This is my second attempt at writing a fanfic based off of Elise Lowing's The Land Before Time: Retold fanfic series. Again, I got her permission a while back to write something like this. And once again, I do not own The Land Before Time or Retold.

This time, it's a crossover with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (which I don't own either). And this time, the main character is an OC of mine who is the son of Jotaro, the "JoJo" of Part 3, and therefore Jolyne's brother (younger brother, to be exact). This first entry in this little fanfic series of mine takes place 2 years after Stone Ocean, the events of which went down somewhat differently in this fanfic's backstory. Namely, the main characters are still AROUND. It will be explained in the fic.

As for the rating, it's T at the moment, but I'd consider it to be a 15+ story. Not quite M yet, but certainly more than just T.

Warning: this first chapter is gonna be LONG.

"Alright, Joseph, you ready?"

"Ready, father."

"And you, Jolyne?"

"Ready, dad."

15-year-old Ghjissepu Kujo, or Joseph, as he was better known, and his sister, 21-year-old Jolyne Kujo, were both in the backyard of their Sinton, Texas house, ready to compare the attack rushes of their stands and see which one was better, with their father, Jotaro Kujo, supervising the two on one of the rare occasions that he was actually home.

"Alright, you two, summon your stands." Jotaro commanded.

At that, Joseph and Jolyne summoned their stands, ready to rush each other.

"Now then," Jotaro told them, "begin your attack rushes on the count from three."

Then, Jotaro began the short countdown.

"Three, two, one...go."

At that, the two stand users began their sort of sparring match, clashing fists in a manner that could only be described as a "pummel duel", their stands, Ghjallu Scantu (for Joseph) and Stone Free (for Jolyne) bellowing out the signature roar of "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORA". The victor of this match would be decided in this contest of speed, precision, and power.

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

Finally, after what must have been anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute, Joseph found an opening, and Ghjallu Scantu, with one last "ORA!", struck Stone Free in the chest. It wasn't enough to seriously damage Stone Free, and therefore, not enough to injure Jolyne, but it was enough to send her flying back a few meters and land hard on her back, and enough for Joseph to become the victor.

"Well, looks like I win." Joseph said to his older sister in a matter-of-fact manner.

"Wha...but..." Jolyne, surprised by the fact that she lost, struggled to get the words out of her mouth.

It was then that Joseph decided to take a page out of his namesake Great-Grandfather's book. You know which one. "Hold on, next you're going to say: "But...how the hell did I lose to you? Is your stand really that good?"

"But...how the hell did I lose to you? Is your stand really that good...EH?!"

Joseph grinned like a madman in amusement at seeing his older sister get so surprised like that. while Jotaro had a much more subdued version of that reaction.

"Heh, there's a reason why I named you after gramps, Joseph." Jotaro remarked.

"I know, father." Joseph replied. Then, he turned back to his sister "Now then, Jolyne, don't let the fact that you're older get to your head. The reason why I won is because I'm more experienced when it comes to using my stand. Remember that I first summoned my stand when I was about two or three years old, and I was fully in control of it at five, so I've got at least 10 years of experience with it, and it's also developed more because of its special ability. You, on the other hand, only got your stand two years ago."

"Alright, alright, you've got a point." Jolyne admitted as Joseph helped her up.

But then Joseph got serious. "But seriously, we really can't afford for you to get too cocky about how strong your stand is. Any opponent could be your last."

"I know, I know." Jolyne understood. "Tearing the family apart isn't something any of us wants to do."

Jotaro couldn't help but agree with the last one. After so many stressful events in the last 7 years, the fact that the family was finally back together in one piece was a relief.

7 years ago, while the family still lived in Port St. Lucie, Florida, Jolyne was mistaken for a robbery suspect and arrested after a chase in which she was basically running for her life, and at the trial, despite her, Joseph, and their mother pleading her innocence, and Jotaro trying his best to bail her out, the prosecutor somehow convinced the judge that she was guilty, and she was sent to juvenile detention for all of the time that she would have gone to high school for.

Later, after Jotaro finally got Jolyne released a year early so that she'd be 18 when she walked free, rather than 19, Jolyne began dating a rich young man named Romeo Jisso, who at first seemed like he was a good guy. But when Romeo, while drunk and with Jolyne in the car with her, ran over an innocent pedestrian, he proved himself cowardly and unwilling to admit to his wrongs, and he hired a lawyer who, along with the Prosecutor, ensured that Jolyne, at 19 years old, would be the one sentenced to 15 years in prison, not him.

