Jacko groaned and flopped to the ground, finally seeing the barren land filled with dusts and storms. He was already tired, he's already considering returning to the forest and pray the fairies don't catch him again. He then kept walking tho. He quickly summoned a slime and drank the water out of the slime, relinquishing his thirst. Then he saw a masked man...just staring at him with a knife on his hands. "Dude...what the fuck!?" The masked man yelled. Jacko was startled of course when he saw the man. "Hello!" Jacko waved. The bandit doesn't even have the energy to jump Jacko, he's just seen something unexplainable by this world's bullshit logic. "What the...what the hell are you man!?" The man just yelled, he just threw down his knife and just walked away, not gonna even hear him out. Jacko just looked at him walk away...He followed. "Hey sir? You dropped your knife." Jacko says while holding his knife. The thief takes it. "Why the fuck are you following me dude!?" The thief just said. "I'm tired, I need to sleep." Jacko answered. The thief is either amused, confused, or terrified. Who does this dude think he is!? "You DO know I was about to rob you right?" The thief just puts it out there to his face, he just wants this weirdo gone. "Yeah, but you didn't." Jacko pointed out. The thief groans. "I'm not even in the mood today. I just saw you suck off a slime's juice, god." The thief complained as he kept going. They then see a den made out of sand and they both enter.

The thief then lies down in the sand, while Jacko does too. The thief is not gonna even do anything, he just let him. "Dude, I could shank you." The thief finally said. "Oh right, Grom?" Jacko said as he then summons a Grom between them. "Can you guard us for now? I'm going to sleep." Jacko casually said. "DUDE HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?" The thief yelled. "I just summoned him." Jacko yawned. "You...YOU SUMMONED A MONSTER!". The thief yells. Jacko then looked at him, he might as well just humor him since he's sleeping st his place. "I'm a Slime Summoner sir, my name is Jacko." He then holds up his hand to his. The thief was overjoyed actually, having this random dude with crazy powers with him is definitely a good thing in his book. He immediately shook his hand. "Rift Wakes" He says. Jacko looked around his den, it's pretty small and suspiciously empty. "Where do you keep your stuff?" Jacko asked. The thief lied down with a laugh. "I keep em somewhere else obviously. So everyone would think I'm a noob thief. But risky cuz I might get killed, but hey! That's life of a thief for ya." Rift answered. "Why?" Jack asked. "Oh I'll tell you why. There used to be a town here called "Dust Town", suddenly, weird monsters started coming out of nowhere, some of us managed to kill em off, then boom! A Wind Elemental just wiped the floor of the rest of the good adventurers. Now, those Magekeeps own it. It's like a mini base, that's pretty shit ain't it? And guess what? My house is gone, everything I had? Gone. Even If I wanted to go to Seawell Kingdom or Greyhold, I ain't got shit to live out of. That's why I'm a thief. Ya feel me?" Rift told. Jacko nodded. "I understand, Magekeeps attacked Honey Town too." Jacko said. "For reals? Damn, they got your town too huh?" Rift said with sympathy. "No, I've been told that Petal and Vines killed the leader mage, and I managed to take down the Flame Elemental." Jacko humbly said. "WHOA PAUSE, WHAT!?" Rift sat up and looked at him. "You killed the elemental? I mean, I get it cuz you got that wacky power shit, but VINES AND PETAL!? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU NAME DROPPING?" Rift exclaimed. "They...raised me." Jacko thought, now that he thought about it, he was mainly raised by them. "Dude, that's so lucky. You got two of the Forest Squad in your hometown and we at least got Sarah Stem in the Badbands too, but she's basically gone. Like a ghost, but we know she hiding' out here. Lurkin like the sneaky shit she is." Rift told. "Forest Squad? Sarah Stem? I...I don't get it." Jacko said. "Mmmmm, I know why. Cuz they don't wanna be known for that shit. They hiding, but Greyhold don't know they out here. But damn, Jake Vines and Penny Petal in Honey Town of all places. They used to be heroes and shit, but they apparently got their reputation tarnished by one of their teammates, Eric Thorn. That mofo tricked them into helping him make some wacky magic and summon some monsters. Then he talked shit about taking over the world. The three REAL good ones in the team straight up kicked him out of the team and thats the last time they were seen together. Eric Thorn founded them Magekeeps, but someone else took charge because someone did become stronger than Eric Thorn. That's what I heard I dunno. And you probs know what Vines and Petal were at, do they smooooooch?" He told, then curiously asked Jacko. "I think they hate each other." Jacko said, drowsy but he is way too interested in Rift's story. "Checks out. Oh right, you gonna nap right dude?" Rift then places his hands on his chest and took a deep breath, knowing he's definitely safe with Jacko. "Yeah, goodnight Mr. Wakes." Jacko says.

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"Ow, what was that for!?" James said as he was woken up from a nap on his desk. "You've been napping for a while." Henry said as he sat by him. "You slept late?" He then asked. James nodded. "You lucky I caught you, you know what they think of you man, prove em wrong." Henry said. James them sighed. "I don't think I can do it anymore, life's getting...boring you know?" James told. "Oh not this again, let's talk about that later. Come on." Henry said, while James followed him out of the office room.

