02x04 - Chief of the Day/Vulture Rock

[bunniefuu]

[birds chirping]

[theme song plays]

[Storyteller] ♪ Come and gather 'round
Listen to the story ♪

♪ Here in Xus Park
Where the spirits play ♪

♪ Someone must protect Chumash territory ♪

♪ Who will hear
The call to save the day? ♪

-♪ Here come the Spirit Rangers ♪
-♪ Oh yeah! ♪

-♪ Here come the Spirit Rangers ♪
-♪ Cho-h*! ♪

-♪ Here come the Spirit Rangers ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Hurricane or flood
Sleeping sun or blizzard ♪

♪ Kodi, Summer hawk, Eddy turtle too ♪

-♪ With their friend Coyote ♪
-♪ And their best friend Lizard ♪

♪ Come and join the fun
And we'll all say ♪

♪ Haku! ♪

-♪ Here come the Spirit Rangers ♪
-♪ Oh yeah! ♪

-♪ Here come the Spirit Rangers ♪
-♪ Cho-h*! ♪

♪ Here come the Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ The Spirit Rangers ♪

-♪ The Spirit Rangers ♪
-♪ Yeah! ♪

[song ends]

[Eddy reading]

[wind gusting]

Come back here, little salmon fishy.

Hey. Come back here!

Come back, little paper fishy.

Stop swimming. No!

[screeches] Gotcha!

I hope our special guest
likes origami paper animals.

Our special guest
is the chief of the Choctaw Nation.

We've been friends with him for years.

Since he's here for a tribal conference,
we'll serve him dinner under the stars.

And by the way, he loves origami animals.

If you ask me,
he deserves a special dinner.

As the chief, he's in charge
of taking care of his tribal nation.

He's a true hero.

I've never met a real chief before.

Well, that's because
not all tribes use the word "chief."

The leaders of the Cowlitz and Chumash
are called chairpersons.

What do you think a chief would prefer:
Chumash acorn mush or chia seed pudding?

-Chia pudding!
-Pudding!

Very well. Acorn mush it is.

-No!
-Too mushy.

We want pudding! We want pudding!

Okay, okay. That'll go nice
with my Cowlitz-inspired baked salmon,

salmon casserole, salmon stew,

and a lovely salmon-vegetable medley
with a dip made of--

-Oh no! My salmon recipes!
-[child gasps]

The Junior Rangers are on the job.
We'll make sure nothing blows away.

Thanks, Rangers. Dad and I better go
inside and get the food ready.

I can't wait to meet a real-life chief.

I've seen lots of chiefs in books.

I bet he wears a big headdress
with lots of feathers.

Yeah. And Dad says he's a hero.

So, I bet he's tall, with big muscles.

He'll probably have a voice
as loud as a bear.

[roars]

I'll bet you're right.
Then he'd be like a super chief.

Do you think he'll have laser eyes?

Pew, pew!

-That'd be so cool.
-[wind gusts]

Oh no! Turtles aren't meant to fly.

[suspenseful music playing]

This speedy turtle must belong to you.

Thank you.

Me and turtles do go together pretty well.

I saw these rocks as I was walking.

With all this wind, they might help
hold your tablecloth down.

Thanks, mister.
That's a really smart idea.

You're quite welcome.

Now maybe you can help me.
I'm looking for the visitors center.

Yakoke, children.
Don't let the wind blow your socks off.

If this wind keeps going,

it'll ruin our dinner
with the Choctaw chief.

Maybe we can find a way to stop the wind
if we head to the Spirit Park.

[exciting music plays]

[woman] ♪ Let's go, Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Calling on Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Let's go, Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Calling Kodi, Summer, Eddy ♪

Kodi cub! [roars]

Summer hawk! [screeches]

♪ Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Spirit Rangers ♪

And Eddy turtle!

♪ Let's go, Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Calling on Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ They're Spirit Ranger ready ♪

[music fades]

[wind gusting]

Whoa! The winds are
even worse in Spirit Park!

[both screaming]

-Yeah!
-[Kodi grunts]

Whoo! Spirit Rangers,
am I glad to see you.

Those dust devils
are making a mess of the park!

[Buffalo groans]

[Qamash] Oh no!

Put me down. This is no fun!

-[both yelping, thudding]
-No fun.

