Nazzy and Enelcia communicate with their EEK captors in time to learn why they are being beaten with sticks. Meanwhile, dragons directed by EEK are preparing for an unusually well-coordinated attack on the citizens of Wilzerlott.
Written and Produced by Jennifer Lott
Voice Actors:
Shannon Rea as Nazzy
Nicole Stoner as Enelcia
Kenzie Stoner as Rose
Lynda Williams as Queen Augusta
Jennifer Lott as Yemilina
JP Lott as Sir JP
Tegan Lott as Teloopa
Owen Lott as Wenoburt
Jennifer Lott as King David
Nicole Stoner as Merchant and extra EEK voices
Kenzie Stoner as extra EEK voices
Nazzy and Enelcia communicate with their EEK captors in time to learn why they are being beaten with sticks. Meanwhile, dragons directed by EEK are preparing for an unusually well-coordinated attack on the citizens of Wilzerlott.
Written and Produced by Jennifer Lott
Voice Actors:
Shannon Rea as Nazzy
Nicole Stoner as Enelcia
Kenzie Stoner as Rose
Lynda Williams as Queen Augusta
Jennifer Lott as Yemilina
JP Lott as Sir JP
Tegan Lott as Teloopa
Owen Lott as Wenoburt
Jennifer Lott as King David
Nicole Stoner as Merchant and extra EEK voices
Kenzie Stoner as extra EEK voices
SOUND: opening theme music
EXT. EEK DUNGEON
SOUND: vivicord
SOUND: fairy arrives
SOUND: fairy wings
ROSE
(singing)
Wagon-cage, wagon-cage,
Where are you?
SOUND: fairy wings
SOUND: wagon rolling
ENELCIA
(singing)
Here we are, here we are!
So glad it’s you!
SOUND: fairy wings
SOUND: cage bars rattle
ENELCIA
You should sing, too. It’s fun.
NAZZY
I’m too exhausted from all that laughing we did.
ROSE
Are you sappy?
ENELCIA
It’s starting to wear off.
ROSE
Did they hurt you?
NAZZY
Not yet.
SOUND: wagon stopping
SOUND: dungeon door opening
EEK
(evil, squeaky laughter)
ENELCIA
What do you want?
SOUND: stick hitting flesh
ENELCIA
Ow!
SOUND: body shoves
NAZZY
Okay, we’re walking, we’re walking.
EXT. CASTLE RUINS
SOUND: footsteps on dirt
SOUND: buzzing sap bugs
SOUND: stick hitting flesh
NAZZY
Ow!
EEK
(evil, squeaky laughter)
ROSE
Leave my friends alone!
ENELCIA
They don’t seem to care about where you go. Just fly behind us, so you can observe.
SOUND: fairy wings
SOUND: footsteps on dirt
SOUND: crumbling stone
NAZZY
Are you marching us through the rubble of our old castle? Don’t we get to go inside your brand new castle and get locked up in a proper dungeon?
EEK
(evil, squeaky laughter)
SOUND: fairy wings
SOUND: footsteps on dirt
ENELCIA
Seems like a strange coincidence that E.E.K. also stands for ‘eventual everything killer.’ That’s not how you got your name, is it? Have you been around as long as that magic waste box?
EEK
(evil, squeaky laughter)
ENELCIA
Arrrh, is that ‘yes’ or ‘no’? I hate the way you talk!
SOUND: buzzing sap bugs
SOUND: thunderous footfalls
SOUND: pebbles jumping
QUEEN AUGUSTA
(amplified)
Come out, come out, wherever you are!
NAZZY
What’s the Queen doing way up there? I mean I know why ‘up’…because we’re tiny. But why—?
ENELCIA
Confronting the EEK? Rescuing us?
SOUND: buzzing sap bugs
SOUND: multiple bug bites
NAZZY
Or getting bitten by sap bugs.
SOUND: buzzing sap bugs
SOUND: multiple bug bites
QUEEN AUGUSTA
(giggly)
Fear not, my royal sorcerer. I forgive you. Come back to me now and there shall be no consequences for your fleeting moment of disloyalty.
NAZZY
She’s still looking for him? Why would he be under the castle ruins?
ENELCIA
I saw him walk out on her. I don’t think he’s coming back.
