//------------------------------// // Horned assult // Story: The Land Before Time XIV:Ponies of Prehistory // by Laci the Hunter //------------------------------// Chapter XIV:Horned assault Earth Great Valley 65 million years BC As everyone gathered at a rocky hill (which was suppose to be the dino gangs hideout) everyone had, almost, clear 'marks' on what they've been doing. Ruby in particular. She was wearing a skirt made up of big bush leaves, a flower neckleac and a little flower crown around her red crest, complete with some colorful 'sweat bubbles'.Everyone stared at her and emediatly thought that Rarity made it. Ducky then spoke: -Oh Ruby you look so pretty. -Thank you Ducky.-said the dressed oviraptor-Rarity made it for me. As for the rest well: Fluttershy and Ducky where totally wet, Petrie and RD seemed full of pride and confidence (for having a succesfull first training day),AJ and Cera looked tiered mostly at the back feet and head and as for Pinkie, Chomper and the two Spikes well, they all seemed full. But young dragon Spike went up to Rarity and he showed her some of the white gemstones he kept and then said: -Here Rarity. I've kept these gemstones for you. -Oh my, these diamonds look fabulous. Oh thank you Spikey-Wikey.- She then kissed him at the cheek and the little dragon fainted. Much to everyones confusion. Chomper tried to wake him up while Littlefoot was just about to ask Twilight why did he do that but before he could she first said: -Don't ask.-Littlefoot nodded, cleared his throught and then said: -Everyone listen up!-as if on que Spike woke up and was paying attention just like everyone else-Twilight and I have something important to say. They both explained about Littlefoots visions. They told them about the giant metal ball, the weird staff, that said staff lies in Saurus Rock and that they're probably suppose to find it. After they told their friends everything there is to say Cera saw her chance and said: -So let me get this straight: Every time you're in the center of the valley you keep seeing a big, round, glowing rock made of 'metal'. Plus you also see a weird looking, glowing stick which is inside Saurus Rock. And you also think that these two are somehow connected and that it's our job to find both of them and reunite them. Is that it? -Uh, yeah. That about sums it up.-Littlefoot said with a smile on his face. -And how do you know that these aren't just sleep stories which, as usual, have absolutely no meaning?-asked Cera -Because Cera I saw them to and these are not dreams. They're clear visions and I for one agree with Littlefoot. We have got to find these two objects and, somehow, put them together.-said Twilight, supporting Littlefoot. -It sounds like fun. An adventure. And we're always one for adventures.-said Chomper obviously being excited.-I'm deffinitly in! -I'm in to.-said Ruby-Because I still have to watch you Chomper. -Me going to.-said Petrie -I'm going to and Spike's coming to, yep, yep, yep-Ducky said with her 'little' brother nodding. -Oh alright, I'm coming to.-said Cera. -Well then where do we start?-asked Rainbow Dash, obviously stating that they are joining in to. -Well I'd suggest we start at Saurus Rock. It's close, sort of, and that stick thing, that staff, seems more lighter to carry to that big, 'orb' thinghie.-Littlefoot stated -All right then. Saurus Rock it is.-stated Twilight, with her friends agreeing. They where just about to take of, but they suddenly felt big foot steps aprouching them. Of course it could've been one of the adults, wandering around. They also heard some rustling noises coming from the trees. They still thought it was one of the adults so they decided to drop the suspicions and start heading to Saurus Rock. But suddenly a large, two legged dinosaur jumped out of the brush. It wasn't to big, about medium sized, its body had a mix of white and yellow colors on, with brown spots on its back. Both its legs and forearms ended with three, distingwishing sharp claws. And finally its mouth bared some long, sharp teeth and it had three horns on the top of it's head (one on top of its nose and two on the top of its eyes). It was deffinitly a Ceratosaurus. It suddenly bellowed a deep yet loud roar, trying to strike fear into the hearts of its prey. Altough Littlefoot and his friends were scared right out of there scales the ponies tried their best to think of a way to defeat this revenant carnivore. But as they did the Ceratosaurus charged towards them and they all ran of to hide. As they jumped through two, close growing trees the horned theropod could only stick his head out and as he did he got stuck and roared in anger. The two gangs hid behind some bushes and then Applejack asked: -What in tarnation is that thing? -That's a Three Horned Sharptooth.