"Oh, and then, and then, and then, when I was, like, five years old, my big brother Chudo was walking me home from the park, and we stopped at this old, burned-down castle, and he said, "Well! Looks like the house burned down. Guess we've got to live outside now." Bitterly, Ludo fills Queen Moon in on his family, bitterness etched into his tone.
"That must've been difficult. But I do know that Dennis misses you. He says hello." Tenderly, she whispers to ludo.
"How is he?" Pained, Ludo looks away his tone gentle as he asks about him.
"He's worried about his big brother. And so am I." Concerned, she whispers to him.
"Worried about me? Don't you get it? I lost my army, my kingdom, my clothes! And look – still standing!" Proudly, Ludo growls.
"Yes, but for how much longer? You don't look well, Ludo. Tell me what's going on, and maybe I can help you…" Gently, Queen Butterfly offers.
"Glossaryck? Glossaryck?" Frowning, Hekapoo calls out as she opens her ruby red portal calling out to the male only then to leap back into the portal and open another to find herself in another part of the monster temple, continuing her search with her fellow council members.
"Glossaryck! Glossaryck!" Omni continues his search through the monster temple, his skeletal head enveloped in the galaxy aura of blue, pink and purple with small cosmos elements interweaved as he phases through floor of the temple, searching the levels below and above. Omnitraxus Prime is a large, hunchbacked, humanoid-like being with a skull-shaped face with several connected swords sticking out of it looking like bones.
"Tell me where he is!" Heatedly, Rhombulus roars at the squeaking rat, trapped within one of his many blue crystals. Rhombulus is a tall, muscular humanoid-like creature with green skin. He has a large crystal for a head, two small blue crystals on his chest, green snakes for arms and legs, and one eye. He wears a long purple cape, which also functions as a hood, and purple underwear briefs.
"You're a liar!" Angrily, he yells hearing the clink of his crystal crashing against the wall.
"Baaa?" Slowly, Lekmet moves a pillar on the ground aside and finds a pile of corn. He bites one of the pieces of corn, and the book of spells falls out "Baaaa!" Surprised, he calls out his voice echoing after spitting out one of the corns from the mountain when noting the book of spells. Urgently, the councillors hear the cry and rush over. Hekapoo, Omnitraxus, and Rhombulus regroup with Lekmet.
"You found Glossaryck?" Hopeful, he questions the goat.
"Baaaa!" Instantly, Lekmet opens the book; its pages are blank. Lekmet has pale cream fur, yellow eyes with diamond-shaped pupils, four brown horns (two pointed straight upward, two curled on the sides of his head), a long gray beard, and large bat-like wings. He wears a long brownish-gray cloak.
"Blank?" Surprised, Rhombulus gasps at the empty pages.
"That's not the real book." Hekapoo identifies as they rush back over to Moon and Ludo only to gasp at the sight of the soulless Queen Moon laying limp on the ground, unconscious with black eyes. Smugly, Ludo stands over her with glowing green eyes and holding his wand, however his low smug chuckle is different distorted, filled with smug glee and malice as he turns to face the stunned commission members as Toffee's flesh regenerates over the wand and Ludo's right arm, restoring Toffee's arm with the wand's crystal embedded in his palm.
"Ludo?" Surprised, Hekapoo whispers.
"Ludo's not here right now. But if you'd like, you can leave a message." Smugly, he turns to face the commission.
"You did not wanna do that, little man—!" Instantly, Toffee blasts Omnitraxus with dark magic, reducing him to only a skull mask, horrifying the members as Toffee absorbs Omnitraxus' power, and he rises off the ground with Omnitraxus' crags sticking out of the bottom of his crystallized legs.
"That's it!" Angrily, Rhombulus attacks Toffee, but Toffee blasts him away. Hekapoo, using a disconnected pair of dimensional scissors like daggers, attacks Toffee with a flurry of thrusts, but Toffee lifts her up and down onto the ground. Easily, he starts to absorb Hekapoo's power, but Rhombulus blasts him in the back. While Toffee fights Rhombulus, Lekmet revives Hekapoo, causing the goat to pant and heave, the toll of such a gift taking effect.
Exhausted, Rhombulus falls, and Toffee absorbs his power. Hekapoo attacks Toffee again while Lekmet revives Rhombulus despite his pained wheezing.
"You can't keep doing that, Chancellor!" Worried, Rhombulus pleads to the goat, his horned head down panting, heaving, in pain.
"Get him!" Fed up, Hekapoo makes multiple clones of herself
Determined, Hekapoo and her clones attack Toffee all at once, but Toffee blasts them away. As Toffee absorbs Hekapoo's power, her clones vanish. He absorbs Rhombulus' power again, too.
Weakly, Lekmet crawls over to Moon and a familiar glow of golden flowing through her empty sockets as she inhales deeply, turning for her blues to see Lekmet's body crumbling to dust.
"Chancellor! No!" Upset, Moon cries out to the demise of the councilor all that is left is fine grain of dust.
"Hello, Moon. It's been a while." Startled, Moon turns her eyes widening when Ludo reveals his severed middle finger.
"Toffee...!" Seething, Moon blasts Toffee with magic, and Toffee returns fire. Moon transforms into her winged, six-armed mewberty form and trades magic blasts with Toffee.
Laughing, Toffee grabs Moon with long vines and pulls her toward him. Focused, Moon makes a sword of magic energy and clashes swords with Toffee.
"Pathetic…you dare call that an improvement of a spell long forgotten." Disgusted, Toffee sneers, shattering Moon's sword, and she falls to the ground. As Toffee hovers over Moon, desperate, Moon creates a great explosion that brings the roof down on top of Toffee. Moon picks up Hekapoo's scissors and opens a portal. She throws Rhombulus into the portal and gathers Lekmet's ashes and Omnitraxus' mask. As she picks up Hekapoo, Toffee rises from the rubble, debris continuing to come crashing down. Dire, Moon blasts a pair of pillars to collapse the ground between them. As the temple crumbles, Moon carries Hekapoo to the portal…
"Tell Star... I'm coming for my finger…" Cackling, Toffee declares as terrified, Moon escapes through the portal, and it closes…