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The main trio discovers weird occurrences coming from a mansion uptown. |
| FADE IN: EXT.FIELD (DAVID, ROSE AND GREG'S HOME) - DAY WIDE SHOT The field contains yellowed grass with sand on the ground. It borders a beach to the south and west, a sprawling dark forest covered with thick black clouds to the east and run-down streets of a small town to the north. ROSE, 16, is laying down on her back in the field reading an old book while holding a bright blue rose dripping out blue slime in her mouth. A rusty van is parked on one side of the field. GREG, Rose's 8-year old brother, is in a bed of dandelions on another side of the field watching a glowing SQUIRREL scurry across the field. focus on: Rose. The cover of the book can be seen. It reads "ON MAGIC AND SPELL-CASTING" and has a picture of a fairy on the cover. She reaches out her hand, closes her eyes tightly as an extremely small spark comes out her hand. She SIGHS. MRS. WILLIAMS, a very skinny middle-age woman wearing dirty, torn clothing approaches her from behind. MRS.WILLIAMS Oh,excuse me ma'am. Rose looks up with the flower still in her mouth. ROSE Hm? MRS.WILLIAMS Well I'm sorry to bother you, but recent events have (beat) inconvenienced me and my family. ROSE (interested tone) Your family? (beat) Well what happened? MRS.WILLIAMS Well, my husband got abducted by ghosts (rolling eyes) again, and it's really been hard for me to afford his bills. ROSE Well, times have been hard on us too. Just looks at us (points to Greg and the van) at least your family has a home. MRS.WILLIAMS (looking down) Well I'm sorry, it's just that -- Rose stands up, and looks at her. ROSE You just wanna cancel on us, despite everything we've done to protect your family, and on such short notice? Rose walks around and puts her hand on her forehead in anger. Mrs. Williams nervously looks to the side and nods her head in a barley noticeable manner. Rose deeply exhales. ROSE Fine, whatever. Tell you what, because of your conditions, you'll only have to pay half your cancellation fee. Sound good? MRS.WILLIAMS Oh,thank you so much. ROSE Yeah, yeah. Don't mention it. The woman walks away. INT. DAVID'S VAN - DAY The van contains shelves of books and potions. A broken mattress and scattered pieces of paper lie on the floor. DAVID, 19, is sitting at the drivers seat poorly PRONOUNCING incantations in a Latin-like language from a book of smells. With a slight smile, he uses a cheap wooden spoon to mix a green potion in a black, rusty kitchen pot on top of an cheap electric burner. Rose swings open the door, yanks potions from the shelf and throws them in her book-bag. David takes an annoyed breath as he faces Rose. ROSE Oh hey David. What you making in there? Dinner or potions? DAVID Rose, what the hell are you doing? Rose glances at the potions, then to David. ROSE Look, this one isn't my fault. That selfish bitch just canceled her insurance. She looks back at the potions with glowing eyes. ROSE (CONT.) I'm just gonna remind her what she's missing. David stands between her and the potions DAVID C'mon Rose, it's really important that we're someone this town can look up to. (examining a potion) If we just exploit them for money, we'll betray that trust. Rose slides David away and her eyes glow while grabs more potions. David slaps a potion out of her hand. ROSE C'mon, get real. We can't only rely on the public's feelings forever. David rolls his eyes. Rose, meanwhile, continues to take potions. ROSE Everybody liking you can't be spent on buying food and clothes for your little brother. David SIGHS. ROSE Which let me remind you, was dragged out from his comfy home on the other side of the country to fulfill your monster fighting fantasy. DAVID I get it! David punches her in the face. Rose laughs as her face bleeds and knocks him down with a punch in the stomach. David gets up, grabs her waist and pins her down, breaking some potions in the process. Rose, laughing, kicks him in the face and frees herself from his grip. David hesitates for a second as he looks at Rose's bleeding and giggling face, then punches her strong enough to throw her out of the van. EXT. DAVID'S VAN - CONTINUOUS Rose, bleeding, gets up, grabs her bag and sticks her tongue out at David. ROSE Whatever, I still got everything I wanted. David wipes off some blood from his face and stares at Rose angrily. EXT. FIELD - CONTINUOUS Greg is watching the two with an unsurprised expression. Rose walks past him. ROSE Come on Greg, let's go on an adventure. Greg shrugs, grabs his magic dagger and runs after Rose. EXT. "BEACH AVENUE" - DAY - TRACKING Rose and Greg are walking down a nearly empty small downtown street along the beach. The sidewalks are covered in trash and most of the storefronts are empty and deteriorating. A teenage werewolf boy in raggedy clothing and asking for money on the sidewalk, but