In the Appalachian Mountains, Martin froze the deserted pond for some summer ice skating.

"What previous Water Guardian never thought of this?" David asked as he got his ice skates on.

"Who knows?" Elsa shrugged. David chuckled, then looked at Clarissa. She seemed worried. Amazingly, for him… even worried she looked pretty. But why was she worried?

In pure curiosity, he approached the Tortuga's entrance to hear her conversation with Faust.

"Faust, I can't take no more waiting. I have to know about my past. There is more, and I know it," Clarissa spoke with Faust. "You told me your pack would know the answers. So… can you please take me to them today?"

Faust sighed. "Yeah…. guess I do have to take you there."

"You're afraid that Darius will follow us, right?" Clarissa suggested, noticing the worry in his tone.

"... Yup." Faust said. But deep within, it was not the true reason.

"Tell Faust to not worry," David assured, skating over to "them". "We can take him. We did once, then twice, so we can do thrice!" Ventus nodded in approval, and so did Chris, Martin and Mina. Clarissa smiled to them all.

In her wolf form, Clarissa led her siblings with Mina riding her, following Faust's instructions that leaded to the depths of the forest. David and Elsa looked around, uncertain of what they could find there. Martin and Chris's medallions glowed softly.

"I have a bad feeling here, guys," Aqua said telepathically.

"I agree, dude. Something wicked this way comes..."

"Bro!" Chris elbowed him in the arm. "Lame reference..."

"Hey, it was the first thing that came to mind. Got a better idea? I'm all ears."

"Dudes," Ven interrupted. "No pickin on each other now."

"Hush!" Clarissa warned. "Are you hearing that?"

They all quieted down to hear… howls and growls. All echoing.

"We're almost there," Faust alerted. Then, the team reached a small cave. Clarissa took a look inside.

"Wow… it's bigger than it seems," she said, reassuming her human form. "Come on, you guys!" The team followed her, once they saw her entering the cave.

"It's pitch black in here," Chris complained. "How will we see wolves that are like the shadows themselves?"

"Elsa, think you can..." David started.

"You got it, bro." A small light came from the Time Nymph's hand, bright enough to illuminate the cave. The crew was impressed: the place looked like a wolf paradise in the dark. It was a grotto filled with plants and tunnels.

"Wow… as Aviva would say, maravilloso!" Ventus exclaimed.

"How come we've never seen this lupine wonderland?" Martin's eyes glowed.

"It's a mystical place, remember? Just like mom's temple, it's not on any map of the world," Mina reminded. "And those who don't believe that much don't see them."

"Good reminding," Martin thought. It was the same thing she said when they met for the first time.

Faust gave a howl of alert, calling for the Lupus. They all appeared in a few seconds, surprised.

"The Lupus Princess has finally arrived..." a large Lupus with blue flame like aura greeted with a bow. He caught the scent of someone else. "Her scent is the same as her ancestors. But… where is Faust?"

"He's inside me… perhaps unlike my previous incarnations. You must be the alpha of the pack."

"Indeed. My name is Lunos. I take care of this pack since… well, always." He showed around the pacific place. "We're almost what's left of Lupus kind after the Red Claw pack was taken out… and our dear Queen gave her last breath."

"Red Claw... That was Darius's pack along with Maximilian and Paris," Chris remembered. Lunos seemed to sneeze at the names.

"Did you say… Maximilian and Paris?"

"Yeah, those two had been after me and Chris since we were kids," Martin replied.

"So that's what they were up to for all these years," Lunos growled. "Those bloodhounds... Attacking children… Especially gifted ones."

"But we were able to protect ourselves from them," Chris added. "We weren't ordinary kids after all."

"Plus, you said Darius? He was the cause of our current situation," Lunos lamented.

"That's why we're here," Clarissa said. "Faust? Get over here, please."

Her CPS glowed a little before the lupus finally revealed himself. He was practically a wolf shadow with glowing yellow eyes. The team was astonished.

"Wow… flashbacks never lie," Martin muttered.

"Alpha..." Faust greeted. "This girl, as you said, is the current Lupus Princess. I please ask you to answer what I can't."

"Of course, princess protector. Follow me, you all, and I'll give you all the answers you need."

