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(dramatic music) (seagulls calling)

(thunder rumbling)

(dramatic music)

(soft orchestral music)

(groaning)

(wind howling)

(growling)

(gasping)

(panting)

(screaming)

(screaming)

Oh, don't be frightened, Telemachus.

But those eyes, Mom!

Monsters were coming after me!

Oh, it was just a nightmare, sweetheart.

A bad dream.

But you're awake now.

The dream is gone.

(dramatic music) (birds chirping)

(snoring)

(yawning)

Hey, Ulysses, can I take a turn at the helm?

You must be kidding!

There's no way a little kid like you

can handle that kind of responsibility!

I am not a little kid!

Come on, Diomedes.

It's a calm night.

What could possibly happen?

(groaning) (owl hoots)

(dramatic music) (snoring)

Oh, I knew it was a mistake

to entrust our lives to a child!

Hey, I am not a child!

Anyway, how am I supposed to know the sea was gonna turn

into an obstacle course all of a sudden?!

Look!

A lighthouse!

Praise the gods for its guiding light!

Otherwise, we'd never have made it through!

(rumbling)

(soft instrumental music)

There doesn't seem to be any damage.

- [Lotus Eaters] Welcome, strangers,

to the land of the Lotus Eaters!

Oh!

We line the shore with lights

to bring sailors to our parties...

To sing with us and be our guests.

We'll celebrate with joyful zest.

A tempting invitation, but we'll be needing all our zest

to get our ship floating again.

You dare reject our hospitality?!

Impossible!

You are our guests, whether you like it or not!

In the face of such a warm welcome, who could refuse?

(snoring)

(yawning)

Oh!

Uh!

(snoring)

(gasping)

(shushing)

Oh!

(soft instrumental music)

(birds chirping) (water streaming)

(water popping)

(splashing)

Ah!

These rhyming simpletons are just the helpers I need

to transform Ulysses' dream of returning home...

(buzzing)

Into a nightmare that will eat him alive.

Have a nice party, Ulysses.

(laughing) (splashing)

(soft instrumental music) (water streaming)

(waves lapping into the shore)

I don't know what Ulysses did to you, my darling,

but we'll get you back into the water, quick as a wink!

Where'd the others run off to, anyway?

That way!

Over here!

Let's go!

(groaning)

Uh?!

Help me!

Come back here!

(lively instrumental music)

Behold our Lotus God, who provides us with our feast,

delicious and uplifting.

Hmm, to the soul of man or beast!

They made us prisoners just

so they could show us a good time?

How weird!

We'd better hope their idea of a good time

isn't equally weird!

(hooting)

Oh!

Ah!

(sniffing)

(screeching)

(screaming)

(intense instrumental music)

(snoring)

(growling)

Uh?!

Ugh!

Don't eat the flowers!

Huh?!

They're man-eaters!

[Both Lotus Eaters] Our generosity will not be spurned!

You will eat our flowers, whether you like it or not!

They're well-meaning but just a bit touchy!

(cheerful instrumental music)

Huh?

What's this?

"Welcome to--"

- [Philo] Give me that!

Huh?

I'm the reader round here!

"Welcome to our newest and most honored guests..."

Ah!

(thudding)

(bell rings)

How wonderful!

We have even newer guests to whom we shall offer

even more of our best!

Go, be fleet to meet and greet!

Hmm.

(munching)

What a wonderful party this is turning out to be!

Yeah, incredibly cool and stimulating.

(yawning)

Is something wrong, oh, worthy guests?

(groaning)

(screaming)

Diomedes!

Ulysses!

Where are you?!

(buzzing)

Good question.

Where, in the name of Zeus, are we?!

I have absolutely no idea.

(buzzing)

(grunting)

Welcome, welcome!

We're so glad you happened by.

It's party time in Lotus Land, and other friends are...

Eh?!

(growling)

Let's not get overexcited now!

After all, it sounds as if these amiable people

are inviting us to join our friends!

What is wrong with our honored guests?

It's time to party, not to rest.

(hooting)

(water streaming)

(water popping)

(splashing)

Sweet dreams, my little water lilies.

(clears throat)

And now it's time for the show to begin!

We've failed to revel our guests with fitting cheer.

The blame's with us, it's very clear.

Absolutely wrong!

It's your guests who are unworthy choosing snores over song!

Oh!

