Sinbad was in his room, looking at his maps. A strange wave of sleepiness rushed over the sailor and he became sleepy. His head fell into his table and he began dreaming. He was walking, walking in a dark, cold barren place. The snow was falling heavily, and covered the ground. Sinbad, freezing, hugged his arms for warmth. He walked around and in the distance he saw a figure. He walked closer to see what or who it was. The figure was wearing a cloak with a hood. He walked closer and sees that the figure is a woman. She turns around and it’s Maeve! She says nothing and has no emotion on her face.

“Maeve!” Sinbad said

Her cloak slightly opens as she holds in her hands a fireball. She looks up at him and smiles. Sinbad feels the warmth she emits and walks closer to her.

“Maeve, is it really you?” he reaches out to touch her, but the fireball explodes, forcing Sinbad to wake up abruptly.

“Sinbad! Sinbad! Are you in there?” Bryn said as she banged on the door.

Sinbad shakes his head a bit.

“Just a dream” he said as he got up.

Sinbad opens the door and sees Bryn.

“What do I owe the pleasure of this visit?” Sinbad said

“Doubar wants to know where we’re headed” Bryn

“Oh, well I’ve marked it off on the map” Sinbad goes for the map, and the mark on the map he made magically disappears and reappears somewhere else. He hands it to Bryn.

“There you go, will there be anything else?” Sinbad asked

“No captain, that'll be it, for now” Bryn said as she walked away and closed the door

The same rush of sleepiness came over the sailor again, and he just fell asleep, but this time into a deeper sleep. He was walking around the same barren land, except there were trees here. White trees covered in ice. Everything was covered in ice and snow. Nothing seemed to live here. The branches were bare and provided no protection. The snow and wind became fiercer. Sinbad walked around and saw the river was frozen solid and the fish were too. But they seemed to be in great pain. He saw the houses were abandoned, and frozen. Any animals he did see were frozen beyond belief. He trenched through the snow until it came up to his knees, where he finally collapsed. He looked up and saw Maeve again. She was standing at a tree. He managed to get to his feet and stumble over to her. There was a single apple on the branch of the tree. It was unaffected by the ice and snow. Maeve plucked it from the branch and handed it to him. Sinbad held it in his hands and looked at it.

“I don’t understand, Maeve, please-” he said as he looked up, but she was gone

“Maeve?” Sinbad said as he got up and looked around.

He looked down and sees her lying down in the snow, buried. He bends down to help her. He begins to dig her out of the snow. He manages to remove the snow for her upper body and she sits up. She smiles and hugs him, and he hugs her back. When they release, Maeve morphs into a blonde woman in a light blue velvet dress.

“What is this?!” Sinbad says as he gets up

“Sinbad! Sinbad!” Doubar yells as he bangs on the door

“Huh? What?” Sinbad gets up

“Sinbad! We have a problem” Bryn

Sinbad opens the door and finds the two of them covered in blankets.

“Why are you wearing that?” Sinbad

“We’ve got a problem. I think you should see this” Doubar

The three head up on deck where Sinbad is hit by a wave of cold air. Rongar hands him a blanket.

“Thanks” Sinbad says as he wraps himself with it.

“We’re frozen in the water” Doubar

“When did this happen?” Sinbad

“I don’t know, we were headed to the mark on the map, and a cold wind came and the ship was frozen!” Doubar

“Firouz is working on it” Bryn

“How’s he doing?” Sinbad says as he walks over to Firouz

“This isn’t good. Normally salt can melt through ice, but this ice seems to be too thick and the temperature is too cold for the salt to work effectively” Firouz said

“Which means?” Sinbad

“We’re stuck” Firouz

“Bryn?” Sinbad

“Don’t look at me!” Bryn said as she walked away

“Well we might as well see if any of the natives can help” Sinbad

The crew slides off the side of the Nomad and walk into the ice onto solid ground. The snow lightens up a bit, and they can see that the ice and snow has devoured every living thing for miles around. Nothing seems to live, the people have abandoned their homes, and the land is barren. Rongar looks up and sees a castle made of solid ice up on a high mountain. He points to it.

“Looks like that’s where we start” Sinbad said

The crew makes their way up the mountain, taking the winding trail around it, being careful not to slip on the ice. They reach the giant door, which is unguarded. They open the door and find that there is a block of solid ice behind it. Firouz, Rongar, Doubar and Sinbad all ram into the ice hoping to break it, but they fail.

