"DARKNESS:" "I am the Lord of Darkness." "I require the solace of the shadows and the dark of the night." "Sunshine is my destroyer." "All this shall change." "Tonight the sun sets forever." "There shall never be another dawn." "Enter!" "Ah, Blix." "Come closer." "Are you not the most loathsome of my goblins?" "Truly, master." "And is your heart black and full of hate?" "Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch." "Something troubles me." "I feel a presence in the forest, a force I had mercifully almost forgotten." "Must be dread, indeed, to trouble you, Lordship." "DARKNESS:" "Looking upon these frail creatures, one would not think that they could contain such power." "One could rule the universe with it." "You must find them for me and destroy them!" "What do they look like, Lord?" "Fool!" "Let this serve to remind you." "They are each crowned with a single horn reaching straight to heaven." "I get the point, Lord." "Bring the horns to me." "Where shall I look, sire?" "There is only one lure for such disgusting goodness, one bait that never fails." "What be this bait?" "Please, you teach me." "lnnocence. innocence." "Weave us a carpet" "Spreading oak" "Make a shade where we lie" "Leaves and branches" "Whisper a love song" "When I Iook ln my true love's eyes" "Blooming fairies!" "NELL:" "Lili!" "A royal visit is always a pleasure." "Have another biscuit." "Nell," "l've no time to stay for a visit today." "Oh, you've got a sweetheart waiting?" "No." "Neither a country proverb nor king's command could keep me from the woods today." "Then it's common sense sort." "Lili, Princess Lili, I look on you as a daughter." "If you'll pardon my saying it, it's time you started behaving like the princess you are." "You should be out looking for a handsome prince on a white charger." "Not visiting poor folk like us." "But you know I love coming here." "This place holds more magic for me than any palace in the world." "You live a very rich life, Nell." "You're very sweet, Lili." "Magic is a wonderful thing." "You'll find your own magic one day." "I'm sure you will." "I have no time for this. I'm going." "Oh, and you look out for spriggen and banshee, my girl." "These woods be thick with them." "Stay clear of toadstool rings and willow trees and old oaks." "LlLl:" "Jack!" "Where are you?" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Jack?" "Jack, answer me." "Jack, please." "Please, if you're here, say something to me, please." "Jack, you scared the life out of me!" "You're so clever." "Maybe innocent, maybe sweet, ain't half as nice as rotting meat." "Good." "Very good." "Just right." "Jack, now teach me rabbit like you promised." "Rabbit?" "lt's much harder than finch." "Let me try!" "I'm a good student." "And my father says I'm brilliant." "See how brilliant I am?" "Let me dazzle you with my wisdom." "It's much more than wisdom that dazzles me, Lili." "Jack, teach me rabbit." "Not today." "Why not?" "Because" "there's something really special that I've been promising to show you." "We must go now because they'll only be here for a short while." "Don't you trust me?" "I trust you, Lili." "Look!" "Ugly one-horned mules." "Nothing is more magical." "As long as they roam the earth, evil can never harm the pure of heart." "Do you speak their language?" "They express only love and laughter." "Dark thoughts are unknown to them." "No!" "Lili, no." "Please!" "Living river" "Turn light to diamonds" "When I look in my true love's eyes" "Like a child feels" "Watching a rainbow" "Like a bird feels the first time it flies I feel magic" "Stirring within me" "You'll spook the beast and spoil the trap." "When I look in my true love's eyes" "Young as any spring" "His eyes almost sing" "This shot be just as sweet as pie." "Jack?" "Jack?" "Jack?" "It was lovely, like a dream." "JACK:" "What you did is forbidden." "Who says so?" "JACK:" "It is known, Lili." "These are sacred animals." "You risk your immortal soul." "I only wanted to touch one." "Where's the harm in that?" "It was magic." "Thank you." "Let me sing to you." "I'll chase your fears away." "In the bumps and the hollows" "The sunlight and shadows" "He kissed her" "As those bluebells played" "As his lips met her breath" "He went sweetly to death" "At the roots of the bluebells" "Is where he's