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In the heart of the African savanna, a pride of lions basked in the summer sun atop a kopje, their kingdom stretching as far as the eye could see. Below, four playful cubs tumbled over the dry grassland, unaware of the impending disturbance.
The horizon held more than the usual splendor of the season. A meteorite hurtled towards the land, unnoticed until it was too close. The pride, sensing the disturbance, shifted their gaze skyward, their peace disrupted.
With a thunderous crash, the meteorite impacted the earth, creating a crater near the pride's location, engulfing the scene in smoke and fire. As the smoke began to clear, the pride cautiously approached the strange, white rock at the crater's center, curiosity and caution in their steps.
A glint of red sparked in the eyes of the dominant male lion as he drew close to the rock. Without warning, he turned on one of the lionesses, attacking her with a savage ferocity. The pride, stunned by the sudden violence, watched as he killed her.
The cubs squealed in terror, and the pride descended into chaos. The male lion, consumed by rage, turned his fury on the nearest cub, but the pride intervened, sparking an all-out brawl. The once-united pride now fought amongst themselves, the air thick with violence and fear.
In the aftermath, a lone lioness emerged, bloodied and victorious but deeply wounded. She glanced at a cub trapped under two bodies but offered no help. Instead, she became singularly focused on the rock, rubbing her face against it and guarding it as if it were her cub.
As days passed, the lioness, thirsty and hungry, remained vigilant. A curious bush-buck approached the crater, only to be killed by the lioness, who continued to check on the rock instead of eating it.
Driven by an inexplicable force, she began to push the rock toward the river. The rock, now slightly larger, attracted the attention of crocodiles and a pack of hyenas along the riverbank. A brutal fight ensued among the crocodiles while hyenas attacked each other, turning the river into a scene of carnage.
Undeterred, the lioness continued her journey, leaving a trail of death in her wake. The rock grew slowly as the sky clouded with vultures, and the river ran red with blood. She reached a lake, her body a testament to the relentless journey, with an antler lodged in her stomach and her leg broken. The lioness, bone-thin, finally reached the lake shore, where she dropped dead. Days passed as death surrounded the rock. Birds, fishes, hunters, hunted, bodies are littered everywhere. The lake, now a graveyard for dead animals, saw the rock grow even larger.
The rock now even larger hissed, releasing an eerie gas. A seam appeared on the sphere, and a door opened, revealing a bearded man and a woman, each holding a snake, peering out at the disaster.
Above, a massive ship named EDEN, written in a foreign script, orbited the Earth.
Communication crackled through the silence:
“Admiral, you there?”
“Yes, Doc.”
“Apple 172 was successful.”
“Then launch them all.”
The ancient land, resembling Pangaea, stood as a backdrop to this strange and tragic tale, with the promise of more to come.
Draft 1
Draft 1
Panel 1: A pride of lions in the savanna, is resting atop a kopje. 4 cubs are playing below on the grassland. It is the summer, the dry season before the rains.
Panel 2: A wider angle, with a lake, a river flowing from it, the kopje and a meteorite falling/ hurling through the sky.
Panel 3: The pride notices the meteorite above them.
BG. It creates a crater near the pride’s location. Not big enough to injure them. But enough to create a distinct crater. Imagine DBZ Saiyan landings.Panel 4: The Pit is smoking and there is fire all around with smoke around the rock/ meteorite.
Panel 5: The smoke clears a little, and from the view point at the center of the crater we see the pride peer down at the rock.
Panel 6: The fumes/ mist stay unnaturally undisturbed as the pride now creeps toward the rock.
Panel 7: The rock is unnaturally white and round.
Panel 8: When a lion (male) gets close we see a glint/ red spark in its eyes.
Panel 9: The next instant it attacks a lioness in rage. The lioness falls on a cub. The lion attacks her neck and breaks her spine/ kills it.
Panel 10: The cub squeals and tries to get away.
Panel 11: The lion is about to raise his powerful paw to smite it, when the other members of the pride attack.
Panel 12: They are not just attacking the lion, but everyone is fighting everyone else. A full blown melee.
