It was a quiet evening, and the Nomad was safely anchored in a small port near Basra. The crew already left the ship, and only a strangely silent Captain Sinbad was left aboard.

He was sitting at the bow, playing absently with a brown leather gauntlet and gazing intently the starry sky.

"One year…" he whispered lowering his gaze to the gauntlet and smiling sadly, before inhaling deeply and raising his blue eyes back to the stars.

"I so hope you are sprinting thorugh your training… 'cause I can't wait to have you back and tell you what I've been wanting to tell you for months…" he said quietly, before shaking smiling his head and squeezing the gauntlet between his hands.

"Sinbad?"

Sinbad snapped out of his thoughts and turned abruptly to Bryn, coming near him with Dermott perched on her arm.

"Bryn… I thought you were at the tavern with the crew…"

"I was… but Doubar noticed you were missing and send me to look for you… you ok?" the brunette quietly asked, looking at her captain mildly worried.

"Sort of. – Sinbad quickly stated, stroking gently Dermott's feather – it has been one year since you joined the crew, you know?" he suddenly asked, looking to her.

"Really? – she smiled before shaking her head – it seems like forever…"

"Yeah… it really seems. – Sinbad bitterly observed, before smiling to Bryn – well, you did come to take me to the tavern, didn't you? Let's go then!"

"Aye Captain…" the girl nodded smiling, before following Sinbad down the ship.

"Ok… NOW I'm pissed!" Maeve roared, creating a fireball in her hand and throwing it to the nearest harpy. She was on the edge of a cliff, and she has been cornered by a bunch of harpies and skeletons.

"You….- she began, dusting three skeleton warriors with a fire storm – shouldn't even – she continued destroying two harpies with a sand whirl – be here!" she finished firing bolts to the last harpies, before planting her sword on the ground and crossing her arms.

She chanted quickly a spell, and minutes later the skeleton warriors fell at ground unanimated. Maeve grinned, lifting her hairs from her face while scanning the nearabouts for other magical threats. When she didn't notice any other movements, she took her sword back and sprinted down the hill.

"This is not supposed to be happening…" she muttered beneath her breath.

"Child…" the voice of Dim Dim called, making Maeve stopping on her tracks.

"Master Dim Dim! You ok?" she asked breathlessy.

"I am fine, Maeve… - the magician quietly stated, looking in his apprentice's eyes – but they are going to come soon."

"But… how? Rumina shouldn't be able to reach us! She can't have… more… more… more power than you!" the sorceress yelled in frustration.

"She's not alone, child…"

"Oh yeah… Scratch!" Maeve sneered.

"I sense magic. Powerful black magic. Someone else… more human…"

Maeve looked quizzically to her mentor.

"Turok is back."

"W-What? But Sinbad killed him!"

"But he's out there, Maeve… I can sense him."

Maeve took a deep breath before crashing on the nearest rock and taking her head between her hands.

"I'll never defeat her…" she stated with a sob.

"You will, Maeve…"

"HOW? – the sorceress yelled – my training is supposed to be over! I'm supposed to have great powers! I should be able to create a portal to go back to the living world! But no, I'm stuck there, my powers doesn't seem so great at all and… and…"

Dim Dim placed a comforting hand on Maeve's shoulder.

"Easy there, child… remember… every thing has got a purpose. And if you are still there… there is a reason."

"Yeah… letting Rumina and Turok increasing their powers and hunt us like animals!"

"Don't you ask yourself why they are targeting us after one year?" Dim Dim asked quietly.

Maeve shook slowly her head.

"They sense you, child. And they fear the day you'll go back and fight them…"

Maeve laughed bitterly.

"When and if it will ever happen…"

"It will happen soon…"

"I hope so…" Maeve said staring to the sky, stroking absently the rainbow bracelet at her wrist.

SINBAD – THE NEW ADVENTURES

Created by Ed Naha

Continued by Whirlingcharm

New beginnings

Written by Electra

TBC…

Author's note: So? Like it? Hate it? Please review! And… if there's someone out there who wants to beta read my ramblings… please help, English is not my mother tongue!

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