"Children of the Revolution"
Episode 4 - The Cresting Mountains
Rating: PG-13
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Rose is Rain
Scene: Sierra and Juliana are out walking around Ohtori. A steady downpour of rain envelopes the campus, but the two girls stroll under an alcove to keep dry. As they pass by the glassed in rose garden, Sierra stops for a moment, caught in its trance. Like her predecessor, Laura also cares for the rose garden. Juliana continues on until she realizes her older sister isn't with her.
Sierra: [to herself] So she really *does* spend all her time there...
Juliana: [tugs on Sierra's sleeve] It's not nice to stare.
Sierra: [shakes her head] I wasn't staring! I was just looking. There aren't any crimes against *that*, are there?
Juliana: [shrugs uninterestedly] Dunno...but you're gonna be late for class if you keep standing there with your jaw hanging open.
Sierra: [eye twitch] **Whatever happened to respecting your elders?**
Juliana: Gee, you sure are lucky to have me around to keep and eye on you, otherwise I don't know what would happen!
Sierra: [grinning] You little brat...c'mere! [chases Juliana down the hall as she squeals in laughter]
Scene: The interior of the rose garden. Laura looks up in surprise when she hears Sierra and Juliana run off laughing.
Laura: [looks at her watch] Iya, Saionji-sama's class let out fifteen minutes ago! [dashes out the door] He'll be wondering where I am...
Saionji: I should say I will!
Laura: [gasps] Saionji-sama, I-[gets slapped]
Saionji: [smugly] Really, Laura, I thought we'd solved your problems with discipline. Perhaps I was wrong.
Laura: [sighs] "Quit abusing the bride, Saionji." Indeed, those were his words, weren't they?
Saionji: [furious] Shut up! You can't know about that!
Laura: Oh, but I know *lots* of things, Saionji-sama.
Scene: Matt and Scott are walking past the remains of Nemuro Memorial Hall. They pass by a small knoll standing adjacent with a short wrought iron fence surrounding it.
Matt: [notices it] Hey, I don't remember this being here...
Scott: [thinks and shakes his head] No, I don't believe it was. It looks to be some sort of cemetery... [Juri, overhearing their conversation, approaches them from behind. She no longer wears her Student Council uniform and her hair is back to its looser curls.]
Juri: You're correct. Originally it was intended as a memorial for the hundred boys who died in the fire set by Professor Nemuro.
Matt: [terrified] A-arisugawa-san! [bows deeply]
Scott: [nodding] But there seems to be more than a mere hundred. The cemetery is quite sprawling.
Matt: I suppose this eventually became the resting place for the rest of the academy, ne? [bends down to take a better look at the graves] Kiryuu Touga! How can that be?
Juri: [somewhat ruefully] Yes...it happened just a few weeks ago during a duel with Saionji, so the grave itself is still quite fresh. At the time, Touga was the current Victor. Their swordplay grew more and more violent, as did Saionji's intensity.
Scott: [somewhat pale] Then there was an accident?
Juri: We like to think it so. Touga just got in the way at a bad time, that's all. In his haste to win, Saionji...speared the rose right through his chest.
Matt: How did Nanami take it? Not well, I'm sure.
Juri: She hasn't left her room since the funeral. Tsuwabuki's beginning to worry. [leaves]
Scott: Juri-san, wait! [she pays no attention to him and continues walking]
Matt: [head down] Most troubling.
Scene: The Kage Shoujo chatter amongst the rubble of Nemuro Hall.
A-ko: Kashira kashira, gozonji kashira!
B-ko: They say we learn from the past mistakes of others! Is that right?
A-ko: Hmm…I dunno…who are these shifty-eyed "they" people?
Both: Why, the very people who made the mistake in the first place, of course!
B-ko: But, oh, brave heroes, will you ever learn?
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: Ohtori's cafeteria. Amidst the swarm of students gathering for lunch, our group (Sierra and Juliana included) sit at a table in the corner. Scott and Matt are babbling on about what Juri told them.