EEK
Eeeeeekkk! Eeek, eeeek, eeek!
NAZZY
Finally. The Queen told me you at least said ‘eek.’ Are you introducing yourselves?
EEK
Eekeek, eeeeek, eeeeekeekee, eeeeeeeekkk!
SOUND: fairy wings
ROSE
They want to ask the Queen how she became invincible, so they can do it, too.
ENELCIA
How do you know what they said?
ROSE
My grandma taught me Ancient Fairy.
NAZZY
The EEK speak a fairy language? We thought they were nothing like you, apart from size.
ENELCIA
You must be distantly related.
ROSE
I don’t have an evil laugh.
(sweet laugh)
See? I’m not related to EEK.
ENELCIA
Nah, don’t feel bad. We all have embarrassing relatives. We do.
NAZZY
You must have branched off and evolved separately. The EEK are primitive fairies who never grew wings.
ENELCIA
Uh, primitive? They built their own castle and used magic to shrink us.
NAZZY
I guess I meant emotionally primitive. Rose, why did it take you this long to tell us ‘EEK’ is a word in Ancient Fairy?
ROSE
Because it’s not. It’s only words when you say eeeeek, eeeeeek, eeek, eeeeeek!
ENELCIA
So EEK?
ROSE
Once isn’t a word.
NAZZY
(sigh)
Really?
ENELCIA
I’ll buy it.
NAZZY
Tell them it doesn’t matter how the Queen became invincible. It’s a curse and they shouldn’t want it.
ROSE
They understand you.
EEK
Eeekk, eeeek, eekk, eeeeeeeekkk!
SOUND: sticks hitting flesh
NAZZY and ENELCIA
Ow, oww, owww!
SOUND: sticks hitting flesh
ROSE
They’re going to hit you with sticks until you get the Queen to answer their questions.
SOUND: sticks hitting flesh
SOUND: frog croak
ENELCIA
Ahhh, not my baby!
NAZZY
Stop it! I’ll climb up to the Queen’s ear and ask.
SOUND: climbing
ENELCIA
Let me do it. She hates you.
SOUND: climbing
NAZZY
She’s already sap-poisoned to be truthful.
ENELCIA
Well, I’d better climb to the other ear or the EEK might think I’m not helping.
SOUND: climbing
NAZZY and ENELCIA
How did you become invincible?
QUEEN AUGUSTA
(giggly)
Oh my, what loud little people. Inquisitive peasants feel so much like flies in one’s ears, don’t they? How my daughter puts up with them, I’ll never know.
SOUND: feet kicking flesh
QUEEN AUGUSTA
(giggly)
Ooo, they pinch!
ENELCIA
Your invincibility! Spill!
QUEEN AUGUSTA
(giggly)
It was tragic! Utterly devastating. My husband and I thought we’d both be ghosts after our natural deaths. As it turned out, one life must go on forever to sustain the eternal living death of the other.
NAZZY
You’re invincible because King David is a ghost?
QUEEN AUGUSTA
And he is a ghost because I am invincible. Ohh…more of those sap bites. My giggles are not overpowering my sorrow. More giggles now.
SOUND: snapping fingers
QUEEN AUGUSTA
Hop to it.
SOUND: buzzing sap bugs fading out
NAZZY
Your Majesty…King David didn’t die because of…?
QUEEN AUGUSTA
Yes, he did. The curse was irreversible. And I know we should have researched it more thoroughly, but there’s no sense…wallowing…now…more bites!
SOUND: snapping fingers
QUEEN AUGUSTA
Drown my veins in sap! I brought you here and you will obey me!
SOUND: buzzing sap bugs fading out
EEK
Eeeek, eekeeeek, eeeeeeeekkk!
SOUND: fairy wings
ROSE
They say they won’t let you be sap-happy until you give them instructions on the curse you used.
QUEEN AUGUSTA
Never! You vile EEKY things!
EEK
(evil, squeaky laughter)
QUEEN AUGUSTA
(pleading)
Nazzy, please don’t tell Yemilina about her father.
NAZZY
I think I have to.
QUEEN AUGUSTA
She’ll blame me. He chose the curse, too, but she’ll only blame me.
NAZZY
I’m sure once she talks to him—
QUEEN AUGUSTA
No!
NAZZY
I can’t keep that secret.
