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Chapter 2: Salmon part 2.
(The Salmon swim upstream. They reach a small rapid. Lincoln surfaces and peers over the Rocky strip separating the streams. He sees Ronnie Anne and Chandler. Chandler swims closer to Ronnie Anne, but before he can say anything, Ronnie Anne gracefully leaps over the rapid and makes it back into the water.)
Lincoln: (sighs dreamily)
(Chandler prepares to make the jump.)
Chandler: Well, here goes something!
(Chandler leaps over the rapid.)
Lincoln: (hopeful) Don't make it. Don't make it. Don't make it.
(Chandler slams into a rock jutting above the water, Lincoln's eyes like up. But it's short lived as Chandler flops back into the water, groaning.)
Lincoln: (angry) Son of a Fish!
(Ronnie Anne and Chandler swim further. Lincoln rushes and leaps over his own rapid in order to keep them in sight.)
(Other Salmon follow him. Lisa floats stationary underwater watching them.)
Lisa: (scoffs) Huh, jumping is for those of lesser intelligence!
(Lisa then appears to stand up, before Limboing under a nearby log while limbo music can be heard. A second later, Lisa reappeared from under a small outcrop on the other side of the rapids.)
Lisa: (smug) And that's how it's done! Come on, who wishes to sample a piece of my genius?!
(A pair of blue pincers reach over the rock and grab her as Lana comes into view.)
Lana: Well since your offering, I'll try a bite!
(Lana bites off Lisa's head and starts eating.)
Lana: (mouth full) Ohhh, crunchy.
(The rest of the Salmon continue to swim towards the spawning ground.)
Carlos Casagrande: Despite having already made the journey to the sea, their journey through the stream has a danger they didn't have to face before….
Rusty: (hmmff) How bad can it be?
Carlos Casagrande: Knowing what time of the year it is…the local bears, are waiting for them..
(The fish are shocked and frightened by this.)
Rusty: Wait, Bears?! Did he say Bears!?
(Salmon Nikki swims over and slaps him with her tail.)
Nikki: (irritated) You just had to say something! Didn't you?!
(Ahead of the Salmon is a larger and faster rapid, cascading over the rocks. A pair of large brown bears are standing in wait. Both have ponytails, one short, the other longer. The smaller bear has freckles, while the larger has buck teeth and braces.)
Bear Lynn: Oh yeah, spawning time! My favorite time of the year! (to the Salmon) Get movin', protein! I'm hungry!
Bear Luan: Yeah! Salmon up!
(Lynn just rolls her eyes as Luan laughs.)
Lynn: Seriously? First off, that was terrible. Second can't even have a meal, without you joking?
Luan: (laughs) Ahh, come on sis" Bear" with me!
(The Salmon stop in the water just under the rapids. They are afraid both of the Predators waiting and the jokes. Clyde briefly leaps into the air and flops a bit in front of the two. He's very close to Lynn.)
Clyde: (terrified) She's…she's like a bear!
(Lynn snaps her jaws at him.)
Lynn: Come here, loser!
(Clyde falls back into the water. The Salmon appear too scared to move.)
Carlos Casagrande: Eventually, though they'll have to go for it despite the danger.
Rusty: (flabbergasted) Is he crazy?! I ain't jumping, those bears are huge!
Clyde: Plus, I think I think I'm allergic to being eaten!
Stella: (raised eyebrow) Pretty sure we're all allergic to that.
(Scoots becomes impatient.)
Scoots: One side, slowpokes! Mama's not gonna be late for the Spawning party!
(Scoots lunges out of the water.)
Scoots: Toga!
(Scoots flies in between Luan and Lynn. Just when she looked like she was going to make it, Lynn bites down on her mid jump.)
Lynn: (muffled) Nice try, pal!
(Scoots is devoured before the Salmons eyes. Despite their fear, they are unable to fight their instincts, the rest of the Salmon begin jumping over the rapids, trying to get past Luan and Lynn. Several of them come very close to making it, but are caught and consumed by either Lynn or Luan.)
Coach Pacowski: It's all you, Pacowski! (is grabbed by Lynn) Nevermind.
Zach: (crying) I regret everything! I regret everything I've ever done!
(Zach is caught and eaten by Luan.)
Luan: Look on the bright side, you succeeded in the Salmon run…to my stomach!
