"The Cat's Hero"
LOG LINE: A cat sends his super human to a world infested by vampires to clean it up for his next life.
I am currently writing this project, but the design of the cat's conversation allows for the creation of multiple worlds for which many sequels could exist, including animations and/or video games (which would rock).
Basically, we have a bad-ass, very fast, very strong hero with lots of fight scenes.
I am currently writing this project, but the design of the cat's conversation allows for the creation of multiple worlds for which many sequels could exist, including animations and/or video games (which would rock).
Basically, we have a bad-ass, very fast, very strong hero with lots of fight scenes.
THE CAT'S HERO
SCENE 1
SUPERIMPOSE
In a world not too unlike our own, two cats were having a conversation.
EXT. WORLD 1 HOUSE
FLOWERBED
One cat, a burly tan and brown with Siamese features sprawled indolently on top of soft blue flowers in the human's flowerbed. He is talking at length about his latest project, teleportation. The other cat, a fiery striped tom, studiously pretends to be more interested in the flight patterns of a little yellow moth while listening with growing interest.
SIAM
So I figured, maybe the problem I'm running into is calculating the density of the matter I hadn't considered that might exist. So I had to come up with a conpensation variable that worked with the constant of what I don't know.
TOM
Inconstant.
SIAM
What?
TOM
What you don't know can't very well always be constant as the world is constantly changing in inconstant ways thus making your constant an inconstant.
SIAM
Don't be ridiculous," (twitching his tail like a snake) The constant variable I conceived included the inconstancy of the considerably insignificant amount that I might not know at any conceived moment. (He sighs in exasperation and yowls for the human to bring him something to eat).
The human appears promptly bearing a saucer filled with canned shrimp.
TOM
Your human is fast.
SIAM
I know how to train them. (He stalks in front of the saucer protectively.) But don't think too highly of him. I've barely managed to teach him three words.
TOM
I know what you mean. My human is completely dense. That's why I often visit with the human across the street. She's lonely, but she has good chicken.
SIAM
Mmm. I like chicken. (He sniffS the shrimp tentatively and deciding it wasn't poisoned, he took a disinterested bite). Still, it's nice having a useful human around. My last human was completely useless. I was reduced to eating scraps from the table with all sorts of filthy indigestable spices. I've never been so maltreated in all my life. If the humans weren't so incapable of understanding even the simplest words I would have had her dragged into the sewer and used to fatten the rats.
TOM
I thought you've been with this human all your life.
SIAM
I'm not talking about this life. My last life. It was impossible. Filthy planet. Monsters everywhere. Only death could get the stench out.
TOM
How many lives do you have left? I mean, you've got to have had at least seven.
SIAM
How rude!
TOM
Well, I'm just saying, you're no young soul.
SIAM
One of these days, you're going to say the wrong thing to the wrong cat and then you'll find out how many lives you have left.
TOM
No need to get testy. Im just speaking the truth.
SIAM
Anyway, I've decided I'm going to take this human with me to my next life. He's useful and feeds me on time. And he's good enough to put in a door that I can use and he keeps the house comfortable.
TOM
Well, how are you going to get him to wherever you're going?
SIAM
I'm going to teleport him there. Any two-life old cat knows how to teleport.
TOM
True, but how will you know where you're going? I mean, it's a new life? You can't possibly know where you'll end up, can you?
SIAM
You're young yet, so you couldn't possibly understand what a cat of FIVE LIVES knows. It's genius really, if I do say so myself (gloating). I figure that since I'll never be able to know exactly where I'm going to be in the next life, I'll simply teleport a copy of the human everywhere."
TOM
What?
SIAM
I win out because I still have him here with me and a million copies of him will be on other worlds preparing it for my arrival."
TOM
Does he know about this?
SIAM
Oh, please. I have to draw out every word of simple requests and repeaat them just so he can understand when I'm hungry. He can't begin to understand the implications of the spacial dynamics of teleportation. I just have to get him there and hope he figures it out, so that when I arrive I'm well-cared for.
