ACT II
EXT. CAPE KENNETH CEMETERY
Liv is walking through the graveyard. She's
talking into her cell/pda.
LIV
Squirrel to Natasha. Come in Natasha.
Liv only gets static.
LIV
Maya... come on. Talk to me.
INT. XANDER'S FIRE HOUSE - MAIN ROOM
Maya's cell lays on a desktop, it is turned off.
PAN TO:
Pongo standing in front of Maya. Behind Maya is a
large stack of books sitting on the main work
table. Pongo is very agitated.
MAYA
Okay Pongo... Listen carefully...
PONGO
Outlook not good...
Maya holds up the diagrams in one hand for Pongo
to see.
MAYA
Somewhere in these books is the
information regarding these two
diagrams.
PONGO
Signs point to yes.
Maya puts down the diagrams and holds up the
remote control.
MAYA
The OC is on in ten minutes. If you want
to watch the show, you better bring me
the right books.
Pongo freaks out and dives into the stack of
books. Volumes of books fly everywhere as Maya
sits down and smirks.
MAYA
Search engines are for wusses.
INT. HOSPITAL BASEMENT
Lucy, Xander, Audrey and Jordy exit the elevator.
Jordy is fiddling with his cell.
LUCY
I don't think that's going to work down
here Jordy...
Lucy motions to a fallout shelter sign.
LUCY
If radiation can't get through, I doubt
a cell signal will.
XANDER
Don't worry about her Jordy. She'll come
around.
AUDREY
That's probably when she'll dump your
ass.
Jordy cocks an eyebrow at Audrey.
JORDY
You think so?
AUDREY
Drink the kool-aid Jordy. You dissed her
and you're a total emo. I mean she would
be a total 'leet if it wasn't for you
dragging her down to the levels of the
pippins.
Jordy rolls his eyes at Audrey.
JORDY
Audrey, is it true you have to have a
lobotomy to be on the A squad?
AUDREY
lobota-what?
XANDER
Did you understand any of that?
LUCY
There was something about Jim Jones a
lobotomy and being dissed, but the rest
is a blur.
XANDER
Great. I'm officially old now.
LUCY
Tell me about it.
INT. XANDER'S FIREHOUSE - MAIN ROOM
Pongo races up to Maya and drops a stack of books
in front of her. Maya smiles and hands over the
remote.
MAYA
Thank you Pongo.
Maya takes a long look at the stack of books and
sighs.
MAYA
Time to embrace the inner geek.
As Maya opens her first book...
EXT. CAPE KENNETH CEMETERY
Three vampires charge at Liv. Liv does a spinning
kick, knocking a vampire against the wall. She
stakes the second vampire; blocks a two punch
combo from the third vampire; ducks under the
vampire's scissor kick and stakes him. The
remaining vampire tries to make a break for it,
but Liv throws him up against a large gravestone.
LIV
Uh-uh. I left you alive for a reason.
VAMPIRE
Technically I'm undead.
LIV
Oh... A smart ass.
Liv slams a stake into the vampire.
VAMPIRE
Oww!
The vampire looks around. He doesn't turn to dust.
VAMPIRE
You missed.
LIV
No I didn't.
Liv twists the stake. The vampire howls some more.
LIV
I need to ask you some questions...
JORDY
(VO)
Look familiar?
INT. MORGUE
Lucy is keeping lookout on the door. Jordy and
Xander has pulled out one of the corpse drawers
and unzipped the body bag revealing the dead young
man from Africa. Audrey is a little freaked out
and is hugging herself.
XANDER
Maybe if I saw his aura before. Audrey?
This is where you come in.
AUDREY
(scared)
He's... He's already talking to me.
Audrey takes a few steps closer.
JORDY
What's he saying?
AUDREY
That he was sent by his Iqghira,
T'Challa.
XANDER
He's from Nigeria.
AUDREY
Yes. He's come to warn you of an enemy
you have faced together.
JORDY
How many were there?
XANDER
About two or three.
