#13: Small Problems

In an attempt to save their fairy friend, Nazzy and Enelcia find themselves surrounded by the tiny EEK who reveal new powers of attack.

Written and Produced by Jennifer Lott

Voice Actors:
Shannon Rea as Nazzy
Nicole Stoner as Enelcia
JP Lott as Sir JP
Owen Lott as Wenoburt
Kenzie Stoner as Rose
Jennifer Lott as Yemilina
Tegan Lott as Teloopa
Bill Rea as Passerby

Transcript

SOUND: opening theme music

EXT. ENCHANTED FOREST

SOUND: forest ambiance

SOUND: footsteps

SOUND: snapping twigs

ENELCIA

Who goes there!

PASSERBY

Just passing through. Wondering what that shiny box is doing there just lying there in that hole.

ENELCIA

I am guarding that, Sir. Do NOT touch the box of doom!

PASSERBY

But it’s so shiny.

ENELCIA

It’s an extinction bomb. It will wipe out all living things.

PASSERBY

Even if I touch it with just one finger?

ENELCIA

We’re not taking any chances.

PASSERBY

You’re being awfully dramatic for such a short person. Step aside. I won’t shake it.

SOUND: shuffling footsteps

ENELCIA

I have given you a warning. My powerful friend will punish you for disregarding it.

PASSERBY

You? A powerful friend? I can see no giants around. They’re hard to miss.

ENELCIA

Just because I’m an elf, you think my only friends are giants?

PASSERBY

I’m sure you have lots of little friends, but I’m only scared of the big ones.

TELOOPA

You should be scared of me.

PASSERBY

You’re almost as little as the elf. You’re hiding pointy ears in that hair?

TELOOPA

Oh, I can look like anything I want. And I only use potions because they’re a painless way to transform. But I can change you into a frog right here. Wanna see?

PASSERBY

You’re too young to be a proper witch.

TELOOPA

Probably, but you’re still a frog.

SOUND: magic staff

SOUND: transformation spell

PASSERBY

(brief scream of pain)

SOUND: frog croak

ENELCIA

This is how we make a frog army to defeat the sap bugs. We’ll just wait here for all the stupid people. We’ll have hundreds of tongues catching bugs!

SOUND: distant armor clanking

SIR JP

(distant)

Hundreds of what? Do you need help over there?

ENELCIA

We’ve got it. Just keep training.

SOUND: sword whooshes

SOUND: swords clangs

SIR JP

Don’t swing so much, Wenoburt. Keep your sword in the middle.

WENOBURT

Hi-ya! Hi-ya! Hi-ya!

SIR JP

Your enthusiasm is there. Your focus is not.

WENOBURT

I can focus.

SOUND: sword whooshes

SOUND: swords clangs

SIR JP

Better.

SOUND: sword whooshes

SOUND: sword clangs

SIR JP

Where’s the princess?

NAZZY

Wow, you have been training hard. She took off on a Pegasus twenty minutes ago, determined to find the Queen.

SIR JP

You let her leave by herself?

NAZZY

She didn’t stop to debate it with me.

SIR JP

I don’t trust a flimsy Pegasus. She should have taken my horse.

NAZZY

You’d let someone else ride your horse?

SIR JP

I’d let her…uhm…yes, anyone else. Why not?

NAZZY

Are you sure you’re still immune to sap bugs? I mean first you give in to Wenoburt with all this sword training, and now—

SIR JP

I am training him to be manly because he won’t learn it from anyone else here.

NAZZY

Feeling outnumbered, are you? You know, the cave people I've met are trying to break gender stereotypes. You can identify as a man, but--

SIR JP

Wenoburt, real men are simple. They speak in grunts, howls, and battle cries. They do not self-reflect. They charge. They attack. They pant over their slain foes and charge in.

WENOBURT

(manly roar)

SIR JP

Very good.

NAZZY

Oh, the cave people will disapprove.

