Willow Page #18

The shield skips and flies over snowdrifts and bumps.

Raziel squawks in terror above them. Just missing

trees and rocks, they pick up speek. Their eyes sud-

denly widen. Dead ahead is a huge wall of ice!

WILLOW:

Nooo!!!

Willow shuts his eyes. the shield speeds toward the

wall. At the last moment Madmartigan steers them into

a small opening, little more than a crack. Raziel,

nearly smashing into the wall herself, soars up into

the sky and loses them.

INT. ICE TUNNEL - DAY

They slide and sway down a long tube of ice, picking up

incredible speed until they loop 360 degrees upside-

down and around and go shooting out a hole at the other

end.

EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE - DAY

They soar thorugh the air. Madmartigan and Willow

shriek in terror. But Elora Danan giggles: she's hav-

ing fun! But in the air the shield goes one way and

they go another, flipping and hanging onto one another

and landing on soft snow with a fffump. Inertia keeps

them rolling.

Clumped together, they tumble down the mountain, gath-

ering snaw as they go, bouncing and rolling into a

snowball that gets bigger and bigger and bigger and

bigger and bigger!

EXT. VILLAGE - DAY

The snowball steamrolls toward a small village at the

foot of the mountain. CHLDREN look up and squeal with

delight while the adult VILLAGERS run for their lives.

It plows through the middle of the village, scattering

peole and animals left and right. At last it smashes

against a stone house and cracks open like an egg.

Raziel flies down and lands on top of the snowball,

flapping her wings frantically. madmartigan crawls out

as the villagers rush up. They stand back in amaze-

ment:
the baby starts crying.

MADMARTIGAN:

Willow! Willow! Are you all

right?

Madmartigan drags Willow and the baby out of the snow.

Willow's body is limp, he's unconscious. Then a VIL-

LAGER points up at the mountain.

VILLAGER:

King Kael!

ANOTHER VILLAGER

Nockmaar troops!

MADMARTIGAN:

(to villagers)

Help us.

In the distance Kael and his squad of about 15 horsemen

charge toward the village. The villagers flee into

their huts and houses. Madmartigan scoops up Willow

and the baby. Some villagers usher them around a

corner and into a house just as Kael's army invades the

town.

INT. HOUSE CELLAR - DAY

Madmartigan is bustled underground thorugh a cellar

into a hidden storage room and a disguised door shuts

behind him. MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN huddle here in

silence, like refugees or criminals. Madmartigan hands

the crying baby to a WOMAN then lays Willow on the

floor. Suddenly a huge hand clamps his shoulder: his

old friend and rival Airk Thaughbaer.

AIRK:

Madmartigan. Settled down with a

family huh?

Madmartigan knocks Airk's hand away.

MADMARTIGAN:

You left me to die, friend.

AIRK:

You managed alright.

MADMARTIGAN:

Is this what's left of your army?

Among the refugees is a handful of war-battered WARRI-

ORS. One of them, an OFFICER looks out through the

ceiling beams.

OFFICER:

Keep that baby quiet.

They hear hoofbeats outside. Airk gives Madmartigan a

flask of whiskey. He squirts whiskey into Willow's

mouth and Willow coughs and shudders awake.

EXT. VILLAGE - DAY

Raziel flies onto a rooftop and looks down. Nockmaar

soldiers flood the village, dismounting, kicking down

doors, searching houses. Then Raziel sees Kael riding

alongside Sorsha.

In her armor, at a distance, Sorsha looks fierce. But

CLOSER her eyes show confusion, hesitation. Kael

watches her closely as he waves his sword at the vil-

lage.

KAEL:

Where is it! Tell us or we'll burn

your village! Sorsha!

He shakes her roughly. She dismounts. Raziel watches

as Sorsha and two other soldiers enter the house where

Madmartigan and Willow are hiding.

INT. HOUSE CELLAR - DAY

Willow holds the baby tight. Madmartigan, Airk and the

Officer watch through the cracks. Boots pound above,

shaking dust down on them. A door opens.

Nobody breathes. Willow buries the baby in his chest.

Madmartigan peeks through the door. Sorsha, alone,

comes down into the cellar. They see her. Searching.

Airk's men reach for their swords, begin to draw.

Whisper:

OFFICER:

Kill her.

Madmartigam shakes his head.

MADMARTIGAN:

You'll draw the others.

Airk looks at Madmartigan curiously. Madmartigan

watches Sorsha. She is right there, inches away.

Inaudibly, be says her name. At last she goes back

upstairs.

INT. HOUSE - UPSTAIRS - DAY

Sorsha comes up and begins to leave with the other two

soldiers.

INT. CELLAR

In Willow's arms, the baby lets out a cry.

INT. HOUSE - UPSTAIRS

Sorsha and the soldiers stop and draw swords. The

baby's cry is suddenly drowned out by a loud SDRRECH.

Raziel flaps in through a window and flies madly around

the house, cawing and shrieking insanely. Sorsha and

the soldiers sheathe their swords and leave.

INT. CELLAR

Everyone sighs with relief.

EXT. VILLAGE - DAY

In the distance the Nockmaar army is setting houses ab-

laze and Kael is terrorizing the fleeing people with

his sword. Sorsha mounts her horse. Her attention is

momemtarily caught by a MAN across the street who, from

the back, looks like Madmartigan. She gasps. The man

turns around. She sags with disappointment, spurs her

horse, and rides off.

The deadly squad of Nockmaar horsemen gallops out of

the village.

INT. HOUSE - UPSTAIRS - DAY

Madmartigan and Willow come upstairs with Airk and his

men.

AIRK:

It's you they're after, Madmarti-

gan. What did you do this time?

MADMARTIGAN:

They're not after me. They want

the baby.

Living in the house is a scrawny, shifty-eyed man named

CUTH. He watches and listens.

AIRK:

Who is this baby?

Willow steps forward, both protective and proud.

WILLOW:

The princess, Elora Danan.

They all know of her. They all sigh with respeck and

awe, and they bow.

PEOPLE:

The prophecy has come true.

AIRK:

Give her to us. We'll protect her.

Raziel screeches from a ceiling beam.

RAZIEL:

Not safe! Not safe!

Willow looks up at Raziel hopefully.

WILLOW:

We're taking her to Tir Asleen.

She'll be safe there from

Bavmorda's powers.

Airk looks up at Raziel. Then down at Willow. He

clasps Madmartigan's arm.

AIRK:

Tir Asleen is a myth. It doesn't

exist.

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