At the maximum-security prison that Jolyne was sent to, it turned out that the Prison Chaplain their, Father Enrico Pucci, had once been a follower of, and was still loyal to, the late Dio Brando, who was an old enemy of the Kujo family, and by extension the Joestar Family as a whole. Knowing that this could only mean trouble, Jolyne awakened her stand, Stone Free, with a stand arrow that Jotaro sent her, and gathered a group of some of the other prisoners who had stands (who were Ermes Costello, Weather Report, Narciso Anasui, and Foo Fighters, and there was also a boy named Emporio Alfino who was born in the prison and had been sneaking around here his whole life) to fight Pucci, who was plotting to remake the world in Dio's image. While they were fighting the various stand users that were fighting for Pucci, Pucci had reached out to all of Dio's sons, and called for them to meet him. Out of Dio's 5 sons, Giorno Giovanna, who was leading the Passione Mafia, didn't come, but the others, who were named Ungalo, Rikiel, Donatello Versace, and Jordanes Vetranio, all heeded this call and came. While Donatello and Ungalo had their father's malice, Rikiel and Jordanes didn't have that. Nevertheless, all four of them were to stand in the path of Jolyne and her allies, and to stop them from getting to Pucci. Jolyne and Jotaro would later admit that if all four of them had stayed loyal to Pucci, then Pucci would have won for sure.

Key word, all four.

Later on in the battles between Jolyne and Pucci's forces, Jordanes, seeing Pucci for who he was, and what he was trying to do, defected to the side of Jolyne and Jotaro (who, after finally getting there, was now fighting alongside his daughter under the pretext of visiting her). This completely wrecked Pucci's plans, since Jordanes was supposed to be the last of Dio's sons to fight Jolyne and her father, as he had the most powerful stand of the four (namely, a stand, which was named "The World" just like Dio's stand, that was very similar to The World in that it allowed the user to stop time longer and longer with each time stop, and could punch hard and fast just like Star Platinum and Stone Free), and his defection to the side of Jolyne and Jotaro meant that he was SCREWED. Ungalo, Rikiel, and Donatello all fell in battle against Jordanes, unable to fight against a stand just like their father's, though Rikiel, at least, was allowed to die a warrior's death. And then when Pucci had killed Ermes, Narciso, Weather, and Foo Fighters, and was about to activate Made In Heaven, the evolved form of his stand, Whitesnake, on Jolyne, Jotaro, and Emporio, suddenly...

"THE WORLD! TIME, STOP!"

*BOOM*

Pucci found himself flying across the room into the wall, having been punched several times in the torso. The culprit was none other than Jordanes, who had hit him so hard with his stand that Pucci's stand had reverted from Made In Heaven back to Whitesnake from the force. Pucci, who was now in the middle of a mental breakdown, tried his best to fight back, but Jordanes was practically seven steps ahead of him with his time-stopping stand, and after a short time, punched Pucci not just in, but THROUGH, the chest, which was ironically similar to how Dio had killed Noriaki Kakyoin more than 20 years ago, and then, alongside Jolyne and Jotaro, finished off the dying Pucci with an attack not that different from Dio's Steamroller Drop, namely, taking a large piece of the building and SLAMMING it on him, with Jordanes putting the cherry on the top by hitting the building piece with a dose of "MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA" with what was left of Pucci still under it.

Afterwards, the new county judge, who, just a few days ago, replaced the judge that had send Jolyne to prison, ordered Jolyne released from prison for the time, not only because the prison was destroyed, but because both her convictions looked rather fishy. He had a right to suspect such, as it turned out that, not only was the prosecutor working for the late Pucci, but he had also tampered with evidence and lied to the court in both of Jolyne's trials, AND he had also done the same thing in the cases of other defendants, all to further his own reputation as a prosecutor so that he could get more money. As a result, not only was Jolyne cleared of both of her convictions, but the Prosecutor himself was sent to prison for lying to the court, tampering with evidence, and perverting the course of justice. And Romeo, under severe pressure from Jolyne, finally confessed to being the drunk driver who had killed that pedestrian, and he was given the 15 year sentence that Jolyne was originally to serve.

