(Rongar and Firouz knock on Alanna’s door; Alanna answers)

Firouz: Might I interest you in a demonstration?

Alanna: Of what?

Firouz: My latest invention, the relaxation tub. I promise you an invigorating experience. Right Rongar?

Alanna: Well, how long will it take?

Firouz: A moment or two…unless of course you find the sensation a pure bubbly pleasure.

(Firouz, Rongar, and Alanna go topside)

Firouz: (can’t make out what he says here) making modifications to regulate the pressure.

Doubar: (walks up to them) Hi.

Alanna: Hello.

Firouz: This is the outtake valve. This is the intake valve. You see…

(Maeve sneaks into Alanna’s cabin, while Firouz is distracting Alanna topside; Maeve checks the cupboards, where she finds Alanna’s conjuring bowl; she takes the handkerchief off it, and everything turns to night outside)

(Topside, everyone sees day turn to night)

Firouz: How odd. The sun is losing its brilliance.

Alanna: Oh, I need to lie down for a few moments.

Doubar: I hope you’re feeling well.

Firouz: Perhaps I can mix you some medicine.

Alanna: Oh, no, no. I’ll be fine.

Firouz: No, really, it’s no bother. Rongar, go get my, ah—

Alanna: No, I just need a few moments! (leaves for cabin)

Doubar: What is wrong with you two?

(Maeve is still in Alanna’s cabin)

Maeve: Black magic. I might’ve guessed.

(Alanna enters the room)

Alanna: What are you doing here?

Maeve: Finding you out.

Alanna: Yes, well, curiosity killed the cat.

Maeve: Get out of my way.

Alanna: I won’t be denied the sword.

Maeve: We’ll see about that. Now, get out of my way.

(Alanna moves, and Maeve leaves)

Alanna: Splish, splash. Time for someone to go overboard. (does magic) bicki, bicki, may the ocean swallow thee.

(Maeve goes up to Sinbad)

Maeve: Sinbad! We need to talk.

(Dermott squawks)

Maeve: We’re about to be attacked!

(A storm rises up)

Sinbad: Maeve! Maeve! Grab my hand!

(Maeve is screaming, then goes overboard)

Sinbad: No! Maeve! No!

(The storm dies down)

(Alanna is down in her cabin)

Alanna: Good. Now let’s turn sunny again. (she uses magic to make it sunny)

(The crew is looking for Maeve)

Alanna: (walks up to them) We must be close to the Isle of Bliss. My ship was struck by a similar unknown force. Only, in our case, it capsized us. I fear Maeve has also met a deadly fate.

Sinbad: We’ll find her. We won’t stop searching until we do.

(Dermott lands and chirps)

Sinbad: Have you seen her?

(Dermott chirps)

Sinbad: Then what are you doing here? Get back out there and keep looking!

Firouz: He’s exhausted. If he flies out there now, he may not come back.

Sinbad: He did try to warn her. Forgive me, Dermott.

(Dermott chirps)

(Sinbad sighs)

Alanna: (walks up to them) We must push on. Once we locate the sword, you could just wish her back. Trust me. I can get us the sword.

(Firouz looks in his magniscope and sees Maeve sitting in his relaxation tub, carelessly tossing her fireballs into the sky)

Firouz: I found her! A signal off the starboard side!

(Sinbad takes the magniscope and looks, while Dermott flies to Maeve)

Firouz: Out there. You see?

Sinbad: (smiles) Rongar! Hard to starboard!

(Rongar steers the Nomad towards Maeve)

Sinbad: Nice job.

(Dermott lands on the side of the relaxation tub and chirps)

Maeve: Oh, I’m glad to see you again, too. (laughs)

Doubar: She’s a great little witch, is she?

Alanna: Yes. Very clever. I’ll be in my quarters. (goes to cabin)

(Maeve comes aboard the Nomad)

Sinbad: Maeve, we thought you were—

Maeve: Where is she?

Doubar: She’s in her quarters.

Maeve: Are you sure about that?

Doubar: That’s where she said she was going.

Maeve: Doubar! She practices black magic! She’s lured us here to get the sword! I hate to think what she’s going to do with its powers. (goes to check the cabin)

Doubar: I’ll get her!

(Maeve stays, while Doubar goes down to her cabin)

(Doubar knocks on Alanna’s door)

Doubar: Alanna! (opens door and finds no one)

(Doubar returns topside)

Doubar: She’s not there. She’s disappeared!

Sinbad: I think we know where she is.

Doubar: Where?

Sinbad: (points) The Isle of Bliss.

(Alanna, a harpy, flies to the Isle of Bliss, and since magic cannot be done on the island, transforms back into human form; the singing of the Singing Sword can be heard)

Alanna: Deny me my magic now, but once I reach you, I’ll be all-powerful.

