Disclaimer: Just to make sure you understand, I do not own Land Before Time...just SACRED CHILDREN OF THE DRAGON. I don't own dino Littlefoot...but I do own dragon Littlefoot. I hope you enjoy this Chapter. By the way, I told you I was going to move them out of the dessert. I was going to put this chapter in earlier but made some changes.
Dad Issues Part One
Ahh, the sound of the ocean. A beautiful sound, filled with roaring wave and blowing wind. Most find these sounds relaxing, some even get tired from listening and fall asleep. However a herd walking along side the sea had no time to rest and take a break to enjoy its wonderous view. To many dangers out in the mysterious beyond, and so many chances to slip up.
Bron to a look around his surroundings, all there seemed to be was sand and water. There were no signs of danger, but years of leading a herd gave him plenty of experiance...and not to long ago his experiance told him to stay as alert as he possibly could. A few weeks back Bron decided it was time for him and his herd to migrate to their usual breeding grounds. Some members of his herd have been there for many years while others just started out on their first time, it didn't matter to the Apatosaurus for he did everything he could to make sure they all got there safely. And this year like many others, Bron's leading skills and his ability to protect his herd were being put to the test.
About five days ago his herd had been traveling along the ocean shore when they spotted two young longneck running straight at them. The two were Ali and Ret who's own herd had been attacked by two fast biters and they were trying to get away. Bron got his herd to move as fast as they could to aid the two's own herd. When they got there the fast biters saw them coming and took off, the herd they attacked had more than enough giants they would prefer to tackle. Only a few members of the herd had been injured badly, Ret's father and Ali's mother, but the others only had a few scratches or none at all. The two heards decided to travel together sense there was safety in numbers and also because they were heading in the same direction, plus they both new sharpteeth didn't give up easily when they've tasted blood.
"Hey Bron, hows the weather up there," called a familiar voice from below. Looking down Bron saw his adoptive son starring up at him.
"Just keeping an eye out for those little cowards Shorty," replied Bron as he turned his attention back to sands "maybe you should head back to the herd incase they show up".
"Are you kidding me, if those cowards show their faces around here than I'll show my tail," said Shorty showed some of his impresive tail moves he's was working on. Bron also noticed how Shorty used the word coward when mentioning Sharptooth, it seemed to make Bron smile whenever he heard Shorty say it.
"Oh I mean't not for your own safety because we both know you can take care of yourself, but your the youngest one who made it through many of these trips and there are many other little ones who are going on it for the first time" said Bron trying to convince him to leave "so I'm putting you incharge of them, besides Littlefoot your my succesor and with some experiance you just might inherite the leadership of this herd. Besides I'm sure Ali would feel better if she were under your protection". And with that the young brachiosaurus ran off with a smile towards the herd. Bron knew since the day they found them that shorty tooking a liking to the girl. And his words were true, it wouldn't be fair if he just left an inheritance to Littlefoot. He pushed Shorty away once even though he didn't mean to, and he almost lost him. He also didn't get a chance to give Shorty a chance at the Big Longneck Test. This would give him a helping hand.
Meanwhile back at the herd Shorty was telling all the other young longnecks that Bron put him incharge, most of the younger ones were ok with this because he was older. The others were ok because he been on the trips more than any of the others. But all in all it was because he was Bron's son. The only doubt they had for him was the fact he hadn't taken the Big Longneck Test. But Shorty was quick and eager to take charge.
"Ok so the first rule is to stick together in groups of five, second rule is don't leave your group no matter what unless you let the group know where your going" said Shorty to the others "if you get tired let three members in your group rest abit while two of them keep a look out, and if you think you see a sharptooth or anything let everyone know immediately". And with everyone got into groups of five just like they were told, Shorty couldn't help but smile when Ali and Ret joined his team.
"Wow Shorty, I didn't know you had a little leader in you" said Ali making the boy blush a little.
"Yeah well thanks, although my brother would probably do a better job at this" said Shorty as he tried to sound humble "he's been leading his friends on advantures before he took his Big Longneck Test".
"Really, he sounds amazing" said Ret joining in the conversation.
"I didn't know you had a brother Shorty" said Lullet, a young female who joined his group.
"I did,what was his name. Um, Littleneck, Littletail..." said her brother Lullan.
"Hmm, sounds almost like like they're trying to say Littlefoot" said Ali to Ret while watching the two.
"Thats it, that his name" responded Lullan with a smile at his little achivement.
"Wait a minute, Littlefoot is your brother" said Ret as he stared at Shorty.
"Yeah, his dad Bron adopted me" replied Shorty "how do you know him".
"Our herd went to the greatvalley once while migrating, well my part of the herd twice because Ret's herd came later".