laid" "Are you afraid to kiss me, Jack?" "l'm afraid you'll break my heart." "Then still your heart." "You're dear to me as life itself." "LlLl:" "Don't you wish this was our wedding ring?" "If I say, "Yes," will my wish come true?" "I'm a princess." "It's my right to set a challenge for my suitors." "I will marry whoever finds this ring." "Jack!" "Lili!" "Clock." "Mortal world turned to ice." "Here be goblin paradise!" "BLlX:" "Plenty hospitality here." "Baby!" "I simply adore milk-fed meat." "What are you?" "Some kind of animal?" "Oh!" "How did you do that, Blix?" "Yeah, tell us how you do those tricks." "Quite easy, actually." "Goblin omelet." "Very nice." "Very nice." "Lucky day!" "Kill ugly one-horned dead!" "You act like you do all." "It was me who shoot the poisoned stinger." "Me!" "Me!" "Me!" "You only got the shot in because the princess was there." "'Twas beauty led the beast to bay." "BLUNDER:" "She was so sweet." "I could eat her brains like jam." "l could suck her bones..." "Enough!" "Better hurry." "Dark Lord, he don't like to wait." "What have I done?" "POX:" "Four, five, six, hurray for Blix!" "I'll make it right." "OONA:" "Jack?" "Lili?" "Lili?" "Jack?" "Who's there?" "Who are you?" "Here you be a forest child and not know the Gump?" "Gump, is it?" "Honeythorn Gump at your service." "I must be dreaming." "If life is a dream, better you dread the waking." "OONA:" "Jack?" "Stop it." "That's Oona." "She likes you." "Go away." "Does your blood run so cold, Jack?" "You be a corpse before your time." "How did you know my name?" "How does a migrating swallow know the way south in winter?" "Or spawning salmon find the very source of his birth from the cold, black depth of the mysterious sea?" "I know everything, Jack." "Everything?" "Then why is it like this?" "Why is it winter now?" "Suppose you tell me, Jack." "Me?" "Did you not see something odd today?" "Any strange spirits?" "Did nothing untoward happen?" "No." "No?" "No?" "Nothing?" "l did take Lili to see the Unicorns." "You did what?" "Silence!" "Oh, God, Gump, she touched him." "Touched it?" "A mortal laid hands on a Unicorn?" "Jack!" "Do you think you can upset the order of the universe and not pay the price?" "We meant no wrong!" "What I did is done." "I did it for love." "Silence!" "GUMP:" "Love, you say?" "Well, love is another story." "Answer me this riddle and all will be forgiven." "Then ask away, and pray God my answer pleases you." "What is a bell that does not ring yet its knell makes the angels sing?" "MALE ELF 1:" "I know." "MALE ELF 2:" "I know the answer." "Answer me this and all will be forgiven." "Flowers?" "Bluebells!" "" "To hear them ring means your life is at an end!" "No!" "Damnation!" "Codfish and cockles!" "Who told him?" "Damn it!" "Damn it!" "Riddle on!" "Riddles!" "Riddles!" "Damn it!" "Riddles!" "Riddles!" "Riddles!" "Gump?" "You've bested me, Jack." "Bested me, bested me." "Well, a riddle without an answer's like an empty cup when you're thirsty for wine." "Well spoken!" "And if it's wine you want, it's wine we shall have." "Brown Tom!" "A small measure of entertainment at best." "BROWN TOM:" "But, Gump, it's the last bottle of me best wine." "Oh, if you say so, sir." "Now, Gump, don't you be forgetting me." "Oh, careful now." "Oh, it's so precious." "Here's to Jack, riddle solver, dancing fool and fairy friend." "Tip it." "BROWN TOM:" "Here, this'll help." "Don't you care what's happened?" "Of course we care." "What good's a world locked in a season of death?" "But we must find the answer." "That we must." "But first we must see that no harm's come to the Unicorn." "BROWN TOM:" "I sadly fear the worst." "Lili!" "GUMP:" "Jack, what?" "Forgive me." "I meant no wrong." "Well, Jack, tell us what has happened." "Come on, Jack." "Don't keep us in the dark." "The dark is where we'll stay." "We're cursed." "ls there naught we can do?" "We must get the Alicorn back." "Only then will the world return to normal." "We must find a champion, bold of heart and pure in spirit." "BROWN TOM:" "Champion?" "What champion?" "GUMP:" "Don't give up so quick, lads." "You'll do." "We must get you some weapons." "Me?" "But, Gump, I know nothing of weapons." "You'll learn. I know where to find the best." "Brown Tom, stay here with the Unicorn and guard her well." "BROWN