Chapter 3: Pterano
Later, the gang were at the tall trees, playing a game. But Littlefoot, Mario, and the rest were sitting down. Petrie looked at them.
(Petrie) How come you guys no play?
(Littlefoot) We're still thinking about this morning.
(Mario) Besides Littlefoot's grandparents, nobody believes us. Ducky. I'm sure You believe us. Right.
(Ducky) Oh I believe you. Yep, yep, yep. But uhh, Mario. There can be a stone that is cold and fire on a stone. But how could a stone that is cold be on fire?
(Littlefoot) What about you Spike?
Spike didn't know what he thought about it. Even he was confused.
(Toadette) Maybe Tickles believes us.
(Tickles) Sorry. But even I find this Stone Of Cold Fire hard to believe.
Mario looked at Petrie who's on the branch of the tree right now.
(Mario) Well maybe you believe us Petrie.
(Petrie) Me no know about Stone Of Cold Fire. Story too spooky.
(Cera) Give it a rest you guys. No one is going to believe you.
(Toad) Come on guys. Not everything can be seen with your eyes. There are some things that you have to see with your heart.
(Littlefoot) Hey. My mother told me the same thing. But you said it in a different way.
(Cera) WRONG! My father told me that everything can only be seen with your eyes. So I won't believe it until I see it.
(Mario) That's it. If we found that Stone Of Cold Fire, everyone can see it for themselves. That'll prove that we were telling the truth.
(Petrie) But you hear grown-ups Mario. Volcanoes too dangerous.
(Waluigi) Come on guys. It's been a week since our last adventure. Even If that stone isn't magic, we should find it before You Know Who does.
(Mario) You talking about Red Claw and Bowser?
(Waluigi) Uh huh.
(Mario) Well you have a point. If that Stone Of Cold Fire is magic and Red Claw and Bowser gets his hands on it, it will be bad news for this world.
(Petrie) But still it too dangerous.
(?) Nonsense.
At that moment, 2 legs landed next to Petrie and it scared him off the branch and fell to the ground. Everyone gasped as they looked at what it was. It was a grown-up flyer who is brown and yellow-orange.
(Flyer) Hello hatchlings.
It didn't take too long for the flyer to see Petrie.
(Flyer) Why Petrie. Did I scare you?
(Petrie) Yes. No. Who are you? How you know me name?
(Flyer) Petrie. I'm heartbroken. How could you not recognize your dear old uncle?
And then it hit him. Petrie then remembered who the Flyer was. It was Petrie's uncle
(Petrie) Pterano.
(Luigi) What. You're Petrie's uncle?
(Pterano) Yes. And I know who you guys are. I didn't think my own needle would be one of the guys who defeated Sharptooth. Well done Petrie.
(Cera) What are you doing here?
(Pterano) Migrating natully like the others out there in the field. Bouldly searching an unforgiving wasteland for a more hospitable place to call home.
(Cera) Well you won't find it here.
(Pterano) Ah. Don't tell me. You must be the old Three-horns daughter.
(Cera) How do you know that?
(Pterano) Let's just say there's a strong family resemblance.
(Cera) Why thank you.
Then Pterano turned to Littlefoot, Mario, and the rest.
(Pterano) And you must be
(Petrie) Littlefoot. Mario. Luigi. Peach. Daisy. Toad. Toadette. Yoshi. Birdo. Koopa Troopa. Wario. Waluigi They me best friends. And so are Cera, Ducky, Spike, and Tickles.
(Pterano) Ah. Is young Tickles the tickley fuzzy over here?
(Tickles) Uhh. Yeah. That's me.
(Pterano) Also one more question Why did you call that stegosarus Spike?
(Mario) Oh. That's because ducky gave him that name also Spike meet Pterano.
Spike walked up to Pterano while he lowered his head, Then he sniffed him for a few seconds. After sensing no danger coming from him, Spike started licking Pterano's face. It also made him giggle a bit.
(Pterano) He's a friendly guy, isn't he?
(Toadette) Yep. He's a friendly guy.
Spike stopped licking Pterano
(Pterano) Can Spike talk?
(Ducky) Yep. Yep. Yep. Spike can talk. well if he want's to.
