Follow the Light

Chapter 5

Eep immediately tries to vault over to get to the new land. She is also immediately stopped by Grug who grabs a hold of her and pulls Eep back from the precipice. He turns to Luna, who is still staring appreciatively and in awe at this new world. "What else did that boy say?" Just as she opened her mouth to answer his question, she was interrupted by a bizarre animal. WHOOSH! Suddenly, bursting from the New World is a giant flying creature - a turtle dove. They reel back as it overhead. They turn to watch the Dove as it flies away, turning back to the view of the new world.

Right after they do, they hear a growl from the same direction the turtle dove had flown. Turning back around, they see that it's the same bear owl from before. It roars and charges towards the Croods. Grug grabs a giant bould and rolls it in front of his family. The bear owl runs and physically rolls the boulder over with its giant paws.

But the are not behind it. They are running towards the new world. They're approaching the edge of the cliff pretty quick with their speed. Ugga hopes Grug has a plan. "Grug?" He answers frantically. "Just go! Go! Go!" The Croods run towards the precipice with the bear owl closing in. They reach the edge just as the bear owl dives. The Croods leap into the air, hanging for a moment before they begin dropping down the space below the cliff, towards the unknown land beneath.

The Croods tumble through a mess of roots and strange plants before they land in a heap. Luna slides down the trunk of a tree before halting slowly. They all lie on their backs, disoriented, but momentarily calm. Grug sits up first. He turns to the high cliff above them -- to the top, where they have lived all their lives up to this moment. A few pebbles continue to tumble down. There is no sign of the bear owl continuing it's chase on the Croods. The others stand up, and they take in this new place.

Grug takes a deep breath and then takes a headcount. "One, two, three, four, five, six -" A beat passes and Grug's face morphs into a smiling one. "AAAAGHH!" Gran lands in a heap behind him. Defeated, he counts "seven." Luna quickly rushes over to see if Gran was hurt or not. "Gran! Are you okay? You hit the ground pretty hard." She said, worried over Gran's well being. She helps her up carefully. "Oh such a dear, little kitten. Thank you for helping this old grandma up." Luna beams down at her.

She looks at their surroundings. "Where are we?" They all look around at the strange environment before Grug replies. "I don't know, I'm not sure. Down. In a lower place. One thing's for sure, we can't go back the way we came." Luna hears Sandy's growls and comes to stand near them. Ugga asks in a hushed and urgent tone. "Sandy? What is it?" Sandy lunges at something, almost disappearing into a bush. Grug barely catches Sandy by her leg. Grug pulls her back swiftly. "No, no! Come back, Sandy!" She turns around with a mousefant in her mouth. Grug knocks it from Sandy's mouth, disgusted.  He picks Sandy up with an arm and informs them on what is going on and what they were going to do. "We can't be out in the open like this." Right after, a gaggle of mousephants run out from the bush and scurry away. Luna giggles, finding Grug's disgust of mousefants amusing. He starts on a path leading them through the jungle. "We need a cave. Now step I step." He whispers to keep quiet. "Okay. Stay quiet. big knows we're here yet."

Here we see a sleeping Macawnivore. Oh, he has woken up from his nap. He senses something from within the jungle. As soon as he is aware of this, he stalks off quietly. Well, folks. I don't really want to get any closer to the beast so let's pan back to the Croods family.

Grug continues leading them through the forest using the identical step method. "Wait. Okay. Wait. Okay. Wait. Okay." The Croods move cautiously in stops the middle of this thick, prehistoric rainforest. The sun has almost reached its limit on the time it can spend here in the day. Meanwhile...

Thunk is rambling on the subject of potential caves to the rest of his family. "So Dad, just to be clear, are we looking for the same cave? If it was me, I'm just this out there, if it was me choosing the cave..." he pauses to turn around, feeling as if he was being watched. Luna turns around, a little ahead of him. "Thunk, hurry up or else you'll be left behind." He yelps and quickly jogs over. "...I would go with a cave." She just chuckles and walks on next to Eep.