Chapter 235: Wizards of Waverly Place (2)

Chapter 235: Chapter 235: Wizards of Waverly Place (2)

[Edward POV]

Since one episode of Wizards of Waverly Place has around a 20 minute run. It took only a few hours to finish recording the episode as they were shot on a ready made set of Waverly Place.

The fictional place was set in the city of New York. Not only that, the Russo's family restaurant has a subway theme where they have a prop train inside their building.

After we finished shooting the 3 monsters episode, I turned to Selena and asked her in confusion, "Shouldn't this be recorded in front of a live studio audience? What's with all of the fake laugh tracks?"

"Oh, I thought as much but it turns out they use ready-made tracks to help us in getting the dialogue timing right and play the thing in front of an audience later to get the true reactions."

"Really? I don't think anyone ever did that." I said as I turned towards the director with a suspicious expression. It might be that the director had misinformed Selena about the thing, but still, I guess I don't have any problems with it being like that since it's a kids show even if it had a big audience tuning in.

"You seem like you're thinking of something rude." Selena narrowed her eyes on me.

"I am. You knowing that made me wonder if you really have some magical wizard powers." I teased with a serious face.

She was taken aback and said, "Maybe I do. Avada Kedavra!" She said while pointing her wand at me.

"*tch* You're still alive." She clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction. I raised one of my eyebrows and said, "The second you thought you had magic, you tried to kill me off?"

"Well you should be grateful that I don't have magic!" She laughed carelessly. "I'll keep doing that until you tell me, why you are here."

"I told you I'm here to be a guest star." I said with exhaustion.

Selena had been badgering me to spill the beans, and she definitely didn't believe what I was saying.

"No you're not. There's no way you're coming here for just that."

I scoffed in disbelief, and the director called the both of us. Selena felt that I had an ulterior motive in coming here, and she couldn't calm herself down until she knew what it was.

"Tell me. Did you come here to make Taylor jealous? Cause I don't want to become a part of your weird toxic couple games." She warned me.

Her words were caught by her parents cast in the show. Suddenly, the older David said teasingly, "Wait. You still don't know?"

"Even I already know." Jake said with a grin.

"What?! What is it!? It's not my birthday? It's not even your birthday?!" She turned towards me and asked with exasperation, "So why?"

The director chuckled and said, "Remember the day you wanted a day off to go to the carnival, but the producer said you couldn't although they gave you permission later. Well, that's all thanks to him."

"I know that!" Selena replied with annoyance.

"Then, you should know that the reason you could do that is because Edward agreed to become a guest star in the show." The director explained as he couldn't take the drama any longer.

Selena's eyes turned touched and she looked at me with disbelief. She asked with an affectionate tone, "You did that for me?"

I quickly rub her face with my palm to annoy her while shuddering, "Don't look at me like that. That seriously gave me goosebumps."

After some briefing, I sat on an empty seat next to the side of the set while the cast members– the characters Justin, Juliet, Alex and Harper started off the episode while I was standing by at another set– the underground train station.

-Scene Starts-

In the wizard's lair, Justin and Juliet were freaking out, while Alex sat on the couch without a care in the world with Harper joining her, but her focus was on Justin– the one she had a crush on.

Justin holds Juliet's hand, " I know what to do. We should call the Monster Hunter department again, and make– Make them recall Jeremy Van Helsing. That way, Juliet can finally be at ease."

Juliet said, "I know the Van Helsing family. The family has been the sworn enemy of the Vampires since the middle ages. My dad talked about them on the casserole one time! And now they won't stop hunting us!"

*LOL*

Harper suddenly chimed in, " Are you even sure he's here for Juliet? Or is he just wandering around the place, buying sandwiches and playing skeeball–"

Justin interjected quickly, "Of course he's here for Juliet! She's a Vampire! And he's Van Helsing!" At the same time, he contacted the monster hunter department using his wand.

Harper added, "But Alex said that's what he had been doing after following him around."

Justin turned to Alex in surprise and asked, "Alex?"

"What? Someone needs to keep an eye on him." Alex said gleefully.

*LOL*

"Besides, I don't think he's an expert anyway. I walked in front of him a few times, but he still hasn't come and talked to me."

