In honor of my 50th review, I'm throwing a special gala chapter. It's going
to be a variety show with all kinds of crazy stuff that you'll just have to
read to see.
P.s. Check the earlier chapters of this story if you want to know what I and the other authors look like
***
Bojack727 presents:
Special 50th Review Celebration Special! (Part 1)
Bojack inters the stage and looks around. "Well, here we are at the beginning of our little extravaganza!" He exclaims. "Any minute now, the others will be arriving." He adds.
Then, as if on cue, there is a knock on a door on the left end of the stage.
"Why who could that be?" Bojack asks loudly with a smile to the viewers. He opens the door and Tio appears (wearing a blue dress as apposed to the pink one from last time).
"Tio, what brings you here?" Bojack asks in a exaggerated tone of voice.
"The plot!" Tio exclaims happily.
*Offstage, a 'rim shot' is heard*
Tio walks into the stage and strikes a pose, activating some unseen music. She turns back around. "What sort of crazy things do you have in mind for the big party issue, Bojack-san?" She asks happily.
"I'm glad you asked that." Ash says as he walks onstage, wearing a royal blue cloak with silver trimming and a white scarf.
Applause is heard and even a few wolf-whistles.
"Thank you very much, especially the ladies." Ash replies with a bow to the audience. "And now to answer the Lady Tio's question, we are going to have a variety show." He announces. "This means, review sessions, interviews with the stars of Bojack's other stories, special guests appearances, improvisational comedy, and I'll perform one of my favorite scenes from the Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet." He finishes with a wink to the audience.
Everyone cheers.
"Boy was I surprised when I found out that he know Hamlet!" Bojack exclaimed.
"How surprised were you, Bojack-san?" Asked Tio.
"Well, Tio-chan, I was so excited that I went out and kicked Vegeta's ass again just for fun and then I came back signed Ash for a scene from Hamlet." He exclaims.
"I bet Vegeta-san is sure sore about that you kicking his ass. again!" She states with a smile and holding up a sign with an image a little beet-up chibi Vegeta laying on the ground with swirls for eyes.
"You bet, he made that exact same face that he did when I crashed the Tenkai' chi' Bodukai tournament and beat him and all those chump saiya-jins up." Bojack replies.
"You sure showed them who the boss was!" Tio exclaims.
***
(It is with great pleasure that we present an alternate version of the cannon-testing scene from chapter 7)
Momo and the others stood up as the dust and debris cleared.
"Wow, that fire stuff you used worked great!" Garry exclaimed.
"It's amazing." Biggs added..
Momo smiled and looked around. "You know that smell, the smell of gasoline?" She asked as she tipped her hat back.
"Yeah, what is it?" Garry asked.
"It's called 'Napalm'." Replied Momo. "It's a great smell. it's the smell of war. When you wake up in the morning and its fresh in the air. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. it smells like. victory." She finished.
At this point, dramatic music is playing and there's a sun-bleached background behind them.
(Eat your heart out, Robert Duvall!)
***
Bojack is sitting on stage holding some note cards. "Hello, I'm here to talk about some of the upcoming projects that we'll be working on till the big Hamlet Scene is ready." Bojack informs the audience. "I have Cid Highwind her with me- from his latest project. Now Cid, I hear that you're working on a new project called 'Jenova', can you tall anyone about it?" He asks.
(Look out, here comes the shameless plug for future stories!)
Cid smiles. "Sorry, but I can't say much right now. But I can say that it will be one hell of a story!" He exclaims.
"What genre is it?" Bojack asks.
"That's a secret." He replies.
"Well then, can you tell me who else will be in it?" Bojack asks.
"Well, that I can tell you." Cid replies. "Reno, Tseng and Dyne are in it." He replies.
(Author: Uh oh, look out ladies!)
"And Hojo and Dr. Gast are in it too, as well as Zangan and Hozloff, and even Biggs and Wedge." He replies. "It's an all male cast." Cid ads.
"Cool, sounds like an awesome story." Bojack replies. "Are there any highlights that you can mention?" Bojack asks.
"Well, it will feature lots of action and drama, and I'll be kicking some ass in it too."
