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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 doesn’t 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? Here’s $20.”
+
+“But mom, I want to go check out that
+
+comet!”
+
+“Tough.”
+
+“But it didn’t come down yet!”
+
+“It probably did--you weren’t out there
+
+long enough.”
+
+“...!”
+
+“You can look at it on the way there.
+
+Now go, Synan, or you’re 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. I’m a friend of your mother’s.”
+
+“Oh okay.”
+
+“Well, I wanted you to check out my new
+
+invention. I call it the ‘Warp Marble’. Why? You’ll
+
+understand when I’m 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 man’s 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.
+
+“You’re mother will love these! Here’s
+
+ten of them.”
+
+“Thanks.” Synan takes the ten marbles
+
+and leaves the store. A crowd ahead runs through
+
+the streets screaming, as if they’d 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 monster’s 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 you’re awake.”
+
+“Where am I?”
+
+“I’m 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 don’t return from here, that explains
+
+it’

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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?”
+
+“You’ll see. The monsters here HATE to
+
+look at themselves, and the throwable objects
+
+can be thrown at their large eyes.”
+
+“I don’t 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. Synan’s
+
+hair is dark and slightly messed up, mostly combed
+
+forward, but Syrus has blond hair, messed up like
+
+Synan’s.
+
+Syrus looks at Synan. “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.”
+
+“I’ll take the right.” Synan says.
+
+“I don’t think so, Synan. You’re taking
+
+the left side, 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
+
+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. He’s 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 Synan’s
+
+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. It’s a girl Synan’s 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.
+
+I’ve only been walking around here a day
+
+now. Haven’t 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 Hell’s 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.
+
+“That’s what I said. But you
+
+won’t ever meet her, because I’m 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.
+
+“You’re 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.

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+Synan and Zoe are soon fully healed.
+
+They hang out at the camp for a while later.
+
+Soon, Synan says, “We need to get back out
+
+into The Land of No Return. I’m in a competition
+
+against Syrus to catch more monsters than he
+
+does. So we need to get out and catch them.”
+
+“I have ten marbles,” Zoe says, “But I
+
+only have one monster.”
+
+“You already have one? Cool. What one
+
+is it?”
+
+“It’s name is Clawz.” Zoe reaches into
+
+her pocket and pulls out a red marble. She drops
+
+it and it bounces off the ground, releasing a
+
+lizard-like monster. This monster can stand on
+
+its hind legs. It is all red with an orange belly
+
+that goes between its legs and up the bottom
+
+of its long tail. It has circles on the heels of its
+
+feet which are also orange. The monster sits
+
+on the ground cleaning itself.
+
+“Nice monster!” Synan says, “Where’d
+
+you find it?”
+
+“Inside the volcano. Before the monsters
+
+kicked me out.”
+
+“We need to find more monsters. This
+
+is the first one I’ve seen so far.”
+
+“Okay. Let’s go.” Zoe says.
+
+They leave the camp and get back to
+
+where they were fighting James. Two dead monsters
+
+are here--the ones that were following them. They
+
+are brown and were carrying a purple eyeball
+
+with spirals on it. Their eyes are in the front. Their
+
+hands are on top of their head like antennas.
+
+“Well, that battle got these monsters off
+
+our back. I wonder where James is now...” Zoe
+
+says. They walk on down the path toward the left.
+
+James watches them from a rock on the volcanic
+
+mountain.
+
+Synan and Zoe come to a dark blue mountain
+
+near the edge of the island. They’re coordinates now
+
+are 9:00. They started at 6:00, so they are about
+
+one-fourth around the island. The door to the cave
+
+is ice-blue. The door is locked. Next to it is a small
+
+monster about one foot tall. It is round, with tiny
+
+pointy legs. It’s eyes circle it like a belt. On it’s head
+
+is a silver horn.
+
+“What do you want, humans?” It says
+
+threateningly. Clawz is still out of its marble.
+
+“Can we enter the cave? We need to
+
+capture monsters.” Synan says.
+
+“Well too bad!”
+
+“Let us in! Or we’ll kill you!”
+
+“Wish I could let you into the cave, but
+
+I don’t have the key to the Ice Barrier.”
+
+“Ice Barrier?” Zoe says.