JORDY
Oh. Then it shouldn't be hard to...
XANDER
(sighs)
...dozen.
JORDY
(Realization)
Oooooh.
XANDER
Can he tell us who?
AUDREY
One who cannot be named.
JORDY
Great. We're fighting Voldemort.
Audrey looks at the dead body with confusion.
AUDREY
Okay. Now he's laughing. He says to say
its name is to invite its presence.
XANDER
Figures.
AUDREY
The Ighira called him the pretender and
had powers over the dead. He could grant
these powers to any of his followers.
XANDER
What kind of powers?
INT. VIZIER'S SANCTUM
A figure is cloaked and hooded in a dark robe. It
sits inside a circle of lit candles.
CLOAKED FIGURE
Pro trucido quisnam ingredior amoung
silenti etc, exsisto existo ex vestri
tumbus.
EXT. CAPE KENNETH CEMETERY
Liv is still "questioning" the vampire. She's
twisting the stake again.
VAMPIRE
Oooooww! I'm telling you the truth.
A vampire bursts through the ground behind Liv.
LIV
I believe you.
The new vampire heads toward Liv. The vampire sees
it coming and tries to distract Liv.
VAMPIRE
Does that mean you'll let me go?
LIV
I don't think so.
Liv pulls the stake out and then stakes the
vampire in the heart, dusting him.
LIV
Not with your buddy coming up behind...
Liv turns around and stabs the new vampire square
in the heart.
LIV
ME!
Liv pulls the stake back and waits for the results
which are.... nothing. Hmm.. Guess it really
wasn't a vampire now was it?
LIV
What the...?
The "thing" backhands Liv and sends her flying
across the graveyard. Liv looks up and takes a
good look-see at the thing that just hit her. It
stumbles forward mindlessly and its eyes are
completely white.
LIV
Oh, crap.
INT. MORGUE
Audrey is now closer to the dead body. She's very uncomfortable
and nervous.
AUDREY
Its followers are called the abatha...
abatha-something.
XANDER
Abathakathi.
AUDREY
Yes.
JORDY
What's that?
XANDER
African equivalent of a witch.
JORDY
Like Willow?
XANDER
Definitely not like Willow. What kind of
powers does it grant?
AUDREY
It allows that abathi-things to create
izi-.... I can't pronounce it.
XANDER
Slowly..
AUDREY
Izi-thun-zela.
JORDY
What's that?
Xander shakes his head.
XANDER
I've never heard of them.
INT. XANDER'S FIREHOUSE - MAIN ROOM
Maya is looking at a book showing the image Xander
was having in his vision.
MAYA
(reading aloud)
The Izithunzela are spirits of evil
souls bound to the bodies of the
recently departed by the darkest of
magics.
INT. VIZIER'S SANCTUM
The cloaked figure chants again
CLOAKED FIGURE
Pro auditor of silenti etc, exsisto
existo ex vestri somnus quod tentatio
INT. MORGUE
LUCY
Someone's coming!
Xander and Jordy zip up the body bag and are
trying to push the drawer in.
LUCY
Hurry up!
JORDY
It's stuck.
AUDREY
Oh god. Are we going...
Detective Muldoon walks through the door and
everyone freezes.
MULDOON
What the hell is going on here?
XANDER
Well... ah... the truth is my cousin...
Xander puts his hand on Jordy's shoulder
XANDER
..visited me for a couple of months when
I was in Africa...
The body bag behind Jordy, Audrey and Xander
suddenly sits up.
LUCY
Uh... Xander?
XANDER
...and I thought he might be able to
identify the body....
Muldoon's eyes pop out of his head. Lucy steps
back to the door.
LUCY
Xander?
The bag rips open and the young man is now
sporting the same white eyes as the izithunzela
that attacked Liv. Xander, Jordy and Audrey turn
to look around as the zombie-like creature leaps
at Audrey and throws her to the ground. It jumps
on top of her and begins to strangle her.
INT. VIZIER'S SANCTUM
A cloaked and hooded figure sits in a circle of
lit candles.