"Awesome." He then turns to the audience while Cid takes out some tea and begins drinking it. "I was going to interview Vincent Valentine, but he was busy with 'Gunslinger' and couldn't make it down here, so I'll be moving on to my next interview with Lucca (from Chrono-Trigger." He says to the readers
He then turns around and sits down to face Lucca. "So, I hear that you're working on a new crossover story?" Bojack asks.
"Yeah, Crono and I are staring in a new crossover with Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7." She explains.
"Well, that sounds cool." Bojack says and looks at his watch. "Uh oh!" He exclaims. "It's almost time for the big Hamlet scene to begin, so I'd like to thank Cid Highwind and Lucca for agreeing for these interviews." He exclaims as he runs off stage.
***
Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1
The Cemetery Forman (played by Gary) is sitting by a grave being dug by his assistant (played by Mogu) for Ophelia.
Gary looks around the dark grave yard and then at the two oil lamps he had lit earlier. He then leans in and speaks up. "Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she willfully seeks her own salvation?" He asks.
Mogu looks up. "I tell thee she is, the King finds it Christian burial." He replies while still digging with his shovel.
Gary scratches his chin and sighs. "It cannot be. Here lies the point: If I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act, and an act is to do. Therefore, she drowned herself wittingly." He explains as he makes a diving motion with his right hand.
Mogu sets down his shovel and looks confused.
Gary sighs and begins to speak again, in an attempt to explain what he means. "Give me leave. Here lies the water." He explains as he holds up his hand up with his palm upward. "Here stands the man." He says as he holds up his other hand. "If the man go to this water and drown himself. he goes." Gary states as he brings his fist down onto his open palm. "But if the water come to the man, and drowns him." He goes on to hold up his fist and then bring down his open palm on it. "Then he drowns not himself. therefore- he is not guilty and does not shorten his own life." Gary explains.
Mogu looks up at him quizzically. "But is this law?" He asks.
Gary looks down at him and smiles. "Aye, marry, it's the king quest law." He replies.
Mogu shakes his head. "If this had not been a gentlewoman, she would have been buried out of Christian burial" He says with a sigh.
"Why there you say it." Gary replies. "and the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even
Christian." Gary replies, slapping his hands down on his hips. "Come, my spade." He asks, holding out his hand. "There is no ancient gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers." He states. "They hold up Adam's profession." He adds, pointing towards the night sky.
Mogu hands him a shovel and smiles. "Was he a gentleman?" He asks.
Gary smiles back. "Why, he was the first that ever bore arms." Gary replies as he holds up his arm in a flexing position.
"Had he none?" Mogu asks.
"What, art you a heathen?" Gary asks incredulously. "How dost thou understand the Scripture?" He asks. "The Scripture says 'Adam digged:' could he dig without arms?" Gary exclaims in indignation. Gary then calmed down and looked back down at Mogu. "Cudgel your brain no longer, go bring me a stoup of liquor." He says.
Mogu nods and gets out of the grave and runs off. Gary takes his shovel and hops into the grave and begins digging and singing to himself. He fails to notice Hamlet (played by Ryu) and his friend, Horatio (played by Teepo in a rare cameo appearance) walking up. Both men are rapped up in cloaks.
Ryu looks at Gary while he sings from within the grave. "Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?" Ryu asks.
Teepo looks at Gary and then turns back to Ryu. "Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness." Teepo replies.
Hamlet watches as Gary tosses a skull out of the grave. Ryu walks forward with Teepo at his side. Ryu watches as another skull lands at his feet. Ryu looks down at Gary and turns to Teepo. "I will speak to this fellow." He explains. "Whose grave's this, sir?" Ryu asks him.
Gary looks up. "Mine, sir." He replies.
Sweat beads appear on Ryu and Teepo's heads. "What man dost thou dig it for?" Ryu manages to asks.
"No man, sir." Gary replies.
"What woman, then?" Ryu asks, flinching.
"One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead." Gary replies as he puts his shovel down.
Ryu decides to ask a different question. "How long will a man remain in the ground?"
Gary looks up at him. "I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die, he will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year." He explains. He then hold up another skull. "Here's another skull, this has been in the earth some three and twenty years." He states as he examines it.
Ryu and Teepo look over to see a group of people approaching. The two of them run of to hide behind a tombstone. Gary climbs out of the grave just in time to stand beside who Mogu- who had just returned. The two men remove their hats.
