Ashborne
Episode 1: "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky"Dark Fantasy / Action / Dialogue Script Format
📍[EXT. SKY OCEAN – NIGHT]
The sky churns—a levitating sea floats over the world like a wound in the sky. A fleet of skyships battle in its cursed waters. Lightning arcs. Voices scream.
[PILOT (panicking)]"She won't let go! We're too heavy—!"
[GIRL (strained)]"I can't. It's awake. If I drop it now…"
[The ship tilts violently. The girl clutches a black orb to her chest. It pulses with cursed runes.]
[PILOT]"We're going down!"
[The ship tears free from the sky ocean and crashes in a fiery spiral toward the surface.]
Cut to black.
📍[EXT. WHISPERFALL SCRAPYARD – NIGHT]
[Steam rises from broken relics. A lonely figure works beneath a rusted tower of junk. KAEL, mid-30s, lean, long cloak draped over his shoulders. Sword on his back. Calm eyes, hair swept like ashfire.]
[CUSTOMER]"It's fixed? Just like that?"
[KAEL](without looking up)"It's quiet now. That's all you need."
[CUSTOMER]"Was it… cursed?"
[KAEL](shuts the hatch of the drone)"Isn't everything these days?"
[A distant boom rolls across the sky. A flame streaks across the heavens.]
[CUSTOMER (nervously)]"That a meteor?"
[KAEL (already standing)]"No. That's a skyship. And something bad fell with it."
[He throws his cloak on and walks off, leaving the customer alone with the buzzing relic.]
📍[EXT. CRASH SITE – NIGHT]
[Flames crackle across broken metal. The air sizzles with whisper energy. Kael walks through smoke like a ghost. He finds the GIRL—early teens, clothes torn, unconscious—still holding the orb.]
[He kneels beside her. The orb pulses in response.]
[KAEL](to himself)"…That curse. I know it."
[ASHBREAKER – inside his head, like smoldering coals]"She brought it back. She woke it up."
[The girl gasps awake and swings at him. Kael catches her arm with zero effort.]
[GIRL (terrified)]"Don't touch me! It'll kill you—!"
[KAEL (calmly)]"Too late for that."
[She notices the cursed runes glowing faintly across his chest. Her eyes widen.]
[GIRL]"...You're him. You're the Ashborne."
[Kael's eyes narrow. He releases her.]
[KAEL]"That name's dead."
📍[EXT. HILLSIDE ABOVE – MOMENTS LATER]
[Seven cloaked figures descend silently—the BLEACHED CHOIR. Their robes shift unnaturally. Faces masked in stitched porcelain.]
[CHOIR LEADER]"Return the girl. Return the curse. Or be unmade."
[Kael sighs.]
[KAEL](rolling his shoulders)"I was hoping I'd never hear that voice again."
[He flicks ash from his hand. Runes burn brighter.]
[KAEL (coldly)]"Last chance. Walk away."
[CHOIR LEADER]"You don't scare us anymore."
[Kael Ashsteps—vanishes in a flicker of flame—appears behind the leader mid-strike. A blast of cursed ash knocks several Choir members to the ground.]
[ASHBREAKER (eager whisper)]"Burn them all."
[KAEL](gritting his teeth)"Not yet."
📍[EXT. SMOKING CLEARING – AFTERMATH]
[The Choir retreats. The girl stands beside Kael, trembling. Her orb pulses darkly.]
[GIRL]"Why would you help me?"
[KAEL]"Because whatever that curse is... it remembers me."
[GIRL](quiet)"What happens now?"
[Kael picks up his cloak from the ground and slings it over his shoulder.]
[KAEL]"Now we run. Until I decide if I'm saving you—or stopping what's inside you."
📍[EXT. MOUNTAIN RIDGE – NIGHT – UNKNOWN PERSPECTIVE]
[A shadowy figure watches Kael and the girl through cursed binoculars. Their hand is black-veined and twitching.]
[UNKNOWN FIGURE]"…The Ashborne lives."
[They vanish into smoke.]
To be continued...