Dawn of the Nekross Wizards vs Aliens

By the fire of the sun, the rage of the sea,

the fury of the wind.

-Now, Dad?

-Yes. Now, Mark. Now.

I call upon the Eye of Questoroth to look on this ring of healing

and give it the power to cure.

The stones!

They're glowing.

Oh, yes. You never forget the first time you see the power of magic.

Now, be quiet. Wizardry is 10% invocation

and 90% concentration.

Questoroth, come to me.

Questoroth, I summon thee!

There!

It's coming!

The Eye of Questoroth.

I tend the fire at the heart, at the heart of my incantation.

I hear the wind that carries my summons to thee.

-Oh, Questoroth!

-Dad, are you sure that's the Eye of Questoroth?

Of course. What else would it be?

Oh, Questoroth, at the heart of my incantation, grant us...

It looks like a spaceship.

-What do you mean, a spaceship?

-An alien spaceship.

Don't be ridiculous. There's no such things as aliens.

-Try telling them that!

-For the last time, there are no...

It's impossible.

Dad!

Earthlings. Welcome to the Starship Zarantulus.

What... What do you want?

Magic!

CROWD CHANTS: King's Park! King's Park!

Quinn!

Go on, Tom. Get stuck in!

King's Park, we need a winner!

WHISTLE BLOWS

Time's almost up. Come on.

To his feet.

Make it count, Tom! We need a goal.

Maah-gann dah!

CROWD CHEERS

FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS

Mate, that was magic.

Well, that's me, innit?

You know the rule. No spells outside home.

-Dad, we got through to the final.

-By using magic. It wasn't fair.

I just gave it a nudge.

Was there a wizard on the other team?

-No. Course not.

-So it was unfair. You cheated.

You have to be more careful, son. Magic isn't for cheating at football

or for doing your chores around the house.

Well, that's fine coming from an Unenchanted with no magic.

What have you been up to, Tom?

I used a spell to help score a goal.

It got us through to the cup final, Gran.

The point is, what happens if someone sees, Tom?

If they find out what you are?

So what's the point of magic if you can't have a laugh with it?

That's a very good question.

The trick is to be careful where you have the fun.

-What happened to the bottle opener?

-Unenchanteds, you're so helpless.

Mass-fan-wann dah!

Oops.

I think I have things I should be doing in the chamber.

Nobody in there?

No, Gran. We're all here.

It's only polite to check, Thomas.

Chamber of Crowe, open to me.

Reveal yourself on the knock of three.

RUSHING NOISE

Maybe I could come and help...

with whatever you've got to do down there.

You're a long way off ready for the Chamber of Mysteries.

But that's where the big magic is.

Maybe when you stop using magic to score goals,

-you'll be responsible enough for what's in there.

-One day, Tom.

Maintaining geostationary orbit behind Earth's moon.

It is a pitiful rock but will hide our presence from the humans.

What have you done with my son?

The wizard cries for its offspring like a Loogovian sea-cow.

Wizards are seldom physically impressive, but they have magic.

-Get off me! Let me go!

-Put the wizard into the Extractor.

No! No! No!

Struggle all you wish, wizard.

It will add spice to the nourishment.

Extract the magic!

-BOOMING VOICE:

-Feed me the magic!

As the King commands, so it is done.

The wizard is drained.

-PITIFULLY:

-Dad?

HE GASPS

What have you monsters done to me?

Is our father satisfied?

'The magic is good.'

HE CACKLES

'We will find every wizard on this planet

'and the Nekross shall feast!'

EVIL LAUGHTER

ALARM CLOCK RINGS

< Tom? Have you done your homework?

All done, Dad.

And remember, Burnt Hill Stone Circle is a heritage monument.

-Yawn.

-It is neither a climbing frame nor a Neolithic chalkboard.

Nah, it's just a bunch of grimy old rocks.

It's better than being stuck in a class all day.

Actually, the stone circle is a Neolithic observatory.

The stones are all positioned to line up

with specific stars at particular dates.

Look, I've got a really great app for it.

Look at the star-scape you get from here. It's brilliant.

