Sloth's Favorite Movie

Part-3

The next day, all the parts are now handed out and it's time to start blocking the show. Sloth enters with directors hat, hair pulled back and with a big grin look on his face.

Sloth: Alright people, [clasps hands] it's time the block this play!

All the pets look at each, confused

B.B: What's "blocking?"

Sloth: YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT BLOCKING IS?!?! [B.B shakes his head and Sloth slap his own head] I don't believe this. [sighs] Blocking is where you go and what you do in each act.

All neopets: Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh.

Sloth: Right. Now then, lets start on page, [looks through script] uh…. page 17 with Molly Grue and Lady Amalthea on the balcony. [Hiko and Mayuka step up on stage] Aaaaaand, go.

Hiko: You are cruel to him. You might give him a gentle word at the very least. [grabs Mayuka's paw] He only wishes you to think of him.

Mayuka: [pulls her hand away] What are you doing?!

Sloth: CUT! What's the problem Mayuka?

Mayuka: [to Hiko] Why in the world did you grab my hand?

Hiko: It's says to in the script!

Mayuka: [looks at her script] Oh. My bad.

Sloth: [sigh] Let's try this again. Oh, and Mayuka, remember that your character in this part of the play is shy and confused. She's just been changed from a Uni to a Kyrii.

Mayuka: Whatever.

Sloth: Yea. Let's try this again. Ready… action.

Hiko: You are cruel to him. You might give him a gentle word at the very least. [grabs Mayuka's paw] He only wishes you to think of him.

Mayuka: Molly? [music starts playing, Hiko and Mayuka look around the stage]...Who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I am seeking in this strange place, day after day? I-I knew a moment ago, but I-I have forgotten.

Hiko: The Unis. If you are not the last...

Mayuka: [looks at the script and eyes get really big] CUT!

Sloth: What's the problem NOW!

Mayuka: [furious] You didn't say that this play has songs in it!

Sloth: Must have slipped my mind.

Mayuka: I quit! I refuse to sing! [starts to leave but a Grundo Commander stops her. Sloth stands up and walks over to Mayuka]

Sloth: I'll tell you what to and what not to do. If I want you to act, you act. If I want you to sing, you sing. And, If I don't want you to get paid, you don't get paid. Understand.

Mayuka: I understand.

Sloth: Good. Now then, I want you to go up on that stage and sing until I tell you to stop. Got it.

Mayuka: Got it. [goes back up on stage and starts singing] Do, A deer, a female deer…

Sloth: NO! THE SONG IN THE PLAY!

Meanwhile, B.B. is a hallway going over his lines.

B.B: I have heard that he's an old man who rules over a barren country by the sea. Some say that Haggard's land was green and soft once, before he came, but the minute he touched it, it became hard and gray. [thinking out loud] I wonder whose going to play this Haggard person.

Deep Male Voice: Why, that would be me.

B.B. turns around to see a yellow figure with a white beard standing with his face hidden in the shadows.

B.B: Who are you?

Deep Male Voice: Look closely.

B.B slowly walks forward then starts growling.

B.B: YOU! It couldn't be.

Deep Male Voice: That's right. [steps forward into the light]

B.B: Dr. Death!

Dr. Death: Yep. Don't ya miss me.

B.B: Not really. I remember how happy I was to get away from you.

Dr. Death: [laughs] I remember you perfectly. You were the one that was always finding someway to get other pets adopted before you. Did you ever find your sister?

B.B: Shut up.

Dr. Death: Oh that's right you've never seen your sister, you only know her name. Oh how sad. [laughs]

B.B. pounces on top of Dr. Death. Just then Grundo flow into the room and pull Dr. Death away from B.B. as they restrain B.B. Sloth enters. Mayuka and Hiko peer around Sloth and look at B.B trying to figure out what's going on.

Sloth: Dr. Death. I could have sworn I told you not to talk to any of the neopets here. [glares at Dr. Death] I suggest you go back to your room and look over your lines.

Dr. Death: Uh… I understand sir. [leaves]

Sloth: Now then, I hope we'll have no more interruptions. [leaves and all the Grundos follow]

Mayuka and Hiko run towards B.B.

Hiko: What happened?

Mayuka: We all heard loud laughter then we heard screams mixed with barking.

B.B: Nothing.

B.B. leaves and goes to his room that he shares with Jack.

Jack: [without even looking at B.B] What happened?

B.B: Nothing.

Jack: Come on tell me…

B.B: About what?

Jack: About what Dr. Death was talking about.

B.B: So you were listening.

Jack: [goes over to B.B.] Yea, I heard. [looking straight into B.B eyes] Everything. So, tell me, you had a sister. Tell me about her.

B.B: Not much to tell.

Jack: Sure there is. Now tell me.

End of part 3