Fox and Krystal finished their deep and passionate kiss. Then, Fox said, "Well, now all we gotta do is return that spirit to Krazoa Palace."

"Yeah." Krystal then started feeling pensive. "Fox, I now know where Elysia is. It was shown to me during the Test of Fear."

"Wha!? Elysia? You know where she is now?"

"Yes. While I was taking the Test of Fear, I saw what happened to her. While we were in CloudRunner Fortress, a few Venomian soldiers took Elysia and shoved her into that beam I barely escaped from back in Krazoa Palace. Then I was shown what was happening to her in that horrific Krazoa dimension she is now trapped in. Wires sticking out of the ground were digging into her flesh, draining her life energy…" Krystal started having tears leaking out of her eyes. "Why!? Why must she suffer for all her life!? If she had died when Cerinia was destroyed, at least her torment would have ended!" Krystal started crying, excessively. Fox gave her a comforting embrace, letting her cry as much as she needed to. As soon as she had exhausted all her tears, Krystal rose her head from Fox's shoulder, saying, "I think I should elaborate what I meant by that. Remember when I told you that Kaijira used Elysia as a tool for his pleasures while his henchmen did the same with other women from the Nemeria tribe?"

"Yes, Krystal."

"Well, now I'm going to tell you about Sabre's and my confrontation with him. After learning about Kaijira's cruelty and constant abuse, father waged war against him and our warriors kept on battling and killing his, and the war ended with Sabre and myself infiltrating his fortress and confronting him two on one. There, I nearly crossed a line."

Krystal and Sabre were sneaking around Kaijira's temple. Krystal called to Sabre, "We're here. Let's take down Kaijira, rescue the Nemeria women, and leave."

"Okay, Krystal. I'm with you all the way."

The royal brother and sister navigated the palace's scaffolding and found a passage. They crawled through that passage, and crawled that way to a balcony above Kaijira's throne room. There, they spotted their target and his captive.

Sitting on the throne below was Kaijira, an anthropomorphic jackal with a similar appearance to Anubis. He had dark-purple fur, glowing red eyes, razor sharp teeth and claws, and he wore a thin loincloth that reached his knees. He was holding a chain attached to a collar worn by his captive, former princess Elysia, who was forced by Kaijira to wear a very thin halter top that only covered her nipples but showed a lot of over and under cleavage, and a thin loincloth that reached to the middle of her thighs. She was crying profusely. Kaijira pulled her closer to him and grabbed her by the chin. "Now then, my sweet, shall we begin?" Krystal was watching from the scaffolding above and seething.

Elysia cried, "Stop! Please!"

"You belong to me now!" He started fondling her legs and midriff and licking her face. "So be a good girl and entertain me."

Krystal couldn't take it anymore. "That fiend!" she softly hissed. She drew her staff, said, "Protect her while I teach Kaijira a lesson!" and ran towards a large red curtain closest to her. Sabre called to her saying, "Krystal! Wait!" But she wasn't listening. She was already sliding down the curtain behind Kaijira's throne. As soon as she reached the floor, she started charging at Kaijira, shrieking her frightening Cerinian war cry, and once she got close enough to him, smacked him in the jaw with her staff.

The sheer ferocity of Krystal's swing knocked Kaijira across the room, but he effortlessly regained his footing as he dug his claws into the floor to keep himself from flying off any further. When he got back up again, he took a good look at the seething, scantily-clad woman standing before him, and felt that it meant that he wouldn't have to dress her skimpily himself because she was skimpily dressed to begin with. He licked his lips. "How lovely. Another voluptuous princess has appeared before me!"

"Your reign of terror ends tonight, you lecherous slime!" shrieked Krystal in rage as she readied herself into a combat stance.

"My, my, aren't you feisty. This feeble wench was starting to bore me. She kept begging me to stop forcing myself into her, but she did nothing to fight back. Making you my plaything is going to be far more rewarding!"

"You dare to view women like they are things!? Your 'reward' will be a slow and painful death!" She charged at Kaijira but he quickly dodged her attack and slashed at her back with his claws.

