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(just a tip before you start reading this: this is mainly on here for copyright reasons, the characters aren't described in detail because anakus and I know exactly what they look like/act like, but i hope it will be enjoyable anyway)

Combat High script

Cool things for tony to say:
Luck is a sore loser’s excuse
Why run away from something that can’t kill you?
Friends do nothing but hold you back.
Everybody uses you for something. If not for affection then for something else.
It is only once we realise our flaws that we truly realise we are flawless
The value of any art is constant for eternity
To kill is to create

The writing at the beginning of the first issue is talking about how tony and jon are connected spiritually in some way. They are good friends, but then something tears them apart and they become enemies, they are then drawn back to each other for some other reason but are still complete opposites.
Issue 1:
One frame of just writing: All things begin with an explosion.
Jon sitting in windowsill. In this frame, include a few stats about Jon like a mini profile (name, age, dob etc. NOT talent)
Butterfly flies onto his hand.
Another frame of writing: Everything in the realms of space, time, and spirits move away from each other.
Voice: JON!
Butterfly flies away.
Matt walks in. Show a brief profile for Matt.
Another frame of writing: They then get so far away from each other that they are brought back together.
Matt: C’mon, we’re going to be late for morning training.
Jon: *Sigh* Ok, have the others already gone?
Matt: Yeah
Another frame of writing: They reunite with a collision.
Show a frame of Ril punching Tony and sending him flying.
Show brief profile for Ril.
Tony getting up rubbing his head: Ril, you SOB, you get stronger every time. (show brief profile for tony)
Tony walks over to Ril and they shake hands
Another frame of writing: Another explosion then takes place and history repeats itself…
Tony pulls Ril’s hand to put him off balance and his the back of his head.
Ril smacks into the floor.
Tony: Good fight.
Jon and Matt walk in.
Tony: Hey, you guys going to class?
Matt: Yeah, we were just on our way now. You joining us, Tony?
Tony: Yeah.
Jon: What about you, Ril?
Ril: Yeah, what do we have?
Jon: Practical Traps

Afterwards, in Social Development
Mr Hughes is taking the lesson
Mr Hughes: As some of you may know, you are coming to the age where you begin to change and you should all begin developing strange abilities, or “Talents,” as most people call them. These abilities are not necessarily visible, or maybe not even physical, but they will single you out from everybody else in life. Abilities range from being the fastest person on the planet to being able to read somebody’s moves before they make them.
Random kid whispers to other kid: Or being the most boring person alive.
Mr Hughes gives the kid a look, the kid goes into a fit and goes pale. Mr Hughes looks away and the kid’s fit stops.
Mr Hughes: As demonstrated, these abilities can be used to inflict pain on others, or used to teach others. In our world, they are often abused and people use them against each other because of human nature. That is why schools like Combat High are set up to prepare your defensive fighting skills for the seven continents of the real world.

Later, in the courtyard.
Purple gang are hanging around.
Shows all profiles for purple gang (matt’s, jon’s, ril’s and tony’s abilities are unknown, izaak’s is lightning)
Yasmine comes over
Shows yasmine’s profile, stats, abilities etc. (strength ability)
Izaak: What do you want?
Yasmine: What’s your problem?
Izaak: You. Get lost.
Yasmine punches izaak in the face (her power is strength so he goes flying)
Izaak gets up and lightning starts sparking out of him.
Jon to yasmine: Just get out of here while you can.
Yasmine: I could take him any day of the week.
Izaak: Bring it.
Yasmine rushes at izaak to punch him again. He steps out of the way and grabs her arm
She screams and collapses
Yasmine: You electrocuted my arm. You could’ve killed me.
Izaak: No… I should’ve killed you. Now get lost.
Yasmine crawls away.
The bell rings
Izaak, matt and ril go one way, tony and jon go the other way.
Tony and jon are walking to class
Tony: How long ‘till the tournament?
Jon: I think about two months. We were told in the second week of summer.
Tony: You think you’ll get through? It’ll be pretty hard ‘cause most people have already developed their powers at least a bit and we’re stuck using our melee arts.
Jon: Not sure. We might get through but Matt will be stuck in seventh grade eating from his bunny lunch box.
Tony: I remember that. What happened to that bully, anyway?
Jon: I heard he got wedgied by a bigger kid for picking on little kids. Kind of ironic.

Sheva, Emma T and Dhanushka are standing around, somewhere.
Sheva: Have you guys heard about the new girl that’s meant to be joining in a few weeks? She’s transferring from the Newfoundland.
Emma: That’s the new continent they discovered just a few years ago, isn’t it?
Sheva: Yeah, they’re meant to have the best technology in the world there. They don’t have elemental powers.
Dhanushka: I was reading a book about it. They use things called Meccha and guns to fight each other.
Emma: What’s a “gun”?
Dhanushka: I’ve got no idea, but they’re meant to hurt.

Meanwhile… In Acrobatics Class
Matt, izaak and ril are in the class.
They are standing round looking at loads of people doing sick acrobatics, jumping, somersaults, flips etc.
One mysterious kid is jumping between beams and on to poles doing flips and shit (looks really amazing) lands on his fingers and balances perfectly.
Matt: What the hell… Who’s that kid?
The kid jumps over towards the three Purple Gang members and stands on the wall (parallel to the floor) looking at mr ward
Mr ward: Good job, Toby.
Toby looks over at purple crew
Displays his profile (balance ability)
Matt: Toby? Who the hell is Toby? I bet he thinks he’s well good.
Matt shouts at toby: Hey! You! Come down here! I want to fight you!
Izaak and ril stand back and shaking their heads and laughing.
Toby does some flips and lands doing a headstand on matt’s head
Toby: I’m Toby. How do you do?
Matt: What the…?
Matt looks upwards for the voice, but toby is still stuck to the top of his head (he sent the gravitational pull to matt’s head)
Matt does some flip and tries to kick Toby off his head.
Toby flips round behind matt and kicks him.
They fight.
Toby wins.
Matt, Izaak and ril walk out, izaak and ril laughing.

Later that night, in the dormitory… purple gang are lying in their bunk beds with the lights off. Izaak’s bed is above Jon’s
Later that night.
Izaak: Jon….
Jon: Yeah?
Izaak: Are you awake?
Jon: No
One frame of silence…
Izaak: Are you being sarcastic?
Jon: No
Izaak: In that case… Can I ask you something?
Jon: No
Izaak: Do you think I’d be pretty as a girl?
Jon: No
Izaak: ‘Cause I’ve been thinking recently… I’m quite girly… I like dancing and playing Jenga… So I must be a girl at heart, right?
Jon: Yes
Two frames of silence
Izaak: Jon…
Jon: What?
One frame of silence
Izaak: How much does it cost to have a sex change operation?
One frame of dark black (no light) and a few hit marks
END

Issue 2:
Breakfast time
Purple gang are sitting at a table in the great hall (everybody else sitting eating in the background)
Tony evil look and grin
Cereal flying through the air (really dramatic like a bullet)
Cereal hits Ril in the face
Ril stands up, pissed off
Ril: What the hell are you doing?
Tony laughing with eyes like ^_^ but grin like holding spoon (just been flicked)
Ril upturns his cereal bowl on the table and walks off, properly pissed
Jon: What was the point of that?
Tony (still grinning like a moron): Just felt like it
Jon: You should go say sorry
Tony: You’re beginning to sound like a cheesy comic book script
All members of Purple gang look at camera, embarrassed and grinning like tony.
Matt: Anyway. What’s our first lesson?
Izaak: Trap Setting with Mr. Bruin.

During Trap Setting (they learn about traps and how to disarm them and the physics of traps etc.)
Mr bruin: Tripwires are one of the most useful ways of setting a trap and one of the most common traps you will ever come up against in the real world. Who can tell me how a trip wire works?
Random kid: You tie one end of the wire to something and tie the other end to something else and the target trips over it.
(put lots of diagrams to explain this part)
Mr bruin: Only if it’s a crap trip wire. A real trip wire is connected to something else which is released when the wire is touched. This could be a floor panel, a wooden block or anything. Now, try making one yourselves, fully operational.

Many attempts later
Mr bruin comes over
Mr bruin: Good. Now, use this to set a trap. It can be anything ; something to fall on the target’s head, a floor panel to snap, anything.
A few minutes later….
Ril: That looks like it would work. Heheh. We’ll need a test subject.
Purple gang look around
Izaak: Oh Yasmine! (evil grin)
Yasmine: What?
Izaak: I’d like to make a hand written apology for yesterday, if you could just come sign it.
Izaak puts the paper on the table.
Yasmine walks towards purple gang, trips over the wire
Yasmine: YOU-
CRASH – a plaster ceiling panel falls on her head and knocks her out.
Mr Bruin: /well done! Fantastic trap. Now you can volunteer to take Yasmine to the Medical Bay.

In the Training Hall
Matt vs Ril
Ril trips over his shoelace and smacks his face into the ground, KO
Matt celebrates, thinking it was one of his punches that knocked out ril.
Tony standing with Jon and Izaak, they see Toby looking dodgy
Tony: Who’s that kid?
Izaak: His name’s Toby, he’s a weakling.
Tony: In that case, I’ll kick his ass just for the hell of it.
Tony walks over towards Toby, izaak laughing in the background
Jon to izaak: What’re you laughing at?
Izaak: You’ll see
The fight bell rings. Tony does some bigass kick, Toby does a few flips and owns him. It’s over quickly.
Jon standing like . izaak creasing.

During evening meal
Andy, George and Hughsie sitting eating.
Hughsie looks over at another table, shows Charlie (with bowlcut) using telekinesis to move the spoon and fork to feed himself.
Hughsie: What’s with that kid?
George: He’s a psychic, apparently.
Shows a kunai knock the spoon out of the air.
Charlie looks over.
Charlie: Good shot, you got the spoon.
Hughsie: I was aiming for your head.
Charlie puts on concentrating face.
Hughsie puts on awareness face.
Suddenly, Hughsie’s kunai shoots right at his head, Hughsie just dodges.
As he dodges, he throws a kunai, Charlie catches it with his mind, turns it around, and it goes shooting back at hughsie.
Hughsie about to shit himself, eyes shut, sweating etc. on the floor
Kunai stops just before it hits his head.
Kunai clatters onto the floor.
Hughsie opens his eyes.
Shows Charlie sitting down eating calmly.

Purple gang sitting at their table.
Mr Young walks up to them.
Mr Young: Izaak, Mr. Bruin wants to see you after you’ve finished eating, I was given a note to tell you.
Izaak: Sure thing, Mr. Young.
Mr Young: And I heard what you did. That wasn’t very clever.
Izaak not looking sorry at all: Sorry…
Jon reading newspaper that came out of nowhere
Jon looking at paper: People in the Newfoundland have been trying to create artificial demons similar to those that naturally occur on our continent. Apparently there was one scientist a few years back who was successful in creating something, a Mutant. According to this, the Mutants ruined parts of the land and so the Newfoundland Government have been looking for the man responsible for creating them. He left the country and they haven’t found him yet.

After the evening meal.
Mr. bruin walks into the teacher’s washroom.
A thud as the spy drops down from the ceiling (don’t show his face at all).
Mr. Bruin turns round.
Spy: Hello, Andy.
Mr. Bruin shitting himself, shaking: You…
Spy: Yes, it’s me. Surprised to see me? You didn’t think you could get away, just like that, do you?
Spy walks over to Mr Bruin, starts patronising him, maybe stroking his hair or something (he’s quite nuts)
Mr. Bruin: Get out of here before you have the whole place trying to kill you.
Spy: AHAHAHAHA. Andrew, my friend, you’re not in a position of power right now. I’ll tell you what to do, and if you do as I say, I’ll make it quick.
Shows mr bruin sneakily getting a kunai out.
Mr. Bruin lunges at spy with kunai: I’d rather die fighting
Frame of Bruin’s kunai dropping to the ground.
Zoom out and see Bruin’s corpse, impaled with a spear, spy no longer in the room.

Purple gang are walking down the corridor towards their dorm
Izaak: I’ve got to go see Mr. Bruin, he sent me a message to come back after dinner. I’ll meet you guys in the dorm.
Izaak walks off down another corridor and into Mr Bruin’s room.
He knocks and enters
Izaak: Hello?
He turns on the light and walks around a bit
Izaak thinks: He must have forgotten, all the better for me.
He starts heading back to the door when the lights go out (blue screen over the frame)
Izaak becomes alert and looks from side to side.
He walks over to the lightswitch, tries it, but the wire has been cut.
He tries the door, it’s locked.
Izaak thinks: Shit.
Voice: You think it’s funny when you hurt me, when you make fun of me?
Izaak remains silent
Voice: You don’t even know what pain is. You mock me and I’ve had enough of it.
Izaak hears footsteps running towards him.
The silhouette of a person jumps over the table (using their hand to balance)
Then CRASH. A ceiling panel falls down and knocks them on the head and they fall on the floor, concussed.
Izaak -__-
He walks over to the silhouette.
Izaak: Yasmine. I should’ve known you’d be so stupid as to forget about the traps we set up in class today.
Yasmine looking dazed with crossed eyes like XP: If it hadn’t been for you meddling kids…
Izaak: Anyway, how did you cut out the lights and lock the doors?
Yasmine, looking confused: I didn’t. I thought you did.
Izaak: You’re lying.
Yasmine: I’m not. I thought you turned off the lights.
Izaak walks over to the door and tries opening it. Still locked.
Izaak: Shit. How are we gonna…
Siren goes off like WOOP WOOP WOOP. An alarm light in the classroom starts flashing (like on top of a cop car)
To be continued…

Issue 3
Izaak walks over to the door and tries opening it. Still locked.
Izaak: Shit. How are we gonna…
Siren goes off like WOOP WOOP WOOP. An alarm light in the classroom starts flashing (like on top of a cop car)
Voice comes in over the tannoy
Tannoy: All staff report to the Great Hall, we have a code red infiltration.
Yasmine: Infiltration?
Izaak, scared, confident, but alert: Somebody has got into the school. Something must’ve happened. We need to get out of here quickly.
Yasmine: Screw this. I’m not gonna die with scum like you.
Yasmine walks over to the door and punches a huge hole through it.
Izaak like
Yasmine: C’mon, no time to waste.
Tannoy: From now on all exits out of the school and school grounds, including windows will be locked down and guarded by staff members. Students are required to stay in their dormitory at all times during the lockdown until further notice. Now entering Lockdown Phase 1
Huge banging sounds of doors being locked and iron grills rolling down over windows.

In purple gang’s dorm
Purple gang (not izaak or Ril) are sitting around, talking
Tony: Has izaak come back from seeing Mr. Bruin?
Jon: Not yet. Hopefully he’s safe, not doing something stupid.

In the corridor, yasmine and izaak are running
Yasmine: Hurry up, Izaak.
Izaak: I’m playing the game where you avoid stepping on the floor cracks.

