(AN) Welcome to Chapter six of A Swimmer's Revenge, I hope you all enjoy and remember to Read and Review.

This chapter will begin to set up some more interesting turns this story will take. We'll see Rolf slowly begin to form a revenge plan.

Big thanks and credit goes to DiddyKF1 for some of the story elements.

Disclaimer, I don't own The Land Before Time. All characters and locations are owned by Universal Pictures and Sullivan Bluth Studios.


Chapter Six

An Unlikely Alliance


After cleaning and patching up Ruphus's wounds, Sura quickly alerted Littlefoot's Grandparents to the situation and word of the terrifying nest invasion by Rolf quickly spread and the residents showed their outrage and disgust. A meeting was then called the next day and everyone gathered in the Rock Circle.

Ducky and Spike turned as they saw their friends come up to them.

"Hay Ducky, how are you doing?" asked Littlefoot in concern.

"I am fine now Littlefoot!" replied the Swimmer in a worried voice, "But my mommy and daddy are a bit shaken up by the incident. He battered daddy right in front of mama and he threatened her!"

"That stinkin' Tar-Pit!" snarled Cera in fury, "He'll pay dearly for this!"

Cera then angrily kicked a small rock away.

"Don't try anything stupid Cera!" begged Littlefoot, "I don't want to see anybody get hurt!"

Cera's dad then marched into the centre of the area and turned to face the other dinosaurs, he then stomped his foot on the ground several times, causing the buzz of chatter to die down.

"Alright, attention everybody!" began the Threehorn in a gruff and grim manner, "Now I don't think that I need to express the seriousness of the situation. Last evening this mystery violent Swimmer invaded Sura and Ruphus's Nesting Area and terrorised them and the young ones, they have been left very shaken by this but claim that the Swimmer is indeed Rolf!"

"It was Rolf!" insisted Sura in a distraught manner, "He wanted to kill my little Ducky, h-he threatened me with a sharp stick, Ruphus was beaten, so i'm telling you we need to take action.

"But that's just what you say," argued Topps, "We can't be expected to just take your word for it, this Swimmer may be just a random Big Mouth, you're obviously distressed from your ordeal."

Some of the residents began chatting amongst themselves, some mumbled in agreement while others mumbles arguments.

"People please calm down!" ordered Grandpa Longneck, causing the chatter to die down once more. The elderly Longneck then turned to face Mr Threehorn, "Now Mr Threehorn while we can assume that this Swimmer isn't Rolf, we can't just tell Sura and Ruphus that they are making it up. But we have a much bigger issue to deal with, that Swimmer has so far evaded all our efforts to capture him, and whoever he may be, we need to find him before another resident has to suffer."

"But how can we even be sure it's him?" retorted the Threehorn in his usual irritated tone, "I fully believe that a Swimmer invaded Sura and Ruphus's Nest and terrorised everyone present, but to suggest that it's a Swimmer who's been dead for over two Cold Times is ridicules!"

"Believe it or not horn-face!" piped up a sinister voice from behind Topps, "It is entirely possible!"

Topps turned in shock and saw Rolf standing just behind him, smirking. The Swimmer then shoved past the Triceratops and came into full view.

"Is that who I think it is?" asked Chomper nervously.

"Yep!, yep! yep!" whimpered Ducky.

"So you're the famous Rolf that Ducky has told us so much about," stated Grandma Longneck with barely concealed venom, "We haven't heard anything good!"

"Ahh so you've only heard about me from that overgrown egg," barked Rolf at the Longneck, "Well I can assure you that she's lying, I didn't murder my family, she drove me to killing them!"

"Don't try playing innocent with us!" retorted Ariel, "You were afraid that Judy and Nitha would desert you, even though they had no intention of doing such a thing, so you killed them and killed yourself to escape consequences!"

"And you've no idea how much this has effected Ducky!" cried Sura in fury, "Judy was her only friend, she almost lost the will to live because of what you did, and not to mention the night terrors!"

"She shouldn't have befriended Judy!" snarled Rolf, "She made my sweet little Judy and my dear mate Nitha want to leave even more. They started to try and leave more, but I wasn't going to let that happen. I was driven to desperation, she made me kill Judy and Nitha, and then I killed myself out of fear!"

Ducky felt her blood boiling, how could Rolf stand there and act like the victim. The young Swimmer then marched straight up to Rolf and glared at him hard.

"You are a very horrible Swimmer Rolf!" snapped Ducky, "You invaded my families nest twice, you battered my daddy, you threatened my mommy and you threw me into a rock, then you came back as a spirit and tried to murder me!"