+
+“Yes. There are seven barriers on this
+
+island. The Fire Barrier opens the red door to
+
+the volcano. The Ice Barrier opens the blue door
+
+on this cave. The Earth Barrier opens the door
+
+on the mountain ahead. The Star Barrier opens
+
+the door to Wizeman’s Fortress. The Thunder
+
+Barrier opens the door to the Lightning Palace
+
+on a floating island. The Flower Barrier opens
+
+a door to Monk’s Hidden Garden, and the
+
+Warp Barrier can warp you clear way across
+
+the island. That’s all I know. I think the Warp
+
+Key can be used for some other things, though.”
+
+“Well, where is the Ice Key?” Zoe asks.
+
+“Last I knew, the Monks took it to their
+
+Hidden Garden.”
+
+“Where is that?” Synan questions.
+
+“From here, its on the other side of the
+
+volcano. The entrance goes into the volcano from
+
+Monk’s Garden. The Ice Key is inside the Flower
+
+Barrier. When they stole our key, we stole their
+
+key.”
+
+The monster holds out a silver key. It’s
+
+handle is a colored metal flower. It’s pedals are
+
+yellow, and the inside is a light orange. “Oh, I
+
+almost forgot to mention my name. My name is
+
+Prisem. Well, here’s the Garden Key. You better
+
+bring the Ice Key back with you.”
+
+“We will.” Synan says. They take the key
+
+and go on.

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+Synan and Zoe walk on with the Garden
+
+Key that Prisem gave to them. A little further
+
+down the path, and the pathway splits into two:
+
+Forward and to the left. To the left, there is a
+
+large circular building. There is no roof, and the
+
+top is lined with large arches. In each arch is
+
+a music pedestal, with a book in each. Every
+
+book is closed.
+
+Synan and Zoe walk into the building.
+
+In the center is a girl, about twelve years old.
+
+She sits at a desk, writing. The girl notices them
+
+come in, and slides a book to the end of the desk
+
+closest to Synan and Zoe. Zoe takes the book.
+
+The cover is brown leather. In gold, a title is
+
+across the front. It reads “Book Temple”. Zoe
+
+opens it.
+
+“Here is where the second victim of
+
+The Land of No Return, after James, writes
+
+books of power for uses by Lord Wizeman.
+
+This book temple was created as a studio for
+
+Sarah, a twelve-year-old bookwriter. These
+
+books of power vary from books that transport
+
+you from place to place or world to world. They
+
+can also summon demons from the other world
+
+to wreak destruction among the Earth which we
+
+are so powerfully taking over.”
+
+Zoe turns the page.
+
+“If anyone whosoever uses any of these
+
+books for their own purpose, they’re misdeeds
+
+will not go unpunished.”
+
+That’s the end of the book. Zoe places
+
+the book back on the desk. Synan is no longer
+
+in the temple. Zoe talks to Sarah.
+
+“Can you make us a book to warp to
+
+Monk Garden?”
+
+“No.”
+
+“Why not?”
+
+“You read the book. You cannot use
+
+these books for your own purposes.”
+
+“Please?”
+
+“No.”
+
+Synan comes into the room. “All right,
+
+girlie. Get us a book to Monk Garden.”
+
+“Like I just told your girlfriend, no.”
+
+“My girlfriend?!”
+
+“Either way. I don’t want you two to
+
+get into trouble with Lord Wizeman.”
+
+“But we’re stuck in this small quarter
+
+of the island!” Synan yells.
+
+“We are?” Zoe says.
+
+“Yes. We can no longer cross Hell’s
+
+River, and the Earth Barrier is all that’s ahead,
+
+which is also locked.”
+
+Sarah listens, “Okay. I’ll give you the
+
+book. Link at your own risk.”
+
+“Link?” Zoe asks.
+
+“That’s another word for Warp. The
+
+warp books link from your location to the
+
+location you’re going, so we just say Link.”
+
+Sarah opens a drawer in her desk
+
+and pulls out a book with a purple leather
+
+cover. In gold on the front says “Monk
+
+Garden.” Synan takes the book and opens
+
+it. On the first page is a small window. In
+
+the window is a camera view circling around
+
+a small clearing in the forest. There are black
+
+doors on the side of the volcano.
+
+“Touch the window to link.”
+
+Synan touches the window and vanishes,
+
+pixel-by-pixel it seems, but at a remarkable fast
+
+rate. The book falls a little and lands in Zoe’s hand.
