Part 3 Season 1: New Beginnings

# New Beginnings

New Beginnings is the third and final season of Part 2 of KiwiBirdz. After the Null Point exploded, the members of KiwiBirdz were plunged into slumber once more, before finally awakening once more. This time, 100 years has passed, yet once more they appear to not have aged a day. The destabilization of Null Point had shifted and transformed the world they once leave, leaving it looking completely different.

## Scattered About

Everyone awakes separated, each in a new region of the seemingly new realm. Cam wakes up with a new comer by his side: Tohu. They decided to travel together to have a better chance to find one another. In another part of the town, Sleepy awakes alone. Pug, Cyan, and Nan awake close to one another, and decided to settle down in a divot within the forest. Another new comer, Squid, finds this trio and joins them in building base camp. Sleepy stumbles into Cam and Tohu, and despite her preconceived notions about Cam, decides to travel with them. Throughout their journeys to find the others, they find old relics of the world before the explosion of the Null Point, such as the 'hi pog' sign, and the remains of Sleepy's hermit house.

### Hayami and Kiyoshi

Cam, Tohu, and Sleepy stumble into a multitude of strange shrines and worship-like areas that appear to be embedded with Zenko heritage. In a cave along the hillside they find old tapestries depicting Zenko members, as well as a fox shrine surrounded by candles. Throughout the land they find more and more miniature fox statues, each with a buried chest that contains a piece of the Shards of Creation, the fragmented pieces of the Null Point. Unfinished pages of book litter each statue, each piecing together a small piece of the Zenko Clan. The story of the great Goddess Hayami, and her gifting Kiyoshi Zenko the abilities of Fox Eye in order to protect his clan. At this point, this clan lineage is associated only with Cam, in part of his infamous fox mask. Tohu and Sleepy decide to help him further investigate these pieces of history while they search for the others.

### Reunited

Around a week later, Sleepy, Tohu, and Cam stumble into the developing buildings that have been created by the others. Sleepy shot an arrow just beside Pug's feet to alert her (as well as the others) of their arrival. Standing on a higher perch, the trio stared down onto them. Although Sleepy had grown attached to Tohu, and had slowly begun to set aside her differences with Cam, she couldn't turn down the invitation for her to come live in the bumbling main village. She happily chatted with familiar faces, and quickly befriended Squid. Just on the shoreline of the main village had been the desolated ruins of Nan's previous house, and perched atop it, she had a serious conversation with Cyan. Sleepy learnt that just before the complete destabilization of the Null Point, Cyan had relinquished her position within the Order, claiming that she finally saw what was wrong with Cam's leadership. Just when she was about to divulge more information about the previous world, Cam and Tohu appear at the shoreline, telling Sleepy that it was time to head home; humbling beginnings they had begun to build in the Winterlands past the mountains. Confirming her decision, Sleepy told the duo that she will be staying here with the others in the main village. Due to Cam's unwillingness (for unknown reasons) to stay, Tohu and him retreated back to the snowy lands, leaving Sleepy behind.

Read the First Day awake in Cam's POV.

It is only when they returned to their village when Tohu explains his abilities to Cam; an ocular power he dubbed 'Void Vision.' With it, he can see the soul-lines of others, and he had realized something very drastic. Sleepy and Cam shared a similar strand, making them blood relatives. Through quick deduction by Cam, they realize that Sleepy is in fact his twin sister. Realizing he still had living family, and now a reignited purpose to resurrect the fallen Zenko clan, Tohu and Cam decided that they need to get Sleepy back.

### Disappearance of Sleepy

Returning to the main village when no one else was around, Tohu and Cam tell Sleepy their discovery. Having been helping them uncover the truth about the Zenko before her return, Sleepy understood the severity as well as importance of her return to the Winterlands. Though originally she returned with them under the guise of helping Cam learn more about the Zenko, Sleepy was actually thrilled to finally have a family, and was a big factor in her return. After spending a night in her old home in the snowy mountains, Sleepy began to grow anxious; after everything that has happened, the Order, the Insurgence, the Null Point, she knew it would be near impossible for her companions to accept the fact that her and Cam were blood siblings, and Tohu now her adoptive one. She began to plot her own disappearance, enlisting the help of her somewhat hesitant brothers. While Cam argued that they should tell them the truth, Sleepy wanted to disappear. Her train of thought was: *"I'd rather they assume I'm dead than know that I am related to the catalyst of chaos."*

Despite her original plan being that to completely disappear and lead the others to believe she was dead, her thoughts began to shift the more mania and paranoia took hold of her. Sleepy was convinced that the others would find out about everything, and changed her original death plan to be that of a wild goose chase. She figured if she could continue to led them around in circles, they would never learn about her ancestry and family. The trio destroyed Sleepy's house that had been built in the main village, leaving for time to decay it more. They placed ominous signs, before creating a trail that lead to a lecture with the first senseless clue. The twins had left the notes to Tohu, wishing to utilize his odd quirks. He ended up depicting the trio as the symbols **$, 7,** and **@** respectfully. Through small sketches, Tohu described what he thought Sleepy would want to show to the other members. The notes always followed a train of thought: it showcased the three symbols, a set of coordinates, as well as creepy writing that would in one way or another convey that they were incorrect in their findings, creating an endless loop between the nonsensical books.

