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Les Misérables de Sunnydale
ACT I PART II
Streets of Sunnydale 2003. Sensing The First gaining strength, most of the population of Sunnydale has left. BUFFY
has taken in many potential slayers to protect and train. Now the Scoobies have told BUFFY to leave them.
LOOK
OUT
VAMPIRES and DEMONS
Look out and see the demons on the street
Look out and take no mercy if you can
Look
out and see people try to retreat
Look out, attack every single man
DAWN
How do you do my name is Dawn
These
are my people. I’m the key.
Not much to look at. One Starbucks.
I am so scared I have to pee.
This is my school,
my Hellmouth property
Here in the ‘burb of Sunnydale
Demons draw blood of this society
Tough on the teeth,
but what the hell!
Think you’re scared
Think you’re free
Follow me. Follow me!
FAITH and ANGEL
enter
FAITH
Where is the Slayer of this land?
Where is the Watcher who runs this show?
ANGEL
Only
one girl – and that’s Buffy
slays for the people here below. (FAITH gives ANGEL a dirty look)
VAMPIRES
See
ourselves be fed
Help our hunger pass
Someone just to feed upon
Let’s bite him in the ass.
In the ass.
In
the ass.
In the ass.
In the ass.
FAITH
With all the demons in the land
How long before the judgment day
Before
we cut the bad ones down to size
Before mass slayage will arise?
HARMONY
These demon fighters on our street
Here
they come slaying once again.
That Xander Harris would kiss their feet
He never had a scrap of brain
ANGEL
Hey
there, Xander, what’s up today?
I haven’t seen you much about.
XANDER
Here you can always catch me
in.
ANGEL
Mind if you and I go out?
XANDER
(confused)Um, whatcha mean? Like on a date?
(gleefully)I
could go get my uncle’s car.
I’ll be a minute. Just stay and wait
(to himself) I knew he liked me.
I might get far!
ANGEL
No, Xander Harris, the things you say
You just wish that I were gay.
XANDER
I
like the way you style your hair
ANGEL
I like the way you’re such a geek
XANDER
Little he knows!
He
makes me feel weak.
GILES enters. JENNY, (who did not die in season two) and is currently possessed by Eyghon, comes
up to him.
JENNY
Please young sir, come this way
There’s a demon that ain’t eaten today
Give
your life. To me.
God rewards all your good, you will see.
Wait a bit. Know that face.
Ain’t the world a remarkable
place?
Rupert Giles, you’re on my list
You summoned my evil for your little tryst.
GILES
What is this?
Are you mad?
No, Jenny, you don’t know what you do!
JENNY
Not Jenny! You know me.
Eyghon’s back,
you see.
XANDER
Someone’s here! Disappear!
Ethan Rayne! From the rear!
ETHAN enters and the crowd scatters, because these sort of things happen all the time without explanation.
STARS
ETHAN
There, out in the darkness
The Ripper is running
Helping the Slayer
Keeping watch in this place.
Chaos
be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we fight face to face
Till we fight face to face
I know my way in
the dark
Mine is the way of my Lord
Those who follow the path of Chaos
Shall have their reward.
And if you fall
as Rupert fell
The flame
The sword!
Stars in your multitude
Brought me to Sunnydale
Looking for Rupert
For
vengeance is best.
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure.
Keeping watch o’er my quest
Keeping watch o’er
my quest
ETHAN exits. The crowd gradually returns, except for GILES
DAWN
Ethan Rayne, he thinks he’s
something,
But it’s we who run this town!
And our living room never closes.
And the curtain’s always
down.
DAWN exits.
Spotlight on Xander and Angel.
XANDER’S ERRAND
XANDER
Good God! Oh, what uproar
ANGEL
Buffy,
where could she be?
XANDER
Just what do you need her for?
I’m right here, you see.
ANGEL
Xander,
find her for me!
XANDER
(Suggestively) What will you give me?
ANGEL
Anything
XANDER
Got
you all excited now
I don’t know what you need with her.
Aren’t you all delighted now?
I just want your
love, my sir.
ANGEL
Xander! Do this for me…
Discover where she’s gone
Be careful as you go
Don’t
let the demons know
Xander, we’re lost until she’s found!
XANDER
I told Willow so
There’s
lots of things I know
Xander, he knows his way around.
Summers Living Room: Kennedy, Anya, Andrew, Faith, Spike, Willow
GRAY AND BLACK
FAITH
Kennedy!
KENNEDY
At
the end of town, the potentials are prepared
SPIKE
At The Magic Box, they’re straining at the leash
ANYA
Slayerettes
and other fools
Blood will drain into pools
Like the flowing of cash
Sunnydale will be made hash.
FAITH
The
time is near,
So near it’s stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don’t let The First get
to your brains!
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
With the Turok-han we can never match
It is easy to
sit here and swat them with words.
But The First will be harder to dispatch.
We need a sign
To rally potentials
To
call them to arms
To bring them in line!
Angel enters
Angel, you’re late.
WILLOW
What’s
wrong today?
You look as if you’ve seen a ghost.
ANDREW
Some snacks, and say what’s going on!
ANGEL
A
ghost you say, she’s been dead twice
A third time would not be so nice
One minute there, then she was gone.
FAITH
It
is time for us all to decide who we are.
Do we fight for the right to a night at the Bronze now?
Have you asked of yourselves,
“What’s the price you pay?” (Anya checks her wallet.)
It’s rhetorical, Anya, put your wallet
away.
The color of the world is changing: day by day!
Gray – The dust of Turok-han
Black – The dark of
ages past
Gray – What we’ll at see at dawn
Black – The night that ends at laaaast!
Well, Andrew,
do we have all the stakes?
Anya, Willow, our time is running short.