+
+“Oh wait! Take this book with you. It’s
+
+a book to return here.” Sarah gives Zoe another
+
+purple book that reads, “Book Temple”. Zoe
+
+holds it under her arm and uses her free hand to
+
+press down on the picture of the Monk Garden book.
+
+Zoe vanishes. To her, since she is transporting pixel-
+
+by-pixel, half of her is at point one, half and point two.
+
+Her vision is slowly transported to point two.
+
+Zoe quickly joins Synan at the garden, holding
+
+the purple Book Temple linking book. They went clear
+
+across the island. There a many monks here. Zoe lets
+
+Clawz out to battle them. Soon, they have a Monk
+
+unconscious. Synan throws a marble and catches the
+
+Monk. Another Monk says, “Hey! That’s an Ideya
+
+Marble! How’d you get it?”
+
+“So old guy on Earth.” Synan answers.
+
+The monk notices the Flower Key in Zoe’s
+
+pocket. “You brought the Flower Key! Hey guys!
+
+The Flower Key is back!”
+
+“It’s not for you! Not unless you give
+
+us the Ice Key!”
+
+“Oh. Give us the key and we’ll get you
+
+the Ice Key!”
+
+“I don’t trust you. Come on, Synan!”
+
+Zoe walks up to the black door and
+
+opens it. A few petrified Monks run out as the
+
+door opens. “Oh, thank you for releasing me,
+
+humans!” The say.
+
+Zoe and Synan walk inside. The doors
+
+close, but its not dark. There is a faint red glow
+
+lighting up a beautiful underground garden.
+
+They walk down a staircase and enter a small
+
+room with a window looking out upon the lava
+
+in the volcano. Sitting here is a Monk sweating
+
+like a dog, using the Ice Key to cool himself
+
+off.
+
+“Give us the key!” Synan yells.
+
+“No way!” The Monk replies.
+
+“Why you cotton-picking little--”
+
+“Hold on.” Zoe interrupts.
+
+“What?” Synan says.
+
+“Nothing.”
+
+“Anyway, Monk, give me the
+
+key or suffer!” Synan says.
+
+“By who? You? Wahahaha!”
+
+“Yes!” Synan picks the Monk
+
+up by its tail. It scratches Synan across
+
+the face. In pain, Synan whips it out the
+
+window into the lava. Zoe takes the key.
+
+“Synan. It’s time to return to the
+
+Book Temple.” Zoe says.
+
+“Right.”
+
+Zoe holds out the book. Synan warps.
+
+Syrus comes up behind Zoe. “Zoe. Can I
+
+warp back, too?”
+
+“No way!”
+
+“Well, too bad. You’ll drop the book
+
+when you warp. Then I can pulverize Synan!”
+
+Zoe holds the book above the lava to
+
+warp. When she’s gone, the book falls into the
+
+lava.
+
+“Damn you!”

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+Synan and Zoe warped back into the
+
+Book Temple.
+
+“Synan! I saw Syrus!”
+
+“What did he want?”
+
+“He wanted to pulverize you!”
+
+“Crap! So does he have the book now?”
+
+“No. I let it fall into the lava.”
+
+Sarah stands up. “You better not have!”
+
+“Oops.” Zoe says.
+
+“Oops is right! I spent a long time on that
+
+book. It takes forever to get the things to work!”
+
+“We’ll repair it.”
+
+“Zoe, come on! Let’s get the Ice Key to
+
+Prisem!” Synan yells.
+
+“Okay. I’ll catch up.”
+
+Synan runs out of the building. Zoe hears
+
+a warping sound. Syrus appears.
+
+“Zoe. Where is Synan now?”
+
+“Umm...” Zoe signals to Sarah behind her.
+
+Sarah hands Zoe a book.
+
+“He went into this book!” Zoe holds the book
+
+forward. The cover reads, “Monster Village”
+
+“He’s cheating! He went there to capture
+
+more monsters than me!”
+
+Syrus steals the book and links.
+
+“Sarah, where did that book go anyway?”
+
+“To the entrance of the island. It was a trick.”
+
+“Oh.”
+
+“Now I need to get that book back that you
+
+almost left in the lava. I shall be gone a few days.”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+“So I’m gonna have you leave.”