-Yeah, no fun.
-No fun!

Those dust devils
are doing some great pranks.

I am way jealous.

-We've got to help.
-[dandelion] Oh, wow.

-Help!
-Oh, no!

Save us!

[sneezes]

[dandelions scream]

-Hold on, dandelions. Summer's coming.
-[heroic music playing]

[sighs] Thank you, Summer. So much thanks.

That sure was dandy of you.
I'm Blade, the dandelion spirit.

-Aw.
-So cute.

And let me just say, those dusty
dust devils are blowing our seeds

all around and up and down.

Yeah, I noticed.

Make a wish.

[blows]

Those dusty devils
started a few hours ago,

and they are getting stronger.

If we don't do something,
Spirit Park might get blown away.

Which would be totally cool.

And by "totally cool,"
I mean, um, really, really bad.

I wanna say, first we need to figure out
what's causing the dusty dust devils,

to know how to stop them.

No time for that, Blade.

I gotta go get the spirits
out of the tree.

It's too bad the Choctaw chief isn't here.
He'd know just what to do.

He could use his laser eyes.

Pew. Pew, pew. Pew, pew, pew.

If they were here, they'd probably say
the first thing we should do

is find out
what is causing the dusty dust devils.

Oh, no. Not again.

[sneezes]

[Buffalo] Thank you, Kodi.

I don't know why
I always find myself up in treetops.

Since the chief isn't here,
let's ask Qamash to help.

[sneezes]

Can't stop sneezing.

Qamash! Maybe you can wash the dust devils
away with a blast of water.

Oh, good. Qamash wants so much
to get rid of these mean dust devils.

-[Eddy] Go, Qamash!
-[Summer] Get them!

[gasps]

[ominous music playing]

Oh no. Now I've got rainy-day sneezes.

[sneezes]

Rain is almost as bad as a bath.

Coyote!

Qamash is sorry. Very sorry, I am.

I think it's time to fight wind with wind.

[screeches]

I'm just gonna say, once again,

we still don't know
what's causing the dusty dust devils.

-[Summer screeches]
-[heroic music playing]

[screeches]

Uh-oh.

I just blew them together!

[grunting]

Look out, ginormous dust devil!

-[wind gusting]
-[all] Whoa!

[sneezes]

[ominous music playing]

-Whoa!
-Help!

[screams]

Hang on!

[straining]

No!

[all screaming]

Well, that didn't go as planned.

Oh, sweet scales. We're trapped forever!

I'm gonna miss my log.
I'm gonna miss my bugsagna.

And I'm even gonna miss--
Yeah, I'll miss Coyote!

It's okay, Lizard.
We just have to stop these dust devils.

I keep on saying
that we can't stop anything

until we figure out
what's causing the dusty devils.

[sneezes]

Poor Sunny has been sneezing
ever since the dusty devils started.

I remember because
my fellow dandelion spirits,

and also myself,
were happily releasing our seeds all over

when Mr. Sunny started up
with all that sneezy sneezing.

-[chuckles]
-[begins to sneeze]

-Hey. Maybe that's it.
-[chuckles]

I think the dandelion seeds
are making Sunny sneeze.

[sneezes]

And I think his sun-sneezes
are causing the dust devils.

Good job, Eddy.

You are right. Now that we know
what's causing the dust devils,

we can make ourselves a plan-y plan
to stop them from dusty deviling.

No, you were right, Blade.
We should have listened to you all along.

Well, you can listen to me now,
because I got a plan.

When I say "bubbly bubble time,"
I want you to blow a bubble around us.

You got it, Blade.

Oh, no. I feel a huge sneeze coming on.

[begins to sneeze]

Bubbly bubble time, Eddy.

[inhales, blows]

-[sneezes]
-[Lizard] Hold on!

Bubble power!

[grunting]

-Eddy!
-Are you all okay?

Yes. We figured out that Sunny's sneezes
are causing the dust devils.

And now we have to get all our seeds
out of the air, so he'll stop sneezing.

Let's go, Spirit Rangers!

[sneezes]

-[screeches]
-[exciting music playing]

[buzzing]

Incoming honey hawk!

[screeches]

[chuckling]

[grunts]

[gasps] Xuxa'w!

What? I thought you were a seed.