QUEEN AUGUSTA
EEK, make the time meddler a ghost and your ruler invincible! I will teach you. I’ve worked out the kinks now, so you can choose which bodies receive each fate.
EEK
(evil, squeaky laughter)
NAZZY
Calm down, Your Majesty. I’ll give you the chance to tell Yemilina first.
QUEEN AUGUSTA
No more chances! I should have broken our ‘no executions’ law a long time ago for you.
ENELCIA
(whispering)
Pssst, Rose, I think it’s time for you to go fly away. Get help.
ROSE
But the Queen’s here.
ENELCIA
Uh, the Queen just offered to make our enemy invincible. I’m thinking different help?
ROSE
Like swords? Singing? Frog guts?
ENELCIA
Bring it all!
SOUND: fairy wings
SOUND: wind
SOUND: EEK laughter fading
SOUND: vivicord fading
EXT. MARKETPLACE
SOUND: vivicord starting up
SOUND: marketplace ambiance
SOUND: footsteps
YEMILINA
(singing)
Poor tiny Enelcia,
Poor tiny Nazzy,
I hate that I’m worried
Yet I must sound jazzy!
SOUND: footsteps
SOUND: empty sack hits counter
TELOOPA
Yeah, hi. Ignore the singing princess. I need beard of goat, toenail of squirrel, saliva of cow, palm sap, huckleberries and spring water collected during a full moon. Pile it all in my sack.
SOUND: bottles clinking into sack
SOUND: drawstring pulled
MERCHANT
That’ll be five gold.
TELOOPA
It’s on the princess’s tab. Bill her when she’s sane.
SOUND: sack dragging on counter
SOUND: fist banging on counter
MERCHANT
Five gold!
TELOOPA
You’re making me sad. You look so cute as a human.
WENOBURT
Do it! Do it!
SIR JP
There’s no need to—
SOUND: magic staff
SOUND: transformation spell
MERCHANT
(brief scream of pain)
SOUND: frog croak
SIR JP
(sigh)
—turn everyone who inconveniences us to frogs.
TELOOPA
I said I was sad about it.
SOUND: frog croak
WENOBURT
Can I keep this one?
SIR JP
He’s not a pet.
WENOBURT
Just until the witch changes him back?
SIR JP
We aren’t taking away his freedom, too.
SOUND: frog croak
TELOOPA
I suggest you quit your job, though. Go find a nice pond with lots of sap bugs to eat.
SOUND: frog croak
WENOBURT
I never get my own frog.
TELOOPA
I’ll pick one you can keep for good.
SIR JP
You will not!
TELOOPA
Some people are better as frogs. It’s just a fact.
SOUND: sack lift
SOUND: bottles clinking in sack
SOUND: footsteps
WENOBURT
What are you gonna make?
SOUND: running child
WENOBURT
I want to see it.
TELOOPA
Ah, ah, no touching. This is my EEK dressing. I almost got dragons to crave trees with my last brilliant invention. So I’ll have no trouble getting them to crave tiny people over us. This sauce will only go well with EEK meat.
SIR JP
How can you possibly know what will go well with EEK when you’ve never tasted EEK?
TELOOPA
A sorcerous knows, Sir JP. I don’t expect you to understand.
YEMILINA
(singing)
Drizzle, drizzle special syrup all over the EEK
Dragons might like them as much as we like pancakes
Will they only gobble, gobble up our foes all week?
Or will we intervene for our shrunken friends’ sakes?
SOUND: ghost appearing
KING DAVID
Daughter, I weep to see you sing so helplessly. There should be genuine joy in your every note.
YEMILINA
(singing)
The sap bugs won’t leave me alone!
My beautiful skin is their second home.
SIR JP
I’m afraid it’s true, Your Majesty. Whenever we encounter a stray sap bug, it is always the princess who gets bitten.
SOUND: frog croak
KING DAVID
How goes the frog army?
TELOOPA
Building up slowly. We’d have a lot more bug eaters if Sir JP wouldn’t question the ethics of every transformation.
KING DAVID
Sir JP, I regret I must ask you to abandon your amphibious concerns. Dragons are gathering at the castle ruins in a most uncharacteristic manner. They are burning maps into the ground. Flying in packs to survey the land. I fear the EEK have assembled them for a planned attack.
