Class Series 2 Episode 1: The Kin Will Rise

Previously: The Shadow Kin, the evil race who slaughtered Charlie and Mrs Quill’s race, killed the family members of a selection of the students of Cole Hill Academy as they were hell bent on revenge. The leader of their race, Corakinus, had a connection to April. The group enlisted the help of headteacher Dorothea Ames to gain the help of the Governors to defeat the Shadow Kin once and for all. The cabinet of souls was opened, killing all shadow kin invading the planet in the process. Dorothea was murdered by a weeping angel, but it was clear that the Governors had something planned. April was seemingly killed due to her connection with Corakinus, however soon April inhabited his body and was brought back to life, leaving the other students baffled for an explanation. With Quill pregnant and the last Rhodian soul unleashed, it was clear that their troubles were not yet over.

In the hall, Quill has her gun aimed towards Corakanus, or April.

Corakinus: Why are you all looking at me like that?

Charlie: April-But that can’t be possible.

Ram: Quill, put the gun down right now.

Mrs Quill: But she’s a shadow kin. This could all be some kind of trick.

Ram: Please, she’s not going to hurt us.

Mrs Quill: Please, your girlfriend is now a fucking monster. I think that gives me right to kill her.

Ram lowers Quill’s gun.

April: What do you mean I’m a shadow kin? What’s happened?

Ram: I don’t know yet. I don’t think any of us are really sure of the details.

Mrs Quill: Could somebody get her a mirror please?

Ram: Why can’t you do that yourself?

Mrs Quill: Please, I’ve got enough problems right now: I’m heavily pregnant and my baby is about to eat me, so I’m quite limited in what I can do.

Tanya: How has this happened to April?

Matteusz: I have no idea, it must be something to do with their link.

Mrs Quill: No shit, sherlock.

Ram: Look, Quill, it’s really not the time for you to be snarky.

Mrs Quill: I can be whatever I like. I’m pregnant, I have the excuse.

Corakinus: Could somebody please tell me what’s going on?

Ram: There’s no need to worry, April, but you are in the body of Corakinus right now. We have no idea how, or why, but you are.

Corakinus: You mean that I don’t look like me anymore?

Ram: No, but you sound like you, which must mean something.

Corakinus: But I died. I remember dying. I remember Corakinus dying.

Charlie: I’m sorry for the killing you part but it was what had to be done. There was no other way. The Shadow Kin were a threat to this world.

Corakinus: I know that, there’s no reason to explain. We won.

Tanya: Well we didn’t completely win. I’d like to point out to you that April is sitting in front of us in the body of the leader of the shadow kin.

Charlie: Well April’s not a threat. She’s just got Corakinus’s body, not his mind.

Mrs Quill: How do we know that? It could all be a trick.

Ram: I trust her. I’d know if she were lying.

Mrs Quill: I doubt you’d know her that well. You’re a bloody human. You’re too pathetic to realise emotion from a million miles away. You need it all spelt out to you.

Ram: Could somebody please shut her up?

Corakinus: Could you help me please? Could you get me back in my body?

Charlie: I don’t know if that’s possible. We have no idea why you aren’t dead, and why you’re alive but you’re not in your own body. We have no idea how to get you back into your own body. I don’t know if it’s even possible.

Corakinus: There must be a way you can work it out. I can’t look like this.

Mrs Quill: Maybe you’re going to have to, sweetheart. Maybe there’s no other way.

Corakinus: No, I am not being like this. We need to do something.

Mrs Quill: I’ve done what I need to do. Now I need to get the next thing of my plate and die. I’m quite looking forward to that part so I don’t have to listen to any more of you kids.

Charlie: That’s charming, isn’t it?

Mrs Quill: Look, Corakinus, I don’t know how to solve your problem.

Corakinus: I know how to-I could enlist the help of your Governor friends.

Mrs Quill: Oh you’d regret that if you went to them, trust me.

Corakinus: They helped me defeat the shadow kin. Maybe they could put me back in my body.

Mrs Quill: You should be dead right now. Count yourself lucky.

Corakinus: How can I be lucky if I look like this?