(Pterano) But I assume that the young Long-neck and the Mushroom kingdom heroes are the ones who claimed that they saw a Stone Of Cold Fire?
(Peach) No one believes us that it was a Stone Of Cold Fire. I take that you don't believe us either.
(Petrano) Oh no Princess Peach. I believe you completely. I know how stubborn the other grown-ups can be. That's why I had to leave the herd you know. They simply had no vision.
(Petrie) Me believe you guys.
(Birdo) You do?
(Cera) Well that's a first. So much for the story being too spooky.
(Pterano) Grand. Then we all agree. But the only way to convince everyone else as young Mario just said, is to go and find the stone.
(Toad) Uhh. No. I was just thinking out loud. That's why my last name is Loud. Say. I think we better go now.
(Toadette) Yeah. The grown-ups might be worried about us right now.
(?) Go back?
The gang then looked up and saw 2 more flyers coming. One was brown and the other was pink.
(Brown flyer) Go back not. How about you stay with us and talk about that Stone Of Cold Fire some more?
(Pink Flyer) Yes. We really want to know more about that stone. Mua ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
However, Petrano slammed his wings on the flyers and knocked them down.
(Koopa Troopa) Uhh. Who are those guys?
(Petrano) Sierra and Rinkus? Don't mind them. They're just tired from the long trip here. And they're not thinking well enough. To make it clear, Sierra is the brown one and Rinkus is the pink one.
(Littlefoot) Okay. Well we better go now.
(Petrie) Me see you later. Me want to stay with Uncle Pterano and talk some more.
(Cera) Petrie. It's time to GO RIGHT NOW!
(Petrie) But me really want to tell Uncle Petrano about
Before Petrie could finish, Cera charged at him with full speed and knocked him on the side with her horn and he was knocked flat on his back right on a rock.
(Pterano) No worries Petrie. You'll see me later at your nest soon.
(Petrie) Ooooow! Ok. Oooooh!
(Petrano) And if you change your minds about finding that stone then just speak to me. I'll be happy to help. Ta Ta.
As the gang left, Pterano looked back at Sierra and Rinkus.
(Rinkus) Ow. You bent my beak.
(Pterano) Well next time you better keep it shut.
(Sierra) Why should we? They weren't even falling for your act. That Long-neck and those Mushroom Kingdom heroes weren't falling for your act. I say we go and find that cold fire thingy on our own.
(Pterano) I repeat Mr. Sierra. We don't know where the stone landed.
(Rinkus) Well we should just strangle them until they tell us. If they don't, then we'll keep strangling until they have no
Before Rinkus could finish, Pterano slapped him on the beak again.
(Pterano) Mr. Rinkus. We are not threatening the young ones. If we do, it will put the elders on high alert. They will watch our every move and our chance will be lost. Do you want that?!
(Rinkus) N-n-n-n-n-n-n-no. No. Of course not.
(Pterano) Therefore, we must be calm and patient. Littlefoot, Mario, or the rest will talk. And when they do, The Stone of Cold Fire will be mine.
Later, Grandma and Grandpa Longneck were talking to Archie at his watering hole.
(Grandpa Longneck) So anyway, that's what Littlefoot, Mario, and the rest saw at last light and what the Rainbow Faces said to us. I'm sure that you'll believe them. Won't you Archie?
(Archie) Why of course I will. They're the ones who defeated Sharptooth. I'll believe anything they'll say.
However, neither one of them saw Littlefoot, Mario, and the rest running down the hill until they slipped and fell into the water.
(Archie) Whoa. Great timing kids.
(Grandma Longneck) Why, It's a little early for your bath dear. Why the rush?
(Littlefoot) No rush Grandma. I just felt a little dirty.
(Archie) Well don't worry about washing up here. The waterfall close by will clean this place up in a giffy.
(Grandpa Longneck) Were you kids playing in the bubbling goo again?
(Toad) Not really. And you know I don't ever touch that stuff.
(Toadette) We were just sitting near the trees talking.
(Grandpa Longneck) Oh that's
(Mario) But then we had a visitor.
(Grandpa Longneck) Oh. And who was that?
(Luigi) It was Petrie's...Uncle...Pterano.
