- Girls: [hurried noises]
- Tubarina: It’s catching up!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Ester: [sees seaweed] In there!
- Polvina: Can you see him?
- Ester: No.
- Tubarina: No!
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Polvina: Yes!
- Ester: Split!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Ester: Looking for me?
- Tubarina: Or is it me?
- Polvina: Or me?
- Ester: Over here!
- Tubarina: Here I am!
- Polvina: No, here!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Polvina: Is he gone?
- Ester: For the moment.
- Tubarina: [sigh] When will barracudas ever stop chasing us?
- Polvina: When they stop being grumpy.
- Ester: Which is never.
- Tubarina: Why are they so grumpy?
- Ester: If only there was a Barracuda Princess who could talk to them and find out why.
- Tubarina: But there isn’t one.
- Ester: I know. Why isn’t there one?
- Tubarina: Because… hmm. Why isn’t there one, Polvina?
- Polvina: I don’t know.
- Tubarina: There has to be a reason.
- Polvina: Then maybe we should find out.
- Ester: And there’s no better time than right now!
- Polvina: We should find something in all this.
- [books land on table]
- Tubarina: So, what are we looking for?
- Ester: We’ll know when we find it.
- Polvina: Anything at all about the Barracuda Kingdom.
- Ester: If there was a Barracuda Kingdom.
- Tubarina: Oh, there was one! And a royal family, too!
- Polvina: “Many years ago, they left on a journey…”
- Ester: “…and never returned.”
- Polvina: Why didn’t they return?
- Tubarina: Um, well there’s no explanation. It’s a mystery.
- Ester: If there was a royal family, there must have been a royal palace.
- Tubarina: [flips page] Right on, Ester. Here it is!
- Ester: Cool! A lost palace of a lost kingdom? We should go find it!
- Polvina: [scoffs] The trouble with finding lost palaces i-i-is that they’re lost.
- Tubarina: So? That just means we have to find a clue. Come with me.
- Ester: Where to?
- Polvina: Tubarina?
- Ester: I think she went this way.
- Polvina: [takes book] Look at this.
- Ester: That’s amazing! Um, what is it?
- Polvina: It’s the ancient language of the Barracuda Kingdom.
- Ester: You should borrow this book. We could use it if we find the lost palace.
- Polvina: Fat chance. We can’t even find Tubarina.
- Tubarina: I’m over here!
- Ester: What are you doing?
- Tubarina: I told you, finding a clue. Look, [shows picture] it’s called a shimmelbud. My mother plants them.
- Ester: And how does this help?
- Tubarina: Well, have a look at the picture of the palace again.
- Polvina: Shimmelbuds, everywhere!
- Tubarina: They don’t grow naturally around here.
- Ester: I get it! We find out where they do grow and that’s where the palace is!
- Tubarina: Right!
- Polvina: So, uh, where do they grow?
- Tubarina: The Valley of Dusk.
- Polvina: Uh, do we really want to go to a place called “The Valley of Dusk”?
- Ester: To find a lost palace? You bet!
- Polvina: Stop! There it is. The Valley of Dusk! From here on, we enter the unknown. The only thing to expect is the completely unexpected. Ester? Tubarina?
- Ester: Come on!
- Tubarina: Hurry up!
- Polvina: Oh, I’m coming!
- Ester: Look, shimmelbuds!
- Tubarina: We’re in the right place!
- Polvina: How big is this valley?
- Ester: It can’t be that big.
- Tubarina: We could find the palace any moment. It’s probably around those rocks.
- Ester: How easy is this?
- Polvina: [pants] So much for being easy. We’ve been swimming for over an hour!
- Ester: Alright, I admit it. I was wrong. This valley is a lot bigger than I thought.
- Tubarina: But… the palace has got to be somewhere. Maybe behind those rocks.
- Polvina: Oh, that’s what you said twenty-five rocks ago!
- Tubarina: Okay, so maybe twenty-six will be our lucky number.
- Polvina: I don’t know about you two, but I-I need a break.
- Ester: You said it!
- Tubarina: Whoo, well, we didn’t find any palace behind the twenty-sixth rock.
- Ester: Or the thirty-sixth!
- Polvina: It’s like I said; if a lost palace was easy to find…
- Ester: It wouldn’t be lost. We know.
- Tubarina: [gasp] Get down!
- Ester: What is it?
- Tubarina: That’s what!
- [a barracuda passes]
- Polvina: Where do you think he’s going?
- Tubarina: Who cares, as long as he goes somewhere else!
- Polvina: Wait a minute. We’re looking for the lost Barracuda Palace, right?
- Ester + Tubarina: Right…
- Polvina: So, who better to lead us to the Barracuda Palace than…
- Ester: A barracuda! That’s brilliant, Polvina.
- Tubarina: Come on. That fish could be going anywhere!
- Polvina: Well, have you got any better ideas?
- Tubarina: Not particularly.
- Ester: Then let’s get after him!
- Ester: Let’s not get too close.
- Polvina: The last thing we want is for him to see us.
