Chapter 2: Sinking Sand

Meanwhile, The two Egg-stealers have been searching around the valley for any nests. As Ozzy took a sniff in the air, he got a sent that only an Egg-stealer can smell.

"Smell something Ozzy?" Strut asked him.

"Hmm. Yes. Breakfast." Ozzy said as he sniffed again. "Follow me."

Up ahead was a nest with about six eggs inside. And the mother of these eggs is nowhere in sight. Ozzy then walked over to the nest and grabbed one of the eggs as he licked his mouth. But when he was about to eat it,

BAM!

A rock had fallen down from the hill and landed on his head, making him see stars. However, he dropped the egg and it bounced back into the nest safely. The rock that fell on him had also fallen onto his head. Thinking it was the egg, Ozzy took a bite on it. Until he felt a nasty taste and pain in his mouth and saw that it was the rock.

"NOOOOO!"

Disgusted, Ozzy tossed the rock onto the ground as he also ended up spitting pebbles out of his mouth.

"Ozzy, did you get an," Before Strut could finish, another rock fell on his head and was more dizzy than Ozzy was. "egg?" Strut finished before fanting.

Ozzy then gasped as he saw the egg back in its place. But before he could pick it up,

"Hey you kids!"

The mother Big-mouth had returned to the nest. Ozzy quickly ran away before he was spotted.

"Stop rolling those rocks down the hill!" She said to Littlefoot and Chomper as they ended up letting one more rock down. "My nest is in there!"

"Sorry ma'am." Chomper said to her.

The two then walked back to the others. Their game was now over. Making them all drop to the ground.

"Aw. It wasn't much fun anyway." Said Cera.

"Yep yep yep. No fun at all." Said Ducky.

"Boring." Said Petrie.

"What do you wanna do now?" Littlefoot asked.

Spike grunted at him in his way of saying "I don't know."

"I know. I know." Said Ducky. "We can go to the Sheltering Grass. And play Sharptooth Attack."

Ducky then began to make Sharptooth roars. Making everyone else laugh. Everyone except Cera.

"No way." She said. "Not if I have to be Sharptooth again."

"I don't want to get under you Cera." Said Ruby. "But I was Sharptooth last time."

"Whatever. It's still not gonna be me."

"Hey." Said Petrie. "How about Spike be Sharptooth?"

Of course, Spike was eating grass right now. But he heard what Petrie said.

"Oh yes yes Spike." Said Ducky.

"Okay Spike? Huh?" Petrie asked him.

"Please?" Ducky also said to him.

After three more munches, Spike nodded his head yes.

"See? He no mind." Said Petrie.

"Hooray!" Ducky cheared.

"Alright. Let's go." Said Cera.

"Yep yep yep. We are going to the Sheltering Grass."

With that said, six of them began to make their way down the hill to the Sheltering Grass. However, Littlefoot didn't like this idea.

"Wait! Wait you guys." He said witch got the others to stop. "The Sheltering Grass is on the other side of the Sinking Sand."

"So?" Cera asked him.

"Well, it's just that, my grandparents don't want me crossing the Sinking Sand without them."

"Oh that right. Sinking Sand dangerous." Said Petrie. He was so scared of the sands that he acted like he was drowning in water.

"Yes it is. It is." Said Ducky.

"I guess so." Said Ruby.

"Maybe we should do it somewhere else." Said Chomper.

"Aw. You're just a bunch eggs." Cera said as she lifted up her head. That got Petrie to roll off of her and on the ground until his back hit a rock and fell to his belly. "I can cross the Sinking Sand with my eyes closed."

"With her eyes closed?" Chomper asked.

"And not looking where she is going?" Ducky also asked.

Spike was afraid of this. So afraid that he covered his eyes with his feet.

"Hey." Said Petrie. "That sound fun. Petrie try it."

With that said, Petrie got up and closed his eyes and started walking. But because he wasn't looking where he was going, he bumped right into Spike's face. Making both of them open their eyes and yelp at each other. But then calmed down when they realized who was who.

"Hey!" Cera called to them. "Are you Scardy Eggs coming or not?!"

With that said, five of them went to catch up with Cera. Littlefoot was still against this however. So he turned back to get his grandparents.

"Littlefoot." Ducky said as she came back. "Are you coming?"

"Well...uh...yeah. I'm coming." He said to her. "It's tough being a leader."

And now, all of them were on their way to the Sheltering Grass. Of course, Littlefoot didn't know how to tell the others that this is a bad idea.