Giggles: There's nothing funny about this!
Lynn: (bites down on her) Denied!
Haiku: (dead-pan, as Luan bites down on her) Ahhhhhhh!
Boy Lynn: This bites it! Hard!
Margo: Come on, Lynn! We're friends!
Lynn: (in between bites) Not in here! Here, your prey!
Loki: (in Luan's jaws) I'm literally dead!
Carlos Casagrande: But numbers on the Salmon's side. For every Salmon that becomes on the menu, many more make it past the bears.
(Clyde, holding his eyes shut tight, is the first to make it past. He's followed by Nikki, then Casey.)
Sid: (shoots past Luan) Hi-Ya!
Luke: (soaring past Lynn) I believe I can fly!
Lane: (to Luan) I'm not cookin' funny lookin'!
(Rusty jumps.)
Lynn: (attempts to bite him) Come here, Wimp! (Rusty makes past her jaws, barely.) Dang it!
(The rest of the fish jump the rapids. Luan and Lynn manage to catch several more, but the majority make it past. Soon only Lincoln's left. Most of the Salmon keep swimming, but Clyde, Rusty, Casey, Nikki , Sid and Stella remain behind to cheer him on.)
(Lincoln is fearful at first, but then thinks about Ronnie Anne and how she's the only Salmon for him. He feels more courageous and charges to leap over the rapid.
Clyde: You got this, Salmon!
(Lincoln breaks the surface, shooting higher and farther then the other Salmon. Both Bears and Salmon watch him, as he goes in slow-mo. The other Salmon's eyes are filled with surprise and admiration.)
Sid: (gasps) He's glorious.
Clyde: (tears up a little) He's an inspiration to Salmon everywhere.
Rusty/Nikki/Casey and Stella: He's gonna make it!
(Lincoln starts to descend back towards the water. Just before he hits the water, he stops, confused he flaps around. He then sees Lynn had reached out and grabbed his tail.)
Lynn: (smirking) Close..but no cigar. (singing) Lynner Lynner, Salmon dinner!
(Lincoln tries to get free, but he's helpless as Lynn tosses him into the air and catches him in her mouth and completely swallows him.)
(The other Salmon are taken aback. Underneath they water, they float shocked as Lynn is heard belching.)
Rusty: (disappointed) Well, that was a let down.
Casey: Man, I was really rooting for him too!
(All is quiet for a moment, suddenly Lynn starts coughing and gaging. She sounds very much like a fish on land. The Fish become offended.)
Stella: (annoyed) Ok, that's just uncalled for.
Clyde: Does she have to rub it in?!
(Above, Luan notices Lynn's antics.)
Luan: (confused) What's that supposed to be? Your impersonation of a Salmon? (smiles) Cause it's spot on!
(Lynn shakes her head. She continues gagging as she points to her throat , desperate to get the point across. After a few seconds, Luan puts two and two together.)
Luan: Oh, your choking!
(The Salmon watch as Lynn keeps choking, Luan rears up and slaps Lynn across the back. After a few hits, a large object flies out of her mouth and hits the water. Lynn gratefully takes in breathes as the blockage is cleared. The Salmon are surprised to see it's Lincoln.)
Lincoln: (brushing himself off with his fins) Well, that was traumatizing.
(The Salmon don't know how to respond)
Clyde: Bu-bu-bu?
Stella: (beats him to the punch) Man, you got eaten! How are you still alive?!
Lincoln: (no big deal) Oh, I never reached her stomach, see I wedged myself inside her throat and I started a reaction, causing her to spit me back out. (determined) I have a mission, and I will not rest, until I have completed it!
Kathrine Mulligan: (to the audience) This is Salmon Mulligan bringing you breaking news, on our migration to the spawning grounds, despite several of us falling prey to bears, the majority have successfully crossed and are ready to continue!
(The other Salmon get annoyed.)
Lincoln: (sighs) She made it past the bears?
Clyde: (sighs) Yep. Gonna be a long migration.
(Carlos Casagrande begins narrating again.)
Carlos Casagrande: Course, Bears aren't the only predators to the migrating Salmon , there are also North American River otters.
Kathrine Mulligan: Say what, now?!
(A brown blur swims past and grabs Kathrine, before swimming to the bank and climbs out. It's a long brown furred river otter.)
