Lucky starts heading back to Marla's Cottage with Ember. Along the way they saw scorched trees, burned grass, and craters in the ground. It leads all the way to Marla's Cottage, when they get to the cottage. Lucky knocks on the door, there's no answer but the door swings open. They slowly enter the cottage with caution and concern, the air smells like burnt wood and the air feels cold. They search the cottage, it's abandoned and Marla isn't there. When they enter Marla's bedroom, they see runes burnt and scorched into the ground and a single journal page lays in the center of the rune circle.
Lucky picks up the page and reads it. "Lucky has been gone for a while. I'm worried that she's in trouble or that she needs help. Dear Lucky, if for some miracle that you're alive or that you come here to talk to me. I've gone to face the darkness and corruption. I won't let you carry this burden all by yourself."
Lucky starts to cry and clinches her heart. She felt fear and awe getting twisted together. Ember wraps her wings around Lucky to comfort her. Lucky allies are choosing their own paths now too. "Thanks, Ember, I feel better. My friend Marla is going to fight the darkness and for my sake." Ember finally talks to Lucky, "That's good Lucky, I hope that she is ok. I'm happy that you're feeling better." "Me too Ember I hope she's ok too."
corruption
Lucky and Ember start heading back deeper in the forest to find Marla. Along the way they stumble upon hanging vines and they hear laughter and talking behind the vines. Lucky and Ember apart the vines to see what's going on, the other side of the vines. They see nothing so they step through the vines they see Spirits of the long-lost fairies, they are playing and dancing around, never aging, and never remembering what happened to them. Lucky and Ember start forgetting who they are, until Lucky feels a familiar hand on her shoulder.
Gleam's hand is on Lucky's shoulder and says "remember who you are, your name is Lucky. You choose joy even when it's hard. You're Ember a Phoenix who never gave up and kept trying and you found the one person that you can count on now. Remember!" They both snap out of the trance and thanked Gleam.
Lucky and Ember look at the spirits they are bowing to Lucky and Ember. The spirits gave them their blessing of memory so they won't forget who they are, no matter how dark it got or when a trance tries to get ahold of them. Lucky and Ember both bow back to the spirits and they both say, "thank you, we promise to remember who we are and we won't regret it." Then Lucky and Ember turn around and walk back through the vines.
They both head deeper in the forest, Lucky and Ember finds a place to rest their heads. Lucky starts a campfire and Ember makes places to sleep. They both rest for the night, Lucky starts to dream of a strange pale tree with white pale leaves. When they both wake up, Lucky finds the pale white leaves in her hands. She puts them in her bag and they head deeper in the forest. They stumble upon the hole where the corruption is. They head inside it and they follow the roots deeper underground.
The roots are twisted with shadows with every step they take. Lucky and Ember found a pool a black magic that slowly poisons leeching upward into the soil and dirt. Lucky pulls out one of the white pale leaves and drops it in the pool of black. It hisses and bobbles and recoils. The leaf is made from light but it wasn't powerful enough. Lucky needed more power and more help.
Lucky and Ember leave the hole and head to an open grove in the forest. Ember flies around and looks for food, meanwhile Lucky sees a bright light coming down from the sky. A Celestial being descended-part fairy, part star. She is the Skyweaver, "My dear, I've been watching you, Child of light. You walk a narrow path. I'm going to offer you a choice: gain a fragment of cosmic power or refuse and remain unchanged."
"I chose to take the power but only if I can still feel joy, sadness, love." Says Lucky, the Skyweaver smiles and lights up. "Lucky my dear, you passed the true test. I'll grant you a fragment of cosmic power and I have a gift for you." The Skyweaver holds out her hand towards Lucky. Lucky places her hand in the Skyweaver's hand and she feels the new power flowing in her veins and body. "Now for the gift, it's a scroll that only you can open."
When Lucky touches to scroll it lights up like starlight. "It's a prophecy scroll of you, my child of starlight." It shows a fairy of the falling flame who would heal the Tanglewood or burn the world trying. Ember chirps and Lucky frowns, "Well that's not comforting what so ever, but I must still press forward to stop the darkness from consuming everything. Let's go Ember and find Marla." As they set off a message had appeared in Lucky's hand requesting her to come back to the Glade.