- Chapter Five - Lightning
Speed
Page numbers are based
on the tankoubon and listed accordingly.
Large centered text indicates geographic/titular information
Spoken text in italics indicate character thoughts.
Spoken text in brackets [...] indicate hand written side remarks.
Text hand-written for dramatic purposes are indicated by larger
size text.
fx: <...> indicates sound effects, which have been kept
as onomatopoeia where I have the imagination for it..
(TN...) indicates notes by the translator
- Page 160
(it is raining heavily
and many people are working outside a mine area)
fx: <rain pouring>
<rolling thunder>
<clang>
<clang>
<clang>
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- (several men wearily push large
heavy carts before them)
voice (off): Hey, work--!
fx: <gasp gasp>
<pant pant>
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- (a pick falls and hits the ground,
its point embedding itself)
fx: <clang>
voice (off): Don't be lazy!
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- (a man falls to the ground behind
his cart)
man: (groans)
fx: <splash>
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- (a skeleton in a soldier's uniform
whips the fallen man from behind)
skeleton: Take
that--!
man: Ow!
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- Page 161
(one skeleton stands
in the foreground, behind him one skeleton sitting in a throne
flanked by a large skeleton army)
skeleton: You
work for us demons--!
fx: <rolling thunder>
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- (close up of the skeleton in
the throne, leaning on his hand)
skeleton (off): You'll work until you die for our great Lord Faggott--!!
Faggott: (chuckles)
(TN: Now before anyone gets
thrown into a tizzy, for those who aren't that familiar with
musical instruments, a faggott is a wind instrument not unlike
a bassoon)
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- (a pair of men assist the fallen
man, all three nervous as they look out)
man: (grunts)
fx: <pant pant>
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- (distant view of the mining
town in the pouring rain)
skeleton (off): WORK--
fx: <falling rain>
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- Page 162
(view of a hilltop by
a tree. It's not raining, but there is no indication it's sunny
either)
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- (Flute wipes her eyes as she
cries)
Flute: (whimpers)
(whimpers)
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- (Flute cries by the tree as
Oboe tries to comfort her. Hamel is a little ahead, stirring
a large pot of soup over a campfire)
Flute: (whimper)
Oboe:
I'm sorry, Flute...
fx: <glub glub>
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- (Oboe tries to comfort Flute)
Oboe: It was unfair to force
you... the least I can do is apologize.
fx: <flap flap>
Flute: (whimpers)
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- (an enraged Flute towers over
a completely unconcerned Hamel while Oboe freaks out)
Hamel: That's
right! You can't keep traveling with us if you keep blubbering...
fx: <glub glub>
Flute: YOU
WERE THE ONE THAT DRAGGED ME FROM MY VILLAGE!!
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- Page 163
(Flute stands and yells
as Hamel's back as he puts soup into a bowl, completely ignoring
her)
Flute: What's
your problem! How can you stomp all over a girl's feelings like
that!
You tried to sell me, you subjected me to painful muscle spasms
and you shortened my life span by 3 years!!
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- (Hamel's hand holds a bowl of
soup in front of Flute's face, stopping her in her tracks)
fx: <rustle>
-
- (Hamel continues to hold the
bowl in front of Flute)
Hamel: Being
this angry must make you hungry...
Eat up, Flute...
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- (close up of Hamel grinning
endearingly)
fx: <grin>
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- (Flute stands flabbergasted,
holding her bowl of soup)
Flute: Eh?
Aah...
Well...
fx: <fidget>
<fidget>
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- (Oboe is relieved and touched)
Oboe: ....
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- Page 164
(Oboe flies to Flute
as Hamel is turned once again to his pot of soup)
Oboe: You know... Flute...
-
- (Oboe lands on her shoulder
and speaks to her conspiratorially)
Oboe: The truth is, until
now, he was never really around people...
Flute:
Really!
-
- (Hamel sits with his back to
the audience against a dark background)
Oboe (off): To the point
where it's poisoned his heart...
-
- (Flute becomes saddened as Oboe
flies by her, speaking)
Oboe: He's
become very withdrawn...
He feels he needs to treat you this way...
He doesn't know how to be gentler. [This is his way of apologizing
to you...]
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- (Flute looks sadly into her
bowl of soup)
Oboe (off): You're the first person... he's opened up to.
