Kole woke up on some straw with Milo, Blaze, and Blacksmith by his side. Milo sighed and said, "Thank goodness! It's been such a long time." Kole sat up and asked, "What happened...?" Blaze said, "You passed out after... Nafario died." Kole looked down and said, "Oh... how long was I out?" Blacksmith said, "For a week. Ice and Lark went to live in town and we stayed here to take care of you because of your fever."
Kole looked down and said, "Sorry for being so much trouble..." Blacksmith said, "It was no trouble at all." Kole asked, "Why did Ice and Lark leave?" Blaze said, "Well... Ice wants to leave the group because he can't bear to see Lark and I. Lark is trying to convince him, but I said that it was a bad idea. Did he listen? No!" Blaze was getting angrier the more he thought about it.
Kole's eyes got wide and he exclaimed, "We need to go! A cat told me that Conner is killing everyone at home!" Blaze shouted, "Shit! Let's go!" Kole got up and he and everyone ran to town to get Ice and Lark. When they got there, the town was utterly destroyed and there were cats fighting a shadow in the form of a hyena. Ice and Lark were nowhere to be seen.
Kole shouted, "That's the shadow that made the barrier in the Savanna!" Steel was in midair firing metal pellets at it, and there were three other strange cats. One had flesh exposed all over his body except for a few random colored patches of fur. He was using tentacles to keep the shadow from flying away.
There were two other cats who were using fire to keep it weakened. One had orange fur and long spiky fur on his head, and the other had yellow, orange and red fur. Milo said, "Wait, aren't shadows supposed to disappear in the Overworld?" Kole asked them, "Yeah, you're right!" After Steel hit the shadow with a large metal boulder that exploded, the shadow fell and disappeared.
Suddenly, Kole felt something. Something familiar. It was like the weird dream he had with Ice. He felt something getting colder and colder. He snapped out of it because Blaze shouted, "Lark! What are you doing!? Where's Ice!?" One of Lark's paws were frozen and so was more than half of his tail. He looked very tired.
When he got to us, he passed out and the ice immediately melted. Steel flew in saying, "You guys! A friend of yours is making the city freeze!" Kole immediately ran to where Lark came from. Ice lied there in the town square with ice surrounding him and was spreading to the rest of the town. Ice, too, was freezing up.
"Ice!" Kole shouted. Blaze ran next to Kole and tried to melt the ice with blue flames. The dark blue ice didn't sweat one bit, and it was still as cold as ever. Blaze growled and said, "What is this?" Kole put his paw on the ice, and some of it immediately melted. Kole walked over to Ice and put his paw on his flank. Ice immediately woke up and shouted, "Claudius! Run fast! Hurry! To home!"
Then Ice sneezed and said, "What... happened?" Kole said, "Ice... I don't know. But we have to hurry home." The ice that was spreading to the rest of the city melted when Ice woke up. Blaze growled and said, "What just happened!?' Kole said, "It might have something to do with the spirit inside us. That's not the issue right now. We need to get home."
With Lark on his back and Blacksmith by his side, Milo said, "We need a faster way to get back. Going through the Spirit Realm clearly takes a while." Copper ran up to Kole and the others shouting, "The machine is complete!" Blacksmith said, "That's convenient." Then Neju appeared out of nowhere shouting, "Now wait a damn second!"
Kole jumped and said, "Uh.. what is it?" Neju sighed and said, "Let me keep Blacksmith for a while. I want to check something." Kole was about to object, but Blacksmith said, "Maybe this is a good way to be useful for once." Kole sighed impatiently and said, "Sure." Neju jumped on Blacksmith's back and disappeared.
Copper said, "Follow me!" Kole, Ice, Blaze and Milo followed Copper to a giant machine with an ominous light. She said, "Enter!" Kole and the others did what she said said, "Now you may feel a slight discomfort because everything shrinks except for your skeletal system, but you should be fine if you relax your muscles."
Ice and Blaze both said, "Wait what-" Copper shouted, "Bon voyage!" Then she pressed a big button and everything went dark, then very bright. Colors everywhere making everyone think they were on a trip. Rainbows, fire, the sun, clouds, animals twisting into nothing, each other, themselves, and so much more. They saw it all until everything went dark once again.