Morlins, Morlin ships!
Ready, fire!
Animals!
Alexander, we won, we won!
- What on Earth are you doing up here?
You could've been killed!
- No, I wanted to help!
- You're too young to help.
Go on, get outta here.
- Oh, God, Daniel!
Dad, Dad!
- David?
David?
Have you seen my husband?
No, David!
He's dead!
No, no!
- This must end!
- Your Majesty, we enjoyed a tremendous victory today, I--
- Enjoyed, Sauris?
I did not enjoy what I saw today.
I saw heartbreak, I saw death and destruction.
Never again.
I'll not leave my subjects or my children
with a blood-soaked kingdom.
- Are you suggesting a treaty with the Morlins, sir?
- What use are treaties?
We've been at war with the Morlin kingdom
for more centuries than I can recall.
It's been a never-ending cycle of bloodshed.
And why, to right some half-forgotten ancient wrong!
For greed, power,
nothing justifies the pain I saw today.
- You seem to ask the impossible,
we cannot change man's nature!
- There is a way,
there must be a way.
I want a world where art and ideas
are held in higher regard than brute force.
Aeschylus, old friend,
you've remained very silent, can you help me?
It seems that you desire not
just the end of this particular struggle with the Morlins,
but a complete eradication of the species of war!
Yes, that is what I want.
Can you give me that?
- You ask the impossible.
- You're a good man, Aeschylus.
Whatever you have to do, do it.
As you wish.
- Look how frail he is, Jarad, how weak!
Our time is drawing near, I feel it!
When my powers are unleashed,
Aralon will crumble like a house of cards!
You babbling goons!
I've never seen such pathetic excuses
for human beings in all my life,
eh, your highness,
and if I were king, you could kiss my royal, your highness!
I-if you'll pardon me for just a moment,
I have someone I need to, uh, ee, uh, strangle.
- Mira, help me do the right thing, my love,
but there are no answers in the dark,
and the nights are so cold without you.
That's it, all right.
- Now what do you say about my parlor games, old man?
You're doing really well, my pet.
Show me everything.
Look out!
I gotcha!
Look out, here!
- Alexander, when will you teach me to fight with a sword?
- Soon as you're big enough to carry one!
But I am big enough!
It isn't fair!
Life isn't fair, boy!
I'll tell you what, though.
If you're lucky, I'll let you polish my sword
when I finish hammering this lout!
Why not teach the boy to fight, Alexander?
- I will, of course, Don.
He's in such a rush to grow up.
I wouldn't mind having his problems for a day.
Yeah, me, too!
We've got it this time, yeah.
Yeah, it should work.
- I don't understand, master.
- There's no reason why you would understand, my friend.
Our mission is one that taunts the laws of science.
We're playing with mysterious forces.
- I still don't understand.
Nor do I, my friend, nor do I.
- Some dinner, sir?
Some dinner, sir?
Yes.
- My God, Aeschylus, you look terrible!
I assume you have some urgent news
to summon the court in this manner.
What is this curiosity?
- A blessing, a curse, a proposal.
I don't know, a gift perhaps.
- Is this some kind of riddle?
- Riddle, sire?
Not exactly, this object will be
the single most powerful device ever imagined!
A device that will not only end war,
but make it a virtual impossibility!
It's a clock!
- Is this some kind of joke?
- My king, what I hold in my hands is time itself,
and I have harnessed its power.
He who masters time
masters the entire universe!
- Are you telling me that if we build this device,
we control time?
- When activated, you can watch your enemies
age and die before your eyes.
Lifetimes are reduced to weeks, hours become seconds.
The universal force would be yours to command.
- The Morlins would be completely at our mercy, my lord.
- And we would be prisoners in our own castle.
Is there no other way?
- Well, the hope would be that the threat alone
would, uh, deter any aggression.
- And I would be in a position to destroy all my enemies.
Is that it?
- Indeed, my liege.
- No man has the right to play at being God.
