It’s Christmas Eve, and Santa makes his way in the Grand Sleigh through the Forest of Shadows to the Other World bearing Noelle to her new life.

Gelf Spicata, working for the Baroness, searches in vain to find her. Spicata tries to stop Taraxa, who had returned to get his wife, from escaping again, but the horrifying flesh-eating Pirandelves, set on them by the Baroness von Drear, emerge from beneath Frozen Lake to attack them.