ACT IV: Monkey Love
(open on the Irkhemian hotel. There are cancan dancers and Irkhemians alike inside, dancing, drinking, and partying.)
Lynne: (following Zimlouse around, still in her spooky black can-can outfit) I want to be an Irkhemian toooooo!!!
Zimlouse: o.o .. Oh. kay.
Lynne: Then I can play MUSIC and be FREE of cancan dancing! Because I hate it!
Zimlouse: (points to the piano) We need dancing music and GIRie is busy eating. Play! .u
Lynne: :D (giddily starts playing the piano)
(JC the Green Fairy can be seen flying around, spreading her magical, drunken hallucination, fairy dust everywhere. Some people try to fly. They end up landing in Jentian's room.)
Jentian: .9 God. DAMN! That's the ninth one in ten minutes.
Jentian as Narrator: Well. Purple Zidler had an investor-a reluctant investor, but someone with more money than he had, so, it worked out okay. And the Irkhemians had a show. They were very happy about it, and "celebrated" long into the night. Unfortunately for me, this entailed the destruction of my room and half of my good top hats.
(cut to the roof of the building. The Redgentinean is there, drunker than anyone. He waves a bottle of absinthe in the air.)
Redgentinean: WHOOOO! Gimme shum farry dusht! (waves bottle) VIVE REVOLUTION OF.... ME! (drinks)
Jentian as Narrator: While the so-called celebration party ragged upstairs, I tried to write. But. writing is rather difficult when you're busy throwing drunken Irkhemians out and daydreaming about the most beautiful girl in the world.
Jentian: (throws another Irkhemian out) AND STAY OUT! No matter HOW much you flap your arms, you do NOT have wings and CAN NOT fly! (slams door) -.- ; Oy, if I wasn't in AA. (he sits on the windowsill) At least no one can land on my head if I'm here. (sings quietly) How wonderful life is. Now you're in the world.
Jentian as Narrator: And I really wondered. was she thinking about me? Not in the creepy, stalker way. but in the nice, sane, in-love way that I was thinking about her?
(cut to the Green Monkey. Bastine is looking out her balcony thingy too, also thinking. Also thinking about her little green writer.)
Bastine: (sighs) Not a duke. a writer. obsessed with love. (leans on the railing and sighs again) Nice guy. Maybe he'll come back for some cuddling. (sighs yet again) .......... Damn, I do that a lot. (she turns and walks back into the Monkey)
SONG - ONE DAY I'LL FLY AWAY
Bastine sings: I. follow the night.
Can't stand the light. When. will I begin to live again?
(She starts walking back out to the balcony)
One day I'll fly away!
Leave all this to yesterday...
what more could your love do for me?
When will love be through with me?
(She starts climbing the stairs to the top of the Monkey)
Why live life from dream to dream.? And dread the day when dreaming. ends?
Jentian: (antennae perk) That sounds like. (sings too) How wonderful life is now you're in the world. (thinks a moment) I know! (starts sneakily climbing down the ivy growing on the hotel) ..... O.O;; (falls) AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! (hits the ground with a thud) X.x .. Oy. (he eventually picks himself up, somehow manages to leap the fence around the Moulin Vert and climb the Monkey, all before Bastine gets to the next verse)
Bastine sings: (on top of the Monkey now) One day I'll fly away!!
Leave all this to yesterday.!!
Why live life from dream to dream..? And dread the day when dreaming ends..?
One day I'll fly away, fly, fly away..
END OF SONG
Bastine: I like that song. (sits on a bench thingy) Ahhh. good to be off the feet---AAAAAAH!! WHAT THE HELL!? (throws her shoe at something peeking at her over the edge of the bench)
Jentian: (covered in ivy leaves and dirt from the fall) OWWW!! HEY! WATCH IT!! (stops) Erm. I mean. Sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean... I saw--I saw your light on. I climbed up the... the. IVY! And I. I fell! And then the jump and the you. with the. "FLYYYY AWAYYY!" and. erm. yeah.
Bastine: ............What?