The Almighty Lotus God!

These sleeping strangers insult us all.

Despising our hospitality,

into endless sleep they must fall!

You mean it's not our fault?

Far from it!

They are blasphemers in the pond of the Lotus God

and must be fed to the blossoms in my temple bog!

(whining)

Erm, you mean, you want us to sacrifice them?

Do I need to draw you a diagram?

No, no, my lord!

We will obey!

(hooting)

(splashing)

(dramatic music)

(whining)

(dramatic music)

Does anyone remember how we got here?

Better yet, does anyone know where here is?

Actually, I--

(mumbling)

- [Ulysses] We can't hear each other talk!

Hey!

Huh?!

That's much better!

At least now, we can...

Huh?

Ah!

Wow!

I love it!

Makes me nervous.

I think we should get out of here, fast!

And how do you suggest we do that?

"I wish for a golden stairway by which we may depart."

(groaning)

- [Nisa] Oh, no!

Ugh!

(gasping)

Yeah, that would do.

Oh, hey, how'd you do that?!

- [Ulysses] Maybe all we have to do here is wish

and it comes true!

In that case, I wish I could throw lightning bolts,

just like Zeus!

(buzzing)

Wow!

Well, what do you think?

I think it's time we got out of here!

(rumbling)

Does anyone see Ulysses, Nisa, or Diomedes?

(hooting)

Oh!

(hooting)

(water streaming)

What are you doing to our friends?!

Oh!

They are bad guests who will get what they deserve.

If you are wise, you will be better.

And we will all get to witness a most wonderful event.

At sundown, the man-eating Lotuses will arise

and devour these bad guests, as punishment for sleeping

when we wished to show them hospitality.

That is the craziest thing I've ever heard!

Get them off that floating plate, immediately!

(Titan growls)

Don't listen to my friends!

You're quite right!

We don't care about these people.

In fact, we don't even know them!

The truth is we traveled many miles to get to here

just to experience your world-famous hospitality!

At last we have guests worthy of their hosts!

Come, my friends, let us party!

- [Lotus Eaters] It's party time, it's party time!

Come on and celebrate!

It's all a question of strategy:

first we gain their trust, then...

Then, what?!

(rumbling)

- [Diomedes] Don't you find this stairway suspended

in mid-air just a little suspect?

- [Ulysses] No more suspect than anything else

in this extremely odd environment.

Last one to the top's a nearsighted cyclops!

(rumbling)

(moaning) (snoring)

(water popping)

(splashing)

Oh, no, you don't!

(rumbling)

(dramatic music)

No way you're leaving Dreamworld before sundown!

(grunts)

(buzzing)

(cracking)

(screaming)

- [Ulysses] I've got you, Nisa!

(rattling)

No!

I wish for a cave!

(rumbling)

Follow me!

(groaning)

(panting)

This place is like a wish come true!

(buzzing)

- [Diomedes] Not any more, it isn't!

(lively instrumental music)

- [Lotus Eaters] Long live our guests!

Our very worthy guests.

They like to dance and laugh and jest.

(Titan grunts)

Hate dancing, argh!

Soon it will be time to eat,

but first I must apply some heat.

Well?!

Have you figured out a plan?

Time's passing, you know!

Erm...

Uh...

I've almost got it.

(rumbling)

I wish these nasty wasps would change

into funny little butterflies!

Easy-peasy or what?!

(screaming)

Ah!

Ah!

Ugh, I wish for a rope to take us back

to the golden staircase!

(groaning)

(soft instrumental music)

Thank you for this perfectly lovely party!

In appreciation for your hospitality,

I'd like to read you a poem I wrote.

(Lotus Eaters murmur)

This poem is entitled--

- [Lotus Eaters] Hooray!

Hooray!

A poem!

Hooray!

Oh-ah!

What a fabulous idea, oh, most honored guest!

This is a tale of Ulysses

and his daring courageous troops,

who put an end to the Trojan Wars in one, not many, swoops!

Ulysses and his companions, true,

made a giant horse of wood.

Oh, it won't be long now!

Your scrumptious lotuses are nearly ready!

(shushing)

- [Lotus Eaters] We're listening to the poem!

(Titan grunts)

Where was I?

Oh, yes, made a horse of wood.

Inside they hid, parked before the gates of Troy.

Before too long, the men of Troy fell for their ploy.

