The group is still on the ship as it flies through the skies. Captain Tommy, while holding onto the steering wheel, looks out ahead and begins tilting the ship downward. As they tilt downward and descend through the clouds, Tommy sees an island and alerts the rest of everyone. “Dead set ahead! We’ve reached Aurum Kingdom!”.

  One by one, Gregory, Kelsey, Mai and Saige, holding the barf bucket, go and look out the window, looking straight ahead at Aurum Kingdom. “Wow it’s so pretty!”, says Mai. “I wonder what the warrior or heroes of this island are like.”, says Kelsey. Saige says nothing, as he just stares forward, out the window, and looks sickly from barfing a lot. As everyone else is wondering and admiring the view, Gregory then says a few words on Aurum Kingdom. “It’s an advanced civilization more advanced than our settlement and it lives on a shoreline. There you’ll see beautiful beaches as far as the eye can see, while inside the city is a general chill culture.” “Chill?”, asks Kelsey. “You’ll see once we get there.”, says Gregory. The ship then, on approaching the island, first lands in the water and carefully gets steered up next to a docking pier.

  The group then climb off the ship and look around from the beach shore, seeing a bunch of skyscrappers, a beaming hot sun above and tropical trees along the sides of streets. They also notice some people flying around streets on hoverbikes and some people on hoverboards, going down sidewalks, as most of the inhabitants are dark-skinned. “Cool.”, says Saige, as he looks at it all from a distance. “It looks kinda like Ground Zero, but not...”, says Mai, before being cut off by Gregory. ““Wrecked”? Yup, this is near to what the Sapphire Kingdom was like before the war. Except for the hot sun and tropical trees.”.

  A middle-aged dark-skinned man comes up with two armed guards at his side, while he strolls up with a relaxed stride, long beard, tropical t-shirt, crown and shorts on. He then speaks out to them. “You like it? Well you haven’t seen anything yet. Welcome to Aurum Kingdom, allow us to meet your acquaintance.”

  Gregory immediately bows in front of him. He then looks out to the rest of the team and speaks. “Everybody bow! Now!”. Mai and Kelsey bow, but Saige just stands with his hands in his pockets, squinting at the guy in the crown. “The honour is ours.”, says Gregory. Gregory then reaches out for Saige head, to force him to bow, but Saige just slaps away his hand. “Saige bow! This is King Jesse. He is the king of Aurum Kingdom.”, says Gregory. “Oh. Put it there!”, says Saige as he extends a hand to King Jesse to shake. “Saige!”, says Gregory, now looking part furious and embarrassed. King Jesse, then speaks while shaking. “Ha ha! Don’t mind if I do. It’s alright. You four are ‘our’ guests from a foreign land. It should be me bending over to honour you. It’s only fair.”.

  Gregory stops bowing and immediately stands up straight. “Yes sir.”. “So what’s your names?”, King Jesse asks. Gregory then responds, “My bad, I forgot to have us introduce ourselves. My name is Gregory. The one in the helmet is Kelsey. This is my adopted daughter Mai. And the one with the white hair is Saige.”. “So you’re Saige.”, asks King Jesse.

  King Jesses then examines Saige from top-to-bottom, just using his eyes while walking around Saige, with a hand on his chin. “Interesting, interesting. So you’re the one that I called to help us out. You don’t seem that strong.”, says King Jesse. “I’ll have you know that I'm very strong.”, says Saige.

  “Hm. Ha ha, I’ll take your word on it. Follow me.”, says King Jesse, as he gestures to them to follow. The group then follows behind King Jesse and his guards. They walk through the city and see people calmly going to stores and greeting eachother. Saige also notices, and says something about it. “You know, for a demon crisis, the place seems calmer than you’d expect.”

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  “Those annoying demons are just a trouble at our shore lines. Also sorry you’re walking. Thought you’d appreciate taking a tour of the place on foot.”, says King Jesse. “Don’t worry, we're used to walking.”, says Saige. “Saige, don’t act so...”, says Gregory, right before being cut off by King Jesse. “What.. “chill”, “relaxed”? He can definitely act like that. Infact, I decree it. Greg, you need to relax more.”. “Oh. My bad.”, says Gregory.

