The world, according to Grace, is under an ancient curse. There once was a princess named Obsidiana, who was trapped in time by the greedy king of Pangea. To protect Obsidiana from dark and gloomy days, the king put her in a crystal casket made of spider silk woven so tightly that time itself could not penetrate. The king's greed for power doomed his kingdom and the trapped princess. Sigrun sees eerie parallels between the tale of Obsidiana and the present-day crisis, and realizes it is up to her and her friends to break the ancient curse and fix the world.
When he receives the cryptic message that "time is running out, " Owen, known as "The Navigator, " summons Cati and Dr. Diamond and together they journey to the City of Time in order to discover what has gone wrong.
Mr. Wolf's day is packed, not only with his own activities and errands, but with such characters as three giggling pigs and a fiddling cat continually asking him what time it is, until, at last, it is bedtime.
Jing, King of Bandits, and his avian sidekick Kir, planning their most ambitious heist yet, agree to accompany a Porvora, a highly explosive animal, across dangerous terrain.