“Ouch!” Doubar

“Bryn?” Sinbad

“Why do you always look at me when we’re in a jam?” Bryn says

“Just try” Sinbad

“Fine” Bryn says as she stands in front of the block of ice. Her body starts to glow red, and emit heat. She starts to melt a hole through the ice.

“Nice job Bryn” Sinbad says as he enters

They walk down a long hallway, which is frozen all around. They reach the throne room, which seems abandoned. Bryn starts to shiver, and her body starts glowing again. She emits an intense heat this time, which starts to melt the ceiling. It begins to rain inside the castle.

Suddenly, a woman appears.

“What are you doing?” She yells as she raises her palm up to the air and freezes the ceiling and the crew to their necks.

“Are you here to destroy me?” She asked

“I apologize for my crewmate, she doesn’t have control over her powers yet” Sinbad says

The blonde woman, dressed in a light blue velvet dress walks closer to the crew. Her dress is long that it reaches her ankles. The dress is sleeveless and has little tassles lined around it. She has an ice crown and approaches Sinbad.

“So it seems” she replied

“My ship is frozen in the ice” Sinbad said as he looked at her closely

“That does happen now”

“We were wondering if-”

“If we could help? Have you looked around lately? Have you not seen the evil that plagues us?”

“No we were headed for a trading port, but were stuck here”

“It is the power of the evil warlock that has frozen the land. He is more powerful than I am. He’s frozen the land, and soon the surrounding lands”

“What does he want?” Bryn

“What all warlocks want, power. Namely mine”

"And who are you?" Sinbad asked

"Princess Arnora, the last of my line" she replied

“What of the king and queen?” Bryn

“The King, my father was killed when he arrived, the Queen my mother died when she tried to defeat him. He stole her powers. I cannot defeat him, that is why I sent for you”

“You’re the one-” Sinbad

“That’s invading your dreams”

“What kind of trickery is this?” Doubar

“Defeat the warlock, Nargoc, and your ship and my land will be free. Simple as that”

“That simple huh?” Sinbad

“But be careful,” looking at Bryn, “you cannot use your powers against him, when you use it against him, he steals it.”

“Where do we find this Nargoc?” Sinbad

With that the princess waved her hand and they were instantly transported into a cave. They looked around walked down the cave, which lead into a long corridor. Large icicles from the ceiling start failing, and the crew scatter and take cover. They run around like pinballs from corner to corner taking cover. They make it through corridor and enter a room. They look around and see paintings of people.

“What is this place?” Doubar

Bryn faints, and Firouz comes to her aid. But her body disappears and the crew is left wondering what has happened to her. She is transported to a room somewhere hidden. She lays on the table still unconscious.

The crew leave the room and enter another corridor.

“He’s got Bryn” Sinbad

“Well we’ll get her back!” Doubar

“That’s right!” Firouz says as they walk down the corridor

Bryn finally wakes up and sees that she’s in a strange room. Full of potions and a cauldron and tiny animals caged. The room was black, and there were many crystal balls on the table. There was one that was glowing blue. Bryn picked it up but it slipped through her fingers and it almost dropped, that is until, Nargoc caught it.

“Now, now, we can’t have you dropping this” Nargoc pointed

“What, who,” Bryn stuttered

“I am Nargoc, now will you please hand over your powers now? It’s a pain to do it the other way”

“My powers? I don’t think you can handle it!” Bryn said as she punched him

“I see we’re going to have to do this the hard way”

“Don’t you warlocks have something better to do?”

“You don’t seem like the others”

“I’m not like the others!” Bryn said as she jump kicked him.

“Oof!” he said as he fell back

Bryn ran behind a table with his potions and other things tipped it over and used it as a shield. Nargoc gets up and throws a bolt of lightening at her. She jumps as it destroys the table. She hides in a corner and hopes he doesn’t see her.

“What kind of power do you have? Why do you not use your power against me?”

Sinbad and the crew make their way down the corridor and enter a room. The room is eight sided and the walls are black. The door closes behind them. The walls start turning around and around.

“I don’t like the looks of this” Doubar

The walls turn faster and faster, creating a mini tornado inside. The crew are flung against the walls and pinned there. They’re spinning faster and faster and can’t move.

