The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

A fine, clear morning, and all is well!

Higher!

Ahoy there! Look up!

Fetch me a bow.

Look.

Captain?

Captain Sinbad?

Up there in the sky.

It's holding something.

Abdul.

Shines like gold.

Too strange to be an albatross.

A jackdaw? They steal bright things.

No, no. Too big for a jackdaw.

Omar!

You fool!

You have brought bad luck on us all!

Captain!

Cast it over the side. It is evil.

I feel it.

[ Bird Squawks ]

Captain!

For the love of Allah, cast it overboard.

I think I'll keep it.

[ Thunderclap ]

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

- Sinbad!

- [ Thunderclap ]

[ Men Shouting, Indistinct ]

[ Shouting Continues ]

I can't hold her, Captain.

She's running before the wind!

Look! We're being driven onto the rocks!

Slice that sail!

Let it drift if you have to!

Abdul!

Allah, give me strength!

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

Marabia.

It must be Marabia.

We are way off course.

No. The dream I had, Rachid-

This is all part of it somehow.

We've been brought here

by some mysterious force.

Is it not written that a wise man

will try to realize his dream, to follow it?

Some say it is through dreams

that Allah speaks to mortal man.

To forsake the dream-

Is to forsake him!

Captain, he who walks on fire

will burn his feet.

Captain?

I'm going ashore.

Aye, there's a good anchorage beyond.

That's where we'll meet.

Do as he says!

We make for the anchorage!

You are Captain Sinbad?

I am.

You are also a thief.

And a thief is a king until he is caught.

The bauble that hangs at your throat,

Captain, is mine.

Hand it to me, or you will have no throat.

You'll be dead if you don't.

You stole it from my courier.

Very well.

- Hi-yah!

- [ Whinnies ]

[ Man ] Koura!

The black prince! Prince Koura!

[ Chanting ]

[ Chanting ]

[ Whinnies ]

We have waited for you a long time.

He escaped, Achmed.

He rode into the city and escaped me.

The sultan's guards were there to help him.

But you are all right.

I brought the city gates

down upon their foolish faces.

Master, your hand!

We must hurry.

He who searches for pearls should not sleep.

Sinbad is even now with the vizier.

I must hear what passes between them.

Walls have mice,

and mice have ears.

- [ Caws]

- I have my spy.

He has failed me once, but never twice.

You tell a strange tale, Captain.

Nevertheless, one fact makes me

believe your story.

The amulet around your neck-

it makes us allies against the same enemy

who covets it as much as I.

Fate, destiny have brought us together.

I would like to think so.

Why?

Our country is being choked alive by a

great evil visited on us by Prince Koura.

Koura?

The one who attacked me?

A man versed in every black art...

and dedicated to bringing

this domain under his power.

Please.

I have an equally strange tale to tell.

When our sultan died without a son,

he made me heir to two things-

the two being part of one secret.

What are these two things you speak of?

You shall see.

[ Doors Creak, Slam, Lock ]

Here is the first.

These pictures tell the story of a legend

as yet unrealized.

Little remains.

As our sultan breathed his last breath,

and I hastened here to read the secrets,

a great ball of fire engulfed this room-

a fire which took away my face...

and left these few scorched

patches that now you see.

A ball of fire?

It was Koura's work.

You spoke of two things bequeathed thee.

Here is the second,

something the fire could not destroy-

A token, a sign, a riddle.

It is said the riddle will

begin to be unraveled...

when this and the one about your neck...

are placed before a great eminence

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