Turio looked at the group as they talked to Ducky with laughing he thought about what his dad Zila said to him worried that things could happen "Erm… hello what if old swimmer see you. He could do something" Turio spoke with an unsure voice looking at them.
"His a leaf eater like us. Why would a swimmer do something like that?" Cera asked Turio with a strong look in her eyes "You really think that a story like that to be real? It probably something to keep other dinosaur types away" Cera said with a strong convincing voice
"Yeah but Cera what if it not what you think? Huh? Huh?" Ducky looked at Cera walking over to her putting a claw hand on the side of her torso with Cera looking back at Ducky.
"Maybe…" Cera was now questioning herself.
Littlefoot looked at them both "Whatever it is, he couldn't hurt us, a leaf eater of any rude or kind couldn't do that… it would be un leaf eater like" Littlefoot said convinced that a leaf eater would do no harm. "I know that for a fact, seen any in the Great Valley that rude to us hurt us?" He asked the gang.
"Me no seen that" Petrie added "Mama say that no one like Leaf Eater harm other leaf eaters and I believe me Mama" Petrie said with wings up and spend.
"You believe anything" Cera rolled her eyes with a shake of her head side to side.
Turio watched with Spike he looked at the Spiketail "Do they talk to each other like this? Do they?" Turio asked Spike and he nods once before eating some leafs "But do they know fun?" Turio changing the subject and Spike nods again while eating the leaves in his mouth.
"Of course we do" Cera said with a mean look at Turio walking up to him he looked scared a bit "Now this is what we call…" Cera taps him with her front foot on his small body "Not it!" She shouted and ran away from Turio
"Oh this game!" Turio said with a wide smile on his beak and ran after her.
Ducky clapped twice "Turio is it!" She beamed laughing as she ran away from him.
Littlefoot laughed as well as he and Petrie went another way. "Come on Petrie this way"
"Me coming" Petrie said happily and as they ran in different routes from Turio one of the Old Swimmer's family members see the kids play she smiled
"I believe I might be the youngest adult but I see why father wants a change from the Old Way. It will be welcomed to many as a new old way" she said warmly as the Old Swimmer came up beside her.
"So Sulo this is the children I heard from the Red Scale Swimmer Twins" Old Swimmer said with a laughing tone "Try to say that when your half awake" He joked
"Oh Dad you might be very old but still very funny and healthy" Sulo laughed as well "Those kids might not be swimmers like us but they are great friends to two of them and I even heard…"
Old Swimmer interprets Sulo "A Spiketail being her little brother. Yes I heard and even spoke to that parent. She took him in as her own since Ducky was the one found that Spiketail first from what I been told" Old Swimmer said turning his head to across the lake.
"You can be a parent to any type of leaf eater if you wish to be and care for he or she as your own" Old Swimmer said turning back to Sulo "You are one of a few of my children are quite promising to take lead of being in charge of this place. It don't matter how old a adult is or how strong. It takes a open heart like yours" He said to her as he walked away happy that he saw the spark that he saw in a few.
"Yes father I understand what you mean. I am happy that you choice not to try and kick them out" Sulo said to him with a smile of her own "But I know you wouldn't any way since to us they are leaf eaters like us so it make no differences" Sulo walks away from her father the Old Swimmer as he choice to walk up to the kids playing, meet them face to face.
The kids choice to run to the water for a bit of fun and cool down even taking a chance that no swimmer will mind them being at the Great Lake. They laughed with joy racing to the water and then Littlefoot in front came to a stop with the others running into him.
The Old Swimmer laughed a little as he watched them pile into each other looking down at them with a smile. "Hello children, this must be your three friends and brother I heard from your mother. Welcome to the Great Lake I am very glad to see new kinds finally come" He said with a smile looking at them
Cera frowns then look at Ducky who shrugged then she looked up at him "Aren't you mad of non swimmers being here?" Cera asked him.
"Yeah I was kind of wondering that too" Littlefoot said looking at Cera then the Old Swimmer.
He took a look at Littlefoot "Not at all. I am very friendly and good to see new faces… but funny enough young longneck you look almost like my old childhood friend" the Old Swimmer said to Littlefoot making him blink a few times surprised to her what the swimmer was saying.
"A old friend? Your oldest swimmer here right?" Littlefoot spoke trying to get a understanding what the Old Swimmer said to him. "I thought all types of leaf eaters travel alone during the time my grandpa was a kid… that what he told me" Littlefoot said remembering what his Grandpa told him about his childhood.
"I will let you children hear what I have to say about it" He lowered to them getting close to them.
Ducky looked at Petrie and Turio "I do not know he was this kind"
"Me neither" Turio replied looking at her then back at the old swimmer keeping his voice low so only Ducky and Petrie heard
"Me remember hearing about it too but maybe it just to scare all other types then swimmers not to come" Petrie suggested and the other two agreed with a nod.
"I when I was young around you kids age there was once turn herds but things went down during time before I was hatched but by the time I was your age two herds kept crossing paths seeming to go in the same direction so the two herds joined to one and the protective both herds gave helped each other to make it through the time of need" the Old Swimmer paused for a moment to think about it to remember his past.
"Those herds were swimmers and longnecks. Two different herds joined to one herd and through that time I made friends with one longneck. We was best friends till we both grew up the herds still together moving around we both found relationships and he was the first to have hatchlings… 4 of them if I remember right one of them I couldn't forget his name Bron I recall but his 2 brothers and sister called him Littlefoot as a nickname" the old swimmer laughed
"But soon after they hatched and just about got talking to each other our herds broke apart. The swimmers stared here and they moved on… that was the lasted time I saw my old friend… when the first time I saw the 3 nights of the Blue moon… the third and final night being the most oddest and wonderful feeling… but it not the same this time around… many would say I seen 3 or 4 of these but it just rumour I only saw one that when I was a young adult and now for the second time it happening" Old Swimmer said with Littlefoot looking at him with wide eyes
"Bron? That my father! He said when he was young he was called Littlefoot! But my name is Littlefoot! Not a nickname!" Littlefoot blurted out with amazement. "You must also be speaking of my Grandpa!"
Old swimmer laughed with a gentle but glad look "I am happy to see one from that herd of my oldest dearest friend and I am looking at his Grandson" He said leaning down to him "After tonight may I return with you to where you live? To see my friend I long to know what happened to him. And then you may know my name" He said with a smile to them
"Yeah sure" Littlefoot smiled warmly
Cera shook her head "I can't believe this, this guy here is your grandpa's childhood friend and even grown up together?" Littlefoot takes a look at Cera as she asked and Littlefoot nods believing the old swimmer. "Wow that is outstanding"
"Me think so too" Petrie said with a nod
"You think everything is outstanding Petrie" Cera rolled her eyes
"Oh yes yes yes" Ducky laughs and everyone else does including the old swimmer seeing that Littlefoot being from the herd he had not seen in ages and after the night is over he would see that face once more.
Not knowing about the outside the sharptooth that talks Chaser looks up the Great Lake wall that protects them he had thought long and hard and now have the perfect plan to get up there without going through the route that would make him sneeze he placed a claw on the wall seeing that his claws dig in. "Perfect… now I have a way in… now they are in trouble… time for a snack" he sneered with a grin showing his sharp teeth in his long snout.