Storm Hawks' Adventures of The Land Before Time/Transcript

Opening/A New Adventure is Born
(The scene takes place underwater. A small creature is floating up, but swims down and back up. A smaller fish moves past it. The creature makes a loop and attempts to devour it, and floats up further. In a moment, the first groups of bubbles floats up. The title reads "A Lucas/Spielberg Presentation." In ten more seconds, another group of them floats up. Another title reads "A Don Bluth Film." Still underwater inside the pond a small creature swims nearby. It tries to catch a tiny fish as it moves. The swimming creature lands on a Metriorhynchus and devours it. The Metriorhynchus attempts to snap its mouth at a small creature but it quickly dodges and moves on with the group of others swimming. One of the giant creatures dips into the water and pulls out the weeds. The Final title reads "Storm Hawks' Adventures of The Land Before Time" and fades away. A group of Archelon is swimming across the sea._)

NARRATOR: Once upon the same Earth, beneath the same sun, long before you, before the ape, and the elephant as well, before the wolf, the bison, the whale, before the mammoth, and the mastodon. In the time of the dinosaurs.

(A group of Triceratops migrate in the grassy oasis at sunset. One of them shouts "Come on".)

NARRATOR: Now the dinosaurs were of two kinds: some had flat teeth and ate the leaves of trees. And some had sharp teeth for eating meat and they preyed up on the leaf eaters. Then it happened that the leaves began to die. The mighty beasts who appeared to rule the Earth were ruled in truth by the leaf, desperate for food. Some of the dinosaur herds struck out toward the west, searching for the Great Valley. A land still lush in green. It was a journey toward life.

(The nesting ground of Saurolophus shows. One of them devours the weeds from the pond while the other one is laying by her nest of eggs.)

NARRATOR: It was a march of many dangers. Sharpteeth stalked the herds waiting to seize any who strayed. The leaf eaters stopped only to hatch their young.

(One of the eggs starts to hatch. A head pops up with her legs in front and her tail in the rear. Ducky sees a butterfly flying by and falls from atop the other eggs wanting to hatch. She reaches over, but rolls out of her nest and tries to catch it. Ducky moves in through a log tunnel following a butterfly. She falls off the long and her egg shell breaks. Ducky pounces on the Cimolestes as it runs away. Ducky runs into a Megalochelys as it opens its mouth. She crawls in it; her mother pulls her quickly out and the giant turtle snaps its mouth shut.)

DUCKY: Mama.

(Ducky's mother moves back to her nest where Ducky's siblings already hatched and puts Ducky down. They both snuggle. The other nesting grounds show a family of Triceratops. Their hatchlings are chased playfully giggling by an egg with four legs, bumping into one of her parents and into one of her siblings. She prepares to charge and rushes into a snout once, then she charges again, breaking the egg free, revealing Cera.)

NARRATOR: Some of the young seemed born without fear.

(Cera rams into her parents on the snout and rubs her forehead. Suddenly thunder crashes, which frightens her along with her sisters. The weather thunders with lightning and rains. In the wet nesting grounds is the herd of Apatosaurus. The three eggs are cracked empty, except one, which is moving around at the same spot. A Struthiomimus lurks near a nest.)

NARRATOR: Yet... even hatching could be dangerous.

(An egg theif leaps into a nest and grabs an egg. An adult Long-Neck whacks an egg stealer and drops it down a Parasaurolophus skeleton, into a flower, and it rolls on a wooden rail; the lizards scatter. The egg falls into the river and goes over a waterfall. The egg falls into a dirt plain as the lizards scatter from it. One of them checks the cracked egg, sniffing.)

NARRATOR: One herd had only a single baby *the egg hatches and the lizard runs off* their last hope for the future. *The entire egg cracks open, revealing Littlefoot. His mother giggles* And they called him... Littlefoot.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: *giggles* Here I am. *he coos* Aww.

(Littlefoot lies on his back and crouches. His mother licks his back three times. He lifts his head up. Her mother licks him twice, and pushes him with her tongue. Littlefoot licks her snout and snuggles her. The lizards and tiny mammals surround Littlefoot and his mother. A couple of them look at him. Littlefoot gets off his mother's snout and moves backwards, then with a crab crawl, then runs to his mother's front leg.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Oh, don't be frightened. Come out.

(Littlefoot peeks out and sees all different kinds of creatures; they approach him. Littlefoot snuggles in his mother's foot, and yawns with a stretch. He notices the creatures near him and runs. He trips over; his mother giggles. She picks Littlefoot up by the nape.)

NARRATOR: All that remained of his herd was his mother, grandmother, and his grandfather. *Littlefoot's mother puts him on her back* He knew them by sight, by scent, and by their love. He knew they would be together always. *Littlefoot slides down on her back*

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Now, you be careful, my Littlefoot.

(Littlefoot yawns, his grandfather chuckles. He coos, sinks and snuggles in on his mother's spine.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Beautiful Littlefoot.

Chapter 1: The Great Migration
(Littlefoot and his family are in the dry season. One of his grandparents pull a twig down to him.)

LITTLEFOOT: Mother, is this all there is to eat?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Oh, I'm sorry, my dear. The land has been changing. That is why we must walk as far as we can each day until we reach the Great Valley. *Littlefoot chews on a twig* Littlefoot, quickly come here! *sees a star-shaped leaf hanging on an empty tall tree* Look, up there. A tree star. It is very special.

(Littlefoot's mother pulls a tree star off the branch and lowers her head, giving it to Littlefoot. He laughs with excitement. She drops it.)

LITTLEFOOT: A tree star. *cuddles into it*

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: *chuckles* It is very special. It'll help you grow strong. Where we're going, there are so many of these leaves. *Littlefoot plays with a tree star and covers himself, sniffing it and blows it up in the air. He catches it and licks it* Come along. *his grandparents chuckle. He and his family start walking* The Great Valley is filled with green food like this, more than you could ever eat, and more fresh cool water than you could ever drink. It is a wonderful, beautiful place where we can live happily with many more of our own kind.

