Blade opened her eyes and saw white all around her. She was in an unknown place filled with cold.

"Where am I?" she shivered and lifted her head up from the snow, then she heard a voice.

"Blade are you there?" Blade saw who it was….Hikari. She looked badly injured and her face was covered in blood. Blade wanted very much to forget everything, but she couldn't ignore Hikari's voice. Hikari rushed over to her.

"Blade are you ok?" Blade brushed away the blood-stained snow around her.

"No….I'm not ok, and neither are you."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, this is none of your fault."

"Fox and the others have already gone ahead searching for some place to stay, they were going to leave you behind, but I came back for you." Blade just stared at her.

"Why?"

"Well how could I just leave you out here alone?" she held out her paw. Blade took it and slowly stood up, trying to adjust to the pain. She started to walk with Hikari.

"We need to catch up with Fox."

The StarFox Team walked through the snow, each member cold, damaged, and tired.

"We'll get to safety soon." Fox said, he was the leading the group, with Krystal beside him. Marcus was not far behind. Anoki held onto his mother Hikari, and Falco was on the other side of him. Blade and Slippy were last, walking at the back of the group. The team kept going through the cold, trying to make the best of their situation.

"This has happened all too fast." Hikari said, looking around, it seemed there was nothing else in sight except snow.

"Are we gonna get our ship fixed? We won't be able to leave this planet without it." Falco called to Fox.

"Our ship may be the only way out if there's no one here, I'm not sure what planet this is…it looks somewhat familiar, but I don't know…"

Then there was a shadowy figure coming towards them, the team stopped and waited to see who would appear.

"Travelers? I haven't seen anyone like you around here." It was a polar bear, wearing a heavy leather fur coat He had round blue eyes, and sharp teeth that made him look intimidating.

"Who are you?" the bear asked. Fox walked towards him.

"We are Team StarFox, our ship crashed in the snow, and now we are searching for a place to stay."

"I could take you back to the village." the team members looked at each other for a moment, and Fox decided.

"Yes we would like to go to your village." the polar bear nodded and turned around, walking in the opposite direction, the StarFox Team followed.

"My name is Gruen by the way." they walked on until they saw a village in the distance. There were other creatures much larger than them, Fox immediately recognized them.

"I know those creatures….SnowHorn?"

"Yes, this village is near Ice Mountain." Fox thought for a moment.

"Then this must be….Sauria." Blade's eyes widened.

She was on her home planet again.

The team entered a medium-size hut, there were rugs hung on the walls, dishes lay on shelves on one side, some beds were sitting on the other side. There was a fire in the middle of the hut.

"You all can sit down and rest for a while, you look like you've been in the cold way too long." Gruen walked over to the fire. Fox sat down with Krystal.

"At least we're safe now." Krystal sighed.

"Yes, but what really happened to the ship, Fox? Don't you know?" Falco said, and Fox stood up.

"Alright, I was going to tell you all, we had been attacked by StarWolf." everyone gasped.

"How were they able to take down the whole ship!"

"I don't know, but I got a message from Wolf himself, I didn't want to scare any of you, I thought I could stop him before it happened, but I was wrong." Blade didn't say anything, she just stared at her feet.

"We have to get that Wolf back!" Marcus shouted.

"We'll have to find a way to get off this planet first." Fox was trying to think how they would leave the planet, but he couldn't get any ideas. All the team felt calm now, at least they were safe. They were given bandages for their wounds from Gruen, and they were thankful that he let them stay there.

"I think it's best if we leave this village and go to a warmer place after a few days." Fox said.

"Yes, maybe we should head to Cape Claw?" Krystal said.

"It will be a long journey."

"But we can't stay in this place for long…." Gruen then stood up.

"You must be hungry, would you like some fish?" everyone nodded, they were very hungry.

"I think we'll need more firewood, someone has to go get it." Falco said. Blade looked up.

"I'll do it." she said, Gruen turned to her.

"There's a lot of it in the woods not too far from here, just bring some back and I'll make dinner."

"Ok." Blade got up and walked out the door, heading for the woods beyond the village. She didn't really want to do this, but she did want to get away from everyone, to be able to think for a moment. She got to the woods and looked around, there were tall trees all around her, and there was also a lot of wood just laying on the ground. She took off her gloves for a moment and looked down at her right hand, a strange black mark rested on it. She sighed.

"Why do I have to have this awful curse." she snapped back into reality when she heard a noise, something was near. Then she felt a sharp pain in her back. A creature scratched her.

"It's Blade! After all these years you've come back to hurt me once more!" The creature growled. Blade looked up at the creature, and she gasped at what she saw.

"It's…..it's you!"