Morning Glory – Sierra Leone
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Script by Morning Glory, at nndav@bright.net
Princess Gwenevere And The Jewel Riders
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Characters
Jewel Riders ( Girls) Princess Gwenevere Fallon Tamara
Jewel Riders (Animals)Sunstar Moondance
Magical Babies Sugar Cleo Spike
Archie
Enemies Kale Dweasels Rufus Twig
Mist (Sierra Leone (Lee-own) or Mountain Lion)
Gliders:Nubbin, Floater, & Drifter
Episode Title: Sierra Leone
( Gwenevere, Fallon, and Tamara are in the Jewel Keep.)
( Gwenevere picks up the saddle bag containing the spell charms.)
Gwenevere: Remember these?
Fallon: Yes. They gave us some trouble if I do remember.
Tamara: What are they?
Gwenevere: They’re some kind of Spell Charms. That’s what Morgana said. They don’t seem to work.
Tamara: As in cast the spells?
Gwenevere: Yes.
Tamara: Maybe Morgana used some kind of secret code to make
them work!
Fallon: Are you going to try to find the code?
Tamara: Good idea.
( Tamara holds up her Heart Stone.)
Tamara: With magic and music let us find a code!
( The Heart Stone shines on one of the Spell Charms.)
( Then an image appears on the wall.)
Fallon: Look!
( Gwenevere walks over to it.)
Gwenevere: These symbols are strange, they look like ancient
writing!
Tamara: What does it say?
Gwenevere: It must be in some other language.
Fallon: These charms can be very important if we find out how
to use them.
(Gwenevere looks at it again.)
Gwenevere: Wait! I can read this! It says “Sierra Mist.”
Fallon: Sierra Mist?
Tamara: Isn’t that the unicorn queen?
Gwenevere: Not quite. Sierra means mountain in another
language. I didn’t think of that!
Fallon: If some one didn’t know that, they wouldn’t be able to
have the code!
Tamara: So Morgana used a mixture of languages to make the
code!
( The image changes.)
Fallon: Gwen!
Gwenevere: I see it! That says “See the Sierra Leone to break the
spell.”
Tamara: What does that mean?
Gwenevere: A Sierra Leone is a mountain lion! That part is in
another language also.
Fallon: So if we see a mountain lion we can break a spell?
Gwenevere: I think that we must see a certain mountain lion.
Tamara: Do you think that these spell charms’ magic are gone and
the magic was cast upon something?
Fallon: Yes! Morgana said that the wizards must destroy the charms,
but instead, they cast the spells on other things to get rid of the magic!
Gwenevere: That sounds like something Morgana would do.
Tamara: If the mountain lion has a spell on it, it could be hurt or in
great danger!
Gwenevere: But we don’t know where to look!
Fallon: Maybe the gliders will know!
Gwenevere: We can see if they do!
Tamara: Okay, I’ll take this spell charm with us, just in case.
Gwenevere: Jewel Riders, let’s ride!
( Rufus and Twig quickly scamper out the jewel keep door.)
( Kale is sitting in her “Thorn throne” at Castle Thornwoods.)
( She is listening to her Dark stone.)
Rufus: Oh witchy witch! The jewel riders!
Kale: Where are they?
Twig: They’re going to get some kind of Sea Sara something.
Kale: They’re getting what?
Rufus: No, No, No Twig! They’re getting a Sierra Leone, or whatever
that thng was.
Kale: A Sierra Leone. I read one of my sister’s scrolls of different
languages one time. I think a Sierra Leone is a mountain lion!
Rufus: Witchy one! What about us?
Kale: Get back to the castle! We’re leaving!
(In the Wild Magic, Gwenevere rides on Sunstar, Fallon rides on Moondance and Tamara flies behind with the three babies.)
( Archie flies with Tamara.)
( Then the gliders fly around them.)
( Archie hides behind Sugar and Spike.)
Nubbin: Where do you want to go today?
Tamara: We want to go to a mountain.
Floater: Mountain?
Fallon: Can you take us to one? You may also know it as Sierra.
Nubbin: Sierra… Sierra Mist?
Gwenevere: Yes!
( Drifter flies over to Sugar and Spike and pulls Archie out of
hiding.)
Drifter: Archie!
( Drifter flies around Archie.)