LITTLEFOOT: Gee, when will we get there?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: The Bright Circle must pass over us many times and we must follow it each day to where it touches the ground. *stops walking*

LITTLEFOOT: Have you ever seen the Great Valley?

(His mother turns her head around to him.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: No.

LITTLEFOOT: Well, how do you know it's really there?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Some things you see with your eyes, others you see with your heart.

LITTLEFOOT: *sighs* I don't understand, mother.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: *giggles* You will, my son. You will.

(Littlefoot sniffs at the tree star and is about to eat it, but a giggling sound was heard. Littlefoot peeks out from the tall grass.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: *off-screen* Littlefoot, don't you wander too far.

(Cera rams into her father's snout. A beetle lands on a stone. She looks at it. Littlefoot smiles looking at her. Cera runs after the beetle with a honking sound and rams through a rock and bumps into another one. A beetle lands yet another boulder. Cera rams through it and into the last one where the beetle lands.)

LITTLEFOOT: Hey!

(A beetle turns around. Cera snarls at it, slurps, about to strike, but a beetle urinates at her face and flies away. Littlefoot starts laughing. Cera turns her head directly toward him.

CERA: What are you laughing at?

(Littlefoot gasps. Cera gets ready to charge, Littlefoot leaps out of the tall grass about to do the same. They both charge against each other. Cera's father runs toward them and halts thunderously as Littlefoot and Cera stop running. Daddy Topps looks down, glaring at Littlefoot; he moves backward.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Littlefoot.

DADDY TOPPS: Come, Cera. Three-Horns never play with Long-Necks. *Cera razzes Littlefoot*

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Littlefoot.

(Daddy Topps growls at him and Cera runs in front of him.)

CERA: Three-Horns never play with Long-Necks.

(Two adults pick their own children up. Littlefoot's mother carries Littlefoot up high.)

LITTLEFOOT: Long-Neck? Hmm. Mother, what's a "Long-Neck"? *climbs on her head*

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Why, that's what we are, dear. *starts walking*

LITTLEFOOT: Oh, well, why can't I play with that Three-Horn? *chuckles* We were having fun.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Well, we all keep to our own kind: the Three-Horns, the Spike-Tails, the Swimmers, the Flyers. We never do anything together.

LITTLEFOOT: Why?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Well, because we're different. It's always been that way.

LITTLEFOOT: Well, why?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: *chuckles* Oh, don't worry so much. When we reach the Great Valley, there will be many, many Long-Necks for you to play with.

LITTLEFOOT: *sighs* I wish we were there now.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Well, it's a long way yet. Past the Great Rock that looks like a Long-Neck, and past the mountains that burn. Still a long way, but we'll get there.

Chapter 2: Sharptooth and the Earthquake
(One night, the Long-Neck family is asleep. A dragonfly flies toward them. A frog is landing on Grandmother Long-Neck's head. It leaps, snatching a dragonfly onto Littlefoot's mother's head and wakes Littlefoot up. The frog chews it up, croaks, and leaps off. Littlefoot follows it.)

LITTLEFOOT: H-hey, Hopper, come back! *moves closer and Hopper leaps away* Hey.

(Littlefoot moves on, but Cera runs up to him.)

CERA: You again? Go away! That's my Hopper. *moves on*

LITTLEFOOT: Uh, I saw him first.

CERA: Well, he's in my pond.

(Cera slides down to a frog pond where Hopper is; Littlefoot slides down on her. Cera looks at him, the frogs dunk down. The bubbles with frogs in them rise up. Littlefoot and Cera pop them. A bubble inflates below Littlefoot; he moves off it and Cera leaps on it. Littlefoot laughs; Cera leaps on the other one.)

LITTLEFOOT: Over here!

CERA: Hey, this is fun!

(They both laugh while popping bubbles with frogs. Littlefoot and Cera leap close to each other. A giant shadow approaches; Littlefoot gasps. They both look back at the Tyrannosaurus Rex approaching them.)

CERA: Sharptooth! Help!

LITTLEFOOT: Mother!

BOTH: Help!!

(Littlefoot and Cera run off and Sharptooth tramples on the water with one foot. Littlefoot and Cera run for the tunnel of brambles and hide. Sharptooth looks down at them. Littlefoot pulls Cera back. They pant and move backward; Sharptooth starts sniffing for them. He touches a bramble with them under it and still sniffing and snorts.)

LITTLEFOOT: Go.

(They move slowly forward. Littlefoot stops at the right path and Cera is on the left.)

LITTLEFOOT: This way.

CERA: Mmm-mmm. *runs to her path*

LITTLEFOOT: Come back! You're going the wrong way! *runs after her*

(Sharptooth pounces after Littlefoot; he gets stuck in the vines with Sharptooth chomping behind him. Littlefoot gets pulled a little further and gasps looking back at Sharptooth. He pushes the vines and breaks free at Sharptooth. He breaks the brambles standing up and scratches them off. The two kids scream. Sharptooth leaps out of the brambles toward them. Sharptooth is about the catch them, but the tail knocks him back at the boulder. Littlefoot and Cera run in with his mother. Sharptooth breaks a boulder, standing up on his feet.)

LITTLEFOOT: Mother?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Run, run! *pushes them to run*

(Sharptooth moves toward Littlefoot's mother and attacks. She stands on twos and back on fours, raising her left front one above Cera.)

LITTLEFOOT: Look out! *shoves her out as his mother stomps her foot*

(Sharptooth tries to snap at Littlefoot's mother, but she moves back. While Littlefoot and Cera are following her, his mother whacks Sharptooth at the rock wall. Sharptooth slashes onto Littlefoot's mother's back. Littlefoot and Cera watch in horror as Sharptooth pulls on Littlefoot's mother's back, she throws him back as the kids run off. Littlefoot's mother bumps into a wooden trunk and Sharptooth tries to chomp her, but she dodges and whacks her tail at him again and hammers the ground, making a wave of mud; Sharptooth falls down the rockslide. Littlefoot, his mother, and Cera run off. The ground starts to shake, making a crack wider. Littlefoot looks down at the expanding crack and runs away with Cera from it. Littlefoot's mother is on the top of the rocky platform. Littlefoot and Cera hide behind a small rock. Sharptooth roars and moves toward them. Littlefoot and Cera run from him as Sharptooth gives chase. The children dodge Sharptooth's footsteps and tramples behind them as they land on his foot. The steam cracks the ground open, making them flinch; Littlefoot and Cera slide slowly backward toward the edge, with Sharptooth. His tail scoops Littlefoot and Cera.)

