Little Shop Of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
Authors note
Well I've become rather obsessed with this movie/play again recently, and I've watched it like a million times. So late last night, as I was drifting to sleep this idea came to me. The only real changes are Audrey not being female the name change from Audrey to Aubrey (porque that is a unisex name) this also means The Audrey 2 is now The Aubrey 2.
Enjoy
On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places.
Seymour Krelbourne wakes up in his bed, in the basement of Mushnicks Skid Row Florist's shop. The unremarkable sheep rolls out of bed and gets dressed. Meanwhile, across the street, his coworker Aubrey is just finishing getting ready for work himself. The attractive leopard combs his golden locks over his right eye to cover the prominent shiner that covers it. He checks himself in the mirror, finishes his cup of coffee and heads out the door.
Seymour is now dressed and getting some plat pots and other inventory ready to bring upstairs when Aubrey walks in upstairs.
"Oh, so he finally decides to come to work!" Complains Mr Mushnick, an old dog.
"Good morning Mr Mushnick!" Aubrey says in a cheery tone, avoiding eye contact with his boss.
"Morning? What morning?! It's almost closing time!"
"I'm sorry"
Downstairs, Seymour trips and breaks the pots he was carrying.
"SEYMOUR! WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON DOWN THERE?!" Musnick yells "Aubrey, would you go down to see what he's..." He notices the shiner on Aubrey's eye "Where'd you get that shiner?" Says the dog, now worried
"S-shiner?" Aubrey says in his naturally quiet voice
"Aubrey, has that greasy boyfriend of yours been beating up on you again? I'm starting to think he's not a very nice boy" says the concerned dog
"Well...you don't meet nice boys when you live on Skid Row, Mr Mushnick"
At that moment Seymour bursts in with a box of pots.
"I GOT THESE POTS UNLOADED FOR YOU MR MU" he trips and the pots break on the floor.
"SEYMOUR, LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO THE INVENTORY!" Screams and angered Mushnick.
"Don't yell at Seymour" Aubrey says in his quiet yell "Here, I'll help you pick it up before any customers get here" He says grabbing a little broom and dustpan.
"Well that should give you plenty of time" Mushnick says sarcastically
"I always mess up somehow" Says Seymour in a sad tone
"Don't be so hard on yourself Seymour, it's alright" Aubrey responds
"Thanks...Hey, are you wearing eye makeup? It looks nice" Says Seymour genuinely.
"Y-yeah...eye makeup, right, that's what it is"
They finish and wait for customers to arrive, like every day. And like every day, nobody comes. After a few hours of sitting around, Mr Mushnick breaks the silence.
"That's it, don't bother coming in tomorrow!"
"But Mr.Mushnick you can't mean" Starts Aubrey
"I do mean it" Says Mushnick interrupting him "I'm done with this customer and god forsaken shop"
"Forgive me for saying this, but I think maybe the firm could use a new image" Starts Seymour
"Seymour, go get that...strange, and interesting plant you got last week to show Mr Mushnick" Continues Aubrey.
Seymour goes back downstairs and grabs the wilted plant.
"It's a completely new variety of plant, it looks like some kind of flytrap, but I haven't been able to identify it in any of my books. I call it an 'Aubrey two.'
"After me?" Says Aubrey, surprised.
"Yeah...I hope you don't mind" Says Seymour.
"How sweet, but you don't really think that putting some strange plant in the window is going to get us more customers, do you?" Says Mushnick
As if on cue, the door opens and the entry bell sounds, and a fox man walks in
"Excuse me, but I couldn't help but notice that strange and interesting plant, wherever did you get it?"
"Well" Seymour begins "Remember last week, when there was that total eclipse of the sun? Well every week I go to this old Chinese man, who knows about my obsession with strange plants, and sells any of them to me he has. There wasn't anything special this week, so I left. As I was leaving there was this total eclipse of the sun. I heard a humming noise, and when I turned around, there was this little guy, nestled in with the zinnias."
"My, that is one interesting story, and one interesting plant!" He turns to leave, but turns around at the door "You know, while I'm here, I might as well buy $50 worth of roses"
"$50?!" Mushnick yells, nearly choking on air.
"Do you have change for a 100?"
"Ummmm, no" responds Mushnick
"Well then I guess I'll have to buy twice as many!"
"Twice as many?!" The 3 workers exclaim
Aubrey quickly runs over to the refrigerated cabinet where the flowers are kept and gets a few dozen roses and quickly puts them together in an arrangement and hands it to the man.
"Thank you" The fox exits "That is one interesting plant"
The rest of the day goes by like this, people come in asking about the plan, and leave with 10's of dollars worth of roses.
"Boys, we're going to celebrate our success by going out to a nice dinner" Exclaims and ecstatic Mushnick
"I-I can't." Begins Aubrey "I have...a date"
"With that same no goodnick?" Asks Mushnick "I'm telling you Aubrey, you don't need a date with him you need major medical"
"He's a rebel, but he makes good money...and he's the only guy I got" Says Aubrey "Enjoy dinner"
"Goodnight!" Seymour calls after her. He turns to Mushnick "Are we still going to dinner?"
"You're not going anywhere. You're staying here and taking care of that plant"
"But I told you, the Aubrey 2 is not a healthy boy."
"Keep this between us, but neither is the Aubrey 1" Says Mushnick. "Now nurse that plant back to health. Just look what it's done for business. Goodnight" He says before walking out the door.
Seymour takes the plant downstairs and sets it on the table. He begins to clean up, but as he moves a bouquet of roses, he pricks his finger on a thorn and begins to bleed. From the table behind him he hears a kissing-esque noise. He turns to see the Aubrey 2 looking in his direction and opening and closing his mouth. He moves his paw towards it and the plant moves towards it more.
"You eat blood? Well...I'll give you a few drops, if that'll appease. Now please, grow for me!"
The Aubrey 2 stays the same. Seymour gets frustrated and leaves. As he leaves however, the plant grows to twice it's size.
And so it begins...
~~~End of part 1~~~
Comment and Rate and stuff.
As I said, I've been obsessed wit hthis for a bit. Also hunger games, and I might do a hunger games esque story as well.