#itwillbeoverprobably

Dragon's Prince

Outline

  Inside a castle, in a large sitting room with a roaring fire and hunting trophies on the walls, a young Prince Cederic de Bellemare and his elder brother Prince Brom runs up to an old man, their grandfather, King Col of Stonegate.  Prince Cederic begs the king to tell him stories.  The king obliges, picking Cederic up and telling him about how he used to be the greatest hunter in the land.  Cederic asks about the only empty pedestal and King Col explains how he once hunted a dragon, only to make friends with it instead.

Several years later, Cederic leads a hunting party.  He messes up, causing confusion among his men and allowing a stag to escape.  Brom tries to encourage Cederic, but they end up arguing.  Cederic needs to become a capable military leader before the impending war with another kingdom breaks out.  Cederic heads off alone.  Two men watch him and comment, one positive and one negative.  Both are generals who trained and mentored Cederic.

Along a beach, Cederic mumbles angrily about needing to prove himself, wishing he could just take down a dragon and gain the same trust and respect his brother commands.  A dragon rises up as if in answer, tumbling angrily out of the ocean.  Cederic battles the dragon, noticing that it is injured.  The first time his sword connects with it, it turns into a woman who collapses, naked.  Cederic wraps the woman in his cloak and brings her back to his men, telling Brom they need to go back to the castle.

Later in the evening, Cederic enters a guest room in his castle where the woman is sleeping.  A nurse tells him how the woman is doing before excusing herself.  Cederic wonders aloud who the woman is and where she came from, and then, suddenly, the woman awakens.  She leaps to her feet and demands to know where she is, who Cederic is, and what is going on.  They talk.  Her name is Rametta and she came to the mainland from the island of her people to look for a wizard to break a curse that has been placed upon them.  He agrees to help her gain audience with the king to ask for his help if her people will become their allies.  He gets some maids to help dress Rametta up to look presentable.  When they try to add jewelry, Rametta stops them because it is metal that causes her to turn into a dragon.

Before King Fendrel, Rametta repeats her request for aid in finding a wizard, offering the alliance of her people.  The king questions her, but before she can answer properly, she runs into metal and reverts to the form of a dragon.  She wrecks the room and moves out over the town until Cederic is able to turn her back.

Cederic is only just able to stop the king from having Rametta executed on the spot and it is instead determined that she will be thrown in the dungeons and executed properly the next day.  The king and Cederic argue until the king screams that there are no wizards, but after the king has left Brom reminds Cederic that their grandfather was good friends with a wizard, perhaps the last in the kingdom.

That night, Cederic frees Rametta from the dungeons and they escape together.  He found clues to the possible location of the wizard his grandfather knew in old letters, pointing them in the direction of a mountain.

When the king finds his son and the prisoner gone the next day, he sends out a search party and sets up a reward for any information on the two of them, treating it as if Rametta kidnapped Cederic.  Brom questions him about this, but the king evades his questions and dismisses him in order to write a letter.  He attaches the letter to a flacon and sends it off to the wizard at the mountain.

Cederic and Rametta wake up in an inn in the next town over from the capital.  One of the king’s search parties arrives just as they are leaving, forcing them to make a run out the back door.  Cederic is able to outmaneuver them because he knows how they work.  Rametta comments on this and Cederic complains as the second prince, he is expected to be a military leader, but he is no good at it.  He works better alone.  Rametta scoffs at him, purporting that one cannot do everything alone.  Even she needs his help on her quest.

Later that day, Cederic and Rametta realize that they have been going in circles in a forest.  Cederic knows his tracking skills are better than that, and Rametta realizes they are caught in a magic trap.  Cederic hopes this means there really is a wizard, but Rametta cautions that magic can live on even after a wizard dies the same way parts of magical creatures are used in spells, and they might have stumbled upon an old trap.  They wander and struggle to figure out how to break out with no magic of their own.  Cederic laments that Rametta cannot control her dragon form and fly them out.  Rametta lashes out at him for having no idea what it is like for her, to be such a powerful beast when she has no control and only remember when she is a weak human.  They use Rametta’s dragon form to break free, risking death and madness.  When they make it out, Rametta hugs Cederic before pulling away awkwardly.

Just outside the forest, the king’s men are waiting for them.  The appearance of a dragon caused some panic, but they rally to rescue their prince, capturing Rametta with ropes and wooden weapons to keep her from transforming.  They keep her tied up far from any metal.

One of the leading generals is Cederic’s old mentor.  Cederic tells him what is really going on, and he agrees to help them escape and continue their quest.  Just as they reach the edge of the camp and grab horses, the other general, a man who also trained Cederic and has always looked down on him, appears.  He and Cederic duel.  When the prince turns to leave, the man rises and aims to stab Cederic in the back, but Rametta knocks the man out with one punch.  She and Cederic escape laughing on horseback while the rest of the knights start to awaken and head over.

