Author's Note:
Something I have just decided: This story is meant as a sort of movie 17 and one of these days
I plan to write and post 15 and 16 in order to bridge the gap between the movies and this story.
Once again, I would like to mention how much I enjoy getting reviews. No flames but I welcome
and even encourage constructive criticism as I realize that there is always room for improvement.
Also, in this chapter we get to meet the crowned sharpteeth (Dilophosaurs) for the first time. Let
me know what you think of them.
Littlefoot felt sorry immediately and said so, but Bron simply shook his head and smiled.
Encouraged by his father's response, Littlefoot immediately blurted out "Dad, Shorty, I need to
know about my mother. Grandpa told me about how she was looking for the night hunter and I
can't help but wonder if that ties into everything that's been going on. I also once saw a weird
flying rock exactly like the one Petrie just saw." Bron explained "Mama and Papa Longneck
were convinced that the Night Hunter was a myth, but that didn't stop Maia from looking for
him." Shorty continued "she spent most of her life searching before meeting Bron and settling
down. I heard somewhere that she later met the night hunter when she was least expecting."
Littlefoot thanked Bron and Shorty for their information and went off to tell his friends what he had learned.
Desperate for answers, Petrie decided to visit Mr Thicknose. He found Mr Thicknose
talking to a flyer that he did not recognize. The strange flyer took off after a little while, but not
before Petrie noticed they had a crest like himself and Pterano but sharp teeth and a tail like
Rinkus. Petrie was dragged from his thoughts by Mr Thicknose saying "I suppose you've heard
about what's been going on and have come to ask about it. Sky is here too", and looking toward
Sky, who was next to where the strange flyer was previously. Sky explained "all these weird
disappearances haven't just been just in the valley. They've been all over the place. That flyer
was just telling Mr Thicknose that his brother, who was coming to visit the valley, was found
out by Threehorn Peak with his throat slit and his blood drained."
This description quite frankly made Petrie want to vomit. Never before had he heard
something so gruesome. No sooner had this thought dawned on Petrie that Littlefoot came
rushing over yelling "you won't believe what I just realized", followed by Cera, Ducky, and
Spike. Littlefoot, all out of breath, explained "I just thought of something. I told you, Cera,
Ducky, and Spike about my mother and Cera even saw her when she saved us from the
sharptooth. I haven't told Chomper, Ruby, Guido, Ali, Tippy, Trike, Bracken, and Sky about
Mother yet, but I probably should after what I realized." Littlefoot then explained "normally the
sharptooth would have eaten her but he didn't. What's more, when we all started traveling
together he relentlessly pursued us instead of going after whatever creature was closest like most sharpteeth
would have." Mr Thicknose interrupted "so it seems you also lost someone in such a manner. I have
heard about the Night Hunter simply tearing dinosaurs apart and leaving them rather than
eating them like a normal sharptooth would." Littlefoot went to fetch Chomper, Ruby, Tippy,
Ali, Bracken, and Trike. Guido was watching Tricia and Meeko and the others would tell him
later. Once everyone had arrived, Mr Thicknose told the full story: "my brother, who was
separated from me and living out near Threehorn Peak, decided to come visit me here in the
valley. He was only a short way away from home when he was attacked and abandoned to bleed
to death or to get an infection. Honestly I'm not sure which would have been worse."
Meanwhile, Dill, Ozzie, Strut, Rinkus, Icky, and Sierra were all gathered around in a
circle. They had all been arguing together when they had been distracted by a trio of creatures
none of them had seen before napping only a short way away. They resembled fast-biters but
they each had a double-crest on their heads that were coloured slightly differently from their
bodies, although their bodies, crests, and eyes were all of a similar colour. The pupils of their eyes
were also vertical like a snake's. One had a pale green body with a darker green crest and bright
green eyes. Another had a sky blue body with a dark blue crest and eyes that were a shade in
between. The third had a periwinkle body with an indigo crest and violet eyes. The three strange
sharpteeth slowly but surely stood up one by one; yawning, stretching, and shaking their heads
and then the rest of their bodies.
Back in the valley, Hyp, Mutt, and Nod were camping out by the edge of the Mysterious
Beyond. While the trio had been something of bullies in the youth, they had somewhat improved in
disposition since then. After a while of playing in the pond, they decided to get out and go
back to their camp but on their way back when they were suddenly passed by a running female
egg-stealer carrying a clutch of eggs in her arms. At first it looked as if she was taking them from
another nest but then she began sweetly whispering to them, almost as if they were her own. The
mother gently but swiftly set the eggs down and collapsed into Hyp's arms, almost knocking him
over. It had turned out that the prediction Littlefoot had made about him and his friends
growing bigger than Hyp had indeed come true, and he was still trying to get over this. Even the
sycophantic Mutt was now larger than Hyp could ever hope to be. But there was no time for
pouting now, the mother had woken up and was now trying to calm herself down, explaining
"I'm running from something…something terrible, absolutely horrible."
The green member of trio of crowned sharpteeth were now getting up and the blue and
purple were doing the same. As soon as they noticed Ozzie and Strut, Icky and Dill, and Sierra
and Rinkus, they began backing off with their heads bowed. Ozzie was the first to bring up the
courage to speak: "what exactly are you? You're obviously sharpteeth of some sort but I have
never seen any like you before." The green sharptooth was the spoke in a voice that sounded like
claws scraping against rock, "we are the crowned sharpteeth. I am Nuka the Green, this is Taka the Blue,
and Shetani the Purple", respectively indicating the blue and purple individuals. Taka the Blue said in a
deeper smoother voice "we just met the Night Hunter within the last few years. There are other crowned
sharpteeth besides us but not many. I'm afraid our numbers have been decreasing for many years. We are,
if you will, an endangered species." Shetani the Purple yawned a second time and stepped forward slightly, saying in a
softer seductive voice "There are, at least as far as we know, only us three. Three serving one."