WENOBURT
The EEK can make dragons do things?
KING DAVID
EEK appear to be surprisingly persuasive. I predict hungry dragons hunting for scraps are about to become greedy dragons gorging upon us. Perhaps even slaughtering us for sport once their bellies are full.
SIR JP
Dragons don’t normally team up, Your Majesty. If they are truly behaving this way, we are facing an unprecedented battle.
SOUND: horse whinny
SOUND: clanking armor
SIR JP
I’ll go at once.
SOUND: saddle movement
SOUND: fairy arrives
SOUND: fairy wings
WENOBURT
The fairy’s coming!
SOUND: fairy wings
ROSE
I found Nazzy and Enelcia at the castle ruins. The EEK are beating them with sticks.
SOUND: armor clanking
SOUND: saddle movement
ROSE
Wait, don’t go!
SIR JP
I’m on my way to the ruins to save them and everyone else. I don’t need your report.
ROSE
But they had to climb up to the Queen’s ears and the EEK still got mad and the Queen did, too, and—
KING DAVID
Quiet, please, babbling fairy. Someone explain this: is Enelcia not an elf?
YEMILINA
(singing:)
Yes, father. I…
(throat clearing)
(speaking:)
I told you that. Oh, I’ve stopped singing completely! Not a single lingering word bursting out as music. My immune system is doing so much better lately.
KING DAVID
Why has an elf’s capture not been used to recruit giants to our cause?
YEMILINA
Giants aren’t our go-to army. They never truly acknowledged you as their king.
KING DAVID
They are independent. They pay less attention to dragon problems because their death-by-dragon rate is so much lower than that of most beings in Wilzerlott.
YEMILINA
Exactly. So why—
KING DAVID
The elves are our best asset for getting giants more involved in our community. Giants typically drop whatever they are doing to come to the aid of even a single elf. I will inform them of Enelcia’s capture.
SOUND: ghost flying
SIR JP
I’m going now. Protect the princess and Wenoburt.
TELOOPA
You trust me that much? I’m honored.
WENOBURT
I will fight the dragons with you, Sir JP!
SIR JP
No, you’re—
SOUND: flying dragons
TELOOPA
Or he might be…since the dragons are coming to us.
SOUND: flying dragons
SOUND: roaring dragons
SOUND: fire breathing
SOUND: EEK laughter
YEMILINA
There are EEK riding those dragons…oh my God…
SOUND: saddle movement
SOUND: clanking armor
SOUND: feet hit ground
YEMILINA
Oh, don’t get off your horse on my account. I-I don’t need reassurance.
SIR JP
I want a quick word. It’s hard to talk to you when you’re singing uncontrollably.
YEMILINA
I’m sorry I sang so long.
SIR JP
I like the way your chest expands when you sing.
YEMILINA
You do?
SIR JP
And I’ll need more luck right now than ever before…so…if you don’t mind…
YEMILINA
Mind what?
SOUND: kissing
YEMILINA
(contented sigh)
I don’t mind a bit. You can have all the luck in my lips!
SOUND: kissing
SOUND: dragon roaring
SOUND: clanking armor
SOUND: saddle movement
SOUND: horse whine
SOUND: horse galloping
YEMILINA
Dragons…yes…a very good reason not to stay right here and keep kissing me.
SOUND: dragon roaring
SOUND: horse galloping
YEMILINA
Farewell, cave people of the future. Thank you for listening. I know how private Sir JP is about his feelings, so I’d best cut you off now, in case he gets the urge to dash back over here and express them more.
SOUND: roaring dragons
SOUND: running footsteps
YEMILINA
Of course, there’s a chance that what I’m really cutting you off from is the beginning of an epic battle. A battle which may decide our fate – whether we save the kingdom once and for all…or destroy it beyond recovery.
SOUND: roaring dragons
SOUND: clanking armor
SOUND: sword unsheathed
YEMILINA
Well, even if this does turn out to be that pivotal moment, it would be awkward to continue now that I’ve already said goodbye to you, wouldn’t it? So we’ll start again next time.
SOUND: dragon flames
SOUND: vivicord yelp
YEMILINA
If the vivicord is not caught in the cross-flames, you shall at least hear how we triumph or perish. Wish us luck!
SOUND: closing theme music