In Part One of this adventure, Steve, Alex, and Donkey are relieved to have escaped the abominable snowman in the icy caves and are happy to be back in the woods and out in the warm sunshine once more. But a new obstacle lies in their path: the Forbidden Forest - a mysterious and gloomy forest that is avoided by travelers because of its well-known dangers and the strange and scary creatures that inhabit it. Steve and Alex enter the Forbidden Forest and almost immediately come face to face with all manner of hostile monsters. Later, Steve finds a half-buried skull that will change his life dramatically...