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Teggs as one of the laser beams whistled past his ear.
    Rushing for cover, Arx and Coo went one way while Gipsy and Sog went another. Dippa ran off all by herself, soTeggs chased after her.
    â€œJust you wait, acorn-brain!” roared King Albu. “I’ll get those eggs yet!”
    â€œNot if I can help it,” muttered Teggs. He swung his head about wildly, looking for somewhere to hide from the gunfire. But the landscape was smooth and flat on all sides.
    â€œLook out!” called Dippa.
    Teggs skidded to a stop just in front of a huge gash in the ground. It was too wide to jump over.
    â€œWe’ll have to turn back!” wailed Dippa.
    â€œWe can’t!” said Teggs. As if to prove it, a laser beam whizzed past between them. “There’s only one place we can go now!”
    Teggs was pointing to the crack in the ground. “Down
there?”
Dippa gulped.
    â€œNow!” cried Teggs.
    Together, the two dinosaurs leaped into the blackness.

Chapter Seven

THE TUNNELS OF FEAR
    Luckily, Teggs and Dippa didn’t have far to fall. They landed with a thump on a small ledge.
    â€œDid you know this was here?” gasped Dippa.
    â€œEr . . . of course!” said Teggs quickly.
    Dippa peered over the edge. “How deep is this crack?” she wondered. “And what’s at the bottom of it?”

    A spooky, wailing noise rose up from the darkness. It was the same noise they had heard back on the
Sauropod.
    â€œWho needs Gipsy’s tracker?” said Teggs. “Whatever that thing is, it’s right beneath us!” He explored along the ledge a little further. Soon the winking lights on his battle helmet lit up a jagged gash in the smooth rock beside him. “It’s another crack . . . a sort of passageway! Come on, before the oviraptors find us.”
    â€œI don’t like scary passageways,” whispered Dippa. “Why don’t we just let King Albu
have
the eggs?”
    Teggs stared at her. “How can you even think such a thing?” Dippa shrugged. “It would be much easier.”

    â€œIt would be easier, but it would be
wrong,”
said Teggs sternly. “Those eggs hold the future of yourrace! Isn’t that worth fighting for?”
    â€œFighting ruined our old world,” said Dippa.
    â€œFighting is bad”

    â€œBut giving up is bad too, Dippa,” Teggs told her.
    â€œI know you’re scared. I am too! But you mustn’t throw away your dreams”
    Dippa nodded slowly. “I dream of a new place to call home,” she said. “I dream of having little baby plateosaurus to look after. I dream that one day there will be a whole, happy herd of us on our own planet.”
    â€œThen
fight
for those dreams,” Teggs told her.
    Just then, they heard a scuttling sound above them. “This way, boys!” came a familiar, wicked voice. “There’s a ledge! They must have jumped down here!”

    â€œKing Albu!” hissed Teggs. “Quick! Let’s get going!”
    He and Dippa started galloping through the darkness on all fours. The oviraptors soon figured out where they had gone, and gave chase.
    â€œThey’re catching up!” panted Dippa.
    â€œKeep running!” cried Teggs.
    Then the mysterious, ghostly wail started up again, chilling them to the bone. Teggs and Dippa skidded to a halt, and so did the oviraptor princes. Teggs saw them by the light of hisbattle helmet, clutching each other in fear.

    â€œWe – we
have
to go back now, Father!” stammered Shelly.
    â€œNever!” cried King Albu. “Now, grab those eggs, boys – or I’ll hard-boil you all!”
    Goopo and his brothers slowly advanced on the two herbivores.
    â€œGet behind me, Dippa,” hissed Teggs. “Maybe I can scare them off.” He flexed his armoured tail, ready to fight. But the passage was too small, and histail was too big. It whacked against the smooth wall and