Back in the dorm
Matt: Nah, that’s not like him.
Some random boy walks in
Ril: Mr. bruin’s dead.
Purple gang looks of horror.
Ril: They found his corpse in the teacher’s washroom.
Show a picture of mr bruin’s corpse, a pool of blood around it. Ril narrating this frame: That’s why they’ve locked down the school, there must be an intruder.
Ril: We’ve got to make sure Izaak’s safe.
Purple gang do hero stances (taking the piss)
Tony walks over to a chest in the corner of the room and opens it.
Everybody else is like
Chest contains loads of weapons
Tony evil grin: Take your weapon of choice.
Jon takes a Bo
Matt takes a sword
Ril takes an axe
Tony takes nun-chucks joined by fibre-wire

Yasmine and Izaak are running in the corridor
They come to a door, it’s locked
Yasmine: Damn.
They hear a scream from somewhere further down the corridor, somebody being killed.
Izaak: Bust the door open like you did before.
Yasmine tries but can’t.
Yasmine: It’s no use, we’ll have to go the other way.

Purple gang are walking down the corridor
Tony, Jon, Ril and matt are walking strong on the floor, looking tough
(make that scene look heroic, like the front cover or something)
Tony suddenly alert
Tony: What was that sound?
Matt: What sound?
Tony: It sounded like wind going past us.
Matt: I didn’t hear any-ARGH!!
Matt collapses to the floor, writhing in pain. Then stops, and gets up slowly, panting
Matt: I had a shock, down my spine. Like no pain I’ve felt before.
See tony fall, stiff rigid.
Purple team gather round.
Tony still on ground, in the same crawling position, stiff rigid.
Jon: What’s wrong with him?
Matt: He must’ve had the same thing as me, but it must have affected him more.
Ril: I wonder why-
Suddenly all of purple gang are sent flying back by a blast of power, with a silhouette of the infiltrator at the centre of it.
To be continued…

Issue 4
Writing: The number of spirits in the universe is constant.
Tony still on ground, in the same crawling position, stiff rigid.
Jon: What’s wrong with him?
Matt: He must’ve had the same thing as me, but it must have effected him more.
Ril: I wonder why-
Suddenly all of purple gang are sent flying back by a blast of power, with a silhouette of the infiltrator at the centre of it.
Writing: Spirits of the dead are passed on to newborns.
Matt gets up, angry face and charges at infiltrator: Bastard!!!
Jon, sincerely worried, puts out hand and shouts: NO!!
Infiltrator does one hand move and sends Matt flying into the opposite wall, he’s knocked unconscious
Writing: And so the type of person somebody is is defined by their spirit.
Jon sees Izaak and yasmine on the other side of the corridor, behind the infiltrator.
Jon: Izaak! No! Run!
Infiltrator turns around and sees them. Doesn’t do anything.
Yasmine gets angry and about to run at infiltrator.
Izaak whispers to her: Stop. He’s not worried about us, he must’ve set a trap.
Izaak gets out a kunai and throws it.
It hits a wire and the wire breaks.
A huge explosion of fire, doesn’t reach Izaak and Yasmine, they shield their faces.

On the other side of the corridor…. Jon looks round
Jon thinks: Where’s Ril?
Suddenly, Ril comes up from the floor right underneath the infiltrator, bringing a rush of earth, floor tiles and dirt with him, sending infiltrator flying.
Jon shouts: Izaak. Now!
Jon and Izaak (izaak with sparks of lightning all around him) run at the infiltrator, who is getting up at this point.
Infiltrator does some ninja jump out of the way and stabs Jon with kunai in the leg
Jon collapses.
Voice: Hey, you, come get a real fight instead of picking on kids.
Everybody turns to voice, including infiltrator.
It’s Mr Young.
(show profile for mr young)
Mr Young and infiltrator have some big-up, kickass fight.
Ends with infiltrator getting stabbed or immobilized, not killed.

In some random room, the bounty hunter is tied down, there’s a huge fire in the corner and several teachers standing round.
Mrs Barnes to Mr Brown: We know he’s from the Newfoundland – None of us could sense any Ki belonging to him.
Mr Davis to spy: Why were you sent to kill Andrew Bruin?
Silence.
Mr Davis looks at mr Hughes
Mr Hughes tips down his glasses and does the thing.
Hunter goes into a spasm (it’ll be had to show whilst he’s tied down, but do your best and make it serious rather than comical)
Mr Davis bends down to bounty hunter’s face: If you just cooperated, we could relieve you of this pain, it’s pretty simple.
Bounty hunter spits in his face.
Mr Davis stands up.
Mr Davis: Bring the hot brands.

Tony lies awake in the medical bay.
Blood curdling screams can be heard.
Tony thinks with an evil face: The sound of the human voice being drowned with its own blood. Like a symphony to my ears…

Issue 5
Everybody in the dorm awake apart from Matt. Twins are in our dorm as well. (Tony not in dorm)
Ril: Matt, wake up.
Matt: Huh?
Matt sits up on bed.
Ril: It’s Sunday, our day off. We were planning to go into the town, but we just found out nobody’s allowed in or out of the school until they find out if there are any other bounty hunters.
Matt: I’ll go back to bed then.
Matt lies back down.
Jon to nobody in particular: Apparently they tortured the bounty hunter they found yesterday but he didn’t say why he was sent to kill Mr. Bruin.
Matt: So what are we meant to do all day? Sit around and play Jenga with Izaak? It’s my birthday in a few days, I don’t want to be locked in here on that day.
Ril: Izaak’s gone to get our food. Only one person was allowed out from each dorm to bring enough food back. Only one person with that much responsibility… and they chose Izaak -__-.

In the kitchen, 20 students are collecting boxes of food for their dorms.
Izaak walks through the door, and on sight of all that food, drops to his knees, clasps his hands together, looks up and says
Izaak: All this food. And me. In the same room. I think I’ll cry.

Jon: I’m sure he’ll bring back enough. Are they going to let us see Tony?
Matt: Is he still in the Medical Bay?
Tony walks in through the door.
Tony: Nope. I was discharged just now, told to come straight here.
Matt: Cool. Did they say what it was that happened?
Tony: They think it was some sort of electrical charge and that it overloaded my central nervous system. “System shutdown” in other words. What happened whilst I was out? I heard screams last night.
Jon: It’s a long story, we’ll tell you later.
Everybody sits down on their beds.
2 frames of silence
Ril: So… What does everybody want to do?
One frame of silence
Sound like PAAARRRRP
Everybody looks at tony
Tony does embarrassed manga thing, (one hand scratching back of head. Embarrassed grin. Red cheeks)
Tony: Sorry…
Both twins have exactly same expression sitting next to each other: O_O

Twins at same time: So anyway…
Nick: Have any of you found out your Elemental Abilities, yet?
Matt: Oh yeah, Ril, you found out yours last night, didn’t you? I forgot about that.
Ril not looking very happy, sitting on a window ledge looking outside: Yeah. It’s ok, I guess.
Jon: You wanted a different one?
Ril: Yeah, I’m Earth. Great! (sarcastic)
Tony: It’s better than nothing. I haven’t even developed mine, yet.
Twins: Ril, you’re Earth?
Ril: yeah. So?
(next 3 lines all in one frame, really cheesy)
Chris: We’re Fire.
Nick: And Ice.
Both: Let’s Battle!
Show profile for twins
Both twins on one page, back to back.
(chris is Fire ability, Nick is Ice ability. They have exactly the same stats as each other, opposite strengths and weaknesses)
Ril and twins fight.
A lot of use of elemental powers (a lot of fire, ice and earth moves thrown in)
Twins are winning but it doesn’t finish.
Izaak walks in, carrying loads of crates piled on top of each other.
Tony: You took your time.
Izaak, big grin, pokes his head out from behind the crates: Yeah, I brought back all the food that was in the kitchen. If you hear an angry mob at the door, tell them I’m in a different dorm.
Everybody tucks into the food.
Voice over the tannoy: All students are requested to come to the Great Hall immediately in silence.

In the Great Hall… Every student in the school is there.
Mr Brown is on the stage behind a podium.
Mr Brown: Silence, please. You must be silent.
Mr Brown: I have a very important announcement to make. As most of you are aware, there was an incident last night in the school and a teacher died. Silent! We have been doing our best to get to the bottom of what has happened but with little success so far. The faculty as a whole has decided it isn’t safe for you to be in the school until we have found any leads on this case as to how the trespasser gained access onto school property. I am hereby suspending the academic year at Combat High.
Whole school shouts with cheers of happiness
Mr Brown: That does not mean you don’t have to go to school.
Whole school becomes silent
Mr Brown: Your parents have been contacted and agreed to the school arranging for temporary transfers to a few other schools. Each one of you will be attending one of the following schools: Martial Academy, Fight School or Temple Arts High – all three schools are in the town, so you will not have to go without seeing each other for the whole two weeks. Now I ask you to go back to your dormitories and pack your necessities, your clothes, and your registrar teacher will come and inform you individually of which of the three schools you will be attending for the next two weeks.

Back in the dormitories, purple gang, cook and twins are packing their stuff into their suitcases.
Mr young walks in.
Mr Young: Right, people. I’ve got some transfer slips to give out.
Tony: Do we have to take everything with us or just the things we need?
Mr Young: Just the most important things – you’ll be coming back here soon enough so you won’t need most of it.
Jon: What happened to the killer?
Mr young: He was… interrogated with force. He died this morning.
Silence
Mr young walks round and gives everybody a piece of paper
Matt: I’m going to Martial Academy
Jon: Me too.
Tony: I won’t see you there – I’m at Temple Arts High
Izaak: So am I.
Ril: And me.
The End.

Issue 6
Mr young walks round and gives everybody a piece of paper
Matt: I’m going to Martial Academy
Jon: Me too.
Tony: I won’t see you there – I’m at Temple Arts High
Izaak: so am I.
Ril: and me.

Shows Tony, izaak and ril standing side by side with their backs to the camera, holding their suitcases/trunks, looking at Temple Arts High (traditional chinese looking building with low roof, red wood etc.)
Izaak: Temple Arts High, huh? Doesn’t look as bad as I expected.
Ril: I wonder how Jon and Matt are doing at Martial Academy. I heard that place is pretty tough.
Tony: One of their students killed another a few years back and they’re supposed to be taught well in tactics.
Ril joking: Doesn’t sound that tough. Tactics are nothing. We could beat them with our physical strength.

Shows Matt and jon standing side by side with their backs to the camera, holding their suitcases/trunk, looking at Martial Academy (a modern building, very ugly, flat roof, paint peeling, people leaning against walls smoking etc.)
Matt: Martial Academy, huh? Looks worse than I expected.
Jon: I wonder how Izaak, Tony and Ril are doing at Temple Arts High. Hope that place isn’t too soft for them.
Matt: Who cares about them? I heard this place is pretty tough. One of the students killed another a few years ago.
They walk through the school, following signs to School Reception.
They pass loads of dodgy looking people.
They see a sign for Toilet.
Jon: I’ve got to go to the toilet for a second. Look after my stuff.
Jon drops stuff and goes into the toilet.
Matt looks round, intimidated.
Tega walks up to matt slowly from out of the shadows, with a toothpick in his mouth.
Tega: Malam. Give me your money bag.
Matt getting pissed off: What are you starting, bitch?
Tega: Haha, this oyimbo’s got some spark. Here, have one back.
Tega punches matt in the face, matt falls down, lip bleeds.
Matt sitting on the floor, looking upset, not looking physically hurt, though.
Matt: Hey man, it’s my birthday, why are you starting?
Tega punches him in the face again and matt falls down again, tega takes his money bag and goes.
Hear a toilet flush sound.
Jon comes out of the toilet.
Jon: Sorry I took so long - your birthday cake didn’t digest very well. Let’s go

At Temple Arts High…
Tony, ril and izaak are standing in the doorway of a dorm with some random teacher:
Teacher: This will be your dorm for the time being. I’ll introduce you to your room-mates.
They walk over to a three nerds lined up. These people are HARDCORE nerds. Bowlcuts, glasses, jack ups, suspenders, short-sleeve shirts tucked in, braces, socks pulled up high, shorts. Terrible colour coordination, the ugliest clothes you can think of. PROPER nerds.
Nerd 1: I’m Tenji!
Shows his profile (some ability which seems shit, but actually owns) show him in some stupid, manga stance, looks really nerdy, like Konohamaru and his friends
Nerd 2: Introducing Kenji!
Shows his profile, (again some ability which seems shit), show him in a different, stupid, manga stance, maybe peace sign.
Nerd 3: The one and only Benji!
Shows his profile (same as the others)
Izaak, tony and Ril o_O
Teacher: Well, I’ll leave you to unpack and settle in. Your new friends will show you which beds are free.
Teacher leaves.
Benji: We’ve got one bunk bed free and a space in the same bunk bed as me. Which one of you wants to be the lucky devil to sleep with me?
izaak whispers to Ril: I’m not sleeping in the same bunk bed as one of those geeks.
Ril back to izaak: Me neither.
Both of them push tony forward
Benji: Yahoo! Let’s get this shindig started.
Tony whispers out of corner of his mouth, trying to keep a pleasant face: You two are bastards.

The Next Morning, in Sparring Class in Temple Arts High
Students sitting around the edge of the fighting circle painted on the floor, teacher in the middle.
Teacher: Let’s see how our newcomers compare to Temple Arts’ own brand. Let’s have you
Teacher points to tony, sitting around the edge of the circle
Teacher: And your partner will be… Kenji!
Kenji: Oh Golly!
Tony gets a huge grin on his face
Tony to izaak and ril: Watch this.
Tony and kenji get into their stances.
Teacher: I want to see a nice, dirty fight, bloodloss is encouraged, but don’t get carried away.
The fight bell rings
Tony starts off well, but then Kenji uses his ability and owns tony hardcore.
See tony flick his wrist sneakily while he is getting up, so that nobody notices.
Kenji gets knocked over by the wind

Matt and Jon are in one of their classes at Martial Academy. The teacher is facing the blackboard, writing
Jon to the kid next to him, with big grin like : My friend here got mugged yesterday
Kid: What’s your point?
Jon : It was his birthday
Kid: HAHAHA.
Matt looking very pissed off, vein popping out, head swelling
Kid: Who did it?
Jon: Some really tall black kid, apparently, he just came out of the shadows. I wasn’t there.
Kid: HAHAHA.
Jon and matt look at each other, confused.
Jon: What’s so funny now?
Kid: That kid that mugged your friend. He’s a year younger than us. His name’s Tega.
Jon: HAHAHA.
Matt, swelled up head, bright red, huge veins out of head: WHAT?! I GOT JACKED BY A MINOR?!
Kid: Yeah, haha.
Matt leaps straight off his chair and decks the other kid straight onto the floor, just sits on top of him punching the shit out of his face.
The bell rings for the end of the lesson
Matt gets off the kid
Him and jon leave the class
They’re walking down the hallway
Matt: THAT’S HIM!!
Matt goes charging at Tega, down the hall.
Zoom in on matt’s face from the side, really dramatic, fast running.
Zoom out, jon Is holding him effortlessly by the back of the collar, matt not realising is still running on the spot.
Matt looks back and realises
Stands like -__-
Tega comes bopping past.
Matt: Oi! You! Gimme back my money bag before I smack you up!
Tega turns, looks at matt
Tega: Haha, maybe not, birthday boy.
Jon cracks up.
Jon: Haha. I gotta hand it to you, man.
Jon shakes hands with Tega, still laughing.
Tega: Yo, I like your style. Where are you from?
Jon: Me and hothead Matt here come from Combat High. We’re here for a few weeks.
Tega: Your name’s Matt?
Matt: Yeah, and what?
Tega: And nothing, I was just wondering.
Matt: What’s yours?
Tega: People call me Tega.
Jon: What’s your real name?
Tega: Tega.
Matt and Jon stand like -__-
Tega: What about you, mini-ears?
Jon slaps Tega
Jon: People call me Jon.
Tega, looking suspicious: Why’s that?
Jon: ‘Cause that’s my name.
Tega stands like -__-
A few frames of them standing around doing nothing, tapping their feet, looking awkward like =/ etc.
Tega: You guys want to come into town with me and some friends, tonight?
Jon: Nah, we wouldn’t want to impose. We need to get some sleep anyway.
Tega: Ok. See you around, then.
Tega walks off
Some more frames of matt and jon looking awkward.