Samantha: [does a spit-take and covers Scott with her green tea] What?! Touga's dead? All right! 'Bout time!
Scott: [disgustedly wipes his face with a cloth] Well, thanks for that spurt of enthusiasm. Blech, now my face is gonna be sticky for the rest of the day… [shoots a look at Samantha and Veronica] Not a word, you two.
Veronica: [feigning innocence] Who, us?
Samantha: [stifling a laugh] We're completely innocent.
Matt: Ah, don't let 'em bug you, Scott. [coyly puts an arm around Scott] Besides, I know a better way I could get your face sticky… [leans toward him]
Scott: [eyes go wide] WHAT?!
Veronica: [leaps across the table at them] Yeah, yaoi-goodness! Threesome, threesome! [the three of them erupt into a large scuffle while Sierra and Juliana sit by in total shock]
Juliana: Should I really be seeing this?
Samantha: [sweatdrop] Probably not. I guess meeting your parents when they're teenagers can be a traumatic experience.
Sierra: Only if they're rabid nymphomaniacs...
Samantha: [double sweatdrop] Nyo… [gets up to return her tray when a random Ohtori schoolboy rudely bumps into her] Yeah, bite me! [flips him the bird and notices he dropped something] Hey cocksucker, you dropped this… [she looks it over. It's an envelope addressed to Sierra]
Sierra: [spies the envelope] Ah, about time "Ends of the World" got around to delivering my letter.
Juliana: Oh, but you know he has "other" duties to attend to. [they both nod matter-of-factly]
Scott: [halts his scuffling] Wait, you already know who "Ends of the World" is and all that other good stuff you're not supposed to know until episode 39?
Sierra: [looks at him strangely] Uh, right…actually Arisugawa-sempai told us. Everything was very secretive until Touga's…untimely…death.
Juliana: Mm-hm. According to her, the Student Council was dissolved and their powers stripped after the incident. [leans her chin on her hands] And yet the duels continue.
Sierra: There may be others, but...we are still the new generation of Duelists.
Scene: The elevator of the Dueling Arena. Sierra appears in the center first and is soon after followed by Scott and Veronica flanking her on each side. Sierra and Scott's dueling epaulets materialize on their uniforms and Veronica's Rose Bride dress on her as they rise higher into the air. "Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku" plays in the background. When they reach the top, the bars of the cage transform into thorny vines and lash back suddenly, depositing the three at the front of the floor. Samantha, Matt, and Juliana watch from the sides and holding up a long banner reading "Go Sierra!"
Once again, Scott tilts Veronica back and summons a sphere of light from her chest. The hilt of a sword appears and Sierra slowly withdraws it. She stands prepared to battle wearing a light blue Duelist's uniform and gold epaulets. Saionji stands at the other end of the floor with his hand gripped around Laura's wrist.
Laura: [chanting] O Roses of the forgotten Prince, submit to our wishes and reveal to us now...
Saionji and Laura: The Power to Revolutionize the World! [Saionji draws the Sword of Dios from Laura's chest. Bells ring signaling the start of the duel. "The Oceanic Moon Dies in Indigo" plays in the background.]
*Distance, my journey to the next world
I become wind
I become breath
I become light and vapor*
Saionji: Well, this should be a battle easily won.
Sierra: And what makes you so sure of that?
*Nocturnal sea, moon, and wave
I face those indigo depths*
Saionji: [chuckling] I defeated your sister with even breaking a sweat. I doubt you'll be any different! [lunges at her]
Sierra: [gasps, but blocks his thrust]
*Shinigami, the mark of the shadow of death
I become wind
I become breath
I become light and vapor*
Sierra: [grunting against how forceful Saionji's sword is] I can understand why you're the Victor...using such underhanded tactics like you did with my sister!
Saionji: [backs off a little as Sierra returns some of his intensity] Even so, you're just a girl. Your swordplay is weak, just like you. You know nothing about dueling!
*Nocturnal sea, moon, and wave
I face those indigo depths*
Scott: [calling to her] Don't listen to him Sierra, he's just trying to distract you!