After the whole thing was over, the family, tired of experiencing all this trouble, moved from Florida to the small town of Sinton, Texas. Sinton was basically the American Morioh, having a population of just 5000 people, but having an unusually high proportion of stand users. There, Joseph began attending the local high school, and Jolyne attended a special school that functioned just like a high school, and was for those who missed out their tertiary level of schooling due to spending time in prison.

Anyways, back to the story.

Not long after their sparring match, Joseph and Jolyne went back inside their house along with their father. There, Maria Kujo (nee Torghutov), the Corsican-born daughter of ethnic-Kalmyk defectors from the late Soviet Union, and mother of Joseph and Jolyne and wife of Jotaro, was waiting, along with Jordanes, who after the battle with Pucci had moved in with the Kujos because he had nowhere else to go, and even changed his last name to Joestar, since, because of just who the body that Dio's head had become a part of had originally belonged to, he was technically the son of Jonathan Joestar, the Hamon Master of the late 19th Century who was Jotaro's ancestor.

"Ah, so you three are back." Jordanes noted aloud. He then noticed that Jolyne had dirt on the back of her shirt, but then Joseph didn't. "I can already tell who won and who lost."

"Yes, you can." Jolyne sighed. "Joseph won and I lost. Is his stand really that better than mine?"

"Indeed, his stand is." Jordanes explained. "I'm sure that your father might have told you, but strength and durability, which he outclasses you in already, are not the only important stats in a stand. Speed and precision are also important, and while Stone Free is good in both, Ghjallu Scantu is just far better in those categories, which should explain why he won."

"Oh..." Jolyne smacked her face, "I forgot about that. Thanks for the reality check, I guess."

"No problem." Jordanes just brushed it off. "I'm just helping you keep with reality so that you continue to win your battles against other stand users."

"And it's good that neither of you hurt each other." Anita added. "You know how much I'd hate it if you did."

"Of course we didn't, mother." Joseph replied. "It was a SPARRING match, not a "fight to the death" kind of match. The aim of the match was just that the first one to STRIKE the other wins, not the first to beat the stuffings out of the other. Besides, I held back a lot so that I wouldn't hurt her."

"Alright, just making sure." Anita responded, to which Joseph rolled his eyes.

Jotaro didn't participate in his family's antics, but he was just glad that they were all together. Though Jordanes still made him nervous, it wasn't because he didn't like this youngest son of Dio, it was because, well, his father was Dio, and Jordanes happened to shared quite a few of his mannerisms and behavior, even if, otherwise, he wasn't one bit like his father.

But while in one world, families came back together, in another world, families were torn apart.

Aylene was suddenly woken up, along with Littlefoot, her new blue-eyed, brown-colored Apatosaurus companion, by a massive frog who landed right in front of them after catching a large dragonfly, causing them to practically jump awake. As if to taunt them for being startled, the frog opened its mouth, showing the remains of its meal to them, which disgusted them.

"Oh, now that's gross." Aylene grimaced in reaction.

Yesterday, while back in her home, Aylene had been given a necklace with some sort of green jewel in it. While in her room and wearing it, Aylene had said to herself that she wished that she had a friend, the stone suddenly began glowing, and then everything went black after a flash of blinding light. When she came to, she had found herself face to face with a family of Sauropods, one of them being Littlefoot, and after having no choice but to go with them, she'd been bombarded by questions by the young Apatosaurus for the rest of the day. And today wasn't looking much different.

The frog then began hopping away like its skin was on fire, drawing Littlefoot out of his grogginess from waking up.

"Hey, come back!" Littlefoot called out as he chased after the fleeing frog.

"Littlefoot, wait!" Aylene called out as quietly as she could, not wanting to wake up the still-sleeping adults. She quickly grabbed her stuff and her quiver of arrows and ran after him. "Littlefoot, wait up!"

But then came a voice from a hollow log. It was directed not at Aylene, but at Littlefoot.

"You again? Go away!"

Aylene froze in surprise when she saw an angered little triceratops run up towards Littlefoot. What struck her was that there was a Triceratops AND an Apatosaurus together in the same exact timeline. According to her research, the Triceratops should have come AFTER the Apatosaurus, not at the exact same time. Just what WERE they doing in the exact same time frame, anyways?

"That's MY hopper!" The little triceratops claimed possessively.

"I saw him first." Littlefoot pointed out, irritated.

"Well, he's in MY pond." The triceratops retorted.