At Temple Arts High, during the evening.
Tony: Man, this school sucks.
Ril: Only ‘cause you got beaten by a nerd.
Tony goes -__-
Tony: Man, this school sucks.
Izaak: At least we’re allowed out during the evenings, unlike most schools.
Ril: Hey, we might see Jon or Matthew whilst we’re out there.
Tony: Hmm… We may as well go, then. I haven’t been into the town for a while.

In the town…
Izaak, Tony and Ril are walking along the road, loads of shops etc.
Ril: Let’s get something to eat.
They walk into Anakus and Maestro takeaway restaurant.
Fives minutes later…
They walk out holding some takeaway boxes, eating noodles with chopsticks.
They carry on talking whilst turning into an alleyway by accident.
Tony: Man… These are some buff noodles. Whoever invented them should win an award.
Ril and Izaak: Amen to that.
They’re all looking down at their food.
Ril, looks up and says: Oops, wrong turn.
They turn around and Tega and some friends come out of the shadows.
Tega: Malams. Give us your money bags.
Tony, Izaak and Ril look at each other like -__-
Tony: Just one second.
Tony takes another bite of noodles and then they all put their noodles on the ground.
Show Izaak, Ril and Tony in a cool stance
Show Tega’s profile (shadow ability)
They fight tega and his friends. Use a lot of elements – earth, lightning, shadow and some random powers tega’s friends have. Izaak, Tony and Ril win.
Tony, Izaak and Ril pick up their noodles, walk over the unconscious bodies and go out the alley eating their noodles and go home.

A week later…
In World History lesson.
Purple gang sitting there.
Teacher: Now, legend says that the continents were once joined. Folklore talks of an evil spirit, a Demon King, if you will, who came to the mortal realm with a huge sword, bigger than any man-made sword. With this sword, the Earthsplitter, the Demon King thrust it into the ground and caused huge chasms, splitting the single land mass into seven separate continents.
Matt: Why didn’t anybody stop him?
Teacher: There was one who almost stopped him, a hero named Ankus. However, before Ankus could destroy the demon, he became possessed and stabbed himself in the heart to save himself and the rest of the world.
Jon: And people actually believe these things?
Mr Davies: It’s the only explanation that has been around since the dawn of time that explains how the continents became separated and the huge blade which is still stuck in a mountain on one of the Tethys Islands. It’s quite a sight. Go and see it if you ever get a chance.

Jon, Tega and Matt are sitting somewhere on the school campus.
Matt: Man, we’ve been stuck in this dump for a week, now. When are we going home?
Jon: Couldn’t agree more.
Tega: You guys bored?
Matt: Damn right we’re bored. There’s nothing to do here.
Tega: Hmm… Let’s go to the town.

Tega, matt and jon are walking at the edge of town, near the forest.
Matt kicks a rock, it rolls for a bit, the camera follows it.
It stops at a pair of feet.
The camera zooms out, the rock stopped at the feet of an innocent little girl in a dress, maybe about 4 or 5, hands behind her back, really innocent, really cute manga eyes. Hair neatly in a side parting.
She giggles.
She skips into the forest.
Jon: Hey, wait.
She carries on running.
Matt: Stupid kids. We’d better go get her.
They run after the little girl into the forest.
They’re running
Tega smacks straight into a branch
Tega gets back up and says: Hate being so damn tall.
They carry on running and they come to a clearing in the forest.
The little girl is there with her back turned to them, picking flowers.
Matt: Hey, little girl, come back to the town with us. You don’t wan to get hurt.
Little girl stands up, still back facing camera
She giggles.
She skips off and fades away (she was a ghost)
Jon, tega and matt stand like
The giggles can still be heard.
They come from different directions
Suddenly, SMACK something hits Jon and he goes flying into a tree.
Matt and Tega get into their stances
Jon stands up
Something hits him and he goes flying again.
Then something hits Tega and he goes flying.
Matt thinks: What the hell is going on? Why aren’t they attacking me?
Something hits matt and he goes flying.
Jon sees the thing about to hit him, then he keels over and lets out a piercing scream.
Tega and Matt cover their ears.
The demon can be seen trying to attack Jon.
Description of demons:
This particular demon is opaque, so you can see through it, but still see that it’s there. It isn’t obvious to see but it looks evil. It doesn’t have a colour.
Tega gets up, still covering his ears, and runs over to the thing.
He becomes just his shadow on the ground and fights the demon’s shadow.
The demon’s shadow eventually knocks him over.
Jon does a sound move instinctively and the demon leaves.
Tega, getting out of his shadow (do it like a bugs bunny cartoon where he comes out of an Acme hole in the ground) says: Demons. I should have known.
Matt: Demons?
Tega: Haven’t you ever been out into these forests? There’s too many of them.
Matt looks over at jon. He’s collapsed.
Tega: Was that sound coming from Jon?
Matt: Probably. We should take him back to the school.
Tega, rubbing his ears: Man. My ears are still ringing. We’d better take him to the Hospital, you’ve seen the facilities at my school. And he looks in a really bad state – he’s gone white.

Blank with writing:
Writing: When pure Evil amasses, a Hero shall rise.
Shows jon’s vision, through his eyes. His vision is blurred. He can just about see matt leaning over his bed. (the whole next sequence is from jon’s eyes until I say so)
Matt: There you are.
Jon: Huh?
Writing: The spirit of the Hero is assigned to the strongest mortal bodies.
A buff female nurse (typical manga nurse) walks in and stands on the right side of Jon’s bed.
Nurse: Right. I’ve got some good new and some bad news for you, sweetie. Which do you want to hear first?
Jon: Huh?
Nurse: Good news it is. You’ve just unlocked your Elemental Ability.
Jon: Huh?
Nurse: Bad new is that it was so out of control when you got here. It kept going on and off and smashing bottles and medicine. It was so bad that we had to put some restraints on it.
Writing: The evil is then crushed and the spirit of the Hero retires until history begins to repeat itself.
Jon: Huh?
(vision has almost cleared)
Nurse: Your hands may be extremely painful for a few months. That’s all down to the restraints – we had to put some special gloves on you to control your Element. In the gloves are some long, iron needles which were inserted into your hands. You won’t be able to move your hands for a few weeks.
Still in jon’s vision, he is lying in his hospital bed. He lifts up his left hand and sees some fat glove on it.
Nurse: Yup. That’s the one. Most people with Sound Element don’t need them, but yours seemed so powerful, so uncontrolled that we had to help you control it in some way. The gloves will basically limit the amount of Ki, spiritual energy, you can use when using your ability. If you take them off, you’ll be too powerful to control. It’s for your own good.
(still through jon’s eyes)
Jon: Huh?
Nurse: *Giggles* I’ll leave you boys to yourselves, then.
Nurse walks out.
Jon: Matt…
Matt: Yeah?
Jon: What are these gloves doing on my hands?
Jon’s vision goes black (he’s passed out)

A few days later…
Tony, Izaak and Ril are outside on school campus at Temple Arts High.
Ril: There go those nerds. They think they need brains to fight. It’s all about strength.
Ril points to Tenji, Kenji and Benji, about 20 yards away.
Kenji looks their way.
He begins laughing at tony.
Kenji: Haha. You’re a loser. You nerd. You couldn’t handle yourself in the real world.
Tony’s eyes changed (white rage)
He charges over at Kenji and grabs him by the throat with the other hand ready to punch him in the face.
Kenji looks like he’s shitting himself.
Voice: Hey! You! Put that student down!
Tony looks over. Some teacher is coming up to him.
Teacher: You think you have the right to manhandle other students like that?
The teacher slaps tony round the face, he goes spinning onto the floor, blood comes out of his nose.
Teacher: Don’t let me catch you doing that again or I’ll break your legs.
Teacher begins walking off.
Tony eyes show he’s switched even more: BAKA!!!
Tony charges up behind the teacher.
He begins choking the teacher.
The teacher looks like he’s gonna shit himself.
Tony kicks the back of the teacher’s knees so he isn’t standing anymore and pulls the teacher backwards so he is choking himself and can’t help it.
SMACK Tony is knocked unconscious.

Tony and the Master (headmaster) are sitting in his office.
Tony is looking down, no emotion in his face.
The headmaster is looking at Tony, in the eyes.
Master: We took you in on a favour to your school. Then you repay us by abusing a student and attempting to kill a teacher? What motivates you? Well?
Tony: He hit me.
Master: You expect me to believe a member of my staff, somebody I put my trust in would hit a student? Do you think I’m stupid?
Tony: I didn’t try to kill him.
Master: You didn’t try to kill him? So you think wrapping fibre wire around somebody’s neck and pulling as hard as you can isn’t attempting to kill them? What world do you live in?
One frame of silence.
Master, begins shuffling some papers: I’m sorry but I’ve got no choice but to remove you from our school environment. I’ll have to report this back to Combat High, as well, see how they react to such a murderous student.

In the dorm.
Tony is packing his suitcase, looking down all the time. Izaak and Ril are standing next to him.
Kenji, Tenji and Benji are sitting on a bed, together in the background.
Izaak: What?
Tony: I’ve been expelled.
Izaak: But that teacher hit you.
Tony: Apparently not.
Ril: We can back your case up.
Tony gestures to the nerds: Not when you’ve got those losers sucking up to the Master and backing each other up.
Kenji: You were going to hit me!
He starts crying really badly. Tenji and Benji start rubbing his back and comforting him (NERDS)
Tony still packing suitcase, looking down: I wasn’t going to hit you, I was going to move my fist. If your head didn’t move out of the way, that would’ve been your fault.
Benji: You’re not funny, jerk.
Tony gets pissed off (seriously, no veins popping out of head): You think this is funny?! You think being expelled and having my whole life ruined by one geek is funny?! How do you think I feel?! And watch how you speak to me before I slit your throat.
Izaak: Calm down, man.
Tony shuts his suitcase.
Tony looking calm again: I am calm.
Tony walks out of the room carrying his suitcase.

Shows sakina getting off a boat with her suitcase.
When she gets off, she stands and looks around, taking in her new town.
Sakina thinks: If there’s one thing I can stand about new places – it’s the smell.
She begins walking through the port, carrying her suitcase, looking around.
Something comes flying at the side of her head.
She moves her head out the way and catches it right in front of her face.
It’s an arrow with a sucky-thing on the end.
She looks at where it came from, and there’s a little boy in shorts with a bowl-cut holding a bow about 30 yards away.
She throws the arrow, it zooms through the air really dramatically.
Shows a close-up of the boy’s face, the arrow is stuck right in the middle of his forehead and he is like O_O
He bursts out crying, still with the arrow stuck to his head.
Sakina thinks: Kids…
She walks away hastily.
She walks a bit through the dock, behind her can be seen an adult going to the crying child to see what’s happening.
Sakina steps onto a train (side view of her) can see the adult and the kid running after her.

Jon in his hospital bed.
Jon thinks: So… Bored… Must… Try to… Stay alive…
He looks over at the Call Nurse button.
Jon thinks: Heheheh…
He presses the button.
In walks his buff nurse.
Jon: Nurse, I’m feeling rather dirty, isn’t it time for my sponge bath?
Nurse: But you’ve already had four today.
Jon: Yes but I’ve now that I can’t use my hands, I’m feeling very frustrated.
Nurse: Well, ok, one more. But after this I’ll have to dress you in your pyjamas and send tuck you in.
Jon thinks: SCORE!

Izaak and Ril are sitting around in Temple Arts High
Izaak: Man, I wonder what Tony’s gonna do now. He doesn’t really have anywhere to go until Combat High opens back up. And even then he might not be allowed back in.
Ril: He was stupid for even doing that. I admit it wasn’t fair what the teacher did, but still. It’s a teacher. That’s just not what you do.
Izaak: I suppose. I wonder how Jon and Matt are doing, as well.
Ril: Matthew’s probably getting pissed off for some stupid reason.

Matt: What the hell? You beat me at tiddlywinks?
Matt decks the kid he was playing against and starts punching him in the face while sitting on top of him.

Izaak: Probably.
Ril: And Jon is probably-
Jon: Sitting at your window listening to your conversation.
Izaak and Ril turn round, shocked.
Shows jon sitting on the windowsill, relaxed.
Izaak: When did you get there?
Jon: A few minutes ago.
Ril: You scared me, man. What are you doing here, anyway? How come you’re not at school?
Jon lifts up his gloved hands.
Izaak: What the hell are those?
Jon: It started when we Matt and I were in the forest with a boy we met at Martial Academy…
One long-winded explanation later…
Ril: So you can’t even move your little fingers?
Jon: I can just about do it with my right hand. But I can’t do anything with my left.
Izaak: Well at least you can use your right hand for the most important things, if you catch my drift.
Jon: Yeah, but I can barely move it. I’ll have to wait a few weeks before I can use them fully. So how’s life here, anyway?
Izaak: Pretty dull. Tony got thrown out.
Jon surprised: What? What for?
Izaak: Well it all started with some geeks…
One more long-winded explanation later…
Jon: Man, that sucks. Is he going to be allowed back in Combat High?
Ril: Nobody knows, we’re going to have to wait ‘till it re-opens to find out.
Jon: Damn… Anyway, I’ve got to get back to my hospital bed, I don’t want to raise any alarms.
Izaak: Ok. Do you know when the school’s going to re-open?
Jon: No idea. We’ll probably get a message sometime soon. I hope.
He jumps out of the window, not using his hands.

Tony, sitting in an abandoned train carriage in a train station, his feet dangling out the edge (night time).
Tony: Now I can call myself a Hobo. Never thought I’d be homeless and living in an abandoned train.
Tony notices the trail of smoke coming nearer, a train is on its way
The train gets closer (it’s an old-fashioned steam engine)
It pulls up at the platform.
Sakina gets out, carrying her luggage.
Tony looks surprised by her.
Tony thinks: She looks… Different from the rest. There’s something about her… Something about her soul…
Sakina walks away with her luggage
Tony gets out of the carriage and follows her
He follows her through the forest, she is going by path, he is going through the treetops.
Tony thinks: I must find out…
He jumps at her from the top of the tree.
Sakina drops her luggage, does a spinning kick and hits tony.
They fight for a while.
They pause, still in their stances, ready.
Tony thinks: I was right.
Tony: You don’t have a talent.
Sakina: No, I fight honestly.
Tony: How can you not have a talent?
Sakina: I’m from the Newfoundland, I’ve been sent out here to train by my parents.
Tony thinks: The Newfoundland… An outsider.
Tony: I knew there was something different about you. Some lack in your spiritual aura.
Sakina: Stop trying to sound wise.
She makes the next fight move, they fight a bit more.
Tony overpowers her and holds her up against a tree, His kunai at her throat, the other arm holding her torso there.
Tony: Tell me, outsider, how does fighting with a talent make me dishonest?
Sakina: Because you don’t work hard to be able to do this.
She throws a bladed boomerang, it cuts through all the branches on a single tree.
Tony lets go of her.
Tony, look of amazement: Damn…
Tony: Would love to stay and chat, but I have business to attend to.
Tony runs off into the woods.
Sakina rests against a tree, feeling her heart beat to make sure it’s normal: I thought I was through, there. This land seems tougher than they said it would be.
She bends over, resting her arms on her thighs, panting.
She touches her right hand trouser pocket.
Looks at it and touches it again.
She looks up, like
Sakina: That jerk. He stole my money bag. Thief.