*Eating lotus did me no good
The shadow of Death drew nigh;
My transparent soul was subdued
Lost time from the depths of night
Surfaces terribly in the moonlight*
*Nostalgic, natural meditation
Metaphysical sensation
All things in nature, a meditation on Creation
Late at night, the moon in the sea
Panorama carnival*
Sierra: Oh, I'm ignorant, am I? Well, perhaps you should take that up with Arisugawa-sempai!
*Wave moon, night moon, dream moon, time moon,
Wind moon, breath moon, drunken moon, dark moon
Full moon, half moon, red moon, blue moon
Lost moon, shadow moon, nil moon, anti-moon
Ah, the horned moon, the eclipse!*
*Moon moon moon moon moon moon moon moon
Moon moon moon moon moon moon moon moon*
Sierra: Die! [she brings her sword across roughly, sending the Sword of Dios clattering to the arena floor. Laura looks slightly perturbed, but does nothing. Sierra stands opposite him with her sword positioned menacingly] Now, you'll pay for my sister's defeat, coward!
*I always go far
The more rhapsodic, the more pure
I stand before the moon's forbidden door:
"Now, open!"*
*I become waves
I become darkness
I shine upon the sea
I become the moon*
Saionji: [as Sierra goes for the final blow, he hits the ground and rolls to his sword] I may be your senior by a few years...but that doesn't mean I haven't learned a thing or two!
*"I am the moon, I am made the moon, the moon that rose over the sea.
Behind and above the maker of waves, I was that moon."*
Sierra: Shimatta!
*Memento mori mento mori nto mori to mori mori ri, firefly moon
I contemplate my death
Memento mori mento mori nto mori to mori mori ri, noctiluca moon
Contemplate my death*
*"Stop, thou moon!"*
[As Sierra turns around to face Saionji, he plunges the sword across her chest, impaling the rose and nicking her on the cheek. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel.]
*Though I become the waves,
it is an existence without existence
Though I become the sea,
it is an existence without existence
Though I become the moon,
it is an existence without existence
An existence without existence
An existence without existence
Existence without action
Existence without beginning
Existence without self
Existence without thought
Existence without climax
Existence without death*
Sierra: [looking dumbly at the blood on her fingers] Hmph, so even I was defeated. I am a fool.
Saionji: I wouldn't say that...but your anger clouded your precision. You easily could have snatched my rose off the moment you had me cornered.
Sierra: [goes to punch him, but her fist connects with Laura instead] Baka, get out of the way! Why are you protecting him?!
Laura: [picking herself up from the floor] Because...I am the Rose Bride.
Sierra: Hmph. [leaves the arena abruptly followed by Scott and Veronica]
Scene: The Chairman's Wing. Laura brings out a tray with tea on it, and still sporting the shiner she received from Sierra. Akio sits on one of the white leather couches going over a couple of files.
Laura: [looking over his shoulder] More paperwork, Akio-san?
Akio: [flipping through the papers] Naturally. They're the files on the new transfer students. [zooming in on the files, they're clearly marked "Martinez, Sean T." and "Nickle, Edith M."]
Laura: Do *they* know they're transferring?
Akio: [grinning] And spoil all my fun? Come here, Laura. [the planetarium shutters close with a thud as the stars twinkle in the sky]
Preview of Next Episode
Juliana: 'Nee-san, what are you doing?
Sierra: Practicing. I can't allow myself to be beaten again.
Juliana: But the letters have ceased for weeks now! Maybe the duels are over.
Samantha: Knowing "Ends of the World," I highly doubt he's done using us as his pawns.
Scott: [evil chortle] And we know you *know* him, Sami...
Samantha: [sweatdrop] Baka…next time on "Shoujo Kakumei Utena": Much Ado About Martinez.