“Any ideas?” Sinbad yelled out

“The walls spinning around, creates the force that lifts us up and pins us against the wall” Firouz

“Is there anything we can do to stop it?” Sinbad

“Not till it stops!” Firouz replied

Meanwhile Bryn and Nargoc are still playing hide and seek. Bryn sets some of the animals free.

“You can’t hide you know” Nargoc

“You’re right. It’s not my style” Bryn says as she gets up

“Shall we have the usual duel of magic?” Nargoc

“Magic? I don’t fight with magic. I fight with this!” Bryn raises her sword

Nargoc uses his power and sends her flying across the room. She lands on a table and falls off. Bryn lying on the floor looks up and sees the same blue glowing org rolling around. She picks it up as she stands up.

“What are you doing with that?” Nargoc demanded

“What do you think?” Bryn replied

“I have yours right here” he holds up another crystal ball but it’s clear.

“You can have it”

“No I insist, I hand picked this one out just for you” Nargoc said his magic wrapped around her and pulled herself closer to him.

Bryn’s body started glowing red again. It faded and the crystal ball Nargoc was holding suddenly had a yellow swirl inside it floating around.

“Very good” he said

Bryn realized that he was stealing her powers as the princess had said. She then realized that the glowing blue orb she was holding was the princess’s power. And once she realized this she threw it to the ground and watched it break into small tiny pieces. The blue swirls flew up into the air and disappeared.

“No!” He yelled

“Did I do that?” Bryn coyly asked

“Well I guess you’ll have to replace her then”

“Guess again!” Bryn said as she used her magic and sent a wind that sent him flying back. She then ran over and held her sword to his neck.

“Oh you see you think you got me but you really don’t” Nargoc

“Doesn’t matter if you have all the magic in the world. You’ll be dead before you can use it!”Bryn

The glowing yellow orb containing her powers rolled by. Bryn using her sword smashed the orb, and felt her powers return to her, as quickly as she returned the sword under Nargoc’s chin.

“I may not have your powers or the princess’s but I still have others!” he said as he used his power to make her use her sword against herself. The blade was reaching her neck and she was helpless against it.

Just then Sinbad and the crew burst through the doors.

“Bryn!” Sinbad yelled as he ran over to help her

“Not another step Captain” Nargoc warned

“Think again warlock!” Princess appeared in a mist

She uses her magic and pulls Bryn away from Nargoc’s grasp.

“Now warlock, you’ll see what it’s like to be powerless!” Princess says as a white mist surrounds him.

“Bryn I need your help” Princess says as she walks closer to her

“Alright” Bryn says as she feels a cold wind pass by her freezing Nargoc in place.

“I condemn you to your prison, the one you have made for yourself” Princess says

The orb floats towards him and sucks him in.

“No!” Nargoc yells

The orb absorbs him in and falls to the ground. The Princess gasps as she realizes what is about to happen. Sinbad dives and catches it just in time. A sigh of relief. Sinbad gets up holding the orb. He looks at it and inside you see a miniature Nargoc trapped inside. Princess takes the orb from him and upon instantly touching it she freezes it.

“You won’t be bothering us for a while” Princess says

Back at the castle, the crew is watching the ice melt from the land. They pick up some supplies. The princess asks for their presence in the throne room. They enter and see her sitting on her throne.

“Captain, I would like to thank you and your crew for saving my kingdom and my powers.”

“We were just glad we could help” Sinbad

“As a token of my appreciation” she hands them small treasure chest

Sinbad opens it and sees inside. The light almost blinds them. Inside the chest is filled with diamonds. The crew is taken by the sigh of this. Sinbad picks one up and looks at it. The light hits it just right and a small rainbow appears.

“Captain, may I speak to you?” Princess

“Of course” Sinbad gives the chest to Rongar as he walks off with the Princess.

“I’m sorry for invading your dreams. It was the only way I could get you here”

“It’s all been forgotten”

“The woman in your dreams….when I took her form, I sense something….I….”

Sinbad look at her as if she’d hurt him in some way. Maeve he thought, how he longed to find her.

“I, I….you will find her”

“I know I will”

“Sooner than you think Sinbad” she placed a diamond in his hand and he looked at it. It shined so brightly in the light, that for a second he saw Maeve in the jewel.

“Sooner than you think” the princess’s voice whispered in his ear.

Until next time!