The Secret Guardians Arthur

# Every day you're walking down the street

# Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day We can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm of the street Open your eyes! Open your ears!

# Get together, make things better By working together

# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

# Believe in yourself For that's the place to start

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

# We can learn to work and play And get along with each other

# What a wonderful kind of day, hey! What a wonderful kind of day, HEY! #

Hey, DW.

-Hey!

-Whoa!

CRASH!

-DEEP VOICE:

-'Arthur Reid, wake up!

'You are about to go on a great journey to a mysterious land.'

I am?

OK, let me just pack a bag.

'There's no time.

'Here is where your great journey begins.'

A great journey? To where?

'Elmwood City.'

Elmwood City? What's so mysterious about that? It's where I live.

'True, but do you really know Elmwood City?

'Look into the telescope.

'What do you see?

-Just the Sugar Bowl.

-'Look closer, into the O.'

Cool! A bird's nest!

'The most wonderous discoveries are right in your own backyard.

'You just have to know where to look.

'Now, go, Arthur, adventure is calling you!'

DISTANT RINGING

Arthur, would you wake up already? Sue Ellen's calling you.

Hello.

Meet me at the treehouse in half an hour.

The ship is about to sail.

Hey!

Whoa, it looks so real!

I know, it took me five hours to make.

It's called the Sea Venture.

Cool boat, does it float?

We're just about to find out.

-Wanna help?

-Yeah.

Stand over there and catch the boat when it sails past.

This is going to look so cool on video.

OK. Ready? Set?

BLEEPING

Oh, no - the batterie's low!

Did you say go? OK.

Wait, stop!

Quick, after the ship!

Can you see it?

I think so.

PANTING

What is this place?

That's a Clouded Sulphur, I've never seen one of those in Elmwood City!

Cool, you can swing from these.

And that's a Harvester.

-Ah! And look - Feniseca tarquinius!

-But where's my ship?

I'm going to see if it's stopped somewhere downstream.

Woo-hoo!

-Any sign of it?

-No, but look what I found.

I think it could be an arrowhead.

This is the most peaceful place in the whole world.

-PHONE RINGS

-Agh!

Hi, Mom. Where am I?

Um, I'm not sure.

Six o'clock?! No way!

Oh, you're right. OK, I'll be right home.

It's six already?! It feels like we just got here.

We should definitely come back.

Yeah, it could be like our own private island.

What should we call it?

Binky's Butterfly Beach?

No way, we all found it.

How about...?

It's the first two letters of our names.

"Arsubia" sounds better.

OK.

Arsubia it is, but let's not tell anyone about it.

Too many people will scare the butterflies.

We'll swear on this rock.

By the power of this ancient rock, we will keep this place a secret.

ALL: We swear!

See, it's the complete anatomy of a pig.

You never know what you'll find in a good yard sale.

You know what I found on Sunday? This amazing...

BANG! >

This amazing what?

This amazing...website.

Really? What kind of website?

A website about secret things

that have to be kept secret because they're so secret.

Sounds cool. Give me the address.

Here. See you in class.

That was close, Reid. Just remember, I'm watching you.

-Nice landscape.

-Thanks.

-Actually, it's a...

-In Switzerland. Right, Arthur?

-I was going to say it's from a dream I had.

-Sure you were.

It really does look like an arrowhead.

Maybe it comes from an undiscovered Indian tribe that lived here.

What did you discover, Horatio?

Mount Kellymora, a peak even higher than Everest.

Well, I discovered a Cannawannabe -

a rare creature from the jungles of Borneo that only eats walnut shells.

GROWLING

Ha! That's nothing!

I discovered the Arsubians,

a lost civilisation in the heart of Elwood City.

Ha-ha-ha!

That's it?

An arrowhead?

I'm afraid you'll need more proof than that, little girl.

Show her out, Gertrude.

GERTRUDE GROWLS

Ha-ha-ha!

He's right. I need more evidence.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

ARTHUR INHALES DEEPLY

CRUNCH!

So, what's the big news?

I was in the middle of something important.

I can't tell you till Binky gets here.

Oh, I'm here, all right... watching you.

Well, you can stop watching ME.

Someone else has found Arsubia.

BOTH GASP

I found this empty bag of sunflower seeds right beneath the tree.

-That's mine. I must have dropped it when I was doing research.

-Research?

What kind of research?

On the indigenous people who used to inhabit Arsubia.

Look at this ornate carving I found.

That's just a stick.

It's a bird, see?

There's the beak. And I've collected lots of other stuff.

Seven arrowheads, possibly some pottery shards.

Oh, and a stone bowl...

Or a hat - I'm not sure yet.

Hey, what are you gonna do with this "research"? Tell people?

Binky, if we've discovered a lost civilisation,

the world has a right to know.

You had no right to take those things.

Arsubia belongs to all three of us.

It belongs to the Arsubians.

What if there's still some of them around?

-Hey, guys. What's going on?

-ALL: Nothing.

O...K

Hey, Arthur, I tried to go to that website you gave me -

it didn't exist.

Oh, I...must have copied it down wrong.

-Gotta go.

-OK, bye.

See ya.

Hmmm.

Interesting markings. Could be an Arsubian ruler.

Where's my journal?!

Admit it - you took my journal so you could take credit

for discovering the lost civilisation.

I did not!

In fact, I don't like this secret thing any more.

I hate keeping anything from Buster.

Halt!

Passports, please.

Passports? For what?

From now on, everyone needs a passport to get in.

It's for the good of Arsubia.

We don't have passports.

And neither do you.

Oh, yeah?

What's this?

Ah-ha! It was you! You're the one who took my journal.

I only read a page of it.

It was too boring to read any more.

Hey, Sue Ellen, when did you find your ship?

I didn't.

Then...who did?

Maybe the Arsubians put it there.

If they did, then they're not a lost civilisation.

They're still around.

What if...? What if they're not friendly?

SOFT TRUMPETING

ALL: Aaaah!

SOFT TRUMPETING

BUSTER LAUGHS

The look on your faces is priceless!

Welcome to Baxteronia.

My dad and I discovered this place when I was four.

Now I come here every now and then just to think.

How come you never told me about it?

I don't know. It was kind of like our private place.

But then I spied on you guys here the other day

and now it's your place too.

SUE ELLEN SIGHS

So I guess there's no ancient civilisation to discover.

There might be.

I found this conch shell and I have no idea how it got here.

THUNDERCLAP

It's going to rain. Come on, let's go to the cave.

There's a cave?!

You don't know about the cave?!

Come on, follow me.

# Every day when you're walking down the street

# And everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-# What a wonderful kind of day

-Hey!

-# What a wonderful kind of day

-Hey! #