(Chapter 13 is in the virtual house!)

Chapter 13: Terror At Flattooth Valley

"Aren't you the ones from when Redfoot tried to poison us?" Ruby asked, seeing the group that had just quite literally dropped in. However, before any of them could reply, Ruby remembered that they could only speak flatooth…as far as she knew.

"Yeah….that's us," panted Rory in sharptooth. The gang (minus Chomper, of course) looked shocked.

"You can speak sharptooth?!" Cera asked amazed. "Yeah, Chomper taught us," Rita explained.

The gang looked surprised at Chomper, they didn't know leafeaters were capable of learning a different language. "But that's not what's important!" Greg said rather loudly.

Now that the chaos of the leafeater's unexpected appearance was over, Chomper still had one thing he wanted answered: How did they end up here?!"

"How'd you end up here?" Chomper asked again. The leafeaters took a big sigh, clearly bothered by whatever it was that led them to the canyon.

"It was so horrible…." Rita said softly. "Where have I heard that before?" Chomper mentally asked himself.

"It all started about two days ago…" Greg said, then paused. Rita stepped up.

"Guys, I'll tell them what we know," she offered. "Go ahead," replied Rory and Myra.

TWO DAYS EARLIER…………

"We were all playing together, when we heard the grownups discussing something," Rita recalled.

Redfoot had called a meeting of the grown ups about a strange occurrence, and he wanted to get to the bottom of it. (Author's note: This part of the flashback is told from no one's perspective, Rita will only be telling the group the parts she is involved in.)

"We've had less green food then we had last week," Redfoot said.

"I've noticed that too," agreed Elsie. "Could it be swarming leaf gobblers?"

"I thought about that," said Redfoot. "But no one has reported seeing or hearing any of those annoying insects."

"So what could it be?" a threehorn asked.

Rory, Rita, Myra, Mo, and Greg were listening in. "Hey guys, maybe we should try to solve the mystery," Rita suggested.

"How are we going to do that?" asked Myra. "We should split up and look through different parts of the valley, and try to see if anything happens to the green food."

"But how will we know what to look for?" asked Greg.

"Just go find somebody if you see something odd happen," Rita explained. The gang nodded in agreement to this plan.

LATER THAT NIGHT……….

After the flateetth's parents had gone to sleep, they went to go meet each other in the central part of the valley. Rita had a plan.

"Let's split up," she said. "I'll go to the side of the big wall, Mo, you stay near the waterhole, Rory and Myra, you two look around the berry fields, and Greg, you look near the caves."

"Got it," everyone responded, and headed off to their respective locations. What the gang saw later that night was something they weren't expecting.

BACK IN THE PRESENT…….

"So what did you guys see?" Chomper asked. "That was what started all of this," Myra said.

THE PAST………

Rory and Myra were looking around the tress and sweet bubble bushes, and it didn't appear like there was any less of the edible substances then normal.

"Maybe we won't find anything out," Myra spoke up. "But, we should at least try," said Rory. Myra agreed with that statement.

Just then, the 2 threehorns thought they saw someone run by.

"Who's there?" asked Myra, but there was no reply.

"Maybe it's just our eyes playing tricks on us," Rory suggested. "Eyes can't play tricks," Rory responded.

Meanwhile, with Greg near the caverns, he decided to have a break to eat a few sweet bubbles himself. "Probably should save some for mom and dad," he figured. Greg was glad that Ichy and Dil now seemed to never had any more loud arguments, and were tolerant of each other.

But then, the young spiketail felt a presence nearby. "What the?" he said aloud, thinking he saw movement, but if anyone was there, they were already out of view by now.

Meanwhile, Rita seemed to be equally result-less with her results. All the greenfood she was watching had been there before. But just then, a smell entered her sniffer.

"Hey, isn't that…." She realized.

WITH MO……….

The swimmer, also having no results, a late night dip in the waterhole. And when he resurfaced, he saw something that shocked him: Multiple trees were on fire!

"Oh my gosh!" he cried, and ran as fast as he could to get help. In no time at all, many of the grownups had arrived, and they began to do their best to douse the blazes.

However, just then, Greg, Rita, Myra, and Rory arrived with similar revelations to reveal, green food all around them was on fire!

Julie and Redfoot worked together to stop the flames in the central part of the valley, stomping on little patches of fire, while using tail swipes to divert water.

THE PRESENT….

"The greenfood was on fire?" Littlefoot asked. He hated green food like any other sharptooth, but this story was intriguing him. "Yes," Rita replied in the language she had learned recently.

"But the real bad part was what caused those fires, which is what led us here," went on Rory.

THE PAST……

The grownups soon managed to douse the flames while the kids helped. "5 different fires, 5 different locations, this was no coincidence," Redfoot deduced.

Everyone agreed with that statement, but no one could figure out who did it. There had been multiple flatteeth near the valley entrances, so they realized it wasn't sharpteeth, but at the same time, that meant whoever did it was already inside the valley.

"Who would do this?" Ichy asked, not expecting an answer.

"No one I know would have a motive," Julie spoke up. This mystery was perplexing everyone's minds. However, they would get their answer soon enough.

And it wasn't going to be one they were fond of…….

THE NEXT MORNING……….

Rita awoke by her mother's side, it seemed like it was going to be a pretty normal morning. If she only knew….

"I'm gonna go meet up with the guys," the blue longneck told her mother, and ran off. Julie nodded in acceptance, believing nothing bad would happen.

