Wednesday 18 November 2015

Script Drama PHANTOM

The Phantom


#edited 5 members

 

SCENE 1

LEON JENNINGS :

I've never seen a place so completely empty.

LAUREN SCOUT :

We have deal to bring our own provisions.

LEON JENNINGS :

Provisions for the climb, not food to keep you from starving to death.

LAUREN SCOUT :

We were told conditions would be primitive. It's part of the appeal, isn't it?

LEON JENNINGS :

Yes, yes, I've seen the same literature on the trip, but I haven't memorized it like you have.

LAUREN SCOUT :

I just believe in being prepared, that's all.

LEON JENNINGS :

Well, if you're so prepared, I bet you packed extra provisions.

LAUREN SCOUT :

And what if I have?

LEON JENNINGS :

Then give me a grain bar or meat stick.

LAUREN SCOUT :

No.

LEON JENNINGS :

Why not?

LAUREN SCOUT :

I don't like you, that's why not.

LEON JENNINGS :

You're all right, kid.

LAUREN SCOUT :

We finally have our stray team member.

RYAN PHILLIP:

I'm sorry I'm late. Have you had to wait long?

LEON JENNINGS :

Only all morning.

LAUREN SCOUT :

It hasn't been all morning. More like an hour. Before we begin our climb today up Peak 4, it's important you know a few things about this wondrous chasms called Crystall Chasms.

LEON JENNINGS :

Oh, good. We've all had to attend astrogeology class in school, Scout. We don't need a course now.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Oh, Okay. I believe you must appreciate and respect the mountain before you climb it.

LEON JENNINGS :

All right, but how about cutting out all of the technical mumbo jumbo? It is solid crystalline matter.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Ryan, is this your first climb on Crystal Chasm?

RYAN PHILLIP:

Yeah. I didn't know everyone here had been on this trip before. Maybe I should stay behind. I'd probably slow you up.

LEON JENNINGS :

Smart kid. You stay here. We'll be back before nightfall.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Stop issuing commands. You're not the team leader here; I am.

LEON JENNINGS :

He'll be lucky if he just breaks his neck and dies. Then he won't have to face—that other thing.

RYAN PHILLIP:

What other thing?

LEON JENNINGS :

You don't know?

RYAN PHILLIP:

What's he talking about?

LAUREN SCOUT :

Nothing. He's being a pain in the neck, that's all. Don't pay any attention to her, Ryan.

LEON JENNINGS :

Must be something, if she’s protesting so much.

RYAN PHILLIP:

What something?

LEON JENNINGS :

The monster.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Monster?

LEON JENNINGS :

Uhhuh. Go ahead. It's just a story told over a warm fire with a mug of hot coffee in your hand. But it's amazing how the story persists and grows.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Get out of here.

LEON JENNINGS :

That's right, don't believe me, but when you do fall, don't expect us to rush down and save you.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Come on, we're losing daylight.

LEON JENNINGS :

No, no, no. Tell ol' Ryan here what you found. Come on.

LAUREN SCOUT :

You're a sadist, Jennings.

LEON JENNINGS :

Yeah, Tell him about Zelo. Tell him, Lauren, or I will.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Zelo is Leon’s friend and also… Zelo is… my boyfriend. Zelo fell off Peak 4 near the base. The side we climb up is called the Lansing Slip, and there's a narrow chasm that follows alongside it. The opening is not especially deep. If you fell in it, you'd have a good chance of surviving. Zelo lost his footing there and plummeted down.

He was able to call back up to us and tell us he thought his leg might be broken, but that's all we heard, so we started down after him. When we were about halfway, Zelo started crying for help—that something was after him. He was yelling and kind of babbling, panickylike. All we could make out were the words ''trying to kill me.''

 

 

LEON JENNINGS :

And?

LAUREN SCOUT :

And the word "PHANTOM." (pause) But that doesn't mean anything. I'm sure he was delirious. I suspect his injuries were more severe than he had thought.

When we got down there, all we found was his backpack. We searched all night and all the next day, but couldn't find any traces of Zelo or anyone else. But, It's just a story. I've climbed this mountain seven times, and I've never heard or seen this Phantom.