"Hey everyone here but us know about Littlefoot, I wanna hear about him" said Lullan.
"Yeah me to, I bet he's really brave and cute" replied his sister with a sly grin, winning total attention from her group "what? can't a girl dream for a second".
"Yeah, well I'd be happy to tell you how we met Littlefoot if you tell us how you met him Shorty" said Ali turning her attention to the green longneck.
"Ok, but you first please".
"Well you see it all started when me and my herd left our home because of the thick mist that was appearing...".
Meanwhile about seven miles away from the herd a small lizard was scurring along a rocky ground with a small mountain ranged on its left that connected the middle of the desert with the ocean shore when suddenly it heard a sound come from inside it.
"ACHOO" the sound startled the lizard as it ran behind a rock to hide itself. For a few still moment the lizard stayed cowering until it finally looked from behind its rock at the end of the small mountain ranged. Without warning a few cracks appeared on it which grew bigger by the minute until a large hole appeared. The lizard managed to hold itself in the same spot for awhile as it looked into the darkness of the huge hole, thats when two lights appeared side by side. The little reptile looked closer at them and saw that they were actually eyes, ones that belonged to a predator...and they were staring right at it. And for once the lizard who was always jumpy and ready to run when its heart beated at full blast stayed as still as stone. However, luck was on its side.
"Hey Fittlecook, stop petrafying the little critters with the Phantoms Eye" said Firefly as he glided out of the hole and landed right next to the lizard "it starting to become a bad habit of yours". The eyes in the hole blinked and the Lizard found that it could move again. It wasted no time and scurried off even before three big sharpteeth and a little one climbed out. Last but not least was a young longneck.
"Hey Chomper we're finally out of that place" he said smiling.
"Yeah what a relief, I thought we'd be stuck in there forever" said Chomper as Littlefoot sneezed again.
"Hey boss, you feeling okay" asked Redclaw.
"Yeah, it must have been all the dust from in there" said Littlefoot as he rubbed his snout.
"You know Fittlecook, they say that when you sneeze it means that someone is talking about you" said Firefly as he stared at the group.
"And Firefly, I'm pretty sure that by now someone said that if your three thousand years old than your pretty old" said Chomper with a smirk.
"Oh my Helios" the Phoenix called out the dragon god's name "Chomper all ancient creatures live longer than you dinosaurs do, at three thousand I'm just a mature adult. You can't call me old till I'm five thousand at the least".
"Sorry Firefly, but this is the age of the dinosaurs," said the young sharptooth "I just can't help myself".
"Well Chomper you might want to, because we're half ancient" said Littlefoot as he lied down to rest "Firefly said we had the full power of a dragon, you and I just may be as old as he is one day".
"Well spoken Fittlecook, you will live long live like most ancient" said Firefly as he turned back to Chomper "so when someone calls you old, you better not say a thing". That pulled the little sharptooth back to a nervous grin.
"Well I'm pretty sure we're done with qi training, that level five enchancing training was the last of it" said Firefly pointing his beak back at the hole. Firefly had made Littlefoot and Chomper tunnel through the mountains while using enchancing qi to pick up the pace. Before that he gave them plenty of lower level training. Littlefoot and Chomper spent a whole two weeks training to reach level five qi, from smashing rock to deep mining to throwing small orbs of qi at rocks to standing on their front feet and launching themselves into the air. They completed the other forms of qi, both had a hard time with transmutation. However though manipulation was closer to their own classes of qi, both decided enchancing easier to do. They both tried to use specialization from time to time, but it was as if they never were specialist. Firefly told them that some people become specialist later in life when they aquire a new sides of themselves. It took time to master this side, but the rewards was ultimate power.
"So now what" asked Blackjack "where are we".
"Ahh, we're at Melean Sea" replied Firefly.
"The Melean Sea?" said Chomper in confusion "looks just like the plain old big water to me, as a matter of fact my family lives somewhere far out there on an island".
"Looks like someone wasn't paying attention when I was giving a little history class that I was being beg for" said Firefly glaring at Chomper. Like many times before Littlefoot decided to give his friend a hand.
"Melean is the youngest daughter of Mermainia, the story says that she fell inlove with a cyclops but her father had forbidden her to seeing him" said the longneck reminding Chomper "when she saw that she couldn't persuade her father into rethinking his actions, she cried and her tears grew into a sea where she went to when she wanted to be alone".
"Ok, but what are we doing here". The Prehistoric team had been wondering where the phoenix was leading, now after five days stuck in the mountain range they were half a mile away from the sea. What was this bird up to.
"Well kids, your done qi training" he started off "now we're going to teach you how to weaponize it".
"Weaponize?".