gets scorned by people walking passed him. protesters in old clothes on the side of the street YELLING while holding signs reading "MONSTERS GET OUT OF HERE" and "WHERE ARE OUR GUARDIANS?" A magical SKELETON sleeping on the sidewalk, using newspaper as blankets. Greg accidentally steps on one of its newspapers. SKELETON Do you mind? Greg looks at the skeleton apologetically and scurries to Rose. ROSE Man, what a shithole. Greg's eyes narrow. ROSE (nudging Greg) Am I right? One of the protesters throws a rotten egg at Rose's face. PROTESTER (screaming) That'll teach you, witch! Greg looks at Rose scared as she takes a deep breath. ROSE (smiling) Let's get out of here. EXT. MRS. WILLIAMS'S HOUSE Rose and Greg are standing in front of a broken, run down house with cracked windows. The houses around it are similarly run-down with many of them having faded-out "FOR SALE" signs. Rose kneels down holding a potion in front of Greg. ROSE Look, all you gotta do is throw this little potion, at that big house over there. You think you can handle that big man? Greg takes the potion from her hand and looks around it for a second. He shrugs and throws it at the house causing a small explosion filled with spirits to fly out. Rose looks at Greg with eyes widened with excitement. She hugs him and playfully ruffles his hair ROSE Good job Greg! Greg looks confused. ROSE (handing him another potion) Here try it again! Greg grabs it and tosses it at the house. Rose, meanwhile, is hastily grabbing potions from her bag and chucking them while giggling like a child. Rose reaches in to her bag to grab another potion, but gets distracted and starts staring, blank-faced, at swirling vortex coming from an old MANSION down the street. Greg looks over at and starts pulling at her shoulder confused. Rose, smiling and giggling, slowly walks towards the vortex. ROSE I wanna go there. Greg stares at both the MANSION, and Rose with a confused/inquisitive expression INT. DAVID'S VAN - DAY - TRAVELING David is recklessly driving the van to the possessed house with Greg buckled in the passenger's seat and Rose standing in between them, holding their chairs while smiling excitedly. DAVID So you said there was a giant black vortex coming from a big house. ROSE (ferociously nodding head) Uh huh! Uh huh! (pointing to the house) Like that one! David slams his foot on the break stopping the van in front of the house. He looks at it while sweating nervously. DAVID (stuttering) Yep, that's definitely haunted. (looking at Rose and Greg) We should check to see if anyone's trapped inside. ROSE Yeah, adventure! Rose jumps out of the car and starts running towards it. DAVID (screaming) Rose, get back here! You don't have any gear! focused on DAVID DAVID I mean who does she think she is, running into such a dangerous place with no... Greg with his hand on the car door. David rolls his eyes and SIGHS. EXT.DAVID'S VAN - DAY (LATER) The three of them wearing bright yellow jackets covered in scratches and holes poorly patched with duct tape. Greg's jacket is too big while Rose's is too small. Rose is standing with her arms crossed. Greg sniffs his jacket, and reels in disgust. DAVID I know they're not the most fashionable, but these jackets are infused with an ectoplasmic resistance spell that could very well save your lives if a ghost attacks you. ROSE (childish) OK, I get it. Now when do we start the adventure. DAVID Soon enough. You all remembered your weapons, right? Rose lifts her fists and her gloves become large and metallic. ROSE (sighing) Yes. Greg takes out his dagger from his pocket and has it magically transform into a sword. David pulls out his magic bow from his backpack. He looks back at the house and starts sweating. DAVID (nervous) Well (beat) Then I guess we're good to go right guys? ROSE Yeah Greg, let's go! Rose runs straight to the entrance of the MANSION. Greg follows at a slower pace while looking around at the yard, fascinated. David stares at it for a second, closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and stands up straight. DAVID (to himself) You know, this doesn't get any easier the more I do it. He slowly takes his first step towards the MANSION. INT. MANSION/LIVING ROOM - DAY The living room is filled with expensive furniture torn to shreds. China and glass are shattered all over the floor. And the floor itself, which varied between hard wood, ceramic and fir carpeting were now filled with cracks and holes and had a thick black liquid oozing out of them. Directly in front of them is a wooden staircase filled with holes, splinters and some steps completely missing. Glass SHATTERING can be heard as David gets out his flashlight and lingers forward. DAVID (quiet; nervous) Hello, anybody home? Rose pushes past him and runs to the center of the room. ROSE (screaming; echoing) Hey, we're here to rescue you. The entire house shakes and makes a GROWLING