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The earthquake started getting worse. As the gang ran as fast as they could, they were having trouble keeping themselves balanced. Some nearly fell over as the shakes grew stronger. They could hear a loud banging noise, and knew that the mountain was erupting. They had to get into the valley quickly. There was a good chance that the quake could seal them outside the valley.

"Can't we go any faster!" The loud rumbling was so loud that in order to hear each other, they had to scream. Ducky shouted at the top of her lungs, and still her voice was barely audible to the other members of the group.

"I...don't...know!" Littlefoot responded. "Where..is...the...closest...entrance...Tria!" He was trying to catch his breath. Littlefoot was growing tired from the running. They had to get inside quickly. They couldn't keep this up forever.

Tria looked at Littlefoot. "I don't know! Maybe Petrie can tell us!"

The longneck smiled faintly. "That's...a...good..idea...Petrie! Fly...up!"

The flyer soared up high enough to see the valley surrounded by its walls. His keen eyes searched frantically for an opening they could squeeze through. As he scanned, he finally found an opening. But as he looked at it, he knew that to get through here, they'd have to destroy a rock formation. The formation did look very familiar, but he couldn't quite figure it out.

The formation was tall and spikey. It had a small curving tunnel that would lead into the valley. But the opening was too small. They'd have to have Tria and Spike make the opening bigger, even if it means destroying the formation. Petrie looked for any other way the was closest. He saw none. This was their only closest chance to get back in the valley before they could potentially be sealed out forever.

Petrie then remembered Chomper. He had to have come into the valley somehow. Could there be another opening he got into? He couldn't take forever on this, he knew. The others were running out of time. They would have no choice but to go the rock formation and destroy it to get inside.

Satisfied, Petrie flew back down and hovered in front of Littlefoot. "Littlefoot! There is a small opening up there!" He pointed in the general direction. "But me thinks Spike and Tria have to destroy pile of rocks to get in!"

Littlefoot stared in surprise. "Is there any other way!"

The flyer shook his head. "No." Then he thought for a moment. "Well there be the way Chomper came in, but it may be too far away. This is closest entrance."

Littlefoot closed his eyes. "All right! Come on!"

The group headed up towards the area Petrie had just flown from. When they reached it, they noticed that it was on a hill. The rock formation was pretty big, but it should be no problem for Tria and Spike. As Littlefoot looked at it, he couldn't help but think that the spot looked very familiar. From where they were, the earthshakes weren't as loud, so they could speak softer now.

"I could've sworn I've been here before..." He wasn't the only one feeling deja vu.

"Me too." Petrie admitted.

"Messa remember." Spike chimed in.

"It does look familiar, yep yep yep." Ducky said.

Ali and Rex walked over. Rex was still hurt, but managed to continue walking without assistance. He looked at his longneck friend and said, "If you don't mind, we'd like to get in sometime before tomorrow." He smiled a little, and winced as he felt a sharp pain.

Ali nodded. "The sooner we get in, the better." She looked back at where the cave was. "We can only hope that the earthshake will keep Chomper busy long enough for us to get inside before he finds us."

Rex turned his head towards Ali. "Wouldn't he just run? I mean, he isn't stupid enough to stand in the middle of a..."

Ali interrupted him. "Yes he is." She took a step forward. "He will boldly face any natural disaster. Things like whirlwinds and lightning don't scare him."

Tria cocked an eyebrow. "So you're telling us that maniac could track us up here, even during an eruption, and attack?"

Ali nodded. "That's why we've got to keep moving. Try to break that rock the fastest way possible!"

Tria and Spike looked at each other, and nodded. As they studied the rocks, they could locate a few weak points that would cause the thing to collapse if struck hard enough. They approached those points. Spike raised his strong tail and struck as hard as he could. The rock started to break away. He struck it again, and the formation was starting to collapse. Tria walked to the other side, and used her strong horns to smash away the second weak spot.

The formation started to collapse. Huge boulders starting racing down towards the group. Ali gulped. "Maybe we should've gotten out of the way first..."

They rushed to all the sides as the boulders and rocks and pebbles rolled down the hill. The rumbling caused the ground to shake even more, and some of the members lost their balance and fell to the ground. As Littlefoot witnessed the formation fall to pieces, a flash of memory entered his mind. As the rocks continued to fall, Littlefoot suddenly remembered what this place was.

Voices filled his head. They echoed in his brain. They whispered into his ear. They sent a volt up his spine.

"Littlefoot, you found it!"

"We did it! We did it together!"

"Mother? I tried to do what you told me. But it's just too hard. I-I'll never find the Great Valley..."

"Littlefoot...Littlefoot...Littlefoot..."

"Don't go mother! Don't go!"

"The Great Valley... Cera, Spike, Ducky, Petrie! Over here!"

The voices echoed inside his head. Memories flooded his mind. As he closed his eyes and reopened them, and saw the formation fall to pieces completely, he felt a small pain in his heart.

Ali gently nudged Littlefoot. "What's wrong?"

"I-I remember this place..." Ducky, and Petrie looked at him. "I-It's where I first entered the valley..." He took in a deep breath. "This is the spot, where I found the pathway into the valley. I could remember, how happy I was, how happy my friends where."

Ducky and Petrie's eyes went wide. They stared up where the rock formation used to be. And now they, too, could remember things from long ago, when they first arrived in the valley. "This is where we almost lost Petrie, too." Her weary eyes looked down at the large pool where they killed a sharptooth.

Petrie shuddered. "Don't remind me about that!" He folded his wings around himself. "Me surprised I got loose in time."

Tria and Spike started walking back. Spike shouted, "If zee wanna get in before bad shake closes us up, best get going!"

Tria agreed. "He's right! We gotta get going!"

Rex, Spike, Tria, Ducky, and Petrie started heading up towards the newly exposed opening. But Littlefoot and Ali stayed behind. As the earthquake was starting to grow softer, Littlefoot still had his eyes glued on the opening where he first entered the valley. Then he raised his head towards a taller formation that stood next to it. He could spy the small platform that he stood on when he talked to his mother in the sky.

Ali nuzzled him. "You never told me what happend to your mother." She looked into his eyes. "Do you want to tell me about it...?"

Littlefoot closed his eyes and looked away. "She died saving me from a sharptooth..."

The female longneck's eyes widened. "I-I'm so sorry to hear that."

"It's all right." He whispered. He let out a long sigh. "Well we better get going."

"Yes, let's go." She followed Littlefoot towards the opening. As they disappeared, a cloud of mist sank towards the ground. As it dispersed, a single female longneck stood there. She was bigger than Littlefoot and Ali. She had a brownish color with a dark brown stripe that connected from the tip of her snout towards the tip of her tail.

The ghostly longneck walked forward a little. As she watched the others disappear into the valley, a smile came across her face. And then she spoke softly, her words sounding like they were with the wind. "Prepare yourself, Littlefoot... A battle is coming... And when it does...you must be willing to forgive everything...to know and have the family you did never knew..." Then the ghost longneck disappeared.

Littlefoot felt his heart skip a beat as he heard the voices in the wind. He turned his head around. "Mother...?" But he could see nothing.

Ali looked at him. "What's wrong?"

Littlefoot answered, "I thought I heard my mother..."

"It was probably just the wind."

"Yeah.. you're probably right..." He couldn't help but think about that voice he had just heard. He whispered, "What did she mean by...family I never knew...?"