"What I'm trying to say is that we're going to teach you how to fight with you qi, but in a form of hatsu". While training Firefly told them another way use qi. Ren was to creat more qi, Ten was to contain qi within themselves, Gyo concentrated qi to the eye or other areas using the eyes, Zetzu shutted off qi, and last but not least Hatsu meant special attack.
"Anyone trained to use qi is soon to creat their very own hatsu, so we're going to help you two find your special attack".
"Firefly is there someone else here" said Littlefoot getting that intellegent look in his eye "you keep saying "we're going", besides you who's we". Showing that Littlefoot struck gold Firefly gave a little chuckle.
"Well she's an old friend of mine, its been a little under two thousand years sense I've seen her" said Firefly as he looked out at the ocean "and she lives under water".
"Oh well thats just great, how we suppose to get down there" said Blackjack not big on the idea of getting wet.
"Dragon's are very good swimmers, they can dive deeper than most other creatures can and can stay down for hours" said Firefly as he turned back to the gang "if Littlefoot and Chomper were children of Mermainia, this would be easier because they could breath underwater. However we'll just have to use what we got, Children of Cyrus have the most powerful lungs of all the dragons do to the fact that they usually live in up high in clouds. Infact some of them even dare to venture out into the ozone layer".
"Um we have no idea what that is, but we're guessing that really high" said Porkchop.
"Yes infact its around the lower area of the stratosphere" said Firefly.
"Again, we have only the idea that its pretty high".
"Um, actually Firefly could you go by yourself on this one" said Littlefoot as he laid on the ground looking tired "I want to rest for abit, and not to make it sound like a sorry excuse but me and Chomper have been stuck in a giant rock for awhile. I bet he's poofed out to, plus you know more about your friend than I do". Firefly gave the longneck a questioning look, than seeing he had good reasons to stay behind he took off. The gang of five just sat there for seven minutes. Then Littlefoot and Chomper looked at each other.
"Alright, he should be gone by now" said Littlefoot as he got up on his feet.
"Um boss aren't you tired?" asked Porkchop.
"Actually, I'm excited to get down to business Porkchop" said Littlefoot as stared at his three followers "both Chomper and me decided that we needed to talk". The sharpteeth looked at one another.
"Talk about what boss" they asked.
"About you and me". They looked confused.
"What are you trying to say".
"First of all lets see if this is anything to worry about, tell me the name of your parents". Still confused the three big sharpteeth answered.
"Rockmauler and Shear" started Redclaw.
"Porkchop and Philian" said Porkchop. It was down to Blackjack.
"Honestly boss, I never knew my parents name" said the Black sharptooth "they were old when I was still young, kept trying to teach me manners and said I didn't need to know their names because I should always call them mothers and father...however, the last conversation we had on their names my father told me if I wanted to know than I would just have to read their minds. Funny, if only I knew I could do that a few years ago back when I was young I probably could have given you guys some better information". Littlefoot and Chomper turned abit pale and stared at each pther before they nodded.
"Actually Blackjack, you gave us more info then we hoped" said Littlefoot "it seems that now you three should really know where I'm getting at with this". They sharpteeth waited for Littlefoot to explain.
"A few days ago when both me and Chomper started our qi training, Chomper showed me a new spell" he said as sat down closer to the three "and with it I looked through the eyes of my mother back when she was still alive". This really got the sharpteeth interested.
"Boy, ain't that something you don't get to do everyday".
"Yes infact it turned out that it was Chompers grandfather who killed her" said the longneck trying his best to control his emotion, he did a good job at it.
"Oh, I'm really sorry about that boss" said Porkchop, regretting he made it seem facinating.
"Don't be, its none of our fought" said Littlefoot as he reffered to Chomper. The blue sharptooth still felt responsible for his grandfathers deed.
"Infact I learned something that interested me and Chomper. Blackjack, Redclaw, do you two remember that night when you shared your stories with us". The two nodded.
"Well let me share this with you, what I heard Chomper's grandfather say". After relaying the story to the three, Littlefoot's pack looked like they seen a ghost.
"B-but...thats..." stutterd Porkchop. Redclaw was no better.
"Impossible...just simply impossible". Blackjack stared at both of his compains.
"Whats wrong with you two".
"Whats wrong with us, whats wrong with you!" said Redclaw.
"Huh?".
"Black weren't you listening, Dak said our daddy's names".
"And he said something about them and boss' mom". Blackjack thought it over in his head before his train of thought began to "choo choo".
"Wait a second, he said that boss' mom didn't need those other three sharpteeth who's names where Rockmauler, Porkchop, and Guilden" said the black sharptooth "boss, whats going on".
"Blackjack me and Chomper have a good idea of that, and we have some evidence to back it up" said Littlefoot calm as ever "you know, we're hogging the conversation. Chomper, if you'll please". The young sharptooth walked over to Littlefoot and sat down beside him.