TOM
I guess you've figured everything out.
SIAM
Of course I have. Down to the constant of the variable of the persistently small yet knowable inconstant of my what I don't know.
SCENE 2
EXT. ANOTHER WORLD
Clouds rolling with dark, electric currents accumulate above over a small town nestled in a valley. A girl looks out the window of one of the houses from behind closed curtains.
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
VAL
What do you suppose?
MADDOX (Val's Father)
(peers out from behind her) I don't know, but come away from the window. It's almost night.
EXT. WORLD 2 STREET
A giant bolt of lightning rips from the sky and the cat's human stands in the deserted street, wisps of smoke rising from his body. He's naked and there's not a sound. He doesn't see anyone. It's twilight. The houses on either side of the street look deserted. Dust billows in the air. He looks down at his naked body and then looks back up at the town.
LEO (The Cat's Hero)
This is that cat's fault.
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
VAL
Who is he?
MADDOX
I don't know. But he's gonna get himself killed standing in the street at dusk.
ENOCH (an old man)
Well you can't bring him in here. It's too late in the day. The scent trail'll lead 'em straight here. They'll kill us all.
VAL
(looks defiant and ties her hair back) You stay here. I'm going to help him.
ENOCH
(grabs Val by the wrist) You'll get us all killed.
VAL
Let me go. (She pulls herself free) Dad. Turn on the misters.
Maddox flips a switch.
EXT. WORLD 2 YARD
lawn sprinkers rise up labeled and spray a fine mist into the air.
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
ENOCH
That's the last of the garlic water.
VAL
We'll get more.
MADDOX
I'm coming with you.
VAL
No. I need you on crossbow duty. I've got this.
SCENE 3
EXT. WORLD 1 HOUSE
FLOWERBED
TOM
So wait, I can understand your wanting to keep a useful human waiting for you in your next life, but weren't you saying there were monsters in some worlds?
SIAM
You have no idea. How old did you say you were? Two lives?
TOM
Three.
SIAM
I've had lives that would blow your mind. There are worlds with monsters that would scare the fur off your back.
TOM
Yeah, so no offense, but your human may be good in the kitchen but what's he going to do against monsters?
SIAM
I told you. I thought of everything. My copying and teleporting process allows for some enhancements. I've made him stronger, faster, BETTER! I've improved his fighting instincts far beyond any normal human. He should be more than a match for a vampire.
TOM
Vampires?
SIAM
You'd be surprised how many worlds are overrun with vampires. Vicious, blood-thirsty, raveonous monsters. They're sadistically cruel, astoundingly fast. And worst of all... (lowers voice) they have a hunger for cat blood.
TOM
Cat blood! Disgusting. I thought vampires just liked humans, like zombies.
SIAM
Never believe it. They'd suck you dry and squeeze your tail for the last drop.
TOM
I've never seen a vampire.
SIAM
Lucky you. You know Fern, the yellow cat down the block? She told me she's been killed five times by vampires. Oddly, this world has surprisingly few vampires. But I've lived in worlds where cats were high-priced black market commodities. I was sucked dry in my second life.
TOM
Disgraceful!
SIAM
That's why I've enhanced my human. I won't be eaten again, I tell you that much.
TOM
Can he fly?
SIAM
Don't be absurd. His head's big enough as it is. I wouldn't want it filled with delusions of grandeur.
TOM
So does he know he's stronger in these other worlds?
SIAM
I'm sure he'll figure it out. The humans are daft, but they're good with tools.
END.
SCENE 4
EXT. WORLD 2 STREET
The cat's human stands naked in the street. The sun sinks below the horizon.
In the distance, a church-bell tolls. A flock of ravens is startled from a hilltop and when the human looks, he sees a silhouette of a man.
LEO
Hello!
The vampire rushes down the hill and grabs Leo by the throat in an instant.
VAMPIRE 1
I love when I don't have to hunt.
A stake bursts through the vampire's chest.
VAL
Do you like it when the food is bait?
The vampire explodes revealing Val.
