lnr/Originals/Books/Syrus/25-EMERALD.txt

The Kodas fly away. Syrus has the purple

book now. The golden text reads “Book Temple.”

Syrus opens the book up. On the first page is a small

panel where Syrus sees a rotational view of a

circular temple.

Syrus holds his hand over the panel. Soon,

small golden sparkles appear between the panel

and his hand. He is suddenly warped to the center

of the building he saw in the book. In front of him is

a girl seated at a desk. She has long blonde hair.

Also in the room is Zoe. Syrus looks at Zoe.

“Zoe. Where is Synan now?”

“Umm...” Zoe makes a signal to the girl

behind her at the desk. The girl hands Zoe a

book. “He went into this book!”

Syrus takes the book. The title reads

“Monster Village”

“He’s cheating! He went there to

capture more monsters than me!”

Syrus steals the book and links

through it. He appears at the entrance to The

Land of No Return.

“Damn kids.” Syrus says. He rubs his

eyes and looks around. He sees the bright

lava-red doors on the mountain. One of them

is open, and closing slowly. Syrus runs for the

doorway and makes it inside just before it closes

and locks behind him.

He is in a small cave. There are lots of

smaller caves carved around the walls of this

place. There is also a most unusual monster here.

It’s body is mostly an oval. The oval

is hollow, but holds a small eyeball inside. Syrus

can’t explain how that works. Unlike Koda,

this monster is red and doesn’t have any arms.

Syrus walks up to one of them.

“Hello. Who are you?”

“Mr. I. We’re expert volcanologists.”

“Really?”

“Yep.”

“What about Koda?”

“Well, they’re the only things smarter

than us, but you get the idea.”

Syrus takes out an Ideya Marble. He

tosses it at Mr. I’s red skin. It bounces off and

falls to the floor.

“What?” Syrus says.

“It appears that your Ideya Capture

is already in use. Did you capture another

monster in it?”

“Yeah, I captured a Monk...”

The red marble glows white. A bright

beam exits the marble and flies away. It flies

down a passageway to a room that’s glowing

red. After a few minutes, the beam returns.

Syrus picks up the marble and drops

it. A Monk appears.

“Oh, so since this marble was used

and it’s monster was away, it sent a beam

out to hunt down that monster.”

“Yeah.” Mr. I says.

Syrus takes out a different marble.

He captures Mr. I with it, and then returns

Monk to it’s own marble.

Syrus walks down the tunnel that

the beam followed. Soon, he’s in a large

cave that’s lit-up red. He suddenly

recognizes this place. It’s the room he saw

earlier, when he looked out the window.

He is in this room, but he’s on

the ledge that he saw earlier. He quickly

spots the rope ladder and crosses it.

The island drops a couple of

millimeters as Syrus steps onto it. The

strange micro-island is held up by large

black chains.

Scattered across the rock are

strange monsters, or combinations of

monsters. On the bottom is a red,

circular-shaped monster. Connected

by a beam of electricity is another

monster, shaped like a three-dimensional

diamond. The diamond appears hollow,

but it’s filled with millions of eyeballs.

Syrus takes out an Ideya

Capture and throws it towards one

of them.

“Man, this island is just full

of these monsters!”

The monster is captured and

the Ideya comes back to Syrus.

A Koda comes up behind Syrus.

“In case you didn’t know, that was

an Emerald that you just captured. Is that

your first monster?”

“No way! It’s my third! I’m not

as naive as you think!”

“Oh, okay, kid. Your third then.”

“Shut up, Koda!”

Syrus takes out an Ideya Capture

and whips it at Koda. Koda holds his

hands together at the wrists and launches

a fireball. The force of the fire launches the

Ideya back at Syrus. Syrus catches the

marble.

“We’re not so easy, Syrus. Not

every monster is as easy to catch as the

ones you have. Let me guess: your three

monsters include Monk, Mr. I, and

Emerald, right? Ha! They’re probably

the easiest to catch.

“Oh yeah? I guess I should try

to capture harder monsters then, huh?”

Syrus says.

“Ha! Don’t make me laugh!

Somebody like you can’t hardly even

catch a cold!” Koda flies away,

laughing mockingly.