The forbearers appear, carrying a coffin with Ophelia's corpse in it (dramatically played by Nina). A priest (played by me) walks before the coffin. King Claudius (played by Rei) and Queen Gertrude (played by Momo). They are both dressed in black. Ophelia's bother, Laertes (played by Ash) is there with them. There are also other various attendants of the King and Queen.
Ash walks up the priest and then looks at Nina in the open coffin and observes that there isn't many decorations on it. He looks at the priest. "What ceremony else?" He asks with a lump in his throat.
Bojack looks at him and frowns. "Her honors have been as far enlarged as we may allow: her death was doubtful; but the great command of the King oversways the order." Bojack replies. "She should be, in ground unsanctified, be lodged." He adds, showing no visible sympathy for the situation. "Yet here she is allowed her virginal rights, her maiden garments, and the bringing home of bell and burial." He adds, pointing at Nina's corpse with an expression of distaste.
Ash swallows hard and looks Bojack strait in the eyes. "Must there no more be done?" He asks sadly as he looks at his dead sister, laying in the coffin. He hold his gaze on the priest.
Bojack shows no change of emotion. "No more be done." He replies and then looks back down at the grave. Ash steps back and swallows hard, his breathing starts to become uneven. He looks hard at Bojack. "Lay her in the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh- may violets spring!" He yells. "I tell thee, churlish priest, an angel shall my sister be, when thou lie howling in the grave!" He exclaimed.He HWE
Momo walks forward and drops flowers down onto Nina. "Sweets to the sweet: farewell!" She speaks, looking sadly at the dead girl beneath her. "I had hopes that you should be my Hamlet's wife." She mouths quietly to the corpse and steps back to be held by her husband, the king.
Ash yells suddenly. "O, woe, fall ten times on that cursed head, whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile," He exclaims. "Till I have caught her once more in mine arms one last time!" He begs the forbearers as he jumps into the grave, tears streaming from his eyes. "Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, till you have made a mountain to reach the heavens!" He screams through tear- filled eyes.
The various attendants- including Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie- look on sadly at the scene.
Suddenly, everyone looks over as Ryu runs forward, Teepo behind him. He runs up to the group and looks down at Laertes. "What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis?" He exclaims. "Whose phrase of sorrow conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I, Hamlet the Dane!" He yells.
Ash looks up at him and jumps out of the grave and looks at Ryu with rage in his eyes. "The devil take thy soul!" He yells as he tackles Ryu and raps his hands around Ryu's throat.
Ryu cringes and speaks up as he grabs onto Ash's hands. "I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; for, though I am not splenitive and rash. I have something in me dangerous,
Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand!" He exclaims.
"Pluck them apart!" Rei yells as his men run over and pull Ash off of Ryu and hold them apart.
"Hamlet, Hamlet!" Momo exclaims as she runs over to Ryu. "O my son?" She asks.
Ryu looks down at Momo and then back at Nina and then he finally looks at Ash. "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love,
make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?" He calls out.
Rei steps forward. "He is mad!" He tries to reason to Ash as some of the attendants hold him back.
"For love of God, forgive him." Momo beggs.
Ryu steps looks sternly at Ash. "Show me what thou'lt do: weep? Fight? Fast? Cry? Drink up poison? Eat a crocodile?" Ryu demands. "I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine? To outdo me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw millions of acres on us! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou." He explains.
Momo steps in between the two men. "This is mere madness: and thus awhile the fit will work on him." She says, looking at Ryu. "Anon, as patient as the female dove, when that her golden couplets are disclosed, his silence will sit drooping." She says and then looks back Ash.
Ryo looks at Ash and seems to grow tired. "Hear you, sir; what is the reason that you use me thus? I loved you ever: but it is no matter; let Hercules himself do what he may; The cat will mew and dog will have his day!" He exclaims and walks out of the cemetery.
Rei turns to Teepo. "I pray you, good Horatio, follow him."
Teepo nods and goes to follow Ryu. Rei turns back to Ash. "Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech." He tells him, placing a hand on his shoulder. Rei then looks at Momo. "Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son." He instructs her.
Rei then turns to the Attendants, the Priest, and the Grave Diggers. "This grave shall have a living monument: An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; Till then, in patience our proceeding be." He instructs them.