VAL
(into radio) One down. (She looks at Leo) Are you nuts? Naked at twilight on the street?
LEO
What was that?
VAL
What was what?
LEO
The thing that you just exploded. He had me by my throat. You didn't notice?
VAL
You're telling me you've never seen a vampire before?
LEO
In the movies.
VAL
Well, this isn't a movie. And we've got to get out of here. There will be more of them. Lots more.
LEO
Vampires don't exist.
Val slaps Leo.
VAL
Vampires aren't like fairies. You can't kill them by disbelief. Now put these on. (She shoves a pair of sweat pants at him.) Follow me.
LEO
(slips on the sweat pants as Val walks away from him.) Wait!
VAL
Would you be quiet? What's wrong with you?
LEO
Look. I don't know where I am, much less anything about vampires. So, if you'll just direct me to the nearest looney bin.
VAL
Shh. We're being watched.
LEO
What? By vampires?
VAL
No. By mermaids. Yes by vampires, you idiot. Vampire dust is in the air. They can smell it, so they're being wary. But they're out there.
LEO
How many?
VAL
I forgot to take a poll. Now be quiet. (Val pulls a water balloon from her pouch.) When I run, you follow behind me as fast as you can.
She throws the balloon against a tree and it exploded with blood. Instantly, four vampires (Vampires 2, 3, 4, and 5) scrabble off of rooftops and run towards the blood.
VAL
Now!
Val takes off running towards the house with Leo right behind her. The vampires fight over the blood until Vampire 2 sees Val and Leo running. He takes off after them with incredible speed. Val and Leo sprinted toward the sprinkler system, but the vampire is faster. It bowls into Leo and he and Leo roll onto the ground.
Leo rolls quickly to his feet and sends a quick kick to the vampire's face. Vampire 3, a female vampires is right behind.
VAMPIRE 3
You're quick. I'm faster.
Vampire 3 slashes Leo in the face with her claws . Blood runs down his cheek. She is on him in a second, licking his face.
VAMPIRE 3
Mmm. You taste like cat.
VAMPIRE 2
(standing up) He's mine.
VAL
You've got other things to worry about. (She garlic maces Vampire 2 in the eyes and then drives a stake through his chest.)
Vampires 4 and 5 leave the tree blood and circle around.
LEO
Get off me. (Leo headbutts Vampire 3, jabs her in the chest with a fist to knock her back and then performs an impossible back-flip kick to knock her away.) I need a stake!
Val throws Leo a stake, and he spins just in time to avoid the Vampire 4's attack. He grabbed Vampire 4 by the wrist and flips him to the ground where he stakes him. Vampire 4 explodes.
VAMPIRE 3
You'll pay for that.
Vampire 3 charges at Leo, but he knees her in the chest, strikes her on the back of the neck and then throws her into the garlic mist. She screams bloody murder and starts to smoke. Val rolls into the mist and drives her stake into Vampire 3 where she explodes.
Vampire 5 is still circling.
VAMPIRE 5
I won't be that easy
A crossbow bolt took Vampire 5 in the chest and he explodes.
VAL
Follow me.
Val leads Leo into the house.
SCENE 5
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
ENOCH
I thought you said you weren't going to lead them back here.
VAL
Be quiet and help. He's been scratched. Get an injection ready.
ENOCH
We've only got a few left. You're using 'em up like they're candy.
VAL
Fine. We'll just let him live without it. He can sleep in your room with you.
Enoch grudgingly gets the kit from a cabinet. Maddox returns to the room.
VAL
Nice shot, Dad.
MADDOX
Thanks. (He pushed past her to glare at Leo.) Now are you going to tell me what the hell you were doing outside, naked at night? Do you have a deathwish?
LEO
I don't even know where I am.
MADDOX
What?
LEO
Where I come from, vampires are just myths. Movies and books and tv shows. One minute, I was feeding my cat, the next minute I'm here.
ENOCH
(laughs). A cat? He's definitely crazy. Nobody's seen a cat in years. Vampire delicacy they say.
Val is cleaning the cuts on Leo's face.
