In the studio where our fair play is performed:
Me: Alrighty everyone ready for this scene?(No one's here yet.) ^.^; Darn.I wonder where everyone is. I can't be cynical to Ameria if she's not here. (Gourry hops over to her.) Oh hey Gourry! I was wondering where everyone was.
Gourry: I think Lina's still in her room somewhere.Where the food trucks?
Me: Well the food's over there, but...(Gourry's already trying to head over to the trucks as the happy-go-lucky director grabs his hair. Gourry is rendered helpless.) Remember no scene stealing today.I hope those port-o-pottys are spotless.
Gourry: Uh-huh.What port-o-pottys?
Me: Don't you remember? You cleaned them last night.
Gourry: I think I would remember cleaning those toilets if I did.
Me: Um...okay..You know what?You remind me of Lennie from Of Mice and Men. The personality resemblance is startling and utmost disturbing.If you start playing with mice to spite me I swear I'll hit you.
Gourry: ?
Me: Go on you dumb blonde, eat your morning bagels. (Gourry runs off to get his share of bagels.) Now where is Zel? (Zel arrives kinda dazed.) There now we have the main character. Where's the costar? (Rezo floats in. He has a little halo on his head.) Ah, there we go! (Zel gets really mad at the sight of Rezo and lunges at him.)
Zel: Damn you Rezo! (Unfortunetly Rezo doesn't have a physical form, so Zelgadis goes right through him.) Damn you!
Rezo: Oh Zelgadis you're such a character. You're so perfect as the confused youth Romeo.
Zel: Confused this! (He gives Rezo the finger and tries yet again to hit him.)
Me: Zel! He's a spirit you can't hurt him. He's only in here as a cameo. (Zel smirks)
Zel: Spirit my ass! Ra-tilt! (Rezo dodges easily and hits Zel on the head with his staff. Zel is unconscious.)
Me: Hm... (She gestures to her camera crew) I say we start, now!
Friar Lawrence is mixing his herbs in his cell. "The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night..." Rezo is going on into his medicine monologue. The director drags Zel to the scene and flings him to the floor. (Amazing that I could even carry him. Must've been the Wheaties, Ma!) She dumps a bucket of water on Zel as to wake him up and runs off to the side. Zel wakes up just as Rezo finished the monologue.
"REZO!" He shouted. He turned to the side to see the director pointing at him the camera lights, meaning they were filming. He gritted his teeth. "Good-morrow father."
"Benedicite!" He exclaimed. "What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head so soon to bid good-morrow to they bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain dorh couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign: Therefore thy earliness doth me assure thou art uprous'd by some distemperature; Or if not so, then here I hit it right.Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight." Rezo grinned. "Gee I wonder why."
"That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine." Romeo tried to keep his temper under control.
"God pardon sir! Wast thou with Rosaline?" Friar Lawrence walked toward Romeo.
"With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No; I have forgot that name, and that name's woe."
"That's my good son: Where hast though been then?"
"I have been feasting with mine enemy.." Zel's anger was plainly getting the best of him. His normally blue eyes turned colder.
"Zel you said it wrong." Rezo frowned. Zel looked at the director sharply, as if to say, "I'm sorry but what comes next can't be stopped."
"I'm going to marry the fair sister of Lady Capulet. I tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, that thou consent to marry us today." He lunged at Rezo trying yet again to hit him.
"Zel, you are forgetting I am a spirit with no physical form. You can't hurt me, but I can hurt you." he hit him on the head with his staff. "I will consent to your marriage." The director slapped her forehead. This is getting nowhere. Zel fled the scene without finishing his ending line.
"Next Scene!" The director shouted and the crew pointed the cameras to Xellos and Ameria that were waiting in costume talking.
"Mr. Xellos! I did say I'd do anything to be Juliet but that's something I wouldn't do!" Ameria shouted at Xellos. The happy-go-lucky director rolled up her script and hit both Xellos and Ameria on the head with the script.
"We're rolling!" ^_^*
"Where the devil should this Romeo be?" Mercutio paced back and forth. The lump on his head from being slapped with the script was obviously visible. "Came he not home tonight?"
"Not to his father's; I spoke with his man." Benvolia replied unhappily.
"His man?! You mean to tell me he's gay?" Xellos shouted. That remark earned a punch from both the director and Ameria. Xellos had welts all over his face now.
