Tempest walked around Shīqùle Hěnjiǔ looking for Ah Cy and Fu. The two had told Sonia that they would have a cure for Lin Chung by the time the festival started and he couldn't find them anywhere. As he walked towards their store, he caught the familiar scent of Wu Fan. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up but he couldn't see him anywhere. The coyote turned human continued to keep an eye out for the creep as he approached Ah Cy and Fu's store.

When he got there, he saw Fu and Ah Cy both bound and gagged behind some bushes. He rushed over and ungagged the couple.

"Who did this?" He asked as he worked on the ropes.

"Heikin did this! She put us under a spell so we would help her!" Ah Cy cried.

"He-who?" He asked.

"Heikin," She said. "She was Sonia and I's friend when we were all studying magic together. Heikin got jealous of Sonia's beauty so she cursed her with the Yaksha spell, turning any man who said 'I love you' to her three times would turn into a Yaksha. Sonia got so mad that she challenged her to a duel and turned her into an old woman."

"Shit… I have to warn the others!" He said. "But did you finish the antidote?"

Fu nodded. "It's in my office! Top shelf, bright blue vile! You can't miss it!"

Tempest ran inside and grabbed the potion off the shelf, but before he could leave, he was stopped by Ah Cy's doppelganger.

"I won't let you get in my master's way," It said as it lunged at him.

Tempest dodged and growled. "I don't have time for this!"

The coyote-turn-human charged at the doppelganger headfirst and rammed her into the nearby wall. He heard something crack and the clone turned into a doll with one of Ah Cy's hairpins sticking out.

As he turned to leave, he caught the sight of Autumn's clothes on the floor as well as Wu Fan's scent. His mind immediately jumped to the worst-case scenario.

"THAT BASTARD!" He howled as he ran to find the rest of his friends.

As he ran through the town, he kept his eyes peeled for Wu Fan or Autumn, but he didn't see them and due to all the different scents from the people and food he couldn't find their scents anymore.

"Please any deities that are listening, please let Autumn be okay! Please! Oh Lord please let her be okay!" He prayed.

He ran until he found the others playing some of the carnival games that were set up for the festival. Lady Green was holding onto Lin Chung's arm as they played one of those balloon darts games. She cheered as Lin Chung popped five balloons with one dart and kissed him when the game operator handed him some cheap trinket for winning.

The mere sight of the red-head made his blood boil. His vision turned red as he charged at her, grabbing her by the neck.

"WHERE IS AUTUMN YOU BITCH!" He yelled.

"I don't know where that fat pig is!" Lady Green said in a panic. "Lin Chung help me!"

Before Lin Chung could even take a step towards Tempest, he tossed the vile to Mystique Sonia.

"It's the antidote, keep it safe!" He said and threw Lady Green at a nearby tree knocking her out.

Lin Chung retaliated by trying to hit Tempest with his staff.

"I think Wu Fan has Autumn!" Tempest said as he dodged Lin Chung's attacks. He kicked Lin Chung in the chest, pushing him back a bit. "We need to find her before he hurts her!"

Mighty Ray looked at him. "I'll go with Tempest,"

"Jumpy will too!" Jumpy said.

Sonia and Mr. No-Hands nodded. "We'll handle Lin Chung."

The group split up, but in their haste, no one noticed that Lady Green was gone.

Autumn rested her head on Wu's shoulder as they walked around the festival. Wu Fan was showing her off to anyone who would listen, saying how beautiful, smart and talented she was. Autumn just stood there and smiled, after all, a lady did not talk without permission.

"Congratulations Wu," one man said. "When's the wedding?"

"In two days, and after that, we will honeymoon and start working on our family," he said. "Isn't that right my love?"

Autumn nodded. "I cannot wait to bear my lord's children. I hope I can give him the family he deserves."

"Wow, she's so eager Wu Fan, and that figure," another whistled. "You probably have the most beautiful woman here. You're lucky to have her."

Wu Fan smiled and pulled Autumn close. "I sure am. Now if you would excuse us, I must find my beloved something to eat before we can continue."

Wu Fan lead Autumn away and smiled. The redhead was complexly under his spell, and with luck, they would be on the road tomorrow and be married the next day.

"I cannot wait for our wedding my love," Wu Fan said. "You'll be the most beautiful bide my family has seen in generations."

