Monday, April 11, 2005

Misfortunes

Summary of Darna Episode 2
(April 5, 2005, Tuesday).

Narda cries out and runs for help. Nobody comes. She finds a large branch and comes back to fight the monster with it. The monster is slipping back into the water and Valentina is gone. Narda screams at the monster to bring Valentina back.

Mulong and Ising look for the children since it is late. They see Narda shivering in fright. They ask what has happened. She stammers about a snake, a big snake. Her parents remember the stories in the town about such a snake. She tells them the snake has taken Valentina. Mulong gets his bolo to rescue Valentina. Narda goes home mourning for Valentina.

Prospera is looking wildly for her daughter. She warns Narda’s family that if something happens to the girl, not even their lives will be enough price to pay.

Braguda’s pet monster brings her the dead man. Braguda says she needs to know all about this new planet. She touches the man and absorbs all the knowledge and experiences he had in his life. She gets impressions of this world form his brain’s point of view.

Mulong and Ising keep looking for Valentina. They call out to her. A girl with fearsome eyes is watching them, hiding in the tall grass. Mulong feels movement and goes to see. He calls out to Valentina. Ising screams and Mulong sees she is in the grip of the giant serpent. Mulong attacks the serpent as it flails his wife in the air. It drops Ising and she dies. Mulong goes after the snake.

Ising’s dead body is found. Narda and Ding mourn for her. Mulong is missing.

Narda’s grandmother pleads that they be allowed to hold a wake for Ising for even just a day. She says Ising died looking for Valentina. Prospera’s anger is implacable. She refuses to grant the request and Ising is buried immediately.

Narda memorizes her mother’s face in the picture above her coffin. She vows to remember her forever and to look for her father. Ising is buried while it is raining. Prospers watches contemptuously inside her car and the car leaves. Narda and her family cry in the rain over the burial mound.

Narda’s family try to leave but Prospera and her bodyguards stop them. She says they cannot leave while Valentina’s fate is uncertain. She punishes Narda and the others by reducing them to servitude.

Narda talks to the stone and blames it for her misfortunes. She says all these bad things happened after she picked it up. She curses it and casts it away into a pond.

Valentina comes back smiling but silent. Prospera is overjoyed. Narda has misgivings. There is a glimpse of a snake’s tail under her dress, around her leg.

Aio has the stone again. Braguda meets her. They fight with their alien powers. Braguda sucks the stone from Aio’s hand with her power. She laughs and says the stone is finally hers.

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