Synan and Zoe leave Mr. I’s village.

In the crater, Sky Island finally passed over.

Prisem leads Synan and Zoe back through

the tunnel to Crystal Cave. So far, Synan and

Zoe have the Garden Key, as well as two

of the four elemental keys: Fire and Ice.

Soon, they get back to the “crossroads”

of the cave--Where you can go to the basement

of the Book Temple, or go to the volcano, or

go to Crystal Cave.

“Let’s get back to the Book Temple!”

Zoe says. Another Prisem runs down the stairs

from Crystal Cave. “The Book Temple is still

locked up.”

“Oh. Then let’s get in through the

basement!”

“That might work.” Synan says.

They go down the path to the basement of

the Book Temple. Shortly after, they are there. The

basement is full of little mechanisms. One looks like

an ink producer. It must make the magic ink. Another

machine makes the books and pages. Zoe and Synan

climb up a ladder under a trap door. They got into

the Book Temple.

“We’re here. Where’d she go?” Zoe says.

“I believe her name was Sarah.” Prisem says.

“Whatever. She’s not here though.”

“Then let’s use the books!” Synan says.

Zoe opens a drawer in Sarah’s desk. It is full of books.

All the books are of purple leather, and golden words

on the cover. One catches Zoe’s eye: Skyber Fortress.

In the picture, Zoe sees Lightning Palace on Sky Island.

“Synan! Let’s use this one!”

Zoe and Synan gather up their monsters. Synan

goes in first, then Zoe follows.

They are soon standing on a tall stone tower,

like a plateau. There are many birds flying around. From

a bird perched ahead of them, they can be described.

The birds are all brown. They have long beaks,

from which their eyes stretch away from. They have black

diamond shapes on their foreheads, and three feathers

sticking up on top of their heads. Since there are no other

monsters here, they must be the Skybers, the birds of

lightning. There are many other plateaus around here, all

linked with bridges. This area is on top of the volcano,

closer to Crystal Cave. On the right side, the

entrance to Emerald’s Crater is visible. Synan

and Zoe go into one of the structures, one that

looks like a castle. Inside is a tougher looking

Skyber. It is wearing a crown and a black

bandanna around its neck. The Skyber speaks,

“Let me guess. You came here for the

Lightning Key.”

“How’d you know?” Zoe wonders.

“Let me see all the monsters you have

captured.”

Synan and Zoe release their monsters.

“Good. Now I know you are not on

the side of evil..” Skyber finally says after looking

at Zoe’s Clawz and Prisem, and Synan’s Monk,

Crystal, and Emerald.

“Well. Here’s the Lightning Key.” Skyber

gives Synan a key of yellow metal. Its end has a

jagged lightning bolt symbol.

“I’ll have some Skybers fly you up to

Sky Island.”

Synan and Zoe leave and some Skybers

grab them and carry them off the ground. They land

on the floating island. All that’s here is a stone

temple. Synan unlocks the door and enters. In the

center is a green pyramid-like crystal. When they

approach and look through it, the side in the ground

mirrors the side above. Along the walls are all kinds

of writing. Zoe reads them aloud.

“The Land of No Return: A small anti-world

that originated from The World of No Return, a

planet just outside Pluto’s orbit, the planet that humans

call ‘Planet X’. The Land of No Return’s purpose was

to capture those simple minded humans so that one of

our most trusted monsters, Twilite, could morph them

into more monsters, only the common ones, like Monk

or Prisem.”

Zoe continues reading.

“The most powerful monsters on our island are

Veronica, the ‘queen of the rock’, at level 1,000. Then

there is the rare Myst, at level 5,000. The most powerful

monster is yet to come. He was a boy from Earth, being

genetically-engineered in Wizeman’s Fortress. This human

is weak, but he has the power to become Deity, the most

powerful being in the universe at level 1,000,000.”

Zoe tries to read more, but the words are blurred.

“Well, Synan. We’ve learned a lot here. There’s

nothing more to do. Let’s go now.”

“Oh okay. Right. We need to get the Earth Key

still!”