(Alanna begins the walk to the place where the Singing Sword is kept)

(Some young kids see an intruder, so they use a number of signals to show the others that there is someone coming)

(The Nomad crew is in the longboat)

Sinbad: Head for the cove, Doubar.

(Doubar continues to row)

Maeve: I’m going to send Dermott ahead.

(Dermott chirps and flies off)

(They pull the longboat ashore)

Sinbad: Let’s press inland, toward that sound.

Doubar: Are you sure she’s here?

Maeve: Oh, she’s here. Just like me, without the use of her powers.

Doubar: Maybe after all she’s been through, she just got desperate.

Maeve: Doubar, she’s very powerful. Which means she embraced black magic long ago. And she’s already shown given the chance she’ll kill us.

Sinbad: Come on.

(The Nomad crew is still walking)

Sinbad: It must be just across this meadow.

(Rongar stops because he hears a sound)

Sinbad: What is it, Rongar?

(Rongar runs behind a bush and out runs a young child)

Sinbad: Snag him!

(Doubar grabs him and laughs)

Sinbad: And who do we have here?

Doubar: Hey, why were you following us, boy, huh?

(The boy is still struggling)

Sinbad: Hey, are you finished yet?

Doubar: We’ve not come to harm you. I’m going to let go of you now, okay?

(Doubar lets go, and the boy stops struggling)

Sinbad: Tell us. Where are your parents?

(The boy doesn’t answer)

Maeve: Do you know where the Singing Sword is?

(The boy still doesn’t answer)

Maeve: The Singing. Can’t you hear that?

(The boy still doesn’t answer)

Firouz: No, I don’t think he can. (claps behind the boy’s head, the boy doesn’t flinch) He’s deaf.

(The boy runs from them and they run after him)

(Alanna is elsewhere on the Isle, searching for the Singing Sword)

(The Nomad crew arrives at a village)

Doubar: Where is everybody?

(They come to a storm cellar, and they open the door, and see many people)

Sinbad: Come out. We’re not gonna harm you. We promise.

(No one answers or even does anything)

Doubar: You heard him! Come on out!

Firouz: No they didn’t. They’re all deaf.

(It is getting darker as the crew walks through the village)

Doubar: You notice the singing has stopped.

Firouz: Apparently, it does so every evening.

Sinbad: Then you can understand them?

Firouz: Somewhat.

Sinbad: Can they lead us to the sword?

Firouz: They refuse to.

Sinbad: (sighs) Because—?

Firouz: The sword has brought them nothing but grief. Its singing has deafened them over the years, and placed them at the mercy of every fortune-hunter who comes after it. Strangers who trample their crops and abuse their good will bringing to this once blissful spot nothing but dread and hardship.

Maeve: The bearers of evil tidings. Like Alanna.

(Doubar leaves them)

(Alanna is trying to find the sword)

Alanna: Skaree, skaree, flames leap up to me!

(Nothing happens)

Alanna: Ugh! I’m useless without my powers.

(It is night, and the crew is getting settled in for the night)

Doubar: (walks up to Sinbad) I’ll take my watch early. I can’t sleep anyway.

Sinbad: You did the right thing.

Doubar: That being—?

Sinbad: You treated her openly, warmly.

Doubar: You mean I was acting like a lovesick fool.

Sinbad: No one who offers love is sick, or a fool, big brother. That much I know.

(Sinbad lies down and goes to sleep, while Doubar takes watch)

(Later that night, that same young boy from before comes up to Doubar)

Doubar: You again! You should be home in bed. Go on home before your parents start worrying.

(The boy makes a gesture)

Doubar: What? A snake? (laughs) I never met a snake I couldn’t handle. Now, go on home, now. Go. Go!

(The boy leaves and sees a giant snake; he screams, and Doubar comes to the rescue)

Doubar: Get back! Come on! (swings sword at the snake) Back!

(The crew wakes up)

Maeve: That sounded like Doubar!

Sinbad: Firouz! Wake up! Doubar!

(The crew goes running to where Doubar and the boy are)

Maeve: This way!

(Doubar is still trying to fight off the snake; he gets bitten)

Doubar: Are you all right?

(The crew arrives)

Sinbad: What’s the matter?

Doubar: A snake got me.

(Firouz examines Doubar’s wound)

Firouz: It might have been a non-venomous snake, but the affected wounds spread suggests otherwise.

Doubar: It’s nothing. I said I’m fine. Now, we have to get that sword before Alanna does! So, let’s go get it!

(The boy gestures)

Firouz: He wants to serve as our guide.

Doubar: No. It’s too dangerous.

(The boy gestures again)

Firouz: He knows it’s dangerous. He says he can get us there quickly.

Sinbad: He may be the only way we can beat Alanna there. (gestures to the boy) Take us!

(The boy leads them through the forest)

(Alanna is getting closer to the sword; since it is day, the singing can be heard)

Alanna: Sing! Sing the song of my wish.

