John and Casper carefully make their way down the chasm to the muddy earth below Decorum East, Sillia. They had finally escaped from Casper's cousin, Sicily, the guardian of Camus La Verse, after causing a riot to confuse her and save the town. Now they are on their way to find their next destination.
In the muddy chasm, John and Casper are having trouble walking through the ankle deep mud that surrounds them. As they make their way across they notice a cave at the other end and a path leading over the other side. Casper suddenly hits something with his foot in the muddy and a skull floats to the surface with a few broken bones. Casper freaks out and falls back into the mud. John turns to see watch happened to Casper only to find him covered in mud looking at the floating skeleton. John chokes a bit from the sight of the skeleton before going to help Casper to his feet again.
John: yuck. What the heck are you doing?
Casper: s-sorry. I didn't think something like that would come up.
John: its not that surprising. Maini told me a lot of the residence from Sillia fell in here. It'd only be natural to find some decomposition here... Though now that I say that...
John and Casper look across and notice more dead bodies and bones floating in the mud.
John:... Its pretty unsettling to see it this close.
Casper: yeah... It's very unsettling.
John: come on lets hurry up and get out of here.
They continue to press on through the mud to cross to the other side. Casper suddenly catches a glimpse of something dashing into the cave nearby and panics again. He hears something move at the opposite end and sees something drag a large body into another cave. Casper takes hold of the hilt of his sword in caution as he follows John.
John hears something moving through the mud and stops. Casper bumps into him.
Casper: what?? What happened?
John doesn't answer. He hears the mud move again and his ears become beast ears that point upon alert. This frightens Casper a bit and he readies himself for a fight. The area goes quiet for a while until johns ear twitches right as the mud moves and something under it rushes towards them. They separate and get out of the way of whatever went after them.
They land at opposing ends of the attack and watch as a small monster rises from the mud to reveal itself.
John: what the hell!!?
Casper: whoa!!?
The little mud monster rushes after John. John knocks it out of the way with a heavy swipe of his arm and it falls back into the mud. Casper suddenly shouts and sends a different one off towards one of the caves. This caught John's attention and he notices more rushing towards them from it.
John: run for it!!
John and Casper run as fast as they could to the path and try to shack off the little muddy monsters the best they could until a larger one cuts them off and knocks John back across the chasm. Casper stops and rushes back to John who was now also covered in mud.
Casper: John!!
John: *groan*... Casper, Jump!!
Casper stops and jumps into the air over a rush of mud. He draws his sword and a flash of light follows the mud from a swing and sends a few mud monster flying. They could see what the little monster were from Casper's attack.
John: ... Bunker Trolls!!
Casper: the fuck is that!!?
John: you wont be seen again if they catch you!! Run for it!
Casper: there's no where to run!!
John: dammit!!
Casper sends another blast at a wave of trolls as they start to close in on them. John stands and thinks as fast as he could until an odd idea comes to mind. He takes a breath and meditated as the stars gather around him and he summons Rexar and Gen. John's body becomes that of the husk.
Gen: well that didn't take long. You really are a coward to call me back out for this.
Rexar: I concur.
John ignores their commentary and the stars turn red around them. Rexar is pulled to John and he turns into his Leo form. Gen somehow does the same as the stars submerge him and he turns into a black mist. The mist clears and he was now in Leo form as well.
Gen: ooh~! I like this!
Gen and John rush a large group of trolls in sweeps to clear a path. Casper sees them and stares in awe. John hits a big one and is forced to stop.
John: Casper!!!
Casper wakes from his shock and dashes to John's aid and hits the large troll with a shock wave to its head making it lose its balance. Gen takes the chance to jump on its head and makes it fall over. John continues to press forward until a howl suddenly makes everything stop and gets his attention. Someone else was down there with them and was getting carried off to one of the caves.
John hesitates for a moment when one of the trolls jumps his back and he throws it off to the cave where the other person was fighting. He pushes his way through to the other person and saves them from getting dragged in any farther. The person stands and joins him in the fight. John could see not that the person was a beastman. John tries to fend off the troll and make a new path to their exit until he sees Casper suddenly disappears in the mud. Gen feels Johns distress and rushes off to find Casper and suddenly drops himself and disappears the moment John gets hit in the head. The beastman does his best to protect John's body until he was overwhelmed and finally knocked unconscious.
The trolls drag John and the beastman into the cave and they vanish into the darkness.