The Dark Things Wait—Behind the Gate lurks chaos, carnage, horror vast and evil unimaginable. And the Gate must be locked every hundred years, or the world will be plunged into darkness. — The Key Bearer must be fearsome enough to fight Pitch Fiends, wage ware against the Water Demons, defy Death Wings and master the Manslayers... — Quadroped, a young pig, is chosen by the magic key to seal the Gate that locks out water demons, pitch fiends, and death wings from the world.

As famine grips the realm, all the fairy pigs are imprisoned by the dread Fungus Folk,and they must rely on a comfort-loving young warrior pig to rescue them