"You better stay here in the grotto's entrance, Elsa," Mina said. "Just in case you-know-who shows up. You never know..." The nymph nodded in understanding. The rest of the group followed the alpha and other pack members down one of the tunnels.

Meanwhile, two familiar muzzles appeared nearby the entrance of the cave.

"Well, well, well… we found them, Alpha Darius." They were Max and Paris. Darius stepped forward.

"We followed Clarissa's scent and it points to that small cave. Plus… there are the Wild Kratts' scents," Max pointed out.

"And you know what this mean, boys?"

"Finally, the chance we expected of taking over them showed itself," Paris pointed out.

"Not only that, boys… If Clarissa's here, this means Faust's here too. And so, it also means his pack is here! This can be finally our chance of dominating the Lupus dynasty, once and for all. For without the Queen's last descendent… nothing else will get in my way," Darius growled.

In the most underground of the tunnels, the team sat around the statue of a woman. She looked a lot like Clarissa.

"Is that..." Clarissa couldn't finish her question.

"Yes. The Lupus Queen. She started our dynasty and brought peace between human and Lupus races." Lunos started telling everything. "You know the truth about Darius and about our previous lair's destruction due to Eris' war."

*BG music: Smashing Pumpkins - 1979*

"When the war broke out 10,000 years ago, our kind was divided between Eris and the Queen. Darius, in his search of power, as you know, chose to fight for Eris, while we remained loyal to the Queen till the end of the war.

When our dear leader passed away, with her newborn daughter as the rightful heir, and Faust took her to the human world to be safe, Artemis and Athena led us until she was old enough to return. Around her 15 or 18 years in human age.

"It went on as this for the Princess's protection, and the pack under Eris, the Red Claw pack, had tried to find where we hid the Princess so they could kill her and become supreme alpha of all Lupus race.

"Darius was a beast with a lust for power, and wanted nothing more than to first take rule over us, then the whole magic world. How he got so insane, none of us know. And we hope to never know.

"Generations passed... and Faust always found a way to tell us of the new born descendents, and how they were maturing. Although we waited and waited to see our Lupus Princess… they never came.

"This… until Faust told about the most recent incarnation… the girl you name Clarissa. She was raised in a modest family… but treated well and loved by all of them.

"Somehow, Darius found Clarissa, and he attacked her host family under Faust's nose. In the nick of time, she escaped, but the memory left her scarred. So Faust made her forget what happened that night… and transported her to another location on the planet, on a rainy day."

"And that was when we met her." Martin put all the pieces together. "She was all alone in the rain and we adopted her in our family."

"Then we must thank you for taking our Princess in." Lunos thanked.

"I met her again once Darius found her again. I knew I needed to. It's in my soul, literally speaking, to be loyal till the end of the Queen's dynasty," Faust explained.

Clarissa looked once more to the statue.

"My ancestor… must've been a great queen."

"She was. Loyal, gentle, protective… practically a mother to us all. I still recall the day she was crowned..."

Lupus reunited around the temple. There, in front of them, was a young girl, and by her side, none other than Artemis.

"With this crown and this decision, we proudly join Lupus and humans in pure harmony. Behold you all our Lupus Queen." Artemis proudly said, placing a flower crown on the girl's head, while the Lupus howled, celebrating.

"Dude… how do you remember this stuff?" David asked, amazed.

"I'm a hundred thousand years old. Lupus aren't your everyday wolves, you know." Lunos answered.

"Not everyday, but most times..." Chris pointed out.

"And for the Princess… only the best." Lunos picked up the necklace off the statue. It had small diamonds and a Lupus symbol on the center, a wolf print.

"Oh, Lunos, thank you so much. But there's so much more I want to know..."

"Well, you will know. For you finally returned to your home."

"My… home?" Clarissa thought.

"This is your home for right, Princess Clarissa. We've been waiting your return for all this time. We need you to guide us."

"Are… you saying that… Clarissa will… remain here?" David gulped, having heard the whole conversation on the Creaturepods. "And I- uh, WE will never see her again?" The crew looked at each other. Never seeing Clarissa again?

"We need her with us. We've been waiting for years for our rightful leader's return."