+
+Zoe leaves the temple. Large gates close
+
+behind her. Sarah picks up the trap book and sets
+
+it on her desk. Then she picks the Garden Book off
+
+the floor and links. Zoe runs to catch up with Synan.
+
+At the blue cave, Zoe unlocks the door. They
+
+walk inside. The walls are lined with diamond-shaped
+
+monsters. They are like glass, full of small eyeballs.
+
+Prisem says, “Those are called Crystal.”
+
+“Cool!” Synan throws an Ideya and catches
+
+one. “Now I surely have more monsters than Syrus!”
+
+Synan and Zoe walk deeper into the cave and
+
+go underground on a ramp. They get into a small clearing
+
+with three exits: One leads to Crystal Cave, one to the
+
+north and one on the right. A voice comes from
+
+behind them. James.
+
+“You violated the rules of the book temple.”
+
+“Oh well!” Synan says.
+
+“And so now you are going to pay.”
+
+“Not this time!” Zoe yells.
+
+Zoe realeases Clawz, and Synan releases
+
+Monk and Crystal. James and the monsters fight
+
+each other. Monk and Clawz use Crystal as a
+
+shield when James does missile attacks. Clawz
+
+uses Fireball as his missile attack, and Monk only
+
+does melee attacks. Soon, James loses the battle.
+
+“Yes!!” Zoe yells.
+
+The monsters’ levels increased from defeating
+
+a mega-monster. Prisem soon arrives. “Thank you
+
+for getting me the key. I’d like to join your team.”
+
+“You get this one, Zoe.” Synan says.
+
+“Okay. You’re on the team from now on.”
+
+“Cool! I like you!”
+
+“Do you know your way around here?”
+
+Synan asks Prisem.
+
+“Yes. North leads to the basement of the
+
+Book Temple, the left goes to Emerald’s Crater,
+
+in the volcano.”
+
+“Let’s go to Emerald’s Crater. Maybe
+
+we can get even more monsters!” Synan yells.
+
+Zoe, Monk, Crystal, Clawz, and
+
+Prisem agree.

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+Zoe and Synan walk with Prisem down
+
+a dark hallway. Prisem is sure it leads to the
+
+volcano. After a short while, the pass a locked
+
+wooden door.
+
+“That door goes up to Skyber’s Fortress.”
+
+Prisem says.
+
+“What is a Skyber?” Zoe asks.
+
+“A thunderbird.”
+
+“Is the Thunder Barrier up there?” Synan
+
+asks.
+
+“Yes. Now let’s get moving.”
+
+They walk on a little further and the dark
+
+hallways light up red. Soon, they are in a room of
+
+unbearable heat. In the center is a large rock
+
+hanging by four powerful chains. On the rock are
+
+monsters that look like combinations of Prisem and
+
+Crystal.
+
+“This must be Emerald’s Crater.” Zoe says.
+
+“Yeah. It is, and those things out there are
+
+Emeralds.”
+
+In Emerald, Crystal is on top, held by
+
+Prisem’s electricity. They walk along the pathway
+
+around the side to a bridge that goes to the
+
+rock. They slowly cross the bridge and talk to the
+
+Emeralds. One Emerald decides to join Synan.
+
+Now Synan has Monk, Crystal, and Emerald,
+
+and Zoe has Clawz and Prisem.
+
+A shadow covers the rock. Synan and
+
+Zoe look up through the opening of the volcano.
+
+A large floating island hovers slowly across the
+
+top.
+
+“Prisem. What is that?” Zoe asks.
+
+“That’s called Sky Island. The Lightning
+
+Palace is on it, where you will need the Thunder
+
+Key.”
+
+“Cool...” Zoe says looking at it.
+
+In the dark shadow, James swoops
+
+down from the sky. He lands in front of them.
+
+“All right, kids. This time, you will NOT
+
+win!”
+
+“You and who’s army?” Zoe says.
+
+“Ico is here with me.”
+
+“Ico?” Synan asks.
+
+“That’s the monster who warped us here.”
+
+Zoe whispers.
+
+Up in the sky, the monster that warped
+
+Synan to The Land of No Return falls and lands
+
+next to James. Ico is all blue. His head is a sideways
+
+oval, divided down the horizontal middle. On the
+
+bottom of the divide is a cyclops eye. On Ico’s
+
+breastplates are black stars. Ico’s arms and legs
+
+are blue, with gray diamond-shaped elbowpads
+
+and kneepads. On its belly is a red W shape
+
+stretched across the front and back. Ico’s shorts
+
+a also gray.