TOM:" "Like me own life." "GUMP:" "Better." "She's the last of her kind." "Magic horn is mine, mine, mine." "Now all creatures will love the night and worship goblins as divine." "You shouldn't talk like that, Blix." "Why not?" "I've got the power now." "Plenty big talk." "Not even Darkness lasts forever." "Jack, I can't go with you now." "Anyway, Oona will guide the way." "OONA:" "Follow me, Jack." "Over here." "Come on." "Come on, Jack." "Oona." "Nobody knows but you." "It's our secret, Jack." "Don't tell Gump." "Promise?" "Promise!" "I could be anything you want me to be, even your heart's desire." "You've got to help us, Jack." "The fairies' love makes anything possible." "Higher, higher, burning fire." "Making music like a choir." "It seems a pity to waste such power." "Waste?" "Better watch out, old pal Pox, or I'll turn you into little pork chops." "Why not turn everything into garbage?" "A great towering mountain of slop." "Wouldn't that be magic?" "Higher, higher burning fire, making music like a choir." "Blix, Blix." "Blix!" "What?" "Big D!" "Stop!" "Hear me, you Angel of Darkness!" "Your reign is over!" "A new order begins!" "l hold the power!" "DARKNESS:" "Enough!" "BLUNDER:" "Shit!" "Please!" "It was only a joke." "I didn't mean it." "No!" "No!" "Have you no sense of humor?" "Adiós, amigos." "Wow." "Forgive that intrusion, Great Lord," "but goblins are inclined to be outspoken." "Yeah." "And I like to encourage their initiative." "The Unicorns are dead, is this not true?" "Lord, very plenty true." "Undeniably true." "You lie!" "Here is dawn!" "It is essentially true." "On the other hand..." "Stallion is dead." "Dead as dreams." "Out with it!" "The mare lives still!" "lf even one Unicorn walks the earth, my power is not complete." "She's just a female, Lord." "She has no power." "Only the power of creation." "Get the mare!" "I command you!" "Well, let's see, what have we here?" "A little sassafras." "A little spearmint would be nice, huh?" "Some foxglove?" "And a little colt's foot." "Hey, who goes there, what?" "I'm Princess Lili." "You!" "You're the cause of all our sorrow." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't know." "Please forgive me." "l'm not the one you should be asking." "Try and understand." "I'm only trying to make things right." "Darkness has sent the goblins back for the mare." "It's not safe to stay here." "You'll have to hurry!" "Leave now!" "Go!" "Good lass." "You're a plucky little partridge." "Hurry!" "Too late!" "You imps are looking for a fight, you come to the chap who'll oblige ya." "Try this on for size." "" "You can't beat me." "Look at that!" "Keep them coming, fellas!" "Oh, check this out!" "Yes, sir." "You see?" "You just can't beat me!" "You can't..." "Dick o' Tuesday's duck!" "They done for me." "GUMP:" "Brown Tom!" "Brown Tom, you can't be dead." "This is terrible." "Terrible!" "Brown Tom." "SCREWBALL:" "Brown Tom." "Gump?" "Screwball." "Jack, lad." "They killed you, too?" "Of course they didn't." "But what in blazes are you talking about?" "Goblins." "Goblins?" "Shot me through me brain pan." "That's one spot an arrow will do no harm." "I did my best to fight them off, but they swarmed up by the hundreds." "All fierce creatures they were." "The princess warned me, but..." "Lili?" "Aye." "Then she's alive!" "She was alive still when they killed me." "The goblins must have taken her." "We follow their tracks in the snow." "The great tree." "When evil anarchy ruled the land, the wicked came here to sacrifice." "Ugly. I hate it." "Good." "You go first." "Why always me?" "Go!" "Foreigner." "Ooh, slippery." "Oh, okay, okay." "l made it!" "JACK:" "Screwball!" "Foul-tasting fairy!" "Come to Meg, juicy boy." "Who be this tender morsel disturbing Meg Mucklebone's rest?" "Jack." "They call me Jack, ma'am." "And what a fine, fat boy you are, Jack." "You don't really mean to eat me, do you, ma'am?" "Oh, indeed I do!" "But that would be a shame, because someone as fair and lovely as yourself, Miss Meg, deserves far better than scrawny me." "Don't you think?" "You think me fair, do you, Jack?" "All the heavenly angels must envy your beauty." "What a fine meal you'll make, be the rest of you as sweet as your tongue." "Wait!" "No!" "" "Fill your soul with loveliness." "Feast on the beauty of your