01x09 - The Crystal Calls

[bunniefuu]

[Deet groaning]

[Rian] Hello there.

[exhaling]

- [Deet] Rian.
- Deet...

- [Maudra Argot] Is she awake?
- [Bobb'n] Deet wake.

- [Lath’n] Yes.
- [Bobb'n] Wake!

Where...

Where am I?

Topside once again.

How did I get here?

I... I remember the tree,

- and then...
- [Rian] You started glowing.

You healed the Nurlocs and then...

And then you fainted.

Rian carried you to safety.

- [Rian sighs]
- He must be very strong. [laughing]

And the Arathim?

The other Grottans?

All safe.

Thanks to you.

Hm...

How are you feeling, Deet?

I'm fine. Thank you.

- [sighs]
- "Fine," she says.

Fine, perhaps she is.

But also...

changed.

[gasping]

The Dual Glaive.

It's still in the caves.
We have to go back...

The Dual Glaive?
Is that what you're looking for?

Why didn't you say so? [grunting]

- [Deet] Uh...
- [clanging]

[Maudra Argot groaning]
Just have to break off the wood...

Been using it as a walking stick,

keeping it hidden! [grunts]

[thuds]

Ah!

Here you are!

You had the Dual Glaive the whole time?

Well, I didn't know
you were looking for it, did I?

Careful with this. It's older than I am

and twice as sharp. [chuckling]

[shrieking]

- [metal clanging]
- [Brea] Wait, no! No!

Don't do this! Stop, Tavra!

- This isn't you, Tavra. Stop!
- [latches clicking]

[panting] Tavra, please let me go.

Tavra.

I am the Ascendancy.

Tavra! Tavra, no, don't... No.

[muffled yelling]

- [grunting]
- [panting]

Exemplary!

- These three are particularly feisty.
- [whimpering]

[metal rattling]

We must hope they have the strength...

[grumbling]

...to bring skekMal back
from the precipice of death!

If not,

we will drain every last Gelfling
across Thra until the Hunter is restored.

- [General] Yes, Emperor.
- [sighs]

- [lever clicks]
- [chains rattling]

[rumbling]

[Scientist grunting]
I am almost ready, sire.

Oh, oh, oh! What if the Hunter dies?

Then I will accept the somber task

of honoring skekMal's treasures
with a proper display.

You mean those disgusting trophies?

Anything can be made beautiful. [cackling]

We should call the rest of the Skeksis
back to the castle.

They must know what has happened!

SkekSa and skekNa
will be useful in a fight.

And skekUng is a strong warrior.

And what of skekLi?

Hmm! More Skeksis just mean more,
louder squabbling, yes?

- Quiet, Chamberlain!
- [Skeksis hissing]

This is all your fault!

Hmm.

Enough dawdling about! Get to it already!

Squeeze these Gelfling, Scientist.

[Brea and Seladon whimpering]

- [lever clicks]
- [machine powering up]

[electricity buzzing]

[Scientist]
The machine is primed, Emperor.

I await your command.

Very well, Scientist. Let's begin. Ha!

Stop right there!

Pusillanimous parasites!

- [machine powering down]
- [whimpering]

Seize her!

[Gruenak grunting]

Touch me

and Thra will swallow you where you stand.

I seem to recall
banishing you from my castle.

Bah! I've come to pay my respects
to the Hunter.

[solemn music playing]

SkekMal was always the most beautiful
of you shriveled lot.

[sniffing]

Hm. But now, reeks of death.

Blasphemy! We cannot die.

You can, and this one will
any moment now...

yes, without Aughra's help.

We do not require your assistance.

We have our own ways
of healing the Hunter.

- [scoffing] Yes, I know. Essence, essence.
- [Emperor] Eh.

But Gelfling essence
cannot restore the Hunter.

What you need is essence of Thra itself.

- And who is Thra? Huh?
- [growling]

You are Thra.

Correct. Only the essence of Aughra
can save your fallen Hunter now.

[muffled whimpering] Don't trust them!

