02x13 - The Most Evil Sorcerer: Part 1

[bunniefuu]

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[Eerie wind howls]

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[Exhales contentedly]

You'll do nicely.

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All done now?

Well, let's see.

I've got, uh...

Valerian root,

- Mandrake,
- hawk's feathers,

Slugs, toads,

And everything else

- Margolin needs
- to do his sorcery.

- Well, not that he ever notices
- how hard I work.

Stop that!

- I don't
- have enough berries

- To make him a pie
- as it is.

Maybe I can help.

Ned... [Sighs]

Wait.

[Rummaging in satchel]

Invenio... Multasius...

Repletum...!

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What are you doing?

A "seeking" spell...

So I can find you

Some more of these.

[Sara sighs wearily]

Ned...

I know margolin

Didn't teach you that magic.

Have you been spying on him

At his work table again?

- How else am I
- supposed to learn?

- I'm his apprentice
- for two years,

- And he hasn't taught me
- a single spell.

You have to be patient.

- Why? I mean, why do I have to
- just keep waiting and waiting,

While he just gets meaner

Every day?

[Sighs, grumbling]

Invenio... Multasius...

Invenio...

Inv...

[Sighs]

This spell's not working.

Please, ned,

- Don't let margolin
- catch you trying magic.

With his temper...

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The forest of timeron...

[Eerie whooshing]

- I didn't realize
- we'd walked this far.

Have you ever gone in?

No.

[Sara]: I hear it's full

Of trolls...

And fire lizards...

And henja beasts.

[Menacing growl

[Echoes from inside the forest]

- I'm... Sure
- we can find

Some more s-s-supplies

- On the other side
- of the meadow.

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[Goat bleats]

[Door clatters open]

This is a lot.

Margolin should be pleased.

Should i?

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[Whoosh! Slam!]

[Sara gasps]

Should I be pleased that

- There's no food on the table,
- no fire in the hearth,

Because you two were

Running about the countryside?

- S-sir, you sent us
- to the f-field,

To get supplies.

Remember?

Oh, remember? Indeed.

But half a day?

I could dispatch a tortoise

- To work with more rapidity
- than you two.

But perhaps you weren't

Working...

Perhaps...

You went sneaking down

To the village.

I know you like

To consort

With the peasants

Down there.

Hmm? What were they saying

About me behind my back?

I-i-i wasn't at the village!

[Growls and grunts]

[Spell whooshes]

[Sara gasping and panicking]

I wager you were...

Ah! Bok-bok-bok-bok!

Clucking away like

Some gossiping little hen!

Sir, please!

- There's no reason
- to be angry with sara.

She's always obedient,

And quiet as a mouse.

Precisely.

- It's always
- the quiet ones

Who hide their deceit

So well...

But I have a little trick

To loosen a lying tongue.

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[Gasps]

Liseedium retracto... Tracte!

[Gasps and whimpers]

Now, you see, if this tongue has

Been lying to me,

It will ignite

And turn to ash.

[Sara continues whimpering]

[Poof!]

[Grumbles in concentration,

[Then growls]

[Grumbles in judgment]

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[Tongue squishes]

Ah. There's obviously

Been no betrayal here.

[Sighs resignedly]

Well, you want it back?

Mm.

Open your jaw up!

[Grunts]

Retourno... Strikeum.

[Coughing and gasping]

[Magic whooshes]

Oh!

Ned.

[Sara continues coughing]

Ned! I need

More crushed bat-wing.

Yes, sir. Okay.

You okay?

I'm sorry he's so cruel.

You're the one

I'm not happy with.

When you talk back,

It only aggravates him.

He was hurting you!

And then you made it worse!

I just wish I knew a spell

- To turn his wine
- into mule's urine.

[Grumbles, annoyed]

Sara!

Magic isn't the answer

To everything.

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Is there any sausages?

You ate the last

Of them yesterday.

Ahh.

- When was the last time
- the villagers

- Brought me up
- a side of beef

Or a... Or a good

Frying hen?

Perhaps, sir,

They're afraid

You'll hex them?

Much like that one...

Farmer, who, um...

Brought you the pig?

"Pig?"

That scrawny little runt!

It was an insult

To the art of making magic.

I mean, do they think

This is easy, this thing I do?

I mean, the conjuring

Of spells and potions,

To bend actuality

To my will?

[Whining]: "margolin!

Margolin! My well's run dry!

Can you make the water flow?"

[Grumbles]

- "Margolin,
- my daughter is barren.

"Can you give me a grandson?

"And, while you're at it,

- Chant something to get
- the crows out of my field."

No! I mean, am I supposed to

Dole out magic

To every sniveling imbecile

That walks past my door?

[Grumbling]

Oh. Hello.

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Look! The food!

It's turned

Into snakes!

W-what happened?

Did you cast a spell?

No. Only an imbecile

Would turn his own supper

Into serpents.

No. This is the meddling

Of some...

Other sorcerer.

Ned...

Gather up these serpents.

I'll use them

In a revealing spell,

See who did this to me.

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Pateri...

Revelese...

Revelare...

[Grunts]... Revelare.

Boy! Dried eel's gut.

Quickly! Come on!

Bah! That is a sleeping potion.

[Roars]: you ignoramus!

Want me to take a nap

In the middle

Of this very strenuous spell?

Now, the eel's gut.

Get the eel's gut!