RYAN PHILLIP:

What makes you think I'd believe all of this?

LEON JENNINGS :

That's right, Don't believe me. But tonight, Ryan, when you're safe and snug back in your own little bed, if you happen to hear a noise, don't be surprised to find the Phantom hovering over you.

Ooooooo.

LAUREN SCOUT :

You're not funny, Jennings.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Oh, he's a little funny. Come on. Let's go before the Phantom shows up here.

LAUREN SCOUT :

This is Peak 4. It's a relatively simple climb, but most think it's the prettiest climb on the planet.

LEON JENNINGS :

Yep, it's the bunny hill.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Leon, do you think you might cut out the smart remarks for a little while?

LEON JENNINGS :

Gosh, I don't think I can.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Stay close to me, Ryan. I'll show you the places to step as we go up this cluster.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Thanks.

LEON JENNINGS :

Would you like me to leave you two alone?

 

LAUREN SCOUT :

Shut up, Leon. You take up the rear.

LEON JENNINGS :

Aye, aye, Captain. Finally we're getting this show on the road.

 

SCENE 2

PHANTOM:

They're up top again. Almost every day now there's someone climbing around up there. Apparently these mountains have become very popular.

Aaauuhhh! I must do something about these interlopers! I must liberate this chasm from these unwelcome visitors.

But how?

The blackness of night. They do not come when the sun sleeps. I will blacken the skies, and they will be gone.

My powers are great indeed, but not powerful enough to make the sun disappear.

Ok, I will take the clouds overhead and stir them around until their thickness blocks out the rays of the sun and darkness will cover the mountain. Unable to see their way, the climbers will have to retreat back down the mountain.

Mighty power of the crystals, make the sun no more today. Take the power from these walls and reach upward. Climb high into the sky and touch the clouds..

Clouds above, swallow the sun and hide its light from our eyes. Make the day night that darkness may reign once more!

 

SCENE 3

PHANTOM:

Is he dead?  No. It will only be a matter of time.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Holy—what is this? Who are you?

PHANTOM:

More to the point, who are you? You're trespassing down here.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Help me.

PHANTOM:

Are you in much pain?

RYAN PHILLIP:

I just fell off a mountain—what do you think?

PHANTOM:

Can you move?

RYAN PHILLIP:

No. It feels like both my legs are broken, and my neck is killing me. I need help!

PHANTOM:

Your agony is of little concern to me.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Are you just going to stand there and watch me die?

PHANTOM:

I have considered the possibility.

RYAN PHILLIP:

What kind of heartless, faceless witch are you?

PHANTOM:

Witch, am I?

ELSA PASSEL:

Sister, what are you doing?

PHANTOM:

Relieving him of his pain.

ELSA PASSELL:

You're killing him!

PHANTOM:

He's intruding.

ELSA PASSEL:

He's hurt. Leave him alone.

PHANTOM:

Who are you to tell me what to do?

ELSA PASSEL:

I am the same blood as your blood, and I'm asking you to spare this man.

 

PHANTOM:

Be careful, Passell. Be careful of what you say to your sister—of how you speak to this sister.

RYAN PHILLIP:

No, don't—please!

ELSA PASSEL:

Calm yourself. I mean you no harm.

RYAN PHILLIP:

You're not the other one . . . . Who are— the pain!

ELSA PASSEL:

I can take the pain away.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Then do it—do something—anything!

ELSA PASSEL:

Gladly, but there are conditions.

RYAN PHILLIP:

What? You want to bargain with me now?

ELSA PASSEL:

If I relieve the pain and heal your injuries, you must stay down here with me.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Stay down here? But I don't know you, and I have no idea what you even look like.

ELSA PASSEL:

Is my appearance so important to you, even at a time like this?

RYAN PHILLIP:

All right! Just stop the pain.

ELSA PASSELL :

Do you promise to stay with me?

RYAN PHILLIP:

Yes, I promise!

 

 

 

SCENE 4

LAUREN SCOUT:

We have to do something.

 

LEON JENNINGS :

Do what? He's gone, just like Zelo.

