While travelling through the outside world in search of the Box of Whispers, Kendra Kandlestar’s best friend, Honest Oki, encountered a most peculiar plant near the Castle of Krodos.

Not only could this plant talk, but it could also cast spells. Indeed, by coughing on a victim, the wheezing wonder plant could turn its prey into whatever he or she was thinking of.

In Oki’s case, he had been thinking of onions (or, more accurately said, not thinking of onions), and this was exactly what he turned into. Only the knowledge of Professor Bumblebean and the magic of the wizard Griffinskitch saved him.