The Dark Crystal Page #2

is. What's the Great Conjunction?

What's the Great Conjunction?

You tell me.

The Great Conjunction

is the end of the world...

...or the beginning.

End, begin. All the same.

Big change.

Sometimes good.

Sometimes bad.

There it is.

Gelfling knows nothing.

Aughra, what do I do with the Shard?

Heal the Dark Crystal.

But how?

Questions, questions.

Too many questions.

Do you want a Shard? Here.

Which one is it?

Don't know.

Don't know.

Listen, Gelfling.

There is much to be learned...

...and you have no time.

Which one? Which one is it?

It's one of these three, I'm sure.

You've already taken too long,

Gelfling. Hurry.

But how do I choose?

Yes!

Now you don't know what to do with it.

No one told you that, did they?

But Aughra knows.

Garthim!

Out! Get out!

Garthim, get out!

Take your hands off--

Aughra.

At last, the Crystal calls.

It is time.

Time to return to the castle.

Now I've got the Shard...

...but what do I do with it?

What is it?

Am I supposed to take it somewhere?

What's so special about this Shard?

It doesn't look like any--

I don't like this.

Oh, no. Right in the mud.

Fizzgig.

You Gelfling, like me?

Well, yes.

But I thought I was the only one.

I thought I was.

Here. I'll help you out.

-The first thing I remember is fire.

-Where did it start?

It's a war, I think.

A tree. My mother

puts me right inside, and we--

Mother! Mother, the monster!

First thing I remember

is the kind one.

He picks me up. He makes the

monsters disappear, and I'd be safe.

I am safe.

What's happening?

We're dream-fasting,

sharing our memories.

I'm having a bath.

When I was little,

I used to get fed by my new mom.

-She called me Kira.

-...and then bigger.

And master showed me

the whole valley stretching out.

I thought it went on forever.

Kira, watch out!

The Garthim!

They capture the Podlings.

-Then I am happy.

-It makes me cry.

My master is family,

teacher and friend.

And I can nearly forget

everything that happened.

And talk with flowers

and the living things.

He shows me numbers

and things called words.

Everywhere I go,

I learn the shapes of kindness.

I learn from them all,

except there's no one here like me.

I need to find--

I love them all,

except I need to find--

-Wait.

-I want--

-It's going away.

-It's going away.

Oh, no. I'm sinking.

-Don't move.

-Don't move? Where would I go?

-What is that?

-Just a Nebrie.

She won't hurt you.

Kira.

Your name is Kira.

We were dream-fasted, you and I.

Fizzgig.

Come on.

Fizzgig!

-You seem very strange to him.

-He seems pretty strange to me.

He's nervous.

Here, Skeksis are watching always.

We must go.

Come.

-Roast Nebrie, my favorite.

-Roast Nebrie. I want the rare piece.

Slaves.

You slime face!

Rotten!

Slaves!

Eat!

It seems to me that Gelfling...

...has escaped, huh?

No Gelfling ever escaped

from my deadly Garthim.

More food. More food!

Something stuck in my teeth.

Enchanting meal.

Dessert! Crawlies!

Dessert!

-Stop it!

-Crawlie!

Not bad at all.

Look. The Garthim return.

The Gelfling.

Release the Gelfling.

-What's this?

-Fools! Skeksis fools!

What do you want with me?

This is no Gelfling!

Of course I'm no Gelfling,

you putrid lizards!

I'll get my eye to you.

She was with him.

She helped him. Where is he?

Gone! Gelfling gone.

Stupid Garthim.

You want Gelfling, why not ask me?

Easier to send your crab-brained

soldiers, burn my home!

Now home gone, Gelfling gone.

Nothing but Aughra!

Mouldy mildew mother of mouthmuck!

Dangle and strangle to death!

Oh, how crude!

Watch your tongue, harridan.

We are lords of the Crystal.

Lords? Not for long.

What about the prophecy...

...that a Gelfling

will end Skeksis power?

He'll come, make you crawl,

like the worms you are.

Find that Gelfling now!

Crystal bats, fly!

Search the land!

Search the water!

Search the sky!

Jen, get down. Down.

-What was that?

-A Crystal bat.

What they see, the Skeksis see too.

-Did it see us?

-No, I don't think so.

Aren't these the people

from your memory?

When the Garthim killed my parents,

the Podlings adopted me.

They're my clan.

Come.

How do you say, "Thank you"?

You know the three suns in the sky?

They're going to come together soon.

It's called the Great....

The Great something or other.

It's a prophecy. He told me

that I must find the Shard...

...and that everything must be done

before the three suns join in one.

And that's all.

And then he died.

Jen, what's the Shard for?

That's just it. I don't know.

I found the Shard.

But you don't know

what to do with it.

Jen, this way!

Through here! Hurry!

Come on. Run.

-What was that creature?

-Skeksis.

Wait! They won't find us here.

-It's all my fault.

-That Skeksis--

He saved us from his own Garthim.

First Aughra's, then your village.

I wish I'd never heard

of this Shard.

No, Jen!

Jen, they hurt your arm.

Here. This moss'll make it better.

It wasn't your fault.

The Garthim have always come.

Oh, master, I remember the valley.

I didn't understand.

I miss the other masters

with the old, old magic and chants.

I never loved them enough.

Out here in the world, look at me.

I'm not a hero,

not the way you wanted.

Master, nothing is simple anymore.

Master? Master?

Where are we?

-Safe.

-Safe?

I don't think

anywhere is safe anymore.

These are ruins.

They're the houses

of the old ones.

You mean our ancestors?

Jen? Here's the Shard.

I can feel something.

-Hear it almost.

-We don't go in here anymore.

Bad things happened in here once.

But they were Gelfling,

like us.

Yes.

They were all killed

by the Skeksis long ago.

Kira. Kira, look here.

Just look at this.

That-- That looks

just like the Shard.

What does it mean?

And what are those funny marks?

This is all writing.

What's writing?

Words that stay.

My master taught me.

"When single shines

the triple sun...

...what was sundered and undone...

...shall be whole, the two made one...

...by Gelfling hand, or else by none."

By Gelfling hand?

Do you know what that means?

Wait.

This is a piece of the Dark Crystal.

-Then that's what my master meant.

-Yes.

-I have to put it--

-You've to heal the-- The Dark Crystal.

Prophecy?

-Jen, Skeksis!

-Stay! Stay! No!

Stay. Stay. Am friend.

Stay. Am friend.

Prophecy.

Prophecy cause all this trouble.

-That prophecy?

-Yes!

-That's why Skeksis killed Gelfling?

-Yes!

Yes. Bad mistake.

Skeksis afraid, fear Gelfling.

But you're a Skeksis.

But I am friend,

save you from Garthim.

-Why?

-Don't listen to him. It's a trick.

No! Please! Must listen.

Am outcast.

If I make peace,

am outcast no more.

-Will you stop the Garthim attacks?

-Yes!

Please, come to the castle.

Please!

Show them you want peace.

Show them Gelflings will not harm us.

Please, please.

-Please.

-Jen! No!

Come. Please.

Please. Yes. Please?

-Yes.

-No!

Come on, Kira.

No! Wait!

Wait, please?

Please? Wait!

Please make peace!

Now I know what I have to do.

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