Chapter XXVI
Narrow escape
Littlefoot turned, followed by Cera, around a slight smooth corner in the ravine and saw its entrance now. In the cut of landscape they could see between the walls of rock they saw Spike and Ali's shape and when they looked carefully they could even recognize Ducky on Spike's back. Petrie was not in sight. He was probably flapping anywhere in the air. "See! They are waiting for us. That means no danger at the moment", Littlefoot said to Cera who had recovered her senses completely in the meantime. He slowed down a bit and smiled at her optimistically. She smiled back and slowed down too. None of them anticipated the deadly danger that lurked aside the ravine's entrance.
Petrie saw Littlefoot and Cera appearing at the entrance of the ravine and saw that he would come to late to prevent anything. And he did the only thing he could do. He cried at the top of his voice: "Littlefoot! Cera! The sharptooth! Run away!" Littlefoot and Cera neither heard his warning nor they could understand Ducky and Ali's calls from the border of the forest. They continued their way unperturbed and reached the end of the ravine. But somebody else had heard Petrie's warning, the sharptooth. It looked up abruptly and identified Petrie as the irksome plaguer that had already spoiled it one meal and that had ill-treated its eyes. The sharptooth was distracted for only a second, but it was just this second when Littlefoot and Cera came out of the ravine and saw the sharptooth. Both shrieked terrified and unfortunately called the sharptooth's attention back on them. The sharptooth's head twitched down and it's teeth bored into the ground. In the very last instant Littlefoot and Cera had leaped forward and evaded the bite by this. As fast as they could they ran over to the border of the forest where Ali, Spike and Ducky waited for them. Petrie flapped aside Cera and Littlefoot. Some seconds passed till the sharptooth understood that it's victims had escaped it again. It were seconds in which Littlefoot, Cera and Petrie could win a precious lead. But when the sharptooth began with the pursuit furiously the lead diminished very fast and when Petrie, Littlefoot and Cera arrived by Ali, Spike and Ducky only a few steps of the sharptooth sundered it from them. "Follow me! Come on! We must reach the herd!" Ali shouted, turned round and ran into the forest. The others followed her immediately. The moment after they heard a loud cracking and splintering that let them know that the sharptooth had reached the forest too now.
Narrow escape
Littlefoot turned, followed by Cera, around a slight smooth corner in the ravine and saw its entrance now. In the cut of landscape they could see between the walls of rock they saw Spike and Ali's shape and when they looked carefully they could even recognize Ducky on Spike's back. Petrie was not in sight. He was probably flapping anywhere in the air. "See! They are waiting for us. That means no danger at the moment", Littlefoot said to Cera who had recovered her senses completely in the meantime. He slowed down a bit and smiled at her optimistically. She smiled back and slowed down too. None of them anticipated the deadly danger that lurked aside the ravine's entrance.
Petrie saw Littlefoot and Cera appearing at the entrance of the ravine and saw that he would come to late to prevent anything. And he did the only thing he could do. He cried at the top of his voice: "Littlefoot! Cera! The sharptooth! Run away!" Littlefoot and Cera neither heard his warning nor they could understand Ducky and Ali's calls from the border of the forest. They continued their way unperturbed and reached the end of the ravine. But somebody else had heard Petrie's warning, the sharptooth. It looked up abruptly and identified Petrie as the irksome plaguer that had already spoiled it one meal and that had ill-treated its eyes. The sharptooth was distracted for only a second, but it was just this second when Littlefoot and Cera came out of the ravine and saw the sharptooth. Both shrieked terrified and unfortunately called the sharptooth's attention back on them. The sharptooth's head twitched down and it's teeth bored into the ground. In the very last instant Littlefoot and Cera had leaped forward and evaded the bite by this. As fast as they could they ran over to the border of the forest where Ali, Spike and Ducky waited for them. Petrie flapped aside Cera and Littlefoot. Some seconds passed till the sharptooth understood that it's victims had escaped it again. It were seconds in which Littlefoot, Cera and Petrie could win a precious lead. But when the sharptooth began with the pursuit furiously the lead diminished very fast and when Petrie, Littlefoot and Cera arrived by Ali, Spike and Ducky only a few steps of the sharptooth sundered it from them. "Follow me! Come on! We must reach the herd!" Ali shouted, turned round and ran into the forest. The others followed her immediately. The moment after they heard a loud cracking and splintering that let them know that the sharptooth had reached the forest too now.