The Land Before Time - Novellization

by Ducky the most evil Swimmer

Novellization of the first Land Before Time. Taking on the movie we all love, adding details and depth as well as showing the movie in the order of scenes that was originally intended (for those who don't know, The Land Before Time was significantly cut prior to its release)

1. Prologue

Prologue:

Once upon this same earth, beneath this same sun. Long before you, before the ape and the elephant as well, the wulf, the bison, the whale… before the mammoth and the mastodon… in the time of the dinosaurs!

Now the dinosaurs were of two kinds. Some had flat teeth for eating the leaves of the trees and some had sharp teeth for eating meat… and they prayed upon the leafeaters.

Then it happened that the leaves began to die. The mighty beasts who appeared to rule the earth were ruled, in truth, by the leaves. Desperate for food, some of the dinosaur herds stuck out towards the west, searching for the Great Valley - a land still lush and green. It was a journey towards life.

It was a march of many dangers. Sharpteeth stalked the herds, waiting to cease any who strayed.

The herds stopped only to hatch their young.

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Well, I guess these words are familiar to everyone? :D

Yes, here's the long-awaited novellisation of the original Land Before Time movie which I announced a long time ago in my other story, Shorty's Dark Past.

What can you expect? Well, I do plan to write this, taking into account the cut scenes which didn't make it into the movie. I, personally, find it a real shame that these scenes were cut and I can't help but notice them missing every time I watch this wonderful movie. :( I plan on adding/changing some scenes a little as well. Most of this will be author's choice but I will not alter the main storyline. Most will be there to add context to the scenes we already got and to develop the characters a little further and make some scenes more intense or realistic :)

Due to the fact that I kind of base one storyline of SDP on this novellisation, my main focus will probably be on this story for a while now so, unless writer's block kills me again, this should be updated rather regularly. I've got a lot of the scenes in the middle written already back when they were still supposed to be part of the SDP fanfiction.

Expect the first chapter tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm still debating whether or not to include Ducky's, Cera's (and maybe Petrie's?) birth scenes. Would you like to see them? Notice though, that I won't go into extreme details as I have done with Littlefoot's birth scene which will be the first chapter :)