HypnoChris
New Character (guest)- Melvin the hypnotic powered ghost
Setting: Chris’s room with nobody in it. Chris walks through the door and drops her backpack.
She looks around.
Chris: Raven? Where are you?
Raven: I’m not here
Chris: Funny, you seem to be here
Raven (sarcastically): O tee hee. Seriously! I’m not here!
Chris: Why not?
Raven: Oh, you’ll see
(Raven dematerializes and a bright light cuts through the room. A ghost with a shirt with a read
and white swirl on it appears)
Ghost: I am looking for Raven. Is she here?
Chris: Uhh…no…who are you and what are you doing in my room?
Raven (materializing): OUR ROOM! Oh no!
(Dematerializes)
Chris: Forget her. Who are you?
Ghost (suddenly sounding loud and strong): I am ruler of all hypnotic powers! I rule all hypnotized
people and ghosts…and those swirly things!
Chris: Yeah, but what’s your name?
Ghost: Oh, Melvin
(Chris snickers at the name)
Melvin: Do not laugh at my name!
(Raven materializes and laughs hysterically with Chris)
Melvin: YOU! RAVEN!
Raven: Leave me alone (continues to laugh)
Melvin: STOP MAKING FUN OF MY NAME!
(Chris and Raven laugh even harder)
Melvin (loud and strong): You asked for it!
(A green light comes out of Melvin’s hand and hits Chris)
Chris: OK, that was annoying
Melvin: You’re supposed to be my slave
Chris: No…
(Raven pushes Melvin through the ceiling. Cut to a cornfield. Melvin lands in it and gets up and
walks away)
Melvin (off screen): That girl is strong
(Cut to Chris’s room again)
Raven: are you in pain?
Chris: No
Raven: You sure?
Chris (looking directly at Raven): I’m sure. Please quit asking me that!
(A light flashes in her eyes)
Raven: I’m sorry. I’ll stop
Mom’s voice: Christa! Dinner!
Chris: Got to go
(Cut to Chris, Mom, Dad, and Ralph all sitting around a dinner table)
Mom: Christa, how was school?
Chris: Mom, please! You know I hate that name. My name is Chris…Chris!
Mom: Oh but your name is so…
(Chris looks at her and her eyes flash)
Mom: Of course, Chris
Ralph: Hey, loser, pass the ham
Chris: Shut up!
(Ralph starts to say something but nothing comes out of his mouth. He does it continuously)
Chris: I’m done
Dad: You haven’t finished you…
(Chris’s eyes flash)
Dad: You’re excused
(Cut to Raven sitting on Chris’s bed. Melvin appears)
Raven: I thought I got rid of you
Melvin (loud and strong): I didn’t finish with you! YOU ARE MY SLAVE!
(He hits her with a blast like he did with Chris)
Raven: What soda would you like?
Melvin: Grape, extra fizz
Raven: Yes
(She dematerializes and Chris walks in the room)
Melvin (pointing to Chris): YOU! Get me a snack
(She looks at him funny and sits on her bed)
Melvin: Hello, I ordered you to do something
Chris: Point?
Melvin: Hmm…my powers must have worked on you differently. I guess it’s because you’re…alive
Chris: You bet it did. Thanks for the hypnotic powers
(Raven returns with a purple soda)
Raven: Your drink
(Cut to school. Chris is sitting in school and looking at her watch anxiously)
Chris: C’mon. I’m bored out of my mind! Wait…
(Chris looks up at the teacher)
Chris: Ms. Jones, we get out early today
(Ms. Jones looks at Chris)
Ms. Jones: No we don’t
(Chris’s eyes flash)
Ms. Jones: Leave
(The class walks out excitedly. Melissa walks up to Chris with Jeff)
Melissa: I heard you talking to yourself again…crazy
Jeff: You’re crazy?
Chris: No!
Jeff: Ha ha! You’re insane!
(Chris’s eyes flash)
Chris: You think you’re elephants
(Melissa and Jeff suddenly wave their arms around by their noses and make fake elephant noises.
Chris laughs)
(Raven appears in front of Chris)
Chris: Hey
Raven (looking around): Hi…
Chris: What are you looking for? Did you lose something?
Raven: Besides free-will, no
Chris: What are you talking about?
(Raven grabs Chris’s shoulders)
Raven: Every time I’m around Melvin
(Chris laughs at the name)
Raven: I act like his slave. If he tells me to get him a sandwich, I’ll do it. If he tells
me to pick up his book, I’ll do it. If he tells be to do an Irish jig, I’ll do it!
Chris: Sounds to me like he’s got you hypnotized
Raven: What?
(Raven lets go of Chris. Melissa and Jeff walk by, still walking like elephants)
Chris: Duh, that’s what he does
Raven: Oh…you’ve got to help me!
Chris: What can I do?
(All the people around Chris and Raven freeze and Melvin appears)
Melvin (points to Raven): I want chips
(Raven walks away)
Chris: Stop hypnotizing her
Melvin (loud and strong): Never!
Chris: DO IT!
(Chris’s eyes flash)
Melvin (shaking his head): You can’t hypnotize me! I rule the art of hypnotics
Chris: Hypnotics is an art?
Melvin: I don’t think so
Chris: Oh
Melvin: Yeah…so. (Clears throat. Sounds loud and strong) I will never release Raven! The
day she made fun of me she became my slave!
Chris: Let’s make a deal. If I can hypnotize you, you’ll let Raven go. If you can hypnotize
me, you can take my powers back
Melvin: Hmm…sounds fair enough
(Raven comes back with a bag of chips)
Raven: Your chips
(Melvin eats the entire bag in one bite, including the wrapper. He raises his hands and everything
around them turns black. He turns and looks at Chris)
Melvin: Act like a monkey!
(Chris looks at him oddly)
Chris: No
Melvin: That should have worked
Raven: It didn’t
Melvin: Be quite
Raven: Yes, sir
Chris: Sing!
(Her eyes flash. Melvin opens his mouth but nothing comes out. They turn back-to-back then turn
and look at each other)
Chris/Melvin: DANCE!
(They both do a tap)
Chris/Melvin: Err…
Chris: Who won?
Melvin: Not sure…
Chris: How about you just fix Raven
Melvin: And you give up your powers
(The surroundings change back to normal)
Chris/Melvin (upset): Fine…
(Melvin zaps Chris and Raven then leaves)
Raven: Thanks
Chris (upset): Yeah…
(Raven dematerializes. The people start moving again. Chris drags herself off screen. Jeff
and Melissa walk by and make one more elephant noise)