Dinosaur2000

[A dinosaur egg falls on the island. A colony of lemurs scatter in a frenzy. 4 lemurs approach:
Plio, Yar, Zini, and Suri.]

Young Zini:
Yar, what is it?

Yar:
I don't know. PLIO, GET BACK HERE! We don't know what it is!

Young Zini:
Plio, be careful.

[Plio sneak over sensing, she got present when the egg cracks, then opens the shell and is happy to see a baby iguanodon.]

Plio:
Dad, get over here.

Yar:
Zini, it's not safe!

Young Zini:
Oh, I always have to go when stuff's happening.

[Yar scoffs at Zini and gets closer to Plio]

Yar:
Well, what is it?

Plio:
It was an egg. [to baby Aladar] Look. [Yar gasps in shock] What?

Yar:
It's a cold-blooded monster from across the sea: vicious, flesh-eating! [baby Aladar burps] Eurgh...

Plio:
Looks like a baby to me.

Yar:
Babies grow up! You keep that thing, one day, we'll turn our backs, it'll be picking us out of it's teeth! Things like THAT eat things lie US as snacks!

Plio:
So, what do we do?

Yar:
Get rid of it!

[Yar is trying to dissuade Plio from raising the baby Aladar]

Plio:
[vexed] What has gotten into you?

Yar:
[exasperated] Plio... That thing is DANGEROUS!

Plio:
[to baby Aladar; regretfully sighs] I'm sorry, little one. [to Yar, handling baby Aladar over to him] Okay, get rid of it.

[Yar gasps]

Plio:
[sarcastically] Hmph!

[Plio sits on a patch of moss to watch

Yar:
All right, I will.

[Yar lifts baby Aladar over the edge of the branch, preparing to drop the dinosaur baby to his death. All the other lemurs are watching him. Yar heistates.]

Plio:
[sarcastically] You'd better hurry up, Dad. It looks hungry.

Yar:
Hmph!

[Yar looks at baby Aladar. Baby Aladar coes and looks at Yar with droopy eyelids. Yar closes his eyes and sighs, defeated. Yar hears a strange sound and opens his eyes to see that baby Aladar is peeing on him]

Yar:
[disgusted, defeated; handling Aladar back to Plio] Rmmm... Here.

Plio:
[smiling] It's okay. We'll teach him to hate meat.

Yar:
Hmph. Watch his head! I-I mean, watch it! he could bite. [walks away]

Young Zini:
This "monster's" got no teeth! What's he gonna do? Gum us to death?

Plio:
Zini, come on: look at that sweet little face. Does that look like a monster to you?