In the foothills of the mountain, Cederic and Rametta stop to rest near a lake.  Cederic's shirt was ripped in the duel, and Rametta finally notices the necklace he wears with a dragon scale for a pendent.  Cederic tells Rametta about his grandfather and the stories he told about how noble and intelligent dragons were.  He brushes them off as just stories, but Rametta encourages him to hold onto those memories because not everything is as it seems.

A faerie under contract with the magician tries to trap them in the lake.  They defeat it, nullifying the contract, and out of gratitude and for its own amusement, it offers them a lift on the wind to the top of the mountain, where the wizard lives.

At the top of the mountain, they realize they do not know how to find the wizard.  In frustration, Rametta yells for the wizard to come out from wherever he is hiding.  The wizard pops up behind them on top of a tree, commenting that appearing before people who want to kill you is generally a bad idea.  Cederic asks what he is talking about and the wizard asks if they are there to kill the wizard who cursed Rametta’s people.  Rametta is stonily silent while Cederic explains they are looking to break the curse, and killing the only known wizard would be counterproductive.

The wizard invites them inside his hidden home to talk where they meet the wizard’s father — the one who cast the curse on the dragons.  Rametta reveals she wants to kill him.  They have his son, so he can go ahead and die for what he did.  However, it is revealed that the curse was a mistake.  It was supposed to be a spell to help Rametta’s people because they were being hunted.  They were never supposed to lose their minds, but the wizard was not good enough.  Rametta storms out to clear her head and break things while Cederic talks to the wizards.  After years of research, they are close to a spell to fix the curse so that Rametta’s people can retain both their true forms and their minds, but they are missing a final piece: something from a dragon.  Cederic offers his scale, but solid items like that won't work.  They need something malleable, like an organ, to put in a potion.  It turns out the string the scale was on was made of dragon heartstring.

The spell completed, they test it on Rametta, who turns into a dragon to Cederic’s shock and dismay.  It is revealed that this is Rametta’s true form — her people are dragons. Cederic is upset she lied to him, but she never said she was human.  She adds that it is not her fault he did not get it.  Although she does wish she could be a princess for him, they both have duties to their own people.  They explain to the wizards, who are rather out of the loop, about the looming war.  The younger wizard suggests an alternative plan.

At a meeting with the kingdom threatening war, Rametta kidnaps the princess of that kingdom.  Her father offers half the kingdom to whoever can rescue her.  Cederic offers his services.

And the beginning of the script (apologies for what is probably going to end up as a lot of awkward spacing -- it's all in proper format on Word):

FADE IN

  INT. CASTLE - EVENING

  A roaring fire fills the screen.  Pulling back, a fireplace is revealed, followed by a chair, bookcases, and the rest of a warm study.  It is filled with hunting trophies ‑- stag heads and antlers, a stuffed bear, etc.  Two boys, YOUNG PRINCES CEDERIC and BROM, run up to an old man, KING COL, their grandfather, sitting in a chair by the fire.

                          YOUNG CEDERIC

          Your Majesty, Your Majesty!

                          KING COL

          What is it, child, what is it?

  King Col stands and picks up Cederic while Brom hangs onto his leg.

                          YOUNG CEDERIC

          Tell me a story, Your Majesty!

                          KING COL

          A story!  What kind of story?

                          YOUNG BROM

          A true story.

                          KING COL

Well then!  How about a story about one of these?

  King Col draws the princes' attentions to the hunting trophies.  Cederic and Brom nod excitedly.

                          KING COL

Alright, then.  You see this bear here?  Probably my finest--

                YOUNG CEDERIC

What about that?

  Cederic points to an empty pedestal set to the side.

                          KING COL

That?  Why it's an empty pedestal for a creature I'll never catch.

                YOUNG BROM

There's an animal you cannot catch?

                KING COL

Oh, yes.  I hunted that beast for years, you know, as did my father before me, and his father before him.

                YOUNG CEDERIC

But you didn't catch it?

                KING COL

Oh, I caught it.  But I did not kill it.  You see, I was hunting a dragon.

                YOUNG BROM

Father says there's no such thing.

                KING COL

Your father has cabbages for brains.

  King Col and Cederic share a laugh while Brom pouts.

                KING COL (CONT'D)

No, no.  There used to be dragons all over the kingdom.  You could hardly step outside town without running into one!  But somebody found out that dragon scales made good armor.  Then somebody else found out that the horns -- Well, that's all a bit complicated for you, isn't it?  Suffice to say that many people hunted the dragons until they were almost all gone.

  Cederic and Brom gasp and King Col nods solemnly.

                KING COL (CONT'D)

I hunted them, too.  I was sure the one I caught was the last in the whole kingdom.

                YOUNG BROM

Is that why you didn't kill it?

                KING COL

A little.  But more importantly, I didn't kill it because...

  King Col pauses dramatically and the princes hold their breath.

