Excerpt from: Revenge of The Kelp

[Ginny Moon]

(This has an interesting background; I wrote a play with a friend of mine, Corinne, a long time ago. The play starred us, and we had to defeat this monster called The Kelp, which is a Hippocamp (half-horse, half-fish). The whole play was a joke, as the characters constantly alluded to the fact that they were in a play, and I think even asked the audience for help once. Anyway, I got bored once, so I decided to write this as a sequel to the original "The Kelp" story. The actual play is pretty long, in pages, so this is just a promotional excerpt.)

Excerpt from
The Revenge of The Kelp

A short play by Ronni C.
Inspired by a never-to-be play be Corinne H. & Ronni C., of which this is the sequel

Act One
Scene Four
EXT. The Beach

The girls are curious, and they creep closer slowly. When they both get close enough to see what it is, they both gasp

Corinne: It looks like -
Ronni: - The Kelp's -
Corinne: it's head! -
[They stare for a beat]
Ronni: At least, I hope, it's dead
Corinne: Well, of course, we killed it. But, whats it still doing here?
Ronni: Musta not washed out to sea properly
Corinne: That's kinda dumb
Ronni: I know
[They stare for a beat]
Ronni: So, uh, what do we do now?
Corinne: I have no idea. Maybe we should tie a bunch of rocks to it and throw it out to sea again. Or we could nail it to a plank of wood and hang it on our walls
Ronni: Or the town hall so everyone would know its really dead
Corinne: Or something like that
[At that moment, the head of The Kelp raises out of the water, and the body is still attached to it. It moves toward the girls]
Ronni: Um, is that normal?
Corinne: It's still alive!
Ronni: How!?
Corinne: I don't know, but run!
[Corinne screams and both girls run away from the beach, towards the town. The Kelp slowly follows them, but gaining speed]
Ronni: Wait, It's following us!
Corinne: Run faster then!
Ronni: No, we can't go towards town! It'll wreck havoc on everyone again!
Corinne: Oh, right! Towards the peninsula then!
[They change course and head towards a nearby peninsula. When they get there, they look around and realize they're stuck.]
Corinne: Oh no! There's no way to escape now!
Ronni: No! We can't die, not after we just killed The Kelp!
The Kelp: No...! I am not dead!! I Live!! And you...you to shall Die!!
Ronni: But we killed you! Why aren't you dead!
The Kelp: You pathetic mortal can not kill me! But I... I will... not kill you....
Corinne: What?
The Kelp: No...no, my beauties. I am greatly sorry for any trouble I know I caused. Let me make it up to you...you two. I will let you ride my back, I will. I will let you use me like a slave....
Ronni: And why would we do that?
Corinne: We're not going to treat you like a slave, no matter how evil you are!
The Kelp: No, no, you must, there is no other why I can repay the debt! Ride me... ride me!
Ronni: Wait... no! We wont ride you!
Corinne: You're tricking us, aren't you?
Ronni: You'll drown us!
Corinne: Go back to the dark depths of the sea! Go back to the evil waters from which you came from! Leave this peaceful town and it's people to live in... peace!
[The kelp hisses (yes, hisses) at Corinne and runs towards her. Ronni pulls Corinne out of the way, and the Kelp jumps into the water and swims away.]
Ronni: Very profound. Very dramatic. We'd better figure out why it didn't die
Corinne: I sounded cool, didn't I? The words just came to me, like I was reading them from the script and I hadn't memorized them
Ronni: Yes, very good. I guess its a good thing you were in Drama during Middle School, else you wouldn't have gotten into Drama during High School
Corinne: Yeah, well, we'd better go, like you said, and figure out why The Kelp is still alive. We killed it, I thought
Ronni: I thought too. Come on, lets go.