01x01 - The Prophecy

[bunniefuu]

[gasps]

[gasps]

[growls]

[Peter] Make sure to block him.
Make sure he doesn't get over there.

[Peter] I got you.
- Nice form. Feel good about that.

[shrieks, then all laugh]

Ah, there you are, Leo, my boy.

I told you not to bother me
when I'm with my friends.

But I need you to open the books for me.

It takes so much effort
to knock even one off the shelf

that I haven't the strength to turn pages.

[gasps]

Yes! Point! Point!

Okay, remember, we're calling it a goal.

Also, we agreed not to use our hands.

That is the point of leg ball.
You use your legs.

That's dumb. You used your head.

Yeah, but that's legal.

Shouldn't it be called leg and head ball?

Well, my abuela sewed the ball,
so, I get to make the rules.

Ah, youth.

In my day,
you settled disputes with a duel.

I did not have an overabundance of chums
by the end.

Could you please get lost?

Alas, I cannot.

You're unique, Leo.

The only boy I've ever met with the power
to so effortlessly communicate the dead.

A dark force rises
and I must consult my books.

Ah, you can turn your own pages,
Don Andres. Or just look at the cover.

That's what I do.

Anyway, I told you,
I do not solve ghost problems anymore.

Leo, are you having
one of your special times again?

No! And just a minute.

Go away, Don Andres.

Okay. Let's get back to the inaugural
match of head and leg ball.

How about "football"?

Beautiful.

I mean, uh, beautiful idea, heh, Marcella.

Yes... that is a much better name
for the game no one will play.

You're being stubborn.
Expect to be haunted tonight.

You wanna play with us?

Um, I don't think she should.

[grunts]

- Why?
- The weird lightning at your place

since you and your mom moved in.
She's a hechicera.

Marcella's mom is not a sorceress.

Sorry, Leo.
You're weird, but we're used to it.

Being around an hechicera-in-training?
No, thank you.

Ah, give them time.
You've only been here, what, six months?

[chuckles]

It's fine.
The truth is my mother is weird.

My whole family is. I'm proud of who I am.

Yeah.

That's... nice.

- Uh...
- Ha, ha.

Here. For asking me to play.
It was sweet of you.

Yeah, it was.

I mean, you don't, uh...

Don't mention it. Heh.

[chuckles]

So, shamanism is a pagan belief

about perceiving and interacting
with the spirit world.

Often, they believe
in one special individual with access,

whose job it was to speak for the dead.

And the dead have much to say.

- Aah!
- Ha-ha-ha.

Why not tell them
what dead people are like?

Friar Tuck might give you extra credit.

- What do you want, Teodora?
- For you to get your head in the game.

I heard what you said to Don Andres.
Not cool.

I just wanna be my own person.

Why is that so much to ask?

Um, maybe because it's not about you.
There are more important things going on.

Don Andres isn't blowing smoke
with this rising-evil thing.

I don't care.

Just go away!

[Godofredo] Leo, do you mind?

[Peter] Cuckoo.

Um... All right,
there's a good explanation for this.

You're nuts in the head.

[Peter laughs, Leo groans]

[bell ringing]
[kid] Let's go.

Perhaps next week
we'll stay awake the whole lesson.

I thought you of all people
would like this class.

Sorry, Friar Godofredo.

I just...

[chuckles]

Think nothing of it.

[cat meows]

[clattering nearby]

Huh?

Don Andres?

Is that you?

Teo?

[whimpers, then shrieks]

[panting]

[creature growls]

[growling]

Hello.

[groans]

Alebrije. Don't scare me like that.

Oh. Sorry, Leo.

Let me guess.
You're here to tell me about rising evil.

No. I just wanted
to play checkers with my pal.

But now that you mention it,
Don Andres and Teo told me what you said.

We're your friends, Leo.

Says who?

You people all just showed up
at my door one day.

[sighs]

Oh, Leo.

You can't choose to be normal.

The world always sees us as we are,
eventually.

Is that crazy goat bothering you again?

