Lucas' eyes fluttered open. He gasped for air and sat up, his vision blurry as he awoke from something that felt surreal, almost dream-like. He saw his sibling, the same sibling that had disappeared three years ago shortly after he lost his mother. He blinked and brought his hands up to rub his eyes, then found his eyes were wet with tears. Lucas rubbed the base of his palms against his eyes and grumbled softly, the vision of the helicopter that contained his brother returning. Then came the sight of his beloved brother being yanked away by some weirdo in a mask. A surge of energy coursed through Lucas as he was filled with rage. How dare they take his brother?! How dare they hold him captive?! These questions all floated through his head as he came back to his senses.

Lucas sat up and looked around to get a look at the scene before him. He found that everywhere he looked there was a bright yellow flower to fill his sights. Sunflowers. He was in a sunflower field, a field full of the flowers his mother loved so much. Lucas pressed a hand to his knee and stood up, looking at the expansive field of sunflowers that seemed to go on forever. He took a deep breath and took in the fresh air around him, feeling relaxed; it almost felt like his mother was frolicking through these fields.

Then Lucas heard a bark off in the distance. His eyes darted off to where he heard the bark, and he let out a whistle.

"Boney? Is that you?" He called and cautiously stepped over towards the patch he heard the bark from. The flowers rustled and out popped Boney's sweet brown face. Lucas' eyes lit up and he laughed as he sprinted over towards Boney.

"There you are boy! Oh thank goodness you're alright. Where's Kumatora and Duster?" Lucas asked as he rubbed Boney's head. Boney let out a whimper and a message echoed in Lucas' head.

'I don't know, they separated from us when we fell' the voice in Lucas' head said solemnly. Lucas looked up and gave the field another scan.

"Where do you think they went?"

'Somewhere far away. Would you like me to walk you there?' Boney responded. Lucas chuckled softly to himself and rubbed the top of Boney's head. It wasn't everyday that you were gifted with the ability to telepathically talk to animals.

"We need to go get Claus!" Lucas said breathlessly and Boney barked in glee. Boney then turned his head sharply and stared off into the distance. Lucas furrowed his brows in confusion and looked off to where he saw Boney look to, yet he saw nothing. Boney yelped out and jumped out of the nest of flowers to sprint off into the sunflower-y distance. Lucas blinked in confusion and glanced around to make sure he and Boney were alone. He didn't see anyone near by, so he found Boney's sudden outburst to be outright baffling. He looked back to where he saw Boney run off to, and found that he was gone again.

"Boney?" Lucas called out. When he got no response from his beloved brown dog, he cupped his hands around his mouth and called again. "Boney?! Where did you go?!"

There still wasn't a response from Boney.

Lucas huffed and sprinted after where he saw Boney headed to, all the while calling his dog's name. "Boney? Boney what's wrong? Did you see something?" He shouted, not sure if his verbal messages were getting to Boney. "Now's not the time to play hide and seek! We have to find the others and rescue Claus!"

"Lucas." A soft voice spoke out. Lucas turned around to where he heard the noise and found that no one was there. His brows knitted as he struggled to understand just what was going on.

"Lucas." He heard that voice again, and turned right back around to look in front of him. Still nothing. There was a tense moment of silence as he listened closely to try and find the source of the voice, but then he heard barking. His eyes widened and he started to run further into the field where he heard the barking.

"Boney! Boney are you alright?!" Lucas called as the barking began to grow louder with every step he took. Eventually he came across a rustling patch of sunflowers, and upon further inspection, he saw Boney. With a sigh of relief he dove down and wrapped his arms around Boney, then pressed his face into Boney's back.

"Don't run off like that, boy! You could've given me a heart attack!" Lucas teased and scratched the back of Boney's ear. Yet, Boney didn't seem to react to that as he stared off into the distance. Another bark left his mouth and Lucas looked up.

And then he saw her.

Lucas' eyes gazed up at the ethereal form of a painfully familiar face. His mother, Hinawa. She smiled warmly down at him with her rosy red lips and placed her clasped hands in her lap. She looked exactly like she did before she died, beautiful and happy. The wind began to blow, and Lucas watched as her hair and dress flowed ever so elegantly, just like he remembered her. He rose up to his feet and stared, his mouth agape as his small heart was filled to the brim with happiness and love.

"M-Mom?" Lucas stammered and stepped forward towards the form of his mother. She giggled softly at her son's surprised face, then turned around and started to walk away from Lucas. As she walked, Lucas could faintly hear chimes within the wind that blew around them.

