Syrus walks closer to the book Mr. I

holds in his hands. It looks in every way like a

normal Linking Book, except... the letters on its

cover are written in silver, not gold. The title says

“Mystery Book.”

“So what is a mystery book?” Syrus asks.

“A Mystery Book? You never know what

they’re gonna do. They could warp you to any

location, they could bring evil demons into the world.

You never really know.”

“Cool!” Syrus snatches the book and opens

it. The image inside is fuzzy and you can’t make out

anything in it. Syrus puts his hand on the picture and

links away. He appears in a forest. He’s not quite

sure where he is. Syrus looks around. It is a dark,

thick forest. A fog is blowing through. Syrus walks

through the woods for a little while and soon comes

to a place where the path splits into four.

To the left and straight ahead is just more

forest. Syrus looks to the right and sees the end of

the forest. Syrus decides to go to the right. Soon

enough, he is out of the woods.

When he gets out, he looks around. He sees

the edge of the Volcano of No Return. He finally

made it to the other side of Monk Forest! Syrus

takes out an Ideya Capture and drops it. Mr. I

quickly returns to him.

“Okay, Mr. I. Where am I now?”

“You’re in the intersection between Monk

Forest and Orb Lake. Hey, what’s that??” Mr. I

points to a small bush just at the edge of the forest.

Syrus goes over to investigate. The monster looks

just like a tiny Ico.

“Hey there little guy!” Syrus says. The tiny

creature gets up and runs for its life. Syrus whips

an Ideya Capture at it and knocks it unconsious.

The monster is then sucked into the marble.

“Yeah! I got an Ico!”

Syrus releases Ico from its Ideya Capture.

“Hey Ico! What’s up?”

Ico is being really quiet.

Mr. I suggests, “Maybe Ico is really

scared of something. He’ll eventually get over

it.”

“Okay, good.” Syrus puts Ico back in

his Ideya Capture and continues walking down

the fuchsia pathway.

Shortly, they arrive at a large lake of

crystal clear water. There is a long rope-bridge

stretched across the lake. Syrus walks about

half way across the bridge and stops to look

around. It appears there are many life forms in

the water, travelling around. Syrus looks closer.

Syrus spots a monster that looks very

much like a large tadpole. Orbiting the lake,

hovering above the water, are millions of little

glass balls full of a yellow electricity.

“What are all these things?” Syrus asks.

“The tadpole one,” says Mr. I, “is called

Octa. And it’s evolved form,” Mr. I points to a

large rock sticking out of the water, “the octopus-

like one, is Octo.”

Syrus looks at Octo. Octo looks like a

strange four-tentacled octopus. It has two long

eyes and a unibrow-like thing, and a small red

circular crystal on its forehead.

Mr. I continues, “Those monsters that

are orbiting the lake are called Orbs. And look

at that one!” Mr. I points out an Orb that is

colored blue instead of yellow. “That is a very

rare monster, called the Blue Orb. Only one of

them is born every 100 years.”

“Born? How in the he--?”

“Shh! No questions!”

“Heh.”

Mr. I continues, “And that pink jelly-fish

thing flying through the air is named Jelly-Fly. It

has the greatest healing powers of anything on

Earth, or in space, or anywhere, really.”

“Sweet! I gotta catch one!” Syrus whips

an Ideya Capture into the water. It captures an

Octa and returns to his hand. He takes out another

Ideya and whips it into the water. It dosen’t capture

anything and returns to his hand.

Syrus then throws an Ideya Capture at

an Octo and captures it. Syrus then spots the

Blue Orb. He wants to make sure he gets it, so

he’s very slowly calculating when and where he

should throw the Ideya. Soon, he throws it and

he captures the Blue Orb!

Syrus then tries to capture the Jelly-Fly

hovering around them. He whips an Ideya up at

the Jelly-Fly. The monster swerves to avoid the

marble.

“Damn!”

The Ideya Capture then starts to fall from

the sky, hitting Jelly-Fly on its way down.

“Good job, Syrus!” Mr. I says. “You’ve

used up nine of your ten Ideya Captures already!”

“Yeah, and it’s only my second day too!”

Syrus looks ahead and sees Wizeman’s

Castle.

“And it looks like I’m going to win the little

bet I made with Synan, also!”
