Land Before Time: War of the Worlds
Chapter 11: Blade
Littlefoot remembered how Zero had to them to find Blade. Now since the valley had some down time, they could begin a proper search.
"We can't stand around doing, we have to go looking for any help." Littlefoot said, when the grown-ups denied a search. That's where his grandparents hesitated, and other adults refused Littlefoot request.
"Absolutely not. Any time you go off, you drag our kids along into danger!" Growled Mr. Three-horn.
"Now, that being unfair." Complained Grandpa Longneck. "You and I both now the children elect to follow Littlefoot on their own. Nobody makes them do it." And so, the group broke into two arguing groups, each taking a different side.
Littlefoot sat on the grass, staring at the Thundering falls, when Ali joined him.
"I've got to go and get more help, so don't say anything to the grown-ups." He told her.
"I know and I'm coming too." Said Ali.
"But its gonna be dangerous, and I don't want anything to happen to you." Littlefoot said, nuzzling her.
"I'm still going, you think I'll be left out of the action?" Ali replied, licking his face. Five minutes later they were on the trail to the Mysterious Beyond.
Thunderclap filled the night air through the pouring rain, as Littlefoot's, now spiked, tail hit a sharptooth across the face causing it to reel and fall over backwards. Littlefoot stood panting, before reverting back to his normal, spikeless, size.
"That's the fifth sharpteeth we fight today!" He shouted, hitting the ground with his front paws, tears coming to his eyes. "Its pointless to search for anyone! I failed! I failed Zero! I failed King! I failed my friends and family! I failed the Great Valley." By the end, the tears prevented his shouting. Ali looked at him. It brought her great sadness to see him so distressed, so sad.
"You haven't failed me." She said in a soothing voice. "And to me, you haven't failed anyone else."
"Thanks." Said Littlefoot smiling, as she put her neck over his, he had always promised himself, ever since they'd first met, that as long as he was around, he would always protect her. And now he felt his will to keep the promise, increase beyond what even he thought was impossible.
"Come on, lets get out of this sky-water and someplace dry to spend the night." Ali said
Bron frowned at the two young longnecks. Littlefoot and Ali's absence hadn't gone unnoticed, and now he sees that they did go to the Mysterious Beyond after all.
"You'd be in big trouble if the sharpteeth hadn't saved you by starting another battle." He told them. "Littlefoot, you and your friends better get the skeleton armors on. Fast."
The leaf-eaters' group stood on a clear. The number of sharpteeth fighting had drastically decreased since the destruction of their food supply. However they still greatly outnumbered the leaf-eaters. Each side moved out to encounter in the center once again, and a new battle was on. There was tossing and crashing going on all over the place, as Littlefoot avoided what he could, fought off what he couldn't.
A small, long tailed sharptooth jumped and slashed at grandpa longneck, while a group attacked Bron. Doc swiped the sharpteeth from both longnecks but got his tail bitten in the process. Littlefoot saw two large sharpteeth bite King in the neck, and slammed him into the ground. Since he had used his ability to grow, and since the skeleton armor grew with him, he reared on his hind legs and repeatedly crashed on the ground with his front legs, causing the small sharpteeth in front of him to lose their balance and fall over.
"This isn't going well for us!" Bron shouted to him.
"Then we must move back to the Great Valley!" Answered Littlefoot. The leaf-eaters started moving back, but Littlefoot stood his ground.
"Aren't you coming?" Ali asked when she saw him just standing there.
"No, someone has to hold them off." Replied Littlefoot.
"Then I'm staying too."
"No Ali, it's too dangerous!" He said.
"I thought we'd bee through this before." Littlefoot knew she was right, but knew he couldn't put her in any danger. He'd just opened his mouth to argue, when Shorty cut in.
"If you two are staying, then so am I!" He shouted.
"Then it's settled." Said Ali. "We're staying to help you." Littlefoot knew it was pointless to argue. They got close together, as the ever approaching sharpteeth picked up log, rocks, boulders, and/or small trees to use against the three longnecks in their way.