+
+“Synan. Wizeman sees how long you
+
+and Zoe are lasting here. Much longer than
+
+expected. So I was commanded to defeat
+
+you.” Ico says.
+
+“Not a chance!”
+
+Synan’s Monk, Crystal, and Emerald
+
+with Zoe’s Clawz and Prisem, and all the
+
+Emeralds here team up to defeat James and
+
+Ico. Ico gets nearly defeated and flies away.
+
+James cowers out and follows.
+
+Afterward, Synan and Zoe leave the rock
+
+and go through a different tunnel away from the
+
+crater. They soon get to an underground village.
+
+There are lots of red cyclops monsters here.
+
+There is a space around their eyeball
+
+in the middle. They are shaped like an oval outline.
+
+On the upper-left and right sides sprout wings. Its
+
+feet are along the bottom. They have a horn at
+
+the very center-top of their heads.
+
+“Welcome to Mr. I Village!” Prisem says,
+
+mocking a tour guide.
+
+“So. I’m assuming these things are called
+
+Mr. I.” Zoe says. In the roof of this underground
+
+village is a small hole where the sky can be seen.
+
+A Mr. I approaches them.
+
+“So. I take it you two took the hard way
+
+to get here. Take this key to get here more
+
+easily next time.”
+
+Mr. I gives Synan the Fire Key. Zoe
+
+still has the Garden Key and Ice Key. The Fire
+
+Key is red metal with a three-pointed flame
+
+symbol on the end. Now that they notice, the
+
+Ice Key is blue metal with a symbol at the
+
+end too. Its symbol is a small circle with lines
+
+extending from each end.
+
+“Well, now we have two of the elemental
+
+keys. Two to go!” Prisem says.

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+Synan and Zoe leave Mr. I’s village.
+
+In the crater, Sky Island finally passed over.
+
+Prisem leads Synan and Zoe back through
+
+the tunnel to Crystal Cave. So far, Synan and
+
+Zoe have the Garden Key, as well as two
+
+of the four elemental keys: Fire and Ice.
+
+Soon, they get back to the “crossroads”
+
+of the cave--Where you can go to the basement
+
+of the Book Temple, or go to the volcano, or
+
+go to Crystal Cave.
+
+“Let’s get back to the Book Temple!”
+
+Zoe says. Another Prisem runs down the stairs
+
+from Crystal Cave. “The Book Temple is still
+
+locked up.”
+
+“Oh. Then let’s get in through the
+
+basement!”
+
+“That might work.” Synan says.
+
+They go down the path to the basement of
+
+the Book Temple. Shortly after, they are there. The
+
+basement is full of little mechanisms. One looks like
+
+an ink producer. It must make the magic ink. Another
+
+machine makes the books and pages. Zoe and Synan
+
+climb up a ladder under a trap door. They got into
+
+the Book Temple.
+
+“We’re here. Where’d she go?” Zoe says.
+
+“I believe her name was Sarah.” Prisem says.
+
+“Whatever. She’s not here though.”
+
+“Then let’s use the books!” Synan says.
+
+Zoe opens a drawer in Sarah’s desk. It is full of books.
+
+All the books are of purple leather, and golden words
+
+on the cover. One catches Zoe’s eye: Skyber Fortress.
+
+In the picture, Zoe sees Lightning Palace on Sky Island.
+
+“Synan! Let’s use this one!”
+
+Zoe and Synan gather up their monsters. Synan
+
+goes in first, then Zoe follows.
+
+They are soon standing on a tall stone tower,
+
+like a plateau. There are many birds flying around. From
+
+a bird perched ahead of them, they can be described.
+
+The birds are all brown. They have long beaks,
+
+from which their eyes stretch away from. They have black
+
+diamond shapes on their foreheads, and three feathers
+
+sticking up on top of their heads. Since there are no other
+
+monsters here, they must be the Skybers, the birds of
+
+lightning. There are many other plateaus around here, all
+
+linked with bridges. This area is on top of the volcano,
+
+closer to Crystal Cave. On the right side, the
+
+entrance to Emerald’s Crater is visible. Synan
+
+and Zoe go into one of the structures, one that
+
+looks like a castle. Inside is a tougher looking
+
+Skyber. It is wearing a crown and a black
+
+bandanna around its neck. The Skyber speaks,
+
+“Let me guess. You came here for the
+
+Lightning Key.”
