Author's Note: Italics are used for sharptooth language
Chapter 33: Fight with the Fiercest Foe
Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby looked at each other nervously as they stood determinedly to protect the Great Valley. At that moment, Redclaw made a loud roar from a distance.
"What's he saying?" Littlefoot nervously asked Chomper.
Chomper listened in. Nervously, his attentive expression slowly slipped into a terrified gasp. "He wants to come here," Chomper explained. "He says…Screech and Thud told him about a great opportunity to strike at the Great Valley!"
"So that's where they went off to!" Littlefoot exclaimed as he remembered how Screech and Thud had suddenly disappeared from the battle for a while. "To let Redclaw know about the fight and to tell him to come!"
"And Ozzy must've known about this!" Ruby gasped. "That's why he seemed so happy in defeat! He knew that Redclaw would be coming!"
"Those rockheads need to shut their mouths," Cera growled.
"We have to stop him somehow!" Ducky gasped.
Chomper nodded, and said, "I'm gonna warn him to get away from here."
With baited breath, the others watched as Chomper opened his mouth and belted out a harsh, aggressive roar. In a couple of seconds, they heard a distant roar calling back to him, causing Chomper to shiver.
"He says…he's not scared, and that he killed everyone that has walked in his path. He also says that…he's looking forward to coming, and that he'll kill everyone he can."
Chomper then sighed, "Guys…offer him the eggstealers and fast biter bodies. Maybe they can satisfy him and he'll stop coming."
"But Chomper!" Ducky gasped. "Then you would not have anything to eat!"
"That doesn't matter now," Chomper replied. "It's more important to stop him from coming, or there might not be a later for any of us!"
Reluctantly, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike and Ruby looked at each other, and agreed. They hurled all of the eggstealer and fast biter bodies off the cliff, where they would land right in Redclaw's path. Chomper growled to Redclaw, alerting him of their offering.
"Did it work?" Petrie asked nervously.
Chomper listened in, and shook his head. "His mind is set on eating us… he's not just hungry, he wants to kill all of us for the sake of killing us. Ozzy must have told him that Screech and Thud are dead. He is furious that we killed his followers, and he wants revenge on us for foiling all of his plans," he explained to Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike. "And not only does he want to kill us, he wants to kill everyone we know as well!"
Littlefoot growled, "I'm getting real tired of those sharpteeth hurting everyone!"
"Let's stop him right in his tracks!" Cera shouted, and everyone nodded determinedly.
They then began to hear the ominous booming sound of Redclaw's footsteps approaching closer and closer to them, and they began to hear his roar more clearly.
"Oh, I'm terrified!" Petrie gasped.
"I do not like Redclaw, oh no no no," Ducky added.
"Guys, now's not the time to be afraid!" Littlefoot told them in a gentle but determined voice. "We've got to find a way to stop him," Littlefoot declared.
Petrie nodded, and flew back for a couple of seconds. He quickly returned, carrying some small boulders. "If me drop boulders on Redclaw head, maybe that stop him!"
"I have an idea too," Ruby suggested. "We can get some logs and launch them at him." Everyone looked at them happily and nodded, agreeing they were good ideas.
"Well, let's get started!" Cera exclaimed.
Hurriedly, everyone bustled over and began to work. Littlefoot, Cera, and Spike were collecting logs and setting them down on the edge of the cliff, while Ruby and Ducky were collecting boulders. Meanwhile, Petrie flew off with some boulders, preparing to drop them on Redclaw's head, while Chomper moved down the path, warning Redclaw to go away with loud, determined roars.
Redclaw, however, roared back. Chomper looked up at the others sadly. "He's still not afraid," he explained as everyone heard Redclaw's footsteps getting louder and louder.
"Me stop him!" Petrie growled, and flying over, he dropped all of the boulders he held. They fell right on Redclaw's head, causing him to roar with fury and topple over to the ground.
"Ha! You easy target!" Petrie exclaimed triumphantly, and everyone began to cheer.
But a moment later, Redclaw hurriedly got back on his feet, and he snapped at Petrie angrily. Petrie screamed as Redclaw's knife-like teeth almost punctured his wing, and he flew with fright as he returned, still shivering when he sat back on the ground.
