“Whoa I missed this scenery!” Vinny said as he looked around and took in the familiar sight of the waterfall and waterfall basin. “Oh this might be close to when I first met Agnis.”

  “Wow what is this place!” The idols looked around in awe.

  “This is where Agnis lived for half a year. I also lived here for a short while. It’s the Jurna Jungle, where he had me train my stealth by having me hide from jungle dragons…. I also met Vinny here.” Toxic Donkey said as he pointed at the hideout.

  “A lot of conflicting feelings here…” Giana picked up on the whirlwind of emotions going through Vinny and Toxic Donkey.

  “Well. My home… Jurna Jungle got destroyed right after the Great Calamity. This place doesn’t exist anymore… it was turned into a barren wasteland. The Sarian goddess Bellia fixed it up but it’s not the same. It’s vastly different. The waterfall and the waterfall basin are also gone… I had heard that Agnis didn’t take well that his house had been destroyed. The new chief of the western elven forest told me that he and Raishin removed the gods responsible from existence.”

  “Wait you didn’t tell me that, Vinny! This place is gone?” Toxic Donkey balled his fist. “Ugh. I didn’t expect to get sentimental in this dungeon.”

  “Well, it has been a part of him but also of us two and now it’s gone… My stepfather will arrive in a bit. Do you guys mind if I deal with him myself?”

  “Oh, right you met because Agnis turned your stepfather into ash. Good luck.” Toxic Donkey said and nodded at Vinny.

  “H…hey Kyle can you tell us m…more while Vinny fights? I’m curious about this jungle and y…your connection to it.”

  Toxic Donkey, Io, Giana, Noelle and Yvonne moved to the side as Vinny went into his dragon form and flew up to the lair of his stepfather.

  Vinny flew over the jungle as he remembered it. He looked at the area where the dungeon was supposed to be and the hollowed-out tree in the distance. He wanted to visit them but decided not to. He decided to fuel whatever emotions he had and direct them to destroy the dragon that had murdered his father and mistreated his mother.

  “I know you’re here! Stop being a coward and come out!”

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  A roar came from under the ground, and the whole jungle seemed to shake. A large green jungle shot up into the sky. It was bigger than Vinny, but not my much. Back then he didn’t know what Agnis meant with that, how weak Murgulotyr was. But he could clearly sense now what Agnis meant. Vinny didn’t believe he was strong for his kind, but he was way stronger than his stepfather right now.

  “Heh, a perspective of another race eh?” Vinny used [Dragon Dance] followed by [Poison Briar]. The poison briars whipped at his opponent as if they were alive. The thick green vines and their dark purple poisonous briars whipped at Vinny’s opponent. Vinny was slowly boxing him in.

  His opponent fell for it. It tried to counter with its own [Dragon dance] but Vinny rushed in and tore into his opponent’s wings with [Dragon Claw]. Vinny kept clawing and getting all the feelings of his youth out of his system.

  His opponent used [Bark Armor] and Vinny did so too and kept clawing. He added some [Dragon Breaths]. The briars knocked his opponent to the ground.

  “How weak… I can’t believe none of us could do anything to you.” Vinny folded his wings and combined [Draconic Dive] with [Dragon Rush]. There was enough nature energy in this version of the jungle. He consumed it as he turned into a dark green mass of energy plummeting down. His opponent had a broken wing and was grounded. The poisonous briars had also wrapped around him and the poison was slowly weakening Murgulotyr.

  “Goodbye Asshole!” Vinny crashed into the illusion of his late stepfather, and an enormous wave of nature energy burst out and travelled through the whole jungle.

  A loud jungle dragon roar could be heard shortly after. It was Vinny’s victory roar. It greatly increased his confidence in himself.

  Vinny flew at the rest of the party and slowly turned into a human. He had vines and leaves grow around him to act as clothes.

  “I can fix that for you.” Giana snapped her fingers and illusions of a dragon onesie appeared around Vinny and Noelle reinforced them.

  “Why a hoodie, now I look like Kyle.”

  “Hey what’s wrong with my donkey suit!”

  “Ohh ooh! I want one too Giana! Make mine red!”

  “How about we all wear one?” Suddenly everyone in the party was wearing onesies matching their race, except for Toxic Donkey, he was still a donkey.

  “I feel out-raced here…” Toxic Donkey looked at his party but realized that a human Onesie might look lame and ugly. “Never mind, it seems that the scenery is changing. We’re going in blind from here. Anything can happen from here on. Get ready.”

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