Do you understand
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- (Flute remembers Hamel previously
turning and smiling at her from the end of the last chapter)
Hamel (narration/memory): You're a helpful girl...
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- Page 165
(Flute starts to eat
her soup pensively)
Flute (narration): It's tasty...
And warm...
fx: <sip>
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- (Flute's spoon hovers over her
soup)
Flute (narration): It
seems to warm my cold feelings...
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- (Flute watches Hamel quietly
and sadly over her soup)
fx: <steam rising>
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- (misty view of Flute eating
her soup while watching Hamel from behind, still hunched over
the soup pot)
Flute (narration): I'm
sorry, Hamel...
I... must have seemed selfish...
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- (Hamel turns and speaks, startling
Flute)
Hamel: So? How's it taste...
fx: <turn>
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- (Flute smiles brightly as she
holds up her spoon and bowl)
Flute: It...
It's great!
What kind of soup is it?
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- Page 166
(Hamel sits innocently
besides the pot which now has a large giant, crying, earthworm,
labeled "Shimizu-kun", Oboe goes bug-eyed and Flute
face-faults)
Hamel: Giant
earthworm soup.
fx: <glub glub>
<whump bump crash>
-
- (Hamel continues to point and
talk, somewhat horrified now, while the earthworm cries in the
soup, and Oboe tries to help a violently vomiting Flute and yell
at Hamel at the same time)
Hamel: I made a stew with
things I could grab nearby...
fx: <glub glub>
Oboe: THIS
IS NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU PUT IN STEW--!
fx: <collapse>
Oboe: Flute!
Are you okay!!
fx: <wretching>
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- (Hamel, complete with swirly
glasses, reads from a cook book, labeled "cookbook",
as images of different foods appears behind him)
Hamel: Hmm,
hmm... one opinion states that the broth is a delicacy... [hmm]
-
- (Hamel continues to read, engaged
in his cookbook, while Oboe tries to revive Flute, who is on
her back, frothing at the mouth)
Hamel: Or a deadly poison
depending on how it is cooked...
It would be wise to avoid this dish.
fx: <wind blows>
Oboe: Fl...
Flute...
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- Page 167
(Hamel stands determined
and proud while Oboe yells and him and tries to tend to a frothing,
poisoned Flute as well)
Hamel: Good
thing I didn't eat it!!
Oboe:
YOU ARE AN IDIOT--!
[Take this antidote...]
Flute: [He used me as a poison tester...?]
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- (Flute improves in the foreground
with Oboe tending to her while Hamel carries off the pot of giant
crying earthworm soup)
Oboe: Flute... are you okay?
Flute:
[What the hell was he...?]
[I thought I was going to die~~]
fx: <pant pant>
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- (a portly man rushes into the
clearing before the trio)
man: Lord Hamel!
You're the hero Hamel aren't you--!
fx: <rustle rustle>
- (the man prostrates himself
on the floor)
man: Oh,
I'm sure of it! Lord Hamel!
fx: <bang>
man: I
am the mayor of the people of the town of Legato!
-
- (the man clenches his eyes shut,
trying not to cry, as Hamel and co. right themselves and stand)
man: I'm begging you!
Please come to our town--!
-
- (the three look on concerned)
Hamel: ....
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- Page 168
(two panels divide an
aerial view of Legato, cradled in the base of a mountain)
- mayor (off): You and your group at Tenuto... I saw you there.
- Mining Town Legato--
-
- (view of a refinery in the town)
mayor: You easily defeated
that beast Bassoon...
I heard a rumor that you also exterminated Tuba.
-
- (Hamel, Flute, and Oboe listen
intently)
mayor: So
there is no reason that you can't help our town...
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- Page 169
(the mayor speaks pleadingly
as several other townspeople stand behind him miserably)
mayor: This
was a prosperous mining town for along time, until...
the day "Faggott" and his skeleton monsters came...
-
- (the mayor continues to talk
to the trio, flanked by the townspeople)
mayor: He rules this town
with violence and murder
to force us to mine for him.
-
- (the mayor reflects dejectedly
while his people are scared behind him)
mayor: It's
extremely hard work... every day many of the townspeople are
beaten.
-
- (Flute sympathizes)
-
- (Oboe ponders, surprising the
mayor)
Oboe: The
skeleton "Faggott".
It's a terrible thing that's come here...
mayor: Eh! You know of him?!
