Gabrielle

Eli, why are you here? 

 

Eli

You know.  I want to save

Eve and Hope for starters.

 

Gabrielle

There’s more, I can feel it.

 

Eli

You’ve become so wise Gabrielle.

There is more. My time to be

reborn to earth has come.  I am

here to find a mother.

 

Gabrielle

Who?

 

Eli

I had hoped you would be the one,

but something tells me it’s not meant

to be.  Your path as a warrior will not

allow it.

 

Gabrielle

I’m not ready for that. I Have so

much I need to do before I can

even consider falling in love

or starting a family.

 

Eli

I understand.  Believe me.  However

you do have a child that needs you.

 

Gabrielle

Eli, I just don’t know if I can forgive

her of all the things she’s done. I want

to but…

 

Eli

You feel that doing so would be a

betrayal to Xena’s memory. Gabrielle,

the greatest gift one person can give

to another is love.  You cannot have

love without forgiveness. 

 

Gabrielle

You have no idea what I’ve been

Through with her Eli-

 

Eli

(takes her shoulders)

I know exactly what you’ve been through

with her Gabrielle.  I also know she needs

you now more than she ever did. 

Can you really turn your back on

your own child? 

 

Eli looks to the sky. 

 

Eli

It’s going to rain soon.  We need to get

out of sight and out of the storm.

 

Hope

(calling back to them)

My fa…Dahak’s temple is up ahead. We

can take shelter in there.

 

Eli

Sounds like a plan.  Come on!

 

Rain begins to pour and Gabrielle mounts up behind Hope.  Eli fades away and the three women take off for the temple.

 

Int-Heaven’s viewing room

Michael paces back and forth before the reflecting pool but stops when a beautiful blond angel appears.  Michael shakes hands with the angel.

 

Michael

Micah, friend.  What did He say?

 

Micah

Yes.  Concerning Eve’s fate, He

says Gabrielle will only know peace

when she silences her will.

 

Michael

What does that mean?

 

Micah

I have no idea. I’m just the messenger here.

As far as Rachel goes Eve must slay the

demon in time. 

 

Michael

Let me get this straight: Gabrielle will only

know happiness when she silences her will, and

Eve must slay Rachel to save her.

 

Micah

Don’t interpret Michael.  That’s

not what I said.  Gabrielle will

only know peace when she silences

her will, and Eve must slay the

demon in time.  Tell them exactly

what He said. Apparently they

will figure out the answers on their own.

 

Michael

For their sakes I hope you’re

right.  I’ll give them His message. 

 

 

Int-Lucifer’s Throne Room

Lucifer sits on his throne.  He calls out in a thundering voice to his legions. In every corner of hell, his voice is heard.  In one room, a group of souls are hanging by their feet.  Demons beat them with whips.  They stop their torture only to listen to Lucifer’s speech.  In another torture chamber, a group of demons toss people into a lake of pure fire.  We see inside the fire glimpses of souls writhing in agony.  In another room there are guillotine’s lined up, about five in a row.  Demons drag tortured spirits toward them to be beheaded.  In yet another room a man is trying desperately to climb from a pit full of snakes.  The snakes cling to him as he climbs.

 

Lucifer

My children.  The time has

come when we will take back

our daughter Callisto.

 

The demons cheer at his words and Lucifer pulls Rachel to stand at his side.

 

Lucifer

You all know Rachel, daughter

of Callisto and your former

king Mephistopheles.  She was born

of Hell and she will lead hell to victory!

 

The demons begin to cheer Rachel’s name, but all of her usual sarcasm and arrogance is gone.  She looks at the demons not with pride, but with sadness, and becomes stiff when Lucifer wraps an arm around her and whispers to her.

 

Lucifer

You know the price of failure so

you’d better make me proud.

 

She gives him a hateful stare and fades away in a green mist. 

 

Int-Temple to Dahak

Gabrielle, Eve and Hope enter the temple to Dahak to find Eli waiting there already. 

 

Hope

We made it just in time.  It’s freezing.

 

Gabrielle

I can fix that. 

 

Gabrielle throws her chakram at the altar.  The disk splits in-two and flies around the altar and it falls apart into neatly sliced pieces and everyone but Hope laughs and cheers.  Gabrielle holds out her hand.

 

Gabrielle

Come back to Mama.

 

Obediently the Chakram rejoins and flies back to Gabrielle as if it understood what she’d said.  Hope goes over to a window, disturbed at the sight of the altars destruction.  Realizing she’s done something to hurt her, Gabrielle grin slides from her face.

 

Eve

Go to her.

 

Gabrielle

(hesitantly)

Hope?  I’m sorry. It was rude of

us to laugh.  He was your father.

 

Hope

He was the only one to ever love

me.  Now I wonder if he really did.

Love me I mean.

 

Gabrielle is wounded by Hopes words.  Eve and Eli watch the exchange.

 

Gabrielle

Hope, I told you before that I did love

you. I just…

 

When Hope doesn’t answer, Gabrielle turns her to face her.

 

Gabrielle

I’ve told you a million times that’s not true.

 

Hope

It feels like the truth Mother.

 

Gabrielle

Our past is full of sorrow Hope,

and we can never undo that, but

we can start from today. You

were reborn, so let us be reborn.

This can be day one for us Hope.

If you want it.

 

Hope

It’s what I’ve always wanted.

 

Gabrielle

I love you Hope. 

 

Hope

I love you too. I’m sorry for

all the things I’ve done to you.

I really am.

 

Gabrielle thinks back onto what Eli had told her on the road just minutes ago.

 

Gabrielle

You can’t have love without

forgiveness Hope. I forgive you.

 

         Hope

I’ve waited my entire life

to hear you say that.

 

Eli and Eve watch the tender exchange with emotion, but the moment doesn’t last long as Rachel and her demons arrive outside.

 

Rachel

Mother!  I’m not asking you

anymore. I’m telling you to

so come on!

 

Eve

My long lost daughter.

 

A hole is blasted through the temple doors and we look outside to see about thirty demons waiting in the courtyard.

 

Eli

The sun will set in less than an hour.

 

Eve

Hope, is there a back door?

 

Hope

Yes, in the library there

are some tunnels, but I have

no idea where they lead.

 

Gabrielle

Go!

 

Rachel sees them taking off for the rear of the temple.  She looks regretful at the next order she must give.

 

Rachel

Attack!

 

The demons prepare to fly in but Eli holds his hand to the sky.  Suddenly the rain begins to eat through the demons like acid and they explode one after another.  Rachel makes it through before the rain can harm her.

 

Gabrielle

What did you do?

 

Eli

I turned the rain to Holy water.

 

Hope

Brilliant Eli.

 

Hope opens a floor space in the library as Gabrielle bolts the door.