LITTLEFOOT AND CERA: Help!

LITTLEFOOT: Mother! *she raises her head toward him*

(Littlefoot and Cera climb Sharptooth's tail, back and head and leap off him. The children run up, but slide down as Sharptooth chomps behind them. They slide down the rock with Sharptooth's mouth open, Littlefoot's mother whacks his face, knocking him and the children off the cliff; his mother catches them as Sharptooth falls into the abyss. Littlefoot's mother carry Littlefoot and Cera to the ground and puts them down; the children split up. Littlefoot jumps in the puddle and Cera gallops and screams. Her father roars. The Struthiomimus run past Littlefoot's grandparents. The boulders manipulate into their snouts. All the other dinosaurs run for their lives as the wave of rocks knock them down.)

CERA: Daddy! *runs toward her parents, but the cliffs split in two; she skids and turns the other way*

NARRATOR: In this time of the clash of continents, a great earthquake split the land, herds were divided, families were cut in two. Littlefoot was seperated from his grandparents.

(An earthquake stops. The front boulder falls off the rock wall. Cera is on a lower platform while her parents are on the higher one.)

DADDY TOPPS: Cera!

CERA: Momma! Daddy!

NARRATOR: Cera was on one side of the divide, her parents were on the other.

Chapter 3: Whispering Winds
(One night in the canyon, in the rain...)

LITTLEFOOT: Mother! *looks both ways* Mother! *jumps over a gap on the edge* Mother, where are you? *sees his mother dying on the rock platform and rushes down the hill* Mother! Mother?

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Oh.

LITTLEFOOT: Please get up.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: I'm... not sure I can, Littlefoot.

LITTLEFOOT: Yes, you can. Get up.

(Littlefoot's mother tries to get up, but falls back down. Littlefoot looks at her in despair.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Dear, sweet Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?

LITTLEFOOT: *sniffles* I guess so, but why do I have to know? You're gonna be with me.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: I'll be with you, even if you can't see me.

LITTLEFOOT: What do you mean if I can't see you? I can always see you.

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Littlefoot, let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

(The thunder crashes the lightning as Littlefoot's mother lies lifelessly.)

LITTLEFOOT: Mother? Mother?!

(The camera pulls farther. It shows the blue clouds as it stops raining. In the deserted canyon, Littlefoot is slowly walking into depression. He suddenly slips down a steep hill and lands on the back of the Scolosaurus named Rooter. Littlefoot tries to get up.)

ROOTER: Hey! *throws him off his back and sniffs* What's going on here? *Littlefoot cries* What's your problem? You're not hurt.

LITTLEFOOT: It's not fair! She should've known better. That was Sharptooth. It's all her fault.

ROOTER: All whose fault?

LITTLEFOOT: Mother's!

ROOTER: Oh... I see. I see.

LITTLEFOOT: Why did I wander so far from home? *weeps*

ROOTER: Oh, it's not your fault. It's not your mother's fault. Now, you pay attention to old Rooter.

LITTLEFOOT: Yeah, but--

ROOTER: It is nobody's fault. The Great Circle of Life has begun, but you see, not all of us arrive together at the end.

LITTLEFOOT: What'll I do? I miss her so much.

ROOTER: And you'll always miss her, but she'll always be with you as long as you remember the things she taught you. In a way, you'll never be apart. For you are still a part of each other.

LITTLEFOOT: My tummy hurts.

ROOTER: Well, that, too, will go in time, little fella. Only in time. *turns and slowly walks away*

(A tree with a cherry on the branch is shown; a blue Peteinosaurus hatchling flies up and around it. He snags a cherry off the branch and falls down on his back. A red flyer approaches a blue one and grabs a cherry from him and he grabs it back. A green flyer peeks from a tree trunk and tries to take a cherry from the blue one as they quarrel over each other, drop a cherry. The yellow flyer catches a cherry and soars into hole, with the purple one following him. The purple and yellow flyers peek out of the holes. The yellow one peeks out and looks both ways and pulls his head down. The green one grabs a cherry, pulling from behind and the purple one nips his tail and grabs a cherry. They fly out of the holes of the trunk; the blue one runs away from them and the red one belly flops them for a cherry. The purple flyer springs up on the branch with a cherry, along with the yellow, green, red, and blue ones. The blue flyer peeks out from his "sibling" pile and they all chirp in usion. A turquoise flyer soars and grabs a cherry, breaking a branch and takes it. The red, yellow, green, purple, orange, and blue flyers follow the turquoise one. The flyers fall into a hole, giving a cherry to one and another; the blue one catches it; a long tongue catches it, knocking him down the hole. A Proganochelys devours a cherry as the flyers whine. Their mother peeks out behind them, cheering. She drops a bunch of cherries to all seven of them in usion and flies away. All the little flyers run, following her, but the blue one sees Littlefoot, laying on his belly in depression. The blue flyer turns and walks farther.)

NARRATOR: At first, Littlefoot could only think about his mother. He hardly noticed his hunger and forgot about the Great Valley and that he must somehow reach it.

(A blue flyer puts his cherry down to Littlefoot, pushes it closer and sighs. He puts a cherry closer to Littlefoot. With a little flyer's sad peep, Littlefoot sighs in depression. In the canyon oasis, a tree star is floating down.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER (voice): Littlefoot.

(It floats down to the footprints. Littlefoot is weeping while he rubs the inside of his mother's footprint, then slowly leaves it. The sun beam shines on her footprint; a tree star floats down to it.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER (voice): Littlefoot.

