The
KNIGHTS
Of the EVERLASTING FALL
By Justiice osarumese ihimekpen
CAST
DRACO: THE LEADER OF THE KNIGHTS.
TROY: SECOND IN COMMAND.
WAYNE: THRID IN COMMAND.
SALAZAR: THE KING OF ENGLAND.
HETOR: GENERAL OF ALL THE TROOPS OR ENGLAND.
RANT: CAPTAIN OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH BATALION.
HOTGAR:THE ELDER OF THE VILLAGE GLIRU.
HERMIS:THE KINGS ELDER BRROTHER.
CORMAC:ONE OF THE KNIGHTS.
VAN:ONE OF THE KNIGHTS.
PREFACE
This is a story of three musketeers, of the royal troops of England who were unnwilliing to serve under the tresourous new king. So they backed out and fought against the king.
And they became fugitives. They gathered their own army of tree men. They were hunted all over the kingdom by the king, but they grew stronger and greater , and they came to be known as.
The knights of the everlasting fall
ACT ONE
(The three musketeers Draco, wayne and troy
Lying down at night trying to get some sleep
At the Knights camp)
Wayne: who ever thought after all the years of being a
Musketeer we would be enemies with the king.
Draco: yeah, destiny is funny thing Wayne, you never know whats gonna happen
Wayne: I ‘can’t believe there was a time when we would pledge our allegiance to that monster and swear to serve and protect him.
Troy: why don’t you two stop thinking about that and start
thinking about getting some sleep. We have some recruits to train tomorrow.
Wayne: why are we still recuitings? We have fifthy men already
Isn’t that enough?
Draco: wayne’s right troy we don’t want to cause commotions
While travelling. Send away the recruits tell them we no
longer need recruits. Let’s just focus on training the ones we have.
Troy: sure, it will be done first thing in the morning.
Draco: now let’s just try and get some sleep, we will need it.
(They all close their eye, sigh and sleep)
Scene 2
(at the kings palace still trying to find the knights)
KING SALAZAR: so tell me general, what is our most recent known position of the rebels?.
GEN HECTOR: am sorry my lord, but they haven’t been sported since our last encounter six months ago
KING SALAZAR: (in a harsh tone)yes an encounter which I was led to believe that they bested and defeated your best troops.
GEN HECTOR: am sorry my lord but
KING SALAZAR: but what general? We trained these men are you saying we cant even know how they think?
GEN HECTOR : but my lord we are trying our best.
KING SALAZAR: (having calmed down a little) your so called best isn’t good enough. Pull all your resources into this, I want those rebels found and killed understood?
GEN HECTOR : yes my lord(walks away)
SCENE 3
(its morning at the camp of the knights everyone are already up, having breakfast)
TROY: This is good (referring to the food)hey van, tell new recruit to go home, we no longer need more men.
VAN: Yes TROY
DRACO: we should be on the road soon we don’t want an angry recruit tipping off Salazar’s men on our location.
TROY: Draco’s right,
DRACO: van immediately the last set of men leave tell the soldiers to get ready to ride.
VAN: yes sir
DRACO: (facing Wayne who was eating very slowly smiling)wayne eat up we are leaving as soon as the men are ready.
WAYNE: sure man, I’ll be done in no time ( troy laughs) what are you laughing at mate?
TROY: nothing man anything at all.
(Ten minutes later, all the men were ready, and so was Troy, Wayne and Draco. They were already on their horses and were ready to ride)
Draco : alright guys it’s time. We ride to the village duru but stay on the forest paths so we can’t be sported lets go (kicks off on his horse and was followed by everyone)
SCENE 4
(it was noon they made it to the village getting closer Draco halts the knights because something was not right)
DRACO: (in a loud voice) something not right Mate. Wayne dismounts, let’s have a closer look. The rest of you stay here. (They came down from their horses and quietly moved closer to take a look they then found out the kings men had taken over the village so they went to the other men)
TROY: I cant believe this what is this system coming to
WAYNE : this is bad what are we gonna do
DRACO : what we always do dismount unload and get ready for battle.
TROY : alright Mates lets do this
DRACO : Boys here we go again … ATTACK!!!
(They charge into the village and started killing the kings soldiers greatly) (the kings men ran away from the village)
DRACO: victory is ours gentlemen (the knights cheer loudly)
HOTGAR: it’s good to see you DRACO, TROY and WAYNE.
TROY: hey HOTGAR have you got fatter (laughs)
DRACO: good to see you too hotgar . how long has this place been under salazar.
HOTGAR: four months we are just lucky you came when you did.
