Santiago is going into the sixth grade and started writing when he was six. He doesn't care what form he writes in he just really likes to write fiction.
“MAXIE
How have you been doing Grandfather?
TRITON
Good. Ever since you trapped that troublemaker Alkemite and stuck him in that ring of yours and put it in the Museum for safekeeping.”
MAXIE: 25. Wants solitude and feels content.
ALKEMITE: 23. Wants fame and is feeling greedy. ALKEMITE and MAXIE are polar opposites yet they are brother and sister.
TRITON: 73
COUNT DUKE: 45
Scene 1
They are in a suburb of Europe in woodlands. The year is 2019. ALKEMITE is counting his money. MAXIE is reading.
ALKEMITE
Yessssss, more money sister.
MAXIE (grunting)
More problems for you brother.
ALKEMITE
Just give me that orange ring and I’m fine.
MAXIE
This is bad.
ALKEMITE
I want more money more than everybody else.
MAXIE (under her breath)
I have to trap him so that his spirit can be stuck in the ring forever. My brother drives me crazy.
ALKEMITE
Money and party.
MAXIE
Hey Alkemite! I just saw a million dollar ship right on our back lawn.
ALKEMITE (shouting)
Wow dollars, jackpot, I hit gold!
MAXIE (to the audience)
I rigged the ship. Once he touches it, it will explode.
ALKEMITE
Money, money, money! But wait I should see if it is rigged first
ALKEMITE taps it
ALKEMITE
Booooooooooom!
MAXIE
I got him! Wait he’s coming out. (sighs) This is so embarrassing.
ALKEMITE
Defeating me is harder than it looks M-girl.
MAXIE
Don’t call me that you greed monster!
ALKEMITE
That’s mean but you are right, that’s what I am.
MAXIE
I will have to beat you the hard way.
ALKEMITE
OUCH! SNAP! CRACK! ZOK! POW! YEOW!
MAXIE
Grrrrr.
ALKEMITE
Ahhhhh……..
MAXIE
Finally, but I had to do in even if I don’t want to.
On the floor the orange ring is glowing more than normal for ALKEMITE’s spirit is trapped inside the ring until someone else uses it.
THE END… or is it?
Scene 2: One Year Later
MAXIE is talking to her grandfather outside on the patio over some nice, fresh-squeezed lemonade. The radio is on.
MAXIE
How have you been doing Grandfather?
TRITON
Good. Ever since you trapped that troublemaker Alkemite and stuck him in that ring of yours and put it in the Museum for safekeeping.
MAXIE
I’ve been happy that he is gone. We don’t want him to get out of the ring for he will sell you as a slave.
TRITON
My life has changed tremendously because of you.
An interruption: news on the radio.
RADIO ANNOUNCER
Count Duke has stolen the ring from the Museum of Artifacts!
TRITON
Oh no, Count Duke has stolen the ring from the Museum of Artifacts! That troublemaker robber!
MAXIE
Noooooo, he could use the ring to put my brother in this world. It’s too late, Count Duke has already stolen the ring.
COUNT DUKE enters.
TRITON and MAXIE
Oh no!
COUNT DUKE
Oh yes!
MAXIE
Why did you steal the ring?
COUNT DUKE
Yes, the orange ring. I’ve heard about you and your curse, Alkemite. I stole the ring because I want these amazing powers. I can test it out on my first victim, you!
(beat)
Rise!
The energy fills his body when he slides the ring on and he turns into ALKEMITE.
ALKEMITE
(to himself) Thank you Duke! I can now get revenge on Maxie for putting me in this cursed place.
MAXIE
We have to leave now!
TRITON
Now now, don’t rush your elders, child. I’m only forty-eight years older than you and my reflexes are slow.
MAXIE
Please hurry up so we don’t get…
ALKEMITE
Get what caught?
MAXIE
Don’t make any sudden moves before he decides to blasts us to cinders and Julius Caesar coins.
ALKEMITE
Oh let’s do that, no? That’s more money for me!
TRITON
Maxie, run. Ahhhh…
Clink clink! TRITON transforms into a coin.
MAXIE
Noooo!
TRITON (muffled)
I’m a coin.
ALKEMITE
Let’s scoop up this Triton coin and sell it.
MAXIE
Please don’t.
ALKEMITE
Sorry Miss, nothing personal, just a crazy obsession with money.
MAXIE
Please don’t sell him.
ALKEMITE
I don’t listen to reason. I lack control.
MAXIE
I’ll get you yet, you greedy greedy brother.
ALKEMITE
If you don’t stop me, I will turn the whole world into a massive coin.
MAXIE
No one will want to turn into a coin.
ALKEMITE
I will succeed where my ancestor Midas failed.
MAXIE
Brother Alkemite, the world will not like your choices.
ALKEMITE
I will make them like my choices.
MAXIE
Don’t leave!
ALKEMITE
I have every right to.
ALKEMITE exits.
MAXIE
Why was I so soft? Why?!
Scene 3
540 miles away in Siberia.
ALKEMITE
With my Gold gun I can turn the whole world into a giant coin!
Scene 4
Back in Europe in suburbs.
MAXIE
I must stop him now but Siberia is far away.
MAXIE looks to a gold jet.
Alkermite
Huh I hear something what is that?
MAXIE
It’s me, I’m here.
ALKEMITE
How?
MAXIE
The jet.
ALKEMITE
I’ll just finish you myself.
MAXIE
I will not let you turn this world to gold.
ALKEMITE
I shall succeed for GREED IS KEY.
MAXIE
Even Midas, as possessed as he was, would not do what you have done.
ALKEMITE
You’re right, we should fight for the world. If I win, I get to turn the world to gold. If I lose the world is saved, okay?
MAXIE
Yes okay.
ALKEMITE (firing the beam)
Coming in like hot dollars
Sound effect: clink, clink.
MAXIE (to herself)
I have to expose him!
ALKEMITE
Nuh uh, I don’t think so
The beam intensifies.
MAXIE
Aahhh my arm has been turned into solid gold!
ALKEMITE
Ha ha ha ha!
MAXIE (to herself)
I must reflect his beam at him using my gold arm!
ALKEMITE
Ha ha ha… wait who turned on the lights?! Auggggghhh.
MAXIE
It is done! But wait, why do I still have my arm?
ALKEMITE
Because I am still alive.
MAXIE
You’re going down.
ALKEMITE
Wait I am not possessed by greed anymore.
MAXIE
Are you sure?
ALKEMITE
Test me.
MAXIE puts a coin in front of ALKEMITE and he resists.
MAXIE
Wow, you have changed.
ALKEMITE
I’ll fix Triton.
ALKEMITE fires the beam and Triton turns back into a human.
TRITON
Thanks, my boy.
MAXIE
Triton!
TRITON
I would not be here if it wasn’t for you, Alkemite.
ALKEMITE
Any time, but now it’s time to party!
MAXIE
Not now.
TRITON
Let the lad have his fun. The world is already normal.
ALKEMITE
Come on guys!
MAXIE
The world will need help but for now let’s have some fun.
THE END
1 Comment
Excellent creativity and imagination! Thoroughly enjoyed reading “The One Ring”.