LEO
Jesus Christ. That stings.
ENOCH
Jesus Christ?! Wait. Are you going to tell me you're a Christian?
LEO
Last I checked. Why?
VAL
(applying bandage to Leo's face.) They fed the last Christian to the Demon Assembly twenty years ago.
LEO
The Demon Assembly?
VAL
There are two types of vampires. The Innocenze and the Blasphemers. The Innocenze are people who get bitten or scratched. If they don't receive treatment, the wound festers and before long...
MADDOX
They become children of the night.
LEO
Is this going to keep me from becoming a vampire? (indicating the bandage on his cheek)
VAL
No. This is. (Val fills a needle with a milky substance.)
MADDOX
What's that?
VAL
It's a mixture of garlic, echinacea, goldenseal and colloidal silver. It's going to burn like hell. The memory of it should keep you from getting scratched again. (She held Leo's eyes.) Dad. Hold his arm.
Maddox holds Leo's arm down while Val injects it with the needle. Immediately, Leo goes into spasms of pain. His eyes turn a bloodshot red and he thrashes and swears. His vision blurs but returns to normal.
ENOCH
Just breathe. You'll be alright in a few hours.
LEO
I'm fine now. (hops off the table).
VAL
That's impossible. I've never seen anyone respond that quickly.
MADDOX
Did you see him fighting? His reflexes were as fast as the vampire's. I've never seen anything like that.
VAL
The human walked to the window and looked out the curtain.
ENOCH
Keep the curtains closed. We have to keep a low profile at night.
LEO
There's a bunch of them out there.
ENOCH
That's because you led them here. Hopefully the misters will last until morning.
LEO
What's in those?"
MADDOX
Just garlic and water. Vampires hate garlic. It doesn't kill them but it burns and disorients.
LEO
So, those vampires outside are Inno...
MADDOX
Innocenze. The innocents. They're fast, strong, and stupid. Driven by an insatiable hunger.
LEO
And the others?
ENOCH
The others are Blasphemers. Evil to the core, they're something else entirely. They chose to be what they are through a blood ritual. They think. And they're much stronger than the Innocenze, with strange powers to mesmerize and transform.
VAL
Their leaders make up the Demon Assembly. They rule over the slave pits. Tartaros is the nearest.
LEO
Slave pits?
VAL
Basically a human breeding ground. They farm humans like sheep so they don't have to hunt. There are human farms all over the world. The humans are used as slave labor and food. We're the lucky ones. We live outside their control. But we have to fight off Innocenze to stay alive.
ENOCH
And if the Blasphemers knew we were out here, they'd send a hunting party to get us. And they wouldn't care about garlic water.
LEO
Alrighty then. So, does anyone know where I can find a pair of ruby slippers? I'd like to go home now.
MADDOX
And home is where?
LEO
Somewhere vampires don't exist! Now, it's been great meeting you all. I've had a lovely time getting slashed and stabbed with needles and meeting creepy old people with tooth problems, but I want to wake up from this. Like now! (He clicks his heels three times.) There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. (He opened his eyes and everyone was staring at him.)
ENOCH
Crazy.
end.
SCENE 6
EXT. MANSION ON HILL
A sleek limousine drives up a winding path to a mansion on a hill. The car stops in front. The driver gets out and opens the back door. A beautiful woman (Darah) mists out of the car in a purplish black smoke more than steps out. She glides up the steps of the mansion and is greeted by a servant.
SERVANT
The master is out back. In the gazebo.
Darah dissolves into smoke and flows around the house into the garden and to the gazebo where she solidifies next to a man (Emakrof) exquisitely dressed in the finest suit, smoking a cigar.
DARAH
Why do you smoke those things? They smell terrible.
EMAKROF
But they mask the scent of vampire dust and garlic in the air. Tell me you didn't smell it.
DARAH
The air reeks with it.
EMAKROF
We''ll have to teach the outliers a lesson. We can't have them killing us with impunity.
DARAH
Surely they were just the innocenze.