(Littlefoot turns around as the tree star lands in a footprint. He walks close to a tree star; a puddle in it expands, reflecting him like a mirror.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER (voice): Dear Littlefoot. Do you remember the way to the Great Valley? *he shakes his head* Follow the Bright Circle past the Great Rock that looks like a Long-Neck, and past the mountains that burn. I'll be in your heart, Littlefoot. Let your heart guide you.

(Littlefoot takes his tree star from a footprint and slowly walks away. Later, on a cliff, he gasps as he sees his own shadow.)

LITTLEFOOT: Mother. *realizes it* Mother! *giggles ecstatically and runs toward it* Mother, it's you! Wait, mother. Wait!

(Littlefoot runs to a wall and licks it, realizing his mother is just his shadow. He looks down in depression.)

NARRATOR: Then Littlefoot knew for certain that he was alone, and that though the Great Valley was far away, and the journey there was perilous. He would have to find his way, or the chain of life would be broken.

(Littlefoot sees Cera in the distance.)

LITTLEFOOT: Cera! *runs over to her* Cera, hello!

CERA: What do you want?

LITTLEFOOT: *chuckles* Nothing, where are you going?

CERA: I'm going to find my own kind. They're on the other side. *steps to the edge*

LITTLEFOOT: Uh, I've looked all over here; you can't climb up the other side.

CERA: Maybe you can't. *takes her front feet down forward, and her back feet*

LITTLEFOOT: Wait! I'm going to the Great Valley. We could... uh... *Cera slips but grips on the edge* ...help each other.

CERA: *grunting* A Three-Horn... does not need help from a Long-Neck. *scoops dust at him with her back leg, but slides down the rock slide backward*

LITTLEFOOT: Uh, well, at least we wouldn't be alone!

CERA: *gets up* Well, when I find my sisters, I won't be alone! So go away. *walks in the cave* Three-Horns can be very dangerous. And they only talk with other Three-Horns, and they only travel with other Three-Horns.

(Littlefoot takes his tree star and moves on. The camera pans away as the plumes of dust fly to the left.)

Chapter 4: Journey of the Dinosaurs
(Underwater, a shadowy figure of Ducky splashes down to a rock and pulls it. She looks back and turns around, then swims forward and sees Littlefoot. She leaps out of the water on the rocky dock.)

DUCKY: Hello. *he doesn't respond* I said "hello"! *his tear drops and leaps into the pond* What is your name? *Littlefoot doesn't respond and she gasps* Maybe you cannot talk yet. Huh, huh?

LITTLEFOOT: Don't you know anything? Long-Necks don't talk to, uh, whatever you are. *stands up*

DUCKY: Me? *leaps forward* I am a Long-Neck, too, see? And I have a long tail like you. *stretches herself and pants. Littlefoot looks down at her* All right. I am not a Long-Neck, I'm a Big-Mouth, but I am all alone, I am. *sniffles* I lost my family in the big earthshake.

LITTLEFOOT: Um, you wanna go with me?

DUCKY: *jumps up* Yeah! Oh. *giggles* Oh, yes, yes, yes. I do, I do.

LITTLEFOOT: *giggles* All right, come on.

(Littlefoot walks along and Ducky follows. They're in the open swamp.)

LITTLEFOOT: But you'll have to keep up.

DUCKY: I will keep up, I will! *hums a tune, Littlefoot jumps in the water* Where are we going?

LITTLEFOOT: To the Great Valley. I'm not gonna stop until I find my grandparents. *Ducky hops into the water. They're on the edge of the leafless forest*

DUCKY: Uh, do you think my family went to the Great Valley, too, huh?

LITTLEFOOT: Hmm, maybe. My mother said it's where all the herds were going.

DUCKY: Oh, I hope, I hope, I hope.

LITTLEFOOT: *clears his throat* My name's Littlefoot.

DUCKY: Mine is Ducky. Yep, that is what it is. Yep, yep, yep!

(In the dry plains, Ducky is scatting while she and Littlefoot hop their feet in rhythm. Ducky moves under Littlefoot as he guffaws.)

DUCKY: Don't step on a crack or you'll fall and break your back. *laughs in many different ways; a stomach starts to growl. She giggles* My stomach is talking.

LITTLEFOOT: Mine too. Hmm, I wonder what this tastes like? *snatches a branch as it squawks*

DUCKY: The tree is talking.

LITTLEFOOT: *muffled* No, it isn't.

DUCKY: Ah, you should not eat talking trees. Nope, nope, nope.

(Littlefoot yanks on a branch as a Pteranodon named Petrie slides down to Littlefoot's snout and chuckles nervously. Littlefoot flings him in the air; Ducky zips under him. Petrie crashes through the ground. Ducky rushes to the hole where Petrie is.)

DUCKY: Who are you, huh?

PETRIE: My name Petrie. *Ducky giggles and Petrie hops out of the hole*

DUCKY: Petrie, huh? Funny name. *laughs*

PETRIE: Uh, I-I flied?

DUCKY: No, you falled.

PETRIE: I fall-- *whines*

DUCKY: You cannot fly, but how did you get way up there?

PETRIE: I climb.

LITTLEFOOT: Hmm, but you are a flyer, not a faller.

PETRIE: Hard thing to fly. *mimics a motor vehicle and a monkey while he flaps his wings*

LITTLEFOOT: I guess it is, we can't do it.

DUCKY: Nope, we cannot do that all right. *giggles*

(Underground, Cera leaps from platform to another. The sun beam lights up Cera as she rolls down backward. The light shows a dead Sharptooth; Cera screams and runs to a small wall. She peeks slowly at Sharptooth with stones falling. Cera snickers and sneaks close to him and looks at his closed teeth. She taunts and rams him twice. She kicks his lip and runs back to where she hid. Cera slides her front feet and charges toward Sharptooth. His eye opens; Cera skids to a close stop, screaming; she turns around and runs off. Sharptooth tries to get up; shoving the rocks off. In the deserted forest, Ducky is humming; Littlefoot and Petrie are near a path.)

LITTLEFOOT: *whispers* Shh, quiet. *looks to the right* Stay low.