SCENE 5
(Captain rant rides back to the royal palace to report to the king)(Speaking to the guard at the gate)
CAP RANT: open the gates open the gates (captain rant walks into the throne room and bows down)
KING SALAZAR: captain rants what news of the village duru.
CAP RANT: my lord I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the knights of the everlasting fall have taken over the village duru
KING SALAZAR: what when did this happen?
CAP RANT: two hours ago my lord.
KING SALAZAR: gather your army your entire fourth battalions go back to the village leave no one alive.
CAP RANT: yes my lord (turn back to leave)
KING SALAZAR: and captain send for my brother from the dungeon I think he can give us an idea of the rebels next move
CAP RANT: but my lord how can your brother help us he’s a traitor.
KING SALAZAR: yes but he was the commanding officer to the rebels before my father’s death he should be able to tell us something.
CAP RANT: yes my lord( leaves the throne room)(speaking to a guard) get the king brother from the dungeon aand bring him to the king
GUARD: yes sir
SCENE 6
(a guard walk into his cell)
HERMIS: what is this what have I done wrong.
GUARD: nothing the king orders your presence lets go (the guard drags hermis into the throne room)
SCENE 7
HERMIS: what do you want Salazar?
( in harsh tone)
SALAZAR: good to see you too big brother.
HERMIS: am guessing you didn’t bright me here to make gist of me.
KING SALAZAR: as always hermis straight to business well some of your former musketeers are causing me trouble hermis.
HERMIS: I was a general Salazar I had many musketeers under me why do you think I would know the ones you mean.
KING SALAZAR: oh you do know them hermis they were your favorites DRACO, TROY and WAYNE.
HERMIS: hmm well even if I do know them it’s your problem not mine am sorry brother I can’t help you.
KING SALAZAR: you were always like this hermis a traitor.
( in a loud voice) guard GET him out of my sight take him back to the dungeon and keep him there.
GUARD: yes my lord
KING SALAZAR: and tell captain rant to come in.
( the guard takes hermis back to his cell and captain rant walks in)
SCENE 8
CAP RANT: my lord
KING SALAZAR: captain when you will be ready to depart.
CAP RANT: my men will be ready by dawn my lord we depart immediately they are ready.
KING SALAZAR: good and remember I want them all dead.
CAP RANT: yes my lord (walk away)
lights out
ACT 2
SCENE 9
(It morning at the village duru while the men were training)
DRACO: van take two men be on the lookout if there’s trouble run back here as fast as you can.
TROY: you know it really felt good taking out soldiers yesterday
WAYNE: yeah me too
DRACO: well don’t be so smiley about it.
WAYNE: why? We beat them
DRACO: they will be coming for a rematch and this time there will more of them.
WAYNE: well, let them come
TROY: yeah am sick and tired of waiting for the fight to come to us.
WAYNE: am with troy on this one I think is time we showed those soldiers what we can do.
VAN: (running toward Draco breathing heavily) they are coming... They are coming……….
DRACO: (in a loud voice) ring the warning bell guys come on. You want to show them TROY, here your chance (draws sword)
SCENE 10
(back at the kings army)
CAP RANT: ( on the horse facing the battalions)men today we fight for the victory of the king(men cheering) in the name of Salazar attack………. (men cheer in war cry and attack, both side meet each other in battle but the knights were out numbered, and lost over fifteen men, then one of the knights beat capture captain rant)
CORMAC: DRACO we have rant, we have rant
(on hearing this the soldiers retreated and rant was tied to a tree)
DRACO: (facing rant) well its rant, isn’t it? captain rant (smiling)
WAYNE: hey rant how are you doing
TROY: well, well if it isn’t captain rant himself
DRACO: well done cormac, good job
CAP RANT: why are you all doing this, you are betraying your one true king.
DRACO: if you say one true king, then you know nothing about the royal family you claim to love and serve.
CAP RANT: Salazar remains the one true king. Hermes remains a traitor to the land, and I serve my king.
DRACO: Hush rant, don’t you dare say anything about my lord hermes. Do you know Salazar framed his brother?
TROY: yeah do you even know about that captain.
CAP RANT: everyone know about that hermis is a traitor, he rots in the dungeons.
TROY: that’s what Salazar told everyone.
WAYNE: yeah very few people knew what really happen why do you think Salazar wants us dead so badly
DRACO:five years ago while their father was sick,Salazar and hermis were already at each other’s necks. then we were serving under hermis as general, and we were his favourite.the night their father died, he announced hermis as his successor but Salazar never wanted his brother to be king, he wanted the throne for himself so he planned with three other ranking generals and tried to overthrow hermis. He tried to kill hermis with his battle plots a lot of times but he failed, when Salazar saw he wasn’t succeeding, he decided to do something more dangerous, one night Salazar got hermis drunk and took him to the chambers of the prime minister who never supported hermis as king. There Salazar stabbed the minister with hermis’ daggers, and left hermis in the chamber with the minister’s body, with the dagger in his hand. So when the minister’s servant came in he called for help and hermis was charged for murder and was declared a traitor trying to betray his own people… Salazar as the only available heir became king and hermis was jailed. Two nights after Salazar was crowned we broke out of the palace and never fought for England again.