sound. ROSE (giggling) Ooh. A small silhouette of RALPH quickly flies by in the back of the room. Some floor in front of Rose collapses in on itself. She leaps back, landing on her butt, and stares at the hole. Greg, meanwhile, is focused at the ceiling where Ralph was. David just stares at the two nervously DAVID Guys, we shouldn't be messing around. We gotta fix whatever is causing this. Rose ignores David and just stares at the hole. Her eyes then glance at a broken-down staircase at the side of the room. ROSE (excited) Ooh, what's up there? She gets up and runs towards it. DAVID (nervously following her) Rose, where you going? Greg continues to look around the living room curious, without noticing that they've left. STAIRS Rose excitedly runs up the long staircase with David slowly following. The surroundings get darker as the first floor no longer becomes visible. David slows down and looks at the dark abyss the below the staircase. DAVID What the? As he puts his foot on the next step, it collapses, sending him falling part-way through. He hurriedly grips onto the next one. DAVID (screaming) Rose! Rose turns around and worriedly runs back to David, grabs his arm and pulls him up partway. She stops when she notices a human-sized spirit made of black smoke with two glowing white eyes floating around at the top of the steps. A smile slowly forms on her face as she stares at it. DAVID Rose, what are you thinking? ROSE Hey you can hold on for one more second right? Rose while glancing back and forth between David and the spirit, slowly starts to loosen his grip on David's hand. DAVID Rose? ROSE Don't worry, I'll be right back. Rose lets go and runs after the spirit as David slowly falls back through the hole. DAVID (screaming) ROSE! INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY Greg is staring intently at the crack. He looks away, looks and his eyes widen as he notices that David and Rose are long gone. He shrugs, then looks around with his flashlight. He points it to ooze coming from the cracks forming into a trail growing thicker and deeper into the house. Glass CRACKS as he follows the trail along the increasingly dark hallway while looking around curiously. Intelligible WHISPERING follows him and gets louder the more he walks. Greg stops startled as a WHISPERING spirit zooms behind him. The spirit flies into a room emanating a bright white light. Greg looks at the room inquisitively and scurries into it. INT. HALLWAY Rose stops at the top of the staircase and stares at the spirit. It's leaving a trail of black ooze wherever it moves. It picks up a lamp and wraps it with thick black spiderwebs it shot from its mouth. ROSE Ew! The spirit jolts around to face Rose and its eyes start glowing brighter. It fires a blast of ooze at Rose, but she dodges it. Rose transforms her gloves into metal fists and charges at it. Rose punches with her left hand, but the spirit shifts to the side to dodge. She punches a couple more times, and the spirit manages to dodge them as well. While punching, she successfully kicks the spirit to the ground. Two black slime arms come out from the floor and grab her legs, knocking her to the ground. She kicks her way free of them, but gets her left arm grabbed by a slime hand appearing from the wall. The spirit flies to the other end of the hall. ROSE You're not getting away that easy. She punches the arm hard enough to make it explode into black slime, runs over to the spirit and punches it to the ground. Rose clenches and then doubles the size of her metal fists, crushes the spirit, spraying black goop everywhere. David limps up from the stares, with scratches and bruises around his body. DAVID Well, I finally made it out of there. No thanks to you. ROSE Hey, look what I did. Rose holds up an armful of slime that was formerly the spirit in front of David. DAVID Who cares? You left me practically fall to my death. ROSE Well excuse me. It's not my fault that while you were busy bumbling through the stairs, I actually got something done. DAVID You know what? SCREAMING is coming from one of the doors. DAVID What was that? Rose's eyes glow in excitement and she runs to the door. David pans his flashlight around the hall. DAVID Where are you goi ... David stops the light at a door leaking black ooze. INT. GUEST ROOM The room contains rich, beautiful white furniture that was smashed and thrown on the ground. The floor is scattered with children's toys and crayon drawings. Greg picks up some of the drawings and looks through them. All of them are of a happy stick figure family doing fun activities such as playing baseball or telling campfire stories. While looking through the pictures a toy dump truck falls from one of the shelves. He drops the drawings as his eyes glow in excitement. He quickly closes his eyes and shakes his head, looking guilty. Here-opens them and focuses excitedly on more toys in the room. He