Mrs Quill: Looks aren’t everything. Well, they’re something, and you’ve got none of them.

Matteusz: Your sass levels are of the chart today, Quill.

Mrs Quill: They’re off the chart every day, Matteusz. Every fucking day.

Corakinus: You know what-I can’t take any more of this. I’m in the body of a shadow kin and I want to get out. I mean I’d rather be dead. If I looked like this people would think I was one of them. I’ve seen how you’ve been looking at me. Not even you trust me. We don’t know what’s happened here, but all of you-Every single one of you-Think that I’m really Corakinus and I’m playing some sort of prank on you, and I really want to kill you. No, I’m harmless old April. But that’s not how you’re going to see it. That’s not how everybody else is going to see it. I need to find a way to end it.

Tanya: What exactly are you going to do, April?

Corakinus: I’m going to go to the Governors, and I’m going to get myself back.

Mrs Quill: There’s no way you can see the Governors. You need the key, and not even I have that. And anyway, what gives you the right to see them?

Corakinus: Look at me, and that should tell you.

Mrs Quill: You’re a shadow kin. They’d probably kill you on sight.

Corakinus: I’m not a bloody shadow kin!

Mrs Quill: I know but they won’t see it like that. They don’t know you, April. You’re one of the better ones out of this pathetic little group of yours, even though your emotions often get the better of you. They won’t know that it’s you. They’ll think it’s them. The shadow kin, who they apparently destroyed. I mean you might me. You might be playing us along. But I don’t think so. I think you probably are April.

Charlie: Did you actually just say something nice?

Mrs Quill: I don’t know where that came from either. Maybe it’s the pregnancy.

Tanya: How long until the baby eats you?

Ram: Come on-One ridiculous matter at a time please.

Corakinus: I know you say the Governors won’t help, but there’s no point me staying here. That’s not going to do me any good. I’m going to go to the Governors, whether you like it or not. I’m going to ask them for help.

Ram: I won’t let you. They won’t help you. Trust me.

Corakinus: That’s what you're saying but what else am I meant to do? I can’t just stay in this body for the rest of my life. How do I know that the Corakinus inside of me isn’t going to kick in and launch into some evil plan. I can’t take that risk. I want the shadow kin gone. I don’t want to be responsible for a rise of the kin.

Matteusz: That sounds like it would make a great star wars title.

Charlie: Please, Matteusz, this isn’t the time for star wars talk.

Matteusz: I’m sorry. I’m getting rather enthralled in it all.

Mrs Quill: Can you all shut up or I’m going to kill you. I think the babies coming.

Ram: What do we do? Do we call some kind of Doctor or something?

Mrs Quill: If you did that then the baby would eat them too. There’s no need for a doctor. I’ll just have to brave this myself.

Tanya: I don’t mean to alarm you, but April has gone.

Ram: No she can’t have gone. I’ll go and get her.

Ram bursts out of the room and into the corridor. He grabs Corakinus/April.

Ram: Listen, April, I can’t let you go. I know you think they’re going to help you, but they won’t. Quill, for once, is probably actually right.

Corakinus: Please let me go Ram. I can control what I want to do.

Ram: No, I’m not letting you go, April, because I don’t want to lose you.

Corakinus: I could use my powers. I need to go and see the Governors.

Ram: You won’t be able to get to them. Quill said you need a key, and we don’t have that. Even if you did, it wouldn’t be worth it anyway. Now come back. We’ll do our best to get you back in your body and find an explanation for this.

Corakinus: They don’t care. They’re more focused on Quill’s death, which I only heard about five minutes ago and I’m not sure what it means. And even if Quill doesn’t die, they’re going to be dedicated to finding the last Rhodian soul.

Ram: Well I’ll be dedicated to you, as I always have been.

Corakinus: I love you, Ram. I bet you never thought you’d see a shadow kin say that.

Ram: No, events have taken a really surprising turn. Now come back inside.

Corakinus: Okay, Ram, I suppose you’re right. I’m sure we can fix this.

Ram and Corakinus return to the hall

Mrs Quill: You could have left her. She only adds to her troubles.

Ram: We can’t just leave her, Quill, have you gone mad?