SIR JP

I live to upset them. Nosy fluff heads.

SOUND: sword clang

SIR JP

Keep moving your feet.

SOUND: shuffling feet

SOUND: sword whooshes

WENOBURT

(panting)

SOUND: sword clangs

SOUND: fairy arrives

SOUND: fairy wings

WENOBURT

(sputtering)

Hey! Fairy!

SIR JP

Don’t sit on his nose like that. He can’t see.

ROSE

My wings are tired.

SIR JP

Go nap in your flowers.

ROSE

I’m not sleepy.

SIR JP

Then your wings are not tired.

ROSE

I want to sit here and watch you.

WENOBURT

Get off my nose. You are tickling! Ah…ah…

NAZZY

Get off his nose, Rose.

WENOBURT

Ah…ah…ACHOO!

SOUND: fairy propelled on wind

ROSE

Ahhh!

WENOBURT

I didn’t mean to sneeze so big. Come back, fairy!

ENELCIA

Whoa, Rose, don’t fly like that. You’ll crash.

NAZZY

She’s not flying. She’s tumbling on a sneeze wind. Watch out for that cat!

ROSE

Where?

NAZZY

Up there!

ENELCIA

I don’t see a cat.

SOUND: fairy tumbling in grass

NAZZY

In that tree, right over your head! Fly, Rose!

SOUND: cat yowl

ROSE

My wings hurt.

ENELCIA

Then run!

ROSE

My feet hurt.

SOUND: cat pounce

SOUND: cat yowl

SOUND: running footsteps

ENELCIA

Bad kitty! Rose is not your cat toy. Paws off! Ahhh!

SOUND: cat pounce

SOUND: frog croak

SOUND: cat yowl

SOUND: tether charm

ENELCIA

My frog baby is not your cat toy either, no! Just because she is on an invisible string does not mean I am dangling her for you. Shoo!

SOUND: frog croak

SOUND: cat yowl

SOUND: fairy wings

ROSE

Help!

ENELCIA

Ahh, I can’t get close! Someone help!

SOUND: frog croak

NAZZY

Teloopa?

TELOOPA

You want me to prevent our extinction and save the whiny fairy from a cat? Doesn’t anyone else get a job?

NAZZY

Okay, I’m going.

SOUND: running footsteps

NAZZY

Rose? Are you still okay?

SOUND: cat yowl

NAZZY

Oh, God! Drop her! No! I’ll find you mice to torture!

SOUND: running footsteps

ENELCIA

Nazzy?

NAZZY

I miss the nice cats in 2022. Ours are nasty.

SOUND: running footsteps

SOUND: scrape of rock lifting off ground

NAZZY

I’ll throw this rock at you. Drop her!

ENELCIA

Nazzy!

NAZZY

What?

ENELCIA

Rose ducked into the bush way back there. The cat’s got something else.

NAZZY

Another fairy?

ENELCIA

I don’t think so.

SOUND: EEK laughter

NAZZY

Oh no.

SOUND: EEK laughter

ENELCIA

It’s an army of EEK! Even the one in the cat’s mouth is laughing.

SOUND: loud cat yowl

SOUND: shrinking magic

SOUND: diminished cat yowl

NAZZY

That cat got seriously small.

ENELCIA

The EEK can shrink cats?

SOUND: shrinking magic

NAZZY

Or…they can shrink anything.

ENELCIA

Why is the grass so big?

NAZZY

We shrunk.

ENELCIA

No way! We got teleported into a gigantic garden. I like that better.

NAZZY

This is not what teleportation spells sound like. We’re in the same bit of forest. We shrunk.

ENELCIA

I don’t want to be even smaller!

SOUND: frog croak

ENELCIA

Oh no! If I’m the size of an EEK, then my frog baby must be as small as a flea. That can’t be good for her.

NAZZY

Really? She’s been a carrot.

ENELCIA

It made sense at the time.

SOUND: rope creak

NAZZY

Net!