EMAKROF
Does it matter? The Innocenze are our children. Killing them fills the human heart with bravery. Bravery is power. Let them dine on bravery and they will want a feast. When their bravado grows strong enough, they will come after the Demon Assembly, bringing their fires to our doors while we sleep. We must teach them fear and death long before that happens.
End.
SCENE 1
SUPERIMPOSE
In a world not too unlike our own, two cats were having a conversation.
EXT. WORLD 1 HOUSE
FLOWERBED
One cat, a burly tan and brown with Siamese features sprawled indolently on top of soft blue flowers in the human's flowerbed. He is talking at length about his latest project, teleportation. The other cat, a fiery striped tom, studiously pretends to be more interested in the flight patterns of a little yellow moth while listening with growing interest.
SIAM
So I figured, maybe the problem I'm running into is calculating the density of the matter I hadn't considered that might exist. So I had to come up with a conpensation variable that worked with the constant of what I don't know.
TOM
Inconstant.
SIAM
What?
TOM
What you don't know can't very well always be constant as the world is constantly changing in inconstant ways thus making your constant an inconstant.
SIAM
Don't be ridiculous," (twitching his tail like a snake) The constant variable I conceived included the inconstancy of the considerably insignificant amount that I might not know at any conceived moment. (He sighs in exasperation and yowls for the human to bring him something to eat).
The human appears promptly bearing a saucer filled with canned shrimp.
TOM
Your human is fast.
SIAM
I know how to train them. (He stalks in front of the saucer protectively.) But don't think too highly of him. I've barely managed to teach him three words.
TOM
I know what you mean. My human is completely dense. That's why I often visit with the human across the street. She's lonely, but she has good chicken.
SIAM
Mmm. I like chicken. (He sniffS the shrimp tentatively and deciding it wasn't poisoned, he took a disinterested bite). Still, it's nice having a useful human around. My last human was completely useless. I was reduced to eating scraps from the table with all sorts of filthy indigestable spices. I've never been so maltreated in all my life. If the humans weren't so incapable of understanding even the simplest words I would have had her dragged into the sewer and used to fatten the rats.
TOM
I thought you've been with this human all your life.
SIAM
I'm not talking about this life. My last life. It was impossible. Filthy planet. Monsters everywhere. Only death could get the stench out.
TOM
How many lives do you have left? I mean, you've got to have had at least seven.
SIAM
How rude!
TOM
Well, I'm just saying, you're no young soul.
SIAM
One of these days, you're going to say the wrong thing to the wrong cat and then you'll find out how many lives you have left.
TOM
No need to get testy. Im just speaking the truth.
SIAM
Anyway, I've decided I'm going to take this human with me to my next life. He's useful and feeds me on time. And he's good enough to put in a door that I can use and he keeps the house comfortable.
TOM
Well, how are you going to get him to wherever you're going?
SIAM
I'm going to teleport him there. Any two-life old cat knows how to teleport.
TOM
True, but how will you know where you're going? I mean, it's a new life? You can't possibly know where you'll end up, can you?
SIAM
You're young yet, so you couldn't possibly understand what a cat of FIVE LIVES knows. It's genius really, if I do say so myself (gloating). I figure that since I'll never be able to know exactly where I'm going to be in the next life, I'll simply teleport a copy of the human everywhere."
TOM
What?
SIAM
I win out because I still have him here with me and a million copies of him will be on other worlds preparing it for my arrival."
TOM
Does he know about this?
SIAM
Oh, please. I have to draw out every word of simple requests and repeaat them just so he can understand when I'm hungry. He can't begin to understand the implications of the spacial dynamics of teleportation. I just have to get him there and hope he figures it out, so that when I arrive I'm well-cared for.
TOM
I guess you've figured everything out.
SIAM
Of course I have. Down to the constant of the variable of the persistently small yet knowable inconstant of my what I don't know.
SCENE 2
EXT. ANOTHER WORLD
Clouds rolling with dark, electric currents accumulate above over a small town nestled in a valley. A girl looks out the window of one of the houses from behind closed curtains.