+
+“How’d you know?” Zoe wonders.
+
+“Let me see all the monsters you have
+
+captured.”
+
+Synan and Zoe release their monsters.
+
+“Good. Now I know you are not on
+
+the side of evil..” Skyber finally says after looking
+
+at Zoe’s Clawz and Prisem, and Synan’s Monk,
+
+Crystal, and Emerald.
+
+“Well. Here’s the Lightning Key.” Skyber
+
+gives Synan a key of yellow metal. Its end has a
+
+jagged lightning bolt symbol.
+
+“I’ll have some Skybers fly you up to
+
+Sky Island.”
+
+Synan and Zoe leave and some Skybers
+
+grab them and carry them off the ground. They land
+
+on the floating island. All that’s here is a stone
+
+temple. Synan unlocks the door and enters. In the
+
+center is a green pyramid-like crystal. When they
+
+approach and look through it, the side in the ground
+
+mirrors the side above. Along the walls are all kinds
+
+of writing. Zoe reads them aloud.
+
+“The Land of No Return: A small anti-world
+
+that originated from The World of No Return, a
+
+planet just outside Pluto’s orbit, the planet that humans
+
+call ‘Planet X’. The Land of No Return’s purpose was
+
+to capture those simple minded humans so that one of
+
+our most trusted monsters, Twilite, could morph them
+
+into more monsters, only the common ones, like Monk
+
+or Prisem.”
+
+Zoe continues reading.
+
+“The most powerful monsters on our island are
+
+Veronica, the ‘queen of the rock’, at level 1,000. Then
+
+there is the rare Myst, at level 5,000. The most powerful
+
+monster is yet to come. He was a boy from Earth, being
+
+genetically-engineered in Wizeman’s Fortress. This human
+
+is weak, but he has the power to become Deity, the most
+
+powerful being in the universe at level 1,000,000.”
+
+Zoe tries to read more, but the words are blurred.
+
+“Well, Synan. We’ve learned a lot here. There’s
+
+nothing more to do. Let’s go now.”
+
+“Oh okay. Right. We need to get the Earth Key
+
+still!”

Originals/Books/Synan/08-EARTH.txt

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+Synan and Zoe get a transport from Sky
+
+Island with help from the Skybers. Back on the
+
+center plateau on Skyber Fortress, Zoe notices
+
+that Sarah is back in the Book Temple. Synan notices, too.
+
+Synan walks into the throne room of the king of the Skybers.
+
+“Uhh, excuse me. Can Zoe and I get a ride back to the book temple?”
+
+“No.” The king replies.
+
+“What? Why not?”
+
+“Because I have a Linking Book to get you back there.”
+
+“Oh okay. Can we use that?”
+
+“Of course. Go find Zoe first.”
+
+Synan leaves and shortly returns with Zoe. They
+
+Link into the book and are back in the book temple.
+
+“Welcome back.” Sarah greets them.
+
+“Hi Sarah!” Zoe says.
+
+“So...” Synan says.
+
+“Oh yeah. Sarah, is there a book to get inside the
+
+Earth Barrier?” Zoe asks.
+
+“No. The ‘Earth Barrier’ is the green door. You mean,
+
+a book to get inside Illusion Cave, right?”
+
+“Umm... yeah, I guess.” Zoe says.
+
+“But, I don’t have a book like that. If you want,
+
+I can make one. It won’t take any later than a month.”
+
+“A month?!” Synan and Zoe say together.
+
+“We can’t wait that long!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Chill. I have the Earth Key here.” Sarah tells them.
+
+“......... You mean you had that key the entire time?!” Synan questions.
+
+“No. I got it from those Monks. They seem to collect these keys.
+
+They wouldn’t give me the Warp Key, though.”
+
+“You mean those Monks also have the Warp Key?!?!” Synan asks.
+
+“Yes.”
+
+“So... can you give us the Earth Key?” Zoe asks.
+
+“Sure.” Sarah gives them the Earth Key.
+
+“Okay! Time to get to that cave!” Synan yells.
+
+“See ya later, Sarah!” Zoe and Synan leave.
