Chapter 10: The Mystery

The next day:
The Bright Circle was beginning to rise as Q was opening one eye, then he said, (Groans) "Morning already? (Yawns) Oh well. At least I didn't have any sleep stories that might have been anything related to me." He got up to find the others, who were talking about something he couldn't make out.

Q greeted all of them, "Hello my bros, my bros hello." "Hi, Q!" They all responded back. Then, he asked them, "So. What do you guys think we should do today?". Cera said, "I think we should play a game of Toss-the-Seed." "I think we should play Hide-and-Seek. We should, we should." Ducky commented. "Hey. I know, we can play a game of Hide-from-the-Sharpteeth." José chimed in.

"How you play 'Hide-from-Sharpteeth'? It sound complicated." Petrie replied. "Oh, no it's not that difficult. Although, It is normally called 'Hide-from-the-Sharptooth', but since there is obviously more than one Sharptooth here, Sharptooth then becomes Sharpteeth. The rules are the same as if we were playing Hide-and-Seek, for the hiders, but for us Sharpteeth, we are not allowed to use our sniffers to find the hiders." Chomper answered. They others agreed, and the 3 Sharpteeth began their countdowns. (BTW, For the sake of the story, I am not going to add the game in this chapter)

Later in the day:

The group noticed that there were mysterious footmarks leading from the watering hole that looked to have come from a creature that didn't belong in the Great Valley. So, Littlefoot said, "I have a feeling that whatever made these footmarks, does not belong here. We should follow them to see what could have made footmarks that look as odd as this." Ruby commented, "Well, if we want to find out what something could have made these footmarks, we might as well see what that something is." Everybody agreed and they went on.

Chomper's POV:

Shortly after we started to follw the footmarks, me, Q, and José all suddenly picked up a smell that was not very pleasant. In fact, it was so bad, José and me could not stand the smell and then we had to cover our sniffers just to block the smell. For some strange reason that I still do not understand, is how Q was able to tolerate the odor. Either way, us Sharpteeth could smell it. I think it smelled like when we were all going towards the Meadow of Jumping Waters, and we were going by the stinky pools. That is how bad it was.

Third Person POV:

The gang was still following the tracks, until they got to where the valley became the Mysterious Beyond, and when the tracks split into 2 different directions. "OK. I say we split up into 2 groups. Me, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike will follow these tracks, while Q, José, Ruby, and Chomper will follow these tracks. Agreed?" Littlefoot said, everyone nodded their heads in agreement. And with that, they split up, the "Leafeater group" followed the tracks that went to the right, while the "Sharptooth/Bothtooth group" began to follow the tracks that went to the left.

After a lot of walking, Chomper complained, "Ow. I'm hungry. And my feet hurt, too. Can we please stop and just go home? (Begins to sing "Adventuring")
Chomper: Can we stop adventuring, adventuring, adventuring? Can we stop adventuring, and just go home right now?

Q: Chomper, please. You must not quit, while we still have to commit, to what we'll do, and then we're through.

All to Chomper: So when we go adventuring, adventuring, there's just one thing. You know we're all gonna want you to do.

Chomper: You wanna have me go there, with you.

All to Chomper: We want you to go adventuring, too. (Song ends)

"OK, fine. I'll keep going." Chomper replied. After what had felt like hours following these footmarks, the 2 groups ran into each other. "Well that was dumb. We could have followed either set of tracks when they split and we could have gotten to the same place no matter which set we followed." Cera commented. "Well, at least we didn't get permenantly seperated from each other. Am I right?" Spike said, of course, everybody knew that Spike was right about that.

After the intermission, they kept following the footmarks, until they saw the footmarks lead them right into a dense and foggy forest. The others were getting pretty creeped out. Petrie was the most terrified (obviously) and when there was a loud noise, he practically jumped out of his skin. It turned out that the loud noise was just Q practicing his roar. Everyone was terrified, because Q's roar sounded just like a fully grown Sharptooth. Petrie was SO scared, he wrapped his wings, very tightly, around Littlefoot's neck. (Gagging) "Petrie... let go... of... my neck!" Littlefoot struggled to say. Q walked over and grabbed Petrie and pulled him off.

He apologized to everybody, "Sorry, guys. I was just practicing my roar." Q said. "The next time you do that, give us a little warning, first." Cera replied. Q then told Petrie, "Petrie, if you're really THAT scared, would you feel safer if you rode on my back? Would you panic a little less?" Petrie just nodded his head, he hid behind some of the spikes on Q's back. They kept following the tracks, until they led the group to the entrance of a large cave. They wondered, what kind of creature has footmarks like this? The answers to their questions would soon be revealed.

Voilà! There is going to be the end of Chapter 10 for you all. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I hope to do more chapters, and I am open to any requests on the story and how it can continue. I am beginning to have trouble thinking of possible plots that can happen in the future chapters, so I would appreciate it if you could give me some suggestions. Until next time, this has been fun so far, and I will talk to you all later.

In the next chapter: We find out who is watching what is happening with Q. And the Sharpteeth friends learn what true teamwork really is.