Pete runs into the streets, going as far as to climb a schoolbus and hop onto another car. As the doctors are telling Grace that he's fine, he escapes out the window. He lets out a low groaning sound, which Gavin hears. Elliot then awakens as if to sense something is wrong. Pete falls and bumps his head, knocking himself out. He runs away, but Gavin catches him as he tries climbing up another tree. The adults come running by and they discover Pete. They land on a branch and Pete hangs onto her, but Natalie drops a few feet and gets a scrape. She slips and almost falls, but Pete catches her, causing them both to fall. Pete climbs a tree, and Natalie does the same. Natalie then sees Pete in the woods and follows him. None of them are happy that Gavin is cutting down trees on his own accord. Gavin's brother Jack (Wes Bentley), also Grace's fiance, shows up along with his daughter Natalie (Oona Laurence), while Grace arrives on the scene. A group of lumberjacks led by Gavin (Karl Urban) are working in the woods, chopping down some trees. Grace thinks she hears something in the woods, but she sees nothing and leaves. When she's not looking, Pete sneaks by and takes a compass locket out of her bag. Grace is going through the woods doing her job while Pete observes her from a hiding place. Elliot also has the ability to turn invisible.

Together, Pete and Elliot fly above the woods. Pete catches a rabbit, but a bear lurks behind him. Pete (now played by Oakes Fegley) lives with Elliot the Dragon in the woods now. His daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), a park ranger, listens in on the story. Meacham (Robert Redford) is telling a group of kids a story about the dragon that lives in the woods. He gets into the dragon's left paw and it flies away with Pete. The boy touches him, and the dragon's fur turns green. Pete asks the dragon if he is going to eat him. A pack of wolves come out and surround Pete, but they are scared off by the appearance of a large dragon. Pete wanders out of the car and into the woods all alone. A deer runs into the road and causes Pete's dad to swerve the car, causing an accident that kills Pete's parents. A little boy named Pete (Levi Alexander) is reading a book about a puppy named Elliot.

The opening scene begins with a family going on a car trip through the mountains.

The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Could the exciting stories of Grace's dad, Meacham, be true after all? Nearly six years later, a chance encounter with the kind forest ranger, Grace, will spark new interest in the fabled 'Millhaven Dragon' when a now-ten-year-old Pete claims that he has been living in the wilderness with his gentle, green-hued winged guardian, Elliot. Pete names the dragon 'Elliott' after the lost-puppy character in his favorite book.Дeep in the impenetrable and rain-soaked woods of the Pacific Northwest, where the legend of a mysterious creature that guards the forest still lives, the helpless five-year-old boy, Pete, gets stranded. A huge green dragon with wings and yellow eyes saves him, and boy and dragon quickly bond. Pete's parents die but Pete survives and is chased into the forest by a wolf pack. In 1977, 5-year-old Pete Healy and his parents are on a road trip when their car flips off the road following a near-collision with a deer.

Elliott seeks out Pete and Jack's brother Gavin sees him and organizes a posse to capture Elliott while Grace drives Pete, Natalie, and Meacham to the place where she found Pete. Six years later Ranger Graces finds Pete and takes him home, where he's welcomed by her father Meachim, her husband Jack, and her daughter Natalie. He runs to the forest and is surrounded by a wolf pack, but a dragon saves him and he names him Elliott.

Pete is traveling with his parents when there is a car accident on a rural road and only Pete survives.

The bear and the dragon summary