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
VAL
What do you suppose?
MADDOX (Val's Father)
(peers out from behind her) I don't know, but come away from the window. It's almost night.
EXT. WORLD 2 STREET
A giant bolt of lightning rips from the sky and the cat's human stands in the deserted street, wisps of smoke rising from his body. He's naked and there's not a sound. He doesn't see anyone. It's twilight. The houses on either side of the street look deserted. Dust billows in the air. He looks down at his naked body and then looks back up at the town.
LEO (The Cat's Hero)
This is that cat's fault.
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
VAL
Who is he?
MADDOX
I don't know. But he's gonna get himself killed standing in the street at dusk.
ENOCH (an old man)
Well you can't bring him in here. It's too late in the day. The scent trail'll lead 'em straight here. They'll kill us all.
VAL
(looks defiant and ties her hair back) You stay here. I'm going to help him.
ENOCH
(grabs Val by the wrist) You'll get us all killed.
VAL
Let me go. (She pulls herself free) Dad. Turn on the misters.
Maddox flips a switch.
EXT. WORLD 2 YARD
lawn sprinkers rise up labeled and spray a fine mist into the air.
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
ENOCH
That's the last of the garlic water.
VAL
We'll get more.
MADDOX
I'm coming with you.
VAL
No. I need you on crossbow duty. I've got this.
SCENE 3
EXT. WORLD 1 HOUSE
FLOWERBED
TOM
So wait, I can understand your wanting to keep a useful human waiting for you in your next life, but weren't you saying there were monsters in some worlds?
SIAM
You have no idea. How old did you say you were? Two lives?
TOM
Three.
SIAM
I've had lives that would blow your mind. There are worlds with monsters that would scare the fur off your back.
TOM
Yeah, so no offense, but your human may be good in the kitchen but what's he going to do against monsters?
SIAM
I told you. I thought of everything. My copying and teleporting process allows for some enhancements. I've made him stronger, faster, BETTER! I've improved his fighting instincts far beyond any normal human. He should be more than a match for a vampire.
TOM
Vampires?
SIAM
You'd be surprised how many worlds are overrun with vampires. Vicious, blood-thirsty, raveonous monsters. They're sadistically cruel, astoundingly fast. And worst of all... (lowers voice) they have a hunger for cat blood.
TOM
Cat blood! Disgusting. I thought vampires just liked humans, like zombies.
SIAM
Never believe it. They'd suck you dry and squeeze your tail for the last drop.
TOM
I've never seen a vampire.
SIAM
Lucky you. You know Fern, the yellow cat down the block? She told me she's been killed five times by vampires. Oddly, this world has surprisingly few vampires. But I've lived in worlds where cats were high-priced black market commodities. I was sucked dry in my second life.
TOM
Disgraceful!
SIAM
That's why I've enhanced my human. I won't be eaten again, I tell you that much.
TOM
Can he fly?
SIAM
Don't be absurd. His head's big enough as it is. I wouldn't want it filled with delusions of grandeur.
TOM
So does he know he's stronger in these other worlds?
SIAM
I'm sure he'll figure it out. The humans are daft, but they're good with tools.
END.
SCENE 4
EXT. WORLD 2 STREET
The cat's human stands naked in the street. The sun sinks below the horizon.
In the distance, a church-bell tolls. A flock of ravens is startled from a hilltop and when the human looks, he sees a silhouette of a man.
LEO
Hello!
The vampire rushes down the hill and grabs Leo by the throat in an instant.
VAMPIRE 1
I love when I don't have to hunt.
A stake bursts through the vampire's chest.
VAL
Do you like it when the food is bait?
The vampire explodes revealing Val.
VAL
(into radio) One down. (She looks at Leo) Are you nuts? Naked at twilight on the street?
LEO
What was that?
VAL
What was what?
LEO
The thing that you just exploded. He had me by my throat. You didn't notice?
VAL
You're telling me you've never seen a vampire before?
LEO
In the movies.
VAL
Well, this isn't a movie. And we've got to get out of here. There will be more of them. Lots more.
