The Magician's Elephant

 It was a rainy sunday, making Thorin and Noshi sit down behind Netflix to watch this animation movie.

And myself as well from the dining room table as I was sorting through all my Underworlds cards, filtering and preparing all the Rivals parts of the decks.

Peter is an orphaned boy, who one day runs into a fortune teller.  He wants to know if his sister is still alive, but to find the answer he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician that will conjure it.  This elephant was summoned as a sign of hope to bring magic and warmth back to the village of Baltese, a grim place after the war.

Adele is alive though, and she is also using the elephant to lead her way back to Peter, as the siblings where seperated at a very young age.  Peter decides to save the locked-up elephant, and when the King arrives, he sets three impossible tasks for Peter to complete in order to obtain the elephant.  

First he must defeat a hardened veteran, Romain, which he does so by returning a book of fairy tales that was stolen from him by the fortune teller.  The second task requires Peter to fly, a feat he pulls off by a created parachute, but the final task is the hardest, as he must make the dour countess of Baltese laugh.  but when the elephant sneezes, covering the King in snot she bursts out laughing and thus allowing Peter to complete the assignment.

But Peter has changed his mind, no longer wanting the elephant for his own goals of finding his sister, but instead reuniting the beast with it's own lost family.  The elephant is magicked back to it's natural habitat by the wizard, and as the light returns to the town, so do Peter and Adele reunite, unknowingly having met before already...

So this was a nice little story about hope and love, and okay for a sunday afternoon spend watching television with the kid...