Mother Night,
fold your dark arms about me.
Protect me in your black embrace.
I sit alone, an impotent exile
whilst this force, this presence returns to torment me.
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.
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.
The creature is crowned with a single spiral
reaching like an antenna 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.
Innocence. Innocence.
Maybe innocent, maybe sweet,
ain't half as nice as rotting meat.
Blooming fairies!
Lily!
One of your visits is always a pleasure.
Have another biscuit.
Nell...
I'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.
Lily, I look on you as a daughter.
If you'll pardon my saying it,
it's time you started behaving like the Lady you are.
Not visiting poor folk like us.
This place holds more magic for me than any palace in the world.
You live a very rich life, Nell.
You're very sweet, Lily.
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.
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.
Good. Very good. Just right.
Jack, tell me our future.
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, Lily.
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! Lily, you mustn't.
Lily, no. Please!
You'll spook the beast and spoil the trap.
This shot be just as sweet as pie.
Jack? Jack?
It was lovely, like a dream.
What you did is forbidden.
Who says so?
It is known, Lily. These are sacred animals.
You risk your immortal soul.
I only wanted to touch one.
Where's the harm in that?
Jack.
I'm sorry.
Are you afraid to kiss me, Jack?
I'm afraid you'll break my heart.
Then still your heart.
You're dear to me as life itself.
Don't you wish this was our wedding ring?
It's my right to set a challenge for my suitors.
I will marry whoever finds this ring.
Jack!
Lily!
Nell?
Clock. Mortal world turned to ice.
Here be goblin paradise!
Plenty hospitality here.
Very nice.
Oh!
How did you do that, Blix?
Yeah, tell us how you do those tricks.
Quite easy, actually.
Lucky day! Kill ugly one-horned mule!
You act like you do all.
It was me who shoot the poisoned stinger.
Me! Me! Me!
You only got the shot in because 'twas beauty led the beast to bay.
She was so sweet. I could eat her brains like jam.
I could suck her bones...
Enough!
Better hurry. Dark Lord, he don't like to wait.
What have I done?
I'll make it right.
Lily!
Four, five six, hurray for Blix!
Jack?
Lily?
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.
How did you know my name?
Stop it! Go away!
I know everything, Jack. Yet, I do not understand
what has happened today.
Suppose you tell me, Jack.
You know these woods as well as any elf.
Did you not see something odd today?
Any strange spirits?
Did nothing untoward happen?
I took Lily to see the Unicorns.
You did what?
Silence!
Oh, God, Sump, she touched mm.
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! I did it for Lily.
I did it for love.
Love, you say? Well, love is another matter.
Brown Tom! A toast to love.
Elderberry wine. The finest drink under heaven.
But, Gump, it's the last bottle of me best wine.
Now, Gump, don't you be forgetting me.
Oh, careful now.
Oh, it's so precious.
Here's to Jack, loving fool and fairy friend.
- Tip it. - And to Lily.
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.
We must find what's happened to my Lily.
That we must.
I sadly fear the worst.
Lily!
Jack, what?
Lily!
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.
Champion? What champion?
Don't give up so quick, lads.
You'll do.
We must get you some weapons.
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.
Like me own life.
Better. She's the last of her kind.
Jack, I can't go with you now.
Anyway, Oona will guide the way.
Follow me, Jack. Over here. Come on.
Come on. Hurry! Hurry!
Come on, Jack.
I'm Oona.
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.
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.
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!
I hold the power!
Enough!
Shit! Please! It was only a joke.
I didn't mean it.
No! No!
Have you no sense of humor?
Adios, 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!
Stallion is dead. Dead as dreams.
Out With it!
The mare lives still!
If 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 coIt's foot.
Hey, who goes there, what?
You! You're the cause of all our sorrow.
I'm so sorry.
I didn't know.
Please forgive me.
I'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 you.
Try this on for size.
You can't beat me. Look at that!
Keep them coming, fellows!
Oh, check this out! Yes, sir. You see?
You just can't beat me! You can't...
Dick 0' Tuesday's duck! They done for me.
Brown Tom!
Brown Tom, you can't be dead.
This is terrible. Terrible!
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 good lass warned me, but...
Lily?
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.
I made it!
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!
I did it!
Screwball!
Oh, okay. Okay.
I think it stopped.
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!
We gotta get out of here! It's the stench of hell itself!
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.
What happened to you?
It's a long story. Doesn't matter now, anyway.
We are all in the same fix!
I knew it. I knew it. I should have stayed at home.
Let's face it, brothers.
Me and you all is barbecue.
Barbecue?
Oh, no! He's coming! Hide!
Hide! Hide! Hide!
Let me go! Let me go!
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.
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.
Lily?
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!
Oona!
Your fine sensibilities have left us here to rot!
I'm behind you all the way, Gump.
You look like mourners at your own funeral.
Oona!
Quick, lads!
A terrible sight for a sober man.
We must find the dungeons.
I think I'll stay right here, thank you very much.
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 and Screwball.
Right. Take care. Come on, Jack.
Be careful.
There's only one thing I want to know.
What?
Why me?
I think we should go west.
I think we should go east.
Oh, okay. Wait!
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?
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. Psst! Psst!
Did, did you see something?
No, did you?
I don't know.
I think.
Gump! Through here!
Gump! This way! Gump!
Come on! Come on!
What's that?
That's the Unicorn, you idiot.
Win her.
Charm her.
Seduce her.
Make her one of us.
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.
Lily!
Jack!
There's nothing you can do now to help her.
Be thankful she still lives.
The last Unicorn dies tonight.
Never.
As her blood ebbs, the sun sets forever.
There shall never be another dawn.
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.
I think I know a way.
Let's go down there.
Stay close to me now.
You know what? What?
I vote we run like hell.
I second the motion.
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.
ExcellenL Excellent, you two!
Thank you very much.
Now Jack has a plan and a good one!
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!
Jack. Jack!
Three cheers for our champion!
Hip hip! Hooray!
Now what, 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.
Yes.
All I wish is for you to sit and talk with me.
Sit?
Here?
Yes.
I 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 specialty.
Through dreams I influence mankind.
My dream is of eternity with you.
I offer you this rose, pﬂncess.
My heart,
my soul,
my love.
Love?
A little to the right.
Left. Good!
Sit.
I value your thoughts.
Share them with me.
Sit?
Sit.
Nothing more than that?
And talk with me.
Eat.
Drink.
I do nothing for your pleasure.
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.
In 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.
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!
Lily.
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!
Lily.
I'll do it.
No!
No.
I trust you, Lily.
I'll always trust you.
Run!
Run! You're free!
Darkness!
What have we here?
A little boy.
Screwball!
Wake up, Screwball! Wake up!
Wake up!
Don't you know me, boy?
Every wolf suffers fleas.
‘Tis easy enough to scratch.
Give it to me, boy!
Father!
Protect me!
You think you have won!
What is light without dark?
lam a part of you all.
You can never defeat me.
We are brothers eternal!
Do it, Jack! Kill him! Kill him!
She's under a spell.
A powerful spell.
Do something.
Only you can answer this riddle.
Jack, we have a promise that must be kept.
Now fulfill your promise.
I will miss you.
But don't forget us.
Never.
Come back to me.
I love you, Lily.