In the Ice Castle, Vex watches Lloyd trek across the forest before he prepared to head over to a nearby door. Before he could open it, a samurai, carrying a plate of a strange mush, comes by. "Ah, Tilika, I'll take it to him." He said, holding out a hand to her.

"But, Vex, it is my duty." Tilika replied with a feminine voice.

"I'm giving you the night off." He takes the plate from her. "Besides, I have a proposition for him."

"Very well, then." Tilika turns around to leave. "But I'll tell you, he won't take it." Vex watches her leave before heading through the door.


In what appeared to be a dungeon, Vex walks along a pathway of cell doors before stopping at one, where the current occupant was hiding in the shadows, out of his view. "You will be pleased to know that you may soon have some company. A stranger from another realm, all clad in green." The silhouetted prisoner looked up at Vex, completely surprised. "Whoever he is, he will, of course, fail, as all who stand against the emperor do. But if you join us, perhaps his life could be spared. A warrior with your... abilities, could prove most valuable." He kneels down to open a tiny peephole and slides the plate through it to the prisoner and closes the peephole. "The emperor rewards those he values. What say you?" He immediately ducked down when the prisoner throws the plate at the cell door, stopping upon hitting the bars and lands on the ground as Vex stood back up to look at him. "Stubborn to the end. So be it. The green one will perish." He walks away from the cell to leave.


In the forest, Lloyd walks along the path before hearing the sound of wolves howling, which makes him look around a little before he resumes walking forward, unaware that the shadow of a wolf was behind him. Lloyd soon stopped to get out a canteen of water to take a sip before looking at the map and the wolf's shadow disappears. Hearing its footfalls, Lloyd turned around, only to see nothing before he resumed moving along. Suddenly, a wolf in the trees at Lloyd's right passes by, making him turn to them and started to look around as another wolf comes out to his right, growling. He turned to see it coming at him before putting the map back in his pocket and was about to get out Prinz' sword when the other wolf was behind him. He turned around to see it and yelped. As the wolf prepared to charge at him, Lloyd gets out the sword, only for something to push the wolf aside. The wolf whined as Lloyd turned to see that it was a white wolf with red marks on its cheek before it charged at the other wolf, scaring it off. Both wolves immediately took off as Lloyd sighed out of relief before noticing that the white wolf had three tails with a hint of red at the end of each tail. "Wow." He said. "I've never seen a wolf like you before." The wolf turns around to him and growls. "What do you want? I bet you're hungry. Well, don't even think about it. I fight back." He holds out the sword to it. The white wolf soon whined from being threatened. Lloyd shamefully sheathed the sword, gets out the fish and throws it to the wolf, who curiously sniffs at it. "You can eat that. Okay? Truce?" He turns to walk away as the wolf watched him leave.


As he kept moving along, Lloyd gets out the map again to look at it before looking at the path ahead, showing it was between mountains. "Mala-Wojira." He then looks back at the map. "'If you make a sound, Wojira's Wrath will strike you down.'" He looks back at the path. "Okay, no sound." He starts to move along the path. "Quiet as a breeze." Suddenly, he stops to sneeze into his right arm, causing snow to come down behind him. He turns around to see the path behind was now completely blocked by the snow. "Damn." He muttered before turning around to keep moving onward. Slowly trying his best to keep quiet while moving along the path, Lloyd looked up to see some snow coming down as he moved along. Pretty soon, a storm slowly picks up, making him stop before he holds up his left hand to conjure a ball of Energy, only to see three Blizzard Samurai in front of him. Quickly gasping, Lloyd holds out his other hand to fire another ball of Energy at them, knocking one into another while the last one charges at him, swords held out wide. As it was about to charge at him, Lloyd fires another shot of Energy before one of the other two samurais came at him, but he quickly kicks him back, making him crash into the side of the mountain and crumble apart, knocking down a big pile of snow. Lloyd then prepared to get out Prinz' sword from behind his back, only for the other samurai to grab his wrist, making him drop it, and forced him down. Two more Blizzard Samurai soon show up to help hold him down as ice started to form on his right arm. He quickly moved his leg back to kick the samurai holding him by them, punches the samurai on his left with his Energy conjured fist and quickly gets up to do Spinjitzu, dragging the last samurai along before letting it go and disperses. Lloyd gasped as he looked around to see the snow on the mountains becoming unstable as three more Blizzard Samurai charge at him. He kicks the first one back, only for the other two to quickly hold him down and make him extinguish the conjured Energy as two of the other samurais help hold him down. They all move aside as a Blizzard Samurai holds up a sword towards Lloyd as ice started to form around him. He looks up the mountain to see the falling snow. "Wojira's Wrath." He soon moves his head back. "Wojira's Wrath!" As soon as he yelled it out, it echoes across the path, bringing down an avalanche, which the Blizzard Samurai look up to, only to be too late as Lloyd tries his best to free himself, but gets engulfed by the snow as well.