ENELCIA

What?

NAZZY

Look out!

SOUND: net landing

NAZZY and ENELCIA

(scream)

SOUND: EEK laughter

SOUND: bodies slamming on floor

SOUND: dungeon door closing

NAZZY and ENELCIA

(scream)

SOUND: key turning in lock

SOUND: EEK laughter

SOUND: wagon rolling

INT. EEK DUNGEON

ENELCIA

What are they doing?

NAZZY

Dungeon road trip? It’s a dungeon on a wagon.

ENELCIA

But where will they take us? What will they do to us?

NAZZY

How should I know?

ENELCIA

You should know everything! Why don’t you use your powers to map out all our possible futures? Write it all in a book for us, so we can navigate.

NAZZY

I’d have no energy left to breathe.

ENELCIA

But you can change where you are when you time-jump, right?

NAZZY

I can jump places if I also jump in time, yes.

ENELCIA

Then you can--

SOUND: time travel end

ENELCIA

Ah, there’s two of you in here! What?

NAZZY

I must have time-travelled.

FUTURE NAZZY & PRESENT NAZZY

It didn’t work.                It doesn’t work.

SOUND: air warp

ENELCIA

Whoa, now one of you is gone!

NAZZY

I caught up to myself. That was me from…let me try that.

SOUND: time travel beginning

ENELCIA

No Nazzy. There were two Nazzys. Now there are none. Nobody to save me…except that enormous vivicord out there. Ahhh…hi.

SOUND: loud vivicord

SOUND: wagon rolling

ENELCIA

Nice of you to follow this tiny wagon without stepping on it. Great for the cave people and all, but, um, I’m freaking out. Nazzy!

SOUND: time travel end

NAZZY

I only went back a few seconds. That’s why there were two of me a moment ago.

ENELCIA

Well, that was dumb. You didn’t even place-jump to get out of this wagon-dungeon.

NAZZY

Something’s wrong. I’m just not that…stretchy.

ENELCIA

What does that mean?

NAZZY

My powers are tied to my body just the way it is. The EEK have changed my body. So when they shrunk me, my powers shrunk, too.

ENELCIA

You mean you can only move a few seconds into the past or future? A few inches through space? That’s how you save broken dishes or skip over boring bits in a conversation. That’s useless! Oh, my poor baby!

SOUND: frog croak

ENELCIA

It’s just rotten luck, isn’t it, darling? If only Teloopa had been captured with us. She’d teleport us all out of here.

SOUND: time travel beginning

ENELCIA

(offended noise)

SOUND: time travel end

NAZZY

Are you done?

ENELCIA

You just called me boring.

NAZZY

You called me useless.

ENELCIA

Forgive me if I don’t want my daughter to be stuck as a frog in the enemy’s dungeon for the rest of her life.

NAZZY

The frog part was your call. Were you ever really going to let her be an elf again?

ENELCIA

Yes! After she’s potty trained.

NAZZY

You expect her to pick that up in frog form?

ENELCIA

What do you know about children? All you do is kidnap them!

NAZZY

Don’t start talking like Sir JP. You’re better than that.

ENELCIA

I’m in a dungeon and I’ve decided to be grumpy. You can’t talk me out of it.

SOUND: glass bottles clinking

NAZZY

Here, have a soda.

SOUND: glass bottle opening

ENELCIA

Where did those bottles come from?

NAZZY

They’ve been leaning against the bars this whole time. Pay attention.

SOUND: drinking

ENELCIA

Mmm, that looks so sweet and bubbly. Wait. We can’t trust enemy beverages, can we?

NAZZY

Enchanted frogs have a keen sense for poison. Your daughter would be making a lot more noise if there was anything bad in these.

SOUND: glass bottle opening

SOUND: frog croak

SOUND: frog slurping soda

ENELCIA

Look at that. She’s lapping at it. I should learn more about frogs if I’m going to raise one. You must think I’m a terrible mother.

