Fossil Friends by Rodolfo E. Lopez Gutierrez - Transcript
Please Read: This story sets in a modern world similar to ours but with a twist that will later on take place in the story. It is also a project that is still being developed and the story might change in the future. Additionally, this segment is meant to be part of a larger series of short stories primarily targeted for young and teenage audiences. Enjoy!
Page 1
Panel 1: The story begins on a summer’s day by a small creek in an alpine forest. The panel displays a thick alpine forest interrupted by a small clearing with a small stream through the middle of the panel.
Panel 2: A girl walks by the river beneath her are rainwater puddles in the shape of theropod and hadrosaur footprints spread across the floor.
Panel 3: A 6-year-old girl of chestnut brown hair with an amber stone necklace the same color of her eyes and wearing forest green shirt walks along the path of footprints. “My name is Sue.”
Page 2
Panel 1: She stops as something catches her eye in front of her feet, she suddenly stops her shadow casting over an exposed segment of a fossil. “I often go exploring in my favorite creek.”
Panel 2: She kneels down, further examining and closely studying her find with a doubtful expression.
Panel 3: She pushes away the sediments with her finger.
Panel 4: As she starts defining the silhouette of the full fossil she smiles in response. “Searching for fossils”
Page 3
Panel 1: The scene transitions the interior of a garage. Instead, the space is used as a small fossil room. All four walls had an arrangement of numerous fossils, extinct flora and theropod footprints displayed across the room along with tool kits with pickaxes, brushes, and air scribe pens. In the middle of the garage is A man wearing an old cattleman hat, he had a round mustache pointing upwards and a long round beard.
in his work desk. “My grandfather was a Paleontologist” “Grandpa!”
Panel 2: “Well if it isn’t the queen of all dinosaurs!”
Panel 3: “I found a fossil just by the river!” “Really!? May I take a look?”
Panel 4: Panel displays Sue’s find an oval like shapes stone with a round exposed fossil.
“Sue! This looks like a real dinosaur egg! Well, preserved too. Wanna have a try cleaning it?
“Can I!? Thanks!
Page 4
Panel 1: “He taught me everything I know” Carefully with a tight grip she uses the dremel, the sharp tip removes mudstone and other sediments to slowly reveal the entirety of the animal’s skeleton. A sweat drop runs down her forehead with tense shoulders and dilated pupils. “Don’t break it Don’t break it Don’t break it Don’t break it Don’t break it Don’t break it.”
Panel 2: Closer view on the tip of the dremel clearing the full image of the fossil.
Panel 3: Close up of her hand using a brush to sweep away any leftovers in the surface.
Panel 4: She dips the fossil on a vinac and glue the broken bits.
Panel 5: “I wonder what kind of dinosaur it belongs to?”
Page 6
Panel 1: “Atta girl Sue! You’re getting better at this!” He places his hat on her head.
Panel 2: She smiles in return.
Panel 3: Later that night. Panel displays her grandfather’s house in the foreground and the moon on the opposite side of the panel.
“Through the years the two of us found hadrosaur, tyrannosaur and dromaeosaur fossils. But this one was different.”
Page 7
Panel1: Sue contemplates the fossilized egg and places a hand on the table.
Panel 2: Her finger lightly contacts the fossil. Suddenly an unimaginable event takes place when the fossil starts to break apart from the top. A blinding light source builds from the surface of the bone.
Panel 3: “I can’t explain how.”
Panel 4: “But somehow”
Panel 5: “It came to life.”
And as the gaps grow bigger so does the light Sue squint her eyes and can’t make up of the shape of the fossil anymore. She Gasps as the light briefly blinds her.
Panel 5: The energy grows in intensity and shines through a small window by the garage door completely visible from the exterior.
Page 8
Panel 1: Finally light suddenly fades revealing the egg hatching into a small, feathered dinosaur facing upside down. “And that’s when I met my first prehistoric partner…” “…Safiro.”
Panel 2: Sue stands socked trying to process and articulate the vent she witnessed. “I- It’s a real dinosaur.”
Panel 3: The page ends with the panel showing a profile of a little Avisaurus and the birth of the first Fossil Friend.