Heavy Metal Page #16

Above them, the Loc-Nar sits glowing in the stone idol's hand.

ARD:

By the power of the magic Loc-Nar

placed in your idol's hands, I

command you - come forth Uluhtec!

The green water in the pool immediately begins to churn

violently and leap into the air. A bolt of lightning

crackles in the sky.

CUT TO:

THE NEVERWHERE DESERT

DEN is racing across the barren desert on his leopard/horse.

Visible in the distance is the outline of the huge, truncated

pyramid where he first saved KATHERINE.

As he rides, he sees the green glow of the Loc-Nar, sparkling

in the glass surfaces of the coffin in front of it.

DEN:

(to himself)

Katherine!

He spurs his leopard/horse on into the night.

CUT TO:

ANOTHER PART OF THE NEVERWHERE DESERT

The QUEEN, riding a flying lizard, leads her army in pursuit

of DEN.

SOLDIER:

(pointing)

There he is, your Majesty!

CUT TO:

QUEEN'S P.O.V.

Up ahead, silhouetted in the moonlight, she sees DEN, riding up

the steps of the pyramid. The camera pans to the green glow

atop the torch-lit pyramid.

QUEEN:

(V.O.)

The Loc-Nar!

CUT TO:

THE QUEEN:

QUEEN:

(shouting to her men)

Faster! To the pyramid!

She whips her lizard harder.

CUT TO:

THE NEVERWHERE PYRAMID

ARD is incanting to the raging water while two hooded monks

stand beside him, holding the struggling KATHERINE out over

the pool.

ARD:

Here is your sacrifice, Uluhtec.

Now, give me your power!

(to monks)

Throw her in.

Chanting the name "Uluhtec", the two monks start to throw

the girl in when suddenly a third monk leaps forward and

grabs her, kicking the other two monks into the water.

The intruder's hood falls away and his bald head gleams in the

moonlight.

DEN:

Katherine!

KATHERINE:

Den!

ARD:

No! You'll ruin everything!

ARD jumps up and runs toward the Loc-Nar, perched in the stone

idol's hand. Grabbing it, ARD holds the glowing ball above him.

ARD:

(to his guards)

Kill them! Kill them both!

Suddenly, a hand leaps out of the darkness, gripping the

Loc-Nar just above Ard's hand - it is the QUEEN.

QUEEN:

The Loc-Nar is mine!

ARD:

(struggling)

Stupid b*tch! Get away from me!

As ARD and the QUEEN fight over the Loc-Nar, the Queen's troops

pour in and battle with Ard's soldiers. Thunder roars overhead.

CUT TO:

DEN:

Holding KATHERINE in one arm, DEN smashes a nearby soldier and

grabs the beast's spear. With the battle raging all around

him, DEN looks up at the sky.

CUT TO:

THE SKY:

Lightning crackles, illuminating the night with electricity.

CUT BACK TO:

DEN:

DEN reaches down, picks up the long chain that was wrapped around

the glass case and attaches one end to his spear. He kicks the

other end into the raging water, then heaves the spear

with all his might into the head of the stone idol.

In the same instant, a bolt of lightning fires down from the sky,

striking the idol full force. The lightning bolt travels through

the spear and down the chain, into the water. Suddenly, the

electrical energy arcs across to join with the Loc-Nar.

Holding onto the Loc-Nar, ARD and the QUEEN begin to glow green,

then de-materialize into a shimmering dimensional warp. The

troops stop fighting and look on in amazement, until all

that remains is the glowing Loc-Nar, hanging in mid-air.

KATHERINE:

(to Den)

Where did they go?

DEN:

They are gone. That is all

that matters.

DAN:

(V.O.)

They probably went back to Earth.

Boy, will Mom be surprised.

Suddenly, the Loc-Nar falls to the ground at Den's feet.

KATHERINE:

(looking down)

The Loc-Nar ... you could have the

power of Uluhtec. You could be

ruler over all these people.

DEN:

(looking over the throng)

Forget it.

In a single powerful leap, DEN, carrying KATHERINE, bounds up

onto the Queen's flying lizard and they fly off. The amazed troops

watch for a moment, then shrug and resume fighting.

CUT TO:

DEN'S FLYING LIZARD

KATHERINE clings to DEN as they fly.

KATHERINE:

Oh, but Den, with the Loc-Nar

you could have returned to Earth.

DEN:

I like it better here.

The lizard banks sharply away from us and carries them into the

distance.

DAN:

(V.O.)

On Earth, I'm nobody. But here,

I am DEN.

CUT TO:

THE NEVERWHERE PYRAMID

The camera pans down the stone statue to the glowing sphere,

which lies abandoned on the ground. The soldiers are gone. As

we watch, time begins to accelerate and the Neverwhere Pyramid

ages and crumbles all around the green ball. The earth heaves

and shifts, and dense vegetarian grows up through the cracks in

the ground.

A prehistoric man walks up and sees the glowing ball under a fern.

Fascinated, he picks it up and looks at it, as the foot of a

Tyrannosaurus Rex comes down, crushing him.

Time advances again as the dinosaur becomes a skeleton, and

a Biblical tent-community grows up around the ball. In the

fire-light, the Nomadic tribesmen are watering their animals,

when one of the camels paws at the ground, uncovering the glowing

ball. Scared, the camel struggles and trys to break its ropes.

Out of nowhere a Roman Legion attacks, slaughtering the tribesmen.

Time accelerates again, and the conquering Romans build a temple,

placing the green ball in the head of a golden idol. Then the

Romans grow fat and debauched, while slave-girls feed them grapes.

As the ball glows, the temple crashes down around the debauched

Romans, covering them and the green ball in rubble.

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