Jentian: (thinking fast) I couldn't sleep! I wanted to thank you for helping me get the job.
Bastine: Oh! Oh right. Yeah, it'll be a good show. Zimlouse actually had a good idea for once. He surprises me sometimes. Well! (all cheery) It's a big day of rehearsal tomorrow! Hehe. I uh. better get some rest! You should too! (she starts to go)
Jentian: Wait!
Bastine: (turns) Yes?
Jentian: Well. erm. I was. wondering. Do you remember what happened in the Monkey earlier.?
Bastine: The play?
Jentian: Before that.
Bastine: The duke seeing you on top of me?
Jentian: .; (blushes) Before that.
Bastine: (thinks) Um.
Jentian: (speaks up) After I sang.! And. you said you'd fallen in love with me.!
Bastine: OH! Oh yeah! I remember! ........ (guardedly) What about it?
Jentian: Erm. I was.. wondering if. if it was. just. because you're such a good actress and you sing so well and.
Bastine: (slowly) You were wondering if I was just acting?
Jentian: (Oh he feels like an idiot) ....... yeah.
Bastine: (quickly) Of course it was!
Jentian: (now he feels like a BIGGER idiot) o.o ...Oh. but. but it. it felt. so. real. (he hangs his head)
Bastine: (groans) Look, Writer-boy-
Jentian: It's Jentian.
Bastine: Same thing. I. am a temptressy person (she does a little swishy dress move) I am PAID to make people think I love them! It makes the best moneys, which makes Purple Zidler able to pay other temptressy people who make more moneys which gives him the moneys to run the Moulin Vert!
Jentian: (standing at the edge of the balcony) I wonder how long I'd have to say goodbye if I jumped.?
Bastine: (grabs his arm, shocked) Why would you jump!?
Jentian: Well. It was really stupid of me to think that. someone as pretty as you would. you know. LOVE a green, Irkhemian writer. who constantly has drunken Redgentineans falling through his roof. .9
Bastine: Who falls through your roof?
Jentian: Oh. that horny Redgentinean. He gets drunk off his ass every ten minutes, then with his narcolepsy thing, he tends to fall through the floor.
Bastine: Ohhhh. I see. Anyway. I can't fall in love with anyone. It's terrible for business. You might. I don't know. Call the client someone else while cuddling them!
Jentian: (grabs her hands, startled) What!?
Bastine: o.o; Call the client something el-
Jentian: No no! The other thing!!
Bastine: I can't fall in love? O.o;
Jentian: YEAH! Yes yes! That! That. that. (looks stunned) That's horrible. How can you live without love?
Bastine: How would you know? Have you ever been in love? (gives him the evil eye)
Jentian: Erm.
Jentian as Narrator: I knew that "I had never been in love" phrase would come back to haunt me. damn my big green mouth.
Bastine: Besides. If I fall in love, I could get fired. And THEN where would I go? Work at Mac Meaties!? Ugh, I'd rather be a temptress.
Jentian: But. but love...is like. oxygen!!
Bastine: What? (looking at him like he's crazy)
SONG - MONKEY LOVE MEDLEY
Jentian: (spoken) Love. Love is a many. splendid thing! Love.. it. it lifts you up where. um. where you belong!! ....ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!! :D
Bastine: (spoken) What are you on?
Jentian sings: All you need is love!
Bastine: (spoken) My cuddling has to please!
Jentian sings: All you need is love!
Bastine: (spoken) Or else I'll work at Mac Meaties!
Jentian: All you need is love... (smiling at her)
Bastine: (looks away, speaking) Love is just a game...
Jentian sings: (grabbing a random broom and striking an Elvis-looking pose) I was made for loving you baby, you were made for loving me!
Bastine sings: (folds her arms and looks away) The only way of loving me baby is to pay a lovely fee. (makes the universal sign for moneys)
Jentian sings: (gets on his knees dramatically) Just one night, give me just one night!
Bastine sings: (offended) There's NO way 'cause you can't pay!
Jentian sings: In the name of love, one night in the name of love... (pleading expression)
Bastine sings: You crazy fool, I won't give into you. (she tries to leave)
Jentian sings: (reaching after her) Don't...
