Romeo and Juliet



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NoV: Welcome back to the hall o' freaks.

Xelloss: So glad you could join us.

Bishounen: Kick back, relax, and read. (lays in a recliner with a tropical drink)

Zelgadis: And crank up the volume.

Amelia: Mr. Zelgadis! Don't say such rude things! It's---it's inJust!!

Zelgadis: Whatever you say, Amelia.

Amelia: (glomp)

NoV: Let's get on with this torturous play. I need Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio.

Phibby: Yay! Finally a scene I'm in!

(Phibby, Xelloss, and Gourry go on-stage)

Xelloss: (bows) Thank-you, thank-you, you're a wonderful audience!

Phibby: Show-off.

Xelloss: What! shall this speech be spoke for our excuse, or shall we go on without apology?

Gourry: No.

Xelloss: Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; being but heavy, I will bear the light.

Phibby: Fine. You can stay home. We don't care.

(back-stage)

NoV: What is he doing? He said the opposite of what he was supposed to.

Lina: Go figure. He's a mazoku lord. He's the master of Hell. Forget about it. I'm surprised Xelloss isn't doing something like this.

NoV: Oy.

(on-stage)

Xelloss: Not I, believe me; you have dancing shoes with nimble shoes; I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Phibby: You're a fighter and a quack. I hope you rot.

Xelloss: I am too sore enpierced with his shaft to soar with his light feathers; and so bound I cannot pitch above dull woe; under love's heavy burden do I sink.

Phibby: Go ahead and sink into a sand trap for all I care.

Xelloss: Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.

(back-stage)

Milgasia: I'm gonna barbecue. It's Labor Day, after all.

NoV: I want barbecued fish!

Bishounen: And I want barbecued halibut!

NoV: Halibut is fish.

Bishounen: Yes, but I thought I should be more specific, as I am allergic to flounder.

NoV: Whatever.

Kopii: Can't..move..

Rezo: Can't..fight..must..try...urgh..

(on-stage)

Phibby: I'm going to the party, and you can't go. Nyah. :p

Gourry: Come on, let's go.

Xelloss: A torch for me; let wantons, light of heart, tickle the senseless rushes with their heels, for I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase; I'll be a candle-holder and look on. The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.

Phibby: Stay here. You can't come. I don't like you.

Xelloss: Nay, that's not so.

Phibby: We're wasting the dark out here.

Xelloss: And we mean well in going to this mask; but 'tis no wit to go.

Phibby: Shut up.

Xelloss: I dream'd a dream to-night.

Phibby: I don't care.

Xelloss: Well, what was yours?

Phibby: I didn't dream.

Xelloss: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.

Phibby: Would you stop talking?

Xelloss: Queen Mab! What's she?

Phibby: A whore.

Xelloss: Peace, peace! Mercutio, peace! Thou talk'st of nothing.

Phibby: You're the one who won't shut up.

Gourry: It's time to eat! Let's go!!

Xelloss: I fear too early; for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night's revels, and expire the term of a despised life clos'd in my breast (snicker) by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he, that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.

Gourry: Hit a drum.

(Gourry, Xelloss, and Phibby leave the stage)

NoV: That could have been worse, but I can't help but ask: Phibby, are you specifically TRYING to ruin my play?

Phibby: Well, of course!!

NoV: Of course. Well, catcha next time!