Who is a hero? Is it the chosen one with the weight of history pushing them to greatness?

Or are they someone just like you?

At this point in the bedtime story, grandparents point their finger right at the

blanketed chest of their spellbound grandchildren. On the next page, we meet our

main characters.

Johnny, the bringer of light, Anara, the knife in the shadow,

and Tracy, the mechanical marvel.

In the beginning, they were... the mechanical marvel.

In the beginning, they weren't much at all. Petty criminals stuck in the Kiko Jail for the goofiest of crimes.

Tracy wasn't even charged at all. goofed

but that would all but that would all change too quickly

rushed from the depths of the dungeon to the heights of the castle gardens.

They're hired for the most important job of the millennium.

Defending the wedding between the son of the representative of Fidopolis,

Alonzo Kiko, and the son of the representative of chronopolis,

Greg Nectaria.

The party accepts the task and sneaks into the wedding disguised as a cook, a waiter, and an honored guest.

Events go off without a hitch until the Redthrott gang attacks. The anarchist group, bent on ruining the Kiko

establishment, threatens the newlyweds with poisoned frogs, throwing the entire wedding into absolute chaos.

As Greg succumbs to poison, Alonzo's medallion,

an heirloom from his great-great-great, great, great, grandfather begins to glow and spin.

In the night sky, a constellation of five stars glows brightly. A star winks out.

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