The Celestian Alliance were in the Dragon Lands where the annual Bon Festival was taking place. The Dragon Lands were like a fusion of all of the East Asian countries. They've invited their past Crystal Gems, Suzie Chan, Alex and Gabby Fernandez, and Kimiko Tohomiko and their U-BOTS.
There were arts and crafts, kite flying, puppet shows and musicians. As they were enjoying the festival, their watches beeped, "Another Crystal Gem detected," Joy said. "2 strings are attached to a song, without help of a beetle and a monkey it will be gone."
They met the captain of the guard, "Shang" his wife, "Mulan" whose a good friend of the 3 rulers, and their daughter, "Lonnie Li". They were also accompanied by their friends Ling, Chien-Po, and Yao. "We got banned from Mr. Ping's noodle shop for hogging up all the food too many times," Ling explained.
"They said, this time, we went too far by grossing out a food critic." Yao continued.
"You did gross him out," Shang replied.
"Puppets." Chien Po shouted.
There he walked up to the puppet show, blocking the kids. The kids got mad and pushed him out of the way. "Maybe it's better if we watch the boy with the guitar instead." Kiki explained.
"That's a Shamisen, a traditional Japanese guitar." Betty Ann corrected.
As they got up, the boy had a red robe and an eye patch. He was telling the story of Hansho and The evil Moon King. Suzie thought if she could join him on tambourine and he agreed. After telling the tale, everyone applauded. The boy introduced himself as Kubo and soon they're going to pray to their ancestors.
At the cemetery, Shang, Mulan, and Lonnie were praying to Mulan's granny, Ling, Chien-Po, and Yao prayed to Master Oogway, and Kubo prayed to his father. As they lit up the lantern and placed them by the river, Kubo's lantern was somehow not lighting up. He got really angry.
As everyone left, it was getting dark out. Kubo explained that if he doesn't reach home by sundown, bad things will happen. 2 creepy looking ladies came up and scared him away.
The Crystal Gems turned into their Gem form and fought him off.
Turquoise summoned her fans, Ruby summoned his sword, Sapphire summoned her nunchuck, Diamond summoned her boomerang, Peridot summoned his rubber chicken and Topaz summoned his magic wand. Unfortunately, they were too strong.
In the village, a beautiful woman with a scar was looking for her son. She was Kubo's mother. They hid in a house and she explained that she ran away from her sisters 15 years ago after an invasion from the moon. Her father was Raiden The Moon King, he was once Nightmare Moon's boss until she was freed 1000 years later.
Suddenly, the sisters came and tried to take her down with their magic. She grabbed a monkey toy and placed magic in it and placed magic in her son. She told him to get Kubo far away as possible. Sam shouted, "Kindness" and they flew on a giant butterfly away from the village.