"Mom! Where are you going?" Lucas called and walked after her, but in the blink of an eye she was gone. Lucas stood there once he saw that her form had disappeared, and then he began to question whether or not what he saw was real. He rubbed his eyes yet again, and when he opened them he saw her again. She was further away than before, but she was facing him again. One of her hands reached out and she motioned for him to follow her, then she turned away and continued walking through the field of sunflowers.

Lucas, now with tears in his eyes, smiled and sprinted for her. Boney trailed after, all the while barking happily as he chased after Lucas. As Lucas got closer to his slow moving mother, he could faintly hear her humming something. It was the lullaby she used to lull him and Claus to sleep when they were younger, it was the song of Love. The thought of finally being with his mom again caused his small heart to beat, but then Boney yelped.

Lucas skid to a stop just in time to see where the sunflowers gave away to a sharp cliff. Boney stopped beside Lucas, his own eyes watching as Hinawa continued to step towards the cliff.

"Mom, no! Stop!" Lucas cried out and took a few steps further as he watched her near the cliff. "Y-You're going to fall!" He shrieked.

Hinawa stepped off the side of the cliff, but she did not fall. Instead she seemed to walk on air as she continued forward. Lucas watched in awe as she seemed to step up some stairs. Once at the top of the invisible stairs, Hinawa turned and looked down at Lucas and Boney.

"I missed you so much," Lucas heard her soft voice flutter through the air "I want you to know that I love you very much, Lucas."

Tears began to trickle down Lucas' cheeks as she spoke, and he felt inclined to start a conversation with the ghost of his own mother.

"I-I missed you too! A-And… And I want you to come back!" Lucas sobbed.

Hinawa didn't respond as she hovered there, her warm smile still plastered on her face as she looked down at Lucas. Lucas wiped at his tears and held his arms out for her. She mimicked the motion and unclasped her hands to hold them out to her sides, ready for a hug despite their distance.

Lucas stepped back and sprinted towards his mother. Boney barked and chased after him in an attempt to stop him, but it was too late. Lucas jumped off the edge of the cliff, his arms out stretched to try and reach her, but he still fell short. He watched as she disappeared from his sight and he was left to fall down to the Earth below.

And then everything went dark.

When he awoke, Lucas found himself in a pile of hay. He gasped for air once he saw the blue sky and sat up, his heart jump starting as he thought he had died.

"Lucas, boy am I glad you're okay!" He heard a familiar voice shout from the bottom of the hay stack. He looked down and saw his beloved Uncle Alec and grinned.

"Alec, it's you!" Lucas called, and due to his voice finally joining the others, a bark was heard. Lucas watched as Boney jumped out and circled Alec's legs before sitting beside him. It seemed Boney had awoken before Lucas did.

"Your mom was in my dream last night." Alec said in a hushed voice as he helped Lucas down from the hay pile. "She asked me to put hay right there. I didn't know why, but I decided to listen to her." He helped Lucas dust himself off as he sighed. "Guess she saved your life, huh." He smiled warmly at Lucas, and Lucas returned the smile. As they shared the moment of silence, another voice joined the conversation.

"Don't take all the credit, she was in my dream too." Wess grumbled as he walked over to the boy and his uncle.

"Wess! How did you get out of the old people home?" Lucas asked, then leaned down to rub Boney's head.

"Easy, I snuck out! Just cause I may be old doesn't mean I've forgotten how to sneak around!"

All three shared a laugh before Lucas jumped up and gripped onto Alec's arm.

"I have good news, I saw Claus!"

"What?! You saw Claus?!" Alec asked in awe. The last time he saw Claus was mere moments before he decided to run off and fight the drago. From that point on, he hadn't seen hide nor hair of the young boy.

"Yeah! He's being held captive by the pigmasks, and last I saw him was up in a helicopter! I-I don't know where it was headed though, but I saw him!"

"We need to go find Princess Kumatora and Duster, then together you can go rescue your brother." Wess sounded hopeful as he stepped aside to let Lucas walk down the dirt path.

"Let's hope they're near by." Lucas mumbled. He whistled in an attempt to call Boney, but Boney didn't respond. His ears were slightly raised as he listened, barked, and then ran off. Lucas watched as Boney ran off, and he trailed after.

"Boney, where are you going?!"

Boney was going on an adventure.