The wind over the Sleeping Forest used to hum with the sound of a thousand magical wings, but today, it carried only a heavy, grieving silence. Standing on the highest canopy of the Great Tree, Icky looked out over the barren woods. The magical creatures were gone—whisked away into the shadows after Animus stripped the realm bare. And below, in the deepest chamber of the hollow trunks, lay Queen Rika. The Queen of Thorns. Icky’s older sister. The fierce protector of the Sleeping Forest and leader of the legendary Kagerasmaru had fallen into a deep, unbreakable slumber. It was a sleep she could not awake from. A sleep bound to the missing Regalia. If the artifact was gone forever, Rika would never open her eyes again.