Lynn Sr Otter: (calling) Dinner!
(A blonde furred otter and a black furred otter, as well as a small blonde otter come over from the bank. The four otter then crowd around Katherine and begin eating.)
(The rest of the Salmon simply shrug.)
Casey: Oh well.
(The Salmon swim off, Lynn is still taking in breathes after Lincoln.)
Luan: Lynn, how many times do I have to tell you…Chew!
…...
(The Salmon leap over more rapids. Day turns to night, then back to day. The Salmon swim into the still moving water of the spawning pools.)
Carlos Casagrande: Having finally competed their long journey, the exhausted salmon, enter the spawning pools. The females deposit her eggs, and the males fertilize them.
(The female Salmon are shown making shallow depressions in the silty bottom and laying many small, pink eggs. While the males swim around. Lincoln is among them, swimming around rapidly while trying to see the next stream up. He had lost sight of Ronnie Anne and Chandler, due a large pile of stones on the sandy strip between streams separating them.)
(He stops beside Rusty and Stella.)
Lincoln: (distressed) I can't see them anymore! What if they're mating?!
Rusty: (scoffs) Who cares, she's from a different stream, just get on with it already!
Stella: Yeah, we're running outta time for this documentary.
Lincoln: (passionate) No, I will not get on with it, unless it's in the vicinity of the eggs of the fish I love!
(Lincoln scowls at the pile of rocks separating streams. He knew what had to be done. He swims in circles quickly, building up speed before leaping out of the water with all the strength he could muster.)
(Rusty and Stella watch.)
Stella: What a trooper.
Rusty: He is determined. Maybe he can defy Salmon instinct.
(Lincoln is sailing over the Rocky wall. He can see the other stream, he looks around and manages to spot Ronnie Anne and Chandler close to the far bank.)
(Ronnie Anne makes the shallow depression and starts laying eggs.)
Chandler: (arrogant) Oh yeah! Salmon me, second generation!
(Lincoln starts to descend. He doesn't clear the wall entirely and slams into a rock.)
Lincoln: (pained) Ow!
(Flops and hits a second rock.)
Lincoln: Oof!
(Rolls and hits a pinecone before flopping on to the bank. He flops around desperate to get into the water.)
Lincoln: (annoyed) Oh come on! Seriously, man it sucks being a Salmon!
(Lincoln continues to flop around, trying to return to the water. Ronnie Anne finishes laying her eggs.)
Chandler: All right, swim aside. My time to shine!
(Suddenly a pair of jaws appear and snap him up. They belong to a large, brown furred wolf with freckles on her cheeks. She lifts the struggling Chandler out of the water.)
Carlos Casagrande: While normally preferring terrestrial animals for food. Even wolves, will partake of the abundance of Salmon.
Wolf Luna: Rad! Free sushi!
(Luna consumes Chandler. She licks her lips as she finished before looking over and notices Lincoln, helplessly caught on shore, trying to return to the water.)
Lincoln: (gasping) Hang on, Uhhh Salmon of my life! I'm coming!
Luna: (intrigued) Ohh, seconds! (considering) Well I really shouldn't…but…(shrugs)..Whose counting? (walks over) Besides, seeing how he's beached, this'll be a mercy eating.
(Lincoln continues trying to get in the water.)
Lincoln: (straining and gasping)…Almost..there!...
(Luna comes over and puts her paw down on him, halting him in his flopping.)
Lincoln: (irate).Come on, seriously?! Salmon just never catch a break!
Luna: (comforting) Chillax, little fish dude. This'll only hurt for a second, I promise. I'm a fast eater.
(Suddenly, Bear Luan pops up.)
Luan: Yeah, I sure you'll really "Wolf" him down!
Luna: (irritated, in her head) Unless that joking bear spoils my appetite. (out loud) Hey, butt out! You had your time slot!
Luan: Ok, I'll "Canid" it! (laughs, Luna growls) Ok, ok! I'm going! Sheesh, just trying to keep it light.
(Luan leaves. Luna takes a second to compose herself.)
Luna: Now…where was I…Oh yeah.
(Luna lowers her head and prepares to eat Lincoln.)
Luna: In you go, fish guy.
Lincoln: (panicked) Help! Fish police! Muscle fish! Fish Savvy and One eyed Scallop! Anyone!