-whispered Chomper to her and the others-I've seen them before. They might be smaller then other sharpteeth but they are fast and also strong. They normally hunt in packs so I guess this one's a rogue. They can only see well if they turn their heads. And the last part was true,'cause as Twilight and Littlefoot peeked out of the bush they noticed that as the carnivore turned his head he was trying his best to find them. After a few moments the Ceratosaurus finally broke free and started wandering around, looking for its walking lunch. Luckily he went right past them and kept walking in a straight line. That's when Twilight thought of some kind of plan: -Everyone listen.-she said whispering-Rainbow Dash I need you and Fluttershy to fly out there and distract him. -Got it.-said RD -Uhm, ok-said Flutteshy being very nervous about this plan -Rarity and I will try to fight him using our magic.-Twilight continued with Rarity nodding in agreement-Applejack, you, Pinkie Pie and Spike try and tie up his legs so he wont be able to walk. -No problem Twi.-said a determind Applejack -Okey- dokey- lokey.- said Pinkie -Ok. I'll try.-said Spike being nervous -Alright then let's go.-ordered Twilight but she was stopped by a questioning Littlefoot who asked: -Uhm, Twilight? What about us? -Sorry Littlefoot, but this is to dangerous. You guys can't come.-Twilight replied -What?-asked Cera being serious as usual-But we can help. Just give us a chance. -Sorry sugarcube, but the answer is still 'no'.-Applejack replied. -But…-Cera couldn't finish,'cause a pair of toothed jaws pulled their hiding place into the aer. Everyone screamed in terror as the Ceratosaurus revieled itself and started shaking its head wildly tearing the bush into peaces. That's when Twilight spoke: -Go! Go! And with that everyone started to run into one direction. Fluttershy was stopped in mid aer by Rainbow Dash who told her: -C'mon Fluttershy! We have to distract that overgrown lizard so the others can do their part of the plan! And without question Fluttershy followed her to the charging carnivore. Rainbow Dash flew to his right eye, quickly getting his attention. Like many other theropod dinosaurs he can't resist a moving target. He tried to snap his powerful jaws at Rainbow but her speed made sure that didn't happen. Fluttershy flew by his eyes to and caught his attention a few times and because of her shynes she could be killed easyli, but she had some impressively fast reflexes giving her a huge advanteg. Twilight and the others hid behind some trees and noticed that the two pegusi were doing a great job. She decided it was time for them to get into the action to but first she looked back at Littlefoot and his friends and said in a serious tone: -You guys stay here! I mean it! The young dinosaurs just nodded and did as they where told, while the ponies went out to deal with the Ceratosaurus. While Rainbow and Fluttershy were flying around the theropod, trying not to become dino-pony meal Twilight and Rarity were doing their part of the plan: Twilight was shouting purple magic beams at the beast, while Rarity was using her own magic to throw rocks at him. This really made the Ceratosaurus mad and it tried to lunge to them but the two pegusi prevented that. Meanwhile Applejack and Pinkie Pie were buissy tying up the carnivores legs with some strong vines, while Spike was tying up the other ends to some nearby trees. After about five minutes the revenant dinosaur couldn't take anymore of these teasings, so when it eyed out Rainbow and saw her stop he emediatly lunged at her, biting her tail. Having caught her in his jaws he started shaking her uncontrollably around, making her very nausy. Fluttehsy tried to catch her but was knocked a few feat away making her a bit dizzy. The young dinosaurs meanwhile just stood there and watched as the predator was about to kill one of there friends. Petrie was the most worried of them all. Because it was thanks to that very Pegasus that he managed to become a bit more braver at flying through clouds. So he thought of a really insane idea: he wanted to use that bit of bravery to save her, just as he had saved Ducky from the tyrannosaurus back when they were trying to find the valley. And so he took a deep breath and flew straight towards the predator. -Petrie no!-Ducky yelled at him -Petrie stop! Twilight told us to stay here!-Cera yelled to -Me can't! Sorry!-Petrie said then flew faster towards the carnivore Twilight heard his voice and turned to the direction where Petrie was and then she yelled at him to: -Petrie no! Don't!- she yelled right out of her lungs but unfortunately in vein. Petrie was so focused that he started to ignore everyone who yelled at him. Rainbow Dash was really dizzy by now and was about to vomit, but she swallowed it back when she noticed Petrie heading towards the shaking dinosaur and wandered 'what the hell was he about to do?'