Jeff made his way out of the cave and into the gorge's main area, where if he looked up, he would see a collection of purple gas spewing out into the canyon above him, blocking out the sky. He seemed to be pretty damn deep from the looks of it, and had only one way to go, to the opposite edge of the gorge. His path was layered with black and purple rocks, all uneven and devoid of plant life. There were no Choofa, but fluids seeped from various cracks in the wall, and phantasmal illusions prodded at his senses. This place was heavy with magical energies.

Jeff dashed off towards the path being not one to waste time if he could. I guess it could be said that he felt perhaps it would be best to rush head on into the danger before his fear took over and tried to convince him otherwise, after all he wasn't really known for having the best luck in most situations. Given, he wasn't allowing his sprinting to make him unaware of his surroundings, he made sure to keep an eye out for everything that was around him and especially things that matched Fiz's description of hostility.
Though it would be a lie to say there was not a part of him worried about just what this purple gas and that strange fluid coming from the path.
'Okay Jeff, Just don't think about the gas and try not to breath it in, I'm sure it is poisonous or something so yeah...'

As Jeff made his way further down the path, the gas began to get thicker and thicker, but it never dropped low enough for him to breath it in. Eventually it began so thick that the air around Jeff glowed purple despite the clouds staying high above. The path itself was starting to widen adn smooth out though, and soon enough, he could make out distinct pathways to follow. A couple lead into the sides of the gorge, while the middle path sprawled even further forwards.

All the while, something was watching Jeff from above. Something big, and hungry...

'Well I'm definitely not heading down that into the gorge path' Jeff thought to himself as he continued down the main path. Part of him felt like that perhaps he was being watched, but the idea only made him move more quickly down the path. After all, he really doubted his fighting ability right now.
'Please let this just be a feeling... please just be a feeling...'

Further and further, and the mist continued to thicken until it was merely meters above his head. The presence from earlier grew stronger and stronger until it felt like something was breathing down Jeff's neck... In reality, there was!

A small puff of pink fur was attached to Jeff's shirt with little invisible strings, identical to the magical arms that the choofa with Fiz used to moved around. It was breathing against his neck, attempting to suck his life force out. Unfortunately for Choofa, they weren't actually much of a threat to anything that was as big as Jeff...

"What the?!" Jeff yelled in panic as out of pure instinct he quickly went to try shake the thing off his body. "Get off get off get off!! You can't just surprise somebody like this!"
He then attempted to grab ahold of the Choofa so he could try and chuck the thing as far away as possible as it was quite clear he did not want to give the thing the chance to do whatever it was trying to do.

Jeff's grasp on the rogue Choofa was loose. It felt like a small pom-pom, or an over sized dandelion. It squeaked and squealed as Jeff tossed it away, and landed nearby, looking deflated as if it was severely injured.

then, a high pitched chanting began to follow him from behind. If he turned around, he would notice the two earlier caves releasing several pink Choofa into the gorge. They fluttered towards him like little clouds, and prepared to attack.

"Well clearly there's only one thing to do in a situation like this." Jeff said almost as if he was presenting an idea to an audience.

He ran.
He darted like a bat out of hell wanting to get away from this army of pull balls if he ever so could. Sure the things alone are harmless puff creatures, but that doesn't mean he really wanted to stomp all of them out of existence. Plus there was a part of him that was paranoid that perhaps in large numbers like that this could actually be a big problem.

Jeff bolted away from the Choofa Swarm as fast as he could, managing to escape by the skin of his teeth. But further into the gorge, he found himself face to face with a pair of oozing purple globs of goo that pulsated erratically and blocked his path. Seconds after he approached them, the two globs propped themselves up with a series of sinewy legs. When standing, they appeared even bigger than before! Much larger than any animal Jeff had ever seen before in his life! Were these the canyon crawlers? They certainly did resemble giant spiders... If spiders were perpetually melting and secreted a disgusting, smelly ooze.

The two creatures turned to rush hJeff, scaring away the approaching Choofa with two synchronized hissing noises. But Before they had a chance to crush him, one of the beasts was sliced clean in half by something behind it. A wave of white energy, or something to that effect. The second beast stopped only for a second, deciding to chase Jeff down regardless. Not a very smart creature, it seemed..

"Oh geeezzee" Jeff muttered to himself as he halted to a stop in order to not flat out ram into the purple glob spiders by accident.

At least the rogue Choofa were gone, but this seemed to be MUCH MUCH worse... or at least that's what Jeff figured until one just got slashed in half by some sort of white magic? The concept of what just happened confused him a tad bit, but looking back to literally everything that has happened to him within just the past hours why the surprise? Clearly somebody was helping him out and he wasn't gonna standby and let it go to waste.

