Act 3
Scene 1: The Poppy Field
Karasu: (looking into a crystal ball depicting the four travelers) These four idiots are really beginning to bug me. How did they get through my forest unscathed like that? Hn! When I finally get my hands on that pendant, I will have all the power in Oz! But how... How do I get them to lower their defenses? Hmm...I could make them fall asleep... (An evil grin spreads across face) Of course... the poppy field!! (evil cackling ensues)
(Kurama, Yusuke, Hiei, and Kuwabara emerge from the woods and find themselves on the edge of a field of poppies.)
Kurama: Oh, look! (Points) There's the Makai! Oh hooray!!
Hiei: (starts crossing the poppy field)
Kurama: Oh Hiei, do wait up! (runs after)
(they walk halfway through the field before Kurama starts to get drowsy)
Kurama: (yawning) Can't go--any further. Too---sleepy. . . (sinks to ground and falls asleep)
Hiei: What? Hey, wake up, Kurama. This is no time to sleep!
Kuwabara: AAAAAGGGHHH OH MY GOSH WHAT SHOULD WE DO!? (starts frantically shaking Kurama) WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! WAke up! Wake----up.. . . . (falls asleep as well)
Hiei: What the hell? What's going on?
Yusuke: They've been drugged!! (starts yelling for help)
Hiei: You fool! This is a spell!! A trap! Don't call attention to the fact that we've been caught! Let's just keep going. It's their problem anyway.
Yusuke: (ignores Hiei and keeps yelling for help)
Karasu: (watching in crystal ball) Yell all you like you fool. No one can help you now! (Summons some random winged minions) Fetch me the pendant!!
Hiei: (Watches in amazement as Botan appears and makes it start snowing.)
Yusuke: Hey! What the hell?
Kurama: (Wakes up) Oh my! What strange weather we're having!! (looks around) Puu? Where's Puu? Puuu!! Puuuu!!
Puu: (muffled response)
Kurama: Oh dear! (pulls Puu out of a snowdrift)
(snow suddenly stops)
Kuwabara: L-let's keep g-g-going before anything else happens!
Kurama: Oh yes!
Karasu: (cursing in rage and blowing random stuff up) Damn it all to hell! Someone's always helping them!! I WILL have that pendant. I WILL have what is rightfully mine. And I WILL have my revenge!! (starts laughing evilly) MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! THE PRECIOUS WILL BE MINE!!!
(Flies to Makai)
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Scene 2: Makai
(Kurama and co. arrive at the gates of Makai. Kurama rings the bell several times before anyone appears)
Gatekeeper: What are you all doing here?
Kurama: We came to see the wizard.
Gatekeeper: (laughs) The wizard?! No one has EVER seen the wizard!
Hiei: (snorts) Well why the hell not?
Gatekeeper: (taken off gaurd) Well. . . I . . .uh. . . Oh go away!! You're wasting my time!
Kurama: Now you hold on just a second!! I've been sent by the Good Witch of the North to see the wizard!
Gatekeeper: Oh yeah? Prove it!
Kurama: (Pulls out the pendant)
Gatekeeper: Oh! Well then, why dintcha say so in the first place, huh? Come in come in. My name's George, by the way. I'm the Gatekeeper!
Hiei: So we've gathered.
Shrill voice: KUUUURAAAAMAAAA!!!
(Kurama and co. jump and look wildly around. They look up at the sky. (Letters begin to form, spelling: S-U-R-R-E-N-D-E-R T-H-E P-E-N-D-A-N-T O-R B-E D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D W.W.W)
Makai citizens: (speculating) Who's Kurama? What's the pendant? The wizard will know! The wizard will know!!
Kurama: Oh dear!! We must get to the Wizard and ask for his help immediately!
(they run up to the gate of the palace)
Gaurd: (blocking their way) Where do you four think you're going?
Hiei: Hn. The Wizard.
Gaurd: I don't think so. Now run along home. The Wizard is busy with this whole Witch business and whoever this "Kurama" fellow is--
Kurama: But I'M Kurama!
Gaurd: Oh I'm SO sure you're the REAL Kurama! What would a-- (gets cut off by Hiei)
Hiei: If you don't move and let us through right now I'll slice you to ribbons..."
Gaurd: (opens door)
Kurama: Thank you, Hiei.
Hiei: Hn.
(the four enter the hall and a voice rings out)
Oz: WHO DARES ENTER MY PALACE!?
(Everyone jumps, Kuwabara, cowers in fear, Puu hides in Kurama's hair)
Kurama: Please--your--wizard-ness. . . My name is Kurama and I--
Oz: SILENCE! HOW DARE YOU SPEAK IN MY PRESENCE WITHOUT PERMISSION!
Hiei: But you asked us a question. Normally, one responds to ques--
Oz: ENOUGH!! THE REDHEADED ONE MAY SPEAK, AND ONLY HIM!
Kurama: (shaking) Please... my name is Kurama and I was wondering if you would help me and Puu return home to Japan and my Auntie Shiori. . . And Yusuke the Scarecrow would like some brains and Hiei the Tinman wants a Heart and Kuwabara the Cowardly Lion wants courge. Oh please won't you help us?