CAP RANT: how do you know all this? (In astonishment)
TROY: because during the planning Salazar tried to buy us also , because we were close to hermis. And when he found out he couldn’t, we became the target…
SCENE 11
(its noon already news just got to General Hector of the defeat and capture of captain rant)
GEN HECTOR: (walks into the palace and bows down) my lord we just received news of captain rant and his battalion
KING SALAZAR: so, what news of our good captain.
GEN HECTOR: captain rant has been captured by the rebels and the entire fourth battalion is no where to be found.
KING SALAZAR: what! How did this happen?
GEN HECTOR: I am sory my lord but I don’t know.
KING SALAZAR: these knights are starting to seem undeafeatable. Well since we cant beat them lets wait to see their next move. General, make sure the perimeter guards are on high alert…
SCENE 12
(its night , cap rant has been loosed although still in shock, he now wants to help the knights)
CAP RANT: (talking to draco,troy and wayne) hey guys having heard the truth I want to help you.
TROY: how?
CAP RANT: if hermis is the elder then he is surposed to be king right?
WAYNE: yes!
CAP RANT: we can storm the palace take care of Salazar and free hermis.
DRACO: with fifty men? Not a chance.
CAP RANT: How about with a battalion.my soldiers will do whatever I command even if it means killing the king. I attacked you with my fourth battalion so my fifth battalion remains intact.
TROY: How many men do you have, exactly?
CAP RANT: Twenty thousand.
DRACO: this might actually work. Rant, tomorrow first thing go to your garrison and gather your men. We should be ready by noon.
TROY: isn’t that too soon for the men?
WAYNE: Mates let me talk to you for a second.
(they step aside to talk among themselves) a moment ago this bloke just tried to slaughter us all, we are just going to trust him?
DRACO: Grant is real patriot wayne, a honorable soldier with integrity, he stands for whatever is right… we can trust him… Hermes would want us to… And the more time we waste, the more we risk our plan getting out.
ACT 3
SCENE 13
(its morning , cap rant rides out to gather his battalion)
CAP RANT: TROY , tell the the others am gone. And they better be ready when I get back.
TROY: ( sitting close to a fire)don’t worry we will be ready.(rant rides out)
DRACO: van, tell the men to get ready. We march for the royal palace in five hours
VAN: yes sir
( in ten minutes the news were spread around the camp the men were training, getting ready, while the women in the village were cleaning the guns and sharpening the swords.)
SCENE 14
( four hours later)
VAN: ( standing on a hill watching out for trouble) they are here sir, they are here.(referring to captain and his battalion)
DRACO: alright men arm yourselves get ready to move. ( facing troy who was kneeling down praying)hey man are you okay?
TROY: am fine (getting up)
DRACO: I never knew you prayed.
WAYNE: (walking towards them) you know there comes a time in a man’s life, when he must embark on strange things to survive.
TROY: yeah ; now let’s go show those idiots what we can do ( they walk towards the orders who were already on their horses waiting for them, they get on their horses and they lead off as the others follows them to meet rants battalion)
SCENE 15
DRACO: (as he rides up to rant) hey rant.
CAP RANT: hi Draco, how are you doing
DRACO: just fine.. I see you brought your fifth battalion
CAP RANT: just like I promised.
TROY: yeah, now let’s go kick some royal ass.
DRACO: (in a loud voice) alright lets do this(men cheer in agreement) RIDE……………….(he kicks off, as well as rant ,troy and Wayne as the men follows closely behind)(they move in readiness, prepared for anything.)(thinking about their dead love ones and ready to take their vengeance.)
SCENE 16
(Fifteen minutes later)
(They arrive in front of the palace, Draco halts them and stand in front of them facing them)
DRACO: friends, brothers, for long time we’ve been on the run, we’ve been hunted all over our country, some of us killed. Right there (pointing at the palace) in that palace lies the source of our past and present adversaries. (Men cheer)
TROY: knights of the everlasting fall (in a loud voice) Let’s Ride (they stormed in ad started killing the royal guards.)
SCENE 17
(Guard dashes into the throne room )
GUARD: (talking to king Salazar) my lord , the knights of the everlasting fall are storming the castle sir.
KING SALA ZAR: with fifty men?
