Act 1 - Stolen Away

Stolen Away is the first of seven acts in Puppeteer and takes place at Castle Grizzlestein.

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Join us again for Act One, Scene One of Kutaro's wondrous tale, wherein the soul of an unsuspecting boy is whisked away to the magical Moon Realm and trapped inside a wooden puppet.

Once upon a time, the Moon Realm was ruled by a beautiful Goddess. But then Little Bear, to whom the Goddess had shown nothing but love, stole two of his mistress's precious possessions: the Black Moonstone, and a magic pair of scissors known as Calibrus. After declaring himself Moon Bear King, he invaded the Goddess's castle, and smashed the White Moonstone to pieces, thereby obliterating the Goddess. He then gave a shard of the White Moonstone to each of his Generals, who proceeded to wreak havoc on the Moon.

Night after night, the King spirited away the souls of Earth's children, and locked them inside wooden puppets. The children were then doomed to serve as slaves in the King's mobile fortress, Castle Grizzlestein.

One of those unfortunate children is a boy named Kutaro. He awakens in his new puppet body in the clutches of the King, who asks if he would be his friend. Kutaro agrees, but the King calls him a liar, bites off his wooden head, and tosses his puppet body into the dungeons.

Kutaro is found by the Goddess's pet cat, Ying Yang, who saves the boy's life by helping him to find a new temporary head. Ying Ying leads Kutaro out of the dungeons and to the kitchens, to meet his current mistress, the Moon Witch Ezma Potts. The witch, who is being forced to cook endlessly to feed the King's insatiable appetite, instructs the pair to infiltrate the throne room and take Calibrus, the key to overthrowing the evil King. Unbeknownst to Kutaro, the Witch has already sent many puppet-children on this dangerous mission, all of whom perished before reaching their goal.Before Reaching Calibris Kutaro finds Pikarina,captured by the Moon bear king with tiger discussing about the Sun.

Kutaro succeeds in finding Calibrus, which immediately chooses him as its new master. This weapon allows Kutaro to fight the King's puppets and release the souls trapped within, allowing them to escape back to Earth. As Kutaro flees the castle, the infuriated King commands General Tiger to pursue him and take back the scissors.

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''Kutaro had obtained Calibrus, a legendary pair of magic scissors. But before he could start cutting along the dotted line of destiny, he would have to escape the wrath of the tyrannical Moon Bear King.''

Introduction: ''Lucky Kutaro. Suckered into stealing a set of sorcerous scissors by the Witch and stirring up a tyrant's rage. Now all his hopes of escaping the castle were dashed, just as he himself dashed like mad to outrun the soldier grubs who wanted to his head. Poor Kutaro. His only hopes now were Calibrus and a witch of most questionable character. What cruel tricks would fate play on him next?''

Kutaro and Ying Yang returned to Ezma with calibrus.She tried to take it away from Kutaro and chased him for it,but Calibris only accepts those who are pure of heart like the Moon Goddess,but all Ezma has is an attitude.She caught up to him,and just as she tried to take Calibris from Kutaro,General Tiger appeared looking for the thief who stole Calibris.Ezma throws tiger off Kutaro's scent and commands the grubs to guard the Castle (which took them night and day for them to get there) and left before saying "After all-we can't have anyone crashing the prison towers and making off with the Knight's powers.NOW CAN WE?"which Ezma overheard and launched Kutaro in the towers.He climbed the tower and defeated the guard of the Knight's Shield and claimed it's powers.The Moon Bear King infuriated that Kutaro came back to steal the shield,sent Tiger to catch Kutaro,and if he didn't and should Kutaro make off with the Sun Princess and/or the shield he'd rip out the piece of the Moonstone entrusted to tiger from his mouth.

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''Kutaro had spied an old shield in the prison tower, but Tiger was hot on his heels. Where were the Knight's powers? Who was this princess that had been locked up? And would Kutaro make it out of the Black Castle alive?''

Introduction:You'll recall that even after the Moon Goddess was defeated and her legion was put to rout,her loyal subjects tried to resist.Four Champions,ever faithful,rose to their mistress's cause.Over a period of weeks, they concocted an elaborate plan to lead a pathetically small,but equally valiant army against the Moon Bear King's Castle Grizzlestein.Did it work?Well...

Kuraro got the Knight's shield and Ezma taught Kutaro how to use this power.Kutaro made his way to the top of the tower and rescued Pikarina.Only for her to be eaten by General tiger.Kutaro fought the striped behemoth and cut the moonstone right from his teeth,and saved Pikarina again for her to be fully acquainted by Kutaro,Ying Yang,and Ezma.They escaped learning that the Moon Bear King is enraged and the fled to the Moon Goddess's palace with the MBK swearing he'd chase them to the ends of the Moon.