Everything feels peaceful. The sun is fully awake by now and is shining its lights down upon the lifeless village. The village was empty of any life and colors. These are the important things that every living thing needs to have in order to be alive. The buildings are decaying to a level that Mao Mao never seen before. All expect for the water fountain is neither decay or falling apart. The water fountain is always stands in the middle of the village, watching how its home is being taking over by nature again. That same lonely fountain is the only thing that still has a bit of life in it because of the water continues to run somehow.

As the light wind continues its flows, it pass through a lonely black cat that is sitting on the edge of the fountain with his feet under water. The cold water is the only thing that prove that he is alive and not dreaming. "Everything is so peaceful." Mao Mao said. He was exhausted after coming back from the dark infested forest again. This time he didn't even stop by the house on the hill, but instead he went straight to the village. The village is the only place that he hasn't fully checked before, because he knows it will take him a whole day to fully explore the buildings and streets of the village. Mao Mao just sighs as he looks around his surroundings with his feet still in the water. The village is truly empty of any life expect for the wild flowers that have claim this land again. Mao Mao can't help but feel depressed. This village could have been the home of many villagers, their laughs and kindness that once filled this place with life, little kids playing in the street making sound to show that village is running, bakers leaving their pie out on the window of their store filling the air with a sweet taste, and many more little things like that, but now its empty. Mao Mao never encounter anyone here during his time here before. Mao Mao got out from the water. The only thing that greets him is the wind that runs free around the village. "What happened here?"

There is no sign of an invasion or any signs of an attack from the inside. It just looks like if the villagers just got up and left for whatever reason. Mao Mao's head starts to hurt by overthinking about his situation. 'Why am I here, what happen to everyone, and…who am I really?' It true that he had find his name but is it really his? "Whatever, it's not important right now, I need to find Badgerclops first, then I can figure out what happened later." Mao Mao said as he starts to walk toward the castle again. Even with the great distance from the castle, he still see that castle is being consume by the ruby heart bit by bit. He continues his walk though the village when he notices that some of the decaying buildings don't have any signs on them. 'Could these buildings have been originally houses?' Mao Mao just shakes his head. "Stop! Focus on finding Badgerclops first!" Mao Mao reminds himself of this important mission again. 'Badgerclops come first then everything else come second.' As he was lost in his thoughts about Badgerclops again, a noise could be heard inside one of the building beside him. This causes Mao Mao to jump away from the noise and pull out his katana out of instinct.

Nothing happens. Everything continues to be the same as always. The wind passing between Mao Mao and building housing the noise. Mao Mao just held the katana closer to his chest as he starts walking toward the origin of the sound. As he got closer toward the building, he notices that this building was different from the others. It's has no plants or flowers growing out of it, still have some paint on it, and it has only one door in the front instead of having two like the other buildings. Mao Mao put down his katana as he continues his observation of this unique building. 'Maybe it was a can or something else that fall down in there' Mao Mao thought as he put down his katana and try to walk away, but unfortunately his curiosity got the better of him again. He quickly turn around and grab the door's handle. The handle feels so cold, he never feel so something so cold before but somehow it feels familiar, but not in a good way. As Mao Mao continues to hold the handle more, a memory is coming back to him. His breathing became more erratic as the cold memory makes it way back to his head, The coldness of being alone. Mao Mao starts to tears up as an image of a black kitten wearing red overall trying his best to impress someone wearing a golden armor suit.

Mao Mao shakes his head a bit and wipes his small tears away and finally opens the door of the building and enter its tragic walls. The room was semi-dark even with the sun shining its light though the many windows on the wall, the room was still hiding in the darkness. The first thing that he notices was the white chairs that was leaning on the wall. The wall was just painted in a boring plain white. There was a small table in the middle of the room was some magazine lay down on it. He walk toward the small table and pick one of the magazine up to examine it. The front cover of the magazine shows some kind of buildings but unfortunately the magazine was cover in cuts and the corners was tore off. Even the words was fainting away, making it impossible to read it. Mao Mao just put the magazine down on the table again, and look around his surroundings more carefully this time.

