Meanwhile, Falkor retrieves AURYN from the sea and arrives in time to save Atreyu from the rapid approach of the Nothing.įalkor and Atreyu go to the Ivory Tower, where the Empress assures them that they have brought her rescuer to her Bastian suspects that the Empress means him, but cannot bring himself to believe it. However, upon being approached, Gmork's body instinctively seizes Atreyu's leg in his jaws. When Atreyu announces that he is the hero Gmork has sought, the werewolf laughs and succumbs to death.

The werewolf reveals as well that he is a servant of the Nothing who wishes to prevent the Empress's chosen hero from saving her when the princess of the city discovered Gmork's treachery against the Empress, she imprisoned him and left him to starve to death. There, Atreyu finds the werewolf Gmork, chained and near death, who tells him that all the residents of the city have leapt voluntarily into the Nothing, to become lies and delusions in the human world, thanks to the irresistible pull of the destructive phenomenon. By Uyulala, he is told that the only thing to save the Empress is a new name given to her by a human child, beyond Fantastica's borders.Īs Falkor and Atreyu search for the borders of Fantastica, in a confrontation with wind giants Atreyu is flung from Falkor's back, loses AURYN in the sea, and lands, injured, in ruins of Spook City, a home to various monsters and wicked creatures. In reaching her, he is aided by a luckdragon named Falkor, whom he rescues from the monster ' Ygramul the Many'.

To Atreyu, the Empress gives AURYN: a powerful medallion that protects him from all harm.Īt the advice of the giant tortoise Morla the Ancient One, Atreyu sets off in search of an invisible oracle, Uyulala, who may know the Empress's cure. The delegates are shocked when the Empress's physician, a centaur named Chiron, informs them that the Empress is dying, and has summoned a boy warrior named Atreyu, to find a cure. A great delegation has come to the Empress to seek her help against a formless entity called ' The Nothing'. The story Bastian reads is set in the magical land of Fantastica, ruled by the benevolent and mysterious Childlike Empress. Unable to resist, he steals the book and hides in his school's attic, where he begins to read. In escape from some bullies, Bastian bursts into the antique book store of Carl Conrad Coreander, where he finds his interest held by a book called ' The Neverending Story'. The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, neglected by his father after the death of Bastian's mother.

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