Land Before Time: War of the Worlds
Chapter 10: Littlefoot Transforms
Littlefoot yawned. He had just lain down next to Ali to sleep. Tomorrow, he knew would be a busy day. It was early sunrise when he awoke to a twig snapping. He carefully looked around, but there was nothing out of the ordinary there, and he put his head back down to try to sleep again.
A flyer, misjudging his approach, stumbled over Littlefoot and Ali.
"Ow! What?" Littlefoot looked at the flyer.
"Meeting." He said simply and took off.
"Aww, not another meeting." Said Ali, getting up and stretching.
"Yep another one." Littlefoot said with a yawn. At a clearing the meeting bore on about different tactics and stuff. Littlefoot closed his eyes to try to get more sleep. He couldn't believe how doing this and concentrating he could hear all the peaceful sounds rather than the talking. He heard his and the other's breathing, the hum of insects, the sway grass in the wind… "The swaying grass in the wind?! But there was no wind now!" He thought. Littlefoot rolled onto his back and threw the sharptooth when it attacked. It hit a tree with a thunk, and slid down it to the ground. "I knew I'd heard something this morning!" He told the bewildered group.
"The Mysterious Beyond dinosaurs have been sighted on the move again." Said Bron to the group. They had just finished handing the captured sharptooth to the grown-ups.
"Aww, come on, not again!" Chomper complained.
"They'll be here close to nighttime." Said Bron.
Littlefoot and company stood on one of the valley walls, drenched wet in the rain.
"If there's something more annoying then battles near nightfall, its one in the rain." Littlefoot told the others. Every now and then someone would shake water of them and splash the others with it. On the horizon, the sharpteeth were marching and splashing mud around as they walked.
"Okay lets go." Said Littlefoot. The group moved forward to meet the sharpteeth.
"Run!" He shouted and the group ran on charging the other group, splashing mud on themselves.
As the two sides engaged in battle, Littlefoot, Ali, Shorty, Chomper, and Hyp ran to some bushes for an ambush.
"Now what?" Asked Hyp. Littlefoot looked at them. All four had dabs of mud on their faces, chest, and stomachs. Mud! That gave him an idea. Flinging himself into the mud, Littlefoot splashed the others in it too.
"What was that?" Shorty asked annoyed, as mud slid down his face.
"You'll see." Littlefoot replied. He then proceeded to cover himself and his bewildered friends in grass. "Follow me." The others saw no other option.
Crawling on his stomach, Littlefoot saw his camouflage plan was working as they approached behind some sharpteeth.
A battered group of leaf-eaters were surprised their sharpteeth enemies disappeared beneath the tall grass and out appeared five unidentifiable, mud and grass covered, dinosaurs, who appeared to be leaf-eaters.
"Rrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" King roared as he slammed the sharptooth that he had locked claws with and was trying to push back, into the ground. He quickly jumped out of the way as several boulders thrown by other sharpteeth just barely missed him. King kept jumping back and soon met up with Littlefoot's group.
"Having trouble?" Littlefoot asked him.
"Yeah, noticed we were pushed back into the Great Valley." King told them.
"No!" Ali gasped.
"Yeah, we need help." Replied King.
Twelve large sharptooth crashed through, just as the group was wrapping up their current enemies. Littlefoot saw they were in trouble now.
"Littlefoot." Littlefoot recognized Zero's voice. Closing his eyes Littlefoot concentrated and soon found a mist that took the shape of a longneck. Once again out of the blue, lightning struck, reflecting in his eyes. Once again Littlefoot was grown-up. The battle took a long time when in a clearing the final three sharpteeth attacked by jumping on Littlefoot and King. An impact sent Littlefoot flying into King, and the two fell to the ground. A sharptooth about her size hit Ali in the chest and threw her out on the grass. A blue glow lit up her face, and Ali, opening her eyes and raising her head, saw the Stone of Cold Fire.
Ali didn't know why, but something to do with the stone suddenly seemed important. She began crawling towards it, while trying to tune out Littlefoot's and King's cries of pain. Normally, she knew, the two could've taken on the opposition, but now they were tired, as well as outnumbered. As Ali approached the stone, she stood up and stared at it.
"Use its power." Ali was surprised to hear Zero talking to her.
"Don't be afraid." She was even more surprised to hear the voice Littlefoot had described to her as his mother. Ali gulped. She limped forward, raised her front right paw and leaned it on the Stone of Cold Fire. A strange warmth filled her and an even stranger blue dome enclosed her and the stone, before expanding outward so that everything within several miles radius inside and outside the Great Valley was inside it. Whether it was supposed to be that way or if it was because she was thinking of Littlefoot more than anyone else, several lights burst out of the stone, and a blue light shot out of its top, curving and flying straight Littlefoot's chest. His outline temporarily glowed, when the blue dome burst, and blue sparkles rained down on everyone. Littlefoot felt himself changing again, since he was still grown-up. His pupils narrowed to slits, like some sharpteeth's, before they expanded back to their normal size. Littlefoot got slightly taller, with bigger muscles. Spikes rose out all over him, painlessly. Spikes appeared from his head to the tip of his tail, two, one on each shoulder, four long ones on top of either foot, and several around his legs, all injuries vanishing. He swung his tail cutting the three sharpteeth at once.
Each of the three sharpteeth staggered back from the blow. They were confused as to how a longneck could suddenly grow spikes out of its body. The also noticed several leaf-eaters approach to see what was happening. Littlefoot had also seen the leaf-eaters, which included all his friends as well as his grandparents, Bron, Ali's mother, and several other valley grown-ups, all wide-eyed, but he only saw them from the corner of his eyes, keeping full focus on the sharpteeth before him. He wrapped his tail around one's leg, whom in turned roared in pain, yanked it onto its back, and whipped it on the other two, knocking them down. The three took off running, when Littlefoot whipped their backs with his tail, and they ran even faster. In a flash of lightning, Littlefoot collapsed, reverting back to normal size and spikeless form in mid-air, before Doc caught him with his tail.
"Easy. That was fighting." Doc told him. Ali braced her front paws on Doc's tail, standing on he hind legs, to check on Littlefoot.
"Will he be alright?" Ali asked.
"Yeah, he just tired." Doc answered.
"Littlefoot. Wake up sleepyhead." A voice awoke Littlefoot from his sleep.
"Huh? Mother? Is that you?" He asked.
"Yes," Came the reply. "I have to tell about what happened today. That blue dome that surrounded the Great Valley and hundreds of miles into the Mysterious Beyond will keep everyone alive through much of the Circle of Life's occurrences, including the supposed extinction of the dinosaurs in a few million years."
"Extinction of what?!?!?!?!" Littlefoot shouted forgetting there were others asleep.
"Yes, but like I said, everyone in that dome will survive, and someday the time of the dinosaur will come again." His mother continued. "Also, it doesn't prevent aging, but it does prevent dying from it. But be careful, everyone isn't completely immortal. One can still die in battle or falling from a tree." Littlefoot was puzzled as to why some dinosaur would be up a tree.
"Take care and be careful." Said his mother's voice before leaving everything in silence. Littlefoot stared at the swaying grass in the wind. He finally decided he couldn't do anything more right now, and laid his head back down on Ali's neck.