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LBT Fanfiction / Dinomorphs
« on: July 23, 2017, 06:15:33 PM »
After weeks of writing, I finally made my story. I broke it into 3 due to maximum character limits. Enjoy!
Dinomorphs
Chapter 1: Change Of Plans (Friday, July 21, 2017 5:55 Pm)
Sun shines over the state of Ohio with colors of dark blue and bright orange light reflected behind the clouds. 40 miles south of Cleveland, A neighborhood with a single street of 20 houses is settling in for the night. On the far left side of the street, a house with a family of 6 inside are sitting in the living room, watching the first Land Before Time movie on their Tv. The family is called Bergdorf. Sitting on the couch together are the parents, Tim (43), an employee at FedEx, and Becky (38), an accountant at Chrysler, while sitting on the floor in front of the couch are the 4 kids, Ben (13), Sam (12), Abby (11), and Nate (10). Earlier, on May 25, the kids finished their school year and have been on summer break for several weeks now. Watching the first Land Before Time movie was Ben's idea. He asked his family to watch it with him tonight and they said yes. The kids have had dinner earlier, but the parents haven't ate yet. As they sat in the living room, playing on the screen of their Tv, the movie is reaching the ending. Its showing the gang, Littlefoot the longneck, Cera the threehorn, Ducky the swimmer, Petrie the flyer, and Spike the spiketail finding the Great Valley after being separated from their families from an earthquake. They run down a hill and reunite with their families after a long journey from being separated. The end credits start to appear on screen with the song "If We Hold On Together" playing in the background.
With the movie over, Ben leans forward and grabs the remote from the living room table in front of his parents. He presses the "Open Disc Tray" button with his thumb. The VCR beside the Tv pops out the disc tray with the Land Before Time movie disc on top of it. Ben stands up from the floor and walks up to the VCR. He sticks his finger in the plastic hole of the disc and takes it out of the tray. He grabs the case laying beside the Tv. He opens the case and puts the disc back in. He puts the case in the movie cabinet beside the Tv. He turns around with a smile on his face, saying in front of his family "Thanks for watching the movie with me, guys". Tim, Becky, Sam, Abby, and Nate showed smiles on their faces in front of Ben, saying "Your welcome, Ben". As the family sat in the living room, Sam asks "So what do we do now?". As the family started to think of what to do, Ben looks at the clock hanged on the wall behind the couch. It reads 6:00 Pm. He turns his head left to the window and sees that the sun is slowly setting down for the night, but with enough light to do something thats on his mind. He turns his head face forward and walks up to his parents. Tim and Becky look at their son as he approaches them. With curiousness, Becky asks him "Something you want to do, Ben?". Ben, with his fingers in front of his stomach, holded together, says "Yes. Can we go to the playground here in our neighborhood?". Tim and Becky look at each other in thoughts of what their son just ask them to do. Their kids don't know that they made plans for dinner tonight, but just with them. They look face forward at Ben and Becky says "We can't, Ben". Upset and curious at his Mom's answer, Ben asks her "Why?". Becky says "Because the sun is going down. We can go to the playground tomorrow. And beside, we made plans for us tonight". Ben's eyes went wide open and his hopes accelerated very fast, thinking that what his Mom said by "plans for us tonight" meant that they are all going out tonight for a night on the town. Sam, Abby, and Nate have the same thought as Ben does. Hoping thats what she said, they all ask at the same time "Really?". Becky says "Yes and no, kids. We meant "us" as in just the 2 of us, me and your Dad". The kids gave a sighed moaning sound in response to their Mom's answer. Ben shows another upset face at his parents and asks them "What are you 2 doing tonight?". Tim says "We're going to have dinner at a fancy restaurant, go see a romantic movie, and dance at the community hall". Ben says "Oh" in front of his Dad. Becky says "Kids, we're putting you under supervision of your Aunt Jan before we leave". The kids showed signs of unfeelingness because they had their Aunt Jan watch over them 2 times this summer. This will be the 3rd time she did it.
With nothing else to say, Tim and Becky both stand up from the couch and Becky says "All right, we're going to get ready for tonight and call Jan to come over here". The kids responded in "Okay". Tim and Becky walk out of the living room to a flight of stairs that leads upstairs to the bedrooms. As the parents walk upstairs, Sam, Abby, and Nate look at Ben. Nate asks him "What do we do, Ben? Aunt Jan is coming over and our parents will be out tonight". Ben raises both his hands in the air in frustration, saying "I don't know, Nate. Let me think". As Ben started to think of what to do tonight, Tim and Becky have entered the master bedroom upstairs. They took off their evening clothes and putted on night clothes. Tim dressed himself up in a black shirt and pants and Becky dressed herself up in a white shirt and light black pants. After getting dressed for tonight, Becky picks up the phone sitting on the nightstand next to the bed. She dials the number for Jan. She puts the phone up to her right ear and it starts ringing. In a blue house, 60 miles away, Jan is in her bedroom, watching Tv in the comfort of her bed. She hears her phone on her nightstand ringing. She picks up the Tv remote on her bed and presses "Mute" on it, silencing her Tv. She leans forward and grabs her phone. She presses "Answer Call" on it and puts it to her right ear, asking "Yes?". Becky says "Hi, Jan". Jan recognizes the person on her phone as Becky. She says "Hey, Becky. Hows it going?". Becky replies "Its going fine, Jan. Me and Tim would like to ask you to do something for us tonight". Jan asks "Sure. What?". Becky says "We're going out tonight, just the 2 of us, and we like to ask you if you could watch our kids until we get back at 10:00". Jan thinks about what else she has for tonight. Nothing seems to come her mind as she has done everything she wanted today and that she is in her bedroom, watching Tv. With nothing else to do, she says "Yes, i'll watch your kids tonight. I'll be right over. See you". Becky says "See you too". The 2 females hanged up their phones and putted them on the nightstands. With Jan coming over to the house tonight, Becky turns around and stands in front of Tim, saying "All right, Tim. Jan is coming over to watch our kids tonight". Tim smiles and says "Thats good, Becky. Lets go tell our kids that shes coming". The 2 walked out of the master bedroom and down the stairs into the living room, where the kids are talking about what to do tonight.
During the time their parents were upstairs, they were discussing a plan on going to the playground tonight. As their parents reached the end of the stairs, they smiled and looked at them as they approached them, acting like they were not doing anything. As they stood in front of them, Becky says "All right, kids. Jan is coming over and we'll be leaving as soon as she gets here". The kids say "Okay, Mom", trying to hide their plan on going out to the playground tonight. Ben, thinking about what time they'll be back by, asks his Mom "Hey, Mom. How long will you and Dad be out for?". Becky answers "We'll be out until we get back home late, maybe 10:00 Pm". Ben, knowing that its enough time to go ahead with their plan, says "Okay, Mom. Hope you and Dad have a good time tonight". Becky smiles and says to her Son "Thanks, Ben. We hope you kids have a good time too". The family sits on the couch and Tim grabs the remote, turning on the Tv. He switches the channel to Disney Channel. As the family watched Tv in their living room, waiting for Jan to arrive, the sun is still setting in for the night. The time is 6:10 Pm.
Chapter 2: Sneaking Out For Fun (6:50 Pm)
40 minutes have passed since the parents, Tim and Becky, called Jan to ask her to watch the kids, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate tonight while they go out for dinner, movie, and dancing. In the living room of their house, the family continues to watch Disney Channel on their Tv. Outside, the sun is still setting in for the night with about 2/4 of the way down before nighttime. As they watched inside their house, Jan pulled beside their driveway and sidewalk in her car. She turns off her engine and opens up her door, stepping out of her car and closing her door. The sound of her door closing caught the famille's attention. They immediately knew that its Jan walking up to their front door. Tim and Becky stand up from the couch and walk up to the door. Tim grabs the door knob, turns it left, and opens the door up. Standing in front of them is Jan. She says with a smile "Hey, Tim. Becky". The 2 say "Hi, Jan" as she walks into the house. She sees her niece and nephews sitting in the living room, watching Tv. She says "Hey, kids". The kids say "Hi Aunt Jan". She turns around, looking at Tim and Becky standing in front of her. She says "You 2 go off and enjoy your night. I'll watch them for you until you get back". Becky says with a smile "Thanks, Jan". Becky leans right from Jan's shoulder and says to the kids "Kids, we're leaving. Say bye to us". Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate said "Bye Mom and Dad" to them as they said "Bye" back. The 2 walked out of the house and to their car on their driveway. Tim takes out the car key from his pocket and inserts it in the driver's door key slot. He turns it left and opens the door. He steps in first and closes the door as Becky goes around to the front door on the right. Tim presses the "Unlock Doors" button on the car control panel and Becky opens the door. She steps in and sits in the front seat, next to Tim. She closes her door and Tim turns on the engine. He grabs the gear shifter and shifts it down to reverse. He puts his foot on the accelerator pedal and he turns his head back as he slowly drives backwards off the driveway and onto the road. He shifts the gear up to the forward position and presses down on the accelerator pedal with his foot, driving away from the house as the kids watched them leave until they were out of their sight.
With the parents gone, Jan closes the door and locks it. She turns around and walks into the living room, facing the kids and asking them "So, what do you kids want to do tonight? Want to have dinner?". The kids had dinner earlier. They said with certainess "No, we're not hungry". Jan says "Uh... okay. Can you kids please move so I can sit on the couch?". The kids say "Sure" as they got off the couch to make room for Jan to sit on. Jan sits on the couch and grabs the remote sitting on the living room table. She presses the down channel arrow button and changes the channel to Freeform, which used to be ABC family. On Freeform, a showing of Prince Of Tides is playing on Tv. As Jan relaxes, the kids get mad at her because they were watching Disney Channel and she changed the channel on them. Ben angrily says "Jan, we were just watching that". Jan looks at the angry Ben and says with her finger pointing at him "I know, but i'm an adult. I can do what I want. And you're arguing with me, Ben. Do you want me to tell your parents you argued with me?". Ben shifts back in scardness, knowing that if Jan told his Mom and Dad that he argued with her, he's in trouble. With a breath and sorrow face, he says "No, Aunt Jan. I'm sorry". Jan says with a resolving face "I forgive you". With Jan watching Tv, the kids walk out of the living room and to the stairs that leads upstairs. As they walked upstairs, Jan starts to feel tired. She remembers that before she came to the Bergdorf house, she was watching Tv in the comfort of her bed back at her home. Imagining she's at home, laying in her bed, her eyes start to drop. With a yawn, she closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep on the couch. The remote slips out of her hand and lands on the carpet, making a thud sound, but not waking her up.
The kids, who are now upstairs, turn and see that Jan has fallen asleep on the couch with the Tv on. Ben's face turned confident as it was now the time to strike their plan to go the playground. He looks at his siblings with a smile and says "Jan's asleep. Now to go with our plan". Sam, Abby, and Nate say "Yes". Ben says "Lets get ready". The kids walked into the hallway and to the doors of their rooms. They opened their doors and walked inside their rooms. Inside, they walk to their closets, open up the doors, and took out their socks and shoes. They putted on their socks first and then their shoes second. They also took out things from their toy chests to take with them to the playground to play with. Ben took out a baseball bat and baseballs, Sam took out Matchbox cars, Abby took out 2 stuffed toys, and Nate took out a RC plane. With their socks and shoes on, as well as toys to take with to play at the playground, the kids walked out of their rooms and closed their doors. They went to the stairs and walk down them. They walked slowly like a baby to avoid waking Jan up. As they reached the end of the stairs, they walked to the front door. Ben putted his baseball bat and balls on the floor beside him on his left. He grabs the door knob and turns it left. He gently opens the door, making creek noises as he pulled it, but Jan still didn't wake up. With the door opened, Ben picked up his baseball bat and balls and he and his siblings walked through the door and out of the house. Nate, the last one out of the house, grabs the door knob and pulls it towards him, closing the door. With the 4 kids out of the house, Ben turns around and says in front of his siblings "Good, guys. We made it without waking up Aunt Jan". He turns his head forward. "Now lets walk to the playground". The other 3 said "All right". The 4 kids walked away from their house and turned left onto a sidewalk that leads to the playground, following Ben.
