Scene 2.21 - A Curious Dream
EST: INT. Throne room of Tartarus, land of the dead. - Samhein.
MUSIC UP
DISSOLVE TO: A closed, radium-green eyelid, the eye moving swiftly underneath, caught in a REM state. The eye slowly opens.
ZOOM OUT
MS: BOBBY AND PERCY, SEATED.
(PERCY/PERSEPHONE is in full royal regalia. PERCY has a pale, blue-green-white glow about her, and is seated to the right of BOBBY/HADES, who glows a sickly, blue-gray-green. As he awakens from his dream, he realizes that he is at court, and is attended by EPHRAM/ARES [Youthfully radiant and leaning upon a spear while adorned in golden ancient Spartan armor, his sheild across his back], HERMES HARRAH/HERMES [Twirling a small messenger baton in his hand, not a far cry from looking something like the FTD florist], OLD JAKE/YOUNG PROMETHEUS [Holding a lit torch aloft while wearing Greek-looking, golden Speedo Bikini briefs and has a recently-healed scar from where an eagle ripped his liver from his body], BARTENDER/DIONYSUS [Holding a flask of nectar], PANDORA [Holding a quizzical box], SARAH/CEREBUS [Holding a leash and commanding a flesh-eaten war-dog], SHARON/CHARON [Holding a skull-capped gondola staff where the skull has coins lodged in its eye sockets], FESTUS/HAPHESTUS [Holding a blacksmith’s mallet], SEREECE ATHENS/CERES [Holding a cornucopia] and APHRODITE [As herself, holding up well]; all who also have very distinctive auras. All smile as they survey the lowly demons and arch-devils -- formerly the vets, soldiers, morticians, Arabs and motel guests -- who are all giving BOBBY homage, spanning to the horizon of the large expanse of the Underverse. The clan of Gods and Goddesses are all darkly radiant. Their voices and their collective, physical presence supernaturally seethe with limitless power from an undying source. PERCY is sipping nectar from a chalice in her right hand. The moment is perfectly timeless. BOBBY sits up and mounts his skull-capped scepter -- which had been lying limply on his lap -- to its rightful place, attached to the left arm of the throne, clutched by two, opposing, skeletal hands protruding from the throne.)
PERCY
Are you finally awake? You must have been asleep at least a hundred years.
BOBBY
Mmmm. (Stretches -- a really good stretch.) Awake now. I had the strangest dream.
PERCY
(Smiles, coy:) Oh, really? Was I in it?
(PANDORA offers the two Ambrosia. They eat.)
BOBBY
Yes. Yes you were. It was something... We were fighting for our lives-
(BOBBY offers his hand.)
PERCY
(Laughing:) Our lives? Oh darling, you always have the most curious dreams!
(She takes his hand with her left and kisses it, then drinks nectar from her glass in her right hand.)
MUSIC UP
ZOOM OUT
DOLLY
ELS: Tartarus
FREEZE
POSTERIZE
BLACKOUT
RUN END CREDITS VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER TWO