GUARD: Actually my lord, captain rant and his men are with them.
KING SALAZAR: No (in anger) damn you rant.(now facing the guard) you get to the stables and ready a carriage we leave immediately.
GUARD: what about the others sir.
KING SALAZAR: tell them to keep fighting to the death.
GAURD: but sir they will die.
KING SALAZAR: if we don’t get out of here we will all die, they are only fighting as a diversion for our escape ready the carriage we leave through the back way
GUARD: yes my lord (He now walks away to carry out the kings orders)
SCENE 18
( ten minutes later the knights has already fought their way into the castle, meanwhile Salazar ran into the stables to meet the guard, which himself had finished preparing the carriage)
GUARD: (talking to Salazar) my lord, my lord its ready sir
KING SALAZAR: good let’s get out of here.
(He jumps inside the carriage and the driven seat and they drove off through the back way)
SCENE 19
(Draco, troy and rant along with Wayne were already inside the castle troy and Wayne took over the throne room while Draco and rant went for the dungeons to free hermis)
DRACO: (talking to rant) hey, which way to the dungeons
CAP RANT: Follow me, I’ll take you there (he now leads Draco to the dungeons
HERMIS: (seeing someone coming towards his cell)
Draco, is that you, mate?
DRACO: (smiling) yes old friend your time here is done.
HERMIS: (on seeing rant) so captain I see your allegiance has changed.
CAP RANT: my lord, my allegiance were never stable sir.
DRACO: let’s get you were you belong. (he supports hermis as he leads him to the throne room)
SCENE 20
(Draco now enters the throne room along with rant and hermis.)
DRACO: TROY I got something for you guys.
(Troy who was backing the door now turned around, and so did Wayne)
TROY&WAYNE: my lord(seeing hermis they both bow down)
TROY: (having stood up) it’s good to see you sir.
HERMIS: likewise troy, like wise, and you too Wayne.
WAYNE: together again sir.
HERMIS: together again my friend (now the men had already took over the palace, and had won the battle)
SCENE 21
(Two days later, now hermis was being sworn in as king)
PREIST: (standing in front of, hermis who was facing the ground. with Draco, Wayne, troy and rant by his side.) once again will the people of engstowe live in peace… all hail king hermis.
PEOPLE: (bowing down) long live the king, long live the king.
(Hermis raise his hand to silence the crowd he now turns around
KING HERMIS: (facing Draco, troy, Wayne and Rant). Here me England you were forced, under the rule of Salazar. But someone came and freed us all, I present to you your heroes (pointing at draco, troy, wayne and rant.)
(People cheering)
And by the powers vested in me, I proclaim these four noble men, generals of our noble army (people cheering.)
SCENE 22
(Its two hours past noon the different GENERALS of the army including the newly appointed generals and the king are holding a meeting)
KING HERMIS: So generals any news of Salazar.
GENERAL DRACO: Sir the guards said Salazar was spotted leaving through the back way.
GENERAL JADE: If it’s true then Salazar is long way gone.
GENERAL RANT: I think we should widen our search.
GENERAL TROY: But we ………….
(A guard busts in and cuts troy off)
GUARD: My lords we found Salazar, he’s been brought in by patrols.
KING HERMIS: Where is he now?
GUARD: In the dungeons sir.
KING HERMIS: Bring him to me, he faces judgement immediately.
GUARD: Yes my lord.
(Walks away)
SCENE 23
(The entire court is ready for Salazar’s judgment, the guards throws Salazar into the king throne room)
KING HERMIS: Welcome back brother
(Seated on his throne)
SALAZAR: Good to see you hermis
KING HERMIS: I wish I could say the same Salazar you have been charged with murder and treachery Salazar. How do you plead?
SALAZAR: Go to hell
KING HERMIS: You showed me no mercy so I’ll show you none. By the powers vested in me, I sentence you to death to be carried out immediately.
(Court cheers and claps loudly)
SCENE 25
(After the execution Draco and Hermis walking in the garden)
KING HERMIS: Thank you Draco
GENERAL DRACO: what for my lord?
KING HERMIS: For everything, I couldn’t have done it without you.
GENERAL DRACO: My lord, Salazar might be dead, but what about those loyal to him.
KING HERMIS: Enough bloodshed General… Salazar is dead Draco, and that’s what matters now, as for the others if they ever come we will be ready for them.
(Lights out)
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to those who are in need of hope, strength and courage and May they find it, And also to a dear friend who inspired it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Justice Osarumese Ihimekpen, Now CEO Gold Empire, wrote this book as a secondary school boy, He is generally known as a science student but has a great love for general creativity. He also refers to it as an extra talent, He loves creativity and invention.
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