Kaijira then grabbed Krystal by the hair with his left hand and lifted her up, and then started stroking her chin with his right hand. "Such a fiery spirit. It should make it interesting to bring you to my will." He started taking his left hand off her hair and moving it to her breast, and started stroking it. "Such a lucious…"

But Krystal rammed her foot through Kaijira's legs and hit him in the groin, causing him to cringe in pain and release Krystal from his grip. Krystal then shouted, "Only my friends are allowed to touch me!" as she grabbed her staff and swung it into Kaijira's jaw again, causing a few teeth to fly out of his mouth. He staggered, but before he could recover, Krystal hit him in the jaw yet again, causing him to stagger yet again. Krystal charged at Kaijira preparing to hit him a third time, shrieking her war cry again, but Kaijira quickly got back up again, dashed at Krystal, and slashed at her midriff with his razor sharp claws. Krystal staggered in pain, then Kaijira viciously bit her ear and prepared to rip it off with his teeth which were as sharp as his claws. But she kicked him in the groin again and then punched him in the jaw.

Sabre slid down the same curtain as Krystal, and saw that his sister, who he was hoping to help and support, was already fiercely battling Kaijira on her own. He then remembered Krystal telling him to protect the princess that Kaijira was holding captive. She rushed over to that woman's side to protect her. The woman here took one glance at Sabre, but the turned away in fear. Sabre said to her, "It's okay. I'm here to protect you." But the woman continued to cry in fear.

Kaijira wiped the blood from his lips. He leered at Krystal and snarled at her, saying, "At first, your resilience turned me on. But now, it's starting to annoy me!"

Krystal threateningly pointed her staff at him, replying, "Shut up and fight!"

"Insolent wench! You will submit to my will!" He charged at Krystal and she charged at him as well. She drove the tail end of her staff into Kaijira's chest, electrifying him, while he slashed at her midriff with his claws again, causing the both of them to stumble back in pain. Kaijira then lunged at Krystal with his mouth wide open, preparing to rip out her throat with his teeth, but she held her staff sideways in front of her, and Kaijira got his jaw caught on Krystal's staff as she held it away from her, to keep Kaijira back. He kept slobbering as he kept trying to bite away at her, and Sabre then rushed over to Kaijira to attack him and save his sister, but then, she instantly headbutted Kaijira, causing his nose to bleed and him to scream in pain, and Sabre stopped in his tracks after Krystal got out of her predicamant all by herself. Before he could regain his footing, however, Krystal then fired an Ice Blast at his legs, freezing them solid before he could recover from his stagger. When he did, he was unable to move his legs. He looked downward, and saw that his legs were frozen solid and encased in ice. He was terrified. "What is this!? What have you done!?"

Krystal then swung her staff at his legs, shattering them into pieces, causing him to collapse on the floor, lying on his back, writhing in pain from having his legs destroyed with bloody stumps remaining. Krystal glared at him, but Kaijira started to beg for mercy. "No! Stop! Please! Leave me be!"

But Krystal ignored his cries and began to straddle on top of him. "I saw what you did to Elysia! What you did to every other woman you have captured and enslaved! Brutalizing them and forcing them into intercourses with you and your men against their will! Now, I'm going to teach you how they felt! And your lesson will be painful!"

Krystal then tore off Kaijira's loincloth and then viciously started forcing him into herself, while pressing his face to the floor. She started to feel surges of pleasure within her, but her vicious seething overshadowed that pleasure. But then, in an instant, she felt herself being grabbed by the shoulders and pulled away from Kaijira. The person grabbing her shouted, "Stop it, Krystal! Get a hold of yourself!"

"Let go of me, Sabre! Kaijira has to pay for what he's done!"

"Not in that way! I won't let you sink to his level!"

"GET! OFF!"

But in an instant, Sabre turned Krystal's body around so that she would be facing him and slapped her in the face, shouting, "Get a hold of yourself!"

Krystal immediately stopped her insane rage. She felt a bit paralyzed. Tears started to form in her eyes. "I'm sorry, Sabre, but I can't forgive Kaijira for what he did to Elysia and all the other women of the Nemeria tribe. I just wanted him to pay for what he did."