(Littlefoot, Ducky and Petrie hide in the left rock; a Dimetrodon slithers, then looks around, then moves on. Littlefoot slowly peeks out, looks both ways and moves on. Petrie rushes from Littlefoot's tail to his head.)

LITTLEFOOT: Ow. Hey! Petrie, get off!

PETRIE: You got nice flathead, flathead. Hee hee.

LITTLEFOOT: Ahem. My name is not flathead. My name is Littlefoot.

PETRIE: Littlefoot? Hmm. *covers himself with a tree star*

LITTLEFOOT: Are you just gonna stay up there?

PETRIE: *messes up a tree star* Yes.

LITTLEFOOT: Well, you can't! You're tearing my tree star! *Petrie realizes it*

DUCKY: It is very special. Very. His mother gave it to him. She did.

PETRIE: Ooh. Mother present very important. Oh, yes. I keep safes. *rolls up a tree star* Don't let nobodies touch. *marches left and right*

DUCKY: Yeah, Petrie, you keep it safe. Yep, yep, yep.

LITTLEFOOT: Nope, nope, nope. I'm not a carrier. Get off! *starts to run* You're a flyer, now start flying!

PETRIE: B-b-b-b-but-- *yells out*

DUCKY: *follows them* Open your wings, Petrie! Open, open!

PETRIE: No, no! No can do this!

LITTLEFOOT: You can fly, now open your skinny wings!

DUCKY: Up, Petrie, higher! Higher like a flyer!

PETRIE: Danger!!!

DUCKY: Where, Petrie?

PETRIE: Th-th-th-th-there! Ahead!

(Littlefoot skids and spins into a puddle, into a skeleton grabbing him and runs from it. Cera screams while running from a different path. Littlefoot stops by the hill, making a skeleton fly off down toward Cera, she lies on her back, panting. Littlefoot approaches her.)

LITTLEFOOT: Cera, it's you! What happened? Why are you so frightened?

CERA: Frightened? Me? *shoves through him and laughs, going up the hill* Why are you so frightened?

LITTLEFOOT: We're not frightened, are we?

DUCKY: Nope, nope!

CERA: *slides back down* Well, you should be. I could be with the other Three-Horns, but I chose to come back to warn you. I met a Sharptooth!

PETRIE: *gasps* Sharptooth! *jumps up on Littlefoot's neck*

LITTLEFOOT: Come on, Cera. Sharptooth is dead; he fell down into the big underground!

CERA: And that's... where he met me.

DUCKY: Oh, dear, brave Cera.

PETRIE: Dear, brave, Cera.

CERA: Yes, I am brave.

LITTLEFOOT: Sharptooth is dead!

CERA: My father told me that flatheads had very small brains. *hops on a piece of wood* I was all alone with him in the dark, just the Sharptooth and me. I could hear him breathing. *snarls quietly, then loudly at Ducky* I could see his one big, ugly eye looking for me! *Ducky gasps, as she snarls*

DUCKY: What did you do, huh, huh?

CERA: I walked right up to him. I looked him straight in the eye... and said...

(Cera flings Ducky high in the air as she falls down, bounces off an ivy and hits the ground. A snoring sound is heard. Ducky moves over to a yellow grass. Littlefoot calls her name.)

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky!

DUCKY: *peeks inside the grass* Hellooo? *gets in and touches the egg snoring* Hello? *the egg cracks the top, she moves around. The egg peeks up, but it hides* You should come out, you should. You are late, yes, you are. Yep, yep, yep! *the egg snorts; she takes out the top* Come out! You are all alone. Are you not scared? Huh? *The hatchling yawns as he falls over; Ducky tears off the egg shells* We're going to the Great Valley; you can go with us. Yes, you can. *sees a hatchling Stegosaurus* Uh, you are a Spike-Tail, so we'll call you Spike! *giggles*

(Ducky backs out of the grass; Spike stops snoring. She runs for shelter as Spike eats half the grass around him. He smiles, then devours the rest of it and gulps it down. Spike lays down on his belly and sleeps.)

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky!

(Ducky climbs a small rock and hops down, wondering what to do with Spike.)

Chapter 5: Foraging for Food
(Littlefoot, Ducky, and Petrie are luring Spike with a twig of cherries; Cera is further up front.)

NARRATOR: So the five hungry dinosaurs set off for the Great Valley. There had never been such a herd before. A Long-Neck, a Three-Horn, a Big-Mouth, a Flyer, and a Spike-Tail all together. All knowing that if they lost their way, they would starve, or find themselves in Sharptooth's shadow.

(A waterfall is shown; Littlefoot, Spike, Ducky, and Petrie are standing near a tiny river.)

LITTLEFOOT: Hmm, tree stars grow where there's lots of water. If we follow this water...

PETRIE: *sniffs* Hmm, no green foods here, and I still hungry.

DUCKY: *pants* I'm still hungry, too. *both fall off Littlefoot's head into the water; Littlefoot sniffs as he moves on*

LITTLEFOOT: Can you smell something?

PETRIE: I-I- I smell... I smell... I smell... Hmm, Ducky.

DUCKY: You smell me? *laughs*

LITTLEFOOT: I smell water. I smell... *sniffs harder* Tree stars!

DUCKY: *sees a tree with leaves from down the hill* Oh, look! Green food!

CERA: The Great Valley!

LITTLEFOOT: Cera!

CERA: I found it! *laughs*

LITTLEFOOT: Stop it!

CERA: I found it! Hee.

(The ground starts to shake.)

DUCKY: Earthshake!

LITTLEFOOT: We've got to get out of here! That way, come on! *gets down*

DUCKY: Come on! Spike, hurry up! *struggles to push Spike down*

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky, Spike! Get out of there! *Ducky gasps*

(The rock wall explodes with a stampede of Diplodocus rushing down the hill as Littlefoot and the gang duck down. They peek back up from a rock. Cera shoves Spike over and sees the Diplodocus nibble on the treetop.)

CERA: They're eating our food! Look! Look what they're doing! They're so greedy. What about me? I'm still hungry!

