ACT ii BANG BABYES:
DEMONS- A voice of inspiration
(VENGEANCE IS MINE SAID ME)
SETTING- CHICAGO, 76th & Morgan
Blue lights flash on to a black car, footsteps get closer till the reflection of a white police officer shows on a car window and the window begins to open. A young black male named Ed is inside.
ED
How can I help you officer?
COP
Your tail lights out.
ED
Really, I just got it fixed. But I’ll be sure to take care...(CRACK)
Silence takes over.
COP
Is there anyone else in the car?
Viewing the inside of the car, moving slightly to the side there is another black man sitting next to him. The young man looks to his right and says.
ED
No.
COP
I’m going to have to ask you to step out.
The young man leans forward to get a better look at the officer.
ED
You're not the one I was looking for...
The man sitting in the passenger's seat is Von, a vengeful spirit, a human turned demon.
VON
He still deserves it, him and his friends oh look a black one. I know how much you like the dark meat. I wonder about when the city crumbles and has been abandoned. Do we start with the rich or the pigs cause the pig may be fatter but the rich are most definitely healthier.
ED
Oh most definitely...
COP
WHAT!
ED
Oh, you're still here. I gotta tell you, you a piece of shit but this other guy is even worse. So let’s not do this.
COP
GET OUT OF THE CAR.
ED
Okay I tried to warn you.
VON
Show time.
The young man reaches for the doorknob, looking through the door you can see wiring leading from the door handle as a trigger to multiple charges of explosives hidden in the car. Enough explosive to reach a 200 yard radius.
ED
Father... forgive me...
[MUSIC: DUKE DUCE INSTRUMENTAL]
The young man opens up the door triggering the explosives, in slow motion the fire first fills the car. Then surrounding Von who is unfazed by the heat as he smirks then the young black man. A bright light starts to burn the edges of Ed’s skin to the skull. The light peaks in brightness blinding the screen. Outside of the car the officers are standing still once the blast reaches outside the fire surrounds everywhere, the scene is burned away Von lunges at cop1 grabbing his face. The fire burns only Vons hand under his long sleeve shirt, exposing the skeleton as the flames pass. The cop's eyes widen as he witnesses the facial transformation, the skin on Von’s face falls off the bone. The surrounding shakes as horns grow from his forehead, The cop cries in fear as Von laughs. Von is so overjoyed as he pulls him down into the abyss. The scene zooms out of the eye of the young black man, Ed’s final moments as he neither lays nor stands surrounded by fire.
VON
ED?
SETTING: SIDE WALK OF 76th & MORGAN
Ed wakes up standing in front of Von.
ED
So this is hell?
VON
(Haha) nah man you get something different... you can face judgement or come with me and I will protect you...
Von extends his hand to Ed, Ed pauses for a second before taking an offer beyond God and his love. A red light shines through they’re handshake and then Ed is absorbed into Von, then walks down the street. Von’s eyes are black then turn back then walks out of view.
SETTING: MELON HIGH SCHOOL
Von sits at the teacher’s desk in front of a class of all black students. He says nothing then stands up and walks to the board. A young man named Virgil, looks exhausted and tired as if he played too many games on a school night. Von is writing on the board in long strokes, the class begins to whisper to each other out of concern for their teacher. Von drops the chalk on the floor. Then looks up and reads the board. “YOU LIAR”
STUDENT1
Who lied to you?
VIRGIL
More like who did you lie to? I don’t think it would bother you too much if it came out like that.
The class commends him for his bold statement.
VON
Well said Mr. Birds, you can wipe down the board since you got THE LOWEST GRADE IN THE CLASS.
Classroom starts to laugh at Virgil.
VON
SHUT UP! Everyone still failed.
The classroom goes silent then the bell rings everyone rushes out the door.
VON
Mr. Birds...
Von gestures to Virgil to sit at the front desk.
VON
I know what you were doing the other night and I know who you are.
Virgil is stunned by what he’s hearing.
VIRGIL
And what is it...
Von lifts up a phone as the view from the right side of his shoulder, a clip plays as the view drifts to his left shoulder.
VIRGIL
You were there?
VON
Yea I was there too.
VIRGIL
WHAT!
VON
You were just getting there but I had been there for months. I wasn’t able to speak to you, because my abilities are connected to my voice so they muzzled me. I’m not even holding a phone right now I’m just altering the atoms like a code.
At Virgils left shoulder the phone has disappeared.
VIRGIL
How? You have been a role model for me since ninth grade?
VON
Well easy I don’t know who that person was, but he sounds like a nice guy.
VIRGIL
You didn’t kill him did you?
VON
No, I just convinced him to give up teaching and follow his dream of being a gospel yodeler and he’s famous at least in his mind.
VIRGIL
Well, what do you want? Why are you following me?
VON
It’s more about the night we all escaped, what that sick scientist said to you.
Virgil flashes back to that night, that changed everything for him and everyone.
END?
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