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Raziel suddenly butts Willow into a tent.

INT. TENT

Willlow tumbles into the tent and Raziel follows him.

RAZIEL:

Get down! The ritual chant!

Quick! Protect yourself!

WILLOW:

Why?

RAZIEL:

Just do it!

Willow takes out his philosopher's stone and begins to

chant.

EXT. NOCKMAAR CASTLE

Madmartigan faces the queen.

MADMARTIGAN:

We've come for Elora Danan! Turn

her over to us!

Bavmorda stabs her finger down at him.

BAVMORDA:

You dare to challenge me? You are

not warriors. You're pigs!

She waves her hand, casting a horrible spell over the

army. Madmartigan's body begins to change its shape.

His armor breaks apart. He grows hideous.

BAVMORDA:

You're all pigs!

The rebel soldiers panic and run. Slowly, horribly,

they all expand and contort, ripping out of their armor

and clothers, casting down their weapons and shields.

SORSHA:

Mother! No!!

BAVMORDA:

You made your decision!

Bavmorda points at Sorsha, and Sorsha, too, begins to

change. The mountainside becomes a sea of writhing

flesh. Every one of the Tir Asleen army is transformed

into a pig.

INT. QUEEN'S TOWER - DUSK Bavmorda throws open the

door. Her druids are binding the baby in a leather

thong.

BAVMORDA:

Begin the ritual. Now! Light the

first candle.

A druid lights on of THIRTEEN ENORMOUS CANDLES. Bav-

morda glares up at the roof. In the middle of it is a

large circular hole showing the starlit sky.

BAVMORDA:

Come, thunder. Come lightning.

Touch this altar with your pwer.

Come into my tower...

Lightning flashes faintly and thunder rumbles in the

distance. Bavmorda smiles with satisfaction.

A druid places teh baby on the altar. The other druid

hits a loud gong, once. Bavmorda enters the Magician's

Circle. Her face contorts as she recites:

BAVMORDA:

Dark runes, dark powers! Blend and

bind, bind and blend, Universal

night! And the might of Nockmaar!

Magically she produces a razor-sharp knife. Lightning

flashes again, getting closer.

INT. TENT - NIGHT

Willow is crouched on his knees, chanting with her eyes

closed.

RAZIEL:

It's over, Willow. You did well.

You protected yourself.

Willow looks up. He hears the grunting outside. With

great trepidation, he crawls to the tent door.

EXT. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - OUTSIDE TENT - NIGHT

Willow shudders in horror at the grotesque sight. Amid

horses and tents and weapons, hundreds of pigs wander

about. Willow stands and walks through them. He looks

down at one point and sees Rool and Teemo: two tiny

baby pigs. Then he turns and runs back into the tent.

INT. TENT - NIGHT

Willow collapses to his knees beside Raziel.

WILLOW:

I've come all this way and now

Elora Dana's going to die!

RAZIEL:

No! I can still defeat Bavmorda!

WILLOW:

She's too powerful, Raziel

Raziel sternly stamps the ground with her hoof.

RAZIEL:

A true magician, Willow, never

surrenders. She is a sorceress--I

am a sorceress! Transform me now

and I will destroy her! Hexagram!

Willow grabs a sword and draws a hexagram around Ra-

ziel. He steps outside of it, holds up his

philosopher's stone and begins his magic.

WILLOW:

Banish all disturbing forces from

this place. Fire, water, above and

below. Balance. Balance. Bal-

ance.

Raziel begins to change. Willow wrestles with his own

powers of concentration and will, now and then losing

strength.

RAZIEL:

(voice distorted)

Don't give up! Willow!

He chants and strains. Raziel momentarily changes into

a partly-formed grotesque creature. Then into a deer.

Then she becomes human. At last she becomes herself, a

once-beautiful and now elderly woman. Willow covers

her unclothed body with a simple smock.

WILLOW:

Raziel!

She looks down at her old hands. Then her eyes focus

with purpose.

RAZIEL:

We've got a lot of work to do, Wil-

low. Bring in our brave men.

Willow opens the tent. Some pigs shuttle in, and Ra-

ziel begins to change them back into warriors.

EXT. NOCKMAAR CASTLE -NIGHT

Stationed high on the castle wall, three Nockmaar MIN-

IONS laugh and drink. Then they hear the terrible

SCREAM of the baby. They look up at the Queen's Tower.

INT. QUEEN'S TOWER - NIGHT

A druid hits the ceremonial gong, twice. The baby

shrieks. Standing over her, Bavmorda crushes a piece

of glass with her bare hands and drops the fragments

into a Witch's Bottle.

BAVMORDA:

Black fire forever kindled within,

Let the second right begin!

With a pair of razor-sharp shears she clips the baby's

tiny fingernails and sprinkles them into the Witch's

Bottle. The bottle glows and sparks, and teh heavens

asnwer with distant thunder.

EXT. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - NIGHT

In the dark Tir Asleen camp some figures crouch low and

hurry from tent to tent. CLOSER, the faces of rebel

warriors, watching the castle wall. Fear.

INT. TENT - NIGHT

Willow, Raziel, Madmartigan, Sorsha, Airk Thaughbaer

and a dozen rebel warriors argue back and forth.

AIRK:

Uphill with our rough weapons,

we'll never make it!

SORSHA:

Elora Danan will die!

RAZIEL:

By dawn, upon thirteen tolls of the

runic drum!

WARRIOR:

Bavmorda is too powerful. We need

more forces. I say we retreat!

The other warriors agree.

RAZIEL:

Bavmorda cannot transform you.

I've protected this camp with a

spell.

MADMARTIGAN:

Can you use your magic to get our

men into the fortress, Raziel?

Raziel shakes her head.

RAZIEL:

Bavmorda has shielded it with a

spell of her own.

The warriors grumble and protest. In a corner, Rool

and Teemo poke their heads in under the canvas. Curi-

ously they look at Willow, who sits in silence and deep

though, scratching the ground with his fingernail.

The warriors rumble.

WILLOW:

Wait!!

Willow jumps to his feet. They all turn to him.

WILLOW:

I have an idea. Back in my village

we catch a lot of hedgehogs.

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