"Geez! They're really pulling out all the stops!" Shorty shouted.
"Then we'll just have to make our stand here." Said Littlefoot calmly, putting his tail in front of him, which spikes rose out of. The sharpteeth roared, and picked up their pace. Littlefoot picked up the first one in between the spikes on his tail, and threw it into another sharptooth. He hit a third with his front right paw, and head butted a fourth. A long tailed sharptooth ducked just in time, as the spike on Littlefoot's left shoulder sliced into a tree, while two other sharpteeth jumped away from his tail which left a long scar on one boulder and cut another in two. Ali and Shorty were backed into a corner with several hungry sharpteeth ahead of them. Before the sharpteeth could attack however, four long legs crashed into the ground around the two smaller longnecks, who along with the sharpteeth, looked up to see a spiked longneck that was Littlefoot.
The sharpteeth couldn't fight Littlefoot, so the made way for one who could. As the sharptooth charged, Littlefoot was surprised to see that it was possibly even bigger than he. The sharptooth opened its drooling mouth to bite Littlefoot's neck, and in a flash that spread confusion, there was a loud crash followed by a sling slang sound, and a large blood-red X appeared on the sharptooth's chest and it fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust around the area. When the dust cleared, a lone sharptooth stood there in front of them, on one knee facing the other sharpteeth. Littlefoot noticed he looked a lot like Zero, with some differences. He was a darker color with longer spikes on him, as well as his shoulder spikes were thicker. And where Zero's spikes started at his neck and ran to the beginning of his tail, this sharptooth's spikes ran from the top of his head to the tip of his tail. His eyes showed experience and concentration. Finally, what he had that Zero hadn't, and that Littlefoot made up for with the spikes on top of his front feet, was two long, thin spikes, one on each arm and just a few inches away from his arms at the tip, and getting closer to his arms further on, that unlike the other spikes, didn't seem to be bone.
"W-Who are you?" Littlefoot asked, unable to hide his surprise at the sharptooth's entrance, undoubtedly from a ledge above them.
The sharptooth looked back at them with his eyes, the rest of his body unmoving.
"I'm Blade." He growled. Littlefoot, Ali, Shorty, and several nearby sharpteeth gasped. As he rose to both feet, the sharpteeth scattered. Some of larger and braver Sharpteeth moved forward but soon found out he wasn't weaker than Zero. Far from it. The first sharptooth thrust its claws at him, which he caught and twisted sharply, throwing the enemy sharptooth aside. A second whipped its tail at him, which he grabbed and flung the sharptooth onto its back. The third charged, trying to hit Blade with his knee, but only succeeded in get thrown over the spiked sharptooth's shoulder to slam into the ground. Blade elbowed a fourth in the chest, and with that, stood in front of the last large sharpteeth. Blade smiled at how easy this was. He brought his arm in front of him, forming an X, and swiped them down. As his claws hit each other, sparks were sent flying into the enemy sharptooth, who looked down to see what had hit him and why it didn't hurt. When he looked back up Blade was gone.
Though the three longnecks were watching Blade carefully to see what he could do, they barely saw when he leapt into the air. Blade crashed back down in a ducking position, crossed the even smaller gap to the enemy sharptooth in a single leap, and quickly stood up before it, doing the same X swipe as before, but now making contact. The smaller sharpteeth ran away when their last large sharptooth fell, a large red X on its chest just like the first.
"Come on, let's go." He told the three longnecks, who nodded, their mouths hanging open in surprise of his swiftness.
"He saved us." Littlefoot told the grown-ups back in the Great Valley.
"Yeah, it was so cool he just started slashing and fighting." Said Shorty.
"We were lucky that he showed up when he did, or we'd been eaten." Ali added to their explanation of all that had happened. Blade had brought them back to several questioning dinosaurs. When the questions finally stopped and the questioners left it was already sunset. Littlefoot sat down next to Ali.
"He really is just like Zero." He told her.
"Yes, he is." She said, nuzzling him. Littlefoot, in turn licked her cheeks, and they noticed the first of the changing leaf stars fall from a tree.