Zero-Zero-Fourteen: Okay. Here's the second chapter. The characters today are:

Kurama – The Cart Driver/The Dead Collector

Hiei – Large man

Mr. Akashi: The Dead Body

Yusuke: Hey, Mr. Akashi's in here?

ZZF: Yep. And he's also gonna be another person later on.

Yusuke: Damn.

ZZF: Oh, and for ForgottenKaze-san, I just wanted to make Touya sound mad. 'kay? 'Kay. Here's the second scene of the play!

Touya: (as his voice fades out to the show) But I WAS mad! In fact, I AM mad!


Scene 2: Death and Devastation.

Cut to Terry Gillaim's sequence of Brueghel prints, whatever they are. Sounds of strange, evil medieval music. Discordant and sparse. Wails of lost souls and groaning. The last picture mixes through into live action. Big close up of contorted face upside down. A large, deformed leg falls across it. There is a creaking noise. The bodies lurch away from the camera to show the next scene is amongst a huge pile of bodies on a swaying cart that is in a town, lumbering away from the camera in a town. It is pulled by a couple of ragged, dirty, emaciated WRETCHES. Behind the cart walks another MAN who looks slightly more prosperous, but only on the scale of complete and utter improvishment-like. He wears a black hood, but doesn't look sinister.

Cart Driver (CD): Bring out your dead for consumption! I mean, disposal!

Following the cart through a wretched, impoverished plaque-ridden village caused by Hiei.

Hiei: Hey!

Shut up! A few starved mongrels run about in the mud, scavenging. In the open doorway of one house, an OLD WOMAN represented by Kayko...

Kayko: glares

is beating a cat against a wall rather like one does with a worn out matt. The cart passes round a dead donkey or cow in the mud. And a MAN (Kuwabara) tied to a cart is being hammered to death by four NUNS (Botan, Koto, Juri, and Jin) with gigantic cooking mallets.

CD: Bring out your dead! (Whispers) So I can eat them!

There are legs sticking out of windows and doors and over the roofs. Two MEN (Kayko again and Genki) are fighting in the mud – covered from head to toe in it. Another MAN (Koenma) is on his hands and knees, eating mud at a fast rate. We just happen to catch sight of another MAN (Gamemaster) falling in a well.

CD: Bring out your dead for me!

Some PEASANTS (Itsuki and Mr. Iwamoto) drag a body up to the cart. It stops. They load the body on the already empty cart and the CART DRIVER recedes some payment. He smiles. Further down the road, a LARGE MAN (Hiei) comes out of a house and the cart stops again. The LARGE MAN is carrying the BODY of an old man by the ear.

CD: Bring out your dead!

Large Man (LM): Here's one!

CD: Ninepence.

Body: I'm not dead!

CD: What?

LM: Nothing. There's your ninepence.

Body: I'm not dead, you ass-hole!

CD: 'Ere. He says he's not dead. I can't eat him.

LM: yes he is. (sits on the cart)

Body: I'm not you shorty.

LM: Hey, look at the title. "LARGE MAN", you Body.

CD: Actually, you ARE short.

LM: Shut up! Now take this body.

Body: I'm not dead.

CD: He's not dead.

LM: He'll be dead soon. He's very ill.

Body: I'm getting better, shorty.

LM: You're not. You'll be dead dead in a few minutes.

CD: I eat take him like this. It's not regulations.

Body: I told you I'm not dead!

LM: Oh, shut up, you baby.

CD: I can't take him like this. I already told you.

LM: DO me a favor. I saved your life, after all.

CD: I already told you I cant.

LM: Well, if you're not gonna hang around for a couple of minutes till he's dead, I guess I'll just have to eat him.

CD: (drooling) I promised I'd be at the Roninsons' today. They've lost nine today.

LM: When's your next round, by the way?

CD: Thursday.

Body: I think I'll go for a walk. (tries to get out of the cart)

LM: (pushes him back in and stands on him) You're not fulling anyone, you know. (To Cart Driver) Isn't there anything you could do? I mean, like that rose whip of yours?

Body: (singing unrecognizably) I feel happy, I feel happy!

The CART DRIVER looks at the LARGE MAN for a moment. Then they both do a quick furtive look up and down the street. The CART DRIVER very swiftly brings up a club and hits the BODY

LM: (handing over the money and saying very loudly) Thanks very much.

CD: That's all right. See you Thursday.

They turn... and suddenly, the village fall on their hands and knees, touching forelocks, ect. ARTHUR and PATSY ride into shot, slightly nosy with their entrance, they ride through without acknowledging anybody but each other. After they pass, the LARGE MAN turns to the CART DRIVER.

LM: Who's that homo?

CD: I dunno, maybe a king.

LM: Why do you say that?

CD: He hasn't got shit all over him.


ZZF: Hope you like that. Please, review, I would really like to hear your input!