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Jacko then wakes up, then he sees Grom just chilling near the door. Then he sees Rift gone. He crawls out of the den and then sees two people talking to each other. One was Rift with his mask on, speaking to a man with familiar blue robes. Jacko hid, recognizing the blue robe. He quietly utters Finn's name.

"What do you mean the deal's off!?" Rift yelled. "I've already gotten you some goodies and shit, hell I almost died robbing a mage from Seawell! And you sayin' I'm not capable?" Rift was furious. The blue robed mage snickered. "You see, we're trying to get more mages, and yet you refuse to take up our wands." The mage said. Rift gritted his teeth. "I know what your wands bring, but you KNOW that I'm one of the good ones, I ain't never let y'all down, what else do you fucking want?" Rift yelled. "If your life is not one with the Magekeeps, then you will not keep it." The mage then flashes his eyes with blue, then an icicle of frost forms in front of Rift's head. "Ah shit." As the icicle shoots for his head, a light tug made Rift move out of the way as the icicle shot the ground. The mage gasps, wondering how could this be, then he felt painful stings hitting the back of his neck. Then a water tentacle pulls the mage's leg and brings him down, then a full water slime turns itself into a large mass of water tentacles and then tied up the mage. "Holy shit." The thief says as he looked at the pink light that he saw that shot the beams of light. "Hi! Hi!" Finn greeted. "Helloo?" The thief said nervously as he then sees Jacko coming towards them. "Are you alright?" Jacko asked. "Dude, that was cool." Rift said, then he sees the mage still alive. "BRO! we gotta kill him!" Rift pulled out his knife. "Wait!" Jacko exclaimed. Rift then turns to Jacko. "Those eyes, that means they're the dead mages bro. They're corpses being remote controlled and they can fucking see us." Rift explained as he then immediately stabs his knife at the man's forehead and then stomls the knife deeper into his head. "Dammit..." He cursed. Jacko was startled by his ruthless killing. "Dude, I think it's over. They gonna fucking target us now...sorry dude." Rift said. Jacko looked at him. "Was that the work of the Magekeeps? The controlling thing?" Jacko asked. "Yeah." He said as he immediately pulled a map from his own pocket and then checks it. "If you wanna live, you gotta come with me. We might as well lay low from the Magekeeps." Rift said. "Where are we gonna lay low?" Jacko asked, trying to be unfazed like Rift, but still deeply disturbed. "The Dust Den, it's where the last of us hides when shit gets wrong. We got a working farm down there, the problem is getting money is gonna get a whole lot harder now, and food is expensive." He said. Jacko just nods and stays quiet. "Luckily you got some dope powers, so we could reach their in time, but man am I hungry." Rift says, as a breadstick entered his sights. "I got some bread sticks, but I'm about to run out..." Jacko said as he chews one. He takes it and savors every bite. "Damn, life is shit..." He sheds a tear, on how bland the breadstick was. "Let's just go." He finally said as they both...

BOOM!

The ground beneath them shook as a large worm creature jumped out of the ground. The Sandworm hissed at the two tiny humans before it. "I considered confessing to my mother when I was 15! There! I said it!" Rift said as he fell to the ground, accepting them as his final words. Jacko then summoned Broff out of him and then held it in his palms and then shoots it's harsh flames at the Sandworm. The Sandworm's armor was tougher than expected, it began to charge at Jacko. Finn flew into Jacko's head and then made Jacko fly out of the way while casting a fairy rope at Rift to pull him out of the jaws of the Sandworm. "YOU CAN FLY!?" Rift then gets thrown to the side. "Sorry! I have an idea!" Jacko yelled and then turns to the Sandworm. "COME GET ME YOU BIG WEENIE!" Jacko yelled, the Sandworm then attempts to grab him by jumping it's entire body out of the sand. Jacko then summons Grom and then drops him, while catching it with the fairy rope. Then he swings the Grom round and round whilst in the air until Grom's body slams it's body at it and demolished the armor of the Sandworm. He quickly pulls Grom back to his body and unsummoning him while blasting beams of pink light at the flesh where the armor once was. The Sandworm then soon fell, while Jacko unsummons Finn and immediately pukes. "Ow...I said I was gonna stop using that too..." Jacko groaned. Rift ran to the dead Sandworm. "DUDE! YOU JUST SOLO'D A SANDWORM!? HOLY SHIT DUDE!" Rift yelled. Jacko barely stood and scratches his head. "Yeah...it was scary so I accidentally used the thingy..." Jacko said. "You're a god. Some kind of god I bet." Rift said. "I'm really not..." Jacko said. "Let's keep going?" Jacko asked. "Nah, we NEED to carry this to the Dust Den. Do you have any idea how much the smiths would pay for this!?" Rift said. Jacko raised up his head. "How much?" As naive Jacko is, money is always a good thing. "A hundred thousand. The richest dudes here are them smiths. Cuz they turn all this into armor and weapons and then sell em." Rift then held Jacko's shoulders. "That's why you a god, you are gonna be so rich, dude." Rift assured. Jacko smiled with the thought of money on his mind. Imagine how much of that can help Honey Town. Jacko then shook his head, recalling why he left in the first place. "That sounds fun, but I still have to head to Greyhold." Jacko said. "Right! That's why you gotta make as much as you can while you're here! Haha!" Rift tapped his shoulder. "Now, how do we carry this..." Rift thought. Jacko then had an idea...