As the morning sun rose from the tree tops, the fire that once lit the dark forest was reduced to smoke and ashes. The King was the first to rise from the camps slumber. He looks outside in confusion, asking himself why he slept in a tent. The King then realizes that Secton was awake as well, but Secton was preparing something that awoke most of the guards and the royal family. The King was starting to question how this creature knows how to cook. He hovered to Secton and prepares his question.

"Secton, how are you preparing this?"

"By following the book's instructions."

"Where did you find the book?"

"In the Generals tent. It seemed she was going to sleep in her tent, but since I called for look out duty, she thought she couldn't trust me. It's funny how quickly on how she changed her view point of me. During the night I thought it would be nice to learn how to cook for everyone. I hope I'm not delaying anything."

"Uh...no...your not. In fact you have sped up our breakfast time and preparation as well. Oh if Lisa is asleep may you wake her."

"Sure. Let me finish this mushroom stew. Don't worry I know my herbs."

As Secton finished the stew he kept the little flame that was left from the fire place, kindling with little life. He walked towards General Lisa and saw that she was still in a deep slumber. He placed the stew and near a stump and gently moved her so she could awaken. With very little effort Lisa has awoken and was frighten to see a giant metallic beast right in front of her. Lisa doesn't remember anything after getting the fire wood.

"Oh...hi there...um...what happened? (Yawn) Why didn't you wake me in the middle of the night? Did you fall asleep while on duty?!"

"Oh, no I was awake the entire night. If that was what you were referring to."

"Nothing happened right?"

"No...well, you fell asleep on my arm so I moved you around so you wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Which explains why you have no armor equipped, and the random sleeping bag that you are in. Oh you may want to eat up. I made some mushroom stew for everyone. That book was extremely useful because my first twenty attempts were the upmost disastrous."

"What book?"

"The one in your tent, or it was in your tent."

General Lisa's head started to turn red and then got up and ran to her tent. Secton was confused and walked toward her tent. Lisa then jolted out of her tent in all armor and with a empty bowl that used to be stew.

"You know taking a women's armor off without her permission is rather perverted you know."

"Didn't mean to cause any harm. You looked so peaceful when you slept and I took your vitals and it seemed you needed rest."

"Well...I'll let it slide this time...by the way thanks for the meal."

"No problem."

Secton walks back to fire place and saw that all the stew was gone. He then saw that Pixrry was trying to walk on her own and the results were the same each time. It made Secton worry for a bit, so he walked toward her and looked at her in her defeated state.

"Hi Secton."

"Morning Princess."

"Please just call me like you have been for a while."

"Yes Pixrry, I have a question."

"What is it?"

"Do you need help?"

"Oh...sure."

With a questionable "sure", Secton picked up Pixrry and placed her in his arms.

"You need more rest before you can walk again. If you keep doing what you are doing then you'll never be healed. Take it easy. I also want to know did you enjoy the stew I made?"

"It was pretty nice actually. Let me guess are you a master chef as well?"

"No...it took me twenty times to get the recipe right. At least it turned out good enough to eat for you organic creatures."

"Are you kidding it was pretty good."

"Glad to hear. Hey I'll put you hear on this carriage so you can rest. I had to put something else in your stew however. You needed the extra ingredient so you can heal correctly."

"Are you sure this extra ingredient won't kill me?"

"I'm sure. Stay here alright I'm going to see if I can help out in packing. See ya."

"See ya."

Secton walks up to the King and without saying a word already showed Secton were to help. Secton grabbed some of the heavy equipment and sets them on the carriage. The King saw the work Secton was putting in and noticed that packing everything in the carriage was reduced. Was it strength or was it kindness? What ever it was the King was starting to notice that everyone started to get used to Secton being around. With everything packed it was time to continue the journey within the forest.

-??? View-

"Those creatures are going to pay for ever stepping foot in Erk's Forest! Just gotta wait till night. I got to revive him somehow, but...hm...I think some of them don't need their souls. Just a few will do. Gotta do it quick, they can't notice I'm here. By the time I'm done with them Erk will be happy."