Mrs Quill: I couldn’t care less about what happens to your little girlfriend. I’ve got enough troubles of my own.

Ram: You just want all the attention placed on you, don’t you?

Mrs Quill: Yes, because I’m pregnant. I’m bloody pregnant and I’ve not got long to live.

Charlie: We can solve more than one problem at a time, so stay calm, everybody.

Corakinus: But you can’t solve my problem, can you? You keep saying that you will but none of you have no idea how. The Governors were the only ones who could help.

Charlie: They have no interest in helping you. That’s not what they’re like.

Corakinus: How do you know? Have you ever encountered them before?

Charlie: I can just assume, okay, April. Now please. I’m trying to ease this situation, because it’s quite frankly ridiculous and too much has happened today as it is.

Matteusz: He’s right, we all really need to try and calm down.

Corakinus: Calm down? How dare you. Have you seen my body? Have you seen what’s happened to me? If I had an explanation, maybe I’d be able to deal with this, but no. I thought life was hard enough as it was, but now it’s just going to get harder.

Tanya: Come on, April, Matteusz and Charlie are all trying to help.

Corakinus: How is them talking in a passive manner going to help me? I need proper help. Proper help to get me back into my body and get me back to the way I was, because right now I don’t feel like April, I feel like Corakinus.

Tanya: There’s nothing we can do. We need to find out why this has happened first.

Corakinus: Then why are you sitting around here waiting? Do something for once.

Mrs Quill: I’m actually starting to get quite fond of her.

Charlie: I don’t know what we can do. It’s not like we have unlimited resources.

Corakinus: Then what is the point of us? Why do we do this if we don’t have the resources? What’s the point? You know what I don’t need your help because it’s not going to be of any use. It’s just going to be a waste of everybody's time.

Tanya: We care about you, April, we all do. This is going to be hard to get used to, if we do ever get used to it, but we’ll always care, and we’ll always try to help. I know we’re all sitting around here but that’s because we’re all as startled by what has happened as you are.

Mrs Quill: And because these could be the last moments on this planet.

Corakinus: I know you’re trying to help, and I’m sorry for lashing out at you all, but I’m just fed up of life, and what has happened, and my connection with Corakinus. You’re my friends, and you mean so much to me, and I don’t want to lash out at you, or blame you for what has happened because I know it isn’t your fault. I’m just angry, and scared, and frustrated, and tired. I just need to find a solution to all of my problems.

Charlie: That’s not going to be easy, April, it’s going to take some time.

Corakinus: So let’s take some time. It doesn’t look like we’re going to be moving from here for a while, so let’s take some time to talk, and reflect on what could have happened. Create a mind map. Look at all of the possibilities.

Mrs Quill: They’ve told you enough times that they don’t know anything.

Corakinus: Oh yeah, they don’t, but I’ve got a feeling that you do.

Mrs Quill: What do you mean that I do? I would have told you by now if I knew something.

Corakinus: You care too much about yourself to do that. Maybe what has happened to me will put me in danger. Have you seen something like this before?

Mrs Quill: No I haven’t, April, and I would have told you if I had.

Charlie: I know when you’re lying, Quill, so tell her the truth.

Corakinus: I can tell when people lie. Do you both know something? You’re both Rhodian so I’ve got a feeling that you both know something about what happened.

Charlie: You think I’m hiding something too? I’m not hiding something.

Mrs Quill: And neither am I. I promise to you that I am not hiding anything.

Corakinus: You have many secrets, and I’d find it difficult to believe that you don’t know any reason why this could have happened. Surely you have some theories?

Charlie: It shouldn’t have happened. There’s no possible explanation for it.

Mrs Quill: Maybe it’s time to stop hiding the truth from her, Charlie.

Corakinus: I knew it. So go on then, open up on what you know.

Mrs Quill: The last Rhodian soul was set free, and we were not sure of why. Or at least that’s what me and Charlie told you.

Corakinus: So are you saying that the last Rhodian soul is inside of me?

Charlie: No, she’s saying you are the last Rhodian soul, and you always have been.

Corakinus: What the hell are you talking about? What do you mean I always have been?

