Janna found herself inside of Adam's dream. It wasn't that she didn't trust the young child of man, but she had known many witches that were burnt at the stake by not being careful.

Janna looked around and found herself inside of a blacksmith's forge. Her spell allowed her to walk into a person's dream, and it allowed her to feel and sense everything around her. She could smell the smoke of the forge, and feel the heat of the weapons being forged. She spotted Adam working side by side with his father.

"Alright, let's see what dirty little secrets I can dig out of you human," Janna snickered.

Janna walked towards Adam, but he did not react to her presence. She made sure that she was completely invisible to him.

"Adam, I can't thank you enough for giving me a hand with these orders," Jason said.

"It's no problem, dad," Adam replied before pulling the sword out of the fire. "I am a blacksmith as well as a knight. Besides, the city is safe. I won't be needed for a while," He said before he hammered the newly forged sword.

After working on the sword both Adam and Jason were called from the other room. They went to see both Adam's mother and younger brother as they were preparing the table for the meal.

"Aw, how sweet of him, he loves his family," Janna said as she admired Adam's body. "But I'm here for the juicy little secrets."

Janna walked up to the stairs up to the second floor. She went to Adam's room with a smile on her face. She grabbed hold of the door knob and opened it.

"Time to see what you're hiding, I hope it's cool," Janna said before entering the room through the door.

Janna found herself in a room filled with books, which could've been a personal library of some sorts. She reached for one of the books and read what was written on the page. Well, it wasn't so much reading as it was looking back at the memories of Adam's past. She looked through the pages seeing his early days and all the troubles that Adam would get up to. Janna saw in one page how Adam would wear his underwear on his head and wrestle his dad when he was no older than five. She then saw how Adam and his brother would sneak out in the middle of the night to pull pranks on some of the nobles of the city, such as taking some knight's horse and painting it a different color. Janna particularly laughed at the memory of Adam turning red as a tomato when a girl ran up and kissed him in the cheek.

"Well, weren't you a rebel," Janna laughed before flipping the page.

She skipped around from the parts in which Adam was a baby learning how to walk and chew his food to going into the more recent parts of his life.

"As cute as he was as a baby, time to see if what you said was the truth," Janna said as she flipped through the pages.

As Janna flipped through the pages, she spotted something out of the corner of each page, a silhouette of a woman with long hair and horns.

"Ooh, you have a stalker, Adam," Janna said, flipping the page with a smirk. "You surely get around with the ladies. Maybe I'll have some fun with you of the more physical kind."

Janna observed as Adam's memories of the last couple of days appeared before her eyes. She saw how Adam ran into Star three days ago, and how he took her back to his home. She then saw how Adam tried to help Star get out of the city and all the troubles the princess had caused. Janna saw the sadness in his eyes when he was forced to runaway from his home and leaving his family. It tugged at the young witch's heartstrings.

"Aw, now I've got the feelings," Janna whined.

Janna continued looking through the memories, seeing how they met Jackie and the fight with the warriors of the Sun. Tears began to well up in Janna's eyes as disappointment and shame caused her to drop her head down.

"Damn, spell, you always make me feel all this stuff," Janna sniffed before closing the book.

Every page that she flipped through not only showed the memories but also the emotions that the person was feeling. Which meant that she felt exactly like how Adam would've felt every step of the way. She felt the same guilt that he felt, the same anger, same laughter, and the same hope.

"You seem to be telling the truth, and you actually think that this 'quest' of yours will do something to make a difference," Janna said as she left the room. "I guess I could help you, if only to see your blushing face a little longer,"


The birds woke up chirping, signaling that it was time to wake up.

Adam slowly opened his eyes, waking up. He expected to see the ceiling of the room and maybe a few rays of sunshine, or maybe seeing the sleeping faces of Jackie and Star. But the one thing he wasn't expecting was seeing Janna's sleeping face on top of his own, kissing him. Adam's eyes grew wide at the sight of Janna giving him a kiss. His face grew warm with the increase of blood circulation through his cheeks. If he could see his own face, he'd believe that his head had been left out in the sun.