(End of Scene)
Ash wipes hi forehead. "Wow, that was exhausting!" He exclaims with a smile.
"Yeah." Replies Bojack.
Nina sits up in her coffin. "I can't believe I had no lines in this scene." He complains, stretching.
"Don't worry, you'll have speaking lines when I get around to working on the full-length version of 'Breath of Fire's Hamlet'." Bojack replies, wiping his forehead and loosening his collar.
Ryu and Teepo run back on stage. "That was amazing!" Ryu exclaims and then turns to Ash. "You're amazing, you almost actually choked me back there." Ryu informs Ash as he pats him on the back.
"Yeah. but it will be good when we can show the unabridged version of this scene in the full-length fanfcition." Ash replies.
Bojack steps forward and smiles towards the screen. "Well, we're just about done with this little party. and I hoped you all enjoyed it." He voices to the audience. "I want to think Tio for helping me out with this party."
A spotlight shines on Tio, who smiles to the audience.
"And Cid Highwind and Lucca for agreeing to an interview with me."
A spotlight shines down on Cid and Lucca, who both wave back at the audience.
"But I'd like to be serious for a moment." Bojack replies and pulls up a chair and sits down for a moment. The lights dim and Tio takes out a chair and sits down beside him.
Bojack takes a deep breath. "Since I was just a little kid," Bojack begins. "There was a show that I watched, something I watched for many years." He goes on. "It was Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." He states.
"I grew up watching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, and it really meant a lot to me as a kid."
(As Bojack talks, gentle music plays.)
"Mr. Roger's show had s simple message- to love each other and to try and be friends with one another. And I think that in this hectic and unpredictable world that we live in- that's a really good piece of advice." He states. "So, when I found out that he had died, I was pretty shocked." Bojack adds. "He was one of those guys who you think will be around forever, but then one day, they're gone. And you start to wonder why they had to leave this world and what it will be like without them, but I'd like to think that Mr. Rogers would be very happy if we simply just went on with our lives and tried our best to live up to the wish that he had for everyone- for all of us to be neighbors to one another and to just try and understand others when things are tough. and to always try and keep our spirits up. So, that's why I'm going to say that, on behalf of Mr. Rogers, we should all just want to be each others' neighbors. Thank you."
P.s. Check the earlier chapters of this story if you want to know what I and the other authors look like
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Bojack727 presents:
Special 50th Review Celebration Special! (Part 1)
Bojack inters the stage and looks around. "Well, here we are at the beginning of our little extravaganza!" He exclaims. "Any minute now, the others will be arriving." He adds.
Then, as if on cue, there is a knock on a door on the left end of the stage.
"Why who could that be?" Bojack asks loudly with a smile to the viewers. He opens the door and Tio appears (wearing a blue dress as apposed to the pink one from last time).
"Tio, what brings you here?" Bojack asks in a exaggerated tone of voice.
"The plot!" Tio exclaims happily.
*Offstage, a 'rim shot' is heard*
Tio walks into the stage and strikes a pose, activating some unseen music. She turns back around. "What sort of crazy things do you have in mind for the big party issue, Bojack-san?" She asks happily.
"I'm glad you asked that." Ash says as he walks onstage, wearing a royal blue cloak with silver trimming and a white scarf.
Applause is heard and even a few wolf-whistles.
"Thank you very much, especially the ladies." Ash replies with a bow to the audience. "And now to answer the Lady Tio's question, we are going to have a variety show." He announces. "This means, review sessions, interviews with the stars of Bojack's other stories, special guests appearances, improvisational comedy, and I'll perform one of my favorite scenes from the Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet." He finishes with a wink to the audience.
Everyone cheers.
"Boy was I surprised when I found out that he know Hamlet!" Bojack exclaimed.
"How surprised were you, Bojack-san?" Asked Tio.
"Well, Tio-chan, I was so excited that I went out and kicked Vegeta's ass again just for fun and then I came back signed Ash for a scene from Hamlet." He exclaims.
"I bet Vegeta-san is sure sore about that you kicking his ass. again!" She states with a smile and holding up a sign with an image a little beet-up chibi Vegeta laying on the ground with swirls for eyes.
"You bet, he made that exact same face that he did when I crashed the Tenkai' chi' Bodukai tournament and beat him and all those chump saiya-jins up." Bojack replies.