Bastine: (stops and looks back at him)
Jentian sings: (pleading) .leave me this way. I can't survive. without your sweet love, oh baby... don't leave me this way.
Bastine sings: (she leans on the rail of the balcony) You think that people would have had enough of silly love songs...
Jentian sings: (walks up next to her) I look around me and I see it isn't so.. (pretends to scan a crowd) Heh. Nope.
Bastine sings: (looks down) Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.
Jentian sings: Well what's wrong with that? (he looks at Bastine and tilts her chin up to look at him) I'd like to know.
Bastine: (looks away)
Jentian sings: (gets a determined look on his face) .Cause here I go again!! (he jumps up on the balcony rail and balances on one foot) Love lifts us up where we belong!
Bastine:(spoken) Get down, you jackass! What the hell do you think you're DOING!? You're going to break your neck!
Jentian sings: (stretches his arms out) ^__^ Where eagles fly, on a mountain high!
Bastine sings: Love makes us act like we are fools. (pulls Jentian's other leg down so that he falls on his arse to illustrate her point) Throw our lives away for one happy day.!
Jentian sings: We can be heroes! Just for one day... (tries to take her hands)
Bastine: (walks down the stairs, speaking) You, you will be mean.
Jentian: (spoken) No I won't! Why would I?
Bastine: (spoken) And I...I'll drink all the time!
Jentian: (spoken) Aw, the hell you will.
Bastine: (spoken) Wanna bet?
Jentian sings: We should be lovers!
Bastine sings: We can't do that. (leans against the lower balcony, not facing him)
Jentian sings: We should be lovers! (approaches her and finally holds her hands) And that's a fact.
Bastine sings: (FINALLY looking him in the eye) Though nothing. would keep us together...
Jentian sings: We could steal time.
Both sing: .just for one day. We can be heroes, forever and ever. We can be heroes forever and ever. We can be heroes just because...
(Camera pans around them as fireworks go off in the night sky behind them)
Jentian sings: I... will always love you!
Bastine sings: I...!
Both sing: Can't help loving...
Jentian sings: (hugging her) You...
Bastine sings: (leaning against him) How wonderful life is...
Both sing: Now you're in. the world...
Bastine: (spoken) You're going to be bad for business, I can tell.
Jentian: Well. I'll just have to make up for all the business you'll lose then.
Bastine: (smirks) I like the sound of that.
(They share a nice, long, romantic kiss while piggies fly by, scattering more fireworks. Cut back to the roof of the Irkhemian hotel, where the Redgentinean is sitting, drunk off his green arse)
Redgentinean: (starts belting out random notes that sound vaguely like some twisted form of opera)
JC the Green Fairy: (flies up from a window below him) HEY! HEY! People are down there trying to SLEEP, you know!! Like ME!
Redgentinean: Gimme shum uh dat pick-shee dust! O (tries to grab her)
JC the Green Fairy: EEP! O.O (zips away) ALL RIGHT! That's IT.!! NO MORE MISS-NICE-DRUNKEN-HALLUCINATION for YOU!! O (swats him across the face with her wings and buzzes over to an empty absinthe bottle and raises it as if to whack the Redgentinean) O JC SMASH!!!! ... 6.6; .
Redgentinean: x.x (passed out from both absinthe and narcolepsy)
JC the Green Fairy: 6.6 . ~.~ Bastard. He owes me an ass-kicking. (buzzes over to another absinthe bottle and disappears)
(cut to downstairs. Lynne and GIRie are banging away on the piano, while Zimlouse dances around the room, playing wildly on his fiddle. Gazie and a few other can-can girls dance around too, celebrating)
Zimlouse: u.u HOW WOOOOOONDERFUL LIIIIIFE IIIIIIS..!!
