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Chapter twenty- three: Starting the Search

Kamarun laid back against the hard rock his back was pressed up against and sighed. Looking up into the sky he wondered how this could have possibly happened. How in the world could that Flyer have gotten out? Not to mention without them noticing. It just didn't make any sense to him.

"Kamarun-chan?" Outina's voice pierced his train of thought.

"Huh?" he stuttered out.

"You were spacing out," Sondar told him.

"Oh. I was just thinking," Kamarun shrugged, leaning back against the rock.

"About what?" Geo asked.

"Stuff," he muttered.

"What kind of stuff?" Bowicke said, crossing his arms over his chest knowingly.

"Like how that Pteranodon could've gotten out without us knowing. Also how they were able to bust out of here. Just irks me," Kamarun mumbled, looking at the ground in thought.

"I also heard that Longneck even killed one of our men," a new voice chimed in.

Each one of their heads turned to the source of the voice and they saw a big red Sharptooth standing at the front of them. Sondar, Bowicke, and Geo looked too, but all they could hear was mindless growling.

"What'd he say?" Sondar asked quietly.

"Don't look at me," Geo retorted.

Bowicke just gave the Sharptooth a weird look.

"What do you mean? How could he have hurt anyone in his state?" Outina asked the Sharptooth.

"Don't ask me. I heard it from Lingo who saw the fight. He said that the Longneck's eyes glowed and then he attacked. If you ask me, it's pretty weird," the red Sharptooth puzzled, raising and eye upwards.

"Hm…" Kamarun mumbled, furrowing his brow.

Outina looked at his partner before turning to the Sharptooth.

"Thanks for telling us this, Henzai," Outina thanked him.

Henzai nodded with a gruff look on his face and walked away to a small group of other Sharpteeth.

"What did he say?" Bowicke asked his group.

"Something about Littlefoot killing someone," Outina shrugged.

"The Longneck killed something!" Bowicke gasped as did Geo and Sondar.

"Jeez, I never would've believed it if I hadn't been told right in my face by a Sharptooth," Geo muttered.

"He never seemed the type. Then again…" Sondar trailed off in though.

"Something doesn't seem right about this. If he was that type, wouldn't he have just killed off everyone now and escaped way before now?" Kamarun asked.

"You've got a point there," Outina nodded.

"I suppose," Bowicke agreed.

Sondar and Geo both nodded to each other.

"Should Hisoki know about this?" Outina asked.

Kamarun thought about this for a few minutes. Would it really be all that wise to tell their leader about this news? He probably should, but something in the back of his mind told him that it was better to keep quiet about this.

"What he doesn't know won't hurt him…or anybody else for that matter," Kamarun said.

Lucy woke up slowly, light blinding her in contrast to the dark cave. She mumbled something and pushed herself into a sitting position, leaning on her hands for support. Looking out into the sunlight, she now saw that everyone else was sprawled out on the floor, tails covering heads, feet on stomachs, heads on backs, still asleep.

"I'm glad we stopped. If everyone was gonna crash like this," Lucy said inwardly.

Arching her back as she stretched, she stood up. Lucy walked outside of the cave and looked up at the sun, high in the sky, indicating to her that it was around noon, maybe a little passed that.

"Well, time to get started," she said to herself and walked back into the cave, where she saw everyone was starting to get up.

"Okay, guy's. Everyone up?" she said into the cave.

"Yes," came the unenthusiastic reply.

Soon, one by one, they started coming out of the cave. They were tired, but they all bared determined looks on their faces.

"I am tired, I am, I am," Ducky moaned beside Spike, who was yawning widely. She was rubbing her eyes.

"Me too," Petrie agreed.

"Well, the sooner we get going, the sooner we can find Littlefoot and the sooner you won't be tired anymore," Ruby said to them. Truth be told, she was pretty tired himself.

"Ruby's right. I say we get started," Ali said, standing beside the pink Fast Runner.

"The only question is," Cera started, "where do we start looking?"

"I guess we could split up into groups, that might help us find him faster," Chomper suggested. "And my sniffer can help us find him faster too." He pointed to it to emphasize his point.

"Everyone agree with that?" Lucy asked.

They all nodded.

"Okay. I guess that's what we're gonna do. Now, what are there…" She started pointing at each member of the gang. "Ten of us not including myself which means there are eleven which means we'll need to split into…" Lucy counted her fingers as she did the math in her head. "Four groups of two and one group of three," she finished.

"Okay, who wants to go with who?" Cera asked her friends.

"Me, Petrie, and Spike can go together, we can, we can," Ducky offered to them.

"Okay, so the group of three is done. Everyone pick pairs," Lucy said.

Soon, everyone had their pairs sorted out. Cera was with Lucy, Ruby was with Chomper, Nana was with Ali, and Rhett was with Shorty.

"Okay, now that we've got the groups, what now?" Nana asked.

"We need to pick who's going where," Ali answered.

"Alright then. Chomper and I can go in the direction of the Smoking Mountains. In the direction of the Smoking Mountains Chomper and I can go," Ruby offered.

"Sure, me and Ruby can do that," Chomper agreed.

"Okay," Lucy nodded.

"Ali and I can go over by those hills," Nana said.

The Longneck nodded her agreement.

"Me and Rhett can go look by those tall trees," Shorty said with Rhett nodding his head.

"Kay, so that leaves me and Cera…hm…" Lucy put her hand and her chin in thought.

"Why don't we look around here?" Cera suggested.

"That works," Lucy agreed.

"So, are we all set?" Nana asked everyone.

"Yep," Shorty nodded for everyone.

"Okay. And let's all meet back here by the time when the Bright Circle is starting to go behind the Smoking Mountains," Lucy said.

"Good luck everyone," Ali and Nana called as they headed off.

Shorty and Rhett gave a little nod and walked off themselves to their designated searching area.

Ducky, Spike, and Petrie all headed off with Ducky on Spike's back and Petrie above them in their direction.

Ruby and Chomper walked briskly off and soon, disappeared from sight.

Lucy and Cera both looked at each other before turning behind them and starting to look closely at every little detail they could find to see if they at least had a clue as to where their Longneck friend may be.

What they all didn't know, was that something had just walked out of the cave they were just in and took to the skies once everyone was gone and that it started following Cera and Lucy as they walked, completely oblivious to the stranger just above them…

End of Chapter Twenty-Three

Finally done. Okay, the search has started. Will any of them find anything that willmlead them closer to Littlefoot? And who was that thing following Lucy and Cera? Find out the answers in...the next chapter! Review please!