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Season #2 Episode #3: Echoes of the Past

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[Luz extends her hand in sympathy.]

Luz:
King, it's gonna be okay.

King:
[despondent] Y-You're all just making fun of me, like usual, right? [hyperventilates] No! No, no, no, no! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

[King, now on the verge of tears, holds onto his head and breathes in sheer panic before running away from the group.]

King:
[sobbing] No!

[Luz gets up and forlornly extends her hand as she watches King disappear into the jungle.]

Luz:
KIIIING!

[Cut to Luz, Eda and Lilith walking through the jungle in search of the runaway King. Luz is trying to call for him.]

Luz:
King?! Kiiiiing! Please, come back!

Lilith:
I can't fly. The tree cover is too dense. I regret ever playing a part in this.

[Hooty starts bawling.]

Hooty:
Is this what regret feels like? I HATE IT!

[Hooty droops over Lilith's shoulder and continues crying. She gently pats him.]

Luz:
I lied to him, even thorough I knew he trusted me. Now, he's all alone. [She sits down and silently weeps.]

Eda:
For now, let's split up. This island is small, and he's even smaller. He can't have gone far.

[Lilith leaves toward the right, while Eda kneels down to comfort a teary-eyed Luz.]

Eda:
[assuredly] Don't worry. We'll find him.

[Eda leaves toward the left. Luz wipes her eyes, gets up and, with a determined look on her face, leaves to look for King.]

Luz:
Kiiiiing?! Kiiiiing?!

[Luz reaches the edge of the jungle and pauses. There, on the beach in front of her, is King, sitting alone on a log, staring out at the sea. A sympathetic Luz walks up to him and joins him on the log.]

King:
[still upset] Eda was right, wasn't she? I was never king of anything. I'm nobody.

Luz:
You are somebody. And I love that somebody very much. I'm sorry I lied about what I believed.

King:
Everyone lied! And I was too caught up in the fantasy to realize it? [starts sobbing] I... I don't know what to do, Luz? I can't tell what's real and what's fake!

[King buries his face in his paws. Luz looks like she's about to start crying herself, but then looks up toward the ruined temple in the distance.]

Luz:
Something's not adding up. One of your memories is falling, right?

King:
[wiping his eyes] Probably another stupid thing I made up!

Luz:
No! What if that's a real memory?

King:
Why does it matter?

Luz:
You said you remember a roar from up in that shaft. Maybe that's what you fell from! Eda found you in those ruins. There's gotta be a clue in there about where you came from.

King:
I don't know, Luz. What if the story gets worse?

Luz:
You might have been alone before, but you have us now. Whatever we find up there won't change that. So, what do you say?

[Luz extends her hand. After a beat, King gets up puts his paw in it.]

King:
Okay.

[In the jungle, Luz leads King back to Eda and Lilith.]

Eda:
[happily] King! You're alright!

[She runs toward King, but then stops upon noticing him looking sternly up at her.]

Eda:
[sigh] You're mad at me. I get it. I would be, too. [kneels down] I'm so sorry, King.

[King suddenly pokes her on the cheek.]

King:
Boop. No more secrets, okay? You have to promise me.

Eda:
Only truths. I promise.

Luz:
Great. Now, before we leave, we have one more thing to check out.

[She points toward the tower in the distance.]

[Inside the castle, the monster is maintaining one of the little rock statues when it suddenly reacts to something unseen. It hisses and looks back. It sees an exploding position being tossed and gets hit. Lilith flies in on her staff, aiming Hooty like a bazooka.]

Hooty:
Special delivery... [deep voice] PAIN!

[Hooty fires a potion out of his mouth, and it hits the monster again. Suddenly, something invisible flies low past it. Luz takes a deep breath in, and she, King and Eda reappear on her staff, just like the glyph spell the showed off earlier.]

Eda:
You sure they'll be alright?

[Eda stops, and Luz hops off the staff.]

Luz:
Hooty knows what to do.

[Hooty is coughing up potions in a rapid-fire fashion.]

Eda:
[to herself] Are you sure they'll be alright?

[While Lilith and Hooty are battling the monster, Eda flies up to the blocked hole in the ceiling. She sticks a potion into the rocks and jumps down toward Luz and King.]

Eda:
Ready?

Luz:
I always wanted to do something like this?

[Luz readies a glyph as Lilith and Hooty continue holding the monster off.]

Hooty:
They're in place!

Lilith:
Hold your breath!

[Lilith activates an invisibility glyph and they inhale, turning themselves invisible. The monster hisses and looks around confused before getting hit by the invisible Lilith. As Luz aims the glyph at the overhead potion, the monster grabs Lilith by the head, turning her visible again. Just then, Luz changes the paper into a fireball and flings it toward the potion. It hits, blowing the hole in the ceiling open.]

[Hooty hits the monster with his face, freeing Lilith. She grabs her staff, and starts following Eda, Luz and King up the open hole.]

Luz:
FLY, FLY, FLY!

[They start going up the hole, with Lilith producing a glyph to light the dark tunnel. The monster gives chase. Our heroes soon reach the end of the tunnel.]

Luz:
There's...

King:
There's...

[Zoom out to reveal that the tunnel has lead to a small, empty room covered in cobwebs.]

Eda:
Nothing here!

[Everyone gets off the staffs and starts exploring. King hears hissing, looks down the hole and sees the monster coming in fast.]

King:
IT'S COMING!

[King shrieks and scats as the monster swipes its arm. It has our heroes cornered against a locked door. King backs into it, and his touch triggers a medical reaction.]

King:
Huh?

[The door opens, causing everyone to fall backwards into a secret room. They hurriedly close the door as the monster reaches toward them, causing its goopy hand to get cut off. Everyone takes deep sighs of relief.]

Eda:
Huh, I think we're safe... for now. But how did we get the door open?

King:
Huh? [looks at his paw]

Lilith:
[dumbstruck] This room is old. Very old.

[They begin exploring the room, which is decorated with decaying plants and a skylight on the ceiling. In the middle of the room is a golden pedestal. King walks up to it and sees the remains of a broken eggshell at the top.]

Luz:
I knew there was something up here! I'm like the mystery whisperer. The butler did it, magnifying glass, secret door.

Lilith:
It looks like that creature was made to guard whatever was in here.

Luz:
King, does any of this feel familiar to you?

King:
I'm not sure, but I think I know how to jog my memory. Eda, I'm ready. [extends his paw]

Eda:
Are you sure?

King:
I am.

[Eda take the broken piece of horn out of her hair and gives it to King, who places it on his stump. He gasps as his memories return to him, and the camera zooms into his eye. Cut to black.]

King:
[voiceover] I remember a deep roar.

[Fade in on a flashback, showing an unborn King growing inside his egg. A demonic roar is heard from outside the shell.]

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