When the Prince saw the Ebony horse he realized that it is a beautifully made machine. He wanted to look at it more closely and he even wanted to try it out.
The magician realized the Prince’s desire and he saw this as a chance at having his revenge. The magician convinced the Prince to get on the horse.
But the magician does not tell the Prince how to get out of the horse.
Soon the magician starts the horse and the Prince flies away with it.
When the Prince was flying far away in the skies, he realized that he did not know how to get the horse back to the ground.
The Prince’s father, the king, was not too happy that his son had been tricked this way and the king threw the third magician in prison.
The Prince on the sky finally realized that the magician must have made a way to get the horse back to ground and looked around the Ebony Horse more thoroughly.
He finds a knob near the forehead of the horse and pressed on it.
That was when the horse landed on the ground in a distant land far away from his own kingdom.
The Prince had landed on the roof of a Royal palace. There were servants who were fast asleep outside. The Prince went inside the room to find the most beautiful princess lying on the bed in the room.
The princess looks at the Prince and she is unable to take her eyes off him.
Slowly the princess tells the Prince her unfortunate story.
Just like the prince’s third sister this princess had been forced to marry an ugly man whom she did not love.
However in the palace in the distant lands, the four maids who had been asleep outside the princess’s room suspect that the Prince is a magician or a genie because he had managed to come inside the palace without anyone else knowing about it.
They immediately informed the king that there was a stranger in the princess quarters.
The king came to the palace and found the Prince talking with the princess.
The king then ordered that the Prince had to fight the best man of his kingdom if he were to marry the princess.
The Prince now actually loved the princess on talking to her and wanted to marry her. He agreed to the fight.
The next day before the fight was to take place the Prince sent for his Ebony Horse which was placed at the roof of the palace.
The prince let everyone believe that he would ride the horse and fight the best men of the king.
But once the prince mounted the Ebony Horse, he flew away from the place.
By now everyone in the distant land believed that the prince was not a human but he was either a magician or a genie.
Back home the Prince is greeted by his family members with great joy.
They had all believed that the Prince was lost to them forever and on seeing him back they were very happy.
The king and his happiness also set the third magician free.
But the Prince never forgot the beautiful princess in the distant land.
He decided to go back to get her back to his own kingdom and that was when tragedy befell them.
Adapted from the Arabian Nights
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