Lynne and GIRie: NOW YOOOOOOOOOOOU'RE IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLLLLD! :D
(pan out from the hotel room, and begin zooming in fast on Purple Zilder's office in the Moulin Vert as day dawns)
Jentian as Narrator: Life really was wonderful now. I actually sold that noose I bought last week to Zimlouse. He said something about going and haunting the old opera house a few blocks down from the Irkhemian center of Paris. I don't know. I think he was a little crazy. Unfortunately, life wasn't exactly as wonderful for other members of the Moulin Vert staff. The Dib-Duke kept getting his sticky little human fingers into everything. including Bastine's life.
(We can now see the inside of Purple Zilder's office. The Dib-Duke and Purple Zilder are seated across from each other at a big desk. There are posters of can-can girls on the walls, advertising the shows of the Moulin Vert and a few catalogs for the latest smoke machines on the desk. Keef stands in a corner, talking to a squirrel)
Dib-Duke: Thanks for letting me speak to you in. (glances at Keef and his squirrel) private, Zidler.
Purple Zidler: (flipping through a catalog) No trouble my dear Dib-Duke! No trouble at all, I assure you! In fact, I was about to speak to you today.
Dib-Duke: You were? (looks nervous) What about..?
Purple Zidler: The very LATEST in smoke machine technology! u.u Guaranteed to keep lazer-brained, idiotic Redgentineans on the street or in the absinthe houses and lesser cabarets where they belong! (proudly displays a picture of said machine)
Dib-Duke: Erm. that's lovely. But I came to speak to you about the Moulin Vert!
Purple Zidler: Really? (sets his catalog aside)
Dib-Duke: (nervously) Changing this place from. from a. "dance hall" to a theater is going to cost a lot of moneys.
Purple Zidler: Exactly. Which is why we needed an investor so very badly.
Dib-Duke: And SINCE all those moneys are coming out of my pocket. I. I require security.
Purple Zidler: (confused) Security?
Dib-Duke: (hurriedly) Give me the deeds to the Moulin Vert.
Purple Zidler: What!?
Dib-Duke: You heard me, you green Irkhemian fool!
Purple Zidler: There's no reason to resort to name calling, Dib-Duke! (innocently) And why ever would you need the deeds to THIS little hole-in- the-wall?
Dib-Duke: Don't you play dumb with ME, Zidler. (stands up in his chair so he's only a few inches shorter than Purple Zidler) I will hold the deeds to the Moulin Vert. That way, all of Bastine's cuddles will be mine. And then my head will NEVER explode!
Purple Zidler: O.o; Who said anything about your head exploding.?
Dib-Duke: Listen here. I don't want any funny business. You give me those deeds. And when I have them, if I suspect anything going on behind my back, my manservant-
Purple Zidler: (thinking) Manservant!? Must. not. laugh. :X
Dib-Duke: (continuing) -Keef, will make sure that you and all of your little green buddies will be on an autopsy table and exposed for what you really are!
Purple Zidler: O.o?
Dib-Duke: It's important that Bastine be mine. I mean, I have to live, don't I? And if she's spreading her cuddles too thin, how is there supposed to be anything left for ME?! (jumps up and grabs Purple Zidler's collar) I WANT TO LIVE!!!!! O.O
(There is a tense quiet for a few moments)
Keef: (bursts out laughing) HAHAHAHA!! Oh, that's a good one Squirrely :]
Dib-Duke: O.o;
Purple Zidler: O.o; Erm. right. Anyway. 6.6; (attempting to save face) I understand your position, Duke. And. erm. yeah. It's a deal.
Dib-Duke: (sits back down) Oh good! (clears his throat) Now. just hand over those deeds and I shall send the moneys to you with my personal accountant.
Purple Zidler: o.o; That hairy big-footed guy who was chewing on a quarter.?
Dib-Duke: ..... Sadly, yes. Anyway! You now have the moneys to turn this. place .
Purple Zidler: Into a theater!? :D!! (all excited)
Dib-Duke: Yes, into a theater. Anyway. for your part. I will have dinner with Bastine tonight. Totally alone.
Purple Zidler: o.o; Y'know. last time that didn't work out so well.
Dib-Duke: Shut up and help me plan.
(Fade to black and prepare for the next ACT: Rehearsal and DISCOVERY!)
