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Synan sits in his back yard looking at
the sky. He then sees a comet-like object fall
into the atmosphere and stops in the clouds.
He doesnt pay too much attention to it, though.
The next morning, Synan wakes up and eats
breakfast.
“Synan, will you go shopping for me
in town? Heres $20.”
“But mom, I want to go check out that
comet!”
“Tough.”
“But it didnt come down yet!”
“It probably did--you werent out there
long enough.”
“...!”
“You can look at it on the way there.
Now go, Synan, or youre grounded.”
“Oh, okay.”
Synan leaves the house and walks through
the fields toward Vatican City. The comet is still
in the clouds.
“Weird...” Synan says. Synan only knows
a few people in the neighborhood. A friend from
school, Zoe, has been missing for four days.
Synan enters the city. He goes to the
first shop. As he enters, a shady old man standing
behind a counter greets him.
“Hey Synan! Nice to see you!”
“Oh, hi. Do I know you?”
“Actually, no. Im a friend of your mothers.”
“Oh okay.”
“Well, I wanted you to check out my new
invention. I call it the Warp Marble. Why? Youll
understand when Im done.”
The old man leads Synan to the back room.
“Watch...” he says after a short pause. The
old man pulls out a red glass marble. In the center
of the marble is a white thousand-point star shape.
The old man throws the marble toward a
rat in the corner. It hits the rat and bounces off. A
white beam shoots out of the center and hits the rat.
The rat lights up white and shape-shifts to the rest
of the beam. The beam is sucked back into the marble.
The marble hits the ground and bounces back into
the old mans hand.
“Now watch...” The old man says.
He then throws the marble back to the ground.
It bounces up and the process is reversed. The
marble hits the ground and bounces back into
his hand.
“Youre mother will love these! Heres
ten of them.”
“Thanks.” Synan takes the ten marbles
and leaves the store. A crowd ahead runs through
the streets screaming, as if theyd seen a ghost.
Synan goes on to investigate. As he leaves the
city, the exit furthest from his home, a short
monkey-like creature approaches him. As Synan
looks down, the monster looks up at him. Its
head is half the monsters height, and its eyes cover
its whole face. Its head is shaped like two balloons
merging. Frightened of it, Synan kicks it right in
the face as a reaction. The creature runs away
holding its face.
“Take that you ugly thing!”
Synan walks on. He soon sees a monster
about his size--the height of an eleven-year-old,
about 4 3”.
“You have been banished to The Land
of No Return, Synan, under orders of Lord
Wizeman!”
“What? Why?”
Before the monster can respond, a large
shadow appears over Synan. He looks up, and
sees that the comet is above him. Soon enough,
Synan is paralyzed and floating toward the island,
unable to speak or move. Is this what happened
to Zoe?
Synan awakes on land of purple soil.
He is in a small area with three walls and two
guard towers, complete with a guard wearing
dark purple uniform. Synan gets to his feet and
looks at the side without a wall--the edge of this
obviously floating island. Synan stares at the
world he left behind. The guard behind him speaks,
“Oh, so youre awake.”
“Where am I?”
“Im getting to that. Well, you have been
out a long time. Three days now.”
“Three days?”
“Welcome to The Land of No Return,
Synan.”
The Land of No Return? Synan thinks.
Maybe this is where Zoe vanished to. Obviously,
because, if you dont return from here, that explains
it