As he had agreed before, Noyhe found himself visiting the Lower Lands. The lower he was, the more beautiful everything looked. All the perfect green grass, all the trees, and lots of flowers. He started to feel right at home there. He started buzzing around the flowers, ecstatic about the area, almost wondering why he had never thought of coming here before. Maybe he should apply to Cefabew to transfer here, he thought. But suddenly, something whizzed past him. Startled, he backed away. He looked at what was thrown at him. It was a long metallic thing, which had a cross-like shape. It took him a while to recognize it as a sword. Too long, as he was suddenly surprised by two hands that grabbed him by the throat. As he looked at the man that caught him, he reconsidered transferring to the area. The man didn't look much like a man. His face was almost completely covered in mud, but what little there was still visible of his face showed many scars. It almost even looked like his face was just a mask that hung loosely to his head. His hair was long and muddied, and his clothes were just skins of long-dead animals, giving him a caveman look.
"What are you?" he asked.
"Are you the Lowlander?" Noyhe asked him.
"Who wants to know?"
"Are you, or aren't you?" Noyhe repeated, "I muzt know. Pleaze?"
"I don't talk to strangers." the caveman replied, "And you are the strangest thing I have ever seen."
"I'm only a Mazcot." Noyhe replied, "I may look ztrange to you, but kidz like me."
The caveman grunted, but let go of Noyhe. He turned around to pick his sword up.
"Zo you are the Lowlander?"
"That's what they've called me." the Lowlander replied, "What's it to you? I don't do children."
"But haven't you fought to protect them before?" Noyhe asked.
"If you want me to fight for you, you've wasted your time." the Lowlander said, "I don't do this sort of thing anymore."
"What?" Noyhe could not understand, "But I waz told you're a man of honor! You would do anything to help otherz!"
"Only because others were hurt by people like me." the Lowlander replied, "But I'm the only one left, so there's order to your world. You don't need me anymore."
"Yez we do!" Noyhe continued, "Becauze we are dealing with people like you."
The Lowlander smirked at Noyhe: "Oh really?"
"Yez!" Noyhe answered, "One ghost, one werewolf, one mummy,..."
"They are nothing like me." the Lowlander interrupted him, "They are just people who won't accept death when it comes. That is still your problem, not mine."
He turned around to make his leave.
"But don't you underztand?" Noyhe flew toward the Lowlander, blocking his way, "The werewolf will tear everyone apart, the mummy will raise an army of dead, the vampire will..."
"Vampire?" the Lowlander, who had shown complete disinterest before, suddenly became radiant.
"Yez?" Noyhe was surprised at the Lowlanders sudden change of tone.
A pause for thought followed, upon which the Lowlander asked: "This vampire, is this by chance someone name Lea Drago?"
"You know her?" Noyhe was genuinely surprised to hear this.
The Lowlander's grip on his sword tightened: "We have a history."
"So you'll help uz?" Noyhe asked again.
"I'll help you with Drago." the Lowlander answered, "But if those others you mentioned get between us, it will be their loss as well."

Back at the monster's mansion, Bernard returned to his friends: "She's practicing with her sword."
"Is she now?" Daguerre questioned, "Do people still use swords today?"
"No." Bernard replied, "Only in sports."
"Then it looks like her practice may be for naught." Daguerre deduced.
"That may not be necessarily true." Setuh said.
"And what leads you to that conclusion?" Daguerre asked.
"These two really need to learn to simplify their English." Ivan remarked.
As an answer, Setuh opened up his book.
"The Necrobiblos?" Eva was astounded at the sight of it, "I thought we're not supposed to even have our eyes on it?"
"A picture alone should do no harm." Setuh replied, as he showed everyone a drawing of something in the book.
Everyone looked, but couldn't believe what they were looking at.
"What is that?" Bernard asked.
"It's one of the eldest gods." Setuh explained, "While many gods are benevolent, and others malevolent, this one is indifferent."
"What is that he's holding?" Eva asked, "It looks like a tooth."
"Because it is made out of one." Setuh explained, "It's made out of a tooth from a much older and much larger god. He uses it as a sword."
"So you're saying that if the gods themselves still use swords, why wouldn't we?" Daguerre questioned.
"It would mean that we know how to wield a weapon that they don't." Eva thought out loud.
"What are those?" Bernard pointed at something on the next page.
Everyone looked at what he was pointing. There were drawings of three animals. One looked like an orb with eight lines drawn from it, another looked like a wild and hairy man, and the final one looked like a winged lizard. Setuh opened his mouth to answer, but all five of them heard a rustling, which if they knew what a television was, they would recognize as static.
"What is that?" Daguerre wondered.
"It sounds like it comes from the living room." Eva said.
Immediately, all five of them ran into the next room.
The room itself didn't look like much to be proud of. The carpet was half-rotten, the couches looked dusty, and the small table in the middle looked like it could fall apart at any moment. Still, it was strong enough to hold one glass orb, that was placed on its center. Inside the orb, the entire group could see what looked like snow.
"What's happening?"
"Ivan, go get Lea." Bernard told him.
Ivan nodded, and ran to fetch her.
"Didn't Lea say it warn us of any danger?" Daguerre remembered.
"She did." Eva replied.
"No." Setuh remembered, "She said it warns HER of danger. She said nothing about us."
"Exactly what I was thinking." Bernard said, "If it warns her of danger, it won't show us anything."
A few seconds after he mentioned that, Lea burst into the room: "How long has it been doing that?"
"Only just." Eva replied.
As fast as she could (so fast it almost looked like she flew), Lea reached for the orb. She placed her right hand on it, picked it up, and as soon as it was on her eye-height, the static became more clear. In the orb, they could see what looked like a giant insect, buzzing its way across the streets.
"Noyhe?" Bernard recognized him.
"You know him?" Eva asked.
"He's one of Cefabew's Mascots." Bernard explained, "And it looks like he's getting closer to us."
"Then we better make sure he doesn't find us." Lea said, upon which she put the orb down again, and headed for the door, picking up her black cape on the way. The other four followed suit.