Chapter 7: Found

The gang kept going. However, Cera looked at shadows and noticed that the egg stealers were there.

(Cera) Hey.

(Mario) What?

(Cera) There they are.

(Mario) Where? I don't see them, it's too dark out.

(Littlefoot) Sssshhhh. Listen.

The gang listened as they found the egg-eaters on a pillar of rocks with a flat on top.

(Ozzy) Ok Strut. Now it's my turn to hold the egg.

Ozzy then licked his mouth. And that was enough to tell Ducky what was going to happen next.

(Ducky) Oh no. We have to do something before they eat it.

(Mario) I got an idea. Luigi will scare the egg-eaters. Then we'll grab the egg and run for it.

(Cera) Looks like you got a plan.

The gang followed Mario as he got to the egg-eaters on the pillar.

(Luigi) WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GIVE THE EGG TO ME.

Before Strut and Ozzy could take a bite of the egg, they turned around and saw Luigi's scary face and they screamed and dropped the egg as thunder and lighting came in as the rain stopped. The egg-eaters ran around the cavern screaming as the egg rolled unharmed all around the cavern.

(Littlefoot) Great work Luigi. Now let's get that egg.

Luigi got on Littlefoot's back and Toad and Toadette got on Cera's. They all ran to the egg as it rolled to Littlefoot and Luigi.

(Luigi) We got it.

However, the egg went past Luigi's hand before he grabbed it.

(Luigi) We don't got it.

(Cera) I got it.

(Toad) Cera. Slow down.

(Cera) What is it?

(Toad) Up ahead.

Cera saw that Toad was telling her that she was running straight to a pillar of rocks up ahead. She screamed as she stopped moving her feet but didn't stop moving fast enough and her horn hitted the pillar so hard that it made rocks fall from the ceiling.

(Mario) CAVE-IN! EVERYBODY RUN!

The gang all tried to run out of the cave. Not only that, The egg-eaters found the egg and Strut grabbed it while he and Ozzy were trying to get away from the falling rocks.

Neither of them got out of the cavern in time because the impact of the rocks had chased all of them to a dead end and all of them got pushed out through a weak spot on the wall. The egg, the egg-eaters, the gang, and the rocks were flying out of the cave and onto the wall of boulders got crumbled by the rocks and they went in two separate ways. The back of the rock slide took the gang to the swamp in The Mysterious Beyond while the front of the rock slide took the egg-eaters and the egg back to The Great Valley.

(Ozzy) Whatever you do Strut, aahh, don't lose, ow, that egg.

Strut heard his order as he suffered on a round flat rock. He tried to grab the egg but it kept slipping out of his hands. When he finally got a grip on the egg, a holt came to the rock slide and buried the egg-eaters as Strut lost the egg and it rolled back to Ducky and Spike's nest and it flipped on a rock sticking out of the ground and it landed unharmed back in to place with its unhatched siblings.

The gang screamed and Ducky called for help as the rocks took them to the swamp. The rocks came to a stop and buried the gang under them as only some rocks fell off the outcut and broke a skeleton as they went into the swamp. When it was done, Littlefoot, Mario and his friends got up from under the rocks and shook their heads and groaned and Birdo held onto her snout as they both got injured from the rocks.

(Ducky) HEEEEELP!

Ducky was holding on to the outcut with Petrie holding on to her tail. Peach got up from under the rocks and shook her head as Ducky and Petrie. Fortunately for her, her tiara and dress didn't get damaged. Petrie let go of Ducky's tail as they got over the solid earth and Peach sat Ducky down on a rock.

(Peach) Are you guys OK?

(Petrie) Uhhh Petrie not OK. I hurt everywhere.

He fell down on a pile of rock as his wings began to ache. Suddenly the rocks moved and Cera was under them. When she got out, Petrie saw her angry face.

(Petrie) Whoa. Good Cera.

She snorted Petrie off of her before rubbing her horn with her foot.

(Cera) Oh, I think I've bent my horn.

(Luigi) Hey I'm alive.

(Ducky) Where is Spike?

(Mario) And where's Yoshi?

Then the rocks under Cera and Luigi moved and she was standing on Spike and Luigi was sitting on Yoshi when he got out from under. Ducky cheered and Spike walked over to her as Cera slipped off of him and Yoshi went up to him while Luigi was holding on to him. Spike started licking Ducky and Yoshi started licking Mario. It made them giggle because it was also tickling them.

(Ducky) Spike stop it. I'm OK. I am.

(Mario) Yoshi stop it. I'm OK. And you know that doesn't wash out.

Everyone started laughing. But their fun didn't last long. They heard a spooky and walked to the outcut. They saw the swamp and strange creatures and dead trees and skeletons of beak-faces, three-horns, long-necks, and over them was a skeleton of a T-rex.