"Stay out of this you filthy excuse of a Big Mouth," barked Rolf, stomping his foot on the ground, "As I always said your parents haven't taught you about when to keep your mouth shut or stay out of other people's business."

The Swimmer then made a swing at Ducky with his tail, but the Swimmer quickly dodged out of the way. Littlefoot and the others then ran straight in front of Ducky and glared up at the older Swimmer.

"Ahhh! so you must be the other little brats who I saw playing with Ducky," said Rolf in an unimpressed manner.

"And you're Rolf!" replied Littlefoot in horror, Well we've learned all about you, I never hoped I'd meet you for real!"

"Well, well Longneck, you really are remarkably smart for your age, aren't you!" snickered Rolf, although he quickly gave them all death glares and went on with his ruthless taunts, "However I must say that you've made a terrible mistake in befriending this pathetic excuse for a Swimmer!"

"Don't you speak of my daughter in that way!" hissed Sura, and she then ran at Rolf and struck him across the face. She then tried to smack him again, but Rolf was ready this time and grabbed her arm, before shoving Sura back, knocking her to the ground.

"Ohhh i'm surprised at you Sura!" mocked Rolf while laughing, "I thought you knew better than to get violent with me or anyone, since you and Ruphus always said that fighting was never the answer!"

"Serves you right for what you did to your family." shouted Cera.

"I did what I did to my family because I didn't want to bear loosing them!" retorted Rolf before pointing a firm finger in Ducky's direction, "And it's all because this vicious overgrown egg stole my family from me. Every day she drew my daughter's attention away from me."

"Ducky was not responsible for what happened to your daughter!" shouted Chomper, "You scared her away with your many death threats, and she didn't want to live with a horrible father like you!"

"Judy no deserve daddy like you!, you always mean to her and Ducky try to protect her so you no threaten her anymore!" added Petrie.

"Ducky did not deserve to loose her friend, because she did nothing to deserve it!" said Ruby.

"None of this was Ducky's fault! if it was anyone's fault at all, it was all yours from the beginning!" finished Littlefoot, "Your paranoia drove you to kill your own family because of your own selfish desire to control them! you only did it to make other Swimmer's lives miserable! you were a disgrace to your herd, you're a coward for killing yourself!, Ducky was just a friend, and is our friend as well, you're a murderer!"

"You're correct Longneck, as I said I killed them because I couldn't bare loosing Judy and Nitha!" answered Rolf, "But that Swimmer made me want to keep Judy away from everyone else, she was a bad influence on my daughter. I'm doing this for Judy and Nitha, they would want revenge!"

"No they wouldn't Rolf!" called out Shoal, "Littlefoot's right!"

Rolf suddenly jerked upright as he heard that voice that he hadn't heard in a very long time. Rolf turned and for the first time noticed Shoal standing there with Aqua and Barnicals.

"S-Shoal!" cried Rolf in surprise, "I-it's really you?"

"Hello little brother," answered Shoal, "I can't believe you've done what you've done, I was hoping for a happy reunion, but I never imagined you'd become this!"

"I never wanted to hurt or kill them Shoal!" replied Rolf in a dangerous manner, "But Ducky was driving them away, and even before Judy befriended her, you abandoned me, you, Aqua and Barnicals left one night and never came back, and it was then that I realised that I couldn't trust anyone, that they would all leave in the end."

"I never wanted to leave you Rolf!" replied Shoal in a distraught voice, "You're my baby brother and I love you, but I had no choice. My mate Hollowhead was a control freak and a bully, I never told you this, but, ... when nobody was watching he was secretly abusing me and the kids, if we did something wrong he would beat me and Aqua and Barnicals and yell at us and threaten to kill us if we left. Then one night I finally had enough and secretly left with the kids."

Rolf was left shocked by this, he had always seen Hollowhead as a pleasant Swimmer, everyone in the herd had, but he never even imagined that he was abusing the only family he had left. "I can't believe this, why didn't you tell me, and what happened to old Hollowhead?"

"He followed us," answered Shoal, "Eventually he found us in a cave and tried to kill Aqua and Barnicals first, but I fought him off and we entered a brutal fight which ended with me throwing him off a cliff. After this we headed back for the forrest, but by the time we arrived the Earthshake happened and everyone was gone. And I never told you because I knew you would get upset and do something stupid"

"By which time I was a spirit," lamented Rolf, "Oh and in case you were wondering, after that little incident with Parsley, I managed to find the remains of my body and used my powers at the cost of loosing them to bring me back to life! So long as I felt no remorse for my actions."

