Quest 14: Kings of Old

[You show the Final Shard to Kit and Hotto!]

Kit Cat: *Urrgh, let's get this over with, y'all! I can't stand a second more with this mutt!*

Hotto Doggo: *Give Hotto the Shards so he can stop looking at she-devil's face!*

Kirry: *Let's all try to get along! Our kings need-*

[Enter Zero Dimension]

Kirry: *-need us to paw together neow!*

Kirry: *...Aelius!*

Aelius: *Kirry, mo old friend...*

Aelius: *You have done well to get this far, but it is over now...*

Kit Cat: *The Shards, y'all!*

Lioner: *Muahaha! Now your Royal Arts are ours...!*

Wolfen: *Master Aelius, can I destroy them now? Their faces irk me...*

Aelius: *My pets, patience is a virtue... ...for now remove your helmets, so we may talk freely...*

Lioner: *Surprise, fools! We're you!*

Kirry: *......*

Wolfen: *Our dear Kirry stole you from another timeline to fight us!*

Lioner: *At first, I was surprised... but then it dawned on me... ... we could use you to get the Shards for ourselves, muahaha!*

Wolfen: *Rarrhaha! Yes, and with the Shard, I can finally win this war...*

Lioner: *No, I will win this war! Your Empire will crumble under my paws...*

Wolfen: *Baseless threats! We shall see who is more pawerful!*

Aelius: *I do love pets and their new toys... ...but as for you, my kings... ...eternity awaits...*

[Find a way out of the Zero Dimension]

Kirry: *-no no, that's not true! It's not my fault...!*

Dark Kirry: *Oh, yes it issss! How do you think Aelius managed to corrupt your kings? It's because you failed to protect them!*

Kirry: *Noooooooooo~! Purrlease stop!*

Kirry: *I-I'm sorry, My Kings... I can explain everything... There actually exists an infinite number of purrallel timelines... So our mages devised a way to pluck you from one of them...*

Kirry: *I was afraid you'd be angry if you found out the truth... ..... ...will you both furgive me...?*

Kirry: *My Kings... thank you! (woah that was easy!) But it's not over yet! Kit and Hotto are trapped here too!*

Kirry: *I... I think I sense Kit and Hotto closeby! Hold on to something~!*

Kit Cat: *Meow! Stop, that's not true! I don't believe that!*

Hotto Doggo: *Hotto not feeling so good... need wasabe hot dog...*

Dark Kit Cat: *Admit it! You think dogs are dirty and dumb!*

Dark Hotto: *And Hotto think cats are lazy and arrogant!*

Dark Kit Cat: *Ah, look who turned up, y'all! Our esteemed kings! Get im'!*

Hotto Doggo: *Hotto is forever in your debt, My Kings...*

Kit Cat: *..... Hotto... all those years back... why did ya' leave?*

Hotto Doggo: *Hotto... was afraid... ...we forge Kingsblade together, was truly happy experience... ...but Kingsblade caused war, and Hotto was guilty and scared...*

Kit Cat: *I... I see... We were best friends right? You could've just told me, ya know...*

Hotto Doggo: *Hotto knows now... Hotto is sorry...*

Kit Cat: *I... I should've tried talking to you instead of being angry... I'm sorry too... ..... ...furriends?*

Hotto Doggo: *...always...*

Kirry: *Look, an exit!*

[Exit Zero Dimension]

Kirry: *.....!*

Kit Cat: *Erm, y'all? Where are we now?*

Kirry: *Th-this is the island of King Felingard's tomb! But how did we get here?! My Kings, without the Shards... I dunno how we can still win... I'm sorry... I've failed you again...*

[Investigate the island]

Kit Cat: *Hmmmm... ...I wonder if that's our way outta here...*

Hotto Doggo: *There is a strange magic over this place... I cannot teleport us out... we are stuck like hotdog with no filling...*

[Only those with the qualities of a King may enter Felingard's tomb!]

[Attained the Key of Valor!]

[Enter Cave Valor]

[Investigate the cave]

[You have shown great valor...]

[Attained the Key of Mercy!]

[Exit Cave Valor]

[The Key of Mercy unlocked something...]

[Enter Cave Mercy]

[You have shown great mercy to your foes...]

[Attained the Key of Virtue!]

[Exit Cave Mercy]

[The Key of Mercy unlocked something...]

[Enter Cave Virtue]

[You have shown the virtues of a King...]

[Attained the Key to Felingard's Tomb!]

[Exit Cave Virtue]

[Enter Felingard's Tomb]

[After the Dragon Wars, King Felingard united the surviving cats under one banner... And thus, the Kingdom of Felingard was born...]

[King Felingard and King Lupus were friends once... ...that is, until the great Kingsblade War.]

[After the Kingsblade War, our king disappeared and never returned... And thus, this tomb was built in his memory.]

Kirry: *Fluffy butts, but there's nothing here!*

[A King needs not blade nor trinket to unite his people... ...he need only allies to trust, and peace shall follow...]

[Awakened the Royal Art of Water Walking!]

Kirry: *Holy meowly, so the pawer was in you all this time? There's still hope!*

Hotto Doggo: *No, it is because for the first time... cat and dog are united...*

Kit Cat: *That's right, y'all! Let's scuffle back to my place! We can still do this!*

Aelius: *...well done, my pets...*

[Exit Felingard's Tomb]

Kirry: *C'mon! Let's pounce on back to the mainland!*

[Quest Complete]