Sabre hugged Krystal, saying, "And he will. But I won't let you sink to his level to make it happen. We will bring him back with us and have him executed. I just don't want you to commit the very evil that we… that you. are fighting against."

Krystal hugged Sabre and cried profusely, as she was distraught and horrified at the possibility of what she would have been like if he weren't there to stop him from going off the deep end. She was grateful to him that he was there to prevent her from being corrupted and turning against her principles.

"And we did end up punishing Kaijira in ways that adhered to our principles. We had him castrated, whipped four-hundred times each day for a week, then sentenced to death by having his life force drained by the Krazoa back in Cerinia's Krazoa Palace. That is how our tribe punishes rapists and sexual offenders. But the fact that I nearly raped Kaijira, nearly embraced the very evil that I wanted to punish him for, kept eating away at my soul." Tears started to form in Krystal's eyes. "I needed people there to console me and thankfully, I had plenty of that. But I'll get to it later."

"Are you okay, Krystal?"

Krystal wiped away her tears. "I'm okay, Fox. Anyway, our tribe has always detested abuse in all of its forms. They knew for a fact that abuse could leave those who have endured it with psychological trauma that is almost impossible to heal. But sexual abuse in particular has earned them a special kind of hatred. Our tribe has always loved sex as it was a great way to not only reproduce, but more importantly, (from our perspective, anyway) to solidify a good relationship between a man and a woman, and a fun activity between two people that are each of the opposite sex. So, they considered it a mortal tragedy to see something meant to be part of a good, friendly relationship being used to hurt people, scarring them for life in the process. They viewed it as taking a part of you that is beautiful and natural... and grotesquely mutilating it beyond the point of recognition, alienating you from your own sexuality because of the trauma it causes. Sex is meant to be an act where both the man and the woman gain pleasure together, but in rape, one gains pleasure while the other suffers. Whenever somebody does get raped, we mourn the victim's abuse with a Moment of Celibacy, where we spend a period of time refraining from any and all sexual activity."

"That's very admirable, but what if your hormones start running wild during one of those Moments of Celibacy?"

"We masturbate in private. Like you did back in Cape Claw. We always applaud safe ways of managing our lusts. But we tend to avoid more open sexual contact until the moment of celibacy is over because we consider continuing our carnal activities after learning about a rape that has occured is like defecating all over somebody's grave. And even after our Moment of Celibacy ends and we go back to engaging in sexual pleasure, we make sure that the victims aren't around when it happens out of fear that seeing acts of sex would trigger painful memories for them. And if they ask for sex themselves, we try to make sure, using our telepathy that they are absolutely certain that they want to. If they have even the slightest bit of reluctance or ambivalence, we are obligated by law to turn them down."

"How else do you help the victims? Any that involve direct interaction?"

"Plenty of those. We provide therapy and words of encouragement to them, we act as friends to them, treating them with kindness, love and compassion, we even encourage them to wear outfits that show off very little of their skin as opposed to the very skimpy clothings worn by most of our tribespeople. We even allow them not to witness their rapists being subjected to genital mutilation and torture, but if any of them want to, we let that be their perogative."

"Wow. For a tribe believing in justice and fairness, you can be rather sadistic at times."

"Normally our punishments are more merciful, but rape is an act so evil, that they felt that mutilation was an approprite punishment. But I should talk about Elysia again."

Fox asked, "What was her life like before Kaijira took her?"

"Somewhat better than when she was under his…" Krystal gave scornful mock cough "...custody, but not much. As I mentioned earlier, she was the princess of the Nemeria tribe. But… she wasn't treated like royalty. Especially by her own father. The women of the Nemaria tribe, including Princess Elysia, almost never had any physical abuse, but they were always being looked down on and treated like they were things, and physically abused when they stepped out of line. Raised to be completely subservient to their fathers and husbands, with almost no will of their own. My father didn't take kindly to their callous misogyny and neither did I. Not long after declaring war against Kaijira and his tribe, we confronted the Nemaria leaders."