You don't need the stars to tell your future, Benzoid.

You're going to spend ages hunting for your phone in those bushes.

-Hey!

-Look, don't tease him.

Now geek off, Benny.

Actually, this is astronomy. That's science, not astrology.

This way. And I want detailed notes.

Hurry up, Benny. Miss Webster will be lonely without her little pet.

Anyway, I thought standing stones were put up by Druids,

people like that, magical ceremonies.

I mean, an observatory? Come on. How boring is that?

-But magic? Now, that's cool.

-You think so?

-Yeah. Course it is.

-Magic's a load of old Hogwarts.

-Are you still here?

-I'm talking about science, Katie.

Which, in case you missed chemistry this week, is real.

Couldn't miss it, Benny. You nearly blew up the class...again.

THEY CHUCKLE

HE GASPS

Tom, are you all right?

Something happened here.

-What are you talking about?

-What's going on?

He just went a bit...weird. You said something happened here.

I mean, in the past...I bet.

Yeah, like human sacrifice.

-I knew there was a reason we brought Benny!

-Ha-ha. Very funny(!)

You four, are you waiting for the stones to come to you?

Now, the purpose of the stone circle, like Stonehenge, is unclear.

There have been many theories over the years but nobody really knows...

See. They don't know what it is.

OK, well, some people say they're landing pads for alien spacecraft.

-How's that for an explanation?

-There's no such thing as aliens.

DAD!

I want measurements and sketches in teams of two, OK? Off you go.

Come on, let's get on with it.

Looks like we're a team, so no messing about.

Just because you don't care about your grades

-doesn't mean I have to miss out.

-Being stuck with you is so lame.

Don't worry about it.

Like I want anyone to think WE'RE mates.

No way.

SIREN WAILS

Scanners indicate a peak in magical energy levels at Target Zone Veta.

Wow! Look at that.

It was in the grass.

What happened? It just stopped.

We have lost the trace.

'Varg, investigate this reading.'

As the King commands, so it is done.

But Father, I found the magic.

'And Varg is my first-born. He will be King

'and you, Lexi, will not.'

It's just a piece of junk.

No, this is freaky. It was glowing.

Trick of the light. Just chuck it.

-PHONE RINGS

-Hello?

Hang on. No, it's very windy. Hang on.

I have locked onto a radio microwave transmission, Father.

-'Despatch the Voolox.'

-HE CACKLES

I'll pick up another sink plunger on the way home.

Honestly, how many sink plungers can one person lose?

STATIC

No, sorry. I can't hear you. Speak up.

The human has been acquired.

Engaging invisibility mode.

Initiate Voolox control system.

Look to the left.

Look to the right.

I have control.

What sort of metal is that?

Tin? Come on, give it back.

I thought you said it was junk?

Yeah, but I found it.

These humans are disgusting. They smell of sweat and meat.

Concentrate. Continue your scan.

I want to take it back to the lab. I can run some tests.

Tests? What sort of tests?

I can get in after school. Come if you want.

-I've got football.

-Up to you.

Miss, we're finished.

Finished?

-Yeah, should we head off back to school?

-School?

Are you all right, Miss?

Yes, school. A sensible strategy.

Everyone back to school.

Once you're done experimenting,

-you are going to give that back to me, right?

-You said it was junk.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

SHE HUMS TO HERSELF

PHONE RINGS

Oh! Ah...

SHE SNEEZES

-Hello?

-'Gran!'

Oh, Tom. I'm spring cleaning the chamber.

I don't think it's been done in 500 years.

Gran, listen. I've found a ring charged with magic.

Oh.

Oh, this isn't good. A wizard loses a magic ring,

-another gives it to an Unenchanted.

-'I didn't give it to him!'

I'll be there in a jiffy.

What? No! I didn't mean... Ugh!

DOOR CLOSES

Miss. I... I wasn't going to blow anything up...this time.

-Honest.

-Give it to me.

Miss?

The energy source.

What? You mean this?

How is that happening?

I am your superior. You will do as I say.

Hand it to me, halfling.

Halfling?

