Chapter 2: Beyond The Mysterious Beyond

The next morning, Grandpa Longneck and the rest of The Great Valley dinosaurs and the Far Walkers were gathered up in a circle with Littlefoot, Lincoln, and Lola in the middle of it and Grandpa Longneck was in front of them.

(Grandpa Longneck) Now Littlefoot. I want you, Lincoln, and Lola to talk about it.

(Littlefoot) About what Grandpa?

(Grandpa Longneck) About what you kids saw last night.

(Grandma Longneck) Word has gotten around.

(Mama Swimmer) And it's made some of our guests upset.

Apon hearing that, the leader of the Far Walkers, Mr. Spike-tail and even Topps stepped in.

(Mr. Spike-tail) Upset? That's putting it miledly.

(Topps) No resone to get all huffy.

(Mr. Spike-tail) Hump.

(Topps) Hump yourself. Now you tell us Lincoln. What did you kids see last night?

(Lincoln) Well. To make it clear. We saw an asteroid.

(Topps) There. You see? There's nothing unusele about an asteroid. We see them all the time.

(Lola) Yeah. But this one was different. It shined like the sun. Ecxept it was blue and it flew in a strate line.

(Lincoln) And it was almost close to the ground. It made these cracking sounds as it flew by and it was amazing.

Everyone was shocked. But they also found this hard to believe.

(Mr. Spike-tail) Look here. Nobody else saw this asteroid. How do you explain that?

(Lincoln) I don't know. I guess everyone else was asleep.

(Littlefoot) You believe us. Don't you Grandpa?

(Grandpa Longneck) Useily I do Littlefoot. But uhh.

(Lola) But what?

(Grandpa Longneck) But prehaps you children saw an asteroid that only seemed different. Prehaps you were still a little sleepy. Or maybe it was something you kids saw in a dream. Isn't that also possible?

(Lincoln) Well I think it's real. When that asteroid flew past us, I saw the Time Stone flashing like crazy. Like it's telling me that asteroid is something inportent.

(?) Yes. I believe you young one.

Lincoln turned around and saw what he believed he's looking at. It was a dark green Gallimimus and a light green Gallimimus. The dark green one is a male and the light green one is a female.

(Dark green Gallimimus) It's always the same. Isn't it?

(Light green Gallimimus) Yes. If they don't see it with their own eyes then it doesn't exist. What iemited thinking.

(Lincoln) Gallimimus'es? Here?

(Lola) Uhh. Lincoln?

(Lincoln) Gallimimus'es are alien dinosaurs.

(Lola) ALIENS?

(Dark green Gallimimus) Yes. We are aliens. Aloue me to introdose ourselves. I am Mario. And this is my mate Zelda.

(Zelda) It's a presher to meet you.

(Lincoln) Hay. Those names.

(Mario) Yes. You know our names from video game careters that you know.

(Lincoln) How do you know what video games are?

(Zelda) We have ways of visiting the human world. But we can't explain them to you. That would be telling.

(Topps) Hold on a minute. Just what are aliens?

(Lincoln) It means they're not from this world.

(Mario) And nether are you young Lincoln.

(Lincoln) Hey. How did you know that? And how do you know my name?

(Zelda) The answer will come edentuly.

(Grandpa Longneck) Uh, I beg your pardon Mr. Mario.

(Mario) As well you should. It's about that asteroid you saw last night. I mean, What if the little Long-neck and the humans did see something extaordinary?

(Zelda) Miraculous?

(Topps) Inpossible!

(Zelda) Really? Have you seen everything there is in this world? Are there no mysteries left for you?

(Topps) Why uhh...no.

(Mario) Ah. Then why do you call The Mysterious Beyond mysterious? Why not call it The Boring Beyond or The Ooh Nothing Out There of Any Interest To Us Beyond?

That got Mario and Zelda to sing a song that they made up as they went along with it.

(Mario) Do you ever wonder what's out there? Beyond The Mysterious Beyond. Out pass the smallest light that's twinkling. You can not have a likling of what is going on. For example. If this enormous black uhh. Never mind that one.

(Zelda) Beyond The Mysterious Beyond. Out where the darkness is the scariest. Out where the wonders are the rareiest. Passed the edge of dawn.

(Mario) There's so much more to everything than anyone supposes.

(Zelda) The answers lie inside your dreams and underneath your noses.