Grandma and Grandpa Longneck got in a shock state. They never expected to see or hear from him.
(Grandma Longneck) Pterano? Here? In the valley?
(Peach) He also has friends. A Brown flyer named Sierra and a pink flyer named Rinkus.
(Littlefoot) We know that he's Petrie's uncle and all.
(Peach) But we don't trust him. There's something off about him. Is that bad?
(Grandpa Longneck) Guys. You have good instincts. And you should pay attention to them.
(Grandma Longneck) Did Pterano tell you why he left the herd?
(Wario) Well, he said it was because he can see everything better then you guys. And that you had no vision.
(Grandpa Longneck) What nerve. We can see just fine. In fact, we saw right through him. Why That no good
(Grandma Longneck) Now Grandpa. You haven't seen him and he's already made you upset.
(Grandpa Longneck) I'm sorry dear. It just seems that Pterano might be up to his old tricks again.
(Littlefoot) What old tricks?
(Grandpa Longneck) Well I don't want to tell the full story. But what I can say is that if we didn't put a stop in Pterano, we would have never made it to The Great Valley before what is right now.
Now Littlefoot, Mario, and the others were shocked. Even Archie was surprised about what Pterano did.
(Grandpa Longneck) I'll tell you the story when you old enough Littlefoot.
(Littlefoot) Grandpa. We really want to know the story now.
(Luigi) Yeah. he's not dangerous, is he?
(Mario) Did he do something really bad to the herd?
(Grandpa Longneck) He is dangerous. I guess I can tell you the story. It all started not long after you 3 got separated from us in the great earthquake. We set off to find The Great Valley. As of now, we made our decisions as a group in no one opinion of out waying the others. But Pterano didn't like being part of the herd. He wanted to be in charge of it. For some reason, he always felt that he knew more than the rest of us. Mr. Three-horn and his mate had an argument about who they should follow because she was one of the members of the herd who believed Pterano. And soon, she decided to go with him and the other members of the herd. And took Cera's sisters with her.
Mario was more surprised at this story. Is this why Cera's mother and sisters never made it to the valley?
(Grandpa Longneck) Soon, Pterano led the ones who believed him away from the rest of us. They hoped that his way would turn out great. They were sure that he had all the answers. They were sure that he'd never lead them astray. But by the time they got to a waterfall with many plants around it, they were wrong.
(Peach) How wrong were they?
(Grandpa Longneck) Dead wrong. Because when they entered, rocks began to fall from the top of the mountain. The herd ran as fast as they could to get away from them. But then they saw what was making the rocks fall. It was a pack of big blue and black striped Fast-biters. The herd battled the Sharp-teeth bravely. But they were not ordinary Sharp-teeth. They were smarter than the herd. One Swimmer got knocked over and slid to the edge of the canyon. She grabbed onto the ledge and tried to get back on, but lost her grip and fell to her doom. All that Pterano could do was watch as the other members had lost the battle and flew away. The biters have gotten their meat and ate it.
Now Mario's Friends was even more shocked. how could that happen?
(Grandpa Longneck) That night, Pterano returned to us and told us what happened. He never told us why it happened, but only that it wasn't his fault. But never or less, it was his fault that they got into such danger. Mr. Three-horn was so mad that he kicked Pterano out of the herd. And we never saw any of the others ever again.
Now Littlefoot, Mario, the rest of his friends, and Archie were really shocked.
(Littlefoot) Whoa.
(Mario) No way.
(Peach) Oh my.
(Grandpa Longneck) And that's what happened.
(Grandma Longneck) A real leader of the herd must be willing to take the credit when things go good, and the blame when things go bad.
(Grandpa Longneck) But not Pterano. He just kept changing his stories to get everyone to believe him. And it never worked.
(Littlefoot) Thanks for telling us the story Grandpa.
(Grandma Longneck) Well I think that's enough stories for now. So remember this. Pterano can sound if he knows everything. Even when he knows nothing.
(Grandpa Longneck) So be careful, will you?
(Littlefoot) We will Grandpa.
(Grandpa Longneck) Good. Now why don't you all go run along now.
(Littlefoot) OK.
(Mario) See you later Archie.
(Archie) You too Mario.
With that, they left the watering hole.