Shows tony eating some Anakus and Maestro noodles, loving it up.
Tony: A decent meal, finally. Why are they taking so long to reopen Combat High?
Tony: There can’t be something that drastically amiss, can there?
Some buff girl in a skirt walks past tony, still eating his noodles.
Tony looks back, checking her out.
He waves his hand lightly.
A gust of wind blows the girl’s skirt up.
She screams and runs off, holding her skirt down.
Tony thinks: Heheh.
And walks off, eating his noodles and smiling.
Tony: I wonder how Jon’s doing. Maybe I’ll go visit him.

Jon walking somewhere with Matt.
Jon: I wonder how Tony’s doing.
Matt: And Izaak and Aerillion.

It’s morning time, show the sun bright and shining.
Ril is lying, tucked up in bed. The sun wakes him up
He looks up at the clock, it’s 5:10 am.
He lies back in bed, thinking
Ril thinks: I’ve been at Combat High for so long but I still feel weak. Inadequate.
Ril thinks: I know if I was taught the right way, if I trained the right way, I could be one of the most powerful fighters. I need to focus myself. I need to win the tournament and be a great fighter. I need to get stronger.
Shows ril getting out of bed quickly.

The light shines through the window.
It wakes up Izaak, in the top bunk above Ril’s bed.
He looks at the clock, it’s 6:35.
Izaak thinks: Good, 25 minutes ‘till I have to get up.
One frame of silence
Izaak thinks: It’s quiet in here… A bit too quiet.
He rolls over to the side of his bed and looks under into Ril’s bed, the sheets are all messed up but Ril isn’t in the bed.
Izaak like ^o)
He jumps out of his top bunk.
Izaak: Ril?
One frame of silence, Izaak looks around the room.
Izaak: Aerillion?
He tries to open the door, it’s locked.
Izaak: He can’t have left, the doors haven’t been unlocked, yet.
He looks at the other side of the room, his face like
Shows the window open, the curtains blowing in the wind.

Tony sitting in a tree in the forest, his suitcase on a branch next to him.
He is eating takeaway noodles out of a plastic box.
*CRACK* shows somebody’s foot coming down on twigs, breaking them.
Tony, suddenly alert.
He stands up and looks at where the sound came from.
He sees a silhouette of somebody carrying something big (a suitcase) and running fast. (the silhouette is actually ril but tony doesn’t know)
Tony jumps over to another tree to get closer to the person.
He makes a big *THUMP* when he lands on the branch.
The silhouette heard the thump and stopped running, now looking up at tony.
Camera is now running with Ril.
Shows the silhouette of somebody jumping from one branch to another, then stands still.
Shows tony looking down at the silhouette, still.
Ril still only seeing a silhouette in the tree: Don’t mess with me, kid. I don’t have time for pranks.
Tony still only seeing ril as a silhouette: Where are you running?
Ril: None of your business, get lost.
Tony slightly irritated, but not pissed off.
Ril carries on walking, looking up at tony to make sure he doesn’t jump him.
Tony sits down on his branch.
Tony thinks: I haven’t seen Matt and Jon for a while…
He jumps off his branch and begins walking out of the forest, towards the town.
He walks through the town.
He comes to Martial Academy.
He walks in cautiously, looking around at all the dodgy people.
Voice: Tony!
Tony looks round, sees Matt carrying a two suitcases.
Matt: What’re you doing here? Why aren’t you at Temple Arts?
(tony and matt start walking while they talk)
Tony: I got expelled. It’s a long story, I don’t particularly want to talk about it. How’s it been around here? Why are you carrying those suitcases?
Matt: One question at a time. It’s been pretty eventful. Jon discovered his Talent – Sound Element, I believe. Now he has to wear some huge gloves to control his Ki, or something like that.
Tony: That’s cool. Where is he?
Matt: He’s in hospital, he knocked himself out because his pent up Ki got released and was too powerful. That’s why they had to put the gloves on.
Tony: Too powerful? There’s no such thing.
Matt: Evidently you’re wrong.
Voice: Hey, Matt!
They turn around and see Tega coming towards them, carrying a suitcase.
Tony sees Tega, gets angry.
Tega sees Tony, gets angry.
They run at each other.
They fight for a little bit (really short).
Matt: Stop! Why are you fighting?
Tony still angry and in his stance: This jerk jumped me in an alley way in town with some of his friends. Ril, Izaak and me fought them and won.
Tega still angry and in his stance: I jumped this jerk in an alley way in town with some of my friends. Him and his friends me us and won.
Matt looking confused: Look, whatever happened, nobody cares. Tega, this is Tony. Tony, this is Tega. You better make friends, ‘cause Tega’s coming back to Combat High with us.
Tony looking surprised: What?
Tega: You heard me, malam. I’m coming to beat up everybody in your school.
Tony: Why? Just stay at your own school, our school doesn’t want jerks like you.
Tega gives Tony an evil look.
Matt: Break it up, already. Tega’s coming back with us because he doesn’t like his school.
Tony: What are you carrying those suitcases for?
Matt smiling: Combat High has reopened – We’re going back today.

At Combat High…
Loads of students are walking into the school with suitcases.
Matt, Tega and Tony spot Izaak and walk over to him.
Izaak at Tega: YOU!!
They drop their suitcases.
Matt to Tega: Just how many of my friends did you start fights with?
Tega: Was the kid at the fair whose candy-floss I stole your friend?
Matt: No.
Tega: In that case just these three.
Izaak: Why are you here?
Tega: I’m moving to your school. I didn’t like mine.
Matt: Where’s Ril?
Izaak: That’s something I’d like to know. He disappeared this morning. Jumped out of the window.
Matt: What? Why?
Izaak: No idea. I just hope he’s ok.
Sheva and Emma walk over.
Sheva: Hey, where’s Jon?
Matt: He was in hospital the past few weeks but I expect he’s coming back today.
Emma: In hospital? Why?
One explanation later…
Sheva: My God. I hope he’s ok.
Voice: I’m always ok
They turn around and see Jon, carrying a suitcase under his arm (hands are still fucked) doing a heroic posture, a big light shining from behind him like SHAZAM.
Tony looks around and sees Sakina
Tony: Oh dear…
Tony hides his face.
Tega: What?
Tony: I had a fight with that girl. She must be the new girl. She’s from the Newfoundland.
Toby is sitting in a tree near to Purple gang and co, he is listening on their conversation
(the following bit the camera is in the tree with Toby)
Sheva: I heard she was coming. She doesn’t have a Talent, does she?
Tony: No, but I wouldn’t want to fight her again. She’s trained too well. Even without a talent I could only just handle her.
Toby: Huh!
He jumps out of his tree.

Toby walks up to Sakina.
Toby: I hear you’re pretty tough.
Sakina: So?
Toby: I want to see if you’re stronger than me. I challenge you to a duel.
Toby gets into some cool stance.
Sakina: Why would I fight somebody for no reason?
Sakina walks away.

In the Great Hall. The whole school is in there, Mr Brown is on the stage.
Mr Brown: Everybody, silence. Let me welcome you all back to Combat High. I also welcome a few new students. I would like to make it clear to everybody that all problems have been erased and nobody is under any potential threat. To replace Mr. Bruin, the school has hired a new trap specialist Mr. Bryce.
Mr brown gestures to mr bryce who waves.
Mr Brown: There will be a memorial service for Mr. Bruin in a few weeks’ time. I would also like to take this chance to inform you that there are going to be a lot of changes here both in the academic and social atmospheres. First of all, stricter punishments will be given to any students who misbehave or don’t do as told. Second, stricter punishments will be given to any students that don’t wash their hands after using the toilet and then sniff them – it’s disgusting. And third of all, you will all from now on where these generic school uniforms to make the school look more presentable.
A student walks on stage, modelling the shitty, grey uniform, girls in skirts, boys in trousers and tie etc.
Looks of horror on Purple Gang’s faces (ril not there).
Whole school gets angry.
Mr Brown: Silence! Now, everybody get to your dormitories and unpack your belongings. Your uniforms will be issued to you tonight and you are expected to wear them from tomorrow morning. You will begin following your usual timetables once again. Now leave.

Next bit is a flashback, so it’s black n white
Sakina bursts in through the door.
Sakina thinks: What is that guy? How did he do that?
She starts packing her suitcase.
Sakina: They saw me. They must’ve seen me. I was too careless.
She packs her guns.
She jumps out the window.

No longer flashback
Next morning… (CHIBI from now)
Purple gang + tega (not ril or tony) are sitting at their breakfast table in their dull, grey uniforms.
Jon: Where’s Tony?
Izaak: Here he comes.
Tony sits down, wearing a pirate costume.
WHOLE SCHOOL in the canteen looks at him (all in one zoomed out frame)
Tony: What?
He looks round.
Tony: OH SHIT!! He said uniform not fancy dress.
Tony runs out of the cafeteria (just a cloud of dust and some motion blurs where he was sitting)
Matt: So I wonder when Ril’s going to turn up. If ever.
Jon: He will. I don’t think he’ll like the uniforms, though.
Izaak: Where’s he gone, do you think?
Matt: Knowing him he’s probably gone somewhere to train.
Izaak getting up: I’m going to go get my stuff. I’ll see you in lessons.
Tony walks in in JUST his pants and sits down with purple gang.
Tony: Boy, that was embarrassing.
WHOLE SCHOOL turns to look at him again. ( can just copy n paste that frame)
Tony: What?
He looks round
Tony: I knew I’d forgotten something…
Tony runs out
Tega laughing: Too bad Izaak missed that.
Tony runs back in, freaking out face, still in just his pants.
Tony: WHICH ONE OF YOU BASTARDS LOCKED THE DOOR TO OUR DORM?!
Jon and matt look like ^o), both say: Not me.
Shows Izaak at the door to the canteen, laughing.
Tony spots him
Tony: YOU!
Tony jumps over tables etc to chase izaak. They both run out of the canteen, izaak being chased by tony.

STILL CHIBI
Jon, matt and tega still in canteen.
Tega: Hey, maybe these uniforms aren’t all that bad.
Shows some buff girls looking sexy in uniform.

Jon walking along eating a giant sub sandwich.
A piece of ham or something drops out and he trips over it.
He lands between Sheva’s legs, sheva wearing a skirt.
Jon looks up.
Jon: I thought there was still six days until the next full moon.
Sheva realizes, angry veins bulging out.
Sheva: Get away from me before I tear you apart!
See dust marks where jon has run off.

Jon, tony and matt are in Battle Class with mr ward and some other random kids.
Tony: So we’re meant to fight in these uniforms?
Mr Ward: Yes.
Tony: How are we meant to do kicks to the head in these trousers?
Mr Ward: It doesn’t matter in your case because you too short to kick to anybody’s head (tony looking like -__-). For everybody else, just do your best.
Matt really enthusiastic like rock lee: YEAH!! Let’s do this.
Mr Ward: Ok. First up is Jonathan and...
Mr ward looks around
Mr Ward: Siobhan.
Jon: A girl? What’s the point in fighting? Let’s just say I’ve won already.
They fight.
Pretty soon into the fight, jon does a kick to her head, then in the same frame, it goes RRRRIIIIIPPPP
Jon looking shocked like
He’s split his trousers all the way.
He runs out.
His trousers fall down and he trips over them.
Mr Ward not excited: Winner: Siobhan by default.
Mr ward: Next fight… Tony and Matt.
Tony and matt step up.
They fight.
Tony punches matt and sends him flying.
Matt gets up, gets angry and rips his shirt away (like hulk)
They both freeze.
Matt’s t-shirt has pink fluffy bunnies underneath it.
Tony: Pink fluffy bunnies? That brings back memories.
Matt looking embarrassed: Well… Um… See ya.
Matt runs out.

At the medical room, Jon is sitting in pants stitching up his trousers.
Matt walks in.
They look at each other.
Jon: I won’t laugh if you don’t laugh.
Matt sitting down: I’m tired of people laughing, it doesn’t affect me any more.
Jon: So… Pink fluffy bunnies, eh? Reminds me of how we met.
(FLASHBACK NOW)
After flashback, no longer chibi.
Jon: Man… Those were cool times.
Matt: Yeah. We need to get going to World History lesson, now.

In World History…
Mr Davies: Right, I haven’t actually planned anything for today, so let’s do something completely unrelated to your syllabus. Has everybody heard about the Three Legends?
Matt: The Three What?
Mr Davies: The Three Legends. They explain about how the world came to be how it is now as opposed to the world of the Old People.
Random girl: Who are the Old People?
Mr Davies: You haven’t even been taught this? Ok, let me tell you from the start.
Mr Davies: All the continents in the world used to be one huge land mass called Pangaea, you all know that. But then Incubus, a powerful Demon came to Earth and split the land into the seven continents we know today: Old Laurasia, where we are, New Laurasia, Gondwana, the Tethys Islands, Okiwana, Oceania and the recently discovered Newfoundland. The Newfoundland was only discovered 18 years ago and is the only continent where the people do not have Ki.
Jon: How do they fight?
Mr Davies: They use machines and technology. It’s all very gruesome and ignoble. Anyway, back to the Three Legends. The first legend is the Origin of Creation. This tells about how everything came to be. It goes something like this, “All things begin with an explosion. Everything in the realms of space, time and spirits move away from each other. They then get so far away from each other that they are brought back together. They reunite with a collision. Another explosion then takes place and history repeats itself.”
Matt: What the hell?
Mr Davies: Think about it, the universe is expanding, science says so. People become close and then distant, especially when they are very similar. Then most of the time they are brought back together by some tragedy or disagreement.
Random kid: That doesn’t always happen.
Mr Davies: It happens in a vast majority of cases. The second legend is the legend of Spirit Assignment and goes, “The number of spirits in the universe is constant. Spirits of the dead are passed on to newborns. And so the type of person somebody is, is defined by their spirit.” You all understand that?
Jon: So it’s basically reincarnation?
Mr Davies: Yes, precisely. And the third legend goes, “When pure Evil amasses, a Hero shall rise. The spirit of the Hero is assigned to the strongest of mortal bodies. The evil is then crushed and the spirit of the Hero retires until history repeats itself.” This is known as the Legend of the Hero. If you think about it, it’s related to the Legend of Spirit Assignment in some ways. It says that the spirit of a hero will be assigned to the strongest of mortal bodies, and therefore making that person a hero.
Matt: Does anybody actually believe that, though?
Mr Davies: Of course, all the world’s major religions are based on these three legends.
Matt: That doesn’t make them true, though.
Mr Davies: It doesn’t make them untrue.