PETRIE: *grumbles* You hungry? I empty all the way to the top! Now we at the Great Valley and still got no green foods! *sighs faintfully* We be hungry forevers! *whines*

LITTLEFOOT: No, Petrie, Cera's wrong. This isn't the Great Valley.

DUCKY: Aww, it is not a great anything. Nope, nope, nope. *sees them leave the tree leafless*

LITTLEFOOT: Well, we better go down and see if there's anything left.

(Littlefoot and the gang walk to the treetop with leaves.)

LITTLEFOOT: Petrie, do you think you could, uh, fly up there and--

PETRIE: No, no!

DUCKY: Petrie, do not feel sad. It is all right; many things do not fly: rocks, trees, sticks, Spike...

(Littlefoot sees the leaves on top and places his front feet on the tree trunk. Petrie chatters his teeth. Ducky crawls up to Littlefoot's head. He extends himself to a quarter to the top; the twigs fall off the branch. Petrie looks down.)

PETRIE: Wha!! *lands back on Littlefoot's head*

LITTLEFOOT: Hey!

PETRIE: No!

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky, push Petrie toward the branches. *Ducky boosts Petrie higher to a third to the top* All right, Spike. *Spike shoves under him* Not too fast. Whoa. Uh, okay. *he shoves quicker* Hey, not too fast! Hey, not too fast!

(Spike boosts Littlefoot, Ducky and Petrie up to the leaves. Petrie looks down and stutters. Ducky shrieks; Cera guffaws, pounding the ground with her front foot.)

CERA: You four look so rediculous. *laughs*

(Ducky boosts Petrie back up. Petrie shovels every leaf in his path. As the leaves float down, Spike devours them and places his front feet off the trunk, leaving Littlefoot trying to stay on it, but he falls on Spike, he gets off him, Ducky and Petrie are still on the treetop.)

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky, Petrie, come down here! We've got green food!

(Ducky kisses Petrie and falls off the branch into a pile of leaves.)

DUCKY: Fly, Petrie! *the twig snaps with Petrie on it and he falls down* You've got both wings!

LITTLEFOOT: *Petrie floats with his wings* Fly, Petrie! Flap your wings!

(Petrie struggles to flap his wings as he floats down. Littlefoot and Ducky blow Petrie, slowing him down to the pile of leaves.)

PETRIE: I flied?

(Ducky sighs. She, Petrie and Spike eat up.)

LITTLEFOOT: Come on, Cera, we've got green food!

CERA: I can get my own green food.

(Cera begins to ram into a dead tree trunk. Littlefoot closes his eyes. As Cera rapidly rams it, he realizes the tree trunk. Littlefoot picks the leaves. Cera rams it the last time and Littlefoot throws the leaves raining on her. Cera eats the leaves as she moves backwards.)

CERA: See? I can take care of myself. All by myself. *walks to an edge of a cliff* And I'm not afraid to be alone! I know my way to go, and I'm not afraid of Sharptooth! I hope he doesn't eat any of you.

LITTLEFOOT: Don't worry. There isn't any Sharptooth.

DUCKY: *gasps* Sharptooth... Spike. Ahem *lures Spike to her*

(Cera lays on her belly. Littlefoot moves to Sharptooth's footprint and looks back. Spike, Ducky and Petrie join in, cuddling in with Cera. Littlefoot watches them in depression and sighs.)

LITTLEFOOT: There isn't any Sharptooth.

(Littlefoot walks slowly, enters Sharptooth's footprint, and lays down in exhaustion. He sighs. On the edge of a cliff, Cera, Spike and Petrie are snoring. Ducky wakes up, seeing them sleep that way. She covers her ears. Then she shoves under Spike's belly. Ducky pulls herself back out, sleepwalking toward Sharptooth's footprint and joins Littlefoot snuggling in with her. Petrie joins in with him. The ground shakes; Spike cuddles with them. Cera shivers and wakes up. She gasps, realizing she's on her own. Cera shivers and gets up, walking to Sharptooth's footprint, joining Littlefoot and the gang and falls asleep.)

Chapter 6: Seperate Paths
(One morning, Littlefoot and the gang are still asleep. Suddenly a roar from a Sharptooth is heard. Cera wakes up and peeks out of his footprint.)

CERA: Wake up. Wake up! *Littlefoot is asleep* Wake up! *shoves him*

LITTLEFOOT: Hey, stop that.

CERA: Shh. It's Sharptooth.

LITTLEFOOT: Cera, stop it!

CERA: He'll eat us! He'll eat us! Run! *runs off*

LITTLEFOOT: Stop! Come back!

(Littlefoot sees Sharptooth arrive them and wakes Ducky, Petrie and Spike and they run out of Sharptooth's footprint as he steps into a tree star.)

CERA: Run!

LITTLEFOOT: That way! Through the rock!

CERA: Run! Run!

LITTLEFOOT: Don't look back, keep going!

(Cera, Spike, Ducky, Littlefoot, and Petrie run for the hole in the wall. Sharptooth leaps behind Littlefoot. The others push themselves through the wall. Sharptooth slides his belly and pushes Littlefoot and the gang down the hill. Cera looks back at the Sharptooth with his snout stuck in a hole.)

CERA: Now will you believe me?

LITTLEFOOT: I'm sorry. We're safe now.

CERA: Nobody's safe with you.

LITTLEFOOT: *sees a rock shaped like a Long-Neck* Look, it's the rock that looks like a Long-Neck, just like my mother said. We're going the right way! The way to the Great Valley!

(Littlefoot and the gang move on. Petrie is walking in exhaustion with Ducky.)

NARRATOR: Littlefoot had been wrong about the Sharptooth, but the others followed him. Their only hope was to reach the Great Valley, and Littlefoot alone knew the way.

(Spike is on a cliff and moans in exhaustion. Petrie is on the other cliff. He moans and lies on his belly. Littlefoot is on top of the cliff.)

LITTLEFOOT: Come on, get up! We're going the right way! Gotta keep moving up. Oh, you can't quit now! What if the Great Valley's just over the top of these rocks?

(Littlefoot and the gang start to climb the rest of the way to the top.)

