The Cabin by the Shore

## **Plot**

Rosalina walks towards her library and searches for a particular book. She seems to be lost in her finding but settles on one, flipping through the pages but finds a note that falls from one of the pages. She opens the note to find writing inscribed on it. She uses an ultraviolet pen to hover over it and finds writing that says, "The truth is yet to come". Rosalina makes a puzzled expression and she hears a loud bang outside the library, but once she looks back she finds the piece of paper gone. Before she could promptly react, she hears a voice calling out to her. She heads towards it and walks outside where the Observatory is now outer space. She looks to her right to see her mother standing with her back turned towards her. Her mother asks her why she hasn't "done the deed yet". Rosalina asks her what she means. Her mother turns around and goes to hug her, saying that everything will be okay, and that she will love her no matter what happens. Rosalina then asks her if she could ever forgive her for leaving her brother and father behind. Her mother says that of course she does, and that everything she does is perfect no matter what the consequences are. Rosalina at first takes this with pride but soon realizes she is in a trance or dream. She yells at her mother, saying she isn't real and begin saying how much she regrets leaving them behind. Her mother then turns to slime and a dark shadow looms over Rosalina, revealing it to be Dimentio, who ominously says at her, "It's always going to be your fault", before Rosalina wakes up in a sweat. Luma comes over to comfort her but she tells it that she is okay. She decides to wonder aloud if she really knew who her mother was and if she really would say what she said in the dream. The lumas join together and tell her there is a way to find out. This piques her interest and they set off.

They arrive at a sanctuary garden filled with toad statues spitting water out of their mouths leading to a large pool of water. The lumas begin to use their magic and create a literal time pool with the water. They tell Rosalina to dive in if she is ready. Rosalina changes into a more comfortable clothing but the lumas tell her she doesn't need to take off her clothes as the water won't affect her. She is about to dive in but the lumas tell her to tell the pool where she wants to go, otherwise it won't work. Rosalina tells it to take her back to when her parents first met.

*1089 A.D. London*

There is a town meeting taking place where the King and Queen arrange a plan of retaliation to the nearby colonies in fear of them wanting to colonize their land next. One of the guards yells that they should fight back but a townsperson reverts back saying that violence shouldn't be the answer. The argument soon erupts into an outcry of violence, creating a fight to break out between the townsfolk. Among the crowd, a man sees a woman about to be crushed by a fireball flung by a catapult but he dives in, shielding her and reflecting the fireball with his sword. He takes her hand and he takes her to a nearby cabin near the ocean, saying she will be safe there. Before he leaves, she stops him and asks who he is and why he saved her. He takes off his hood and says his name is Walter. The woman introduces her name as Lucille. Walter answers that he saved her because he couldn't just let her die from the hands of another person, also adding he thinks she looks beautiful before going back out towards the fighting. A modern day Rosalina watches from afar in a mirage-like form, admiring that she never thought her parents would have met the way they did. She then tells the time pools to transport her to a time where they were happy.

They are at a local town play watching together happily, they then giggle at the acts while holding hands. Rosalina continues to admire their relationship from a distance. Another time, they sit in the cabin, now fully remodeled by them. It is also revealed that Lucille is now pregnant with Rosalina. Walter tells her what she thinks they will name the child whether it be a boy or girl. They decide to go with Noah if it is a boy and Rosalina if it is a girl. Another time shows the birth of Rosalina with maidens around to help calm her while Walter watches in awe at their new baby girl. They give her the name Rosalina and they all embrace a hug together. Rosalina wonders aloud that things seemed to be completely fine and why their family was struck with such an unfortunate fate. Suddenly, Rosalina is transported into another time where Walter and Lucille discuss an unfortunate fate regarding Rosalina. Lucille mentions she will know when she is "ready". Rosalina becomes more furious, yelling at her, demanding to know what she needs to be ready for. She transports again, only this time to a sanctuary garden much like the one where the time pools are. She sees Walter walk towards an outside field and suddenly a spaceship arrives in front of him. Alien beings come out of the ship and ask him when Rosalina will be ready. At the time, she was only 7 years old so he tells them she isn't. They demand that they hurry her up before they unleash a fury attack on their cabin. They then depart leaving Walter completely mortified. Lucille witnesses the whole event and admits they are in danger. Rosalina is lastly transported to another time, only this one takes place during when Rosalina was off-planet. Walter and Noah continue to search for her but to no avail. Suddenly, the spaceship comes back and once again demands to know if she is ready. Although Walter tells them what happened, they do not take this answer lightly and blast both him and Noah to oblivion, revealing to Rosalina it wasn't age that killed her family, but the aliens who call themselves, "The Klauxs", who return to their planet located in the Sunflower galaxy known as "Mondator". Rosalina is gut-wrenched by this discovery and the lumas surround her, trying their best to calm a sobbing Rosalina. She then sees that the Klauxs were the ones who created "The Dreadful Lights" as a punishment towards humans as they believe their race in inferior. They then planted an unfortunate fate seed into the lights, therefore creating the snowball of events that occurred present day.

Rosalina returns to present time and becomes furious, vowing revenge on the aliens that wronged her and her family. She then promises the lumas that she will never leave their side, embracing them all with a warm hug. She then wonders what power she had that is so detrimental to other planets and makes them envious of it. The lumas suggest that it may have just been a misunderstanding, as everything in those times was seen as otherworldly. Rosalina accepts the suggestion for the moment but is clearly thinking something else may be the case.