Benevolent Humanitarian took prideful strides slithering through the chaotic crowd until he finally reached the front and shouted, "SHUTUP", alas no one heard. "Well, well that won't work", he ushered a big burly boy over to him, "Monty, lift me up so everyone can see me", "yes", Monty replied, and so he lifted him up and put him on his shoulders. Benevolent Humanitarian cleared his throat and shouted, "EVERYONE WE HAVE A SOLUTION", at that moment all the arguing, and conflicted wannabe adventurers all turned and looked up at Benevolent saying, "and what's that Benevolent", "got another miracle to work for us", "I knew I could trust in you". Another stream of loud chaotic chatter spurred but this time it was happy relieved chatter, with a rather proud childish grin Benevolent said, "be quiet and you'll hear what my grand solution is", and so everyone quietened down and looked up at Benevolent. As if embracing his audience Benevolent raised his arms his pinwheel hat spinning and said, "behold Gazu", as he said this, he gestured his small innocent arms toward Gazu, everyone looked at Gazu curious as of to how he could be a part of Benevolent's master plan. Gazu frowned at benevolent and bellowed, "DON'T ADDRESS ME COMONLY DWARF, AND WHO SAID I WAS GUNNA HELP ANYWAYS". Suddenly a mob of angry benevolent purists began to surround Gazu and said, "don't you dear talk to benevolent like that", "what makes you think you can answer back in such a tone", "rooster head", Gazu was being berated by countless of them at once but still he stood his ground and didn't look any of them in the eye. "Move", demanded Benevolent, one of them looked up at him and said, "are you sure this ingrate is a part of your plan", another one nudged the guy and said, "don't question Benevolent, let's just do as he says", they moved away from Gazu still watching him. Gazu looked up at Benevolent and said, "I can't deny the amount of conviction you hold in that voice of yours but make no mistake I'm only helping you because I want to prove to my rival, that I'm better than him in every way", grinning again Benevolent ushered Gazu to come once more saying, "I knew you wouldn't let me down idiot". Gazu walked to the front, the crowd parting to make way for him then he stood at the front next to Monty, Benevolent looked the crowd over and then began speaking again, "so last time we had a discussion we figured out that we would need someone to lead everyone by creating ledges for everyone to climb up, but as we soon figured out all the earth Ico users here couldn't do anything of the sort. But fret not, now we have Gazu here to help us thanks to the contribution of these two", he gestured his hand to Timothy and Curzon, "Gazu is now going to demonstrate his power to us", he looked down at Gazu and said, "do it", Gazu grunted and moved over to the cliff face, his veins glowed a murky muddy brown and his hand shone bright, "ROCK FORMATION", he shouted, as he placed his hand against the face and pulled out a ledge. "If only my earth ico was as advanced as his", commented an earth user, everyone then started clapping and jumping for joy, "finally we can do this now", said a boy, "it's amazing how he has a solution for everything", said a girl. As if appeasing his crowd Benevolent shouted, "WHOS READY TO SCALE THAT CLIFF", "WE ARE", the purists responded, "but before we do let's let Gazu's group go first as they were the ones who have helped us greatly".
"Well, we shouldn't waste this opportunity", said Jinjuso to the others, everyone watched as Jinjuso and co all walked together over to the cliff face where Gazu was, Gazu paused and looked at them. "Well, were waiting Gazu", said Jinjuso rather impatient, "Ill only go on your word rival, oh and I ain't waiting on nobody once I start climbing", replied Gazu, "just go we haven't got all day" said Jinjuso pushing Gazu closer to the wall, "ok well I'll hurry up so you can catch up to your fake rival", he stepped on the ledge he made earlier and started making over ledges one by one, step by step. Jinjuso and co started to follow Gazu's rather sporadic trail up the cliff face and were soon annoyed by how sparse and far in-between each ledge was, "yo Gazu can you stop spacing out the ledges so much", said Jinjuso rather triggered , "just jump to each one", replied Gazu, "you want me to jump ten feet", "that too much for you rival, I would've hoped not", set Gazu with a snarky grin on his face, "wait till I break your face then we'll see whos jumping ten feet", said Jinjuso with an even more triggered countenance, Jinjuso looked down to see Lillian, Curzon and Timothy barely keeping up, "at least keep them closer together for their sake", "FINE", Gazu then proceeded to start making them closer together. One by one the crowd from the bottom started to climb up and follow Gazu's trail, after a few minutes almost everyone had got up and was moving along Gazu's trail like an ant colony following their leader, but one group didn't proceed to climb, Gazu looked down to see Benevolent and his three other buddies just standing down there looking as if they were waiting for an opportunity to do something. He stopped and called out to them, "HEY ARE