"But you said Kaijira invaded Nemaria."

"They technically did, but the Nemaria just handed their women over to him just to get them to leave them alone! Those cowards! Thankfully, father and I gave them a piece of our minds!"

Krystal and her father, Randorn, stepped up to the King of the Nemaria tribe, Elysia's father. The Nemaria king scowled and sneered at Randorn and Krystal, and feeling offended, Krystal sneered right back. The Nemaria King then said to Randorn in a scorning manner, "So. You're the king of the Crimson Sun tribe. State your business here and leave. I don't need you meddling in my affairs."

Randorn then spoke in a respectful manner, despite being just as resentful towards the Nemarian King as his daughter was. "We know that your women have been abducted by Kaijira and his tribe. We fully intend to rescue them."

"You clearly have good intentions, but we don't wish for your help. Now, leave."

"What are you talking about?"

"It is unfortunate that our women have been taken, but Kaijira and his men should be able to give them the discipline they deserve."

Krystal, in a fit of pique shouted, "Are you insane!? Do you have any idea what they are doing to your wives and daughters!?"

"Unfortunate, but our wenches were getting more and more defiant lately, even after we tried to teach them discipline many times. When Kaijira came for them, we gave them our women just to save our own hides. Now that we think about it, we think it's for…"

"You are insane! You think that letting your own flesh and blood and the very women you wed to be subjected to torture, abuse, and lifelong trauma and you're okay with that because you are having a spat with them!? You're truly depraved. You have no morals whatsoever!"

"We have no morals!? Our women have been defying our virtues and you call us evil!?"

Randorn stood up in Krystal's favor, saying, "I'm sorry, but my daughter is right. Your wives and daughters are people that you should love and care for. That makes it very wrong of you to treat them with apathy and abuse."

"We are wrong!? You let your women stray from what is right for them! Look at that wretched daughter of yours! Look at how vulgarly she dresses. Chances are, she probably lends her body to any man that comes her way!"

Krystal then angrily shouted back at the Nemaria King, "You have a problem with that, you self-righteous misogynist!?"

"You arrogant wench! You call us misogynists simply for wanting to keep our women…"

"In line? Subservient? Weak? Mindless? On a tight leash!?"

"Pure! And by gaining sexual pleasure from any male that piques your interest, you abandoned your purity, and let yourself be tainted by their lusts, and by extension…"

"Shut up! It's my sexuality and I'll do whatever I want with it. And if anything, your misogynistic, totalitarian mindset makes all of you the impure ones. So, why don't you shove it right up…"

Randorn then called to Krystal, shouting, "That's enough!" He then turned to the Nemaria king, saying, "Although, I agree with her that your ideas of 'purity' are cruel and morally questionable."

"You think we are unvirtuous!?"

"Yes. We do. Treating your women as property with no regard for their opinions, and as soon as you find them..."

"Silence! You dare judge us for wanting to keep our women pure and untainted by desire before their marriages to men!? Any woman who sleeps with another man is proven to be disloyal to her husband. Loyalty to a man is a woman's purpose in life, and you dare to allow the women of your tribe to stray from it!?"

"Women have thoughts, feelings, and opinions just like men do. And you disregard them just to make them puppets around your strings. My daughter was right to call you misogynists."

"For making sure that our women receive proper care!? You encourage your women to throw caution into the wind! You let them sleep with as many men as they want to with no regard for loyalties! You let them discard their purity just to spoil them rotten, allowing them to become nothing more than mere playthings for any man they encounter! Not only that, women are supposed to show respect for men, yet you allow your daughter to talk back to us in such an arrogant manner."

But Krystal snapped and tried to lunge at the Nemarian leading males, but Randorn held her back as she screamed, "YOU HEARTLESSLY EVIL MISOGYNISTS! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU! ALL OF YOU WILL DIE! I'LL RIP OUT YOUR THROATS!"

But Randorn called, "Stop it, Krystal. Murdering them will not solve anything!"

"They deserve it! They treat their women as disposable things!"

