Creatures of the forest roamed around doing their daily routine of just eating and sleeping. Till the sense of something vile and evil reached their animal senses, many animals raised their heads and lifted their ears immediately making a run for it going the opposite direction of what was coming. Some unfortunate animals weren't so lucky some getting ensnared within the creatures grasp. Some falling to the ground immobilized their eyes shifting around wildly, their bodies shaking slightly till the creature got near enough and the toxic air that surrounded it killed the animals that were laying in the ground unable to move.

The creature who was doing this was the Lich. He was roaming the forest, but in reality he was running. He barely escaped an attack from the one known as Billy the Hero. He let his comrades and soldiers become pawns and left them for dead all that matters is the survival of the King. He let out a raspy breath seeing the vegetation around him wither and die as he passed through them. He looked behind him to see his once glorious army gone. Defeated by a single fighter. He growled at himself for running away from a single mortal. But he could tell his once found youth was shriveling away. His body wasn't as it use to, he could tell without his, well of power, he couldn't do much. And that Hero, was guarding it just waiting for him to get close enough and most possibly kill him.

He wasn't going to die yet, the world was still intact and full of life, he just needed a new plan. The Lich's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of crying. The shrieking noise enraged him, his toxic air spreading even so further killing more plant life. He walked towards that noise to kill it off. The Lich continued to walk towards the noise letting the toxic air kill anything standing in his way. Soon the sound was loud enough to see a mere child in the ground crying and sucking on his thumb. The air spread towards the child the Lich watching, waiting with anticipation for the toxic air to kill something so young and to watch it gurgle and gag for air then die. The air got to the child to begin and kill the giant leaf stuck to the child. But the child remained alive letting out a few sneezes from the condense air around him.

The Lich raised an eyebrow, his skeleton hand reaching for the child. "What are you?" The Lich spoke within his mind transferring his thoughts to the child while looking at the child as it began to cry from being held upside down. The Lich grabbed the child from the foot and had it upside down. The Lich couldn't put his bony finger on why this thing was still alive, but he couldn't concentrate with this noise. "Silence." The Lich told, the child stopped it's crying and just stayed quiet sniffling a little looking straight at the Lich. The Lich narrowed its eyes at it, then placed it in the ground accidently letting the child's head hit the ground, he walked a few passes backwards and turned towards the child. "Come here, boy." The child got up from the ground stumbling towards the Lich. "Walk right." The Lich ordered. The child stopped and looked towards his feet, slowly the child began to walk straight about to reach for the lich. "Stop."

The boy stayed on the spot looking up at the Lich. The Lich reached for the child picking it up from the head. "Obedient, easy to teach, and resistant to my death. But easy to control, easy to kill, and to use." The Lich told to himself seeing the flaws and qualities looking at the child giggle a little looking at the ground. "I guess I found my solution to my body problem and my low moral of soldiers." The Lich told himself seeing the child as his new soldier and in time his new body it seemed it could handle his lower level defense of letting out toxic air in time it would handle being a meat suit to last for a long time. The Lich was too in-though he didn't notice the child slipping out of his grasp till it fell onto the dead ground. "Hmm." The Lich asked seeing the child in the ground ready to cry. "Stop your sniffling and toughen up." The Lich ordered the child stopped and rubbed the tears from its eyes.

The Lich smiled a little seeing how easy going this kid was as well as how fast and obedient it was. It looked at the thing in his hand it was the hat the child had on its head. "You won't be needing this." The Lich said setting the hat to ablaze, the child's eyes widened and sparkled seeing the green fire flicker and move. The child let out small laughs and giggles, the Lich looked down at the child kneeling closer placing the fire closer to him. The child looked at the fire with amazement and curiosity. "You have a liking towards fire huh, don't worry, you'll soon see the world burn." The Lich told seeing the child go for the fire, the child touched it to have his finger burned the child retract his hand about to wail out in the pain. "DEAL WITH IT." The Lich roared, the child flinched at the roar it looked at its finger and decided to just suck on the burned tip of it. "I'll let that slid for now." The Lich told grabbing the child by the head again beginning to walk once again down the forest trying to find a place to heal and regain his strength and a place to teach his new soldier/ future vessel how to fight and to handle his magic.