Jeff's hope sparked just a tincy bit when the wind seemed to appear and cushion his blow at the last second. Sure it wasn't the example he was going for, yet it still served its purpose.

"I'll try", Jeff said responding back to the chiefly ball that rode atop his head, "but like I said, I can't really control it well yet.", the young inventor did his best to force himself back up into action. He then took a moment to focus on that feeling once more and then once again rushed in before jumping into the air and attempting yet another, hopefully, wind boosted jump kick.

Once again, his kick failed to land as the white form shot down with a high speed ducking maneuver, but as the phantom was about to counter, it was dispelled by the Chief. "Enough! I see Enough," The chief said, bouncing in front of Jeff and lifting his puffy body off the ground. "I believe your claim. Wind Affinity is strong within your body, human!" The grand Choofa turned to the big mushroom behind him and walked towards it. "You speak of the masked man. Is masked man truly as strong as it appears?"

"actually.." Jeff said panting a bit as he forced himself to stand up once again from recovering from the last attack. "He's even stronger then that. The whole time you could tell he was not putting in any effort at all. And even still he could knock trees down and make the ground shake."

Jeff clenched his fist a bit out of anger as he turned to face towards the Chief once more to follow him. "I fear to think what could happen to the world if he were to continue such antics of attacking random towns and places he finds."

"Choofa! What do you plan with no power, Human!? You cannot even summon wind on commands! Skill take many years to master, and man seems far stronger than what even moderate wind skills can defeat!"

"Even so" Jeff responded back, "If I don't start somewhere I'll never even have a chance. Even if its not against the mask man, I'd like to be able to prevent situations like this from happen again or at least do my part in helping stop them."

Jeff then got down on his knees pretty much ready to beg. "Oh great chief, if you could help train me in the ways to using his power, I would extremely grateful and forever in your debt."

The Chief ruffled his fluff and made his way back over to Jeff. "Fine! But I no train! Grand Choofa Merely reach into soul using old Choofa magic!" He explained, jumping on Jeff's head again and placing all of his limbs in place over his hair. "But It not do good! Average Human have little magic to-" In a few seconds, the Choofa went silent, and Jeff felt something brewing within his skull. "Eh?" A whipping feeling of wind soared through his mind, and he was overtaken by fatigue in just a few seconds. But it didn't stop, not until the Choofa was launched off of his head and into the cap of the giant mushroom in the room's center. "CHOOFA!"

Jeff fell back feeling the fatigue as the Grand Choofa was launched off of his head leaving Jeff very much confused.

"What the... are you okay?" Jeff asked as he sat down on the ground for a moment trying to recover from whatever the Chief just did.

The Chief hopped up and looked at Jeff curiously. "Affinity! I Never feel such Affinity before!" He said to Jeff. He paused and looked around the cave hurriedly. "Human! I have unlocked your potential, but I no teach how to use! Perhaps now, you do better on your own..." The Chief then ran behind the giant mushroom and came back with a green stone, smaller than a marble. It looked like a pebble, but there was something odd about it. "This Wind crystal! Rare crystal, but allow channeling of magic without knowledge! Can let you surpass your limits. Will break quickly, but I give you for emergency!" The Chief then lead Jeff out of the cave while he continued to talk. "But Choofa Gorge, it not safe for you to learn. Here, only Chief know magic, and Chief do all he could.. Jeff, I help you leave Gorge!"

"Thank you Chief" Jeff said back in response as he went and aimed his hand upwards to see if the wind would react to it, and to his surprise it did. It only sent out a decent blast of wind that wasn't really strong enough to do anything but shake a few leaves but it was definitely a start and it excited him.

"Sweet." Jeff couldn't help but chuckle a little before taking the stone from the chief and taking a moment to examine it more closely. Jeff could feel the power resonating from the crystal and felt it would for sure be something to save as a last resort. Perhaps something for if he ever encountered that mask man again, which he was sure would happen eventually.

Jeff then started to follow the chief once more and headed out away from the gorge and it's dangers. "I feel like now I can actually start making progress to better myself."

The Chief exited his Cave with Jeff and looked up at the purple mist above them, which had thinned out somewhat. "I launch you up, but not know where you may land. Tell me when Ready, it not be a steady trip..." The Chief reassured Jeff, in the least reassuring tone possible.

"Um...", Jeff started to say, feeling very quite so hesitant to this idea specially with the large amount of 'reassurance' that was given here. "Are you sure this is the only way out?"

To be fair, even if Jeff was properly reassured here, the fact this was the exact way he almost died before left him feeling quite paranoid about taking the exact same approach to leaving this place.