Mrs Quill: There’s things nobody ever told you, April. This world isn’t quite as you imagined it. You are not from Earth. You are from our home world.

Corakinus: What the fuck are you talking about?

Ram: Yeah, what the fuck are you talking about?

Charlie: It’s such a long story. It’s very difficult to explain. We don’t have-

Corakinus: Don’t you dare say we don’t have time. We have all the time in the world. Nobody else has anywhere better to be. Quill is about to die, and I sure hope I get the answers I need before she does. So talk, Charlie and Quill. Talk.

Charlie: As you know, Rhodia was home to two races-The Rhodians and the Quill. I was a Rhodian, and so was April. She was just an ordinary citizen.

Ram: How is that possible? She’s a human. She’s obviously a human.

Corakinus: Please shut up, Ram, I’m trying to find out the truth about all of this.

Ram: I’m sorry, it’s just not possible. It’s just-

Mrs Quill: Just listen. Charlie will explain everything to you in due course.

Charlie: When a civil war broke out on the planet, the Shadow Kin arrived, and kidnapped April. Some of the Quill set out to save her while the rest of the planet was being destroyed by Shadow Kin. They harnessed her soul, and chucked her body away, leaving just an empty husk. The Quill managed to arrive just in time, and Mrs Quill killed the Shadow Kin that had captured April and took April’s body away. She sent April off to Earth, where we erased her memory and forced her to start over.

Corakinus: And what about my parents? How do you explain all of that?

Charlie: They’re not your parents. You’re one of us, April.

Charlie moves over to April and hugs her. He knocks her out with a taser.

Ram: What the hell did you do that for?

Tanya: Oh right, he wasn’t here when we discussed how to knock her out.

Mrs Quill: Oh yeah, that whole story we told was just a load of shit.

Ram: So you made that up? How come you didn’t just knock her out?

Charlie: She could be a shadow kin who is secretly plotting to kill us. She can’t be trusted. We just need a little while to think about what to do with her.

Ram: First of all we wake her up. She didn’t mean us any harm.

Charlie: How do you know that? How do you know that she can be trusted? How do you know that the person in Corakinus is human and not a shadow kin.

Ram: Because I know, alright. I know April. I love her.

Mrs Quill: Stop with all the love bullshit. It’s just a load of nonsense, isn’t it? You don’t feel love. You’re teenagers. You’re too long to know what love even is.

Ram: Do you have any theories then? About what has happened here.

Mrs Quill: No I don’t, and that’s why I’ve knocked her out so we could come up with some sort of explanation without her moaning over the top of us.

Ram: So go on then, give us a theory. Give us a theory while she’s knocked out.

Mrs Quill: I told you that I have no idea. I’ve never seen anything like this happen before. The Shadow Kin should be completely obliterated, as all of them but Corakinus are.

Ram: That is not Corakinus. That is April. How many times do I have to say that?

Mrs Quill: Corakinus and the Shadow Kin have tricked us enough times. I know them better than you do. You may think you know April, but you don’t know the Shadow Kin, and you don’t know what they’re really capable of.

Ram: We’ve fought them many times. I know exactly what they’re capable of.

Mrs Quill: They slaughtered my entire race. Everybody I ever loved.

Ram: And they slaughtered my dad, the person who I loved the most in this world.

Tanya: They killed people close to all of us to get their revenge. Ram is right, we know exactly what they can do. And they can’t do what they’ve done to April.

Mrs Quill: No they can’t. That’s exactly my point. They can’t do that.

Ram: Which is why there must be some sort of mistake here. It can’t be the shadow kin responsible here. I think the Rhodian soul that has been set free is.

Charlie: He may actually be right, Quill. The Rhodian Soul could have something to do with this. Not in the way that we faked out, but in a way we’re not sure of.

Tanya: But how could the Rhodian Soul cause April to wind up in Corakinus’s body?

Charlie: Because it needed to retrieve a soul, and April was the one it came to. April and Corakinus are connected, and because April was dead, and Corakinus was dead, it needed a soul, so it brought them back to have a body to live in.