"Get a hold of yourself!" Krystal was then immediately stunned into silence. Randorn continued, "We do not want to start any unnecessary violence with the Nemaria. But if they all fail to produce a new generation and die out, that's not our problem." He and Krystal turned around and prepared to walk away, and he glanced at the Nemaria king, saying, "We will rescue your women, and when we do, we will put them under our care. And then we'll be much better fathers to them than you ever were."

"After we rescued Princess Elysia and the other women of the Nemaria tribe, they were afraid that we would send them back to their fathers and husbands, fearing that they would be forced to endure abuse from them again. But we didn't. We had them live with us instead and treated them with love, kindness, and compassion. But old wounds never heal. No matter how much love and compassion we treated them with, the abuse they suffered from in the past continued to cast a dark shadow on them. They even blamed themselves for their misfortunes and for all the horrible things they endured no matter how frequently we told them that it wasn't their fault."

"That's terrible."

"True. I said before that the Nemaria males looked down on them and ingrained them to look down upon themselves as well, even though we tried to raise their self esteem by saying, 'No, your fathers and husbands were scum, they are to blame, not you' but our words, at least initially, fell on deaf ears. Still, we did our best to support them, and Elysia, technically married herself off to Sabre, and ever since then, he was always kind to her. He never wanted her to have sex with him, in fact, when she asked him for sex, he always sensed doubt in her, so he kept declining. All he wanted was to help Elysia and psychologically heal her. For a time, things seemed to improve for Elysia, but after she was abducted by those Veniman pigs, she was tortured, experimented upon, and is now trapped by the Krazoa and having her life force drained… Why? Why couldn't she finally be at peace!? Why must she suffer all her life!? It's not fair!" Krystal started crying again, and Fox comforted her again.

Fox then said to Krystal, "We'll rescue Elysia. I heard her voice day that she needed Krazoa Spirits, so we gotta take the one you just got to Krazoa Palace."

But a familiar voice appeared before them, saying, "He's right." Fox and Krystal turned and saw the same Krazoa God that they encountered in Moon Mountain Pass. "When all spirits are returned, she will be saved. She is depending on you... for her life." Then the Krazoa disappeared. Krystal said, "Let's go, Fox. I won't let Elysia suffer any longer. I will make this right."

"Then let's do it, Krystal. I'm with you all the way."

As Fox, Krystal, and Tricky walked out of the cave, they heard stabbings and the LightFoot that antagonized them at Cape Claw scream in pain. Fox smirked at the sound of it, then said to Krystal, "Well, that does it for that jerk." As soon as Fox, Krystal, and Tricky left LightFoot Village, Fox called on the Arwing again. The Arwing flew all the way from Cape Claw to the areas just outside of LightFoot Village. Fox, Krystal, and Tricky hopped into the Arwing, and Fox flew it off to ThornTail Hollow.

As Fox flew to ThornTail Hollow, he then said to Krystal, "By the way, Krystal, good job ratting on that LightFoot jerk from yesterday. You really saved our lives, then."

"Anything to help, Fox, but I don't think there were any rats involved."

"It's an expression, Krystal. It means you revealed a secret about him that would get him in trouble."

"Oh. Anyway, large rats the size of horses were a prominent and dangerous creature in our jungles that myself and the other warriors of the Crimson Sun battled and killed numerous times. If that LightFoot were eaten by them, I'd feel bad for him despite everything he did. I hope spears are more merciful."

"Probably."

The Arwing landed back in ThornTail Hollow as Fox, Krystal, and Tricky stepped out of the Arwing. Fox asked Tricky to go back to his mother, then he and Krystal went up to the WarpStone. They got onto the small circle in front of him. The WarpStone said to them, "Ah, welcome back, kiddies." He then looked at Krystal's eyes and saw the blue glow emanating from them. Ah see ye've got another Krazoa Spirit. Ready to go to Krazoa Palace?"

Krystal then shouted, "Yes! We have a friend of ours who is in danger! She needs our help!"

"Very well." The platform lifted and the WarpStone held out his hand. Fox and Krystal went into his palm and then the vulpine duo was mystically transported.