The next sequence is a flashback, so it’s black n white.
Scientist 1 hide his face in shadows cos it’s actually mr bruin: End the testing.
Sa

:D (Big Grin) — Description
(just a tip before you start reading this: this is mainly on here for copyright reasons, the characters aren't described in detail because anakus and I know exactly what they look like/act like, but i hope it will be enjoyable anyway)

Combat High script

Cool things for tony to say:
Luck is a sore loser’s excuse
Why run away from something that can’t kill you?
Friends do nothing but hold you back.
Everybody uses you for something. If not for affection then for something else.
It is only once we realise our flaws that we truly realise we are flawless
The value of any art is constant for eternity
To kill is to create

The writing at the beginning of the first issue is talking about how tony and jon are connected spiritually in some way. They are good friends, but then something tears them apart and they become enemies, they are then drawn back to each other for some other reason but are still complete opposites.
Issue 1:
One frame of just writing: All things begin with an explosion.
Jon sitting in windowsill. In this frame, include a few stats about Jon like a mini profile (name, age, dob etc. NOT talent)
Butterfly flies onto his hand.
Another frame of writing: Everything in the realms of space, time, and spirits move away from each other.
Voice: JON!
Butterfly flies away.
Matt walks in. Show a brief profile for Matt.
Another frame of writing: They then get so far away from each other that they are brought back together.
Matt: C’mon, we’re going to be late for morning training.
Jon: *Sigh* Ok, have the others already gone?
Matt: Yeah
Another frame of writing: They reunite with a collision.
Show a frame of Ril punching Tony and sending him flying.
Show brief profile for Ril.
Tony getting up rubbing his head: Ril, you SOB, you get stronger every time. (show brief profile for tony)
Tony walks over to Ril and they shake hands
Another frame of writing: Another explosion then takes place and history repeats itself…
Tony pulls Ril’s hand to put him off balance and his the back of his head.
Ril smacks into the floor.
Tony: Good fight.
Jon and Matt walk in.
Tony: Hey, you guys going to class?
Matt: Yeah, we were just on our way now. You joining us, Tony?
Tony: Yeah.
Jon: What about you, Ril?
Ril: Yeah, what do we have?
Jon: Practical Traps

Afterwards, in Social Development
Mr Hughes is taking the lesson
Mr Hughes: As some of you may know, you are coming to the age where you begin to change and you should all begin developing strange abilities, or “Talents,” as most people call them. These abilities are not necessarily visible, or maybe not even physical, but they will single you out from everybody else in life. Abilities range from being the fastest person on the planet to being able to read somebody’s moves before they make them.
Random kid whispers to other kid: Or being the most boring person alive.
Mr Hughes gives the kid a look, the kid goes into a fit and goes pale. Mr Hughes looks away and the kid’s fit stops.
Mr Hughes: As demonstrated, these abilities can be used to inflict pain on others, or used to teach others. In our world, they are often abused and people use them against each other because of human nature. That is why schools like Combat High are set up to prepare your defensive fighting skills for the seven continents of the real world.

Later, in the courtyard.
Purple gang are hanging around.
Shows all profiles for purple gang (matt’s, jon’s, ril’s and tony’s abilities are unknown, izaak’s is lightning)
Yasmine comes over
Shows yasmine’s profile, stats, abilities etc. (strength ability)
Izaak: What do you want?
Yasmine: What’s your problem?
Izaak: You. Get lost.
Yasmine punches izaak in the face (her power is strength so he goes flying)
Izaak gets up and lightning starts sparking out of him.
Jon to yasmine: Just get out of here while you can.
Yasmine: I could take him any day of the week.
Izaak: Bring it.
Yasmine rushes at izaak to punch him again. He steps out of the way and grabs her arm
She screams and collapses
Yasmine: You electrocuted my arm. You could’ve killed me.
Izaak: No… I should’ve killed you. Now get lost.
Yasmine crawls away.
The bell rings
Izaak, matt and ril go one way, tony and jon go the other way.
Tony and jon are walking to class
Tony: How long ‘till the tournament?
Jon: I think about two months. We were told in the second week of summer.
Tony: You think you’ll get through? It’ll be pretty hard ‘cause most people have already developed their powers at least a bit and we’re stuck using our melee arts.
Jon: Not sure. We might get through but Matt will be stuck in seventh grade eating from his bunny lunch box.
Tony: I remember that. What happened to that bully, anyway?
Jon: I heard he got wedgied by a bigger kid for picking on little kids. Kind of ironic.

Sheva, Emma T and Dhanushka are standing around, somewhere.
Sheva: Have you guys heard about the new girl that’s meant to be joining in a few weeks? She’s transferring from the Newfoundland.
Emma: That’s the new continent they discovered just a few years ago, isn’t it?
Sheva: Yeah, they’re meant to have the best technology in the world there. They don’t have elemental powers.
Dhanushka: I was reading a book about it. They use things called Meccha and guns to fight each other.
Emma: What’s a “gun”?
Dhanushka: I’ve got no idea, but they’re meant to hurt.

Meanwhile… In Acrobatics Class
Matt, izaak and ril are in the class.
They are standing round looking at loads of people doing sick acrobatics, jumping, somersaults, flips etc.
One mysterious kid is jumping between beams and on to poles doing flips and shit (looks really amazing) lands on his fingers and balances perfectly.
Matt: What the hell… Who’s that kid?
The kid jumps over towards the three Purple Gang members and stands on the wall (parallel to the floor) looking at mr ward
Mr ward: Good job, Toby.
Toby looks over at purple crew
Displays his profile (balance ability)
Matt: Toby? Who the hell is Toby? I bet he thinks he’s well good.
Matt shouts at toby: Hey! You! Come down here! I want to fight you!
Izaak and ril stand back and shaking their heads and laughing.
Toby does some flips and lands doing a headstand on matt’s head
Toby: I’m Toby. How do you do?
Matt: What the…?
Matt looks upwards for the voice, but toby is still stuck to the top of his head (he sent the gravitational pull to matt’s head)
Matt does some flip and tries to kick Toby off his head.
Toby flips round behind matt and kicks him.
They fight.
Toby wins.
Matt, Izaak and ril walk out, izaak and ril laughing.

Later that night, in the dormitory… purple gang are lying in their bunk beds with the lights off. Izaak’s bed is above Jon’s
Later that night.
Izaak: Jon….
Jon: Yeah?
Izaak: Are you awake?
Jon: No
One frame of silence…
Izaak: Are you being sarcastic?
Jon: No
Izaak: In that case… Can I ask you something?
Jon: No
Izaak: Do you think I’d be pretty as a girl?
Jon: No
Izaak: ‘Cause I’ve been thinking recently… I’m quite girly… I like dancing and playing Jenga… So I must be a girl at heart, right?
Jon: Yes
Two frames of silence
Izaak: Jon…
Jon: What?
One frame of silence
Izaak: How much does it cost to have a sex change operation?
One frame of dark black (no light) and a few hit marks
END

Issue 2:
Breakfast time
Purple gang are sitting at a table in the great hall (everybody else sitting eating in the background)
Tony evil look and grin
Cereal flying through the air (really dramatic like a bullet)
Cereal hits Ril in the face
Ril stands up, pissed off
Ril: What the hell are you doing?
Tony laughing with eyes like ^_^ but grin like holding spoon (just been flicked)
Ril upturns his cereal bowl on the table and walks off, properly pissed
Jon: What was the point of that?
Tony (still grinning like a moron): Just felt like it
Jon: You should go say sorry
Tony: You’re beginning to sound like a cheesy comic book script
All members of Purple gang look at camera, embarrassed and grinning like tony.
Matt: Anyway. What’s our first lesson?
Izaak: Trap Setting with Mr. Bruin.

During Trap Setting (they learn about traps and how to disarm them and the physics of traps etc.)
Mr bruin: Tripwires are one of the most useful ways of setting a trap and one of the most common traps you will ever come up against in the real world. Who can tell me how a trip wire works?
Random kid: You tie one end of the wire to something and tie the other end to something else and the target trips over it.
(put lots of diagrams to explain this part)
Mr bruin: Only if it’s a crap trip wire. A real trip wire is connected to something else which is released when the wire is touched. This could be a floor panel, a wooden block or anything. Now, try making one yourselves, fully operational.

Many attempts later
Mr bruin comes over
Mr bruin: Good. Now, use this to set a trap. It can be anything ; something to fall on the target’s head, a floor panel to snap, anything.
A few minutes later….
Ril: That looks like it would work. Heheh. We’ll need a test subject.
Purple gang look around
Izaak: Oh Yasmine! (evil grin)
Yasmine: What?
Izaak: I’d like to make a hand written apology for yesterday, if you could just come sign it.
Izaak puts the paper on the table.
Yasmine walks towards purple gang, trips over the wire
Yasmine: YOU-
CRASH – a plaster ceiling panel falls on her head and knocks her out.
Mr Bruin: /well done! Fantastic trap. Now you can volunteer to take Yasmine to the Medical Bay.

In the Training Hall
Matt vs Ril
Ril trips over his shoelace and smacks his face into the ground, KO
Matt celebrates, thinking it was one of his punches that knocked out ril.
Tony standing with Jon and Izaak, they see Toby looking dodgy
Tony: Who’s that kid?
Izaak: His name’s Toby, he’s a weakling.
Tony: In that case, I’ll kick his ass just for the hell of it.
Tony walks over towards Toby, izaak laughing in the background
Jon to izaak: What’re you laughing at?
Izaak: You’ll see
The fight bell rings. Tony does some bigass kick, Toby does a few flips and owns him. It’s over quickly.
Jon standing like . izaak creasing.

During evening meal
Andy, George and Hughsie sitting eating.
Hughsie looks over at another table, shows Charlie (with bowlcut) using telekinesis to move the spoon and fork to feed himself.
Hughsie: What’s with that kid?
George: He’s a psychic, apparently.
Shows a kunai knock the spoon out of the air.
Charlie looks over.
Charlie: Good shot, you got the spoon.
Hughsie: I was aiming for your head.
Charlie puts on concentrating face.
Hughsie puts on awareness face.
Suddenly, Hughsie’s kunai shoots right at his head, Hughsie just dodges.
As he dodges, he throws a kunai, Charlie catches it with his mind, turns it around, and it goes shooting back at hughsie.
Hughsie about to shit himself, eyes shut, sweating etc. on the floor
Kunai stops just before it hits his head.
Kunai clatters onto the floor.
Hughsie opens his eyes.
Shows Charlie sitting down eating calmly.

Purple gang sitting at their table.
Mr Young walks up to them.
Mr Young: Izaak, Mr. Bruin wants to see you after you’ve finished eating, I was given a note to tell you.
Izaak: Sure thing, Mr. Young.
Mr Young: And I heard what you did. That wasn’t very clever.
Izaak not looking sorry at all: Sorry…
Jon reading newspaper that came out of nowhere
Jon looking at paper: People in the Newfoundland have been trying to create artificial demons similar to those that naturally occur on our continent. Apparently there was one scientist a few years back who was successful in creating something, a Mutant. According to this, the Mutants ruined parts of the land and so the Newfoundland Government have been looking for the man responsible for creating them. He left the country and they haven’t found him yet.

After the evening meal.
Mr. bruin walks into the teacher’s washroom.
A thud as the spy drops down from the ceiling (don’t show his face at all).
Mr. Bruin turns round.
Spy: Hello, Andy.
Mr. Bruin shitting himself, shaking: You…
Spy: Yes, it’s me. Surprised to see me? You didn’t think you could get away, just like that, do you?
Spy walks over to Mr Bruin, starts patronising him, maybe stroking his hair or something (he’s quite nuts)
Mr. Bruin: Get out of here before you have the whole place trying to kill you.
Spy: AHAHAHAHA. Andrew, my friend, you’re not in a position of power right now. I’ll tell you what to do, and if you do as I say, I’ll make it quick.
Shows mr bruin sneakily getting a kunai out.
Mr. Bruin lunges at spy with kunai: I’d rather die fighting
Frame of Bruin’s kunai dropping to the ground.
Zoom out and see Bruin’s corpse, impaled with a spear, spy no longer in the room.

Purple gang are walking down the corridor towards their dorm
Izaak: I’ve got to go see Mr. Bruin, he sent me a message to come back after dinner. I’ll meet you guys in the dorm.
Izaak walks off down another corridor and into Mr Bruin’s room.
He knocks and enters
Izaak: Hello?
He turns on the light and walks around a bit
Izaak thinks: He must have forgotten, all the better for me.
He starts heading back to the door when the lights go out (blue screen over the frame)
Izaak becomes alert and looks from side to side.
He walks over to the lightswitch, tries it, but the wire has been cut.
He tries the door, it’s locked.
Izaak thinks: Shit.
Voice: You think it’s funny when you hurt me, when you make fun of me?
Izaak remains silent
Voice: You don’t even know what pain is. You mock me and I’ve had enough of it.
Izaak hears footsteps running towards him.
The silhouette of a person jumps over the table (using their hand to balance)
Then CRASH. A ceiling panel falls down and knocks them on the head and they fall on the floor, concussed.
Izaak -__-
He walks over to the silhouette.
Izaak: Yasmine. I should’ve known you’d be so stupid as to forget about the traps we set up in class today.
Yasmine looking dazed with crossed eyes like XP: If it hadn’t been for you meddling kids…
Izaak: Anyway, how did you cut out the lights and lock the doors?
Yasmine, looking confused: I didn’t. I thought you did.
Izaak: You’re lying.
Yasmine: I’m not. I thought you turned off the lights.
Izaak walks over to the door and tries opening it. Still locked.
Izaak: Shit. How are we gonna…
Siren goes off like WOOP WOOP WOOP. An alarm light in the classroom starts flashing (like on top of a cop car)
To be continued…

Issue 3
Izaak walks over to the door and tries opening it. Still locked.
Izaak: Shit. How are we gonna…
Siren goes off like WOOP WOOP WOOP. An alarm light in the classroom starts flashing (like on top of a cop car)
Voice comes in over the tannoy
Tannoy: All staff report to the Great Hall, we have a code red infiltration.
Yasmine: Infiltration?
Izaak, scared, confident, but alert: Somebody has got into the school. Something must’ve happened. We need to get out of here quickly.
Yasmine: Screw this. I’m not gonna die with scum like you.
Yasmine walks over to the door and punches a huge hole through it.
Izaak like
Yasmine: C’mon, no time to waste.
Tannoy: From now on all exits out of the school and school grounds, including windows will be locked down and guarded by staff members. Students are required to stay in their dormitory at all times during the lockdown until further notice. Now entering Lockdown Phase 1
Huge banging sounds of doors being locked and iron grills rolling down over windows.

In purple gang’s dorm
Purple gang (not izaak or Ril) are sitting around, talking
Tony: Has izaak come back from seeing Mr. Bruin?
Jon: Not yet. Hopefully he’s safe, not doing something stupid.

In the corridor, yasmine and izaak are running
Yasmine: Hurry up, Izaak.
Izaak: I’m playing the game where you avoid stepping on the floor cracks.

