The Earth was welcomed by a new day. The sun was barely rising over the horizon, displaying its shades of orange. A cool breeze from the east made the morning not a scorcher. Littlefoot opened his eyes and lifted his head up. He saw the big lake near him and the live trees near from where he slept. Today seemed like a nice day to start an adventure.

He looked down and saw Ali. Ali, the longneck that risked her life to see him and declared her love to him, slept peacefully beside him. He smiled. Though it pained her, he had to go alone on this quest. The events of yesterday shook him. Ali was almost gone in a blink of an eye. If he hadn't had hurried, he would've seen the bones and decaying flesh of the female longneck. The thought cringed onto his heart very tightly. It reminded him when that sharptooth bit of his mother's back, a memory he would rather ignore. At least, she would have a better chance here than with him.

He rose to his feet and walked into the forest, disappearing from the sleeping community.

Rhett rose from his slumber and let out a giant yawn. The morning sun had risen to the point of midmorning in the spring time. A refreshing breeze was coming from the east, but he didn't fully feel it. They had sleep under an arching cliff of a small mountain or rocky hill. He looked at the cracked, open ground below him and then looked to his left. Janet still slept. She lay on top of the cliff-shaded ground. He lowered his neck towards her.

"Janet, we need to go. Get up."

Janet lazily opened her hazel eyes and looked into the face of Rhett.

"Hey, Rhett."

"C'mon, the bright circle has risen."

He moved his neck away from her and started to walk away a little. Janet lifted her neck and stretched it out. However, she forgot she had slept over a cliff hanging. She banged her head on the roof of the rocky cliff hanging. Rhett saw this and started up a slow laugh before it got louder. Janet shook her head and faced Rhett with a stern face. He settled down his laugh and kept a smirk on his face.

"You have to admit that was funny."

"Oh, just shut it Rhett."

She walked out of the shaded area and took a few steps south.

"C'mon, we're close."

Rhett nodded.

"Hopefully there are no more bumps."

Janet stopped and turned her head around. She moved her head closer to Rhett. Their faces were only two meters apart.

"You better-"

"Alright, alright. I'll stop. I'm just lighting things up."

Janet narrowed her eyes and huffed. She turned back forward and started heading south. Rhett swayed his head a little to his right.

"Sheesh," he whispered. "What's up her tail? I thought that was funny."

He walked behind her, keeping a safe distance from her tail.

Ali awoke to see that no one was beside her. She quickly lifted her neck and looked around. The residents of the Great Valley were either eating, swimming, or relaxing. It also seemed all of them were in this vegetated, open area. Ali narrowed her eyes.

"He better be behind the trees," she whispered to herself.

She picked herself up from the ground.

"Good morning, Ali."

She looked back to see an adolescent Petrie standing a few feet behind her tail. She turned around to face him and posed a smile.

"Good morning, Petrie."

"Me was wondering if you okay."

"I'm getting there. Say, Petrie? Where's Littlefoot?"

"Littlefoot? Mm. Me have not seen him."

Ali's eyes widened, but she then narrowed her eyes. She then knew where he went of to.

"He didn't even wait for me. He's gon-"

"Ali, don't," said Petrie. "Maybe Littlefoot left early and not tell you to protect you."

"I know he did, but he's out there all alone. The only thing he's doing is making me worry."

"But Ali, he was really scared about yesterday. I mean, you almost died."

"I didn't travel here just so he could wonder off and leave me behind. I'm going, whether he likes it or not."

"Ali, wait. Littlefoot wanted you to stay here… You mean a lot to him. I think you're the only one that he has left to love."

"… Love? Love. He loves me!"

"Well, me just guessing. It looks like love, with all the worrying."

The excitement in Ali's eyes died out.

"But you can't base love on that, Petrie. He cares about us all. Just because he saved me doesn't mean he's in love with me. It's like if it's big and alive, it's a sharptooth."

"Sharptooth! Where?"

Petrie looked around for a sharptooth from where he stood. Ali sighed.

"It was just an example."

Petrie faced Ali and dumbly smiled.

"Oh. Me knew that."

There was a couple seconds of pause before Petrie spoke again.

