Here comes scene II!! And please welcome a newcomer, VT!! ^_^
A Yu Yu-Summer Night's Dream
By Ryoken
(The curtains are pulled back to reveal the scene of the front of a house. Chuu, Kuwabara, Jin, Touya, Rando, and Suzuka walk onstage, dressed in Athenian clothes. Kuwabara has a fake beard on.)
Chuu- Are we all here?
Kuwabara- *with a lot more enthusiasm than is necessary, and even a really weird accent* You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.
Chuu- All right then. *pulls out the script. He then reads from it* Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude before the duke and duchess on his weddin' day at night.
Kuwabara- First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow to a point.
Chuu- Marry, wait, whut's that supposed to mean, mates?
Touya- *slaps his forehead, then in a whisper* It refers to Mary, from that Bible thing, but it's used as an exclamation.
Chuu- OH! Right, gotchya, Marry, our play is "The most Lamentable Comedy and most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby." That's some name for a play, now ain't it?
Kuwabara- A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.
Chuu-*still reading from the script* Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom the weaver.
Kuwabara- Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.
Chuu- You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
Kuwabara- What is Pyramus? a lover or a tyrant?
Chuu- A lover that kills himself most gallant for love.
Kuwabara- That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes! I will move storms; I will condole in some measure. To the rest-
Yet my chief humor is for a tyrant. I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.
"The raging rocks
And shivering shocks
Shall break the locks
Of prison gates;
And Phibbus' car
Shall shine from far
And make and mar
The foolish Fates."
This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players. This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein. A lover is more condoling.
Chuu- I have no idea what you just said, mate, but ok. Francis Flute the bellows-mender.
Jin-*with a big smile, as always* Here, Peter Quince.
Chuu- Flute, you must take Thisby on you.
Jin- What is Thisby? a wandrin' knight?
Chuu- *grins* it is the lady that Pyramus must love.
Jin- If you think I'm gonna play as a woman, yer dead wrong!
Chuu- That's all one; *confused at that sentence* you shall play it in a mask, and you may speak as small as you will.
Kuwabara- An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too. I'll speak in a monstrous little voice:- "Thisne, Thisne!" *in a girlish voice*"Ah, Pyramus, my lover dear! thy Thisby dear, and lady dear!"
Chuu- *isn't looking at the script now*No, no! you must play Pyramus; and, Flute, you Thisby.
Kuwabara- Well, proceed.
Chuu- Robin Starveling the tailor.
Suzuka- Here, Peter Quince.
Chuu- *sniggers as he reads from the script again* Robin Starveling you must play Thisby's mother.
Suzuka- _
Chuu- Tom Snout the tinker.
Touya- Here, Peter Quince.
Chuu- You, Pyramus' father; myself, Thisby's father; Snug the joiner, you the lion's part. And I hope here is a play fitted.
Rando- Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Chuu- You may do it *stumbles over the next word*ex...temp...ore, for it is nothing but roaring.
Kuwabara- Let me play the lion too:-
(Is interrupted by the audience)
Random audience members- Stop being so greedy, Kuwabaka!! Let the others have a part too!!
Kuwabara- What'd you say?! Come here...!
Touya-*whispering and trying to hold Kuwabara back* No, we've got to go on with the scene!!
Kuwabara- *mutters something under his breath* I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar that I will make the duke say, "Let him roar again, let him roar again."
Chuu-*not reading from the script* An you should do it too terribly, you fright the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough to hang us all.
All but Kuwabara and Chuu- That would hang us, every mother's son.
Hiei- *from backstage* HA!
Kuwabara-*not really understanding what they meant by the last line and trying to figure out who laughed* I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us; but I will aggravate my voice so that I will you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.
Chuu- You can play no part but Pyramus, and that's that;
Reisho, from the audience- You tell that idiot!!
Kuwabara- *under his breath* Grrrrrr...Stupid rock master demon...get my hands on him...
Chuu- for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentlemanlike man: therefore, actually, maybe I should play Pyramus...
Kuwabara- Hey, they gave this part to me, so it's mine!! Well, I undertake it. What beard were I best to play it in?
Chuu- Why, what you will.
Kuwabara- I will discharge it in either your straw-color beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain- beard, or your French-crown-color beard, your perfect yellow.
Chuu- Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play barefaced. But, masters, here are your parts; *gives them blank papers* and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse; for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. I pray you, fail me not.
Kuwabara- We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect. Adieu.
Chuu- At the duke's oak we meet.
Kuwabara- Enough. Hold, or cut bowstrings...?
(They all exit, Kuwabara and Chuu confused at the last line and trying to decipher it. The first act has ended and Triwatch comes out onstage once the curtains close.)
Triwatch- If you didn't know, that was end of act 1. We'll be taking a fifteen minute intermission break!!
(Triwatch goes back behind the curtains. She still sees Kuwabara and Chuu trying to understand what they meant by the last line. She sighs and goes over to Ryoken, who is being pestered again by unhappy actors and trying to get the scenery into place at the same time.)
Ryoken- Just a little to the left, there, perfect!
(Everyone is trying to get their say in at the same time.)
Ryoken- Grrrr...This is giving me a headache.
Girl with black hair streaked with green- Want me to take care of 'em, Captain?
Ryoken-*loud enough for them to hear* Huh? Oh yeah, just take away their voice-boxes until act 2 starts if they say another complaint about their parts.
Yusuke- *with Puu still on his head* Who the heck is she?!
Ryoken- Why, don't you recognize her? It's VT.
(The complainers run around frantic. VT grins evilly.)
VT- HEY!!!! No more yelling!! Captain needs quiet, that she does!
(They're silent, knowing her evil finger-snapping powers.)
Ryoken- Ok, so anyway, how's the rest of the scenery coming, VT?
VT- Pretty good, Captain! All we need are a few more potted trees and we're done!
Ryoken- Great...Then maybe I can go get some Advil for my poor headache.
Back in the audience...
(Most of the audience has gone to get snacks, a lot whom laughed their heads off at Bui and Karasu, who then got killed by Karasu.)
Karasu- Baka ningens...
Random fan demon girls- *sigh*
Karasu- ^^()
Back in the theatre...
Genbu- Where's Suzaku? I thought he was in this stupid play thing.
Murugu- He is, his part is coming up next.
Genbu- Oh. What is he playing again?
Seiryu- A fairy.
Genbu- *grins evilly* Oh yes, this will be very entertaining...
Byakko-*slouching in his seat* I'm sooo hungry...
Genbu- Then go to the concession stand or something, you baka tiger! You're always complaining about how hungry you are and yet there's humans right over there!!
Byakko- HEY! I am NOT stupid!! You're the one who's made of rocks that have no brains!!
Genbu- I do TOO have a brain!!!
Byakko- Yeah, that red-haired freak proved that when he diced it up with his whip!
ALL Kurama fans- HE IS NOT A RED-HAIRED FREAK, YOU FREAK!!!! *they give chase while throwing various objects at Byakko, such as pitchforks and kitchen sinks.*
Kurama- *from backstage upon hearing the fight* ^^()
That's all the time we have for today, people! Tune in for the next act: The crazy mixed-up weird juice potion thingy! Or also known as Act 2, scene 1!