Djinn

Motherless, 17 yr. old Daena lives with her sister, Yasmina, in an invisible palace above Shahanibad. Having not earned her powers yet from the Spirits of the Djinn, she draws the wrath of Nirrti, an evil goddess bent on revenge. It isn’t long after her sister disappears – traded to an undead thing as a slave. To protect Daena, Mahrab (Supreme of all the Djinn), gives her a ring that protects the bearer from harm. Shortly after, he and his palace are frozen in time leaving Daena to wander alone. That is, until she discovers a hidden entrance leading to a way out and a young archaeologist named, George. Collaborating over an ancient scroll they work to uncover the disappearance of her mother years before. Her mother, Padme, tricked into a Chintamani stone (a stone which, when held, wishes are granted) was traded unwittingly by Alexander the Great in desperate need of a cure. Alexander dies, though, when both stone and cure are intercepted by the evil goddess. The only thing keeping Nirrti from becoming all powerful now is Mahrab’s ring. Nirrti wastes no time and, in order to coerce Daena into giving her the ring, she kidnaps her beloved George. Daena, though, made a promise and she must keep that promise especially after discovering the ring’s true power -- that it cannot be removed but, instead, must be willingly given to another. It is Daena’s only chip against the evil goddess. Trapped, confused, she works with a Spirit Warrior to sharpen her skills until, finally gilded and empowered by the Spirits of the Djinn, she embarks on a journey to find George and her mother and get them back. Entering the forbidden Realm of Gods, Daena convinces a half-man half-goat gatekeeper to let her enter. Taking a golden path, she is sidelined into the land of giants (warriors to the gods) where women are forbidden and her powers rendered useless. Only mortal combat can free someone from their clutches. Enslaved by the giant, Brutus, she escapes only to discover George, dying, inside Nirrti’s dungeons. Desperate to save him, she steals the life saving cure but it is too late. Furious, Daena calls out to Nirrti, fighting hand to hand with a retinue of her deadly nymphs in order to confront her face to face. Exchanging a fake ring for her mother’s Chintamani she tricks Nirrti into the stone. Victorious, her mother’s Chintamani in the palm of her hand, Daena turns to leave only to discover the waters did work and George isn’t dead after all. Returning to her father's palace with George, she leaves him to rest then releases her mother from the Chintamani and everyone else frozen in time. Epilogue: When the beautiful Padme discovers what happened to her daughter at the hands of Brutus, she revisits the giant and challenges him to a duel. Teaching him a lesson he will never forget, she tasks him with delivering a gift. When Brutus, with blackened eye and swollen lip enters a great hall, he bows low to the now god-king, Alexander the Great, and presents him with a sword. Fashioned into the hilt, forever at his bidding, is Nirrti trapped in stone.