Chapter 7: Reasons

Later, Littlefoot, Mario, and his friends went for a walk around the place with Bron. Until they spotted Shorty and Boshi on the horizon.

(Littlefoot) Hey Dad. Was Shorty one of the young Long-necks you found all alone?

(Bron) Yes he was.

(Mario) Was Boshi the kingdom traveler with them?

(Geno) He was indeed. Each of the young Long-necks were adopted by members of the herd. Except for Shorty.

Luigi watched as Shorty roared at one of the younger Long-necks. Scaring him away from the tall grass. He then saw Boshi taking some of the younger Long-necks food and gave them to Shorty.

Mario and Littlefoot saw that too. The gang then wanted to see if they could befriend Shorty and Boshi. So they followed them to where they're going.

Shorty and Boshi were skipping rocks in the watering hole. They were mad that Bron had a long lost son that he found at last.

(?) Shorty. Boshi.

Both of them turned around and saw Littlefoot, Mario, and his friends heading towards them. They got even more mad. Shorty swung his tail on a rock to shoot it at Littlefoot as Boshi grabbed 2 of them to throw at Mario and his friends. But they quickly dodged them and the rocks went over their heads.

(Luigi) Nice throw.

(Mario) Hey. Any time you went to be with Bron and us

(Boshi) Listen Mario. Shorty and I can be with Bron anytime we want!

(Mario) Yeah. But

(Shorty) And he likes us better than you. You've only met him. Boshi and I knew him for all our lives!

(Littlefoot) He is my dad. But

Littlefoot was cut off when Shorty and Boshi shot more rocks on their heads.

(Yoshi) Yoshi Yoshi (That hurt!)

(Shorty and Boshi) You guys wanna do something about it?!

However, the gang lowered their heads, not wanting to fight with the 2 of them.

(All) No.

(Boshi) That's what we thought.

The gang then walked off.

(Shorty and Boshi) Cowerds! Babies!

The gang stopped at the comment and got mad

(Mario) What did you call us?

(Shorty and Boshi) Cowards and Babies. What are you going to do about it?

(Mario) That's It!

The gang then proceeded to fight and slapped them in the head multiple times.

However, Bron, Geno, Mallow, Peach and Daisy were watching them. They quickly exchanged punches shortly after landing on the ground.

(Wario) How do you like some of that?!

Boshi then continued to trade punches. After several minutes of punching the gang spit out a tooth and delivered another punch. Boshi adjusted his sunglasses and he and Shorty spit out a tooth. The 2 then roundhouse kicked them, then punched them, then kicked them to the ground.

She tried to slam a big log down on them but Wario blocked it. Wario got back up and was about to drop a rock down on them. Boshi suddenly twisted his chest.

(Boshi) Come on Tokyo!

Wario screamed in pain as the rock flew up in the air. The rock then flew down and hit him in the head. Boshi then delivered the last kick.

(Daisy) Right in the batteries

(Boshi) You think we can't take care of ourselves? Next time, we won't go so easy on you!

However, the 2 saw that they were watching them. He was paying more attention to the gang than he was to them. The 2 sighed in sadness. Bron was gonna ignore both of them now.

Meanwhile, with Cera's group. Pat was leading the gang to wherever Littlefoot, Mario, and his friends were. Right now, they were in a land filled with lava ponds. As they went on, Pat told them about the dreams he was having.

(Pat) And that was my dream.

(USApyon) I get that all Long-necks and the kingdom travelers with them are having that dream.

(Tickles) But what does it all mean?

(Pat) I'm glad you asked. It was a story my granddaddy used to tell me when I was a hatchling. Many years ago, the moon got jealous of the sun.

(Whisper) May I ask what you mean by jealous?

(Pat) It got mad that the sun was so bright that we all stayed awake for it while we slept when the moon was out.

Dinah and Dana wondered what Payment was all about. But that ended up stopping them from moving. Pat quickly took note of this.

(Pat) Better keep moving young fellas. It's not safe to stand still in one place.

At that moment, the lava river behind them exploded with hot steam. The 2 then ran back to the group.

(Pat) One day, the moon had grabbed the sun from the sky and pulled it to crash down into the earth.

(Jibanyan) It did that?

(Pat) It did. But there just happens to be a herd of Long-necks and some Kingdom travelers standing there on that day. The Long-necks stretched their necks up high to catch the sun as the Kingdom travelers used their Time Stones to make a bright light to prevent the sun from hitting the world and all of them worked together to place the sun back into the sky.

(Cera) Long-necks and humans save the world huh?

(Pat) That's how the story goes. But it's up to you to believe it or not.

Suddenly, Pat's rear left foot slipped into one of the lava rivers and knocked him down.

(Pat) Run!

Thinking quickly, Cera, Ducky, Tickles, Spike, the Three-horn twins, and the yokai grabbed Pat from his belly as Petrie pulled from above. When Pat was free, everyone made a brake for it as more lava rivers cracked out of the ground.

(Pat) Let's get out of here.

Some of the lava rivers began to explode with lava coming out of them. The gang did what they could to help Pat get away from them.

(Petrie) Hurry. Hurry.

The moment the gang got away from the rivers of magma, they rested Pat next to a stone wall and looked at his foot.

(Mee 2) That looks like a really bad burn Pat.

(Pat) It would have been worse if it hadn't been for you kids. This is gonna slow me down some. You are best going on without me. If you head towards those hills over there, you should be able to find your find and kingdom travelers.

(Ducky) But we can not go without you. No, no, no.

(Whisper) Uh...excuse us for a moment.

The gang got together in a circle and started whispering about what to do. When they were done, they turned back to Pat.

(Cera) We talked it over and we're not leaving without you.

(USApyon) We've decided that we'll stop here for the night.

(Pat) Wow. For one, I can't think of a word to say.

With their word said, the gang stayed where they are until morning.

Littlefoot, Mario, and his friends were still trying to figure out how they could reason with Shorty and Boshi. But for now, they were on the slope with Bron, Geno, and Mallow just hanging out.

(Mario) What do you think is gonna happen Bron.

(Bron) I don't know Mario. Something wonderful I hope.

(Littlefoot) Hey Dad. How come we haven't seen any Sharp-teeth?

(Bron) Sharp-teeth are cowards. They'd never attack a herd this big. Remember, they only hint in 2's and 3's. Even your friends Sue can handle that many.

But Sharp-teeth wasn't the case right now. There was something he had to tell Littlefoot.

(Bron) Littlefoot. Have you decided on what's gonna happen after this?

(Littlefoot) About what?

(Bron) Now that I found you, I don't want to lose you.

(Littlefoot) I don't want to lose you either.

(Bron) I always told the herd that had a son out there somewhere. And I hope you'll want to come with me when this is all over.

Littlefoot immediately understood what Bron was talking about. But he also doesn't want to leave Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, and Tickles. He also knew that wherever he goes, Mario and his friends will go with him.

Yet, he didn't want to leave Grandma and Grandpa Longneck ether. Littlefoot sighed as he watched them walk by.

(Grandpa Longneck) Come on Dear. Let's go to the watering hole.

Littlefoot knew that this wasn't going to be easy. But he'll have to make a decision at the end.