Please forgive me, sir.

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Put it back...

Exactly where it belongs!

All right. Now...

Revelare...

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Magna...

Magna...

Revelare...

[Spell bubbling and hissing]

Yes...

[Bubbling continues]

Yes...

Come on now...

Show me who.

Come on now.

[Grumbles warily]

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[Whooshing as potion silences]

The letter "g."

I should have known.

Gresilda.

[Roaring in rage]:

Gresilda-a-a-a-a-!

[Wings beating, birds crying

[Over echoing roar]

Girl, get me candles.

Boy, my pages of spells.

Why, sir?

- Who is this
- "gresilda?"

Gresilda is a sorceress

I once had the misfortune

Of knowing.

Step back.

Go on, now.

[Sighs quietly]

Gresilda... [Sighs]

She always used

The most elaborate gestures

To summon her powers.

- I taught her
- better than that.

- She was
- your apprentice?

Indeed.

- Made the mistake of teaching her
- the craft of magic,

- When she was
- a better-than-adequate servant.

With time, though,

- She thought her powers
- rivaled mine

And she challenged me

To a duel of magic.

Can you imagine? Whew.

After I defeated her,

I conjured up a spell

That banished her

To the forest of timeron.

That's an awful place.

Yes, indeed.

- Spirits only know
- what she's up to,

I must be prepared.

Well, to survive

In the forest of timeron

Is a... A feat,

Isn't it, sir?

And your point is?

Well, I mean, this...

G-g-g-gresilda...

She must be more powerful...

- Even more
- than you.

[Chuckling]

Well... Well...

What I mean, is that...

- If you just taught me
- some spells, I could help you.

You could help me?

Yes.

[Margolin chuckles arrogantly]

I barely trust you

To dig up forest grubs

And maggots.

You? Make magic?

But I'm your apprentice!

[Margolin snarls]

- [Ned, choking]: you're supposed
- to teach me... [Gasping]

Magic! Please?

[Wheezing intensely]

Don't you ever question me.

Ever!

[Still wheezing]

Now... You...

[Thwap]

Get me some quail eggs

And bat droppings. Now!

[Door slams]

[Sara sobbing quietly]

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[Knocks softly]

[Shutter creaking]

[Quietly]: shh. Come on.

We're leaving.

[Whispering]: run away?

You know I can't.

Margolin would hex my father and

Sisters in the village.

- He won't get
- the chance to.

Trust me.

Please?

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[Shutters creak

[And quietly thump shut]

Shh.

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Ba-a-a-a-ah.

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Ned, please, tell me

Where we're going.

We have to find

The sorceress.

Gresilda.

- We're going to
- help her.

And betray margolin?

What has he done

To deserve our loyalty?

You want her

To teach you the craft.

Yes. I do.

- Look, if gresilda
- defeats margolin,

- He can't hurt
- your father

Or your sisters.

But, to find her...

[Ominous theme rises]

I know.

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Ned...

Please!

- We have to go
- into the forest of timeron.

[Whimpering nervously]

[♪♪]

Stay close.

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Look for footprints,

Or the smell

Of her campfire.

Or maybe gresilda

- Has some type of
- dwelling we'll see.

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[Sighs]

Infinicio...

"Infinicio... Obtineus."

Infinicio...

Obtineus...

[Wine trickles dry]

[Roars]: girl!

[♪♪]

[Mutters]: get my wine...

[Chair scrapes floor]

[Flames crackling

[As margolin's steps echo]

Sara?

Ah. Not in her bed?

[Hisses, irritated]

[Sighs]

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[Raven squawks]

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[Distant creature screeches]

It's just an owl.

I think.

Ned, we've walked

A really long way.

I'm starving.

Yeah. Me, too.

- I wish I could do
- that seeking spell

So I could find us

Something to eat.

Ned...

I need to rest.

[Wheezing]

- What if
- gresilda isn't here?

Or she doesn't

Want to be found?

We'll have to keep looking.

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[Ned gasps in horror]: sara!

- [Shrieks]:
- what was that?

Trolls! Run!

[Trolls hissing]

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[Troll grunting and huffing]

Sara, right here.

- We can't keep
- running, ned.

[Troll grunting and huffing]

We lost them.

I think

We lost ourselves.

[Crows cawing in distance]

[Owl hooting distantly]

[Young travelers

[Wheezing and panting]

We're going to die here.

No. No, we just need

To try and sleep.

I can't.

I'm too scared.

We just need to think

About something nice

To ease our minds.

Like what?

Come here.

[Both panting

[Wearily and nervously]

If, um...

If you could

Have one wish,

Any wish...

What would it be?

To have

A little cottage...

In the village.

A place where

No one's ever beaten,

Or their tongue removed.

And there'd be...

Wild flowers in the yard.

[Chuckles wishfully]

- And I'd put
- some on the table

When you came to...

Visit...

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[Beast growling quietly,

[But fiercely]

[Beast hisses and snorts]

[Quiet fierce growling

[Continues]

Ned?

Shh-shh-shh!

Don't move.

Is it a henja beast?

- If he charges,
- you run.

[Old woman]: discevo...

Discevo... Velocitus!

Domesticus bestia mortikai!

[Beast roars and huffs]

[Henja beast

[Retreats through brush]

- You tamed
- the henja beast!

You must be the...

The sorceress.

Yes.

I am gresilda.

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[Staff thuds]

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