Original subtitles

- Sharak, the land of the Dragon Lord will be yours. But to conquer it, you must listen to the Spellbinder.

- Tell me what I must do.

- Mek!

- Do you have any parents in this world?

- No! That's what I'm trying to tell you!

- Lem and Guin, if you still wish to adopt her, then she is yours.

- Kathy, Lem and I will take wonderful care of you.

- I want my real parents.

- Good morning!

- It's a lovely day for your first day at school.

Are you excited?

I found this book about children. It says that fresh air, exercise and regular routine are the keys to a child's happiness.

- So starting from today, you will get up and run to the river. You will swim for twenty minutes and then run home.

You will eat a nutritious breakfast and then go to school. After school...

- I'm not going to school!

- Oh, yes, you are. Now get up!

- No!

- Kathy!

Look.

- I'm not wearing that!

- But I made it especially for you.

- Then you wasted your time!

Anyway, I won't be staying in your stupid world for much longer. Mek will come back and get me.

- Of course he will. But until he does, let us look after you.

Lem, out you go. Kathy cannot get dress with a man in the room.

- What do you mean, her friend will come back?

- Mek is her imaginary friend. The book says that's quite normal for children to have them.

I stayed up all night making this. I want you to look nice for your first day at school.

Won't you at least try it on? Please! For me?

- Why don't you let a mechanical do that?

- The book says that child's food must be prepared with love. Mechanicals can't feel love.

Oh, Kathy. You look so beautiful!

- I feel ridiculous!

- Did you enjoy your swim?

- Are you kidding? The water was freezing.

I don't feel well.

- What does it hurt? - It's my head again. Can I go and see Doctor Elvo?

- Don't be fooled, Guin. The book says that children often pretend to be sick to get out of school.

Now, sit down, Kathy, and eat your breakfast!

- What is that?

- Mind your manners, Kathy! Your mother made it herself!

The book says that it will make you tall and strong!

- Open wide! - I am not a baby! I am nearly fifteen!

- When is your birthday? We'll have a party!

- Everyone will want to come!

- They all will bring you presents!

- We'll make it fancy dress. I'll wear my chicken suit!

- It will be so much fun!

- My friends, listen to me!

We were thrown off our land by drought.

I promised to lead you to new lands. I've kept that promise.

But the Dragon Lord has told us to go away. Will we go away?

- No!

- Will we bring the Dragon Lord to his knees and make him beg for mercy?

- Yes!

Sharak! [several times]

- Are you sure you can control this maniac?

- I can control him for as long as I need him. And I won't need him for very long.

- I have terrible news.

The Oracle has been sabotaged.

We must not panic.

- We cannot work!

- How will we know what to do?

- Have you all suddenly become helpless children?

Our ancestors lived without the Oracle.

Until it is restored we must do the same.

Do not be afraid. It will not harm you.

- Kathy!

Josh!

Where are they?

Where are they?

- Kathy escaped from Ashka with Mek in the boat. They took the interface.

- And Josh?

- Ashka took Josh with her. No one knows where they went.

- We've lost them again!

- Listen, Ashka.

If Sharak crosses the border, there'll be fighting. Lots of people will get hurt.

You have to tell him the future has changed and the invasion will fail.

- Nothing has changed. The invasion will go ahead.

- It won't if I don't help you.

Without this you can't keep Sharak believing that you can predict his future.

- Would you like me to predict your future? Make trouble and you'll never go home!

- We are ready, Spellbinder. Show us your magic.

- I summon the power of the Spellbinders.

The Warrior that guards the border, I command you to be gone!

It is safe to cross.

- Then you won't mind going first.

- The Oracle might be working again. The Warrior might be back.

- My Apprentice will lead the way.

- Send a message to the other camp. The way seems clear.

Your magic has worked!

Land of the Dragon Lord is ours!

- Where are all the people?

- The plague began in the cities, so everyone fled to the country.

- After the cure was discovered, no one wanted to come back.

- Now the mechanicals maintain the town so that we can remember who we once were. You'll learn more about it in school.

- And how to read and to write.

- I can already read and write.

I've been going to school since I was six.

- You'd better not tell stories like that to the Arbiters. Just speak when you are spoken to.

- There she is!

- It's her!

- She's coming!

- There we are!

Stand aside!

Come along, Kathy.

Stand aside! Come along!

Stand aside!

Let us through, come on!

- I've got some!

- Stand aside! Move away! Thank you!

- Welcome, Kathy.

You are here to learn our history and our ways so that you can live among us.

- Now, be a good girl and listen carefully.

- Sit, Kathy.

Arbiter Welles will be your first tutor.

- The society of immortals is the most just society that man has ever devised.

Thanks to our mechanicals, no man has to work if he does not want to.

Poverty and crime not exist. Everyone obeys the law without question.

- Who makes the law?

- Be quiet, Kathy. You are here to learn, not to ask questions.

- How can I learn if I can't ask questions?

- The Arbiters make the law.

- How do you get to be an Arbiter?

- All the men take it in turns. Each Arbiter serves for ten years.

- It is a perfect system which means that all men are happy.

- So there aren't any women Arbiters?

- Of course there aren't.

- Why?

- It has been scientifically shown that men's brains are bigger than women's.

Therefore, men are more intelligent.

- A whale's brain is a lot bigger than a men's. Does that mean whales should be Arbiters?

- That's enough, Kathy!

- Women are just as smart as men. Where I come from, women are doctors and teachers and scientists and...

- Arbiters, it is obvious that Lem cannot control his daughter.

