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FLASHBACK – 20 YEARS BEFORE

The late Jinjo King, Jingy, a blue Jinjo, was announcing something to his subjects.

"Jinjo's of Jinjo Village! We've lost too many lives in these past years, and so I've decided something. Whatever you do, do not walk the path of Eclipse Forest. This deep, dark place will emprison you for eternity. I know this from experience. I hereby forbid you to go anywhere near it.In fact, I will have the strongest workers of this village block it off."

A cry could be heard near the pink and gold sofa in the Throne room. It was the late King Jingy's baby boy, Jingaling.

END FLASHBACK

ANOTHER FLASHBACK – WHEN THE GREY JINJO'S HOUSE WAS DESTROYED

The terrifying digger dug a hole through to Jinjo Village. The whole place shook, and some of the Residents came out of their houses, running back in again when they saw the monster of a machine plow its way through, crushing its way over the Grey Jinjo house and digging a tunnel through to spiral mountain. A black Jinjo witnessed half of the barrier that stopped Villagers straying through Eclipse Forest had been broken. Rocks from it had fallen and scattered the area. The only thing left of it was a cracked slab of green Rock.

END FLASHBACK

Banjo woke. His backpack had been taken off his back and lay on the floor. His injured leg felt stiff and he realised it was in a cast. He was lying in a bed, Kazooie snoozing in the bed beside him. Where were they?

The door opened. A rabbit, a fox, a squirrel and a badger walked in.

"The bear's awake," said the squirrel.

Banjo sat up. "Where am I?"

"You're in Cresent Village," the squirrel answered. "We found you in the entrance of Eclipse Forest."

"It's a good thing that Lorna saw you," the badger said, pointing to the rabbit. "We thought you were dead."

"Yeah...you're lucky the forest didn't trap you." said the squirrel.

Kazooie woke. "What's going on!"

"We found you in the forest," said the fox.

"Who are you!" the bird sat up in her bed. "Who are all of you!"

"Kazooie! Don't be rude, they saved us!" Banjo turned to the four animals. "What are your names?"

Lorna was the rabbit. She had fur like cream, with a blond ponytail between her droopy ears and pink eyes. The badger's name was Coal, and he had deep aqua eyes just like Banjo. He sported dark green trousers and a brown sun hat. Kade was the fox. She had big green eyes and medium length brown hair. Finally, the squirrel introduced himself as Peanut.

"What's all this about a forest?" Kazooie asked.

They explained.

"Is Eclipse Forest cursed or something?" Kazooie asked again. "How come me and Banjo coulda been trapped there?"

"Well, it's been said there is a curse. Its a rumour. But y'know what they say..." Peanut looked at Coal to continue.

"They say that anyone that doesn't die in the Forest and escapes its grasp slowly becomes insane...We don't know of anyone that has became insane, but..."

"We don't know anyone who'd ever escaped in the first place..." Lorna said.

"There's was once a rumour though, that if one could find the four moon pendants, and place them on the moon altar in the temple on the other side of this village, then the so-called curse would be broken and Eclipse Forest would be safe.." Kade explained.

"Let me guess," Kazooie said. "The four pendants are in dangerous or hard-to-reach places?"

"Well, one of them is here, in Cresent village, but, it can only be true when I say that the other 3 are in the other side of the forest, in the Isle 'o' Hags."

"How do we get back to the Isle 'o' Hags?" Banjo asked.

"With this," Kade said, taking an Egyptian-style charm from around her neck and placing it in Banjo's hand. My mother gave it to me before she died. She said it was from a faraway place called Gobi's Valley. It's said that a charm like this one could protect you from places such as the forest. We all tried it, but the path to the Isle 'o' Hags was blocked. So we gave up."

"Until you two came, we thought the path would be blocked forever." Lorna said.

"How long has it been until since anyone in this village have seen Isle 'o' Hags?" Banjo enquired.

"20 years." Coal replied.

"Then why don't you four come with us?" Banjo asked.

"Really? I don't know about the others, but I'd love to." Lorna said.

"Yeah, so would I." Peanut looked at Kade and Coal.

"Hang on, what about Banjo's Ankle?" Kazooie asked.

"I only twisted it, Kazooie. It's healed now. It wasn't really that bad.."

The four agreed to it. They talked about it, and agreed with Kazooie that they should go to the Isle 'o' Hags and find the other 3 pendants first before journeying back and finding the fourth one in Cresent village.

An hour later, Kade, Peanut, Coal, Lorna and Banjo, with Kazooie tucked in his backpack, took their first steps into Eclipse forest.

(A/N: Well, flames are welcome on THIS chapter becuase its sucks and don't I just know it...)