Clash of the Titans Page #27

SHAIKH SULEIMAN:

Jaggous temploi Tartaros de

Gorgoneion maitress.

AMOUN:

The Temple of Tartaros... Medusa's

lair.

Mongke and Tamburlane exchange words and point. They all

LOOK --

TWO STONE STATUES flank the entrance: a pair of enormous

CENTAURS -- NESSUS and IXION, their eyelids sewn shut.

Icos and Krikor exchange distressed looks.

AMOUN:

Medusa must have turned them to

stone.

Perseus swings his sickle, measuring its balance, and

adjusts his shield. He checks a canvas sack on his belt.

PERSEUS:

I'm going into the Temple.

(CONTINUED)

87.

CONTINUED:

DRACO:

I am with you.

SPYROS:

(STEPS FORWARD)

I go with my boy.

Perseus, Spyros, and Draco split off toward the temple.

Suddenly, the two "statues," Nessus and Ixion, shake off

their dusty skins and COME TO LIFE. They GALLOP down the

ridge, hooves shaking the ground. They raise fearsome

spiky maces of jagged iron.

Vidalia readies her sling. The Shaikh draws his

scimitar. Mongke and Tamburlane load their handgonnes,

the others draw swords.

EXT. TEMPLE OF TARTAROS - PORTICO - DAY

The Temple group arrives at the steps. Draco speaks to

PERSEUS:

DRACO:

Are you afraid?

PERSEUS:

Of what?

DRACO:

Good boy.

PERSEUS:

Yes. You?

DRACO:

(NODS)

Stay close and I'll steer us

through.

They tie on blindfolds and feel their way into the

Temple.

EXT. TEMPLE OF TARTAROS - LAVA FIELD - DAY

Nessus and Ixion arrive. Ixion's mace catches Krikor,

flinging him to his death in an open lava vent. Icos

CRIES OUT for his friend and charges in. Ixion smashes

him to oblivion.

Thad, enraged, races at Nessus, but the Centaur dodges

the massive Praetorian and kicks him in the chest,

killing him.

(CONTINUED)

88.

CONTINUED:

Nessus charges Amoun. Amoun throws a handful of sand,

which becomes a hail of STEEL-BARBED DARTS in midair, C

which lash the Centaur's flesh.

Tamburlane rolls under the beast and fires his weapon.

Nessus hurls the monster-hunter against a boulder and

goes for him when --

-- Shaikh Suleiman jumps between them. His scimitar

slashes but is ripped from his hands. The Shaikh BOWS

HIS HEAD.

Nessus' mace shatters Shaikh Suleiman's head of charred

wood. BLUE FIRE shoots out his neck, ENVELOPING THE

CENTAUR. The burning Centaur crumples, dead.

Ixion SLAMS his mace down, just missing Amoun. Suddenly,

Vidalia's sling-bullets slice his flesh. Ixion turns and

leaps at Vidalia.

INT. TEMPLE OF TARTAROS - DAY

In the subterranean temple, we HEAR Ixion landing above;

dust rains into the cavern. SUNLIGHT angles through

holes in the roof.

Draco, Spyros and Perseus move blindly through the

debris. CORPSES everywhere, faces frozen in stone

screams.

The men can't see it, but one wall suddenly frames a

silhouette of MEDUSA: HAIR OF HISSING SNAKES atop a

woman's torso, the body of a mammoth reptile.

WE SEE only GLIMPSES of Medusa as she slides through the

shadows. Her forked tongue tastes the air.

CUTTING BETWEEN Spyros, Perseus and Draco, moving

silently on opposite sides of the sanctuary.

OUR VIEW of Draco is suddenly BLOCKED by Medusa -- she

coils around Draco without touching him. He HEARS the

RASP of SCALES ON STONE.

DRACO:

I hear her, Perseus. She's near!

Her torso behind him, she RATTLES her tail in front.

Draco spins and slices the air. The RATTLE stops. Draco

waits, confused.

(CONTINUED)

89.

CONTINUED:

PERSEUS (O.S.)

(from across the

ROOM)

Draco, be wary -- !

Medusa gingerly tugs Draco's blindfold free. Draco sees

the tail before him. Unthinking, he instinctively spins

and looks.

Medusa's face is inches from Draco's. His muscles lock

and his flesh hardens to scabrous stone, emanating SMOKY

GAS. Medusa breathes in the vapors ecstatically.

AT THAT MOMENT a hole blasts through the roof of the

cavern as Ixion crashes down in a cloud of dirt -- dead,

a gaping wound in his head.

Medusa regards her fallen minion in horror, loosing a

MOURNFUL SIGH.

Spyros HEARS HER and blindly hurls his harpoon toward the

sound.

WITH THE HARPOON as its sails cleanly through slanted

pillars and debris, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, until it comes

through a tiny opening and --

THUDS into Medusa's body! The Monster SCREAMS, whipping

about. She tries to pull the harpoon out, but can't.

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