Xena decides to end her life as a warrior and return to quieter ways,

and buries her sword, throwing ring and armour. Within a few minutes though, she is back to fighting when she discovers a group of village girls being tormented by a gang of thugs. She defeats the thugs single handed, and since she knows the warlord who commands them she goes to see him and requests that he leave the village alone. Xena lets slip however that she is heading home, and angry at being spurned by her, the warlord follows her and threatens her home village. Meanwhile Xena is tailed by one of the village girls (Gabrielle), who seeks excitement and adventure and thinks she may find it with Xena. After she steps in and saves Xena from being lynched by her own townsfolk, Xena in the end agrees to her coming along.

This is Renee O'Connor's first appearance as Gabrielle.

Xena finds a group of villagers building a barn being attacked by a

brutal warlord and his troops. She sees them off but is wounded by an arrow. The carpenter of the village who has three young children takes her in while she recovers. Meanwhile Gabrielle is waiting for Xena and becoming worried when she doesn't turn up.

As Xena recovers, the warlord's son calls the villagers to a meeting

to talk peace, but his fathers soldiers are waiting in the wings to

slaughter them all...

Gabrielle is kidnapped by dark forces working for the god Morpheus and has to go through a series of challenges to see if she is suitable to be his bride. Xena tries to rescue her by entering a

Dreamscape world where she comes up against a number of foes including the dark side of her own psyche. In the meantime, her body is in an unconscious state and soldiers working for Morpheus are searching for her.

Xena and Gabrielle discover a baby in a basket left floating abandoned on a river. They plan to take the baby to a nearby town, only to discover that it is being hunted for by the soldiers of the King who have orders to kill it. To make things worse, they are joined by Pandora, grand- daughter of the original Pandora who first opened the box. When her box is seized in a fight, this also becomes a priority since hope will escape if Pandora doesn't reset the time lock by midnight.

No Babies were harmed during the production of this motion picture.

A princeling pleads with Xena for help when his girlfriend (a princess) is kidnapped leading two neibouring states to the verge of war. Xena soon realises that a local arms dealer is responsible and has to return to a city from which she launched many of her battles. She is reunited with an old flame (Marcus) and is unable to decide whether to trust him. Meantime she does a deal with the arms dealer to get closer to the kidnapped princess.