DEAD STAR

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[VISUAL]Interior of the ship. Dawn and Luna stand facing each other by the airlock. The lighting is warm, soft. It's a goodbye.

LUNA (softly):Now that the pact is sealed… we're connected.Mind, body, soul.

DAWN (frowning):You mean like a psychic hotline?

LUNA (half-smirking):I mean… you'll feel me bleed before I do. You'll know when I lie.And… if the bond deepens, you'll start unlocking more.Power, perception… memory.Not gifts. Not blessings. Just doors.You'll still have to crawl through them yourself.

DAWN (quiet):And if I don't?

LUNA:You stay half-awake forever.

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[VISUAL]Rain walks in, looking rough but alive, rubbing his temples. Classic smirk forming.

RAIN:"MIND, BODY AND SOUL."That sounds like the tagline for a cursed dating app.

[VISUAL]Luna and Dawn exchange a look.

DAWN & LUNA (in perfect sync):Shut the fuck up, Rain.

RAIN (hands up):Hey, just sayin'. Might help me figure out this dragon thing.

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[VISUAL]Exterior. Rain steps outside the ship through the pressurized chamber, drifting out into space in a tank top and cargo pants. Just him and the stars.

RAIN (V.O.):No power-ups. No stardust. No dragon cheat codes.Just me.

[VISUAL]He breathes in (no need for air) and lets himself float. Then wills his body forward—and it moves.

He grins.

RAIN (V.O.):Okay… so physics doesn't apply to me anymore.

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[VISUAL]Rain zips around the hull of the ship, looping upside-down, sideways—doing somersaults and backflips with ease.

He floats past a window and taps the glass with a single knuckle. Inside: Luna and Dawn.

[VISUAL]Dawn flinches hard.

DAWN (screaming):RAIN?!

[VISUAL]He floats limply, tongue out, playing dead. A single hand against the glass.

Then slowly… he winks.

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[VISUAL]Luna pinches the bridge of her nose. Dawn bangs the window.

DAWN & LUNA (again, in sync):SIT. THE. FUCK. DOWN.

RAIN (mouthing through the glass):Worth it.

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[VISUAL]Rain floats higher into the stars now, farther from the ship. The mood shifts. No more jokes. Just silence.

He exhales, closes his eyes.

RAIN (V.O.):I get it. I can't force this.But maybe I can still figure out who I am… without it.

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[VISUAL]Suddenly—his body spasms.His eyes snap open—golden, glowing.His arms jerk at unnatural angles.His chest pulses like a second heart is beating inside him.

[VISUAL]Rain's back arches. He grits his teeth.

His voice breaks through gritted teeth:

RAIN:No—no—nononono—

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[VISUAL]His face goes still.

His eyes glow brighter.

His smile grows.

[VISUAL]Rain disappears—vanishing across starfields in the blink of an eye.

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[VISUAL]A peaceful planetary system. Cities in orbit. Civilian ships, families on balconies.

Then—a golden streak across the sky.

*Rain appears midair. Floating.

Expression blank.

One finger lifts.

[VISUAL]A planet rips in half with a soundless quake.

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[SEQUENTIAL PANELS – NO DIALOGUE]

Rain walking on starlight.

Rain snapping a moon like glass.

Rain looking directly into a telescope—and the operator's face goes pale.

Rain hovering above a temple. Everyone bows. The temple disintegrates.

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[VISUAL]Inside Rain's head.

A white void. No doors. Just him—trapped.

He watches from a one-way mirror.

His hands move—but he's not in control.

His smile is not his own.

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[FULL PAGE PANEL]A world of libraries—towers of scrolls and memories—goes up in golden flame.

Rain walks through the fire.

He doesn't blink.

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[SEQUENTIAL VISUALS]

Entire suns get swallowed into the black of his pupils.

A starmap glitches. Systems vanish.

A godlike alien screams into a comm:"The anomaly has conscious intent. This is no natural event!"

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[VISUAL]Inside Rain's mind again.

Now he's in a shattered version of his apartment. Old posters. Broken glass. No one there.

He looks into a mirror.

The reflection smiles back—eyes glowing, mouth bleeding.

Then it says (without sound):

"You're the weapon. I'm just the hand."

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[NO TEXT – FULL PAGE]Rain, still humanoid, stands on an asteroid.

He looks down at his palms. They're trembling.

He closes them into fists.

A galaxy behind him explodes.

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[VISUAL]A dying child floating in a space station watches him on a monitor.

Rain tilts his head, watching them like a fish in a bowl.

He lifts a finger—

The feed cuts.

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[VISUAL]Rain floats in the middle of nowhere now.

Dead stars drift around him.

His smile is gone.

His eyes flicker—like someone waking up from a blackout.

Just a whisper escapes:

RAIN (V.O.):Please… make it stop.

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[VISUAL]His hand lifts again.

But this time, it shakes.

He's trying to resist.

He looks at it like a stranger.

A tear floats away from his face, dissolving into starlight.

NARRATION (RAIN, V.O.):I wanted to understand it.But I wasn't ready to see it.The dragon isn't power.It's hunger.And I gave it my body.

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[VISUAL]Interior – Main Corridor of the Ship.The docking hatch decompresses with a hiss.

KAI steps inside—winded, jacket half-zipped, boots scuffed. He looks around, eyes already searching.

KAI:Yo. Where's Rain?

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[VISUAL]DAWN, still sitting by the medbay, glances up, face pale. She's holding a mug with trembling fingers.

DAWN:Last I saw him…He was just outside. Floating. Messing around.Doing Rain shit.

[VISUAL]She forces a weak laugh. It doesn't land.

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[VISUAL]KAI freezes. His whole body stiffens.

KAI:You let him outside?

DAWN:Relax. He was—he was fine.

KAI (cutting her off):Fine?!This isn't some anime beach filler arc, Dawn. He's a walking celestial event.He can't just be "outside."

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[VISUAL]KAI storms into the bridge, snapping his fingers toward a nearby console. VEE PRIME materializes as a flickering hard-light projection.

KAI:VEE. Track Rain. Now.

VEE PRIME (processing):Locating...Cross-referencing ship registry…Confirmed: Rain is current Owner-Class Administrator.

VEE PRIME:…He is no longer within local star proximity.

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[VISUAL]KAI's expression shatters. Dawn steps in behind him, breath catching.

DAWN:Wait… what does that mean?

VEE PRIME:Rain has departed the ship's outer orbit at light-fold velocity.He is currently untraceable through traditional sensors.

VEE PRIME (grim):However… anomalies matching his unique biometric signature are being recorded across twenty-seven systems.

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[VISUAL]Kai slams his fist against the console. Sparks fly. His voice shakes.

KAI:Damn it, I told him. I told him not to dive too deep into that thing!

DAWN (softly):You think the dragon took over?

KAI:No.I think he gave it permission.

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[VISUAL]The screen displays a cosmic heat map. Systems blinking red, entire clusters marked "EXTINCT".

VEE PRIME:The path he's leaving behind… it's not just movement.It's erasure.

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[VISUAL]DAWN, shaken but holding it together, stares out the window into empty space. LUNA's cloak still hangs nearby, forgotten.

DAWN (quietly):Then we have to bring him back.Before there's nothing left to bring back.

[VISUAL]Cut to Rain, drifting unconscious in deep space.His body is cracked with gold light.Eyes fluttering. Hands twitching.

And in the reflection of his eye—Another galaxy. Next.