NARRATOR: Though they were sore-stumped and tired, Littlefoot urged them on. He never seen the Great Valley, but his heart told him that they were close. Surley at the top, they'd behold it, finally.

(Littlefoot and the gang are on the edge of a cliff with exhaustion. They look down to a rocky area.)

CERA: This is your Great Valley? You're crazy! I'm leaving! *starts to leave*

LITTLEFOOT: Cera, we have to keep following the Bright Circle.

CERA: I'm taking the easy way for once.

LITTLEFOOT: *rushes to her* But it's the wrong way!

CERA: Who says?

LITTLEFOOT: My mother!

CERA: Then she was a stupid Long-Neck, too.

LITTLEFOOT: Take that back!

CERA: Never!

LITTLEFOOT: Take it back!

CERA: No!

(Littlefoot rams Cera down the hill.)

DUCKY: Spike!

PETRIE: Uh, oh. Spike, stop! Don't fall!

(Spike slides down the hill with Ducky and Petrie on him. Cera rushes to Littlefoot.)

CERA: You! *rams him*

(Spike, Ducky, and Petrie duck down.)

CERA: Let go of my leg! *gets tossed onto a boulder and runs to him*

(Spike, Ducky and Petrie move for shelter in front of a giant boulder; Spike puts his head into the muddy ground. Littlefoot and Cera headbutt each other. Ducky leaps Petrie behind the boulder. Cera pushes Littlefoot to the left.)

DUCKY: Spike.

(Littlefoot and Cera ram each other again; Spike moves over behind the boulder.)

CERA: Take that! *tosses Littlefoot onto a boulder*

(Spike puts his head into the ground again; Cera wall-kicks the boulder and rams into Littlefoot; she scoffs and moves away. Littlefoot stares at Cera and gets up.)

LITTLEFOOT: Go on! Go the wrong way! We never wanted you with us anyway! *starts up the hill* Come on, we have to keep going! *limps while going up* Come on! *stares at Ducky and Petrie sitting on the ground*

DUCKY: Cera's way is easier.

PETRIE: I think so... too.

(Littlefoot leaves; Petrie tries to catch up to him.)

PETRIE: Flathead, wait! *the rocks move down against him* No be angry. Wait!!! *gets pushed by a stone back down the hill*

DUCKY: Cera, wait for us! We're coming with you, Cera! *follows her and Spike* Cera, Spike, wait!

(The children split up into two paths.)

Chapter 7: The Rescue
(A fiery area with a bunch of volcanoes erupt lava. Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike leap across the gap. The rain of fire drops.)

DUCKY: I-I wish Littlefoot was h-here with us now.

PETRIE: M-m-m-me t-too.

DUCKY: *Spike sniffs a black weed* Spike! *gasps* Spike, do not stop! We must stay together! *Spike pulls it*

(Cera and Petrie are in the area near a tar pit and look around. Cera turns back, moves to a gap and looks down. Petrie exclaims; Cera leaps to the other side and Petrie falls into a tar pit.)

PETRIE: Cera, I-- Oh, ah! Ooh! Cera, Ducky, Spike, help!!!

DUCKY: Help, Cera! *Littlefoot rushes down the hill* Cera, where are you?

(Littlefoot stops at the edge where Ducky and Spike are on the rock in the lava.)

DUCKY: Littlefoot!

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky!

DUCKY: Help, Littlefoot!

LITTLEFOOT: *takes a path down* Hang on, I'm coming! *rams a standing rock*

DUCKY: Littlefoot! *hangs onto Spike's nose*

(Littlefoot pushes a rock down, leaps onto it, and puts Ducky on Spike's back.)

LITTLEFOOT: Quick, this way! *takes Ducky and Spike. They head down to a tar pit where Petrie is* Petrie! Hang on, Petrie!

PETRIE: Help! *they jump into a tar pit. Littlefoot grips a rock pillar with his tail* Flathead, Ducky, Spike! Oh, Petrie, I'm so happy! *Ducky leaps on Spike's head*

LITTLEFOOT: Jump, Petrie! *Ducky takes Petrie, but falls in* Help, Ducky!

(They try to pull themselves out.)

LITTLEFOOT: Petrie, pull! *struggles to get out* Petrie! *grips onto the pillar tightly, but it shatters* Help!

(Cera is in the cave.)

CERA: Help!

(The Pachycephalosaurus chases her attemping to headbutt her. Cera sees another Dome-Head. She turns back as he pounds his head to the ground. Cera skids in between them; she jumps as they ram each other. She screams and falls onto the ground. The Dome-Heads surround her.)

CERA: *screams* Help me, help me! Help!

(The Dome-Heads are about to attack, but a whooping sound is heard as they look back. A black tar monster cackles and approaches the Dome-Heads; they run off. The tar monster approaches closer. Cera crouches.)

CERA: Get away! Get away from me! *it grabs her by the tail* Stop it! Let go of me! Help! Help! Petrie, Spike, Ducky, help!!

DUCKY: Cera, it is us!

(Cera is being hung upside down and smiles, seeing Littlefoot, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike laughing. Cera unties Littlefoot's tail and falls down. They continue laughing.)

CERA: I knew it was you all along! I knew! I did!

(Petrie and Spike laugh at her.)

CERA: Oh, *shoves Ducky* get out of my way!

(Cera moves on, walking in tar; she slips onto a puddle of tar and land on her belly. The gang in tar laughs. Cera sneers, walking with her eyes closed and runs into a rock-cycle as they laugh. She continues down the hill through the waterfall. Littlefoot and the others stop at the hill.)

DUCKY: Cera?

LITTLEFOOT: Cera, come back! Come back!

NARRATOR: Cera was still too proud to admit that she'd gone the wrong way.

(She lays near a waterfall and starts weeping.)

Chapter 8: Showdown with Sharptooth
(Underwater. A group of sea turtles swims around. Littlefoot steps into the water and swims forward along with Ducky and Spike. Petrie coughs while in the shallow water. Sharptooth roars.)

PETRIE: *screams* Sharptooth!