The line was connected before Justin could rebuke Alex's 'brilliant' way of seducing a guy. Justin hid Juliet behind him and greeted the handler.

"Hello. Sir. I think you should recall Jeremy Van Helsing back now. The monster issue has already been settled." He said to the blank green screen.

The scene with the handler would be inserted after the shoot, but the dialogue was there. "Jeremy Van Helsing? Well, there's nothing I can do about him."

"W-Why Sir? Shouldn't he travel around the world, trying to hunt monsters and keep the peace?" Justin crossed his arms and asked nervously. Juliet nodded in agreement behind him, but Alex looked at the call with amusement.

The handler replied, "The Van Helsing family has more experience in monster hunting than our entire monster hunter department. Hell, we only started this department a decade ago."

"The family has been doing this for centuries. They aren't really working together with us, so I can't do anything about recalling him. But don't worry about it. He'll be gone soon enough if he doesn't find anything amiss. The only way you would need to be worried, would be if something crazy happened, something extremely dumb and silly like say... I dunno if your girlfriend was a vampire! HAHAHA!" He made a joke without even knowing how close it was to the truth before he turned off the call.

*LOL*

Justin whimpered nervously before he turned to Juliet. "We need to make sure he doesn't find you, or your parents."

Juliet however took Justin's arm sadly and said, "My parents have already gone into hiding. I'll need to follow them. However since the Van Helsing family is already onto us, we may need to get away from here...forever."

"NO! There must be another way!" Alex chimed in with desperation as she stood up.

Justin looked at Alex with dissatisfaction before he whined, "H-Hey that's my line! Alright. I have a plan to keep Juliet here!"

"What is it?" Alex asked hurriedly.

"Jeremy Van Helsing will be gone if he doesn't find anything wrong in this place, right? So, we'll make it that way. First, we'll need someone to keep an eye on him at all times! We'll call the operation, Stepping on a gum Now, we just need to find someone to be the gum"

"I call it!" Alex volunteered for the first time ever, which made Harper proud, "Aww. Alex. I've been dreaming to see you becoming more proactive with your life."

*LOL*

"Well if life was all about cute boys, then I would be the most activ-est girl ever." Alex joked. "We still need to know where he is right now." She said as she turned to Justin.

"I know a spell that will help." Justin said before snatching a framed photo from the shelves. "Please please tell me now, if there's something I should know? Duranium Duranius!"

*LOL*

"Ah! Right. Our restaurant is closed for today. Let's walk around. I'm sure we can find another place to eat nearby." Alex said before she pulled Jeremy's arm.

"The gum is on the foot. I repeat. The gum is on the foot!" Justin announced excitedly before he shuddered at the empty subway station. Fearfully, he said, "Guys...Wait for me!" before rushing to follow Alex and Jeremy out of there.

*LOL*

-Scene ends-

"Cut. That's great Ed!" The director said. "I thought we had to shoot that multiple times to get it right, but you guys did it in one take. Especially Selena. You really captured the gaze of a young lady who's enchanted when you guys locked eyes together."

"No I didn't!" Selena said defensively.

Jennifer Stone said with confusion, "Girl...He's complimenting you...just take it."

"Oh. Right. Thank you." She thanked the director, blushing at her own blunder before moving away to the side of the set to have a conversation with Jennifer.

The next part of the episode was about Max Russo, his humanoid conscience– which was another guest star, Moises Arias (the brother in the new Fallout series). Max and his parent's scene filming took a while, so I hung out with David Henrie and Bridget Mendler – Juliet.

I asked David, "The show's run time is only 20 minutes, right?"

"Usually. Yeah. Why?" He was confused.

"Can the entire storyline fit into one episode?"

David checked the script for a while before he said, "I don't think so. Usually, a long episode like this will be split into two parts. So maybe that's what's happening here?"

Bridget suddenly interjected the conversation and she asked shyly, "Edward. After this, can you sign my album?"

"Why wait? I can sign it for you right now." I replied with a polite smile.

"Huh." David suddenly exclaimed while Bridget squealed and excused herself to go get her album.

