Clash of the Titans Page #31

PERSEUS:

Don't give away your secrets. You

still have need of them.

L:

(CONTINUED)

99.

CONTINUED:

VIDALIA:

Let me give you this sliver of

magic. I'll write it on your

instinct. When the time comes,

you'll know how to use it.

She takes his head in her hands, pressing her forehead to

his. Gently, her fingers slip into his mind. A TEAR

runs down her cheek.

PERSEUS' POV

In QUICK FLASHES: A white lid opens to a black eye.

Reflected in the eye -- clouds roll over a stormy sky.

THEN:

Feathered WHITE WINGS beat the air. Then:

Racing over the surface of a blue SEA, and then down,

down, to SMASH THROUGH the surface, into the depths.

INT. TEMPLE OF TARTAROS - NIGHT

Tiamat and Set the Void stand over the corpse of Medusa.

Baby snakes and beetles spill out of her neatly-sliced

neck. Tiamat is furious.

TIAMAT:

How did he do this? They were not

even to reach Medusa.

SET:

Fate has begun to shift. The

future ripples with uncertainty.

TIAMAT:

Spare me your pitiful maundering!

There is no Fate beyond my actions

and no uncertainty in the face of

my will.

SET:

(COWED)

I meant only that the demigod

bends the path without knowing it.

He is ignorant of the rules, or

unconcerned with them.

She turns on him with such a violent look, he flinches.

(CONTINUED)

100.

CONTINUED:

TIAMAT:

Then there shall be no rules!

Prove to me you have not lost that

which makes you most valuable.

Set absorbs her tirade, stung.

SET:

And Zeus... the others?

TIAMAT:

I am your ally. That is all you

need to know. Bloody your hands

and rid me of this pestilence.

SET:

You have liberated me, my Queen.

Watch as your desires are quickly

satisfied.

Set disappears.

INT. UNDERGROUND SHRINE - SUNRISE

Perseus jolts awake. He reaches for Vidalia, but she is

gone. Amoun stands over him, his manner severe.

PERSEUS:

Where is she?

AMOUN:

This is my fault. I've permitted

.this infatuation to progress too

far.

PERSEUS:

It is not yours to permit,

Master... with respect.

Vidalia comes down into the shrine, her apron full of

berries.

VIDALIA:

Look what I've found for us --

She startles when she sees Amoun, dropping the berries.

AMOUN:

(TO VIDALIA)

Have you forgotten Perseus is

engaged to the Princessa?

PERSEUS:

I won't marry Andromeda.

(CONTINUED)

101.

CONTINUED:

Both Amoun and Vidalia are surprised.

AMOUN:

If by some miracle you survive

this encounter with Leviathan, the

hand of the Princessa is your

reward.

PERSEUS:

I want no reward.

AMOUN:

Are you so selfish? Would you

risk everything for the foolish

love of --

A BLAST of HOT DESERT WIND blows into the Shrine. The

berries turn brown and shrivel.

Amoun grabs his chest. Perseus and Vidalia crumple in

agony.

SET THE VOID COMES INTO THE SHRINE. Amoun tries to

invoke a spell, but Set touches his chest and Amoun

splits open.

Set points at Vidalia, slamming her into the earthen

wall. The God is there in an instant, strangling her.

Perseus staggers up and swings his sickle, but Set

points, ripping the weapon from Perseus' hand. It flies

across the shrine and sinks with a CLANG into the tablet

that once held Vidalia's true name.

Still choking Vidalia, Set grabs Perseus' arm. Perseus

doubles over, paralyzed by the God's touch. Suffocating,

Vidalia FADES MORE.

Immobilized, Perseus watches her struggle and searches

HIS BEING:

PERSEUS:

(low, rasping)

I am half God... and now is the

time...

Perseus rises. He c*cks his arm and clobbers Set with an

ear-splitting CRACK OF THUNDER and a sparking BURST OF

WHITE ENERGY. Set drops Vidalia and lurches back,

aghast. BLACK BLOOD shoots from his mouth.

Perseus, his face contorted in rage, chokes Set. The

God's body SPASMS and deforms in DEATH THROES.

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