Matt: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Closing Theme: Toki ni Ai wa
Author's Notes: None really, just wanted to say that the episodes will probably be far and few between once school starts up in a few weeks. Once again, comments, flames, and MSTs are always accepted!
e-mail: sstarhealer@hotmail.com
Episode 4 - The Cresting Mountains
Rating: PG-13
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Rose is Rain
Scene: Sierra and Juliana are out walking around Ohtori. A steady downpour of rain envelopes the campus, but the two girls stroll under an alcove to keep dry. As they pass by the glassed in rose garden, Sierra stops for a moment, caught in its trance. Like her predecessor, Laura also cares for the rose garden. Juliana continues on until she realizes her older sister isn't with her.
Sierra: [to herself] So she really *does* spend all her time there...
Juliana: [tugs on Sierra's sleeve] It's not nice to stare.
Sierra: [shakes her head] I wasn't staring! I was just looking. There aren't any crimes against *that*, are there?
Juliana: [shrugs uninterestedly] Dunno...but you're gonna be late for class if you keep standing there with your jaw hanging open.
Sierra: [eye twitch] **Whatever happened to respecting your elders?**
Juliana: Gee, you sure are lucky to have me around to keep and eye on you, otherwise I don't know what would happen!
Sierra: [grinning] You little brat...c'mere! [chases Juliana down the hall as she squeals in laughter]
Scene: The interior of the rose garden. Laura looks up in surprise when she hears Sierra and Juliana run off laughing.
Laura: [looks at her watch] Iya, Saionji-sama's class let out fifteen minutes ago! [dashes out the door] He'll be wondering where I am...
Saionji: I should say I will!
Laura: [gasps] Saionji-sama, I-[gets slapped]
Saionji: [smugly] Really, Laura, I thought we'd solved your problems with discipline. Perhaps I was wrong.
Laura: [sighs] "Quit abusing the bride, Saionji." Indeed, those were his words, weren't they?
Saionji: [furious] Shut up! You can't know about that!
Laura: Oh, but I know *lots* of things, Saionji-sama.
Scene: Matt and Scott are walking past the remains of Nemuro Memorial Hall. They pass by a small knoll standing adjacent with a short wrought iron fence surrounding it.
Matt: [notices it] Hey, I don't remember this being here...
Scott: [thinks and shakes his head] No, I don't believe it was. It looks to be some sort of cemetery... [Juri, overhearing their conversation, approaches them from behind. She no longer wears her Student Council uniform and her hair is back to its looser curls.]
Juri: You're correct. Originally it was intended as a memorial for the hundred boys who died in the fire set by Professor Nemuro.
Matt: [terrified] A-arisugawa-san! [bows deeply]
Scott: [nodding] But there seems to be more than a mere hundred. The cemetery is quite sprawling.
Matt: I suppose this eventually became the resting place for the rest of the academy, ne? [bends down to take a better look at the graves] Kiryuu Touga! How can that be?
Juri: [somewhat ruefully] Yes...it happened just a few weeks ago during a duel with Saionji, so the grave itself is still quite fresh. At the time, Touga was the current Victor. Their swordplay grew more and more violent, as did Saionji's intensity.
Scott: [somewhat pale] Then there was an accident?
Juri: We like to think it so. Touga just got in the way at a bad time, that's all. In his haste to win, Saionji...speared the rose right through his chest.
Matt: How did Nanami take it? Not well, I'm sure.
Juri: She hasn't left her room since the funeral. Tsuwabuki's beginning to worry. [leaves]
Scott: Juri-san, wait! [she pays no attention to him and continues walking]
Matt: [head down] Most troubling.
Scene: The Kage Shoujo chatter amongst the rubble of Nemuro Hall.
A-ko: Kashira kashira, gozonji kashira!
B-ko: They say we learn from the past mistakes of others! Is that right?
A-ko: Hmm…I dunno…who are these shifty-eyed "they" people?
Both: Why, the very people who made the mistake in the first place, of course!
B-ko: But, oh, brave heroes, will you ever learn?
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: Ohtori's cafeteria. Amidst the swarm of students gathering for lunch, our group (Sierra and Juliana included) sit at a table in the corner. Scott and Matt are babbling on about what Juri told them.