(dramatic music) (snoring)

(rumbling)

(panting)

Quick!

We've got to get out of here before something else happens!

There's no way I'm going to let you wake up now!

Okay, so you've found your way

around those little nightmares.

Now let's see how you fare with your darkest fears!

(rumbling)

Ulysses!

Where are you?!

(rumbling)

(snoring)

(dramatic music)

Athena, the Goddess was with Ulysses.

Ulysses the Crafty, he is called in Olympus on high--

Here I am, dear guest!

Prepare to be impressed!

Hm?!

Grab them!

Hey, wait!

There must be some mistake.

How dare you try to save the bad guests!

That makes you worse than they are!

For which you'll have to pay!

Why don't you just come back

and hear the end of my poem?

Or not, it's entirely up to you.

But the big one hasn't eaten his meal yet!

I should hope not!

For now, he's going to be eaten instead!

(dramatic music)

(splashing)

(hooting)

(rumbling)

(groaning)

[Penelope and Telemachus] Ulysses, help!

(dramatic music)

Penelope!

Telemachus!

I'm coming!

(screaming)

No!

(groaning)

(laughing)

Uh?!

(bell tolls)

(buzzing)

(laughing)

(screaming)

(groaning)

Oh, my word!

That's me 50 years ago!

I'll never be able to beat myself.

I was way too good!

(laughing)

(groaning)

(laughing)

- [Specters] You're so small, you haven't got a chance!

I am so not small!

- [Specters] Small!

Small!

Small!

Excellent.

Those mortal morons have fallen for my diversion.

Only a few minutes to go, then their bodies

will be reduced to Lotus fodder.

(laughing)

(rumbling)

(dramatic music)

Please, don't do it!

It's all a big misunderstanding.

We don't deserve this.

We like your party.

Hm.

Uh?!

(growling)

Ah!

(rumbling)

Help us, Ulysses!

Please!

Whoa!

Get your tentacles off my family, you sucker!

I wish to shoot lightning bolts, just like Zeus!

(buzzing)

No!

Huh?!

I must be dreaming.

Of course, that's it!

This strange place is nothing more than a dream!

(screaming)

- [Penelope] Ulysses!

I mustn't go!

- [Telemachus] Ulysses!

Ulysses!

This is nothing more than a nightmare.

The only way to get back to Penelope

and Telemachus is to wake up!

I wish to be back with Diomedes and Nisa

so we can stop dreaming!

Now!

(screaming)

(groaning)

All you have to do is make a wish, Diomedes!

(groaning)

Oh, of course!

I wish that you return to my memory, where you belong!

All of this is nothing more than a dream.

And someone or something is trying to stop us from waking

by making us face our deepest fears.

In my case, it's the fear of never seeing my family again.

Mine was to come up against the only soldier

who was capable of beating me in my younger days: myself!

I can't do it!

I'm only a little kid!

I was only joking when I called you a little kid!

You're just as grown-up as the rest of us!

Really?!

Why sure!

- [Nisa] You're right!

(laughing)

I'm not little girl!

I wish...

I'm not little!

Let's go find out what we've been sleeping through.

Uh!

(dramatic music)

(rumbling)

(growling)

(screaming)

Here, get your fangs around these!

(growling)

Uh?!

First, you go to sleep in spite of all our efforts

to entertain you.

And now, you've killed the Sacred Lotuses!

This is very grave indeed!

You cannot be serious!

Hm!

The only reason we dozed off was

because your enchanted lotuses were the equivalent

of floral sleeping potions!

How dare you say our lotuses are enchanted!

(groaning)

(munching)

Hm.

(yawning)

- [Lotus Eater] They actually are!

What a nightmare!

We've never given our guests such a disastrous welcome!

If this ever leaks out, our reputation will be ruined!

Don't worry about that.

If you do just one little favor...

Uh?

We promise not to say a word.

(groaning)

Be careful not to hurt her!

(groaning)

Okay, let's head for Ithaca!

Before you go, we've decided to throw a going away party.

- [Lotus Eaters] It's party time!

It's party time!

Come on and celebrate!

Hooray!

Hooray!

We're throwing a party.

In lotus leaves clad.

The biggest party ever.

For the best guests we've ever had.

We're throwing a party...

(splashing)

I wouldn't rest on my laurels if I were you, Ulysses.

The next nightmare you have will be real!

(thrilling music)