(A blonde furred wolf with a teal streak comes over.)
Wolf Sam: Luna! Two Salmon for dinner?!
Luna: Come on, Sam. It's spawning season, it's like a predator's holiday! They got the numbers (indicates Lincoln) Besides, this dude ain't gonna make it.
Lincoln: (determined) I will make it!
Luna: (to Lincoln) Quiet you!
Sam: (scolding) This is just like that concert at the edge of the forest last month!
Luna: Hey, they were playing Werewolves of Londen! That's my jam. Not my fault, the humans panicked. (indicates Lincoln again) and I'm eating this Salmon!
(Luna prepares to eat Lincoln once more.)
Lincoln: (desperate) Wait! Wait! Stop! You can't eat me!
(Luna closes her mouth)
Luna: And why not?
Lincoln: Because I have a mission! I met the Salmon of my dreams in the ocean, and I was lucky enough for her to agree to be my mate. But she was born in this stream, while I was born in the next stream over, so we can't be mates. But she's the only Salmon for me. I defied Salmon instinct to be here. Plus I swam through rapids, nearly got eaten by a bear… and I will NOT let you stand between me and my love!
(At this passionate decree, Sam starts crying softly.)
Sam: Wow, that's the sweetest thing I ever heard! (to Luna) Luna, you can't eat him!
(Luna sighs, it's the circle of life, but she couldn't deny that she too was touched by this.)
Luna: (decided) Yeah, your right.
(Luna picks up Lincoln in her mouth and carries him to the water and drops him in.)
Luna: Go you your lady, little fish Romeo.
(Lincoln dives down. He resurfaced a second later.)
Lincoln: (to Luna, grateful);Oh , before I forget, Thanks! That other Salmon you ate was my competition.
(Lincoln dives under once more. Sam comes over to Luna and nuzzles her.)
Sam: I'm proud of you, Lunes. You just helped two Salmon accomplish their promise.
Luna: (smiles) Yeah, guess I did. (to the audience) Course it probably won't make much difference, even this way, Salmon are really low on the food chain.
Sam: Still proud. Come on, let's go home.
(Luna and Sam walk off. Under the water, Lincoln makes his way through the crowd of Salmon. After a few seconds of searching he spies Ronnie Anne and swims over.)
Lincoln: My love.
Ronnie Anne: (touched disbelief) Lame-o, you made it. You defied Salmon instinct and left your home stream…for me.
Lincoln: I had a mission, and I wouldn't stop until I succeeded.
(The two nuzzle.)
Ronnie Anne: So…you gonna fertilize my eggs now?
Lincoln: It's already taken care of.
(The two stare down at the eggs.)
Ronnie Anne: (weary) Well, we swam away and then we swam back. It's been an interesting life.
Lincoln: (weary) Sure was,…(suddenly perks up) So we all done here?
Ronnie Anne: (perks up as well) Yeah, guess so.
(Their eggs laid and fertilized. The Salmon from both streams, start swimming back downstream. They join at the place where freshwater met Salt.)
Carlos Casagrande: (closing narration) So the endless circle of life comes to an end. Why did they live? And why did they die…no..(sees the Salmon are still alive)…Hey…hey! Wait.
(Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, Clyde ,Rusty, Stella and Sid stop swimming and turn towards the audience.)
Ronnie Anne: (frowns) What now?!
Carlos Casagrande: Why are you still alive? Salmon die after spawning?
Rusty: (waves it off) Yeah, Pacific Salmon maybe?
Sid: We're Atlantic Salmon. We can survive after that.
Lincoln: Besides, a documentary were everyone dies? How depressing is that?
Carlos Casagrande: But…but..but.
Clyde: (annoyed) Chill out, dude. We probably ain't gonna make it next year…we are Salmon after all.
(Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, Clyde, Rusty, Sid and Stella, continue to swim out to sea.)
Carlos Casagrande: (sighs) Well, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of the moral about the circle of life?
(Undisclosed amount of time)
(The view zooms in on Lincoln and Ronnie Anne's eggs. One of the eggs hatch. A small Salmon fry with orange skin and white hair swims out, looks around, notices the audience and winks.)
The End.
Looked up real animal facts for this. Wolves do eat Salmon. Some species of Atlantic Salmon do survive the spawning, while Pacific Salmon typically die after.