[heroic music playing]

[blowing]

[begins to sneeze]

Supersonic bear roar!

[roars]

-[music fades]
-[wind gusting]

Look. The dust devils are fizzling out.

-That feels much better.
-[triumphant music plays softly]

-[gasps] My hero. Thank you.
-You saved us.

Oh, there's no need to thank us.

Way to go, chief.

You're a chief?

Yep. The chief of the dandelions.

We thought a chief would be big,
with muscles and a big roar.

And maybe laser eyes.

Pew. Pew, pew, pew!

No. No.

A chief can come in any shape or size
as long as they're a good leader.

[pleasant music plays]

-♪ A chief doesn't need a mighty roar ♪
-[roars]

-♪ She doesn't need laser eyes ♪
-[lasers zapping]

♪ A leader is made up of something more ♪

♪ It's not about shape or size ♪

♪ All that matters is in your heart ♪

♪ Are you passionate, kind and smart? ♪

♪ Inner strength
Is the only strength that you need ♪

♪ That's what it takes to lead ♪

♪ Real leaders
Don't come from a comic book ♪

♪ All muscle-bound, proud and tall ♪

♪ You can't pick your leaders
By how they look ♪

♪ That isn't what counts at all ♪

♪ All that matters lies deeper still ♪

♪ Great ideas, creative skill ♪

♪ Honesty and the confidence to succeed ♪

♪ That's what it takes to lead ♪

-[song ends]
-[birds chirping]

Excuse me.

If you keep giving off dandelion seeds,
I'm gonna start sneezing again.

As the dandelion chief,
I propose a treaty where, from now on,

we will only release our seeds at night

when they won't bother
your sunshine-y nose.

As long as you stop making
dusty dust devils.

It's a treaty.

Blade, you may be a tiny dandelion,

but, as a chief, your leadership is huge.

Speaking of chiefs,

we need to get back to Xus Park
to meet the Choctaw chief.

Hmm.

According to my high-tech instrumentation,
the wind really calmed down.

[sighs] It's a perfect night
to have dinner with the chief.

-When do we get to meet him?
-You already did.

-You're the chief?
-[chuckles]

Yup. Did you think I'd be super tall
and full of muscles like a super chief?

Well, maybe a little bit.

You don't have laser eyes, do you?

-Does this count? Pew, pew!
-[Eddy chuckles]

No, that doesn't count.

But that's okay.

A chief can come in any shape or size,
as long as they're a good leader.

I try to be a good leader,
but right now, I'd rather follow you.

Follow us?

To the dinner table.

[laughing]

Right this way, chief.

[all laughing]

[Eddy reading]

[vulture screeching]

[sighs] What a peaceful day.

Thank Creator for--

[screams]

-[Kodi] Mom. Mom!
-Mom, wait up.

I found a feather stone.

Is this a feather stone?

Sorry, Summer, just a rock.

Kodi, I think
this is petrified otter poop.

Ugh! Gross!

-Blech.
-Aw, bummer.

-What's a feather stone?
-Ooh!

Eddy doesn't know.
I love this story. Go, Kodi.

I'll be the vulture.
Or in Samala, the 'onoq.

Okay, so there's this Chumash legend

about vultures who get really sad
when they lose an egg from their nest.

Boo-hoo-hoo, my egg rolled away.

[caws softly] I'm a sad 'onoq.

So, they find a stone
and put that in their nest instead.

Hello, my little feather stone.

Aw. And they pretend it's an egg?

Yeah. Then they wait for it to hatch.

-Does it? Does it hatch?
-[Dad] Stones can't hatch, turtle tyke.

Scientifically speaking, they're made
of granite, marble, limestone--

But also magic.

According to the legend,

if a feather stone is loved
by its vulture parents like a real egg,

it turns red and black and sparkly
and gains special powers!

Wow, I wanna find a feather stone.

[both] Us too! Let's go!

[Kodi] Whoa!

[Summer] Cool!

This rock looks just like a vulture.

Yep, that's Vulture Rock.

It's why we call this Vulture Rock Trail.

[Dad] Careful!

Some of these rock formations
are very fragile.

That means look but don't touch. Got it?

-[magical jingling]
-[gasps] Is that…?

It is!

It's a feather stone.

[grunting]

[screams, grunts]

The feather stone!

