The Prince went on the Ebony Horse and he flew to the distant land where he had met his beloved princess.
After landing his horse far away from the palace the Prince slowly walked towards the king.
Everyone in the kingdom was wary of the Prince because they realized that the Prince could travel to any place, without any walls barring him.
However the Prince presented himself before the king and said that he loved the princess and wanted to marry her.
The king decided to accept the offer of the Prince and the marriage preparations of the prince and the princesses were going on in full swing. Unfortunately for the Prince the third magician who had made the Ebony Horse was in this very kingdom. The magician had come here knowing that the Prince had fallen in love with the princess of this kingdom and that eventually the Prince would come here.
The third magician waited until everyone was working on the preparations of the marriage and then he found the Ebony Horse from the place where the Prince had hidden it.
Just before the wedding the third magician abducted the princess and flew away with her in the ebony horse.
The Prince was in despair because his princess had been taken away from him and his Ebony Horse was also gone which had left him stranded in the kingdom and with no means of chasing the princess.
Meanwhile the third magician and the princess arrived at a foreign land.
The people there are shocked looking at the magician and the princess.
That was when the princess told the people of the foreign land that she had been kidnapped by the magician.
The third magician was put in prison and the princess was taken to meet the king of the foreign land.
The princess fell ill with shock and at the heartbreak of being separated from her lover.
Meanwhile the Prince was searching everywhere trying to find out the whereabouts of the third magician and his lover. That was when he overheard some travelers describing the magician and the princess in a far away land.
The Prince hastily traveled towards the kingdom.
He arrived there after some time.
But there the Prince attracted a lot of undue attention and the guards suspect him and throw him in the dark dungeons.
It is the same dark dungeons that the third magician was placed in.
The Prince recognized the third magician but the magician is not able to recognise this was the Prince to whose father the magician had presented the ebony horse.
In the dungeons, the Prince was able to get the third magician to talk and he soon realized that the princess was terribly ill and the King of the land was willing to offer anything to the person who cured her.
The Prince then came up with a plan to free the princess and himself.
From the prison he sent word to the king that he could cure the princess.
As soon as the Prince is brought before the king and the princess, the Prince pretended to study the princess and whispers in her ear without anyone knowing that he was her prince.
The princess was thrilled on hearing it and struggled not to show anything on her face.
The Prince meanwhile looked at the king and asked the king to bring him his ebony horse.
The Prince told the king that the princess had been affected by the devil and he needed the horse to banish the devil from the princess.
The king of the far-away land had the ebony horse brought to the room where the princess was kept.
As soon as this happened the Prince took the princess onto the horse and they flew away leaving the king of the foreign land furious but unable to follow them.
The Prince and the princess happily arrived at their own kingdom.
The king destroyed the ebony horse so that no one can ever fly it again.
The Prince then wrote to the princess’ father about his marriage to the princess.
The princess’ father sent the princess lots of gifts.
Eventually the Prince succeeded his father and he and his wife ruled happily ever after.
Adapted from the Arabian Nights
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