[baas]

Ah! I am a beautiful alebrije, woman.

At least see me as something noble,
like a horse, or a dragonfly... Ow!

My magical butt!

Such an odd goat.

Perhaps he has the palsy.

Come in and I'll fix you some cocoa.

Could you make it a double?

[Teodora laughing]

Guy who needs the Heimlich maneuver. No?

Oh! Two guys that need
the Heimlich maneuver.

Demon churning butter.

Oh!

By the headless ghost
of King Charles, Leo!

- I almost had a heart attack.
- Good thing you're already dead.

You have got to be kidding me. Really?
This is how you guys spend your time?

It's not like we have a lot of options.

Waiting around for you to help us
figure out these dark omens and stuff.

People were finally willing
to be seen with me,

but you stopped that.

You ruined the inaugural
game of leg ball...

The other name was better.

What was it? "Knee ball"?

I can't take it! I know you've been there
for me in the past,

but people think I'm crazy because of you.

Sometimes I think they're right.

- I wanna live a normal life!
- Are we breaking up?

Don't give us
the old "it's not you, it's me."

No, it's definitely you.
I'm done with this ghost stuff.

I don't know how many ways I can say it.

What?

The portents, boy.

They augur the end times.

Great, 'cause it's time for this to end.

[glass breaks]

[gasps]

Alebrije?

If that's you, you're in big trouble.

[whimpering]

[yelling]

Abuela?

Abuela, get up! Are you all right?

I'm fine, Leo.

Tell the others.

- Join us.
- Aah!

Hold on, Abuela!

Stay there and I'll get the doctor.

[Abuela]
Join us.

I see you.

[screaming]

Help! Help!

What is happening?

[hisses]

[doors opening]

[possessed people] Join us.

- Join us.
- Join us.

Don't do that.

[yells]

Marcella?

Are you okay?

He is coming.

Don't worry. We're here, my boy.

So, this is the new girl, huh?

She's a little clingy.

Huh?
- [monster hissing]

[Alebrije screams]

I don't like these things!

Get to the monastery, Leo.
It's the most fortified building in town.

[Leo gasps]

There's too many.

Once again,
it's up to us to save helpless you.

[scoffs]

Just walking down the street here.

Ooh. Ah. Wish someone would possess me.

[humming]

Hmm?

Ew. That was super gross.

[possessed people moaning]

Ooh. You dropped your hat, good sir.

Your hat may be trampled by zombies, sir.

A better fate
than the hideous thing deserves.

[gasps]

[all hissing]

[whimpering]

This is too slow! Let's go, go, go!

Leo, hop on!

Hmm. Oh...

Look out!

Not that way! Turn!

- No, no, no.
- Yes, yes, yes!

[Leo screams]

[grunts]

[grunting]

[sighs]

Guys, get out of here.

You can't do anything for me.

[possessed people growling and moaning]

The lad has a valid point.

His end will be too gory
for my refined sensibilities.

You're not going anywhere, Don Chicken.

Okay, come and get it.

[Teodora growling]

Back, I say! Back!

The power of my fist compels you!

Leo, this way!

I see an odd pigeon with you.

But what is it, really?

An alebrije. We call him Alebrije because
his real name is too hard to pronounce.

Not hard at all, if you'd bite off
the tip of your tongue like I said.

Ah, well, that makes sense.

And are the ghosts with you?

Sure, they're right... Wait, what?
You know? You can see them?

No. But if you'd listened to my lecture,

you'd know there's always one person
in a village that can speak with ghosts.

It wasn't hard to figure out
that person was you.

[mimics expl*si*n]

Don Andres, Teodora, meet Friar Godofredo.

[chuckles]

Pleased to meet you all.

Friar Godofredo, how do you know...?

[banging on door, then all gasp]

I will tell you later. But now we must go.
We have precious little time.

For weeks there have been mysterious signs
that something otherworldly

- has been going on.
[Teodora] Mm-hm.

- Told you.
- Shh.

Have you seen anything else
that's odd, Leo?

