Thursday 26 June 2014

The Pony Boys part XI by JR Villar

 
 
44. EXT. NIGHT CAVE
ALFONSO's footsteps echoes in the eerie silence of the cave. He begin calling for Afy. The shout multiplies with the echo.
ALFONSO
Afy...
AFY(off)
Here…We're here!

ALFONSO goes down and finds himself in a big gallery. The PONY BOYS are trapped in some smaller chambers, with iron bars. AFY is with them.
ALFONSO goes right to the small cell where AFY is with some other PONY BOYS. He stepps back to reflect on the situation. ALFONSO tries to open the grill, but is prevented from doing so by a large iron lock, closed with a huge rusty padlock. ALFONSO searchs around and sees no key.

ALFONSO
The key?(shouts) Does anyone know where the key is?


The PONY BOYS all start talking at once. ALFONSO can not understand anything in the confusion. ALFONSO opens his arms and calls them to stop.
ALFONSO
Wait! Wait...One at a time,
or I cannot understand anything...
Afy, do you know where the key is?

AFY shrugged her shoulders. ALFONSO looks at the other kids. ALFONSO motions to one of them who seemed to have been there the longest, judging by the state of his clothes.

PONY BOY
The guards...it’s the guards who hold the keys...
it is them who keep them...

ALFONSO turns and climbs the narrow corridor, running back to the exit where he had left the two Totopuk Guards sprawled out and unconscious.
ALFONSO reaches the entrance and there are the two TOTOPUK GUARDS, still faint. ALFONSO looks through all the pockets of one of them.
Twists it, rolls it, yet finds nothing. ALFONSO spusn and turns to the other, but the second TOTOPUK GUARD is no longer there. ALFONSO roses with a sudden jolt. The other TOTOPUK GUARD stands looking at him, laughing with a cynical air.
In one hand he sways the keys in defiance, in the other he shokes a huge wooden club menacingly, like a baseball bat. ALFONSO swerves backwards to avoid the first onslaught of that very heavy club. Then again to one side and to the other.
Despite being a weapon that could be lethal, it is very heavy and the TOTOPUK GUARD shows some difficulty in handling it. Even so, the TOTOPUK GUARD lifts the club, once again, to strike another blow. ALFONSO steps back, but stumbles on the first TOTOPUK GUARD who is still on the ground lifeless.
ALFONSO fells backwards. ALFONSO looks menacingly at his opponent. With no time to react, ALFONSO realizes he had lost. He closes his eyes and waits resignedly for the blow that would surely come.
A scream echoes through the air followed by a shrill whistle. But nothing happens. No knock at all. ALFONSO opens his eyes and sees the TOTOPUK GUARD with his arms static in the air and completely stunned.
Behind the TOTOPUK GUARD is ZENA one of the fairies with colored hair that Alfonso had seen with Count Van Forent. ZENA had blown her flower trumpet with all the strength in her lungs, down into the ears of the TOTOPUK GUARD. This completely paralyzed him and with wide eyes from the loud sound echoing within his big ears, he was still in attack position, with the club hanging over him.
Quite dizzy, the TOTOPUK GUARD drops it right on top of his head. The TOTOPUK GUARD hesitates, twists himself around and crashes to the ground.

ZENA
Hello kid, I'm Zena. Rainbow Hair Fairy!
Today it was my turn to become a star!

ALFONSO smiles at her, while she pulles a stupid smirk and does a funny dance step, as if to present a prize won by a competitor of a TV contest. ALFONSO looks baffled, but at the same instant the other fairy, ZORA,  comes with the face evident of only having a few friends, wielding a big stick in her hand. She cries hysterically spinning the stick to ZENA and ALFONSO just like a ninja.

ZORA
Not you baby! Oh no! Here the star today is me!
ZENA makes some tuts with her mouth as she looks with disdain at ZORA. With a defiant hand on hip, and head tilted slightly and provocative.
ZENA
Zora Oh… Do you not understand?
Is it hard to see? Did you not learn?!
I was a PONY GIRL!
You just came from the mountain!
You were lost on the Mountain! You are a loser!
ZORA
And then?!...
What is so special about you being a Pony Girl?
ZORA makes a face of disdain looking to Zena up and down and completing her insult:
ZORA
Peasant!
ZENA smiles and looks at ZORA and says cheerfully:
ZENA
Nothing...There is nothing special about being
a Pony Girl. Absolutely nothing.
Having said that, ZENA throws a bold and unexpected punch right in the middle of ZORA's face, who fells lifeless. ZENA, says with contempt:
ZENA
Peasant!? (looks at ALFONSO, as if nothing had happened)
So kid... Are you going to stay lying there and looking at me,
or will you come and help me to save the world?
ZENA laughs with fun, snatched the key to the padlock from the hands of the TOTOPUK GUARD and descends to the cells. ALFONSO stands up and follows, slightly incredulous. They open the padlocks and release the other PONY BOYS. ALFONSO embraces AFY with all his strength and covers her face with kisses. ZENA enjoys the scene with fun.

ZENA
How sweet, you are just like little love birds!
Oh the love... is so pretty.

The PONY BOYS leave, chained together in small groups. They walk out with some difficulty. But when they reached the cave entrance, they just run into a group of TOTOPUK GUARDS who had been waiting.

45.EXT NIGHT TOTOPUK CAMP

The PONY BOYS stop. ALFONSO, ZENA and AFY did too.
One of the PONY BOYS shouts, and his group run right to the TOTOPUK GUARDS. The PONY BOYS move away from each other as much possible and let the chains that bound them stretch very tightly. With one blow the TOTOPUK GUARDS are dragged by their feet and smashed them all back with the spears and fly around everywhere.
The following group of PONY BOYS jump on the TOTOPUK GUARDS and start to punch them all frantically. They were both stunned and amazed by the reaction and begin fleeing wildly, bumping into each other in a big mess.

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