"You flatter my lord," Autumn giggled. "But I cannot shake the feeling that this is…. Wrong somehow…"

"How could this be wrong?" He asked and stopped walking. He pulled her close and tilted her head up. "When it feels so right?"

He leaned down and gently kissed her. Autumn was a bit shocked at the sudden display of affection in public, but she kissed back none the less.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Two voices yelled.

Suddenly Wu Fan was jerked away from her, and she was pulled into someone else's arms. When she looked up, she saw a brown-haired man holding her as a rabbit was attacking Wu Fan with a jump rope.

"WU FAN!" She cried as she struggled to get away from Tempest. "Let me go! Let me go!"

"Autumn!" Wu Fan yelled. He turned to face Jumpy and snarled. "I'm going to make you regret this rabbit."

"You hurt Autumn!" Jumpy yelled and swung his rope at him

Wu Fan dodged and grabbed Jumpy's rope, resulting in a tug of war between the two. At first glance, it looked like Wu Fan had the upper hand until a familiar battle cry cut through the air:

"FEAR MY EYEBALLS!"

Wu Fan screamed in pain as he was electrocuted by Mighty Ray, making him pass out.

"WU FAN!" Autumn cried.

Mighty Ray climbed down from the tree he was hiding in.

"Everyone okay?" He asked. "I mean other than Wu Fan."

"I'm fine, but Autumn's acting strange," Tempest said.

Autumn broke down crying. "YOU KILLED HIM!"

"No kill, unconscious," Jumpy said hopping over. "Autumn okay?"

Tempest shrugged. "She's acting really strange. Maybe Sonia can figure out what going o-OW!"

Autumn kicked Tempest in the shin and ran towards Wu Fan to make sure he was okay.

"My lord, wake up, please!" She said.

Mighty Ray and Tempest had to pull her away as Jumpy tied her up.

"Something's not right," Tempest said. "Why is she acting like this?"

"Maybe Wu Fan put her under a love potion as Lady Green did with Lin Chung." Mighty Ray suggested.

"Maybe," the spirit said. "Let's take her to the others. Hopefully, they're having an easier time getting Lin Chung to drink the antidote."

"You have to drink the antidote!" Sonia yelled as Yaksha tried to grab Lin Chung with his arms.

Lin Chung dodged Yaksha's arms and shot at the vile in Sonia's hand, narrowly missing it. He ran at her and swung his staff at her. Sonia dodged and retaliated by blowing him back with her tongue and into her father's wings.

Eros put him a bear hug and would not let go. L

"Let me go!" He yelled.

"Not a chance," Eros said.

Sonia walked over and tried to force the vile in his mouth. Lin Chung kept his mouth shut and glared at Sonia.

"Ug… This isn't working." Sonia said.

"Let me try something." Mr. No-Hands said.

The armless man went up to him and kicked him in the shin. Lin Chung only grunted in pain but didn't open his mouth.

"Hmmm, let me try something," Agape said.

The pigeon took his wing and began to tickle under Lin Chung's chin, trying to get him to laugh, but Lin Chung wasn't ticklish. He then went over to Mr. No-Hands and whispered something in his ear. Mr. No-Hands nodded and took off his shoe and sock. Agape picked up the sock and waved it in front of his face, making the gray-haired teen gag at putrid smell of the fungus ridden sock. Seeing her chance Sonia forced the vile in his mouth.

"You either drink it or I'm bringing back the sock." She treated.

Lin Chung relented and swallowed the antidote. Eros let him go, but everyone stood ready to fight if needed.

After a few seconds, Lin Chung blinked and rubbed his head.

"How do you feel Lin Chung?" Agape asked.

"Freezing!" Lin Chung said as he wrapped his arms around himself with his teeth chattering.

Sonia and her fathers frowned. "What do you mean?" she asked as Yaksha wrapped around Lin Chung as a blanket.

"L-Lady Green's p-potion has a second effect. In t-two days I'm going to t-turn into an ice s-sculpture," He stuttered as he shivered.

"Is there anything we can do to stop it?" Agape asked.

"I c-checked Autumn's s-spell books and I couldn't find anything."

Mr. No-Hands thought for a second. "Maybe Duusuu knows something. She did write a whole spellbook on ice magic."

"We'll go find her," Eros said and flew off with Sonia.

Lin Chung shivered again and fell to his knees. The cold was making it hard for his stand up, his bones felt like they had turned into ice and his skin was forming frost over it. Agape and Mr. No-Hands helped him to a nearby bond fire to help keep the cold at bay. The fire helped defrost his skin but is insides still felt like he had been eating nothing but snow for the past twenty-four hours, but what was killing him were all the mean things he had said to Autumn about her weight.