CLOAKED FIGURE
Qui have obduco in. Ex vestri tumbus
exsisto existo quod ingredior. pareo
meus to order.
Five animated bodies with the white eyes pop out
of the ground and stand at attention. The cloaked
figure rises.
CLOAKED FIGURE
Follow me.
EXT. CEMETERY
Liv charges the Izithunzela. She jumps into the
air and hits it with a flying kick. The monster
falls back some but continues after Liv. Liv follows
up with three solid punches to the head. The
izithunzela backhands Liv and knocks her to the
ground. Liv falls hard. She rolls back away from
the monster and pulls out her battle axe.
LIV
All right. If you're a zombie, let's see
how well you do without your...
Liv swings and decapitates the izithunzela.
LIV
(smiles)
... head.
The body stands there for a moment and then
punches Liv, sending her flying into a grave
stone. Liv groans as she pulls herself up.
LIV
(in pain)
Apparently it does pretty well.
INT. XANDER'S FIREHOUSE - MAIN ROOM
MAYA
(reading aloud)
The izithunzela are impervious to damage
except from weapons forged in iron or
have been blessed by a holy man. Even
then a strike peircing the head or heart
is the only action that will permanently
destroy the izithunzela.
INT. MORGUE
Jordy wolfs out and tackles the izithunzela,
knocking it off of Audrey. Xander grabs Audrey and
pushes her back to the end of the room.
The izithunzela throws Jordy off, bouncing him off
a wall.
XANDER
Lucy! The bag!
Lucy takes off the satchel she's carrying and
throws it to Xander. Detective Muldoon comes to
his senses and pulls his gun.
POLICE OFFICER
Freeze! Nobody move!
XANDER
Detective...
POLICE OFFICER
I said don't move.
The izithunzela plods forward toward Audrey.
Muldoon points his gun at the creature.
MULDOON
I said... don't move.
The creature moves forward. Muldoon starts
emptying his clip into the monster, while also
moving forward. The monster jolts with each bullet fired,
but by the time Muldoon has emptied his clip, the
izithunzela has already grabbed his throat.
MULDOON
Holy sh-
The Izithunzela snaps Muldoon's neck.
INT. XANDER'S FIREHOUSE - MAIN ROOM
MAYA
Once a Izithunzela has killed, its
victim is immediately turned into one of
its own... Oh man. These things suck.
Maya picks up her cell and turns it on.
MAYA
Natasha to Moose and Squirrel.
INT. MORGUE
Static bursts from Xander's cell on his belt as
Jordy charges the izithunzela and throws it off
the body of Detective Muldoon. As Jordy battles
the Izithunzela, Lucy tries to get to Muldoon.
Xander stops her and pulls a sword out of the bag.
LUCY
Xander! He's hurt.
XANDER
No. He's dead.
Audrey grows pale and points at Muldoon's body.
AUDREY
And it's about to get worse.
Muldoon rises. His eyes are now pearly white.
LUCY
Holy crap!
XANDER
Jordy! Let's get out of here!
EXT. CEMETERY
Liv flies through the air and lands on a ground.
She jumps up and charges the headless izithunzela.
Behind her is a crushed cell/pda.
INT. XANDER'S FIREHOUSE - MAIN ROOM
MAYA
(on cell)
Guys? Anyone? Can you hear me?
No response. Maya is filled with dread.
MAYA
Okay. This is not good.
EXT. XANDER'S FIREHOUSE
The cloaked figure approaches Xander's house,
followed by five of the zombie like creatures. It
looks like an empty lot. The cloaked figure shakes
it's head and grunts.
CLOAKED FIGURE
Oh, Willow... You should know better.
The cloaked figure waves its arms around. Xander's
Firehouse shimmers into view.
CLOAKED FIGURE
If there is anyone who can recognize a
good glamour spell...
The figure pulls back its hood revealing..
AMY
It would be me.
(to the zombie creatures)
Attack the house.
END ACT II
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