Wanting to get to the hopper again, Littlefoot followed the Triceratops to the pond, and Aylene, not wanting her dino companion to get into trouble, followed Littlefoot. While Littlefoot's impulsiveness caused him to slip and fall on top of the Triceratops, Aylene was much more careful in making her way down so that she wouldn't fall.

As the young Triceratops turned around to glare at Littlefoot, she then noticed Aylene.

"And just what are you supposed to be?" The three-horned dinosaur spat out.

"I'm a human." Aylene answered calmly, forming a contrast in attitudes.

"The name's Cera." The Triceratops replied with a tone that reeked of snobbish pride.

Just as Littlefoot was about to say something, Cera saw the reflection of the hopper that she was chasing earlier appear in a particularly large bubble. She eagerly jumped on it, and after raising her up a little, it burst under her. Soon, even more bubbles with the images of hoppers began appearing, and Littlefoot joined in on pouncing on them.

Aylene giggled at the sight of the two actually playing together in the water, finding it rather cute to watch.

"Hey, this is fun!" Cera happily admitted as she and Littlefoot continued with their bubble-busting game.

But none of the three were aware of the extreme danger that was approaching.

(a certain carnivorous dinosaur's POV)

Ah, yes, that longneck runt's scent is stronger. And now I am not smelling that runt's elders being nearby. I, Sharptooth, have an easy meal on my claws!

Now then...what's this? Two other scents? Well then, maybe this could be interesting? One of them is that of a threehorn runt, also away from its elders. Hmph, no extra challenge. All that little threehorn will do is expand my meal. And this other scent...wait...this scent is very familiar...oh...it's a monkey. A MONKEY. This is only the second one that I've run into, for in the past, another one dared to CROSS me! How dare it! Oh well. I, Sharptooth, suppose that I'll make this one suffer in that one's stead.

Yes, yes...perfect, perfect! They are nearing...yes...they are nearing! My hunger must be sated! I WILL eat hearty from these leaf-lickers! Weaklings, weaklings, you will become my meal! Even if that monkey tries to fight back with those little sticks, that monkey's attempts will avail it nothing! It's struggles are useless, useless, useless, useless, useless, USELESS! A mere monkey could never match, let alone defeat, me, the great Sharptooth!

And I can see them at last! Now then...how shall I approach them? After all, how can I, Sharptooth, throw them into the depths of despair if I don't get close enough?

A few minutes later, Joseph went back outside to the house's large backyard, and into the warm, summer morning air, for he liked being outside, and today, he felt like practicing with a certain stand ability of his, trying to finally pull off a trick with it, as well as practicing another, non-stand ability.

You see, Ghjallu Scantu's main ability, along with being able to generate vines similar to Hermit Purple's, except yellow and the additional ability to analyze objects, was that it could both copy (and improve on) the abilities of other stands, and add other stands' physical tributes to its own, though only by an amount equal to a quarter of the original physical attributes of stands, with range being the only exception. For example, when Joseph first used Ghjallu Scantu's ability on his father's stand, Star Platinum, as an experiment, Joseph now had a stand with a rush attack, but the amount of stats the stand gained was just 1/4 the speed, 1/4 the destructive power, 1/4 the precision, and 1/4 the durability of Star Platinum, though his time stop was just as good, as that was Star Platinum's special ability. However, there was no limit as to just how many stand abilities or what amount of physical stats that Ghjallu Scantu could copy and gain, and the development potential for it was sky high.

To date, Joseph had copied the abilities and physical attributes of four stands. Three of them came when the family was visited by Joseph and Jolyne's great uncle, Josuke Higashikata, and also Okuyasu Nijimura and Koichi Hirose, two of Josuke's friends from high school, with all 3 of them being 25 at the time, as it was when Joseph was 10. Josuke, though kind-hearted, had a very powerful stand, Crazy Diamond, with physical attributes similar to Star Platinum, and the ability to heal injuries and repair objects. The still-block-headed-but-now-smarter Okuyasu had The Hand, a stand that, while having lower stats than Crazy Diamond, had the very powerful ability to erase time and space, and scrape away objects. The now larger and braver (though still polite and friendly as ever) Koichi's stand, Echoes, had three forms, ACT 1, ACT 2, and ACT 3, each one with the ability to respectively paste sounds into other living beings, paste sound effects onto any surface, and increase the weight of objects greatly. Ghjallu Scantu, amusingly enough, interpreted Echoes as three different stands, and since each ACT of Echoes had impressive physical attributes in at least one area...the amount of physical stats that was added to Ghjallu Scantu was massive. Either way, now, Joseph's stand now had all of those special abilities, and Joseph wasn't done with it yet. When Jolyne and Jordanes came back to the Kujo household after the whole deal with Pucci, Joseph had Ghjallu Scantu add physical stats from both, though he only copied The World's very useful Infinite-Time-Stop ability, as Stone Free's string ability just didn't fit his style.