I offer a trade.

- Hm?
- My life for the lives of these Gelfling

and the ones locked in your foul cages.

[General] It's a trick.

Strap her to the chair.
We will take her essence!

- [grunting]
- [Brea whimpering]

All this time,

protecting the Crystal,

yet you remain ignorant
of its true nature.

The Crystal cannot take my essence.

I must give it...

- willingly!
- [Brea] No!

You would give up your own life
for a few of these worthless Gelfling?

- [scoffing]
- [Brea straining]

Dimwits.

We are all Thra.

- All except you.
- [hissing]

You do not return to Thra when you perish.

What happens to you
when your part of the song is done, hm?

Never figured that out, did you?

Tried, but failed.

Maybe nothing is all that waits for you.

So... make your choice.

Do we have a deal,

or will you sentence one of your own
to endless oblivion?

Hm?

- Hm...
- Hm.

Oh, well.

Aughra tried.

- Stop!
- Hm?

- Hm?
- I agree...

to your terms.

- Very good.
- [growling]

Release these three!

[chains rattle]

[squawking] Gruenaks!

- [panting]
- Yes... yes.

- [metal clicking]
- [whimpering]

[panting] Get these chains off me!

Mother Aughra, please! Don't do this!

I beg you. We're... we're not worth it.

Yes... you are.

Free the rest of the Gelfling
and escort them all

- safely from the castle.
- As you command.

And you make sure every single one
of them dies before they get there.

[General] Of course, Emperor.

[Brea panting]

[Mother Aughra] Princess Tavra...

[sighing]

[Tavra clicking]

- [exhaling]
- [scurrying]

- [gasping]
- [scurrying]

[prisoner 1 exhaling] What's happening?
What are we doing here?

- [prisoner 2] Open up!
- [prisoner 3] Where am I?

- Free your fellow Gelfling.
- [Maudra Fara] Yes.

[prisoner 3] Open up!

- Maudra! Huh? What are you...
- [Maudra Fara pants] Quickly, now.

[cage door screeching]

Go, Brea.

- [panting]
- You have much to do.

I can't! I...

- Go.
- Please...

- Go.
- I... uh...

[Brea panting]

Prepare the lab!

- [sighing]
- [Scientist cackling]

- [Seladon] Oh, Brea.
- [panting] Seladon.

I'm sorry about the gag, sisters,
but I had to make it look believable.

[both] Tavra?

Is that really you?

It's us.

- [Seladon sighs]
- But how?

Rian and Deet took a truce
with the Ascendancy.

Aughra ordered us to get you to safety.

[sighing] It's good to have you back.

How do I know it's you

and not that disgusting thing?

You should hear what it says about you.

- [gasping]
- [chuckling]

Wait, was that a joke?

I am the fun one.

- Tavra! It is you! It is you!
- [all laughing]

- [Seladon sighs]
- Yes. Now...

let's get out of this place. All of us.

Come on, Brea.

This way. Follow me.

[Brea] The catacombs.

What's down there?

Freedom.

- [roaring]
- Here comes the General!

[shuddering]

- [metal rattling]
- What news?

- [Ritual-Master] How fares the Hunter?
- Did the essence work?

The Hunter is alive.

[all cheering]

The Scientist is draining Aughra
of her essence even as we speak.

Mother Aughra.

- [Skeksis grumbling]
- SkekLach, come with me.

The Emperor has tasked us
with an important errand.

Why me?

Don't worry. This will be fun! [chortling]

Oh, I doubt that.

[Ritual-Master] The essence
of Mother Aughra would be powerful indeed.

Hmm.

- [Maudra Fara panting]
- [overlapping chatter]

Be strong.
We'll be out of this place soon enough.

- Thank you, Maudra.
- Quickly now. Come on.

That's it. Keep moving.

[Gelfling panting]

If the Arathim and the Gelfling
have formed an alliance,

then why is that creature
still on your face?

We've been merged too long.
Our minds have become one.

We are no longer sure where
one of us begins and the other ends.