They walked the 1 mile to the playground in the neighborhood at a 3 MPH walking pace in 20 minutes. They reached it by 7:30 Pm with the sun still out. The playground had 3 swings, 2 slides, a merry-go-round, and a tetter-tooter surrounded by black tarmac on the ground. There is also a large forest behind the playground about 15 feet away from it. Standing in front of the playground entrance sign, Ben turns around, standing in front of his siblings, saying with a smile on his face "We made it to the playground, guys. Everything went according to plan. Now lets have fun for a half-hour. I want to get back home before Jan notices we're gone". The others say "Yes" to him. They walked onto the tarmac of the playground and started playing on the swings and slides with their toys on the tarmac ground. As the kids had their fun on the playground, the sun is still setting in for the night with dim colors of orange and blue reflected behind the clouds.
Chapter 3: The House In The Forest (8:00 Pm)
A half-hour has passed since the 4 Bergdorf kids, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate left their house to go play on the playground in their neighborhood.
Within the half-hour, they swanged on the swings, slid down the slides, spinned around the merry-go-round, bounched on the tetter-totter, and played with their toys. Ben, playing on the swings in the back side of the playground, notices the sun going down and thinks of the plan to go back home. He gets off the swings, standing on the tarmac. With the sun setting down and limited light in the atmosphere, Ben says out loudly so his siblings could hear him "All right, guys. Come here". Sam, Abby, and Nate ran up to Ben behind the playground. Sam asks him "What, Ben?". Ben says "I think its time to go back home. Lets get our toys and start walking back". The others say "Okay" to him as they too felt like it was time to go home. They walked around the playground, picking up their toys. As Ben picked up his baseball bat and balls, something bright in the forest caught his sight. He squints his eyes to try to make out with what it is, but he's unable to from a distance behind the trees. Curious into wondering what the light in the forest is, he drops his baseball bat and balls on the playground tarmac and turns around to his siblings, who already have their toys in the hands, ready to leave. He says "Hey, guys. Come here". Sam, Abby, and Nate dropped their toys on the tarmac and ran up to Ben, who is looking at the light in the forest. Looking like he sees something, Nate asks him "What is it, Ben?". Ben points his finger at the light in the forest, saying "Do you guys see that?". Sam, Abby, and Nate looked at the forest where Ben's finger is pointing at. From a distance and position, they can bearly see the light. Curious, Sam asks him "See what?". Ben says "That light in the forest. Can you see it?". The others tried to look, but couldn't see it. They leaned left and they now see the light. Sam says "Yes, I can see it". Abby says "Me too". Nate says "Me three". Sam asks him "What about it?". Ben lowers his finger and says "I want to find out what it is and you guys are coming with me". Not thinking he's going according to plan, Sam asks him "What about going home?". Ben looks at his brother with a gullible face and says "This'll be short. It won't take long. Come on, follow me". Ben walked first, then Sam, then Abby, and Nate to the trees of the forest, leaving their toys on the playground tarmac. As they walked into the forest, they step in mud. Abby looks down at her muddy shoes and upsettingly says "My shoes are ruined". The others look at her. Ben sees that her shoes are muddy and ruined, as in "torn off". He generously smiles at his sister and says "I see that, Abby. Don't worry. When we get back home, you can wash the mud off your shoes. Now, lets continue walking to the light". Learning to accept her shoes getting muddy, Abby says "Okay". The 4 kids continued to walk through the forest to the light.
They walked passed through trees, bushes, streams, and a cliff to the light. They walked 3 miles in the forest and reached the light just by 9:00 Pm. When the time turned 9:00 Pm, the sun has finally setted down for the night and the moon appears in the atmosphere with very dim colors of blue sky getting darker and darker as night slowly comes. When the kids reached the light, it turned out that the light is actually a brown house with its lights on. From where there standing, they think there on the left side of the house. As they looked in both directions, they see a cliff on the left side of the house and a hill on the right. Knowing what the light is, Sam, concerned that they may not get back home in time before Jan wakes up and their parents get back, looks at Ben and says "Well, we found out what the light is. A house with its light on. Lets go home". Sam tries to leave, but Ben grabs his shirt, stopping him from walking away. Angry and concerned, Sam asks "Hey, what gives, Ben?". Ben says "I want to find out what that house is". The others looked at him and said "What?". Going into a house is a act of trespassing, but Ben thinks that the house's light was left on by itself, that its 1 of those automated lights. Ben says "Yes, I want to see what the house is". They started to walk forward. As they walked, they came up to a door on the left side. Ben leans his hand forward to knock on the door, but as he knocks on it the first time, the door slightly opened up by itself like if a breath of wind blew it opened. It felt weird to the kids, but they let go of it quickly. They slowly stepped inside the house. Inside, they can't see anything. Sam says "Its dark in here". Ben says "I know. Lets find a light switch". They scattered around the house, trying to find a light switch on the walls. As they pressed their hands on the walls looking for a light, Ben feels a thick object that felt like a light switch to him. He flips the switch up and on the celling, a light comes on. Ben, happily knowing that he found a light switch, says "Thats better". He closes the door behind him and his siblings. He turns around and in front of him and his siblings are small, human-sized statues of dinosaurs that look like the dinosaur kids in Land Before Time. Surprised at what they see, Ben says "Hey look. They look like the dinosaurs in Land Before Time. It feels weird for anyone to have this in their house. I wonder who these statues belong to". As they looked around the statues, they see black walls and no windows around them. They think there in the basement. They came up to the statues, randomly, and looked at them. Ben looked at a brown longneck statue labeled "Apatosaurus" on the snout. Sam looked at a orange threehorn statue labeled "Triceratops" on the frill. Abby looked at a green swimmer labeled "Saurolophus" on the beak. Nate looked at a brown flyer labeled "Pterodactyl" on the wing.
As they looked around, Nate bumps into a green spiketail. The spiketail leand side ways and fell to the ground, making a loud thud sound across the basement. The loud thud sound shocked them and made their hearts feel like its in their stomachs. The 3 looked at Nate standing beside the fallen over spiketail statue on the basement floor. Ben, filled with scared anger, asks his brother "Nate, what did you do?". Nate shows both his hands and arms out front and says, frantically, "I don't know. I was...". As he was about to continue talking, the sound of footsteps from upstairs paused him and the others. The sound of the footsteps got closer and closer to the basement door upstairs. The 4 kids speed walk to the door and tried to leave the basement, but when Ben pulled on the door, it was locked. Scared, he says "We're trapped". Sam asks him "What do we do?". Ben, seeing that the door is locked and hearing the sound of footsteps getting closer, says "Theres nothing we can do. We'll just have to show ourselves to whoever comes down here". Nate asks him "What do you think he or she will do to us?". Ben says "I don't know. Lets hope he or she is a good person. Hold on to me, guys, and get ready". With quick movements of sweat and breath, Sam, Abby, and Nate holded onto Ben's shirt with scared fear, getting ready for whoever comes down to the basement will see them.
Chapter 4: Don Bluth And Dinomula (9:10 Pm)
As the 4 Bergdorf Kids, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate hold on to each other for deer life in the basement of a house in the forest, the sounds of footsteps stop, as the person upstairs has walked up to the basement door. As the kids stayed close together, the basement door upstairs opened up. The person stepped in the basement on top of the stairs. He sees that the lights are on. With a old male voice, he asks "Who's down there?". The kids did not give an answer or say anything. The voice said "I know your down there. I heard you tipping something over. I may be old, but i'm not stupid. Come and show yourself to me". Still, the kids did not move, nor make a sound as they feel like there being threaten by a man upstairs. Getting impatiently, the man says "Fine, I'll come down to see you". The man walked down the stairs, step by step, as the kids leaned against the wall in fear as they heard his footsteps coming closer. As the man got down to the basement, the kids see him in their sight. He was old looking, about 80 years old. He had gray hair on his head. He was wearing a white shirt, gray pants, brown shoes, and glasses on his face. He started to walk up
to the kids.
As he walked up to the kids, they closed their eyes, fearing whatever the worse the man may do to them. He walked up to them and stood in front of them. With their eyes closed very tightly, the man asks them "Are you kids lost?". The fear inside the kids drifted away as they opened their eyes and turned around, facing the man in front of them. Curious, they say "What?". The man repeats the same question. "I said "Are you kids lost?". Ben, with certainty, says "No we're not. We came here from our neighborhood beside the forest". The man says "Oh". He sees Sam, Abby, and Nate. He looks at Ben and asks him "Are these kids your friends?". Ben says "No there my brothers, Sam and Nate, and my sister, Abby. I'm Ben. Who are you, sir?". The man stood back a little and putted his left hand on his chest saying "I'm Don Bluth. Nice to meet you, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate". He shakes their hands as he greats them into his house. Ben recalls that earlier, he and his family were watching the first Land Before Time movie back at their home. When the end credits came in, there was a subtitle that said "Directed By Don Bluth". Thinking that the man may be the real Don Bluth, Ben asks him "Don Bluth? Thats your name?". The man said "Yes, thats my name. Why do you ask, Ben?". Ben says "Because I was watching the first Land Before Time movie with my family at my house tonight and the credits said "Directed By Don Bluth". Your really him?". The man upsettingly said "Yes. Don't believe me?". Ben said as his siblings looked at him "No. Prove it please". The man said "Okay, I will". The man reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small picture in his hands. He shows it in front of the kids. The picture he's showing is a picture of 3 men. Curious, Ben asks him "Who are these people?". The man generously says "Thats me, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas at the premier of Land Before Time in 1988. Stevens on the left, Georges on the right, and I'm in the middle. Believe me now?".
The kids starred at the picture for 20 seconds before the man putted it back in his shirt pocket. Convinced he's the real Don Bluth, Ben says "Yes, I do believe you, Don Bluth". Ben's face turns down, feeling like he was guilty of accusing him. With his hand out in front of him and Don, he says "I'm sorry for accusing you, Don". Don shakes his hand and says "Its okay, Ben". Ben also thinks of trespassing into his house. He says "I'm also sorry we trespassed into your house". Don says "Thats okay, too. I don't get much people these days since I live in a house in a forest". Ben says "Oh". The 2 let go of their hands. Wondering why he's living in a forest, Ben asks him "Why are you living in a forest?". Don said "After Land Before Time was released in 1988, I thought of doing something different in my life. 4 years later, I found this house in this forest. I been living here for 25 years now. In 1993, I read a news article that Universal was making a 2nd Land Before Time movie. I called the studio to ask them if I could direct the 2nd movie, but they told me the directing position was given to Roy Allen Smith. I haven't worked on any Land Before Time movie, but the first one. My life changed after 1988". Ben asks him "What do you mean "Different?"". Don says with confident face "I had thoughts on making Land Before Time a reality. I was impressed at my drawings of the dinosaurs in the first movie and I though how I can make it come to life, let fans experience it with their own eyes". The kids ask him "Experience?". Don smiles and says "Yes. Experience it. Follow me, I'll show you what I mean". Don walked with the Bergdorf kids following behind him to the stairs. They walked up the stairs and out the basement door. Don flips the upstairs basement light switch down, turning off the basement light. He closes the door behind him and the kids. They turned to a door on the left. Don grabs the door knob and says to the kids "Behind this door, I'll show you kids what I mean by experience. Before I open, I like to ask you 4 a question". The kids showed flat faces at him with Ben saying "Sure, go ahead". Don asks them "Have you ever dreamed about being a dinosaur in real life?". The kids showed down and confused looks on their faces at Don as they never dreamed about being a dinosaur in real life. Ben asks him "Why do you ask us that?". Don says "Because behind this door will make the experince a reality".
