The story:
It is storytime for the children outside the Skull Cave. Old Mozz is relating how the four Gods of Fire, Water, Air and Earth once assembled to vent their fury at the humans' inability to handle their invaluable heritage.

But before embarking on a total annihilation of the human race, the Goddess of Earth proposed a number of final tests to prove that many humans were inherently good, and declared that she had found a perfect (masked) subject to carry them out...