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- Page 170
(Oboe narrates while
in the background, Faggott stands triumphant on a huge pile of
armored bodies)
Oboe (narration): Yes. He is the master warrior of the monsters...
he is by far stronger than any ordinary monster--
He is the strongest of all the skeleton demons! He has long been
known as the skeleton king-- he once defeated one country's entire
cavalry by himself.
-
- (Oboe continues to speak from
Hamel's shoulder, panicking the mayor and townspeople)
Oboe: He was blessed with
protection by an evil god's monk...
and drew in the demon power.
fx: <crowd murmuring>
-
- (Flute gazes at Hamel and Oboe
pensively as they stand quietly)
Flute: Oboe,
really... how does he know all this, I wonder.
-
- (misty view of Flute looking
to Hamel and Oboe)
Flute (narration): Hamel...
Oboe... Who are you two...?
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- Page 171
(the townspeople talk
fearfully amongst themselves)
person 1: I... I don't believe
it... if he's that strong...
fx: <murmur murmur>
person 2: That's it
then...
there's nothing we can do...
-
- (Flute watches the worried crowd
sadly from a distance)
Flute: ....
-
- (Flute turns animated, spreading
her arms out)
Flute: It... It'll be okay
everyone!
fx: <swing>
-
- (Flute becomes elated as she
speaks, attracting the attention of the mayor and townspeople)
Flute: The
northern end region's greatest hero has arrived!
He'll crush that skeleton!
-
- (Flute turns, winking)
Flute: Right, Hamel!
-
- (Flute face-faults and Oboe
deadpans as Hamel tries to creep out with a sac over his back)
fx: <creep creep>
-
- (Flute tries to hold a stressed
and determined Hamel back while Oboe is just bored and frustrated
in the background)
Flute: Where
do you think you're running to--!
Hamel:
To... to the...
to the North...
Flute:
To the North my ass--!
Oboe: ....
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- Page 172
(Flute and Hamel begin
to fight in earnest. Oboe cries in shame and the mayor looks
on in shock)
Hamel: KNOCK
IT OFF! HE'S A DANGEROUS GUY--! RUNNING AWAY IS THE WAY TO GO--!
fx: <drag drag>
Flute: What
are you talking about, you're a hero, aren't you--!
Hamel:
SHUT UP-- CUT IT OUT WITH
THE HERO BULLSHIT--!!
Oboe: [He's so useless...]
-
- (the mayor starts to plead)
mayor: I--
I beg of you, great hero!
Please help us!
-
- (the mayor clenches his eyes
shut as he cries and begs)
mayor: We'll pay you anything
you want!
So--!
-
- (Hamel, now glimmering and framed
by roses, comforts the mayor, while placing a bill into his hand.
Flute and Oboe watch annoyed from the back)
Hamel: Please
don't worry yourself... your tears have moved my heart.
mayor:
Eh?
fx: <squish>
Flute: To
speak that way,
is unbelievable. (TN: I'm really not sure as to what she's saying
here, so if anyone has a better translation, let me know)
fx: <strain>
fx: <flap flap>
-
- (Hamel, Flute, and Oboe turn
to see someone approach as the mayor looks at the bill confused)
voice (off): It... it's terrible--!
fx: <smack>
-
- (a man yells in panic)
man: They've
entered the town--!
-
- (Hamel's eyes dart to the side
as something catches his attention)
-
- (the skeleton army, mounted
on faceless horses and led by Faggott, arrive)
fx: <bong>
-
- (close up of Faggott and one
of the skeleton guards)
Faggott: (chuckles)
skeleton guard: Hey, townspeople! Come here!!
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- Page 174
(the mayor and townspeople
stand and look on in disbelief)
mayor: Im... impossible,
this fast
-
- (Faggott speaks to the mayor
from his horse)
Faggott: (chuckles)
Mayor! You called a hero to defeat me.
mayor:
(whimpers)
-
- (close up of Faggott speaking,
who seems somewhat amused, or just has that permanent skeletal
smile...)
Faggott: Idiot, the tragedy
I'll reap on you for your...
betrayal...
-
- (the skeletal guards rear their
horses and are ready to charge as Faggott raises his hand, shocking
the townspeople)
Faggott: KILL THEM ALL--!!
fx: <roar>
crowd: (screams)
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- Page 175
(Hamel walks, wielding
his violin, flanked by Flute and Oboe, from amidst the dust)
Hamel: WAIT!
fx: <violin screech>
-
- (close up of Hamel, serious
and angry)
-
- (the skeletons and Faggott stop
and turn in surprise)
skeleton guard: Wha--?!
