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The Kingdom under the Quicksand P4

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(Meanwhile, Hal, Penny and Thomas are crawling through the passage, and just before they exit through the door in the wall, the spell is about to wear off. Penny exits and runs away, and then Thomas climbs out just the instant they get back to their original ages. King Millard LV just saw that.)

KING MILLARD LV:
(furious)
What? Hal?! You helped release those toddlers, didn't you, shorty?

(King Millard LV shoves Hal. He then turns to look at Thomas and Penny and sees that they are 13-year-olds again)

KING MILLARD LV:
What?! Back to normal, eh?

THOMAS WHITNEY:
(shouts)
Shame on you! Just because you're the king doesn't mean you can be so wicked!

KING MILLARD LV:
(growls)
Onia! Come out here this instant!! I mean now!

(Moments of silence. Thomas hides behind a clock and Penny hides behind a barrel. After three seconds, Onia slowly comes out from the lab (with a curtain for a door) just dragging her feet.)

JULIAN:
(brings over Seth)
Look who was trying to escape, and had freed his fellow prisoners in a clever way. And he denies it.

SETH WHITNEY:
Let go of me now!

KING MILLARD LV:
Pipe down, shrimp. And Julian, I'll take care of that later.

(Onia pauses in arriving.)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
Come here closer, Onia.

(Reluctantly, she does.)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
All right. Look at what has just happened!

(He points to Thomas and Penny)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
You gave me the wrong Youth Juice! Had you forgotten I really expected the permanent one? Can't you tell permanent from… what was that word…? I can't get it…

(Another soldier arrives to whisper into his ear)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
… Thank you, man. Can't you tell permanent from temporary? You're a stupid cat! What are you, blind?

(Onia lifts her forefeet and spreads them apart and shakes her head)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
What? There were no more? Oh, I forgot! I forgot that the last time you gave one of my last hostages any of the permanent Youth Juice it was JUST the last box. But I had to have something to rejuvenate those two bigger kids! I guess I must have forgotten about how to make the permanent kind, since it had been so long after I had made that big batch. Just go to your basket for now until I call you.

(Onia leaves for the room at the left of the lab. Now Millard LV turns to Julian who is still holding on to the hand of a struggling Seth.)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
You were say--…

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
(interrupts himself and looks at Seth)
What? What do you mean by letting that kid out of jail?

JULIAN:
I swear, your Majesty, I was only opening it so I could abuse him, but…

KING MILLARD LV:
(interrupts)
Forget it. I'll deal with it myself.

(Julian lets go of Seth who is now sneaking away.)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
In the meantime, you and your soldiers had better keep watch for inept idiots who step onto the quicksand surface, and then bring any you find over to me!

JULIAN:
(stands up straight)
All right, men! Come out, all one-hundred of you! Now!

(The soldiers start marching forward in single-file)

JULIAN:
We must check for more newcomers.

(Julian leads them out of the castle.)

(King Millard LV looks and sees that Seth is sneaking away)

KING MILLARD LV:
Hey, shrimp! You get your butt back here! You're in trouble with me!

(Seth only runs away)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
Get back here!

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
(whistles)
Onia, go get him and bring him to me!

(Onia comes out of that room and quickly runs after Seth. He just keeps running.)

KING MILLARD LV:
You can run, slight shrimp, but you'll never win!

SETH WHITNEY:
You wanna bet, child tyrant?!

KING MILLARD LV:
(grits his teeth)
That does it! You're in bigger trouble now!

(Seth runs into the lab, and King Millard grins)

KING MILLARD LV:
There, now he's going to rejuvenate himself.

KING MILLARD LV:
(snickers)
You're gonna get it, shrimp. I wonder what he'll look like then.

(Now, in the lab, Seth runs around the Giant Fountain of Youth with Onia chasing after him.)

SETH WHITNEY:
Too bad, kitty! No treats! You can't get me!

(Seth finally runs out of the circle after tiring Onia. Now, Thomas and Penny have just gotten in here and are in front of the fountain. Onia gets up to try to pounce on them first, but before she can pounce them into the fountain, they split up in moving out of the way and she ends up pouncing into the fountain, and she turns into a cub. She then climbs out of the fountain. Seth turns and looks.)

SETH WHITNEY:
Penny? Thomas? You're back to being big kids!

THOMAS WHITNEY:
Well, Seth, the spell wore off. That was temporary.

SETH WHITNEY:
Meaning?

PENNY LINCOLN:
It didn't last forever. We changed back just as Hal helped us escape. Seth, I hope you've learned a lesson.

SETH WHITNEY:
Well, because I felt pain for my size and age under Millard's orders, and because of a story I heard about what made him mean, maybe I shouldn't act like being bigger makes me better. Perhaps it doesn't. I ought to be a better boy, and I might as well apologize to Christina when we get back out of the quicksand and back home.

KING MILLARD LV: (OS)
You're never going back home, because this will be it now!

(We show him with crossed arms and he steps forward towards Seth)

KING MILLARD LV:
(to Seth)
Why aren't you younger?

