"Oh, well allow me to enlighten you" she laughed. "First you insulted her by saying that you wished she'd never joined the crew, then you told her that it wasn't you, then acted like a right flirt and told her you 'wanted her so bad it hurt'" quoted Cassandra evilly. "But she told you it didn't feel right so you went off in a huff and found me, which we then insulted Maeve about being frigid whilst she watched on, and you snogged me in plain view. And finally you yelled at her for being with Doubar when in her mind it was you who kissed me" she laughed again at seeing his horrified expression. "Does that clear things up for you?"

"Why?" whispered Sinbad.

"Because it was the only way to get you Sinbad. We set your crew against each other in the hope that you'd split yourself off from the group and become mine. Which you almost did, and if someone hadn't have pushed you, you would be mine right now" she stated, glaring at Doubar.

"What did you mean by 'we'?" questioned Firouz.

"Oh, I'm sorry, allow me to introduce my partner, I think you've already met" and so saying she summoned the boy out from the trees.

"TRICKSTER?" yelled Sinbad

"The one and only" he smirked. "I can't believe you fell for it twice"

"I can't believe you were low enough to try it twice" replied Doubar.

"What can I say? I had nothing better to do"

"Come with me Sinbad, or I let trickster set his army of clones on you" smiled Cassandra evilly, signalling to the warriors behind her.

"We tried this before, and we won" smirked Doubar.

"Ah, but you don't have your little sorceress friend with you at the moment" smiled Trickster. "And these clones won't stop if you stop"

"So, Sinbad, are you going to come with me, or are we going to do this the hard way?" ordered Cassandra.

"I won't give up my little brother" bellowed Doubar as Sinbad hadn't spoken in a while. It seemed he was still thinking about what Cassandra had said and where Maeve was. "Right Sinbad" prompted Doubar.

"Right" agreed Sinbad.

"Then so be it" grinned trickster, pleased that he finally got to test out his new toys. "Attack" he ordered.

The clones surged forward and Sinbad's crew met them head on. The battle was tough, Sinbad managed to take down one with just a simple kick, but two more appeared, looking more dangerous then the first. He swung at the one to his left, which was blocked, but managed to lock his sword arm and then held him there whilst kicking the other clone, before knocking him out.

Doubar knocked out one of the clones by knocking him over the head before having to face two more. Managing to take another one out by jabbing his sword through his chest he realised something important.

"They're shadow creatures" he called to the rest of the crew. "Slice them in half and they're instantly doomed" he laughed.

Firouz followed his advice and managed to slit one through the middle, affectively making it disappear before turning to face two more.

"Blimey, they're worse then rabbits" he called.

"At this rate we'll never end them"

Rongar was having an easy job of just throwing his daggers through them, however, that had its down side.

"Careful Rongar" called Doubar. "That one almost turned me into a kebab"

'Sorry' signed Rongar before getting out his knife and deciding to go for the safer option of using his hands and feet.

"Sinbad" called Doubar. "If they carry on increasing at this rate we don't stand a chance"

"I know" muttered Sinbad as he sliced another clone in half. "We really need Maeve right about now"

'Maeve' called out Rongar. He wasn't exactly sure how this telepathy worked, but he hoped that if he reached far enough out with his mind then he'd reach her. It turned out to be successful as she answered.

'Maeve, we're fighting a load of clones, but we can't take much more of them, every time we kill one two more pop up. Sinbad needs you'

'What's going on? she asked as she started back towards the beach.'

'Cassandra teamed up with trickster, that's why we were having the illusions. She wanted to split the crew up so she could get Sinbad'

'Oh, I can't believe I fell for it again. I'm almost there, just hang on for a little longer she called as she rounded the corner.'

What she saw made her falter, the crew were surrounded by what seemed to be twenty or so shadow clones and it looked as though the crew were about to give up, unfortunately she had no idea how right she was.