Love and War – Rage
Act 1, Scene 1 (Moresuke Gates)
Canon and Imeda are walking about Moresuke, and while they're walking, a new visitor enters.
Canon: Hello...
Imeda: Hi! What's your name?
Visitor: Hello, my name is Shyaku. I am a reader of the future, and a worker of magics. My specialty is in predicting relationships though.
Imeda: How convenient!
Canon: Hm.
Shyaku (Visitor): You two wouldn't happen to be an item, would you?!
Imeda: Uh... *uncomfortable glance at Canon*
Canon: Of course.
Imeda: *smiles*
Shyaku: If you want, one of you could come by my shop sometime, and receive a prediction.
Canon: You have a shop? You just got here!
Shyaku: It's not actually mine yet, but I can tell it will be. *winks* If you'll excuse me, I must fetch the rest of my crew.
Imeda: There's more of you?!
Shyaku: But of course. *exits*
Scene 2 (Inner Moresuke, Next Day)
Imeda and Canon are walking about once again. They spot Shyaku's shop, with a sign promoting his fortune-telling.
Couple: *comes out happy*
Imeda: We should go in!
Girl: *comes out crying*
Canon: Um, I would prefer we didn't... How about we keep walking.
They continue walking, and Canon spots a girl with a flower, tearing off petals, reciting, “he loves me, he loves me not”.
Canon: What is that girl doing?
Imeda: *glances over* She's trying to find out if a boy likes her! So cute!
Canon: How does it work?
Imeda: She tears off petals, and for each one she says, “he loves me” or “he loves me not”. Which ever one she finishes off on is the truth!
Canon: That's weird...
Imeda: *tosses head back and laughs*
Canon: *sees a necklace which looks like it has a bone hanging from it* What's that?
Imeda: *caresses bone* It's a dragon bone.
Canon: ?
Imeda: They're magic, you know. Fortunetellers use them a lot, and some say that they can guide people through their lives.
Canon: Oh. Thats neat.
Imeda: *laughs again*
Scene 3 (Road)
Witch of Gyuna is traveling to Moresuke in a carriage.
Scene 4 (Moresuke, Same Day)
Imeda: *enters Shyaku's shop*
…
Imeda: *doesn't leave shop*
Act 2, Scene 1 (The Same)
Canon: *searches for Imeda* Odd... she must be out doing... whatever she does when we're not together... *enters Shyaku's shop*
Shyaku: I foresaw that you would come to me.
Canon: I'm sure you did. I'm just here because I don't have anything better to do-
Shyaku: And you're curious!
Canon: ...yeah. And I was wondering if you've seen Imeda recently.
Shyaku: Nope! And it's ok, I have something special for you- dragon bones.
Canon: …!
Shyaku: I will set a pile of dragon bones on fire. When they stop burning, you will be able to tell if she loves you or not.
Canon: How?
Shyaku: Have you ever torn petals off a flower?
Canon: No, but I think I understand.
Shyaku: Very well. *sets bones on fire*
Several bones shatter at once. It's a very intense experience, and the fire/smoke makes shapes like hearts, swords, hands, etc, etc. All very symbolic, and assumingly telling the future. They keep burning until there are two left.
Shyaku: She loves you-
Canon: -She loves me not. *very sad*
Shyaku: What a pity. You were a rather cute pair.
Canon: How can a pile of flaming bones decide my future?!
Shyaku: It's truth! Imeda received the same prophecy!
Canon: You said you haven't seen her! Where is she?!
Shyaku: …
Scene 2 (The Same, a few hours later)
Sparrow: *enters shop*
Shyaku is bloody and bruised. Canon is interrogating him, but to no avail. Shyaku is just laughing at him.
Sparrow: What's going on here?!
Shyaku: He's crazy!
Canon: He's working for the Prince! *angry, heavy breathing*
Sparrow: ?!
Canon: He's a famous playwright in the capital! He wrote the Tempest of Hamureta!
Sparrow: Really?
Shyaku: *nods*
Sparrow: Huh. Too bad you're a bad guy. Canon, Imeda's at the pier.
Shyaku: How did you know?!
Sparrow: Lucky guess... and you just told me. Hurry, Canon.
Scene 3 (The Pier)
“Goons”: *prepare to toss Imeda into the stormy (yes, it's storming now) sea*
Canon: *bursts into scene*
Fight ensues. Canon is overwhelmed for a bit, but remembers who he's fighting for, and overpowers the goons, and is relentless in applying a sound beating to them. As a matter of fact, he's going too far, and is about to kill the defenseless men, when he is stopped.
Imeda: Don't!
Canon: W-what? *heavy breathing*
Imeda: Stop hurting them!
Canon: They-you-I-
Imeda: Stop, just stop. If you kill them you're no better than them.
Canon: *calms down*
Imeda: I lied. You could never be like them, no matter what you did.
Canon: *half-smiles* Imeda, I had our fortune told...
Imeda: *gasp* So did I!
Canon: He said that you didn't love me...
Imeda: He said that to me... did he play the petal game?
Canon: Yeah...
Imeda: I know how to fix that. *takes off necklace* He loves me! *tosses out to ocean*
Canon: (at same time) She loves me... Imeda, *pulls out ring* will you marry me?
Imeda: *gasp* I-I-
Canon: You don't have to decide now, take some time and think about it. *leaves*
Epilogue (Shyaku's Shop)
Atsura: *enters shop*
Sparrow: *stands next to Shyaku's dead body*
Atsura: ?!
Sparrow: (regretfully(sounding)) I had to. He tried to escape, there was no other choice.
Atsura: I suppose you're right...
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