Syrus stares as Koda flies away. A

dark shadow suddenly covers the rock beneath

Syrus’s feet. Syrus looks up and sees an island

hovering by itself, much like The Land of No

Return.

“That island has to have some kind of

rare monster on it!”

Syrus throws an Ideya at the floor,

releasing Mr. I.

“Mr. I, fly me up to that island!”

Mr. I takes flight. Syrus grabs his

feet and Mr. I flied him up to the island.

As they fly out of the volcano, Syrus

looks back down. He is at a dangerous height.

He sees Synan and Zoe being led by the

bottom half of an Emerald.

“Hey, that Emerald is only the bottom

half! What’s up with that?”

“Emerald is made up of Prisem and

Crystal. That monster is Prisem.” Mr. I answers.

“Oh.”

Soon, the heated fog from the volcano

covers Syrus’s view of them.

Mr. I drops Syrus onto the island. Syrus

is disappointed. All that was on the island was

a small temple. Syrus decides to go in and

have a look. When Syrus tries to open the

yellow doors, he fails.

“The doors are locked!” Syrus yells.

“They would be. You need the Lightning

Key. The Skybers might have it.”

“Skyber?”

“Yeah. Their fortress is right over there.”

Syrus goes to look. On top of the volcano,

next to the mouth, are lots of tall, narrow towers.

There are lots of birds flying around.

“Skyber,” Mr. I says, “is a lightning bird.

If you ever enter Illusion Cave over there, you’ll

need a lightning monster. That cave is so dark,

you can’t see a lit match even if it’s touching you

face. Only lightning is bright enough to light the

way, although it would still be pretty dark and

gloomy.”

“Oh. I should get one.” Syrus says. Mr. I

flies up into the air. Syrus grabs onto Mr. I’s feet

and they fly down to one of the towers.

They land, and Syrus looks around

at the monsters. They look a lot like small

wood ducks. But, the Skybers have a

black diamond on their heads.

“This is awesome!” Syrus throws

up an Ideya Capture and hits one of the

Skybers. The bird is captured and the

marble falls to the ground. The bright

glow still hasn’t faded. The bird then

escapes from the marble.

“Koda was right.”

Mr. I comments, “You may

have to fight the Skyber to weaken it.”

Mr. I does a fireball attack

and hits the Skyber. The bird falls down,

injured. Syrus tries capturing it again,

and this time he’s successful.

“Yes! I have a Skyber!”

Syrus wanders around the fortress.

All these towers are connected by bridges.

Syrus gets to the center. The building on this

tower looks more significant than the rest.

Syrus enters.

Inside are a few Skybers, and

in the center is another one wearing a

golden crown.

“Hello there, stranger! I am the

king of the Skybers!”

“Oh, hi. Have you seen the

Lightning Key?”

“Lightning Key? No, I think I

misplaced it somewhere.”

“Oh, okay.” Syrus says, disappointed.

Syrus and Mr. I leave. Syrus looks at the

volcano.

“Hey, look!” Syrus sees James

fly into the mouth of the volcano. Ico is

following him.

Mr. I walks over to Syrus. “Looks

like James has someone to take out down

there. I guess Ico wanted to help.”

“How do you know?”

“I was watching over the island just

a while before you found me. I saw two kids,

Synan and Zoe. I noticed them enter the volcano

as we were leaving, so I’m assuming James is

after them.”

“Ha! Synan gets to meet James!”

“No, Syrus. He met James earlier.

He and Zoe were fighting James just after they

crossed Hell’s River.”

“Yeah, okay. Hey, look!” Syrus runs

to the other side of the tower. He notices a small

group of humans walking into a cave with Green

Doors.

“Yeah, I know them. The little girl is

Elsie. The other two are her parents, Logan and

Alisha.”

The green doors close behind them, and

they disappear into the darkness inside.

“And that is the Earth Barrier,” Mr. I says,

“but I don’t know how they got it opened. Sarah

has the key.”

“Who’s Sarah?”

“She stays in the Book Temple down there.”

“Oh, yeah. I saw her when I followed Zoe

through that Linking Book.”

“Yep. That’s her.”

“Oh.”

“Hey, Syrus. You’ve seen the Linking Books,

but have you ever seen a Mystery Book?”

Syrus walks closer to Mr. I, who is holding

what looks like a linking book.

“No...”