Don turns the door knob and pushes the door forward. They all walked inside the room. Don flips the room's light switch up, turning on the light. In the kid's sight, they see glass bottles and chemical liquids on tables against the walls. They also see pictures of Don's drawings of the Land Before Time dinosaurs on walls. Ahead of them, they see a balcony with its sliding doors closed and a table on the balcony. Don says "This room you see is the work of my life long dream of making land Before Time fans into dinosaurs. I call it "The Experiment Room". As they looked around the room, Abby yanks on Ben's shirt and says "Ben, I'm thirsty". Ben says "Not now, Abby". Abby leaves the others to go find something to drink, but as she looked, she only found liquids that she doesn't think there drinks. Don walks to a table in the center and picks up a glass bottle filled with some red liquid. Curious into wondering what it is, Ben points his finger at the bottle and asks "Whats that?". Don turns around, holding the bottle in his hands, saying "This is what I been working on for almost 30 years of my life. I call it Dinomula". Ben, Sam, and Nate have never heard the term "Dinomula" before. They looked at each other with confusion for a brief moment. They turn their heads forward and Ben asks Don "Dinomula?". Don says "Dinosaur Formula. This formula will turn people into dinosaur versions of themselves, based on the dinosaurs in Land Before Time. I haven't tested it yet, but I think tonights the best time to test it. Follow me to the balcony". Ben, Sam, and Nate followed Don to the balcony sliding doors. Don grabs the handle and slides the door right, opening it. The 4 walked outside onto the balcony, being unaware that Abby is still inside, looking for something to drink.
On the balcony, a table and a SONY video camera mounted onto a tripod stood. Don walks behind the table and tells the boys "Can 1 of you get the camera set up. I want to remember this". Ben grabs the camera and tripod and sets it up in the middle section of the balcony, in front of Don Bluth and the table. He opens the monitor screen and presses the red "On" button on the camera, turning it on. Don asks Ben "Is the camera on?". Ben says "Yes, its on. Should I press record?". Don says "Yes. Press record". Ben presses the "Record Video" button on the camera. 3 letters that say REC appears on the monitor screen. Ben says "Its recording now". Don says "Good". He puts his hand on his chest, saying "Good evening, anyone who is watching this. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Donald Virgil Bluth, but you can call me Don Bluth. Its Friday, July 21, 2017 9:35 Pm. Tonight, I will be testing my life long work. What I have in my hand is a experiment that i've been working on for almost 30 years. I call it 'Dinomula". What does it do, you may ask?. Well, when anyone who drinks this, will be turned into the dinosaur form of themselves. To keep people to themselves, they will still have their personalities. The hair and clothes will transform as well. I'll be the first one to test it. Brace your eyes because what your about to see will make a dream come true". Don precedes to drink the dinomula as he putted the top of the bottle to his mouth. Ben, Sam, and Nate filled their bodies up with scared anticipation as they watch Don lift up the dinomula to his mouth. As the dinomula got close to his mouth, Don puts the bottle back on the table, not letting a single drop touch his lip. He face palms his forehead and says with a quick laugh "Oh, I'm almost forgetting something. Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back". Don leaves the table and tells Ben, Sam, and Nate to "Come with me in the house, boys. I forgot to show you something". As the three walked back inside the house, Abby walks to the balcony, still looking for something to drink. Outside, she sees a glass bottle filled with red liquid on a table. She thinks and says "Koolaid". As she walks to the table, Inside, Don walks to the center table and picks up a empty glass bottle and a large 5 littler bottle filled with yellow liquid. As he pours some of it in the bottle, he says "I forget to show that in order to reverse it, I made an antidote to turn back to human. The antidote is made with water, plant leaf, and tree sap mixed together". As Don continued to explain the antidote to the boys, on the balcony, Abby is about to make a big mistake.
Chapter 5: The Adventure Begins (9:40 Pm)
As Don, Ben, Sam, and Nate are inside, talking about the antidote, outside, on the balcony, Abby grabs the Dinomula from the table and puts the top in her mouth. She tilts it up, making the drink go down her mouth and into her stomach. She puts the Dinomula back on the table. Feeling relieved that she finally found something to drink, she burps. The Dinomula inside her made her feel all weird inside. She starts to feel herself losing her vision. As she touches her forehead, she starts to lose balance. She walks backwards and falls over the balcony railing. She lands on the grassy ground 10 feet below the balcony. She tries to get up, but the impact injured her left leg, but not seriously. She gets up with her arms pressed against the ground. She starts to crawl, trying to see where she is, but her vision is making it hard for her to see anything. As she tries to see, she crawls to the cliff hill and falls over the ledge, rolling pass through leaves, mud, twigs, rocks, and bushes, screaming loudly. The sound of her scream was so loud, it caught Don, Ben, Sam, and Nate's attention. Scared, they all shout "Abby!!!". All 4 ran back to the balcony. They see that the Dinomula has been drinked. Because they were inside, they have no idea what just happened outside or what happened to Abby. They turn around and see that the camera recording light is still on. Ben says "Look, the camera is still recording. Lets see what happened". All 4 walked to the camera and Ben pressed the "Playback button" with his thumb. He rewinds the video to 9:40:30 Pm. In the recording, they see Abby drinking the dinomula, loosing her vision, and falling off the balcony. Scared at what they saw in the playback, Ben says "Oh no. My sister has dranked the dinomula. She's a dinosaur. We have to rescue her. Come on". Ben presses the "Off" button on the camera with his thumb, turning off the camera. He closes the monitor screen. He looks at his brothers and Don, saying "Lets go save my sister". The 4 walked back into the house, through the room and out the door to the basement door. Ben opens the basement door and he, Sam, and Nate charge down stairs into the basement and ran to the door they first came in and outside to the grass, waiting for Don. Upstairs, Don grabs the dinomula bottle, the antidote bottle he poured in, and 4 flashlights. He grabs a brown box with handles on from underneath a table and putts them in. He slightly runs out of his experiment room and down the stairs, through the basement and outside the door where Ben, Sam, and Nate are waiting for him. Don drops the box and closes the door behind him. He looks at the boys and say "Take these flashlights, kids". He takes out 3 flashlights from the box and gives 1 each to the 3 boys. He holds his flashlight in his hand and putts the box on his back with suspenders on him . Ben, with desperate courage, says "Lets go save my sister". All 4 press the "On" switch on their flashlights and started running through the forest to find Abby. Little do they know, heavy winds are starting to come in the sky.
10 minutes later, Ben, Sam, Nate, and Don have been in the forest, looking for Abby. A storm with heavy winds has came into their path. They are in between trees, forcefully walking on the grass as the heavy winds are slowing them down. With their flashlights on, they see and feel grass bits and leaves floating in the air. In front of the boys, Don, fearing that they may not find Abby, shouts "Its no use! I can't see her in this!". Ben, who is standing behind Don with his flashlight in his hands, thinks of the futility of rescuing his sister. He shouts "Oh, forget it". He leans forward to the box on Don's back and grabs the Dinomula bottle. "If we can't see her in this, theres only one thing we have to do". Don felt him taking the Dinomula out of the box. He turns around and shines his flashlight at Ben taking the cork off and putting the bottle up to his mouth. Scared and curious, he shows his hand out front and asks "Wait!! What are you doing, kid?". Ben pauses his hand from getting the Dinomula to his mouth. He says "My sister is a dinosaur. If we have to find her, we have to become dinosaurs by drinking this Dinomula. I'll go first!". Don shouts "Stop" at Ben, who almost putted the top of the bottle to his lip. Ben asks him "What?". Don says with fear "Head this warning: If you don't take the antidote within 48 hours or less, YOU'LL BE TRAPPED AS A DINOSAUR FOREVER!!!!". Ben looks back at his brothers, who are showing a scared look on their faces, and at Don, who shows the same expression. Realizing the futility and knowing the warning, Ben yells with couragness "Its a risk i'm gonna have to take!". Quickly, he puts the top of the bottle to his mouth and drinks a part of it. He slightly puts the cork back on and gives the Dinomula bottle back to Don in his hands. With all his strength and courage, Ben drops his flashlight and runs behind some trees, away from his brothers and Don. As he ran behind the trees, the Dinomula in his body started to take effect. He starts to feel heavy and slows down. He stops running as he feels like he's too heavy. He falls to the ground with both his arms pressed against the ground. He starts to make moaning/groaning noises as the Dinomula in his body started to change his appearance. As the Dinomula spread around his body inside, all his hair shrunk and disappeared everywhere on him. His clothes and shoes vanished as his body changed into 3 different colors of brown from light to dark. His arms and legs slightly thickened with 2 of his fingers and 2 of his toes shrinking away. His fingers and toes formed into 4 white claw toes on each foot. His stomach and back expanded up on wide hips with humps all over his top back. His neck started to grow long. It grew longer and longer until it was 3 ft long. A tail came out of his back between his back legs and grew to the same length as his neck. His face changed shape with his mouth stretching into a snout and all his teeth becoming flat inside. His nostrils formed into a hump between his eyes and his ears shrunk to the size of pebbles. He didn't see himself change as he kept his eyes closed, but from what he felt, he thinks he's a longneck dinosaur. Ben is now a dinosaur. He gets up on all 4 of his legs and starts walking again, through the storm, continuing to look for Abby. Away from Ben, Sam, Nate, and Don didn't see that Ben has turned into a dinosaur, but because they saw him drinking the Dinomula, they know he's a dinosaur now. In their sight, the storm gets even more worse with the winds getting stronger. All 3 got down on the ground and held onto the grass for deer life. Thinking of what Ben did, Don looks at Sam and Nate and shouts "Kids, drink the Dinomula!". Sam and Nate didn't hear him the first time as the strong winds are making it hard for them to understand. Sam and Nate shout "What?", Don says "I said "Drink the...". The grass he's holding on, rips away from the ground. The wind carries him, his flashlight, and the box with the antidote in the air, yelling "DINOMULA!!!!!!!". Sam and Nate shout in fear "Don!!!!!", but the wind has blown him out of their sight. Watching him fly away in fear, the Dinomula hits Sam in the face. Sam sees the Dinomula and grabs it. He looks at Nate and says "Nate!!!!. We have to drink this!!!!. It's our only chance!!!!". Nate shouts "Okay, Sam. You go first. I'll follow". Sam takes the cork off the bottle and throws it into the wind. He puts the top to his mouth and drinks it quickly. He takes it away from his mouth and gives it to Nate. Nate drinks the last of it. With the bottle empty, Nate lets go of it and throws it into the wind. The 2 brothers looked at each other with slight courgness and sacredness. They reached out their hands and held onto each other as brothers, knowing that they will see each other again as dinosaurs. Sam says "I'll see you as a dinosaur, Nate". Nate says "Me too, Sam". Sam asks him "You ready?". Nate asks him "For what?". Sam says "On the count of 3, we let go of the grass". Nate says "Right. Lets do it". Together, they shouted "1, 2, 3!!!!". The brothers letted go of the grass as the wind carries them into the air. The 2 screamed at high pitch as the Dinomula inside their bodies started to change their appearances.