(open on the Irkhemian hotel. There are cancan dancers and Irkhemians alike inside, dancing, drinking, and partying.)
Lynne: (following Zimlouse around, still in her spooky black can-can outfit) I want to be an Irkhemian toooooo!!!
Zimlouse: o.o .. Oh. kay.
Lynne: Then I can play MUSIC and be FREE of cancan dancing! Because I hate it!
Zimlouse: (points to the piano) We need dancing music and GIRie is busy eating. Play! .u
Lynne: :D (giddily starts playing the piano)
(JC the Green Fairy can be seen flying around, spreading her magical, drunken hallucination, fairy dust everywhere. Some people try to fly. They end up landing in Jentian's room.)
Jentian: .9 God. DAMN! That's the ninth one in ten minutes.
Jentian as Narrator: Well. Purple Zidler had an investor-a reluctant investor, but someone with more money than he had, so, it worked out okay. And the Irkhemians had a show. They were very happy about it, and "celebrated" long into the night. Unfortunately for me, this entailed the destruction of my room and half of my good top hats.
(cut to the roof of the building. The Redgentinean is there, drunker than anyone. He waves a bottle of absinthe in the air.)
Redgentinean: WHOOOO! Gimme shum farry dusht! (waves bottle) VIVE REVOLUTION OF.... ME! (drinks)
Jentian as Narrator: While the so-called celebration party ragged upstairs, I tried to write. But. writing is rather difficult when you're busy throwing drunken Irkhemians out and daydreaming about the most beautiful girl in the world.
Jentian: (throws another Irkhemian out) AND STAY OUT! No matter HOW much you flap your arms, you do NOT have wings and CAN NOT fly! (slams door) -.- ; Oy, if I wasn't in AA. (he sits on the windowsill) At least no one can land on my head if I'm here. (sings quietly) How wonderful life is. Now you're in the world.
Jentian as Narrator: And I really wondered. was she thinking about me? Not in the creepy, stalker way. but in the nice, sane, in-love way that I was thinking about her?
(cut to the Green Monkey. Bastine is looking out her balcony thingy too, also thinking. Also thinking about her little green writer.)
Bastine: (sighs) Not a duke. a writer. obsessed with love. (leans on the railing and sighs again) Nice guy. Maybe he'll come back for some cuddling. (sighs yet again) .......... Damn, I do that a lot. (she turns and walks back into the Monkey)
SONG - ONE DAY I'LL FLY AWAY
Bastine sings: I. follow the night.
Can't stand the light. When. will I begin to live again?
(She starts walking back out to the balcony)
One day I'll fly away!
Leave all this to yesterday...
what more could your love do for me?
When will love be through with me?
(She starts climbing the stairs to the top of the Monkey)
Why live life from dream to dream.? And dread the day when dreaming. ends?
Jentian: (antennae perk) That sounds like. (sings too) How wonderful life is now you're in the world. (thinks a moment) I know! (starts sneakily climbing down the ivy growing on the hotel) ..... O.O;; (falls) AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! (hits the ground with a thud) X.x .. Oy. (he eventually picks himself up, somehow manages to leap the fence around the Moulin Vert and climb the Monkey, all before Bastine gets to the next verse)
Bastine sings: (on top of the Monkey now) One day I'll fly away!!
Leave all this to yesterday.!!
Why live life from dream to dream..? And dread the day when dreaming ends..?
One day I'll fly away, fly, fly away..
END OF SONG
Bastine: I like that song. (sits on a bench thingy) Ahhh. good to be off the feet---AAAAAAH!! WHAT THE HELL!? (throws her shoe at something peeking at her over the edge of the bench)
Jentian: (covered in ivy leaves and dirt from the fall) OWWW!! HEY! WATCH IT!! (stops) Erm. I mean. Sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean... I saw--I saw your light on. I climbed up the... the. IVY! And I. I fell! And then the jump and the you. with the. "FLYYYY AWAYYY!" and. erm. yeah.
Bastine: ............What?
Jentian: (thinking fast) I couldn't sleep! I wanted to thank you for helping me get the job.
