Clad in a thick coat and with a bag of dried fish in tow, Lloyd set off for the castle of the forsaken emperor. "Mala Wojira huh? I remember reading up about some kind of lightning goddess back at home with that same last name, I wonder if they're related." He thought, approaching the canyon shortcut. "Okay, not a word."

What he didn't know was that he was being watched, but not by any of the blizzard warriors. A flash of pure white fur rushed by, not making a sound as she hit the ground. "Whoa, what was that?" The green ninja thought, slowly following the tracks in the snow. "Hello? Is anyone there?"

A low growl was met in response, followed by that same flash pinning him down. "Ah! Oh crap.."

Just that slightest yelp lead to an avalanche striking the two down, almost completely burying them. "Grrr, and everything was going so well until you showed up. What did you attack me for anyways?" Lloyd growled, struggling to escape from his cold, wet prison.

Much to his surprise, the wolf dug him out, nudging him to a nearby cave. "Huh... Thanks. You wouldn't happen to know the quickest way to the ice emperor would you?"

She didn't respond, only going further into the cave. "I guess not, at least I can make some kind of shelter while I'm h-"

Before he could finish his sentence, Lloyd came across a very familiar sight. "Isn't that the G2 mech? It looks like it hadn't been touched in decades, but we went after Zane just four days after the attack. Someone or something must have gotten here first and wrecked the whole place.. God, could they have. No, they couldn't have snatched him too."

The wolf watched on curiously as he powered up part of the mech using what looked like green fire. "He has powers as well.." She wondered, approaching the screen where Lloyd looked on at a final message from his friend. "I will find you Zane, even if I have to tear up this entire realm piece by piece to do so!"

"Whoever this Zane is must mean a lot to him. Wait, that face.." In an instant the wolf pounced once again. "It's a lost cause."

"Hey!! What's up with you? Wait- did you just talk? Are you some kind of shapeshifter?"

Nodding, in place of the wolf stood a young woman dressed in red and white with a wolf hat. "A Formling actually, it's a long story. Our realm was once peaceful, the snow was light and soft with a clear blue sky. But when the ice emperor arrived fifty years ago, everything changed."

"Fifty years? But then how come you look so-"

"This might sound insane, but it's true. In my old village we have found a way to reverse one's age, a mix of berries with yesterday's tree leaves. We used it on a strange man who came by some time before the emperor attacked, he seemed bitter about some sort of element he once possessed."

"Element?.. Oh.. Oh no. Time must pass much quicker here. When he got banished he must have been waiting too long for us, and that bitterness took form of the ice emperor.."

"You think that he could be the emperor? The one who froze over the entire realm?"

"He can control the element of ice, and with that scroll there's no telling how strong he's gotten. I need to get to him and fast! I need to knock some sense into him."

"Well then, I'll come along with you. He has my brother in his grasp, and he better not have hurt him."