The cloaked man walks through the forest located across from the kingdom, with Bonniese and Puke following him, but keeping their distance. The cloaked man stops and places some firewood on the ground and scratching a stone of his metallic arm creates sparks to start a fire, Bonniese and Puke observe him behind a bush, he removes the hood of his cloak revealing a young man, with spiky black hair and a small pitchfork-diamond shaped tattoo on the back of his neck.
The young man takes out his bag of food he received from the tavern and a small frying pan, he reaches into the bag and pulls out three potatoes, using a small knife he cuts the potatoes and proceeds to fry them, but before he does so he looks over to the bush Bonniese and Puke were hiding. "I know you're there, come on out." Bonniese and Puke stick their heads ups with obvious signs of nervousness, not knowing what to say Bonniese utters the word. "Hi."
The young man turns his head back to the potatoes and begins to cook them. "Why were you following me?" He asks. Bonniese steps out of the bush with Puke sitting on her shoulder. "Um… I or we thought that we should tag along with you." Bonniese says. "Seeing how you were able to handle those jerk-wads and all of that."
"You shouldn't be following me girl, I prefer to be alone." The young man sternly responds, as he uses his knife to stab one of the cooked potatoes and eats it. Bonniese walks closer to the young man and stands across from him. "Well, we just wanted to thank you for saving us." Bonniese nervously says. "I'm Bonniese and this is Puke."
"Is that supposed to mean something to me?" The young man responds. Puke flies up to him. "Well, we would like to get to know your name, since we told you ours, that's how the whole greeting thing works." The young man looks up at the elf-dog. "Fits. My name is Fits, now leave me alone bug." He says as he flicks Puke away with his index finger. Fits gets up off the ground a pulls his hood over his face. "Now, if you're done with your questions, I suggest you leave." Fits says as he walks away.
Puke flies up to Bonniese. "Well, we tried, we failed, let's just go back to town." Bonniese sighs and gets up, but feels a drip of water on her skin and looks up to see that it's raining. "This isn't good, rain can melt candy-humans, it's going to melt me." She says with panic in her voice. "Don't worry, I got this." Puke says as he uses his shape-shifting to become a small umbrella for Bonniese. "Thanks Puke, but this isn't going to offer much against the rain." As the umbrella only covers her head, leaving her shoulders and arms exposed, but as luck would have it they hear trotting in the distance and see a merchant cart pulls up by them. "Hey what are you doing in the rain?" The driver asks. Bonniese looks at the driver, an elderly candy-human, with a round pastry-dough body, and a white swirl of whipped cream for hair. "Do you mind giving us a ride, we need to get out of the rain."
"I don't mind, just until the rain stops." The old candy-human replied. Bonniese climbs into the back and Puke shape-shifts back into his elf-dog form. "Thank you sir." Bonniese says with gratitude, as the cart begins to move.
Deep into the woods, Fits finds a tree to sit down by for a short rest and closes his eyes. In an abandoned cave, Fits is running from something with fear in his eyes, repeatedly shouting the words, "Flamasca! My Flame Princess! Where Are You?!" Fits drops to the floor with tears in his eyes, but hears his name called in the distance. "Flamasca!" Fits shouts as he follows the voice, searching every part of the cave until he found the source of the voice, then he finds her, a young orange skinned fire elemental with long red hair, in a blazing red dress, trapped behind a hand shaped cage made of bones, in front of a well, containing green, moaning souls. "Fits!" She shouts, glad to see him. Fits runs towards her and draws out a bronze colored long sword and strikes at the cage trying to free her to avail.
An evil raspy sounding laugh echoes throughout the cave as a portal opens above and begins to suck everything into it, including Flamascas cage. "Fits, help me!" Fits grabs her hand as tight as he can, but begins to rise into the air along with the cage, Fits sees a vine nearby and grabs it. "Hang on my Flame Princess!" Fits shouts. A black ooze begins to emerge from the bars of the cage and starts to cover his arm, Fits shouts in pain as the ooze starts to burn. "I'm not letting her go!" The portal begins to pull stronger, placing more strain on Fits, his arm feeling weaker, but still holding on to Flamascas hand, but the ooze continued to burn Fits skin until it burned his arm off. Fits falls into the soul well as he witnesses his Flame Princess swallowed by portal.
In the soul well Fits hears the laugh once more, now followed with a voice. "None have ever dared to stop me before, especially a child. You will learn a punishment for trying to defy me." Spirits within the soul well grab Fits by his arms and legs restraining him. "From this day forward, till the day of your death, you will be cursed to attract all that is evil." A skeletal hand emerges a places its index finger on the back of Fits neck branding him. Fits wakes up with sweat on his faces, he places his hand on the back of his neck remembering the pain. Fits hears in the distance, what sounds like a horse neighing and gets up to check it out.