Samantha: [does a spit-take and covers Scott with her green tea] What?! Touga's dead? All right! 'Bout time!
Scott: [disgustedly wipes his face with a cloth] Well, thanks for that spurt of enthusiasm. Blech, now my face is gonna be sticky for the rest of the day… [shoots a look at Samantha and Veronica] Not a word, you two.
Veronica: [feigning innocence] Who, us?
Samantha: [stifling a laugh] We're completely innocent.
Matt: Ah, don't let 'em bug you, Scott. [coyly puts an arm around Scott] Besides, I know a better way I could get your face sticky… [leans toward him]
Scott: [eyes go wide] WHAT?!
Veronica: [leaps across the table at them] Yeah, yaoi-goodness! Threesome, threesome! [the three of them erupt into a large scuffle while Sierra and Juliana sit by in total shock]
Juliana: Should I really be seeing this?
Samantha: [sweatdrop] Probably not. I guess meeting your parents when they're teenagers can be a traumatic experience.
Sierra: Only if they're rabid nymphomaniacs...
Samantha: [double sweatdrop] Nyo… [gets up to return her tray when a random Ohtori schoolboy rudely bumps into her] Yeah, bite me! [flips him the bird and notices he dropped something] Hey cocksucker, you dropped this… [she looks it over. It's an envelope addressed to Sierra]
Sierra: [spies the envelope] Ah, about time "Ends of the World" got around to delivering my letter.
Juliana: Oh, but you know he has "other" duties to attend to. [they both nod matter-of-factly]
Scott: [halts his scuffling] Wait, you already know who "Ends of the World" is and all that other good stuff you're not supposed to know until episode 39?
Sierra: [looks at him strangely] Uh, right…actually Arisugawa-sempai told us. Everything was very secretive until Touga's…untimely…death.
Juliana: Mm-hm. According to her, the Student Council was dissolved and their powers stripped after the incident. [leans her chin on her hands] And yet the duels continue.
Sierra: There may be others, but...we are still the new generation of Duelists.
Scene: The elevator of the Dueling Arena. Sierra appears in the center first and is soon after followed by Scott and Veronica flanking her on each side. Sierra and Scott's dueling epaulets materialize on their uniforms and Veronica's Rose Bride dress on her as they rise higher into the air. "Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku" plays in the background. When they reach the top, the bars of the cage transform into thorny vines and lash back suddenly, depositing the three at the front of the floor. Samantha, Matt, and Juliana watch from the sides and holding up a long banner reading "Go Sierra!"
Once again, Scott tilts Veronica back and summons a sphere of light from her chest. The hilt of a sword appears and Sierra slowly withdraws it. She stands prepared to battle wearing a light blue Duelist's uniform and gold epaulets. Saionji stands at the other end of the floor with his hand gripped around Laura's wrist.
Laura: [chanting] O Roses of the forgotten Prince, submit to our wishes and reveal to us now...
Saionji and Laura: The Power to Revolutionize the World! [Saionji draws the Sword of Dios from Laura's chest. Bells ring signaling the start of the duel. "The Oceanic Moon Dies in Indigo" plays in the background.]
*Distance, my journey to the next world
I become wind
I become breath
I become light and vapor*
Saionji: Well, this should be a battle easily won.
Sierra: And what makes you so sure of that?
*Nocturnal sea, moon, and wave
I face those indigo depths*
Saionji: [chuckling] I defeated your sister with even breaking a sweat. I doubt you'll be any different! [lunges at her]
Sierra: [gasps, but blocks his thrust]
*Shinigami, the mark of the shadow of death
I become wind
I become breath
I become light and vapor*
Sierra: [grunting against how forceful Saionji's sword is] I can understand why you're the Victor...using such underhanded tactics like you did with my sister!
Saionji: [backs off a little as Sierra returns some of his intensity] Even so, you're just a girl. Your swordplay is weak, just like you. You know nothing about dueling!
*Nocturnal sea, moon, and wave
I face those indigo depths*
Scott: [calling to her] Don't listen to him Sierra, he's just trying to distract you!