looks down nervously for a second, but quickly falls down to start playing with them. A dark patch of ooze starts to grow in front of Greg, and he moves back startled. RALPH, a young boy with glowing white eyes and a skeleton body surrounded by jet black ooze, pops out from it SCREAMING. INT. HALLWAY David stares at the door sweating while Rose sniffs it like a dog. The SCREAMING stops. ROSE (shrugs) Oh well, guess they finally died. Can we go home now? This is getting real boring. David glares at Rose, kicks open the door and walks into the BEDROOM The floor, walls, ceiling and furniture are drenched black ooze and cobwebs. Rose feet SQUISH as she scurries around the room. David stands still at the doorway terrified, looking at the room. DAVID (stuttering) What's going on here? ROSE walking in front of two bodies hanging from the ceiling wrapped in black cocoons and sniffing them. DAVID A small amount of ooze is wrapping around his ankles. They SNAP apart as he takes a slow step forward. DAVID (stuttering) How did this even get this bad? ROSE climbing the webs towards two body-sized COCOONS. She pulls slime from their heads, licking some of it, until MR. AND MRS.CLAIRE'S faces are revealed. They gasp for air. ROSE Aw! I kind was expecting a zombie or something cool. DAVID (slowly; shocked) What happened? MR.CLAIRE How should we know? We were just at home minding our own business when all of this crazy stuff started happening. (glaring at David) I bet you had something to do with this, you siblings are always up to no good. Rose nods while David looks with a shocked/hurt expression. DAVID (angry) N-no. Why do you think we had something to do with this. We spent all day trying to help you. Mr.Claire scoffs. Rose is visibly shocked by David's anger. David furiously searches through his bag. ROSE Aw c'mon David. You really don't need to get so worked up over this. He yanks a yellow potion from his bag. DAVID Ha! He throws it at the slime. The area around the Claires clouds up with yellow smoke. DAVID Don't worry, this should get you... The smoke clears and the two are still stuck. DAVID free? MR.CLAIRE (rolling his eyes) Well? DAVID (excitement fading from his face) Um... Rose starts to struggle within her web. ROSE Hey David. DAVID What is it? ROSE (excited tone) I think I'm stuck. David SIGHS. INT. GUEST ROOM Greg pulls out his dagger from his pocket and holds it in front of him as it magically transforms into a sword. Ralph's SCREAM turns to a smile. RALPH AHHHHHHhhhi! Greg stares at him confused. RALPH What's your name? GREG Uh, Greg. RALPH (laughing) Hi Uh Greg, my name's Ralph. Greg loosens his grip on his sword. Ralph pops his body out from the floor and flies over to an action figure on the other side of the room. Greg's eyes initially glow in excitement at seeing Ralph play, but quickly shakes his head and looks serious. GREG (distracted by toys) I'm on an important mission to find out what's haunting this house. RALPH (focused on toy) That's cool. Greg takes a step back. GREG (quiet, recessed) Do you know what's causing this? RALPH (focused on toy) Yeah. Greg's eyes pique in interest at Ralph. GREG (quieter) What is it? RALPH Yeah, me obviously. (smirks) I mean, how many other magic corpses did you see here? Greg tightens his grip on his sword. Ralph picks up one of the drawings off the floor and shows it to Greg. RALPH(CONT.) Hey cool did you draw this? GREG shaking his head. back to scene Ralph is holding a crayon and making another stick figure drawing of the family. RALPH Weird. Wonder how did it get here? (beat) So,I guess you found me or whatever. What does your mission say you gotta do now? Greg shakes nervously as he holds his sword in front of him. GREG (looking down, quiet) Oh,guess I kinda have to defeat you. Ralph nervously looks over at Greg's sword. RALPH (disappointing tone) Oh. (beat) (happy tone) You wanna play first? Greg stares at Ralph for a second. He looks around at the toys and drops his sword, grabs the dump truck and starts playing with Ralph. The two of them start to laugh and play until a cellar hatch in the. Dining Room starts CREAKING open. Ralph immediately puts down his action figure and runs to it excitedly. INT. DINING ROOM Greg follows him to the hatch. It's wide open and ooze is coming from it. Ralph jumps down and Greg slowly climbs him. INT. CELLAR The cellar is filled with old boxes of expensive antiques and old jewelry that are covered in slime. Ralph holding an old framed photo of a family while Greg is climbing down to the floor. He tosses it backwards and it SHATTERS on the floor right in front of Greg. RALPH (blissful) Nope, don't want those memories anymore. (to Greg) Hey Uh Greg, can you do this? Ralph picks up some slime from the floor and black aura comes out of his hands as it transforms into a spirit, similar to the one in the hallway. Greg shakes his head. RALPH It's one of