"What is going on?!" Adam thought to himself.

Janna's eyes fluttered open before breaking the kiss. She gave Adam's red face a chuckle before giving him a mischievous smile. She straddled his hips before placing her left index finger on his lips, silencing him.

"Sshh~, don't worry, I didn't take advantage of you while you slept. So don't worry about it," Janna whispered into Adam's ear. "You don't need to wake the girls up. I'll go prepare some breakfast for us," She whispered before getting out of the bed.

Adam got up and followed Janna as she walked out of the room, swaying her hips almost as if she was tempting Adam's gaze. His eyes went upwards to avoid staring at Janna's ass, but he was instead met with her giving him a smile. At the mischievous look of her eyes, his face turned bright red.

"Hope you enjoyed the little show," Janna said with a snicker before leaving the room.

As soon as the door was closed behind Janna, Adam fell out of bed.

"Ow," Adam groaned in pain. "That little witch, is just horrible."

All the noise had caused, Jackie and Star to wake up.

Jackie let out a yawn before she stretched her arms.

"Man, what a good night's rest," Jackie said before stepping out of her bed. "This bed is so much more comfortable than the stone floor," She said, noticing Adam was on the floor.

"What are you doing on the floor?" Star asked. "If you preferred to sleep on the floor like an animal, you could've just given me your mattress. This bed is good but it's nothing like my usual bedding accommodations."

"I fell out of the bed," Adam said with an irritated twitch on his left eye. "I was slightly startled by a dream I was having. I'm going for a shower," He added before getting back to his feet.

"What happened to ladies first?" Star asked.

"Good point, you can go on ahead," Adam replied. "Although I may end up regretting it."

Star smiled as she skipped past Adam and Jackie towards the bathroom.


After taking a cold bath, Adam, Jackie and Star returned to the living room where Janna was waiting for them. She sat down in front of her work table now turned into a breakfast table, filled with toast, sausages, scrambled eggs, and a bowl of berries.

"Morning sleepy heads, did you enjoy your night at the grand Janna lodge?" Janna asked.

"I may have one or two complains," Adam mumbled.

"Yeah, the hot water didn't last very long," Star said offhandedly.

"Thank you again for letting us stay here for the night," Jackie said.

"Then sit down guys," Jann said. "It's too much breakfast for me."

All three of them sat down on the table and each grabbed hold of some breakfast.

Jackie watched as Adam ate the scrambled eggs with toast and some sausages, before turning to see Star shoving down the food that she had in her plate. She slowly poked a sausage and took a bite off of it.

"This is amazing...," Jackie said as she tasted the meat.

Jackie then proceeded to eat as much as she could with stars in her eyes. A life eating fish had not prepared her for the taste of a traditional breakfast. She munched down on the contents of her plate while enjoying every bite of the breakfast. As Jackie chewed the food she placed her left hand on her cheek and smiled.

"So good," Jackie mumbled.

"Um, Jackie, what are you doing?" Adam asked with curiosity.

"Isn't this how you tell the food is good?" Jackie asked before swallowing her food.

"That sounds more like how a cheesy anime would show it," Janna said.

"Really? What do you think, Star?" Jackie asked the princess.

Star, however, was a little too busy to answer the mermaid. The princess was swallowing her food like a starving woman, or like a savage animal. She bit into her food, almost taking bites out of the fork and the knife that she used. She then grabbed the mug next to her and chugged the drink down her throat. She let out a satisfied sigh, followed by a burp.

"It could use a little more corn and alcohol in it, but it's good," Star said with a burp, but she was met with slightly disgusted look from Adam's face. "What? Can't a lady have breakfast without getting objectified?"

"Sorry, it's just that... I wasn't expecting you to eat like that," Adam replied.

"Well excuse you Mr. I-eat-with-a-fork, but you've had me at barely any food for days. I was hungry," Star said.

"What?! You've been getting the same portions that I've been getting!" Adam shot back. "If anything we've been eating less because you can't seem to keep back your impulses," He added, trying to remain civil at the table.

