Screenplay ~~- Flame (The Witch Who Stole Jesus)

FlameWar Kidnaps Whitey 'Jesus'

2422 Characters =~2.4Min. Reading Time
THEN, OUTSIDE AT THE NAZARETH IN THE DAYTIME:

High in the sky:

FLAMEWAR
GIRL Power!

FlameWar extends both hands down toward BuzzWorm.
Sparks FLY, FRY BuzzWorm's screaming face.

BuzzWorm spins, SCREAMS, falls, wings flopping.

FAR BELOW, townspeople dance around White Baby:

BRATS
(sing)
Jesus BarAbbas will kill the Roman scum!
Jesus BarAbbas will kick some pagan bum!
BarAbba! BarAbba! BarAbba rabbah rabbah!
BarAbba! BarAbbs! BarAbba rabbah rabbah!

(FAR ABOVE: Buzzworm falls closer to the singers.)

TOWNSPEOPLE
Jesus son of the Father
Will save us from our sins
Jesus son of the Father
Will bake some pagan skins
Jesus son of the Father
Will crucify the dogs
Jesus son of the Father
Will gut the Gentile hogs!
Hallelu!

[THUD!] BuzzWorm THUDS on the ground next to White Baby.

The knife-wielding MOIL runs. Screaming townspeople scatter.

FlameWar swoops down, grabs White Baby from the grasping fingers of Barbara BarAbba, flies up in victory over the screaming crowd.

BARBARA BARABBA
(hands up)
Jump to Mommy, Jeezus!

White Baby's booties JINGLE.

FLAMEWAR
(irritated)
Bells!

FlameWar rips off the booties, chunks them down into Barbara BarAbba's eye. Barbara BarAbba SCREAMS.

FLAMEWAR
(WarBeast-Faced)
die, Messiah!

FlameWar holds White Baby at arm's length, shoots red-eye-rays that BURN White Baby's nose.

FlameWar's body JOLTS. The red-eye-rays BLAST a circle around Nazareth's city-walls.
The town CRASHES to the ground.

POV: FLY into Flamewar's angry eyes, down the optic nerve, into the cave-like brain-space.


THEN, INSIDE THE FLAME'S BRAIN AT NIGHT:

Flame pushes WarBeast to the brain-ground. Neurons FIRE underneath WarBeast's butt.

WARBEAST
(hands flail)
I never woulda' possessed you if you'd told me you wanted kids, Flame!

Flame drops to her knees before WarBeast.

FLAME
It's my body! You can't use it to kill the sinless Christ-child!

WarBeast towers over Flame, bends her back on her knees. He JABS switch-blade-fingers at Flame's abdomen.

WARBEAST
It's MY body! When we get back to my cave I'm eatin' your uterus!

Flame hears a toddler cry. She darts her head toward the optic nerve. She sees:


OUTSIDE AT THE NAZARETH IN THE DAYTIME:

BAMBEE BARABBA
(crawls from rubble)
Bawabby!

FlameWar STUFFS White Baby down the neckline of 'her' dress, JETS back south.

BARBARA BARABBA
(chases FlameWar)
Gimme my JEEZUS!