The stage progressively gets darker, but will it arise in the end of this level?

Who knows? We are halfway among our trip to find the culprit of this incident. But black forests, black trees, black dens, black rocks... It's almost a pain to see this. Sometimes the color black is a representation of darkness, some say it's nothing, some say it's the absence of light. What more to represent black with shadows that looms over you?

The heroes seem pretty brave to go into the forest. Let's hope that nothing has happened to them, as anything can hide in the dark as long as it's black.

Alas... the melanin-covered forest seems to affect it's enemies too. It makes us believe that they are invisible, as they are covered in this black pigment as well.

Beware of the Husk Abroad...

**At Eternity Meadows**

Orion: Just black, black in this forest. Like me. Full of black.

Maverick: You're not fully black, part of your fur and the debt bills stuck on to you kinda ruined it.

Maverick: Plus, if you try to be fully black, I wouldn't even see you in this forest.

Orion: I kinda like this forest, despite of how easy it is for me to get lost here.

Maverick: Speaking of getting lost, I lost my sense of direction, so we're lost now.

Orion: Great. This is like the 10th time I got lost in this forest. Not to mention, lost with my younger, but richer, brother.

Maverick: Relax, we're not the only ones here. I'm hearing footsteps along with voices too.

🍁???🍁: Aye.. This forest is pretty big.

☀️???☀️: Tell me about it, don't forget that it's also really dark in here.

Maverick: Hello? Anyone here?

🌼???🌼: Ooh! Someone's here!

**Boss 3 Appears**

☀️???☀️: So what brings you here?

Maverick: Hold on, where is the rest of you? I thought I heard three people here.

❄???❄: Actually, we are four.

Orion: What the..? What are you??

☀️???☀️: Uhh....

🍁???🍁: We are really beings on this simple husky, whose name is Kiyo.

Four Seasonal Personalities In A Husky
Kiyo

Maverick: Wow, looks like some spirits took host on a poor dog.

🍁Kiyo🍁: We are not spirits, we are actually part of Kiyo.

☀️Kiyo☀️: It's kinda hard to explain..

❄Kiyo❄: It's not, really. We existed because Kiyo had DID.

Orion: Did? Did what?

☀️Kiyo☀️: Not... Ugh...

🌼Kiyo🌼: D-I-D, Dissociative Identity Disorder!

Orion: Oh, so it's an acronym.

Maverick: What is DID?

🍁Kiyo🍁: A disorder that allows the person to have more than one personality. In this case, there are 4 of us.

Maverick: Since there are 4 of you, you gotta have names for yourselves, right?

🌼Kiyo🌼: Yup! My name is Spring!

☀️Kiyo☀️: I'm Summer.

🍁Kiyo🍁: Fall's my name.

❄Kiyo❄: I'm... Winter....

Orion: So why are you here?

🍁Kiyo🍁: We are here to find the cause of these storms and disasters, we eventually came to this forest and got lost.

Maverick: The same would apply to us.

🌼Kiyo🌼: What a coincidence! We're both lost!

☀️Kiyo☀️:  ...You are surprisingly happy in this situation...

🌼Kiyo🌼: I know, I just wanna cheer things up a little!  

❄Kiyo❄: I don't think that's helping our motivation, really.

Orion: It does look like you're talking to yourself. What a strange condition..  

🍁Kiyo🍁: It's a pretty rare condition, I'll put that out there.

Maverick: That's great and all, but I think you're getting in the way of our investigating here.

☀️Kiyo☀️: What?? We didn't to anything wrong for the most part!

Orion: I'm sorry to agree with him, but he's right. We're trying to solve a worldwide crisis, but aren't going anywhere with you guys obstructing us.

🍁Kiyo🍁: Our allies are soon turning into our opponents, fight back or what?

 ☀️Kiyo☀️: Uhm.......

🍁Kiyo🍁: We're fighting back of course!

Maverick: Alright then, get ready.

Orion: Let's go then.

**BATTLE ENGAGED**

Kiyo shoots bullets that resemble a sun, while shooting fireballs that aim at the Antinomy team, but aren't very accurate.

The Antinomy team survived with a lot a graze from the bullets.

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First Spell Card: Summer Card "Butterfly's Wings"

Kiyo shoots a random slew of bullets at his sides, bouncing at the walls or edges, while shooting fireballs at random directions.

The Antinomy team successfully captured the spell card with only a little bit of graze, defeating Summer.

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Kiyo, while moving, spawns leaves from the sky that fall while swaying side to side.  

Even with a simple layout, the non-spell was a little hard to dodge. Orion soon used a flash bomb during the non-spell.

Orion's Flash Bomb: Tax Return "Invoking Contract"

Orion shoots 6 papers that are black that go in a spread and go the opposite way for a while, thus clearing bullets.

They stopped the non-spell with a little support from a flash bomb.

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Second Spell Card: Fall Card "Slicing of Trees"

Kiyo spawns bullets the resemble as tree branches and leaves. Then the bullets fall at different speeds towards the ground, then repeats.

The Antinomy team survived the spell card with some to a lot of graze from the shots. In return, defeating Fall.

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Kiyo shoots cherry petals that home in at the Antinomy team, while shooting another set bullets that spread and cross.  

After some close calls and some graze from the shots, the Antinomy team stopped the non-spell.

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Third Spell Card: Spring Card "Komainu's Dance"

Kiyo, while moving, shoots bullets in a spiral, while shooting cherry petals that spread, then cross afterwards.

Maverick, eventually during the spell card, used a flash bomb.

Maverick's Flash Bomb: Loot Card "Treasury"

Maverick creates a brief forcefield around himself that clears any bullets on the area of the field.

Despite the flash bomb, the Antinomy team captured the spell card and defeated Spring.

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Fourth Spell Card: Winter Card "Tundra Talismans"

Kiyo, while moving, would shoot small bullets at the sky, turning into talismans that move in a wave pattern while falling towards the ground and spawning bigger bullets that spread upwards when touching the ground.

Since there were a lot of bullets on the battlefield, the Antinomy team had a lot of graze and close calls. Despite that, they captured the spell card, defeating Winter.

**Kiyo Defeated**

Kiyo💦: Ow......My head...

Orion: A new personality? It was stated that there were 4.

Maverick: Secret personality, I guess?

Kiyo💦: Personalities? You mean, my 4 personalities?

Kiyo💦: Oh. I'm not one of them, I'm the original Kiyo.

Orion: Original? Don't you count as a personality?

Kiyo💦: Depends on what you think.

Kiyo💦: Oh yeah, and can someone explain why I'm hurting so much right now?

Maverick: Your personalities were fighting us after refusing their offer to find out who is causing the chaos in this world.

Orion: We'd rather work with only just us and no one else yet.

Kiyo💦: Well, good luck on that, right ahead is Dark Silverbell Forest.

Maverick: We're on it. We'll be on our way then.

Orion: Time to get even more lost...

**Moving on to Stage 4**