That's horrible.

[Ascendancy and Tavra] Not at all.

The Arathim aren't monsters.

They want the same thing.

Justice.

- [General] Leaving so soon?
- [gasping]

- Oh, no.
- [Gelfling] Skeksis!

[growling]

You were right.

This will be fun! [cackling]

Aughra made a deal.

- Out of our way!
- The deal has changed!

[yelling]

- [metal clanging]]
- [General] What?

Indeed it has, General.

What is this?
The Arathim swore loyalty to the Skeksis.

- We gave you the Caves of Grot!
- A poison fly...

...is no gift!

- [grunting]
- [metal whooshing]

- [spurting]
- [yelping]

The Gelfling must pay!

Arathim, rise!

[hissing]

[Spitters scurrying]

Nasty Spitter.

[exclaims]

- [spitting]
- [groaning]

[yelling] It got me!

This way! Run!

- [Collector] It burns! Ow, ow!
- [overlapping chatter]

[groaning]

[Collector wailing] It burns!

[Brea] Tavra!

I can't see!

- We can't leave without Tavra.
- I'm with you.

- Let's go.
- Ow! It's in my eyes!

[wailing]

Come on, Brea!

[Collector] Ow, my eyes!

[grunting]

[wheezing]

[groaning]

[panting]

[shuddering]

[General] No.

No, I beg of you. Wait.

We have waited long enough
for this moment.

This is for the Arathim.

For the All-Maudra!

- [groaning]
- [sword whooshing]

Leave... friend...

- alone!
- [sword whooshing]

- [thuds]
- [metal clanking]

[groaning]

Greetings, General.

Not you. Not now!

Do you not trust me?

I saved General's life.

So... so that you

can be the one
to deliver the k*lling blow?

No.

Skeksis squabble, yes.

But are not enemy.

- [grunting]
- [sword clanging]

- Gelfling are enemy!
- [whimpering]

Ha! Hm...

[Chamberlain] Here. I have a gift for you.

What? What is that?

Essence. All that remains,

but enough to heal General.

- [panting]
- I saved for myself,

but now...

for friend.

Hmm?

[grunting]

[gulping]

It's working.

[grunting]

- It's working!
- Ah!

I feel strong!

[laughing] I misjudged you, Chamberlain.

- Am used to it. Now, come.
- Mm! Yes!

- Busy. Busy!
- [General] Yes.

- Much to do.
- Much to do!

Have plan that General will like, yes?

Hmm...

[Brea panting] Do you see her? Tavra!

Where is she?

[gasping] Tavra!

[Brea] Oh! Sister! Sister!

- We're here.
- Help... us...

Here...

- Give me your arm.
- Yes, yes. Can you stand?

- [grunting]
- [Seladon] Careful. Careful.

- Oh!
- [Seladon] Good.

- We've got you now.
- [Brea grunting]

[panting] That's it. Hold on.

[snoring]

Both halves

are not long for Thra.

Oh.

[sighing]

I wonder... in the next place...

will we be joined once again?

[urGoh] Hm.

Or rend further...

asunder.

- [Heretic sighing]
- Huh.

[latches clicking]

- [metal rattling]
- [grunting]

- Are you proud?
- Huh?

To build a machine
that will be the death of Aughra?

Not as proud as Mother Aughra
throwing her life away

in a desperate bid for redemption.

Hm, it did not have to end this way
between us.

We were friends once.

[grumbling]

Another world.

Another time.

[sighing]

Good. That will do.

[Gruenaks muffled muttering]

[Emperor] Now we shall see
how powerful Aughra truly is.

- [electricity buzzing]
- [rumbling]

[rumbling continues]

Oo! Now, well, spinning chairs, now.

- [Emperor] Yes.
- [Scientist grunting]

- [whooshing]
- [rattling]

Isn't this fancy?

[rumbling]

[thuds]

[electricity buzzing]

- No. No, no!
- [Emperor] Yes, yes!

