Chapter V: Obstacle
Ozzy ran like the coward that he was until he tripped over a tree root. Just then a branch broke and fell on top of him, followed by Strut.
"Strut, you stupid branch bounder! What were you doing up there?"
"Eating."
"I mean how did you get up there?"
"I flew."
Ozzy saw that he was getting nowhere fast, so he simply slapped Strut a few times, and they walked away.
Mr. Thicknose had caught up with the children, who were gazing at a trail of flat-tooth footprints. "Look, Mr. Thicknose!" said Petrie. "We find new clues. See?"
"Young ones, I fear that you are mistaken. Those are MY tracks. I made them when I was searching for you."
"Oh," said Cera. "Well, at least those smelly old egg thieves won't bother us again."
"Ehhhhh eeeeh mmmm," agreed Spike.
"CERA! COME HOME NOW!" called a distant voice.
"It's not even close to bedtime," said Cera. "It must be important." So she went, and the others went with her.
At Cera's nest, Mr. Threehorn informed them that the grownups had decided that they were not to wander farther than two miles away from their nests due to the sharpteeth that were somewhere in the Valley.
"But Daddy, we..."
"You what?"
"Nothing."
Thicknose did not wish to arouse Threehorn's temper, and so said nothing, while Littlefoot whispered to the others, "Now how are we going to solve the mystery?"
"We will have to be very lucky, we will," said Ducky. She started humming "Bad Luck" to herself, adding the lyrics here and there.
"When a sharptooth finds you all alone..."
"Please no sing that," said Petrie. "It make Petrie nervous."
Then Petrie fainted from a stench of rotting meat.
Sharptooth breath.