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Once upon a time, there was a powerful sorceress 

that lived on an island in the middle of the Forbidden 

Sea. 

Using her magic spell book, she constructed a 

massive fortress. From inside the walls, she cast 

spells and conjured up monsters and creatures of all 

shapes and sizes.

She had created dragons, werewolves, serpents, 

giants, and even mummies. With her powerful magic 

and spell book, she had seemingly unlimited power, 

and yet...

...there was still one creature that she had not 

dared to make:

The dreadful Minotaur

The Minotaur was half-man and half-bull. 

Extremely powerful and cunning, the only way 

known to control it was to place it in a maze of 

extraordinary dimensions.

Certainly, such a beast was a risky creation, but the 

rewards were unimaginable. For it was written in 

the spell book that the Minotaur possessed a secret 

that was very old, and very, very, 

very valuable. This secret could unlock the 

wonders of the world AND the underworld. 

The minotaur, if captured, could do anything the 

sorcerer asked for or wanted. "Arrggg! I need to 

figure this out!!" the sorcerer yelled. Then 

suddenly she had an idea. So she ordered her 

guards to get her boat ready. "Ready my ship! 

Swiftly now!" She yelled out as she looked angrily 

at the guards. They did as she commanded with 

great reluctance. 

She was starting to think she could conquer this 

minotaur after all...

So in desperation, she went to talk to the evil 

serpent that lived in the Forbidden Sea. He was 

said to be one of the most cunning creatures in 

the sea and if given a sacrifice, the serpent would 

answer 1 question. The sorcerer made her servant 

troll row her to the serpent. "Pardon me miss, but 

this is a very dangerous ocean." the small troll 

said. "I rule over it, so i'm not worried one bit." 

she said pridefully. 

The troll started to get very worried indeed, but 

the selfish queen continued to make him paddle 

toward the serpent. Even if it was dangerous... 

With the Sorcerer's power, she made herself 

breathe under water so she could talk to the 

serpent. She selfishly sacrificed her servant troll 

to ask the one question. "Whatssss do you 

wissssshhh to assssk?" the serpent hissed. The 

queen thought hard about this, due to the fact 

that she only had one chance to ask the right 

question. "Hmmm...How must you build a maze 

to capture the minotaur?" she asked. The serpent 

then showed her a vision.

"Foolish old hag..." the serpent muttered under 

his breath as he showed her the vision with a 

sneaky smile.

In the vision, she saw a maze, with a genie and 

the minotaur. "Find a genie, a young maiden, and 

3 bottles of rummmmm, and you shall defeat the 

minotaur!" the serpent said. 

As soon as the queen got the idea, she quickly 

swam up to the surface and rowed the boat all by 

herself. Back to her miserable fortress. 

"Yes! The dreaded minotaur shall soon be 

conquered by me! Muhahaha! I can smell the 

sweet victory! she said as she boasted on herself. 

As she paddled and rowed. 

With a poof of magic, she transformed herself into 

an old woman and suddenly appeared in a cabin 

that someone lived in, in fact, it was the home of a 

maiden. A very beautiful maiden that the sorcerer 

planned to capture in order to catch the 

Minotaur. She hoped everything would go as 

planned. Meanwhile the maiden walked into her 

cottage and the sorcerer grabbed her soon after 

and reappeared in her fortress. "Let me go!" the 

young maiden demanded, but the queen just held 

onto her tighter. "Shut up little girl, i have plans 

for you, marvelous plans..."She sneered as she 

dragged her into the courtyard.

The young maiden, named Louise, was terribly 

afraid. The sorcerer had an overgrown troll take 

her prisoner and locked her up in a dank, dark, 

dungeon. As for the sorcerer, she continued on 

her quest for ultimate power! She flew on the 

maiden's pegasus to find three bottles of rum. The 

troll then said, "Mind me young lass, but I 

wouldn't want to be you." With that, the queen 

marched her into the fortress.

The young maiden was even more afraid and 

wished for nothing more then to return to the 

peace of her little cottage.

The queen had to hurry and dig for the bottles of 

rum. After tiring with the shovel a group of pirates 

saw her stealing their rum. "Attack! She's avestin' 

our rum! Get ye boots on she can't get away!" The 

captain pirate yelled. Frantically, she dug for the 

last bottle of rum, got the last bottle, and grabbed 

hold of the Pegasus's mane. "Arr! Ye scurvy dogs! 

she's gotten away with our rum you buncha land 

loafers! Away she flew with the rum back to her 

fortress.

The queen had gotten the two things required to 

defeat the minotaur. "I need one more thing and 

that minotaur will be mine!" The genie was not an 

easy prize to be won. It required a high amount of 

cunning and skill to acquire one, maybe even 

wealth. The queen made her final journey into the 

island of Delphi. "Oh! I really wish to be home 

now!" Louise said. She looked around at the 

queen's fortress and how rich she was. She could 

only dream of having power though.

She sighed and even started to fall into a deep 

sleep.

When the queen arrived at the island a curious 

gnome offered her a valuable gold lamp for the 

price of 1000 Geneas (currency) and the queen 

reluctantly accepted the offer. I wonder what 

curious object this? She questioned to herself. She 

examined it carefully and decided to rub it. POOF! 

a genie appeared on the lamp. "A song or a band, 

the moon, or a hand, three wishes is your 

command." the genie said. The queen was 

absolutely overcome with joy! She immediately 

vanished to her fortress and prepared to create the 

maze for the minotaur. 

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