Faggott:
(gasp)
-
- (the mayor and the townspeople
cheer in joy)
person 1: Oh-- the great
hero--!
mayor:
Sir Hamel--!!
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- Page 176
(Faggott sits calmly
on his horse, unaffected)
Faggott: (chuckles)
So, it's definitely you... Hero Hamel...
I'd heard a rumor
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- (close up of Faggott speaking)
Faggott: Saying that Bassoon
and
the lizard king Tuba were both beaten by you!
-
- (Hamel stares seriously as Faggott
continues to speak)
Faggott (off): But, I, Faggott
the skeleton king, am not like them! (laughs)
-
- (Hamel yells at Faggott bravely,
much to the skeleton's surprise)
Hamel: Shut up! I'm not here
to kill you, you walking corpse--!
Faggott: Wha-- what?!
-
- (aerial view of Hamel between
the skeleton horsemen and the townspeople)
Hamel: The
townspeople have suffered under your rule of violence. You've
used your wickedness to serve your own purposes and it's taken
over your decrepit bones!
fx: <bong>
Faggott: What
did you say--!
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- Page 177
(Hamel continues to accuse
Faggott, much to the surprise of Flute and Oboe)
Hamel: You
don't deserve to live in this world! You should return to your
eternal sleep in the earth from where you were resurrected--!
-
- (Flute is completely impressed,
and even Oboe is surprised)
Flute: Ha... Hamel...
Oh...
-
- (close up of Faggott beginning
to look worried)
Faggott: (grunts)
-
- (the mayor and the townspeople
are ecstatic)
person 1: Oh-- great hero--!
mayor: Lord Hamel --!
-
- (Hamel angrily wields his violin
with a flourish, ready to play, while Flute and Oboe watch adoringly
from the back)
fx: <lightning flash>
Hamel: IF
GOD CANNOT SEND YOU TO YOUR ETERNAL REST--
THAN I WILL TAKE HIS PLACE AND KNOCK YOU DOWN TO HELL--
Flute: [Hamel...]
fx: <stare>
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- Page 178
(Hamel gestures to Flute
with a tense smile on his face. Flute freezes in confusion and
Oboe face faults, while Faggott just stares in shock)
Hamel: Which
is what this girl will do.
Flute:
Eh?
-
- (Hamel sweats nervously as he
continues to smile; meanwhile Flute is in a raging panic and
Oboe is between them yelling at Hamel)
Hamel: Just
do me the favor and do it!
Oboe:
Hey Hamel! You!!
Flute:
Wait a minute! Why do I have
to~~~!
-
- (Hamel and Flute begin fighting
in earnest with a stressed out Oboe between them)
Hamel: Idiot~~~
I don't want to fight with that monster, you moron~~~!
Flute:
I don't want to fight with
the skeleton either!!
Oboe: Hamel! What kind of person are you--!!
-
- (the three really get into fighting
while the mayor and Faggott just stand and watch, dismayed)
Flute: But I'll lose years
off my life and get hellish muscle spasms! And he's supposed
to be incredibly strong!
Oboe: HAMEL!!
fx: <whap fwap
whap fwap>
Hamel: Shut up!! Quit complaining
and deal with the skeleton!!
Go already!
Flute:
No way!!
Faggott:
....
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- Page 179
(Hamel speaks accusingly,
shocking and embarrassing Flute)
Hamel: Are
you going to betray the hopes of the townspeople then?
Flute:
Urk...
-
- (the townspeople look sad and
despondent, but almost expectant)
-
- (Flute looks sickly and wan)
Flute: Uh,
uh, uh...
fx: <wince>
-
- (Flute is gathering her strength
and looking determined in the foreground while Hamel irritatedly
readies to play behind her. Oboe cries in shame next to him)
Hamel: Ok,
let's go! Justice will definitely prevail! Perhaps... [Maybe...]
[We'll pick up someone's bones off the floor!]
Flute:
LET'S DO THIS!!
Oboe: [I'm so sorry, Flute...]
-
- (Hamel stands proudly as he
begins to play)
Hamel: Well, then...