### Archives of Zenko

While Sleepy focused on continuing the wild goose-chase, Cam continued to study about the Zenko clan, and its prominent figures such as Kiyoshi Zenko and the Goddess Hayami. His focus shifted to looking through the known books about Zenko, the history of Hayami and Kiyoshi, and developing his fox eye. He began to construct a grand Archive to house all of the new information he was gathering, and hid it with a secret door within the mountain side.

### Relations with the Void

Tohu bounced back and forth between the twins, wishing to help them fulfill their goals. Cam was solely focused on the betterment of the Zenko, and the development of the Fox Eye. He spent many hours meditating, and helped to teach both Sleepy and Tohu to also activate their Fox Eye. Sleepy, while focused on her meditation, also was focusing on maintaining the goose-chase she had commenced when she disappeared. Her mind being split or the two topics weakened her focus, and the anxiety she felt post-Bridge Confrontation enabled Almos to gain more and more control over her. At this moment, Tohu is unable to see Sleepy's unstable and discoloured soul-line.

## Fox Hunt

### The Hunt

Fox Hunt begins shortly after Sleepy's disappearance. With the constant appearance of a Fox within the Ice Princess Folklore left behind, and how the animal plays a role in helping the Princess, people begin to suspect Cam for the cause of Sleepy's disappearance. With the growing focus on Cam's guilt, people also begin to reflect on his past transgressions and tyrannical dictatorship that went unpunished. The main focus of the Fox Hunt was to 'save the Princess from the Fox,' aka, if they find Cam, they'll find Sleepy.

### Bridge Confrontation

The Bridge Confrontation was an event orchestrated by Cam, Sleepy, and Tohu after they decided to come clean to the other KiwiBirdz members. The also marks the official end of Fox Hunt since both Cam and Sleepy are found. The confrontation goes sour, and both sides end up unsatisfied and riddled with questions. Sleepy debates whether or not the Bridge Confrontation was the correct move, and if she should have continued to play dead.

### First Tea Party

The First Tea Party was created by Pug, where she invited every member of the server. Only Cam did not attend. Tensions were high and awkward during the party, having only been mere days since the Bridge Confrontation. Sleepy used this as an opportunity to talk with Nan about what happened since the latter had originally walked out during the Confrontation. Sleepy tries to convey that while she still loves and cares for Nan, and continues to appreciate everything Nan had done for her, she would like the others blessing in focusing on her family. Since Nan still had bad-blood with Cam, and now Tohu after his deceivement in the days leading up to the confrontation, she has a hard time understanding Sleepy.

To Nan, this seemed like a slap to the face. When Sleepy talked about how her issues became worse during the time of the Insurgence, Nan took this as her being worthless to Sleepy since she is the one person Nan cared about, and felt like her bond was only important to her. The conversation ends with no positive conclusions, with Nan falling into a depressive slump. Sleepy began to feel ill, as a result of Almos feeding off of her new emotions, and she dismissed herself to go home. She had a brief conversation with Tohu where she talked to him about her guilt, and questioning whether or not she made the correct decision. Tohu tells her she had a rough night, and sends her back home into the Winterlands.

In the meanwhile, Nan spoke with Pug and Squid which made Nan realize that now nothing really mattered. There was no one for her to love, and no one to love her. Her resentment grew towards Cam and Tohu, and while she felt betrayed by Sleepy, she felt more sadness towards her, blaming herself.

### Decent of Madness

The rising action of KiwiBirdz, almost everyone begins to fall into negative patterns, feeding off of one another's madness. Almos takes complete hold over Sleepy, and in an attempt to save her, the Zenkos release Cam from the first world, as well as shatter the Shards of Creation into many pieces. Cam is injured, and has disappeared from the clans grounds. Nan secludes herself from the world, restarting her life in the woods far away from the others. Pug also continues to fall into madness, having started to become unstable after the events of the Bridge Confrontation.

### The Last Tea Party

The Last Tea Party is the finale of Part 3, and begins when Sleepy gives Pug the "Potential Friendship Flower," a reference to the **Friendship Diamond,** and makes plans to meet up in around a months time. During this time, Sleepy continued to build and provide things for her brothers. She gifted them 2 different books, and an entire hidden archive underneath her windmill. When the time came, Sleepy went to Pug's compound, where Pug showed her a gruesome scene just off the coast of her house. She convinces Sleepy to stay for the night, where she was then served a drugged soup. When Sleepy awoke, she was tortured and tormented. In Pug's madness, she slaughtered Squid, Cyan, threatened Rem and Tohu, and revealed that the bloody scene on her shoreline was the remains of Nine, who she also slaughtered. She held Sleepy in solitary confinement for months, moved her to a house where Sleepy managed to escape before being caught by Pug once more. They both land fatal blows on each other, ending the Tea Party.

During this time, Cam was found and treated by Nan, Tohu is holed up in the Zenko clanlands, confused as to where the twins had vanished to. When he realizes Sleepy is dead, he goes momentarily insane and blows up a majority of the Winterlands before vanishing into thin air. Cyan manages to escape death by using an ender pearl stasis. Cam finds the remains of Sleepy, and buries her by the Hayami statue before also vanishing.

The grounds of KiwiBirdz village lays deserted now.