"You sure showed them who the boss was!" Tio exclaims.
***
(It is with great pleasure that we present an alternate version of the cannon-testing scene from chapter 7)
Momo and the others stood up as the dust and debris cleared.
"Wow, that fire stuff you used worked great!" Garry exclaimed.
"It's amazing." Biggs added..
Momo smiled and looked around. "You know that smell, the smell of gasoline?" She asked as she tipped her hat back.
"Yeah, what is it?" Garry asked.
"It's called 'Napalm'." Replied Momo. "It's a great smell. it's the smell of war. When you wake up in the morning and its fresh in the air. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. it smells like. victory." She finished.
At this point, dramatic music is playing and there's a sun-bleached background behind them.
(Eat your heart out, Robert Duvall!)
***
Bojack is sitting on stage holding some note cards. "Hello, I'm here to talk about some of the upcoming projects that we'll be working on till the big Hamlet Scene is ready." Bojack informs the audience. "I have Cid Highwind her with me- from his latest project. Now Cid, I hear that you're working on a new project called 'Jenova', can you tall anyone about it?" He asks.
(Look out, here comes the shameless plug for future stories!)
Cid smiles. "Sorry, but I can't say much right now. But I can say that it will be one hell of a story!" He exclaims.
"What genre is it?" Bojack asks.
"That's a secret." He replies.
"Well then, can you tell me who else will be in it?" Bojack asks.
"Well, that I can tell you." Cid replies. "Reno, Tseng and Dyne are in it." He replies.
(Author: Uh oh, look out ladies!)
"And Hojo and Dr. Gast are in it too, as well as Zangan and Hozloff, and even Biggs and Wedge." He replies. "It's an all male cast." Cid ads.
"Cool, sounds like an awesome story." Bojack replies. "Are there any highlights that you can mention?" Bojack asks.
"Well, it will feature lots of action and drama, and I'll be kicking some ass in it too."
"Awesome." He then turns to the audience while Cid takes out some tea and begins drinking it. "I was going to interview Vincent Valentine, but he was busy with 'Gunslinger' and couldn't make it down here, so I'll be moving on to my next interview with Lucca (from Chrono-Trigger." He says to the readers
He then turns around and sits down to face Lucca. "So, I hear that you're working on a new crossover story?" Bojack asks.
"Yeah, Crono and I are staring in a new crossover with Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7." She explains.
"Well, that sounds cool." Bojack says and looks at his watch. "Uh oh!" He exclaims. "It's almost time for the big Hamlet scene to begin, so I'd like to thank Cid Highwind and Lucca for agreeing for these interviews." He exclaims as he runs off stage.
***
Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1
The Cemetery Forman (played by Gary) is sitting by a grave being dug by his assistant (played by Mogu) for Ophelia.
Gary looks around the dark grave yard and then at the two oil lamps he had lit earlier. He then leans in and speaks up. "Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she willfully seeks her own salvation?" He asks.
Mogu looks up. "I tell thee she is, the King finds it Christian burial." He replies while still digging with his shovel.
Gary scratches his chin and sighs. "It cannot be. Here lies the point: If I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act, and an act is to do. Therefore, she drowned herself wittingly." He explains as he makes a diving motion with his right hand.
Mogu sets down his shovel and looks confused.
Gary sighs and begins to speak again, in an attempt to explain what he means. "Give me leave. Here lies the water." He explains as he holds up his hand up with his palm upward. "Here stands the man." He says as he holds up his other hand. "If the man go to this water and drown himself. he goes." Gary states as he brings his fist down onto his open palm. "But if the water come to the man, and drowns him." He goes on to hold up his fist and then bring down his open palm on it. "Then he drowns not himself. therefore- he is not guilty and does not shorten his own life." Gary explains.
Mogu looks up at him quizzically. "But is this law?" He asks.
Gary looks down at him and smiles. "Aye, marry, it's the king quest law." He replies.
Mogu shakes his head. "If this had not been a gentlewoman, she would have been buried out of Christian burial" He says with a sigh.
"Why there you say it." Gary replies. "and the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even
Christian." Gary replies, slapping his hands down on his hips. "Come, my spade." He asks, holding out his hand. "There is no ancient gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers." He states. "They hold up Adam's profession." He adds, pointing towards the night sky.