  Eventually, they reach a beach. “And here’s our main beach side. Just east of the shore you arrived at”, says King Jesse. Mai and Saige get excitement in their eyes upon seeing the beach. “The beach!”, Mai and Saige say. “That’s unfortunately closed right now, due to demon attacks.”, says King Jesse. Mai and Saige’s excitement then deflates and they drop their jaws. King Jesse then explains why. “I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but that’s just how it is right now. It’s a real shame too, cause I and my people use to use the beach for multiple things like fishing, volleyball, sun tanning, sand castle building, swimming and even surfing.”

  “Aww, that all sounds fun!”, says Mai. “Actually, I’d be surfing now, but it’s a shame that the demons messed it all up.”, says King Jesse. Suddenly, five red skinned humanoid looking demons come toward the shore, riding demon dolphins and demon sharks. King Jesse observes them arrive at shore. “Oh, here comes a few demons now.”, he says. The five demons jump off the demon dolphins and demon sharks and land on the sandy shore. The two guards by King Jesse’s side then take out machine guns and take aim. Saige, at the same time, runs in while growing out his horns and tail.

  King Jesse then puts out his arm in front of the machine guns. “Hold position.”, he says. The guards listen to him and lower their guns. Saige gets even nearer to the demons. As he runs in, he yells, “So you’re the bastards causing so much trouble!?”, then he jumps and boots one demon in the face, then punches down another demon’s head into the sand. “Get the hell outta here!”, yells Saige.

  The other demons look at Saige and start retreating back to their demon dolphins and demon sharks. The demons jump on their rides and start conjuring fire in their hands and shooting the fire at Saige. Saige takes it, and sand dust clouds pick up and blind him. “Saige! I’ll go help him!”, says Mai, just taking off her gun. At the while, King Jesse hand gestures for his guards to go and assist. Mai and the two guards run in to assist, until they see Saige suddenly jump out of the dust cloud, and land on a demon shark and punch the demon hunanoid off of it, then reach out and grab the tail of a demon dolphin and swing it into another demon hunanoid, as the demon that rode the dolphin flies off.

  The three demons that fell off, struggle to swim, but then get back on their mounts, as one of them grabs Saige by the leg and pulls him off into the water, then gets back on his demon shark. “Whoa!”, says Saige as he falls into the water. Mai and the two guards aim their guns at the demons, as the demons notice. The demons then all ride their mounts away and out of the area. Saige then comes out of the ocean, drenched, with his long wet hair hanging in front of his face, almost blinding him. King Jesse runs up to Saige, just as Saige shakes his head around like a wet dog, as he splashes King Jesse.

  “King Jesse!”, Gregory cries. “Ha ha, nice job! That was excellent Saige!”, says King Jesse. Saige turns to King Jesse. “Huh?”, Saige says.

  King Jesse then continues. “I’ve never seen someone fight demons like that before. All barehanded.”. “No big deal. Told you I was strong.”, says Saige.

  Later on, Gregory, Kelsey, Mai, Saige and King Jesse, with his two guards enter a hotel room. They look in, surprised at it. “It’s so good looking! Look at all the machines and the white pristine stuff.”, says Mai. “Whoa.”, says Kelsey. “Are those actually beds!? They look so fluffy!”, says Saige. “Sounds like you’ve been living it rough for too long. This is just a common two bed hotel room. Consider it an offering on behalf of me. You’ll be staying here and can order as much free food and general services as you like? Just use the phone over there?”, says King Jesse.

  “Phone?”, asks Saige. Mai also wonders, “Yeah, I’m also confused. What’s a phone?”. “You’ve never heard of a phone!?”, says King Jesse. “I’ll teach them about it your majesty. Don’t worry about it.”, says Gregory. King Jesse stretches his arms in front of himself, then puts his hands on his hips. “Ha ha, well okay. Have a good sleep, cause it’ll be a busy day tomorrow. Take care and goodnight.”, says King Jesse, as he heads toward the door and exits as the guards close the door behind him.

  “King Jesse is pretty awesome.”, says Saige. “Yeah, who knew he’d be so kicked back.”, says Mai. “And Gregory was on high guard around him.”, says Kelsey. Gregory then explains himself. “One thing you should know about royalty, you should always be on high guard around them. Their attitude can either be kind or mean-spirited and if you get on their bad side, they can order your death or torture with a swift finger snap. Luckily King Jesse is so nice and relaxed. But Saige, you should be more careful!”

  “Yeah yeah. So how do you use the phone? Jesse said it can summon food.”, says Saige. ““King Jesse.””, Gregory corrects. “Yeah yeah, sure. But food.”, says Saige. Gregory sighs, then walks over to the phone and grabs it. “Let me explain how to use the phone.”