. The little pteranodon then saw his chance, when the theropod was starting to slow down, and darted straight to his left eye and by the time the Ceratosaurus saw the little flyer, his beak was already in the predators eye. The Ceratosaurus raised his head up and roared out in pain and with that he released Rainbow throwing her high up in the aer. She rotated a few times then managed to spread out her wings, started flapping them and she was flying once more. Meanwhile Petrie managed to get his beak out of the theropods eye, blood started flowing out it. Now the Ceratosaurus was really pissed and started to lunge at Petrie, but since he was small he was quicker and more agile and managed to avoid being eaten. Then Twilight gave the two earth ponies and Spike the signal and all three of them started to pull the tie vines and then slowly the Ceratosaurs legs started to aprouche each other. Pretty soon his legs were joined together, causing him to fall to the ground and when he did he was knocked out cold for a while. The gang of 7 got out of their hiding place and went closer, Rainbow Dash meanwhile was flying down, right towards Petrie and when she got closer she spoke to him: -Petrie! That was the craziest idea of yours I've ever seen!-then she hugged Petrie in a really tight grip-Don't ever do that again. -Petrie…can't….breath!-the little flyer tried talking while the cyan Pegasus was still tightly hugging him. After hearing that Rainbow let go of Petrie feeling a bit embaressed. The others cracket a little laugh before Fluttershy came down to them and said: -Uhm, guys. I hate to interrupt but there are more of these things coming. -WHAT!?-everyone asked in unison Rainbow Dash then flew up and, to her surprise, saw a whole pack of Ceratosaurs coming to their direction. She then went down to tell the others: -Fluttershy's right. There are four more of them coming. -Well how in the hay are we gone beat four of'em?-Applejack asked-We had a hard time defeating this one. -We should tell the grownups. Now!-Littlefoot exclaimed -By the time we do that those three-horned sharpteeth will be picking their teeth with our bones!-Cera told her friend her opinion but when she finished they all noticed that the downed ceratosaurus was starting to wake up, so they all ran of to hide behind some bushes. Then Twilight started whispering to everyone: -Then we need to somehow scare them of. -With what?-Cera asked -I don't know. Maybe with a large fire or a big explosion or something.-when Twilight said 'explosion' that emediatly hit Rainbow Dash and she had an idea which was probably crazier then Petries assault idea. She then flew right out of the bush as fast as she could leaving the others in utter confusion. She flew as high as she could, actually so high that the clouds literally covered out the entire valley. Then she stopped and flew down even faster then she had flew up. In fact when she came to view she flew so fast that her pony friends knew what was coming next and then Applejack spoke up first: -Oh my. Is she really gonna do it? -What? What will she do?-Ducky asked being a bit confused and worried -Uh, I think we should duck!-Twilight said and everyone did so. Meanwhile the one eyed Ceratosaurus finally got up and the other pack members were already there and were wandering what happened to his eye. Then they all turned their attention to RD who was halfway down by now. Then after at least three more minutes some kind of explosion accured that sent an enormous rainbow colored sonic shockwaive which started to expand across the entire valley. This spooked the Ceratosaur pack and sent them running for their lives, and it also scared the Great Valley dinosaurs as well. Rainbow Dash flew down to the others with a bright rainbow following her along the way. When she came down she stood straight and proudly asked: -So? What do you guys think? Pretty awesome isn't it?-Twilight was about to say something but Petrie spoke up first: -That was amazing! How you do that? What was that? -Well that was the legendary Sonic Rainboom. I've already done it three times so I guess this is the fourth time.-the little dinosaurs were so surprised that they didn't notice the adult dinosaurs aprouching them until Grandpa Longneck asked his grandson: -Littlefoot what happened? We heard there were sharpteeth here but then a huge explosion appeared. What caused it? -I-it was Rainbow Dash grandpa.- Littlefoot said finally snapping out of it- She flew very high up and when she came down then that's when the explosion happened. She calls it the 'Sonic Rainboom' and it scared the sharpteeth away. Everyone was a bit stunned by what happened and mostly by the fact that such a small creature could cause such a big explosion. Then grandpa longneck lowered his head to Rainbow Dash and said: -Well if what Littlefoot says is true then we thank you for saving our valley. -Hey no prob.-Rainbow said a bit nervous -And the next time when you decide to do something crazy how about you tell us first!-Twilight finally said -Alright, sheesh.-said Rainbow with the others laughing. But there victory would be short lived 'cause the most dangerous enemy the dinosaur world could ever see is about to bring chaos to the Great Valley and with it the final battle.