- [Niko] Previously on Niko and the Sword of Light.
- Greetings small creature. -Oh!
What is this place?
- The champion has awoken. - This is too soon!
- [Woman] Keep him hidden, keep him safe.
- I'm Princess Lyra. - [Boy] Are you a ghost?
- I'm your guide. - Like a side kick?
- More like a babysitter.
- [Man] The new champion is a tiny boy.
I want that sword brought to me.
- [Woman] Niko is truly our last and only hope.
- [Niko] Darkness, be gone!
- I'll get that shard and my dark jewel will be whole again.
- This is it champion.
- We began this together and so shall we end it.
- Oh I think not.
(yells) My sword!
- Not anymore! The age of Nar Est has begun!
-Attack! - Fire!
- I am Niko and this is my sword of light!
(man yells)
-(woman yells) -(man yells)
- Darkness abandons you Nar Est!
- [Man] What became of Nar Est?
- He's the most conveniently trapped for eternity.
- Great job, champ. - We did it.
(snoring)
(screeching)
- I am Niko and this is my sword of light!
I am here to protect my people
and defeat the darkness forever!
(upbeat inspiring music)
(light piano music)
- Step aside please!
Master of coin coming through!
Our queen's gonna have herself
one hip of a birthday party.
Banners, please.
Terrific! Now, streamers!
Sophegio!
- Yes, Master Mandok?
- Lengthen Mideus, widen the space
between the Umloudy tables,
and move the ice sculpture, please.
- But Minister Bolatha said.
- Mandok, Master of Coin, is in charge
of the birthday celebration, not Minister Bolatha.
I speak with the power of the purse.
- Greetings humans of Carondolet.
Healers of many surrounding lands,
I, special amisery Frosting Cupcake.
- No, no, save the proclamitary foo-foo all for the queen.
I have urgent business over that way.
- Terrible protocol.
- You sound like two gorph norfers
fighting over a hidy hole.
Let Mandok, the master of coin help.
My personal stash of fister moth in the brazen.
- You are too kind, Mandok.
- It's Master Mandok, but your point is taken.
Now go and practice blowing that
cutenflute like the wayward wind.
And my parents said I'd never amount to anything.
(Niko yelling) Yeah! Yeah!
Evil fiends!
Free this innocent fruit family
or face the fury of the sword of light!
(yelling)
You're carnivorous rat bats will not save you!
You leave me no choice.
Force blast!
Victory is mine!
No!
My triumph comes at a terrible cost.
(pet yawning)
- Agreed Flicker, the tireless work of a
champion is taxing indeed.
(bell ringing)
Flicker, the high sun bell.
Make haste!
Queen Lyra anxiously awaits my daily report.
- The tree people of Brachiocolous and the
Meerkoons of the Stratoland request your
console about an elevated ropeway.
- By all means Minister Bolatha, schedule it.
- The sky snails and finspins have an aerial dispute.
They too seek your counsel.
- Everybody seeks my counsel.
- It's quite a compliment, Your Majesty.
In the old days, the other creatures feared us.
- Please schedule it.
Just make sure there aren't any
air sharks visiting that day.
Now, if that's everything...
- No, Majesty.
As you can see, there's much to do on this important day.
Now is when you hear disputes and petitions.
- Havoc.
(men yelling)
- Hey, watch it!
What are you doing?
- Forgive the close call!
I am very late!
Ooh!
What manor of strange bug is that?
You appear to be a common blark beetle,
and yet, there is something--
(yelling)
Deceiverness!
Come back here bug of evilness!
You are no blark beetle!
(yelling)
(growling)
(yelling)
Insect of strangeness, this is not over!
Flicker, after it!
(bells ringing)
- The bleeding goat belongs to it's first owner,
but henceforth, he must be fenced in.
[Woman] Next!
(men grunting)
- One party divides the pie,
the other party chooses his piece.
- [Woman] Next!
Next!
