IN THE LAND OF AARU PART 1
NARRATOR
In the abstruse Land of Aaru, full
of regal countrysides and...
GODRICK
(Hawk Sound)
HAWK
(Hawk Sound)
GODRICK
Haha
NARRATOR(CONT’D)
And ray-less forests, the once
halcyon days...
ORA
AAAAAAAAAAAAH!
GODRICK
What the... Shit...
ORA
Yah!
GODRICK
Ooff!
ORA
(attacking)
Yah!
GODRICK
No!
ORA
AAAA
GODRICK
Ha missed me
NARRATOR
...Halcyon days now gone and
people...
GODRICK
Throwing things? Really?
ORA
(angry)
It would appear so.
NARRATOR
...People, resigned to lives
separated...
GODRICK
You don’t want to do this.
ORA
Yeah? That's what you think.
HYAAAAAA!
NARRATOR
Separated from each...
GODRICK
Ugh!!! My nose! My Nose!
NARRATOR
I’ll just let you hear the story.
GODRICK
Alright! Thats It!
GODRICK
You know what your problem is?!
ORA
What's that?
GODRICK
You don’t know when to stop!
ORA
Ugh!
ORA
Well, do you know what your problem
is?
GODRICK
I’m sure you’re going to tell me.
ORA
You don’t think ahead.
GODRICK
Oh yeah? And hows that?
ORA
Well, it's not that I don’t know
when to stop...
Her hand lands on the staff that she threw earlier.
ORA
It’s just...there isn’t ever a good
time.
GODRICK
AAAAHHHH! Okay, okay I quit! Right
in the same spot as yesterday. Oh I
hate that staff
ORA
Ha, loser.
GODRICK
Oh, shut up. I thought we were on a
break for you to go off and piss.
ORA
We were, I did It, and then we
weren't. Hey, you think a corrupted
is going to give you a break?
GODRICK
When have the corrupted ever
attacked us Ora? Huh? When?!
ORA
Not at home, sure, but when we...
GODRICK
Plus, I don’t think they would kick
my ass all afternoon before they
sneak up on me.
ORA
I did not sneak up...I yelled
first.
GODRICK
(Laugh), yeah... thanks for that.
Okay, I’m done for the day.
ORA
No! No no no. We can go again.
GODRICK
What is with you? It’s been all
week!
ORA
The Chosen One is not going to just
let anyone follow them.
GODRICK
Ora, I want to find them as much as
you...
ORA
You think the things we’ve seen
are bad? The stories we hear? The
rest of Aaru is way worse. Before
we had the Guardians, now we have
no one.
GODRICK
You really think that Guardians
were real? Seriously?
ORA
Ugh! I’m sure of It! If we are
going to help fulfill the Prophecy--
GODRICK
The Prophecy, the Prophecy! I’m
tired of hearing about the
Prophecy. You know a lot of people
don’t even believe in the Prophecy.
ORA
You know what? A lot of people are
willing to accept a broken world,
too! But you and I aren’t! Are we?
Right? RIGHT?!
GODRICK
Right...
ORA
Okay then. Now, let’s go again. I’m
Ready
GODRICK
Sorry, I’m done for the day, Ora.
Really. I’m going home...
ORA
Okay, Okay well when we find the
Chosen One
GODRICK
Ora…
ORA
I’m going to make sure to tell
them...
GODRICK
Ora...shut up...
ORA
What? Vigiles?
GODRICK
They’re heading towards my house
ORA
Why would they be....
GODRICK
I don’t know!
ORA
Godrick! Wait!!
VORLAUF
Come outside in the name of Code!
ANTON
Is It just you two?!
VORLAUF
So you don't deny It then?
ELAINE
Go away! I admit nothing.
GEORGE
What do you want from us?
JASPER
Don’t play dumb.
ANN
No one else inside, but we’re
still having a look! (laugh)
GEORGE
They have no right to be in there
JASPER
We know someone was here. The
beacon was seen.
GEORGE
My wife is innocent. You have no
right!
VORLAUF
We have every legal right. And if
you don’t tell us what you know...
GEORGE
We know nothing.
ANTON
If you say she doesn’t possess the
magic...then you must.
GODRICK
Hey!!
ANTON
GAHHH! Wa...What the hell?!
GODRICK
Let them go!!
ELAINE
Throwing rocks doesn’t help,
Godrick! RUN!
VORLAUF
Jasper, grab him!
JASPER
Yes, my lord!
GEORGE
RUN!!!! YOU MUST RUN!!!!!
ORA
Ahhhhhhhhhh! Godrick, down…..UP!!
JASPER
UGH!! Ugh! Blast you horse!
ORA
You forgot your sword, jackass!
GODRICK
Thanks.
ORA
You go get your parents! I'll
distract the rest!
GODRICK
Okay!