Perhaps... one of these?

That one!
It made my abuela's eyes white like milk.

- There's a bunch of them out there.
- Oh, no.

Those are the horroroso,
the heralds of something far, far worse.

The horroroso can use
the life force of the living

to breach their master's
dimensional prison.

If Quetzalcoatl escapes,

an age of darkness
will envelope the world.

I'm no expert,
but Quetzalcoatl isn't a monster, right?

He's a creator god, a good guy.

When he's in a good mood.

And now, he is no longer in a good mood.

He wants to wipe the slate
that is the world clean,

and begin again.

That's gonna take a big eraser.

Wait. Do you hear that?

The banging... it stopped.

Where did they all go?

Those two are being taken to the market
by one of those... ugly things.

The others are, too.

By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes.

Just like in the book.

Friar Godofredo, what does it mean?

It means, Leo...

the end of the world...

has begun.

If my teeth were more
than ectoplasmic mist,

you would hear them chattering.

The evil horroroso will use the life force
of the townspeople

to create a dimensional gateway
so their master can break through.

It will leave them lifeless shells.

We have to do something.
And again, how do you know all this?

Later, Leo. Now, come.

Uh, hmm, "Girl's Guide to Chaos"...

Oh! Here. I have it.

That looks like my abuela's tamale recipe.

But with more gunpowder.

It is a recipe.

With it, I can create a magical expl*si*n
that seals the gateway

and keeps Quetzalcoatl
from our plane of existence.

But... we'd never get past the horroroso.

Friar, you make the tamale,
then wait for us on the top of the tower.

Are you sure you want this?

What I want is to go home,
have a hot bath,

sleep, and wake up
to Grandma's hot biscuits.

But we have to do this first.

Wow.

It's bigger on the outside.

This craft, where did you get it?

[all grunting]

Drop this into the center
of the disturbance.

Faster, Don Andres!

By all that is black and evil.

[all screaming and whimpering]

[Leo] A little closer.

Closer, and... now!

Oh, man. Those creepers caught it.

[chuckles]

- Turn us around.
- What? Why?

[Leo] Do it!

What are you doing?

That's the only mystic b*mb we have.

I'm getting it back.

[yelling]

[grunting]

He can't throw it that far.

Use your leg ball!

[roars]

[all groaning]

Yay! Goal! Ha, ha!

Leo!

Oh, no.

[Don Andres] He was such a brave...

and stupid boy.

Now I'll never get to tell him
how stupid he was.

Sure you can. There he is.

[Don Andres] Hip-hip, hooray!

[Alebrije] Hey, Leo! Up here! Hey, Leo!

- Yahtzee!
- Go, Leo!

It was you.

You gave me this and it protected me.

- Are you really an hechicera-in-training?
- Of course not.

- But the necklace has power.
[Peter] Hey, freak.

Thanks for saving us.

You're okay.

Yeah. You may be a weirdo,
but you're our weirdo.

[all] Bravo! [cheering]

Marcella, I think my life
has finally turned around.

Everything is coming up Leo!

- Don't you think?
- I do.

Hmm.

Okay, that was, um...

less enthusiastic than I thought.

Huh?

Run!

Godofredo! Godofredo!

What?

Quickly, inside.

What's happening?

- I thought we stopped Quetzalcoatl.
- Head to the bell tower.

[Quetzalcoatl roaring]

Back, I say!

No further, fiend!

[laughs]

[Marcella] There's nowhere to run.

Marcella! No!

- Turn us around!
[Teodora] Are you nuts?

[Don Andres] Alebrije, hold him!

Abuela, Friar Godofredo... Marcella.

They're all... gone.

My boy, what do you want to do?

I don't know exactly.

Except for one thing.

We stick together.

My life until now, my ghost vision,
meeting you guys...

- I think we're meant to be together.
- Count me in.

I don't have anything else to do.

We're safe up here for now
so we can figure things out.

We'll make sure our next move is
carefully planned and perfectly ex*cuted.

[all shriek]