"Ready?" Littlefoot asked Cera and Spike as the three of them walked over to the edge, standing on the logs that they had collected to use against Redclaw. Cera and Spike nodded determinedly, and together, the three of them launched their logs at Redclaw, who they were beginning to see properly as he approached closer and closer to the Great Valley. The logs created a downpour on Redclaw and stopped him in his tracks, as many of them smacked him on the head. However, the logs didn't do the job, as once they ran out of logs, Redclaw resumed creeping up the path again, roaring angrily.
"We should throw down our boulders," Ducky told Ruby, who nodded, and hurriedly, the two of them began to hurl boulders at Redclaw, joined by Petrie, who flew over Redclaw's head and dropped more boulders. Redclaw roared with the barrage of boulders, but he continued to growl and march steadily onward. Just then, he turned a corner and everyone noticed in horror that he was climbing up the last bend of the hill, and they begin to hear his deep, low growls pulsing with hunger.
"I'll hold him off!" Chomper told the others fiercely, and he charged closer to Redclaw, determined to block off his path. In a few seconds, Redclaw arrived, and roared furiously as he growled at Chomper. Chomper, despite being smaller than Redclaw, gave a roar just as furious back, and the two of them stared at each other and growled threateningly.
Just then, the others gasped as they heard two loud roars behind them. Turning, they looked and gasped as they saw two sharpteeth, one light green, and one dark green, hurrying towards them and growling.
"Oh no!" Petrie gasped. "Not more sharpteeth!"
But the sharpteeth ran straight past the kids and charged down the hill. Suddenly, everyone gasped, realizing who those two sharpteeth were.
"It is Chomper's mama and papa!" Ducky gasped, as everyone else nodded.
Mama and Papa Sharptooth rushed over and blocked Redclaw from Chomper and growled at him.
"You cannot hurt our son!" Mama Sharptooth growled.
"Or we'll hurt you instead!" Papa Sharptooth added.
Redclaw roared in laughter. "You can't threaten me. I will hurt anyone I'd like. Get out of my way! I need to go after those kids, for it's their fault Screech and Thud are dead and I am sick of them foiling my plans all the time! I want to enjoy the taste of revenge!"
"No, you won't hurt them," Mama Sharptooth growled. "One of those kids is my Chomper, and the others are his close friends, and it's thanks to them that my son is alive!"
"Your son is a disgrace to all sharpteeth," Redclaw replied back. "Living with sapsuckers and refusing to eat other dinosaur meat…I will make sure that sapsucking traitor gets what he…"
But Redclaw roared in pain as Papa Sharptooth rushed over and bit him on the chest. "Traitor!" Redclaw roared, but at that moment, Mama Sharptooth sneaked behind him and bit him on the tail. Redclaw screamed again and fell to the ground, as Mama and Papa Sharptooth both stood on top of him and growled at him threateningly.
"Go," Papa Sharptooth growled. "Or else."
Redclaw growled, and said, "Maybe I will…but maybe I won't!" and abruptly, Redclaw reached out and hurriedly bit Mama Sharptooth's lower leg. Mama Sharptooth roared in pain before Papa Sharptooth roared aggressively at Redclaw, trying to bite his head. Unfortunately however, Papa Sharptooth's bite missed, and Redclaw, seizing his chance, bit Papa Sharptooth on the same spot of his leg.
Redclaw roared victoriously and with momentum, he then bit onto both of Chomper's parents' other legs, causing them to keel over, unconscious. But before Redclaw could make another move, Chomper leaped over and stood over his parents. "Don't touch my parents, understand!" he roared.
Redclaw growled and snapped at Chomper's head, but Chomper was quick enough to avoid him. Chomper roared in anger again, and then the two of them began to snap at each other's heads. Through the confusion of the battle, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, and Ruby hurried down and carried the bodies of Chomper's parents up the path. By the time they returned to the battle though, they gasped as they noticed what was going on. Redclaw's superior size and battle experience seemed to be paying off, for while he hadn't been able to bite Chomper yet, he was able to force Chomper back a few steps at a time, until it got to the point where Redclaw reached the top of the hilly path and roared in triumph.
Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike and Ruby, meanwhile, huddled together, watching Chomper's battle with horror. "We've got to help Chomper out!" Littlefoot cried.