I recommend that she be taken from him and given to someone that can discipline her.

- Like you, I suppose?

- Quiet, woman. - No!

Kathy is my daughter. I won't let him have her.

- See, Arbiter?

Lem cannot control his wife, let alone a child. Give her to me and I'll make sure she behaves correctly.

- I found her. Kathy belongs to me.

- What about the rest of us? Why should only two people have the chance to be parents?

- Arbiters, the child is too valuable for one man to own.

She must be shared among us all.

- The Arbiter's decision cannot be changed!

- Why not? - Of course, it can!

- All decisions can be changed! - That's right!

- ... because she belongs to me!

- Stop this at once!

Please! Please!

- The girl! The child is escaping!

- Stop her! Stop the girl!

- H1.

H1, go to Doctor Elvo's!

- H1, stop!

Come with me!

- You three, go that way!

- You shouldn't have run away, Kathy! You've proved that Lem is unfit to own you.

When I take you back, the Arbiter will make you mine.

- Got you! - Let me go!

Help!

Let me go!

- Let her go!

- Go away, Guin.

- M2, come here!

- Do as I say, woman!

- That man is hot. Spray him.

- Guin!

- Kathy, come! Quickly!

- Jasmine!

Jasmine! - Josh!

Josh!

I was just leaving for the palace. Couldn't you wait? - You've got to get your family out of here.

- Let go her! - Father!

- Den, please, listen to me! - The demon has bewitched you. He wants to take you away.

- No, you don't understand!

- Help! The demon is back!

Help! Help! Help!

- Father, he's not a demon!

- What is this?

- Barbarians are coming! You have to warn the Dragon Lord!

- He is lying! - No!

I know you all hate me so why would I come back here? - To steal my daughter!

- Let him speak, Father!

- No! He'll say anything to save his skin.

- Bring this creature to the square.

We must decide how it is to be punished.

- No! Father!

- What are you doing? Can you just listen to me?

Let me go! I've got to warn the Palace!

- Silence him!

You stole our gold and promised us miracles but you lied!

- No!

Don't be silly!

Josh isn't responsible for those things!

- He has enchanted you, Jasmine. Leave this to us.

- Sharak and his barbarians are on their way. Just send someone down to the road to have a look!

Please, listen to me! Please! You must listen to me!

- Jasmine! Jasmine! Come back! Come back!

See? He has turned my daughter against me!

- How should we punish this evil creature?

- I'm not a creature. I'm from another world. My parents are at the palace. I'm a personal friend of the Dragon Lord!

- Are we safe now?

- You're my daughter, Kathy. I won't let anyone take you away from me.

- Thanks, Guin!

- I'll always remember the look on Hugo's face. I haven't enjoyed myself so much in fifty years.

- Guin, what's it like being immortal?

- At first it was like a dream come true. We thought we could do anything. Everything.

- It sounds exciting!

- It was... for a while.

Come with me.

- I spent fifty years learning to paint.

What do you think of my work?

- They're... not bad.

- They're terrible.

Being immortal didn't make me talented, so I gave up.

I was better with music and poetry, but after so many years of doing the same thing, you just get bored.

- But surely you can find other things to do. You could invent new stuff. Expand your knowledge.

- What's the point when there are no children to make things for or to teach?

After a while, every day became just like the next. But now you've come along and changed everything.

- How dare you do that to Hugo!

- I was protecting Kathy! - That's right. Parents are supposed to protect their children.

- You be quiet!

Guin, Hugo has charged you with assault.

- Assault? But I just sprayed him with water.

- The Arbiter is outside. He wants to see you now. Both of you.

- Guin!

Assault is a most serious charge.

- I was only trying to protect my child.

- Give me the girl, and I will forget the charge.

- You'll never take my daughter!

- Out of the way!

Lem, release me!

- Lem, this is an outrage! - He is an outrage!

Lem hit me. You all saw it.

He must be punished. I demand the girl.

- You pushed my wife!

- Stop this immediately!

Neither of you are fit to have her.

- Let me look after her.

- Yes! We have a good home. You will be happy with us.

- What would you know about raising a child? You can't even raise a cow properly!

- At least my husband doesn't fight!

What kind of example is that?

- This is Kathy's home! I won't let you to take her.

- Stop this immediately!

Step forward, girl.

For years we have lived without violence. Now, thanks to you, we are fighting amongst ourselves.

- I didn't ask to come here!

- Silence!

- The only solution is for us to share her.

- That is my conclusion also.

Each family will have her for a month. I shall prepare a timetable.

- But the girl will grow up before everyone gets a turn.

- It's not a good decision!

- It will only cause more fighting.

- Then she must be given the immortality drug.

That way she'll remain a child forever.

Take her to the hospital!

- No! I don't want to be immortal! Guin, help me!

Please! You can't do this to me! Guin!

- Please don't do this! I don't want to be a child forever!

- We're giving you the gift of immortality, girl.

Think of all the things you'll be able to do.

- I don't want those things! I want my own life!

Don't!

- It will be over soon.

You will be one of us.

- No!

No!

Thanks to all those from Australia, Belarus, Malta, Russia, the UK and the USA who created the subtitles!

Special thanks to Alexander Lobuzov, AlinaTheSpellbinder, Anastasia Fedorova, DimDimCh, Fanat,

Jennifer Reichardt, Sasha Podolyanchuk, tanya, trashplaceStudio.

The subtitles were created in cooperation with Andrey A Lavrov and http://www.spellbinder-tv.org/.