(Littlefoot, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike hide behind the boulder.)

DUCKY: It's Sharptooth. *sees him climbing the hill*

LITTLEFOOT: Let's get rid of him once and for all.

DUCKY: What'll we do?

LITTLEFOOT: Look, we'll coax him to the deep end of the pond; he can't swim with those scrawny arms. Me and Spike will go up and push the big rock on top of his head, and then he'll fall off into the water. Petrie, you whistle when he's just at the right spot, where the water gets dark. Now we need some bait. Hmm. *they look at Ducky*

DUCKY: Me?! Oh, no! No, no, no. No, no, no, no.

(Sharptooth enters the cave. Ducky hums nervously while following him inside. She sneaks in and crouches down to a small rock. She peeks up seeing Sharptooth and screams, then quickly crouches back down. Sharptooth looks around. Ducky slowly peeks up, seeing nothing in sight. She moves over a small rock, but to the side of it, backing up slowly. Sharptooth leaps behind Ducky; she runs through under him. He chases her sliding on his belly. Ducky lands on Sharptooth's snout as they slide into the pond.)

LITTLEFOOT: Ducky!

PETRIE: Ducky!

(Ducky swims down in between the rock walls. Sharptooth steps his feet around on the water. Littlefoot and Spike are near the boulder on top of a cliff. Petrie lands on a wall. He attempts to whitstle rapidly while blowing raspberry, then successfully whistles loudly. Sharptooth looks up at him; Littlefoot and Spike start pushing a boulder.)

LITTLEFOOT: Push, Spike! Push with all your might!

(As they push a rock slowly to the edge, Petrie throws a stone down at Sharptooth and cackles. Sharptooth rams a wall, knocking Petrie off it.)

LITTLEFOOT: Petrie!

(Sharptooth chomps as Petrie lands on his snout. He blows Petrie with his nose up in the air. Petrie flaps his wings at the same time.)

PETRIE: I'm flying. I'm flying! I'm flying!!

DUCKY: Help!

(Ducky and Sharptooth ram into a wall with water flying while Littlefoot and Spike struggle to push the boulder. Ducky lies on Sharptooth's snout. Petrie pumps up, puts his chest out and dives down at Sharptooth, making him stand up.)

DUCKY: Petrie!!

(Sharptooth leaps onto a rock, making Ducky join Littlefoot and Spike. Petrie lands and pulls on Sharptooth's eye lash. Cera roars a honking sound, running toward them.)

CERA: I'm coming! *rams a boulder*

LITTLEFOOT: Cera, you're back!

(They push the boulder farther with Sharptooth on it. The boulder and Sharptooth fall off the edge; Petrie attemps to take flight, but Sharptooth grabs Petrie as the boulder pushes him down to a deep hole. Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, and Spike look down to the pond, seeing a ring foam on it.)

DUCKY: He was.. my friend. Poor Petrie. *sniffles*

(Littlefoot, Cera, and Spike walk slowly away in depression; Ducky lags.)

DUCKY: Poor, poor Petrie. Petrie...

(Petrie is heard gasping and climbs to the edge of a cliff.)

PETRIE: Stop! You go without... Petrie.

DUCKY: Petrie... *smiles and rushes to him; Petrie faints* Petrie, you're safe! *grabs him while running with relief* Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep!

Epilogue
(Littlefoot is on a high cliff; the purple cloud shapes into his mother.)

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Littlefoot. *he gets closer* Littlefoot.

LITTLEFOOT: Mother! *looks around at it*

LITTLEFOOT'S MOTHER: Littlefoot.

LITTLEFOOT: M-mother? *weeps* I-I tried to do what you told me, but it's just too hard. I'll never find the Great Valley. *the cloud takes off* Mother. Mother. Don't go, mother! Don't go!

(Littlefoot follows the purple cloud through the tunnel and halts to a stop. The cloud shapes up into his mother and beams a light down on Littlefoot. The light expands and brightens the darkness to the Great Valley. Littlefoot gawks at it in awe.)

LITTLEFOOT: The Great Valley. *calls out* Cera, Spike, Ducky, Petrie, over here!

(Cera, Spike, Ducky, and Petrie rush through the tunnel and join Littlefoot.)

CERA: Littlefoot, you found it!

DUCKY: Yep, yep, yep!

LITTLEFOOT: *sees the Great Valley* We did! We did it together! *they scatter, entering the Valley with laughter*

NARRATOR: The Great Valley was all they dreamed it would be: a land of green, of leaves, and life. There were waterfalls, grassy meadows, enough tree stars to feast on forever. And grazing upon them, their families.

(Ducky and her sisters glomp at Spike.)

DUCKY: This is our new brother, Spike!

(Ducky, Spike, and their family are in the shallow pond, snuggling each other happily.)

PETRIE: Mama, I a flyer!

(Petrie's siblings cheer; Petrie flaps his wings, blowing them away. His mother snuggles him.

CERA: Daddy!

DADDY TOPPS: Cera?

(Cera rams through the grass of flowers and skids to her father.)

CERA: Daddy.

(Cera cuddles with him. All the other dinosaurs are heard laughing. Littlefoot rubs his grandparents on the head in happiness.)

NARRATOR: And Littlefoot found his grandmother and grandfather at last. The same loving faces he looked into on the day of his birth.

(Littlefoot's daydreaming memories start a flashback when he hatched from an egg, with his mother and grandparents. Littlefoot played with his tree star; a frog leapt to Littlefoot when he slept on her mother's back; he and Cera were playing with the frogs in the pond; Littlefoot was playing with Ducky; Littlefoot and the gang slept into Sharptooth's footprint; Littlefoot saw a cloud shaped like his mother. His memory fades into the time Littlefoot is in the Great Valley happily looking back.)

CERA: Littlefoot! Come on, I'll race ya!

(Littlefoot and the gang reunite on top a grassy hill.)

NARRATOR: And they all grew up together in the Valley, generation upon generation. Each passing on to the next, the tale of their ancestors' journey to the Valley, long ago.

(They give each other a group hug. The End. The Credits roll.)