Back in the dorm
Matt: Nah, that’s not like him.
Some random boy walks in
Ril: Mr. bruin’s dead.
Purple gang looks of horror.
Ril: They found his corpse in the teacher’s washroom.
Show a picture of mr bruin’s corpse, a pool of blood around it. Ril narrating this frame: That’s why they’ve locked down the school, there must be an intruder.
Ril: We’ve got to make sure Izaak’s safe.
Purple gang do hero stances (taking the piss)
Tony walks over to a chest in the corner of the room and opens it.
Everybody else is like
Chest contains loads of weapons
Tony evil grin: Take your weapon of choice.
Jon takes a Bo
Matt takes a sword
Ril takes an axe
Tony takes nun-chucks joined by fibre-wire

Yasmine and Izaak are running in the corridor
They come to a door, it’s locked
Yasmine: Damn.
They hear a scream from somewhere further down the corridor, somebody being killed.
Izaak: Bust the door open like you did before.
Yasmine tries but can’t.
Yasmine: It’s no use, we’ll have to go the other way.

Purple gang are walking down the corridor
Tony, Jon, Ril and matt are walking strong on the floor, looking tough
(make that scene look heroic, like the front cover or something)
Tony suddenly alert
Tony: What was that sound?
Matt: What sound?
Tony: It sounded like wind going past us.
Matt: I didn’t hear any-ARGH!!
Matt collapses to the floor, writhing in pain. Then stops, and gets up slowly, panting
Matt: I had a shock, down my spine. Like no pain I’ve felt before.
See tony fall, stiff rigid.
Purple team gather round.
Tony still on ground, in the same crawling position, stiff rigid.
Jon: What’s wrong with him?
Matt: He must’ve had the same thing as me, but it must have affected him more.
Ril: I wonder why-
Suddenly all of purple gang are sent flying back by a blast of power, with a silhouette of the infiltrator at the centre of it.
To be continued…

Issue 4
Writing: The number of spirits in the universe is constant.
Tony still on ground, in the same crawling position, stiff rigid.
Jon: What’s wrong with him?
Matt: He must’ve had the same thing as me, but it must have effected him more.
Ril: I wonder why-
Suddenly all of purple gang are sent flying back by a blast of power, with a silhouette of the infiltrator at the centre of it.
Writing: Spirits of the dead are passed on to newborns.
Matt gets up, angry face and charges at infiltrator: Bastard!!!
Jon, sincerely worried, puts out hand and shouts: NO!!
Infiltrator does one hand move and sends Matt flying into the opposite wall, he’s knocked unconscious
Writing: And so the type of person somebody is is defined by their spirit.
Jon sees Izaak and yasmine on the other side of the corridor, behind the infiltrator.
Jon: Izaak! No! Run!
Infiltrator turns around and sees them. Doesn’t do anything.
Yasmine gets angry and about to run at infiltrator.
Izaak whispers to her: Stop. He’s not worried about us, he must’ve set a trap.
Izaak gets out a kunai and throws it.
It hits a wire and the wire breaks.
A huge explosion of fire, doesn’t reach Izaak and Yasmine, they shield their faces.

On the other side of the corridor…. Jon looks round
Jon thinks: Where’s Ril?
Suddenly, Ril comes up from the floor right underneath the infiltrator, bringing a rush of earth, floor tiles and dirt with him, sending infiltrator flying.
Jon shouts: Izaak. Now!
Jon and Izaak (izaak with sparks of lightning all around him) run at the infiltrator, who is getting up at this point.
Infiltrator does some ninja jump out of the way and stabs Jon with kunai in the leg
Jon collapses.
Voice: Hey, you, come get a real fight instead of picking on kids.
Everybody turns to voice, including infiltrator.
It’s Mr Young.
(show profile for mr young)
Mr Young and infiltrator have some big-up, kickass fight.
Ends with infiltrator getting stabbed or immobilized, not killed.

In some random room, the bounty hunter is tied down, there’s a huge fire in the corner and several teachers standing round.
Mrs Barnes to Mr Brown: We know he’s from the Newfoundland – None of us could sense any Ki belonging to him.
Mr Davis to spy: Why were you sent to kill Andrew Bruin?
Silence.
Mr Davis looks at mr Hughes
Mr Hughes tips down his glasses and does the thing.
Hunter goes into a spasm (it’ll be had to show whilst he’s tied down, but do your best and make it serious rather than comical)
Mr Davis bends down to bounty hunter’s face: If you just cooperated, we could relieve you of this pain, it’s pretty simple.
Bounty hunter spits in his face.
Mr Davis stands up.
Mr Davis: Bring the hot brands.

Tony lies awake in the medical bay.
Blood curdling screams can be heard.
Tony thinks with an evil face: The sound of the human voice being drowned with its own blood. Like a symphony to my ears…

Issue 5
Everybody in the dorm awake apart from Matt. Twins are in our dorm as well. (Tony not in dorm)
Ril: Matt, wake up.
Matt: Huh?
Matt sits up on bed.
Ril: It’s Sunday, our day off. We were planning to go into the town, but we just found out nobody’s allowed in or out of the school until they find out if there are any other bounty hunters.
Matt: I’ll go back to bed then.
Matt lies back down.
Jon to nobody in particular: Apparently they tortured the bounty hunter they found yesterday but he didn’t say why he was sent to kill Mr. Bruin.
Matt: So what are we meant to do all day? Sit around and play Jenga with Izaak? It’s my birthday in a few days, I don’t want to be locked in here on that day.
Ril: Izaak’s gone to get our food. Only one person was allowed out from each dorm to bring enough food back. Only one person with that much responsibility… and they chose Izaak -__-.

In the kitchen, 20 students are collecting boxes of food for their dorms.
Izaak walks through the door, and on sight of all that food, drops to his knees, clasps his hands together, looks up and says
Izaak: All this food. And me. In the same room. I think I’ll cry.

Jon: I’m sure he’ll bring back enough. Are they going to let us see Tony?
Matt: Is he still in the Medical Bay?
Tony walks in through the door.
Tony: Nope. I was discharged just now, told to come straight here.
Matt: Cool. Did they say what it was that happened?
Tony: They think it was some sort of electrical charge and that it overloaded my central nervous system. “System shutdown” in other words. What happened whilst I was out? I heard screams last night.
Jon: It’s a long story, we’ll tell you later.
Everybody sits down on their beds.
2 frames of silence
Ril: So… What does everybody want to do?
One frame of silence
Sound like PAAARRRRP
Everybody looks at tony
Tony does embarrassed manga thing, (one hand scratching back of head. Embarrassed grin. Red cheeks)
Tony: Sorry…
Both twins have exactly same expression sitting next to each other: O_O

Twins at same time: So anyway…
Nick: Have any of you found out your Elemental Abilities, yet?
Matt: Oh yeah, Ril, you found out yours last night, didn’t you? I forgot about that.
Ril not looking very happy, sitting on a window ledge looking outside: Yeah. It’s ok, I guess.
Jon: You wanted a different one?
Ril: Yeah, I’m Earth. Great! (sarcastic)
Tony: It’s better than nothing. I haven’t even developed mine, yet.
Twins: Ril, you’re Earth?
Ril: yeah. So?
(next 3 lines all in one frame, really cheesy)
Chris: We’re Fire.
Nick: And Ice.
Both: Let’s Battle!
Show profile for twins
Both twins on one page, back to back.
(chris is Fire ability, Nick is Ice ability. They have exactly the same stats as each other, opposite strengths and weaknesses)
Ril and twins fight.
A lot of use of elemental powers (a lot of fire, ice and earth moves thrown in)
Twins are winning but it doesn’t finish.
Izaak walks in, carrying loads of crates piled on top of each other.
Tony: You took your time.
Izaak, big grin, pokes his head out from behind the crates: Yeah, I brought back all the food that was in the kitchen. If you hear an angry mob at the door, tell them I’m in a different dorm.
Everybody tucks into the food.
Voice over the tannoy: All students are requested to come to the Great Hall immediately in silence.

In the Great Hall… Every student in the school is there.
Mr Brown is on the stage behind a podium.
Mr Brown: Silence, please. You must be silent.
Mr Brown: I have a very important announcement to make. As most of you are aware, there was an incident last night in the school and a teacher died. Silent! We have been doing our best to get to the bottom of what has happened but with little success so far. The faculty as a whole has decided it isn’t safe for you to be in the school until we have found any leads on this case as to how the trespasser gained access onto school property. I am hereby suspending the academic year at Combat High.
Whole school shouts with cheers of happiness
Mr Brown: That does not mean you don’t have to go to school.
Whole school becomes silent
Mr Brown: Your parents have been contacted and agreed to the school arranging for temporary transfers to a few other schools. Each one of you will be attending one of the following schools: Martial Academy, Fight School or Temple Arts High – all three schools are in the town, so you will not have to go without seeing each other for the whole two weeks. Now I ask you to go back to your dormitories and pack your necessities, your clothes, and your registrar teacher will come and inform you individually of which of the three schools you will be attending for the next two weeks.

Back in the dormitories, purple gang, cook and twins are packing their stuff into their suitcases.
Mr young walks in.
Mr Young: Right, people. I’ve got some transfer slips to give out.
Tony: Do we have to take everything with us or just the things we need?
Mr Young: Just the most important things – you’ll be coming back here soon enough so you won’t need most of it.
Jon: What happened to the killer?
Mr young: He was… interrogated with force. He died this morning.
Silence
Mr young walks round and gives everybody a piece of paper
Matt: I’m going to Martial Academy
Jon: Me too.
Tony: I won’t see you there – I’m at Temple Arts High
Izaak: So am I.
Ril: And me.
The End.

Issue 6
Mr young walks round and gives everybody a piece of paper
Matt: I’m going to Martial Academy
Jon: Me too.
Tony: I won’t see you there – I’m at Temple Arts High
Izaak: so am I.
Ril: and me.

Shows Tony, izaak and ril standing side by side with their backs to the camera, holding their suitcases/trunks, looking at Temple Arts High (traditional chinese looking building with low roof, red wood etc.)
Izaak: Temple Arts High, huh? Doesn’t look as bad as I expected.
Ril: I wonder how Jon and Matt are doing at Martial Academy. I heard that place is pretty tough.
Tony: One of their students killed another a few years back and they’re supposed to be taught well in tactics.
Ril joking: Doesn’t sound that tough. Tactics are nothing. We could beat them with our physical strength.

Shows Matt and jon standing side by side with their backs to the camera, holding their suitcases/trunk, looking at Martial Academy (a modern building, very ugly, flat roof, paint peeling, people leaning against walls smoking etc.)
Matt: Martial Academy, huh? Looks worse than I expected.
Jon: I wonder how Izaak, Tony and Ril are doing at Temple Arts High. Hope that place isn’t too soft for them.
Matt: Who cares about them? I heard this place is pretty tough. One of the students killed another a few years ago.
They walk through the school, following signs to School Reception.
They pass loads of dodgy looking people.
They see a sign for Toilet.
Jon: I’ve got to go to the toilet for a second. Look after my stuff.
Jon drops stuff and goes into the toilet.
Matt looks round, intimidated.
Tega walks up to matt slowly from out of the shadows, with a toothpick in his mouth.
Tega: Malam. Give me your money bag.
Matt getting pissed off: What are you starting, bitch?
Tega: Haha, this oyimbo’s got some spark. Here, have one back.
Tega punches matt in the face, matt falls down, lip bleeds.
Matt sitting on the floor, looking upset, not looking physically hurt, though.
Matt: Hey man, it’s my birthday, why are you starting?
Tega punches him in the face again and matt falls down again, tega takes his money bag and goes.
Hear a toilet flush sound.
Jon comes out of the toilet.
Jon: Sorry I took so long - your birthday cake didn’t digest very well. Let’s go

At Temple Arts High…
Tony, ril and izaak are standing in the doorway of a dorm with some random teacher:
Teacher: This will be your dorm for the time being. I’ll introduce you to your room-mates.
They walk over to a three nerds lined up. These people are HARDCORE nerds. Bowlcuts, glasses, jack ups, suspenders, short-sleeve shirts tucked in, braces, socks pulled up high, shorts. Terrible colour coordination, the ugliest clothes you can think of. PROPER nerds.
Nerd 1: I’m Tenji!
Shows his profile (some ability which seems shit, but actually owns) show him in some stupid, manga stance, looks really nerdy, like Konohamaru and his friends
Nerd 2: Introducing Kenji!
Shows his profile, (again some ability which seems shit), show him in a different, stupid, manga stance, maybe peace sign.
Nerd 3: The one and only Benji!
Shows his profile (same as the others)
Izaak, tony and Ril o_O
Teacher: Well, I’ll leave you to unpack and settle in. Your new friends will show you which beds are free.
Teacher leaves.
Benji: We’ve got one bunk bed free and a space in the same bunk bed as me. Which one of you wants to be the lucky devil to sleep with me?
izaak whispers to Ril: I’m not sleeping in the same bunk bed as one of those geeks.
Ril back to izaak: Me neither.
Both of them push tony forward
Benji: Yahoo! Let’s get this shindig started.
Tony whispers out of corner of his mouth, trying to keep a pleasant face: You two are bastards.

The Next Morning, in Sparring Class in Temple Arts High
Students sitting around the edge of the fighting circle painted on the floor, teacher in the middle.
Teacher: Let’s see how our newcomers compare to Temple Arts’ own brand. Let’s have you
Teacher points to tony, sitting around the edge of the circle
Teacher: And your partner will be… Kenji!
Kenji: Oh Golly!
Tony gets a huge grin on his face
Tony to izaak and ril: Watch this.
Tony and kenji get into their stances.
Teacher: I want to see a nice, dirty fight, bloodloss is encouraged, but don’t get carried away.
The fight bell rings
Tony starts off well, but then Kenji uses his ability and owns tony hardcore.
See tony flick his wrist sneakily while he is getting up, so that nobody notices.
Kenji gets knocked over by the wind

Matt and Jon are in one of their classes at Martial Academy. The teacher is facing the blackboard, writing
Jon to the kid next to him, with big grin like : My friend here got mugged yesterday
Kid: What’s your point?
Jon : It was his birthday
Kid: HAHAHA.
Matt looking very pissed off, vein popping out, head swelling
Kid: Who did it?
Jon: Some really tall black kid, apparently, he just came out of the shadows. I wasn’t there.
Kid: HAHAHA.
Jon and matt look at each other, confused.
Jon: What’s so funny now?
Kid: That kid that mugged your friend. He’s a year younger than us. His name’s Tega.
Jon: HAHAHA.
Matt, swelled up head, bright red, huge veins out of head: WHAT?! I GOT JACKED BY A MINOR?!
Kid: Yeah, haha.
Matt leaps straight off his chair and decks the other kid straight onto the floor, just sits on top of him punching the shit out of his face.
The bell rings for the end of the lesson
Matt gets off the kid
Him and jon leave the class
They’re walking down the hallway
Matt: THAT’S HIM!!
Matt goes charging at Tega, down the hall.
Zoom in on matt’s face from the side, really dramatic, fast running.
Zoom out, jon Is holding him effortlessly by the back of the collar, matt not realising is still running on the spot.
Matt looks back and realises
Stands like -__-
Tega comes bopping past.
Matt: Oi! You! Gimme back my money bag before I smack you up!
Tega turns, looks at matt
Tega: Haha, maybe not, birthday boy.
Jon cracks up.
Jon: Haha. I gotta hand it to you, man.
Jon shakes hands with Tega, still laughing.
Tega: Yo, I like your style. Where are you from?
Jon: Me and hothead Matt here come from Combat High. We’re here for a few weeks.
Tega: Your name’s Matt?
Matt: Yeah, and what?
Tega: And nothing, I was just wondering.
Matt: What’s yours?
Tega: People call me Tega.
Jon: What’s your real name?
Tega: Tega.
Matt and Jon stand like -__-
Tega: What about you, mini-ears?
Jon slaps Tega
Jon: People call me Jon.
Tega, looking suspicious: Why’s that?
Jon: ‘Cause that’s my name.
Tega stands like -__-
A few frames of them standing around doing nothing, tapping their feet, looking awkward like =/ etc.
Tega: You guys want to come into town with me and some friends, tonight?
Jon: Nah, we wouldn’t want to impose. We need to get some sleep anyway.
Tega: Ok. See you around, then.
Tega walks off
Some more frames of matt and jon looking awkward.