Destroy it, Aeschylus.
Oh, my friend, no one in this world can match your power,
and I thank you for the loyal service
you've shown to the throne,
but I cannot accept this gift.
Thank God.
Despite all the capabilities of science and magic,
I never cease to be amazed at the human heart.
I hope you find your answer.
- What's wrong, Papa?
To lead, one has to make decisions.
I just hope I made the right one back in the hall.
- The clock scared me, Papa.
- Me, too, little princess.
You know, even though our lives are short,
what we do with them can last forever.
Your mother is gone, but the love she left behind
lives on in my heart and in yours.
- I miss her.
- I miss her, too, very much.
Sometimes when I look in your eyes,
I see her looking back at me.
I love you, little princess.
Here, I'm gonna give you this.
This was your mother's ring.
A diamond is a little like true love.
Nothing can break or tarnish its face if it is pure.
Love
is the most powerful force there is.
- I know your secret, Aeschylus,
and I will not shrink from them as you have.
The knowledge that you have denied me, I have taken.
Oh, and now is the moment that I've been waiting for!
Let the forces of nature tremble
as I summon the winds and the rains
to paralyze this stagnant, dying kingdom once and for all!
What is this?
Who's there?
- You taught me well, master.
- No, Karnissa, you can't!
The magic is too much for you!
- No, it would appear the magic is too much for you.
My powers have been mocked for too long.
Jarod, dispose of the old fool
and take everything with you.
- Aren't you forgetting something?
This is quite a storm, Karnissa.
I didn't think you had it in you.
- Why, Sauris?
You always were one step ahead of everyone else.
- My talent has always been aligning myself
with those who have the power,
and right now, my dear, you are very powerful.
- And what's to stop you from betraying me?
- I never mentioned anything
about the queen's untimely demise, did I,
though I would have spoken
had it been in my interest to do so.
I knew the king had rejected your advances.
For me, it has never been a matter
of if you return, just when.
- All right, Sauris, you can come with us.
Gentlemen, we have quite a journey ahead of us.
- The storm is subsiding.
- Fool, I control the storm,
and it still rages on the castle.
No more delays, we must set sail for Gamara.
- Magnificent, how shall I assist you?
- Now that we are out of the castle, I have no need for you.
- What do you mean?
Stop, what are you doing?
- I despise liars and flatterers.
You can't trust any of them.
- Master, are you all right?
- Aeschylus, old friend,
I hope you find greater joy in the next world
than you did in this lonely place.
Bless you.
- You know, I happen to be a good friend of the princess,
and I couldn't help but notice the goo-goo eyes
you were making at her.
- I was not!
Poop, you looked like a hypnotized dog.
Oh, come now, don't pout over it!
My Lord,
there's no sign of the astrologer nor of Sauris.
- From the look of their quarters,
it appears they left in quite a rush.
- When was she last seen?
- When you first, sir, heard about the Clock of Time.
My God.
Well, at least the plans for the device were destroyed.
Are you telling me that the plans are still out there?
- It seems entirely possible
and, in this case, probable.
- Oh my God!
Oh, Aeschylus, my friend, what have we started?
- And the fires of hell spewed forth,
cleansing the land of all stagnation.
Welcome home, my friend.
- Loffo, what are you doing?
The stable master will kill me if I'm late again!
- Poo!
- What is this?
Some food for the princess.
- And?
- Take it to her, you work for me now,
and I'm sending you on this errand.
- Loffo, don't make me, please!
- This is a golden opportunity, eh?
Don't fall apart on me now.
You'd think I was asking you to feed a dragon!
But what do I say?
- Mm, look at this hat!
Look, it's so cute!
Let's try another one.
That looks really good, hmm.
That looks good!
Oh, no, my ring!
What on Earth is it?
- Your dinner, your highness.
- Bring it in.
You can put it over there on the table.
- Um,
your highness?
- You look funny!
They really seem to like you.