Mogu hands him a shovel and smiles. "Was he a gentleman?" He asks.
Gary smiles back. "Why, he was the first that ever bore arms." Gary replies as he holds up his arm in a flexing position.
"Had he none?" Mogu asks.
"What, art you a heathen?" Gary asks incredulously. "How dost thou understand the Scripture?" He asks. "The Scripture says 'Adam digged:' could he dig without arms?" Gary exclaims in indignation. Gary then calmed down and looked back down at Mogu. "Cudgel your brain no longer, go bring me a stoup of liquor." He says.
Mogu nods and gets out of the grave and runs off. Gary takes his shovel and hops into the grave and begins digging and singing to himself. He fails to notice Hamlet (played by Ryu) and his friend, Horatio (played by Teepo in a rare cameo appearance) walking up. Both men are rapped up in cloaks.
Ryu looks at Gary while he sings from within the grave. "Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?" Ryu asks.
Teepo looks at Gary and then turns back to Ryu. "Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness." Teepo replies.
Hamlet watches as Gary tosses a skull out of the grave. Ryu walks forward with Teepo at his side. Ryu watches as another skull lands at his feet. Ryu looks down at Gary and turns to Teepo. "I will speak to this fellow." He explains. "Whose grave's this, sir?" Ryu asks him.
Gary looks up. "Mine, sir." He replies.
Sweat beads appear on Ryu and Teepo's heads. "What man dost thou dig it for?" Ryu manages to asks.
"No man, sir." Gary replies.
"What woman, then?" Ryu asks, flinching.
"One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead." Gary replies as he puts his shovel down.
Ryu decides to ask a different question. "How long will a man remain in the ground?"
Gary looks up at him. "I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die, he will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year." He explains. He then hold up another skull. "Here's another skull, this has been in the earth some three and twenty years." He states as he examines it.
Ryu and Teepo look over to see a group of people approaching. The two of them run of to hide behind a tombstone. Gary climbs out of the grave just in time to stand beside who Mogu- who had just returned. The two men remove their hats.
The forbearers appear, carrying a coffin with Ophelia's corpse in it (dramatically played by Nina). A priest (played by me) walks before the coffin. King Claudius (played by Rei) and Queen Gertrude (played by Momo). They are both dressed in black. Ophelia's bother, Laertes (played by Ash) is there with them. There are also other various attendants of the King and Queen.
Ash walks up the priest and then looks at Nina in the open coffin and observes that there isn't many decorations on it. He looks at the priest. "What ceremony else?" He asks with a lump in his throat.
Bojack looks at him and frowns. "Her honors have been as far enlarged as we may allow: her death was doubtful; but the great command of the King oversways the order." Bojack replies. "She should be, in ground unsanctified, be lodged." He adds, showing no visible sympathy for the situation. "Yet here she is allowed her virginal rights, her maiden garments, and the bringing home of bell and burial." He adds, pointing at Nina's corpse with an expression of distaste.
Ash swallows hard and looks Bojack strait in the eyes. "Must there no more be done?" He asks sadly as he looks at his dead sister, laying in the coffin. He hold his gaze on the priest.
Bojack shows no change of emotion. "No more be done." He replies and then looks back down at the grave. Ash steps back and swallows hard, his breathing starts to become uneven. He looks hard at Bojack. "Lay her in the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh- may violets spring!" He yells. "I tell thee, churlish priest, an angel shall my sister be, when thou lie howling in the grave!" He exclaimed.He HWE
Momo walks forward and drops flowers down onto Nina. "Sweets to the sweet: farewell!" She speaks, looking sadly at the dead girl beneath her. "I had hopes that you should be my Hamlet's wife." She mouths quietly to the corpse and steps back to be held by her husband, the king.
Ash yells suddenly. "O, woe, fall ten times on that cursed head, whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile," He exclaims. "Till I have caught her once more in mine arms one last time!" He begs the forbearers as he jumps into the grave, tears streaming from his eyes. "Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, till you have made a mountain to reach the heavens!" He screams through tear- filled eyes.
The various attendants- including Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie- look on sadly at the scene.
Suddenly, everyone looks over as Ryu runs forward, Teepo behind him. He runs up to the group and looks down at Laertes. "What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis?" He exclaims. "Whose phrase of sorrow conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I, Hamlet the Dane!" He yells.