Panel 13: A fight ensues in the pride. A brutal fight. Lions and lionesses are fighting while the cubs have been massacred. The cub underneath the lion is the only one alive. It watches in horror (scared and crushed beneath the weight). There can be a scene where one of the lions is standing on the corpse under which the cub was.
Panel 14: A lioness emerges victorious. But she is heavily injured. Claw marks over its eye which is gone/ destroyed/ won’t work anymore. Bite marks all over its body. Bleeding quite a lot.
Panel 15: The lioness takes a look at the cub, notices that it can’t get out from underneath two bodies (lion on top of lioness on top of cub), and just leaves it. Does not help it.
Panel 16: The lioness instead acts very protective of the rock. Rubs its face against it. Just like a cat would do. Then it rests beside it, while keeping a look out for predators, as if it is its cub.
Panel 17: She gets up obviously thirsty and hungry but does not care. A bushbuck (they tend to move alone) peers over the pit. But it is not scared of the lioness. Rather it acts curious. We have a look in the eye and it is the rock which is reflected.
Panel 18: The Bushbuck creeps up to the rock while the lioness is watching, and surprisingly attacks the lioness. The lioness kills it but instead of eating it it checks on the rock.
Panel 19: She looks up in the sky, takes a sniff and starts pushing the rock out of the gentle slope.
Panel 20: It is now moving along the river, pushing the rock slowly but surely. The rock seems a bit bigger (slightly).
Panel 21: The lioness is high along the riverbank. The crocodiles resting on a gentler slope on the other back suddenly jump into the river. A lot of them. Soon a pack of hyenas on the other bank, a little away from the river, also turn their head and start trotting towards the river. Add Hippos
Panel 22: The crocs are fighting against each other, unable to climb the steeper bank.
Panel 23: The hyenas are next seen in the river, half of them in it half about to step in.
Panel 24: The hyenas don’t care that the crocs are massacring them. Next we see all the crocodiles and the hyenas dead. The lioness is still moving on pushing the rock slowly.
Panel 25: The sphere has grown a little bigger. There are clouds in the sky. The train behind the lioness is full of all sorts of dead animals, the river is bloody. There are vultures in the sky.
Panel 26: In the distance a lake can be seen. There are feathers in the lioness mouth. Dead vultures behind her.
Panel 27: A little ahead of her, a herd of zebras impalas, wildebeest, rhinos, is all dead.
Panel 28: A wildebeest with a horn stuck in its shoulder, heavily injured, birds pecking it rushes towards the lioness, and is taken out by a rhino. The lioness keeps moving on slowly but surely.
Panel 29: Dead animals are shown again on the train, the lioness is limping towards the lake .
Panel 30: Panel 1 of death (trail)
Panel 31: Panel 2 of death (river)
Panel 32: Panel 3 half death trail, but green in the lake. It has started drizzling.
Panel 33: The lioness now has an antler stuck in its stomach, leg broken, and is still pushing the rock, quite big now, as big as her top the lake.
Panel 34: The lioness is bone thin now as she reaches the lake shore. It is now in the water but shallow and the lioness dies.
Panel 35: A lot more animals are now dead around it. A lone vulture sits atop it, not interested in the carcasses littered around it. There are dead fish floating.
Panel 36: The rock is now near to the centre of the lake, bigger and bodies of all fishes and a croc near it.
Panel 37: It is raining heavily but now the lake bed is almost dry, the rock is much much much bigger but the lake is almost dried out. A huge number of dead animals, fish, birds beside it.
Panel 38: The rock hisses and gas leaks out.
Panel 39: A seam appears on the sphere.
Panel 40: From the inside of the sphere we see a door open peering into the disaster outside.
Panel 41: A silhouette of a man appears. Bearded. It peers outside.
Panel 42: A woman is also seen peering from behind him.
Panel 43: We can see each of them holding a snake in their hands, petting their heads (strange)
Panel 44: In the orbit above the earth. The continent looks similar to an older form of continents, before the continental tectonic shift (PANGEA).
Panel 45: A ship is seen (HUGE). The name on the side of the ship resembles EDEN (in foreign script)
Panel 46: We hear communication.
In alien script (translated)
Person 1: Admiral you there?
Admiral: Yes Doc.
Doc: Apple 172 was successful.
Admiral: Then send them all
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