Syrus lives in an apartment building in Vatican

City. He spends all his time walking around town

with his friends.

Syrus walks by a small building. The name of

the building is a strange word: “IDEYA.” As Syrus

walks by, a voice comes from inside the building.

“Syrus, come here!”

Syrus walks into the shadowy building. A

dark, shady old man in a black tunic is inside.

The old man speaks.

“Have you seen Synan lately? He wants me

to keep him up-to-date on my newest inventions.”

“No, I haven’t seen him. Sorry.”

Just after Syrus finishes talking, a girl from

school enters the room. She is just one year younger

than Syrus. She has brown hair and brown eyes.

Her name is Zoe.

“Actually, Synan is on vacation,” Zoe says,

“He’ll be back in about four days.”

“And you would care because...?” Syrus

asks.

“It’s none of your business why I would

care where he’s at.”

“Yeah, okay. You fifth graders are weird.”

Syrus walks toward the door. The old man stops

him.

“Syrus, before you leave, do you want to

see my new invention?” The dark figure says.

Syrus folds his arms as he listens.

“I call it the Ideya Marble.” The mysterious

old man pulls a Red and Shining object from the

pocket on his tunic. “These will absorb the atomic

makeup of an object it touches. The object will

then be returned when the marble hits the floor

again. I’ll give you ten of them.”

The old man gives Syrus ten of the red

marbles. He also gives ten of them to Zoe. Syrus

leaves the building. Zoe also leaves. As Syrus

walks down the sidewalk for a little while, he

hears a scream from behind him. Zoe screamed.

Syrus turns around and runs toward the

sound. He gets to the edge of the city and sees

Zoe and some kind of blue alien. Zoe is being

lifted off the ground and toward the sky.

Syrus jumps at the blue monster but

instead gets caught in the trap that Zoe is in.

As they float to the sky, Syrus loses

consciousness. He regains sight after what

seems to be not very long at all. He is looking

straight up at a starry sky.

Syrus sits up and looks around. He is

in a fenced-in area. The ground is all purple,

and on one side with no fence is the edge of

a floating island. Syrus crawls over and looks

off the edge. They are miles away from the

Earth. Syrus stands up.

There are two guard towers. Syrus

sees Zoe leave just as the gates close behind

her. Syrus runs toward the gates.

A shadowy guard stops him. “Please

remove any mirrors, slingshots, or throwable

objects.”

“Why do you need a mirror? Do you

want to break it??” Syrus comments.

“Just do it or die you little punk!!”

“Screw you! What kind of law are

you under her?”

“Wizeman’s law. Now give me the

requested objects.”

“Never.” Syrus brushes the purple

dirt off his jeans.

“Then you shall feel the wrath of

The Land of No Return!” The guard pulls

out a small radio reciever and begins

speaking into it.

“We have a 24-14 crisis here.

Spyke-012334 requesting backup.”

Syrus gives the guard the finger.

Before he can put it back down he is

blasted fifteen feet away. A figure slowly

hovers toward the ground. Suddenly a

slight scream occurs as a golden-yellow

flame appears, lighting up the person.

He looks like he’s 12, maybe 13. He’s

wearing a white T-shirt and blue shorts.

On the shirt is a stretched “W” in red.

He has a short head under a

yellow helmet. His evil eyes are

stretched along the bottom of the

helmet.

“Syrus, I presume? I am James.

Having trouble already, are we?” James

says, his shirt rustling as the golden

energy blows by him.

“How do you know my name?”

Syrus asks, climbing back to his feet.

“Believe me, I have my

sources.” James’ energy field vanishes.

James walks over to Syrus and searches

him, revealing ten ideya marbles.

“He’s clean.” James gives the

marbles back. The gates open and James

shoves Syrus through. James  slowly lifts

off the ground mumbling “Man, you’d

think his three-day nap would be helpful.”

“Three days?!” Syrus yells, almost

too loudly. James continues floating away,

as if he didn’t hear Syrus at all.

Syrus hears the guard speaking,

“Please remove all slingshots, mirrors, or

throwable objects.” He then hears a

familiar voice “I don’t have any.” It’s Synan!

Syrus decides to wait here for

Synan.