Ash looks up at him and jumps out of the grave and looks at Ryu with rage in his eyes. "The devil take thy soul!" He yells as he tackles Ryu and raps his hands around Ryu's throat.
Ryu cringes and speaks up as he grabs onto Ash's hands. "I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; for, though I am not splenitive and rash. I have something in me dangerous,
Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand!" He exclaims.
"Pluck them apart!" Rei yells as his men run over and pull Ash off of Ryu and hold them apart.
"Hamlet, Hamlet!" Momo exclaims as she runs over to Ryu. "O my son?" She asks.
Ryu looks down at Momo and then back at Nina and then he finally looks at Ash. "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love,
make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?" He calls out.
Rei steps forward. "He is mad!" He tries to reason to Ash as some of the attendants hold him back.
"For love of God, forgive him." Momo beggs.
Ryu steps looks sternly at Ash. "Show me what thou'lt do: weep? Fight? Fast? Cry? Drink up poison? Eat a crocodile?" Ryu demands. "I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine? To outdo me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw millions of acres on us! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou." He explains.
Momo steps in between the two men. "This is mere madness: and thus awhile the fit will work on him." She says, looking at Ryu. "Anon, as patient as the female dove, when that her golden couplets are disclosed, his silence will sit drooping." She says and then looks back Ash.
Ryo looks at Ash and seems to grow tired. "Hear you, sir; what is the reason that you use me thus? I loved you ever: but it is no matter; let Hercules himself do what he may; The cat will mew and dog will have his day!" He exclaims and walks out of the cemetery.
Rei turns to Teepo. "I pray you, good Horatio, follow him."
Teepo nods and goes to follow Ryu. Rei turns back to Ash. "Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech." He tells him, placing a hand on his shoulder. Rei then looks at Momo. "Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son." He instructs her.
Rei then turns to the Attendants, the Priest, and the Grave Diggers. "This grave shall have a living monument: An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; Till then, in patience our proceeding be." He instructs them.
(End of Scene)
Ash wipes hi forehead. "Wow, that was exhausting!" He exclaims with a smile.
"Yeah." Replies Bojack.
Nina sits up in her coffin. "I can't believe I had no lines in this scene." He complains, stretching.
"Don't worry, you'll have speaking lines when I get around to working on the full-length version of 'Breath of Fire's Hamlet'." Bojack replies, wiping his forehead and loosening his collar.
Ryu and Teepo run back on stage. "That was amazing!" Ryu exclaims and then turns to Ash. "You're amazing, you almost actually choked me back there." Ryu informs Ash as he pats him on the back.
"Yeah. but it will be good when we can show the unabridged version of this scene in the full-length fanfcition." Ash replies.
Bojack steps forward and smiles towards the screen. "Well, we're just about done with this little party. and I hoped you all enjoyed it." He voices to the audience. "I want to think Tio for helping me out with this party."
A spotlight shines on Tio, who smiles to the audience.
"And Cid Highwind and Lucca for agreeing to an interview with me."
A spotlight shines down on Cid and Lucca, who both wave back at the audience.
"But I'd like to be serious for a moment." Bojack replies and pulls up a chair and sits down for a moment. The lights dim and Tio takes out a chair and sits down beside him.
Bojack takes a deep breath. "Since I was just a little kid," Bojack begins. "There was a show that I watched, something I watched for many years." He goes on. "It was Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." He states.
"I grew up watching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, and it really meant a lot to me as a kid."
(As Bojack talks, gentle music plays.)
"Mr. Roger's show had s simple message- to love each other and to try and be friends with one another. And I think that in this hectic and unpredictable world that we live in- that's a really good piece of advice." He states. "So, when I found out that he had died, I was pretty shocked." Bojack adds. "He was one of those guys who you think will be around forever, but then one day, they're gone. And you start to wonder why they had to leave this world and what it will be like without them, but I'd like to think that Mr. Rogers would be very happy if we simply just went on with our lives and tried our best to live up to the wish that he had for everyone- for all of us to be neighbors to one another and to just try and understand others when things are tough. and to always try and keep our spirits up. So, that's why I'm going to say that, on behalf of Mr. Rogers, we should all just want to be each others' neighbors. Thank you."