[ Birds chirping ]
[ Distant screaming ]
Uh, I'm sorry, Tigtone.
Did you just scream something?
Not out loud.
[ Distant screaming ]
Ah, there it is again.
That scream sounds nothing like me.
[ Screaming continues ]
♪♪
There's yelling in that village!
Do you think something's wrong?
There'd better be.
♪♪
[ Screaming continues ]
♪♪
[ Gasps ]
Aah!
Wait! Wait! What?
Aah!
[ Both screaming ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Screaming, chomping ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Screaming continues ]
♪♪
Bartender.
Aah! What will it be? Aah! Wait!
Why aren't you screaming? Aah!
[ All gasp ]
Maybe the plague of screaming is over.
Huh.
[ Screaming ]
Aah! Why is everyone in this village and me screaming? Aah!
I was just about to ask someone else
the same thing... like you there.
Aah! Our wealthy village has been cursed by a plague!
Once you stop screaming, you die!
[ Screaming ]
But you're not screaming, and you're alive,
so perhaps you are the chosen one come to save us!
Are you a chosen one? Huh?
I usually am.
Then go see the hermit outside of town!
Ah! Remember, Tigtone!
Hermits are useful!
Hermits are useful! Ah!
Of course.
Would you like to hear this information again?
Yes or no?
No!
[ Screaming ]
Useful old hermit!
You don't have to scream here, friends.
We're well beyond reach of the plague.
Oh, good.
Oh, sorry. I thought you were closer.
[ Screaming ]
[ Stops screaming ]
Worry not, for Helpy can regenerate,
and I am immune to the plague and Tigtone!
Intriguing.
My name is Flek.
Come inside. I'll explain.
I believe the plague really has something to do with sound,
but the others all thought I was crazy.
Were they right?
Yes. [ Chuckles ]
That's why I cut out my eyes to prove them wrong.
[ Gulps ]
I've never met anyone who's experienced the plague
and lived.
Of course.
Helpy, you can tell us what it feels like.
Let's get you to the plague zone!
But -- But I already know what it feels like.
Why don't I just tell you?
There's no time for that!
[ Muffled screams ]
No screaming.
[ Chuckles ]
♪♪
Now tell us what it feels like.
It -- It doesn't feel like a plague.
It feels like something is hacking me to bits,
only I can't see it!
Then my theory is correct, but I blinded myself
so I could hear it.
Why didn't it work?
Because you made one simple mistake, Flek.
Instead of trying to see with your ears,
you should've tried to hear with your eyes!
Of course!
Back to my hovel! That's where I keep my knives!
[ Tigtone screaming ]
Flek: ♪ One little cut here, a little cut there ♪
♪ Take it out, do, do, do, do ♪
Do, do, do, do, do
♪ Eye, do, do ♪
[ Chuckles ]
[ Tigtone breathing heavily ]
♪♪
[ Distant screaming ]
Wow, it's Tigtone.
♪♪
-All right, Helpy. -[ Screaming ]
Time to lure whatever this is out of hiding.
[ Stops screaming ]
♪♪
[ Screams ]
It's some sort of sound monster
with razor-sharp appendages.
You can see me?
Hold still so I can see-liminate you.
I would never fight you.
That doesn't sound like something
a sound monster would never do.
[ Shouts ]
So why?
Because of all the delicious nourishment
you're giving me.
I feed on screams.
[ Shouts ]
I let the villagers live in this land of riches,
and they give me their screams.
[ Screams, gasps ]
Excuse me.
Now, where were we?
Oh, yes. But now that I've met you...
♪♪
I propose a bargain --
you sacrifice yourself in place of the villagers.
But I'm not even screaming!
But you are all the time, and your screams
are the rarest treasure of all
because they come from the inside.
Mm.
[ Shouts ]
Whoa!
So what do you say?
You stay with me,
and I leave the villagers in peace.
Wait.
If it's inner screaming you're after...
Feast your ears on this!
Screaming citizens, gather round
and be cured of your so-called plague.
Aah! It's the chosen one!
All: Hurrah!
You are rich beyond your wildest dreams!
Yes, we are very wealthy! Aah!
But do these jewels make you happy?
Yes!
No, they don't!
Your lives are but a pebble dropped into the ocean of time.
Like tiny ripples against eternity,
all memory of you will fade.
[ All screaming ]
Lament that you will leave behind nothing of worth
and that one day even your bones will turn to dust.
No, he's right! Nothing matters!
Yes, that's right!
Let your screams out,
but now push them down,
way down inside you where they belong!
[ Screaming ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Whimpering ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Gasping ]
[ Screaming stops ]
♪♪
I thank you for all this delicious
inner screaming, Tigtone.
Feast in peace, sound monster.
♪♪
Thank you, Tigtone.
Now I shall restore your face to normal.
You mean this is reversible?
I'll get my knives.
[ Tigtone screaming ]
[ Flek singing indistinctly ]
Mm, mm, mm.
♪♪
Oh, yeah...
[ Both grunting ]
♪♪
[ Breathing heavily ]
♪♪
Tigtone: How do I look, Helpy?
Whoa.
It's Tigtone!