Eddy, what was that?

-Are you okay?
-I'm fine.

Wowzers.

How did that rock wall just crumble?

-You didn't touch anything, did you?
-Um…

Yeah. I-- I mean, no. I-- I didn't.

Hmm, these rock formations
must be really unstable.

Too unstable. We have to remove
what could fall on a hiker.

-You know what that means. Dynamite time.
-[gasps]

Wow. You blow them up?
What about Vulture Rock?

Vulture Rock included, I'm afraid.

It's too dangerous.
Take your final photos, kids.

Then it's time for a safe, controlled,
scientific, grown-ups-only kablooey.

[gasps] We have to warn the spirits
about the dynamite.

[exciting music plays]

[woman] ♪ Let's go, Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Calling on Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Let's go, Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Calling Kodi, Summer, Eddy ♪

Kodi cub! [roars]

Summer hawk! [screeches]

♪ Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Spirit Rangers ♪

And Eddy turtle!

♪ Let's go, Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ Calling on Spirit Rangers ♪

♪ They're Spirit Ranger ready ♪

[Eddy] Hear ye, hear ye!

Due to a, uh, totally random rockslide,

you may be in danger.

Please clear the area.

You heard the turtle.

Move along. Pack a snack.

And by "snack," I mean acorns, Wolf.

No hunting during an evacuation.

One more for you.

[lizard chittering]

[slurps]

Ugh. Ew.

I prefer my eyeballs un-licked,
thank you very much.

[Eddy] Clear the area.

Hear ye, hear ye.

All right, all right. I heard ye.

Phew. All the spirits are safe.

Not all. How do we move her?

"Her"? You mean Vulture Rock?

Not just a rock.

A thousand years ago,
Vulture Rock was a vulture spirit.

But someone turned her into stone,
and no one knows how to turn her back.

Vulture Rock is a real vulture?

But there's gonna be an expl*si*n,
and it's all my fau--

I mean, she has to fly away right now!

Who changed her to stone
in the first place?

-Maybe they can help.
-Great question.

I forget.

What? A thousand years is a long time.

Spirit Rangers, have you seen Buffalo?

Word on the trail
is she's letting folks lick her eyeballs.

We're having an emergency, Coyote.
Vulture Rock is gonna get blown to bits!

[sputtering] But she's
a real vulture spirit.

We have to move her.

-What do we do?
-I've got a plan.

Keep pulling!

-[roaring]
-[exciting music playing]

[Kodi straining]

Stop! You'll hurt her!

We have to move Vulture
without cracking so much as a feather.

Which means you need
something strong but delicate.

Enter me.

[intriguing music playing]

Ah, I see!

No, I don't.

-What's the plan now, Xuxa'w?
-We build a pulley system.

Great idea.

Yes, yes, I'm a very wise genius.
Let's talk about it later.

Time's a-wasting.

Done. How's it look, fuzzy?

It looks perfect. Rangers?

Pulley system is a go.

And… pull!

[Kodi roars]

-[straining]
-Please work.

-[thuds loudly]
-[panting] Oh bears.

Vulture Rock is really heavy.

Spirit Ranger ready.

-[both straining]
-[suspenseful music playing]

Come on, Vulture, move.

Careful, turtle toots.

[gasps]

Ah!

-Eddy, get out of there!
-[grunts]

Eddy! You were this close to squished.

I just wanted to save Vulture,
but I couldn't.

Let's give the pulley system another try.

-I know it'll work.
-No.

It's getting too dangerous.
Sorry, Coyote, but we gotta go.

Dad will be here any minute
with the dynamite.

We need to leave.

Um, Coyote?

Yes? What's wrong?

I mean, nothing's wrong.
I mean, what's on your mind, turtle man?

What if all this was your fault?

And you could've said something
to stop it, but you didn't?

Wouldn't you feel so, so, so, so, so bad?

[sobs]

Okay, I admit it.

I turned Vulture to stone.

[sobbing] It was me.

-How did you know?
-What?

-[squawks]
-Now I remember.

-Typical.
-It was you? But how?

I found a feather stone.

[gasps] Did it have special powers?

It can turn spirits to stone.

I tried it out on Vulture as a prank,

but I lost it
before I could do the turn her back part.

