Green Dragon Story # 2 –Substance
By Ernest Gibbs
HOUS-E- ENT.
Page 1(5 panels)
Panel 1:
It's night time. At a NuDragonz warehouse in Tokyo, Japan. Full moon shining in the sky.
Panel 2: inside the warehouse we see a man tied up in a chair surrounded by 3 men he appears bruised and beaten by the 3 men two of them happened to be huge with bald heads they seem like twins with yellow dragon masks on. The other a clean cut man in a black suit with one of his hands in his pocket the men happen to be Jun Yokashi who is a ranking member in NuDragonz organization and part time mercenary, and his two bodyguards.
BEATEN MAN
Please quit hitting me man, I told you I don't know anything about your damn heroin.
JUN YOKASHI
My dear friend you stole six cases of heroin from the most powerful gang in this city, and then you sell it on the black market.
Panel 3: We see Jun get in the man's face seemingly pissed he holds the beaten man's chin up
JUN YOKASHI
That will not be tolerated by one who can just think they can play around with money like that.
Panel 4: Close on Beaten Man. We see the man look up at Jun's face in fear knowing his time is at an end
BEATEN MAN
Look Jun I admit I confess, I took your heroin just please let me go I'm paid up with the right folks in this town I promise !
Panel 5: One of the bodyguards with an aluminum bat in hand looks at a dejected Jun ready for the mercenary to give the huge man any orders Jun motions for the body guard to beat the man with the aluminum bat.
JUN YOKASHI
Do it.
WHAM!
Splash Panel: The force the bodyguard hit the man with the bat completely knocks the man out the chair leaving him rendering him unconscious with his head leaking out blood.
JUN YOKASHI
Let me save you the misery of attempting to take out any competitors in this city assuming this Green Dragon hysteria will leave us any competitors to take out.
Page 2(4 panels)
Panel 1: one of the body guards pick up the useless body of the beaten man throwing his body over his large shoulder, and walking up to Jun to see what the gangster to seek out any order's concerning the body
Bodyguard #1
What would you like for us to do with his body boss?
JUN YOKASHI
Dump this ingrate's body in the pier outside the city no one will hear from this lowlife ever again.
Panel 2: One of the bodyguards grabs a white sheet to help the other one wrap up the guy's body to be placed somewhere
JUN YOKASHI (talking in his head)
When will these shady people learn in this city its cut, and dry you pay your dues out here in the mean streets of Tokyo this man is fortunate I was in a business-like mood today because if I wasn't….
Panel 3: Outside of the warehouse in the night, the bodyguard's dump the body of the beaten man inside the trunk of a black car
JUN YOKASHI (talking in his head cont.)
(off panel)The will of the dragon would….
Panel 4: The black drives off from the warehouse property moving swiftly to the other end of the city as one of the bodyguards with the other in the passenger's side driving to their destination
Bodyguard #2
Can you not drive so damn fast do you want these police to pull us over, and see what kind of hell we got going on in the back of the trunk ?
Bodyguard #1
Relax you idiot why are you being such a big kawaii (in Japanese translation meaning "scared") for? Don't tell me you are buying this Green Dragon BS I wonder how long this myth last?
Panel 5: Bodyguard #2 looks at Bodyguard #1 in fear as the car lights inside the car glare off his face as Bodyguard #2 takes of his dragon mask.
Bodyguard # 2
They say he looks like a human-size version of Oni, and that he sucks the souls out of his victim's bodies.
Page 3(4 panels)
Panel 1: The black car the two bodyguards are riding in comes to complete stop as they have reached their destination at the dirty pier full of trash left around, and a grimy smell in the air as both men get out of the car to take out the body and put on the ground.
Bodyguard#1
Ok Mr. "Human-sized Oni" you should really stop sniffing the boss's coke I believe its starting to get to your head now besides this Green Dragon mess could be just a random mugger looking to get face time on the city news.
Beaten Man
[GASP]Help me…. [GASP]
Bodyguard # 2
He's still alive!
Panel 2: The two bodyguards are surprised by the fact that there was breathing coming from the body on the ground that was inside the sheet. Their faces are in shock as they are trying to figure out what to do.
Bodyguard #2
And you would have thought this piece of shit would've pushed up Daisies while he was back in the trunk.
Bodyguard #1
Well I don't know about you but….
Panel 3: Bodyguard #1 rushes to get something from the car as Bodyguard#2 looks on waiting to see what his cohort was going to do.
Panel 4: Bodyguard #1 jumps in front of Bodyguard #2 with his silencer-equipped gun from the car and begins to shoot the slowly dying man.
BLAM!
BLAM!
BLAM!
BLAM!
Bodyguard #1
There are other ways to skin a cat. Put this guy's body in this filth the city calls water.