When Rita caught up to her friends, she noticed they were gathered around something. "What are you guys looking at?" Rita called, not seeing any of their faces.

"You got to check this out Rita," called Rory, and when Rita came over, she saw a big hole in the ground!

"When did this get here?" Rita asked confused. "Must've been recent," Myra said. Then, Rita stood completely still, beginning to get the chills.

"It's….happening again guys," she shivered. "What is it, mud sister?" Mo asked.

"Those bad feelings," Rita replied. "The ones I get whenever something bad's about to happen."

"Not again," Myra gulped nervously. She remembered what happened the last time Rita had these feelings.

"It has to be connected to the burning green food, but what's gonna happen next?" Rory asked. "I'm sure we don't want to find out," Greg spoke up.

"Let's…..just…go eat something for now," Rita said, regaining control of her body. Her friends nodded in agreement, and went on their way.

"I'm gonna go for a swim, mud brothers," Mo said, walking off.

THE PRESENT………..

"That's when it was all about to begin," Rita said to everyone, hating the memory more and more.

"What happened Rita?" Ruby asked. "Can't I have a second to rest?" Rita responded. "Sure," said Ruby.

Chomper realized something. "Holes again?" Chomper asked.

Cera thought back to the underground cavern she and Tricia got sucked into. She remembered that when she exited it, she was led to a big hole. Could there be a connection.

"Nah…" she mentally figured.

"So what happened?" Chomper asked. Rita then proceeded to continue the story.

THE PAST……….

As the group of friends were in the middle of having a snack, Rory noticed something. "Is it just me, and does it look like there's more dinosaurs here than usual?" the orange threehorn asked.

Mo, Rita, Myra, and Greg turned and it did seem like there were a lot of unfamiliar leafeaters inside the valley. And they had one trait in common: Their bodies were covered in tar and mud marks.

THE PRESENT…….

Cera gasped, but luckily, it wasn't loud enough to catch her friends' attention. "Was it those….what did they say their name was….the Grounders?" the fast biter thought to herself.

THE PAST……….

"Where did all of them come from?" Myra asked, the Grounder members not seeing them.

"I don't know, but I think we should stay away," Rita replied. And soon it would be proven that Rita's words were wise.

Greg started to remember something. "Those look like the dinos I told you about from when I ran way," he gulped.

"What?!" everyone else went.

The gang kept their distance away from the tar-covered dinos when suddenly they saw a grownup they knew walk up to one of them.

"Who are you?" the adult threehorn asked the Grounder. He got his response…when the longneck-grounder tail-whipped him into the wall!

"What the?!" the friends went in horror. And with the threeorn's attack acting as a signal, all of the other Grounders burst into chaotic action.

They began running rampant around Flattooth Valley, attacking (often fatally) all the normal leafteaters.

"We have to get out of here!" yelled Myra, when suddenly she felt someone grab her arm. She screamed, but it turned out to only be Strut.

"Children, we must get out of here, quickly!" the fast runner ordered, knowing a way out of the valley they could use.

"But…our parents!" Rita said. Rory turned to his friend. "Rita, if we stay here, we'll die! WE HAVE TO GO!"

Rita turned to look back at the mass chaos, and only could hope that her mother and the rest of her friends' parents and her other friends would make it out alive.

A FEW MINUTES LATER…….

Strut and the young flatteeth had made it out of the valley safely. They were at an exit that weren't near any of the other exits. None of the Grounders had stepped outside of the valley, so they were safe.

"What now Strut?!" Greg yelled. "Where do we go from here?!" (Author's note: Don't worry, Redfoot, Dil, Ichy, Julie, and the rest of the gang's folks are safe.)

Strut took a brief pause to allow some recovery from the tragedy that had just occurred. "There is one place we can go," Strut said, "Considering that a majority of the survivors have fled, this valley is not safe anymore."

"But what should we do?" Rita asked, tears in her eyes. "If they are going to stay in the valley, our only choice is to fight back," Strut said, "But we can't do that by ourselves. You children will need to go to the Great Valley, you know some of the sharpteeth there, our best chance is to get them to join forces with us again."

"But what about you Strut?" asked Myra.

The fast runner knew that even though he wanted to help the children, he knew he would be of better assistance going through the Mysterious Beyond. Also, he knew that if the gang went with him, he wasn't sure if they be able to find enough food for everyone.

"There's someone I have to find," replied the fast runner.

"Guys, we have to do this!" Rita said, managing to hold back her tears. "For our friends, our families, for everyone!"

"I'm in," said Rory. "Me too," continued Greg. "As am I," Myra concluded.

"Then, I wish you all the best of luck," Sturt said, pointing in the direction of the Great Valley, then went off in his own direction. "Farewell for now."

THE PRESENT……….

All of the sharpteeth were horrified by the story., especially Cera. "And we kept walking in this direction until we failed to noticed we were on an edge above this canyon and fell down," Rita finally concluded.

"So now what?" asked Littlefoot.

"We need to meet the leader of the Great Valley, we've moved here, you could say," Rita said.

(There's chapter 13, Read and Review! NOTE TO MY READERS: On the 21st, I leave for a vacation with my dad to Florida, South Carolina, and West Virginia for a family reunion, and went be back to the 31st. So if I don't have a chapter up by then, don't expect one till early August.)

Next Time on Sharptooth Valley II: Rita, Rory, Myra, and Greg are allowed to stay in the valley by Sharptooth, but will they be able to prove to the other inhabitants that can be of use and not food? Also, Cera reveals what truly happened to her and Tricia, and Ruby is in for a surprise.)