Kameo Podcast 5 Script
Adapted by Keith Cirillo
CHAPTER FIVE: THE RETURN OF THE ELEMENT OF POWER
NARRATOR
Many weeks passed, and news of Solon’s disappearance had spread across the kingdom. Kalus was walking alone through the gardens where she had last seen her beloved father, when five Elemental Sprites emerged from the undergrowth, carrying a baby.
Theena, upon hearing Kalus’s startled cries, rushed to the scene and realised that the sprites were what remained of Solon’s Elemental Warriors. Knowing now that something terrible must have happened, she found the Element of Power clutched within the infant’s hands, and felt in her heart that fate had somehow brought this child to them.
Without the Wotnot Book, the Elemental Sprites were vulnerable so Theena chose to safeguard three of them herself, along with the Element of Power. She then gave one sprite to her younger brother Halis, and one to her older brother Yeros.
The Mystic had been watching events from her dingy little hut. Emerging, she addressed the Queen:
MYSTIC
My dear Queen, I know for whatever his reasons, the king had lost all confidence in my counsel, but do trust me on this. I have heard rumour amongst the goblins that it was the Troll Lords who murdered Solon, and it is they who now hold the Wotnot.
NARRATOR
Hearing this remarkable news, the Queen ordered her armies to capture the Troll Lords and retrieve the Wotnot Book. This they did. As punishment, the Lords were to be cast into the Shadow Realm—the timeless land of the undead where souls left to languish for all eternity.
Theena was still unaware, however, that the Troll Lords retained the five Elemental Sprites they’d captured on the night of Solon’s death. Unwittingly, she had condemned the Elemental Sprites to the same fate.
Theena praised the Mystic for her efforts in exposing the Troll Lords and was restored once again to a position of trust within the Kingdom.
As for the baby that had carried the rarest of all gems that was the Element of Power, Theena named her Kameo, and decided to raise her as a child of Solon. Kalus, of course, knew this new arrival was not her real sister, but was instructed by her mother to never reveal Kameo’s origins.
With the Mystic back in favour, the Troll King turned to stone, and the Element of Power and the Wotnot Book back in the possession of the Royal Family, order and harmony returned to the land. Kameo and Kalus grew up together in a time of peace.
The now-defunct Wotnot Book was given to an elderly and pompous old wizard named Ortho to repair. Unfortunately, the damage was so great that he was forced to place himself within the book to restore its magical powers so that he could at least allow the one who held the Element of Power the ability to control the few Elemental Warriors the book contained.
As the two sisters grew up, Kameo began to outshine Kalus in every area: Elfin flying sports, book study, popularity... wherever Kalus failed, Kameo succeeded. Gradually and inevitably, Kalus’s jealousy toward her adopted sister began to grow and fester...