-Hours Pass-

As the King and Queen are guided by General Lisa, Secton walks next to Pixrry's carriage and analyzes her recovery. Secton records her vitals down each time within his mind and if Pixrry is curious she can look through it, even if she can't understand it. Time goes by and the guards start to notice the path started to change, and before any guards notice some of them were gone. The Guards tell Lisa to halt for a moment.

"Whats wrong?"

"General Lisa some of our guards went missing."

"Missing?"

"Yes. What do we do?"

"Keep an eye out, they maybe left for a 'break'."

"Oh. Alright."

As Lisa continues down the path, the King gets close.

"Why did we stop back there General Lisa?"

"Some of your guards are saying that some of them went missing."

"WHAT?!"

"How are you not surprised look around you. The path has changed! Not to mention that the path we took to get here is longer visible, and I didn't take a wrong turn either."

"I didn't mean to intrude on your knowledge, but other than that I suspect it was the metallic beast."

"Secton. How can it be him?"

"Just look at him. I know I have suspicions and everyone is getting used to him really quickly, including Pixrry and my Queen. As well as when we first met him remember how he destroyed your equipment? As well as took out ten of my guards. No creature that I have seen can pull of what he has done. I ask you to keep a very close eye on him, alright."

"Yes, my King."

As the sunset started to fall the path grew darker and the trees had been drained of life, nothing but dead branches, crumpled bushes, and dried vines of thorns. General Lisa noticed that more of the guards were gone. She didn't think much of it, but the night started to cover the eerie forest, and she thought Secton was going to be on look out, and she was correct. Secton talked to the Queen and asked to be on look out; however, the interesting part was the Princess was allowed to accompany him for a while. 

As the night rolled in and the tents were set, the two royalty figures were fast asleep and the guards went to sleep, but the tents were closer to each other than before. Probably because of the event of the missing guards. General Lisa had noticed that a fire has already been set.

"How did you make a fire so quickly."

"I tend to learn things overtime. I guess it's a feature."

"That's kinda useful."

"What do you mean?"

"You learn pretty quick. Not many creatures can."

"Now, don't you dare make me sound like a perfect being because I'm not."

"I'm not saying that you are perfect. I'm just saying what I have seen you are caring, ruthless, a decent cook, and you learn from observation. The only bad quality you have is-"

"I'm loud, ruthless, 'rude', and it seems that the King wants to dispose of me because I helped their daughter. Look I know I can't be trusted but I-"

"You are who you choose to be..."

Pixrry interrupted Secton to reassure him that he is just misunderstood.

"I can only remember some parts of short past, I remember my mom being in shock for having me, it looked like I was a mistake."

"Well what I can tell Pixrry you are not a mistake, if anything you are a miracle. Just look at yourself! You freed me from my stone prison, and...I still owe you immortality."

"That's right, but don't worry about it. I guess I'll ask when I want it. Can you do that?"

"Sure...SAVING REQUEST...REQUEST SAVED...done. If you ever want immortality just say so Pixrry."

"OK Secton."

General Lisa was silent for most of the night until a strange sound came from the forest. After the strange sounds came small glowing orbs falling from the tree tops. Secton knew what was coming, but he didn't warn anyone, and soon he would regret that. As the orbs started to float down the same yellow eyes came from the dead forest; however, it's body was somewhat visible. Secton quickly recorded the creature, and saw it's body structure. The body was made from dirt and grass, what looked like a vest was really just wood surrounding it, and it's head was covered by a mask, but on further inspection, the mask was it's face. The creature was rather large and with the four arms it had just made the thing more intimidating.

"I see you all are lost. Am I correct?"

General Lisa was hesitant to answer at first, but she found the courage and spoke to the dirt beast.

"We are not lost, we just needed time to rest so our camp was set here. Why are you here?"

"I am the Guardian of this forest and you have trespassed these sacred grounds. This forest belongs to Erk The Green Father, and I warned you Secton to not make that fire yesterday, and now look you are now surrounded!"

