Chain Letter
Bonus Chapter:
Chapter 21: Candid Camera
Jeremy walks on the set of Chain Letter and waves to the camera. "Hey everyone! It's me, Jeremy! This chapter is a bonus for all of you because we're gonna take you around the set of Yu-Yu-Hakusho: Chain Letter! Come on, let's show you around!" He turns a waves over his shoulder, signalling the cameraman, James, to follow. "By the way, this is James, our cameraman, and a good friend of mine!" Jeremy says, pointing to the camera(man), and gives a couple of claps.
He walks off set a couple yards, to a couple of trailers. He points to one. "This is Yusuke and Kuwabara's trailer. C'mon, let's go inside!"
Inside the trailer, Yusuke and Kuwabara are playing video games. Yusuke wins a round, causing Kuwabara to yell in frustration.
"You're a dirty, cheating, lying scumba--" Kuwabara starts, but stops in midsentance. They turn and see Jeremy and James.
"What the hell are you doing in here?" Yusuke asks.
"Uh... nothing important, bye." Jeremy says, and goes out the door.
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Jeremy goes over to a tent a couple yards to the left of the trailers. "This is where we come and get food and breaks and stuff like this. This is taking over a year to film Chain Letter and we're all really revved for the final acts." Jeremy points offscreen. "Hey, look, it's Kurama!"
Camera turns to show Kurama sitting at a table under the tent, eating some fruit and reading his script. He is chewing happily on an apple and nodding every few moments, acknowlegding his parts. He swallows and turns to see the camera. He waves his hand (still holding the apple) and says, "Hi there." He turns back to his script.
Jeremy grabs ahold of the front ring that is around the camera lens, dragging the camera (and James) another way. "Hey, come on! We got a lot more to see! Let's go see what the girls are up to!"
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They head back over to the trailers. The one they stop in front of has a star on the door that reads, "Sora". There is a piece of paper taped to the door that reads, "Do Not Disturb on Pain of Death." And a skull drawing is underneathe the words.
Jeremy puts a finger to his mouth, and turns the knob. The door swings open quietly. He and the camera go into the quiet trailer. They sneak around and go into another part of the trailer and see Sora showering. She's humming a lively song, but then shrieks and turns, covering herself with a towel.
"JEREMY YOU HENTAI!"
"Hi, Sora!"
WHAM!
Sora throws her giant boomerang and knocks Jeremy and the camera out of the trailer.
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"Alright, let's see what Sahara's doing..." They peek behind a tree and see Hiei and Sahara fighting. But not with weapons, oh no...
"I'm telling you that you have no right to take my stuff! Now, where is it!" Hiei shouts.
"And I'm telling you that I didn't take it, Hiei! Why in Hell would I take something as disgusting as that thing!" Sahara retorts.
"Because you're a pervert!"
"YOU'RE the pervert! You're the one who subscribes! I didn't take the magazine! Go ask Jeremy or someone who might like that kind of stuff!" And Sahara stormed off in a huff. Hiei heard a rustling and turned to look at the tree. He drew his sword.
"That better not be you, Jeremy. I'll slice you in half if you have my magazines..."
Ew...
Quickly moving on! Jeremy rushed out of there as if his pants were on fire.
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Jeremy walks towards another quiet location. "I think Kitsune is somewhere over here..." he says. There is a quiet strumming of an acoustic guitar to the Feel Good Inc melody. Kitsune is sitting in a tree, playing guitar. She sets it aside and jumps down off the tree. She walks towards the camera, completely unaware that she is being filmed.
Jeremy comes out while she has her head turns the other way and puts a hand up.
Unfortunately, she walks right into it, and his hand cups one of her breasts. Her eyes widen in shock and horror as she looks at him. He smiles innocently at her.
"Hello, Kitsune. What's shakin'?"
Kitsune is pissed. Fire gleams in her eyes and she brings her arm back and punches Jeremy HARD in the face. He is sent flying back and smashes into a tree. Kitsune walks off, face red with anger and embarrassment.
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Jeremy wanders around the set of Chain Letter. He finds Kaonashi sitting on top of the stone well, legs crossed Indian-style, and he is scribling words on a notepad.
"This is Kaonashi, Kitsune's boyfriend," Jeremy says, pointing to Kaonashi. Kaonashi looks up, sets the notepad aside and walks over to Jeremy, looking calm.
"Is it true you touched Kitsune?" he asks.
"I... uh... yeah, but--"
WHAM!
Calm visage gone, Kaonashi looks insanely furious at Jeremy and punches him hard in the gut. Jeremy goes flying back. Kaonashi walks over to him and puts a foot on his groin, making Jeremy squeal in discomfort. Kaonashi bends down to look Jeremy in the face.
"If you ever touch my girlfriend again, say goodbye to your dick," he says, dangerously, and puts emphasis on this by putting more pressure on Jeremy's groin area with his foot, then steps off him, walks over to the well, gathers his notepad and pen, and walks away.
Jeremy gets to his knees, grabbing himself in pain, eyes clenched in agony. "Did I mention," he says, his voice almost a squeak, "Kaonashi's... very protective.. of... his girlfriend..." He faints.
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Jeremy walks to another trailer that says, "Make-Up," and walks in. "This is the make-up trailer, where we get all the gore and stuff to make this story." He picks up various packets. One has red liquid in it and says "Fake Blood".
The camera pans to the left, into the trailer, and we see a person putting make-up on a girl. Jeremy and the camera go over and watch. Jeremy pats the man doing the make-up on the back.
"This is Richard, our Special Make-Up FX Director. He gives us all the gore and stuff we need to go on the set with." Jeremy says. He moves to see a girl in the chair with blueish make-up. "And this, is Chelsey McCann. Right now, she's getting all zombified for her role as the evil dead woman trying to kill everybody."
