RISE OF THE MCYT GUARDIANS

PART NINE

[A heavily wooded area.]

[An adult woman, a small girl, and a lanky boy - all with blond hair - are walking around.]

Dream's mom: Come on Clay, you can't have fun all the time.

[The same lanky boy is hanging upside down from a tree branch while 3 children watch him - one is the same girl.]

Drista: Clay, get down from there!

[By firelight, the lanky boy is performing buffoonery with two antlers on the side of his head.]

Colonial Boy: You're funny, Clay.

[The boy has a pair of ice-skates slung over his shoulder. He and the little girl are leaving a house.]

Dream's mom: Be careful.

[The boy turns, and it is definitely Dream.]

Clay: [Laughs] We will! [The girl laughs with him.]

[But the girl is now afraid.]

Clay: [Takes off his other ice skate and places it on the iced-over lake.] It's okay, it's okay! Don't look down, just look at me.

Drista: Clay, I'm scared. [The ice is cracking underneath her.]

Clay: I- I know, I know, but you're gonna be alright - you're not gonna fall in. Uh... We're gonna have a little fun instead!

Drista: No we're not!

Clay: Would I trick you?

Drista: Yes! You always play tricks!

Clay: Well, alright, well not- not- not this time. I promise, I promise you're gonna be- you're gonna be fine. You have to believe in me.

[Drista gulps]

Clay: You wanna play a game? We're gonna play hopscotch! Like we play every day! I- It's as easy as, uh, one - [Ice cracks a little] - woah! [He almost falls over, but doesn't, and she laughs.] Two! [She laughs again] Three! [He lands on a part that is not thin.]

Clay: Alright. [Clay reaches for a stick on the ice.] Now it's your turn. One- [She gasps because the ice is cracking.] That's it, that's it. [He holds out the stick near her as she gasps] Three!

[Clay grabs her by the knees using the crook in the stick and slides her around so that she is in the safe spot, but he has been flung into the cracking area. He sits up and smiles. She leans up on her arms, smiling too. He stands up, pleased, but his weight cracks the ice at last.]

Drista: Clay!

[Clay sinks into the cold water, looking up at the moon. As he's drifting below the ice, his hair illuminates in the moonlight and remains white as he opens his eyes, the memory fading.]

[Dream gasps inside the fissure, still holding the tooth-box. Baby Sapling blinks at him.]

Dream: Did you see- Did you see that? [Baby Sapling shakes her head. Dream laughs as he picks her up and she chitters along with his excitement.] It- it was- it was me! I had a family! I had a sister! I saved her! [He laughs hysterically, then looks to the moon.] That's why you chose me... I'm- I'm a Guardian!

[Dream stands up, putting Baby Sapling in his hood.]

Dream: We have to get out of here. [He knee-slides over to his broken mask and staff. He tries to fit the pieces back together, but nothing happens.] Ah! [He stands up and focuses this time, creating a green light in the crack of the mask. The light grows brighter.] He then does the same to the staff.

[Dream comes flying out of the fissure with both his items whole, laughing and cheering.]

Dream: Whoo hoo hoo hoo! Come on, Baby Sapling, I owe you one!