reflection." "You are an angel, Miss Meg." "Look." "Look." "What a splendid idea." "I did it!" "Screwball!" "Oh, okay." "Okay." "Oh!" "Whee!" "Look." "What a big trumpet!" "I'll bet it makes a lot of noise." "Our lives are lost if it blows." "I think it stopped." "BROWN TOM:" "My back!" "Me aching back!" "Oh, I'm not as old as I used to be, you know." "Hey, where are we?" "Someplace we don't want to be." "Hey, hey!" "Wait for me!" "BROWN TOM:" "We gotta get out of here!" "It's the stench of hell itself!" "BLUNDER:" "Quiet!" "You'll be fricasseed fairies if you don't keep quiet." "Who be you, bucket head?" "Who I am won't help me nor you, neither, even though we are all brothers." "SCREWBALL:" "What happened to you?" "It's a long story." "Let's just say I went looking for adventure and found more than I could handle." "Doesn't matter now, anyway." "We are all in the same fix!" "I knew it. I knew it." "I should have stayed at home." "BLUNDER:" "Let's face it, brothers." "Me and you all is barbecue." "Barbecue?" "Oh, no!" "He's coming!" "Hide!" "Hide!" "Hide!" "Hide!" "I don't think I can handle it!" "Help me!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Help me!" "Please help me!" "We've got to help him." "Don't worry." "Our brother can take care of himself." "I'm sure of it, I think." "Screwball's right." "It's more important that you find the Unicorn." "Why not have Oona fly out, find a key?" "Oona?" "But she's much too small." "Could never lift it." "OONA:" "Our secret!" "Our secret will keep forever in this grave if you don't help us." "You promised!" "You willful sprite." "How dare you keep such secrets?" "They're mine to keep." "I'll do what you ask if you'll kiss me, Jack." "Easy enough." "You call that a kiss?" "Am I not sweet?" "Sweeter than bee pollen on a summer wind." "Sweet as the wind that blows me to you." "Oh, it's fairy magic." "Lili?" "Lili?" "Yes, Jack." "This isn't real." "Oh, it is." "I'm warm and alive and want to be in your arms." "No, I can't." "No." "This is just more fairy glamour." "Human hearts don't work that way." "What care I for human hearts?" "Soft and spiritless as porridge!" "A fairy's heart beats fierce and free!" "JACK:" "Oona!" "Your fine sensibilities have left us here to rot!" "BROWN TOM:" "I'm behind you all the way, Gump." "You look like mourners at your own funeral." "GUMP:" "Oona!" "Quick, lads!" "SCREWBALL:" "A terrible sight for a sober man." "We must find the dungeons." "I think I'll stay right here, thank you very much." "Not so fast." "You'll search with the rest of us." "Then I'll go with Jack." "No!" "We split up." "Yes!" "It's better if we go in teams." "No, I will go with Ja..." "Gump and me, Brown Tom with Screwball." "Right." "Take care." "Come on, Jack." "Be careful." "There's only one thing I want to know." "What?" "Why me?" "l think we should go west." "l think we should go east." "Oh, okay." "Wait!" "DARKNESS:" "Father, I hold the world in my grasp, and yet this girl distracts me." "It has been an eternity since I felt such desire." "What am I to do?" "FATHER:" "She fascinates you because her soul is pure." "To make her one of us, charm her, woo her." "Change her spirit." "Hypnotize her." "Set her free, bring her to you." "Hey." "Did, did you see something?" "No, did you?" "l don't know." "I think." "You should see your princess now!" "FATHER:" "Make her one of us." "DARKNESS:" "Quiet." "How like you my gifts?" "Does the gown not please you?" "No." "Can you speak so of your bridal gown?" "I've found my true mate, and you know it." "Never." "Beneath the skin, we are already one." "Was it not your sin trapped the Unicorn?" "No." "Even now the evil seed of what you have done germinates within you." "No." "You lie." "You disgust me." "You're nothing but an animal." "We are all animals, My Lady." "JACK:" "Lili!" "Jack!" "There's nothing you can do now to help her." "Be thankful she still lives." "You've got to help us, Jack." "The last Unicorn dies tonight." "Never." "As her blood ebbs, the sun sets forever." "There shall never be another dawn." "LlLl:" "No! Lady, I require the solace of the shadows and the dark of the night." "Sunshine is my destroyer!" "As long as the sun still shines, we can destroy him." "Let me dazzle you with my wisdom." "I think I know a way." "Come on, come