Chapter 1: Leaf problems

As Mario and his friends came home from GSC Island Museum's dino exhibits. Toadsworth was waiting for them by the door

(Toadsworth) Hey everyone. How was the dino exhibit?

(Mario) It was epic. It had a lot of dinosaur bones and info. There were even many electronic dinosaurs.

As Luigi looked at a photo and it showed a Megalodon Shark eating its meal. He screamed and hid behind the door.

(Luigi) Still don't like sharks?

(Luigi) I don't mind lions, tigers, or bears. Sharks just swim around the ocean and eat random stuff like mindless zombies.

(Toadsworth) Well do be glad that Megalodon Sharks don't exist today. You wouldn't last 5 hours in the oscan if it did.

(Luigi) I bet I could last a minute or 2.

(Toadsworth) Okay. And are you and your friends going to The Land Before Time?

(Peach) Yes we are. You want to come this time?

(Toadsworth) Sure.

The gang called their friends to come with them and they said yes.

(Tom Nook) Before we go I have something for you.

Tom Nook gave them crafting tables.

(Isabelle) These are crafting tables so you craft whatever you want. Oh and also we'll be taking our own way to the great valley.

(Mario) Okay Isabelle. Alright let's go

Mario and his friends went into the warp pipe while the others took their way to the great valley.

As the gang got to the other side of the warp pipe, they saw Littlefoot and the others not too far away.

(Mario) Hey Littlefoot.

(Littlefoot) Hey Guys. I see you the others this time. But where are they?

Just then they saw Inklings coming down from the sky.

(Gloves) No obstacles while using super jump to slow us down this time.

(Bobble Hat) No work, no world. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Get it?

(Headphones & Specs) No!

Then they heard a DOV helicopter coming down to them.

(Sister Buzzard) Isabelle. I like flying but not that high.

(Littlefoot) Hey you guys from GSC Island.

(Tom Nook) He knows our Island?!

(Mario) Okay. Anyway. What are you guys doing?

(Littlefoot) Well, it's my turn to get the first tree-star on our favorite tree. But today there's only one.

(Cera) And the challenge is, who gets it.

Mario looked at the tree and saw only one leaf on it.

(Mario) Well. Who gets it? Littlefoot.

(Cera) It may be the first one of the day but it's the last one on the tree. That changes the rules.

(Littlefoot) Nuh uh.

(Cera) I think it should go to the oldest.

(Mario) I'm older than you and you know leaves taste bad to humans.

(Cera) Okay then. It'll go to the strongest.

(Koopa Troopa) But that's you.

(Cera) I know.

(Ducky) I think it should go to the litter-est. That is me.

(Petrie) Me no know about that. Petrie is the same size as Ducky.

(Tickles) But i'm smaller than you 2. Hay. Maybe all 3 of us can share it.

(Petrie) Good thinking Tickles.

(Ducky) Sharing is good. Yep yep yep.

(Littlefoot) Fair is Fair. The tree-star is mine.

(Toadsworth) Wait. Is this the Tickles who helped you in The Land of Mists? Boy he's literally too cute to be eaten by Sharp-teeth.

(Tickles) Why thank you. And yes. It's me. Tickles. I live with Ducky and Spike. I think of their mama as mine. She adopted me into the family. Besides. My other mama was eaten and I'm still a kid.

(Toadsworth) Oh.

(Littlefoot) Still the tree-star is mine. Right Spike?

But Spike ran to the tree at full speed and rammed it to make the leaf fall. He kept hitting it and the leaf didn't fall.

(Cera) Stop it Spike.

(Petrie) Nice try Spike. But Petrie gets the tree-star first.

Petrie flew to the top of the tree and bit on the leaf. Until Spike started ramming the tree again. Making Petrie shake and pull the leaf off the tree with it still in his mouth.

(Petrie) Oh! All of sudden, I don't feel so hungry.

Petrie then fell onto Spike's head. As he did so, the leaf fell out of his mouth and then the wind blew it away and the gang began to chase it.

(Specs) There it goes.

(Cera) I got it.

(Littlefoot) It's mine.

(Ducky) Look out.