Matteusz: So you mean that isn’t Corakinus or April? You mean that is the last Rhodian?

Charlie: Yes I believe it is, and I believe I’m right. I think it’s confused, and I think it probably thinks it’s April, or Corakinus, but it’s really a Rhodian.

Ram: Does that mean that April is dead?

Charlie: I’m sorry, Ram, but the likelihood is that she’s dead. I’m so sorry. There’s parts of April in there, and there’s probably parts of Corakinus that we haven’t properly seen yet, but that is a Rhodian, not a human or a shadow kin.

Ram: I can’t believe it. I thought she was back. I thought I had her back.

Charlie: I’m so sorry, Ram. I know you’ve lost enough as it is today, but sometimes that’s just how it is. She’s gone.

Ram: Then what are we supposed to do with the last Rhodian soul?

Charlie: We just let it live its life, and hopefully it will let us live ours. It shouldn’t be hostile.

Tanya: Why would it be hostile? Surely it’s an ally.

Charlie: I told you that there were probably still elements of both April and Corakinus in there, and you know that Corakinus and the Shadow Kin are a threat. If those parts of Corakinus begin to show, then we’re all in danger.

Matteusz: I guess we’d better wake her up. It’s not fair if-

Ram: It’s not April. There’s no point calling it a her. Just call it a it.

Charlie: Don’t wake it up just yet. Let it come in its own time. As I said it could be harmful and if it's disturbed it may turn deadly.

Ram: You knocked it out with a taser. I think we’ve done enough already.

Tanya: So are we going to wake it up or are we going to leave it? Can somebody please make a decision around here. This is getting rather agonising now.

Charlie: I still wouldn’t recommend waking it up. Just leave it for now.

Matteusz: How long are we supposed to wait? How long until it wakes up?

Charlie: I don’t know. As this is a hybrid between three different species, we’re not really sure how long it takes to do certain things, or how it reacts to certain things, as all three races react to things in different ways.

Tanya: So we could be waiting around for ages for-

Mrs Quill: Oh for goodness sake just bloody wake it up!

Mrs Quill wakes Corakinus up. Corakinus gets up off the floor.

Corakinus: What happened to me? I seem to be hurting all over.

Ram: It’s okay, just stay calm. Just please sit back down for me.

Corakinus: So continue then. Tell me, Charlie and Quill, about your story.

Mrs Quill: We have a new story. All of that before was a prank and now we need to tell you that you aren’t really who you think I am.

Corakinus: I’m April. I know I’m April. I’ve always been April.

Charlie: You might have her memories, and right now her personality, but you also have Corakinus’s memories, and the last Rhodian Soul’s memories. You are not April. You’re partly April, but you are also the last Rhodian and Corakinus, all in one.

Corakinus: I’m April. I know I’m April. I know who I am, Charlie.

Charlie: It’s not false, because one small part of you is April, and right now all you can feel is the April Mclean inside of you. But there’s much more making you up. There’s more to it than that. If you were just pure April then you wouldn’t be sitting here right now in Corakinus’s body. We’ve found an explanation.

Corakinus: I thought you had an explanation before but that was apparently a lie.

Charlie: Yes, but only so we could work all of this out. Your emotions are out of control right now and we needed to think about our reasoning.

Corakinus: And you had to knock me out for that? I’m still hurting, Charlie.

Charlie: Yes, but we have an explanation for this, and that’s what you wanted.

Corakinus: All I wanted was to have my body back. Do you have a way for me to get my old body back? Could you make me April again and not Corakinus?

Charlie: I’m afraid not. It may be impossible to believe, but April Mclean is dead.

Corakinus: I’m April Mclean and I am alive. I’m very much alive. I know that.

Charlie: No you don’t. The Rhodian knows that, because the Rhodian has attached itself to April and Corakinus and does not totally know that it's alive yet. But it is. It’s found a way to resurrect itself. That’s our explanation.

Corakinus: It’s not good enough. It doesn’t explain how I’m feeling right now.

Charlie: Yes it does. It explains that you’re not really aware what you’re thinking yet.

Corakinus: Of course I am aware of what I am thinking. I’m talking to you, and I’m thinking how ridiculous your theory about all of this is.