"And you think Judy would've wanted this?" asked Aqua in disgust, "Uncle Rolf, I believed that Ducky was just as guilty, but only because I didn't want to believe that you'd become like daddy, that you'd started becoming paranoid and abusing aunt Nitha, I knew you could get slightly annoyed, but I never knew you'd turn into him."

"NO!" cried Rolf in outrage, "I am nothing like him, I can't be, no! I loved Judy and Nitha, I didn't want them to leave, like our father, and then like our mother who abused us out of grief and tried to feed me to a pack of attacking Sharpteeth. Parsley suggested that murdering them would keep us together."

"Rolf, the violent temper you developed after we left was what drove them away," argued Shoal, "They were terrified of you, you drove Judy's friends away, Nitha likely stayed with you in the hope that you would go back to how you used to be. And as for Parsley, you shouldn't have taken his suggestion, killing is just as bad and is never the answer."

Rolf began to feel a strange sense of doudt, maybe they were right, no he had done the right thing.

"I'll leave now!" snarled the Swimmer before turning to Ducky, "Don't think this is over beak-face!"

And with that, Rolf stormed out of the area and was followed by several Flyers who came back to report that he had left the Great Valley.

"Good riddance!" exclaimed Topps in triumph.

"Oh I'm afraid to say that that may not be the last we see of Rolf!" remarked Grandpa Longneck in concern.

Ducky was still trying to digest what had just happened, she had never known Rolf to act like that before.

"That was certainly different from the Rolf I have known!" remarked Ducky in confusion, "But he is still dangerous, so we must watch ourselves, oh yes!, yes! yes!"


Later that night, Rolf slowly crept back into the Great Valley, his head still had a nagging voice of doubt.

"I'm doing the right thing, aren't I?" thought Rolf to himself, "But maybe Shoal is right, maybe, ... No! i'm doing the right thing, Ducky must pay for what she's done, I have to make her suffer, make her feel emotional pain like me."

Rolf then got an idea, there was one person in particular he knew that Ducky was very close to one resident in particular and that she would be very upset if something happened to them.

Sura suddenly awoke with a start and sighed slightly as she saw that it was still night, with the Night Circle hanging in the sky, and the sound of Ruphus's loud snores next to her. Sura sat up and stretched, she had been having trouble sleeping ever since Rolf's Nest Invasion, so decided to go to the lake and see if that would help since it always seemed to help Ducky whenever she was feeling restless.

Sura then stood up and silently crept away from her and Ruphus's Sleeping Spot, being careful not to wake her mate up. She then eventually reached the lake area and sat down. The Swimmer then cupped her hands into the water and began washing her face with the cool refreshing liquid.

However unbeknownst to Sura, somebody was watching her from some bushes, the figure then held out a small stone and hurled it at the lake.

Sura jumped and gasped in alarm as she heard a small splash and saw the Night Circle's reflection ripple in the water as small ripples broke the surface.

"Hello!" called out Sura nervously, "Is anybody there?"

The Big Mouth waited several minutes for an answer, but when she didn't receive one Sura assumed that she'd just imagined it, after all she'd been slightly jumpy after the previous evening.

Sura then went back to washing herself with the water, however just as she was beginning to relax something large slammed into her side, knocking Sura to the ground, Sura's fighting instincts kicked in and she began fighting against whatever was trying to pin her, but it was no use as she was rolled on to her stomach and felt something lying on top of her, causing the Swimmer to start whimpering in fear.

"I told you i'd be back." snarled a quiet but familiar voice.

"Rolf!" cried Sura in a mortified whisper, "I thought you left?"

"I came back in," answered Rolf, "Shoal is wrong, Judy would want this, so would Nitha, I-I'm su- I know i'm right."

"You just faltered," pointed out Sura in a voice quivering with fear, "You're actually doubting yourself."

"No i'm not beak-face!" snarled Rolf in fury, "I'm gonna make Ducky suffer for what she's done, I'm going to start by destroying everything and everyone she cares about, starting I think with her precious mommy!"

"No please don't!" pleaded Sura in pure fear, "This is going to destroy Ducky!"

"I don't care Sura!" barked Rolf as he drew a stick and gently brushed it against Sura's shoulder making her shudder, "You should have taught her better manners."

Rolf then stood up and ignoring Sura's terrified pleas gripped her by the crest and dragged the Swimmer further down the stream. Once he reached a wider part of the stream, Rolf let go but quickly slammed his foot down on to Sura's back as she attempted to fight back.

The Swimmer then began whacking Sura with his stick and scratching it, causing several cuts.

"Nooo! please just stop!" begged Sura in a terrified whisper while whimpering in pain, "Don't do this to me, I beg of you!"

