Conflictions
Setting: In another galaxy in another world, on the School of Light cruise ship, Zener’s classroom, 15th floor
Time: Lunchtime: 24:00
Characters:
Keala: a cold and stubborn 13 year old girl who prefers to do things alone and keep to herself. New to the magical world and going to school in general, she accidently let loose some of the most dangerous spells into the world. Archimágistros Zener is her dueling teacher.
Zener: a 15-year-old boy who follows the rules, fears the world, and a descendent of Lux. Prodigy of magic and heir to the throne of Light while being so young, he tries to best to be a professional. Like such, he has lots of pressures with these circumstances and has a scarring past that leaves him a tad haunted to this day. He’s the dueling teacher of Keala, a child he recommended to be taught at the school of light and is raised by O’Riley.
O’Riley: a 250 year old man with lots of wisdom and patience. As one of the oldest members in their world and one who has knowledge of the world’s ‘dark times’, he’s regarded with lots of respect. He took in Zener when he lost his uncle and as one of the followers’ of Lux, he is familiar with Zeke. He only met Keala once, and the experience didn’t necessarily benefit him.
Zeke: a flamboyant 18-year-old boy who lived around 200 years ago. He was an orphan raised by Lux, and soon became his apprentice. Later on, Zeke was chosen by Lux to be the guardian of the Grimoire of Darkness. After Keala opened the grimoire, he has been freed from his 200-year battle against the dark spells and has very little knowledge of the present and what’s happened since then. He made a contract with Keala so that she would go and capture all the spells and is interested in her as a person. Being from the past, he’s met Riley but the two don’t really get along.
Scene 1: Conflictions
(O’Riley, Keala, and Zeke are sitting down; O’Riley face’s a little grim, his cane besides him, Keala tensed with her hands tightened in her lap, and Zeke with his legs crossed. Zener is pacing around in front of them and Zeke can’t help but crack a little smile, amused with Zener.)
ZENER: I can’t believe you let those spells out. This is not good- not good at all. If the counsel- oh no…if the counsel finds out,
(O’Riley gets up and walks over to Zener)
you’ll definitely be in jail, Zeke might go to jail for not doing his job well, and I
(beat)
I might-
(O’Riley hits Zener in the shin with his cane and a frown on his face. Zener stops talking and gazes over at O’Riley’s stern eyes.)
O’RILEY: Zener- as the next heir to the throne, get ahold of yourself! I don’t ever want to see you get like that ever again.
(Zener looks down, ashamed as O’Riley looks back at Keala, walking over to her)
And as for you, young lady, don’t you dare think that I’m letting you off the hook on this matter.
KEALA: Off the hook with what? Zeke and I have already made a plan so we don’t even NEED to have this conversation. At the smallest possibility, me and Zeke will handle -
ZENER: Will handle RECAPTURING all those spells my-who knows how many-greats granddad, O’Riley and many others have spent years putting into that book?
(Zener is glaring down at Keala as Keala looks away from him.)
I didn’t think so either.
ZEKE: Your worriness sir! O, your worriness sir!
(Zener’s glare grows as he looks over at Zeke)
ZENER: They don’t speak to people as ‘sirs’ casually anymore, SIR Zeke.”
ZEKE: Well, it is nice to see you being SIRcastic when you are annoyed.
(Zeke laughs at his own joke as everyone else winces.)
Anyways…I helped out too with capturing all those spells, and honestly, it was not THAT long AND it was not that bad-
ZENER: YOU can shut up, you sad excuse for a guardian!
ZEKE: Oh, but you still use ‘yous’ in this century it seems!
(Zeke continues to laugh)
Also, please stop hating me! I fought all of those monsters for YEARS. I am not a sad excuse- I am merely tired!
ZENER: Are you satisfied now? Back onto the main topic here- Keala, they are the worst spells ever in our entire world- you just can’t handle this alone. You’re only a child.
KEALA: You’re a child too! I might not know much about this world but I do know that kids your age aren’t actual teachers, so stop pretending to be an adult! Besides, I can do this and will do this by myself. It’s my responsibility after all, not yours.
(beat)
ZENER: Keala- it doesn’t matter what you think; it’s this WORLD’S responsibility now! Do you know how imbalanced the world will get by this incident? Centuries upon centuries of the council and the past magical leaders’ work that they have put into making the world the way that it is today-
(O’Riley sighed and hit his cane onto the ground)
Will be ruine-
(Zener’s mouth was glued shut)
O’RILEY: Finally, I’m way too old to constantly hear all of that racket.
(O’Riley looks over at Keala)
Look, I get that you should take responsibility for what you’ve done, but this is too big for you to handle. Zener was right about one thing- what will happen if the magic counsel finds out about this? They won’t be lenient about this, and none of you fully get how serious this is because-
(points to Zener)
this is bigger than just the magic counsel,
(points to Keala)
too much for one person to do alone,
(points to Zeke)
and bigger than your jokes can handle. To satisfy what everyone wants, we’ll do it like this: Keala will gather the spells, with Zeke guiding her, while Zener and I make sure the counsel never finds out. We’ll also tell you if we, or I should say I since I know more about them personally, sense any of the spells acting up around the world. Do I make myself clear?
(O’Riley hits his staff on the ground, removing the glue from Zener’s mouth. Beat)
ZENER: It seems like a good plan, and I want to agree to it but she’s-
ZEKE: The little princess here is just as powerful as you are, dear ignorant Zener.
(Zeke smiles at Zener)
Almost even more powerful than you, with the added mana I injected into her. When Keala turns your age, she will definitely be more powerful than you are right now.
KEALA: Really?
ZEKE: Truly so.
(O’Riley coughs and everyone looks at him)
O’RILEY: So then Keala,
(beat)
do we have a deal?
(O’Riley extends his hand to her and she smiles, shaking it.)
KEALA: We got a deal.