"Girls, girls, please you're both pretty. Let's not fight at breakfast," Janna said, calming down her two guests. "Now, I've made a decision regarding your request from last night. I will help you."

This brought excitement to the group, specifically to Adam.

"Are you serious?" Adam asked, unable to hold back his happiness. "You'll translate the notes?"

"Yep, figured you would be lost without my help anyway," Janna said with her trademark smugness. "By the way, you might need this back," She said before giving Adam his sword back.

"Thanks," Adam replied before putting his sword back on his belt.

Adam pulled out the two books and gave them to Janna.

Janna looked over both versions of the book with the outmost care before even opening the book.

"Both of them don't appear to have any form of curse or spells to keep their knowledge hidden, which is a cool way of keeping nosy people from reading stuff they aren't supposed to," Janna said before opening the first book. "Most of these notes are about how the two books were made by the same person and under the same circumstances. Nice handwriting. Very simple and to the point," She said as she read through the notes.

"Yeah, the women of the Butterfly family have the most refined skills of all the Fablefolk," Star boasted. "Writing is only one of the many skills that we've mastered."

"Yeah... Humility is still a little farther away it seems," Adam whispered, earning a chuckle from Jackie.

"Hey!" Star snapped.

"This is getting interesting," Janna said, getting their attention once more. "Some of these sentences are broken or cut. Almost as the ideas are missing from this book," She said before an idea popped in her head. "Oh, you sneaky little minx."

Janna grabbed hold of the second version of the book and flipped the page until both books were on the same page. The notes on each page of the two books when they were put together, fit perfectly to form a message. A smile formed on Janna's face for figuring out how the notes came together. Celena's notes were not only written on a language that was hard to understand but they were also broken up so that it would be useless to translate one book without the other.

"I think I've got it," Janna said with a smile as she flipped page after page on both books, before she narrowed her eyes. "Very interesting indeed."

"What does it say?" Adam asked, feeling the tension rising.

"Hear this out, you may want to listen to this part," Janna said before she began reading out loud. " 'My name is Celena Butterfly, and what I'm about to tell you-whoever is reading-is a story that may go against everything you've been told your whole life. But you must believe me, I am not mad This is my final statement and secret I'll tell to the world, for I fear that my end is upon me.'

"I've spent my life looking for secrets and I regret to say that I've found the biggest one. I am able to hear the earth. That is to say I hear the silent language that the world speaks. How I came upon this gift is too complicated to explain. All that's important is that you know that I know what the voice told me. It told me of how the ancient king Oberon vanquished a great evil from our world. A god of chaos that set upon wreaking havoc our home with his children by his side, he set both sides against one another in order to bring to swallow our reality. But with the aid of his allies and the betrayal of one of the god's children was Oberon able to banish him.

"Although this has not stopped the god of chaos from attempting his return. The voice tells me that he still seeks to return and enslave the world. Like a growing horror scratching at the door the voice gets more and more frightened. I've found out that the god needs two beings to enter our reality once more: A door, and A key. Both of noble blood. One the meteor and one of the star. Brought together in a place where the heart of darkness dwells.

"But there is a way to stop all this. You must travel to the resting place of the original Gospel of Glossaryk, the Evil Eye Sanctuary in the north, and destroy it. For it is through it and its copies the god is influencing the people. I can hear the god's followers coming, they'll do anything for a war to happen. I leave this now in hopes you can do what I wasn't able to,

-Celena 'The Shy' Butterfly' "

Adam and the rest of the group were silent, taking in the information that they had just heard. A god of chaos had been using the book to turn people against one another. Like puppets on their strings.

Adam was confused and angry at the same time. If what the notes were saying were true then all the troubles he and his family had been put through was the fault of something else. But it didn't change that he still had to do something to stop the war.

"Wow, that's a lot to take in," Jackie said, letting out a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"You're telling me," Janna replied. "This has crazy conspiracy written all over it," She said before putting down the book and covering her face with her hands.

"But it doesn't change the fact that we have to do something," Adam mumbled under his breath.

"Who said we have to do something?" Star asked, earning looks from everyone else. "These notes don't say that we have to do anything. We should just get this stupid bonding thing cut and be done with it," She said as she looked at her nails.