Meanwhile, back at the Bergdorf house, the time turned 10:00 Pm. Tim and Becky pulled up into their driveway after a long night of fun. Tim turns off the engine and takes the car key out and puts it in his pocket. He opens the his door and steps out. He goes around to the front door and opens it, taking Becky out by her hand. She closes her door and gives Tim a kiss on his mouth, thanking him for long, great night of fun. As the 2 walked to the front door, Becky looks at Tim and says "I hope the kids had fun tonight while we were away". Tim says "Me too, honey". The 2 reach the front door. Tim knocks on the door 3 times. Inside, Jan finally wakes up after sleeping for about 4 hours. She steps up from the couch and walks to the front door. She opens the door, looking tired in front of Tim and Becky's faces. As she tiredly smiles at them, Becky says "Hi, Jan. How were our kids?". Jan asked "The kids?". Becky said "Yes, our kids. How were they?". Jan remembers that she didn't see the kids since she went to sleep on the couch. She says "Oh". She turns around and shouts "Hey, kids. Your Mom and Dad are back!". As they waited for the kids to come, there is no response. Just silence. Becky shouts "Kids, we're home!". They got the same response: Silence. Slightly concerned, Tim says "Maybe there asleep". Suggesting what Tim said, the 3 walk upstairs to the hallway and into the 4 kid's bedrooms. As they enter the rooms, they shouted their names, hoping they would show up "Ben, Sam, Abby, Nate? Anyone?". Still, they got no response but silence. They looked at each other with Tim asking Becky "Did you find them?". Becky said "No, I didn't". The 2 hugged each other very tightly, with their minds starting to fill with the fear of the worse of their kids. Becky, leans her head back from Tim and says "Maybe the police found them and there at the police station, waiting for us to pick them up. Lets call them". Tim and Becky, as well as Jan, walked into the master bedroom. Becky grabs the phone and frantically presses 9-1-1. She puts the phone up to her right ear. As the phone started to ring, outside, several trees are blown down by the strong force of the heavy winds. As the trees fall, they clip off and rip through several telephone polls and wires. Across Ohio, all the power went out into total darkness. At the Bergdorf house, the phone Becky's holding makes a weird electric dot sound with a recorded female voice saying "We're sorry. The number you are calling is not aviable at the time. Please call again later". With the house totally pitch black, Becky drops the phone on the ground. Because its dark, Becky can't see Tim or Jan. She says in shock "Power's out. What do we do, Tim?". Tim says in the dark "Nothing to do, but wait for the power to get back on, I'm afraid. Lets go to bed". Becky concerningly asks "What about our kids? I'm worried about them". Tim tries to comfort her. He says "I know. Me too, Lets hope there okay. Now lets go to bed and wait for the power to come back". Becky says "Okay" to Tim. Jan says "I'll sleep too". The 3 adults crawled into the bed together and putted themselves under the blanket and on top of the pillows. Slowly and fearfully, they closed their eyes and went to sleep, hoping their kids are okay. As the moon in the sky shinned the dark night away, 4 kids have begun their adventure in the forest. The time is 10:10 Pm.
Chapter 6: The Search Begins (Saturday, July 22, 2017 7:00 Am)
Sun rises up over the state of Ohio as a new day comes. Across the state, several telephone polls and wires are down after being knocked over by the heavy winds last night. At the Bergdorf house, Tim, Becky, and Jan wake up as the bright sun reflected through the master bedroom window. They step off the bed and out of the room, walk down stairs, and into the living room, still filled with fear and concern about their kids. Becky looks at Tim and says "Tim, can you go get the newspaper?". Tim says "Sure, Becky". Tim walks out of the living room from Becky and Jan to the front door. He grabs the door knob and turns it left, opening the door up. He walks out the door and to the mailbox. He opens the mailbox and takes out the newspaper. He closes the mailbox. He walks back inside the house and closes the door behind him. He walks back into the living room and shows the newspaper in front of Becky and Jan. On the front cover, the headline read "STORM CAUSES BLACKOUT IN OHIO". They went to the couch and sat, reading the text below the headline. It read "Last night, Friday, July 21, 2017, at about 10:10 Pm, Several trees were fallen over by heavy winds in a storm. The trees knocked out several telephone polls and wires across the state of Ohio, causing an all state blackout. The Ohio Department Of Energy has said that the power is expected to come back on at 9:00 Pm". With no power to call the police until nighttime, Tim, Becky, and Jan hugged each other, hoping that Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate are okay.
In the forest, the sun shines through the trees above in the sky. Below a cliff hill, the sun wakes up Abby, who is sleeping on a pile of leaves. As she got up and opened her eyes, she sees that shes lost somewhere in the forest between tall trees. She sees and feels the leaves shes laying on. She even feels herself being cold. Feeling cold, she says "Mom, I'm cold". There is no response. She stands up on the pile of leaves and shouts "Mom!". Again, there is no response from her Mom, but birds flying away from the sound of her voice. Scared, she puts her right hand on her mouth, but something is different about her hand as she looked at it. Her hand was green with 4 white claw fingers on it. She moves her hand away from her mouth with a gasp. She looks at her left hand. It had the same appearance as her right hand. She looks down to see that shes naked, with no clothes or shoes on, but with 2 green scaly legs with 4 white clawed toes on each. She touches the top of her head and feels no hair, but something sticking out, like a crest. She touches her back all the way down to find that something long was attached to her. It was a tail. She touched her face. It felt like a beak. Not knowing what she is, she turns right to see that a stream of water floating beside her. She runs up to the stream and stops, standing in front of it. In her reflection, she sees the image of a small, light green swimmer dinosaur that was her. Scared, she jumps back in fear and lands on her bottom, trying to catch her breath. Scared at what she saw in her reflection, she puts her claw hands on her face, and starts to cry, fearing that shes lost and may never find her way out. As she cried, a young male voice shouted "Abby!" in the distance on her left. She stopped crying and moved her hands away from her face as the voice sounded like her brother, Ben. She turns her head left and in the distance behind trees, an image of a creature got close to her, shouting "Abby!". The creature got closer to her as she heard it as Ben's voice. Hoping its her brother, she asks quietly "Ben?". The voice said "Abby!!!" as it got closer. She recognizes the voice as her brother, Ben. She stands on the ground, saying louder "Ben!!!!". She runs to the creature with hope, knowing that its Ben. The creature came clear in her sight. It was a brown longneck dinosaur bigger than her. Scared of it being bigger than her, she steps back slowly in fear. The longneck lowered its head to Abby and said "Don't be afraid, Abby. Its me, Ben". She stops stepping back, curiously saying "Ben?". The longneck said "Yes, Abby. Its me, Ben". Abby loses all her fear and happily says "Ben!". She runs up to him and hugs his left front leg. Ben rubs his head on Abby, trying to comfort her. Abby, hugging onto his leg and being comforted by his rubbing head, says "Oh, Ben. It was all scary and dark and lonely". Ben says "Oh, don't worry, Abby. I'm here". Abby looks at his head and asks "Is this a dream, Ben?". Ben says "No, its not a dream, Abby. We're dinosaurs. Isn't that cool?". Abby gave no answer. She climbed on the top of Ben's head and Ben raised his neck up. At the top, Abby stands up on his head, feeling 6ft tall and looking around the forest. With surprise, she said "I never seen the forest like this before, Ben. Have you?". Ben says "No, I haven't, Abby". Ben thinks that since Abby's on his head, he thinks of making her slide off his back for fun. He looks up and says "Hey, Abby". Abby asks "What?". Ben asks "Want to do something fun?". Abby happily says with a smile "Yes". Ben says "Great. Slide off my back". Abby turns around and sits on his head. She says "I'm ready to slide". Ben says "Okay. 3, 2, 1. Slide". He lifts his head up and Abby slides down his 3ft long neck, his wide stomach, and his 3ft long tail, saying "Wheeeee" in happiness. She lands on the ground on her tail, laughingly saying "That was fun". Ben turns around and lowers his head to Abby, laughing with her as brother and sister who are enjoying their first life as a dinosaur.
Away from the 2, a squirrel and a bear are taking a drink in a stream of water. Unknown to them, a trail of yellow liquid floats in the water and is coming to them. The liquid comes to their mouths and they drink it, unnoticingly. The 2 stand up and try to regurgitate the liquid, but it swirls down through their mouths and into their stomachs. Something unthinkably starts happening to them. Their faces started to form in that of anthropomorphic animals. The squirrel changed first, then it looked at the bear changing second. With no idea of what happened, the bear asks "What happened?". The squirrel said in a stutter voice "I, I, I...". The squirrel noticed that he and the bear are now talking for the first time. He says in a clear, realizing voice "I think we have acquired the ability to talk". The bear asked "Talk? How?". The squirrel started to look around for what gave him and the bear the ability to talk. As he turned his head left, he sees a glass bottle with its cork slightly opened, leaking the yellow liquid out into the stream. He hums a little and runs to the bottle. He presses the cork on, stopping the liquid from leaking out. He grabs the bottle and puts it by his left shoulder. The bear walks up to him. The squirrel says "By this magical drink we had". The squirrel shows a evil thoughtful look on his face at the bear. The bear asks "That drink?" as he sat down on the ground. The squirrel says "Yes". The bear gets up from the ground and feels dirt on his bottom. He frantically says "Hey, theres dirt on my bottom. Clean it off". The squirrel shows his hand out at the bear, saying "For now on, I'm no longer your personal skin cleaner". The bear asks him in upsetness "What does that mean?". The squirrel says as he looks at the bottle "It means that with this drink, I can have things that I desire. Things like servants, honor, and most of all: ruling this forest. I name myself Richard, ruler of the forest". The squirrel, who named him Richard, looks at the bear pointing his finger at him, saying "And you, bear, will be named Dave. Or if its in my best interest, my best animal". The bear smiles at the name he was given by Richard. He says "Thank you, Richard. I like that name. Dave. Suites me. What do we do?".
As Richard explained his plan on ruling the forest to Dave, away from them, Ben and Abby are running around, still having fun. As they ran forward, Ben bumps into a orange threehorn dinosaur and Abby bumps into a brown flyer dinosaur. They stop running. All 4 fixed their vision from bumping into each other. In Ben and Abby's sight, a orange threehorn and a brown flyer stood in front of them. Shocked at what they see, the threehorn asks "Ben?" as the flyer asked "Abby?". Ben and Abby recognized the threehorn and flyer as their brothers, Sam and Nate. The 2 smickerdly laughed at them with Ben asking "Sam? Your a threehorn?". Sam says with disgust "Yes, I am, Ben". Abby asked Nate "Your a flyer, Nate?". Nate showed disgust like Sam, saying "Yes, Abby". As Ben and Abby continued to laugh, Sam and Nate made serious faces at them, showing that they want them to stop laughing. Ben and Abby stopped laughing as their faces meant seriousness. Sam and Nate said "Good". They see that Ben has found Abby. Sam says with a flat smile "You found Abby, Ben". Ben says with a smile "Yes I did, Sam". Sam asks him "Did you 2 find the antidote?". Ben's eyes go wide eyed in shock as he remembers the antidote and warning from Don Bluth last night. He asks Sam "The antidote?". Sam says "Yes, the antidote. Did you and Abby find it?". Ben, who was distracted finding the antidote by having fun with Abby for a while, says "No, I didn't". Sam says "Then we have to find it". Sam walks away from Ben, looking around for the antidote. Abby and Nate walk up to Ben and stand by his left leg. Curious into wondering what happened last night because he didn't see it, Ben runs up to Sam and stands in front of him, desperately asking him "Sam, what happened last night?". Sam said with a shocked face "After you ran into the forest, the storm got worst. The winds got stronger. We held onto the ground for our life". Ben asks him "What about Don?". Sam says "He was with us. He was holding on the ground like us. The ground he was holding on, ripped away with the wind carrying him into the air. He told us to drink the Dinomula and we did. We finished the last part of it. We letted the wind carry us into the wind. While we we're in the wind, I fell to the ground, landing on a pile of mud, going unconscious and changing into a threehorn". Nate says with his clawed hands out "I shranked and changed into a flyer. The wind carried me through trees and hitted several branches, knocking me out. When I woke up, I was laying in a pile of twigs and branches. Me and Sam met each other when we took a drink at a stream". Ben asks Sam "And what about the antidote?". Sam says "I don't know what happened to the antidote. The last time I saw it, it was in that box Don had on his back. It blew into the wind with him". Ben thinks of a horrible question to ask Sam. He asks him "What happened to Don? Did he survive?". Sam says with hopelessness "No, I don't think he survived. The last thing he said to me and Nate was "Kids, drink the Dinomula". Ben, realizing what happened to Don, says "Then we have to find the antidote and get back to normal". The other 3 say with courage "Right".
The 4 Bergdorf kids, now dinosaurs with Ben as a longneck, Sam as a threehorn, Abby as a swimmer, and Nate as a flyer, set out a plan to find the antidote and get back to human before there trapped as dinosaurs forever.
