Dangerous Times
Hello everyone. I decided to write a story about The Land Before Time and publish my first ever fanfiction (well, not the first, but I'm not even gonna get started talking about those monstrosities!).
This story takes place a couple of months after the events of The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave. If there is a fifteenth movie that is fine. Take a read anyways :P
Chapter 1: A Somewhat Normal Day
It is a normal day, unlike any other day in the Great Valley. Well, aside from the many issues in the last few years since the herds discovered it. The sky was blue, there was not a cloud in the sky, and dawn had just ended, and it is no fully daytime. Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike were playing around the fields of the Valley, chasing each other. They were playing a game they had created not long after they discovered their fertile paradise. It is known as "Sharptooth Attack".
"Grrrr! I am being very scary, yep yep yep!" Ducky says. She was having a lot of fun playing as the sharptooth.
"Please no play as sharptooth from back when we look for Saurus Rock!" Petrie says. The gang wonder why he asks this. Why would he ask such a question? It isn't like the sharptooth was much a threat compared to Sharptooth himself, or the sharptooth that had plates on its back, back when they had visited Chomper accidentally on the Mysterious Island.
"Why ask that, Petrie? It isn't like he was much of - a threat, was he?" Littlefoot struggles to finish. He remembers when he had to literally enter the sharptooth's mouth (which he thought was dead, it fell into the canyon when it was attacking them), and pry a stick into its mouth. This was in order to get one of its teeth to fix Saurus Rock, the reason being Littlefoot was fixed on the belief that Bad Luck had struck the Valley that day. He remembers it nearly eating him. He remembers it chasing him, and then…
He was suddenly interrupted by Petrie, who had finally decided to answer him.
"Well, me had bad sleep story last night. It scary. Me no know why me have such sleep story. Only me know it lot bigger!" Petrie explains, telling them that it was much bigger than the time when they had actually encountered the browridge sharptooth a number of times.
"Hmm. Well then, it sure is strange that you'd have some kind of sleep story like that, isn't it?" Cera asks, trying to get Petrie to explain further.
"Well, me no know." Petrie says, stopping her there. He simply does not have a clue as to why he had the story, and the gang continue playing.
Meanwhile, Chomper and Ruby are off exploring some caves around the Secret Caverns (haven't seen every TV series episode, so I might miss some stuff)
"I haven't seen Red Claw in a while, have you Chomper?" Ruby asks to the young sharptooth.
"I haven't either, Ruby. Maybe he finally stopped chasing everyone away from the Great Valley, as well as his fast biters!" Chomper says, slowly getting more excited, as he believes that Red Claw and his fast biters have finally left.
"I am starting to take back what I said about Red Claw being the biggest and meanest sharptooth of them all. After hearing those stories Grandpa Longneck told us, and after seeing that sharptooth back when the Cold Time had ended, I really think Red Claw is pitiful, to say the least." Chomper says as he reconsiders his statement of Red Claw being the "Biggest and Meanest Sharptooth of them all". The two continue walking through the caves. They find it soothing down there, surprisingly, as hearing the slight dripping of the water from the last sky water fall is very relaxing.
Meanwhile, over at the Rock Circle, the Great Valley population are planning their strategies for surviving the coming heat and blistering summer ahead of them. Bron's herd had left soon after his rescue, though they did hang around for a few days, but that was back in March. It is now far into May, and the temperatures in the Valley are starting to rise quicker than usual.
At the Circle, Grandpa Longneck, being one of the oldest and wisest of the dinosaurs living here, tells them to drink plenty of water, and make sure to avoid too much exposure to the sun. Even Mr. Threehorn, who often disagrees to a lot of things the old longneck says, agrees with this obvious advice.
Later, Littlefoot decides to head over to the Rock Circle, and says bye to his friends.
"Bye, guys!" he says to them. "Bye, see you later Littlefoot!" they all say together. The little longneck smiles as he runs towards down the Valley.
It is almost time for the far-walkers to visit as well, Ali's herd makes a yearly trip in the late Spring. Littlefoot makes his way to the Circle, as a Flyer makes an announcement. It is Petrie's mother, known as Mama Flyer.
"Just so everyone knows, some far-walkers will be making a visit here soon. Some of you longnecks may know them, as they are your cousins." Mama Flyer announces, mainly focusing on Littlefoot's grandparents, and other longnecks who have gathered, as well as a smirking male adult Camarasaurus known as Cam.
Though everything seems to be going okay in the Great Valley on this day, things are about to get much worse...
That was the first chapter. It is not as long as the rest are going to be (it is only around 1000 words), but it is just to give you guys an idea of what is to come. Things are gonna get worse soon, I guarantee you, there are going to be a combination of things that are going to strike terror in the hearts of the herds ;)