Petrie tried to grab the leaf. But Spike bit on his leg and held him back a bit. Petrie then tried to grab it again. But Spike once again bit his leg to hold him back.

(Petrie) Spike. Cut it out.

Ducky was holding onto Cera's tail as she ran to the leaf. Before she could try to grab it, Ducky got onto her back and was standing on it and Cera's running was making her lose bowlense.

(Cera) Hey. That tickles.

(Tickles) I'm over here.

Cera was laughing as she ran. She then shook her back which got Ducky to fall off of her.

Littlefoot was closer to the leaf and tried to bite it but missed. And then the gang and the rest of the gang all bumped into something. It was Kosh the Club-tail. He saw the leaf and ate it up before it got away. Much to the young dinosaurs' displeasure.

(Kosh) Morning Kids. Nice day for a tree-star. Of course I don't eat any treats from the trees much often.

(Mario) Morning Kosh. Glad you liked it.

(Specs) Okay if he got the treestar then what did we get?

They saw a wasps nest they knocked down and then a swarm came up and they were angry and ready to sting.

(Brer Fox) WE GOT WASPS! RUN!

They ran for their lives to find shelter so they dove in the water to get away from them. But inklings can't swim in water so they made their pond and dove in the ink. After that they were gone.

(Brer Gator) Okay. They're gone.

(Mario) That was close. We almost got stung.

(?) Why children.

(Littlefoot) Grandpa.

(Grandpa Longneck) Why hello Mario. I see the others got to come this time.

(Mario) Sure did sir.

(Grandpa Longneck) Anyway. What's with all the fuse?

(Cera) Littlefoot said it's his turn to get the first tree-star and today there was only one. Thanks to most of these guys, Mr. Club-tail got it. But then we got a wasps nest and we hid from them before the wasps stung us.

(Grandpa Longneck) Oh really? Well children, if there was only one and not enough to go around, perhaps it's best that old Mr. Club-tail got it. After all, he doesn't quite often get to enjoy treats from the top of the trees. I imagine that this is a special morning to him. Besides, there's no need to fight over food. There are plenty of tree-stars to go around.

Grandpa Longneck grabbed a tree-branch with his mouth and shuke it to make leaves fall from it. The dinosaur kids cheered and happily ate their food. Kosh ate some as well.

(Mario) See? There's no need to fight. Here in The Great Valley, there are enough tree-stars for everyone.

(Littlefoot) Thanks Grandpa.

(Grandpa Longneck) You're welcome.

Toad took off his shirt to make a plate for the tree star as he spoke only to have Spike's tongue suddenly coil around his shirt and pull it and the tree star in.

(Toad) Spike, Your eating my shirt.

Spike stopped chewing and stuck his tongue out, seeing toad's shirt sitting on it. He dried the saliva off and glared at him. And Spike was rubbing his tongue with his tail to get the taste off of it.

(Toad) Ugh. Spike, You should watch where you're about to eat okay?

Spike licks Toad with slobber on his tongue for his advice and Toad giggled and wiped off some slobber on his face.

(Toad) I'll take that as a yes.

(Kosh) I imagine this morning is very special for me today. Uh oh. Look at that cloud over there. We might be in for some rain. But don't worry. It does make things grow.

(Blathers) Hay. What's that buzzing sound?

Everyone looked at the cloud, only to see that it's not really a cloud at all.

(Grandpa Longneck) Oh no.

(Kosh) It can't be.

(Luigi) Oh no. Locusts.

(Cera) Locusts?

(Blathers) A swarm of bugs that eats a lot of green stuff at whatever place they find and I also hate bugs.

The gang watched as the locusts flew to the trees and ate all the leaves on them. Cera then saw them flying straight to her father.

(Cera) Daddy looked out.

(Topps) What is it Cera? Wait. Is that? Oh no. It is.

Before Topps could react, the locusts swarmed to him and ate the green in front of him.

(Topps) Everyone. We got ourselves a sworning leaf-gobeler attack.

Everyone heard Topps and saw the locusts and got in panic. The locusts continued eating all the green. And before the gang knew it, the locusts flew straight to them and got them in a bigger panic. Spike ran behind a bush until the locusts ate it. Before Blathers knew it, the locusts flew over to him and some landed on his face.