ORA
Not gettin’ far without your
horses, Vigile! YAH! YAH!!
VORLAUF
Damned child!! What are you
doing??? Stop that I say!
JASPER
I pray you know what to do with
that sword, boy.
GODRICK
I’ve learned a thing or two.
ANTON
Think you can handle two against
one?
GODRICK
Let’s find out! Aaaahhh!
ELAINE
George! They’re inside!
GEORGE
I’ll get the door!
ELAINE
Godrick!!!
GEORGE
Elaine the Shovel!
ELAINE
Hey You!
ANTON
wha….?
ELAINE
How do you like that?
ANTON
You’re Dead!!
ELAINE
Not without this!
ANTON
My sword!
ELAINE
You want It back?? Here!!
JASPER
You’ll pay for that woman.
GODRICK
Mom! Look out!!
ELAINE
Godrick, help your father with the
door!
GODRICK
Mom!
GEORGE
I can hold the door! Go help your
mother!
JASPER
If you can!
GODRICK
Ugh!
JASPER
Let go that door, old man!
GEORGE
RUN! YOU MUST...
HAL
Got It!
ELAINE
George!!!!
VORLAUF
I Don't have time for this!
ORA
Ugh! Coward Come Back Here
VORLAUF
What happened...?
JASPER
It wasn’t my fault. When the door
flew open he fell on to my blade
GEORGE
(Breathing)
HAL
You shouldn’t have resisted!
ELAINE
Aaaaaaaahhhh!
ANN
Jasper, the woman!
ELAINE
AAAAAAAA!!
GODRICK
MOTHERRRRRRRR!!
ORA
Nooo!
ORA
In the abstruse Land of Aaru, full
of regal country sides and ray-less
forests, the once halcyon days now
gone and people resolved to lives
separated from each other.
A prophecy, passed down, followed
by believers will set forth the
path for The One. Leading the land
of Aaru back to its days of yore.
1 SCENE BRAKE 1
ELAINE
(echoing)
Godrick...Godrick, it's okay.
Godrick...
GODRICK!!!!!
GODRICK
Mother!
ELAINE
(echo of previous)
Godrick, help your father with the
door...
GODRICK
Wa..Wait!
GODRICK (CONT'D)
No...
JASPER
Let go of that door old man
GEORGE
Run, you must run.
(MORE)
GODRICK
No!
BOOMING VOICE
Rise, Hero Godrick! For the People!
Godrick, Godrick, Godrick....
GODRICK
What...no, no, No. I can't...wait!
GODRICK (CONT'D)
Ugh!!!
AMA
Ora, you need to calm down.
ORA
But he and I can go! You’re the
ones who always told me It was
real. Godrick fits the Prophecy,
can’t you see?
AMA
I know, and I agree with you. But
Ora, he’s been out for days. He is
in no shape to be traveling when
he wakes up. His parents just died.
ORA
I know, that’s what I’m saying! The
Prophecy says the Chosen One has no
parents. He fits the description,
he fits the background, he fits
everything we know!
EDMUND
Ora, you need to give him time.
Also, there's nothing in It about
you fighting.
ORA
...why would you say that?! I
wasn’t the one begging to get woken
up at the break of day by the age
of ten so I could learn to fight..
Practically asleep! I didn’t throw
MYSELF in the river...to learn how
to catch food with my hands...
EDMUND
We were training you to prepare for
a corrupted attack. To protect
yourself from invaders.
EDMUND (CONT'D)
For days like you just went
through.
Not to help fulfill the Prophecy!
AMA
Edmund!
ORA
Do you think I can’t fight?
That I can’t help get the Guardians
back?
EDMUND
You’re the best fighter I know.
ORA
Then why are you fighting me so
hard on this?!
EDMUND
I believe in you more than anyone
else. I just...I just don’t think
it’s him.
AMA
Edmund, you can’t be serious. Look
at It, look at him.
EDMUND
Ora, I love you...but I just can’t
believe he is the one.
ORA
How can you...
GODRICK
He’s right.
AMA
Godrick. Godrick how are you
feeling?
GODRICK
I’m not the One. I don’t have It
and I don’t want to be It.
ORA
But, it's born into you, it’s not
up to you!
GODRICK
Well It sure isn’t up to you!
ORA
Godrick!
AMA
Ora! This is what we’re talking
about. You can't push him. He’s
your friend.
ORA
I know.
ORA (CONT'D)
I’m sorry.
ORA (CONT'D)
You wanna talk about It?
GODRICK
Where are they?
ORA
My father and I went back the day
after It all happened...we buried
them by the edge of the forest. The
Vigiles must have taken the man
your mother stabbed because
everyone else had gone...
GODRICK
And how did I get here?
ORA
I brought you here. After the
explosion I was knocked out, too.
