| Christyalda's silly Festival D'Amour Prediction. (Esmeralda, Phoebus, and Madellaine waiting in line for the festival.) Madellaine: How does this go again? Esmeralda: You step up, shout your true love's name, and step down. Madellaine: (nervously) I hope I get it right. Step down, shout, step up. No, it's.. (Meanwhile Clopin addresses the people.) Clopin: Come one, come all, to the annual Festival D'Amour, where love might be in the air, but we can't tell because the bells are too loud! To shout your true love's name, please take a number! (Several couples rush over to him and fight over the numbers. Eventually, Esmeralda and Phoebus approach him.) Clopin: Ah, the famous mismatched couple! Here's your number! And please do everyone a favor this year by keeping the goat on the leash! Next! (Madellaine approaches him.) Madellaine: I need a number. Clopin: Where's your partner? Madellaine: My true love is busy ringing the bell for the other couples. Give me a number! Clopin: You expect me to buy that??? Hey, aren't you the circus girl who helped steal the bell!???? Madellaine: Look, I was forced to do it! And I helped you get it back, didn't I?? Clopin: I know what you're up to! You want to steal the bell agian, don't you??? Madellaine: NO!!! I mean it!!!! Ask the bellringer and he'll tell you we're a couple!!!!! Clopin: Okay, but he'd better be here for your turn or else!!!! (Madellaine takes her number and joins Phoebus and Esmeralda. Soon Clopin addresses the people again.) Clopin: Couple Number One, please step up to the stage! Esmeralda: (to Phoebus) What number do we have? Phoebus: We have Number 3,460. Clopin: Couple Number One! Last call for Couple Number One! Esmeralda: This could take a while..... (Six hours later.....) Clopin: Couple Number 3,460!!! (Esmeralda wearily glances at her number and realizes it's the one.) Esmeralda: Hey Phoebus, wake up! It's our turn! Phoebus: (half-asleep) Just five more minutes... Esmeralda: (shaking him) Come on! We need to perform the annual ritual of shouting each other's names!!!!!! Phoebus: (sarcasticly) Oh, I wouldn't have wanted to miss that! (They run up to the stage.) Clopin: Last call for Couple Number 3,460!!! Esmeralda: (out of breath) Here we are!!!! Clopin: Wonderful!!!! (shouting up to the tower) Okay Quasi, you know what to do!!!! (The bell clangs from above.) Phoebus: ESMERALDA!!!!!!!!! Esmeralda: FEEBLE!!!!!! Uh, I mean, PHOEBUS!!!!!!! Clopin: Okay, you may step down. (They step down.) Phoebus: "Feeble"????? Esmeralda: Hey, it was just a silly mistake. You don't think I'd do that on purpose, do you? Phoebus: I'm not sure.... Esmeralda: Well anyway, let's make sure we're out of town for this stupid festival next year. Now...where's Zephyr? Phoebus: I thought you were watching him! Esmeralda: No, you were supposed to watch him! Phoebus: No, you were supposed to watch him!!! Esmeralda: You were supposed to watch him!!!! Phoebus: You were supposed to watch him!!!! Esmeralda: You were supposed to watch him!! Take that!!!! (tackles Phoebus) (Meanwhile, Clopin continues with the festival.) Clopin: Couple Number 3,461!!!! (Esmeralda and Phoebus wrestle past Madellaine.) Esmeralda: (holding Phoebus's leg with one hand and shaking Madellaine with the other) Hey, wake up! That's your number! Okay Phoebus, I'll show you how to watch Zephyr... Madellaine: (sleepily) Wha? Oh! The festival! I'm #3,461!!!! (runs up to the stage) Clopin: Last call for Couple Number 3,461!!! Madellaine: Here I am!! Clopin: Where's your partner? Madellaine: (glancing around) Uh...he should be here. Clopin: I KNEW you were up to no good! Madellaine: No! Listen, go to Notre Dame and get the bellringer up here!!! Clopin: All right, but if I hear otherwise, you're gonna be shouting "OUCH" as the bell clangs!!! (He runs up to Notre Dame, where Quasimodo is preparing to ring the bell.) Quasi: 3,460 rings in one day! I need a new line of work... Clopin: (out of breath) Quasi!!!! Get down there!!! It's time for Couple Number 3,461!!!!! Quasi: Yeah, so? Clopin: That's Madellaine's number!! Is she telling the truth about you guys being sweethearts?? Quasi: Why..yes. Once she even left a lipstick print on me!! Clopin: Oh, how romantic. Quasi: Well anyway, how am I supposed to get down there to shout her name?? I have to ring the bell up here! Clopin: Well you figure something out. I have to lead the festival! (exits) (Quasimodo ponders franticly for a few seconds, then gets an idea. He ties the bell's rope around his waist and jumps off the tower.) Quasi: GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! (Meanwhile...) Madellaine: (pacing around on the stage) Where are you, Quasi? We're gonna get thrown out soon! (Quasimodo comes flying down from above, stops a few inches above Madellaine, then gets flung back in the tower, bungee-jump style.) Quasi: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Clopin: You may proceed. Madellaine: Er....QUASIMODO!!!!!! (Quasimodo comes bouncing up and down like a yo-yo.) Quasi: (between bounces) MAD....MADELLL......MADE.....M-MA.....MADELLAI......MAD......MADELLL.......MAAAADDDD..... (By now Clopin has had quite enough. He climbs up a pole and cuts Quasimodo's rope as he comes flying down, sending him tumbling onto the stage.) Quasi: (completely exhausted) MADELLAINE!!!!!!!!!! Clopin: All right, you may step down. (They step down.) Madellaine: (glaring at Quasi) How amusing. Quasi: (panting) Well....at least that's over with... Clopin: Quasi??? What are you doing down here??? You're supposed to be ringing the bell for Couple Number 3,462!!!!! Quasi: AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (faints) Madellaine: You know, maybe I should've just taken the bell. Back to Random Creative Works Back to Index |