- Well, I know you must be busy, so.
- I'm actually looking for something.
It's funny.
My mom used to say that rings have a habit of
falling under beds.
- Really?
- Yeah, I-I'll be going, here.
Sorry to have bothered you.
- Wait a minute!
How did you know I was looking for a ring?
Why did I say that?
- My God, don't, don't you see?
After one full revolution of this machine,
the process cannot be stopped!
Even, even if it is destroyed,
the forces that are set into play are irreversible!
- D-do you think she's insane enough to use it?
I mean, she could have whatever she wants
simply by building it, I don't see why--
- Over there!
Jarad!
- Yes, my queen?
- Are we on schedule?
- Not quite, this is a very difficult
and complicated device, my queen.
- I supposedly have the greatest mystical
and scientific minds at work 24 hours a day.
The problem is is that you've not been
properly motivating them!
- What do you suggest?
- Set an example of what happens if they don't work harder.
How my queen?
Guards!
- No, no, my queen!
I beg mercy, please, call them off!
- If this machine is not completed within two days,
Jarad's fate will be yours!
Mazer?
- Yes, my queen?
- You're in charge now.
Don't disappoint me.
Thank you, my queen.
All right, back to work!
- Haven't you seen one of these before?
- I, I-I-I-I-I-I just planted these yesterday!
- Well, I'm impressed.
- You don't understand, I, I just planted these yesterday!
A fresh batch of tomatoes.
- Good, it's about time!
What is this, some kind of joke?
- They were fresh and, and barely ripe just a minute ago!
And I'm the king of Baluria ,
you festering bucket of pus!
- Your Majesty, the flowers have died.
I apologize, they were fresh blooms only yesterday.
I don't understand.
- So, Karnissa,
it's begun.
- The clock is ticking, King Francis.
Convince your neighboring lands to bow before me
or your kingdoms will crumble to dust
before your disbelieving eyes!
- The crops are dead, and my livestock is dying!
What is happening?
- Eh, all the crops, your majesty!
There's a food shortage rapidly developing.
- This is happening everywhere.
Our messengers are returning daily with terrifying stories
of aging from every corner of the world.
It seems Aeschylus' device indeed works.
- Damn that evil woman to hell!
So this is where our desire for peace has led us.
It's insane.
- We have some chilling results from studies
we've been doing, my lord.
- What do they say?
- Calculating the current age acceleration
that seems to be taking place and projecting ahead,
it appears that every living thing
is aging at a rate of roughly one year per week.
If things continue at the present rate,
it seems we have less than one year to live.
- With every second that passes,
we're losing days of precious time.
That clock must be found somehow and destroyed.
Karnissa's madness is so profound,
we cannot hope to bargain.
Assemble the armies!
I'm only 12 years old!
What's happening to me?
Don't cry.
Um, I wasn't crying.
I must just be allergic to something.
You're that page boy that brought me my dinner.
- Yeah, that was me.
- You looked so ridiculous with my bird on your head.
Yes, uh-huh, that was very funny.
- That look on your face was, was precious.
- You've made your point.
- Oh, I'm sorry, I'm being rude.
You actually looked quite adorable.
- Really?
- My countrymen, this is something
I thought I would never again have to do,
but there is one battle,
one last battle we have to fight,
and it is a battle that directly affects the life
of every single living thing in the world!
For the first time in history, every army,
from our nearest neighbor to our furthest enemy,
sets sail with one single purpose,
to stop this evil machine,
to stop time itself!
Well, now, my countrymen,
I place all my hopes and prayers
in your capable hands as you embark
on the greatest quest the world has ever known.
Our love goes with you, godspeed!
- I wish I could go with you!
- I know you do, but you've gotten your wish.
You're a royal guard assigned to the king.
Impressive, mother and father would've been proud.
I'll miss you, little brother.
- I'm not so little anymore!
- See what happens when you're in such a rush to grow up?
- Be careful, Alexander.
