Chapter IV: The beginning of the end, part II

Not far in the distance, Littlefoot could clearly see massive amounts of dust and lava spewing out of a volcano. And the ground was beginning to shake like wild. Before he could comprehend any of this, Cera came up behind him and shouted.

"Littlefoot! What's happening?" she sounded extremely frightened.

The only thing Littlefoot could come up with was, "Cera! I think I know what's going on! This world's coming to an end!"

Cera was confused by that. "How would you know?"

"No time to explain! We need to get out of here, NOW!"

Right after he said that, someone ran up to them and shouted, "Come on you two! Now's not the time! We need to evacuate the area as fast as possible!"

They didn't bother arguing with that as the paleontologist led them somewhere. They didn't know where they were going yet. But as they ran, all around them it was complete chaos. Hundreds of the buildings were crumbling into oblivion. Crashing glass and other materials could be heard.

It wasn't long before Littlefoot and Cera met up with the others.

"What's going on!" Ducky asked the paleontologist.

He couldn't come up with any kind of response.

At that moment, he could see several helicopters taking off in the airfield not far away. It was then that he realized that that was where they needed to go.

However, right as Ducky asked him that, came something that none of them could've expected. They stopped dead in their tracks as the solid rock ground was beginning to crumble beneath their feet. A couple of seconds later, it happened.

The continuing earthquake was beginning to create giant cracks in the earth, some as much as 20 feet deep at first. And they were all getting deeper by the second. Entire rock formations were falling into the ever expanding crevices.

"Now what?" Chomper shouted. He had to shout so he'd be heard over the loud crumbling and confusion.

However, when he crevice formed, its timing couldn't have been seconds later, Chomper was beginning to feel a painful source of heat from behind him. It was getting hotter by the second. He turned around to see what it was, and then regretted it. He was a virtual sheet of lava coming their way. The lava was white hot in places, and it was only a few meters away. Also it was gaining speed really fast.

He screamed at the top of his lungs. The others turned around and looked at him and it was only two microseconds later when they noticed the lava. None of them could react. They were just staring into it, as if they couldn't pull away. Littlefoot was the first to react. He turned to the expanding crevice to see if anything could help them. At first he didn't see much of anything. But then he looked to the far right.

He saw a moderately thick metal beam that was used in the steel chambers from before. Right as he spotted it though, the heat from the lava was starting to cause tremendous pain for him. He then looked at the rest of them and shouted,

"Guys! Maybe we could use that to get across!"

The scientist and the other dinosaurs looked where Littlefoot was looking, and saw the beam. It was enormously long, but would it be enough to get them across?

There was only one way to find out. They all ran over to where t was. But it was too close of a call. The lava was quite literally only a few feet away when they ran to the beam. They looked at it for a second, and then the paleontologist attempted to lift it up with his bare hands. He tried a few times, until he was able to swing it over to the other side.

By now the earthquake had stopped, so the crevice had stopped expanding. But it was well over 600 feet deep now, but only around 30 feet long.

The paleontologist then said to them, "Quick! Across the beam!"

They wasted no time in doing so. Littlefoot was the first one to get across. He carefully, but quickly scurried across, followed by the paleontologist, Chomper, Spike, Ducky, Ali, Petrie (who flew over), and then Cera. However, when Cera was halfway across, she noticed that the beam was begining to droop from behind her.

She looked behind her, and got the shock of her life. The lava was making contact with the beam, and it was melting that side of the beam into water-like liquid metal. It wasn't long before the entire half of the beam was melted. The others quickly ran over to her, and attempted to lift the beam up so she'd get across. In a few seconds, she screamed as she was quite literally hanging off the side of the cliff. The beam was still losing strength as the lava was pouring over the other side, as if it were a waterfall.

"Cera! Hang on, we'll get you out!" the scientist said to her.

But he said that with some uncertainty in his voice. He'd never had to deal with anything like this before. By now, the others were trying to help get the beam up as well. Now Cera was trying to climb up the beam. But unfortunately, the part of the rock it was hanging off of crumbled. It quickly slid into the canyon. Luckily, Cera was at the very top of it when it happened. So it slid right under her. Now it was falling into the canyon at freefall. Cera was now holding onto the edge of the cliff, hanging on for dear life.

The edge she was holding onto was crumbling fast. It seemed like the end for her. The edge had completely crumbled. She screamed and fell for a half a second before, at the last second, the scientist gripped her front leg as tight as he could. In that half a second she fell, Cera could see her whole life flash before her eyes.

It took a few seconds before he was able to pull her up onto the ground again. She laid there on the ground, with her eyes wide open. She was breathing heavier than anyone had ever seen her.

It took her a few seconds before she could regain control over herself. She stood up, and didn't say a word.

"Oh God that was too close." The scientist though out loud.

The others agreed. They were extremely tense now. Littlefoot was the most tense besides Cera. The only thing he could think, was how he and his friends were going to survive whatever was going on.

But before they could recover from that incident, a new danger was about to take place. With no warning whatsoever, a bright light began to appear in the sky. The llght was spreading from the center of the sky where the North Star usually was this time of year.

They all were looking up. They mouths were wide open as the next disaster unfolded. In a few seconds, the bright, white light had v=changed, into lights of various colors. It looked almost exactly like the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights. But what were they doing down in New Mexico?...