Charlie: It may be ridiculous, but it’s true, like everything that’s gone on in Cole Hill Academy recently. I’m so sorry.

Corakinus: Do you all believe him? Ram?

Ram: I’m sorry, April, but it’s the truth. It’s really difficult to believe, and I’m struggling to contemplate it, because I don’t want to lose another girlfriend, but April’s gone. There’s part of you in there but it’s mostly Rhodian and Shadow Kin that hasn’t yet kicked in.

Corakinus: This is absurd. This really is absurd. I can’t take this.

Tanya: What exactly are you going to do? April-Please don’t do something stupid.

Corakinus: Of course I’m going to do something bloody stupid.

Corakinus trashes the room. It grabs the gun that is on the floor and points it at Quill.

Mrs Quill: What are you pointing the gun at me for?

Corakinus: You’re about to die anyway so why don’t I just kill you now? It will be more painless. Just one shot to the head. Better than being eaten.

Mrs Quill: I’d rather go out in the way that my ancestors did.

Charlie: Put the gun down, please.

Corakinus: You didn’t call me April. Usually you’d say put the gun down April, please or put the gun down, please April or April, put the gun down please but you didn’t use April. You just didn’t. Call me April and I’ll let you live.

Corakinus turns the gun towards Charlie

Matteusz: This is ridiculous, April. Put the gun down, I beg of you.

Corakinus: I want him to call me April, not you, though that’s a start. You get to live Matteusz. Charlie on the other hand, will not.

Tanya: What good will killing him do?

Corakinus: I guess it’s just that little bit of Corakinus inside of me kicking in. The violent acts, the pointless murders. Maybe it’s time I killed you all to get revenge for all that you did to the shadow kin. Maybe I should be Corakinus and not April.

Ram: Just put the gun down, April.

Corakinus: You’re all right. I’m not April anymore. I’m not Corakinus. I’m not the last Rhodian. I’m all of them combined, which means that you have no idea what I’m going to do.

Charlie: Spare my life please.

Corakinus: You really are pathetic, aren't you? All of you little humans are pathetic? And you Quill and Rhodians, you are even more pathetic. You let us die. You let us suffer and burn. And now, as a hybrid of all of us, I vow to get revenge for that.

Mrs Quill grabs another gun from out of her pocket

Mrs Quill: Listen to them and put the gun down or I will not hesitate to shoot.

Corakinus: Alright, I’ll put the gun down. It’s not worth my life. I’ll get revenge later.

Mrs Quill: Are you planning on leaving? Because if you do I won’t let you escape.

Corakinus: If you let me leave then I will spare the life of your prince.

Mrs Quill: I’ve got methods of bringing him back from the dead if you kill him and you know that. So put the gun down because this will be a pointless fight.

Tanya kicks Corakinus to the ground and wrestles his gun off him.

Tanya: Is two of us pointing guns at you enough for you to stop?

Corakinus: Oh I’m only just beginning. This is my plot for revenge.

Mrs Quill: Why are we even keeping it alive? It’s a threat to us.

Tanya: Maybe it’s because there’s a piece of April inside of her.

Mrs Quill: Na, I don’t care about April. I wouldn’t hesitate. It’s just something is making me think that this being could be a great deal of use to us.

Corakinus: Or because I’m the last standing member of the Rhodian race?

Mrs Quill: Maybe you’re right. Na, I think it’s the other thing. You could be a lot of use.

Corakinus: It’s a shame that I’m going to cooperate with your demands.

Mrs Quill: We’re going to make you cooperate.

Corakinus: I think not, Quill. I think not.

Corakinus spreads his shadow knocking Quill and Tanya out. He bursts out the door. Charlie, Ram and Matteusz hurry after it. It is nowhere to be seen.

Ram: We’ve got to get it. It could terrorise the whole neighbourhood.

Charlie: You’re right. We need to stop it. We need to do whatever it takes.

Matteusz: What about Tanya and Quill?

Ram: This is more important. We don’t know what this creature is capable of. We need to stop it, before it does some serious damage.

Next Week: The Last Soul