Andrew, put the Twinkies down
Do we have the
stakes we need?
ANDREW
Give me Slim Jim on my breath
And I’ll breathe them all to death!
DAWN
(enters excitedly)
Listen! Listen to me! Listen, everybody!
My mom is dead! (random)
DO YOU HEAR THE SLAYERS SING
FAITH
Joyce is dead.
Joyce. Her death happened a year ago.
The Slayer’s
mom. Her death is the sign for a go.
A year and a half later we will honor her name
It’s a rallying cry that
will reach Buffy’s ear.
In the death of Joyce Summers, we will kindle her flame –
She will help us fight
the danger that’s near.
The time is here.
Let us welcome it bravely with courage and cheer.
Let us find
Buffy with no doubt in our heart.
But a jubilant shout
She will come when we call!
She will come when we call!
Do
you hear the Slayers sing?
Let the apocalypse begin
It is the music of a people who will not be back again.
When
the beating of your heart echoes
The steps of the Turok-han
There is a life about to start
With the Chosen One!
ALL
Do
you hear the Slayers sing?
Let the apocalypse begin
It is the music of a people who will not be back again.
When
the beating of your heart echoes
The steps of the Turok-han
There is a life about to start
With the Chosen One!
BUFFY is strolling a cemetery, stake at the ready
IN MY LIFE
BUFFY
How strange, my life
will never be nice.
This change, can people really live after dying twice.
What’s the matter with you, Buffy?
Can’t
you live with this life you have sown?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown
In my life
There are
so many questions and answers that strengthen my ire
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence the sigh
of a breathless vampire
I’m alone
My friends have all deserted me
Let Faith lead,
Even though I know that
I am much stronger than she.
The First is coming, it’s making me ill.
Things are working way beyond my will
In
my life
I am always alone
Where’s the love in my life?
Waiting near?
Find me now. Find me here.
GILES
Dear
Buffy,
You’re such a lonely slayer
How pensive, how sad you seem to be
Believe me,
we want you to come
back now
We need you to be strong now
How quiet I can see, it must be
With no one else for company
BUFFY
There’s
so little I know that I’m longing to know
Why my friends let me go
Has this happened to you?
There’s
so little you say of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why you’re always alone
So dark,
so dark, so deep,
the secrets that you keep
In my life, I’m no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth
that you know
Of the years… years ago.
GILES
You will learn
Truth is given by God to us all in our
time,
In our time
Giles exits
Xander and Angel enter.
A HEART FULL OF DREAD
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ANGEL
A heart full of dread,
A heart full of song,
I'm doing everything all wrong.
Oh God, for shame,
Buffy, I'm here,
please do not blame
Buffy, tonight
will you help
in our fight?
BUFFY
A heart full of rage
You sent me away
ANGEL
We're all sorry it went that way?
BUFFY
Forgive you now?
ANGEL
Buffy, I don't know what to say.
BUFFY
Then make no sound
ANGEL
I'm a fool
BUFFY
You're a hound.
ANGEL
A heart full of tears.
BUFFY
A lie bright as day
ANGEL
And you must come back, come what may.
Buffy! Buffy!
BUFFY
I'm needed now? For all their sake.
ANGEL
We were so mean.
BUFFY
You're all just fake.
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ANGEL
Will you do it for Dawn?
BUFFY
I need a little time
ANGEL
Come to your house tonight to tell
BUFFY
I will. I will
ANGEL
Till tonight
BUFFY
I'll be there
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XANDER (in counterpoint)
I'm so worried he will die
In this battle yet to come
Will he ever
Become gay?
Just with me
Just with me
Just with me
My heart
Full of love
He may never
Feel this way
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BUFFY and ANGEL
For it isn't a dream. Not a dream
At all
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ONE DAY MORE
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GILES
One day more!
Another day, another destiny!
This never ending road to Calvary.
Ethan Rayne, who knows of my past
Will hunt me down until the last
One day more.
ANGEL
Buffy will now fight with us
The Turok-han will all be parted
GILES
One day more!
ANGEL and BUFFY
Tomorrow come what may
While I’m with you my life has started
XANDER
One more day on my own
ANGEL and BUFFY
Will we defeat this danger?
XANDER
One more day with him not caring.
ANGEL and BUFFY
I will fight alongside you.
XANDER
What a life I might have known
ANGEL and BUFFY
And I swear that’s what we’ll do.
XANDER
But he never saw me there.
FAITH
One more day before the storm
BUFFY
Do I follow where she leads
FAITH
And the slaying of the demons
BUFFY
Shall I join my sisters there
FAITH
When our ranks begin to form
BUFFY
Do I stay and do I dare
FAITH
Will B. take her place with us?
CHORUS
The time is now,
The day is here!
GILES
One day more!
POTENTIALS, ANYA, ANDREW, SPIKE, DAWN, WILLOW
One day to a new beginning.
Kill the Bringers as they come.
Each slayer will be a queen
Each slayer will be a queen.
There’s a new world for the winning.
There’s a new world to be won.
Do you hear the slayers sing?
BUFFY
My place is here. I fight with you!
GILES
One day more!
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ANGEL and BUFFY
I did not live until today
ANGEL and BUFFY
How can I live if we are parted?
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ETHAN
I will join these demon fighters.
I will help them in their fight.
I will then kill Rupert Giles
With every bit of might.
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XANDER
One more day living on my own.
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GILES
One day more!
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FAITH
One more day to revolution
The First will now be last
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DEMONS
Watch ‘em run amuck
Catch them as they fall.
Never know your luck
when there’s a free for all
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ALL
Tomorrow is the judgment day.
Tomorrow is the judgment day.
Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in Heaven has in store.
One more dawn.
One more day
One day more!
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ACT II PART I
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