(Alanna enters a cave)

Alanna: Oh, precious spectacle.

(The crew is on their way to the cave)

(Doubar stumbles at the entrance to the cave)

Sinbad: Doubar!

Doubar: I’m all right! I just stumbled.

Firouz: It’s the poison.

Doubar: No. I can make it. Trust me. (to boy) I want you to stay here. Don’t go in there. Promise.

Sinbad: Let’s go then.

(The crew goes in the cave, leaving the boy behind)

(Alanna finds the sword)

Alanna: Now, to make you mine.

(Alanna hears the voices of the Nomad crew)

Sinbad: This way!

Alanna: Ah, we have visitors. Meaning there’s no time like the present.

(Alanna tries to get the sword, but doesn’t succeed)

(The Nomad crew arrives)

Sinbad: Doubar!

(They enter)

Doubar: What’s happened?

Alanna: The water. It can’t be touched with flesh.

Firouz: Must be some sort of acid.

Maeve: Failed in your deceit, haven’t you?

Alanna: I can explain myself.

Maeve: We don’t have time.

Sinbad: Firouz! Any idea on how we can get this thing?

Firouz: If the filament that holds the sword could be severed, someone might leap across and snare the sword before it plunges into the acid.

Sinbad: Rongar, do you think you can sever it with one of your dirks?

(Rongar nods)

Sinbad: Nod when you’re ready, so I can time my run and jump.

(Rongar nods; Sinbad runs; Rongar throws a dirk; Sinbad jumps and tries to grab the sword; the dirk goes right through the rope; they have failed in getting the Singing Sword)

Doubar: The dirk went right through!

(The entrance to the cave closes on them)

Firouz: The entrance closed!

Alanna: Filament’s magic. You won’t be able to cut through it.

Doubar: By the looks of your jump, I don’t think you’re gonna make it if you have the weight of the sword.

Sinbad: If we can get that sword to drop, I can make it.

Alanna: If. And need I mention you succeeded in sealing us in here.

Maeve: We’ll be able to get out. Once the wish is released, the sword’s power to control magic will end.

Firouz: I have a thought. It stands to reason that the ring of fire is a perimetre of protection.

Sinbad: Suggesting what?

Firouz: Well, that if the filament is tied to the sword, than it must likewise be tied to something up there. If that something can be released—

Sinbad: The sword would drop!

Doubar: But how can any of us get up there?

Sinbad: Dermott can!

Maeve: Ah…maybe.

Sinbad: We have to chance it!

Maeve: Be careful Dermott. Come back to me.

(Dermott flies up through the ring of fire and to where the sword is tied on to; he tries to untie it)

Sinbad: Signal me, when he signals you.

Doubar: I’ll catch you on the other side.

Sinbad: Doubar, no! I don’t need it.

Doubar: I’m not asking you, I’m telling you! Little brother.

(Sinbad nods)

Maeve: He’s almost got it.

(Dermott finishes untying the rope)

Maeve: Now!

(Sinbad runs, jumps, catches the sword as it falls, and lands on the other side, in Doubar’s arms)

Firouz: Bravo!

(Dermott chirps as he flies back down)

(Doubar winces in pain at Sinbad’s weight)

Sinbad: Doubar!

Alanna: Bring it to me! With it, I can solve all our problems!

Sinbad: You’ve been our problem all along. Dim-Dim’s just gonna have to be patient.

Doubar: Thank you.

Sinbad: (holds sword above his head) I wish that Doubar might live.

Alanna: No, you fool!

(The sword glows and grants the wish)

Maeve: That’s right. Making the wish ended the sword’s power.

Alanna: And gave me mine. (turns into a harpy)

Maeve: Now we see you for who you really are.

Alanna: You haven’t seen anything yet! Give me the sword it still holds value!

Sinbad: Let us leave, and the sword is yours!

Alanna: No, denying me, you all die!

(She uses magic to make Doubar slide closer to the pool of acid; Sinbad tries to keep him from ending up in the acid)

Maeve: We must stop her!

Alanna: Give it! Give it to me! (laughs) Give it to me or Doubar will end up dead! Doubar will die a terrible death!

Sinbad: Look out!

(Alanna is no more)

Sinbad: How are you feeling?

Doubar: Lucky…to have all of you as crewmates.

(The crew is back in the village; Doubar is laughing while he and Rongar each have a child on their shoulders, and are wrestling)

Firouz: You know, I miss the sword’s singing.

Maeve: But I welcome its magic.

(Doubar laughs again, he and Rongar are playing with the village children; Sinbad laughs)

Sinbad: My brother. Still just a big kid at heart.

Maeve: That’s what makes him so vulnerable.

Sinbad: And lovable.

Maeve: (laughing) Aye. You’ll get no argument from me.

(Everyone laughs again)

THE END