[Mother Aughra grunting]

[level clicking]

- [electricity charging]
- No! [grunting]

- Barely a tickle.
- [Emperor] Yes! [cackling]

[exclaims]

- [groaning]
- [Emperor] Yes!

That's it, yes!

- [Mother Aughra shuddering]
- [Emperor cackling]

[whispering] Aughra...

[Mother Aughra grunting] No!

[whooshing]

[wailing]

Huh?

[Mother Aughra grunting]

Where is it? Where is the essence
I was promised?

She does not drain! She has deceived us!

Fix this, Scientist!

- Uh...
- [Emperor] Increase the power!

[clanging]

- [Mother Aughra groaning]
- [power surging]

Ah!

I am stupefied, Emperor.

- She withers away, but does not give.
- [Emperor] Bah!

Infernal hag!

- [panting]
- [Emperor] Agh!

Liar!

Cheat!

I gave you your Gelfling,
now where is my essence?

You... are doomed.

You and all your kind.

Parasites, thieves.

In the end...

you are nothing...

but... dust!

I... will never...

be... dust!

[screaming]

- [electricity surging]
- [Emperor grunting]

[Mother Aughra screaming]

Emperor, behold!

Essence!

[Mother Aughra groaning]

[groaning]

[gasping]

- [groaning]
- [Heretic and urGoh gasping]

Oh!

[cackling]

[Emperor chuckling] Yes!

There it is! I knew it.

Yes!

[electricity pulsating]

[screaming]

- [groaning]
- [all gasping]

- [Scientist] It's too much!
- [screaming]

Shut it down! Shut it down!

- [powering down]
- [Hunter screaming]

- [Emperor] What?
- [Archer exhaling]

[Heretic wailing]

[Emperor] Well, did it work?

- [rumbling]
- Hunter groaning]

Did it, huh?

[panting]

- [groaning]
- [Hup] Archer?

[sighing]

Hm.

The Hunter...

is gone.

[gasping]

- [metal thud]
- [wheezing]

- Dead?
- [wheezing]

No!

No! No!

[yelling] No!

- We can not die!
- [Scientist whimpering]

[glass shattering]

Agh! [wheezing]

[whimpering]

[hacking]

I... cannot die.

[wheezing]

[birds squawking]

- [Brea panting]
- Don't look back. Quickly now.

Maudra Fara, our sister is hurt.

[Brea] Maurdra Fara.

[Maudra Fara] No. We can't stop now.

Can we at least slow down?

Halt.

Someone's coming. Stand ready.

[Stonewood warrior]
What is it? Another Spitter?

[overlapping murmuring]

- [Stonewood warrior] No!
- [yelping]

Kylan!

- You scared us.
- Scared you?

- I practically died of fright.
- What are you doing here?

I've just come from Sami Thicket.

I tried to rally the Spritons
to our cause, but... they wouldn't listen.

It's not your fault.

Maudra Mira loves the Skeksis
almost as much as she fears them.

[yelping]

- [Seladon] Tavra.
- [whimpering] I... I can't go on.

Hold on. You need to sit down.

There's no time.
We must press on to Stone-in-the-Wood.

[gasping]

Maudra Fara,

Gelfling have always been strongest
when we've stood together.

Not apart.

Very well.

We camp here tonight.

[Brea exhaling]

[Brea] Come on. We've got you.

Easy, good.

You can rest now, right over here.

- [Seladon] Good. That's it.
- [Brea] We've got you, Tavra.

That's right, sister.

- [Seladon] Everything's going...
- Good.

...to be alright now, Tavra.

Sit.

[Maudra Argot]
I know you must take the Dual Glaive,

but it did make a fine cane.

Oh, I'll miss that cane.

What now?
What do we do with the Dual Glaive?

Find the other half
to unlock it's true power!

Well, where's the rest?

Stone-in-the-Wood, I imagine,
where I left it 30 trine past.

This was in the Arathim Wars.

I was tasked with delivering it
to the Stonewood Maudra

in their time of need.

Ah, the Battle of Stone-in-the-Wood.