No, brother. The humans address their halflings as "children".

Give it to me...

..children.

"Children"? Are you OK, Miss?

Give it to me...

..or be disintegrated.

Voolox to full attack mode.

Oh, boy.

-I was coming after you.

-Miss Webster, she's been taken over by aliens!

Benny, what are you on?

They've turned her into some sort of alien cyborg slave.

-Look, just give me the ring.

-That's what she's after.

Do not let them escape, Varg.

The halflings are irrelevant. I will destroy them.

I told you, she's an alien cyborg slave.

There's no such thing as aliens.

That thing on her back? It's controlling her and firing lasers.

No way is that Earth technology.

And what about this? It glowed, remember?

And that's what she's after. I bet this is alien, too.

I keep telling you, this isn't from outer space.

You're one of them! You're an alien, too!

We're trapped!

We're going to die.

Not while I'm here.

Kadra-dach dah!

-Another wizard?

-'Magic. I must have it!

'The Nekross shall feast.'

As the King commands, so it is done.

This is no work for a Voolox.

-What did you just do?

-Benny, don't be scared.

I'm not scared but I've known you since year seven,

-how did you do what I just saw?

-Forget what you just saw.

Forget it? How did you do that?

It was magic, Benny.

I'm a wizard.

Oh, you've got to be an alien.

No way would anyone but an alien

think I'd fall for something like that!

-A wizard? Yeah, right.

-Yeah, right!

-There is no such thing as magic.

-OK. It's better you don't believe me

-but I'm not from another planet.

-No.

That would be me.

Now that is definitely an alien.

We are the Nekross from the Planet Nekron

in the Korbol Galaxy.

You really are? You're an alien?

And we have come for magic.

Well, you can have this on me. Ava-shen dah!

-And?

-No way! I've used my spells.

We only get three spells sunrise to sunrise.

What kind of cut-price wizard are you?

A tasty one and quite defenceless.

I'm going to devour you, wizard.

-No-one threatens my grandson!

-Gran, no! It's an alien.

Don't be ridiculous. There are no such things as aliens.

Maybe you should take a closer look.

You are the aliens to us and you disgust me.

Whatever you are, I have the blood of warrior wizards in my veins.

-So she's like Gandalfina or someone?

-Not exactly.

I am Ursula, seventh daughter of a seventh daughter

of the Magical Line of Crowe.

My family have slain demons and destroyed armies of the Neverside.

Whatever world you come from, beware.

More magic. I shall take you both.

What?

She beamed them up!

What happened? Where are we?

I think we're in space.

Isn't it wonderful?

Earth looks so small, so far away.

Say goodbye to it, wizards.

Bow, wizards, before the Nekross King.

I'm not bowing. Let us go.

'You defy me, wizard? I who have bestrode the stars?'

Maybe you shouldn't upset him, Tom.

If you're so important, why don't you show your face?

'Ooh, you would look upon the face of the King?'

Behold the King!

-BOTH:

-Hail the might of Nekron!

GROWLING

I will devour you and all of your kind, wizard blood.

The Nekross shall feast!

What is it, Tom?

Bad news...very bad news.

Did you not hear my father? Bow!

Consider yourselves privileged.

It is not our father's custom to grant audience with his herd.

I know you're not from around here.

You must have the guide book upside down. We're human, not cattle.

EVIL LAUGHTER

And I might be old...but I'm no cow.

I am Ursula, of the Magical Line of Crowe...

..and I will smite thee with magic.

Maa-kraak-dah!

Delicious!

It didn't work! What happened?

I don't know.

Maa-kraak-dah!

Earth Magic tastes good.

No!

No, Gran! That's your third spell!

Maa-kraak-dah!

Again, wizard! Feed me again!

They're feeding on it! They're feeding on magic!

Then we're powerless. Magic is all we've got.

It's all right, Gran. You're with me.

Your magic is strong, old woman,

and it makes us stronger.

We have travelled the cosmos for magic,

from the Fighting Snakes Nebula to the Black Eye of the Phantom Galaxy.

Feeding on wizards?