"What? Are you kidding me?" Adam asked. "This just told us that there's a god wanting to destroy our world and the war that's about to begin because of us is its ticket in... And you're saying that you're more interested in getting the bonding severed than helping?" He asked.

"Yep, that's about right," Star replied with a stupid grin on her face clearly saying 'I don't care'.

Jackie and Janna could clearly see that Adam was about to strangle the princess. His face twisted into a frown, and gritted his teeth in anger.

"How can you be so responsible to the point of being a pain in the neck and then be a complete brat?!" Adam demanded, holding himself from strangling Star.

"I'm a teenager, teenagers are dumb," Star replied without a care.

"You're eight-teen woman! You have to take responsibility for something in your life!" Adam grunted angrily.

"No I don't!" Star said standing up to face Adam at eye level. "And you should stop holding that on me!"

"Kinda hard when keep doing nothing worth to pull your weight," Adam snapped back.

Jackie and Janna looked at each other and silently agreed that it was time to split them up. They stood between both Adam and Star, pushing them away from one another.

"Hey, come on Adam, let's take a breath," Jackie suggested, while giving Adam a pleading look.

Adam let out a sigh and walked away, followed by Jackie.

"Yo, Star, wanna see my latest brew for summoning spirits?" Janna asked, using her special code phrase. "I'm pretty sure it explodes like a shot."

"Heck yeah girl!" Star said before running to the back of the house with Janna.


Outside the house, Adam was pacing back and forth, trying to calm himself as Jackie watched over him.

"Who does that brat think she is to not take this seriously?" Adam mumbled. "There's a war coming closer and a dark elder god is trying to use it to come into our dimension and she acts like it doesn't matter."

"Adam, listen," Jackie said, getting his attention. "I know Star is difficult to deal with, but you can't be too hard on her. We've only known her for what a week tops?"

Adam took a moment to collect his thoughts, and allowed Jackie's words to make sense. He needed to let the princess come to terms her own way, but the girl always seemed to rub him the wrong way. She was entitled and was full of her own power, everything that he disliked. He grew up with hard work as a form of structure, and to see someone look down on that made his blood boil. But he had to at least give Star a chance. Adam knew that it would be hard but he needed to at least try to make bridges with Star instead of burning them.

"You're right," Adam sighed. "Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on her. She does make me want to wring her little neck from time to time."

"No one said you couldn't feel that way, but we need her," Jackie said. "She could help us stop her mom from raising hell, and maybe if she's happy for us bringing her daughter back in one piece, she'll reward us handsomely."

"Yeah, I wouldn't mind a reward or two after. It's so weird, when she was in my bed she looked like an angel you'd have thought of her behaving like a wild animal," Adam said.

Unbeknownst to the two friends, a third party was hearing everything that was being said.

Amongst the green foliage of the forest, a caramel skinned huntress had followed the trail that her master's daughter left behind. Her eyes narrowed at the sight of the human and his word. She did not hold any particular love for her master's child, but she was on a mission and would bring Star Butterfly home.

Kelly lowered her stance, crouching down before closing her eyes. Her long green hair spread through the rest of her body until it became a thick coat of green fur. Her nails grew long and sharp, followed shortly after by her fangs. A growl rumbled inside her throat before coming out of her mouth. Her eyes snapped open, now turned bright yellow.

Back with Adam and Jackie, he had calmed down enough to go back inside.

"Come on, let's go inside. I feel like having a second breakfast," Jackie said with a little flirt behind her words.

"I guess... I could use some more food myself," Adam agreed.

They both turned to go back to the house, when suddenly a twig was snapped.

Adam stopped himself before turning around. He looked for the source of the snapping twig, he'd heard enough stories to know that if a twig snaps and if it all goes quiet then something bad is about to happen. He scanned the forest for anything to pop out and try to attack him and Jackie. Adam grabbed hold of his sword's handle and readied himself.

But nothing came out.

"Maybe I've listened to a little too many stories," Adam said to himself.

Just then, Kelly jumped out from the bushes in her beastly form.