- Don't worry about me.
I'll be coming back a hero.
Take care of the king.
- Godspeed.
- I've aged 10 years in weeks, and yet it seems
I'll never be old enough for responsibility.
- You're assigned to the king's guard, aren't you?
- Yeah.
- What more responsibility could you want?
You protect the king, my father!
- He's a great man.
- Yes, but he's just a man.
He puts all this responsibility upon his shoulders, and
it frightens me.
Please try and help him.
- I will.
- Thank you, James.
You know, I read fortunes.
- Oh, yeah, what's in my future?
Seems you're going to live a very long life.
I'll just live it very quickly.
- Ooh, says here you're impatient.
- You'll soon be taking a long journey.
- What else?
- That you'll fall in love.
- Identify yourself, stranger!
My God, it's Sauris!
- My king wishes that our nations at this time
of universal threat may drop their quarrels,
work together to forge lasting peace, your highness.
- This is indeed welcome news.
Our thanks to the Morlin leader.
Aralon will indeed honor his request for peace,
now and for many years after this evil time has passed.
Too long have our nations shed senseless blood.
- At your service, your majesty.
And when they realized I was going directly to the king
to report this terrible murder, I was brutally beaten.
- You served your country well, my friend.
Do you have any idea where they've gone?
- I heard Karnissa order the ship to
fly to Gamara.
- Gamara,
of course.
They would never think of that deserted, black rock.
- I'm assuming that was her intention, sire.
- We can only pray that our soldiers find Karnissa
before she finds them.
- One more sweep to the south
should eliminate this area as an option.
What do you think, Alexander?
- I think we're chasing our tails.
- Morlin ships off the port bow!
- I thought we were supposed to be on the same team!
Open your eyes, men!
- I estimate 20 warships.
- Have they seen us yet?
Have they seen us yet?
- If we move now, surprise may be on our side.
- This is not our mission.
I received no orders to intercept Aralon ships.
- My Queen, the Aralon fleet has crossed the coastline.
- Make fine bloodhounds, these Aralon soldiers.
I cannot allow them to come any closer.
Now is the time for God and all his creatures
to feel the full force of my power.
May the elements bend and twist to my bidding!
May the heavens open and the rains come and the winds blow!
- Secure the cannons and no one fires without my order!
Is that understood?
- They're not changing course!
- We really can't afford
to lose any men in a full engagement.
However, if the Morlins are after the machine,
they may use it against us.
- This will be in direct defiance of our orders.
- I think we've been spotted, sir!
- We're headed straight for them!
- Captain, they're firing on us!
- They're firing!
- Prepare the cannons to return fire!
- Request permission to return fire.
- Permission grant, wait!
That's not cannon fire.
- Hurricane, hurricane at the starboard bow!
- Full right rudder, now!
Full reverse, full reverse!
- Damn you, Karnissa!
Secure everything!
- May the saints preserve us!
- They're dead, I can feel it.
Who is dead, Papa?
My armies, my people ,
how could I have brought this wretched suffering
on this kingdom that I love so much?
- Hush!
Our fleet may still be victorious, you must have faith!
- No, I'm afraid all hope is gone.
What a sad legacy have I left.
Born into a position of unparalleled power,
I've done nothing with it.
I've failed my people.
- That's not true, Papa.
You have done so many wonderful things,
please don't do this to yourself!
Oh, my child.
What will you do when I'm gone?
- Papa, I found someone who will take care of me.
- Who?
- This James, one of your guards.
- Is he a good man, does he treat you well?
- I'm in love with him, I think.
- That makes me very happy.
I think that in these dark days, new love can bloom,
and that alone gives me hope.
Be good to him, Stephanie.
I would've given anything
to have seen a grandchild.
Love that child for me.
- I will, Papa.
I will.
- Alexander, it's me, I'm here.
We never stood a chance.
The storm, oh, God, that storm!
Most of my men are still out there.
- What happened?
- Karnissa's magic.