Dinomorphs
Chapter 1: Change Of Plans (Friday, July 21, 2017 5:55 Pm)
Sun shines over the state of Ohio with colors of dark blue and bright orange light reflected behind the clouds. 40 miles south of Cleveland, A neighborhood with a single street of 20 houses is settling in for the night. On the far left side of the street, a house with a family of 6 inside are sitting in the living room, watching the first Land Before Time movie on their Tv. The family is called Bergdorf. Sitting on the couch together are the parents, Tim (43), an employee at FedEx, and Becky (38), an accountant at Chrysler, while sitting on the floor in front of the couch are the 4 kids, Ben (13), Sam (12), Abby (11), and Nate (10). Earlier, on May 25, the kids finished their school year and have been on summer break for several weeks now. Watching the first Land Before Time movie was Ben's idea. He asked his family to watch it with him tonight and they said yes. The kids have had dinner earlier, but the parents haven't ate yet. As they sat in the living room, playing on the screen of their Tv, the movie is reaching the ending. Its showing the gang, Littlefoot the longneck, Cera the threehorn, Ducky the swimmer, Petrie the flyer, and Spike the spiketail finding the Great Valley after being separated from their families from an earthquake. They run down a hill and reunite with their families after a long journey from being separated. The end credits start to appear on screen with the song "If We Hold On Together" playing in the background.
With the movie over, Ben leans forward and grabs the remote from the living room table in front of his parents. He presses the "Open Disc Tray" button with his thumb. The VCR beside the Tv pops out the disc tray with the Land Before Time movie disc on top of it. Ben stands up from the floor and walks up to the VCR. He sticks his finger in the plastic hole of the disc and takes it out of the tray. He grabs the case laying beside the Tv. He opens the case and puts the disc back in. He puts the case in the movie cabinet beside the Tv. He turns around with a smile on his face, saying in front of his family "Thanks for watching the movie with me, guys". Tim, Becky, Sam, Abby, and Nate showed smiles on their faces in front of Ben, saying "Your welcome, Ben". As the family sat in the living room, Sam asks "So what do we do now?". As the family started to think of what to do, Ben looks at the clock hanged on the wall behind the couch. It reads 6:00 Pm. He turns his head left to the window and sees that the sun is slowly setting down for the night, but with enough light to do something thats on his mind. He turns his head face forward and walks up to his parents. Tim and Becky look at their son as he approaches them. With curiousness, Becky asks him "Something you want to do, Ben?". Ben, with his fingers in front of his stomach, holded together, says "Yes. Can we go to the playground here in our neighborhood?". Tim and Becky look at each other in thoughts of what their son just ask them to do. Their kids don't know that they made plans for dinner tonight, but just with them. They look face forward at Ben and Becky says "We can't, Ben". Upset and curious at his Mom's answer, Ben asks her "Why?". Becky says "Because the sun is going down. We can go to the playground tomorrow. And beside, we made plans for us tonight". Ben's eyes went wide open and his hopes accelerated very fast, thinking that what his Mom said by "plans for us tonight" meant that they are all going out tonight for a night on the town. Sam, Abby, and Nate have the same thought as Ben does. Hoping thats what she said, they all ask at the same time "Really?". Becky says "Yes and no, kids. We meant "us" as in just the 2 of us, me and your Dad". The kids gave a sighed moaning sound in response to their Mom's answer. Ben shows another upset face at his parents and asks them "What are you 2 doing tonight?". Tim says "We're going to have dinner at a fancy restaurant, go see a romantic movie, and dance at the community hall". Ben says "Oh" in front of his Dad. Becky says "Kids, we're putting you under supervision of your Aunt Jan before we leave". The kids showed signs of unfeelingness because they had their Aunt Jan watch over them 2 times this summer. This will be the 3rd time she did it.
With nothing else to say, Tim and Becky both stand up from the couch and Becky says "All right, we're going to get ready for tonight and call Jan to come over here". The kids responded in "Okay". Tim and Becky walk out of the living room to a flight of stairs that leads upstairs to the bedrooms. As the parents walk upstairs, Sam, Abby, and Nate look at Ben. Nate asks him "What do we do, Ben? Aunt Jan is coming over and our parents will be out tonight". Ben raises both his hands in the air in frustration, saying "I don't know, Nate. Let me think". As Ben started to think of what to do tonight, Tim and Becky have entered the master bedroom upstairs. They took off their evening clothes and putted on night clothes. Tim dressed himself up in a black shirt and pants and Becky dressed herself up in a white shirt and light black pants. After getting dressed for tonight, Becky picks up the phone sitting on the nightstand next to the bed. She dials the number for Jan. She puts the phone up to her right ear and it starts ringing. In a blue house, 60 miles away, Jan is in her bedroom, watching Tv in the comfort of her bed. She hears her phone on her nightstand ringing. She picks up the Tv remote on her bed and presses "Mute" on it, silencing her Tv. She leans forward and grabs her phone. She presses "Answer Call" on it and puts it to her right ear, asking "Yes?". Becky says "Hi, Jan". Jan recognizes the person on her phone as Becky. She says "Hey, Becky. Hows it going?". Becky replies "Its going fine, Jan. Me and Tim would like to ask you to do something for us tonight". Jan asks "Sure. What?". Becky says "We're going out tonight, just the 2 of us, and we like to ask you if you could watch our kids until we get back at 10:00". Jan thinks about what else she has for tonight. Nothing seems to come her mind as she has done everything she wanted today and that she is in her bedroom, watching Tv. With nothing else to do, she says "Yes, i'll watch your kids tonight. I'll be right over. See you". Becky says "See you too". The 2 females hanged up their phones and putted them on the nightstands. With Jan coming over to the house tonight, Becky turns around and stands in front of Tim, saying "All right, Tim. Jan is coming over to watch our kids tonight". Tim smiles and says "Thats good, Becky. Lets go tell our kids that shes coming". The 2 walked out of the master bedroom and down the stairs into the living room, where the kids are talking about what to do tonight.
During the time their parents were upstairs, they were discussing a plan on going to the playground tonight. As their parents reached the end of the stairs, they smiled and looked at them as they approached them, acting like they were not doing anything. As they stood in front of them, Becky says "All right, kids. Jan is coming over and we'll be leaving as soon as she gets here". The kids say "Okay, Mom", trying to hide their plan on going out to the playground tonight. Ben, thinking about what time they'll be back by, asks his Mom "Hey, Mom. How long will you and Dad be out for?". Becky answers "We'll be out until we get back home late, maybe 10:00 Pm". Ben, knowing that its enough time to go ahead with their plan, says "Okay, Mom. Hope you and Dad have a good time tonight". Becky smiles and says to her Son "Thanks, Ben. We hope you kids have a good time too". The family sits on the couch and Tim grabs the remote, turning on the Tv. He switches the channel to Disney Channel. As the family watched Tv in their living room, waiting for Jan to arrive, the sun is still setting in for the night. The time is 6:10 Pm.
Chapter 2: Sneaking Out For Fun (6:50 Pm)
40 minutes have passed since the parents, Tim and Becky, called Jan to ask her to watch the kids, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate tonight while they go out for dinner, movie, and dancing. In the living room of their house, the family continues to watch Disney Channel on their Tv. Outside, the sun is still setting in for the night with about 2/4 of the way down before nighttime. As they watched inside their house, Jan pulled beside their driveway and sidewalk in her car. She turns off her engine and opens up her door, stepping out of her car and closing her door. The sound of her door closing caught the famille's attention. They immediately knew that its Jan walking up to their front door. Tim and Becky stand up from the couch and walk up to the door. Tim grabs the door knob, turns it left, and opens the door up. Standing in front of them is Jan. She says with a smile "Hey, Tim. Becky". The 2 say "Hi, Jan" as she walks into the house. She sees her niece and nephews sitting in the living room, watching Tv. She says "Hey, kids". The kids say "Hi Aunt Jan". She turns around, looking at Tim and Becky standing in front of her. She says "You 2 go off and enjoy your night. I'll watch them for you until you get back". Becky says with a smile "Thanks, Jan". Becky leans right from Jan's shoulder and says to the kids "Kids, we're leaving. Say bye to us". Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate said "Bye Mom and Dad" to them as they said "Bye" back. The 2 walked out of the house and to their car on their driveway. Tim takes out the car key from his pocket and inserts it in the driver's door key slot. He turns it left and opens the door. He steps in first and closes the door as Becky goes around to the front door on the right. Tim presses the "Unlock Doors" button on the car control panel and Becky opens the door. She steps in and sits in the front seat, next to Tim. She closes her door and Tim turns on the engine. He grabs the gear shifter and shifts it down to reverse. He puts his foot on the accelerator pedal and he turns his head back as he slowly drives backwards off the driveway and onto the road. He shifts the gear up to the forward position and presses down on the accelerator pedal with his foot, driving away from the house as the kids watched them leave until they were out of their sight.
With the parents gone, Jan closes the door and locks it. She turns around and walks into the living room, facing the kids and asking them "So, what do you kids want to do tonight? Want to have dinner?". The kids had dinner earlier. They said with certainess "No, we're not hungry". Jan says "Uh... okay. Can you kids please move so I can sit on the couch?". The kids say "Sure" as they got off the couch to make room for Jan to sit on. Jan sits on the couch and grabs the remote sitting on the living room table. She presses the down channel arrow button and changes the channel to Freeform, which used to be ABC family. On Freeform, a showing of Prince Of Tides is playing on Tv. As Jan relaxes, the kids get mad at her because they were watching Disney Channel and she changed the channel on them. Ben angrily says "Jan, we were just watching that". Jan looks at the angry Ben and says with her finger pointing at him "I know, but i'm an adult. I can do what I want. And you're arguing with me, Ben. Do you want me to tell your parents you argued with me?". Ben shifts back in scardness, knowing that if Jan told his Mom and Dad that he argued with her, he's in trouble. With a breath and sorrow face, he says "No, Aunt Jan. I'm sorry". Jan says with a resolving face "I forgive you". With Jan watching Tv, the kids walk out of the living room and to the stairs that leads upstairs. As they walked upstairs, Jan starts to feel tired. She remembers that before she came to the Bergdorf house, she was watching Tv in the comfort of her bed back at her home. Imagining she's at home, laying in her bed, her eyes start to drop. With a yawn, she closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep on the couch. The remote slips out of her hand and lands on the carpet, making a thud sound, but not waking her up.
The kids, who are now upstairs, turn and see that Jan has fallen asleep on the couch with the Tv on. Ben's face turned confident as it was now the time to strike their plan to go the playground. He looks at his siblings with a smile and says "Jan's asleep. Now to go with our plan". Sam, Abby, and Nate say "Yes". Ben says "Lets get ready". The kids walked into the hallway and to the doors of their rooms. They opened their doors and walked inside their rooms. Inside, they walk to their closets, open up the doors, and took out their socks and shoes. They putted on their socks first and then their shoes second. They also took out things from their toy chests to take with them to the playground to play with. Ben took out a baseball bat and baseballs, Sam took out Matchbox cars, Abby took out 2 stuffed toys, and Nate took out a RC plane. With their socks and shoes on, as well as toys to take with to play at the playground, the kids walked out of their rooms and closed their doors. They went to the stairs and walk down them. They walked slowly like a baby to avoid waking Jan up. As they reached the end of the stairs, they walked to the front door. Ben putted his baseball bat and balls on the floor beside him on his left. He grabs the door knob and turns it left. He gently opens the door, making creek noises as he pulled it, but Jan still didn't wake up. With the door opened, Ben picked up his baseball bat and balls and he and his siblings walked through the door and out of the house. Nate, the last one out of the house, grabs the door knob and pulls it towards him, closing the door. With the 4 kids out of the house, Ben turns around and says in front of his siblings "Good, guys. We made it without waking up Aunt Jan". He turns his head forward. "Now lets walk to the playground". The other 3 said "All right". The 4 kids walked away from their house and turned left onto a sidewalk that leads to the playground, following Ben.