LAUREN SCOUT:

There's a chance that he's still alive. We'll go back up at first light. There's nothing we can do for him tonight. All we can pray for is that he's mobile enough to get to his backpack. If he can get to his survival kit, there's a good chance we'll find him alive in the morning.

LEON JENNINGS :

We? What's this we business?

LAUREN SCOUT:

We'll need your help to lift him up and out.

LEON JENNINGS :

Well, isn't that too bad.

LAUREN SCOUT:

What's the matter, Jennings, afraid of running into the Phantom?

LEON JENNINGS :

You just better be ready, but I tell you, the only thing we're going to find is a body of that boy.

 

SCENE 5

ELSA PASSEL:

How are you feeling?

RYAN:

Much better. The pain's all gone. The legs are a little weak, but they feel pretty good.

ELSA PASSEL:

Your legs should strengthen in a day or two.

RYAN PHILLIP:

How did you do it? How did you heal my broken legs so fast?

ELSA PASSEL:

The crystals hold great power. Once you know how to harness and manipulate their vast energy, you can do many things.

RYAN PHILLIP:

The other crystal . . .

ELSA PASSEL:

The crystals hold an undefined power. In our hands it may be a constructive or destructive power—a healing or a killing power.

RYAN PHILLIP:

The other one with a mask . . .

ELSA PASSEL:

. . . is Aleyna, my sister. She has had a hard and difficult life that has distorted her personality as much as it has distorted her face. I have seen an evil grow within her, and it saddens me.

RYAN PHILLIP:

She tried to kill me.

ELSA PASSEL:

But she didn't.

RYAN PHILLIP:

I bet because you stopped her.

ELSA PASSEL:

Yes, I stopped her.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Why?

ELSA PASSEL:

What she was doing was wrong. Please don't stare at me like that. You have no idea how it torments me.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Why? What's the matter with your face? Why do you wear the mask?

ELSA PASSEL:

Can you only see the mask? Can you see nothing else?

RYAN PHILLIP:

Do you have a birth defect, or were you in an accident or something?

ELSA PASSEL:

Do not ask about the mask. We may discuss whatever you like, but not the mask.

RYAN PHILLIP:

What's your name again?

ELSA PASSEL:

I am Elsa Passell.

RYAN PHILLIP:

How did you come to this place?

ELSA PASSEL:

I have always been here with my sister. I have been nowhere else.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Miss Passel.. ah, I mean… Elsa—about that promise I made. I was in a great deal of pain and would have promised anything. You understand, don't you? You really don't expect me to stay down here with you, do you? I have a life on the other place. I have my family.

ELSA PASSEL:

Your family will grieve for a while, thinking you have perished in a climbing accident, but their mourning will ease in time.

RYAN PHILLIP:

But I haven't perished. I'm alive.

ELSA PASSEL:

You promised to stay with me.

RYAN PHILLIP:

I know I promised, but I made that promise under duress. Surely you can't hold me to it. Be reasonable.

ELSA PASSEL:

Yes, I didn't expect you to keep your promise—I only hoped you would. It's so lonely down here. I have Sister, but . . . When I saw you, I thought I might finally have a friend to talk to.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Why not come back to my place with me?

ELSA PASSEL:

I couldn't possibly.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Why not?

 

 

 

ELSA PASSEL:

The mask! And sister.

When you're stronger, I'll show you the way out of here. Until then, I'll try not to trouble you further.

PHANTOM:

Passell, what's wrong?

ELSA PASSEL:

I am wrong—no more than that. I am wrong.

PHANTOM:

You have hurt my sister.

RYAN PHILLIP:

I'm sorry.

PHANTOM:

You're sorry? Is that all you can be? Simply sorry? I should have killed you last night when I had the chance. Then my sister wouldn't know this heartache.

RYAN PHILLIP:

She wanted me to stay down here with her in this godforsaken place. How could I do that?

PHANTOM:

You can't stay because you're repulsed by our faces, aren't you?

RYAN PHILLIP:

It's all of this—and the faces. What are you hiding? Are you so ugly it takes a mask to make you presentable?

PHANTOM:

You are a cruel and heartless man.