Now, in terms of stats, compared to Star Platinum, Ghjallu Scantu, aside from having much greater developmental potential due to its copying and adding ability, was now 25% harder-hitting, 15% faster, 45% more durable, just as precise, and had anywhere from 50 to 75 times the range (100-150 meters). While some would call Ghjallu Scantu an "overpowered" stand, enemy stand users were becoming more dangerous and more powerful all the time, so all of this power and ability that Ghjallu Scantu possessed was quite justified.

Back to Joseph's practice. in the backyard, there was a pool in the center, and grass and trees surrounding the concrete that was around the pool. Joseph was the one in the family who most frequently used the pool, although he didn't use it for swimming all that much. Really, he more often used it for practicing with a special martial art called Hamon. Originating in Central Asia, Hamon was a fighting art that allowed the user to channel the energy of the sun and fight with it effectively. Invented by the Oirats in the 12th Century, the steppe martial art was spread all over Asia, and into the Middle East and Europe, by the invading Mongol Hordes in the 13th Century. In the Joestar Family, three of the family had previously been able to use this martial art: Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar (whom Joseph Kujo was named after), and Elizabeth Joestar. Thanks to his and Jolyne's mother being able to use Hamon as well as her stand (likely because she was Kalmyk Oirat ethnically), Joseph the younger was, like his namesake great-grandfather, born with the ability to use Hamon, and was able to use it from a young age. But unlike his great-grandfather, who was lazy and tended to slack off on his Hamon training, tending to use the same overdrive over and over again, Joseph the younger actually bothered to learn the various techniques of Hamon.

Like walking on water.

After looking around for a few seconds, Joseph began approaching the pool, not even bothering with a swimsuit. Then, he took a step onto the surface of the water, unnaturally-shaped oval ripples forming as he then took another step onto the water. And then he began walking on the surface like it was a normal ground surface.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake under Aylene's feet, making her gasp in fear of what was causing it. Something was coming. Something big. Something heading in their direction!

Littlefoot and Cera also felt the shaking, and all three searched around urgently to find out what was causing the tremors.

Cera was the first to see what was causing the tremors. What she saw was enough to make her scream out a single word in complete terror.

"SHARPTOOTH!"

Littlefoot looked where Cera was looking and had a very similar reaction, letting out a scream of his own.

There was no mistaking this dinosaur! The most feared dinosaur above any others among its kind, the one that gave meat-eaters their name among the leaf-eaters, was heading in their very direction, and it wasn't stopping for anything!

Even Aylene couldn't help but shriek in horror at the sight, for the T. Rex that was approaching her was not only the biggest one that she had ever seen, but it was also ALIVE, with skin AND flesh!

Littlefoot desperately cried out for his mother as the gigantic carnivore effortlessly flattened a tree and then stared down at the three of them. His eyes were also somewhat humanlike, but not in the comforting way, for the irises of those eyes were blood red, and they had a malicious intent, like those of a serial killer about to make his kill. It did NOT help at all that this guy had a massive, toothy grin, as if he was killing for FUN.

All three terrified children bolted out from under the tree and towards a sizable grove of thorns, hoping that it would provide better shelter from the carnivore.

Aylene turned around to see the T. Rex closing the distance between them, and realized how they needed to get into the grove FAST.

"Further in! Further in!" She told the young dinosaurs with her as she pushed them further and further into the thorn bush.

Less than a minute later, the three were at the center of the bush. Crouching quietly and fearfully in the darkness that was in the bush, with only small slits of light coming through, they felt the ground still shaking as the carnivore was searching for a way to get to them.

"J-Just stay c-calm..." Aylene whispered, her voice quite shaky, "If we stay here...m-maybe he'll go away?" Aylene knew that predators in her world would give up on a potential meal if they thought that it was too much of a hassle to get. She was hoping that it was the same with this one, though the fact that those eyes and that smile didn't seem very animalistic at all made her even more unsure.