Too strong.
Defend Aralon, James.
Protect them.
- Alex,
hold on!
Hold on!
- It's good to be home.
No, please, God, no!
Defend Aralon, James.
Protect them.
I'm so sorry.
- I have to go, Stephanie.
There's no one left!
- Why, why do you have to go, what are you gonna prove?
- We're too young to die!
Somebody has to stop that clock!
I finally found something, someone
who gave me a purpose in this life.
I'm not gonna lose the only thing that I love.
- There's someone I want you to meet.
Papa, you awake?
James is here.
- So you're the young man who's stolen my daughter's heart.
- Indeed, she has stolen mine as well, your highness.
Unworthy as I am, I seek your blessing,
for upon my return, I intend on marrying Stephanie.
- Return from what?
- From destroying the clock.
- What makes you think that you can accomplish
what an army could not?
- One man rides faster than 100.
No storm can knock me from the sky, and certainly,
no scouts would perceive a single man as a threat.
- You have a fine and noble heart, James.
Give me your sword.
Kneel before me, James.
No man may embark on a quest for the king
without being made a knight of the order,
so James of Aralon, it is with a mixture
of sadness and pride
that I dub thee
knight.
The journey before you is as perilous
as the pastures of Hades,
but should you be victorious,
such is the stuff as legends are made of.
Your duties are to uphold the honor
and integrity of all righteous things,
so rise, Sir James, and peace be with you.
Come back to us soon, James.
Don't break my daughter's heart.
A knight is not judged by his prowess with a sword.
Heroism comes from the inside.
- Yes, your majesty.
- Well, Sir James,
you do have a slight advantage
in that you will actually know Karnissa's location.
It is called Gamara,
and lies beyond the desert in the dead lands.
- I'll be back.
- I wanna remember every detail of your face.
I wanna burn it in my memory.
James, wait!
James!
I will love you to the ends of time.
- Your mother
is calling me.
I can't wait to look
into her eyes again.
- You seem lost in thought, my young queen.
Thinking of James?
I miss him very much.
- If Sir James is as pure of heart as he seems to be,
he will return.
- Yes, and he'll have this lovely old maid to return to.
Hush, you silly goose!
You will always be beautiful.
If this clock took off weight as fast as years,
I'd love it!
Flatterer!
This place has become so dreary, hasn't it?
- Yes, it is very quiet.
Your father always liked the sounds of his people,
their laughter, their music.
- He had such dreams for this kingdom.
- Well, he achieved them.
He elevated the art of living to a new level.
He built a, a kingdom in the sky,
dedicated to beauty and peace.
What more could anyone ask of one's life?
- You're right.
You know, you're a very wise man, Loffo.
Well, of course, I'm the cook.
- And a very good friend.
Sauris!
- You're going to die, you know?
If Karnissa destroys the world,
there'll be nothing left to rule,
so I will send a message offering Aralon
as my gift to her.
- Over my cold, dead body!
I would have it no other way.
Stephanie!
- That was very entertaining, your majesty.
Now, don't move a muscle!
Stephanie?
this is wreaking havoc on my allergies.
Stephanie, are you in there?
Oh, fire the housekeeper.
- Don?
- I'll be damned!
- How are you, old friend?
- I'm surviving!
What on Earth are you doing here?
I've come to stop the clock.
- Now, that's a hell of an idea, why didn't I think of that?
Where's Alexander?
Have you heard anything?
- He didn't make it.
But I'm not gonna let his death be in vain.
I'm gonna stop that clock, Don.
- You'll never make it on horseback, though.
- Can any of these ships fly?
- Mm, no, I doubt it.
There is the Persephone,
eh, but she's wedged pretty tight between those two peaks.
I bet she could fly.
- We have to get her down.
Be my guest.
We're so old, we can barely wipe our noses.
James, it's impossible.
- No, it's not impossible, nothing is impossible!
I need some strong bodies.