"Quiet beak-face!" snapped Rolf, "I'm going to enjoy this!"

Rolf then gripped Sura's crest and dragged her kicking and screaming to the river before dunking her face into the water and held her head down for a few moments before lifting it back up. He then rolled Sura on to her back, the Swimmer's eyes widened in fear as Rolf leaned over her.

"Don't kill me, have mercy!" begged Sura.

Rolf ignored her and raised his stick above Sura's chest, grinning wickedly. He then brought it down but suddenly hesitated. The Swimmer could just end it now, his stick was inches away from Sura's chest, but something was holding him back.

Suddenly something large came shrieking and soaring from the sky and began pecking and scratching at Rolf's face with its beak and talons, Rolf flapped his arms about in an attempt to fend the Flyer off.

"LEAVE MY FRIEND ALONE YOU BIG BULLY!" shrieked Ariel in fury.

"Stay out of this beak-brain!" snarled Rolf, "I was just leaving."

Ariel landed on the ground and watched as Rolf ran off into the distance.

"GO ON, SHOO!" bellowed the Flyer, "AND STAY OUT!"

Sura sighed in relief and stood up. Ariel then approached.

"Are you alright Sura?" asked Ariel in concern.

"Are you alright?" asked Sura in a mixture of relief and bewilderment, "I'm fine, aside from a few scratches and bruises, but i've never seen you go crazy like that before."

"I'm sorry Sura, i'm just so mad about him terrorising Petrie and then you and your family!" explained Ariel in a much calmer voice, "Then I was flying about and saw what Rolf was doing, and so I just snapped."

"Thanks for the rescue," said Sura, "But before you came in, Rolf hesitated, he actually hesitated in trying to kill me, I thought that was it for me."

"That is peculiar." remarked Ariel in confusion.


Rolf was currently dabbing at the scratch marks and beak marks on his face.

"I can't have doubts or hesitation," remarked Rolf in irritation and confusion, "What i'm doing is right, Judy would want this, right, no! stop it, of course she would."

Rolf put the doubting voice to the back of his head and stood up in alarm as a green and blue Fast Biter leapt in front of him and snarled with hungry looks on their faces.

"Ohhh, look what we've got here Thud, hay Swimmer, you get lost?" asked Screech in a mocking tone.

"Hahahahahahahaha, looks like he has," agreed Thud in delight, "You made a big mistake coming here beak-face, this is Red-Claw's territory."

Rolf then watched as Red-Claw stormed in behind his two henchmen.

"I'm aware of who this teritory belongs to!" replied Rolf in Sharptooth, stunning the two Fast Biters "Oh yes I can understand you and can speak Sharptooth, learned it from an old Fast Runner.

"That's a neat trick," snarled Red-Claw, "But it won't save you from me and my boys eating you!"

""I would like your help." declared Rolf.

"The male is crazy!" retorted Red-Claw before laughing with Screech and Thud, "Boys, let's finish him!"

The Three Meat Eaters advanced on Rolf who found himself backed against a wall.

"No! wait, I can get you into the Great Valley," yelled Rolf which caused the trio to instantly halt in their tracks, "Ohhh yes, I know all about your quest to find the Great Valley, I heard so from many residents of the Mysterious Beyond."

"Go on!" demanded Red-Claw.

"There is a secret entrance where the great Sharptooth fell," explained Rolf, "Beyond a large cliff is a narrow passageway, which would obviously be a bit small for a Sharptooth, but you could widen it with our strengths combined and our tails."

"He could be lying," suggested Thud.

"No, I sense he's telling the truth," smirked Red-Claw in triumph, "Alright Swimmer, you have a deal, but what's the catch?"

"Before we make an invasion, I need you to help me deal with an annoying Swimmer, who's friends with a bunch of annoying kids! Who's folks sent us over a cliff a while back, we spent several days climbing back up."

"That must be the same Swimmer who's friends have caused us so much trouble in the past," declared Red-Claw, "Of course we'll help!"

"First we're going to need reinforcements." stated Rolf.

The group of four then laughed in utter delight and wickedness.


(AN) well that was chapter six, I hope you all enjoyed and rem3mber to Read nd Review.

So yeah I know big cliche but I couldn't resist trying my own Red-Claw invades the Great Valley story, and since they've teamed up with Rolf, what do they have planned, you'll just have to wait and see.

Also, Rolf is starting to have doubts, that could lead to something cool. I couldn't possibly comment.

Credit goes to DiddyKF1 for some of the dialogue and story ideas

Until next time, this is TimeLordMaster108 signing out.