"Ali, Littlefoot was so scared… Me think it brought back the thought of his mother."

Ali thought about it. Littlefoot mentioned that his mother died when he was very young, but didn't go into full details about it. They were kids at the time. It was when they were walking to the Valley of Mists that Ali had brought it up. Littlefoot just said his mother died when he was young, but he didn't elaborate on it. Now, Ali was just beginning to put a piece into the puzzle. If Ali about to get chomped down reminded Littlefoot of his mother's final moments, then Littlefoot's mother had her fate sealed in battle with a sharptooth. She softened her face at Petrie.

"I… Littlefoot told me a little about it, but I didn't know."

"Ali, he's just doing what he thinks is right in protecting you."

Ali thought about it for a minute before speaking up again.

"But he has ignored what I want. I want to be by his side, even if it means my death."

There was a moment of silence before Petrie replied.

"So what will you do?"

"I'll follow him, and if you plan to stop me-"

Petrie smiled.

"Me don't know if me can. Me way smaller than you…and me don't think anyone listen to me."

Ali smiled.

"Thanks Petrie."

Ali walked towards the forest of tall trees and disappeared behind them. Petrie nodded and flapped his wings. He took to the skies and looked down in hopes of finding where his friends were.

Littlefoot continued to walk across the forest he was in. The wild forest was home of tall, red-trunked trees. He had gone west from where the valley residents were. The trees were amazing, reaching a little beyond his grandfather's height. He was only eighty-one percent of his grandfather's height. His grandfather probably towered at the height of thirty-two feet, which included the neck. He could barely reach the good branches trees, but the ground provided green food if the branches were too hard to get.

He continued to walk across the unmarked trail. He looked from left to right from time to time. The most dangerous place to be was in the forest. Predators of all types could be stocking the forest, hunting for…a longneck.

Littlefoot looked forward. He sighed in relief as he saw he neared the exit of the forest. He knew it was the exit because he saw the vegetation barely growing and no giant trees. He smiled, but then sensed something wrong. He turned to his right to see a glimpse of a charging Deinonychus. The bipedal dinosaur jumped at Littlefoot and latched on his right side with its talons. Littlefoot felt immense pain as blood started to pour out.

He reacted fast before the fast-biter could bite into his back. He hurriedly slammed his side into a tree. The Deinonychus fell off Littlefoot's side at impact on the tree. Littlefoot faced the fallen dinosaur and was about to stomp on it when he felt a second Deinonychus clawed his left side, near his tail. Since the beast was near his tail, Littlefoot was able to squat the fast-biter off of him. The second Deinoychus fell and hit the ground in a skid on its back as the first Deinonychus rose to its feet. Littlefoot saw this and kicked the Deinonychus against the tree with so much force that its rib cage broke. It fainted with the air being knocked out of it. Littlefoot then turned his attention towards the second Deinonychus, but as he turned, the carnivorous beast managed to attach itself on Littlefoot's left side, near his chest. Littlefoot did something drastic by lowering his neck and grabbing the Deinonychus's neck with his teeth. He pulled the beast off of him and raised it into the air. The Deinoychus squirmed around, grazing Littlefoot's neck with his talons. No blood escaped, but a scratch was seen. Littlefoot picked up the Deinonychus as high as he could and throw it aside. It glided through the air as far as a baseball player smacked a ball almost out of the field, but only manage to bat it far enough to gain two bases.

The Deinonychus struggled to get to its feet, but it got up nonetheless. It roared at Littlefoot before running away cowardly. The battle was won for now. Littlefoot looked at the damage on his body. He wasn't squirting out a lot of blood, but it would take a day or two to heal. Littlefoot looked around and saw some big leafs that belong to plants on the ground. He plucked a few out and tried to rub off the blood the best he could. He would've draped them over his wounds, but they would fall as he walked since the wounds were on his sides. Littlefoot managed to get rid of some of the blood, and the wounds slowed down their blood flow, looking as if the blood had stopped pouring out.

Littlefoot dropped the used leaves on the ground and continued to walk out of the forest. He entered a part of the land that was grassy and had a few thin trees scattered about. Hopefully, he would find a water source soon to rest and drink.

Ali, this is why I wanted you to stay behind.