(Blathers) AAAHHH! GET THEM OFF ME!

Blathers ran inside a log with Ducky following him. Cera tried to get in too. But her head and front feet got stuck and she started rolling around in the log with Ducky and Blathers still in it. Cera then dropped her head which got the log to bump into the ground and made Blathers and Ducky bump their heads.

(Blathers) Ow. Cera.

(Ducky) Do not do this.

(Cera) Sorry.

Petrie tried to fly away from the locusts but they were too fast for him and flew straight to him and passed him which got him to bump into a tree and fall to the ground.

Blathers and Ducky got out from the log and Cera got herself unstuck. Everyone in the valley watched the locusts as they were starting to leave.

(Cera) How much did they get?

(Mario) Everything.

Ducky walked over to a tree with only a little green left. She touched it and it easily broke and fell off the tree.

(Ducky) I do not like locusts. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Yet. Outside The Great Wall, a Giganotosaurus named Gary-Jack Biter was walking past the mountains.

(Gary-Jack Biter) Gary-Jack Biter. Why is my name Gary-Jack Biter? It makes me the laughing stock to all the other Sharp-teeth. And my brother, Savage Spine. He thinks I'm not that great and powerful. He thinks he's better than anyone. Especially since Sharptooth is gone.

But then, Gary saw the swarming leaf gobblers. And there were a lot of them.

(Gary-Jack Biter) Well well well. That's The Great Valley on the other side of those mountains. I bet there's no more food for the Leaf-eaters now. The kids who defeated Sharptooth might have to leave to find more food. This can be my chance to turn my name into something that everyone fears. And that'll show my brother who's the best now.

That night, the herds all went to the meeting place.

(Grandpa Longneck) When the sun rose today, The Great Valley was a paradise. Now the great moon looks down at a wasteland. I'm afraid it will be a long time until there's enough green-food to use again.

(Topps) As much as I hate a agree with a Long-neck, I must admit he's right. There's nothing left to eat.

All the grown-ups started going on about the no food problem. The gang all hid behind a rock and heard what the grown-ups were saying.

(Grandma Longneck) Place don't be too loud. The gang are sleeping.

(Grandpa Longneck) Everyone. I'm afraid that we don't have much of a choice. We are faced with a difficult decision. But we must leave The Great Valley.

The gang were shocked at what Grandpa Longneck had said. Most of the other grown-ups didn't like it either.

(Kosh) Leave The Great Valley? Impossible.

(Mama Swimmer) We are protected here. Beyond the mountain walls live...Sharp-teeth.

Most of the dinosaurs were trying to think of a better way. Until Topps stepped up.

(Topps) Get ahold of yourselves. Show some backbone.

(Grandpa Longneck) My friends. We've lived in our beloved valley for so long that we forgot something. All of us survived in The Mysterious Beyond before coming here. And we can do it again if we must.

The gang then looked at each other.

(Isabelle) Leave The Great Valley?

(Littlefoot) Where will we go? Where will we live?

(Cera) Probably join up with herds of our own kind somewhere.

(Ducky) I do not like this grown-up plane.

(Tickles) Me neither.

And even Spike didn't like it. Petrie was so upset that he held onto a tree.

(Petrie) Petrie no go. They can't make me.

(Cera) I don't want to live with just a bunch of Three-horns. They're too bossy.

(Littlefoot) And where can me, Mario and the rest find friends like you?

Everyone looked at Littlefoot. They knew wherever he goes, Mario and his friends will go with him.

(Grandpa Longneck) Then it's settled. We'll leave The Great Valley. Together.

(All children) Together.

(Petrie) Okay. Petrie will go.

However, Petrie didn't want to let go of the tree as he tried to move.

(Petrie) But first. Petrie needs help.

Tom Nook moved Petrie's wings off the tree as it made him fall backwards.

(Tom Nook) Whops. Sorry.

(Petrie) Petrie ok.

(Mario) Let's get back to sleep. I think we'll leave when the sun is out.

So the gang went back to their nests and went to sleep.