the perks of being dead. The house shakes as the Claires SCREAM in the background. GREG Why are you doing this? Ralph is standing next to a box containing kids baseball equipment. RALPH Cause it's fun. Haven't you ever had fun before? Greg looks down awkwardly. The house shakes again and exerts a monstrous MOAN. Debris starts falling from the ceiling. A beam falls over Greg, but Ralph pushes him out of the causing it to crush him to slime. Greg stares at it in shock. The ceiling collapses further and David and Rose fall through, landing face down. Rose, with slime still on her back, gets up and sees the jewelry and her eyes glow in excitement. ROSE Oh my god. I'm in heaven. She runs to it and stuffs her backpack while sniffing and licking it.. Greg walks up to David and helps him stand up. DAVID Don't worry I'm fine. (looking at Rose) Your sister looks fine too. ROSE rolling around in a pile of gold. Greg looks back at the pillar and releases a depressed sigh. David awkwardly puts his hand on his neck and looks Greg. DAVID (stuttering) Oh, uh, you okay? The Claires fall through the ceiling, but because of the slime on them,they just dangle in the air. The slime moves out from underneath the pillar and Ralph's body jumps out from it. Greg's eyes glow in excitement, and he runs and hugs him. Ralph looks at Greg awkwardly. RALPH Like I said, being dead comes with its perks. Ralph sees the Claires over Greg's shoulder and flies up to them. He tilts his head inquisitively. RALPH (giggling) You look like my mommy and daddy? MRS.CLAIRE What? Ralph looks closer at them and starts to laugh. RALPH Nah just kidding, you're way to alive to be them. MRS.CLAIRE Oh, uhm. I'm sorry. RALPH You wouldn't happen to know where they are? (beat) I mean the last time I saw them, was 50 years ago when the town was burning them alive. So it'd be really helpful if you'd happen to know where they've been since then. Mr.and Mrs. Claire shake their heads. The slime around them starts bubbling and Ralph punches the wall. RALPH (screaming) It's not fair! ROSE staring at Ralph while holding a gold vase in her mouth. RALPH (CONT.) (crying) I thought if I'd came back here, I could see them again. Ralph holds out his hand, causing the slime around the Claires to compress around them. MR.CLAIRE (screaming at David) Do something he's gonna kill us. David fires an arrow at Ralph's leg. He flies to David angrily with black smoke coming out from his eyes. RALPH Do you know how painful it is to be taken away from parents that love you? DAVID Well,no, but you still can't do this, even if what happened was really messed up. These people had nothing to do with what you had to go through. Ralph grabs David, flies up towards the ceiling and pins him against a wall. RALPH They stole our home. I have the right to be angry. Ralph fires a powerful blast of acidic slime at David. The wall behind melts away completely. Rose clenches her fists as Greg buries his head in Rose's waist. David wipes the slime from his face. DAVID I told you this jacket could save your lives. Greg looks back at David relieved while Rose SCOFFS. David places a potion at the end of his bow, aims and fires it at Ralph,knocking him to the ground. Greg runs up to David while Rose looks at hum disinterested. ROSE Congratulations on being alive or whatever. The Claires sigh in relief while Ralph sits and starts crying. RALPH Fine. You win. Greg walks up to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. RALPH This place is all I have left of them. Greg looks over at David. DAVID Look, I understand how you feel. What happened to you really sucks. (beat) But maybe, if you want, we could turn a blind eye to you staying here fora little while. Ralph's eyes light up. RALPH Really? MR.CLAIRE Wait a minute, where the heck are we suppose to stay? RALPH Well for the past 50 years, I've always wanted a family. The Claires look at each other for a second. MR.CLAIRE Yeah, we're not gonna live with a monster. EXT. MANSION FRONT YARD - DAY David,Rose and Greg are standing outside with the Claires who are holding their suitcases. ROSE Well,it's been a pleasure serving you. David and Greg walk back to the van while Rose stays behind and writes something down on a piece of paper. MRS.CLAIRE Where are we going to live? ROSE C'mon there's plenty of other homes in this town to live in. It's not like any of them cost more than a VCR anyway. Rose hands them the paper. ROSE (CONT.) Oh,and here's your bill. MR.CLAIRE This is so much. How are we supposed to pay this? ROSE Well you should have thought about that before you got your house haunted by an undead spirit looking for revenge beyond the grave. Rose slowly follows David and Greg to the van. Greg turns around and sees Ralph waving at him and smiles and waves back. Fadeout. END OF SHOW 6826 Words/ 23 Formatted Screenplay Pages |
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