I remember the stories.

Oh. Nasty business.

[Maudra Argot]
Unfortunately, I arrived too late.

The Maudra had already fallen.

[sighing] All seemed lost...

until a young soldier named Ordon...

- Hm?
- took up the Dual Glaive.

My father?

See for yourself.

[Maudra Argot]
The sword possesses strange powers.

After he won the battle,
Ordon split it in two.

Half he hid,
the other half he entrusted to me.

[whooshing]

[panting]

My father wielded this blade.

He never gave up. Not ever.

And neither will we.

We need to get to Stone-in-the-Wood.

- Fast.
- [Maudra Argot] Fast?

Oh, I may be able to help.

[Maudra Argot purring]

- [continues purring]
- [galloping]

- [Landstriders bellowing]
- [Lath'n] Oh!

[Bobb'n] Look! Pretty!

[Maudra Argot laughing]

[Rian] A Landstrider!

You can call them?

[laughs] I still remember a trick or two
from my trine overground.

[bellowing]

[chuckling]

I think he's offering us a ride.

Whoa! Whoa.

Ready?

[exhaling]
I've never ridden a Landstrider before.

Huh, I have a feeling you'll like it.

Watch your step.

Here.

- [chuckling]
- [grunting]

- [grunting]
- [Landstrider bellowing]

Hold on.

- Yah!
- [Mitijan] Fare well, Deet!

[Rian] To Stone-in-the-Wood!

[Rian] Yah! Hi-yah!

[Rian and Deet laughing]

[Deet] Whoo!

[Brea] She looks worse.

[Seladon] She's strong.

She'll make it.

[Seladon] Here. Lay down, sister.

I've got you, Tavra.

- It should have been me.
- [gasps]

Seladon, no.

Aughra told me
I was making a terrible mistake.

But, no, I wouldn't listen.

This is my price to pay,

not hers.

[voice trembling] I'm so sorry.

- For everything.
- [Brea exhaling]

- [sighing]
- Tavra? Tavra?

[Brea sighs]

We're here. You're not alone.

[softly] We were never alone.

Even death...

cannot break the bonds of sisterhood.

Don't talk, just rest.

We wish...

you could see each other...

the way I do.

You're so...

beautiful.

[breathing heavily]

[sighs]

[gasping]

- Tavra!
- [Seladon shuddering]

[sobbing]

[weeping]

[softly] Our sister is gone.

[Brea] We will return her to Thra.

Together.

[both crying]

- I love you.
- I love you, Seladon.

[sobbing]

[squeaking]

[screeching]

[gasping]

[Brea exhaling]

[growling]

You summoned me, Emperor?

[clearing throat]

SkekMal...

is dead.

[Ritual-Master] Oh...

Preparations must be made...

for the body.

Huh? But there is no rite,

no ceremony for such a thing.

No Skeksis has died in a thousand trine.

Not since...

the beginning.

We were betrayed.

[General] The Arathim have turned
against us and sided with the Gelfling.

[panting]
Yeah. It's a good thing I was there

to teach those disgusting critters
a lesson.

[retching]

[groaning] More grave news.

All is not lost, Emperor.
The Chamberlain has a plan.

I thought you'd had enough
of the Chamberlain's plans, General.

- [laughing]
- SkekSil saved my life.

- Huh?
- [General] Our enemies join against us.

We must put our squabbles aside
for the good of all Skeksis.

- Hm?
- [Chamberlain grunting]

- [Chamberlain straining]
- [shuffling]

General was right.

Gelfling must be crushed.

Gelfling are plague upon Thra,
upon Skeksis.

Can be no peace while Gelfling live.

Must be w*r.

Wars require soldiers.
We have lost the Arathim.

Yes, because Skeksis have been too kind.

Give Gelfling everything, they want more.

Think loyalty can be bought
or demanded.

But not true.

Can only be built.

- [foreboding music playing]
- And so I bring friend General a plan.

[Skeksis murmuring]

Sire, imagine an army
of unstoppable soldiers,

engineered to be loyal.