+
+They soon come to the cave, Illusion Cave. A lime-
+
+green door is bolted to one side. Synan fits the key into
+
+its hole. The door slowly opens. The blackness inside--It is
+
+so black, that the light shining in from outside is sucked too
+
+far in for effect.
+
+“Whoa. I wonder what could be in there...” Zoe asks.
+
+“Let’s find out.”
+
+Synan and Zoe take a few steps into the blackness.
+
+The green doors slam and lock behind them, leaving them
+
+in complete blackness.
+
+“What if we get lost in here?” Synan
+
+wonders, worrily.
+
+“I know!” Zoe yells. Her voice echoes
+
+through the dark hallways.
+
+Zoe appears to be throwing something.
+
+Soon, a bright flash shows what she threw: an
+
+Ideya Marble. The flash becomes a--Skyber!
+
+In the dark, the Skyber’s black crystal glows
+
+a lightning-yellow. It lights up the hallways.
+
+“Good idea, but, where did you get
+
+that Skyber?” Synan says.
+
+“I got it while you were talking to the
+
+king of the Skybers.”
+
+“Oh.”
+
+They walk on down the hallway.
+
+At several places, there are intersections that
+
+split off into different directions, most lead to
+
+dead ends. They pass by one intersection and
+
+Zoe looks down the hall to the left, Skyber
+
+perched on her shoulder.
+
+“Synan...look at this...”
+
+Synan and Zoe look down the tunnel.
+
+Along one wall there is a little girl curled up in
+
+a ball. She is about six or seven years old.
+
+Zoe goes in to help.
+
+“Hi, my name is Zoe. What’s yours?”
+
+“...Elsie”
+
+“Okay. What are you doing in a place
+
+like this?”
+
+“I got lost. My family is probably worried
+
+about me.”
+
+“Which way did your family go?”
+
+The little girl points down the hallway.
+
+“Well. We’ll help you find them.”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+Elsie stands up. The three begin walking
+
+down the hallway. Elsie jumps on Synan’s back.
+
+“Give me a piggy-back ride!!”
+
+“Umm okay.” Synan says. Zoe smiles
+
+mockingly at Synan.
+
+They walk down millions upon millions
+
+of twisting, turning tunnels. They turn down one.
+
+Synan and Zoe look at eachother for a second,
+
+not paying attention to the hall ahead of them.
+
+Elsie covers her eyes.
+
+“What?” Zoe says quietly. Zoe and
+
+Synan look forward. There is a little ghostlike
+
+monster about eight feet ahead of them.
+
+It’s head is shaped almost like a
+
+hornet’s. The top of its head is round with
+
+tiny, catlike ears. It has large eyes. In its misty
+
+form, they almost appear blue. Its body is
+
+almost like a cat’s, except it has larger claws
+
+on its hands, but none on its feet. None in
+
+appearance, anyway. Its tail is about as long
+
+as it is tall.
+
+It makes a high-pitched sound and
+
+turns to fly away. It is soon gone in the
+
+darkness.
+
+“What the h--?” Zoe covers Synan’s
+
+mouth before he can finish. Zoe whispers,
+
+“Don’t swear around the kid!”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+“What was that thing?” Elsie asks.
+
+“I’m not sure. It looked like a ghost.”
+
+“I hate ghosts!” Elsie cries on the
+
+thought of being lost in a haunted maze.
+
+“Great going, Synan!!” Zoe smacks
+
+the back of his head, “You made the kid cry!”
+
+“Oh boy.”
+
+“Well, try to shut her up!” Zoe yells.
+
+“You’re the only one who knows how
+
+girls act! You shut her up!”
+
+“Well I didn’t make her cry!”
+
+Zoe and Synan keep fighting.

Originals/Books/Synan/09-ILLUSION.txt

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+Zoe and Synan eventually quit fighting.
+
+Elsie is sitting against a wall, still crying.
+
+“Elsie. I’m sure it wasn’t a ghost we
+
+saw. I bet it was just another monster.”
+
+“I hate monsters too!”
+
+Elsie is getting worse.
+
+“Oh, did I say monster? I meant
+
+Animal. It was probably Skyber’s stone
+
+that made the monster appear clear.”
+
+“Yeah, you’re right.” Synan
+
+says. Elsie finally stops crying.
+
+“Did we make her stop?” Synan
+
+asks.
