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**

Glaive: Huh, spooky forest.

Jet: Of course, Eternity Meadows are always black.

Glaive: True, but what made this area black?

Jet: Volcanic ash, I believe?

Glaive: But we haven't had a volcano yet. Are you sure it's just ash that did this?

Glaive: I mean, the trees don't smell like soot.

Jet: Touche... But really, what caused these black trees and black shrubs?

Glaive: Don't ask me, I know nothing about Eternity Meadows.

Jet: What if this forest was here since the creation of this world?

Jet: I know that can't be true, but I mean, why is it called Eternity Meadows?

Glaive: I feel like you are asking way too many questions.

🍁???🍁: You are, apparently.

Glaive: Huh? Who was that?

**Boss 3 Appears**

🍁???🍁: I'm Fall, who are you?

Jet: I'm Jet, the other wolf with me is Glaive.

🌼???🌼: Nice to meet ya!

Glaive: Whaa..? You have two different voices??

☀️???☀️: Spring! You were about to blow our cover!!

Jet: Okay, what's going on? How come you have multiple voices?

❄️???❄️: Okay, okay, we'll tell you.

❄️???❄️: You see... Our actual name is Kiyo... But we have different personalities....

Four Seasonal Personalities In A Husky
Kiyo

Jet: Okay, but how do you have multiple personalities?

☀️Kiyo☀️: To put this in the slightest straightforward way, Kiyo's family had died.

Glaive: That's tragic...

❄️Kiyo❄️: Kiyo had a personality disorder called DID at the time, so all of us existed when Kiyo's family became deceased... We wanted Kiyo to forget about the whole thing, but his depression sinks it deeper....

🍁Kiyo🍁: So we try to mask it by putting Kiyo's full conscious to rest. This was hard to do, but we did it.

🌼Kiyo🌼: We only had some of his conscious rested, but that's okay! We can still mask it up so he will start forgetting about his family!

Glaive: And since you all are personalities, you guys must have a name, right?

☀️Kiyo☀️: Right, let's introduce ourselves.

☀️Kiyo☀️: I'm Summer.

🍁Kiyo🍁: I'm Fall.

❄️Kiyo❄️: I'm..... Winter...

🌼Kiyo🌼: I'm Spring! Nice to meet y'all!

Jet: It's pretty rare to find someone who has DID.

Glaive: What does DID mean anyway?

Jet: Dissociative Identity Disorder, it's when a person has multiple personalities.

🍁Kiyo🍁: We were trying to figure out who caused this disastrous phenomena.

Jet: Us too.

Glaive: Yup, but we don't want anyone in our way though.

🌼Kiyo🌼: Well, can you join us then?

☀️Kiyo☀️: We'll be more powerful once you join us.

Jet: But what's in it for us?

☀️Kiyo☀️: Uhh.....

☀️Kiyo☀️: I've got nothing.

Jet: Then we'll have no choice but to dismiss your offer and fight you.

❄️Kiyo❄️: Oh no.. They're going to attack us..

🍁Kiyo🍁: If their response is fighting, then we'll fight back too.

Glaive: But it's 2 against one.

🌼Kiyo🌼: If you think about it, it's 4 against 2, so ha!

Glaive: 4 personalities in one body doesn't make a difference.

Jet: This is gonna be easy, hopefully.

**BATTLE ENGAGED**

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

The Silver team gets a lot of graze from the shots, but stops the non-spell anyway.

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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 Silver team successfully captures the spell card without much graze from the bullets, defeating Summer.

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

The Silver team had some close calls and some graze, but stopped the non-spell whatsoever.

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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 Silver team captured the spell card without much graze from the bullets, thus defeating Fall.

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

Glaive forced himself to use his Flash Bomb.

Glaive's Flash Bomb: Weapon Tornado "Spear Wind"

Glaive throws a black spear at a random direction while other knives revolve around the spear, clearing some bullets.

The Silver team stopped the non-spell anyway.

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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.

The Silver Team took a lot of graze from the shots, but survived and captured the spell card, defeating 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.

Glaive was hit, forcing Jet to use his bomb.

Jet's Bomb: Nuclear Crash "Fusion to Fission"

Jet spawns and absorbs energy balls from around the area that damages Kiyo, then compresses them into a ball. Jet shoots that ball at Kiyo, exploding into many energy balls.

Jet's bomb stopped the spell card, defeating Winter.

**Kiyo Defeated**

Kiyo💦: Aghhh!!

Jet: Huh? This voice is different from all the other personalities...

Glaive: Did we uncover the real Kiyo?

Kiyo💦: Can someone tell me what's going on?

Glaive: Your name is Kiyo, right?

Kiyo💦: Yes, but why?

Glaive: Not Summer, Fall, Winter, or Spring?

Kiyo💦: You mean my personalities? No, I'm not them.

Kiyo💦: But, what did you do to them? It seems that they are unconscious.

Jet: They challenged us to battle, but we defeated them.

Kiyo💦: So that explains why I'm hurting so bad.

Jet: Yup, it does.

Glaive: Now can we go? We still need to find the disaster culprit.

Jet: Right. Let's go then.

**Moving on to Stage 4**