"But I don't know if we can stop Redclaw," Ruby sighed. "He's really tough!"
"Me scared…me no know what to do!" Petrie gasped.
"Me neither, no no no," Ducky sighed, as Spike frantically nodded.
Littlefoot then looked at Cera, who sighed. "Even I'm not sure we can beat him," she said as she put her head down. "Even us put together…"
"That's it, Cera!" Littlefoot exclaimed, and the others looked at him curiously. "While each of us alone may not be able to take him down, if we hold on together, we might have a chance!"
Cera nodded determinedly. "And if we go down, we'll go down fighting…together!" she exclaimed.
"Oh yes yes yes!" Ducky cheered. "And Spike is ready to stop him too, he is," she said, as Spike nodded and swung his spiky tail.
And together, the six of them bent down and whispered hurriedly to each other, coming up with a plan. Nodding nervously, everyone agreed, and prepared to start. But at that moment, everyone was distracted with an earsplitting cry. Looking over in horror, they saw that Redclaw had finally landed a bite on Chomper's head. Chomper staggered a bit as Redclaw growled triumphantly at the sun, shaking his arms with aggressive delight.
Then, everyone looked at Ruby, who nodded, remembering her part in the plan. Through Redclaw's fearsome roars and snarls, Ruby hurriedly scurried over to some bushes by the two sharpteeth, carrying a long stick. Roaring determinedly, Redclaw soon began to snap at Chomper again, and while Chomper managed to avoid Redclaw's bites, many of them were very near misses and he had no way of striking Redclaw back. However, as Redclaw took another step forward, he lost his balance and abruptly fell facefirst onto the ground. Seizing the opportunity, Chomper rushed forward and delivered a nasty bite on Redclaw's head, causing him to roar with fury, struggling to get back up.
"Chomper!" Ruby cried. She ran out of the bushes by him, carrying her long stick as Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike and Chomper's parents cheered.
"You tripped him! Thanks Ruby!" Chomper exclaimed.
Ruby nodded, and then Petrie determinedly called, "Lead him to us!"
Chomper gasped, and shouted, "No! You guys can't do this!"
"We have to!" Ducky called out. "We do not have any other choice!"
"We have a plan," Cera smirked to Chomper.
"So lure him over here!" Littlefoot finished. "Trust us!"
Chomper nodded nervously, and then he ran across the cliff's edge. Instantly, Redclaw began to growl determinedly, and though he was still staggering from Chomper's bite, he plowed ahead, roaring angrily. Chomper huffed forward, desperately trying to avoid Redclaw's furiously snapping mouth, which was trying hard to land a bite on Chomper's tail. However, as Chomper passed the pathway that led to the Great Valley, Redclaw abruptly stopped and looked down at the Great Valley. He began to roar threateningly, his roars echoing off the Great Valley's walls. He then licked his lips in contentment as he basked in the sound of panicked screams below them. He licked his lips, imagining the feast that lay before him with malicious delight.
"Me no think so!" Petrie shouted, interrupting Redclaw's feast fantasy, and he hurriedly began to drop more rocks onto Redclaw's head. Redclaw roared with fury as Ducky and Ruby pelted more boulders at him. The plan worked, for Redclaw turned his attention away from the Great Valley and began to snap at Ducky, Petrie and Ruby. He roared, "I will make sure that every one of you and every single member of your pathetic little families will meet their ends through my teeth!" while furiously swiping and biting.
Hurriedly, Littlefoot, Cera and Spike ran over and blocked off Redclaw from Ducky, Petrie and Ruby.
"You're not gonna hurt our friends anymore!" Littlefoot shouted.
"Last chance!" Cera growled. "Go back to the Mysterious Beyond, or deal with us!"
Though he couldn't understand what they were saying, he could tell that he was being threatened. Smirking in sharptooth, Redclaw growled, "Who's gonna stop me? I'm gonna kill everyone I can." And with a hurried motion, he bit onto Littlefoot's back, before jumping over and biting Cera's, causing them both to scream and get large gashes on their backs.
But just as Redclaw was deciding who to attack next, Cera jumped up and stabbed Redclaw's chin with all the force she could muster. Spike, meanwhile, swung his tail as far back as it would go and launched it toward Redclaw's belly. Littlefoot then growled, readied his tail and whipped Redclaw away from them, causing him to fall a ways away from them onto a narrow part of the cliff that stuck out from the rest of the edge, being separated by a small downward sloping hill.