"Lets look over the evidence we have first before I come to the conclusion" he said getting comfortable "the first evidence is how you three came together and found your way in the greatvalley".
"Um well, back when me and boss were enemies I usually tried to attack the greatvalley a few times" said Redclaw as he sat down with Blackjack and Porkchop "I felt like I was suppose to keep finding a way in, I guess it was because of all the flat-teeth in there".
"Me and Porkchop found Red a week before we all met the boss together, got into a little ruffle but came out as buddies".
"Can any of you think of why you all met there" asked Chomper only to recieve them shaking there heads for an answer "can any of you explain how you found your way in".
"Well when we first met, we weren't the best of friends" started Blackjack.
"But later that week on the day we attacked boss and his friends, we finally became friends and started working together looking for an entrence" finished Porkchop.
"Ok, second piece. Remember when you guys told us you stories" continued Chomper "Blackjack said the name of Porkchop's dad and Redclaw said something else that was really interesting. He told us that his father Rockmauler was the follower of a decendent of somebody who saved them and others, along with three other sharpteeth families and how he would choose Redclaw or one of his brothers to be the new follower of the new decendent". Redclaw nodded his head.
"Third piece, your abilities" said Chomper "when Firefly was coaching you he said that some dinosaurs had your abilities but didn't know it, he said that your family might have had these abilitys but didn't know it...but he didn't say that they had and knew it". Still confuse the sharpteeth waited for Chomper to continue.
"Let me state all the evidence as simple as I can, one you all met at the greatvalley wall and didn't find a way in until you became friends, two in your stories you named your parents except for Blackjack, three Redclaw's dad talked about a decendent of someone who saved them, four your abilities came by quick and naturally, five my grandfather said that Littlefoot's mom didn't need your dads help as if they worked together, six is on what Blackjack said about his dad".
"Um and how does that help" asked Blackjack.
"Each of you rise in your own ability, Redclaw can sense a beings presence, Blackjack is better at reading and controling minds, and Porkchop can for see attacks coming at him" said Chomper "lets go back to evidence four and three, Redclaw in your story you said your dad knew everything that happened in your family's forest and that later when he talked to you by the river he said he knew you were listening to him and your mom. Don't you specialize in sensing anothers presence". Blackjack was catching on quick.
"So that means that Rockmauler could probably do the same, and wait a second boss you and your mother are decendents of Zor,ruk aren't you" Littlefoot and Chomper nodded "ok so maybe Redclaw and Porkchop have a link in this, but not me...I'm sure of that".
"Than thats not assuring, Blackjack you just told us that your dad said if you wanted to know his name you'd have to read his mind. Tell me, what does that sound like now" said Chomper.
"Like the old man didn't really know what he was getting into" said Blackjack trying to chuckle.
"Ok so lets say he did know what he was getting into, and he did know you could read minds, but at the time you didn't...what would his words sound like now" said Chomper staying serious. Catching onto his look, Blackjack gave it a good long thought. Than it hit him.
"If he did know, than right now it sounds like..." he froze.
"Yes, keep going".
"...like he was pushing me into trying to read his mind, and if he knew that could mean he could read minds to" Blackjack finally hit the jackpot "he was trying to teach me how to do it, thats why he didn't say much outloud".
"Blackjack, do you know where I'm going with this" the sharptooth nodded his head "than please explain the best way you can".
"Well for one Red said that his dad said that three families chose one member to follow a decendent of someone who saved them a long time ago, our abilities possible come from our fathers and by that I mean to say that if this Guilden was my father than I get my power from him, and because its by blood that would explain why we learned it so fast, bosses' mom was a decendent and our fathers were her followers, boss is a decendent and at the moment we're following him".
"So what are you saying, Black?" asked both Redclaw and Porkchop. Blackjack stared deep into Littlefoots eyes.
"The fact that we met at the the greatvalley wall and couldn't get in until we started working together, the fact we learned our abilities so quick, and the fact that we're here right now...its...its..." Blackjack couldn't get out of his mouth.
"Its no accident, its no coincedence," said Littlefoot relieveing Blackjack "etheir your ment to follow me and theres a strong bond between us that led you to me, or you could only be possible followers that were free and close by to choose".
"Choose?" asked three huge and confused sharpteeth.
"Thats right, someones playing with us".
Oh yeah yeah baby, this is the big one o, Chapter ten is a rocking succes. but wait theres more...next time when you Read Sacred children of the dragon.
ps: sorry it took me so long, but I wasn't getting any real reviews anymore, so I decided to do a digimon Rukato romance for fun. so far it actually has a good thing going on and is loved by many. please review this chapter so that i'll be encourage to type more...please.