Gee continued aimlessly down the road, elite sword in hand, and Mikey continued behind him.
"So where are we going?" Mikey asked curiously.
"Well," Gee replied, "Tea Wizard told us to try and find 'New Jersia', but he gave us no directions on how to get there."
Gee slowly began to notice that as the long, empty road slithered on, it became covered in violently shaking pieces of glowing popcorn. Inquisitive, the Way brothers kept following the volatile popcorn until they reached the arched, swirling, monochrome gates of what appeared to be an abandoned carnival. Yet, even as the entirety of the fairgrounds were clearly sank in disarray, the rides still ran and the vendors were still selling food and running game booths.
Gee and Mikey ignored every voice screaming at them to not step foot in the creepy, run-down carnival, and went in anyway.
They looked around for anyone who appeared like a navigator. On their search, Mikey found a crane game with a plethora of plushies inside. He spotted an adorable pink octopus toy with multicolored tentacles and begged Gee to let him try to get him, but he reminded his brother that they were still broke.
Mikey peered sadly back into the crane game's glass walls at the plush octopus.
"I wish I could have won you." He mewled. The plushie looked up at him.
"It's okay. My destiny is in the hands of another set of adventurers." He replied, before Mikey ran off back to Gee.
They continued their search for hours, until they became too tired and hungry. They slumped down onto a bench and looked around for a possible food source. Sure enough, they spotted a food cart with a sign reading "FREE COTTON CANDY"
After thanking the vendor, the Way brothers sat back down on the bench with the cotton candy. It was surprisingly good, considering the location.
"So how does that magic sword work?" Mikey asked, "I mean, Tea Wizard did say it contained the souls of a thousand fallen elites." Gee shrugged,
"You think we could summon one?" He asked jokingly. He raised the sword dramatically and stood up on the bench.
"I summon the soul of the most amazingly fabulous fallen Elite in this sword" he shouted in an unusually deep voice. The sword began to glow, and in his shock, Gee dropped the sword right into his cotton candy.
He scrambled away from the sword, now pulsating with black light. Crackling red lightning shot up from the gemstone on the hilt to the blade and into the cotton candy it lay in. There was a blinding flash of white, and then it all faded in a matter of seconds. Every beam of supernatural light had dissolved back into the carnival's eerie yellow glow. Where the flash of light had once been, there was someone standing there.
Gee and Mikey gazed up in awe at the tall, slender figure standing before them. He was wearing a beautifully made leather jacket with the initials R.T. inlaid with silver lettering on the left pocket. He, like the Way bros, had black jeans and shoes. But his hair was in a perfect pastel pink and blue Afro. The bros stared at each other.
"I didn't think that would actually work..." Gee whispered.
The boy spoke.
"I am Ray Toro. Son of Princess Fro-Fro and heir to the throne of Floofiness."