"Don't count on it!" Cera responded, shivering with fear. "This is Sharptooth! My dad told me that once he's chosen his prey, he never stops!"

"It's true!" Littlefoot affirmed, just as afraid as Cera was. "And he's survived things that others of his kind would die from!"

"Oh...great..." Aylene gasped, hoping desperately that the two were wrong.

(Sharptooth's POV)

So...they think that they can escape me by hiding in those thorns. They must be under the assumption that they're dealing with others of my kin...

Well, guess what, little runts! You thought it was a typical predator, but it is I, Sharptooth! Allow me to prove you wrong!

Joseph easily crossed to the other side of the pool quite easily with this Hamon water-walking, with the only thing on him that was wet being the soles of his shoes. On a surface like the pool, Joseph had no trouble walking across it, though with a river, it would be more challenging, as the water would be moving in one of many directions.

He then stepped back onto concrete, and then onto grass, walking towards a baseball that was sitting on the lawn. The trick with one of his stand abilities that he was trying to do was with The Hand, the one stand ability that gave him trouble trying to control. Basically, he'd throw the baseball up in an arc bending away from him, and then, when the baseball was falling, use The Hand to send the baseball flying towards him, and then catch it mid-air. It was a lot harder than it sounded, as the way that The Hand worked was something that he was still trying to figure out, and he wasn't having that much more luck with it than Okuyasu did in his younger days.

Suddenly, right afterwards, something happened that ended up proving Littlefoot and Cera RIGHT. The three saw a few thorns fall to the ground, and then they looked up to find that, to their horror, Sharptooth had made an opening in the bushes! Now, he was working his way down through the gap, sniffing for his prey!

"Get down!" Littlefoot whispered to the others.

All three of them dropped to the ground as flat as the could. Sharptooth was now almost on top of them, with the only thing blocking his snout being a large branch.

Aylene shook with fear as she felt the carnivore's hot, foul breath shoot down on her. On each side of her, she could feel Littlefoot and Cera shaking as well.

For just a moment, Sharptooth then lifted his snout away from the group of three. This was their chance to escape.

"Go." Littlefoot whispered to Aylene and Cera in an ordering manner, nudging them along.

The two young dinosaurs and one young human quickly and carefully made their way to the other side of the bush. If they could just sneak away quietly, they could be able to escape...

And then, when they came to a place where the path ahead of them split in two, Littlefoot and Aylene went for the path on the left. But then, to their horror, Cera seemed to find the idea revolting and instead took the path to the right!

"Cera, come back!" Aylene shouted as she ran after the stubborn triceratops.

"Aylene, wait!" Littlefoot called out as he realized that their cover was blown.

Indeed it was, for now they were out in the open and completely exposed!

The instant Sharptooth spotted Littlefoot, the monster dived at him at a high rate of speed. Aylene heard Littlefoot scream, but her extreme fear kept her from turning around and looking. Her heart pounded like a hammer hitting an anvil repeatedly, and her legs were shaking so hard and so bad that it was quickly becoming hard to run anymore. Even then, she ran until she was in another thorn bush, even though she now lost sight of Cera. And then she heard Littlefoot scream from behind her again. A chill shot up her spine as she then heard the unusually high-pitched roars of Sharptooth, which were somehow even more frightening than a lower-pitched one would have been.

Finally, she felt like she had no choice BUT to turn around, and when she did, she saw that Littlefoot was tangled up in thorny vines, and Sharptooth was closing in on him!

"LITTLEFOOT!" Aylene cried out, fearing for the young dinosaur's life.

As she could feel the fear in her suddenly being suppressed, Aylene found herself running back towards her dino friend.

"NO, AYLENE!" Littlefoot shouted when he saw her coming back for him, not knowing what she was suddenly doing. "SAVE YOURSELF!"

And yet, much to his surprise (perhaps horror), Aylene ignored his pleas for her to run, instead grabbing one of the branches that were preventing Littlefoot from escaping. As she lacked a knife or a machete, she instead used the head of one of her arrows.

