fearsome.
But Malmajj’s first Zombie spell is accidentally reversed by a Tinkerham youth, the handsome journeyman tool-handle-maker, Rubert. When Rubert realizes that nobody else in the village will stand up to Malmajj, he moves from being the evil wizard’s accidental bad luck to becoming Malmajj’s sworn enemy.
Rubert doesn’t seem to be a worthy hero. His only weapon is a woodsman’s axe. And his only exceptional feature is his willingness to let old people talk about olden days. Rubert listens to old men or old women tell stories when nobody else will.
Rubert has only two allies in his fight against Malmajj. The first is Pendlenerk, a baby dragon who can’t fly well—to put it mildly. Rubert’s second ally is the village maiden Heather (Emma Watson). Rubert thinks of Heather as a good friend.
But Heather is in love with Rubert. And if Rubert doesn’t realize that, Nakeda certainly does.
Nakeda (Megan Fox) is the evil daughter of Malmajj. Nakeda tries to lure Rubert into betraying everyone and everything that he holds dear. At times, she forgets to wear much clothing when she’s around Rubert.
When Nakeda can’t sucker Heather into believing tomcatting rumors about Rubert, she tries the reverse. Nakeda slips Heather a Lust Potion, than Nakeda hooks Heather up with Granddik, the blacksmith’s son. Then, to put icing on the cake, Nakeda convinces Rubert that he has to deliver a message to Granddik in his shack. Rubert comes upon Heather and Granddik fucking (loudly), as Nakeda watches through a window.
Seeing the energetic sex, anguished Rubert says to Heather, “I thought you were a virgin ! Do you love him?”
To which Heather replies, “I don’t love him , I love you !” And with those words, the Lust Spell is broken.
Nakeda sashays in, holds up the bottle of Lust Potion, and explains what she did. All this was a diversion, Nakeda explains, to keep Rubert and friends away from the mine, because Malmajj plans to attack it in an hour. And the villagers won’t help, because Nakeda made sure to tell them that Heather is a promiscuous slut.
At these words, naked Heather runs up to Nakeda, her hand open, and it seems that Heather plans to slap Nakeda across the face. But once she’s close to Nakeda, Heather grabs the bottle of Lust Potion, throws away the stopper, and throws the bottle’s remaining liquid in Nakeda’s face. Then Heather yells to Rubert, “Turn your back on her!”
Nakeda makes eye contact with Granddik, and starts a hip-swinging walk toward him. Rubert, realizing what has happened, tries to “save” Nakeda, even as Heather is gathering up her clothing and pushing Rubert out of Granddik’s shack. “Nakeda, who do you love?” Rubert yells.
Nakeda yells back, “I don’t love anyone ! All men are bastards or fools. Now Granddik, you big man, get over here and—”
Heather yanks the shack door shut, so that we can’t hear the rest of Nakeda’s words.
By the time Heather is dressed, Rubert has a plan how to protect the mine. He wants to dash straight from Granddik’s shack back to Tinkerham, to carry out his plan, but Heather says, “Wait.” He turns back to her, about to ask “Why?”—and Heather gives him a hot kiss.
Part of Rubert’s plan is weird, and a little disturbing. An old man sits, bare to the waist, in a chair. Rubert makes a cut near his left wrist, so that blood runs down the old man’s arm. Heather picks up a slice of bread, wipes off the blood running down the man’s arm with the bread, then delivers the bloody bread slice to Rubert. As Rubert is eating the blood-soaked bread slice, Heather brings him a second such piece.
Malmajj shows up, attacking the mine’s defenders (our three heroes, plus twenty villagers) with zombie eagles. The villagers destroy one zombie eagle by fire, but by then, all twenty villagers have been killed.
Rubert uses magic dust to turn clumsy baby dragon Pendlenerk temporarily into a powerful and experienced adult