Bastine: Oh! Oh right. Yeah, it'll be a good show. Zimlouse actually had a good idea for once. He surprises me sometimes. Well! (all cheery) It's a big day of rehearsal tomorrow! Hehe. I uh. better get some rest! You should too! (she starts to go)
Jentian: Wait!
Bastine: (turns) Yes?
Jentian: Well. erm. I was. wondering. Do you remember what happened in the Monkey earlier.?
Bastine: The play?
Jentian: Before that.
Bastine: The duke seeing you on top of me?
Jentian: .; (blushes) Before that.
Bastine: (thinks) Um.
Jentian: (speaks up) After I sang.! And. you said you'd fallen in love with me.!
Bastine: OH! Oh yeah! I remember! ........ (guardedly) What about it?
Jentian: Erm. I was.. wondering if. if it was. just. because you're such a good actress and you sing so well and.
Bastine: (slowly) You were wondering if I was just acting?
Jentian: (Oh he feels like an idiot) ....... yeah.
Bastine: (quickly) Of course it was!
Jentian: (now he feels like a BIGGER idiot) o.o ...Oh. but. but it. it felt. so. real. (he hangs his head)
Bastine: (groans) Look, Writer-boy-
Jentian: It's Jentian.
Bastine: Same thing. I. am a temptressy person (she does a little swishy dress move) I am PAID to make people think I love them! It makes the best moneys, which makes Purple Zidler able to pay other temptressy people who make more moneys which gives him the moneys to run the Moulin Vert!
Jentian: (standing at the edge of the balcony) I wonder how long I'd have to say goodbye if I jumped.?
Bastine: (grabs his arm, shocked) Why would you jump!?
Jentian: Well. It was really stupid of me to think that. someone as pretty as you would. you know. LOVE a green, Irkhemian writer. who constantly has drunken Redgentineans falling through his roof. .9
Bastine: Who falls through your roof?
Jentian: Oh. that horny Redgentinean. He gets drunk off his ass every ten minutes, then with his narcolepsy thing, he tends to fall through the floor.
Bastine: Ohhhh. I see. Anyway. I can't fall in love with anyone. It's terrible for business. You might. I don't know. Call the client someone else while cuddling them!
Jentian: (grabs her hands, startled) What!?
Bastine: o.o; Call the client something el-
Jentian: No no! The other thing!!
Bastine: I can't fall in love? O.o;
Jentian: YEAH! Yes yes! That! That. that. (looks stunned) That's horrible. How can you live without love?
Bastine: How would you know? Have you ever been in love? (gives him the evil eye)
Jentian: Erm.
Jentian as Narrator: I knew that "I had never been in love" phrase would come back to haunt me. damn my big green mouth.
Bastine: Besides. If I fall in love, I could get fired. And THEN where would I go? Work at Mac Meaties!? Ugh, I'd rather be a temptress.
Jentian: But. but love...is like. oxygen!!
Bastine: What? (looking at him like he's crazy)
SONG - MONKEY LOVE MEDLEY
Jentian: (spoken) Love. Love is a many. splendid thing! Love.. it. it lifts you up where. um. where you belong!! ....ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!! :D
Bastine: (spoken) What are you on?
Jentian sings: All you need is love!
Bastine: (spoken) My cuddling has to please!
Jentian sings: All you need is love!
Bastine: (spoken) Or else I'll work at Mac Meaties!
Jentian: All you need is love... (smiling at her)
Bastine: (looks away, speaking) Love is just a game...
Jentian sings: (grabbing a random broom and striking an Elvis-looking pose) I was made for loving you baby, you were made for loving me!
Bastine sings: (folds her arms and looks away) The only way of loving me baby is to pay a lovely fee. (makes the universal sign for moneys)
Jentian sings: (gets on his knees dramatically) Just one night, give me just one night!
Bastine sings: (offended) There's NO way 'cause you can't pay!
Jentian sings: In the name of love, one night in the name of love... (pleading expression)
Bastine sings: You crazy fool, I won't give into you. (she tries to leave)
Jentian sings: (reaching after her) Don't...