Sharptooth, meanwhile, continued to snap his jaws at Littlefoot, still trying to get to him. Aylene gasped briefly at the site of all those sharp, serrated teeth, for even a single bite could easily split her in half. At least once or twice, Littlefoot's tail or hind feet were almost grabbed by those teeth, and the only thing preventing Sharptooth from reaching him was a thick, thorny vine that was tangled around his snout, but it clearly wouldn't be able to hold for long.

Aylene hacked and slashed through the binds that Littlefoot was tangled in like mad, hoping that it would work and that she would free him before Sharptooth freed himself.

At last, with just one more slash, she had finally freed Littlefoot!

But then that last vine that she cut snapped back from the released tension...and drove a big thorn into Sharptooth's eye!

(Sharptooth's POV)

GAHHH! URGH! THAT...HURT.

Ugh, finally got that thing out of my eye. That was the most pain that I, Sharptooth, have felt in a long time! It's impressive what these monkeys can do with their sticks, I must say.

And yet, it's a useless gesture, as I, Sharptooth, will be able to use both eyes again within a short period of time, and I, Sharptooth, am no longer tangled in those annoying vines! And I, Sharptooth, see an opportunity to strike!

No escape from me! I, Sharptooth, shall always prevail against runts like these!

Joseph picked up the baseball in his right hand, and stood back up, looking into the sky at the angle that he wanted to throw. Just like how his father had been, he was tall, well built, and strong, and so he could certainly throw the ball high. However, he wanted to do it at just the right angle, so that the ball would be in the right place when he used The Hand's ability. And he also had to time his use of that ability just right. If he used the ability too early, the ball would fly over him and probably hit something, and if he did it too late, then the ball would hit the ground in front of him, likely bouncing up and striking him in the chest.

Nevertheless, he wound up for throwing the ball straight into the sky. Unknown to him, his father had happened to be watching from the back porch.

Aylene and Littlefoot were panting very hard when they at last caught up with Cera. They had hoped that they had escaped from Sharptooth.

Not quite.

Right when they least expected it, Sharptooth was practically flying out of the thorny bushes, and he landed behind them, shaking the ground so hard that Aylene, Littlefoot, and Cera lost their balance and fell over. Sharptooth roared his signature high-pitched roar into the sky in victory as he moved in on the three, ready to kill and devour.

That's when he got introduced to the tail of Littlefoot's mother. To the face. The massive tail struck Sharptooth so hard that he got sent flying into a boulder head first.

All three turned around to see Littlefoot's mother looking very combat ready, with the sort of glare that would have burned right through the carnivore if it was possible. The little group of three dashed under the massive Apatosaurus as Sharptooth got back to his feet, seemingly unaffected.

"Run! Run!" Littlefoot's mother ordered the three, nudging them along, hoping to get them away from danger quickly.

For Sharptooth was getting ready to strike.

As Aylene looked back as she ran with Littlefoot and Cera, she saw, to her surprise, that Sharptooth was in a fighting stance. Not just any fighting stance, but a fighting stance reminiscent of a human being! And his face...those eyes, that grin...instead of seeming animalistic, he seemed cold and calculating, even confident!

Just who WAS this guy? Why was he acting so humanlike for a carnivorous dinosaur who couldn't speak?

(Sharptooth's POV)

So this longneck (I presume the longneck runt's mother) has decided to attempt to fight me rather than run away. Hmph. I, Sharptooth, have to admit that she has some guts in her. Any other leaf-eater would have run rather than trying to fight me.

And yet, her assumption that she can save her runt from me is foolish, as no leaf-eater could stand for long against me, and she cannot possibly hope to kill me, so why does she even bother? Does she wish for death?

If so, then I, Sharptooth, shall grant that wish! Very well then! You shall be my new choice for this day's meal, LONGNECK!

"RYAH!"

With an audible grunt, Joseph hurled the baseball into the sky, and it went quite high into the air due to his great strength for his age. The ball kept going up, its speed gradually decreasing, until it finally hit the climax, and began falling back to Earth, proving right the old phrase of "what goes up must come down".

As the ball fell, Joseph readied Ghjallu Scantu, waiting for the right time to use The Hand's ability. As stated before, he had to get the timing just right, otherwise the consequences could be painful. Finally, when he thought the time was right, he then used The Hand's ability, pulling the ball towards him. But something wasn't right.

