I am a man without fear!
“Hey now, hey now I’m all around you, ’round you! Hey now, up on your heart I can sing through you!”
The scene opens to the sound of David Manson’s voice. He was singing a creepy tune as he stood in front of the ashes of the building from last week. Burned to the ground it rests silently in the night. Behind Manson is a bonfire. It lights his silhouette in the dark night. Manson slowly turns around to face the fire, his bearded face shows a sadistic smile. We pan around the fire to see a bunch of his followers. All sitting around the fire. We see some tents and sleeping bags set up around and a few old vehicles rest behind them. This is the latest camp of Manson and his followers. Manson begins to speak, his followers smiling and listening closely.
David Manson:”She want’s to be with us children. She just doesn’t know it yet. She will join us, join the Family! Become one of us. Become truly free! See, nobody in this world is free unless they live the way we do! As long as you have a job, own a house, and live amongst those that imprison people like us, you will not be truly free! Freedom is a lie!”
Manson is pacing, talking a lot with his hands. He grabs a stick and pokes the fire slowly, turning it and increasing the height of the flames. He takes the stick out of the fire, staring at it as it burns slowly.
David Manson:”Oh, but she WILL be free! She will understand what it’s like to roam the world a free being. I know it children!”
Manson signals to one of his followers to step up. The woman slowly stands to her feet and comes forward to Manson. He grabs her head and leans her back. She smiles as does he before he plants a kiss on her lips. He then takes the burning stick and draws an X on her forehead, the sizzle of her burning skin makes her winch for a moment before he smiles and drops her to the ground. She stumbles for a moment before looking up and smiling at Manson. He returns the smile with a sick smile of his own before he licks the burning end of the stick. A slight sizzle is heard before the woman stands up. Manson seals the X with a kiss before sending her back and continuing.
David Manson:”This week I have yet another chance to show the world the power of the Awakening! I must join forces with Fate and take on the team of Scarecrow and Mother. Now, listen up now children, Mother will try to take the young ones away! Hide your children and don’t let them out of your site, because Mother will take them without you realizing it! Mother is evil, pure evil and she will stop at nothing to get her hands on your children!”
Manson signals to another follower and the man steps up. He burns an X on his forehead and drops him. Slowly he begins to burn X’s into each followers forehead, selling the burn mark with a kiss on the forehead. One by one his followers step forward and receive a mark, Manson only stopping slightly to talk.
David Manson:”But you don’t scare me Mother. I am not a child anymore. I have grown to be the man I am today. And the man that will stand before you at AfterBURN is a man that will not think twice about tearing your head off of your body. The Scarecrow doesn’t scare me either though children.”
Manson lays the stick back into the fire and gets it nice and hit again before continuing with the “ceremony”. His followers all beginning to look like a cult.
David Manson:”The Scarecrow is not all he’s cracked up to be. The Scarecrow is a lot of a smoke and mirrors act. All magic. The Scarecrow uses his deathly stare and magic tricks to try and instill fear into the men and women of OSW, but I do not fear you Scarecrow. I am a man without fear! I live my life in the shadows, stalking my next victim. You stay in the shadows, on your perch playing your little mind games. Get into my head Scarecrow. Take a look into the head of a madman. Cuz that’s what they call me. They call me crazy. But you know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy. And Scarecrow, they call you crazy too.”
Manson takes the burning stick and turns it to himself. He begins to burn an X into his own forehead, not even wincing a bit at the pain. He puts the final touch on and tosses the stick into the fire. It burns slowly as he stares at it with a sick, twisted smile on his face. His followers all stare at Manson as he continues.
David Manson:”See, we can play this game Scarecrow. We can go back and forth trying to get into each others heads, picking and prying our way into the mind of each other. But I ain’t got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. Everything you do is an illusion, just waiting to be found out by a true magician. I see through your crap. I have AWAKENED!”
Manson laughs for a moment, his followers joining in with their own laughter. They all have wicked smiles on their faces and we can see the burn marks on their foreheads. Manson turns to the camera and tilts his head slightly, only furthering the creepy sight before us.
David Manson:”And at AfterBURN, Mother……Scarecrow……Fate…..you will be AWAKENED too!”
And with that, Manson turns back towards his followers and grabs his guitar. He pulls the strap onto his shirtless body as he begins to play and sing, his followers joining him for a song as we slowly fade to darkness.
