Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Escaflowne Performs MACBETH ❯ Act One ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Allen Schezar...Macbeth (the tragic hero with ambition to become king)
Princess Millerna...Lady Macbeth (his at-first ruthless, ambitious wife)
Dilandau Albatou...Macduff (a Scottish noble who is very loyal to his king)
Princess Eires...Lady Macduff (his wife)
Isaac Dornkirk...King Duncan (the king of Scotland, who seems to have lost his touch to rule...)
Van Fanel...Donalbain (the king's younger son)
Folken...Malcom (the king's eldest son)
Gaddess...Banquo (Macbeth's best friend, and a soldier)
Prince Chid...Fleance (Banquo's son)
Hitomi Kanzaki...the witches (The Three Fates, who have a knack for eerie predictions)
Merle...the gentlewoman (just...a gentlewoman with a short part)
Chesta...Lennox (This guy and the next four down are random Scottish nobles, also called thanes)
Gatti...Caithness
Dalet...Ross
Migel...Menteith
Gui mel...Angus
Zaibach Army...Malcom's Army

SCENE ONE OF ESCAFLOWNE PREFORMS MACBETH by Feye Morgan

**Feye is backstage with the Esca cast, adjusting their costumes and making sure they know their parts**

Feye: Good, good. You look great Van. Nice, Dilandau, but get rid of the spikes... Folken, perfect, of course. A...ALLEN?!? Allen, -why- does your costume have lace and poufs on it?

Allen: They attacked me and latched onto my costume with jaws of death.

Feye: -_-

**Feye downs two maximum strength tylenol**

Feye: Aaaaalllllright! Hitomi, you're on first. You ready?

**Hitomi's eyes dart back and forth, searching for an excuse NOT to play the witches**

Hitomi: But, but, but there's only one of me! How can I play -three- witches?

Feye: Easy. You are the first witch. Your pendant is the second. Your tarot card deck is the third.

Hitomi *sputtering*: B-but they can't talk!!!!!

Pendant: Of course we can.

**The tarot cards nod sagely**

Hitomi: O.O

Feye: Well, that settles that. Off you go Hitomi! **Feye shoves Hitomi onto the stage. The effects crew simulates thunder and lightning**

Hitomi: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Pendant: When the hurly-burly's done
When the battle's lost or won.

Tarot: That will be ere set of sun.

Dilandau (offstage): Oooo...war...destruction...FIRE...

Feye *hissing*: Shaddap Dil.

Hitomi: Where the place?

Pendant: Upon the heath.

Tarot: There to meet with Allen Schezar.

Allen (offstage): Aren't they supposed to say 'Macbeth'?

Feye: We're subbing in your names. Makes it less confusing.

Allen *confused*: Oh.

**Hitomi cups her ear with her hand, as if someone was calling her**

Hitomi: I come, Greymalkin.

Pendant: Paddock calls.

Tarot: Anon.

Hitomi, Pendant, Tarot: Fair is foul and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

**A beam of light shoots down, picking the three up and depositing them backstage**

Feye *staring at the beam of light*: Ooookaaayyy...-that- was weird...

**Feye grabs a videoscreen and shoves it in Van's hands. The face of Dornkirk appears**

Van: ACK!!! **Van shoves the videoscreen at Folken, who accepts it much more willingly**

Feye: Go! You guys are on!

**Folken (carrying the screen showing Dornkirk), Van, Chesta, and other attendants enter to meet with a bleeding Captain**

Dornkirk: What bloody man is that? *Looking at the captain* He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt the newest state.

**Our focus turns backstage**

Feye: Wow. They're doing really good.

Dilandau: Of course they are! Lord Dornkirk is the greatest-

Eires: Old outdated fleabag. We know.

**Dilandau seeths**

Feye: His laws of motion -are- driving me crazy. *develops a malevolent aura*

Hitomi: Laws of Motion?

Feye: Isaac Newton Dornkirk.

