Vail woke up still on the shoulder of the jelly mantia that he landed on. The jelly being burped, bringing Vail fully to his senses. He jumped off and saw the entire school of jelly mantias lounging around the cheese cube factory entrance. Some were clutching their oversized stomachs and moaning. The immobile forms of fight plants hung in the jelly mantias' stomachs like frog eggs in a still blue pool. Vail was about to run away, but then he saw a note carved into the broken remains of the door. The note read: Mr. Legaia, Once my jelly mantias feel well enough to travel, they will head into the Ashitayan woods. You must follow them to find food and a potion for all those innumerable bruises the plants gave you. Be sure to catch a sheep while you're waiting. Roy likes getting paid for his services. - K.G. Vail read the instructions again to make sure he wasn't imagining it. He summoned a sheep using the summon coin. He was about to fetch the racket-blade when he discovered that he couldn't even go in. the jelly mantias were unknowingly blocking the doorway. His fear didn't allow him to go further. He observed the jelly mantias and found out they all had K.G. branded on their shoulders. Vail kept on thinking, who was this K.G.? It was two days later that the jelly mantias were able to move. They all headed toward the forest. Vail still had misgivings about going into the "lion's den," but he followed anyway, carrying his sheep. They descended into the forest where tan colored ashes constantly fell like rain in a downpour. Vail was sure he couldn't find his way out without this mysterious K.G. to guide him. The mantias stopped at a bamboo stick. The stick was as big around as an earthworm on steroids. (About three feet) The jelly mantia that saved him, Roy as the note said, yanked the bamboo out and instantly a hole the width of three jelly mantias appeared. The mantias all tumbled down the hole. Vail followed. They landed in a village made completely out of blue rubber. Sitting on a blue chair a couple of feet away from where they landed, was a girl. She looked about two years younger
Than Vail. The jelly mantias instantly sprang to attention on seeing her. She introduced herself as Kelsey Gell. The legends were true. There was a school of tame jelly mantias in the Ashitayan woods, and this girl, Kelsey, was the
tamer. Kelsey took the sheep and gave it to Roy. It ate it up quickly. Vail had questions flashing through his head like a car made of neon lights. He was a bout to ask her one, when he heard a sound that resembled someone sucking a straw in an empty glass. A tongue the size of a redwood tree came slurping down the hole they came from. The noise continued. The jelly mantias ran as fast as their eight legs could carry them to the blue rubber huts and slammed the door. A jelly mantia screamed, or screamed as a jelly mantia could scream. Vail didn't like that sound. Kelsey said something that sounded like Megatung. She attached a gold colored wristband to her wrist, and out popped a long whip. She later explained it was called a heat whip. She dashed toward the anything-but-miniature tongue. Vail followed after her, Splinter drawn. Even though he was sure this "mega tongue" would wipe out the jelly mantias that frightened him like squirrel at a jackhammer convention, he felt like he needed to repay the jelly mantias with something better than sheep.