Part 2- The Adventure Truly Begins!
Meanwhile, somewhere else in the Mysterious Beyond...
The gang was now standing in a desert, not far away from the Great Valley.
"So, do you have any idea where we are?", Littlefoot asked Ruby, whom they all knew had a lot of experience in the Mysterious Beyond.
"Not at all. This is a part of the Mysterious Beyond I've never been to. Sorry.", she said and apologized.
"Just great. So what are we going to do now?", Cera asked angrily.
"The footmarks brought us here, but they stopped. They did, they did.", Ducky said and Petrie suddenly had an idea: "How about me fly high up and see if me can see Chomper?".
"Great idea!", they all complimented and up he went.
After a few moments of searching the ground below, all he could see except for the gang is a blurry figure not far away, but it was too big and had a too different shape to be Chomper. In fact, it almost looked like ruby, only bigger, and maybe fatter.
The air had a lot of blown sand in it which made everything look blurry from a distance.
"Me no see Chomper anywhere, but there is something coming this way!", he told.
"Is it a sharptooth?", Littlefoot asked him.
"Me no know, but me not think so.", he said and they let out a relieved sigh.
"Woohoo, I was sure they went this way!", a stranger's voice said, and the speaker soon came out of the sandy air- it was yellow belly.
Before anyone could have a good look at it, the yellow belly screamed "Strangers!" and stuck his head in the sand, and a few moments later it pulled it out saying "Hot, hot, hot!", and started feeling his beak to make sure it's not burned.
"A yellow belly!", Cera shouted, and Ruby, the only one who wasn't shocked from seeing a yellow belly (since she never saw one) said "A what belly?", confused. "It's a long story, I'll explain later.", Littlefoot said briefly.
Cera couldn't see it very well, but judging from the male voice she said "Loofah!".
"Hey! You know Loofah? He's a very good friend of mine!", the yellow belly answered and approached closer, giving them a better view of him .
"Anyways, Roofah is the name, and very pleased to meet you I am!".
He turned his attention from just Cera to all of them and said "The 5 great leaders!".
"Huh?!", they all asked in confusion.
"Loofah, Doofah and Foobie talk about you all the time!".
"And who is that cute lady?", he said when he finally looked at Ruby, who giggled a bit when she heard what he said.
"My name is Ruby, Ruby is my name!", she introduced herself.
"Nice to meet you, Umm...", he forgot the name.
"Ruby!", she reminded him with a slight smile.
"Oh yeah! That's right".
"But, why aren't you in berry valley with the rest of the herd?", Littlefoot asked him.
"Well, not long after you, the 5 great leaders, took us to berry valley, we got too bored staying in there, and decided to return to migrating. Oh, and the berries tasted horrible, unlike the ones we found on the way. So, here we are!", he explained.
"Returning to our own business,", Cera stopped the conversation, "have you seen a small sharptooth on your way here?".
"Sharptooth!", he shouted and stuck his head in the ground again, just to remember, the hard way, that it was too hot for this trick.
After the little "show", she said "Ahm!", to remind him of her question.
"Uhhh, no. I didn't see anyone since I lost the herd. But surly you, the great leaders, can help me find my herd again!", he said, looking at them hopefully.
Ducky knew what Cera was about to say, so she talked first: "Of course we'll help you! We will, we will!", she promised him and the others nodded, including Cera, though she looked like she clearly didn't like that idea.
"Do you have any idea where they are?", Littlefoot asked.
"That way!", he pointed to the same direction he came from.
"Uhhh...", the others said with a confused expression.
"Or maybe it was that way!", he pointed to another side.
"Great idea, Littlefoot", Cera smirked.
"Me know! How about we use sniffers?", Petrie suggested.
"Okay!", they all said and started smelling around, and it was Spike who made the discovery.
He grunted, and started going a path just near the way Roofah took.
The others immediately followed him.
And where the yellow belly herd was resting...
The herd of yellow bellies stopped at an oasis.
Some of them ate, some drank, and some talked.
Among them were Loofah and Doofah:
"Wow, that little one sure reminds me those kids!", Doofah said, looking at Chomper, who was still lying unconscious on Loofah's back.
"Especially Littleleg for some reason!", he agreed, though he forgot the name.
"It was Littleneck, silly!", she "corrected" him.