Ah...

Could you build such a thing?

Ah, I relish such a challenge, Emperor.

But... one cannot make something
from nothing.

[grunting]

- [grunting]
- [Collector giggling]

[Chamberlain] Here is your something.

Arathim...

reanimated by Scientist's machines.

- Made into soulless...
- [Skeksis gasping]

fearless instruments of death.

[Skeksis laughing]

It might be possible
to surgically graft the cadavers

into a new, larger specimen.

Giant Arathim.

Mm... Very good.

[Collector chuckling]

Build my army!

Every resource shall be yours.

Yes, Emperor.

- And, Chamberlain...
- Mm?

you have earned your place again

at our table.

I live merely to serve, Emperor.

Mm...

The Hunter...

will not be buried...

- or burnt like some common carcass. No!
- [Skeksis gasping]

The Hunter will be clad
in our finest armor...

[Skeksis exclaim]

...and placed in our throne room
so that skekMal might rule by our side...

[Skeksis murmuring in agreement]

...forever!

[all Skeksis] Forever!

- [Scientist] Hail to the Emperor!
- [General] Hail to the Emperor!

[overlapping cheering]

Yes, yes!

Good, good!

You're right.

- [Deet] I do like it!
- [Rian laughing]

- [Deet] Whoo!
- [Rian] Yah! Yah!

- [Deet] Woo-hoo!
- [Landstrider bellowing]

[overlapping Skeksis chatter]

[Collector hacking]

Careful, you fool.

- I am being careful.
- [hacking]

Ah!

Slather it on.
Yes, we'll slather it on. Ha!

Life is my paint! Death is my canvas.

[laughing] Life!

[Ritual-Master] Alright, raise him!

[gears turning]

[chains rattling]

[Ritual-Master]
Let's see him! Alright, stop!

[General] One more thing.

Make way. Make way!

- [overlapping chatter]
- [General] Make way!

- [Ritual-Master] Genius.
- [Ornamentalist] What?

[General] Let's see.

- [clicking]
- [Skeksis gasping]

- [Chamberlain] Oh, so nice!
- [Ritual-Master] A fitting tribute!

[overlapping chatter]

[Ritual-Master] Yes!

- [laughing]
- [General] Yes! Yes!

[Collector] The Hunter returns!

- [Rian] That's it. Easy!
- [Deet grunting]

[Rian] Mind your step.

[Landstrider bellowing]

- [Rian] That's it.
- [Deet panting]

[grunting]

[both panting]

[Deet] Look.

What... What happened to all the Gelfling?

[both panting]

They're all...

gone.

We'll find them.

I promise.

[Landstrider bellowing]

Thank you for bearing us upon your back,
noble Landstrider.

[bellowing]

That's it.

That's the crucible.

Is the Glaive in there?

Once a battle is done...

the warriors of Stone-in-the-Wood
place their weapons in the forge

in the hope
that we'll never need them again.

[Glaive swooshing]

Here.

Thank you.

[breathing heavily]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[Rian] I see it. There!

The other half of the Dual Glaive.

- [grunting]
- [metal clanging]

- [thudding]
- Careful!

[Deet] You'll burn yourself.

[Rian] It's not even warm.

[Rian grunting]

- [whooshing]
- [fire spitting]

[gasping]

- [ringing]
- Do you hear...

[uplifting music playing]

- [metal clinking]
- [uplifting music intensifies]

[flames roaring]

[flames roar]

[Maudra Argot laughing]

It seems like the Glaive is now one!
[laughing]

- [overlapping chatter]
- [Kylan] Look!

[flames roar]

- What's happening?
- [confused chatter]

[Gelfling male] What's happening?

- [Seladon] Careful.
- [Brea] It doesn't burn.

[Gelfling female] What does this mean?

- [both gasping]
- [flames roar]

[door slams]

[gasping]

The sky! It's on fire!

How is this possible?

[gasping] Oh...

They're uniting against us.

