Chapter 7
'You must wake up little one.' called the voice. He knew it well, almost too well…as he now understood that when this voice spoke it usually brings with it very bad news.
He also began to realize that he wasn't in the great valley anymore…..come to think of it his surroundings were abnormally bright, almost blinding to look directly at in any direction.
Then the voice began speaking once again 'You can feel it can't you….chaos coming…now know that there is no way you can lose….or face the deaths of the ones you care about.'
Longtail then cried as loud as his vocal chords would go and shouted
"I will never let go….I know my life has been one long walk….but I will NEVER let my friends and family down…..not now nor EVER again….I will show the living AND the dead that I can see…what a guardian has to do!"
The voice as clam and collected as it usually sounded, Longtail could hear the emotion in its voice.
'The reason you keep coming here is for answers, but even now you refeuse to ask any of the right questions!' Longtail then looked around and said "What questions! I'm just a kid who wants to forget…" he said with a sigh
At that point if Longtail had guessed at what was going to happen next he probably would've been wrong.
The voice screeched almost in his ear, but at the same time came from nowhere! 'You useless little ball of flesh and bone! How dare you try to forget! If you won't listen…then I will SHOW YOU!'
Then longtails surroundings drastically changed, from a blinding uncontrollable white light, into a vision he wished would dissapear for ever…but again he saw his mother being struck in the back by a flying rock…but this time something was different…noticeably different…in the darkness of what little forest was left, he could see a figure….
A dark and mysterious figure, and as Longtail relived this morbid scene again he also noted that this dinosaur in the shadows had a pair of yellow, piercing, glowing eyes, and in that moment the memory froze in place, time seemed to stop altogether.
"Those eyes….those horrible yellow eyes…" Longtail quietly whispered to himself. To look directly at the two symbols of darkness scared the child more than facing ANY sharptooth ever had!
The voice then broke Longtails trance on the creature by saying: 'You don't remember who that is do you?'
When silence was all that the voice received. He only had to whisper it to shock himself out of his sleep-story, but before he did...
He saw the Great Valley under him with it's lush green trees, and unique outcroppings, and happy inhabitants, but then the valley…just like his home was taken away in a single flash of red light from the Yellow-eyed monster.
With his eyes filling with tears of anger and sorrow at the same time he uttered only one word "Father?"
And in a flash his eyes shot open, only this time he actually hada reason to scream…and he did just that. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
After closing his beak and listening to still of the night, he put his head down and cried…and he continued to cry though-out the night with no care or concern if anyone was watching…he just sat there with his tail wrapped around his body trying to steady his shaking form…but to no avail.
Even when the Bright Circle rose in the sky, lighting the ground under it, chasing away the physical shadows of the night…it still meant nothing to the flyer as he sat and let the tears flow undisturbed…he didn't whimper, or sob in fear…just let the natural salt water drip from his eyes.
A short time later…
As Ali, Cera, Ducky, Littlefoot, Petrie, Spike and Teri walked down to the watering hole for their morning drink, they all noticed a crowd of onlookers at the edge of the falls.
When Littlefoot and company had forced their way through the crowd, they saw exactly what was causing the large group of adults to look so upset.
They saw Longtail sitting on a rock, crying like a new born hatchling. And while everyone was trying to call out to him, Littlefoot walked up to his grandparents and said
"Why is Longtail so sad, and crying?" Ali walked up to Littlefoot and offered her opinion
"I think he needs someone to help him, he looks afraid…..but of what I don't know. What do you think Terri?"
When Ali got no reply from her friend she looked over to where Terri was sitting, but Ali noticed she wasn't there anymore.
She didn't understand what was happing, or why it was happening at all, but Terri for one reason or another, found herself slowly walking towards him. When she first saw him staring into the sky with a blank look on his face and crying, something inside her heart told her to be with him.
As Terri walked towards Longtail, just wanting to make him feel better, she failed to notice that she herself was begging to cry, not out of fear, but understanding. When Terri reached the rock Longtail was currently residing on, she slowed her advancement, called out to him, and when he didn't respond she took further steps.
She quickly realized that simply trying to talk to Longtail wasn't going to work, and much like many in the Great Valley, she listened to her heart, and sure enough it gave her an answer. Terri climbed onto the rock, which surprisingly held both of them…she proceeded to wrap her wings around him…then decided to try calling his name.
"Longtail….I know you can hear me…please look at me."
Still getting no answer she tried again...
"Longtail please for your friends and…."
Understanding what she was about to say to him she only thought about it for a few seconds and then continued...
"…family…yes, that is the right word…we're your family now…and please for those that like having you here…please just look at me and let me know your okay…please Longtail…"
Just then Terri was getting desperate, and it was in this moment, she remembered hearing a song not to long ago and this feeling in her heart told her it was the only way to get her friend back……….
