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𝟎𝟓. 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟻: 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍
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The heros ended up landing in the River of fudge, as the truck rose up to shore. As everyone groans out of the water.
"Is everybody okay?" Ragatha groaned out as she looked over at everyone who felt cautious after that fall.
"I don't know," Y/N groaned as they stood up slowly.
"No..." Gangle said sadly.
"Oh, man. Poor Pomni. I hope she's all right," She frowned hoping that her friend is okay.
"'Poor Pomni'? How about 'poor us'?! We're one tanker away from being Augustus Glooped!" Jax yelled out before the fudge monster appeared from the chocolate river.
"Oh, what's that? Do my eyes deceive me? A delicious gift from within the kingdom gates? Don't mind if I do!" The fudge monster chuckled thinking they were sweets of candy as he starts to raise the tanker to his mouth.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy! We're not food! We're not candy! We're none of that! You don't want to eat us!"
"Wh- You're not candy? How am I expected to eat something that's not made of candy? I'm sorry," He frowns as he puts the truck back down in the fudge.
"Pomni always seems to miss the big, gloopy monsters," Kinger pointed out.
"Yeah I notice it as well," Y/N agreed as they looked up at the fudge monster.
"Who are you, anyway?" Jax asked the fudge monster.
"I am the Fudge. I used to live within the kingdom walls, but I was banished by that rotten princess after I ate too many of the delicious townfolk." Fudge replied to him "Oh, they were so delicious. Sometimes I can hear them... calling to me,"

Then screams can be heard from the distance.
"Oh, God. That just sounds like murder," Ragatha pointed out, with a frightful look on her face.
"Is it really murder if it's delicious? Answer me that," He smiled.
"You make a great point," He agreed clearly enjoying the conversation.
"Uh, no, bad point!" She yelled out.
"Why don't you leave this to me before I start thinking your hair looks like licorice?" He scoffed at her.
"Jax!" She cried out.
"Oh, wow, it kind of does," Kinger noticed as well.
"Please stop telling her that her hair is licorice. It won't help," Y/N pointed out to Kinger.
"Oh, sorry Ragatha," He glanced at her.
"It's alright Kinger. But thank you Y/N," She smiled at them while they nodded as he slightly cringed on their conversation.
"Well, Mr. Fudge, you seem like an upstanding guy with real noble goals," Jax continued.
"Oh, I'm not. If you knew what I did in my free time- Oh, you'd be SICKENED!" Fudge replied, Jax cleared his throat.
"As I was saying. I happen to know a way into the kingdom walls..." He held up the keys that he swindled from Ragatha from secret. "If you'd be willing to help us out in return,"
"Hey, when did you-"
"Shut up, licorice hair," He interrupted her.
"Here, hide it with this," Kinger said as he puts a bucket on Ragathas head hiding her hair.
"Oh, you must be some kind of master of unlocking things, come to free me from my outdoor prison," Fudge said to Jax.
"That's me. All we need you to do is help us bring some dirty bandits to justice," Jax nodded before without a warning, the bandits truck falls into the fudge river. As Max and Chad popped up from the truck.
"I saw the reaper wink at me..." Max said weakly.

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Later the remaining heroes and bandits were riding on top of the fudge monster as he made his way across the river.
"Gotta say, this is a lot more anti-climactic than I was hoping it'd be," Jax said disappointedly.
"Well at least it's better than nothing," Y/N replied to him as he looked at them and smirked a little.
"At least I'm with you doll," He chuckled.
"What?" They turned to him and have a weirded out expression on their face.
"Nothing," He shrugged as he still smiled as he knew they heard that.
"What were you hoping for?" Gangle asked.
"You know, like, one big, final battle. Bloodshed. Death. Chaos! Whatever," He scoffed.
"Are you sure they disappeared? It wasn't that they fell off, or something?" Ragatha asked Chad and Max.
"I can't say for sure, but, uh, yes, definitely," Chad stammered.
"It's not like the boss to vanish with a clown. Very unusual," Max added.
"-Well, that's... concerning," She replied.
"Well, if worst comes to worst, we could always ask Caine to find her," Kinger said.
"I'm more worried she's having another horrible experience. She still seems really upset about what happened yesterday. I don't think she really likes me that much," She said worriedly.
"It's a lot for anybody to go through. Don't take it too personally. I remember how long it took for you to adjust," He comforted her.
"I agree with Kinger, she seems to be comfortable around you and me when me and her first got here," Y/N added.
"O-Oh. Yeah. I'm surprised you remember that," She looked at Kinger. "And Thank you Y/N,"
"Remember what?" He asked as he lifted the bucket off of his head.