"Oh yeah. Hmm... How about we splash it a bit? Maybe it will wake up!", he suggested.
"Okay!", she replied, took a bit of water from the oasis and splashed, mostly on Loofah though.
Chomper began coughing a bit and started opening his eyes.
"Hello? Is anyone there?", Doofah asked him and got so close that her beak and his nose were touching each other.
In an instant, Chomper realized he's in a different place than where he was before, and was frightened to see the stranger dinosaurs.
"Who are you? Where am I? What am I doing here?!", he asked in panic.
"I'm Loofah!", Loofah said
"And I'm Doofah!", and I'm Doofah.
"And we are yellow bellies!", they said together.
"Yellow bellies?", he asked in confusion.
"Yeah! See we have yellow bellies. The only problem is I can't find it anywhere.", Doofah replied him, and searched around her body to find her belly.
"So, who are you?", Loofah asked.
"I'm Chomper! The friendly sharptooth!", he said proudly and surly when he realized they don't want to harm him, but got a different response then he expected to: "Sharptooth!", everyone in the herd shouted and buried their heads in the sand, which was cooler because of the oasis.
"Ha? What are you doing?", Chomper asked, not realizing they were "afraid" of him.
"We're hiding from you, of course.", Loofah said as he raised his head and then buried it again.
"But you don't need to be afraid, guys! I'm nice!", he said, but only Doofah, who was the closest to him heard that.
"Oh! You're nice! Why didn't you say that before?", she said and shouted to the others: "Hey guys! He's nice!".
As a respond, all the heads were raised back up and all Yellow Bellies gathered around Chomper, Loofah and Doofah.
"So, what are you doing all alone in the mysterious beyond?", Loofah asked.
"I want to prove to my friends that I can be responsible by taking care of myself alone in the Mysterious Beyond!", Chomper answered, and everybody whispered to each other, laughed and nodded.
"Well, from seeing you, you won't survive one bright circle time!", Loofah said and laughed, not to insult him though.
"Well, maybe he can learn to survive in the Mysterious beyond if he stays with us!", Doofah suggested.
"Great idea!", Chomper and Loofah answered, and the other yellow bellies laughed and nodded.
"We should get the Wise one to decide if Chomper can stay!", Loofah reminded and called "Foobie!".
Foobie showed up almost an instant later and looked carefully on Chomper, especially into his eyes with a serious expression on his face, which made Chomper pretty worried, and then he smiled and he made a short squeak, which after it everyone cheered, except for Chomper, who didn't realize what it was all about.
"Why didn't he say anything?", Chomper asked, confused.
"Didn't you hear him? It was very clear.", Loofah said, also confused.
"He said you can stay, but he'll keep a close eye on you.", Doofah explained to Chomper.
"Really? Thanks!", he said while looking on Foobie.
Foobie winked to him, and then made another squeak, higher and longer than the previous one.
"You better hurry and drink. We're going soon.", Doofah told Chomper.
"Going where?".
"Wherever we feel it's right!", Loofah answered him happily.
Chomper quickly went to drink from the oasis, and thought about his friends: "when I come back, you'll see that I am very responsible!", he promised to himself, and then walked along with the yellow belly herd.
Not long after, not too far away...
"So thirsty...", Roofah and the kids muttered.
Only Spike, oddly, didn't seem to notice he was thirsty as well, and occasionally grunted to speed them up.
"Is it far now?", Roofah asked for the seventh time.
"Will you stop that?", Cera asked him, even more angry than usual, maybe because of her thirst or because she was the one to answer him every time he asked. The others were too tired to even answer him.
But unlike before, when Spike shook his head, he nodded this time.
They all raised their heads hopefully, and Littlefoot asked: "Are the yellow bellies nearby?", and Spike nodded again as an answer.
He grunted them again to hurry up, but there was no really need to- they all started speeding up in the trail they were taking- straight ahead.
Instead of reaching the expected herd of yellow bellies, they reached the same oasis the yellow bellies have been in not long ago.
But none of them cared about the yellow bellies, or even Chomper for a moment, as they all immediately jumped into the water in a big splash, drinking, eating from the nearby trees and bushes and finally having a chance to rest for a bit.
Unfortunately, though, since they were so tired, they didn't notice they all fell asleep, giving the herd and Chomper more time to get further from them...