lnr/Originals/Books/Syrus/33-SNIP.txt

Syrus and Kail pick up the book that

they used to link to The Land of No Return.

The image on the first page shows the Book

Temple. Synan, Zoe, James, and Sarah are

there. Sarah appears to be talking to Synan

and Zoe. Sarah hands Synan and Zoe a book.

They open it and disappear. Syrus then links

to the Book Temple. Kail follows.

“Sarah! Where did they go?” Syrus

asks.

“They went to the portal to the other

realm to retrieve the Star Stone, to defeat

Deity.” Sarah answers.

“Give me that book!” Syrus takes

it and warps. As he is warping, Sarah looks

up at the sky.

“Oh, look, it appears Deity has been

stopped.” Sarah says.

Syrus disappears through the book.

The sound of Linking has deafened Syrus,

so he didn’t hear Sarah.

Syrus appears in a dark and gloomy

room. Without time to look around, he

dashes for the portal. Syrus hears a voice

behind him.

“Hey!” It was Zoe’s voice. Syrus

runs into the portal. (Synan did not include

this event in his journal).

Syrus appears in a circular, spinning

tunnel. Syrus remembers this place. His

dream!

Syrus gets the chills and freezes.

His dream, nay, nightmare is coming true.

Syrus is tapped on the shoulder, like in

the dream. He jumps and looks behind him.

That undead creature from his dream is there.

“Hello. I am Unamed.”

“That’s.... nice....” Syrus says, scared

to death.

“Ahem...” Unamed clears his throat.

“I will be the guide on your way,

But coming back I won’t play,

If to the other side you wish to go,

Then follow me and don’t be slow!”

“Wow, a poet. Who’d have thought?”

Unamed begins to float away.

Syrus runs after him.

“Unamed, where are you

taking me?” Syrus asks.

“To the other world. That’s

my job, to lead people through the

Eternal Corridor.”

“Oh.”

“Also, I’m keeping you away

from Snip. In the Eternal Corridor,

Snip has unlimited power. He’s very

difficult to capture, too. A level 5

Snip in one of the two worlds is equal

to a level 2,000 Snip in this world.”

“Wow, that’s powerful.”

“Yep. And using that analogy,

all the Snips in this world would be

level 200 in yours.” Unamed says.

“Let’s see... 200 divided by

5 times 1,500...” Syrus tries to work

it out in his head.

“80,000. Most of these

Snips are around level 80,000.”

Unamed says, without any effort.

“Wow, you’re smart.” Syrus

compliments.

“Well, that’s what you do

when you’ve been dead for over a

century.”

“What?!” Syrus is filled with

dread.

“Now, moving on, we need

to get you to the other side.” Unamed

says.

They turn down another

tunnel. What’s there to meet them?

Well, what else would you find in this

world, but Snip!

Snip is a large, gray, squid-like

monster. He has six gray tails, with three

red stripes on each, and steel points on

the tips.

“Unamed, I thought we weren’t

going to see any of these!”

“Hey, I can’t make promises,

but I know we’re expected to see less

of them in the outskirts of this place.”

“How can you call this area the

outskirts? If this place is bigger than our

universe, --”

“Much bigger.”

“Yeah, whatever, but you can’t

call it the edges like that. For all you

know we could be in the center!” Syrus

argues.

“Well, these Snips have regular

orbiting patterns.”

“Okay.”

“Snip has six tails, as so. In each

one contains every poison known to

each dimension. That includes all the

incurable fatal viruses of your world.”

Snip stabs Unamed with one

tail. The other five attack too. The six

tails are attacking repeatedly. Satisfied,

Snip flies away. Unamed gets back up.

“I hate it when that happens!”

“I bet.” Syrus comments.

“Well, where were we?” Unamed

says.