Kyo wandered through the hallways of a house in his dream, still clutching his turtle. He was about seven at the time. After a while, one of his older brothers opened a door and ran toward him. "Hey, Kyo! I learned a cool story about something called a Noppera! Do you want to hear it?" Kyo nodded and his brother began the story: "Okay, so once, there was this man, right? And he decided to go fishing in a sacred lake..."