*Eating lotus did me no good
The shadow of Death drew nigh;
My transparent soul was subdued
Lost time from the depths of night
Surfaces terribly in the moonlight*
*Nostalgic, natural meditation
Metaphysical sensation
All things in nature, a meditation on Creation
Late at night, the moon in the sea
Panorama carnival*
Sierra: Oh, I'm ignorant, am I? Well, perhaps you should take that up with Arisugawa-sempai!
*Wave moon, night moon, dream moon, time moon,
Wind moon, breath moon, drunken moon, dark moon
Full moon, half moon, red moon, blue moon
Lost moon, shadow moon, nil moon, anti-moon
Ah, the horned moon, the eclipse!*
*Moon moon moon moon moon moon moon moon
Moon moon moon moon moon moon moon moon*
Sierra: Die! [she brings her sword across roughly, sending the Sword of Dios clattering to the arena floor. Laura looks slightly perturbed, but does nothing. Sierra stands opposite him with her sword positioned menacingly] Now, you'll pay for my sister's defeat, coward!
*I always go far
The more rhapsodic, the more pure
I stand before the moon's forbidden door:
"Now, open!"*
*I become waves
I become darkness
I shine upon the sea
I become the moon*
Saionji: [as Sierra goes for the final blow, he hits the ground and rolls to his sword] I may be your senior by a few years...but that doesn't mean I haven't learned a thing or two!
*"I am the moon, I am made the moon, the moon that rose over the sea.
Behind and above the maker of waves, I was that moon."*
Sierra: Shimatta!
*Memento mori mento mori nto mori to mori mori ri, firefly moon
I contemplate my death
Memento mori mento mori nto mori to mori mori ri, noctiluca moon
Contemplate my death*
*"Stop, thou moon!"*
[As Sierra turns around to face Saionji, he plunges the sword across her chest, impaling the rose and nicking her on the cheek. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel.]
*Though I become the waves,
it is an existence without existence
Though I become the sea,
it is an existence without existence
Though I become the moon,
it is an existence without existence
An existence without existence
An existence without existence
Existence without action
Existence without beginning
Existence without self
Existence without thought
Existence without climax
Existence without death*
Sierra: [looking dumbly at the blood on her fingers] Hmph, so even I was defeated. I am a fool.
Saionji: I wouldn't say that...but your anger clouded your precision. You easily could have snatched my rose off the moment you had me cornered.
Sierra: [goes to punch him, but her fist connects with Laura instead] Baka, get out of the way! Why are you protecting him?!
Laura: [picking herself up from the floor] Because...I am the Rose Bride.
Sierra: Hmph. [leaves the arena abruptly followed by Scott and Veronica]
Scene: The Chairman's Wing. Laura brings out a tray with tea on it, and still sporting the shiner she received from Sierra. Akio sits on one of the white leather couches going over a couple of files.
Laura: [looking over his shoulder] More paperwork, Akio-san?
Akio: [flipping through the papers] Naturally. They're the files on the new transfer students. [zooming in on the files, they're clearly marked "Martinez, Sean T." and "Nickle, Edith M."]
Laura: Do *they* know they're transferring?
Akio: [grinning] And spoil all my fun? Come here, Laura. [the planetarium shutters close with a thud as the stars twinkle in the sky]
Preview of Next Episode
Juliana: 'Nee-san, what are you doing?
Sierra: Practicing. I can't allow myself to be beaten again.
Juliana: But the letters have ceased for weeks now! Maybe the duels are over.
Samantha: Knowing "Ends of the World," I highly doubt he's done using us as his pawns.
Scott: [evil chortle] And we know you *know* him, Sami...
Samantha: [sweatdrop] Baka…next time on "Shoujo Kakumei Utena": Much Ado About Martinez.
Matt: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Closing Theme: Toki ni Ai wa
Author's Notes: None really, just wanted to say that the episodes will probably be far and few between once school starts up in a few weeks. Once again, comments, flames, and MSTs are always accepted!
e-mail: sstarhealer@hotmail.com