CHAPTER ONE: SPIKE AND DUCKY
Spike walked over to some green food and ate it. He kept going, even eating awful smelling plants. "Hey tubby, don't you ever stop eating?" came a taunting voice. A gaggle of Swimmers was staring at him and laughing. He decided to ignore them. "Your sister's diet isn't working very well tubby!" they continued.
Spike shook his head. Some dinosaurs could be very unkind. He continued to ignore them, eating yellow flowers now. "If a Sharptooth ever came across him, he'd not have to eat for over a week!" yelled one belligerent Swimmer.
Spike stared at his brother Derek. Derek was looking angrily at the Swimmers, but didn't want to get involved. He had decided to let Spike handle it on his own, as he could easily stand up to them due to his larger size and spikes on his tail.
However, his twin sister Ducky wasn't so convinced. She had had enough. Though Derek knew that she was normally gentle, in fact, more gentle than him, she had had enough. She threw a shell at one of the bullies, conking him right in the middle of the forehead and causing him to fall down and splash in water behind him.
"You have done that enough! You have! You have!" she said angrily. She then started to chase them away. She ran at two of the bullies, her arms outstretched, and knocked them into water with a strong force. The others scattered under her wrath. She came to Spike. Spike had earlier started to cry from the bullying, which had pushed her past the breaking point.
She glared at her twin brother Derek. "You were no help. Oh no, no, no." she said, glaring at him. The two twins were quite different. He was less adventurous and a good deal harder than his sister. He'd seen nasty things after the Great Earthshake too, including having thought for a week at least that she had died. He'd also thought that she must surely have perished in the Land of Mists and was very relieved to find that she had lived, though he had been most alarmed how narrowly she had escaped being eaten by Dil.
"You cannot always fight his battles Ducky." he said. He walked away.
"It is ok Spike. It is ok. They are gone. They are. They are." she said She stopped crying and went and hugged her. She really wished that he could have a family like hers. A true family with Spiketails.
She and Spike went to go find Littlefoot and the others in the Gang. Suddenly, the ground shook. A few trees fell. Ducky screamed. She held onto Spike, who had jumped as the ground had started to open under them. Luckily, he was able to get her to safety.
"Oh thank you Spike. Thank you!" she said. They kept running. The ground stopped opening. They narrowly avoided falling rocks from a rockslide. The Earthshake stopped. Everything was now eerily quiet.
Luckily, the worst of the damage appeared to be some bruises. "I'm glad everything is fine and we're all right. I'm glad it's all over." said Mama Swimmer to her hildren and Spike later that day after they had determined the extent of the damage at a Rock Circle meeting.
"That was scary." said Littlefoot.
"Yes, but it is gone now. It is. It is." said Ducky reassuringly. But it was to only be the beginning!