"Tartarus..." "Elysian Fields..." "Tartarus..." "Elysian Fields..." "Hades!" "My friend, Gabrielle..." "Where is she?" "Gabrielle." "Well, if she's dead, she didn't come to me." "I saw her die." "She had to come to you." "Why would I lie to ya?" "Look..." "If you'd like to see Solon, I could arrange a few moments with..." "No, no, no." "You leave Solon out of this." "He doesn't need to know about my problems." "It's Gabrielle I wanna see." "Come on, you owe me." "Xena, not all the world's dead come to me." "She was greek." "The olympian gods control her destiny." "Yeah, I admit, it does seem like she'd be mine, like these people." "Charon and I are gonna be very, very busy..." "I'm not interested in your workload, Hades!" "Look..." "I just wanna know where my friend went after she died." "Did she belong to any spiritual orders, or...?" "No." "What is it?" "Do greek amazons come to you?" "No." "Then that's it." "Gabrielle's initiation into the amazons meant she went to a different land of the dead." "Well, I can't help you then." "I don't know where that is!" "I do." "Sorry, girl." "I can't take you where I'm going." "In the time of ancient gods, warlords and kings a land in turmoil cried out for a hero." "She was Xena." "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle." "The power..." "The passion..." "The danger..." "Her courage will change the world." "XENA, THE WARRIOR PRINCESS" "Gabrielle..." "I'm entering a world of darkness I promised myself I'd never return to." "But it's the only way I can see you again." "My mind has lost its center." "It's turning Turning..." "Can't hold." "I can't hold." "I hear you Or is it the wind?" "As I travel along paths I left long ago I'm engulfed by my memories." "They consume me." "What?" "What would you do if I told you I'm in love?" "I'd cut out your sweetheart's throat." "You think I wouldn't?" "No." "I mean, I'm in love with you." "With me?" "Have you lost what's left of your mind?" "People like you and me don't fall in love." "Not with each other, anyway." "Where do we go from here?" "I say we take on the amazons." "They're a tough bunch but reasonable, I think." "I say we offer to ally with them against their traditional enemies, the centaurs." "With the centaurs out of the way nothing stands between us and Greece." "You and your alliances..." "...didn't do us much good in China." "We did all right in China." "We would have done better if it wasn't for your unquenchable lust for power." "I thought you liked my unquenchable lust." "Well..." "It does have its good points." "Borias!" "What?" "We caught these two lurking in the camp." "The hag says she's a shamaness." "Claims she can help us beat the amazons." "How can you do that?" "I was once an amazon myself." "But they expelled me from their number because my power was too great." "I am Alti and this is my apprentice Anokin." "Congratulations." "What?" "You are with child." "Very good." "I haven't told anyone that yet." "What?" "I would have gotten around to it." "Go." "Xena, what are you doing?" "A shamaness like her can only be trouble." "I like trouble, Borias." "Please Make yourself at home." "Gabrielle..." "What is she doing?" "I don't know." "Look at this." "What do you think you're doin'?" "You did this, didn't you?" "Yeah." "So what?" "Look what we got." "Good." "Pick him up." "It's a warrior-woman." "She fought our enemies, so I don't think we need to fear her." "You've got to take me with you and teach me everything you know." "Even in death, Gabrielle, I will never leave you." "...you are the best thing that ever happened to me." "You gave my life meaning and joy and you will be a part of me forever." "That wailing I heard it before, a long time ago, when I was a child." "An army from the east swept across the steppes." "They destroyed everything in sight." "It was led by a great warlord named Borias and her." "Alti!" "Who did this?" "Xena, let's go!" "I'm not leaving without her." "Then don't!" "Throw her on a horse and let's move!" "This is the last of the villages before amazon territory." "I don't want the amazons to think we're moving on them." "I don't care about your plan!" "My friend is dead." "You knew her for less than a moon." "What spell have they thrown on you?" "Quick, girl!" "Come on!" "It's only a child..." "Out of the way!" "It's too late." "You can see her again, you know?" "She must wanna cross over to the other side and she needs the horse's spirit to do that." "What are you doing?" "You're the one who gave me a decent funeral." "Now you, too, are in the land of the dead." "I thank you, mourn for you." "Don't mourn for me." "I'm not dead." "If you're not dead, then, why are you here?" "I'm looking for a friend." "She should have passed through the gate into eternity by now." "So you plan to follow her into eternity?" "That's right." "Will you be able to get back from there?" "That I don't know." "She must be a very good friend." "She's the only friend." "How come you know so much about the land of the dead?" "Have you been here before?" "Let me tell you a little story." "Gabrielle's not the first I followed here." "I came once before." "Anokin!" "What's the matter?" "Stay away from me." "Why?" "You poisoned my soul." "I want nothing to do with you." "I hate the dead." "You can't take vengeance on them." "But you can." "Come back to me, Xena." "What do you want?" "I want you." "The stuff you're intop it's madness." "You're carrying our child within you." "Ah, the baby will be a fine, healthy boy with his father's mouth and his mother's eyes." "What will we call him?" "Neither one of you will name him." "We'll name him!" "And you can stop your evil predictions, you hag!" "Borias..." "You shouldn't have done that." "She's powerful." "In the land of the dead, perhaps..." "But here, she's a pathetic bag of bones." "Never mind." "It's over your head." "And who is this?" "Alti needed