On his sixteenth birthday, Wendel is suddenly portaled away from his friends and engulfed in a cocoon of golden-orange light. Just as the ancient records foretold; the year one fusion ritual, with the Mescalahem sun, has begun. When he returns to Sarah, Deadra and Nathan, Wendel discovers the ritual has left him with new and enhanced powers. He will need all of his new strength and powers, in the months ahead, to fight a new looming menace that is coming for Wendel and the Freedom Fighters. The Ancient, evil one known as Culwhich, is a fearsome legend, who controls the terrible dark arts powers of ancient days. He is well aware of the millennium old prophecies regarding the young boy who will come. Culwhich knows of the powers Wendel will one day control. He is determined to destroy the boy before he can fulfill his destiny and become the man who will be called Arithor.