Jinjuso and co made small baby steps but even so they were making progress, as just beyond the perimeter of the forest they could see small cracks within the forests defences and as they moved closer, they opened, opened and opened some more, at this point it was just about sunset. Then they finally made it. the dim sunset shone over them, excited Lillian grabbed Timothy and rushed to the front shouting "hooray we did it gentleman, the forest is now behind us", "y-yeah we d-did it", followed up Timothy. They then proceeded to play patty cake and sing the song slapping their hands together in great synchronization, "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can", they repeated these lyrics over and over again. Curzon and Gazu both looked at each other with a pained grimace on their face, Jinjuso looked up at them with a guilty expression and said, "guys what are you doing?", they then proceeded to push Jinjuso to the floor in procession and said, "of course you two are so happy, you weren't doing the heavy lifting!" With an angry grimace Jinjuso looked up at Gazu and said, "how could you do this to your 'rival' , don't you want me to be in perfect form", Gazu then shunning what he said, said, "but you have to walk on your own two feet to compete with me rival", "even when I'm hurt", "yes or your not strong enough to be my rival". Jinjuso and Gazu then proceeded to have a short back and forth whilst Curzon ran over to Jinjuso crying and apologising, and to put the icing on the cake Lillian and Timothy were still playing pattycake. They were like a group of dysfunctional primary school kids. Their chaos was finally satiated when Lillian with a jovial shout said, "gentlemen look at that flying human in the sky", everyone looked up in astonishment as the so called flying human majestically flapped their wings to the rhythm of the wind , Lillian then ran as if she was trying to catch up to the flying human she then unexpectedly slipped planting her face in the mud, she called out at the flying human. "HI FLYING HUMAN CAN YOU SEE US", from up above it was actually Kaizeen and Annerosaria, "who are the landlubbers calling to us Kaizeen", asked Annerosaria. Kaizeen looked down to see Lillian and the rest of the group looking up at them with amazement etched across their faces, "YO GUYS I GOT A FREE RIDE, TRY AND CATCH ME NOW", shouted Kaizeen looking directly at Jinjuso, "YEAH TRY AND CATCH US", followed up Annerosaria. Coming to the realization that Kaizeen was being carried by this flying human they screamed, "KAIZEEN", with one final look and grin Kaizeen then proceeded to head off with Annerosaria, shouting, "onwards", as they headed towards the cave that stood atop the cliff. With a look of determination on his face Jinjuso said, "Alright come on guys were not losing to Kaizeen", he felt nothing as he promptly got up and marched fourth. Her face covered in mud Lillian got up and said, "come gentleman", following Jinjuso's lead to then slip and fall again like she wasn't balancing on an ice rink, worried everyone stopped and looked at Lillian. "Are you ok?", asked Jinjuso, embarrassed she said "sorry for worrying you gentleman, but something is amiss", she then slowly got up her dress now brown and purple, thinking about something, she placed her thumb and index finger on her chin, then peered at Jinjuso. She then proceeded to move closer to him, then closer and closer, until her face was an inch away. Flushed from head to two Jinjuso asked, "what?", she then stood back as if nothing happened and said, "it would seem the vision enhancing spell has worn off, if only I knew where I dropped my glasses", she then began to go back into her thinking pose thumb and index finger on chin. Curzon then began to shuffle around in his chest pocket, then thought to himself, "ah so these are hers I always wondered who would be wearing suuuuch sophisticated glasses", he then walked over to her and pulled prim purple circular glasses from his pocket and said, "areee you talking about theeese I accidently swiped them whilst I waaaas taaaking food, I mean I caaant imagine someone else wearing glasses like these". Lillian's face brightened through the mud, "yes, yes oh thank you very much but why were they stashed next to food and how did you accidently take them, perhaps you may need some also", she seemed to mock him so blatantly normal like she didn't realise she mocked him, "ouch", said Jinjuso, "yeesh", said Timothy, "not as mean as me though", followed up Gazu. "Did I say something offensive please forgive me if I did I truly didn't mean it", everyone nodded sarcastically, "before you put them on use this and cleaaan your faaaace", Curzon offered her his handkerchief, "thank you", she said as she gracefully took it cleaned her face and put the glasses on, everyone was taken aback by how much more