Many minutes later, Lloyd, whose gi was a little torn with a small piece of his left arm exposed, feels himself being dragged before whoever dragged him stopped, and he regains consciousness, coughing and breathing heavily. He looked at the path behind him until he heard whining and looked back to see his saviour was the white wolf. "You saved my life. Thank you. My name is Lloyd." The wolf pants a little before Lloyd soon sighed. "What am I doing? I gotta be crazy." He gets up. "You can't understand me." The wolf soon takes off as Lloyd started to move with the wolf turning back to see if he is catching up and keeps moving. Lloyd stops before smiling and resumed walking. They were both soon out in an open field with a storm occurring as the wolf turned to see Lloyd shivering. "It's getting colder. We need to find shelter." The wolf turns its head forward and Lloyd curiously looked on before he noticed something in the storm. "I don't believe it." It was the Land Bounty. "The... the Land Bounty!" He quickly rushes toward it as the storm subsides.


Lloyd opens the side hatch to enter the Land Bounty before moving to the doorway to the cockpit and opens them.


Inside, Lloyd looks at the monitors while sweeping away some ice off of one nearby. He shivers a little as he presses some buttons. "Please... work..." The monitor lights up before shutting off. "Shit." He looks around the cockpit. "What a mess. Scopes are down. Systems are fried. This is hopeless." He then turned to a nearby cupboard. Opening it, Lloyd finds a first aid kit and a heat lamp, both of which he takes before heading back in the main cabin.


Once settled in the cabin, Lloyd puts the lamp on before wrapping a blanket around himself to try and keep warm before he starts to eat a carrot. "Even if I rescue Zane from the castle, we still have no way home. I probably never should've told Blake to let go of the Traveler's Tea. What was I thinking? I can't do this alone." Soon, the wolf comes in and whines a little. "Easy for you to howl, you're a wolf." He soon sighs. "Tomorrow, I go back to the village and make a new plan." He looks at the heat lamp a little as the wolf sniffs around a little before eventually lying down to sleep as Lloyd does the same. Beeping was soon heard as the wolf wakes up to the sound, turned to the tracking device nearby and growled. Lloyd opens his eyes upon hearing the wolf's growling. "Huh?" He soon gasped before looking around. "What?" He turns to the tracking device to see a small beacon on the radar, beeping intensely. "The mech? Wait, the mech!" He soon stood up, letting his blanket fall off of him and raised the tracking device high. "If it still works, that would give us a chance against the Ice Emperor." He turns to the wolf. "What do you say? You in?" The wolf barks to make an answer of agreement. "Awesome. Hang on, Zane, here we come."