"Oh shit, it's too low, it's too low, it's too low-"

*POW*

Then, with Aylene, Littlefoot, and Cera watching, Sharptooth finally made his move, jumping into the sky and coming down fast on the adult longneck with his high-pitched roar. Aylene would have expected Sharptooth to try biting off the Apatosaurus' neck off like a mid-air piranha. But instead, when Sharptooth made his first attack, he did so not with his jaws, but with a descending diagonal kick aimed straight at the neck! Littlefoot's mother, having not seen that coming, only barely dodged that attack, and almost fell over in the process.

Sharptooth, meanwhile, quickly rolled back upright, and he and the adult herbivore then engaged in quite a clash, with Sharptooth attacking with his jaws AND his claws, and even his own tail once, while Littlefoot's mother maneuvered in and out of his attack range, dodging his attacks and looking for an opportunity to counterattack. Though, not that her dodging, while very good, was flawless, however, for Sharptooth managed to claw her once or twice.

Finally, when she found an opening, she struck Sharptooth with her tail again, sending him into a wall of rock. At first, Aylene was hoping that the adult Apatosaurus had finally knocked the carnivore out.

But as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she, Littlefoot, and Cera saw, to their horror, that Sharptooth was NOT knocked out, for he stood up again, and when Littlefoot's mother wasn't paying attention, he jumped through the air again, roaring once more, heading straight for the adult Apatosaurus' back! Littlefoot's mother noticed him again, but was too late to dodge, and Sharptooth landed on her back!

Aylene and the two young dinosaurs could only watch in complete and utter terror as Sharptooth tore off a massive chunk of the adult herbivore's flesh on her back. Though the Apatosaurus then managed to dislodge Sharptooth, the damage done to her was severe. Sharptooth then tried to jump on her again, but was struck mid-air by her tail and send flying into a pile of rubble down a hill.

"Mother!" Littlefoot cried out, panicking at his mother's wounds.

"Don't...worry about me!" Littlefoot's mother panted from her fight with Sharptooth and her wounds. "Just...run!"

So the four of them set off running again, with Aylene quickly mounting Littlefoot beforehand. They wanted to put as much distance in between themselves and Sharptooth as they could, and they wanted and needed to be quick about it.

"Mrs.!" Aylene called out to Littlefoot's mother after they were a certain distance away. "Once we find a safe place, I'll take a look at that injury! I think I can help!"

"Well, at least I hope I can help!" Aylene said to herself, looking at how nasty that wound was.

But then the ground started shaking again. This time, though, it wasn't because Sharptooth was approaching. And Cera was the first to realized. "EARTHSHAKE!"

"OH NO!"

Joseph doubled over as he felt pain shooting through his body when the baseball hit, at high speed, a certain weakpoint that most every human male shared: his groin.

"OH MY GOD!" Joseph cried out in pain as he clutched himself. "That...that...hurts...ugh!"

The pain was so bad that he lost his balance and fell over, writhing in the grass and unable to move.

When he finally got back up to his knees, he then saw his father, who had buried his face in the palm of his hand.

"Yare yare daze." Jotaro muttered out loud in an exasperated manner at seeing what just happened. "Acting like baka jiji again, aren't you Joseph?" In case one was wondering, Jotaro always referred to his grandfather, the late Joseph Joestar, by the Japanese term "Jiji".

"Uhh...maybe?" Joseph responded, still feeling a lot of pain.

Man, that was a lot of words there! 7000 and counting! That's more then I've ever written before in one chapter!

As you can see, there was quite a contrast between humor and drama in the various portions of this chapter. I suppose that this will be the norm for this fanfic, just like with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

I know that Joseph Kujo's stand seems a little bit overpowered, but to me, he's more like a fish that's outgrown his pond and is to go into a lake with even bigger fish. You'll see what I mean by "bigger" pretty soon alright.

You might also be able to tell that Sharptooth is...more threatening here than he was in the original Land Before Time or Retold. I changed his personality up so that instead of being akin to a mindless, rage-fueled monster, he's a cunning, confident, persistent predator that just won't stay down for anything.

Now then, take a close look at his thoughts and dialogue in the sections from his POV. His referring to himself as "I, Sharptooth", calling humans "monkeys", saying that the attempts by Aylene, Littlefoot, and Cera to escape him are "useless, useless, useless, useless, useless, useless", calling them "weaklings, weaklings", and even saying "but it was I, Sharptooth"...hmm, I wonder which villain from JJBA he's similar to? Can you guess which one? You'll find out in the next chapter.