-
- (close up of Flute looking very
determined)
Flute: (grunts)
fx: <vein popping>
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- Page 180
(Flute rushes forward
in a flash of light)
fx: <snap>
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- (Flute crazily rushes forward
as Hamel plays disinterestedly in the background. Oboe cries
on the ground next to him)
Hamel: She's so easy to set
off... [Just like Pavlov's dog--]
Oboe: I'm sorry, Flute...
Flute: (enraged yell)
fx: <pop>
-
- (Flute rockets down over Faggott,
ready to land a kick on him as he sits on his horse)
fx: <zoom>
Flute: (yell)
-
- (close up of Faggott looking
unconcerned)
Faggott: (chuckles) So this
is Hamel's "Marionette"...]
fx: <grin>
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- Page 181
(Flute crashes down upon
Faggott)
Flute: (enraged
yell)
fx: <swoosh>
-
- (Oboe watches what is about
to happen)
Oboe: (gasp)
-
- (Oboe looks tense as he notices
something)
Oboe: Amazing!
Faggott is so confident--!
-
- (Oboe suddenly realizes something)
Oboe: This is Suppe's "Light
Cavalry" march!!
Famous for capturing the light feeling of the movement of the
cavalry,
Flute is obviously using this to drive her attack!!
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- Page 182
(Flute's foot seems to
hit only the ghost of Faggott's head)
fx: <swish>
-
- (close up of Flute, angry but
surprised)
Flute: Eh--?!
-
- (skeleton troops scatter on
horseback as Flute's impact with the ground creates a large crater)
fx: <smash>
-
- (Flute turns quickly as she
looks for Faggott)
Flute: He...
disappeared?!
-
- (Faggott begins to appear out
of thin air)
Flute (off): Where-- where did he go?!
Faggott:
(chuckles)
fx: <woosh>
-
- (Faggott appears menacingly
behind Flute, his hand raised high)
fx: <loom>
-
- (Hamel and Oboe look on in shock)
Flute (off): [KYAAAHHH--...]
Hamel/Oboe:
(grunt)
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- Page 183
(Faggott stands quietly
and ready in the backgound as Flute lies beaten in the foreground,
birds flying about her head).
fx: <chirp chirp>
<twitch twitch twitch>
<dust rising>
-
- (Oboe watches in shock)
Oboe: Im... impossible...!
The unbeatable marionette was?!
-
- (Faggott speaks in the foreground
as a skeleton guard laughs in the background)
skeleton guard: (chuckles) If that's the best the magic music can
do... [Just as I figured of you, Lord Faggott]
Faggott:
She was human, after all.
[And a girl on top of that...]
-
- (Flute begs piteously to Hamel
as a sympathetic Oboe and townspeople look on)
Flute: Ha...
Hamel... I definitely don't think I can do this...
Oboe:
Flute!
Flute:
He... he's too strong.
fx: <drag>
-
- (Hamel smiles as he looks down)
fx: <rustle>
-
- (Flute runs forward screaming
and crying, obviously against her will, while Hamel plays his
violin irritated. Oboe face-faults next to him)
Hamel: JUST
GO!
fx: <violin sounds>
Flute: Wah-- Don't use my
body against my will~~~!!
fx: <dash>
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- Page 184
(Flute charges forward
with fists raised, crying the whole way)
Flute: Perhaps...
when he said "I'm useful", is this what he was thinking--?!
[YAAHH--]
-
- (Hamel stands quietly with a
speechless Oboe in front of a large cloud of smoke where Flute
is fighting Faggott)
fx: <bang>
<crash>
<whack>
<choke>
-
- (Faggott stands quietly in the
background as a shaky, more lumpy Flute crawls and begs to Hamel,
who also just watches her quietly, a worried Oboe besides him)
Flute: Ha... Hamel... I really
can't~~
fx:<tremble>
Oboe: Flute!
-
- (Hamel just plays his violin
again, Oboe goes ballistic and Flute runs off again once more
towards Faggott under the control of the music)
fx: <violin sounds>
Oboe: HAMEL!!
Flute: WAAHH!!
[DAAHHH--]
-
- (Hamel and Oboe stand once more
before a large cloud as Flute and Faggott fight again)
fx: <thump>
<snap>
<crack>
<slap>
<bash>
-
- (Flute trembles face down in
dirt while Hamel, Oboe and Faggott look on as before)
Oboe: Flute!!
Flute:
Ham... el... help...
fx: <twitch twitch>
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