Then Lincoln saw the rest of the gang coming. Cera heard what Mario and Zelda were talking about and didn't believe them. She then sang the same song. But in a different way.

(Cera) Beyond The Mysterious Beyond. They act like they really think they know it all. But I won't believe it till they show it all. I trust what my eyes can see. Not some dumb beyond.

Then Topps looked back at Mr. Spike-tail.

(Topps) Friends of yours?

(Mr. Spike-tail) Err. Not really. They joined up with us some time ago. Always asking questions and talking in riddles. Harmless I think? But well, they are a bit strange.

(Topps) You're all a bit strange if you ask me.

Then Littlefoot, Lincoln, and Lola started to sing the same song as well.

(Littlefoot) Beyond The Mysterious Beyond.

(Lincoln) Think of the things that we could see there.

(Lola) Oh how I wish that we could be there. All of my friends and me.

(Mario and Zelda) If stars can fall and rocks can fly. And mountains catch on fire. We can send our sights beyond the sky.

(Littlefoot, Lincoln, and Lola) Or maybe even higher. Beyond.

(Mario) Beyond The Mysterious Beyond.

(Littlefoot, Lincoln, and Lola) The Mysterious Beyond.

(Mario) Trust in your own imagination.

(Cera) Hump.

(Mario and Zelda) You are part of creation of all that lies beyond The Mysterious Beyond.

(Littlefoot, Lincoln, and Lola) The Mysterious Beyond.

(Mario, Zelda, Littlefoot, Lincoln, and Lola) Beyond.

And that's when the song ended. Cera couldn't believe that Lola had believed all of that.

(Lincoln) Wow. Can you believe that?

(Cera) No. Not unless I see it.

(Grandpa Longneck) I'm sorry. But what are you saying?

(Zelda) We're saying, what if this no ordnary asteroid?

(Mario) What if it was for example, "A Stone Of Cold Fire"?

Now everyone was confused about this and started bickering about it.

(Lola) What is a Stone Of Cold Fire?

(Zelda) Glad you asked.

(Mario) Some say that these stones can shine light without heat.

(Zelda) They can give powers far beyond our potentials. Heal the sick and other miracles.

However, nobody saw Screech, Thud, Strut, and Ozzy on a nare by tree.

(Screech) So this Stone Of Cold Fire has many powers huh? I bet Red Claw could use something like this.

(Thud) Think about what Red Claw will be like with all of that power.

(Ozzy) Think about it Strut. That Stone Of Cold Fire can give Red Claw the power he needs to be the next Walking Terror.

(Strut) Uhh. You think Red Claw will let us use that Stone Of Cold Fire?

(Thud) Why of corses he will. If he want's to. But we're getting the stone for him. Now where did the human boy say it landed?

(Ozzy) He didn't say where it landed at all.

(Screech) Then we need to hear some more about this.

So the 4 stayed hiddin as the meeting went on.

(Mario) Then again, some others believe that such stones are a message.

(Topps) What kind of message?!

(Zelda) A message from beyond The Mysterious Beyond.

Everyone was amazed that they started talking about what they could with such power from that stone. But Topps thought other wise.

(Topps) QUIET!. You really are not from around here. Are you?

(Mario) And you may say that again.

(Topps) Then let me tell you how things work in these parts.

(Mario) Do go ahead.

(Zelda) This should be facinating.

(Topps) First. An asteroid, is an asteroid. Second, fire can't be cold. And third, there is nothing beyond the Mysterious Beyond.

(Mario) Are you sure?

(Topps) Yes i'm sure. And i'm also sure that I don't want any rabbiting Rainbow Faces filling our children's heads full of rubish.

(Littlefoot) This stone sounds inportent.

(Lincoln) Maybe it can give us power. We know where it landed. We can go find it and

(Topps) NO!. The volcanoes are too dangerous. There are lava rivers and earthquakes and they are off limets.

(Lincoln) But

(Grandpa Longneck) Lincoln. Until the Far Walkers leave The Great Valley, it would be best if you, Lola, and Littlefoot didn't make a fuse over that stone. Besides. Even you know the volcanoes are dangerous.

Lincoln knew that Grandpa Longneck had a point and sighed in defeat. At that moment, everyone else left.

(Grandpa Longneck) But, you children can always talk to me about it. I am curious in such things.

(Littlefoot) We know Grandpa. So what do you think it was?

(Grandpa Longneck) Well, that's hard to say.