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“Welcome to The Land of No Return, Synan.”
The dark guard says.
“The Land of No Return?” Synan answers.
The guard ignores his question.
“Please remove any mirrors or throwable
objects.”
“What for?”
“Youll see. The monsters here HATE to
look at themselves, and the throwable objects
can be thrown at their large eyes.”
“I dont have anything.”
“Good.” The guard opens the gates. Synan
walks through. “Hey, kid. Never look back, or
you shall join the monsters.” The guard warns.
“Okay, but how?”
The guard ignores Synan and closes the
gate. Synan stands on a three-way intersection.
The pathway on the dark purple island are light
purple. To the left is a large river of lava between
a small pillar of mountains on the edge of the island
and a large volcanic mountain, to which the entrance
is in front of Synan. And to the right, Synan sees a
small circular structure and a large forest a little
further.
Synan decides to go to the right, toward
the forest. A voice behind him says, “Synan! Is
that you?”
Synan turns around and sees someone
from school. One of his worse enemies: Syrus.
Synan thinks Syrus is a poser wannabe. Synans
hair is dark and slightly messed up, mostly combed
forward, but Syrus has blond hair, messed up like
Synans.
Syrus looks at Synan. “I see you have
some of those Warp Marbles as well. We
both have ten open marbles now. Lets have
a contest. Lets see who can capture more monsters.
Our meeting place will be at the castle on the
other side.”
“Ill take the right.” Synan says.
“I dont think so, Synan. Youre taking
the left side, near Hells River.”
“No fair!”
“You want to make something of it?”
Synan sighs, “Left it is.”
“Good. I thought youd see it my
way.”
Syrus begins walking down the
path on the right, toward the forest. Synan
thinks, ..or maybe I can cut right through
the island! Synan walks up to the red doors
of the volcanic mountain in front of him. They
are locked. Synan cuts through the field toward
the left path, so as to not look back toward the
monster following him.
Shortly after, Synan comes to the
river of lava. Crossing the lava is a long narrow
board that is nailed to another about halfway.
When Synan steps on it, it sags toward the lava.
Synan tries to take it slow going across.
Half way out there, Synan hears a
crack. He speeds up, hearing much more,
louder cracking. Hes about five feet away
from the other side when the entire bridge
collapses. Hanging from the left side of the
river, Synan is surely doomed, for there is
nothing within reach that Synan can hang on to.
A hand at the top grabs Synans
wrist. Another hand grabs the other one.
They feel like human hands. Synan is pulled
up the side of the river canyon. Synan turns
to look at his rescuer. Its a girl Synans age.
It was Zoe.
“Zoe?” Synan says.
“Yes?”
“Uhh...Thank you.”
“No problem.”
“So how did you get here?” Synan
asks.
“Some Ico monster said I was
chosen to go to The Land of No Return.
Ive only been walking around here a day
now. Havent gone too far, though.”
A voice comes from the distance,
“Who goes there?”
Synan and Zoe stand and look in
the direction the voice came from.
“Show yourself!” Synan yells.
A figure walks out of the shadows
by the volcanic mountain. He looks like
a half-monster half-human. He has a yellow
helmet with a red diamond-shaped ruby.
His head underneath is short, with long,
demonic eyes stretched across it.
The rest of his body seems normal.
“So. I see you two made it across
the Hells River, eh?” He says.
“Who are you?” Zoe asks.
“My name is James. And you must
be Zoe, here with Synan.”
“How do you know our names?”
Zoe asks.
“Everyone here does. We get
our sources from Veronica. She knows
everything.”
“Veronica?” Synan asks.
“Thats what I said. But you
wont ever meet her, because Im here
to stop you two!”
Synan and Zoe prepare for
battle. James screams a while and then
a golden flame-like power field appears
around him, like his whole body is just
a flame.
“Youre outnumbered, James!”
Zoe yells.
“But I have more power than
fifty men. I am a mega-monster!”
“A mega-mo--?” Synan is
interrupted when James suddenly
attacks him. Synan is launched into
the side of the volcano. Zoe gets hit,
too, and thrown into the volcano.
“Ha. You kids are no challenge
at all to me.” James says. James is
about twelve, a year older than Synan
and Zoe. James flies over the volcano,
cutting through the middle of the island.
“Come on, Synan.” Zoe says
wearily, “I have a camp set up ahead.”
They go to a campground with
some other survivors, and sent to a small
medical lab.