Hoping that guy or whoever did the attack before would act again to finish off the other one, Jeff quickly backed away from the spider while trying to use the panic of possibly being eaten to try and summon a burst of his wind power.....Or something like that....

At the very least Jeff was waving his hand around like a complete nincompoop in hopes it would do something.

Jeff's efforts did nothing of construct, but within moments, the second spider shared the fate of the first, and ended up in pieces. Moments later, something large and poofy hopped over their giant corpses and addressed Jeff directly.

"Fiz? You become very young very fast!" It claimed in a high pitched voice.

It was the Choofa Elder, or as Fiz and Jeff referred to him, the Master Choofa.

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The Grand Choofa had brought Jeff further across the gorge safely. It was a splendid coincidence that Jeff was met with his royal Choofa-ness, especially with the worsening Dangers that he would have faced. With the master puff-ball at his side, monsters seemed to shy away from the two of them. Jeff spotted a few more canyon crawlers, but they remained squished into their crevices in the sides of the Canyon, not nearly stupid enough to face the master Choofa. He was the top dog around here!

The Master Choofa remained quiet, and did not respond to any of Jeff's words until they had reached his grand cave on the other end of the Cavern. It seemed nearly identical to the Cave he landed near, but the only occupant was the grand Choofa himself.

"Now I listen. What you do here stranger? What you do with Fiz?"

Jeff stood there for a moment amazed at this Chieflyness of a Choofa, he clearly was a creature not to be messed with and somebody he should make sure to not get on his bad side. "Do not worry about Fiz your Grand Chieflyness", Jeff said as he took a moment to bow, "He is safe in that cave by Choofa Gordge. He and the Choofas saved me actually when I got sent flying here because of this masked man."

"Actually though that's not what I came here for. Fiz mentioned you might be able to help me with something."

"Help? You want help? What help? Chiefly Choofa does not help strangers, even if friend of Fiz!"

"Oh.." Jeff said showing it was clear he was now worried this was going to be harder then he originally thought it would be. "Is there not some way that you could perhaps reconsider your decision? You see in the fight with the mask man I discovered this hidden power of mine to control the wind and I was hoping to learn how to tap into the power. You see this man destroyed my village most likely killed everyone else besides me and he needs to be stopped before he finds other places to destroy out of his boredom at that."

Jeff stopped walking with the large ball of puff for a moment and stood there staring at him showing a face that revealed a lot of sincerity. "I don't want to see this man do the same things to other villages and this power actually managed to well hurt him when nothing else could. Please if you could help me at all.. I'd do anything to prove myself."

"You keep say Mask man, this not my problem! You say you have power of wind, then show Grand Choofa! Lies are weighted like feather! They are light! Liiiight!" He squealed, bouncing up and down like a rubber ball. The grand Choofa approached him right afterwards and bounced onto his head, grasping tightly with his little string-like limbs. "I feel nothing in head! You are empty, like empty can! Ting ting!" He shouted, tapping Jeff's head. "Proof is in pudding, like Fiz say! You not windy man! You normal human! Want prove self?" The grand choofa rose his hand-like strings and conjured a white energy in front of Jeff that took the shape of a human without a face, like a white ghost. "Strike! Defeat! Go!"

"I promise its not a lie" Jeff said feeling even more worried now especially now that a man made of what seemed to be might appeared before him "I can't quite control the power and the one time it showed was kinda in that said desperate situation... but.."
He stood there for a moment contemplating whether he should do this mostly cause he felt that this could just lead to him getting himself killed, but at the same time he felt like he couldn't back down. Just like with that one moment when the wind powers of his emerged earlier. Perhaps this didn't mean the wind powers were gonna activate this time but it did mean one thing for sure. Jeff wasn't feeling like backing down and that was made obviously apparent when he screamed out of nowhere and charged the white man ready to aim a punch at the things face. or at least illusion of a face.
"I'M NOT GONNA BACK DOWN!"

The image dodged Jeff's punch and returned his blow with a kick to the stomach, launching him several feet.

"Less talk! More Hit!" The Choofa shouted.

Jeff went into a roll to stop from having too much damage and used the momentum to jump back up and start running at the white man thing. es that kick hurt him a little, but It was gonna take more then a single kick to stop him from giving up. Jeff this time went into for a jump kick sort of attack while trying to think back to how the wind appeared before hand, trying to create an extra boosted momentum with the kick perhaps? He wasn't too hopeful for it to actually happen, but the kick was gonna happen nonetheless.

Jeff's kick missed yet again, and he was launched out of the air, but something stirred around his body when he least expected it, cushioning the blow when he struck a nearby stone.

"Choofa? What that?" The Choofa chief questioned, tapping Jeff's head in confusion. "Hey! Human! Do Again!"