Just the thought of his hurtful words made him want to curl up and die. He wasn't even bothered by her new weight he thought it was rather cute. The chub made her look a lot more feminine, even though he knew she would knock him unconscious if he said that out loud. The thought of pulling his chubby girlfriend into a tight hug made him blush a deep scarlet. Her soft body pressing against his body-

"I think he's overheating," Agape said with a chuckle, breaking his train of thought

Mr. No-Hands sat next to him. "Think about Autumn?" he asked.

Lin Chung nodded. "I feel horrible for treating her like that. I wish I could take it back."

The armless former leader of First Squad nodded. "I can relate."

"You can? How so?"

Mr. No-Hands sighed. "When I was younger, I had married a woman who was in my platoon. She was my entire world and I loved everything about her and one day she told me she was pregnant. I was so happy that I went straight to the Emperor to tell him I was retiring from the military to focus on my family. He agreed to let me go only on the condition that if a war started, I would lead his men into battle. I agreed and went home to my wife. After three years the war with High Roller started and I was called into battle.

Being overconfident I lead my men into an ambush. It was me versus a powerful zebra sorceress named Māyākl. She was the one who cursed me, and some members of my team brought me to some of the most powerful mages in the kingdom, but even they couldn't help me. I got so angry that one night I lashed out at my wife and told her to leave and never come back. She left and I never saw her again. That is my biggest and only regret."

Lin Chung frowned. "What happened to your kid?"

"Her mother took her the night she left. Sometimes I wonder where she is and what kind of woman she grew up to be."

Lin Chung was about to ask another question when he heard Autumn yelling.

"Let me go!" She yelled at Tempest and the others brought her over.

"Autumn!" He said and ran over to her.

The gray-haired teen pulled her into a hug. "I'm so sorry I said all those mean things to you! Can you ever forgive me?" He asked.

Autumn looked at him straight in the eyes and uttered the most heart-breaking words he could ever hear:

"Who are you and why are you hugging me?"

Lin Chung's heart shattered at that exact moment. He looked to his friends for an explanation.

"Wu Fan did something to her," Tempest said. "She's not acting like herself."

"She is acting like herself, her new self," Wu Fan's said as he came over to them with a group of men dressed in black armor and helmets. "And if you don't want my privet guards to kick your collective asses, I suggest you give me my bride back."

"My lord you're okay!" Autumn said in a relief

"Fat chance you creep!" Tempest snarled and ran at Wu Fan.

One of the men stepped in front of Wu Fan and blasted the charging spirit spirt with Chaotic energy, sending Tempest flying back. The coyote growled at tried punch him but the guard dodged with inhuman speed. Mighty Ray sent a blast of electricity at him and managed to knock his helmet off, only to reveal one of Orangutan King's experiments: A half-human half-lion hybrid, with long yellow teeth, thick blood-stained hair and wild eyes.

"What the hell?" Tempest said.

The hybrid leaped at Tempest and grabbed him by the throat and threw at Mighty Ray. The two collided and were knocked out on impact. Mr. No-Hands threw his grenades at abomination to nature, but it didn't even phase it! The lion hybrid let out an ear-bleeding roar that sent No-Hands flying into a brick wall with a sickening cracking sound.

Lin Chung held Autumn tighter and glared at Wu Fan. He tried to send out a beam of harmonic energy, but all that came out was a flurry of purple snowflakes!

"You can't win Lin Chump!" Wu Fan taunted. "Now give me Autumn or my guards will eat your friends for dinner."

Seeing no other option Lin Chung let Autumn go. The red-head ran over to Wu Fan who untied her and pulled her into a tight hug.

"Go with my guards, they'll take you to my carriage," He said to her. "I have some unfinished business to attend to."

Autumn nodded and kissed his cheek. "Be safe my beloved."

The guards escorted Autumn away as Wu Fan got in Lin Chung's face.

"If you or any of your friends even get think about trying to 'rescue' her. I will personally make sure Twin Masters get your decapitated heads to hang on his wall." He said.

Lin Chung glared. "What did you do to her?"

"I made her a proper woman; submissive, feminine and obedient, something you should have done a long time ago." He smirked.

"I won't let you hurt her!" He growled and tried to hit Wu Fan, only for a sudden jolt of icy pain to shoot through his body. He grunted and fell to his knees in pain.