"I do it good, too," Chelsey says. Richard puts green splotches on her blue skin.
"This is for the special FX, because Chelsey's not really dead, so e're gonna do some green screen type FX that's make her look decomposing and undead." Richard explains.
"Alright, we'll see you on set in a while, okay?" Jeremy asks to Chelsey, and she nods.
Jeremy and camera exit the trailer.
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"Alright, now we're gonna take you on a tour of the set!" Jeremy says. They walk towards the greenish hill overlooking the village. He stretched his hands out to put emphasis on this area. "This is where our heroes first arrive in England. It's, um... a bit of an isolated area, that had been cursed by this little girl. And down there is the village," he points to the small houses below, "as you can see."
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They go to a field between the hills and the village. "This is where the first... uh... battle took place, between the zombies and the Tantei."
:Cut to a scene from Chain Letter:
Yusuke turned in time to see a horde of zombies rushing at them from the western side of the hill, opposite of the village.
"HOLY SH--!" Kuwabara screamed.
Kurama brought out his rose whip and slashed the front line, but more rushed in. Kuwabara shot a blast of his spiritual energy at the approaching danger, and knocked out about forty-two. Yusuke shot his Spirit Shotgun attack and wiped out another fifty. There were about a hundred and fifty more left. Hiei stepped forward and shot his ultimate Black Dragon Wave attack. The dragon split into three and knocked out the rest of the zombies.
"We had, a lot of people dress up as the zombies. Mostly demons who could regenerate at will. We had them come in and dress up and come out here and 'fight' the Tantei."
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"This is the village, or the town... City of the Dead... We, uh, hadn't really given it a name, but this is where Chelsey lived, in the story, and where she died." Jeremy walks around the town. He points to the buildings. "We made the buildings grey because it gave the town a ghost town sort of feel to it. No-one expects to go to a colorful ghost town, and it didn't fit into the story, so we went with the traditional grey, lifeless town."
Nicolai, Mikhail, and Darius are in the distance. "Those are our vampires. They were hired to play the vampires. They did a pretty good job on it, too. However, their roles were kind of... small compared to the other characters. But that's what gives a movie its conflict. It's got main characters and side characters to help balance everything out. It was a really beautiful scene, man."
:Cut to scene from Chain Letter:
"What a pleasant surprise. Who are these potential blood donors, Darius?"
"They are rebels, trying to break the curse."
"We'll take the females, but you humans must die,"
"Who are you?" Yusuke asked.
The three men snickered. The second one spoke up. "My name is Mikhail Dubrinsky. This is Nicolai DeMarco," He pointed to the first man, "and this is Darius Dubrinsky, my brother," He pointed to the third man. They grinned a fanged smile at the women.
"Vampires!" Sora exclaimed.
"I tried to tell you," Kitsune said, "But NO, you wouldn't listen to me."
"You were talking in riddles. How were we supposed to know there were vampires ahead of us?" Yusuke said.
"Shaddup!" Kitsune snapped.
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"This is our Red-Blood Fountain," Jeremy pointed to an inactive fountain. "I wanna get an episode on MTV Cribs and have this installed in my home. Watch," He flicked a switch on the side of the fountain. The water poured out red.
Jeremy raised his arms triumphantly. "The most awesome piece in our entire show."
He turned back to the camera. "C'mon, let's move on."
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They walked down the stairs to the dungeons. "These are the dungeon cells... where the vampires held the girls captive." They moved to the door. "This is the door leading to the labyrinth, however," He opened the door and went OUTside into the sunlight. He leaned against the doorframe casually.
"The labyrinth is another set. Let's go find that."
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Jeremy moved into a big building. He moved to a corridor lined with green walls. He leaned against the wall. "This is our labyrinth. This is where we shot the different tunnel scenes. We just filmed the actors in here and replaced the green with an image of a labyrinth wall.
"The floor is actually a treadmill, to give the illusion of walking through the catacombs. Because, as you can see, this corridor does not go on forever. But, we can make it seem that way, through technology."
They moved out of the corridor and back into the main building. He pointed to a big wall that didn't extend to the ceiling and sat in the middle of the room. "This is the fork in the corridor. I'll show you the topside."
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On the upper level catwalk, Jeremy showed down into the set, which looked like a forking part of a maze. "We put a cameraman up here to pan down with a camera and catch the inside of the corridor and how it forked off in the different directions. The inside of the wall is also lined with green-screen, so we could film as if we were in the catacombs."
He looked over his shoulder casually at the camera. "It seemed like a good way to save money."
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Jeremy and camera are in another chamber. "This was the original burial chamber for Chelsey McCann. The well was submerged here, and we raised it to appear above ground. That's where it's gonna stay for the rest of the story."
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Jeremy and camera are outside. "You might want to meet the director. Follow me." He takes the camera to the tent Kurama was previously in. Kurama is still there, along with another man who is talking to him. Koenma and Botan are also there, eating cake.
Jeremy pats the mnan on the back, and the man turns around. "'Ey! Jeremy!" The man shakes Jeremy's hand. "Good to see you."
Jeremy points to the man. "This is the director, Kyle Smoleski. This is the man behind Chain Letter's development. Of course, the plot and stuff was set up by Kitsune and me, but this guy planned the location, and helped get the actors out here, and he hired all of the extras."
Kyle turns back to talk to Kurama, and Jeremy and camera walk off.
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Jeremy looks at the camera. "Alright, that's your bonus chapter! That's a look into the odds and ends of Chain Letter. Stay tuned for Chapter 22, and the surprises that wait in store. Also, look out for more bonus chapters still to come. We'll see you around!" Jeremy waves as the camera pans out and fades.