YOU GUYS COMING UP OR NOT, I MADE THIS FOR MY RIVAL AND YOU SPECIFFICALLY SO GET ON!", the other climbers then stopped and called out to him as well beckoning him to come up, "we can't leave Benevolent behind", "go back down and get him Gazu", "maybe his afraid of heights", they said. With a look only a hero would give Benevolent said, "climb, a hero need not climb, he can fly instead", "Joe", he said, "you got it", replied Joe, his other buddy grabbed hold of Monty's arm then Joe grabbed hold of Monty's torso crouched down his leg glowing with a dark yellow aura and then he uttered the words, "bounce", and with that dashed up as fast as a bullet piercing through someone's chest, as he did this a strong gust of wind brushed passed everyone causing some people to sadly loose balance and plummet to the ground with a crunch as there bones shattered like marbles. They landed at the top of the mountain with a thud, "benevolent wins again", said benevolent with a playful grin on his face they then turned and headed into the cave, "HEY THAT'S CHEATING", shouted Gazu with an expression so violently contorted you could swear he was about to destroy the cliff with one punch. "Sometimes I don't know whether that guy's helping us or just toying with us out of his own bitter enjoyment, whichever it is let's get going", exclaimed Jinjuso to Gazu, they could hear people from behind saying, "why leave us Benevolent, aren't you benevolent", "Benevolent my arse more like malevolent", "have faith all this is him showing us not to falter in the face of adversity". "They're as confused as we are, but let's get moving", suggested Jinjuso, "roger", replied Gazu, after a few more minutes they were now halfway up the cliff, everyone's exhaustion was now starting to become apparent, as people were now losing their footing and falling down, whilst some just simply gave up and let go. Gazu was now moving slower, Jinjuso noticed this and decided to prod him about it, "sooo Gazu why are you suddenly moving a lot slower than before", "CAUSE IM WAITING FOR YOUR DUMBARSES TO CATCH UP", "but I'm right behind you, shouldn't you be moving faster now", stunned Gazu made a swift,"Guh", sound and turned his head to the top again then he continued, "well I'm waiting on Lilli and them lot to get here", "they're, right behind me Gazu", he turned his head again to see them and said, "oh I guess I underestimated they're catching up abilities". "But don't you want to get up there as fast as you can, and you weren't waiting on anyone remember", "DAMMIT", shouted Gazu, he was now scaling the cliff quicker than before. Jinjuso looked back at everyone with a wry grimace on his face everyone smiled back thinly and eyes drooping from exhaustion. They were almost at the top now and Jinjuso looked back to see Lillian losing her grip. She slipped. But before anything could happen he caught her looking weary eyed behind her spectacles she said, "thanks Jinji", "is this to much for you, you seem to be falling behind Timothy and Curzon quite a lot", as if offended by what Jinjuso said Lillian looked at him with a bit of a temper and said, "earth to Jinji, do I look like I go on excursions daily like you probably do, I am a scholar, a scholar, I sit inside and read books all day not scale mountains", "looks like a struck a nerve", thought Jinjuso, "uhhh sorr…", before Jinjuso could finish his apology Lillian gasped and said, "I'm so sorry Jinji, that is unlike me in every way, I didn't mean what I said, I've been on an excursion once..", Jinjuso looked down at her smiled and said, "never mind, just don't give up no matter what, and remember I'm here to catch you whenever you fall, and I get what you're saying I don't want to do this, this is even a lot for me but just remember, any cliff or mountain scaled is one of many hardships overcome in pursuit of your true goal". Charged with motivation Lillian firmly said, "yes sir", and dashed right up so quickly she was now besides Jinjuso, "Hey Jinjuso you going t-to s-save that s-s-superpower motivational speech for u-us", called out Timothy from below clutching to Curzon only barely hanging on. "But if you heard it, wouldn't you have gotten a boost like Lilli, meaning my superpower speech worked on Lilli and not you guys, guess that means the power doesn't work on you, sorry guys", Jinjuso and Lillian began climbing again side by side, "noooo, guuysss dontt leave uss", said Curzon his voice only barely reaching them. Before too long Jinjuso and Lillian made it to the top and saw Gazu waiting, Jinjuso slumped to the ground in a painful heap, "arghh", he said, "Jinji!", screamed Lillian, she rushed over to him and examined his wounds, "oh no they're festering", "well we can't really do anything let's bring him inside", suggested Gazu. As he said this Curzon came over the edge carrying Timothy, "woah, woah Curzon you're quite strong, how long were you carrying Timothy?", huffing and puffing Curzon collapsed on the floor, "ooonlly fooor the last bit", he replied, "but the fact that you carried him while doing that is quite impressive", well anyway lets go inside.
Gazu and Lillian helped Jinjuso to stand up and the five of them made their way into the cave.