Bastine: (stops and looks back at him)
Jentian sings: (pleading) .leave me this way. I can't survive. without your sweet love, oh baby... don't leave me this way.
Bastine sings: (she leans on the rail of the balcony) You think that people would have had enough of silly love songs...
Jentian sings: (walks up next to her) I look around me and I see it isn't so.. (pretends to scan a crowd) Heh. Nope.
Bastine sings: (looks down) Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.
Jentian sings: Well what's wrong with that? (he looks at Bastine and tilts her chin up to look at him) I'd like to know.
Bastine: (looks away)
Jentian sings: (gets a determined look on his face) .Cause here I go again!! (he jumps up on the balcony rail and balances on one foot) Love lifts us up where we belong!
Bastine:(spoken) Get down, you jackass! What the hell do you think you're DOING!? You're going to break your neck!
Jentian sings: (stretches his arms out) ^__^ Where eagles fly, on a mountain high!
Bastine sings: Love makes us act like we are fools. (pulls Jentian's other leg down so that he falls on his arse to illustrate her point) Throw our lives away for one happy day.!
Jentian sings: We can be heroes! Just for one day... (tries to take her hands)
Bastine: (walks down the stairs, speaking) You, you will be mean.
Jentian: (spoken) No I won't! Why would I?
Bastine: (spoken) And I...I'll drink all the time!
Jentian: (spoken) Aw, the hell you will.
Bastine: (spoken) Wanna bet?
Jentian sings: We should be lovers!
Bastine sings: We can't do that. (leans against the lower balcony, not facing him)
Jentian sings: We should be lovers! (approaches her and finally holds her hands) And that's a fact.
Bastine sings: (FINALLY looking him in the eye) Though nothing. would keep us together...
Jentian sings: We could steal time.
Both sing: .just for one day. We can be heroes, forever and ever. We can be heroes forever and ever. We can be heroes just because...
(Camera pans around them as fireworks go off in the night sky behind them)
Jentian sings: I... will always love you!
Bastine sings: I...!
Both sing: Can't help loving...
Jentian sings: (hugging her) You...
Bastine sings: (leaning against him) How wonderful life is...
Both sing: Now you're in. the world...
Bastine: (spoken) You're going to be bad for business, I can tell.
Jentian: Well. I'll just have to make up for all the business you'll lose then.
Bastine: (smirks) I like the sound of that.
(They share a nice, long, romantic kiss while piggies fly by, scattering more fireworks. Cut back to the roof of the Irkhemian hotel, where the Redgentinean is sitting, drunk off his green arse)
Redgentinean: (starts belting out random notes that sound vaguely like some twisted form of opera)
JC the Green Fairy: (flies up from a window below him) HEY! HEY! People are down there trying to SLEEP, you know!! Like ME!
Redgentinean: Gimme shum uh dat pick-shee dust! O (tries to grab her)
JC the Green Fairy: EEP! O.O (zips away) ALL RIGHT! That's IT.!! NO MORE MISS-NICE-DRUNKEN-HALLUCINATION for YOU!! O (swats him across the face with her wings and buzzes over to an empty absinthe bottle and raises it as if to whack the Redgentinean) O JC SMASH!!!! ... 6.6; .
Redgentinean: x.x (passed out from both absinthe and narcolepsy)
JC the Green Fairy: 6.6 . ~.~ Bastard. He owes me an ass-kicking. (buzzes over to another absinthe bottle and disappears)
(cut to downstairs. Lynne and GIRie are banging away on the piano, while Zimlouse dances around the room, playing wildly on his fiddle. Gazie and a few other can-can girls dance around too, celebrating)
Zimlouse: u.u HOW WOOOOOONDERFUL LIIIIIFE IIIIIIS..!!
