He woke up abruptly to a feeling of dread all around him. He looked around and he was still in the campsite, next to their tents, except everything was drained of color. He opened Harley and Burberry's tents to find them still asleep but stone cold and stiff. He could feel the weight of a spell in the air and he could tell they weren't dead but he was trapped somewhere and nearby was the caster. He looked around and saw a light in the distance of the dark black and white woods. He ran after the light and when he reached it, was stunned at what he saw.
A skeleton sat on a fallen tree and was smiling at Ace. It had two single dot purple pupils in the abyssal eye sockets of its skull. The top left side of the skull was cracked from the socket to the top. He was wearing a black coat with a stuck up collar and he then said. "So this is what Shara wanted me to seek out? Weak." The skeleton dropped down and put both hands behind his back. "I'll make you regret those words if you don't release me wizard!" Ace said. "Let you go? No. You see, I've been ordered to end you and also it's only fair as seeing you ruined my little pet project all those years ago." The skeleton said raising up a familiar black orb.
Ace jumped back for safety. "Oh so you remember what this is? You're smart to want to back up seeing as how I can corrupt even the sacred foxes. Come on then. I have better things to attend to." The skeleton said before holding out both hands in front of him. He then started to rapidly speak in sign language almost. Ace realized he was casting a spell but he had just enough time to run and attack. Ace was countered and knocked back. Ace looked up and saw another hand just floating in the air which was the one that blocked him. Ace figured he could run around it but instead he saw another hand appear, then another, then another, then another.
The skeleton was surrounded by bone hands all rapidly casting a spell with sign language. The hands started to cast spells. Fire, ice, water, lightning, death, force, etc. Ace barley dodged them all as they flew towards him. Ace quickly dodged and tried to run towards the skeleton. The skeleton quickly grabbed Ace with each available hand and held him in the air. "Typical god." He said. Ace was confused when he said god but was returned to reality when all the hands slammed him against the dirt, picked him up, and threw him into the trees.
Ace felt the crushing force of the impact and then quickly looked up, expecting the skeleton to be far away, but instead he was right in front of Ace. The skeleton raised his hands to slam down on the body of Ace. Ace closed his eyes and braced for an impact but was surprised when nothing happened except the noise. He looked up to see the same red haired and green eyes man blocking all the hands with all his force. "Jeez I give you all that power and yet here you are cowering!" Asura said as he pushed away the hands, stab his hand through the skeleton's chest, grabbing something and crushing it, and then kicking the Skeleton back. Asura grabbed Ace by the shoulders and snapped his fingers. Ace looked around to see they were back at the campsite. "From now on actually fight." Asura said as he sat down on a tree stump.
Ace looked over to see Harley and Burberry get out of their tents to see if everything was alright. "Who's this?" Harley asked. "I remember you calling be something like the Phantom man if I'm not mistaken." Asura said as he cracked his knuckles. "Wait so you're the whole reason we're even going on this adventure?!" Harley asked. "As a matter of fact I am." Asura said. "I hope you realize you're going to give answers to out questions right?" Harley asked. "You're in no position to make demands. But fuck it. Fire away." Asura said.
"Who the fuck are you for one?" Harley asked. "Just a friendly traveler." Asura said. "Actually I changed my mind this is really boring." Asura said. Asura pulled out a pouch and took a little yellow cake from it. "Any way. Ace, I got a little secret you need to remember. Orange cakes." Asura spoke before he disappeared. "Orange cakes? The fuck?" Ace said.
Burberry was about to say something but a thundering noise was heard in the distance. "Was wondering where she was." Ace said. He turned to the right to see the lights of Maya's bike getting closer. Maya drove up and then stepped down from her bike. "Ace! Ace Ace Ace!" Maya started yelling. "Jesus! What's wrong?" Ace asked. "My brother! He's alive!"