They walked the 1 mile to the playground in the neighborhood at a 3 MPH walking pace in 20 minutes. They reached it by 7:30 Pm with the sun still out. The playground had 3 swings, 2 slides, a merry-go-round, and a tetter-tooter surrounded by black tarmac on the ground. There is also a large forest behind the playground about 15 feet away from it. Standing in front of the playground entrance sign, Ben turns around, standing in front of his siblings, saying with a smile on his face "We made it to the playground, guys. Everything went according to plan. Now lets have fun for a half-hour. I want to get back home before Jan notices we're gone". The others say "Yes" to him. They walked onto the tarmac of the playground and started playing on the swings and slides with their toys on the tarmac ground. As the kids had their fun on the playground, the sun is still setting in for the night with dim colors of orange and blue reflected behind the clouds.
Chapter 3: The House In The Forest (8:00 Pm)
A half-hour has passed since the 4 Bergdorf kids, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate left their house to go play on the playground in their neighborhood.
Within the half-hour, they swanged on the swings, slid down the slides, spinned around the merry-go-round, bounched on the tetter-totter, and played with their toys. Ben, playing on the swings in the back side of the playground, notices the sun going down and thinks of the plan to go back home. He gets off the swings, standing on the tarmac. With the sun setting down and limited light in the atmosphere, Ben says out loudly so his siblings could hear him "All right, guys. Come here". Sam, Abby, and Nate ran up to Ben behind the playground. Sam asks him "What, Ben?". Ben says "I think its time to go back home. Lets get our toys and start walking back". The others say "Okay" to him as they too felt like it was time to go home. They walked around the playground, picking up their toys. As Ben picked up his baseball bat and balls, something bright in the forest caught his sight. He squints his eyes to try to make out with what it is, but he's unable to from a distance behind the trees. Curious into wondering what the light in the forest is, he drops his baseball bat and balls on the playground tarmac and turns around to his siblings, who already have their toys in the hands, ready to leave. He says "Hey, guys. Come here". Sam, Abby, and Nate dropped their toys on the tarmac and ran up to Ben, who is looking at the light in the forest. Looking like he sees something, Nate asks him "What is it, Ben?". Ben points his finger at the light in the forest, saying "Do you guys see that?". Sam, Abby, and Nate looked at the forest where Ben's finger is pointing at. From a distance and position, they can bearly see the light. Curious, Sam asks him "See what?". Ben says "That light in the forest. Can you see it?". The others tried to look, but couldn't see it. They leaned left and they now see the light. Sam says "Yes, I can see it". Abby says "Me too". Nate says "Me three". Sam asks him "What about it?". Ben lowers his finger and says "I want to find out what it is and you guys are coming with me". Not thinking he's going according to plan, Sam asks him "What about going home?". Ben looks at his brother with a gullible face and says "This'll be short. It won't take long. Come on, follow me". Ben walked first, then Sam, then Abby, and Nate to the trees of the forest, leaving their toys on the playground tarmac. As they walked into the forest, they step in mud. Abby looks down at her muddy shoes and upsettingly says "My shoes are ruined". The others look at her. Ben sees that her shoes are muddy and ruined, as in "torn off". He generously smiles at his sister and says "I see that, Abby. Don't worry. When we get back home, you can wash the mud off your shoes. Now, lets continue walking to the light". Learning to accept her shoes getting muddy, Abby says "Okay". The 4 kids continued to walk through the forest to the light.
They walked passed through trees, bushes, streams, and a cliff to the light. They walked 3 miles in the forest and reached the light just by 9:00 Pm. When the time turned 9:00 Pm, the sun has finally setted down for the night and the moon appears in the atmosphere with very dim colors of blue sky getting darker and darker as night slowly comes. When the kids reached the light, it turned out that the light is actually a brown house with its lights on. From where there standing, they think there on the left side of the house. As they looked in both directions, they see a cliff on the left side of the house and a hill on the right. Knowing what the light is, Sam, concerned that they may not get back home in time before Jan wakes up and their parents get back, looks at Ben and says "Well, we found out what the light is. A house with its light on. Lets go home". Sam tries to leave, but Ben grabs his shirt, stopping him from walking away. Angry and concerned, Sam asks "Hey, what gives, Ben?". Ben says "I want to find out what that house is". The others looked at him and said "What?". Going into a house is a act of trespassing, but Ben thinks that the house's light was left on by itself, that its 1 of those automated lights. Ben says "Yes, I want to see what the house is". They started to walk forward. As they walked, they came up to a door on the left side. Ben leans his hand forward to knock on the door, but as he knocks on it the first time, the door slightly opened up by itself like if a breath of wind blew it opened. It felt weird to the kids, but they let go of it quickly. They slowly stepped inside the house. Inside, they can't see anything. Sam says "Its dark in here". Ben says "I know. Lets find a light switch". They scattered around the house, trying to find a light switch on the walls. As they pressed their hands on the walls looking for a light, Ben feels a thick object that felt like a light switch to him. He flips the switch up and on the celling, a light comes on. Ben, happily knowing that he found a light switch, says "Thats better". He closes the door behind him and his siblings. He turns around and in front of him and his siblings are small, human-sized statues of dinosaurs that look like the dinosaur kids in Land Before Time. Surprised at what they see, Ben says "Hey look. They look like the dinosaurs in Land Before Time. It feels weird for anyone to have this in their house. I wonder who these statues belong to". As they looked around the statues, they see black walls and no windows around them. They think there in the basement. They came up to the statues, randomly, and looked at them. Ben looked at a brown longneck statue labeled "Apatosaurus" on the snout. Sam looked at a orange threehorn statue labeled "Triceratops" on the frill. Abby looked at a green swimmer labeled "Saurolophus" on the beak. Nate looked at a brown flyer labeled "Pterodactyl" on the wing.
As they looked around, Nate bumps into a green spiketail. The spiketail leand side ways and fell to the ground, making a loud thud sound across the basement. The loud thud sound shocked them and made their hearts feel like its in their stomachs. The 3 looked at Nate standing beside the fallen over spiketail statue on the basement floor. Ben, filled with scared anger, asks his brother "Nate, what did you do?". Nate shows both his hands and arms out front and says, frantically, "I don't know. I was...". As he was about to continue talking, the sound of footsteps from upstairs paused him and the others. The sound of the footsteps got closer and closer to the basement door upstairs. The 4 kids speed walk to the door and tried to leave the basement, but when Ben pulled on the door, it was locked. Scared, he says "We're trapped". Sam asks him "What do we do?". Ben, seeing that the door is locked and hearing the sound of footsteps getting closer, says "Theres nothing we can do. We'll just have to show ourselves to whoever comes down here". Nate asks him "What do you think he or she will do to us?". Ben says "I don't know. Lets hope he or she is a good person. Hold on to me, guys, and get ready". With quick movements of sweat and breath, Sam, Abby, and Nate holded onto Ben's shirt with scared fear, getting ready for whoever comes down to the basement will see them.
Chapter 4: Don Bluth And Dinomula (9:10 Pm)
As the 4 Bergdorf Kids, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate hold on to each other for deer life in the basement of a house in the forest, the sounds of footsteps stop, as the person upstairs has walked up to the basement door. As the kids stayed close together, the basement door upstairs opened up. The person stepped in the basement on top of the stairs. He sees that the lights are on. With a old male voice, he asks "Who's down there?". The kids did not give an answer or say anything. The voice said "I know your down there. I heard you tipping something over. I may be old, but i'm not stupid. Come and show yourself to me". Still, the kids did not move, nor make a sound as they feel like there being threaten by a man upstairs. Getting impatiently, the man says "Fine, I'll come down to see you". The man walked down the stairs, step by step, as the kids leaned against the wall in fear as they heard his footsteps coming closer. As the man got down to the basement, the kids see him in their sight. He was old looking, about 80 years old. He had gray hair on his head. He was wearing a white shirt, gray pants, brown shoes, and glasses on his face. He started to walk up
to the kids.
As he walked up to the kids, they closed their eyes, fearing whatever the worse the man may do to them. He walked up to them and stood in front of them. With their eyes closed very tightly, the man asks them "Are you kids lost?". The fear inside the kids drifted away as they opened their eyes and turned around, facing the man in front of them. Curious, they say "What?". The man repeats the same question. "I said "Are you kids lost?". Ben, with certainty, says "No we're not. We came here from our neighborhood beside the forest". The man says "Oh". He sees Sam, Abby, and Nate. He looks at Ben and asks him "Are these kids your friends?". Ben says "No there my brothers, Sam and Nate, and my sister, Abby. I'm Ben. Who are you, sir?". The man stood back a little and putted his left hand on his chest saying "I'm Don Bluth. Nice to meet you, Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate". He shakes their hands as he greats them into his house. Ben recalls that earlier, he and his family were watching the first Land Before Time movie back at their home. When the end credits came in, there was a subtitle that said "Directed By Don Bluth". Thinking that the man may be the real Don Bluth, Ben asks him "Don Bluth? Thats your name?". The man said "Yes, thats my name. Why do you ask, Ben?". Ben says "Because I was watching the first Land Before Time movie with my family at my house tonight and the credits said "Directed By Don Bluth". Your really him?". The man upsettingly said "Yes. Don't believe me?". Ben said as his siblings looked at him "No. Prove it please". The man said "Okay, I will". The man reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small picture in his hands. He shows it in front of the kids. The picture he's showing is a picture of 3 men. Curious, Ben asks him "Who are these people?". The man generously says "Thats me, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas at the premier of Land Before Time in 1988. Stevens on the left, Georges on the right, and I'm in the middle. Believe me now?".
The kids starred at the picture for 20 seconds before the man putted it back in his shirt pocket. Convinced he's the real Don Bluth, Ben says "Yes, I do believe you, Don Bluth". Ben's face turns down, feeling like he was guilty of accusing him. With his hand out in front of him and Don, he says "I'm sorry for accusing you, Don". Don shakes his hand and says "Its okay, Ben". Ben also thinks of trespassing into his house. He says "I'm also sorry we trespassed into your house". Don says "Thats okay, too. I don't get much people these days since I live in a house in a forest". Ben says "Oh". The 2 let go of their hands. Wondering why he's living in a forest, Ben asks him "Why are you living in a forest?". Don said "After Land Before Time was released in 1988, I thought of doing something different in my life. 4 years later, I found this house in this forest. I been living here for 25 years now. In 1993, I read a news article that Universal was making a 2nd Land Before Time movie. I called the studio to ask them if I could direct the 2nd movie, but they told me the directing position was given to Roy Allen Smith. I haven't worked on any Land Before Time movie, but the first one. My life changed after 1988". Ben asks him "What do you mean "Different?"". Don says with confident face "I had thoughts on making Land Before Time a reality. I was impressed at my drawings of the dinosaurs in the first movie and I though how I can make it come to life, let fans experience it with their own eyes". The kids ask him "Experience?". Don smiles and says "Yes. Experience it. Follow me, I'll show you what I mean". Don walked with the Bergdorf kids following behind him to the stairs. They walked up the stairs and out the basement door. Don flips the upstairs basement light switch down, turning off the basement light. He closes the door behind him and the kids. They turned to a door on the left. Don grabs the door knob and says to the kids "Behind this door, I'll show you kids what I mean by experience. Before I open, I like to ask you 4 a question". The kids showed flat faces at him with Ben saying "Sure, go ahead". Don asks them "Have you ever dreamed about being a dinosaur in real life?". The kids showed down and confused looks on their faces at Don as they never dreamed about being a dinosaur in real life. Ben asks him "Why do you ask us that?". Don says "Because behind this door will make the experince a reality".
