"...And so, I, the highly honorable Prince Saff, rescued the poor helpless girl from the terrible monster!"

Louie, however, seemed less than impressed with Saff's words. "...Yeah. Well, thanks for comin' out," he huffed. "Ya can go now. I don't need to hear anymore." He then began shoving Saff out the door.

"Wait, Princess Louise!" Saff tried to stop him. "Aren't you impressed by my daring rescue of sweet Susan? Don't you want to hear more of my exploits?"

"Not really," Louie replied flatly. "Now, I told you to-"

"Louis!" Todd and the others suddenly appeared in the doorway.

"What the-?!" Saff pulled away from Louie and stared Todd right in the face. "And who in Garaden's name is THIS?!"

Todd seemed unperturbed by Saff's glare. "...My name is Todd," he answered very calmly. "And I would appreciate you not putting your hands on Louis like that."

Saff grew angry at this. "Keep my hands off-" he demanded. "And who are YOU to tell ME, the Princess's BOYFRIEND, to keep my hands off of her?!"

"BOYFRIEND?!" That word alone seemed to anger Louie.

Todd, however, simply blinked. "I happen to know that Louis is NOT your boyfriend," he retorted. "He's only here because he-"

"He's the love of my life, that's why!" Saff snapped. "And I'm certainly not going to let YOU-"

"SHUDDUP!"

"Eek!" Saff jumped at Louie's sudden shout, and began cowering as soon as Louie approached him.

"FIRST of all, I ain't your boyfriend!" Louie snapped. "SECOND of all, I don't even want ANYTHING to do with ya, and THIRD of all..."

As Louie was telling Saff off, however, a strange shadow began to appear behind him. "L-Louis!" Todd tried to warn him. "There's- There's something behind you!"

Louie turned to Todd, and his voice got much calmer. "We can talk in a second, Todd, I gotta deal with this guy first." He turned back to Saff. "THIRD of all, that JUST so happens to be my-"

As Louie was giving Saff the verbal beating of his life, something started to happen. His face... Suddenly disappeared. "L-Louis! You're..."

"Ahahahaha..."

"Hey! Did you hear that?!" Yardi looked around. "That sounded like..."

"AZAMIR!" The group ran back outside, followed by Todd.

"Azamir? Who on Earth is that?" Todd asked.

"Azamir is this Dark Lord who's been stealing everyone's faces!" Sachio explained. "See that over there? He's headed to that tower over there! That must be where he's taking Louie's face!"

"I see. In that case... We'll just have to go save Louis's face ourselves, won't we?" With that, he began to make his way towards the tower.

"...We're going to have to go after him," Vinny commented. "He's not gonna last long in there himself." He then headed to the tower, with the rest of the group following along.

"Well, this is it," Susumu stated when the group finally reached the tower. "Where do you think Todd is?"

"He's probably gotten himself eaten by now," Yardi muttered.

"He's just inside the tower, Yardi," Vinny said. "Come on. Louie's face is at the top."

Susumu and Sachio, however, hesitated before entering. Yeah, they did want to save Louie's face, but... This place looked pretty scary. Not to mention, Azamir was in there. What if he took their faces, or-

"Hey, you two!" Yardi suddenly snapped them back to reality. "We're not just gonna leave you out here!" The two quickly followed the others into the tower.

The tower was even scarier on the inside than on the outside. "I-Is it just me... or is it really hard to breathe in here?" Susumu gasped.

"Yeah, she's right," Sachio was panting. "I can't breathe in here either..."

"You two are thinking too much," Yardi scolded them. "The sooner we get to the top, the sooner we can get out of here."

The climb to the top of the tower was slow and uneventful, and yet still completely terrifying. Once they reached the top, they found that Todd was already there, faced with some sort of armored creature. "Look!" Susumu pointed. "That's Louie's face, and Todd is here too!"

"...Ahem. Excuse me. But... Would you mind giving me Louis's face back?" Todd asked. The group couldn't believe it. He was... STILL trying to talk to the monsters?! The creature didn't listen, however. It seemed to be too enamored with Louie's face. "I said... Would you mind giving me-"

"Todd, get back!" Yardi suddenly interrupted, slashing at the creature with his knife. "That thing's not gonna listen to reason. We'll have to fight it out!"

Susumu and Sachio attacked the creature with fireballs, but they didn't seem to do much damage. "Guys, hang on!" Susumu warned. "This this is stronger than anything we've faced yet!"

The creature then attacked Yardi, slamming him right in the face. "Y-Yardi!" Susumu quickly rushed over to check on him. "Are you okay?"

"Urf... I-I'm okay!" He assured her. "But... You were worried about me?"

"Hang on." Vinny was preparing something. "...Okay. Here, eat this." He had... Cooked something out of nothing, some how, and was now offering it to Yardi.

"D-Don't need it!" Yardi stood back up and started swinging his knife again. Vinny simply shrugged and offered the food to Sachio and Susumu, who happily accepted.

The battle seemed to drag on for quite some time, until... "We've got it on the ropes!" Yardi commented. "Everyone, give it all you've got!"

Then Susumu got an idea. "Yardi, let me help! Sachio, Vinny, just follow me!" The four all banded together for an all-out attack, finishing off the creature and saving Louie's face.

As Louie's face flew back to the castle, Todd approached the group. "...Thank you. For saving both me and Louie's face, I mean," he thanked them.

"Yeah, yeah," Sachio groaned. "Now can we get out of here? Before-"

"Finally... I made it to the top of the tower." A familiar voice came from the doorway, and Saff was standing there. "It was a perilous journey, but I was prepared... To..." He then caught sight of the group. "! YOU! What are YOU all doing here?!"

"We just saved the Princess's face, that's what!" Yardi yelled. "Which is more than YOU'VE ever done for anyone!"

"Geh! Y-You... You saved...?!" Saff was stunned, but then began to throw a tantrum. "No, no no NO! I'M supposed to save the Princess! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE WHO WINS!"

Yardi was tempted to sock him right in the mouth, but he was stopped by Susumu. "Come on, guys," she said. "Let's go back to the castle."

And so the group returned to Greenhorne Castle, leaving Saff in a pool of his own salty tears.