"It be fine! Mask man launch you miles, ya? I only launch you... ONE mile!" He assured Jeff, "Unless you want fight crawlers on side of jagged cliff while climb!"

"Oh god...", The inventor said as thoughts of more of those spiders and the armies of rogue choofa filled his mind, he really didn't want to have to deal with that while climbing a mountain.

"I can't believe I'm saying this but your right... lets do this.." Jeff said standing up and preparing to be launched skyward.

At least this time perhaps his newly unlocked wind powers could be of use to make a safe landing.

The Chief positioned himself behind Jeff and chuckled in a strange manner. "Ok human! Prepare for a trip! Be safe on surface!" He shouted, conjuring up a white energy below Jeff. "Choofa..." He started, lowing his entire body. And then with a Jump, the white energy surrounded Jeff, and launching him into the sky with a protective coating that pushed the purple mist away.

"Spring!" And so, Jeff had escaped the Gorge...

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Jeff eventually found himself high above the gorge, until he finally came crashing down near the cliff's edge, landing flat on his face. the white energy did enough to cushion his fall and prevent serious injury, but it wasn't exactly a happy landing. The terrain around Choofa Gorge looked pretty polluted. The wildlife, although sparse, was covered with purple flowers, and the ground was overtaken by darkened grass and patches of overturned dirt.

In the distance, Jeff could see what looked like a small collection of miniature huts with a campfire in the center. Were there Choofa up here too? Only one way to find out..

"Well I guess I wasn't expecting much better of a landing" Jeff said to himself though he was pretty sure nobody could hear it due to his face being planted face first into the ground from this greatest of all landings. Jeff took a minute to free his head from the ground and well practicing a tiny bit with his wind powers by blowing some of the dirt off of himself before taking note of the huts that were up ahead.

Were these home to people perhaps? Maybe Choofa? well he was apparently out of the gorge now so he wasn't entirely expecting those creatures, but at this point he was prepared for it to be possibly nonhuman.

"Hellooooooo. Anyone home?!" Jeff called out towards the huts as he started to make his way towards them. He continued to play or well practice with his wind powers a bit as he made his way forward attempting to get a small breeze of wind to spin around his hand.

Jeff's words summoned three hyena-looking humanoids that darted out of their three individual huts and noticed Jeff in an instant. "FEWWD!" one screeched, dashing towards Jeff immediately. The little hyena-man's furry body was only half of Jeff's height, but his stripes blurred as he dashed at tops speeds with his claws at the ready. His two allies, a black hyena with white stripes, and a grey hyena with black stripes, followed their orange leader. None of them were wearing clothes, just confirming how uncivilized they really were.

"Oh shit... I guess you are home!!" Jeff yelled in panic as the three beasts rushed towards him. He knew it would be pointless to run against something like this so he decided he would stand his ground for now. Well... at least until he found an opening to escape.

'okay this is a 3 on one so I need to think of something and fast... perhaps...'

The newly wind awakened inventor quickly flung both of his arms down towards the ground in attempt to use the wind to launch a bunch of dirt into the air towards the hyenas and to hopefully cloud the vision of his would be attackers. He then went to kick the first one in the face hoping the blast of dirt would be enough to throw the Hyena off long enough.

"I don't wish to fight you all, but I will if you make me!" He didn't hold much hope for the creatures knowing English, but figured it be worth a shot

The sudden gust of dirt stopped the Main Hyena in his tracks, as well as the other too. "GRAAH, HEESH NO LIKE DIRT IN EYES-" The beast's unintelligible musings were cut short by Jeff's foot snapping its neck and launching its body back a few feet. As the dust cleared, the last two Hyena people growled and looked at their slain leader.

"PAY FOR KILL HEESH!" One shouted, lunging at Jeff through the air and aiming to tear open his throat. The second Hyena flanked him and went for his foot.

Jeff's eyes widened showing how surprised he was that the move actually worked; he really didn't expect him to have the strength to pull off something like that so effectively. It made Jeff think back to when him and Dacer use to spar back and forth on occasion when they were younger, but things usually turned out with Dacer as the victor there. At the very least tho, it seemed though past experiences were to be paying off just a little. Though looking back at Dacer's recently revealed powers it was clear he never really even put any effort on said fights.

Either way now wasn't the time to be thinking back on that, specially seeing how the two other Hyenas were trying for the KILLING blow.
Jeff rolled off to the side using the wind to blast up more dirt into the air once more, hoping that the dirt would keep the two blinded long enough that they might crash into one another; thus giving Jeff a chance to ready another proper attack.

At the very least that's how he played the situation out in his head.