"It's look like a waiting room of some kind." Mao Mao said as he continues to explore the small room, he notices a board hang from the wall. He walks towards it as he tries his best to not make cracking sounds as he walks through the wooden floor that dare to break in any moments. When he finally reaches it, he saw some papers pined on it. Unfortunately, the words on the paper also have fainted away a long time ago. Mao Mao feels something in his chest. A burning feeling that is threating to burn him from the inside. "What is this...feeling?" Mao Mao said as he put his one of his paws on his chest, hoping to extinguish this horrible feeling in his chest. The more time that he see the useless paper, the more fire he feels in his chest. Until it finally come out in a horrible yell. "WHY!!!" Mao Mao yelled in pain as he got out his katana again and starts slashing the board out of the wall with this intense feeling in his heart. He don't know why he is do this but again its feel familiar somehow. The burning feeling have completely consume him whole. As he continues his ferocious attack on board with the paper flying at every direction with every slash that hits the board, but suddenly stop as he saw something on the wall again. A tall lonely mirror was staring at him for his shameful attack at the defenseless board. He stop his attack and walk closer toward the mirror and saw a reflection of a lost cat. As he continues to stares at his own reflection on the mirror, he notices something missing from him.

"…where is…my…tail?" Mao Mao ask as he stares in horror at his reflection. He quickly went to touch his tail but he felt nothing there. The only thing that he feel there is nothing but a ugly stomp of some kind. "…this…isn't real…" He pleads as he touch the mirror, hoping to get something back. "you are lying…YOU ARE LYING TO ME!!!" He yelled at his reflection as he starts to punch at his own deform image with all his strength. He continues to punch the mirror until something red comes out from his paws. Its was completely covering his paws with this red stuff. Mao Mao stops as he see the mess of papers with red covered mirror shards on the floor. After seeing the mess that he made, he looks back at the broken mirror and then looks down at his red cover paws. He never saw something cover in such much red before. As he continues to look at his paw, an image of a yellow dog appear in his mind.

"…whatever"

He doesn't have time to think about other stuff, what he needs to do first is to focus on finding something to stop the red liquid from coming out from his paws. He looks around the room, but saw nothing useful to stop the liquid. The only things that he can see are the chairs and the mess that he made. "Great!" Mao Mao said as he leave the building to looks for bandages somewhere else. The only other places that can have some bandages are the other buildings that he haven't checked yet. 'which one do I go to?' He doesn't have much time left, the sun is starting to set again. Mao Mao just run toward the building in front of him. As he was about to open the door, when the image of the dog appear again. Mao Mao just didn't care anymore as open the door with the image of the dog disappear In the cold wind, never to be seem again. As he run inside the building he saw that the room seem to be a regular living room with a small couch in the middle facing a flat tv set. Mao Mao scan his surroundings and found a drawer. Mao Mao quickly run to it and open the drawer. "Please be something useful." Mao Mao said as he ran his paws in the mess inside the drawer. He finally feels something soft and quickly pull it out. It was some cotton balls. "Could be worse." Mao Mao said as he carefully grab the cotton balls with his mouth so it doesn't get the red liquid on them. He thankfully found a sink on the other side of the room and walk there. He walks slowly so he doesn't drop the cotton balls. He finally reach the sink and turn it on. Thankfully again, the water still runs. Mao Mao grabs the cotton balls from his mouth and dip them in the water and starts clean his wounds. Surprising his wounds wasn't bad at all, just some few small stretches. Once he finish cleaning his wounds, he turned off the water and dry his hand with his cape. Something about this feels familiar again like if he did before. Mao Mao shakes his head a bit and looks around his surroundings for a second time. He notices that he left the drawer open, so he walk over there. As he was about to close the drawer, he notices something else was still in there. A map with notes on it. Mao Mao takes the map out to look at it. It shows the whole area of the village and forest, but he notices something weird about it. There was a building on the other side of the forest, a building that he never visited before. 'Maybe he is there.' Mao Mao thought to himself as he notices a bright light shines through the windows of the living room. Time is almost up. Mao Mao quickly held up the map again and try his best to read the notes but the writing was to small. The only thing that he could read was...

Please protect us, Mother Pure Heart.

That was the last thing that Mao Mao reads as the bright warm light engulfs him again into the nothingness.