**Hitomi sweatdrops**

**They pay attention to the play once again. The Captain has finished describing Allen's prowess in battle. The Captain leaves the stage, and Dalet and Guimel enter**

Dornkirk: Who comes here?

Folken: The worthy thane of Ross.

Dalet: God save the king.

Dornkirk: Wha-? Do we believe in God?

Feye: DORNKIRK! **Feye's ears smoke**

Dornkirk: Oh...hem...Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane?

**Dalet describes how the war was won, and informs Dornkirk that the traitor, the Thane of Cawdor, has been captured**

Dornkirk: No more that Thane of Cawdor shall decieve
Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Schezar.

**Everyone exits the stage**

Feye: Perfect, with one exception...**Feye's hands twitch as she sends a look full of daggers at the videoscreen**

Dilandau: Can I torch the Thane of Cawdor with my flamethrower?

Feye: The Thane's death isn't shown. It's only told of.

Dilandau: I can do it offstage! *eyes alight*

Feye: O.o NO!!!!

Dilandau: Awwww. *pouts*

Feye: Hitomi, you're on.

**Hitomi enters the stage. She, the pendant, and the tarot cards converse about the wicked things they have done**

Dilandau: I won't burn anything else!

Feye: DILANDAU! YOU ARE NOT TORCHING ANY ACTORS!!!!!

Dilandau: ...

**Allen and Gaddess are peering through the curtains at the stage, as they are next to go on. Suddenly they double over in silent laughter. Curious, the rest tip-toe out over and peer out**

Feye: Oh...my...

**Hitomi is clutching the tarot deck in one hand and her pendant in the other, and is spinning around at top speed, shouting her lines**

Hitomi, Pendant, Tarot: The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the Sea and Land...

**Allen and Gaddess walk on the stage, pretending, for the moment, not to see Hitomi and Company**

Allen: So fair and foul a day I have not seen

Gaddess *noticing Hitomi & Co.*: What are these, so withered and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth-

Hitomi *furious*: I am NOT withered, and I'm more an inhabitant of the earth than you are!!

Feye: HITOMI! Chill -out-! It's just a play!

Hitomi: ...

**Allen shuffles nervously, and tries to get the show moving again**

Allen: Speak if you can. What are you?

**This only succeeds in making Hitomi even angrier**

Feye. Hitomi. Say. Your. Lines. Now.

Hitomi *voice dripping with sarcasm*: All hail, Allen! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!

Pendant: All hail, Allen! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!

Tarot: All hail, Allen, that shall be king hereafter!

Allen (remebering the end of the play): Can you -never- predict good news?

Hitomi & Co.: Die.

Allen: I plan to.

Gaddess: To me you speak not.
If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain with grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg not fear
Your favours nor your hate.

Hitomi: You've got my hate already, bucko.

Dilandau *shouting from offstage*: HEY HITOMI! WANNA BORROW MY FLAMETHROWER?

Feye: -_-

Hitomi: Hail!

Pendant: Hail!

Tarot: Hail!

**Allen looks nervously at the sky**

Allen: Hail?!? Oh dear! My hair will be ruined!

Dilandau *shouting from offstage again*: Not -that- hail, numbskull!

Tarot: Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
So all hail, Allen and Gaddess.

**Hitomi & Co. storm offstage, too angry to beam off**

Allen: Hey, wait! Come back and predict more stuff!

**Hitomi shouts something VERY unladylike back**

Feye: O.O

Dilandau: Wow. Where'd she hear -those- words?

Merle: As if you don't know.

**Dilandau smirks**

Dilandau: What of it?

**Feye shakes her head and goes back to watching the play. Dalet has just appeared to tell Allen that he has become the Thane of Cawdor**

Gaddess: What, can the Devil speak true?

Hitomi *storming back onstage*: ALRIGHT! THAT DOES IT! **Hitomi tackles Gaddess and proceeds to beat the snot out of him**

Feye: CUT! CUUUTTTTT!!!!

