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Xena

Season 1 Episode 21 - The Greater Good

One day Xena and Gabrielle are walking along and decide to go to a village to get some things. Whilst in the village they notice some is about to be executed, but when they find out it is there friend from "The Black Wolf", Salmoneus, and Xena starts fighting to help him get free. Though the fight went quite well Xena got shoot by a poison arrow by an unknown woman. A little later on a bigger battle starts between Xena and the leader of the evil warlords who want to kill Salmoneus, half way though the fight Xena begins to lose badly and would have been killed if it weren't for the help of Gabrielle.

Xena realises it must have been the poison dart that shoot in to her neck earlier on and tells Gabrielle. Mean while the evil warlords now believes he can beat Xena in the next fight because he doesn't know about the dart. As all this is happening Gabrielle and Xena are getting increasingly worried about Xena's condition and begin to realise that Xena might die, so they come up with a plan. Gabrielle is going to dress up as Xena and pray she can hold him of long enough for Xena to recover. It goes bad the evil warlords realises straight away that Gabrielle is not Xena and captures her, but Argo Xena's trusty horse saves the day and manages to help Gabrielle get free. Gabrielle goes back to the village to tell Xena want has happened, but when she goes in to the barn where she is staying she sees that Xena has already died. Remembering Xena last wish Gabrielle does everything in her power to get Xena back to Amphipolis to be buried with her brother. This turns out to be extremely hard as the bloodthirsty warlords are still trying to capture Salmoneus and now Gabrielle too. They manage to do this with the greatest of ease and they have Xena's lifeless body as well, but then Xena wakes up and starts to fight all the bad guys. Gabrielle is so please she goes over to Xena but cant talk much cause their in the middle of a fight. At the end of the battle, which Xena won with ease Xena explains that the drug is designed to shut the body down, so she went under with out a fight so her body could repair itself. A happy Gabrielle and an alive Xena start to wonder who it was that shot the dart?

 

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