"W-What's going on?" Mooncaster asks, looking around at a destroyed temple and village. A lone woman is standing amongst the wreckage staring up at the sky as strings appear all around her, red strings.

"You are not the first wolf to appear here and yet you are the one wolf that is needed to appear here" she says not looking behind her.

"What do you mean? Who are you?"

"I am everything and nothing at the same time. I am the future and the past but never the present...I am your guide now while Wolf slumbers inside the soul. Find the wyvern, the last of the group, protect that which must be protected and do not linger on the pain when hope still blooms eternal...take care little wolf for the bond is weakening and you don't have much time to forge a new one" she says before she shows him an image of a female wyvern flying through the sky.

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At that moment a sea of blackness rises up from all around the village to attack the woman but it's deflected by pure white and the vision ends.

When Mooncaster's eyes open again, Kuro is touching his eye as the tips of his ears are dyed black but it's almost halfway down his ears. "Kuro!?" Aussie is saying as they all look at him.

He stays still for a few more seconds as Martha sees a purple string touch him, seeming to help him regain himself a bit as the black color disappears from his ears.

"I-I'm fine...just felt a little woozy there for a second" he laughs lying about it so they would think they imagined the black coloration of his ears.

"I know where we need to go but we have to hurry!" Mooncaster says after a second's hesitation.

"Then let's go! Lead the way" Malada says cheerfully.

Meanwhile watching this invisibly, the mystery man worries that Kuro is starting to lose control over himself too often. He managed to stop it this time but it's becoming harder and harder to keep Kuro's hidden power under control despite Kuro's fighting spirit being so strong.