**The curtain drops. Sound of bloody vicious battle are heard from inside. Feye slips out and stands in front**

Feye: Allen begins to show an unhealthy ambition for the kingship-

Dilandau: THAT'S -MY- TIARA, PRETTYBOY!!

Feye: --Meanwhile, Dornkirk is asking Folken how Cawdor's execution went. The king sadly remarks that he trusted Cawdor with an absolute trust.

Hitomi: OUCH MERLE! THOSE CLAWS -HURT-!!!

Feye: Ironically, Allen chooses that moment to enter the stage, along with Gaddess, Dalet, and Guimel.

Dilandau: FIIIIRRREEEE! MOEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Feye: Dornkirk announces his successor to be his eldest son, Folken (which, in those days was actually unusual). This makes Allen angry-

Allen: Stars, (ouch), hide *cough* your fires! Let not (hey, that's my HAIR!) light see my *ouf* black and *choke* deep desires!

Feye: There we go. Now we turn to scene 5, where Princess Millerna has received a letter from Allen, telling of Hitomi & Co.

**The curtain raises to show a very...interesting...scene. Hitomi is standing on Gaddess, hands around his throat, while Merle is practicing her slasher act on Hitomi. The tarot cards are battering Allen to death, and the pendant is wrapped, tightening, around Chesta's throat, who is gasping for Lord Dilandau. Dilandau, meawhile, is...redecorating...with his flamethrower.

Feye: SCENE FIVE!!! *Glowers death and destruction at the group*

**The stage quickly empties, and Millerna strutts out, holding a piece of paper. With a flourish of her hand, she begins to read**

Millerna: They met me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfect'st report they have more in them than mortal knowledge, though none so beautiful as you, my lovely, luscious-

Feye: THAT'S NOT IN THE PLAY!

Millerna: Well it's -true-!

Van: Well...actually...

Millerna: Drop dead, Van. **Millerna finishes the letter** Wow. Thane of Cawdor! And future king?! Yaayyyy! We get to kill the king!!!

**Allen enters**

Millerna: Honey sweetie pie!! *Launches herself at Allen, who, again, dodges*

Millerna: NOT ANOTHER NAIL!

**Feye taps her foot impatiently**

Allen: My, uh, dearest *wince* love *gag*, Duncan comes here tonight.

Millerna: Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
Look like th' innocent flower,
But be th' serpent under't.

Allen: We will speak further.

**They leave. Dornkirk in a videoscreen, Folken, Van, Gaddess, Chesta, Dilandau, Dalet, Guimel, and Attendants enter for scene 6.

Dornkirk: This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air
Nimbly and gently recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.

Gaddess: Too bad you're gonna die here.

Dornkirk: What?

Gaddess: Nothing.

**Millerna enters**

Dornkirk: Ah, our honoured hostess! But, where is Allen?

Millerna: Around.

Dornkirk: Give me your hand.

Millerna: But you're a videoscreen.

Dornkirk *somewhat testily*: Conduct me to mine host.

**They exit. Allen enters for Scene Seven. He begins a long confusing speech, which Feye has kindly offered to paraphrase**

Feye: Should I kill Dornkirk? This -is- the perfect opportunity. But I'm his host, and his subject. I really shouldn't. But I -do- want to be king...

Allen: I have no spur to prick the sides of mine intent!

**Millerna enters. How ironic**

Allen: I'm not going to kill Dornkirk.

Millerna: Wimpy wussy boy.

Allen: Prithee, peace! I dare do all that may become a man.
Who dares do more is none.

Millerna: Wimpy promise-breaking wussy boy. I'd kill my own kid to be Queen.

All: O.O

Allen: What if we fail?

Millerna: We won't. I'm too smart and beautiful and hot. Who'd think -we- did it?

Dilandau: You aren't-

Millerna: Shut -up- Dilandau.

Allen: OK. Let's kill him.

**They exit. End Act One**

Feye: Hope you all liked it!! Hopefully MACBETH has come to light an understanding...or not. Don't forget to REVIEW!!!! I accept anonymous ones, so all you have to do is press that little button, and you instantly feed a poor little authoress!