(King Millard LV looks and sees Onia, who is now a cub and is all wet)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
Where did that cub come from? Was that Onia?

(He sees the wet footprints coming from the fountain)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
Yep, that was her. You rejuvenated my kitty, didn't you, Seth?

SETH WHITNEY:
(gasps)
How did you know my name?

THOMAS WHITNEY:
(into Seth's ear)
He must have been listening.

KING MILLARD LV:
(shouts)
Silence in my presence, bigger boy!

SETH WHITNEY:
You've been wrong to take advantage of Hal! It wasn't his fault your father died!

KING MILLARD LV:
Yes, it was! He didn't pull him up!

SETH WHITNEY:
Well, he was too heavy for him to pull up! He actually liked your father and wanted to help him, but he had a cold, and didn't want to make him sick, and he couldn't pull him up for their differences in size and strength! You've been mean to him just for that accident and his size, and you've been a bully since! You may be bigger than he is, but that doesn't make you better than him! And that does not give you the right to bully him, and it does not give you the right to hurt us, either! And you were wrong to turn my brother and his girlfriend into toddlers! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, and none of us!

KING MILLARD LV:
Silence in my presence!

SETH WHITNEY:
Stop being a bullying tyrant!

KING MILLARD LV:
(chuckles)
Hey, I'm the king! I'll treat everybody my own way, and nobody can stop me no matter what my age!

SETH WHITNEY:
A true king wouldn't pick on others just because he is bigger than they are, or older for that matter! You were wrong to experiment on Thomas and Penny just so you could hurt them, too! Just because you're bigger than me or any other younger kids doesn't mean you can treat them however you want! What you're doing is bad! You're an evil bully, and we have had enough of it!

(Now the curtain is being opened. Julian comes in.)

JULIAN:
Your Majesty, we haven't found any hostages-to-be.

SETH WHITNEY:
(to Julian)
Your king is just a tyrant who isn't following his father's ways!

KING MILLARD LV:
I'm avenging my father!

KING MILLARD LV:
(to Julian)
Never mind what he's saying! Bring Hal to me and I'll turn him into a deformed baby! I know you're only the captain, but because Onia's been rejuvenated, she can't do any more of this, and it's…

(He turns to look at Seth)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
…_someone's_ fault!

(Julian salutes and just leaves. Now Millard turns to Seth)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
You ought to be sorry!

SETH WHITNEY:
No, I _don't_ ought to be sorry! It served your tiger right and not me!

KING MILLARD LV:
Nonsense! Only I decide who deserves what! I rule, and when I say something, I'm always right, and nobody convinces me otherwise!

SETH WHITNEY:
That's enough, Nobody's Majesty!

(King Millard LV growls furiously.)

KING MILLARD LV:
(to Julian's soldiers as they enter)
Seize him and put him in the fountain of youth, but try not to rejuvenate yourselves a bit! And be sure you catch any obstacles that support him.

(What he had meant by "any obstacles that supported Seth" was "anyone who supported him, and got in their way.")

(Julian's 100 soldiers walk after Seth who is running away from them.)

KING MILLARD LV:
(shouts)
Speed up, men!

(Still Seth is running, and the soldiers walk faster after him)

KING MILLARD LV: (CONT)
(sarcastically)
That's fine with me! Run, run, run, as fast as you can!

SETH WHITNEY:
(runs off)
You'll never catch me! I'm not yet a man! My age still has one digit! Go away!

(Seth keeps running and Millard LV laughs)

KING MILLARD LV:
I'm bigger and older than you, and I am in charge; therefore, I'm the winner-to-be.

(King Millard LV cackles)
Part four of "The Kingdom under the Quicksand".

Here is where the second- and third-main characters exit and the spell wears off. Later, Onia, the king's pet tiger, is rejuvenated.

MAJOR CHARACTERS:

Seth Whitney– the 8-year-old protagonist. He starts out as a bully to littler kids, but later softens.

Thomas Whitney– Seth’s 13-year-old brother and the deuteragonist.

Penny Lincoln– Thomas’s girlfriend and the tritagonist.

King Millard LV– the preteen king of the Quicksand Kingdom and the main antagonist.

Julian– Millard’s captain and the secondary antagonist.

Onia– a white tiger who works as the right-hand animal for Millard LV, and is responsible for the Biscuits of Rejuvenation. She serves as a supporting antagonist.


MINOR CHARACTERS:

Millard’s Soldiers– the minor antagonists, whom Julian leads.

Hal– a 100-year-old dwarf and a new friend of Seth’s. When he was 65, he accidentally let Millard’s father, Millard LIV, die, thus the source.

Millard LIV: Millard LV’s blind and voiceless father (perhaps except for (unheard) shouting), whose death Hal accidentally causes.

Nathan Whitney– Seth & Thomas’s father.

Natalie Whitney (née Miller)– Seth & Thomas’s mother.

Christina Grey– a little girl in the neighborhood whom Seth takes advantage of.

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