                KING COL (CONT'D)

It became my friend.

  The princes gasp in disbelief.

                YOUNG CEDERIC

How do you make friends with a dragon?

                KING COL

It helps if you talk to them.  Dragons aren't like other beasts.  They have a touch of magic to them.  Always remember, my child: Not all is what it seems.

  EXT. FOREST - MORNING

  A stag strolls through the foliage.  CEDERIC, a young man on horseback, signals to his HUNTING PARTY.  A few of them exchange glances, but follow orders.  They go too close and the stag is scared off.  Cederic leads the hunting party after it, but gives bad directions and the prey is lost.

                CEDERIC

Blast it!

  Another man on horseback, Cederic's elder brother and the heir prince, BROM, rides up alongside Cederic, clapping him on the shoulder.

                BROM

Worry not, brother.  We'll catch the next one.

  Cederic roughly shrugs off Brom's hand.

                CEDERIC

Or we'll lose the next one like we've lost the last three!  I told you this was a bad idea.

                BROM

And I told you it was necessary.  You'll never learn to lead the knights into war if you cannot even lead them through the woods.

                CEDERIC

And we'll all starve if we leave this up to me.

                BROM

Cederic --

                CEDERIC

Just stop, Brom.  I'm going for a ride.

  Cederic rides away.  Two KNIGHTS, generals of the army, watch him go.

                KNIGHT 1

We'll be doomed if he leads us into war.

                KNIGHT 2

Careful.  We're not even sure there will be a war.

                KNIGHT 1

That war is as obvious as Prince Cederic's complete lack of military skills.

                KNIGHT 2

So as obvious as young Borin's beard.

  A squire, BORIN, looks up from watering the horses.  His beard is all but nonexistent.

  EXT. BEACH ON THE EDGE OF THE FOREST - SAME MORNING

  Cederic walks along the beach, his horse tied to a tree.

                CEDERIC

     (muttering)

Blasted stag.  Just because King John doesn't know how to say "no" to his daughter, I have to prove myself a military leader and lead the knights into battle, to their deaths...

  A dragon rises out of the ocean with a roar, showering Cederic with water.  Cederic fumbles out his sword as the dragon draws closer, snarling and smoking.

                CEDERIC

Dragon.  You're supposed to be extinct.

  Cederic barely dodges as the dragon exhales fire at him.  Rolling back to his feet, Cederic swings his sword as the dragon lunges at him, but misses.  They move back into the forest as they fight.  The first time Cederic's sword makes contact with it, the dragon disappears, replaced by a naked woman.

                          CEDERIC

          A witch?  What just happened?

  Cederic approaches carefully, poking the woman with his foot.  When she does not wake, Cederic wraps his cloak around her and picks her up.  He lifts her onto his horse with him and rides back to his men.

  EXT. THE KNIGHTS' CAMP IN THE FOREST - SAME MORNING

  Cederic rides into the camp.  Brom rises to greet him.

                          BROM

There you are, Cederic.  I was beginning to fear you had returned home.

                          CEDERIC

You were wrong.  But we are going home now.

                BROM

You cannot just abandon the hunt.

                CEDERIC

((asdfgh no problem~ you can ask as many as you want to

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t

uhh.  In HTTYD... none?  I don't really have a problem with not liking whatever ships I don't like and there aren't any that I particularly dislike anyway.  That goes for every fandom I'm in, I'm not much of a shipper in general.

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom

hehehe, probably Harry Potter, since I've been a Potterhead since I was six.  I tend to fade out of fandoms, but I was a strong Potterhead throughout my childhood, up until around the last book, and it's never really left me.

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

ooh.  HTTYD AU where the dragons are actually a tribe with a werewolf like curse.

W - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms

HTTYD: Toothless

Free!: Makoto Tachibana

[wow this is hard um]

Harry Potter: Remus Lupin

Natsume Yuujinchou: Takashi Natsume

Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan: Hanji Zoe

X - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms

[OTP OF OTPS] Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE/Card Captor Sakura: Syaoran Li and Sakura Kinomoto

Harry Potter: Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley

[SECOND OTP OF OTPS] Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld: Aleksander Ferdinand and Deryn Sharp

I don’t mind at all! :)

Okay, my top 5 songs are:

Beautiful Day

Gone, Gone, Gone

Light ‘Em Up

Nothing Left to Say/Rocks

Black Out

Top 5 items in my room:

My bed

My bookshelf

My 1D poster

My jewelry box

Deviation meme:

Astrid's squeezing Hiccup as he'd only imagined in his dreams, but she's screaming 'put me down, put me down' into his ears so loudly he can't take any comfort in it.

(ayuh!) Deviation meme:

He fires the canon and the bola spins into the ocean. His target melts into the sky like a shadow. Hiccup steps back from his invention, crestfallen but not surprised.  Tonight would be no different than any other night.