"Here come Romeo! Here comes Romeo!" Benvolia cried. Zelgadis was brought in by the director's bouncers, that she stationed outside every one of the studio's doors. He muttered curses as the director pushed him into the scene. Xellos waved Hi.
"Good morrow to you both." He growled. Just then Naga leaped into the scene (fairly early I might add.) dragging a nameless extra with her.
"A sail, a sail, a sail!" Xellos shouted.
"Two, two, a shirt and a smock." Benvolia smiled. Naga turned the the nameless extra.
"Peter!"
"Anon?" The nameless extra had tears flowing from his eyes, 10 years of acting school for a teeny little part in Romeo and Juliet. A low budget production even!
"My fan, Peter. O ho ho ho ho"
"Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face." Naga heard that remark loud and clear. She turned around to face Xellos. Xellos smiled and did his trademark gesture, the himitsu one. You know what it is. He ran off dragging Ameria with him.
"Farewell Ancient Lady! Farewell! Lady Lady..." He sang as he left. Naga fumed but turned to Romeo while fixing her skimpy toga-ish nurse's clothing. Zelgadis blushed a little bit.
"I hope you're not pulling her leg." She smiled. Almost as if what she said had a double meaning.
"No! Of course not!" Zel muttered. The director slapped her head, but she smirked soon after thinking, Oh well at least they've got the gist of it.
"Good. Wait 'till I tell her! She'll be so happy! When?"
"At Friar Lawrence's cell. Have her say she's going to confession and we'll marry there. Here for your trouble." He hands her a penny.
"A penny!? What kind of person do you think I am? A SLAVE?!" Naga screeched. Zelgadis frowned and dropped a bag of gold in her hands as Naga smiled with content. The normally happy-go-lucky director was now very unhappy. She was starting to radiate anger within. Just then Ameria happened by the director to make amends. The director selfishly beat Ameria to a pulp as everyone else stood in line and took a number. (Anyone else?)
"Bye Romeo. Peter my fan, Anon! O ho ho ho ho!" Naga laughed as she exited.
"Next Scene!!" The director called, feeling much better after punching something. Juliet paced back and forth in the garden. The nurse entered and gave her the good news.
"He's serious. You're going to Friar Lawrence's cell to get married." Naga skimpered along, "I'll put a ladder outside your window later." (You know what she means don't you? ^.~)
"Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell." Juliet blew a raspberry. She took a jog down to Friar Lawrence's as the scene kept rolling.
Zelgadis waited paitently even though Rezo was there. Rezo sensed something was up. I wonder, he thought, If Zelgadis likes this Lina Inverse? There's a way I might be able to find out. Juliet entered the cell. Rezo motioned for her to come. The director glanced at Rezo with the corner of her eye. What is he up to?
"It's nice that you finally showed up. Do you want to marry him?" Rezo smiled.
"Yes. Why else would I be here?" Lina frowned. This wasn't the original dialogue they normally butchered. Something seemed to be up.
"Ok I now pronouce you man and wife." Rezo replied ignoring the no longer happy-in-this-installment director's loud cries of defeat. Zelgadis' twitched. He assumed this was the part where Romeo was able to make a holy vow of martimony to Juliet. To make this so simple without any real questioning was so absurd. Lina shrugged.
"I guess we're married now, Romeo." She felt a little flushed but did not blush. That might let on that I.. She shook her head. Zel shrugged as well. The director clasped her hands on her head.
"Cut! That's a Wrap." She yelled. Xellos trotted over to her.
"I behaved myself today. No scene stealing at all." He grinned. "I think we all could do this scene over again."
"I think not!!" The director sighed. "Besides, I'm sure this was not all that bad. Too much excitment in one day." The director calls her crew to pack up. Everyone leaves leaving Zel alone with Rezo.
"Why did you do that?" He asked through his gritted teeth.
"What Zel? Oh you mean ruin the chance you might've had to act out this scene as passionately as you could? So that maybe that Inverse girl realizes that you love her. I meant to Zel. To spoil any kind of chance at happiness you have is what I live for. I mean to reach out from beyond to do so." Rezo vanishes leaving Zel to contemplate his behavior.
"Damn you Rezo." Zel muttered as he fell to his knees crying.
That Zel doesn't seem like our normal Zel. Hm.. What to do what to do? Death glooms on ahead in the next chapter which I'll call: Casualties of the Feud. Hope you read it ^_^