Archie: Stop! Stop!
Nubbin: Sierra Mist is in that portal.
( Nubbin points to a portal.)
Gwenevere: Okay. Gliders we’ve got it from here.
( Gwenevere starts to tell Sunstar to jump in.)
( Archie flaps over to her and stops her.)
Archie: Remember, the portal may open in midair.
Fallon: Okay.
( Fallon holds up her Moon Stone and Moondance grows temporary wings.)
Gwenevere: Tamara, what about you?
( Tamara holds up her Heart Stone and her Magic Glider Wings
appear.)
( She holds on to Spike and Cleo.)
( Sunstar, Moondance, Sugar, Archie, and Tamara all jump into the
portal.)
( They appear in midair, as suspected.)
( Sunstar flaps down to the ground and lands in snow.)
( Moondance lands in snow and her wings disappear.)
( Tamara’s wings disappear.)
Gwenevere: Tamara!
Cleo: Tamara! I’m going to fall!
Tamara: Just hold on!
( Spike starts to move.)
Spike: Ohh!
Tamara: Spike! Hold still!
( Cleo then starts to struggle.)
Cleo: I can’t hold on!
( Cleo then starts to slip out of Tamara’s hands.)
Tamara: Cleo!
( She reaches to grab her and when she does, Spike falls out of her hands.)
Tamara: Oh no! Spike!
( Tamara then falls faster.)
Gwenevere: Sunstar! Can you get Tamara?
( Sunstar tries to move.)
Sunstar: My feet are stuck in the snow! It froze around my hooves!
( Spike is almost ready to hit the ground.)
( Moondance then jumps up and Fallon catches Spike.)
( Tamara holds onto Cleo and then holds onto her Heart Stone.)
( A bubble-like shield forms around them and Tamara and Cleo
hit the ground.)
( Gwenevere gets off of Sunstar and shines her Sun Stone so that
the snow would thaw around her hooves.)
( Spike jumps down from Fallon’s arms and scampers over to
Tamara.)
Spike: Tamara?
( Tamara and Cleo lay silent.)
( Gwenevere and Sunstar run up to them.)
( Fallon gently lifts Tamara’s hand.)
Gwenevere: She’s not… she can’t be…
Fallon: No. She’s not. Her hand is still warm and she still has a pulse.
Sugar: What about Cleo?
Fallon: Cleo is okay. See. She is breathing.
Gwenevere: They won’t last too long out here in the snow.
Fallon: We’ll have to take them to a cave.
( Fallon and Gwenevere lift Tamara onto Sunstar.)
( Cleo then starts to get up.)
Spike: Cleo!
Cleo: Tamara… I was slipping…
Gwenevere: Tamara is hurt. We have to find shelter and build a
fire.
Fallon ( Climbing onto Moondance): Gwen you can ride with me.
( Gwenevere climbs onto Moondance.)
Gwenevere: Take it easy Sunstar.
( Sunstar, with her wings outspread for Tamara, walks slowly behind
Moondance and the babies.)
Fallon: Gwen, there’s a cave over there.
( She points and there is an entrance to a cave.)
( Moondance, Sunstar, and the babies walk into the cave.)
( Gwenevere holds up her Sun Stone for light.)
Gwenevere: We have to start a fire.
Archie: We need wood.
Fallon: There’s none in here. We’ll have to find some.
Sunstar: Wood could be anywhere!
Gwenevere: We’ll have to split up and search for some.
Fallon: Will Tamara be okay?
Gwenevere: We won’t be gone for long. I don’t think there is anything
or anyone else here.
( Sunstar, Moondance, and the babies all walk out of the cave to find
wood.)
( Tamara lay silent on a rock.)
( Then, something moves up from the back of the cave, and a light
fills the cave.)
( A mountain lion with a shining jewel walks up to Tamara.)
( The jewel then shines light on Tamara and she then starts to get up.)
Tamara: Oh…
( She sees the mountain lion.)
Tamara: Get away!
( She waves her hand.)
( The mountain lion stays and stares at Tamara.)
Tamara: Well, you don’t seem very hostile… What’s your name?
( The mountain lion shakes his head.)
Tamara: Then you don’t have a name… I’ve named animals before.
( Tamara strokes the mountain lion and thinks.)
Tamara: This mountain is Sierra Mist… how about Mist!