"Secton, what is he talking about?"

"Yes Secton! What~~ am I talking about?!"

Secton stood silent and finally he told them.

"He was at the camp last night and told me...[-I want you to leave! I overheard your conversation of making a fire with a human isn't that right?-Does it look like I care? I'll give you a deal metallic beast. If you don't make that fire with that human monstrosity. I'll promise not to tell Erk and he won't attack tomorrow night.-]."

"I see you can repeat things you heard before, well that's new!"

Pixrry and General Lisa was confused on why Secton didn't say anything before. Pixrry had to ask.

"Secton you held some information, why didn't you say anything?"

"I estimated that everyone would be out the forest by tonight; however, my calculations were off."

"You know half the words you say I can't understand Secton. Well what ever this thing is lets drive it off from the camp."

"Pixrry you know you can't fight, at least on in this condition."

The beast overheard Secton and his body was absorbed by the ground. The noise woke everyone from their slumber and the King and Queen were the first to see the commotion. They were in shock when they saw a single flower moving on it's own through the dirt. Little did they know it was the creature.

"Secton I grant you permission to protect and attack!"

"Of course Pixrry...COMBAT MODE ENGAGED..."

As Pixrry gave the command General Lisa went to her tent and got an old axe that was somewhat rusty to the bit. Before Lisa could get a spell off, her parents grabbed her and placed her in the carriage. When the King and Queen placed Pixrry in the carriage the ground underneath them rose and out of it came the beast. Secton and Lisa were caught by surprise and tried to attack it. The King had made a flash spell and blinded the beast leaving him open to attacks. Lisa threw her axe at its body and Secton threw a punch so hard, when the hit landed it's dirt belly now had a hole in it. It wasn't enough. Some guards came out of their tents to attack the beast, but when they got closer the roots inside it's belly shot out and grabbed all of them. As for the King and Queen the beast grabbed both of them and the dirt that was missing from it's belly came back from the ground, up. Lisa was shocked to see it just regenerate from an attack like that. Secton had halted for moment because some of the guards that were caught were in Secton's attack range. The beast then grabbed Secton and General Lisa and threw them near a boulder, with Lisa landing first and Secton landing over her, breaking her arm in the process. The beast looked around to see if it had missed anyone. It saw that it had missed no one, or so it thought. As it turned the carriage was flipped the beast stomped within the forest with the King and Queen in hand and all the royal guards within it belly only leaving their noses clear so they can breath. Lisa was moaning in pain as Secton struggled to speak, only making weird noises as his head gave little sparks. Within the carriage came out Pixrry she has saw what the beast has done and also saw Secton and Lisa on the ground. She crawled towards the two and as she got closer Secton's head was slowly going back in place. Lisa however tried to get up and when she did she just fell to the ground, holding her arm in the process. 

"Secton can you hear me? Secton...Secton! Can you hear me?"

"...RECALIBRATING SPEECH...CALIBRATION COMPLETE...Pixrry?"

"Yes, it me Secton. What was that?"

"I got a picture. It seems to be a Terra Firma Four Branched Creature."

"What does that mean?"

"It's a Dirt Four Armed Creature...wait where is Lisa?"

Secton looked around and found Lisa almost next to him and scanned her.

"Lisa you are injured...you need my assistance."

"What do you mean?"

"Your arm is clearly broken, some of your skin is bumped up because your bone is fractured and you are clearly losing blood, and fast. I need your permission first, because last time Pixrry was in agony."

Lisa was frightened when Secton said agony, but she then gave the ok to Secton. As Secton came closer he came to a halt.

"What are you doing?"

"Can you please take your armor, this procedure can't...proceed with any obstructions."

"Oh, sorry."

General Lisa had followed the request and took off her armor only showing what seemed to be a a few clothes.

"I promise this procedure wont be so bad."

"Secton you can't lie to Lisa, like you did to me."

"Alright...this is going to hurt a lot."