Chapter 4: My Gummi Lies Over the Ocean

9799 BC - Gummi Glen - Dunwyn

Gruffi discovers Tummi has built a boat and allows him to take one sailing trip with it. After encountering Ogres, rapids, and a sea dragon, they end up wrecked on an island that is surrounded by waterfalls

"Solid ground at last" Gruffi said

"A little too solid" Tummi noted, picking up the pieces of his boat

"We can fix that" Gruffi said but then they hear a voice and go to check it out and see a giant statue of a dragon

"A monster!" Tummi exclaims

"No it's a…" Gruffi begins and then notices the sculptor

"A Gummi Bear…" Tummi said and then the sculptor notices them

"Gummis… I don't believe it" the sculptor said "you make the clam dip and bring the chips! Be right down!" and he goes down to meet them and shakes their hands "Hi, I'm Augustus Gummi, Gusto for short. I'm so glad to see you guys. How are you and can you get out the way you came in?"

"Unfortunately our boat is in no shape to take us back up those waterfalls" Gruffi said

"I came here to play on the beach one day and the next day the beach is gone" Gusto said

"Is there any other way off?" Gruffi asked

"Well unless you're built like Artie here" Gusto said, pointing at his toucan "I hope you like island living"

"I like it" Artie said

"What is that?" Gruffi asked, pointing at the dragon statue

"C'mon" Gusto said and he takes them to the mouth of the statue "I've worked on it every year for twelve days… wait strike that, reverse it… so what do you think?"

"It's amazing…" Tummi said

"Pretty rickety scaffold" Gruffi said

"But exciting" Gusto said "I built this for a single reason" and he goes into the mouth of the dragon and opens a small window in the back, showing the inside of a volcano "every day the magma rises a little more and one day it will fill this cave and my creation will actually breathe fire!"

"But isn't this… dangerous?" Tummi asked

"Yeah!" Gusto said

"But what happens when the volcano erupts?" Gruffi asked

"… I hadn't thought that far ahead…" Gusto said

"A bridge?" Gruffi asked himself "No, the island's too low and it would be difficult to be one that can hold the boat. A catapult? No I don't have the tools to build a catapult. Steam? That… that might just work" and Tummi works on fixing the boat while Gruffi and Gusto work on a pulley system to get it into the dragon's mouth and waterworks to get the water to the cave "Now when I pull this rope, the lava will poor in on the water, the steam will build up and boom, we're on our way home" and he pulls the rope and the boat is launched out of the dragon's mouth and sent over the waterfall

"Quick, grab a paddle" Tummi said "we're not out of the jungle yet, the current, remember?" And they paddle as the island begins to sink, which provides a wave they ride out of the area and back home