Willow Page #20

RAZIEL:

Look out!

One of the Eborsisk's heads lunges toward the baby.

Raziel dives like a rocket and attacks the monster's

eye as Willow whisks the baby away.

Then Madmartigan leaps up on the Eborsisk. He climbs

up over its flaming head and drives his sword down

through its skull. The Eborsisk howls horribly and its

wounded head falls. Madmartigan topples down its back

and leaps onto a horse, knocking its rider off and, all

in one swashbuckling move, scooping Willow and the baby

up onto the back of the horse and galloping away.

KAEL:

After them!!

But as his horsement charge forward, the Eborsisk falls

to its knees, half-dead. The surviving head blasts the

soldiers with fire. They rear back on their horses and

continue to battle the monster with arrows and spears.

EXT. CAVE - TIR ASLEEN - DAY

They ride out of the mouth of the dark cave into a lush

valley of flowers. In the distance stands the beau-

tiful CASTLE OF TIR ASLEEN. Raziel zooms up out of the

cave an flies above them as they gallop fullspeed to-

ward it. She soars higher and higher and flies right

over the castle wall.

EXT. TIR ASLEEN CASTLE - DAY

The door of the castle is half open. Madmartigan and

Willow gallop inside.

INT. TIR ASLEEN - DAY

Raziel flies down to meet them as they ride into the

castle courtyard. A haunting wind drones amont TWELVE

PILLARS which look like stone from a distance.

RAZIEL:

Tir Asleen.

WILLOW:

There's nobody here.

They approach the twelve pillars.

RAZIEL:

The Knights of the Pacalcade. The

king's bravest warriors.

Suddenly they hear hoofbeats and a warcry.

EXT. TIR ASLEEN - DAY

Kael and his army charge out of the cave and trample

across the valley of flowers.

INT. TIR ASLEEN

Madmartigan rushes to the heavy door and strains to

shut it.

RAZIEL:

Turn them back, Willow!

Willow stares at the twelve knights.

WILLOW:

How??

RAZIEL:

Use the philosopher's stone! Hur-

ry! Invocation! Release them!

The castle door is rusted and old. madmartigan heaves

against it. Outside he can see the army storming to-

ward him.

Willow digs out his philosopher's stone. He squints

and strains, concentrating his energy.

WILLOW:

Beings within, beings without!

Danu danu walkail funfawtha!

He continues to chant and to concentrate. One of the

knights comes to life.

WILLOW:

I did it! Madmartigan! Come here!

Look! You gotta see this! I did

it!

RAZIEL:

More! More!

Madmartigan heaves the door shut just as the army

charges up, and he locks it with a huge bolt.

EXT. TIR ASLEEN - DAY

The Nockmaar horsemen rear back form the locked door.

KAEL:

Assault! Scale the walls!

He sends his men in all directions. They leap off

their horses and hack down trees from the nearby woods.

INT. TIR ASLEEN

Willow brings the knights to life, one by one.

WILLOW:

Tuatha tuatha danu!

Each knight shakes himself into action. Madmartigan

follows them in an armory.

WILLOW:

Raziel! I transformed them all!

I'm a magician!

RAZIEL:

You didn't transform them, Willow,

you released them. That was noth-

ing. Now change me.

Willow's on a roll. He rubs his hands together.

WILLOW:

I feel like I could do anything!

He drops to his knees and stretches his philosopher's

stone apart like an accordian.

EXT. TIR ASLEEN - ARMORY

Madmartigan and the knights grab weapons and armor.

Two knights wheel a catapult out ot the battlements.

Madmartigan wees, displayed specially on a rack, a com-

plete set of armor of shining silver. He reaches out

to touch it.

KNIGHT:

It belonged to our king.

INT. TIR ASLEEN - COURTYARD

The knights light a fire and boil vats of oil. Willow

struggles to transform Raziel, trying to remember all

he has learned.

WILLOW:

Capture the enery...limitless

power of the will...avvdachh doth

indicht rredd baerkinhaekin!

Raziel begins to change. From a bird, she expands,

stretches, and turns into a GOAT.

WILLOW:

Raziel? Is that you? Oh-oh. What

happened?

Raziel tilts her goat head.

RAZIEL:

I hate this.

Suddenly flaming arrows rain down over the castle wall.

Willow scoops up the baby and he and Raziel run for cover.

EXT. TIR ASLEEN

From their horses Kael and Sorsha watch as the soldiers

climb the wall. They suddenly hear a hacking noise

above and several Nockmaar men tumble down the ladders.

Sorsha looks up.

High on the wall stands Madmartigan, magnificently

dressed in the glimmering armor of the King!

Kael roars and points his deadly sword up at Madmarti-

gan. Then several soldiers attack the castle door with

a huge battering ram and smash it open.

KAEL:

Attack!!

Kael and Sorsha gallop into the castle with otehr Nock-

maar horsemen, while Madmartigan continues to battle

attackers on the castle wall.

INT. TIR ASLEEN

Willow looks up as the horsemen charge into the court-

yeard. He makes a run for the hallway. SIX HORSEMEN

chase after him, jumping off their horses and drawing

their swords.

Sorsha dismounts, draws a sword, and strides up the

stairs toward teh top of the wall.

INT. ARMORY

Willow runs into the armory and sets the baby down in a

corner. The six horsement run in and corner him. He

grabs an enormous broadsword. Swings it like a base-

ball bat. The momentum of the heavy sword hurls Willow

across the room. The blade pierces a Nockmaar man.

Willow grunts and yanks the sword out. The remaining

soldiers come after him. Willow swings and flashes the

sword as they close in on him.

EXT. TIR ASLEEN

In the courtyard, Raziel the goat butts a few soldiers

as the battle rages.

UP ON THE WALL:

Madmartigan stabs a minion and sends him hurtlin down

the wall. Then he turns around. Five more enemy

swordsmen slash at him. Madmartigan is amazing: spin-

nig, lunging, ducking, he takes out one, two, three,

four of them with ease. But not the fifth.

It's the Nockmaar Lieutenant. He and Madmartigan

swordfight. The Lieutenant hacks the sword out of

Madmartigan's hand: it clatters down into the court-

yeard.

Madmartigan throws up his arm. The Lieutenant's sword

clangs against his wrist armor, knocking Madmartigan

onto his back. With two hands the Lieutenant lifts his

sword high and goes to kill Madmartigan. madmartigan

shuts his eyes. But nothing happens.

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