Gallus and Sandbar both die saving the world and enter Heaven. As they discover more about the place, they learn about new feelings about themselves and each other.
To fulfill his ambitions as a military officer, and to live closer to his friends at school, Gallus goes to the Royal Guard Academy. Things should go well for him, although he's the only griffon among his fellow cadets and superiors.
(Based on a deleted song from Aladdin, takes place prior to "School Daze".) As Gallus survives another day in Griffonstone, his thoughts turn to his parents and he vows to make them proud of him by any means necessary.
Ocellus wakes Gallus up, claiming to have solved the secret to painful Hearth's Warming Eve get-togethers. He just needs to follow her back to the hive and drink a goblet of magic and his own blood, and relive his worst memory of the holidays.
Gallus wants to ask Silverstream to the Amity Ball their sophomore year without embarrassing them both to death. Silverstream wants that, too. The Spirit of the Tree of Harmony, learning of this, wants to help.