a human body in order to get us to the land of the dead." "You're killing people to help that demon cast her spells?" "Come on, Borias..." "After all the people we've killed, what's one more corpse?" "I can't believe what's happening to you." "And I can't believe what's happening to you." "You're as soft as a pig's belly." "And what's all this talk about our baby and us?" "I swear, if you use the word "family", I'm gonna puke!" "These powers you're after..." "You wanna know what they are..." "Your friend you told me about, Lao Ma..." "Her powers come from denial..." "From self-sacrifice." "From the light." "That's not for people like you and me." "I wanna tap into the heart of darkness The sheer, naked will behind all craving, hatred and violence." "I'll become the face of death itself Capable of destroying not only a person's body, but their soul." "Help me and I'll make you "Destroyer of Nations"." "What is it?" "Who's that?" "Cyane, queen of the amazons." "Cyane?" "She's a legend!" "You knew her?" "I killed her." "What are you doing here, Xena?" "You're not welcome." "Cyane..." "Why are you still in the land of the dead?" "You should have crossed over into eternity." "Answer me first." "What do you want?" "I'm looking for a friend A greek amazon." "An amazon is your friend..." "That's right." "Her name is Gabrielle." "At heart, you're an amazon, whether you believe it or not." "It's not for me, Cyane." "Follow me." "Think she's dead?" "Poke her." "She's not dead." "Her spirit's with the dead." "I say, we send her body there, too." "No!" "We don't hurt her." "You see, Xena?" "None of us can pass through the gate to eternity." "We're doomed to wander the land of the dead forever." "Alti did this to you..." "Yes." "Alti." "Watch it, don't jerk her." "Keep everything smooth, or she'll feel it." "Careful." "We'll look up top!" "Be careful." "Don't wanna wake her up, just yet." "What's wrong with her?" "Nothing." "She's in the land of the dead." "We're gonna let her accomplish what she must there." "She's probably acquiring great powers." "I still say we should cut her throat." "No." "She's our future, I'm sure of it." "Why should we believe you?" "There's something you're not telling us." "Borias had taken me in out of the cold." "She must die." "Her?" "What're you talking?" "She's just a child." "She will take your power away from you one day." "Have I been wrong with my predictions so far?" "You think Borias is trouble now?" "You should wait and see if we knocked off his little orphan girl." "Control your destiny." "Kill her now and avoid the day she takes your power." "No!" "Get out of here." "So she would have killed you if Borias hadn't shown up..." "No." "I don't think she would have." "She didn't kill me because she knew what Alti predicted must happen." "I am destined to take her power." "I'm glad you're so sure about it." "I'm gonna have my ax ready when she starts to come around." "I'm so sorry for what's happend to you..." "I don't think they believe you, Xena." "She claims she's looking for a friend A greek amazon, no less." "I understand your anger." "The sight of me must be a torment to you." "But once I find Gabrielle, you'll never see me again." "Then go!" "The gate to eternity lies in the heart of that volcano." "That's where you'll find your precious Gabrielle." "But you said that amazons can't pass through the gate." "Our tribe can't." "The other amazon tribes from Greece and Mesopotamia, they can." "The path to your friend lies through that gate." "Now, go into eternity and out of our lives forever." "Go!" "I can't." "Gabrielle, I can't!" "You know, nothing would make me happier than seeing you again." "You were my light." "But I just realized what it was that you gave me A light of my own." "There's something I gotta do..." "Something you'd want me to do." "I love you." "I thought I told you that the gate was over there." "Some other time." "I'm going back to stop Alti." "Our holy word should have been strong enough to undo whatever it was that kept us from eternity but still we can't pass through the gate." "Maybe you need a new hold word One stronger than the last." "Our holy word is "courage", Xena." "Nothing's stronger than courage." "Get back!" "Get back!" "Quick!" "Move!" "Who are you?" "Otere." "I remember you." "How did I get here?" "We moved you." "We thought you'd be safer here." "We were careful not to wake you up." "You did well." "I could teach you a thing or two about holding a sword on somebody." "Who's he?" "Our enemy." "You wounded him." "We haven't decided who gets to kill him yet." "You drew first blood." "You should make the kill." "Can you walk?" "Good." "I want you to deliver a mesage to Alti." "Tell her that Xena's coming." "If we move directly on Alti, she'll send him after us." "Who's him?" "Berserker..." "Only the greatest fighter in our land." "He's been given special powers by Alti." "Killed every warrior he's ever met in combat." "Is that so?" "Let's get started then." "He says that..." "Xena's coming!" "Do you idiots think I didn't know that already?" "I've felt her presence for days." "It was only a matter of time before she looked for me." "And you were kind enough to bleed your way back here and leave ever so nice a trail." "This one's for you, Gabrielle." "Berserker!" "That's the Berserker?" "No!" "That's the Berserker!" "Get out of the way!" "You all right?" "My legs still feel broken." "It doesn't make sense." "The power that was making me relive my past seemed to be coming from the Berserker." "But you killed him." "I know." "That should have released me from..." "Alti's spirit was in the horse." "She seemed afraid of you!" "Now, maybe." "But as we get closer to her stronghold, she'll get stronger and stronger." "This new power that she has The ones that make you relive your past it's a toughie." "Can we beat her?" "We've got to." "TO BE CONTINUED..."