On all magic.

Every star in the sky where there was once magic now burns dimmer.

And we fed on it all.

You mean there's no magic left? Not anywhere in the universe?

Only on Earth - and now we shall feast on that.

No. Feast on this!

-AAAARGH!

-SIREN BLARES

-Father!

-Run, Gran!

Get them!

-Which way?

-The way we came! Come on!

We're in space, Tom. How do we get home?

The same way we got here.

This will take us right back.

Stop or die, Earthlings!

-Don't threaten my grandson!

-Gran!

What happened? Were you on their spaceship?

What was it like?

-We were on the dark side of the moon.

-That is so awesome!

What are you talking about? They've still got my gran!

-I'm sorry.

-I'm going back. I'm going to save her...

If she's still alive.

Wait. Wait. Wait for me!

You will remain here until the King is ready for you.

By "ready", my brother means "hungry".

Well, as you can see, I'm well past my sell-by date.

Who's there?

Blessed be the Source.

Blessed be the Source. You're a wizard, too?

Until they drained the last drop of magic out of me,

and took half my life with it. Look what they did to my son.

Your "son"? I don't understand.

I'm only 12.

Help us.

I...can't. I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

There's nothing I can do.

Tom! Tom, wait! You need me!

I don't need you. I can't get hold of my dad.

I need to get home.

I need you to forget about everything you've seen.

-And you're going to take the aliens, yeah?

-Yeah.

Wands against ray guns? Not sure how that's going to work out.

This is about magic - that means it's down to me.

It's my responsibility, so just...go home, OK?

What? I just saw an alien.

I just saw one of our teachers taken over by aliens.

Your gran got abducted by aliens.

And, oh yes, and you turn out to be a magician.

-Wizard.

-And you want me to go home? But this is so...wow!

Well, if you think this is all one big laugh,

then you're definitely not coming with me.

You can't leave me behind. These are aliens, Tom.

That's not hocus-pocus - it's science. You need me.

You don't tell anyone, understand? Not about the aliens.

Not about the magic.

What would aliens with the technology to travel light years

-want with magic?

-They feed on it.

Yeah. That makes sense.

It does?

Whatever you call "magic", it's an energy. Organisms live on energy.

Some wizard lost this when the Nekross took him.

It's enchanted with his magic.

So there's a connection, like an invisible cord.

Or a phone line!

If he's on a Nekross ship, you can use it to trace him - and your gran.

-And to get me back on that ship.

-So you know how to do that?

No, but I can find out. In there.

The toilet?

HE KNOCKS

Chamber of Crowe, open to me, reveal yourself on the knock of three.

HE KNOCKS

Narnia - Tim Burton style.

GHOSTLY WHISTLE

What was that?

I've no idea.

And by the way, I'm not supposed to do this.

So where are we then, apart from some sort of parallel dimension?

It's not a parallel dimension, it's the Threshold of Enchantment.

Look, we walked into the loo, only I don't see any toilet brush,

so this is a parallel dimension.

It's magic. Does your toilet vanish when you knock on the door

and say an enchantment?

Look, once people thought fire was magic and the moon was magic.

Whatever you "wizards" do will have a scientific explanation.

Yeah? And once you "scientists" thought that the world was flat

and that the sun revolved around the Earth.

You got that wrong, big time, didn't you?

Maybe magic is another one of those big surprises.

Soft..a-coming they'll be.

Oh boy!

I never thought it would be this... awesome.

Got to admit, it's pretty cool.

-So how come you've never been here?

-Dad says I'm not responsible.

Well, I'm responsible for leaving my gran on that ship - so here I am.

Who's that?

My mum - she died.

Sorry.

Yeah. Sometimes magic isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Let me guess - a book of spells.

The Wisdom of Crowe.

If there's a way to link the ring

and the wizard that enchanted it, that spell will be in here.

So what's the problem?

I told you, I'm not supposed to be here.

I'm a wizard, but I'm not trained.

It's just a book. Open it.

Anyone got a match?

I'll be thinking I have - somewhere.

What is that?!