- Girls: [gasp]
- Ester: Will you look at that?
- Polvina: I’ve never seen anything like it.
- Tubarina: It’s fantastic! It’s gotta be it, doesn’t it?
- Polvina: I-I-I guess so… I’m not sure.
- Ester: We won’t find out by staying up here.
- Ester: This is amazing!
- Polvina: And there’s what we’re looking for!
- Tubarina: Barracuda statues!
- Ester: We found it!
- Polvina: The lost palace of the Barracuda Kingdom!
- Tubarina: Oh, this must be the throne. [rock crumbles] Ow!
- Ester: It was the throne.
- Polvina: Nobody’s sat on that for a long time.
- Tubarina: Oh, these statues look so real.
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Tubarina: [yelping]
- Ester: Barracuda!
- Girls: [frantically swimming]
- Tubarina: Here we go again.
- Ester: Do you still have that book on the barracuda language?
- Polvina: In my pack. Why?
- Ester: ‘Cause it looks like we’re gonna have to do some fast talking!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Polvina: I don’t know what they’re saying, but it doesn’t sound friendly!
- Ester: Let’s go!
- Tubarina: Go where?
- Ester: A-A-Anywhere but here!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Polvina: Down there!
- Ester: Oh, I don’t like the look of that…
- Polvina: It’s either that, or stay here and take on the barracuda!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Ester: [yelps] What are we waiting for?
- Girls: [frantically swimming]
- Girls: [closes door, grunting]
- Tubarina: Oh, we’re safe now. No way they’ll get through there!
- Polvina: And no way we’ll get out, either. We’re trapped.
- Ester: Unless we find another way out!
- [Ester and Tubarina move things]
- Polvina: [finds plaque] Wait.
- Tubarina: What is that?
- Polvina: Some sort of message.
- Tubarina: Saying what?
- Polvina: Hopefully I can find out. [opens book]
- Barracuda: [growling, banging on door]
- Ester: They found us!
- Tubarina: Hurry it up, Polvina!
- Polvina: I’ll only be a minute!
- Tubarina: We don’t have a minute!
- Ester: Tubarina, help me! Hurry, Polvina!
- Polvina: I am!
- Tubarina: Oh, we can’t hold them!
- Polvina: I’ve done it!
- Tubarina: Come on, we’ve got to move quickly!
- Barracuda: [growling, banging on door]
- Ester: We’ll never find a way out!
- Tubarina: We have to try!
- Polvina: That’s what we’re looking for.
- Barracuda: [break through door, growling]
- Girls: [screaming]
- Polvina: Oh, it’s okay. It’s just a statue.
- Tubarina: Hoo, it must be the head of that big one near the stairs.
- Ester: Who cares? Let’s just get out of here.
- Ester: We’re right back where we started!
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Tubarina: We’ll never get past them!
- Polvina: We might, if we use this.
- Ester: Are you sure?
- Polvina: Uh, not really.
- Tubarina: What if it doesn’t work?
- Ester: Let’s not think about that.
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Ester: Barracuda!
- Tubarina: We have something to show you.
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Polvina: [shows plaque] We found this!
- Barracuda: [growling, then stop]
- Tubarina: Well, at least they’re interested.
- Polvina: Read and you will know what you must do.
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Ester: What does it say?
- Polvina: It says that the palace was destroyed by an earthquake, causing the royal family to flee. But if the palace is rebuilt, then the king and queen will return.
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Ester: Good work, Polvina. I think we’ve won.
- Barracuda: [growling]
- Polvina: Oh no!
- Girls: Whoa!
- [the barracuda drop them off at the cliff above]
- Tubarina: What was that all about?
- Ester: There’s what!
- Barracuda: [gurgling and rebuilding]
- Polvina: They’re rebuilding the palace!
- Barracuda: [gurgling and rebuilding]
- Polvina: I’ve never seen barracuda so happy.
- Ester: I’ve never seen them happy at all.
- Tubarina: Do you think that rebuilding the palace will bring the king and queen back?
- Polvina: I guess we won’t know until it’s finished, but I hope so.
- Ester: We’ll have to come back and see.
- Tubarina: Oh, there’s just one small problem with that.
- Ester: What problem?
- Tubarina: To come back means we first have to get home, but how do we get home?
- Polvina: You’re right, Tubarina.
- Ester: We don’t have a clue where to go.
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Tubarina: What does he want?
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Polvina: He wants us to follow him.
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Ester: He wants to show us the way out of the valley!
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Polvina: Goodbye, everyone!
- Barracuda: [gurgling]
- Ester: Good luck!
- Tubarina: Come on, you two, before he changes his mind!
- Ester: If the king and queen return, that means that there’ll be a Barracuda Princess to play with!
- Tubarina: How cool would that be!
- Polvina: It would make the barracuda happy too.
- Ester: I think they’re already happy.
- Polvina: And when they’re happy, they’re not chasing us.
- Tubarina: So I say, “Let the barracuda always be happy”.
- Ester: You said it, Tubarina!
- Polvina: You sure did!
- Girls: [laughing]