[shuddering]

[foreboding music playing]

- [music halts]
- [gasping]

- [laughing] What is it?
- Emperor, you must see.

- [ringing]
- [confused chatter]

What's that sound?

- [murmuring]
- [Emperor] What?

[gasping]

[General] What?

[gasping] Huh?

The Crystal calls!

To the Crystal Chamber!

[Skeksis overlapping]
To the Crystal Chamber!

[overlapping chatter]

[Collector] Could this day get any worse?

[Skeksis] Out of my way.

[twitching]

[Rian panting]

- [Brea] How is this possible?
- [Rian] Is someone there?

- [Seladon] It might be a trick.
- [Maudra Fara] Is it the Skeksis?

Brea?

[gasping]

- [Bobb'n] Papa, look.
- [Rian] Is that you?

[gasping]

Can you hear me?

Rian?

[Rian] You escaped the Hunter?
Where are you?

I'm here with Maudra Fara...

and Seladon.

[Gurjin] Well, Gurjin is here too,
in case you were wondering.

[chuckling] Gurjin!

Where are you?

[Gurjin] Me and my sister are back
with our clan at the Great Smerth.

Yes!

Every fire across Thra
carries your message, Rian.

- Every Gelfling is listening.
- [indistinct chatter]

So speak true!

[whispers] What should I say?

Whatever is in your heart.

[Gelfling murmuring in fire]

[Rian echoing] Gelfling...

[echoing]

[flames roaring]

[Rian] The Skeksis...

deceived us.

- [Chamberlain] Voices!
- [Rian] Turned clan against clan.

m*rder*d our All-Maudra.

[sighing]

Drained our loved ones.

Unleashed the Darkening upon our world.

[sighing]

[Rian] And now everyone

and everything...

is at risk.

[Skeksis growling]

[Rian] What was once unthinkable...

has become inevitable.

Rebellion.

This weapon...

- the Dual Glaive...
- [Skeksis] What?

[Rian]
was forged by two halves of a great being,

and it has been foretold
to end Skeksis power.

The Dual Glaive!
They have the Dual Glaive!

It is now...

in Gelfling hands.

[gasping]

[Rian] The Skeksis have sown distrust
amongst us for a thousand trine. Why?

Because they fear what would happen
if we were united.

- [Skeksis gasping]
- [Rian] They were right to be afraid.

Join me

at Stone-in-the-Wood.

Here...

we will make our stand.

Not as many...

but as one!

- [Gelfling cheering]
- [Rian] As one!

[whooshing]

[Skeksis shrieking]

That's enough!

- [yelling]
- [vibrating]

[whooshing]

[Emperor growling] Silence!

[gasping]

[Deet panting]

[Emperor] Your pathetic rebellion
can only end in ruin!

Then why do you tremble?

[Emperor] Disrespectful peon!
Your lives are but a speck

waiting to be swept away.

Be assured,
any Gelfling that stand with you in battle

will join you in the grave.

Bring your weapons!

Bring your Skeksis

and meet your destiny!

[yelling]

[screaming]

[Skeksis yelping]

He had the Heretic's Dual Glaive.

[Ritual-Master]
Well, how did he obtain it?

Surely even the Heretic would not...

could not...

SkekGra has betrayed us before.

Why not again?

Cowards!

[Skeksis screaming]

Let the chattel have their toy.

Let them think
they stand a chance against us.

But hear me, Lords of the Crystal,

Regents of Thra,

- all-powerful Skeksis.
- [General] Yes!

At dawn, we descend

- on their pitiful village.
- [General] Yes!

We will crush their nascent rebellion
before it takes root,

- grind these defiant Gelfling to dust...
- [grunts of agreement]

destroy the Dual Glaive,

and feast upon their essence!

[Skeksis cheering]

[cackling]

[overlapping chatter]

[wheezing]

- [Glaive chiming[
- [grunting]

But...

do you think all Gelfling heard you?

Yes.

But will they come?

[Rian sighing]

[rumbling]

[flames roaring]

[fantasy music playing]