"What"?! "What" will be Randal Moon -

Guardian of the Chamber.

Pleased to meet you, Randal Moon.

Pleased, is it? You imps have no business here.

I'll not be blaming you for a wetting of your breeches.

You're three foot tall. You haven't got me wetting anything.

I'll be seeing about that.

Stop!

I'm the grandson of Ursula, daughter of the Magical Line of Crowe!

She's in danger, and you have got to help us save her!

In danger? The Mistress Crowe?

By the humps of Grusselbar, why didn't you be saying so before?

But the Line of Crowe - your family has powerful magic.

I heard what your daughter did.

Helen...but I'm not her.

I never was. And now I'm getting old,

and I've already forgotten most of what I knew.

Cast a spell?

I'm lucky if I remember where I left my specs.

Well, what about the bloodline?

My daughter is dead. Her husband is an Unenchanted.

Her only child, a boy with no-one to show him the way.

The warrior wizards are gone.

DOOR OPENS

The King is hungry.

Phoenix Ash, third jar along.

Are you sure this spell will work?

It'll get us on the alien ship?

Steady with the wisher-wood, young imp.

I'll be wanting to open a pathway through the mists,

not be calling on the Dark Ones for a moon-time jig.

Will it work?

By the jaws of a Jabbermaul, of course it will work.

What exactly is he?

A goblin, I think.

These won't be for decoration. I'll be a hobgoblin. Hob! Hob!

Hob! Not like a goblin. They'll be ugly,

and bad - not like Randal Moon.

By the fangs of Bashtarr the Bold, he'll be saving the Mistress Crowe!

I hope so.

Hello? Tom? Have you been calling me?

Ursula?

Now, you will be holding the ring in the wisher-wood smoke -

both of you. The Passing-ways will open

and take you to the wizard who will be enchanting it.

So, this is a matter transporter?

What'll be a matter transporter?

Something that transports matter.

It's not a matter transporter, it's a Passing Charm.

No, it's a matter transporter.

All right, if you are so clever, can you build a matter transporter?

No. Science isn't that advanced.

So this is magic. It's a Passing Charm.

Ssshhh! The charm will be working.

You are sure this spell of yours will get us there and back again?

The getting there - of course, of course! The getting back?

That...that'll be for you to divine.

And when do you get your three spells again?

Not until sunrise tomorrow.

This better not be a one-way trip.

-Tom!

-Dad!

You...what have you done now?

Please! No, Michael of the Unenchanted!

Lay no hand on Randal Moon.

'Tis here an egg of Brimstone, and I'll be setting you a-sizzle!

Just tell me!

They'll be saving the Mistress Crowe.

She'll have been taken by creatures from beyond star-glittery heavens.

What? Aliens? What sort of goblin garbage is this?

There's no such things as aliens! Tell me the truth

or you're going to wish you never got off your toadstool.

No! By the warts of Galeshmeil! The enchantment will have failed!

This looks sort of familiar...

And nothing like a spaceship.

We got bounced.

-Bounced?

-Magic doesn't work against the Nekross.

Maybe it doesn't work against their ship, either.

Hounds' teeth,

I'll have been confounded by the scientific-y sky ship!

The magic cannot pass its walls!

I'm going to get them.

You...keep your magical meddlings off my son.

But...

Cats' claws and monkeys' paws, we must be saving the Mistress Crowe!

So we got bounced here?

Maybe this was the last place on Earth the ship came.

Maybe this is as close as the spell could get us.

OK. So this wizard lost the ring here. What was he doing?

Raising the power of the stones.

So that's what brought the aliens? What if we did the same?

Brought the Nekross to us, like a trap.

Even if I knew how, I'm out of spells until the next sunrise.

I can't do anything.

But I can! I'll be raising their power from here.

I'll be talking with the stones! Yes! Yes!

Place her in the extractor.

As the King commands, so it is done.

I hope I give you heartburn!

Pillars of Stone, Ancients among Ancients, be hearing me!

The Guardian of the Chamber of Crowe,

heed my command, be giving up your power.

What was that?

The stones. Their magic - it's coming to life.