(Petrie) This place is spooky.

(Ducky) Where are we?

(Luigi) I-I think we're in The Mysterious Beyond.

(Cera) The Mysterious Beyond? Will I'm not afraid of any old Mysterious Beyond.

Then a bubble from the swamp popped and splashed mucky water all over Cera's face and it made the others giggle.

(Ducky) There is nothing to be afraid of as long as we are all here together. Right?

Magnus did his final attack on Red Claw and knocked him into the swamp. Red Claw then walked away from the cave.

(Red Claw) I'll get you Magnus.

Magnus then saw Tyra coming back upset.

(Magnus) Tyra

(Tyra) Magnus I couldn't stop them. They took the egg while we weren't looking.

Magnus got in a shock state. The only future hatchling they were going to have left was now gone. Magnus began to rage in anger and sadness.

(Magnus) NOOOOOOOO!

The gang gasped when they heard a sharp-tooth raring in the horizon. Spike hid his head in the ground and Petrie flew onto Littlefoot's neck.

(Cera) I want to go home.

(Petrie) Petrie go home to.

(Ducky) But what about the egg? We can not leave it here all alone.

(Mario) I-I'm afraid it got squished.

Ducky knew that Mario was right. There's no way the egg could have survived the rock slide. She then bursted in tears and started crying.

(Ducky) Bye bye baby sibling.

Spike removed his head from the ground. And sense he's part of Ducky's family, it felt like he also lost a member and got sad as well and started to howl.

(Littlefoot) Don't cry Ducky. It's all part of The Great Circle Of Life.

(Peach) Besides, you have a nest full of eggs at home.

(Ducky) Yeah but this one was special. It was going to be my favorite. All blue and orange and sparkled. There is not another egg like that in the whole world.

(Mario) Hey. I think I see it.

(Ducky) You do? Where?

(Mario) Behind you.

She turned her head and saw what it was.

(Ducky) The egg. It is not smushed. Hello baby sibling. Hey. You've grown. This is going to be a very big baby sibling.

(Cera) Then Let's get it home and we can tell everyone we saved it.

(Petrie) And then they no longer treat us like babies anymore.

(Mario) I'll carry it.

With that, they went back to the valley.

On the way back however, Mario felt a little unsure about this. How can eggs grow if they haven't even hatched yet? Or is this not even Ducky's egg at all? Mario hasn't learned anything about dinosaur eggs yet. So he'll just have to wait and see the result.

Magnus was upset from losing his only egg left. He knew he shouldn't have insulted Red Claw.

(Tyra) Magnus?

(Magnus) This is all my fault. I shouldn't have insulted Red Claw.

(Tyra) It's okay. Let's just move out of here. The sooner, the better. Do you smell Red Claw anywhere?

Magnus began to sniff the air for Red Claw. But instead of Red Claw, something else got him.

(Magnus) No but I do smell Breakfast and Mario. Hey he's the guy who defeated Red Claw's Brother. Come on. We're going to need our straight if we're going to travel. And the climb down the mountain is going to take us all morning.

The gang got to Ducky and Spike's nest. Mario gave the egg to Ducky. But she gasped when saw the nest.

(Littlefoot) Go on Ducky. Put it back.

(Ducky) It is back. Look.

Everyone looked at the nest and all 7 eggs were together. Now Mario got the result that this wasn't Ducky's egg. But if it isn't Ducky's egg, then whose egg did they find? So they took it to a hidden place in the valley and put it inside some grass in front of a pond.

(Daisy) So if Ducky's egg was here, Who's egg is this?

(Petrie) Maybe those bad guys stole it from another nest.

(Littlefoot) Yeah, but from who?

(Mario) I'm not familiar with Dinosaur eggs. So we won't know until it hatches.

(Ducky) Yep yep yep. And then we can take it back to its family.

(Littlefoot) But who's going to take care of it until it hatches?

(Cera) Why we are of course. After all we're not babies.

(Littlefoot) I don't know. Maybe we should tell our folks about this.

(Cera) No! If they find out where we were, we'll get put back into our nests.

(Peach) I'm sorry to say this. But Cera's right. We got in trouble yesterday. It's best not to strike another.

(Cera) Good. Now let's go back to our nesting grounds before anyone sees that we're gone.

With that, Littlefoot went back to his nesting ground with the rest. All of them curled up into balls and went to sleep. About 1 hour Later, which felt like a minute to them, Grandma Longneck came to wake them.

(Grandma Longneck) Everyone time to get up. The sun is already rising into the sky.

All of them opened their left eyes and grinned all thanks to Cera giving them the lack of a good night sleep.