After running through the city, escaping the guards, and defeating Wolvington himself, the Captain stumbles into a bar and overhears a conversation between two of the crew of Captain Red Tail, a lion who is Claw's arch enemy. He manages to defeat them and finds his way out of the forest, and into the nearby port town of El Puerto del Lobo, where he is hunted down by the magistrate, Wolvington, and the city guards. In the forest, he encounters a gang of thieves, headed by his former love interest, Katherine. As he progresses through the prison, he eventually gets to the outer wall and escapes to the forest after defeating the warden, Le Rauxe. The game begins with Claw outside his cell. Breaking out of his cell, Claw sets out to collect all 9 gems of the amulet and retrieve it for himself. The note tells of the Amulet of Nine Lives-a mystical artifact that grants its wearer near-immortality.
In the prison cell, waiting for his execution, he finds a note and a piece of a map hidden in the wall. A famous cat pirate, Captain Nathaniel Joseph Claw, is imprisoned by the Cocker-Spaniards (a dog species, a pun on Cocker Spaniel) after they attack and sink his ship.