"D-does she even have a choice in the matter?"

"David, you seem pretty against this," Ventus teased. "Is there a reason for it?" David blushed.

"W-well… um..."

"David have a crush on her. Obvious, but true." Chris made his "I-already-knew-that" face.

"Busted…" the Time Guardian muttered. Clarissa smiled. After all, her brothers already left it clear it was okay to them when she and David first met.

"*sigh* I admit it. That's the reason why I didn't want to bring you here..." Faust admitted. "I didn't wanted to separate you from your family… neither from him."

Clarissa nodded in understanding. Deep within, she felt that was a bit unfair, just like the incident with Martin and that Musketeer Law. She blushed when she realized that last part. He wasn't talking about David, was he?

Their chat was interrupted by a Lupus pup. "Dad! Dad!"

"What's the matter?"

"Guys!" Elsa called on the Creaturepod. "Max, Paris and Darius! They're here! And they're not alone..." She showed in the screen an army of shadow wolves with red marks.

"That is impossible!" Lunos gasped. "Almost all of the Red Claw pack was eliminated in the battles during Eris' war."

"Well, guess Darius met some new friends since the last time we've seen him," Chris said.

"But our pack was the last. How could more appear?" Lunos asked, not believing his lupine eyes.

"Maybe it's possible… that there were hundreds of lone Lupus all the world. And being the manipulator he is, Darius, as you probably say, led them to the dark side of the… moon?"

"Force, Faust. Force," Martin corrected.

"Whatever, guys. They need need ME," Clarissa decided. David pouted. Did she… decide to stay?

"Fine. We'll help you all. It's our duty." Chris agreed. David nodded, although not agreeing with Clarissa staying forever with the Lupus. "Come on, guys! Let's go aid Elsa in the battle!" Once they all rushed to help, the Time Guardian placed a hand in Clarissa's shoulder.

"Look… um, Clarissa… we're happy you found the answers you wanted. Really, we are. We're just… sad for us. And… if there is no other way, and you… end up being here forever..." He was saying, blushing as hard, until she kissed him gently.

"I love you too, David. And don't worry. If Martin could prove the Musketeer Law unfair to Poseidon, maybe I can prove this situation unfair as well. But for now, they all need our help."

David agreed with her, and they rushed to help the others.

Darius stood in front of his army.

"Here was I, believing that nothing survived from the good ol' days… gladly I was wrong."

"Don't you attempt to steal what's rightfully Princess Clarissa's!" Lunos menaced.

"So many years, and you haven't changed a bit, Lunos..." Darius mocked.

At that moment, Clarissa arrived, ready to fight.

"Your Majesty, we await your command to fight."

"You really should have started fighting once you saw them coming," Clarissa commented.

"Well… it's in our blood. We only fight when our Queen wants us to."

"Sheesh." Ventus facepalmed. "Not to insult your loyalty to her, but come on! You're a Lupus pack that survived for eons without a ruler! My mother told me!"

"Ventus is right," Clarissa proclaimed. "Just because I'm the newest Princess, it doesn't mean all these rules you've been waiting to follow all this time have to be followed like this! If you could survive peacefully and even build this safe place by yourselves, of course you're strong enough to fight not only for me, but for yourselves as well."

Clarissa's words were true. Realizing the error of their ways, Lunos stepped forward.

"Our Queen is right! Let us fight not only for her, but for our peace as well!" he proclaimed.

The Lupus prepared to attack, and so did the brothers and Time Guardian, who conjured their Crown Forms. The pack attacked with the strength of an army.

Max and Paris, as always, tried once more facing Martin and Chris.

"Well, if it isn't you both again..." Paris threatened.

"Idem." Martin gave his opponent a smile. "Are you sure you're ready to get soaked again?" He menaced with a water sphere.

"Don't think you'll even get close to last time," Chris added, chakrams ready.

"More new powers? You two surprise us every time we see you," Max commented.

"Utterly nice from you," Martin commented, before starting the fight. The brothers could notice Max and Paris WERE really much stronger than the last time they faced them. But they still had their new forms. Chris sent one of his chakrams at Paris.

Faust and Clarissa faced their old nemesis.

