Legend Page #10

GUMP(studying globe): Hmmm... getting late. Almost half-

way past the morning mayfly hatch...

.

SCREWBALL(sullen): Too cold for mayflies now....

'Sides, I ain't got no timepeice.

GUMP:
You first must know how

to tell the time.

SCREWBALL:
I ain't got nothing....

GUMP:
No more chatter....! I've got work

to do.

Gump sits at the desk setting his timepeice beside him and rummaging

among his papers.

Jack kneels before a brightly polished shield and studies his

reflection.

Luna round and round his head.

SCREWBALL:
Think I'll brew some tea.

Screwball snatches variosu herbs off the ceiling.

SCREWBALL(cont):
Colt's foot and sassafrass...

Maybe a spot of spearmint....

St John's Wort not bad.... and

a little foxglove.

Screwball feverishly stuffs a silver teapot full of dried herbs.

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57 EXTERIOR PATH TO GUMP'S CAVE DAY

The unicorn's flowering footprints lead Lili to Gump's cave.

She pauses to consider the situation. Snowflakes glisten in her

tangled hair. She is fiercly beautiful.

Deciding nothing is amiss, Lili stalks silently inside.

58 INTERIOR MOUTH OF CAVE DAY

A small cooking fire flickers under blackened pots and an iron

skillet. The mare unicorn is bedded down on a blanket of straw.

Brown Tom lies fast asleep against her flank.

The unicorn lifts her head when Lili tiptoes in.

Brown Tom is jerked awake as the mare climbs to her feet, snorting

with rage.

BROWN TOM:
What....? What....?

Who's there?

LILI:
I'm Princess Lili.... I.....

BROWN TOM:
You! You're the cause of

all our sorrow!

The Princess drops to her knees.

LILI:
I know it was wrong.... Everything

is my fault.

(weeping)

Please.... please forgive me.

BROWN TOM:
I ain't the one ye should be asking.

LILI:
I want to make it up to her....

I followed the goblins! They gave the alicorn

to the Lord of Darkness!

BROWN TOM:
Good lass! You're a plucky

little partridge at that.

LILI:
We can't stay here! It's not safe!

Darkness sent the goblins to hunt

the mare... If I found her, so will

they....We msut go!

59 DELETED

60 INTERIOR MOUTH OF CAVE DAY

Brown Tom looks past Lili to the mouth of the cave.

BROWN TOM:
Too late!

Pox and Blix stand in the entrance, aiming their wicked, barbed

arrows straight at the hearts of Lili and Brown Tom.

Brown Tom swings an iron skillet back over his head in a warrior's

stance.

BROWN TOM:
If you imps're looking for a

fight, ye've come to the chap

who'll oblige ye.

BLIX/POX:
Kill....! K-k-kill...!

Kill...!

Blix and Pox loose their arrows, renocking the bows with incredible

speed.

Brown Tom moves like lightning, using the skillet as a shirld to

deflect the arrows raining about him.

Lili stands in front of the mare, striving to protect the unicorn's

body with her own.

Brown Tom lepas acrobatically about with the skillet. A fusillade of

arrows CLANGS OFF its iron surface.

A lucky shot peirces Brown Tom's hat. Dark red liquid streams down

his face. His eyes roll up in mortal terror.

BROWN TOM:
Dick-o-Tuesday's duck! They've done

for me!

Brown Tom staggers in a dramatic half-circle, toppling straight over

backwards, stiff as a board.

The mare unicorn rears WHINNYING on her hind-quarters.

The goblin hunters advance. Blix spreads a heavy net wide.

The black shadow on the net falls across Lili and the unicorn like

an evil spider web.

61 INTERIOR GUMP'S CAVE DAY

Screwball's teapot steams merrily. He sits stop a jewel cask

enjoying a cup. A horned Viking helmet several sizes too large

covers his head down to the bridge of his nose.

Gump works at his desk, marking out distances on an ancient chart

with a pair of golden dividers. Dozens of parchment mps are spread

in front of him.

GUMP(muttering):
Forty leagues from the Dragon's

Track.... another half-span past

the basilisk den.

Gump lifts his elbow and the curled parchment rolls together.

GUMP (cont)(annoyed): Wirrikows and dopplegangers!

SCREWBALL:
Spot of tea, Gump....?

Help calm your nerves...

GUMP:
Not now! I'm busy with navigation.

On the other side of the cave, Jack practices a variety of thrusts

and passes with his sword in front of the polished shield.

Luna buzzes around him like a miniature meteorite.

JACK:
That's not so bad.... What do you

think, Luna?

Jack studies his reflection in the shield.

There is a BURST OF LIGHT behind him. Luna materialises as a child-

sized woman with gossamer wings. She wraps her slender arms around

his neck.

LUNA:
I think you look like a hero.

JACK:
What! H'd you do that?

Jack spins around, but Luna is gone. Only the tiny dot of LIGHT

hovers in the air.

JACK(cont) (puzzled): Magic....

Jack looks back at the shield and there is a full-sized Luna hugging

his reflection.

LUNA:
Nobody knows nut you. it's our

secret....

(kissing his cheek)

Promise?

JACK (squirming): Don't do that.

LUNA(another kiss): Better promise....

JACK:
All right, all right....

I promise.

A loud, MUSICAL CHIEME interrupts Gump's work. he looks around for

his timepiece but it is nowhere in sight.

GUMP:
Hmmmm...? Screwball!

SCREWBALL (all innocence): Something I can

do for you, Gump?

GUMP:
Hand it over....!

Sheepishly, Screwball pulls Gump's timepeice from inside his tunic

and gives it back.

SCREWBALL:
Well, well, well....

how'd that get in there? Must be

some kinda magic...

GUMP:
Sneak thief's magic!

(studies timepiece)

Jack! it's time we were on

our way!

At the SOUND of Gump's voice, Luna TRANSFORMS instantly back to a

dot of light.

JACK:
I'm ready as I'll ever be....

Jack picks up the shield and starts after Gump and Screwball. Luna

flies overhead.

62 INTERIOR MOUTH OF CAVE DAY

Brown Tom lies flat on his back as Jack and the faeries emerge from

the tunnel.

Gump rushes to his fallen friend, lifting him in his arms.

GUMP:
Brown Tom....? You can't be dead....!

Oh, this is is terrible.... terrible!

Brown Tom opens his eyes and looks feebly about.

BROWN TOM (in a daze): Why, Wisp....

they kill you, too?

GUMP:
Course they didn't! What in blazes

are you talking about?

Brown Tom rolls his eyes up at the arrow piercing his hat.

BROWN TOM:
Goblins shot me through

the brain pan.

Gump yanks off Brown Tom's hat. Bits of broken wine bottle tumble

out. Gump reagrds his friend with scorn.

GUMP:
Your brains are one spot an

arrow'd do no harm!

JACK:
Where's the unicorn?

Sheepishly, Brown Tom pulls the arrow from his hat.

BROWN TOM:
I'm afeered the goblins took her.

Did me best to fight them off, but

they swarmed up by the hundreds.... Horrid

creatures they were. The Princess warned

me, but....

JACK:
Princess Lili?

BROWN TOM:
Aye.

JACK(overjoyed):
She's alive!

BROWN TOM:
She was living still

when they killed me.

GUMP:
You'll earn your champion's spurs

this day, Jack.... We'll follow their

tracks in the snow. Foul weather's on our

side for a change.

62A EXTERIOR FOREST DAY

Jack and the faeries march through the woods holding lanterns, into

the teeth of a driving blizzard.

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