Reply To: The Land Before Time XV: The Friendly Sharptooth Flyer
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: PTERO AND CERA
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Ptero came with Petrie in the morning to meet with the others. Both were still yawning from having just woken up. They came to Cera first. Petrie was carrying some berries. Cera grabbed three of them.
“Cera, give that back!” Petrie grumbled.
“Why don’t you come and get them?” asked Cera smugly.
Petrie tried to grab them. Cera moved them out of the way.
“Hey!” he whined.
“You have to do better than that.” taunted Cera.
Petrie tried again but Cera moved it out of the way just like Lucy did with the football and Charlie Brown. Cera did this over and over.
“Come on Petrie, try again.” laughed Cera.
“Cera, let him have them back.” grumbled Littlefoot, coming upon them and seeing what was going on.
“Can I try?” asked Ptero, who had been with Littlefoot, Spike, and Ducky.
“Sure, go ahead.” replied Cera, looking smug.
She hoped to outwit Ptero just like she had done with Petrie. She held the berries out. WHAM! Ptero grabbed them fast. He held them safely in his talons. “Got them.” he said, grinning.
“Wow, you are good!’ said Cera in amazement.
“You have great reflexes!” said Littlefoot in awe.
“Well, you may have the best reflexes of our gang, but I’m still the strongest.” said Cera haughtily. She broke a rock with her head.
“Well, I cannot do that.” said Ptero. Cera smirked. “But I can do this.” Ptero added. He went and flew at a tree branch. He aimed at it with full force. SMASH! It broke free. It was a big branch too. The branch fell and conked Cera in the head.
“Ow!” moaned Cera. Ducky laughed, Spike chuckled, Littlefoot chortled, and Petrie snickered.
“Sorry, didn’t mean to hit you.” Ptero apologized.
“That’s ok. You are pretty strong, for a non-Threehorn.” Cera said.
Ptero sighed. He’d gotten these abilities from his mother’s training. She had said it would be useful for taking down Flatteeth. He’d always been so eager to use it for such. But now, as he looked at his friends, for the first time since he was a small boy, he was doubting whether he’d now use those abilities for such if bidden