At Temple Arts High, during the evening.
Tony: Man, this school sucks.
Ril: Only ‘cause you got beaten by a nerd.
Tony goes -__-
Tony: Man, this school sucks.
Izaak: At least we’re allowed out during the evenings, unlike most schools.
Ril: Hey, we might see Jon or Matthew whilst we’re out there.
Tony: Hmm… We may as well go, then. I haven’t been into the town for a while.

In the town…
Izaak, Tony and Ril are walking along the road, loads of shops etc.
Ril: Let’s get something to eat.
They walk into Anakus and Maestro takeaway restaurant.
Fives minutes later…
They walk out holding some takeaway boxes, eating noodles with chopsticks.
They carry on talking whilst turning into an alleyway by accident.
Tony: Man… These are some buff noodles. Whoever invented them should win an award.
Ril and Izaak: Amen to that.
They’re all looking down at their food.
Ril, looks up and says: Oops, wrong turn.
They turn around and Tega and some friends come out of the shadows.
Tega: Malams. Give us your money bags.
Tony, Izaak and Ril look at each other like -__-
Tony: Just one second.
Tony takes another bite of noodles and then they all put their noodles on the ground.
Show Izaak, Ril and Tony in a cool stance
Show Tega’s profile (shadow ability)
They fight tega and his friends. Use a lot of elements – earth, lightning, shadow and some random powers tega’s friends have. Izaak, Tony and Ril win.
Tony, Izaak and Ril pick up their noodles, walk over the unconscious bodies and go out the alley eating their noodles and go home.

A week later…
In World History lesson.
Purple gang sitting there.
Teacher: Now, legend says that the continents were once joined. Folklore talks of an evil spirit, a Demon King, if you will, who came to the mortal realm with a huge sword, bigger than any man-made sword. With this sword, the Earthsplitter, the Demon King thrust it into the ground and caused huge chasms, splitting the single land mass into seven separate continents.
Matt: Why didn’t anybody stop him?
Teacher: There was one who almost stopped him, a hero named Ankus. However, before Ankus could destroy the demon, he became possessed and stabbed himself in the heart to save himself and the rest of the world.
Jon: And people actually believe these things?
Mr Davies: It’s the only explanation that has been around since the dawn of time that explains how the continents became separated and the huge blade which is still stuck in a mountain on one of the Tethys Islands. It’s quite a sight. Go and see it if you ever get a chance.

Jon, Tega and Matt are sitting somewhere on the school campus.
Matt: Man, we’ve been stuck in this dump for a week, now. When are we going home?
Jon: Couldn’t agree more.
Tega: You guys bored?
Matt: Damn right we’re bored. There’s nothing to do here.
Tega: Hmm… Let’s go to the town.

Tega, matt and jon are walking at the edge of town, near the forest.
Matt kicks a rock, it rolls for a bit, the camera follows it.
It stops at a pair of feet.
The camera zooms out, the rock stopped at the feet of an innocent little girl in a dress, maybe about 4 or 5, hands behind her back, really innocent, really cute manga eyes. Hair neatly in a side parting.
She giggles.
She skips into the forest.
Jon: Hey, wait.
She carries on running.
Matt: Stupid kids. We’d better go get her.
They run after the little girl into the forest.
They’re running
Tega smacks straight into a branch
Tega gets back up and says: Hate being so damn tall.
They carry on running and they come to a clearing in the forest.
The little girl is there with her back turned to them, picking flowers.
Matt: Hey, little girl, come back to the town with us. You don’t wan to get hurt.
Little girl stands up, still back facing camera
She giggles.
She skips off and fades away (she was a ghost)
Jon, tega and matt stand like
The giggles can still be heard.
They come from different directions
Suddenly, SMACK something hits Jon and he goes flying into a tree.
Matt and Tega get into their stances
Jon stands up
Something hits him and he goes flying again.
Then something hits Tega and he goes flying.
Matt thinks: What the hell is going on? Why aren’t they attacking me?
Something hits matt and he goes flying.
Jon sees the thing about to hit him, then he keels over and lets out a piercing scream.
Tega and Matt cover their ears.
The demon can be seen trying to attack Jon.
Description of demons:
This particular demon is opaque, so you can see through it, but still see that it’s there. It isn’t obvious to see but it looks evil. It doesn’t have a colour.
Tega gets up, still covering his ears, and runs over to the thing.
He becomes just his shadow on the ground and fights the demon’s shadow.
The demon’s shadow eventually knocks him over.
Jon does a sound move instinctively and the demon leaves.
Tega, getting out of his shadow (do it like a bugs bunny cartoon where he comes out of an Acme hole in the ground) says: Demons. I should have known.
Matt: Demons?
Tega: Haven’t you ever been out into these forests? There’s too many of them.
Matt looks over at jon. He’s collapsed.
Tega: Was that sound coming from Jon?
Matt: Probably. We should take him back to the school.
Tega, rubbing his ears: Man. My ears are still ringing. We’d better take him to the Hospital, you’ve seen the facilities at my school. And he looks in a really bad state – he’s gone white.

Blank with writing:
Writing: When pure Evil amasses, a Hero shall rise.
Shows jon’s vision, through his eyes. His vision is blurred. He can just about see matt leaning over his bed. (the whole next sequence is from jon’s eyes until I say so)
Matt: There you are.
Jon: Huh?
Writing: The spirit of the Hero is assigned to the strongest mortal bodies.
A buff female nurse (typical manga nurse) walks in and stands on the right side of Jon’s bed.
Nurse: Right. I’ve got some good new and some bad news for you, sweetie. Which do you want to hear first?
Jon: Huh?
Nurse: Good news it is. You’ve just unlocked your Elemental Ability.
Jon: Huh?
Nurse: Bad new is that it was so out of control when you got here. It kept going on and off and smashing bottles and medicine. It was so bad that we had to put some restraints on it.
Writing: The evil is then crushed and the spirit of the Hero retires until history begins to repeat itself.
Jon: Huh?
(vision has almost cleared)
Nurse: Your hands may be extremely painful for a few months. That’s all down to the restraints – we had to put some special gloves on you to control your Element. In the gloves are some long, iron needles which were inserted into your hands. You won’t be able to move your hands for a few weeks.
Still in jon’s vision, he is lying in his hospital bed. He lifts up his left hand and sees some fat glove on it.
Nurse: Yup. That’s the one. Most people with Sound Element don’t need them, but yours seemed so powerful, so uncontrolled that we had to help you control it in some way. The gloves will basically limit the amount of Ki, spiritual energy, you can use when using your ability. If you take them off, you’ll be too powerful to control. It’s for your own good.
(still through jon’s eyes)
Jon: Huh?
Nurse: *Giggles* I’ll leave you boys to yourselves, then.
Nurse walks out.
Jon: Matt…
Matt: Yeah?
Jon: What are these gloves doing on my hands?
Jon’s vision goes black (he’s passed out)

A few days later…
Tony, Izaak and Ril are outside on school campus at Temple Arts High.
Ril: There go those nerds. They think they need brains to fight. It’s all about strength.
Ril points to Tenji, Kenji and Benji, about 20 yards away.
Kenji looks their way.
He begins laughing at tony.
Kenji: Haha. You’re a loser. You nerd. You couldn’t handle yourself in the real world.
Tony’s eyes changed (white rage)
He charges over at Kenji and grabs him by the throat with the other hand ready to punch him in the face.
Kenji looks like he’s shitting himself.
Voice: Hey! You! Put that student down!
Tony looks over. Some teacher is coming up to him.
Teacher: You think you have the right to manhandle other students like that?
The teacher slaps tony round the face, he goes spinning onto the floor, blood comes out of his nose.
Teacher: Don’t let me catch you doing that again or I’ll break your legs.
Teacher begins walking off.
Tony eyes show he’s switched even more: BAKA!!!
Tony charges up behind the teacher.
He begins choking the teacher.
The teacher looks like he’s gonna shit himself.
Tony kicks the back of the teacher’s knees so he isn’t standing anymore and pulls the teacher backwards so he is choking himself and can’t help it.
SMACK Tony is knocked unconscious.

Tony and the Master (headmaster) are sitting in his office.
Tony is looking down, no emotion in his face.
The headmaster is looking at Tony, in the eyes.
Master: We took you in on a favour to your school. Then you repay us by abusing a student and attempting to kill a teacher? What motivates you? Well?
Tony: He hit me.
Master: You expect me to believe a member of my staff, somebody I put my trust in would hit a student? Do you think I’m stupid?
Tony: I didn’t try to kill him.
Master: You didn’t try to kill him? So you think wrapping fibre wire around somebody’s neck and pulling as hard as you can isn’t attempting to kill them? What world do you live in?
One frame of silence.
Master, begins shuffling some papers: I’m sorry but I’ve got no choice but to remove you from our school environment. I’ll have to report this back to Combat High, as well, see how they react to such a murderous student.

In the dorm.
Tony is packing his suitcase, looking down all the time. Izaak and Ril are standing next to him.
Kenji, Tenji and Benji are sitting on a bed, together in the background.
Izaak: What?
Tony: I’ve been expelled.
Izaak: But that teacher hit you.
Tony: Apparently not.
Ril: We can back your case up.
Tony gestures to the nerds: Not when you’ve got those losers sucking up to the Master and backing each other up.
Kenji: You were going to hit me!
He starts crying really badly. Tenji and Benji start rubbing his back and comforting him (NERDS)
Tony still packing suitcase, looking down: I wasn’t going to hit you, I was going to move my fist. If your head didn’t move out of the way, that would’ve been your fault.
Benji: You’re not funny, jerk.
Tony gets pissed off (seriously, no veins popping out of head): You think this is funny?! You think being expelled and having my whole life ruined by one geek is funny?! How do you think I feel?! And watch how you speak to me before I slit your throat.
Izaak: Calm down, man.
Tony shuts his suitcase.
Tony looking calm again: I am calm.
Tony walks out of the room carrying his suitcase.

Shows sakina getting off a boat with her suitcase.
When she gets off, she stands and looks around, taking in her new town.
Sakina thinks: If there’s one thing I can stand about new places – it’s the smell.
She begins walking through the port, carrying her suitcase, looking around.
Something comes flying at the side of her head.
She moves her head out the way and catches it right in front of her face.
It’s an arrow with a sucky-thing on the end.
She looks at where it came from, and there’s a little boy in shorts with a bowl-cut holding a bow about 30 yards away.
She throws the arrow, it zooms through the air really dramatically.
Shows a close-up of the boy’s face, the arrow is stuck right in the middle of his forehead and he is like O_O
He bursts out crying, still with the arrow stuck to his head.
Sakina thinks: Kids…
She walks away hastily.
She walks a bit through the dock, behind her can be seen an adult going to the crying child to see what’s happening.
Sakina steps onto a train (side view of her) can see the adult and the kid running after her.

Jon in his hospital bed.
Jon thinks: So… Bored… Must… Try to… Stay alive…
He looks over at the Call Nurse button.
Jon thinks: Heheheh…
He presses the button.
In walks his buff nurse.
Jon: Nurse, I’m feeling rather dirty, isn’t it time for my sponge bath?
Nurse: But you’ve already had four today.
Jon: Yes but I’ve now that I can’t use my hands, I’m feeling very frustrated.
Nurse: Well, ok, one more. But after this I’ll have to dress you in your pyjamas and send tuck you in.
Jon thinks: SCORE!

Izaak and Ril are sitting around in Temple Arts High
Izaak: Man, I wonder what Tony’s gonna do now. He doesn’t really have anywhere to go until Combat High opens back up. And even then he might not be allowed back in.
Ril: He was stupid for even doing that. I admit it wasn’t fair what the teacher did, but still. It’s a teacher. That’s just not what you do.
Izaak: I suppose. I wonder how Jon and Matt are doing, as well.
Ril: Matthew’s probably getting pissed off for some stupid reason.

Matt: What the hell? You beat me at tiddlywinks?
Matt decks the kid he was playing against and starts punching him in the face while sitting on top of him.

Izaak: Probably.
Ril: And Jon is probably-
Jon: Sitting at your window listening to your conversation.
Izaak and Ril turn round, shocked.
Shows jon sitting on the windowsill, relaxed.
Izaak: When did you get there?
Jon: A few minutes ago.
Ril: You scared me, man. What are you doing here, anyway? How come you’re not at school?
Jon lifts up his gloved hands.
Izaak: What the hell are those?
Jon: It started when we Matt and I were in the forest with a boy we met at Martial Academy…
One long-winded explanation later…
Ril: So you can’t even move your little fingers?
Jon: I can just about do it with my right hand. But I can’t do anything with my left.
Izaak: Well at least you can use your right hand for the most important things, if you catch my drift.
Jon: Yeah, but I can barely move it. I’ll have to wait a few weeks before I can use them fully. So how’s life here, anyway?
Izaak: Pretty dull. Tony got thrown out.
Jon surprised: What? What for?
Izaak: Well it all started with some geeks…
One more long-winded explanation later…
Jon: Man, that sucks. Is he going to be allowed back in Combat High?
Ril: Nobody knows, we’re going to have to wait ‘till it re-opens to find out.
Jon: Damn… Anyway, I’ve got to get back to my hospital bed, I don’t want to raise any alarms.
Izaak: Ok. Do you know when the school’s going to re-open?
Jon: No idea. We’ll probably get a message sometime soon. I hope.
He jumps out of the window, not using his hands.

Tony, sitting in an abandoned train carriage in a train station, his feet dangling out the edge (night time).
Tony: Now I can call myself a Hobo. Never thought I’d be homeless and living in an abandoned train.
Tony notices the trail of smoke coming nearer, a train is on its way
The train gets closer (it’s an old-fashioned steam engine)
It pulls up at the platform.
Sakina gets out, carrying her luggage.
Tony looks surprised by her.
Tony thinks: She looks… Different from the rest. There’s something about her… Something about her soul…
Sakina walks away with her luggage
Tony gets out of the carriage and follows her
He follows her through the forest, she is going by path, he is going through the treetops.
Tony thinks: I must find out…
He jumps at her from the top of the tree.
Sakina drops her luggage, does a spinning kick and hits tony.
They fight for a while.
They pause, still in their stances, ready.
Tony thinks: I was right.
Tony: You don’t have a talent.
Sakina: No, I fight honestly.
Tony: How can you not have a talent?
Sakina: I’m from the Newfoundland, I’ve been sent out here to train by my parents.
Tony thinks: The Newfoundland… An outsider.
Tony: I knew there was something different about you. Some lack in your spiritual aura.
Sakina: Stop trying to sound wise.
She makes the next fight move, they fight a bit more.
Tony overpowers her and holds her up against a tree, His kunai at her throat, the other arm holding her torso there.
Tony: Tell me, outsider, how does fighting with a talent make me dishonest?
Sakina: Because you don’t work hard to be able to do this.
She throws a bladed boomerang, it cuts through all the branches on a single tree.
Tony lets go of her.
Tony, look of amazement: Damn…
Tony: Would love to stay and chat, but I have business to attend to.
Tony runs off into the woods.
Sakina rests against a tree, feeling her heart beat to make sure it’s normal: I thought I was through, there. This land seems tougher than they said it would be.
She bends over, resting her arms on her thighs, panting.
She touches her right hand trouser pocket.
Looks at it and touches it again.
She looks up, like
Sakina: That jerk. He stole my money bag. Thief.

