"Heyyy, look at this place! It's some kind of demon cave or something!" Sachio was completely taken as soon asthe group entered the cave.

"Aw, cool!" Susumu bounded inside after him. Yardi, however, trudged along behind the two.

"Would you two slow down?" Yardi snapped. "We don't even know what's IN this place! Besides, it smells really moldy in here!"

"I, uh... I don't think that's mold, Yardi," Susumu commented. "Whatever that smell is, it's... Hurting my nose a little."

"Yeah, it smells more like... Something's burning," Sachio added.

As the group got further into the cave, the burning smell only seemed to get stronger. "Gah... Nothing's right." Out of the darkness stepped some sort of small figure. As the figure approached, it seemed to be... A dog? Dressed in a chef's outfit, talking and walking on two legs, no less?!

Yardi stared at the dog in confusion, not even noticing when he spoke. "...Hey," the dog said. "You, uh... You alright there? ...Well, anyway... Name's Vinny. As you can tell, I'm a chef."

"Chef?!" Yardi was stunned. "But- You're a dog!"

"Yeah, I'm... Not so good at cooking," Vinny stated. "I've been looking for some new ingredients, trying to see if I could learn a few things. But... With this Dark Lord guy around, I've just kinda been hiding in here."

"Hey, we're going after the Dark Lord ourselves!" Sachio exclaimed.

Vinny looked at Sachio in silence for a moment, before closing his eyes. "...Okay. I'll go with you," He suddenly said.

"Wait, what?! We never said-"

"No, no, you don't need to," Vinny stopped him. "Besides, if I go with you, I'll get to travel the world, won't I? Anyway, come on. I think I saw that Dark Lord guy over by Greenhorne Castle."

"Uh... Okay, I guess he's coming with us," Yardi stated. The rest of the walk through the cave was rather uneventful, and soon the group found themselves atop some sort of stone wall.

"Is this Greenhorne Castle? Where do you think Catbear's face might be?" Susumu asked.

"If you remember what she looks like, it shouldn't be too hard," Vinny remarked. "I guess we just keep going until we find it."

Before long, however, they began to hear yet another unfamiliar voice. "The creature attempted to attack, but I simply scoffed in its face. 'Ha! You think that you can defeat me? I, the highly honorable Prince Saff, shall strike you down in an instant!'"

The voice belonged to what seemed to be... Someone with VERY bright yellow hair, and his outfit didn't make him any easier to look at. Right in front of him, seemed to be some sort of imp, with...

"Hey, you!" Yardi charged in. "You get away from there! We need to get that face back!"

"What in Garaden's-?!" Yardi pounced on Saff, trying to get him away from the creature. As he did, however, his friends had alreayd initiated a fight with the imp. By the time Yardi was through with Saff, the rest of the group had already saved Catbear's face. "Great, you see what you did?!" Yardi snapped. "Who are you even-"

"Ahem." Saff completely ignored him. "The battle was hard-fought, but fortunately for the dear girl, my expert swordplay was enough to save her life. I humbly accepted her gratitude with grace and dignity."

Susumu didn't know what to say. "...Is this guy for real?"

Yardi, however, had plenty of words for Saff. "Who... Who the HECK do you think you are?!"

"AHEM. If you MUST know, I am the highly honorable Prince Saff!" Saff declared. "I have decided to grace this humble land with my presence, ever since I heard that a GORGEOUS princess arrived in Greenhorne Castle!"

"I wouldn't say 'grace' is the word for it..." Vinny joked.

"Well, whatever!" Saff huffed. "After the princess hears the tale of how I so daringly rescued you, she'll be head over heels for me! Now get out of my way! my darling is waiting for me!" With that, Saff pushed past Susumu and Sachio and dashed off toward the castle. "I shall not keep you waiting any longer, my sweet!"

Yardi was seething. "That... That LOWLIFE!" He charged off after Saff. "I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!"

"Yardi, wait!" Susumu called after him. "Guys, we've gotta go get him!" Susumu and the others took off after Yardi, and soon they made their way to Greenhorne Castle.