( The mountain lion then jumps up onto the rock.)
Tamara: Let’s see… can you talk?
Mist: Mist.
Tamara: Good! I am Tamara. Can you say that?
Mist: Tamara.
Tamara: Mist, do you know where my friends are?
Mist: Friends?
Tamara: Gwenevere, Fallon? Sunstar, Moondance?
Mist: Sugar? Cleo? Spike?
Tamara: Yes! Do you know where they are?
Mist: Find wood.
Tamara: They’ve gone to find wood?
Mist: Wood.
Tamara: Will you take me to find them?
Mist: Come. Follow Mist.
Tamara: Okay.
( Mist walks out of the cave and Tamara follows.)
( Gwenevere and Sunstar find a few pine tree branches.)
Sunstar: These should burn brightly.
Gwenevere: Okay. We’ll have to go find Fallon and Moondance.
Sunstar: They’re over there on the other side.
( Gwenevere climbs onto Sunstar and holds onto the firewood.)
( Sunstar then jumps up into the air and soars toward the mountain.)
( Sugar picks up some wood.)
Sugar: Is this good?
( Fallon looks back.)
Fallon: That is good.
Moondance: Fallon, Sunstar is comming.
Fallon: Okay. Here’s some more wood.
( She picks up the wood and carries it.)
Cleo: Sugar, here’s some more!
( Sugar who now looks like a walking wood pile, wobbles over to pick
up the stick.)
( She reaches down and then she falls.)
( The sticks all fall down on her.)
Cleo: Stop messing around!
( Cleo walks over to the stick pile and Sugar pops her head out.)
( Cleo picks a stick up in her mouth.)
Cleo: Here.
( She drops it on Sugar’s head and walks away.)
Sugar: Oh!
(Archie flaps over to her.)
( Sugar then pops her head back under the sticks.)
( Kale is in the Dragon Wagon and she circles around and sees
something runnung.)
Kale: Grim! Down there!
( Grim nods and lands in the snow.)
( Tamara and Mist are runnung and they stop before Kale.)
Tamara: Kale!
Kale: Jewel riders are here!
Tamara: Kale! What are you doing here?
Kale: I decided to take a little trip… you?
( Kale grasps onto her Dark Stone and it shoots beams.)
( One flies toward Tamara and she ducks it.)
Tamara: Ahh!
Mist: Tamara!
( A beam hits Tamara and she falls down.)
( Mist then runs to her side.)
Tamara: Oh… Mist! Go get Fallon and Gwenevere!
( Tamara then falls down, fainting, in the snow.)
( Mist then runs away, toward the snowy valley.)
( Rufus and Twig jump out of the Dragon Wagon.)
Rufus: What about this Jewel Rider?
Kale: She’s no harm, can you find any magic?
Twig: Mountain lion witchy thing!
Rufus: The mountain lion has great magic!
Kale: Where is he?
Rufus: Over there, in that valley.
( Kale, Rufus, and Twig journey into the valley.)
( Sunstar lands by Moondance.)
Fallon: Gwen, did you find any wood?
Gwenevere: I found a little. You?
Fallon: Sugar has most of it.
( They hear something running in the snow.)
Gwenevere: It’s a mountain lion!
Mist: Help! Help!
Fallon: It needs help!
Mist: Tamara!
Archie: He says something about Tamara!
Gwenevere: Where?
Mist: Follow me!
( Mist runs and Sunstar, Moondance, Archie, and the babies follow.)
( Sunstar gallops after Mist and then stops.)
Gwenevere: Kale!
Kale: Gwenevere! What are you doing here?!
Gwenevere: The question is, what are YOU doing here?
Kale: Oh I’m just looking for magic.
Gwenevere: Where’s Tamara?
Kale: She’s over there, you could say “Out Cold.”
( Kale points and Gwenevere looks.)
Gwenevere: Tamara!
( She climbs off of Sunstar and runs over to her.)
Gwenevere: Tamara…
( Tamara then gets up.)
Tamara: Gwen…
( Tamara and Gwenevere run over to Sunstar.)
( Moondance gallops around and stops before Kale.)
Kale: Stop! No one move!
Rufus: Witchy thing! That lion!
( Kale grabs Mist and picks him up.)
Kale: You are comming with me!
