YHS's Les Miserables prolougue pt.2

Prologue Part 2: On Parole/What Have I Done?

A while later, Sulley walked up a hill and passed a cross.He was happy that he was free...though sad that it was only for parole.

Sulley then said to himself, "I'm free. I'm free."

Sulley:  Freedom at last, how strange the taste
Never forget the years, the waste
Nor forgive them for what they’ve done
They are the guilty, everyone 

The day begins and now let’s see
What this new world will do for me

~

 Sometime later, Sulley walked up a mountain and through a forest, until he came across a village on top of a cliff.  Once he reached the top, he saw a few people working on the quarry.  He approached the boss, Charles Muntz.

“Can I help? Is there work?” asked Sulley. 

“Papers?” asked Muntz.  Sulley handed them over and as  Muntz examined them, took off his hat, revealing the scars he got while he was in jail.  After reading them through, Muntz handed them back to Sulley and said, “No work here.”

Sulley sadly took them before he continued on his way.

~

Moments later, Sulley stood in front of the governor, Taurus Bulba.

“Sullivan, as a dangerous monster, you will be on parole forever,”  Bulba said, as he stamped Sulley’s papers. 

“Failure to report means immediate arrest.  Be in Pontarlier in 30 days.” 

Sulley nodded, took his papers, and left.  Just as he did, Bulba turned to a guard and said, “Follow him.”

~

 Outside, a group of mean kids began tossing stones at Sulley, until he threatened them with his walking stick and growled with a loud monster roar at them, making them scatter and leave as they screamed scared.

~

 Later, Sulley was at an inn, warming his hands by the fire, until Johnny Fiama said, “Let me see your papers.”

“Monsieur,” Sulley said, realizing what this meant.

“You heard him; Papers,” Johnny's partner, a monkey named Sal said.

“I can sleep in the stable, please,” Sulley protested.

“No,” Fiama said.  “Get out!”

~

Outside, Taurus Bulba's guards began to beat Sulley

~

 A moment later, it began to snow as Sulley walked through a graveyard and approached a church.  He sighed as he settled down beside the door and fell asleep.

But then he woke up and sprang to his feet with a startled look as someone appeared.  This someone was a hunchbacked four armed creature with elongated head, white hair and a tail that looked  in between the manner of a dog and a dinosaur and hold a staff and wore a white silver robe.This was urSu, the Wisest of the Mystics.

urSu:  Come in, sir, for you are weary
And the night is cold out here
Though our lives are very humble
What we have, we have to share

He led Sulley inside of the church, as Sulley looked around in amazement and relief.  He set his bag down, and began to warm his hands beside the fire. 

There is wine here to revive you
There is bread to make you strong
There’s a bed to rest till morning
Rest from pain and rest from wrong

~

 Later, at the dinner table, Sulley rapidly ate his fill, as the Mystic prayed, “Bless the food we eat today.  Bless our dear sister and bless our honored guest.”

Sulley stopped eating for a moment,  he looked at the patrons who stared at him oddly, but he continued to eat calm, but not too slow giving the Mystic a surprised look, before he continued eating.

~

 Later that night, as everyone slept, Sulley was wide-awake, staring up at a stained window of God the Father gazing down at him. 

He glanced into the next room and saw urSu fast asleep.  He went over to a cabinet, opened it, and began putting silver into his bag, glancing occasionally at the Wisest of the Mystics.

~

 A moment later, Sulley was fleeing the church with the silver in hand.  He dropped one piece of silver, but quickly picked it up as he disappeared into the night.

~

The next morning, however, two policemen dragged a struggling Sulley back into the church. 

“Get down and stay there!”  One of them snapped at Sulley, forcing him to his knees before hitting him with the butt of his gun to keep him there, getting the Wisest’s attention, as well as the patrons’.

“Monseigneur, we got your silver,” one of the guards said.  Sulley stared at the ground shamefully, a fresh wound on the side of his head, as the captain said, “We caught this monster red-handed.  He had the nerve to say you gave him all this.”

urSu examined the silver in Sulley’s bag, before saying, “That is right.”

Sulley looked up in shock.

urSu:  (to Sulley) But, my friend, you left so early
Surely, something slipped your mind
You forgot I gave these also

The Wisest of the Mystics went over to the table, picked up two silver candlesticks, and gave them to Sulley, who looked confused.

Would you leave the best behind?

urSu then said to the policemen, “Messieurs, release him.  For this man has spoken true.”

I commend you for your duty
Now God’s blessing go with you

The policemen took the handcuffs off of Sulley before they left.

urSu:  But, remember this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man

By the witness of the martyrs
By the passion and the blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God

Sulley looked deeply puzzled and shocked as urSu  anointed him with the sacred water..

~

Sometime later, in another part of the church, Sulley was sitting near the altar, deeply humbled from what had happened earlier.  He examined his yellow passport paper before kneeling on the ground.
~

A while later, Sulley was pacing around, thinking to himself about what urSu has done for him. Why would he let him go? Why was he accepting towards him? He then realized what this all meant.

"What am I doing?" Sulley said, with tears coming out of his  eyes. "I'm stealing from a man who helped me! You can't do this anymore, Sulley, you just can't!"

Sulley:  What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night
Become a dog on the run

Have I fallen so far and is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?
The cries in the dark that nobody hears
Here where I stand at the turning of the years

If there’s another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and murdered Sulley
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread

Sulley then reflected on what had happened earlier.

Yet, why did I allow this man
To touch my soul and teach me love
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me “brother”
My life he claims for God above…
Can such things be?

For I have come to hate the world
This world that always hated me

He began to walk away.

Take an eye for an eye!
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!

Sulley stopped, tears welling up into his eyes, as he realized what could very well have happened if urSu hadn’t covered for him.

One word from him and I’d be back
Beneath the lash upon the rack
Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife

He told me that I have a soul…
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?

Sulley tearfully knelt before the altar.

I am reaching but I fall
And the night is closing in
As I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin

Sulley then realized what he had to do, as he got up and walked quickly out of the church.

I’ll escape now from that world
From the world of James P. Sullivan
 James Sullivan is nothing now!
Another story must begin!

As he walked out of the church, he tore up his yellow papers and flung it into the air, the wind blowing the pieces away....