"So, you finally decided to stop using the Princess's body to face me, you coward?" the red-marked white wolf teased.

"Don't you dare call him a coward!" Clarissa defended Faust. "This Lupus is the most bravest and loyal I ever met."

"Clarissa, go help your brothers. I'll deal with Darius."

"But, Faust..."

"Go! I'll be fine."

The princess looked at him in uncertainty before nodding and hurrying to her brothers. Faust faced Darius once more and attacked.

The battle grew harshly, until the Red Marks started running away, defeated. Even the pups helped.

Martin and Chris were getting exhausted from using so much of the Crystals' powers against Max and Paris. Clarissa stood in front of them. Even without Faust with her, she needed to help her brothers. Unexpectedly of her, she succeeded in changing to wolf form.

"Wha-wha-what!?" Martin gasped.

"Wow… But how..." Chris wanted to ask.

"Not now, guys!" Clarissa reminded, grabbing Paris and throwing him at Max. "And you two, mess with someone of your own kind!"

Chris and Martin gained enough time to recover part of their strength to expel both Max and Paris with chakrams and water spheres.

In the end, Faust and Darius continued their fight, with the good Lupus severely wounded. Darius growled in triumph, as he watched his opponents tumbling.

"Guess it's finally official that you are and you'll ALWAYS be weak without her! Say good-night, Faust..."

"Oh, no, you don't!" Aviva in Sky Form yelled, throwing a shuriken at the evil alpha, knocking him down.

"Aviva?" Clarissa gasped, seeing her, Koki and Jimmy entering the grotto.

"We thought you might need help so we came," Aviva spoke up.

"Actually, YOU thought. We kept telling her you guys would be fine, but you know Aviva," Jimmy sighed, as Aviva signalized for him to not tell, facepalming in the end, blushing hard.

Faust stood up in front of Darius, even wounded, aided by Clarissa.

"We still stand against you, Darius. But where is YOUR army?" she spoke. Darius looked behind, to see his army abandoned him.

"I think it'll be best for all of us if you leave now and NEVER harm this pack again," David threatened.

Darius growled. "You haven't saw the last of me. None of you!" he menaced, running away. The crew looked at each other proudly, and David and Clarissa kissed.

Later, during the celebration of possibly Darius's official defeat, where even Artemis appeared, Clarissa put a glowing piece of crystal from the grotto on a string, and placed it on Lunos' neck.

"Think of this simple medallion as a symbol of your loyalty and reassurance of your place as a leader." Clarissa said, standing up after this. "You showed yourselves you can lead with the biggest of menaces on your own. So I think… no, I KNOW we should forget about this old legend you followed before ... and write a new one. For as much of royalty I am, my place is with my friends." The crew smiled at that suggestion, and so did Artemis.

"I think we all agree, Your Majesty." Lunos stepped aside. "So stuck in the past, we forgot of what we're capable of, believing to only be strong again with the return of the heir. But today, with this battle, like you said, we proved ourselves wrong defeating Darius and his army and preserving our beloved Lupus Queen's sanctuary. And we have to thank you, Majesty, and also you, Nature Guardians."

"Aw, shucks. It was nothing. It's just what we do," Martin said. "But, Clarissa, even without Faust, how you changed to wolf form?" The Lupus Princess shrugged in response.

"I believe I lived so long in her, that she eventually kept a small part of my power within, possibly her wolf form," Faust suggested, while his wounds were treated.

"Yeah, this makes sense." Chris understood.

"And you, young lad..." Lunos directed it to David.

"Y-yes sir?"

"Take good care of our queen." The two teens blushed, with the nymph sisters giggling at their embarrassment.

"You can count on it. You ALL can." David nodded, putting an arm around Clarissa. The Kratt brothers sighed as the Lupus howled and celebrated: their little sister was growing up, and there was nothing they could do.

"Mina..." Chris called the young nymph's attention. "You promise to not grow up THAT fast, okay?"

"Chris, no matter how much me or Clarissa grow in size or in royal condition, we'll always be your little sisters," Mina chuckled. "Guess the only ones that gotta grow up are you two."

"Yeah… don't count on that," Martin muttered, making the three of them chuckle. Ventus just smiled at the group.