Tamara: No!
( Tamara shoots a beam out of her Heart Stone and it hits Kale.)
Kale: Ahhh!
( She throws Mist and holds up her Dark Stone.)
( Kale shoots a beam out of it and darts toward Tamara.)
( Tamara ducks it.)
( Mist then falls to the ground.)
Tamara: Mist!
( She runs over to him and picks him up.)
( Mist opens his eyes.)
Mist: Tamara…
( He jumps down from her arms.)
( The three babies run over to Tamara.)
Cleo: Tamara! Are you okay?
Tamara: Yes…
Kale: This lion is mine!
( She picks him up and runs.)
Gwenevere: Kale! Come back!
( Kale runs to the Dragon Wagon and Grim flies up.)
Tamara: Mist!
Fallon: We have to stop her!
Gwenevere: Sunstar!
( Sunstar gallops over to Gwenevere and Gwenevere climbs up
onto her.)
Gwenevere: Tamara! You and Fallon stay here!
( Archie flies over to them.)
Archie: Oh my.
( Sunstar flies up to the Dragon Wagon.)
( Kale looks down at Gwenevere.)
Kale: Leave me alone. Can’t you see I have magic to tend to?
Gwenevere: Kale, give Mist to me! He has done nothing to you!
Kale: But this cub is magical!
Gwenevere: Kale, let him go!
Kale: Well we don’t have to get all impatient!
( She then holds her Dark Stone up and light shines on Mist.)
Kale: Blast! His jewel is tuned to him!
Gwenevere: Let him go!
Kale: Very well. This cub proves to be of no use.
( Kale throws Mist over the side of the Dragon Wagon.)
( Kale signals and Grim flies away.)
Gwenevere: Oh no!
( Sunstar flies down after Mist.)
Gwenevere: Faster Sunstar!
Sunstar: I’m trying!
( Mist is falling too fast.)
Sunstar: Gwen! We won’t reach him in time!
Gwenevere: What can we do?
( Sunstar lights up her Sun Stone and Moondance’s Moon Stone
lights up.)
( Moondance gallops under Mist and catches him.)
Gwenevere: Good one Sunstar!
( Sunstar lands beside Moondance.)
( Tamara runs over to Moondance and cradles Mist.)
( But Mist will not show any sign of life.)
Tamara: Oh no! What’s wrong?
( Tamara lays Mist down on the ground.)
( Tamara then starts to cry.)
Tamara: He… he woke me up after I fell… now look.
( A white light surronds Mist.)
Gwenevere: Look!
( Mist then turns into a boy.)
( The boy opens his eyes.)
Tamara: Mist?
Mist: Yes.
Tamara: What has happened to you?
Mist: I am a boy, like I was before Morgana found me.
Fallon: You know Morgana?
Mist: Yes. She put a spell on me and the spell turned me into
a mountain lion cub. But the spell gave me great power. The
healing spell.
Gwenevere: What happened to your jewel?
Mist: Really, it is not a jewel. It is a part of a charm that Morgana used to cast the spell on me.
Gwenevere: Tamara! Do you still have the charm?
Tamara: Yes, I do!
( She holds out the charm in her hand.)
Fallon: Gwen, Tamara! Look at this!
( She shows Gwenevere and Tamara a symbol on the charm.)
Fallon: It looks like half of a charm.
Tamara: Yes it does.
Mist: My charm has the same symbol.
( He hands his charm to Fallon.)
( Fallon holds one half of the charm and Tamara holds the other.)
( They put them together and the crack through the middle lights
up.)
( The charm then forms as one charm once again.)
Gwenevere: It’s one charm again!
Mist: Please, take it and all of it’s power. I need it no more and
it symbolizes a token of my gratitude and friendship.
Tamara: Thank you Mist.
Mist: I hope that we will forever be friends.
Gwenevere: It is a wonderful gift.
Fallon: Gwen, we’d better get moving.
Gwenevere: Okay.
Tamara: Good bye Mist.
( Fallon climbs back onto Moondance and Tamara climbs on too.)
( Tamara looks back with a smile, and a wave.)
Mist: Good bye Tamara.
Gwenevere: Jewel Riders, let’s ride!
( Sunstar rears and flies up into the air while Moondance gallops
below, and the babies and Archie follow.)
The End