- Well, hightail it back to Aralon, then,
because everyone here's dead or dying.
- Listen to me, I didn't travel all this way to quit now!
You're not dead yet, Don, and I need you to help me,
so stop cracking jokes and help me!
- Where are you taking me?
- Silence!
- I will not be silent!
I deserve the right to know where you're taking me.
- Sauris offers you this.
Join him and you'll be spared.
Never!
- Apparently, they forgot to finish this room.
Now, jump!
Ooh, first steps a doozy, huh, queen?
Dive, Queenie, dive!
- Who wants an omelet?
Well, get him, Sirius!
I wanna see you fly, Queenie, fly!
There-there, there-there, dear.
Oh, Loffo , Sauris made a deal with Karnissa
to have the whole kingdom enslaved.
- I always thought that old coot
was a few slices short of a loaf, come on!
Where are we going?
I know there's a secret corridor
that leads into the throne room.
- When this is all over, can I take a vacation?
You know, I would like to go up north
somewhere where it's very frosty and--
Oh, oh, oh, careful!
- Thanks, Don.
- Take care, and teach that toady bitch some manners!
- Of course you can come, old boy!
- Prepare to fire.
- Don't make me do this!
Loffo, please!
Don't make this any harder than it already is!
Have I told you that I'm afraid of heights?
- Close your eyes!
Oh, my ribs!
You're no help at all!
- Ready?
- Does it matter?
I'm much too old for this!
Come on!
- Prepare the ship to fly to Gamara as soon as possible!
- Fire!
She's moving, she's really moving!
Lift up, lift up, James!
Give 'em hell, James!
- Keep the faith, Don.
- We have very little time.
Is the ship ready?
- Yes, my liege.
- That's the message to Karnissa.
- Why don't you just ask him nicely for it?
- Fly white sails so they may know you come in peace.
- You know, I haven't had a chance to read through this yet.
- Stop!
Loffo, throw the scroll into the fire.
Get a haircut!
Clean up this mess, boys, watch it!
Move it, cue ball,
you're crowding me, go on!
- Did you have a flair for drama, my queen?
- It's over, Sauris, you're out of time!
Look in the mirror, how much time do you have left?
Hours, minutes, seconds perhaps?
- Big talk for a girl with a knife at her throat!
Finish her!
Please , we are not animals!
This kingdom loved you!
There's so little time left ,
don't waste it on hate.
It's so pointless!
- You're all gutless!
There's still time!
I promise you wealth beyond anything you can imagine!
I promise you!
- I guess he only had seconds left.
- Let's get out of here.
Loffo!
- I guess I'm going the way of Sauris.
- No, no, Loffo, Loffo!
Please, hold on, please, for me?
Hold on just a little bit more, please!
Oh, God, no!
- Your Majesty, there is a ship approaching.
- That's impossible, how close?
- Approximately three miles due east.
I'm sorry.
- It appears that your trusted scouts have failed me.
- This isn't my fault!
- And since they're not here to suffer, someone must pay!
- Please, your majesty!
I beg of you.
It's just one stupid little ship,
but blow it out of the sky anyway.
Come on, cut it out!
Oh, no!
- Secure the area immediately!
Oh, great!
- Oh, save us, James, my love!
My God!
Are you the best that Aralon has to offer?
You could be my grandfather!
- No, Karnissa, I'm just a child
robbed of his life by your senseless lust for power!
I've come to end this pathetic charade.
- Well, you only have one more minute
until the end of your world
and the start of my new, splendid world!
Oh, you should thank me.
You wouldn't know what to do
with time if I gave it back to you!
Life is short, isn't it, old man?
You can't stop the clock, nobody can!
- Come back, come back, come back!
I'm sorry, Stephanie.
Come home, James, my love!
- It's mine!
The world is all mine!
No, no!
No, no, no!
- No!
Whoa!
- No, my clock!
Oh, no!
- Freedom?
Yah!
Love is the most powerful force there is.