Don turns the door knob and pushes the door forward. They all walked inside the room. Don flips the room's light switch up, turning on the light. In the kid's sight, they see glass bottles and chemical liquids on tables against the walls. They also see pictures of Don's drawings of the Land Before Time dinosaurs on walls. Ahead of them, they see a balcony with its sliding doors closed and a table on the balcony. Don says "This room you see is the work of my life long dream of making land Before Time fans into dinosaurs. I call it "The Experiment Room". As they looked around the room, Abby yanks on Ben's shirt and says "Ben, I'm thirsty". Ben says "Not now, Abby". Abby leaves the others to go find something to drink, but as she looked, she only found liquids that she doesn't think there drinks. Don walks to a table in the center and picks up a glass bottle filled with some red liquid. Curious into wondering what it is, Ben points his finger at the bottle and asks "Whats that?". Don turns around, holding the bottle in his hands, saying "This is what I been working on for almost 30 years of my life. I call it Dinomula". Ben, Sam, and Nate have never heard the term "Dinomula" before. They looked at each other with confusion for a brief moment. They turn their heads forward and Ben asks Don "Dinomula?". Don says "Dinosaur Formula. This formula will turn people into dinosaur versions of themselves, based on the dinosaurs in Land Before Time. I haven't tested it yet, but I think tonights the best time to test it. Follow me to the balcony". Ben, Sam, and Nate followed Don to the balcony sliding doors. Don grabs the handle and slides the door right, opening it. The 4 walked outside onto the balcony, being unaware that Abby is still inside, looking for something to drink.
On the balcony, a table and a SONY video camera mounted onto a tripod stood. Don walks behind the table and tells the boys "Can 1 of you get the camera set up. I want to remember this". Ben grabs the camera and tripod and sets it up in the middle section of the balcony, in front of Don Bluth and the table. He opens the monitor screen and presses the red "On" button on the camera, turning it on. Don asks Ben "Is the camera on?". Ben says "Yes, its on. Should I press record?". Don says "Yes. Press record". Ben presses the "Record Video" button on the camera. 3 letters that say REC appears on the monitor screen. Ben says "Its recording now". Don says "Good". He puts his hand on his chest, saying "Good evening, anyone who is watching this. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Donald Virgil Bluth, but you can call me Don Bluth. Its Friday, July 21, 2017 9:35 Pm. Tonight, I will be testing my life long work. What I have in my hand is a experiment that i've been working on for almost 30 years. I call it 'Dinomula". What does it do, you may ask?. Well, when anyone who drinks this, will be turned into the dinosaur form of themselves. To keep people to themselves, they will still have their personalities. The hair and clothes will transform as well. I'll be the first one to test it. Brace your eyes because what your about to see will make a dream come true". Don precedes to drink the dinomula as he putted the top of the bottle to his mouth. Ben, Sam, and Nate filled their bodies up with scared anticipation as they watch Don lift up the dinomula to his mouth. As the dinomula got close to his mouth, Don puts the bottle back on the table, not letting a single drop touch his lip. He face palms his forehead and says with a quick laugh "Oh, I'm almost forgetting something. Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back". Don leaves the table and tells Ben, Sam, and Nate to "Come with me in the house, boys. I forgot to show you something". As the three walked back inside the house, Abby walks to the balcony, still looking for something to drink. Outside, she sees a glass bottle filled with red liquid on a table. She thinks and says "Koolaid". As she walks to the table, Inside, Don walks to the center table and picks up a empty glass bottle and a large 5 littler bottle filled with yellow liquid. As he pours some of it in the bottle, he says "I forget to show that in order to reverse it, I made an antidote to turn back to human. The antidote is made with water, plant leaf, and tree sap mixed together". As Don continued to explain the antidote to the boys, on the balcony, Abby is about to make a big mistake.
Chapter 5: The Adventure Begins (9:40 Pm)
As Don, Ben, Sam, and Nate are inside, talking about the antidote, outside, on the balcony, Abby grabs the Dinomula from the table and puts the top in her mouth. She tilts it up, making the drink go down her mouth and into her stomach. She puts the Dinomula back on the table. Feeling relieved that she finally found something to drink, she burps. The Dinomula inside her made her feel all weird inside. She starts to feel herself losing her vision. As she touches her forehead, she starts to lose balance. She walks backwards and falls over the balcony railing. She lands on the grassy ground 10 feet below the balcony. She tries to get up, but the impact injured her left leg, but not seriously. She gets up with her arms pressed against the ground. She starts to crawl, trying to see where she is, but her vision is making it hard for her to see anything. As she tries to see, she crawls to the cliff hill and falls over the ledge, rolling pass through leaves, mud, twigs, rocks, and bushes, screaming loudly. The sound of her scream was so loud, it caught Don, Ben, Sam, and Nate's attention. Scared, they all shout "Abby!!!". All 4 ran back to the balcony. They see that the Dinomula has been drinked. Because they were inside, they have no idea what just happened outside or what happened to Abby. They turn around and see that the camera recording light is still on. Ben says "Look, the camera is still recording. Lets see what happened". All 4 walked to the camera and Ben pressed the "Playback button" with his thumb. He rewinds the video to 9:40:30 Pm. In the recording, they see Abby drinking the dinomula, loosing her vision, and falling off the balcony. Scared at what they saw in the playback, Ben says "Oh no. My sister has dranked the dinomula. She's a dinosaur. We have to rescue her. Come on". Ben presses the "Off" button on the camera with his thumb, turning off the camera. He closes the monitor screen. He looks at his brothers and Don, saying "Lets go save my sister". The 4 walked back into the house, through the room and out the door to the basement door. Ben opens the basement door and he, Sam, and Nate charge down stairs into the basement and ran to the door they first came in and outside to the grass, waiting for Don. Upstairs, Don grabs the dinomula bottle, the antidote bottle he poured in, and 4 flashlights. He grabs a brown box with handles on from underneath a table and putts them in. He slightly runs out of his experiment room and down the stairs, through the basement and outside the door where Ben, Sam, and Nate are waiting for him. Don drops the box and closes the door behind him. He looks at the boys and say "Take these flashlights, kids". He takes out 3 flashlights from the box and gives 1 each to the 3 boys. He holds his flashlight in his hand and putts the box on his back with suspenders on him . Ben, with desperate courage, says "Lets go save my sister". All 4 press the "On" switch on their flashlights and started running through the forest to find Abby. Little do they know, heavy winds are starting to come in the sky.
10 minutes later, Ben, Sam, Nate, and Don have been in the forest, looking for Abby. A storm with heavy winds has came into their path. They are in between trees, forcefully walking on the grass as the heavy winds are slowing them down. With their flashlights on, they see and feel grass bits and leaves floating in the air. In front of the boys, Don, fearing that they may not find Abby, shouts "Its no use! I can't see her in this!". Ben, who is standing behind Don with his flashlight in his hands, thinks of the futility of rescuing his sister. He shouts "Oh, forget it". He leans forward to the box on Don's back and grabs the Dinomula bottle. "If we can't see her in this, theres only one thing we have to do". Don felt him taking the Dinomula out of the box. He turns around and shines his flashlight at Ben taking the cork off and putting the bottle up to his mouth. Scared and curious, he shows his hand out front and asks "Wait!! What are you doing, kid?". Ben pauses his hand from getting the Dinomula to his mouth. He says "My sister is a dinosaur. If we have to find her, we have to become dinosaurs by drinking this Dinomula. I'll go first!". Don shouts "Stop" at Ben, who almost putted the top of the bottle to his lip. Ben asks him "What?". Don says with fear "Head this warning: If you don't take the antidote within 48 hours or less, YOU'LL BE TRAPPED AS A DINOSAUR FOREVER!!!!". Ben looks back at his brothers, who are showing a scared look on their faces, and at Don, who shows the same expression. Realizing the futility and knowing the warning, Ben yells with couragness "Its a risk i'm gonna have to take!". Quickly, he puts the top of the bottle to his mouth and drinks a part of it. He slightly puts the cork back on and gives the Dinomula bottle back to Don in his hands. With all his strength and courage, Ben drops his flashlight and runs behind some trees, away from his brothers and Don. As he ran behind the trees, the Dinomula in his body started to take effect. He starts to feel heavy and slows down. He stops running as he feels like he's too heavy. He falls to the ground with both his arms pressed against the ground. He starts to make moaning/groaning noises as the Dinomula in his body started to change his appearance. As the Dinomula spread around his body inside, all his hair shrunk and disappeared everywhere on him. His clothes and shoes vanished as his body changed into 3 different colors of brown from light to dark. His arms and legs slightly thickened with 2 of his fingers and 2 of his toes shrinking away. His fingers and toes formed into 4 white claw toes on each foot. His stomach and back expanded up on wide hips with humps all over his top back. His neck started to grow long. It grew longer and longer until it was 3 ft long. A tail came out of his back between his back legs and grew to the same length as his neck. His face changed shape with his mouth stretching into a snout and all his teeth becoming flat inside. His nostrils formed into a hump between his eyes and his ears shrunk to the size of pebbles. He didn't see himself change as he kept his eyes closed, but from what he felt, he thinks he's a longneck dinosaur. Ben is now a dinosaur. He gets up on all 4 of his legs and starts walking again, through the storm, continuing to look for Abby. Away from Ben, Sam, Nate, and Don didn't see that Ben has turned into a dinosaur, but because they saw him drinking the Dinomula, they know he's a dinosaur now. In their sight, the storm gets even more worse with the winds getting stronger. All 3 got down on the ground and held onto the grass for deer life. Thinking of what Ben did, Don looks at Sam and Nate and shouts "Kids, drink the Dinomula!". Sam and Nate didn't hear him the first time as the strong winds are making it hard for them to understand. Sam and Nate shout "What?", Don says "I said "Drink the...". The grass he's holding on, rips away from the ground. The wind carries him, his flashlight, and the box with the antidote in the air, yelling "DINOMULA!!!!!!!". Sam and Nate shout in fear "Don!!!!!", but the wind has blown him out of their sight. Watching him fly away in fear, the Dinomula hits Sam in the face. Sam sees the Dinomula and grabs it. He looks at Nate and says "Nate!!!!. We have to drink this!!!!. It's our only chance!!!!". Nate shouts "Okay, Sam. You go first. I'll follow". Sam takes the cork off the bottle and throws it into the wind. He puts the top to his mouth and drinks it quickly. He takes it away from his mouth and gives it to Nate. Nate drinks the last of it. With the bottle empty, Nate lets go of it and throws it into the wind. The 2 brothers looked at each other with slight courgness and sacredness. They reached out their hands and held onto each other as brothers, knowing that they will see each other again as dinosaurs. Sam says "I'll see you as a dinosaur, Nate". Nate says "Me too, Sam". Sam asks him "You ready?". Nate asks him "For what?". Sam says "On the count of 3, we let go of the grass". Nate says "Right. Lets do it". Together, they shouted "1, 2, 3!!!!". The brothers letted go of the grass as the wind carries them into the air. The 2 screamed at high pitch as the Dinomula inside their bodies started to change their appearances.