Panel 5: Bodyguard #2 picks the body up off of the hard concrete ground like it was a rag doll. Bodyguard #1 ties a boulder to the corpse's feet so that the body sinks to the floor in the depths of the water.
Bodyguard #1
Happy landings.
Page 4(5 Panels)
Panel 1(Dream Sequence): We see a heartbroken, but distraught Laurence crying over a woman laying in a puddle of blood from a gunshot wound on the floor in the kitchen the door to the outside is halfway broken off. We see a man that appears to be a mugger lying against the wall with a gunshot wound to the stomach.
Laurence
I'm so sorry Daphne
Panel 2: The sequence continues as we see Laurence clutch his wife's lifeless body in his arms, and squeezes to the point where he has blood on his white shirt.
Laurence
Of all the places to target he targets me, and my family why me WHY ME!
Panel 3: Close up on Laurence face his eyes are mid-red from his crying and rage of anger he is quickly alerted that his baby daughter is not making any noise through the baby walkie talkie that he glances at. He quickly rushes to her room.
Laurence
No not you too Mindy!
Panel 4: We see a sephia-colored vision of a rusty swing set in the woods surrounded leafs and dandelions.
Panel 5: The sephia-colored begins to blur and fade away into darkness
Kelly Natsumi
(From- off) Hey hotshot …
Page 5(5 Panels)
Panel 1: We see Kelly standing over a tired looking Laurence, with her finger pointing at him with a stern look.
Kelly Natsumi
Wake up from there its twelve in the afternoon, and your still counting sheep did you party or something?
Laurence Williams
No I wasn't partying captain frantic I just had a bad dream I guess I probably slept over.
Kelly Natsumi
Wow.
Panel 2: Close up of Kelly, who is looking sarcastic trying not to laugh at the detective's claim.
Kelly Natsumi
I didn't know grown men still have nightmares let alone cops, and detectives you guys are supposed to stop the people of this city from having bad dreams.
Panel 3: We see Laurence go to his kitchen sink to wash off his face to fully wake himself up. He then gives her a serious look.
Laurence Williams
Ms. Natsumi even the perfect policemen have skeletons in their closet or something they've done in the past that they have regretted or even lost.
Kelly Natsumi
Sorry wasn't trying to judge you or anything I was just –
Laurence Williams
Don't worry about it we have to get ready for lunch
Panel 4: Close up of a dejected Kelly who looks on in angst
Panel 5: As Kelly is sitting on the couch inside of Laurence's apartment, we see him put on a white work shirt and put on a black duffle coat.
Kelly Natsumi
Where are going to eat exactly detective?
Laurence Williams
We're going to a place called "Little Tokyo" its right down the street from my apartment; I would like to ask you some questions about your childhood in the city.
Page 6(5 Panels)
Panel 1: The Little Dragon café, a suburban- like eatery that a lot of the middle class workers in Tokyo go to considering the fact that the environment its in is a slum ridden neighborhood ,and it has potential to be robbed. We see Laurence and Kelly walking to one of the tables at the café.
Kelly Natsumi
What a place?
Laurence Williams
Hey it's all I can afford on a detective salary one thing I've learned in my 4 months of being here it's the fact that those fancy place cater to your city's big timers or your under the grid organized crime bosses….
Panel 2: The two are sitting down waiting for their order to be taking as the waitress serves them their green tea in a glass cup
Laurence Williams
Besides I'm a laid back type of guy, and I don't think that's an atmosphere I want to be in. So about your upbringing in this city what was it like?
Kelly Natsumi
Is this your idea of helping me catch my attacker asking me something that is clearly none of your business?
Panel 3: close up on Laurence who is jotting down some notes on a mini note pad with a stern look on his face.
Laurence Williams
This is one method I use of building a relationship with a client trust me Ms. Natsumi I'm a nice guy if I were a jackass I would take you out in the field, and get your hands dirty….
Laurence Willaims
Then you can really see what really goes on in the slums of the city.
Kelly Natsumi
OK!
Panel 4: Close -up of Kelly, who looks hesitant to say something
Kelly Natsumi
My childhood is mostly a blur to me I sort of remember my parents putting me around drugs, and I don't mean the prescription kind either my teenage years I became somewhat of a rebel and ran away.
Panel 5: Focus on Laurence and Kelly sitting across from each other at their table
Laurence Williams
What kind of environment did you live in?
Kelly Natsumi
I lived in a small house that was on top of other houses until I was 18 then I met the baka yarou(English stupid jerk) who would become my boyfriend , and that relationship had its own misogyny stories since then I've been on my own .
Laurence Williams
Well I -
(Laurence's pocket) BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Page 7(5 panels)
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