Below the grounds of the Leone Kingdom was a cavern. Not just any cavern. Stalactites were hanging everywhere in the ceiling. Stalagmites were also scattering everywhere from place to place. There are also veins of lava flowing from the walls.

Scattering everywhere between the stalagmites... were anthropomorphic, crazy, ragged, wild, savage, bitter and growling animals lying around for different reasons. Some look like they're scrapping for something more than a place like this. Others were sitting around bittering for more revenge, thus processing more mischievous plans to conquer the whole Leone Kingdom.

Yup. You guessed it! Those guys are known as the Underworlders.

Sitting around in the middle of a big space were three figures. One is a tiger with brown fingerless gloves and brown leather, slightly ragged shoes. His shoes also has two gray buckles and curved tongues at its upper-front part. His white retina was seen in his eyes with his iris being the darkest shade of brown you have ever seen.

Not far from his right side was a snake. Not just any snake. She was a cobra! She has two eyelashes with a white retina in her eyes just like all anthropomorphic animals. She has black scales with her secondary color being yellow. Her eyes happen to be dark magenta. Her fangs are capable enough to strike even a single royal family member in the Leone Kingdom. Her outfit was more of a revealing one and... kinda sexy. But you gotta be careful when you encounter a seductive cobra like her.

Swinging by the stalagmites was a wacky monkey with gold eyes, brown fur, tan muzzle, light brown nose and white standard gloves. He had no outfit but a ragged anklet wrapped on each ankle.

The monkey's action of swinging made the tiger really annoyed. His annoying glaring eyes then, shot at the monkey. "Ugh, would you cut it out, Hyper? I'm thinking of a plan to conquer the Leone Kingdom."

"Oh, sorry, Pound," said the monkey known as Hyper.

Hyper then, swung himself down the stalagmite and landed on his feet. "I'm just tired of sitting around."

"Yeah, us too," said the tiger known as Pound. "And I'm assuming—" He turned to the Cobra." —Venia is tired of not getting to do her talents on the streets."

You can hear a sigh coming from the cobra known as Venia. "Of course, hon. How can I not be? We're about to launch an attack to the Leone Kingdom undercovered, but then, a certain child training to be an alchemist foiled our plans."

"Yeah and that lion prince ruined it even more," said Pound.

"Even worse, his newfound Commando Roar is hard to resist," stated Hyper. "Even his eyes turned gold."

"Yeah-yeah-yeah. I know, I know," said Pound. With that being said, he finally rose into his standing position. Then, his left index finger was moved onto his chin with his elbow laying on his other hand.

"Hmm..." he began racking his brain. "The Commando Roar is usually in the king's blood, so it's no surprise there. Same goes with the leader of the Royal Guardians. But this roar... it's completely different. It's like having a combination of being a king and the—"

A gasp of shock escaped his mouth. His eyes widened as realization suddenly hit him. His head turned to both Venia and Hyper. "We have to strike now and prevent the new Royal Guardians to be ready!"

"How so?" asked Venia. "They're just children."

"But they'll grow to be ready for a challenge," said Pound.

That's when his face lit up, then his lips stretched out an evil smirk. His eyes were seen lowering in evilness. His arms went into the same position whenever he's thinking of something. "Unless... "

"Unless what?" asked Hyper.

"Unless they'll take the challenge in the Secret Cave of Tests. I heard from its history that every generation of the Royal Guardians would never make it through those challenges."

Just then, a deep, manly, raspy voice started ringing the trio's ears.

"That's right."

This caused their attentions to turn to where he sound came from. Right before their eyes was a big, muscular figure covered in black cloth and hood. No face, eyes nor any part of the body was exposed. Only his hands covered in white fingerless gloves with a few ragged elements were seen.

"Just let them grow to be 'capable' of taking the challenge in the secret cave. "

"And let them end up in certain death like the history said so?" asked Venia.

You can hear an evil chuckle coming from a black-clothed person. "Not just that. Just in case they make it through, we'll have to make sure there's no way out of the cave. And once the Royal Guardians are no more, now's the time to go to our own escape pod and leave the Leone Kingdom in ruins."

Their facial expressions turned into evil smirks.

"Ooh, I like this one!" commented Pound.

You can hear a high-pitched cackle coming from Hyper. "Hahaha! Yeah, me too."

"Same here, honey. I'm sure no one, not even the Royal Guardians and the king, will ever see this coming," said Venia.

"And when the time comes, we'll be ready to strike."

With that being said by a black-clothed person, evil laughs bounced off the walls followed by more Underworlders approaching him. Both Pound and Hyper have cackles escaping their mouths, but Hyper's is higher-pitched than Pound's. Venia's evil signature laugh happens to be more like a brief chuckle, then going up to a real evil laugh.

And so, they continued to do their own businesses until the time comes for them...

...to strike!