SOLAR SYSTEM - UNKNOWN
Music starts playing, faintly at first, but slowly growing in intensity. A comet whizzes by, leaving a long trail of dust as a title comes up.
The Land Before Time: A Long-Lost Friend
NARRATOR: Long, long ago, further back than us, further back than the mighty Roman Empire, the first tribes, even before man himself. Before Wolf and Bear, Elephant giraffe, this planet was much different. IT was home to strange and wonderful creatures.
NARRATOR: The most magnificent of these creatures were called the dinosaurs.
Camera zooms down into the earth to show a large migrating herd of spiketails.
MYSTERIOUS BEYOND - NOON
NARRATOR: Many of these majestic creatures were plant eaters, wandering the lands in constant search of food.
Several spiketail young are playing, chasing each other in a game of tag, laughing in their excitement.
NARRATOR: This land was not without its dangers though.
A loud ROAR is heard, spooking the migrating heard into a panic.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #1: What was that?
SPIKETAIL MOTHER: Stay close, dear. Our leader will hold him back.
The leader of the group, wrinkled with age, heads back, standing defensively between his herd and the oncoming threat.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #2: What's going on?
SPIKETAIL MOTHER: Here it comes!
NARRATOR: The greatest danger in this time was the dreaded sharpteeth!
From behind a forest, a large T-Rex sharptooth breaks out. He's bluish/purplish in color. He roars again before barring his teeth.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #1: Sharptooth!
The sharptooth starts to advance to the leader.
SPIKETAIL LEADER: Come on! I"m ready for ya!
The sharptooth charges at the aged leader. He rams his head into the side of the old dinosaur, causing him to fall over with much force.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #2: Grandpa!
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #1: We have to help him!
The two young spiketails breakout from under their mother towards the leader.
SPIKETAIL MOTHER: Little ones, no! Come back here!"
The sharptooth starts to lower his head, opening his jaws to take a piece out of the leader, when the young spiketails come up to them.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #1: Leave our grandpa alone!
The sharptooth pauses for a second. Turning his glare, and growls at the two young before returning his attention to the old dinosaur in front of him.
SPIKETAIL MOTHER: Please, come back here little ones! I don't want to lose you too!
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #2: We have to do something!
The two young glance at each other, exchanging nods before charging forward. They ram the sharptooth's foot, bouncing off in the process. The massive beast pauses again, turning his head to look at the children. The two little ones take a step back in fear.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #1: Should we have done that?
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #2: I don't know. Right now, I'm not sure.
The sharptooth decides to sling his tail to brush the two young away. During this time, the old one gains back his composure, and rams into the sharptooth.
SPIKETAIL LEADER: Please, go back to your mother!
YOUNG SPIKETAIL: Grandpa, no!
SPIKETAIL LEADER: I said go!
The two young rush back to their mother while the leader of the herd rubs his front paw on the ground. He tries to rush the sharptooth, but he steps out of the way. Before the leader can recover, the sharptooth quickly turns around, and rams him over again. The old dinosaur groans in pain.
SPIKETAIL LEADER: Oh, I'm not as spry as I used to be!
The two young look on in terror.
YOUNG SPIKETAIL #1: No!
The sharptooth quickly brings down his jaws, biting the leader in the neck with force. A loud, deafening crack is heard, and the two young scream.
NARRATOR: This is where our story begins. In this dangerous wilderness of prehistoric times, amply named the Mysterious Beyond!
TO BE CONTINUED