-You said you couldn't do anything.

-It's not me!

My father,

we have detected a significant energy surge at Target Zone Veta.

Dinner will have to wait. Engage the plasma drive.

Take me to Earth!

Come on, come, come on.

Up there - look!

Oh, boy, a flying saucer!

-And what happens next?

-Cross our fingers?

That's the best you've got?

Dad!

You're OK. I was going out of my mind.

So, the halfling returns - just in time for dinner.

Gran! What have they done to you?

Nothing...yet.

Let her go!

Stay back, wizard.

-Hey, let's all take it easy.

-Why are you here? What do you want?

We have seen in your fictions how some aliens have come

to your planet for slaves.

Some for water, or power, or simply to destroy.

We have come for magic.

They feed off wizards.

Off all magic. And now we are here,

where it has mostly been lost and forgotten.

Humans deny magic even exists, so its loss will go unnoticed.

The Nekross shall feast!

Extract the magic!

As the King commands, so it is done.

No! You'll kill her!

I shall feast on her!

Let her go! I'm warning you!

And you will be next, halfling!

No-one threatens my family!

You give warning to me? You don't even have magic.

But I do have an Egg of Brimstone.

An egg? You threaten the Nekross with an egg?

NEKROSS LAUGHS

Throw it, Dad! Now!

NEKROSS SCREAMS

Come on! Run! Go!

SIREN BLARES

This way!

Wait! There are other wizards here - we can't leave them.

-ALIENS SCREAM

-After them!

Deactivate the teleport!

What's happening?

The warrior wizards aren't all gone after all. Meet my grandson.

Maybe that'll hold them for a while.

But what now?

This got me back last time.

Only then maybe they'd left it on.

You're science - that was the deal.

You figure this out!

It's alien technology.

I never thought I'd say this, but the only way we're going to

get off this ship is with a shed load of magic.

And we've used up all our spells.

Wizards!

I have no taste for your magic now.

I will burn you to cinders.

-They're going to get in!

-We're trapped.

Dad, I'm frightened.

There must be something we can do.

Not without magic. I'm sorry, Benny.

I told you not to come.

You came back for your gran.

Your mum would've been proud of you, Tom - and so am I.

Look.

It's no good, Benny. There's nothing we can do.

Shut up and look!

The sun!

It can't be.

The ship's orbiting the Earth, travelling towards a new day.

Science brings you...a sunrise!

But it's the middle of the afternoon.

We've moved round the Earth towards a new dawn.

And we've got three more spells. We've got magic again.

We still have to get off this ship.

Get in the car.

Gran, give me your hand. You've got to help me with this.

You can do it, Thomas.

Dyshaa-faa-dah!

Wizards, prepare to die!

Go, Dad! Go!

No!

Engage emergency barrier!

It's beautiful.

Magical.

Oh, boy!

Are we believing in magic yet?

The wizards escaped, Father.

No. This is just the beginning. I shall have their magic.

The Nekross shall feast!

We made it! We actually made it!

Was that sick, or what?

Kids. Where do they learn this slang?

Maybe this will help.

Thank you. It's my ring of healing. Maybe it will.

Blessed be the Source.

Come on, son.

Do you think they're still up there, the Nekross?

You heard what the King said.

They feed on magic and there's none left anywhere else in the universe.

Every magical civilisation they've encountered, they've destroyed.

In the entire universe, you're all that's left.

But we're going to stop them, right?

If they want magic, I'm going to show them just what magic can do.

But this is about wizards, it's not your fight.

You're my friend - that makes it my fight.

Over the centuries, wizards have fought all kinds of creatures

to keep the world safe - demons, ghouls, dragons, vampires.

And now we're going to war again.

But this time it's going to be different.

It's wizards versus aliens.

And I'm ready for them.

What we need is something to track Tom Clarke -

something that can't be stopped.

It doesn't look like any cat to me.

Whatever are they playing at down there?

Boys?

Yes, Dad.

It's in the wall!

What?! How can it be in the wall?

You're not casting spells over my mum and dad!

-What do we do now?

-I don't know!!

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