LEO
Vampires don't exist.
Val slaps Leo.
VAL
Vampires aren't like fairies. You can't kill them by disbelief. Now put these on. (She shoves a pair of sweat pants at him.) Follow me.
LEO
(slips on the sweat pants as Val walks away from him.) Wait!
VAL
Would you be quiet? What's wrong with you?
LEO
Look. I don't know where I am, much less anything about vampires. So, if you'll just direct me to the nearest looney bin.
VAL
Shh. We're being watched.
LEO
What? By vampires?
VAL
No. By mermaids. Yes by vampires, you idiot. Vampire dust is in the air. They can smell it, so they're being wary. But they're out there.
LEO
How many?
VAL
I forgot to take a poll. Now be quiet. (Val pulls a water balloon from her pouch.) When I run, you follow behind me as fast as you can.
She throws the balloon against a tree and it exploded with blood. Instantly, four vampires (Vampires 2, 3, 4, and 5) scrabble off of rooftops and run towards the blood.
VAL
Now!
Val takes off running towards the house with Leo right behind her. The vampires fight over the blood until Vampire 2 sees Val and Leo running. He takes off after them with incredible speed. Val and Leo sprinted toward the sprinkler system, but the vampire is faster. It bowls into Leo and he and Leo roll onto the ground.
Leo rolls quickly to his feet and sends a quick kick to the vampire's face. Vampire 3, a female vampires is right behind.
VAMPIRE 3
You're quick. I'm faster.
Vampire 3 slashes Leo in the face with her claws . Blood runs down his cheek. She is on him in a second, licking his face.
VAMPIRE 3
Mmm. You taste like cat.
VAMPIRE 2
(standing up) He's mine.
VAL
You've got other things to worry about. (She garlic maces Vampire 2 in the eyes and then drives a stake through his chest.)
Vampires 4 and 5 leave the tree blood and circle around.
LEO
Get off me. (Leo headbutts Vampire 3, jabs her in the chest with a fist to knock her back and then performs an impossible back-flip kick to knock her away.) I need a stake!
Val throws Leo a stake, and he spins just in time to avoid the Vampire 4's attack. He grabbed Vampire 4 by the wrist and flips him to the ground where he stakes him. Vampire 4 explodes.
VAMPIRE 3
You'll pay for that.
Vampire 3 charges at Leo, but he knees her in the chest, strikes her on the back of the neck and then throws her into the garlic mist. She screams bloody murder and starts to smoke. Val rolls into the mist and drives her stake into Vampire 3 where she explodes.
Vampire 5 is still circling.
VAMPIRE 5
I won't be that easy
A crossbow bolt took Vampire 5 in the chest and he explodes.
VAL
Follow me.
Val leads Leo into the house.
SCENE 5
INT. WORLD 2 HOUSE
ENOCH
I thought you said you weren't going to lead them back here.
VAL
Be quiet and help. He's been scratched. Get an injection ready.
ENOCH
We've only got a few left. You're using 'em up like they're candy.
VAL
Fine. We'll just let him live without it. He can sleep in your room with you.
Enoch grudgingly gets the kit from a cabinet. Maddox returns to the room.
VAL
Nice shot, Dad.
MADDOX
Thanks. (He pushed past her to glare at Leo.) Now are you going to tell me what the hell you were doing outside, naked at night? Do you have a deathwish?
LEO
I don't even know where I am.
MADDOX
What?
LEO
Where I come from, vampires are just myths. Movies and books and tv shows. One minute, I was feeding my cat, the next minute I'm here.
ENOCH
(laughs). A cat? He's definitely crazy. Nobody's seen a cat in years. Vampire delicacy they say.
Val is cleaning the cuts on Leo's face.
LEO
Jesus Christ. That stings.
ENOCH
Jesus Christ?! Wait. Are you going to tell me you're a Christian?
LEO
Last I checked. Why?
VAL
(applying bandage to Leo's face.) They fed the last Christian to the Demon Assembly twenty years ago.
