"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again." - Eric Roth.

"It is certain that nothing lasts forever, even the mountains break eventually. Experience has told me that, both metaphorically and physically. But that was long ago, a long long time ago. It was chaotic back then. Our lives were changed when an asteroid smashed into the Earth, and everything around was at mercy, nothing could have stopped that. Altered by the 'unknown end' as we called it back then, we were left to our own devices to start anew. Things are different now, I'm at peace, and they're at peace."

These few words changed my life, while they had not known where they were, they knew something had changed. When I left them, my personality had changed completely. Watching them from start to finish was something I hadn't seen before, and I couldn't wait to tell the others. But for now, you will do. Yes you, the one that's reading these pages. My mind isn't perfect, and to help with that I written everything I knew to the pages that your eyes gaze upon. There was only one problem about what they had said to me... I could have stopped it, but if I did then I would be a monster of myself for changing the norm once again. I hope I had written everything from what I saw, and with that, these are the things I saw.

From start, to finish.

A lonesome night it was, on the harshest of winters. The landscape was desolate with nothing but the thick white ground and the icy clear rivers. Not a single creature could walk in these harsh conditions, almost none. Animals known only to man as the Dinosaurs were the only ones who dared to travel across the landscape instead of staying by to hibernate. Dinosaurs of all sizes were able to do so if they wished, however this winter had been the harshest, and had started more than four months prior. Blizzards were common around here, with the snow packing up to at least ten feet high. This was known by the indigenous as the Eyanosa Gola, meaning 'Big Winter'. This was a winter that no one could bare to walk through, yet it did not stop two middle aged dinosaurs to do so.

The first of the two was also the tallest, with his skin being a medium-dark green and walking on four, broad sturdy legs. His tail wasn't as pointy as his partner's, and he bore a more angled face with deep brown eyes. His partner on the other hand was much more bright, being a bright greenish yellow. Her body had spots that were more defined, walked on thinner legs and had a smoother, natural face with electric green eyes. Even though the blasting wind where shooting projectiles of snow at them, they were still determined to find a place to stay, a place to shelter them from the winter wind.

For days they would find a candidate, but was already occupied, and had no choice but to find a home somewhere on the river - a much harsher place to be as most rivers had steep hills surrounding them. Through the river they walked on the ice, being too big to slip on it. The hills around provided some visibility from the blizzard, but only to the point of seeing the hills on either side of the river, that is until something caught their attention. The hills were getting higher and steeper, and the trunks of trees were no longer seen on the sides due to said steepness. It was certain that something was different here, but it wasn't known at the time what it was.

The wind started to wither out as they got deeper into this v-shaped valley, the river being too thin to walk upon. Twists and turns filled the valley as it got ever thinner, to the point where it seemed like it would be impassible... but it didn't, instead it opened out fully. A sudden silence of things signaled that the wind had died down completely. In front of them was a wide open valley, the nearest hill being miles away. The grass had snow on it, but only a feet deep. This was the perfect spot to set up a permanent home base, sheltered from the elements and provided with fertile grass for spring.

Settling down, they gathered the nearest supplies to create a basic, wooden house; just big enough for the two to sleep in. For now it wasn't time to rest, now was time to start anew. Using all their willpower, they cleared out the trees and snow for a small patch of land in front of the newly built homestead. And with that came the birth of a new future, one not of cold and desolate, but one of warmth and safety... one of peace.

"You did it Henry."

"No Ida, we did it."

Events on Earth could not be more alive than ever, contrasted with the cold outside space, where things were in perfect order. The Sun blazing as always, Mercury baked as always, Venus toxic as always, and the rest of the planets being as they had already been for billions of years. Nothing had changed, even the asteroids of the inner and outer system had been inactive. But there's more to space than just the solar system, a vast universe that's alive not in millions but in billions of years, and with it, a large asteroid 100 miles wide hurtling through space. It had came from somewhere unknown, but that was not the important of matters, what was important was where it was going; towards to solar system.

These things, in the time space of the universe happen commonly, but from the eyes of Earth and the creatures upon it wasn't heard of. Every time one did come through, it would always be the same fate, kicked out again or swallowed by the gas giants. But this time was different, the universe had finally aimed right to cause a stir, and was set in motion to unleash full havoc wherever the asteroid went. This time the universe could see drama unfold as there was now only one destiny for this chosen one.

Earth.

Hello everyone! Surprised? Well... Surprise! Another story for this series, not linked to any of the others at all ;). This one I've been planning all the way back since Henry's Long Adventure, but had only started actual research around it when Peter's Machine Between Worlds came out. In my personal opinion PMBW lacked something that I wanted to put into a lot of these stories: emotion. There wasn't enough emotion put into the story, and for that I wanted to make it up by making this one stand out.

Some of the plot points leading to the Meteor's arrival are going to be from some of the deleted scenes/original plot of The Good Dinosaur. In fact you just saw one, there was an image in the story board of the original involving two dinosaurs travelling through snow, carrying resources. I made this out as Henry and Ida finding a place to set up both a home and a family, so chapters 1 and 2 are going to be just that. And from that I can say that the plot leading up to the Meteor is going to be really slow. So there's that! Anyways I hope you enjoyed the start of this new story, be on the look out for more chapters to come!

Next chapter: Baby Steps