Script

Sir George and the Dragon

TITLE CARD. . . KINGDOM OF COTHERSTONE. . .

INT. THRONE ROOM OF KING ALFRED – DAY

KING ALFRED

Oh, Sir George! Thank heavens you’ve come!

I have a dragon harassing my Kingdom. Its cave is in the hills to the south. You can’t miss it.

SIR GEORGE

Have no fear, your Majesty. Killing dragons is what I do best.

SIR GEORGE dons his helmet and leaves.

Dissolve to:

EXT. ENTRANCE TO THE DRAGON’S CAVE – DAY

SIR GEORGE arrives at the large, intimidating ENTRANCE.

SIR GEORGE

Come out, Dragon! Face me!

Loud noises and deep, guttural growling answer his challenge. The DRAGON emerges from the cave and roars.

DRAGON

Urk!

It falls to the ground, dead.

SIR GEORGE

What the!?

SIR GEORGE approaches the DRAGON. He raises its eyelid with the end of his lance and peers into its eye, pulling back his visor for a better look.

He sticks his lance into the ground and leans on it.

SIR GEORGE

Well that was a wasted journey.

He looks down at his horse.

SIR GEORGE

What are we to do now, old boy?

There is a noise from inside the cave. SIR GEORGE looks up in time to see a flash of blue vanishing into the cave. He frowns and dismounts.

SIR GEORGE

(whispers) Wait here.

He retrieves his lance and heads inside the cave to investigate.

In the back of the cave is a DRAGONET curled up in a sobbing ball oblivious to his presence. He taps her on the shoulder; she jumps and passes out at the sight of him.

SIR GEORGE

This is all that's left? I'd be a laughing stock if I came back with this one's head! What a day this is turning out to be.

SIR GEORGE turns to leave.

DRAGONET

Wait! What happens to me?

SIR GEORGE

You? You’ll fend for yourself. And if you’re unlucky.

SIR GEORGE pulls down his visor.

SIR GEORGE

We’ll meet again.

DRAGONET

[gulps]

She follows him as he heads back to his HORSE.

DRAGONET

But I don't know how to fly, or breathe fire, or anything.

SIR GEORGE

I’m sorry to hear that.

DRAGONET

Can I stay with you?

SIR GEORGE

What makes you think I'd want to take you in?

DRAGONET

[puppy dog eyes]

SIR GEORGE

Oh all right.

DRAGONET

Yay!

Dissolve to:

EXT. ENTRANCE TO THE DRAGON’S CAVE – EARLY MORNING/DAY

SIR GEORGE impales a straw dummy into the ground and gestures for the DRAGONET to breathe fire at it. The DRAGONET coughs, spits and wheezes but produces nothing.

SIR GEORGE flaps his arms. The DRAGONET imitates him. SIR GEORGE facepalms.

SIR GEORGE throws the DRAGONET like a paper airplane. She glides for a few second before nosediving into the ground.

The DRAGONET charges a rock, knocking herself unconscious. SIR GEORGE shakes his head in dismay.

SIR GEORGE hefts the DRAGONET, who is now twice her previous size, above his head. She flails, trying to get out of his grasp.

SIR GEORGE

Stop struggling! I’m only going to throw you off this cliff.

DRAGONET

But I can’t fly!

SIR GEORGE

You don’t have to fly. Just glide! Whoa!

He throws her off but she clings to him pulling him with her. The DRAGONET glides down with SIR GEORGE hanging beneath her.

DRAGONET

I-I’m doing it! I’m really doing it! I’m fly-!

They hit the ground hard. SIR GEORGE grips his shoulder in pain.

DRAGONET

Oh no you’re hurt!

SIR GEORGE

No, no. It’s an old war injury that’s never healed properly. Acts up every now again.

DRAGONET

I’ve got something for that. I’ll be right back.

She hurries off and returns with a green/blue flower in her mouth. She boils it in water and gives him the juice to drink in a goblet.

DRAGONET

When I fell out of the cave once, I hurt my leg. My mum gave me some of this and it was fine in a few days.

SIR GEORGE sips it cautiously/dubiously and makes a face at the taste.

Dissolve to:

The DRAGONET exhales at the straw dummy, producing smoke. SIR GEORGE, who is now shown continuously sipping from the goblet, gives a small smile.

The DRAGONET charges the rock she previously knocked herself out on and cracks it. SIR GEORGE smiles in approval.

SIR GEORGE

Nicely done, Dragon.

The DRAGONET now fully a grown DRAGON breathes fire at the straw dummy, burning it to ash.

The DRAGON charges the cracked rock. It splits in two down the middle.

The DRAGON jumps off the cliff and flies.

Dissolve to:

DRAGON

Tada! I am done. Finished. What happens now?

SIR GEORGE

Is the question. I’m at a bit of a loss, I’m afraid. You see, my original intention once you’d finished was to fight and kill you and claim the reward for it in place of your mother.

DRAGON

[horrified look]

SIR GEORGE

But I’ve become rather attached to you.

DRAGON

[happy/relieved look]

SIR GEORGE

What are we going to do with you, Dragon?

DRAGON

Must you keep calling me that?

SIR GEORGE

What’s your name?

DRAGON

It’s. . . uh. . . I don’t know.

SIR GEORGE

Well we can’t have that, how about. . . Ascalon?

ASCALON

Ascalon. . . I like it!

SIR GEORGE

Then Ascalon it is.

ASCALON

But you still don’t know what we should do now?

SIR GEORGE

[sips from his cup. Looks down at it thoughtfully]

Hmm. I wonder. . .

Dissolve to:

A group of people approach the cave. The landscape has changed drastically; no bones littering the floor, instead rows upon rows of the green/blue mountain flower are now growing in large ‘gardens’.

They notice a figure followed by a small group of guards hurrying towards them.

KING ALFRED

Sir George! Ascalon! My Kingdom is under attack!

SIR GEORGE and ASCALON exchange looks.

ASCALON

Leave this to me.

THE END