The following morning, back at the Great Lake, Cole had decided to tell David, Forbes and the children a story inside Sorla's hut, using sticks and crude drawings. "Put down the staff and surrender, Aspheera." He tries his best to imitate Zane's voice as he held the Zane drawing. "Your days of evil are over." He soon imitates Aspheera as he held a drawing of Aspheera. "Never! I will have my revenge if it's the last thing I do!" The kids were immediately shocked with one gasping. "Not with us still breathing!" He tried his best to imitate Blake while holding up the Blake drawing. "Let's go!" He tried his best to imitate Gewuji while holding up the Gewuji drawing. He then moved the Aspheera drawing close. "Take that, Wu." He tried his best to imitate her. "Zap! Zap!" He then held up the Zane drawing. "No. Look out, Master Wu." He tried his best to imitate Zane as the kids start to hold each other. "Zap! Zap!" He tried his best to imitate Zane before suddenly, the stick with Zane's drawing snaps. "Look out!" He tried his best to imitate Geoff while holding up the Geoff drawing. "Oh, no!" He tried his best to impersonate Zane as he puts the drawing down. He then picked up the drawing of Nya. "No, Zane is gone!" He tried his best to imitate Nya while holding up the drawing. "What did you do to my friend?" Cole spoke in his own voice while holding his own drawing before clearing his throat to imitate Aspheera again, picks up the drawing, and cackles. "Take that! I banished him to the one place from which you can never return." The kids started to become even more afraid. "The Never-Realm." One girl with pigtails soon exhaled out of fear, spun her head and faints. David, Forbes and the rest of the kids then started crying before running out of the hut. "Wait! W-W-W-Whoa!." He spoke normally as he turned to the door while the girl recovered and rubs her head. "Hey! It's okay. Look, it's not real, it's a story." He waves the stick with Aspheera's drawing, only to end up breaking the stick. Looking at it briefly while the girl slowly recovered from fainting, Cole moves to chase after the kids.


Outside, Kai was hammering some nails into the wall of another hut as Jay, Nya, Gewuji and Blake were about to come up to him with planks of wood while Geoff was chopping some wooden logs nearby. Pretty soon, David, Forbes and the kids ran out of the hut, passing by in front of Jay, Nya, Gewuji and Blake as Kai and Geoff stop what they were doing to see what was going on and Cole came out, still holding the broken stick before stopping. "It's just paper! I drew them!" Looking at it briefly, Cole throws the stick down before scratching his head.

"What did you tell them, Cole?" Kai asked as he and Geoff came up to him while the others were curious.

"Nothing. I was just telling them about Zane, and Aspheera, and how she blasted him into the Never-Realm."

"You think that story is appropriate for little kids?" Nya asked.

"5 to 13? Absolutely." They were not amused as Blake knelt down to pick the stick up and looks at the drawing.

"Well, I know one thing." He said.

"Yeah, what's that?"

"I'm not letting you tell those type of stories to Cirrus' baby." He taps Cole's head with the stick. "Because, if she knew afterwards, I bet she'd give you the realm's hardest punch."

"I'm already scared just thinking about it." Jay said, cringing a little as he remembered Dragon was once struck with one by Cirrus.

"Believe me. She plans to do it to anyone who scares the baby."

"Look!" Uthaug called out and everyone turns to him as he comes to a complete halt. "Over here! Come quick!"

They all rush over to him with Blake dropping the stick as he did so. "What is it?" Boma asked. Uthaug digs for something in his pocket and gets it out, revealing to be the missing sleeve piece from Lloyd's gi.

Gewuji takes it and looks at it. "This is Lloyd's." She said, concerning the other Ninja.

Blake soon took it from her to look at it. "Where did you find this?" He asked Uthaug.

"In the snow on the other side of the forest." He replied. "There were signs of fighting and an avalanche."

The Ninja were completely shocked. "What do you think happened?" Geoff asked.

"You think he's okay?" Jay asked.

"I hope so." Nya replied.

"Then we gotta go look for him." Kai said.

"No, Kai." Geoff replied. "Lloyd wanted us to stay here and protect the village, and we have to do it."

"But Lloyd is our friend. Our family. We can't just abandon family."

"And we can't disobey orders."

"Geoff's right." Nya said. "Kai, your powers are still weak, we're 3 Ninja short now, and we're more useful here. There's nothing we can do from here. Lloyd is on his own." Kai turns to the forest, concerned about his leader and friend.


(A/N: Now, you may notice the ending of An Unlikely Ally and the start of The Message in this story is merged, well, I didn't have enough material, and Lloyd's adventure, like, took up a lot. Anyway, I'll put this on hold, until after I have uploaded a story based on The Absolute Worst, which is my favourite episode)