(woman sighs)
- I never knew how much drudgery there is to the job.
- The royal quindecennial jubilee should lift your spirits.
- You're right!
I haven't had a birthday party in, in?
- 769 years, Majesty. -(bells ringing)
Your Majesty.
Your captain of the guard is not coming.
Niko has missed his daily briefing...again.
- I'm sure Niko's got... I mean he's very...
Yeah, not coming.
- Make way! - Niko?
(yelling)
(grunting)
Woo-hoo!
Queen Lyra, I have much to report.
- Sorry, Niko.
It's time for my magic lesson.
- Now?
But there are so many treaties to sign.
- Minister, we agreed to one hour of study everyday,
including holidays.
- Your father believed one's royal duty should come first.
- I know but, a little magic won't hurt.
- But the schedule!
- Lyra, wait!
I am coming with you!
- Niko, Uncle Sargus asked me not
to bring you anymore, remember?
You thought his training illusions were
real and blew a hole in the library tower.
- At least let me make my report.
There is importantness afoot.
- Quickly.
- I Niko, the captain of the guard, saw a bug today.
- A bug.
- An insect of darkness.
- Last time it was a spoon of darkness,
and before that it was a broom of darkness,
and a music box ballerina of darkness.
You cured the darkness Niko.
We won, you won.
I'll see you at the party.
- The party, that is it!
I shall go to help with the celebration preparations!
Let the captain of the guard assist you.
Take that, root vegetables!
Soon you will be cut down to size!
(sighs)
(grunting)
Crafty hook!
If I cannot come to you, you will come to me!
Searing force strike!
- Captain Niko, sir.
Maneuvers for the Royal birthday
exhibition proceeding of pace, sir.
- Ooh! Surely, I can be part of this.
Watch this, my royal guard.
Bow of light, aim true!
(men yelling)
(loud explosion)
- Captain, may I suggest that you be more
comfortable simply reviewing your troops, sir.
Perhaps from far away.
- Lyra will be so disappointed.
The mightiest of champions is the
weakest of birthday helpers.
(kids singing)
♪ Altogether, altogether ♪
♪ Then your path will shine ♪
♪ The greatest power in the world ♪
♪ Is yours alone to find ♪
- Wanna play hoppity dunk?
- What is that rhyme?
- Everybody knows the hoppity dunk rhyme.
♪ One star flies in the sky real high ♪
♪ Two stars sleep in the tower keep ♪
♪ Three stars nest in the molten crest ♪
(yelling)
- The ball is vanquished!
(screams)
(yelling)
Have I won?
The months since my glorious victory
have been lonely indeed.
- Keep focused your majesty.
A true mage can sense the magic all around us
and use a crystal to magnify and focus that energy
just as veins of crystal carry light
through rock across the globe.
- Like this, Uncle Sargus?
Am I doing it?
- Yes!
Now encircle this creature and pull.
Eyes closed, Majesty, until you master it.
- Uncle, I can't see it.
- You don't need to.
(woman sighs)
- Now what do you suppose went wrong?
Did you try to fly and cast at the same time again?
- No!
- Your majesty fibs.
- I should be able to do that by now, shouldn't I?
How long will it take until I can fly?
- I cannot say.
You have great natural ability and you practice daily,
yet you can't seem to concentrate enough to make progress.
- It's because I'm queen.
My head's a muddle.
I make everyone else's decisions and
I can't make any decisions for myself.
- Come now.
- I never knew how many eidics and treaties
and envoys there were and alliances.
Alliances are the worst.
And if you do a good job, what do you get?
More alliances.
(woman sighs)
Uncle, I'm just not sure I was cut out to lead.
- Being queen is a big job with a lot of small pieces.
Once you see how they fit together,
you can decide what to make of the job
and what kind of queen you want to be.
- Uncle, if I kept the fire opal, I could practice more.
- The fire opal is far too powerful
for an unsupervised novice.
I mean no insult my dear queen but,
balance is the sole of magic.