"I don't think you're in any condition to do anything. By the time you find an antidote I will already have her carrying my children," He smirked. "I wonder what she'll do when I take her on our wedding night."

"You sick bastard!"

"I've been called worse. Tah." He said and walked away.

Autumn sat in the carriage with a few of Wu Fan's servants who were brushing her hair and fixing her make up. The door opened to reveal a smirking Wu Fan.

"Out." He ordered.

The servants left the couple alone as the carriage began to move. He pulled Autumn onto his lap and played with her hair. Autumn relaxed and leaned into her master's touch.

"I was so worried that they had hurt you, master," Autumn said.

"You're cute when you worried," he said. "I figured my blossom would be worried so I had some tea prepare for you to calm your nerves."

Autumn sipped her tea and relaxed as Wu Fan plaid with her hair and rested his other hand on her stomach.

"Two days…. Two days until you are all mine," He said. "My family is dying to meet you, my love. My mother and sisters have already prepared your dress for the ceremony."

"I cannot wait, my love," Autumn said.

Lin Chung punched the wall in a fit of rage.

"I couldn't do anything!" he yelled.

"Lin Chung, please calm down," Duusuu said. "The more stressed you get the faster the ice will spread."

After their embarrassing defeat at the hands (paws?) of Wu Fan's hybrid guards, First squad along with the animal royals met at Ah Cy and Fu's shop. Fu explained how he was the one who made the potion that Wu Fan used on Autumn.

"If I had known that his Autumn and your Autumn were the same people, I would have never had made it," Fu said.

"What about an antidote?" Mr. No-Hands asked as Ah Cy wrapped his chest up.

"Well, the good news is I can make an antidote. The bad news is that I would need the catalyst potion and I don't know where it is or what it is." He said.

"Catalyst potion? What's that?" Mighty Ray asked.

"Traditionally they were used to weaken someone's mental state before giving them a sleeping potion for surgeries, but it can also make someone vulnerable to suggestions. Like a form of hypnosis. Knowing Heikin she used it on Autumn before giving her Fu's potion," Sonia said. "If I had to guess she was working with Lady Green and Wu Fan so Lady Green could get revenge on Lin Chung and Wu Fan could get Autumn."

"But what does she gain from this?" Stoic asked.

"Power, influence, revenge," Ah Cy said. "Autumn is Sonia's best friend, hurting her hurts Sonia. Wu Fan probably made her his family's doctor to keep giving Autumn the potion. If you don't have any magical abilities the magic in the potion dies. and becomes useless."

Tempest came ran in carrying Autumn's backpack. "Lady Green wasn't at the palace but I found something in Autumn's bag."

The spirit dumped the bag out and among the sketchbooks, spell books and other miscellaneous things was a red potion.

"The catalyst!" Fu said. "I can use this to make an antidote."

"How long will take?" Jumpy asked.

"Not long at all!" Fu said. "The main ingredient for the antidote is Night Phlox, one of the nocturnal flowers that bloom tonight!"

Lin Chung felt relieved, but a piercing shot of cold made him drop to his knees in pain. His friends ran over to help him up.

"But what about Lin Chung? I don't think he'll last another day." Mighty Ray said as he supported his leader.

Duusuu rubbed her chin in thought. "Well the average human temperature 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, if we were to increase his internal temperature by three degrees then the ice would take longer to take over."

"But humans get sick if their temperatures get too high, it could kill him before the ice does," Stoic said. "If he was an animal that would be a different story."

A lightbulb went on in Sonia's head. "Hey, how far are we from the Spirit Cave?"

Mr. No-Hands checked the map. "Not far, two hours on horseback. Are you suggesting we take Lin Chung there?"

"What other choice do we have?" She asked.

"But what about Wu Fan? We still need to find out where he lives so we can rescue Autumn." Tempest said.

Fu pulled a box out from under his desk. "I got you covered," He said began to pull out papers. "For insurance purposes, I keep records of where clients live, just in case they try to skip out on a payment. Here's a map to his estate."

Tempest took the map. "Alright, the only thing we need now is some backup. Those hybrids are tough and they outnumber us two to one."

"Ya got the ram army behind ya," The ram king said. "I've been itchin' for a good fight."

"You'll have my infantry soldiers behind you as well. They're the best at what they do." The snow leopard queen said.

Lin Chung smirked. "Let's do this."