Chapter 13: A Return Trip with one Surprise
Chaser awakes from his sleep feeling the morning dawn of the sun shining on him he was dreaming of eating something with such favour, such taste that it was wonderful that he ever thought of, then he tasted something in his mouth "Spalt!" he said getting up spitting out some of the sneezing leafs from his mouth opening and shutting it moving his tongue around in his long snout.
"Grr… lucky that wasn't on my nose or I will be sneezing" he said still trying to get the taste of the leafs out of his mouth then he sees that he never took notice of before red colour fruit all over the place he looked at the wall of leaves in the vines seeing fruit growing all over it but the size was around the size of children that escaped him a few times already "Red fruit? They massive… for fruit" he blinked then he heard someone coming he hide quickly and quietly as possible to some large rocks.
Moments before this Littlefoot and the others started to wake up from their sleep feeling very refreshed and all had the most fantastic dreams they all had. Dreaming deeply of things that couldn't be real but most rememberable thing they ever had.
"Wow that was amazing" Littlefoot whispers as he stretched his back legs and front legs "I never slept like that before… I dreamed it was clear as my eyes can see" Littlefoot said to himself then turning to see the others getting up.
"So you have a great dream too?" Cera looked over at Littlefoot with a grin "I won't forget that in a while what I dreamed of" she walked past Littlefoot to the water with a grin that he haven't seen in ages.
Littlefoot turned his head to Petrie who started speaking "Me dream of being adult flying around with all me family" Petrie spread his wings out with a glee as he flapped them a few times and then wrapped them around himself swaying a bit with a joyful look on his face.
"Yep yep yep I dream of swimming in the deepest waters finding special things" Ducky hopped on Spike looking down at him "I know you dream of Spike, leafs did you? Huh? Huh?" Spike shakes his head with them looking at him with surprise.
"We cant even tell what it was" Littlefoot said with a smile "For once a dream that Spike had is secret to us all" Littlefoot said laughing out loud with the others even Cera near by.
Spike smiled and what he dreamed of was able to talk, he could talk freely like the others he dreamed giving them all a shock of their lives speaking clearly to them and saying he was playing along and like being quiet and he only knew the dream he had no one else would ever know and that one thing that he will keep in his mind forever.
"Didn't I say it would be a special last night" the old swimmer said walking up to the kids lowing his head to their level looking at one after the other "The final night of the blue moon you might not see it for long but it lets you sleep in a way that you'd probably wouldn't do again" He spoke to them with a keen voice as Lopus and Zila came up to him seeing that many swimmers started to leave the Great Lake in massive numbers.
"We be going now?" Zila peered his eyes to the old swimmer who gave a happy nod.
Lopus smiled looking down at Ducky "We going home… Ducky, Spike we heading home to the Great Valley" Lopus said softly to her children.
"What you dream of?" Ducky asked Turio.
Turio looks at her "I do not like to share my dreams" Turio answered
Ducky put a claw on his shoulder "I do not sometimes as well" Ducky gave her own answer to the question she asked Turio then she look up at her mum "I do like that mama" Ducky said cheerfully.
Old swimmer went to his youngest daughter "I expect you to do a good job as I did with I was leader. Good luck in your highest up stein" he said to her with a smile
"I will do my best dad. We all will keep this place safe and the way you see it when you leaver" she returned a smile "You better be of old one they waiting for you" she chuckled. He returns a small laugh and walk back to the group waiting to leave.
Lopus watch the old swimmer come up to them "I see you left your herd in the claws of one of your most trusting family" Lopus looked pass him at his youngest.
He came up to her by the right hand side "Well yes, she might by the youngest but I trust she has what it takes to look after the herd and the Great Lake" the old one replied in response then looked to the rest "I'm ready to go. Are you all?"
"Yes we are" Zila said to the old one "We've be heading back to the Great Valley and Turio" his son looks up at his father "we going to be staying for a little while longer at the Great Valley" Turio smiled at what Zila said very pleased.
"That great father. That great!" Turio said with a joyful voice.
"Lets go home" Lopus said to everyone gathered up as they start to move on outside the Great Lake down the path of the main entrance.
Chaser watches the large amount of swimmers leaving not taking a chance he stays and waits from his hiding place watching the entrance noticing a odd but wonderful smell was coming from the squashed fruit making his snout water a bit. Yet he noticed the swimmers that was leaving seem to cough or trying to hold their breaths showing that they smelt the fruit contents to be disgusting in smell and maybe taste as well where he wasn't sure about.
They had left in moments soon he saw that he was waiting for, the ones that got in his way so many times before and starting to really annoy him greatly. "This time around I will get them" he said to himself as he waited for the right time to strike at the group of dinosaurs exiting the Great Lake through the sneezing leaves.
"Yuck what is that horrible smell?" Cera groaned putting a front foot over the end of her snout "Smells like something worse then anything I smelt before" Cera shook her head even getting the taste of it from the air "Yuck I can even taste it"
"Sadly it these fruits that grow on the sneezing leaves. They taste horrible and stick if broke open which they are…" the old swimmer whizzed by the disgust of the smell of the large red fruit and it contents laying around near the land they step on.
"I can't stand the smell" Littlefoot said with his eyes watering a little "it making me feel like crying when I am not sad" Littlefoot complained of the smell just as much as Cera did.
Petrie put his wings over his beak and trying to hold his breath letting out air and breathing in caused him to cough a little "Me hate me hate" Petrie whines
"I agree… yep yep… yep" Ducky said sickly holding her stomach as she and Petrie rid on Spike's back who was just bearing the smell but like the others couldn't stand it.
"I hate it father. Can you make it stop?" Turio asked Zila with a plead to get rid of the smell
Zila shook his head "I can't son it coming from the broken fruit" Zila said to him trying to keep a stable face but barely.
Lopus heard something just in front of them with some rocks falling from a cliff side landing on the ground "mmm" she mumbled under her breath "Something not right" Lopus whispers even she was coughing a little.
The one swimmer noticed the same thing he then thought of something moving to one of the fruits on the floor he placed himself near it ready to swing his body and knock the fruit flying in that direction.
Chaser came out of his hiding place ready to strike scaring the group as they start to back away "Mea…" Chaser started to say and about to charge at them when the Old Swimmer hit the fruit at him "Catch" the old swimmer shouts as Chaser had the fruit land in his mouth.
Chaser was about to spit it out but then started to crunch on it feeling a wonderful taste in it "What the? This fruit it… fantantic!" Chaser said coming towards to group they moved to the side with the old swimmer as Chaser started to make a meal out of fruit.
"Yuck I can't believe that sharptooth Chaser eating those stinky red fruit." Cera said feeling for stomach turn upside down.
"Better then eating us though" the Old Swimmer smiled looking down at the threehorn.
"Good point" Cera replied "How about we go?" Cera suggested quickly before Chaser changed is mind.
Littlefoot nods once "I agree. I don't trust that sharptooth even he mealing on those gross fruits" Littlefoot said looking up at the adults
"I can't disagree." Zila looked down at the child and they all slowly started to move away heading to the Great Valley.
Chaser looked up watching them leave he ate quite a bit of the fruit on the ground he started to walk to follow them but stops "Should I follow? Should I go to another hunting ground? These leaf eaters got more guts then I seen and not worth trying to make a meal out of them" Chaser mutters as he stood there thinking of a choice to follow or leave to a new grounds.
"I choice to go to a new grounds but I will see those young kids again. I bet my sail on that." Chaser said to himself turning away heading away from the Great Lake heading to a new location disappearing from sight all together.