Why didn't you tell someone? Like us.
We would've helped you find it.

I knew everyone would be mad at me.
So, I waited a while.

Then I knew everyone would say,
"Why'd you wait so long, Coyote?"

So, I waited a few hundred more years.
And then Eddy figured it out.

No, I didn't. I was talking about me.

I caused the rockslide
that got us into this mess.

This isn't Coyote's fault, it's mine.

[upbeat music plays]

♪ Sometimes I freeze
When I know that it's my fault ♪

♪ I can't find the words to say ♪

Oh!

♪ Like the time
That I broke Lizard's drum ♪

What?!

♪ It made me want to hide away ♪

♪ It's no fun, but you gotta admit ♪

♪ You're better off owning up to it ♪

♪ I guess we both
Have to be a little brave ♪

♪ When it's our turn to take the blame ♪

[chuckles]

♪ It's like the time
That I ate Lizard's lunch ♪

That was you?

♪ I should've said something that day ♪

Coyote!

♪ It's no fun, but you gotta admit ♪

♪ You're better off owning up ♪

♪ To it ♪

[song ends]

[all cheering]

[explodes]

Oh no! Dad's started blasting.

But I know where the feather stone is.
Come on, Vulture still has a chance.

There.

I was trying to grab it
when I caused the rockslide.

I could never get it on my own.

Good thing you don't have to.

-[expl*si*n]
-[screeches]

[Eddy screams]

[grunting]

[groans] I'm dizzy, Eddy. Eddy?

[squawks]

You're not Eddy.

-What gave it away? The extra legs?
-I'm okay. And I got the stone.

[expl*si*n]

I can't fly right
when things keep exploding.

How do we get to Eddy?

[gasps] The pulley system.

-[Kodi] Pull!
-[Kodi and Summer straining]

[Kodi] And pull!

[both straining]

And pull!

-[expl*si*n]
-Whoa!

-Another kablooey. Wait!
-No!

-Eddy!
-Coyote, catch!

He's gone!

Turtle toots!

-[heroic music playing]
-[pants]

[all] Phew.

[Kodi] Grab on.

You're a hero, Eddy.

[gasps]

-Please be okay.
-[rock crumbling]

[high-pitched humming]

[triumphant music playing]

[thuds loudly]

-It's working!
-Wow!

Wow!

-[squawks, chokes, coughs]
-[music distorts, fades]

Vulture!

Hi, pal. How you doing, 'Onoq?

Ow. [groans]

My neck is stiffer
than petrified otter poop.

How'd that happen?

Um, remember when I told you to hold still
so I could try something?

[sighs] Yeah, you mean, like,
just a second ago?

Like 1,000 years. I turned you to stone.

Really sorry. I'll explain later.
We gotta get out of here.

[expl*si*n]

[chuckles, snorts]

Oh. Oh, boy. Earthquake.

Now, what were you saying?

[yawns] Start over.

-No yawning. We have to go.
-[expl*si*n]

Please hurry.

It's dynamite!

Come on. Please go.

-I don't wanna go kablooey.
-Listen to fuzzy.

Oh, hey, jumpy little spirits.

I guess I could take Xuxa'w here
on a vulture ride.

A ride? No, no, no.
You never trim your talons, and I--

-Ah!
-Nice to meet ya, uh…

Spirit Rangers. Have a nice flight!

We did it. She's safe.

What happened to Vulture Rock?

It must've crumbled
during our test blasts.

Maybe we should close the whole trail.
It's too dangerous.

No, Mom. Don't blame the rocks. It was me.

I climbed on them
after Dad told us not to.

I caused the rockslide.

I didn't own up to it
because I was afraid you'd be upset.

But that only made everything worse.

I'm sorry. Please don't close the trail.

I don't think we should.

We're proud of you.

-Yes!
-Whoo!

Too bad about Vulture Rock.

But I always thought
she looked kind of sad,

stuck in one position forever.

That's why I was always looking
for a feather stone when I was a kid.

I wanted to turn Vulture Rock
into a real vulture,

so she could fly.

I bet 'Onoq would've really liked that.

-[Coyote] Help!
-Whoo-ee! Whoo!

['Onoq] Whoo! Hoo-hoo-hoo!

[chuckles, snorts]

[screeches]

[closing theme music plays]