Curious, Quinn asks to have his fortune read.  The gypsy woman accurately discusses Quinn's sordid love life and his troubled family life.  She ominously warns him that his luck is about to change.  Tugs, however, is ill at ease and storms out of the tent.  The others trail after him to discover that they are no longer in the carnival.  Instead, they find themselves in a twisted amusement park, similar to the one Quinn trapped Casey and the other Phoenix Fighters in years before.  Quinn, however, is not responsible.  It is Yakut, the goddess of luck and fortune, who takes credit.  Fiercely, she appears calling for revenge after Quinn cheated her at a game.

 

Before anyone fully knows what's going on, Casey, Tugs, and Lex disappear, reappearing in three balloons, stuck to a tack board.  Quinn is given three darts and told that he can free them by popping the balloons.  Unfortunately, he could also easily kill them.  Casey and Quinn form a telepathic connection in which Casey expresses a desire to help their friends escape.  Yakut doesn't seem to realize that Casey is a Niflheim, but if she sees Casey slip into the shadows, she'll know.  To fix this problem, Casey tells Quinn to aim the first dart at her.  He does so, completely impaling her.  Casey falls to the ground and then slips into the shadows, making sure that the next two darts fail to kill Lex or Tugs.

 

Angry that two of Quinn's friends survived, Yakut creates a second game.  This time, she traps Lex and Tugs in two enormous, plastic frogs and takes them to a tank of water filled with lilypads and sharks.  She demands that Quinn catapult the frogs and land them on the lilypads.  Otherwise, the sharks will eat them.  Quinn obediently plays the game.  The frog containing Tugs lands on a lilypad, but Lex's frog slips into the water.  Casey, who has been watching from a distance, shadow jumps into the frog and pulls Lex to safety right before a shark can eat her.

 

Tugs' survival infuriates Yakut even more.  She decides to make things simple and takes him out of the frog, putting him in a cup on a counter.  Beside him, she places two more empty cups and starts swirling them around, demanding that Quinn guess which one he's in.  Quinn accurately guesses, but much to his surprise, Yakut pulls out a sledgehammer and slams it down on the cup, crushing it.  Satisfied that she's finally had her revenge, Yakut departs, warning Quinn not to try and outsmart the gods again.  Once she is gone, Quinn slips away to another part of the carnival where he finds Casey, Tugs, and Lex, all alive and well.