LEO
The Demon Assembly?
VAL
There are two types of vampires. The Innocenze and the Blasphemers. The Innocenze are people who get bitten or scratched. If they don't receive treatment, the wound festers and before long...
MADDOX
They become children of the night.
LEO
Is this going to keep me from becoming a vampire? (indicating the bandage on his cheek)
VAL
No. This is. (Val fills a needle with a milky substance.)
MADDOX
What's that?
VAL
It's a mixture of garlic, echinacea, goldenseal and colloidal silver. It's going to burn like hell. The memory of it should keep you from getting scratched again. (She held Leo's eyes.) Dad. Hold his arm.
Maddox holds Leo's arm down while Val injects it with the needle. Immediately, Leo goes into spasms of pain. His eyes turn a bloodshot red and he thrashes and swears. His vision blurs but returns to normal.
ENOCH
Just breathe. You'll be alright in a few hours.
LEO
I'm fine now. (hops off the table).
VAL
That's impossible. I've never seen anyone respond that quickly.
MADDOX
Did you see him fighting? His reflexes were as fast as the vampire's. I've never seen anything like that.
VAL
The human walked to the window and looked out the curtain.
ENOCH
Keep the curtains closed. We have to keep a low profile at night.
LEO
There's a bunch of them out there.
ENOCH
That's because you led them here. Hopefully the misters will last until morning.
LEO
What's in those?"
MADDOX
Just garlic and water. Vampires hate garlic. It doesn't kill them but it burns and disorients.
LEO
So, those vampires outside are Inno...
MADDOX
Innocenze. The innocents. They're fast, strong, and stupid. Driven by an insatiable hunger.
LEO
And the others?
ENOCH
The others are Blasphemers. Evil to the core, they're something else entirely. They chose to be what they are through a blood ritual. They think. And they're much stronger than the Innocenze, with strange powers to mesmerize and transform.
VAL
Their leaders make up the Demon Assembly. They rule over the slave pits. Tartaros is the nearest.
LEO
Slave pits?
VAL
Basically a human breeding ground. They farm humans like sheep so they don't have to hunt. There are human farms all over the world. The humans are used as slave labor and food. We're the lucky ones. We live outside their control. But we have to fight off Innocenze to stay alive.
ENOCH
And if the Blasphemers knew we were out here, they'd send a hunting party to get us. And they wouldn't care about garlic water.
LEO
Alrighty then. So, does anyone know where I can find a pair of ruby slippers? I'd like to go home now.
MADDOX
And home is where?
LEO
Somewhere vampires don't exist! Now, it's been great meeting you all. I've had a lovely time getting slashed and stabbed with needles and meeting creepy old people with tooth problems, but I want to wake up from this. Like now! (He clicks his heels three times.) There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. (He opened his eyes and everyone was staring at him.)
ENOCH
Crazy.
end.
SCENE 6
EXT. MANSION ON HILL
A sleek limousine drives up a winding path to a mansion on a hill. The car stops in front. The driver gets out and opens the back door. A beautiful woman (Darah) mists out of the car in a purplish black smoke more than steps out. She glides up the steps of the mansion and is greeted by a servant.
SERVANT
The master is out back. In the gazebo.
Darah dissolves into smoke and flows around the house into the garden and to the gazebo where she solidifies next to a man (Emakrof) exquisitely dressed in the finest suit, smoking a cigar.
DARAH
Why do you smoke those things? They smell terrible.
EMAKROF
But they mask the scent of vampire dust and garlic in the air. Tell me you didn't smell it.
DARAH
The air reeks with it.
EMAKROF
We''ll have to teach the outliers a lesson. We can't have them killing us with impunity.
DARAH
Surely they were just the innocenze.
EMAKROF
Does it matter? The Innocenze are our children. Killing them fills the human heart with bravery. Bravery is power. Let them dine on bravery and they will want a feast. When their bravado grows strong enough, they will come after the Demon Assembly, bringing their fires to our doors while we sleep. We must teach them fear and death long before that happens.
End.