lnr/Originals/Books/Syrus/22-BET.txt

Syrus decides to take a look around at

his surroundings. He is standing on a four-way

intersection. On the dark purple soil are light

purple, almost magenta, pathways. One

pathway leads to the left, where Syrus can see

a lava river coming from the mountain in the

center of the island.

To the right, the pathway leads into

a dense forest. To the north, the pathway

goes into the mountain, to a large bright

red door. The door appears to be locked.

Finally, down the southern pathway,

is the guard house area, where Synan is

walking towards Syrus. Synan dosen’t seem

to notice Syrus at all, and cuts through the

field going towards the right.

“Synan! Is that you?” Syrus shouts.

Synan has dark, messy hair. Syrus’s is

blond, kinda messy from sleeping for three

days on it.

“I see you have some of those ‘Warp

Marbles’ as well. We both have ten open

marbles now. Let’s have a contest. Let’s see

who can capture more monsters. Our meeting

place will be at the castle on the other side.”

Syrus says, confindently.

“I’ll take the right.” Synan says.

“I don’t think so, Synan. You’re taking

the left, near Hell’s River.”

“No fair!”

“You want to make something of it?”

Synan sighs, “Left it is.”

“Good. I thought you’d see it my way.”

Syrus begins walking down the pathway

to the right. As he nears the forest, he sees a

small tower-shaped building. Syrus steps inside.

The doors close behind him. A sharp,

computerized voice comes on the speakers.

“Warp Stone, please.”

Syrus dosen’t have a ‘Warp Stone’.

He remembers his Ideya Capture, how old

man Shady had his name for them, Warp Marbles.

Syrus puts an Ideya Marble in the

bowl-shaped slot. The voice comes on again.

“Insufficient amount of Warp Stone. Please

make sure that you have a valid source of the

ore, and that the stone is not currupted.”

The doors open and let Syrus out.

Synan is already long gone. Syrus looks

over toward the lava river. Synan and Zoe

are sitting on the other side. Syrus continues

on walking toward the forest.

Syrus enters the forest. ‘Synan took

the easy way! He probably already has his

first monster! I need to find one!’ Syrus thinks

to himself.

Syrus looks around the forest. Unlike

the rest of the island, the pathway here is

brown, normal dirt. There is also a lot of grass

growing around here. The trees and bushes are

so densely packed together. It was getting late

now, and the forest is so dark. Syrus sees

a faint glimmer of light, reflecting off the moon.

Syrus takes a close look at the light.

It is a monkey-like monster with oversized

eyeballs. A monster! Syrus throws an ideya

marble at it before it knows what happened.

The marble bounces off as a blinding

light exits from it. The light engulfs the monster

into a large ball of light. The light then returns

to the Ideya Capture.

“These things really work!” Syrus

says.

Syrus decides he should probably

make camp for the night, but he can’t stop

finding monsters to capture. He continues on

down into the forest.

After a while of walking, Syrus gets

into such a deep section of the forest. The

leaves overhead are covering up all the

moon light. Syrus is left in complete darkness.

Syrus continues on. He comes to

a four-way intersection. He turns to the left.

This pathway seems to go back in the opposite

direction he was coming from. It goes straight

into a solid wall of the mountain.

A child is standing here at the end of

the path. He is about ten years old. He looks

suspiciously like Synan.

“Hey! Thought you’d cheat and

follow me, did you? Nice try!”

The boy answers, “Who are you? You

obviously are mistaking me for someone else.

My name is Kail.”

“Kail, huh? What are you doing out

here?”

“I am searching for my brother Sage.

Have you seen him?”

“Sage? No, I haven’t seen him.” Syrus

answers.

“Oh, okay. Do you know Synan?”

Kail asks.

“Synan? Yeah, he’s here on this island.”

“Oh, that’s not good. This is all wrong.

Synan isn’t supposed to be here!”

“Why? What’s wrong with Synan?”

Kail ignores Syrus and runs down the

pathway and disappears into the darkness.

Syrus chases after him. “Wait!

Kail, come back!”

Syrus runs into the four-way intersection

and crashes into somebody, knocking both

of them down. Syrus gets up quickly.

“Kail! What made you stop?”

“Kail? What do you want with Kail?!”

The person stands up. In the faint moonlight

Syrus sees that this person is a girl. She is

around 12 or 13.

Syrus obviously just mobbed the

wrong person.