Oz: SILENCE!! LION!!
Kuwabara: (faints dead away)
Kurama: (scolding) You ought to be ashamed of yourself!! Scaring him like that! And to think he came to you for hel--
Oz: SILENCE!! THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ HAS EVERY INTENTION OF GRANTING YOUR REQUESTS!!
Kuwabara: (wakes up) Huh? Wha?
Yusuke: He--he does? I mean, you do?
Oz: YES. IF AND ONLY IF YOU KILL THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST AND BRING ME HIS BROOMSTICH AS PROOF!!
Yusuke: But-- But what if he kills us first?
Kurama: Oh, but we couldn't!! I mean, he's never really done me any harm--
Oz: IF YOU WANT TO RETURN TO JAPAN, THEN YOU SHALL KILL HIM. NOW GO!!
Kurama: But I--
Oz: I SAID GO!!!!!!!!
Kuwabara: (screams and runs outside. The others follow.)
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Scene 3: The Witch's Castle
Hiei: Hn. We're in enemy territory now. You all need something to defend yourselves with.
Kuwabara: W-what g-good is a w-weapon? E-everyone knows th-there are g-g-g-ghosts around here!!
Kurama: (hugs Puu tighter) Good gracious! Ghosts?
Hiei: Hah. Fairy tales. Don't be stupid.
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(Kuwabara's face appears in a crystal ball. The Witch summons a Trace Eye and speaks to it, and they fly out. Camera zooms back into the party.)
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Kuwabara: I do believe in ghosts. I do believe in ghosts. I do I do I do…
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Karasu: (watching them and smirking evilly) Go to the Haunted Forest and bring me the redhead alive! I don't care what you do with the other fools, but I want that pretty little redhead alive and uninjured! And watch out for his pendant. Now fly, fly! Bring me that pendant. Fly, my pretties, fly, fly!!
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Kurama: OH MY GOSH!! WHAT IS THAT THING!? IT'S SO DISGUSTING!! (pointing at a giant green bug)
Kuwabara: Eeew I hate bugs get it away get it away!!!
Hiei: Shut up, you fool. (He tries to attack the bug but his sword breaks) Gosh darn it…
Yusuke: (Looks over his shoulder) Uh, guys… I think we've got other things to worry about…
(Swarm of Trace Eyes approaches rapidly. All run)
Hiei: If only I still had my sword…
Kurama: Eep! (Stops short as their path is blocked by more. They're hemmed in on two sides. Trace Eyes cut Kurama off from the rest of the group. He runs, Puu flying behind)
Yusuke: Help! Gyyaaah someone help me!! They've somehow pulled me apart and now my body is blowing away!! (Eyes widen) Someone do something before one of them comes over here and sets me on fire!
Hiei: Do I have to do everything myself!? (Whacks the Trace Eyes with his broken sword and they explode in his face.) Ouch…
Kurama: Can't go this way either…Oh dear whatever shall we do?
Puu: Puuuu!!!
Kurama: Come on, there's a gap this way!! (Trace Eyes continue to herd him towards the castle)
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Yusuke: OK…now that I'm all in one piece… wait, where did Kurama and Puu go? Oh no!!
Kuwabara: AUUGGHH!! (curls up into a little ball and cries)
Hiei: Shut up! Which way did he go, does anyone know?
(All shake their heads)
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Karasu: (Holding the struggling Puu) What a cute little thing… (looks at Kurama, who is sitting on the floor panting) And you… what an unexpected surprise! How kind of you to come visit! (Puts Puu in a box)
Kurama: Give Puu back to me!
Karasu: All in good time, my pretty. All in good time. (Starts cackling)
Kurama: Oh, please give him back!
Karasu: (circles Kurama lecherously) Certainly… once you give me that pendant!
Kurama: Oh…. You evil old hag! Here take your stupid pendant and give me back Puu!
Karasu: That's a good little boy… (reaches for pendant) AH! (looks at his hands)
Kurama: Oh! I didn't do it! Can I please have Puu back?
Karasu: I forgot… that pendant will not come off as long as (grins wickedly) you're still alive!!
Kurama: Wh-what are you g-going to do? (shying away)
Karasu: What do you think? But the question is, how…
(Puu sticks his head out of the box)
Kurama: Fly, Puu!! Fly to safety!!
Karasu: What!? No!! (Watches in dismay as Puu flies away)
Kurama: (Sobs in relief) He got away! He got away!!
Karasu: Ooohh… drat you and your silly Spirit Beast! You've both been more trouble than it's worth…almost. But it will all be over soon!
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Hiei: Hm? Do you hear that?
(In the distance) Puu: PUUUU Puuu-uu-uuu!!!
Kuwabara: Noo! It's another monster come to devour us!! (cowers)
Yusuke: No it's not! It's Puu! Where did he come from?
(Puu grabs Yusuke's finger and pulls)
Hiei: He's come to take us to Kurama! Let's go!