NAZZY

I think you should let your kid be herself. But I get how dragon fear must be worse when you’ve got a baby.

ENELCIA

Babies should be born running. Big flaw in our evolution.

SOUND: glass bottle opening

SOUND: drinking

ENELCIA

Why are the EEK hydrating us?

NAZZY

We’re living bait, I guess. They must be trying to lure people to come after us.

ENELCIA

They want Sir JP, don’t you think? I don’t believe we’re the right bait for him.

NAZZY

Moral code. He’ll come.

ENELCIA

(nervous)

But he shouldn’t, right? Because it’s a trap? We could send a message with that vivicord out there, but we won’t. We won’t let the EEK use us to catch him.

NAZZY

Yeah…but maybe the EEK will tell him they’ve got us, no matter what we do.

ENELCIA

(relieved)

Oh, well. We tried to be brave.

SOUND: sap bugs buzzing

NAZZY

Those bugs are huge!

ENELCIA

They can’t fit through these bars. We’re okay.

SOUND: shrinking magic

NAZZY

Nope. They’re shrinking. They’re coming in.

ENELCIA

Then…my daughter will eat them. No problem.

NAZZY

Uh…

SOUND: sap bugs buzzing

SOUND: frog catching bugs

ENELCIA

That’s right, my darling! Gobble them all up!

SOUND: slower instances of frog catching bugs

ENELCIA

Oh, she filled up on soda. She can’t keep up. Oh, no…

SOUND:multiple sap bug bites 

SOUND: sap bugs flying away

NAZZY & ENELCIA

(laughing)

NAZZY

(laughing)

We’ve forgotten something!

ENELCIA

(laughing)

What? What’s that?

NAZZY

(laughing)

That we…need…help? Um, maybe? Danger?

ENELCIA

(laughing)

More snacks!

NAZZY

(laughing)

We’re dangerously low on snacks! That was it!

ENELCIA

(laughing)

We’re low to the ground, too. We’re so slow. I mean we’re so low.

NAZZY

(laughing)

Tiny snacks! Vivicord, go get heeelp!

ENELCIA

(fading out)

No, no, no! No vivicord. It will bring us bark and sticks and moss. It doesn’t know what we like.

SOUND: vivicord running

SOUND: vivicord panting

SOUND: wagon rolling fades out
 

EXT SKY NEAR CASTLE RUINS

SOUND: Pegasus flying

YEMILINA

(distant)

Mother? I need to talk to you about the future! You’re going to try zapping my friend with your ill-gotten wizard powers and I’m not okay with it!

SOUND: vivicord running

SOUND: Pegasus landing

SOUND: vivicord panting

YEMILINA

Oh my, what a dreadful hurry you’re in. Come here, vivicord. What’s wrong?

SOUND: vivicord panting

SOUND: vivicord static

NAZZY

It’s a dungeon on a wagon…

…The EEK…shrunk me…

SOUND: vivicord static

ENELCIA

I’m in a dungeon—

SOUND: vivicord static

YEMILINA

(gasp)

Nazzy! Enelcia! The EEK have gone too far this time. Arrh, I’ll have to save my leftover yelling for mother.

SOUND: vivicord static

ENELCIA

…can’t fit through these bars…

SOUND: vivicord static

YEMILINA

I must find Rose. She’s small enough to check on them in a tiny dungeon on a tiny wagon.

SOUND: vivicord static

NAZZY

…dangerously low on snacks…

SOUND: vivicord static

YEMILINA

Oh, they’re starving as well! Have I been flying that long? Good gracious!

SOUND: mounting Pegasus

SOUND: Pegasus flying

YEMILINA

I mustn’t bother with you either, dear cave people. No offence. You are a bit distracting in a crisis. So, you know, thank you for following. If no one tiny is squished and no one big is swallowed, you shall hear more. Wish us luck!

SOUND: Pegasus flying

SOUND: closing theme music