Meanwhile, back at the Bergdorf house, the time turned 10:00 Pm. Tim and Becky pulled up into their driveway after a long night of fun. Tim turns off the engine and takes the car key out and puts it in his pocket. He opens the his door and steps out. He goes around to the front door and opens it, taking Becky out by her hand. She closes her door and gives Tim a kiss on his mouth, thanking him for long, great night of fun. As the 2 walked to the front door, Becky looks at Tim and says "I hope the kids had fun tonight while we were away". Tim says "Me too, honey". The 2 reach the front door. Tim knocks on the door 3 times. Inside, Jan finally wakes up after sleeping for about 4 hours. She steps up from the couch and walks to the front door. She opens the door, looking tired in front of Tim and Becky's faces. As she tiredly smiles at them, Becky says "Hi, Jan. How were our kids?". Jan asked "The kids?". Becky said "Yes, our kids. How were they?". Jan remembers that she didn't see the kids since she went to sleep on the couch. She says "Oh". She turns around and shouts "Hey, kids. Your Mom and Dad are back!". As they waited for the kids to come, there is no response. Just silence. Becky shouts "Kids, we're home!". They got the same response: Silence. Slightly concerned, Tim says "Maybe there asleep". Suggesting what Tim said, the 3 walk upstairs to the hallway and into the 4 kid's bedrooms. As they enter the rooms, they shouted their names, hoping they would show up "Ben, Sam, Abby, Nate? Anyone?". Still, they got no response but silence. They looked at each other with Tim asking Becky "Did you find them?". Becky said "No, I didn't". The 2 hugged each other very tightly, with their minds starting to fill with the fear of the worse of their kids. Becky, leans her head back from Tim and says "Maybe the police found them and there at the police station, waiting for us to pick them up. Lets call them". Tim and Becky, as well as Jan, walked into the master bedroom. Becky grabs the phone and frantically presses 9-1-1. She puts the phone up to her right ear. As the phone started to ring, outside, several trees are blown down by the strong force of the heavy winds. As the trees fall, they clip off and rip through several telephone polls and wires. Across Ohio, all the power went out into total darkness. At the Bergdorf house, the phone Becky's holding makes a weird electric dot sound with a recorded female voice saying "We're sorry. The number you are calling is not aviable at the time. Please call again later". With the house totally pitch black, Becky drops the phone on the ground. Because its dark, Becky can't see Tim or Jan. She says in shock "Power's out. What do we do, Tim?". Tim says in the dark "Nothing to do, but wait for the power to get back on, I'm afraid. Lets go to bed". Becky concerningly asks "What about our kids? I'm worried about them". Tim tries to comfort her. He says "I know. Me too, Lets hope there okay. Now lets go to bed and wait for the power to come back". Becky says "Okay" to Tim. Jan says "I'll sleep too". The 3 adults crawled into the bed together and putted themselves under the blanket and on top of the pillows. Slowly and fearfully, they closed their eyes and went to sleep, hoping their kids are okay. As the moon in the sky shinned the dark night away, 4 kids have begun their adventure in the forest. The time is 10:10 Pm.
Chapter 6: The Search Begins (Saturday, July 22, 2017 7:00 Am)
Sun rises up over the state of Ohio as a new day comes. Across the state, several telephone polls and wires are down after being knocked over by the heavy winds last night. At the Bergdorf house, Tim, Becky, and Jan wake up as the bright sun reflected through the master bedroom window. They step off the bed and out of the room, walk down stairs, and into the living room, still filled with fear and concern about their kids. Becky looks at Tim and says "Tim, can you go get the newspaper?". Tim says "Sure, Becky". Tim walks out of the living room from Becky and Jan to the front door. He grabs the door knob and turns it left, opening the door up. He walks out the door and to the mailbox. He opens the mailbox and takes out the newspaper. He closes the mailbox. He walks back inside the house and closes the door behind him. He walks back into the living room and shows the newspaper in front of Becky and Jan. On the front cover, the headline read "STORM CAUSES BLACKOUT IN OHIO". They went to the couch and sat, reading the text below the headline. It read "Last night, Friday, July 21, 2017, at about 10:10 Pm, Several trees were fallen over by heavy winds in a storm. The trees knocked out several telephone polls and wires across the state of Ohio, causing an all state blackout. The Ohio Department Of Energy has said that the power is expected to come back on at 9:00 Pm". With no power to call the police until nighttime, Tim, Becky, and Jan hugged each other, hoping that Ben, Sam, Abby, and Nate are okay.
In the forest, the sun shines through the trees above in the sky. Below a cliff hill, the sun wakes up Abby, who is sleeping on a pile of leaves. As she got up and opened her eyes, she sees that shes lost somewhere in the forest between tall trees. She sees and feels the leaves shes laying on. She even feels herself being cold. Feeling cold, she says "Mom, I'm cold". There is no response. She stands up on the pile of leaves and shouts "Mom!". Again, there is no response from her Mom, but birds flying away from the sound of her voice. Scared, she puts her right hand on her mouth, but something is different about her hand as she looked at it. Her hand was green with 4 white claw fingers on it. She moves her hand away from her mouth with a gasp. She looks at her left hand. It had the same appearance as her right hand. She looks down to see that shes naked, with no clothes or shoes on, but with 2 green scaly legs with 4 white clawed toes on each. She touches the top of her head and feels no hair, but something sticking out, like a crest. She touches her back all the way down to find that something long was attached to her. It was a tail. She touched her face. It felt like a beak. Not knowing what she is, she turns right to see that a stream of water floating beside her. She runs up to the stream and stops, standing in front of it. In her reflection, she sees the image of a small, light green swimmer dinosaur that was her. Scared, she jumps back in fear and lands on her bottom, trying to catch her breath. Scared at what she saw in her reflection, she puts her claw hands on her face, and starts to cry, fearing that shes lost and may never find her way out. As she cried, a young male voice shouted "Abby!" in the distance on her left. She stopped crying and moved her hands away from her face as the voice sounded like her brother, Ben. She turns her head left and in the distance behind trees, an image of a creature got close to her, shouting "Abby!". The creature got closer to her as she heard it as Ben's voice. Hoping its her brother, she asks quietly "Ben?". The voice said "Abby!!!" as it got closer. She recognizes the voice as her brother, Ben. She stands on the ground, saying louder "Ben!!!!". She runs to the creature with hope, knowing that its Ben. The creature came clear in her sight. It was a brown longneck dinosaur bigger than her. Scared of it being bigger than her, she steps back slowly in fear. The longneck lowered its head to Abby and said "Don't be afraid, Abby. Its me, Ben". She stops stepping back, curiously saying "Ben?". The longneck said "Yes, Abby. Its me, Ben". Abby loses all her fear and happily says "Ben!". She runs up to him and hugs his left front leg. Ben rubs his head on Abby, trying to comfort her. Abby, hugging onto his leg and being comforted by his rubbing head, says "Oh, Ben. It was all scary and dark and lonely". Ben says "Oh, don't worry, Abby. I'm here". Abby looks at his head and asks "Is this a dream, Ben?". Ben says "No, its not a dream, Abby. We're dinosaurs. Isn't that cool?". Abby gave no answer. She climbed on the top of Ben's head and Ben raised his neck up. At the top, Abby stands up on his head, feeling 6ft tall and looking around the forest. With surprise, she said "I never seen the forest like this before, Ben. Have you?". Ben says "No, I haven't, Abby". Ben thinks that since Abby's on his head, he thinks of making her slide off his back for fun. He looks up and says "Hey, Abby". Abby asks "What?". Ben asks "Want to do something fun?". Abby happily says with a smile "Yes". Ben says "Great. Slide off my back". Abby turns around and sits on his head. She says "I'm ready to slide". Ben says "Okay. 3, 2, 1. Slide". He lifts his head up and Abby slides down his 3ft long neck, his wide stomach, and his 3ft long tail, saying "Wheeeee" in happiness. She lands on the ground on her tail, laughingly saying "That was fun". Ben turns around and lowers his head to Abby, laughing with her as brother and sister who are enjoying their first life as a dinosaur.
Away from the 2, a squirrel and a bear are taking a drink in a stream of water. Unknown to them, a trail of yellow liquid floats in the water and is coming to them. The liquid comes to their mouths and they drink it, unnoticingly. The 2 stand up and try to regurgitate the liquid, but it swirls down through their mouths and into their stomachs. Something unthinkably starts happening to them. Their faces started to form in that of anthropomorphic animals. The squirrel changed first, then it looked at the bear changing second. With no idea of what happened, the bear asks "What happened?". The squirrel said in a stutter voice "I, I, I...". The squirrel noticed that he and the bear are now talking for the first time. He says in a clear, realizing voice "I think we have acquired the ability to talk". The bear asked "Talk? How?". The squirrel started to look around for what gave him and the bear the ability to talk. As he turned his head left, he sees a glass bottle with its cork slightly opened, leaking the yellow liquid out into the stream. He hums a little and runs to the bottle. He presses the cork on, stopping the liquid from leaking out. He grabs the bottle and puts it by his left shoulder. The bear walks up to him. The squirrel says "By this magical drink we had". The squirrel shows a evil thoughtful look on his face at the bear. The bear asks "That drink?" as he sat down on the ground. The squirrel says "Yes". The bear gets up from the ground and feels dirt on his bottom. He frantically says "Hey, theres dirt on my bottom. Clean it off". The squirrel shows his hand out at the bear, saying "For now on, I'm no longer your personal skin cleaner". The bear asks him in upsetness "What does that mean?". The squirrel says as he looks at the bottle "It means that with this drink, I can have things that I desire. Things like servants, honor, and most of all: ruling this forest. I name myself Richard, ruler of the forest". The squirrel, who named him Richard, looks at the bear pointing his finger at him, saying "And you, bear, will be named Dave. Or if its in my best interest, my best animal". The bear smiles at the name he was given by Richard. He says "Thank you, Richard. I like that name. Dave. Suites me. What do we do?".
As Richard explained his plan on ruling the forest to Dave, away from them, Ben and Abby are running around, still having fun. As they ran forward, Ben bumps into a orange threehorn dinosaur and Abby bumps into a brown flyer dinosaur. They stop running. All 4 fixed their vision from bumping into each other. In Ben and Abby's sight, a orange threehorn and a brown flyer stood in front of them. Shocked at what they see, the threehorn asks "Ben?" as the flyer asked "Abby?". Ben and Abby recognized the threehorn and flyer as their brothers, Sam and Nate. The 2 smickerdly laughed at them with Ben asking "Sam? Your a threehorn?". Sam says with disgust "Yes, I am, Ben". Abby asked Nate "Your a flyer, Nate?". Nate showed disgust like Sam, saying "Yes, Abby". As Ben and Abby continued to laugh, Sam and Nate made serious faces at them, showing that they want them to stop laughing. Ben and Abby stopped laughing as their faces meant seriousness. Sam and Nate said "Good". They see that Ben has found Abby. Sam says with a flat smile "You found Abby, Ben". Ben says with a smile "Yes I did, Sam". Sam asks him "Did you 2 find the antidote?". Ben's eyes go wide eyed in shock as he remembers the antidote and warning from Don Bluth last night. He asks Sam "The antidote?". Sam says "Yes, the antidote. Did you and Abby find it?". Ben, who was distracted finding the antidote by having fun with Abby for a while, says "No, I didn't". Sam says "Then we have to find it". Sam walks away from Ben, looking around for the antidote. Abby and Nate walk up to Ben and stand by his left leg. Curious into wondering what happened last night because he didn't see it, Ben runs up to Sam and stands in front of him, desperately asking him "Sam, what happened last night?". Sam said with a shocked face "After you ran into the forest, the storm got worst. The winds got stronger. We held onto the ground for our life". Ben asks him "What about Don?". Sam says "He was with us. He was holding on the ground like us. The ground he was holding on, ripped away with the wind carrying him into the air. He told us to drink the Dinomula and we did. We finished the last part of it. We letted the wind carry us into the wind. While we we're in the wind, I fell to the ground, landing on a pile of mud, going unconscious and changing into a threehorn". Nate says with his clawed hands out "I shranked and changed into a flyer. The wind carried me through trees and hitted several branches, knocking me out. When I woke up, I was laying in a pile of twigs and branches. Me and Sam met each other when we took a drink at a stream". Ben asks Sam "And what about the antidote?". Sam says "I don't know what happened to the antidote. The last time I saw it, it was in that box Don had on his back. It blew into the wind with him". Ben thinks of a horrible question to ask Sam. He asks him "What happened to Don? Did he survive?". Sam says with hopelessness "No, I don't think he survived. The last thing he said to me and Nate was "Kids, drink the Dinomula". Ben, realizing what happened to Don, says "Then we have to find the antidote and get back to normal". The other 3 say with courage "Right".
The 4 Bergdorf kids, now dinosaurs with Ben as a longneck, Sam as a threehorn, Abby as a swimmer, and Nate as a flyer, set out a plan to find the antidote and get back to human before there trapped as dinosaurs forever.