"Explain the disbelief." I asked David after we were left alone.

"That's not— Um...I feel a bit bad to tell you this..." He was hesitating, so I smoothened the deal. I wrapped my arm around his shoulder and said in a low volume, "You know, I need to cast a few actors around your age for my new series about chess."

"She said you'd flirt with anyone!" David exposed Selena immediately without even an ounce of remorse. "And she also said that you had flirted with her multiple times! But I saw that you didn't do that with Bridget, so I was thinking that she lied. That's why I let out the 'Huh'."

"That's all?" I asked.

"Selena also said you're kind off an ass, so we needed to watch out for you, but you're actually a pretty awesome guy, Mr Future Producer." David added.

I chuckled a bit and then said, "You're alright David. Give me your number. I'll text you when I'm holding the auditions. But first, you need to deal with that." I pointed at the direction behind him.

"Deal with what?" David was confused and turned slowly. He widened his eyes in shock when he saw Selena and Jennifer standing nearby, with Jennifer shaking her head in contempt, and Selena who's mouth agape from disbelief.

"I can't believe you told him that!" Selena scolded him.

"Yeah! You went too far David!" Jennifer added in to berate him.

David hurriedly stood up and tried to calm down the girls, "Wait-Wait-Wait! I only did that because– because–" He hesitated to tell them the truth as he knew that the fact would lower their opinion on him even more. Then, he turned and made a run for it.

"DAVID!" Selena yelled at him. But before the girls could follow him, I grabbed Selena's wrist and pulled her towards me. She flopped on the seat beside mine, and looked at me with anxiousness while her friend went further and further away.

"So... I am an ass huh?" I asked Selena teasingly.

"Um...The director is calling us! Let's go." Selena pretended to hear something before she stood up abruptly, but I grabbed her hand and made her take a seat again.

"You're not going anywhere until I learn more about what you have been saying behind my back."

"Umm...I'm sorry?" She batted her eyes at me to get forgiveness, but I shook my head and replied, "Don't say that yet until I get you to spit everything out."

...

My scene continued, and it was a scene of me and Selena getting some food together.

-Scene Starts-

"So, you said that you usually got ambushed. I'm sure that doesn't feel too great." Alex Russo said while eating some fries.

"I usually think of them as the local resident's greeting, so I wasn't too bothered by it. Besides, most often than not it just gives me a clear idea of what monsters are around and what I need to catch." Jeremy said sarcastically while staring at Alex. Then he said honestly, "Yeah. Sometimes I wish I could travel around and be at ease without thinking about the monsters. But, my family has too many enemies."

"Enough about me. What about you?" Jeremy asked.

"Well for starters, monsters usually view me as part of their crowd, so I fit right in and never get ambushed." Alex joked.

*LOL*

Jeremy chuckled and said, "That's something to never worry about."

"I know." Alex said before both of them laughed together.

Alex suddenly leaned in and asked, "What do you actually think about monsters? I know your family is like the biggest name in the business, but I don't really feel that you have any hostility towards them...even during the fight."

"You saw right through me huh." Jeremy replied as he leaned back on his chair. "Maybe I don't want to keep fighting anymore. But I know that's never going to happen. And with me being the last wizard in my family tree, I have to keep our family's honour."

"Wait. The last wizard?" Alex asked in confusion.

Jeremy replied, "Well. My parents were gone after they went to fight with an adult dragon. My brother and sister also met the same fate when they tried to fight off the Mother of Monsters. So I'm the only one left, the last of the Van Helsing family ."

"Oh Jeremy." Alex grabbed his hand sympathetically as she tried to comfort him.

Audience: Awww!

While Alex and Jeremy were on a date, Justin watched them from the corner of the alley with Juliet. Justin exclaimed in bewilderment, "What is she doing? Trying to keep him here?"

Juliet added, "Wait. Is that Jeremy Van Helsing? Wow! He's so gorgeous!"

*LOL*

Justin glanced at Juliet, which made her taken aback, "I mean, he's so dangerous!"

*LOL*

"Oh no. The gum has gone rogue." Justin muttered as he saw Alex and Jeremy walk out of the restaurant together while holding hands.