Cole rushed to the accident site. The first three train carriages were on
their sides, torn apart in places, blown apart in others. Frightened
people ran this way and that. He spied his mother searching among the
rubble, killing mortals left and right as she went. Cole ran straight for
the fifth carriage. He hurried inside to find it deserted.
COLE: (quietly) Holland? Holland are you here?
HOLLAND: Cole? (came the quiet voice from behind the furthest chair)
Cole rushed to his sister's side.
COLE: Take my hand, we have to go.
He grasped her hand and squinted his eyes in concentration.
HOLLAND: Cole? (he keeps concentrating) What are you doing?
COLE: (to himself, looking nervous) Please work.
HOLLAND: Cole?
Cole gives up plan A and goes for B, he unlatches the train door and helps
his sister climb out of the carriage. He pulls her away from the wreck,
heading in the direction of the running people. Holland turns however, to
glimpse the source of the train wreck. Her eyes go wide and she stumbles
back into Cole.
HOLLAND: (frightened whisper) Cole, what is that?
COLE: Let's just go.
HOLLAND: All those people are dead.
COLE: But we're still alive, let us go Holly.
Holland obeys her brother and forces her legs to run alongside him.
THE DEMON: (roars) Belthazor!
Cole shows some distress but keeps running.
THE DEMON: Do you think you can run from me? Do you really think you can
escape me my boy? Give up the girl and I will spare you. Or else a son is
as replaceable as any other minion.
Cole and Holland keep running. The Demon shimmers in front of them,
cutting them
off. Cole steps in front of Holland.
THE DEMON: Will you really give up your life for her Belthazor. Foolish
sentimentality, that is why humans are so easily killed. You know this
Belthazor, I've taught you to exploit it over the years and you've done
splendidly. So many dead, but not this girl, is it because she's family?
Believe me, they're more trouble than they are worth.
HOLLAND: (scared) Cole? Who is she?
COLE: My mother. (Holland steps back from Cole)
THE DEMON: Do not be foolish...Cole Turner, a mortal life is a short life.
She will be dead of old age before you are even a quarter way through
yours. Dying for her today makes no sense in the long term. The short
term either. Move aside.
Cole looks up at his mother, considering her words, then steps aside.
HOLLAND: (worried) Cole?
COLE: (monotonous) Why should we both die.
The Demon smiles and draws her arm back forming an energy ball, her arm
shoots forward releasing the ball directly at Holland.
COLE: No. (He quickly creates his own ball and throws it at his mother's,
destroying it in the air.)
The Demon turned to look at her son, eyes red with fury...and then she
disappeared.
Cole looked to where his mother was standing to find an empty space.m He is
stunned. Holland releases her hunched shoulders to also look in confusion
at the Demon's disappearance, she turns to Cole.
COLE: (looking around) Mother? Mother! (he walks around confused) Mother?
(he
turns to Holland)
Holland, about to have an anxiety attack, stares at her brother with wild,
confused and horrified eyes. Then she turns and runs away. Cole lets her
leave, he stands shocked in the middle of the wreck. A policeman walks up
to him.
MAN: Are you all right kid? (Cole takes no notice of him) Perhaps we should
take you to the hospital. Did you have any family with you on the train?
(Cole doesn't reply) I know the bomb blast must have been...
COLE: Bomb?
MAN: Yes...
COLE: What bomb?
MAN: The bomb that blew up the train son.
COLE: What about the demon?
MAN: Demon?
COLE: The women, people saw, with skin of black and red.
MAN: (concerned) We'd better get you to that hospital.
He touches Cole on the shoulder, Cole shrugs him off and runs home. He
waits there for his mother for many days, but she never returns.
their sides, torn apart in places, blown apart in others. Frightened
people ran this way and that. He spied his mother searching among the
rubble, killing mortals left and right as she went. Cole ran straight for
the fifth carriage. He hurried inside to find it deserted.
COLE: (quietly) Holland? Holland are you here?
HOLLAND: Cole? (came the quiet voice from behind the furthest chair)
Cole rushed to his sister's side.
COLE: Take my hand, we have to go.
He grasped her hand and squinted his eyes in concentration.
HOLLAND: Cole? (he keeps concentrating) What are you doing?
COLE: (to himself, looking nervous) Please work.
HOLLAND: Cole?
Cole gives up plan A and goes for B, he unlatches the train door and helps
his sister climb out of the carriage. He pulls her away from the wreck,
heading in the direction of the running people. Holland turns however, to
glimpse the source of the train wreck. Her eyes go wide and she stumbles
back into Cole.
HOLLAND: (frightened whisper) Cole, what is that?
COLE: Let's just go.
HOLLAND: All those people are dead.
COLE: But we're still alive, let us go Holly.
Holland obeys her brother and forces her legs to run alongside him.
THE DEMON: (roars) Belthazor!
Cole shows some distress but keeps running.
THE DEMON: Do you think you can run from me? Do you really think you can
escape me my boy? Give up the girl and I will spare you. Or else a son is
as replaceable as any other minion.
Cole and Holland keep running. The Demon shimmers in front of them,
cutting them
off. Cole steps in front of Holland.
THE DEMON: Will you really give up your life for her Belthazor. Foolish
sentimentality, that is why humans are so easily killed. You know this
Belthazor, I've taught you to exploit it over the years and you've done
splendidly. So many dead, but not this girl, is it because she's family?
Believe me, they're more trouble than they are worth.
HOLLAND: (scared) Cole? Who is she?
COLE: My mother. (Holland steps back from Cole)
THE DEMON: Do not be foolish...Cole Turner, a mortal life is a short life.
She will be dead of old age before you are even a quarter way through
yours. Dying for her today makes no sense in the long term. The short
term either. Move aside.
Cole looks up at his mother, considering her words, then steps aside.
HOLLAND: (worried) Cole?
COLE: (monotonous) Why should we both die.
The Demon smiles and draws her arm back forming an energy ball, her arm
shoots forward releasing the ball directly at Holland.
COLE: No. (He quickly creates his own ball and throws it at his mother's,
destroying it in the air.)
The Demon turned to look at her son, eyes red with fury...and then she
disappeared.
Cole looked to where his mother was standing to find an empty space.m He is
stunned. Holland releases her hunched shoulders to also look in confusion
at the Demon's disappearance, she turns to Cole.
COLE: (looking around) Mother? Mother! (he walks around confused) Mother?
(he
turns to Holland)
Holland, about to have an anxiety attack, stares at her brother with wild,
confused and horrified eyes. Then she turns and runs away. Cole lets her
leave, he stands shocked in the middle of the wreck. A policeman walks up
to him.
MAN: Are you all right kid? (Cole takes no notice of him) Perhaps we should
take you to the hospital. Did you have any family with you on the train?
(Cole doesn't reply) I know the bomb blast must have been...
COLE: Bomb?
MAN: Yes...
COLE: What bomb?
MAN: The bomb that blew up the train son.
COLE: What about the demon?
MAN: Demon?
COLE: The women, people saw, with skin of black and red.
MAN: (concerned) We'd better get you to that hospital.
He touches Cole on the shoulder, Cole shrugs him off and runs home. He
waits there for his mother for many days, but she never returns.