If a beginner acquires power too quickly,
it leads to corruption and chaos.
- Of course. Wouldn't wanna end up like Nar Est.
- No.
He meddled with forces that he hadn't mastered
and we all suffered.
Now he pays the price in his own eternal prison.
- I still can't believe I lost to these fools.
- Lord Nor Est!
- Rasper, we are no longer on speaking terms.
- But they left the door open!
- What?
Don't just stand there, push!
Put your wing into it.
(bird yelling)
- Uncle, you forgot to close the...
Havoc, not again.
Sound the alarm!
(man and bird yelling)
- Sometimes I think my friends will never again need me.
(bells ringing)
I am needed!
Fear not!
The captain of the guard is coming!
Coming!
- Left. - Right.
- [Bird] I mean, yes!
- Got it!
- Nar Est!
Your foolish romp has ended!
- Reverse!
- I can't!
- That strange bug!
- Niko!
- There.
Freedom is just ahead.
- Worry not folks.
Mandok, master of coin will save the day.
Sophegio.
(man and bird yelling)
- [Bird] The birdman's mouth.
- He'll swallow us like a pill.
- Nor Est, you're only making things worse for yourself.
(loud ringing)
- Ooh! - Ouch!
- Fiendish foe!
Niko is not fooled by your tiny smallness of size!
Shatter blast!
I have you!
There's more.
(heavy breathing)
- It's okay champ... uh, captain.
- I got the darkness bug, Lyra.
- Yes, and got a little over excited.
You had another one of your visions, didn't you?
- This one was different.
I do not know what it means.
- The boy's been having more and more odd visions,
and now he chases insects when our greatest enemy is loose.
- I owe the kid my life a dozen times over,
but every time he leaves that tree house,
there's a little more damage to repair
and a little less cash to do it with.
- What if the next time he gets a strange notion,
he blasts one of us instead of a bug?
- Niko would never do that.
- My friends, something is not right.
I sense a growing danger.
I sense...darkness.
- Maybe there is something going on but,
I think it has more to do with change than darkness.
We'll make time to work it all out, I promise.
(accordion music)
- Now that's good cootinfluting.
- The guests and dignitaries are arriving.
- These greetings are offered in
the spirit of neighborly comradery and mutual regard.
From the Umlaute highest council.
With full support of the Umlaute second highest council,
queen of Carondolet, the highest council of Duratractes
thanks you for your role in improving--
(loud farting)
...the surrounding lands.
- Fine, you can come back for cake in a few hours.
And stay out of trouble,
just for the rest of today, okay?
Woo-hoo!
- I shall have cake without the boringness!
You again?
This time, flying foe,
you will not escape me.
(bug hissing)
The whisp of darkness.
My true enemy returns!
Know this deceiving whisp,
I am sworn to protect my people from the likes of you!
Fire flash!
Lightning storm!
(yelling)
Force blast!
- Linging cringles, Your Majesty.
By unanimous consent of the people of Bureacratis,
you may keep the plate.
- Niko!
- Where are you, shapeless thing of the dark?
I found you!
Darkness be gone!
(guests yelling)
- Niko, what are you doing?
- You cannot escape me whisp of darkness!
- Niko, stop!
(guests gasp)
- Your Majesty!
- The darkness.
- Child!
What did you say to the queen?
- Happy birthday?
- Niko, go to your tree house.
- Yes, Your Majesty.
- Next time, how about letting me pick the escape route?
- I told you, I'm not speaking to you.
- You really ought to see this, Lord.
- What now, you dotus?
Ooh!
- It penetrated the magic sphere.
Is that even possible?
- It is Rasper, if you're formed from the dark magic itself.
- I bring a message, Nar Est.
You will listen.
- I obey no one, you simpering fog.
Who sent you?
- I speak for the darkness.
He has plans for you,
and the darkness must be obeyed.
(upbeat inspiring music)
- [Man] Chirp.