on, come on." "You're holding us up." "Come on." "Now, listen to me." "We're not going down the same corridor umpteen times." "l think we should go that way." "No, we're going this way." "Just follow me." "Let's go down there." "Stay close to me now." "You know what?" "What?" "l vote we run like hell." "l second the motion. JACK:" "Screwball." "Where were you?" "In another three flicks of a badger's tail, we would have gone." "While you're having fun, time goes by fast." "Yeah, we found the mare, and it's alive in the dungeon." "Excellent." "Excellent, you two!" "Thank you very much." "GUMP:" "Now Jack has a plan and a good one!" "We must gather every shining object we can find." "We're going to bring light to Darkness." "Blunder." "Blunder!" "Any more noise, and you're shish kabob." "You do what we say, understand?" "Swear it." "I swear it on the festering forelock of Nicodemus!" "Please, help." "Help me." "Thank you." "Hurry, hurry." "Keep them coming!" "Come on, come on!" "Brown Tom!" "Gump?" "Gump!" "Gump!" "GUMP:" "Jack." "Jack!" "Three cheers for our champion!" "Hip hip!" "Hooray!" "Hip hip!" "Hooray!" "Hip hip!" "Hooray!" "Now what, Jack?" "JACK:" "Must go all the way out." "Light." "Not much to hold on to." "Take a Pea Pod Pixie to make that climb." "I'll do it." "What's the matter?" "Ain't I small enough for the job?" "Please, Gump." "Let me try." "I won't let you down." "All right, all right." "Do it, but be swift!" "Oh, thank you, thank you." "You'll never regret it." "I always knew you'd be going places, Screwball." "All I wish is for you to sit and talk with me." "Sit?" "Here?" "Yes." "l prefer to stand." "Silence!" "Or stand." "As you wish." "It is enough that we are alone together." "Just the two of us." "Some simple conversation." "I have nothing to talk about." "You've stolen my dreams away." "All things change, Lady." "The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity." "Dreams are my speciality." "Through dreams I influence mankind." "My dream is of eternity with you." "I offer you this rose, princess." "My heart, my soul," "my love." "Love?" "GUMP:" "A little to the right." "Left." "Good!" "Sit." "I value your thoughts." "Share them with me." "Sit?" "DARKNESS:" "Sit." "Nothing more than that?" "And talk with me." "I think I'll stand, if you don't mind." "No!" "Damn you!" "Never!" "Never!" "I hear a throat begging to be cut." "Are you so anxious to see blood flow?" "As you are to drink it." "Grant your bride one wish on this night." "You have but to ask." "I will stay here with you as you wish." "But on one condition." "Anything." "I want to kill the Unicorn." " -ln the beginning there was nothing." "A void of darkness," "a cold eternity of silence." "Jack!" "Your greatest challenge is still to come." "And we have not much time." "DARKNESS:" "When the perfect void was corrupted by light, a great wailing was heard, and all the brethren fled in terror." "Gump!" "Oona, fly up like the wind." "It's time." "Jack!" "Lili." "GUMP:" "Jack." "Judge her with your heart, not your eyes." "Hear me, ye powers of the night!" "We offer this sacrifice in honor of you, sanctified with blood," "and with fire!" "I pray you, Father, accept my sacrifice." "Let light be forever extinguished." "Let the age of darkness begin!" "Come, Lady." "The birth of a new world awaits your stroke." "Let my offering be made of flesh and blood." "She means to do it, Jack." "She's one of them." "I am sister to the Fates." "Kill her." "Forget her." "Think about the Unicorn." "Do it!" "Lili." "l'll do it." "No!" "No." "I trust you, Lili." "I'll always trust you." "Run!" "Run!" "You're free!" "Darkness!" "What have we here?" "A little boy." "Screwball!" "Screwball!" "Wake up!" "Wake up, Screwball!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "Don't you know me, boy?" "Screwball!" "What time is it?" "Every wolf suffers fleas." "'Tis easy enough to scratch." "Give it to me, boy!" "Father!" "Protect me!" "Do it, Jack!" "Kill him!" "Kill him!" "GUMP:" "She's under a spell." "A powerful spell." "Do something." "Only you can answer this riddle." "LlLl:" "I'm a princess." "It's my right to set a challenge for my suitors." "Now fulfill your promise." "I will miss you." "But don't forget us." "Never." "I love you, Lili." "It's over." "You're safe now."