then!" Turio laughed.


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Goanna surfaced just in time to get scolded by the father of the twins.  She felt even worse when her own father approaches them.

"Young lady," Spikefoot started, "I'm sure I told you not to play such a game in this place, and you directly disobeyed me.  Now come out of the water."

Goanna sulks as she heads out of the water and towards her dad.

"That game had gotten you in trouble more than once before," Spikefoot continued.  "You need to start behaving yourself to set a positive example for your little sister..."

"She already set the example so I don't want to act like her..."  Donna whispered to Littlefoot and the twins.

"Now come.  Some time away from the others should keep you out of troublemaking until you start acting your age."  Spikefoot and Goanna head back the other direction towards the adults while Guan and Turio pass them by to the red scale herd.

"So...how do you play Water Splash?" Littlefoot asks around.


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the father of the twins came over to Spikefoot "It's fine she didn't do it and I warned her before hand. so she not in trouble with anything if she like to she can play with my children they asked me to come over and ask as well." he said to Spikefoot with a freindly voice.

"Well you have to be with someone else with well almost the same tail length and then you both hit the water at the same time with your tails like this" Sila said to Littlefoot and he and his sister Jila shows them by both hitting the water just almost touching tails with a wave or water going towards Spikefoot.

"Oh no!"

"Watch out!" they both said over the top of each other at Spikefoot.

He looks and before he knew it the wave hits the shore and splashes water in his face.


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Spikefoot turned to the father.  "My daughter has had a habit of causing trouble.  A little time with me should get her behaving more often, since I haven't...been around a lot..."

Sudden shouts from the twins makes him turn his head in time to get hit by a wave of water.  His kids watch in shock, and Odon nearby anxiously waits for a response.  Spikefoot shakes the water off his face and looks towards the twins, then towards his brother.  With a wink, both brothers smirk and quickly join together, bringing the tips of their strong tails together as they hit the water, sending a massive wave towards the twins.

Donna, Littlefoot, and Guan carrying Turio managed to get clear was the wave hurls towards the two red scale swimmers.


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"Oh..."

"No..." both twins Sila and Jila  gulped as the wave hit them and the others knocking them across to another area of shore where the red scale herd was they was about to strike back when the old swimmer was walking by they stopped and stared at him

"Don't let me stop your fun. I might be very old but fun is always great the land will be wet soon... the after mid great cicrle rain is coming" he said and walked on the red scaled herd two strongest smirked at each other.

the two hit their tails in the water and another large wave heads to Spikefoot and Odon but larger then their since these two seem to be swimmering almost all the time during their own times becoming very strong in body and tail able to make a wave larger then Spikefoot's and Odon's.

the wise old swimmer watches with a smile "only if I was that young... but no one can get younger. But watching is fun enough and glad to see different type of kinds of dinosaurs here this time around..." the old swimmer simled