I woke up a few hours later in the
forest and you were laying next to
me. Spirit was there by our side. I
think she saved us.
GODRICK
Your horse? That doesn’t make any
sense, Ora.
ORA
Of course It does. You’re the
Chosen One and Spirit knows It. She
knew the Vigiles would wake up at
some point so she dragged us to
safety before they did.
GODRICK
You are giving that horse too much
credit... Wait...explosion?
ORA
Yes. The one you created, Godrick.
Don't you remember?
GODRICK
I don't remember anything...except
my parents’ faces...
ORA
I saw It with my own eyes. I was in
the middle of fighting that Vigile
when I heard you yell. I turned to
look at you and BOOM. I was blinded
by a large, warm, bright light that
hit me with such great force that I
was thrown back and knocked out.
You were knocked out too. It
must’ve been the Magic. The Magic
must knock the breath out of you.
GODRICK
No no, It, It wasn’t me...
ORA
Godrick, I saw It!
GODRICK
You’re so certain I’m part of that
Prophecy! I don’t see It. Alright?
I’m just some guy in the middle of
nowhere. I’m not the best fighter.
I, I, I can’t even read.
ORA
You can learn. I can teach you.
It... It doesn’t matter how you
start out, It matters where you
end up.
GODRICK
This Chosen One will be responsible
for saving everyone. I couldn’t
even save my parents.
ORA
Godrick, your parents murders have
to mean something. It has to be
part of something bigger. If I let
myself think they died for
nothing...
ORA (CONT'D)
Dad, look I don’t need...
EDMUND
I’m not here to say you're wrong.
There’s even a chance I’m just
fighting you because I don’t want
you to be right. But your
grandmother pointed out that um, no
matter who’s right, it's not my
decision to make. Here
ORA
Dad...
EDMUND
...look at this.
GODRICK
A Scroll? What is this...?
EDMUND
Ora, your grandmother and I love
you. We love you both, in fact. If
you feel that this is the right
thing to do, we support you. We are
so proud of you... You know, the
older I get the more I learn I
can’t control everything... I hate
that...
GODRICK
What is this?
ORA
It's the Prophecy. My mother’s had
It since before I was born. In the
old days, they used to collect the
scrolls and burn them. We had to
keep It secret... for reasons that
seem so obvious now.
ORA (CONT'D)
I’m sorry I’ve been babbling on
about fate so much. I’ll stop now.
Don’t get me wrong, I do believe in
my heart that you’re the Chosen
One, but... You’re my friend first
and I’m here for you, no matter
what you want to do.
GODRICK
I don’t even know what I’m looking
at.
ORA
Do you want me to read It to you?
GODRICK
Fine, yeah. Read It to me.
ORA
Alright. Listen to this. Listen to
the words.
ORA (CONT'D)
All hail thee, listener of time.
Find thy destiny within this rhyme.
One fighter without fear.
Be Brave.
To lead by head.
Chosen by an imperfect; stand, face
the land.
Life survives death’s knock.
Magic moves.
A pained twig on a dead limb at the
home tree.
Not knowing, but rise one dream.
Savior
GODRICK
Huh.
You know, my parents gave me this
amulet.
ORA
I always thought It was some kind
of key.
GODRICK
It’s... It’s just shaped like a
key. It doesn’t actually open
anything.
ORA
Oh.
GODRICK
They told me if anything should
ever happen to them that I should
seek out my aunt in Shadow Run.
So...It can’t be me.
ORA
What do you mean?
GODRICK
The Prophecy said I have no
connection to the family tree. And
I still have an aunt.
ORA
It says the closest missing
twig...not all branches.
GODRICK
Oh...
GODRICK (CONT'D)
What?
ORA
It’s nothing.
GODRICK
Speak. You clearly want to say
something.
ORA
No. I said I would stop.
GODRICK
Just tell me.
ORA
Fine! Hear me out. Your parents
were like a second family to
me...but they’re gone now and you
showed magic. Now you have a
mysterious key amulet and a quest
to find a mysterious long lost
relative. And you still don’t think
you’re the Chosen One?
ORA (CONT'D)
Where you going?
GODRICK
To thank your parents. And tell
them I won’t be staying past
tonight.
ORA
What?? You told me to tell you!
GODRICK
I need to fulfill my parents'
wishes and see my aunt. Not a
mysterious person, Ora, my aunt. We
can leave in the morning.
ORA
We?
GODRICK
Like I could stop you! We always
said if we left we would have each
other’s backs...
(beat)
Besides, I could use the company.
ORA
Fine.
GODRICK
FINE!
ORA
Hey!
GODRICK
What?! What could you possibly have
to say now?!
ORA
Thank you.
GODRICK
And just to be clear, Ora. I am not
the Chosen One.
ORA
Right.
ORA (CONT'D)
Yes!
END EPISODE 1 PART I