Lynne and GIRie: NOW YOOOOOOOOOOOU'RE IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLLLLD! :D
(pan out from the hotel room, and begin zooming in fast on Purple Zilder's office in the Moulin Vert as day dawns)
Jentian as Narrator: Life really was wonderful now. I actually sold that noose I bought last week to Zimlouse. He said something about going and haunting the old opera house a few blocks down from the Irkhemian center of Paris. I don't know. I think he was a little crazy. Unfortunately, life wasn't exactly as wonderful for other members of the Moulin Vert staff. The Dib-Duke kept getting his sticky little human fingers into everything. including Bastine's life.
(We can now see the inside of Purple Zilder's office. The Dib-Duke and Purple Zilder are seated across from each other at a big desk. There are posters of can-can girls on the walls, advertising the shows of the Moulin Vert and a few catalogs for the latest smoke machines on the desk. Keef stands in a corner, talking to a squirrel)
Dib-Duke: Thanks for letting me speak to you in. (glances at Keef and his squirrel) private, Zidler.
Purple Zidler: (flipping through a catalog) No trouble my dear Dib-Duke! No trouble at all, I assure you! In fact, I was about to speak to you today.
Dib-Duke: You were? (looks nervous) What about..?
Purple Zidler: The very LATEST in smoke machine technology! u.u Guaranteed to keep lazer-brained, idiotic Redgentineans on the street or in the absinthe houses and lesser cabarets where they belong! (proudly displays a picture of said machine)
Dib-Duke: Erm. that's lovely. But I came to speak to you about the Moulin Vert!
Purple Zidler: Really? (sets his catalog aside)
Dib-Duke: (nervously) Changing this place from. from a. "dance hall" to a theater is going to cost a lot of moneys.
Purple Zidler: Exactly. Which is why we needed an investor so very badly.
Dib-Duke: And SINCE all those moneys are coming out of my pocket. I. I require security.
Purple Zidler: (confused) Security?
Dib-Duke: (hurriedly) Give me the deeds to the Moulin Vert.
Purple Zidler: What!?
Dib-Duke: You heard me, you green Irkhemian fool!
Purple Zidler: There's no reason to resort to name calling, Dib-Duke! (innocently) And why ever would you need the deeds to THIS little hole-in- the-wall?
Dib-Duke: Don't you play dumb with ME, Zidler. (stands up in his chair so he's only a few inches shorter than Purple Zidler) I will hold the deeds to the Moulin Vert. That way, all of Bastine's cuddles will be mine. And then my head will NEVER explode!
Purple Zidler: O.o; Who said anything about your head exploding.?
Dib-Duke: Listen here. I don't want any funny business. You give me those deeds. And when I have them, if I suspect anything going on behind my back, my manservant-
Purple Zidler: (thinking) Manservant!? Must. not. laugh. :X
Dib-Duke: (continuing) -Keef, will make sure that you and all of your little green buddies will be on an autopsy table and exposed for what you really are!
Purple Zidler: O.o?
Dib-Duke: It's important that Bastine be mine. I mean, I have to live, don't I? And if she's spreading her cuddles too thin, how is there supposed to be anything left for ME?! (jumps up and grabs Purple Zidler's collar) I WANT TO LIVE!!!!! O.O
(There is a tense quiet for a few moments)
Keef: (bursts out laughing) HAHAHAHA!! Oh, that's a good one Squirrely :]
Dib-Duke: O.o;
Purple Zidler: O.o; Erm. right. Anyway. 6.6; (attempting to save face) I understand your position, Duke. And. erm. yeah. It's a deal.
Dib-Duke: (sits back down) Oh good! (clears his throat) Now. just hand over those deeds and I shall send the moneys to you with my personal accountant.
Purple Zidler: o.o; That hairy big-footed guy who was chewing on a quarter.?
Dib-Duke: ..... Sadly, yes. Anyway! You now have the moneys to turn this. place .
Purple Zidler: Into a theater!? :D!! (all excited)
Dib-Duke: Yes, into a theater. Anyway. for your part. I will have dinner with Bastine tonight. Totally alone.
Purple Zidler: o.o; Y'know. last time that didn't work out so well.
Dib-Duke: Shut up and help me plan.
(Fade to black and prepare for the next ACT: Rehearsal and DISCOVERY!)