The Family:”Every game you play, every night you stay, I’ll be watching you. Oh can’t you see? You belong to me…”
The scene opens to the sound of David Manson’s voice. He was singing a creepy tune as he stood in front of the ashes of the building from last week. Burned to the ground it rests silently in the night. Behind Manson is a bonfire. It lights his silhouette in the dark night. Manson slowly turns around to face the fire, his bearded face shows a sadistic smile. We pan around the fire to see a bunch of his followers. All sitting around the fire. We see some tents and sleeping bags set up around and a few old vehicles rest behind them. This is the latest camp of Manson and his followers. Manson begins to speak, his followers smiling and listening closely.
David Manson:”She want’s to be with us children. She just doesn’t know it yet. She will join us, join the Family! Become one of us. Become truly free! See, nobody in this world is free unless they live the way we do! As long as you have a job, own a house, and live amongst those that imprison people like us, you will not be truly free! Freedom is a lie!”
Manson is pacing, talking a lot with his hands. He grabs a stick and pokes the fire slowly, turning it and increasing the height of the flames. He takes the stick out of the fire, staring at it as it burns slowly.
David Manson:”Oh, but she WILL be free! She will understand what it’s like to roam the world a free being. I know it children!”
Manson signals to one of his followers to step up. The woman slowly stands to her feet and comes forward to Manson. He grabs her head and leans her back. She smiles as does he before he plants a kiss on her lips. He then takes the burning stick and draws an X on her forehead, the sizzle of her burning skin makes her winch for a moment before he smiles and drops her to the ground. She stumbles for a moment before looking up and smiling at Manson. He returns the smile with a sick smile of his own before he licks the burning end of the stick. A slight sizzle is heard before the woman stands up. Manson seals the X with a kiss before sending her back and continuing.
David Manson:”This week I have yet another chance to show the world the power of the Awakening! I must join forces with Fate and take on the team of Scarecrow and Mother. Now, listen up now children, Mother will try to take the young ones away! Hide your children and don’t let them out of your site, because Mother will take them without you realizing it! Mother is evil, pure evil and she will stop at nothing to get her hands on your children!”
Manson signals to another follower and the man steps up. He burns an X on his forehead and drops him. Slowly he begins to burn X’s into each followers forehead, selling the burn mark with a kiss on the forehead. One by one his followers step forward and receive a mark, Manson only stopping slightly to talk.
David Manson:”But you don’t scare me Mother. I am not a child anymore. I have grown to be the man I am today. And the man that will stand before you at AfterBURN is a man that will not think twice about tearing your head off of your body. The Scarecrow doesn’t scare me either though children.”
Manson lays the stick back into the fire and gets it nice and hit again before continuing with the “ceremony”. His followers all beginning to look like a cult.
David Manson:”The Scarecrow is not all he’s cracked up to be. The Scarecrow is a lot of a smoke and mirrors act. All magic. The Scarecrow uses his deathly stare and magic tricks to try and instill fear into the men and women of OSW, but I do not fear you Scarecrow. I am a man without fear! I live my life in the shadows, stalking my next victim. You stay in the shadows, on your perch playing your little mind games. Get into my head Scarecrow. Take a look into the head of a madman. Cuz that’s what they call me. They call me crazy. But you know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy. And Scarecrow, they call you crazy too.”
Manson takes the burning stick and turns it to himself. He begins to burn an X into his own forehead, not even wincing a bit at the pain. He puts the final touch on and tosses the stick into the fire. It burns slowly as he stares at it with a sick, twisted smile on his face. His followers all stare at Manson as he continues.
David Manson:”See, we can play this game Scarecrow. We can go back and forth trying to get into each others heads, picking and prying our way into the mind of each other. But I ain’t got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. Everything you do is an illusion, just waiting to be found out by a true magician. I see through your crap. I have AWAKENED!”
Manson laughs for a moment, his followers joining in with their own laughter. They all have wicked smiles on their faces and we can see the burn marks on their foreheads. Manson turns to the camera and tilts his head slightly, only furthering the creepy sight before us.
David Manson:”And at AfterBURN, Mother……Scarecrow……Fate…..you will be AWAKENED too!”
And with that, Manson turns back towards his followers and grabs his guitar. He pulls the strap onto his shirtless body as he begins to play and sing, his followers joining him for a song as we slowly fade to darkness.
The Family:”Every game you play, every night you stay, I’ll be watching you. Oh can’t you see? You belong to me…”