Shows tony eating some Anakus and Maestro noodles, loving it up.
Tony: A decent meal, finally. Why are they taking so long to reopen Combat High?
Tony: There can’t be something that drastically amiss, can there?
Some buff girl in a skirt walks past tony, still eating his noodles.
Tony looks back, checking her out.
He waves his hand lightly.
A gust of wind blows the girl’s skirt up.
She screams and runs off, holding her skirt down.
Tony thinks: Heheh.
And walks off, eating his noodles and smiling.
Tony: I wonder how Jon’s doing. Maybe I’ll go visit him.

Jon walking somewhere with Matt.
Jon: I wonder how Tony’s doing.
Matt: And Izaak and Aerillion.

It’s morning time, show the sun bright and shining.
Ril is lying, tucked up in bed. The sun wakes him up
He looks up at the clock, it’s 5:10 am.
He lies back in bed, thinking
Ril thinks: I’ve been at Combat High for so long but I still feel weak. Inadequate.
Ril thinks: I know if I was taught the right way, if I trained the right way, I could be one of the most powerful fighters. I need to focus myself. I need to win the tournament and be a great fighter. I need to get stronger.
Shows ril getting out of bed quickly.

The light shines through the window.
It wakes up Izaak, in the top bunk above Ril’s bed.
He looks at the clock, it’s 6:35.
Izaak thinks: Good, 25 minutes ‘till I have to get up.
One frame of silence
Izaak thinks: It’s quiet in here… A bit too quiet.
He rolls over to the side of his bed and looks under into Ril’s bed, the sheets are all messed up but Ril isn’t in the bed.
Izaak like ^o)
He jumps out of his top bunk.
Izaak: Ril?
One frame of silence, Izaak looks around the room.
Izaak: Aerillion?
He tries to open the door, it’s locked.
Izaak: He can’t have left, the doors haven’t been unlocked, yet.
He looks at the other side of the room, his face like
Shows the window open, the curtains blowing in the wind.

Tony sitting in a tree in the forest, his suitcase on a branch next to him.
He is eating takeaway noodles out of a plastic box.
*CRACK* shows somebody’s foot coming down on twigs, breaking them.
Tony, suddenly alert.
He stands up and looks at where the sound came from.
He sees a silhouette of somebody carrying something big (a suitcase) and running fast. (the silhouette is actually ril but tony doesn’t know)
Tony jumps over to another tree to get closer to the person.
He makes a big *THUMP* when he lands on the branch.
The silhouette heard the thump and stopped running, now looking up at tony.
Camera is now running with Ril.
Shows the silhouette of somebody jumping from one branch to another, then stands still.
Shows tony looking down at the silhouette, still.
Ril still only seeing a silhouette in the tree: Don’t mess with me, kid. I don’t have time for pranks.
Tony still only seeing ril as a silhouette: Where are you running?
Ril: None of your business, get lost.
Tony slightly irritated, but not pissed off.
Ril carries on walking, looking up at tony to make sure he doesn’t jump him.
Tony sits down on his branch.
Tony thinks: I haven’t seen Matt and Jon for a while…
He jumps off his branch and begins walking out of the forest, towards the town.
He walks through the town.
He comes to Martial Academy.
He walks in cautiously, looking around at all the dodgy people.
Voice: Tony!
Tony looks round, sees Matt carrying a two suitcases.
Matt: What’re you doing here? Why aren’t you at Temple Arts?
(tony and matt start walking while they talk)
Tony: I got expelled. It’s a long story, I don’t particularly want to talk about it. How’s it been around here? Why are you carrying those suitcases?
Matt: One question at a time. It’s been pretty eventful. Jon discovered his Talent – Sound Element, I believe. Now he has to wear some huge gloves to control his Ki, or something like that.
Tony: That’s cool. Where is he?
Matt: He’s in hospital, he knocked himself out because his pent up Ki got released and was too powerful. That’s why they had to put the gloves on.
Tony: Too powerful? There’s no such thing.
Matt: Evidently you’re wrong.
Voice: Hey, Matt!
They turn around and see Tega coming towards them, carrying a suitcase.
Tony sees Tega, gets angry.
Tega sees Tony, gets angry.
They run at each other.
They fight for a little bit (really short).
Matt: Stop! Why are you fighting?
Tony still angry and in his stance: This jerk jumped me in an alley way in town with some of his friends. Ril, Izaak and me fought them and won.
Tega still angry and in his stance: I jumped this jerk in an alley way in town with some of my friends. Him and his friends me us and won.
Matt looking confused: Look, whatever happened, nobody cares. Tega, this is Tony. Tony, this is Tega. You better make friends, ‘cause Tega’s coming back to Combat High with us.
Tony looking surprised: What?
Tega: You heard me, malam. I’m coming to beat up everybody in your school.
Tony: Why? Just stay at your own school, our school doesn’t want jerks like you.
Tega gives Tony an evil look.
Matt: Break it up, already. Tega’s coming back with us because he doesn’t like his school.
Tony: What are you carrying those suitcases for?
Matt smiling: Combat High has reopened – We’re going back today.

At Combat High…
Loads of students are walking into the school with suitcases.
Matt, Tega and Tony spot Izaak and walk over to him.
Izaak at Tega: YOU!!
They drop their suitcases.
Matt to Tega: Just how many of my friends did you start fights with?
Tega: Was the kid at the fair whose candy-floss I stole your friend?
Matt: No.
Tega: In that case just these three.
Izaak: Why are you here?
Tega: I’m moving to your school. I didn’t like mine.
Matt: Where’s Ril?
Izaak: That’s something I’d like to know. He disappeared this morning. Jumped out of the window.
Matt: What? Why?
Izaak: No idea. I just hope he’s ok.
Sheva and Emma walk over.
Sheva: Hey, where’s Jon?
Matt: He was in hospital the past few weeks but I expect he’s coming back today.
Emma: In hospital? Why?
One explanation later…
Sheva: My God. I hope he’s ok.
Voice: I’m always ok
They turn around and see Jon, carrying a suitcase under his arm (hands are still fucked) doing a heroic posture, a big light shining from behind him like SHAZAM.
Tony looks around and sees Sakina
Tony: Oh dear…
Tony hides his face.
Tega: What?
Tony: I had a fight with that girl. She must be the new girl. She’s from the Newfoundland.
Toby is sitting in a tree near to Purple gang and co, he is listening on their conversation
(the following bit the camera is in the tree with Toby)
Sheva: I heard she was coming. She doesn’t have a Talent, does she?
Tony: No, but I wouldn’t want to fight her again. She’s trained too well. Even without a talent I could only just handle her.
Toby: Huh!
He jumps out of his tree.

Toby walks up to Sakina.
Toby: I hear you’re pretty tough.
Sakina: So?
Toby: I want to see if you’re stronger than me. I challenge you to a duel.
Toby gets into some cool stance.
Sakina: Why would I fight somebody for no reason?
Sakina walks away.

In the Great Hall. The whole school is in there, Mr Brown is on the stage.
Mr Brown: Everybody, silence. Let me welcome you all back to Combat High. I also welcome a few new students. I would like to make it clear to everybody that all problems have been erased and nobody is under any potential threat. To replace Mr. Bruin, the school has hired a new trap specialist Mr. Bryce.
Mr brown gestures to mr bryce who waves.
Mr Brown: There will be a memorial service for Mr. Bruin in a few weeks’ time. I would also like to take this chance to inform you that there are going to be a lot of changes here both in the academic and social atmospheres. First of all, stricter punishments will be given to any students who misbehave or don’t do as told. Second, stricter punishments will be given to any students that don’t wash their hands after using the toilet and then sniff them – it’s disgusting. And third of all, you will all from now on where these generic school uniforms to make the school look more presentable.
A student walks on stage, modelling the shitty, grey uniform, girls in skirts, boys in trousers and tie etc.
Looks of horror on Purple Gang’s faces (ril not there).
Whole school gets angry.
Mr Brown: Silence! Now, everybody get to your dormitories and unpack your belongings. Your uniforms will be issued to you tonight and you are expected to wear them from tomorrow morning. You will begin following your usual timetables once again. Now leave.

Next bit is a flashback, so it’s black n white
Sakina bursts in through the door.
Sakina thinks: What is that guy? How did he do that?
She starts packing her suitcase.
Sakina: They saw me. They must’ve seen me. I was too careless.
She packs her guns.
She jumps out the window.

No longer flashback
Next morning… (CHIBI from now)
Purple gang + tega (not ril or tony) are sitting at their breakfast table in their dull, grey uniforms.
Jon: Where’s Tony?
Izaak: Here he comes.
Tony sits down, wearing a pirate costume.
WHOLE SCHOOL in the canteen looks at him (all in one zoomed out frame)
Tony: What?
He looks round.
Tony: OH SHIT!! He said uniform not fancy dress.
Tony runs out of the cafeteria (just a cloud of dust and some motion blurs where he was sitting)
Matt: So I wonder when Ril’s going to turn up. If ever.
Jon: He will. I don’t think he’ll like the uniforms, though.
Izaak: Where’s he gone, do you think?
Matt: Knowing him he’s probably gone somewhere to train.
Izaak getting up: I’m going to go get my stuff. I’ll see you in lessons.
Tony walks in in JUST his pants and sits down with purple gang.
Tony: Boy, that was embarrassing.
WHOLE SCHOOL turns to look at him again. ( can just copy n paste that frame)
Tony: What?
He looks round
Tony: I knew I’d forgotten something…
Tony runs out
Tega laughing: Too bad Izaak missed that.
Tony runs back in, freaking out face, still in just his pants.
Tony: WHICH ONE OF YOU BASTARDS LOCKED THE DOOR TO OUR DORM?!
Jon and matt look like ^o), both say: Not me.
Shows Izaak at the door to the canteen, laughing.
Tony spots him
Tony: YOU!
Tony jumps over tables etc to chase izaak. They both run out of the canteen, izaak being chased by tony.

STILL CHIBI
Jon, matt and tega still in canteen.
Tega: Hey, maybe these uniforms aren’t all that bad.
Shows some buff girls looking sexy in uniform.

Jon walking along eating a giant sub sandwich.
A piece of ham or something drops out and he trips over it.
He lands between Sheva’s legs, sheva wearing a skirt.
Jon looks up.
Jon: I thought there was still six days until the next full moon.
Sheva realizes, angry veins bulging out.
Sheva: Get away from me before I tear you apart!
See dust marks where jon has run off.

Jon, tony and matt are in Battle Class with mr ward and some other random kids.
Tony: So we’re meant to fight in these uniforms?
Mr Ward: Yes.
Tony: How are we meant to do kicks to the head in these trousers?
Mr Ward: It doesn’t matter in your case because you too short to kick to anybody’s head (tony looking like -__-). For everybody else, just do your best.
Matt really enthusiastic like rock lee: YEAH!! Let’s do this.
Mr Ward: Ok. First up is Jonathan and...
Mr ward looks around
Mr Ward: Siobhan.
Jon: A girl? What’s the point in fighting? Let’s just say I’ve won already.
They fight.
Pretty soon into the fight, jon does a kick to her head, then in the same frame, it goes RRRRIIIIIPPPP
Jon looking shocked like
He’s split his trousers all the way.
He runs out.
His trousers fall down and he trips over them.
Mr Ward not excited: Winner: Siobhan by default.
Mr ward: Next fight… Tony and Matt.
Tony and matt step up.
They fight.
Tony punches matt and sends him flying.
Matt gets up, gets angry and rips his shirt away (like hulk)
They both freeze.
Matt’s t-shirt has pink fluffy bunnies underneath it.
Tony: Pink fluffy bunnies? That brings back memories.
Matt looking embarrassed: Well… Um… See ya.
Matt runs out.

At the medical room, Jon is sitting in pants stitching up his trousers.
Matt walks in.
They look at each other.
Jon: I won’t laugh if you don’t laugh.
Matt sitting down: I’m tired of people laughing, it doesn’t affect me any more.
Jon: So… Pink fluffy bunnies, eh? Reminds me of how we met.
(FLASHBACK NOW)
After flashback, no longer chibi.
Jon: Man… Those were cool times.
Matt: Yeah. We need to get going to World History lesson, now.

In World History…
Mr Davies: Right, I haven’t actually planned anything for today, so let’s do something completely unrelated to your syllabus. Has everybody heard about the Three Legends?
Matt: The Three What?
Mr Davies: The Three Legends. They explain about how the world came to be how it is now as opposed to the world of the Old People.
Random girl: Who are the Old People?
Mr Davies: You haven’t even been taught this? Ok, let me tell you from the start.
Mr Davies: All the continents in the world used to be one huge land mass called Pangaea, you all know that. But then Incubus, a powerful Demon came to Earth and split the land into the seven continents we know today: Old Laurasia, where we are, New Laurasia, Gondwana, the Tethys Islands, Okiwana, Oceania and the recently discovered Newfoundland. The Newfoundland was only discovered 18 years ago and is the only continent where the people do not have Ki.
Jon: How do they fight?
Mr Davies: They use machines and technology. It’s all very gruesome and ignoble. Anyway, back to the Three Legends. The first legend is the Origin of Creation. This tells about how everything came to be. It goes something like this, “All things begin with an explosion. Everything in the realms of space, time and spirits move away from each other. They then get so far away from each other that they are brought back together. They reunite with a collision. Another explosion then takes place and history repeats itself.”
Matt: What the hell?
Mr Davies: Think about it, the universe is expanding, science says so. People become close and then distant, especially when they are very similar. Then most of the time they are brought back together by some tragedy or disagreement.
Random kid: That doesn’t always happen.
Mr Davies: It happens in a vast majority of cases. The second legend is the legend of Spirit Assignment and goes, “The number of spirits in the universe is constant. Spirits of the dead are passed on to newborns. And so the type of person somebody is, is defined by their spirit.” You all understand that?
Jon: So it’s basically reincarnation?
Mr Davies: Yes, precisely. And the third legend goes, “When pure Evil amasses, a Hero shall rise. The spirit of the Hero is assigned to the strongest of mortal bodies. The evil is then crushed and the spirit of the Hero retires until history repeats itself.” This is known as the Legend of the Hero. If you think about it, it’s related to the Legend of Spirit Assignment in some ways. It says that the spirit of a hero will be assigned to the strongest of mortal bodies, and therefore making that person a hero.
Matt: Does anybody actually believe that, though?
Mr Davies: Of course, all the world’s major religions are based on these three legends.
Matt: That doesn’t make them true, though.
Mr Davies: It doesn’t make them untrue.

The next sequence is a flashback, so it’s black n white.
Scientist 1 hide his face in shadows cos it’s actually mr bruin: End the testing.
Sa