Reply To: The Land Before Time XVIII: Journey Under the Great Valley
CHAPTER FOUR: BAD LITTLEFOOT
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They went looking through the cave. They checked every nook and cranny. They awoke a grumpy middle-aged Large Flyer. “You pesky kids!” she groaned. Littlefoot and the others took off. They decided that the way to the Fire Rock couldn’t be in here. “Teenagers!” she muttered in disgust. She went back to sleep. Liam stuck his tongue out at her. Littlefoot snickered.
The group went toward a sleeping Iguanodon’s nest. “Watch this.” Liam whispered. He grabbed an egg. He handed it to Mandi. Aang gave him a rock, which he replaced it with. “Help out guys.” whispered Liam. Littlefoot wondered if this was right, but decided if Liam did it, that it must be cool and ok. He and the others replaced the eggs with rocks. “Now get her up Littlefoot. And don’t get us caught.” whispered Liam. Littlefoot found a long fern. He and the others went out of sight. Littlefoot poked her with the fern and then quickly moved it as she got up.
“Huh?” muttered the Iguanodon. She noticed that her eggs were gone. “Oh no!” she muttered. “Help, my eggs have been stolen by Egg Thieves! They replaced them with rocks!” she cried, running off to get help.
“Quick!” said Louise. They got the eggs and put them back, taking away the rocks. They got away just in time as the Iguanodon came back with Topps.
“I don’t see anything missing. The eggs are all there.” grumbled Topps.
“But…” muttered the Iguanodon in complete shock.
“You must have just had a very bizarre Sleep Story.” said Topps, shaking his head. He went off, muttering about dumb Iguanodons.
Littlefoot and his new pals were laughing hard some distance away.
“Did you see the look on her face?” laughed Littlefoot.
“Yes, what a sucker!” laughed Liam.
They went searching another cave. Littlefoot thought that he had found a secret chamber. “It’s hollow.” he said.
“Open it.” said Liam. Littlefoot spent a lot of energy doing it himself. It never occurred to him to ask why the others weren’t helping, so eager was he to try and be cool. He eventually broke through. They searched in here. There were a few pools of water and even a couple of Sky Color Stones, which Liam’s group all took, not leaving any for Littlefoot. Littlefoot again didn’t question this.
“It’s not in here.” said Littlefoot in disappointment.
“We’ll get it.” Liam reassured him.
It was getting later in the day now. “Hey look, it’s Grumpy!” said Aang. Mrs. Maia was yelling at a Flyer who had had the bad luck of crashing during a practice for the Great Day of the Flyers. He had hit her by mistake. She had left some Tree Sweets nearby.
“Hey, look what she left for us to enjoy.” laughed Rabauke.
“I don’t know. Isn’t this stealing?” asked Littlefoot uneasily, grimacing.
“She’s an old grouch picking on a poor Flyer for an accident. It’s karma.” Liam reassured him. Littlefoot and the others stole the Tree Sweets. Mrs. Maia turned around.
“Where are my Tree Sweets?” she gasped. Some distance away, out of sight, Littlefoot and his group laughed. They finished off the Tree Sweets. Littlefoot started heading off from the others, for it was about to get dark. He went on some ways before stopping, hearing a grumpy voice calling to him.
“Hello, glad you dropped in.” It was Cera.
“I…er…” muttered Littlefoot nervously.
“You no meet with us today.” said Petrie.
“We missed you today. We did. We did.” said Ducky. Spike nodded.
“I was with Liam.” said Littlefoot.
“So, pretty boy is more important than us now?!” snarled Cera.
“You’re just jealous!” said Littlefoot.
“Jealous of what? I’m not the one who’s being as obstinate as Spike when disturbed when eating, er, no offense Spike.” said Cera. Spike nodded.
“I am not obstinate!” snarled Littlefoot.
“Are too!” grumbled Cera.
“AM NOT!” shouted Littlefoot.
“ARE TOO!” shouted Cera.
“AM NOT!” shouted Littlefoot even louder. The two got into a tussle. Both were doing evenly well. Suddenly, a tail separated the two.
“Enough Cera!” It was her dad Topps.
“That will do Littlefoot!” It was Grandpa Longneck.
Littlefoot and Cera got a stern lecture about learning to get along. They both made nasty faces at each other when the grownups weren’t looking. Eventually, the group went off to bed. It looked like their friendship was under strain.