RYAN PHILLIP:

No, I'm not—I'm honestly not. It's just that all of this is so bizarre and unreal. How can I believe any of it is actually happening? For all I know I'm hallucinating—delirious from the fall.

PHANTOM:

Well, if you're hallucinating, you won't feel this.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Ryan, you're alive!

ELSA PASSEL:

Sister!

RYAN PHILLIP:

What did you do that for? Are you crazy?

LEON JENNINGS:

I thought she was going to—I don't know—there was this screaming—then there's these stories and she comes rushing in. I thought ...

ELSA PASSEL:

Sister, I’m sorry, I can’t be with you forever, Go back to our real life and be a good girl as Aleyna…

PHANTOM:

No, No, No… What have I done? You were my only family, my only one sister. I lived for you. Everything I did was for you. What do I do now?

RYAN PHILLIP:

I'm sorry. I didn't mean for her to ...

PHANTOM:

Go away. Leave us alone.

PHANTOM:

This will end my pain.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Come along, Ryan. We need to get you to a hospital. We'll inform the authorities of this once we're up top again.

RYAN PHILLIP:

It's all a terrible nightmare.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Ryan, it's all right now. You can tell us all about it once you've regained your strength.

DEVON:

Here, I know a quick way to the surface. I'll show you out.

LEON JENNINGS :

Who are you?

DEVON:

I'm Devon. I work as a miner in the quarry of Passel Family. I brought food to Elsa and Aleyna. Elsa asked me to follow her and show that guy out.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Please take us there. Ryan needs to see a doctor.

 

RYAN PHILLIP:

That won't be necessary. I'm a little weak, but I feel fine—well, as fine as I can be under the circumstance.

LEON JENNINGS :

Do you think they'll arrest me? It was an accident.

LAUREN SCOUT :

Oh, shut up, Jennings.

RYAN PHILLIP:

Wait a minute.

She's beautiful. She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Why did she wear the mask? Why did she deceive me?

DEVON:

She asked me to give you this letter.


Dear Ryan,
Sorry to make you afraid of me. I just do not know express how happy I am to see you. Looks like my heart beating so fast, probably because I like you, but like I said to you before, so lonely down here because I do not have any friends, My sister is the only one I have, that’s why I cannot go with you ... go to your world… Yes ... Ryan, out there, that's your world, not my world. My world is here, with my sister. She is always watching me over all this time. I also want you to forgive my sister. Actually she is not evil as people think. She just wants to take care of me the way she is. She's been through so much, Ryan. Our parents died in front of her eyes, they killed, even our homes are destroyed. It happened when I was 7 years old and Aleyna, 12 years old. What can be done by two little girls like us? We just kept running accompanied by Devon, one of my father's workers. Until we finally found this place, and since then ... this is my world, Ryan. The world in which I will be there until the end, and you do not belong here .
When you read this letter, I'm sure you've got your beautiful world. Do not remember me anymore, and do not ever come back to this place. Thank you, because you have come into my life. For the first and last time, I want to tell you that .. I love you, Ryan .

LEON JENNINGS :
Let's get out of here. I think I'm going to be sick.
LAUREN SCOUT :
Ryan, please, let's go. There's nothing more we can do here. You'll feel better once we're back home.
RYAN PHILLIP:
What was I so afraid of? What scared me to death when I didn't even know what was under the mask?

LAUREN SCOUT :

Sometimes the real horror lies within our own imaginations. The monsters we make up in our dreams can be much more fierce and hideous than anything the universe might ever conceive. Come on, Ryan, it's over.

RYAN PHILLIP:

That's what her sister said. Go on, I'll be along in a minute.

LAUREN SCOUT :

But Ryan . . .

RYAN PHILLIP:

Go on now and leave me alone.

LAUREN SCOUT :

She's dead, Ryan.

RYAN PHILLIP:

And you're insensitive. Get out of here!

I wish this could work for you . . . . Powers of the crystals, bring this innocent woman back to life!

Oh, Elsa! I didn't know what I had. I'm sorry.

 

 

 


THE END 


GROUP 1 D-1 #RINA #EDO #GINA #NANANG #NANI
The Original Story from "The Phantom of Crystal Chasm"

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