-1Harry Potter and the Land Before Time
Written by Chibikan
Chapter 2 The First Night
The Elders all gathered in the center of the Great Valley, right where their beloved children had vanished from sight. The Night Circle hung over them, the brilliant silver light bouncing off the tears they shed.
"This is all your boy's fault, Long-Neck!" Topsy declared fiercely, pounding the ground with his feet. "My Cera was trying to save him and that is why she's gone now!"
Grandpa shook his head, "No, it wasn't Littlefoot's fault at all. It was mine, I didn't fight hard enough. I should have tried harder."
"No!" Grandma, ever the voice of reason, stated. "It is no one's fault but the two-legs. It is they who took them and it is they who are responsible."
"And they had some weird power. The way they made us go to sleep with just a word. And such a strange word at that." Mama Flyer said matter-of-factly. "They were unlike any other dinosaur that I've ever seen before."
Ducky's Mother nodded, "Yeah, I've never seen anything like them before. Those two-legs with their billowy skins. I wonder where they came from and how they just appeared out of no where."
"I think it was the strange thing the White-Face held in his forepaw," Grandma explained, "He said more strange words when he held it up to the Bright Circle, and they just vanished." She looked down in shame that she had been unable to get to them in time. "We just have to hope that somehow, wherever they are, they are alright and will be able to get away and come home to us." She tilted her head up to the Night Circle, crying a tear for her lost grandson and his friends.
Night had also fallen on the young heroes. They were trying to sleep, but it was so scary and so dark.
"Oh…" Ducky moaned, "I want my mommy."
Littlefoot nodded in understanding, "You miss her…"
Cera shivered, "She's not the only one! You just wait until my dad finds us. He'll knock those two-legs into the sky and he'll save us! Just you wait and see if he doesn't!"
"Me hope so." Petrie told her. "Petrie wanna go home."
"I think we all do," Cera told him harshly for daring to bring it up.
Littlefoot glared at her, "Cera! You don't need to snap at him. We can't afford to fight right now."
"Littlefoot is right, he is," Ducky said with certainty, "We have to work together, yep, yep, yep.'
Cera looked down, "Sorry Petrie."
Petrie flew up to her and hugged her horn, "Me forgive you."
Littlefoot watched Petrie flying and about wanted to kick himself for not seeing it sooner, "Hey, Petrie, see that hole with the branches over it?"
Petrie nodded, "Yeah, me see."
"You should be able to fly between them and go find the grown-ups. Than you can bring them here to save the rest of us." Littlefoot told him excitedly.
But Petrie shivered, he was frightened, "But me no know where we are, how me find way home?"
"Petrie," Cera growled, "This is no time to be a scaredy-egg! We can't get through there. But you can! You have to try!" she prepared herself for another scolding from Littlefoot, but it didn't come.
"She's right, Petrie. Normally, we'd agree with you. But if one of us can get out of here then they should do it and get help." Littlefoot agreed with Cera this time. She wasn't being mean, she was being truthful.
Petrie looked at Littlefoot and nodded. He flew up towards the opening, "Okay, me go find grown-ups." He moved to fly out through the bars. "OUCH!" he cried as he banged into something hard between them. "Hey, that hurt!"
"What is it Petrie?" Littlefoot asked him.
"There something blocking it." Petrie told him. He tried going through another pair of bars, only to be met with the same painful something. "Me no can get out!"
Littlefoot sighed dejectedly. "The two-legs must have done something to block the exit, since they know you can fly."
"Then that way is no good," Cera declared, "There has to be another way out, somehow."
Littlefoot nodded, "Yeah! And we'll find it!"
Ducky yawned, "Can we find it tomorrow. I think I can sleep now, yep, yep, yep."
Spike groaned in agreement. He was tired too.
Petrie flew down dizzily from the opening. He'd hit his head hard. "Petrie sleepy too."
Littlefoot looked at Cera who nodded. "Alright, we'll do it tomorrow. We'll get out, you'll see, and then we'll go home."
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