"The Burning Forest" -- Episode #118 |
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When the Sorceress (Monika Schnarre) is captured by the Black Apparition (Leah Purcell), Sharak in human form enlists Dar's (Daniel Goddard) help to save her. | |
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EXTENDED SYNOPSIS: The Sorceress (Monika Schnarre) follows an eagle she believes to be Sharak on a journey that leads her to a cave in the Burning Forest. Once there, the bird transforms into the Black Apparition (Leah Purcell) who announces that the Sorceress is now a powerless prisoner. Meanwhile, Curupira (Emilie De Ravin) comes across Baha's (Simon Westaway) camp, where she overhears that Baha plans to kill every tiger if it means Ruh will die in the end. She immediately seeks out Dar (Daniel Goddard) and demands that he put a stop to Baha and his plans, one way or another. The Ancient One's (Grahame Bond) fury over the disappearance of the Sorceress causes him to enlist Sharak to bring her back. Sharak (Daniel Fitzgerald), permitted to take the form of a man, pretends that his love was kidnapped from him and asks Dar for help. Dar and Tao (Jackson Raine) decide to help him, and the three enter the Burning Forest. Soon after entering the forest, Tao is quietly kidnapped while Dar and Sharak fend off the first of three sentinels. Tao is thrown into a cell containing an Eiron woman, Caro (Tasma Walton), who came to the forest to look for her father. Meanwhile, the Black Apparition reveals to the Sorceress that she too was once the student of the Ancient One -- until he betrayed her. The Apparition offers the Sorceress Sharak in the form of a man and the powers of the Beastmaster in exchange for her sorcery to be used for evil. The Ancient One, who has been watching this exchange through his crystal basin, is enraged that the Sorceress is tempted to accept. However, when she learns that both the BeastMaster and Sharak will die whether or not she makes the deal, the Sorceress refuses and is put under a sleeping spell. After confronting the Apparition on her home turf, The Ancient One manages to lure her to Dar's sanctuary where he warns that her thirst for vengeance will consume her.
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Continuing through the burning forest on their rescue mission, Dar and Sharak narrowly defeat the second sentinel. In another part of the Mydlands, Curupira approaches Ruh and learns that Dar has gone to help a human rather than protect the tigers. Ruh and Curupira go together to find Baha, whose obsession has escalated to nightmares and visions of Ruh's death. When Ruh appears and leaps at Baha, he stumbles backwards and ends up the victim of his own trap. As he lies impaled in the pit he built for Ruh, Curupira gleefully sucks the remaining life out of him.
Meanwhile, Tao discovers that the contraption that locks his cell correlates to numbers that are painted on the wall. Turning the dial to each number, Tao escapes with Caro close behind. As they leave the Apparition's cave, they come across Sharak who departs to find "his woman." Dar, certain that another sentinel of the forest awaits him, waits cautiously outside the entrance, uncertain of Sharak and Tao's location. Once the last sentinel is defeated, however, Dar enters the cave and finds it empty. As he starts to exit, Dar comes face to face with the enraged Apparition, who has learned that Sharak has stolen the Sorceress from her prison. Mysteriously, the Apparition allows Dar to leave with his life, and Dar soon comes across Sharak, who thanks him for his help and quickly leaves. The Ancient One arrives and changes Sharak back into a bird before the Sorceress awakens. Dar arrives back at his sanctuary to find that Tao has already returned with Caro, whom he has grown to like a great deal. Caro, however, leaves the two behind as she continues her quest to learn more about her father. Disappointed with Dar, Curupira pays a visit and warns Dar not to take their friendship for granted.
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