Bless Me, Ultima Page #2

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They chose

to tamper with fate.

Pity the consequences.

I grew worried.

La curandera!

Is everything ready?

Lucas.

He has been like that

for the last two weeks.

Beyond hope.

Life is never

beyond hope.

Go. Go now.

Antonio, make the fire.

It'll be difficult.

They made him wait too long.

Why did they wait?

The priest would not allow your

grandfather to send for me.

He's afraid of Tenorio.

Drink, Lucas.

Drink. Un poquito.

Un poquito, Lucas.

Drink. Lucas.

Lucas, drink this.

Un poquito.

I believe they had his fresh

cut hair to work with.

The curse is very strong,

and his strength is gone.

Will he die?

They stole his soul.

We must get it back.

At the cantina,

you weren't afraid of Tenorio.

No, mijito.

Good is always

stronger than evil.

Always remember that,

Antonio.

The smallest bit of good

can stand against all the

powers of evil in the world.

Oh, those,

Trementina girls

will be all cut and

bruised in the morning.

Ultima. Ultima.

Ultima. Ultima.

There is no fever.

The blood of the Lunas

is strong in you.

We have beaten

the death spirit.

Now, all that remains is

for him to vomit the curse.

You have done evil.

But good is stronger

than evil,

and the evil you did

will fly in your faces.

Lucas. Lucas.

Drink this.

There we go, just a little,

just a little.

Let it out. Let it out.

Let it out! Let it out!

Ah.

We will burn this by the tree

where the witches dance.

Your son lives,

old man.

Papa.

Lucas!

Do not tire him

too much at first.

Mdica, I can never repay you

for saving my son's life.

Perhaps someday

the men of El Puerto

will save my life.

Antonio, vmonos.

We must burn this.

The doctors and their medicines had failed.

The priests had failed.

Take us to the river where

Lucas saw the witches dance.

Was Ultima's magic stronger than the saints?

And the Holy Mother Church?

It was Mauricio's

oldest boy.

He was crushed

beneath a tractor.

That's right.

He...

He worked the potato fields in Colorado.

Now, his other boy,

he runs whiskey in Texas.

You know,

to the cotton fields in the dry counties.

Mauricio? Does he

run whiskey too?

Mauricio? He just runs

from his wife.

When my father's friends,

the vaqueros came to town,

they always found

their way to our table.

I liked to watch my father

reminisce about the old times,

because for a while

he was happy.

Other times he'd curse the war

that had taken my brothers

so far away from home,

and from his dream of moving

us all to California.

When do you plan to go?

When my boys come back

from the war.

Then we'll all go together.

You know, there's...

There's lots of work out there,

and now with

the war and all.

As I said, there's work

in Texas too!

Oh!

My man of learning.

The last one to leave me.

# Tony's going to school! #

Theresa, stop!

He should be a scholar.

Perhaps a priest,

a man of the people.

Remember you are a Luna.

And a Marez.

Deborah, take him

to Miss Maestas.

She knows my family.

S, Mama.

My scholar.

Ooh! A scholar already,

and only on your first day of school, mijo?

You know,

in my day only the rich got to go to school.

My father,

he gave me a saddle blanket and a wild pony,

and he said, "There,

the llano, there's your life."

Ves, mijito?

That's why we live here,

on this dry piece of dirt

where nothing grows,

so your father can be close

to his old Marez ways.

Mijo, why don't you

ask your mom,

what was it that made her

fall in love with me, huh?

Was the sweat of the horse

in my clothes,

or its smell on my hands that

made her fall so in love with me?

Time to go, Mama.

Yes, it's time to go.

Yeah, so it is.

Theresa?

Mis hijos! All right.

Remember, be respectful to your teachers.

And Antonio, suerte.

Go, go, go, go, go.

Give Miss Maestas

my blessings, hmm?

Vitamin Kid!

Who?

Your classroom's

over there!

Good morning!

Como te llamas?

Antonio Marez.

My mother said

to send you her blessings.

Hmm.

"Antonio Marez."

You wanna learn to write?

Good, come in.

Let's put you next to Melissa.

Melissa,

this is Antonio.

Up!

Attention, class,

it's lunchtime.

You'll obey Marisol

until I return.

This is cardo lechero,

good for cleansing the liver.

We have some

in the house.

Ah, mira, this...

This is marrubio

for when

you have a cold.

You can make candy

with that.

Antonio!

Antonio!

Andrew! Leon! Eugene!

Mama!

Hola! Hola, Papa!

So, tell me

all about California.

Well, we were only there

a few months, Papa.

Tell us about the war!

It was all right.

Like heck, it was!

Eugene, shame!

In front of La Grande!

Did you see

all the vineyards, huh?

Ay, Dios mio.

It was so hard without you.

It'll be all right now,

Mama.

Hjole! You know,

I would give anything to move

to California right now!

Gabriel...

They've just returned.

Ay, mi amor,

I don't mean tonight.

Mis hijos.

Do you get to punch

the buttons on the, um...

Cash register?

Yeah.

That'll come later.

For now I work

mostly in the back.

Gotten any faster?

Think you could beat me?

Race you across!

It's him, the Vitamin Kid!

Let's go!

Ah, who the heck

was that?

The Vitamin Kid.

Nobody could beat him.

Some day you'll beat him,

Tony. Some day.

See you after work.

What is sin, anyway?

It's not doing

the will of God.

Is it a sin to do this?

Yes.

Why?

It's a bad sign.

But nothing happens

when I do it.

You will be punished.

When?

When you die.

What if I go

to confession?

Then your sins

are forgiven,

your soul is clean

and you're saved.

You mean I can

go out and sin,

throw the finger,

say bad words,

steal, do a million

bad things,

and when

I'm about to die,

just go to confession

and I go to heaven?

Yes, if you're

sorry you sinned.

Hey, Tony,

you missed a fight.

That was a real

good tackle, Horse.

Now let me up.

Did you see the fight?

It was funny when Willie

peed on Roque's shoes.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, how come Willie

and those farmer kids

don't have to go

to catechism?

'Cause they'd miss

the bus, stupid!

Protestants don't

have to go either.

They go to Hell!

No, they don't!

You're going to

Hell too, Florence.

You don't believe

in God.

If you don't believe in God,

there's no Hell to go to.

Hey, let's go

tease the girls.

Why don't you

believe in God?

I don't know.

My mother died when I was three.

My father drinks

himself to death,

and my sisters are

floozies working at Rosie's.

The old man hasn't been

very good to me.

You mean God?

So why do you

go to catechism then?

I wanna be

with you guys.

You know, I don't

want to be left out.

We're gonna be late.

I would not have

expected you to be late.

I'll excuse you this time,

but take care of your company.

The devil has many ways

to mislead you.

You think this kind of

disrespect can be tolerated?

You think this

is play time?

Let us pray.

Who made you?

God made me.

And where is God?

God is everywhere.

At Rosie's.

How many persons

are there in God?

Three!

The Father, the Son

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