The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)

## Plot

Late one night, Littlefoot sees a strange, blue-colored meteor falling from the sky and crashing into Threehorn Peak, an active volcano in the Smoking Mountain range. When Littlefoot describes it the next day, the grown-ups in the Great Valley do not take it as a serious matter if they even believe it at all, except for two newcomers, a pair of mysterious Rainbow Faces (Gallimimus), who are dinosaurs with rainbow coloured beaks. The Rainbow Faces inform them of possibilities of wonders beyond what they know, and they suggest the rock may be a "Stone of Cold Fire", which is capable of possessing magical properties. Cera's father, however stops the Rainbow Faces and forbids them or anybody else to "fill the children's heads with rubbish". Littlefoot tries to tell Cera's father that he knew where the flying rock was and how he can find it. But Cera's father warns Littlefoot about the Mysterious Beyond and how it is off-limits. Littlefoot's grandpa agrees and tells Littlefoot that until the far-walkers leave the Great Valley, it would be better if they don't make any more fuss about the flying rock.

Pterano, the long lost outcast uncle of Petrie, overhears the whole entire conversation and conspires to find the rock to use its powers to take control of the Valley. Pterano asks Petrie, who idolizes him, for the location of the rock and learns its location. That night, Ducky overhears Pterano's plan, but before she can warn her friends, Pterano and his two henchmen, Rinkus, a Rhamphorhynchus, and Sierra, a Cearadactylus suddenly kidnap Ducky and set out to find the Stone. Upon discovering Ducky's abduction, the grown-ups tell the children ones how Pterano led some of their dinosaurs during their search for the Valley, but he had accidentally brought his followers to a pack of Deinonychus. Pterano was able to fly away, but the event left him emotionally scarred, and he was expelled from the herd as punishment for leading his followers into danger. Because the grown-ups are too slow to reach a decision, Littlefoot, Petrie, Cera, and Spike take off on their own in search of Ducky.

Meanwhile, Ducky escapes the three Flyers and falls into a cave while running away. After the children find her, Ducky comforts Petrie, who is distraught about Pterano's actions, by stating that she could tell that Pterano is the least wicked of the three Flyers, and that he still has a potential of doing great. Rinkus and Sierra suddenly re-capture Ducky and pursue the children in violation of Pterano's orders, but the children are able to outsmart the two evil Flyers. As the three Flyers fly away, Petrie tells them not to go and a thunderstorm comes. They see some lighting and hear thunder. Later as the thunderstorm comes and there is wind, thunder and lightning, the groun-ups meet and Littlefoot's grandpa tells Petrie's mother to find another flier to help her and hurry. Afterwards later during the thunderstorm when it rains, Sierra displays mutinous feelings towards Pterano, but Rinkus convinces him to hold off betraying Pterano until they find the Stone. Pterano sings a song about how a very important creature he is.

The children pursue the three Flyers, hoping to reach the Stone before them. The children reach inside the cave (which is the bottom of Threehorn Peak) and they sleep in the cave and the thunderstorm lasted until morning. The children wake up in the morning as the thunderstorm is over. Aided by the Rainbow Faces, who suddenly appear and offer their knowledge of volcanoes, the children manage to arrive at Threehorn Peak before the three Flyers. However, both groups discover that the Stone is just an ordinary meteorite. Lamenting over this realization, Pterano explains that he had meant to create a paradise with the power of the stone, not realizing that this paradise already exists in the form of the Great Valley. Unwilling to believe the Stone is not magical, Rinkus and Sierra betray Pterano. However, as they attempt to get the Stone to give them power, the volcano starts to erupt with lava, lightning and thunder, and Pterano sees Ducky holding on to a cliff and as lightning strikes nearby and Ducky falls, Pterano saves Ducky from certain death.

Petrie's mother arrives with a Quetzalcoatlus (who is a huge flyer) to evacuate the children, leaving Rinkus and Sierra, who are caught in the meteorite's big explosion (which they tried to bash) and they land right back at the site where they camped earlier (quite burned, singed, and bruised). Pterano is thanked for saving Ducky's life. Back in the Great Valley, the grown-ups have a meeting and plan about Pterano's fate. For rescuing the children (spoken by Littlefoot's grandpa), Pterano should be banished to the Mysterious Beyond until five cold times have passed (five winters/years). Petrie cuts in and tries to plead against the punishment, begging the grown-ups to let Pterano live in the Valley forever. However, Petrie's mother informs Petrie that even though Pterano may be sorry, it does not change what he did (erase his actions) and he must still be held responsible for that. Pterano, agreeing with the banishment, informs Petrie that everyone (including himself) needs to take responsibility for their actions and assures Petrie that he should be fine. Accepting the result, Petrie tearfully bids Pterano farewell with Pterano saying he will miss Petrie before Cera's father forces Pterano away (begging him to move on). This prompts Pterano to remark to the latter that there are things he will not miss at all.

That night, Littlefoot finds the Rainbow Faces and asks them if the meteorite really was a Stone of Cold Fire. They admit that while it wasn't, his effort to search for it was what really mattered, and reiterate that there are many unknowns to be discovered "beyond the Mysterious Beyond". Littlefoot is then momentarily distracted, and when he turns around, he finds the Rainbow Faces have disappeared in a pillar of light, implied to be a Tractor beam, indicating that the Rainbow Faces are aliens. As Littlefoot's friends find him, an inspired Littlefoot reflects that there are many unknowns and that such unknowns make life wonderful.

## Voice Cast

Main article: List of The Land Before Time characters

* Thomas Dekker as Littlefoot
* Anndi McAfee as Cera
* Aria Curzon as Ducky
* Jeff Bennett as Petrie/Spokes Dinosaur
* Michael York as Pterano
* Rob Paulsen as Rinkus/Spike
* Jim Cummings as Sierra
* Kenneth Mars as Grandpa Longneck
* Miriam Flynn as Grandma Longneck
* John Ingle as Cera's father
* Tress MacNeille as Ducky's Mom/Petrie's Mom
* Charles Kimbrough as Rainbow Face #1
* Patti Deutsch as Rainbow Face #2

## Songs

The songs are written by Michele Brourman and Amanda McBroom.

* "Beyond the Mysterious Beyond" - Littlefoot, Cera and Rainbow Faces (Thomas Dekker, Anndi McAfee, Charles Kimbrough, and B. J. Ward)
* "Good Inside" - Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike (Thomas Dekker, Anndi McAfee, Aria Noelle Curzon, Jeff Bennett and Rob Paulsen)
* "Very Important Creature" - Pterano, Sierra and Rinkus (Michael York, Jim Cummings and Rob Paulsen)
* "Beyond The Mysterious Beyond (Reprise)" Charles Kimbrough/B.J. Ward/ Thomas Dekker