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Syrus walks closer to the book Mr. I
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holds in his hands. It looks in every way like a
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normal Linking Book, except... the letters on its
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cover are written in silver, not gold. The title says
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“Mystery Book.”
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“So what is a mystery book?” Syrus asks.
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“A Mystery Book? You never know what
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they’re gonna do. They could warp you to any
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location, they could bring evil demons into the world.
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You never really know.”
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“Cool!” Syrus snatches the book and opens
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it. The image inside is fuzzy and you can’t make out
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anything in it. Syrus puts his hand on the picture and
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links away. He appears in a forest. He’s not quite
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sure where he is. Syrus looks around. It is a dark,
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thick forest. A fog is blowing through. Syrus walks
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through the woods for a little while and soon comes
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to a place where the path splits into four.
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To the left and straight ahead is just more
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forest. Syrus looks to the right and sees the end of
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the forest. Syrus decides to go to the right. Soon
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enough, he is out of the woods.
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When he gets out, he looks around. He sees
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the edge of the Volcano of No Return. He finally
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made it to the other side of Monk Forest! Syrus
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takes out an Ideya Capture and drops it. Mr. I
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quickly returns to him.
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“Okay, Mr. I. Where am I now?”
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“You’re in the intersection between Monk
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Forest and Orb Lake. Hey, what’s that??” Mr. I
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points to a small bush just at the edge of the forest.
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Syrus goes over to investigate. The monster looks
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just like a tiny Ico.
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“Hey there little guy!” Syrus says. The tiny
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creature gets up and runs for its life. Syrus whips
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an Ideya Capture at it and knocks it unconsious.
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The monster is then sucked into the marble.
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“Yeah! I got an Ico!”
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Syrus releases Ico from its Ideya Capture.
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“Hey Ico! What’s up?”
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Ico is being really quiet.
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Mr. I suggests, “Maybe Ico is really
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scared of something. He’ll eventually get over
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it.”
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“Okay, good.” Syrus puts Ico back in
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his Ideya Capture and continues walking down
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the fuchsia pathway.
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Shortly, they arrive at a large lake of
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crystal clear water. There is a long rope-bridge
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stretched across the lake. Syrus walks about
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half way across the bridge and stops to look
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around. It appears there are many life forms in
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the water, travelling around. Syrus looks closer.
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Syrus spots a monster that looks very
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much like a large tadpole. Orbiting the lake,
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hovering above the water, are millions of little
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glass balls full of a yellow electricity.
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“What are all these things?” Syrus asks.
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“The tadpole one,” says Mr. I, “is called
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Octa. And it’s evolved form,” Mr. I points to a
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large rock sticking out of the water, “the octopus-
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like one, is Octo.”
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Syrus looks at Octo. Octo looks like a
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strange four-tentacled octopus. It has two long
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eyes and a unibrow-like thing, and a small red
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circular crystal on its forehead.
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Mr. I continues, “Those monsters that
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are orbiting the lake are called Orbs. And look
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at that one!” Mr. I points out an Orb that is
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colored blue instead of yellow. “That is a very
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rare monster, called the Blue Orb. Only one of
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them is born every 100 years.”
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“Born? How in the he--?”
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“Shh! No questions!”
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“Heh.”
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Mr. I continues, “And that pink jelly-fish
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thing flying through the air is named Jelly-Fly. It
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has the greatest healing powers of anything on
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Earth, or in space, or anywhere, really.”
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“Sweet! I gotta catch one!” Syrus whips
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an Ideya Capture into the water. It captures an
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Octa and returns to his hand. He takes out another
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Ideya and whips it into the water. It dosen’t capture
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anything and returns to his hand.
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Syrus then throws an Ideya Capture at
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an Octo and captures it. Syrus then spots the
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Blue Orb. He wants to make sure he gets it, so
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he’s very slowly calculating when and where he
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should throw the Ideya. Soon, he throws it and
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he captures the Blue Orb!
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Syrus then tries to capture the Jelly-Fly
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hovering around them. He whips an Ideya up at
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the Jelly-Fly. The monster swerves to avoid the
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marble.
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“Damn!”
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The Ideya Capture then starts to fall from
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the sky, hitting Jelly-Fly on its way down.
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“Good job, Syrus!” Mr. I says. “You’ve
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used up nine of your ten Ideya Captures already!”
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“Yeah, and it’s only my second day too!”
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Syrus looks ahead and sees Wizeman’s
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Castle.
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“And it looks like I’m going to win the little
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bet I made with Synan, also!”
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