Truce? By megacharizard
As Littlefoot and Ali fell, their lives flashed before their eyes. Littlefoot saw Chomper, Doc, Mo and many other friends long gone. He saw himself meeting Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike for the first time ever. He saw Ali come and go. His memories showed him his parents. One who had died to save his life. And the other, whose duty kept the two of them apart. "Well, at least I guess I'm going to be reunited with at least one of them now." he thought…
Ali too, saw her family before her. She saw the Land of Mists, before and after it had changed. She saw sandy deserts, grassy meadows, high mountains and green forests. She had seen ten times as much her friends in her short little life. She saw herself meeting Littlefoot, traveling through the caves and the forests with him…and eventually having to say goodbye. "Well, at least there won't be a second goodbye." she thought…
With Ducky on his back, Spike had walked a fair amount of distance and had almost reached the cave Ali and Littlefoot had hidden in. From the air, Petrie could see the Sharptooth the two Longnecks had run from earlier, still lying in wait. With no other choices left, he flew down to tell them to stop. But he was too late. The Sharptooth had already picked up their scent and decided to forsake its task of waiting for the Longnecks to reappear. It lifted up its massive head and gave out a roar to wake the dead. Spike came to a grinding halt at once. The Sharptooth appeared around the corner, drooling like a mad dog. Like Ali had done earlier, He ran straight through its legs and continued to follow the trail at a much more rapid pace. Its jaws came crashing, the snarls drowning out Ducky's screams. But in the last second, Spike squeezed into the same cave as Littlefoot and Ali had taken refuge in, allowing them to escape by the skin of their teeth…
Once inside, they paused for breath. But before Ducky could say anything, and earthquake began, bringing rocks crashing down around them. Ducky was away like a shot, but Spike seemed to be paralyzed with fear. Ducky ran back to him and tried to make him move.
"Spike! We must run! It is and earthshake! It is!" she screamed in his ear. This outburst seemed to breakthrough to Spike, and got him to run. It did not take long for the shaking to stop, but when they looked back, they could easily see that fallen rocks had blocked their way out…
From the air, Petrie saw his friends duck into the cave and the earthquake begin. When it finally stopped, the Sharptooth, who had concluded that this had been a VERY bad morning's hunting, lumbered off to find some other poor soul to fill its stomach with. Petrie flew down to the cave and surveyed the damage the earthquake had caused. Hoping to receive an answer, he shouted out to his friends.
"Ducky! Spike! Can you hear Petrie?" he bellowed. From the other side of the debris, Ducky and Spike were just able to hear his voice calling to them. They were, obviously surprised to hear their friend calling out to them, but Ducky replied anyway.
"We can hear you Petrie! We can! What are you doing here?" she shouted back. Petrie was relieved to discover that his friends were alright.
"Me saw you leaving valley and me followed you! Why YOU here?" he asked.
"Littlefoot and Ali are out here too! They are! We were following them! We can pick up their scent from in here! They must be in this cave too! They must!" Ducky explained. Petrie was shocked to here this but he knew this was no time for asking questions. He had to get them out of there, but he couldn't do it alone. There was only one dinosaur that could help.
"You go find them! Me get help to move rocks!" he cried and immediately took off, not hearing Ducky bid him good luck…
Littlefoot woke up, finding himself on a rock, lying next to Ali. He was surprised to find that this rock was in the middle of a lava pool. He looked around and finally realised that he and Ali must have landed on this instead of in the lava. "Well that was TOO close." he thought. "I guess we both must have fainted while falling." Littlefoot let out a big sigh of relief, now understanding just how close their lucky escape had been. He wondered how they were going to get off the rock without burning themselves in the lava. He looked up and could easily seethe the remains of the rock bridge were far too high up for them to climb back up. "But there's no point in trying to find a way out until Ali wakes up." He thought to himself. He looked over at her. Part of him wanted to wake her up so they could think of a way out. But the other part was content with watching her sleep. He lay his head down again, next to hers, deciding to rest after such a strenuous morning. The lava problem could wait. It would still be there when they woke up…
As Petrie made his way back to the valley, he thought about the idea he had in mind. It was not a good one. He could ask none of the elders to help because his friends would be in trouble if he did. So, the only dinosaur he knew with enough strength to bring that wall down…was Cera. This was the second time in less than two days that he would have to forge a temporary truce with her and he hated it. He wondered how he would get her to listen to him. He wondered how she would reply. What would happen after this problem had been sorted out? He now started to wonder if the other four had planned this from the beginning tin order to reform Petrie's and Cera's friendship. But he pushed that thought away quickly. Whether it was a trick or not, he knew that he did not have time to take a chance…
Ducky had thought it to be a stroke of luck that the trail they had been following appeared to run through the cave. She never stopped to think that Spike had deliberately followed the scent, while at the same time, running from the Sharptooth. But that was not important anyway. She had to find Littlefoot and Ali quickly. One scan of the cave's lava pools told her that this place was dangerous and that it was vital to get her friends out as soon as possible. Slightly nervous about walking near lava, she hummed a little tune to keeping her spirits up. She and Spike eventually came to the rock bridge Ali and Littlefoot had been on when the earthquake had hit, only to see the gap in the middle and find the scent come to an abrupt end. From where she was, she could not see her friends, one asleep, and the other unconscious below on the rock.
"Oh Spike! They have fallen into the fire-water! They have!" she exclaimed, stricken with grief. Spike looked down, not seeing their friends either. He let out a wail of despair. They stood there, not moving, hardly believing that two of their best friends…were dead…
Ignorant of the apparent tragedy, Petrie finally reached Cera's nesting ground. He spotted Cera, still asleep and flew down to her. "He we go then." he thought to himself, with deep misgivings. He shook her slightly, to wake her up, but he was too small for her to notice. So he decided to wake her up and get a little payback at the same time. He stabbed her in the back with his sharp beak, hard. Cera awoke at first, gasping at the slight pain. Petrie immediately took to the air, in case she tried to hit him for stabbing her. She stood up and looked for the one responsible for her rude awakening.
"Who did that?" she cried, angrily.
"That me. Sorry." Petrie said, apprehensively. Cera turned around and looked up. She was naturally surprised to see Petrie come to her so willingly. She guessed he was here to apologies.
"What do you want?" she asked, somewhat rudely.
"Me need help." he began. "Friends trapped in cave in Mysterious Beyond. Need you to break down wall." Cera snorted in disbelief.
"You really expect me to believe that?" she asked, incredulously. "What kind of fool do you take me for?" Petrie sighed.
"You no have to believe Petrie if you no want to, but are you really gonna risk losing friends to save pride?" Cera was silent. Petrie knew he almost had hr convinced. "Wont Cera help Petrie?" he asked…
TO BE CONTINUED…