studious and intelligent she looked with them on. With a curtsey Lillian said, "allow me to reintroduce myself now that I am in perfect form", "scholar Lillian Cessterfall at your service", eyes wide like a beachball as if he just realized something Gazu said, "oh, no wonder you were so smart, you were a scholar all along!", with more unintentional sass than usual Lillian said, "oh of course the rather slow one among us couldn't figure it out". "Ha I think I like that side of you more", Jinjuso said whilst the other two laughed. After some more banter the group started to make their way over to the cliff, before the cliff stood a crowd of wannabe adventurers all talking to each other, the cliff didn't have any possible grips. Amongst the crowd Curzon spotted the Yonji lookalike in the front of the crowd with his posse they were in deep discussion, Curzon turned to Timothy and said, "hey its him, lets ask hiiiim whaaats going on, you coming Gazu", Gazu looked away with a,"Hmph", "good idea" replied Timothy, the others watched on as Timothy and Curzon Started to make their way through the crowd. Jinjuso could hear some of the conversations going on, "what were they thinking", "how are we supposed to get up a cliff with no grips", "this is totally rigged", a group of boys said, Jinjuso then watched two boys and one girl approached the Yonji-lookalike and say, "come on do something!", "you helped everyone along the way right?", "you must have an ace up your sleeve right now", the boy seemed overwhelmed as crowds of them approached him asking him questions. Finally amongst the chaos Curzon and Timothy managed to push pass the remaining crowd and started to talk with the boy making eye contact with Gazu occasionally, then after a few minutes Curzon gestured the rest of them to come over, "wait why didn't you go with them Gazu, don't you know him as well?", asked Jinjuso, "tch his too stupid for his own good", replied Gazu, "says you", countered Jinjuso, "let's go and leave this stupid idiot behind Lilli", Lillian nodded and they made their way over, with a grunt Gazu followed on.
After going through some struggles getting through the crowd Jinjuso, Lillian and Gazu finally made it to the boy as he finished of his final sentence, "we'll definitely need that impudent…", interrupting and looking down at the boy with an angered demeanour Gazu interrupted saying, "and just who are you calling impudent", the boy looked up grinned, one tooth missing and said, "definitely not you", with a rather sarcastic tone. "Wow your rather quite short, are you a dwarf or something?", said Gazu trying to pull the boys strings, "you just prove my point more and more, he really is stupid isn't he, Curzon and Timothy", they both nod back, "WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING THIS GUY PLANK AND MARSHMELLOW", boomed Gazu, everyone around the cliff then steered at Gazu intently, "lower your voice idiot", said the boy. Jinjuso then began to ask the boy about what Timothy and Curzon discussed with him, he went on to explain that in order to scale the rock they would need someone with the ability to control earth-based surfaces, and that no one around not even his pals could manipulate the earth in any way. "So I asked Curzon and Timothy if they had any one that could help, and they mentioned Gazu but they said he would be hard to convince considering his a block head an all", then the boy looked over to Jinjuso and said. "But they said, you could do that easily, so work your magic", Jinjuso looked over to Gazu and said, "yo form grips and help everyone", "no why would I help these fools", replied Gazu, "because your there only hope", "still no", "your my 'rival' so do it", "SO", "I SAID DO IT", "NOO", the boy and the others looked on in amusement as they started bickering, "are you sure this is gunna work", said the boy looking up at Gazu and Timothy, "juusssst keep watching", said Curzon confidently. Jinjuso calmed down and said, "do you want to be the reason your 'rival' failed, do you really want to fail?", he continued, "if you don't help us now you'll never be able to compete with your 'rival' ever again", "even a monkey would be able to understand that", he said quietly, thinking it over Gazu let out the most vulgar sigh ever and said, "OK ILL DO ITT". "Tooold youuu it would work", Curzon said grinning looking at the boy with his thumb up as his pearly whites shone, "Ok ill tell everyone Gazu can help", said the boy as he was about to stand in front of everyone, until he was stopped dead in his tracks, "wait gentleman, what should we refer to you by?", asked Lillian, the boy stopped smiled turned around and with the most egregious poses ever said, "benevolent humanitarian, that is what ye underlings shall call me!", absolutely everyone looked at him with a blank expression and said, "huh?" simultaneously.