Redclaw fell flat onto the ground and was trying but failing to get up, but to everyone's horror, he was still conscious. He then gave a threatening glare and made an enormous roar, causing everyone to shiver.
"Nothing can stop him!" Petrie gasped. "Me feel like me logrunning…"
But then, Ducky gasped, and smiled at Petrie happily. "Petrie…that…that's it!"
"What is?" Petrie asked bewilderedly.
"Logs!" Ducky exclaimed. "If we roll enough logs at him, we can stop him in his tracks and make him fall off the cliff!"
"Great idea, Ducky!" Littlefoot exclaimed. "Come on, let's get started!"
"Let's show him not to mess with anyone again!" Cera cheered, and hurriedly, everyone prepared the plan to stop Redclaw. Littlefoot pressed down on several trees to get them to crack, while Cera and Spike went around and cut the trees from their stumps. Ducky meanwhile, removed the branches from the logs to help make the logs roll better, while Petrie and Ruby helped place the logs in front of each other. Redclaw, meanwhile, was preoccupied with Chomper, who had hurried forward in order to distract him from the others.
"Kid, I have a deal for you," Redclaw growled in sharptooth. "You could join my side…fight all these sapsuckers and all the ones down in the valley…I'll spare your life and your parents'…and I'll allow you to have half of our spoils and you won't go hungry again."
"You don't get it, do you," Chomper told Redclaw angrily. "You can offer me anything and I still won't accept! They're my friends, and I will never turn my back on them!"
"Then you will die too," Redclaw growled,and furiously, he began to snap at Chomper again, who hurriedly bit back.
Through the roars and growls of the sharptooth duel, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike and Ruby readied their logs, preparing to roll them down the cliff right towards Redclaw. Chomper looked back and saw that everyone was ready, so he hurried back and joined the others just as Redclaw had finally succeeded in getting back on his feet.
"I am going to kill all of these brats once and for all!" Redclaw roared, and he instantly raced over to the group, his eyes bulging with rage and his teeth gnashing with anticipation.
"Push!" everyone shouted, and with their combined effort, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby began to push the logs closer and closer to the downhill part of the cliff. But then Redclaw roared again and to everyone's horror, he began to run up to them, causing everyone to gasp in terror. Redclaw was now standing right at the edge of the logs, and he growled menacingly, licking his lips and leaning over the logs, snapping at the kids, imagining his seven-course meal…
Then the kids took a few steps back, seizing a sudden idea. Thinking that the kids were cornered, Redclaw roared delightedly and began to run across the logs.
But with the force of his charging, he caused the logs under him to roll violently and he found himself falling flat on his face. Roaring fiercely, Redclaw got up and glared at the kids with pure hatred, but without a moment of hesitation, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby knew they had gotten their chance and together, they rammed into the logs as hard as they could. The log nearest them was hit with such force that it flew up and hit Redclaw on the head, causing him to fall down on the pile of logs again. And because of the force of his fall, everyone's pushing of the logs, and the cliff's slope pulling the logs down, the other logs began to move, carrying Redclaw with them.
Redclaw tried to stand up as he glared at the kids murderously, but the friction of the logs caused him to topple back over as they continued to roll onward. The logs drew closer and closer to the cliff, and then began to fall off the cliff's edge. With one last blood-curdling roar of fury, Redclaw plummeted downward, and his body made a deafening crash as it hit the ground.
Then, the kids looked at each other, hardly daring to believe what they had just done. Littlefoot smiled, and said, "Well, I don't think we have to worry about Redclaw anymore!"
"Oh yes yes yes!" Ducky exclaimed happily. "And now everyone will be safe, they will!"
"Me no believe it! We save everyone in whole Great Valley!" Petrie added.
"From the meanest sharptooth of all," Chomper smiled, unable to comprehend their accomplishment.
"Of course, I always knew that I would do that someday," Cera said cockily, and everyone laughed as she smiled.
Then, Littlefoot sighed and looked at the others. "Well, I guess we should be on our way now."
Everyone else sadly nodded in agreement, but before they could take two steps away, they heard a small set of footprints running behind them.