Inside the pudding, Appendos tries to find a perfect dimension for a host (first henchman to do the dirty work for him). As he tried looking he was reminded by the cause of the destruction of magic, via a little, blonde brat who was tired of people being arrogant and played victim and victimizer with monsters. Mortals and monsters, it didn't matter to Appendos, they were both going to be expendable pawns in his eyes.
As he traveled deeper and deeper into the brown mush, he saw a small, frail portal at the end. When he got closer, the portal sucked him in like a whirlpool and spat him out to the other side. Examining the environment around him, Appendos seen it was a parallel version of Earth. It was called Oisidarap and it was one of those dimensions that were dependent on magic to help things keep going. However, since of its eradication, the entire place became that of an apocalyptic wild-west wasteland.
Seeing former buildings crumbled into dust and societies eat themselves from the inside out. Appendos didn't care much and began searching. It took many hours, until finally at near a graveyard. There was young fair-skinned man with brown hair in a coat. Appendos looked at him, he was crying near a certain gravestone and got to his knees, screaming in sadness. There, the young man slowly began to notice Appendos.
"Hey buddy, what seems to be the matter?" said Appendos as the young man turned around.
"She's dead," he said while snuffling through his nose.
"Whose dead?"
"Scobia", he said, wiping off the seemingly endless tears from his eyes, "she caught a sickness that was supposed to be treated by magic. B-but for some reason it didn't work, she only got worse and worse until f-finally..." the man then made a big wail of sorrow.
He continued sobbing for a while, then he calmed down a little, Appendos put his hand on his shoulder, "Hey kid relax, I honestly feel sorry about your loss I really do. But I'll say this, your sobbing isn't going make things better".
"What do you want me to do, forget everything I can't do that. Also, don't refer to me as 'kid', my name is Kombu." he said, while looking at him in a stern glance.
"Well Kombu, my name is Appendos D. And I can help you with your troubles, if you can do me a favor in return" he said while smiling.
"What do you mean? What are you talking about?"
"What if I told that there's a way of bringing her back"
"You're bluffing, shut up", said Kombu looking more agitated and thinking what he is saying was some sort of teasing scam.
"Oh no, if I was bluffing, I wouldn't be here right now. I want to help you, but there's a bit of a process to it"
"Such as?"
"You help me by revitalizing my magikal power and I can use it to bring your Scobia back. Sound fair?" Appendos said, giving a smile of "good" business.
"I suppose so"
"Excellent, now sign this." Appendos snapped his fingers and out of nowhere appeared a contract and a pen. The contract said the following: "I hereby announce to be Appendos' assistant to earn (blank). Sincerly (blank)".
Without hesitation, Kombu grabbed the pen and wrote down the purpose and his name on the paper. "To be with Scobia again" and "Kombu McWasp".
"There, now that's settled. Let's start by giving you a piece of my power shall we". With a crack of his hands Appendos uses tips of his fingers to conduct a yellow voltage that zapped Kombu, transferring his power into him. It was painful for Kombu, but he didn't care, the only thing in his mind was wishing to see his lover's face again.
After several long minutes, Kombu felt power surging through his veins. Tears of joy were watering out of his eyes, along with loyalty to Appendos.Not to mention there began to form Red X's on his face cheeks . With that, Appendos manipulated the young man and shall teach him how to use magik and to help accumulate Appendos' power to bring back his late love. However, without Kombu's knowing, was a trick for Appendos to use so he can use him for his dark agendas.