"The Sinking Sand." Littlefoot said as the gang had arrived there. It was a huge pit of brown sand bubbling like the tar-pits. One step in and you will sink down. And the Sheltering Grass was a small island in the middle of the sands and there was rocks to use as stepping stones. "How are we gonna get across?"

The first thing Ducky did was try to step in it. But her foot got stuck and it took three seconds to pull it out with black goo on it.

"Ew. I can not swim in this." She said. "Oh no. No no no."

"Petrie fly across." He said as he got in the air and flew in a loop.

Chomper laughed a bit. "Petrie. We don't have wings like you do. There's no way we can all fly over there."

"Oh." Petrie said as he landed and sadly remembered that nun of his friends can fly.

"Poor Petrie." Said Ducky.

"My dad just jumps from rock to rock." Said Cera

"Yeah, but your dad has longer legs than us." Said Littlefoot.

"Big deal. I can do it to. Watch."

And then, Cera took a couple steps back and then she ran to the sands and leaped over to one of the rocks. When she landed, her back feet ended up in the goo. But she managed to pull herself up to the rock.

"See?"

But then, Cera slipped off the rock and fell into the goo.

"Cera!" Ruby shouted. "Hang on!"

All of the others quickly ran over to her. Or in Petrie's case, flying as he shouted,

"Wait for Petrie!"

"AAHH! HEEELP!"

Ducky and Chomper both leaped over to the rock Cera was on and then Ducky grabbed her horn as Chomper grabbed Ducky's tail.

"We got you Cera." Said Chomper.

"Yes we do." Said Ducky.

However, both of them were not strong enough to free her. Littlefoot then leaped over and grabbed Chomper's tail with his mouth while Ruby grabbed Littlefoot's tail with her hands.

"That it Littlefoot. You too Ruby. Pull." Said Petrie.

However, Ruby started to lose her balance and her right foot slipped into the sands.

"Oh no!" Petrie exclaimed. "No! What me do?! Me go for help! What? No! We not supposed to be here!"

"Hooray! Spike!" Ducky said as Spike came and grabbed Ruby by her tail.

"That it Spike. You help." Petrie said before realizing something. "Wait. I help. I pull too."

And now, Petrie flew to Spike's tail and grabbed it. Now it was six of them working together to free Cera from the Sinking Sand. All of them pulling as heard as they can. But soddenly, Spike had lost his balance and fell in with Petrie still on his tail.

All of them were stuck and they all struggled to get out. Including Ducky as she tried to get on Littlefoot bet kept slipping off, and Petrie as he tried to fly away, but the goo made his wings heavy and made him fall back in. And even Ruby as she grabbed onto a near by rock but kept slipping off of it.

Not too far away, Topps was having dinner with the other Three-horns. but the sounds of his daughters screaming made him stop eating and turn to the Sinking Sand.

"Cera?"

Over Petrie's nest, Mama Flyer was raping up her egg. But then stoped as she also heard the gangs screaming at the sands.

"Petrie!"

Over at the watering hole, Bowser and Ruby's parents were gathering some scaly-swimmers for their supper. But they also heard the screaming of their children witch turned their attention to the Sinking Sand.

"Chomper!" Bowser shouted.

"Ruby!" Oliver and Raph shouted as well.

And too far away from the three, Mama Swimmer and Littlefoot's grandparents were getting a drink until the screaming got them to see what was going on at the sands.

"Ducky! Spike!" Mama Swimmer shouted.

"Littlefoot!" Grandma and Grandpa also shouted.

Acting quick, the eight grown-ups ran as fast as they could to the sands.

The gang was now down to their heads. They were close to finding themselves in The Great Beyond soon. Of course, Littlefoot still had hope that they'll get out.

"Don't give up. We can make it." He said as he grabbed Ducky to pull her out. But it failed and caused him to sink down into the sands.

"Littlefoot!" Ducky exclaimed as she and the others also sank.

However, at the last minute, Grandpa arrived and used his tail to lift the gang out of the goo and onto the soled earth. And all seven of them coughed as they were placed back on the ground. But what was important was the fact that they were safe.

"We made it." Littlefoot said happily.

However, when they all looked up, they saw all the grown-ups and they were not happy about what happened.

"Uh oh!" Chomper exclaimed, knowing that lecture was coming.

Authors Note:

Boy, this was my longest chapter done. Not sure how it'll turn out. But it was worth it.