Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen



The production crew had taken a full ten days of rest.

It wasn't until everyone had finally shaken off their various ailments that the filming could actually commence.

The biggest challenges with shooting on location were always the unpredictable weather and the logistical nightmare of setting up the props.All content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.

The first day of shooting started off without a hitch, but by the afternoon, the skies opened up, drenching the shooting scene in a torrential downpour!

Every crew member scrambled to protect the equipment. Eileen was no exception. She clambered up a tree to disassemble the boom mounted

camera.

But just as she was unscrewing the bolts, a scream rang out from below.

"Help!"

Looking down, Eileen saw one of the supporting actresses hopping around near the bushes, yelling, "Snake! There's a snake!"

The mere mention of a snake sent everyone into a frenzy. Carrol was beside himself with fear, shouting from a safe distance, "Eileen! A snake! Help!!!"

Eileen just frowned to herself. Snakes don't usually go around biting people for no reason.

Balancing on a branch with one foot, Eileen swiftly removed the boom camera like a seasoned acrobat. She then leaped down from the ten-meter- high branch, handed off the camera to a nearby staffer, wiped the rain from her face, and asked, "Where?"

The actress was still hopping madly. "Over there, over there!"

Carrol echoed, "Over there, over there!"

His fear of snakes was evident as his usually neat bun had come undone, his hair whirling about like helicopter blades.

Paulina, shielded by the group, called out from a distance, "Eileen, don't go there! What if it's venomous?"

She then turned to Carrol, "With all these men around, why are you calling on Eileen?"

Carrol retorted, "What can I do? She's the one with the muscles!"

Another crew member screamed, "There's another snake! No, wait, it's the same one! It's come over here!"

Eileen looked in the direction of the commotion.

"Ah! It's by me now!" another actor shouted. "We're done for! One snake has us thirty people surrounded!"

The incessant chattering was giving Eileen a headache, like a swarm of mosquitoes buzzing in her ears, and the downpour only added to the sensory chaos.

Jarvis approached, umbrella in hand, shielding her from the rain. "Don't be a hero," he said sternly. "If you get bit and poisoned, you won't make it to a hospital in time."

Eileen shook her head, not responding, her gaze fixed intently on the surrounding bushes.

"Over here! No, here!"

"Damn it, is it really just one snake? How is it so fast? Are they twins or something?"

"Is it circling us, picking out its dinner?"

"Ah, don't eat me! I don't taste good! Eat them first!"

The noise was relentless, buzzing in Eileen's head.

"Quiet!!" Eileen finally lost her patience and bellowed.

Suddenly, the world went silent except for the sound of the pouring rain and the wind, filling the air with the sticky scent of wet earth.

Eileen steeled herself, and in a split second, her figure darted forward.

Jarvis barely registered what happened before Eileen was standing up in front of the bushes.

Wiping her face, she held a medium-sized snake firmly in her grasp.

"Hiss!" The snake fought back, flicking its tongue and readying to strike.

With one hand pinning its vital spot and the other delivering a sharp slap to its head, the snake was left dazed.

The crew was stunned.

Eileen, now holding a rattlesnake, stood in the rain, soaked to the bone, her expression stoic.

"Find a cage," she ordered.

The crew just stared at her, motionless.

Eileen narrowed her eyes, raising her voice, "I said, get me a cage."

Paulina, after a moment of hesitation, raised her hand and asked, "Can we move now? Can we speak?"

Finally, a crew member stumbled

forward with a rabbit cage. Eileen

threw the snake into the cage and said, "This one's a good size. We'll

ha Over to the local authorities

later."

Paulina, with a mischievous glint in her eye, suggested, "Why not just eat it?"

Eileen glared at her. "I'm a soldier. I'd like to protect the wild animals."

Paulina shrank back, not daring to protest further.

The rain showed no signs of stopping, and Carrol ushered everyone to protect the gear and head back to the inn.

But as soon as everyone had settled back in, the rain stopped.

Typical.

The crew was silent, processing the capricious weather.

Nheless, with the unstable conditions, Carrol didn't dare send everyone back out, opting instead for rest and recovery.

During the equipment check, despite their best efforts, three cameras were found waterlogged and inoperable.

The camera crew was distraught, "We hardly had enough cameras to begin with."

Carrol was even more upset, "Each of those is worth a fortune! Pricier than Eileen!"

Eileen, now in her pajamas, casually picked up one of the damaged cameras from the table. After inspecting it briefly, she asked the camera man for a screwdriver.

He handed it over, puzzled. "Ms. Lopez, you know how to fix these?"

As she disassembled the camera, Eileen nonchalantly replied, "I know a bit."

She carefully dried out the waterlogged components with a hairdryer and checked the electronics with a tester.

While she was meticulously working on the internals, the crowd around her thickened, casting a shadow over her work. Eileen frowned and looked up.

In an instant, the crowd dispersed, giving her the space she needed to work her magic.

Eileen's expression remained neutral as she quietly stated, "You're blocking my light."

Carrol hastily stepped in to maintain order, shooing the onlookers away. "What's there to gawk at? Scram, all of you!" After clearing out the crowd, Carrol turned back to Eileen with earnest politeness. "Please, go on, you were doing great." Eileen smacked her lips and bent her head down again to focus on the mechanical parts.

She managed to fix the first machine swiftly by replacing just two components.

The second machine was an even easier fix; it simply needed a new battery.

The third machine required four new parts, two of which had to be shipped from back home, so that one had to be put on hold.

Yet in the space of a mere half-hour, Eileen had saved the production crew a whopping four million dollars in damages!

Carrol gripped Eileen's hand tightly,

his eyes brimming with tears of

gratitude. "Thank you, thank you so much, Ms. Lopez, for your outstanding contribution to the

team."

Eileen smiled and shook his hand in

return, then said, "The repair charges are two hundred thousand. The snake-catching earlier falls under the security details, I believe? That's a side job for me - ten thousand per incident. Altogether, that's two hundred and ten thousand. How

would you like to pay? Cash, PayPal, credit card, or bank transfer?"