+
+“Uhh, no. She fell asleep.” Zoe
+
+answers.
+
+“Oh great. Now we need to carry
+
+a sleeping kid around with us.” Synan asks.
+
+“Looks like it.”
+
+“Can’t we just use an Ideya?”
+
+“No! You don’t capture humans in
+
+those things!”
+
+“Uhh, oh yeah.”
+
+Synan ends up having to carry the
+
+sleeping body around the tunnels. “Man,
+
+this sucks.”
+
+Over Synan’s shoulder, Elsie opens
+
+her eyes and winks at Zoe, then closes them
+
+again. Zoe slightly laughs.
+
+“What’s so funny?”
+
+“Oh nothing...”
+
+“Riigghht...”
+
+Synan and Zoe come to a lit up room.
+
+Inside, there are large piles of gold everywhere.
+
+Zoe notices an odd metal device dangling from
+
+the ceiling. Elsie suddenly springs to life and
+
+runs through the piles of gold.
+
+“Ohh, I get it. Elsie was faking.” Synan
+
+says.
+
+Synan goes through a pile of gold.
+
+He sees a weird golden knife.
+
+“Zoe, look at this.”
+
+No answer.
+
+Synan turns to where Zoe was. She’s
+
+not there.
+
+“Elsie?”
+
+“Yes?”
+
+Elsie is behind Synan on the pile of golden
+
+artifacts.
+
+“Where did Zoe go?”
+
+“How am I supposed to know? I’m only
+
+seven.”
+
+“Age has nothing to do with that question!”
+
+“Sure it does.”
+
+Synan looks across the room for Zoe. He
+
+turns back to talk to Elsie. She is gone, too.
+
+“What’s going on here?”
+
+“Nothing is. Why, do you think this is, how
+
+shall I put it, weird?” A voice says.
+
+“What?!” Synan turns to the voice. Nothing
+
+is there.
+
+“So, Synan. I was assuming you were the
+
+most powerful of the group. What were you doing
+
+hanging around a bunch of girls anyway?”
+
+“They’re my friends.”
+
+“Oh sure they are.”
+
+“You want to fight me?”
+
+“With honor.”
+
+Synan gets punched in the face, flying back
+
+into the pile of gold. Synan grabs a golden cylinder
+
+and throws it in the direction the punch came from.
+
+“Ahhhhh!!” It screams.
+
+Synan gets up and punches. He misses. He
+
+is then elbowed from behind.
+
+“What are you?!” Synan asks.
+
+“Another human like yourself.”
+
+“That can’t be true!”
+
+“Oh, but it is. I am a master of illusion. Watch
+
+this.”
+
+Synan is engulfed in flames. Synan doesn’t
+
+feel any pain whatsoever.
+
+“What?”
+
+A giant axe on a chain appears about thirty
+
+feet from Synan. It swings on the chain. Synan can’t
+
+tell if its real or not, so he ducks. The axe passes him,
+
+then swings off its chain and slices through Synan.
+
+Synan looks down, and there is a giant slit on his
+
+stomach. Blood is gushing out of it. Synan crouches
+
+in pain.
+
+“Ha ha ha. I thought you were stronger than
+
+that.”
+
+“Show yourself!” Synan screams.
+
+A figure of a person appears. It is clear,
+
+bending the light, almost like molded glass.
+
+The glass turns into mirror-like material,
+
+reflecting everything. The mirrors fade and the
+
+person standing in front of Synan is--Zoe.
+
+“Zoe?”
+
+“You weak minded child. It is also a
+
+hologram.”
+
+Zoe lights completely white and and when
+
+the light fades, it is the most horrible sight Synan
+
+had ever seen. It looks like a demon. Its skin is
+
+all read, its got bat-like eyes, wings, and webbing
+
+between its fingers.
+
+Synan covers his eyes. When he looks
+
+again, nothing is there.
+
+“Once again, that was a hologram.”
+
+“You coward!”
+
+“A coward I am not. Perhaps I’ll let you
+
+get a little stronger before you fight me again.”
+
+A door appears in front of Synan. Something
+
+pushes Synan through it, and then the door closes.
+
+Synan is outside. Here with him is Zoe and Elsie.
+
+“What happened?!” Zoe yells. Synan looks
+
+like he got beat up. The cut in his stomach: gone.

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+Zoe, Synan, and Elsie walk down the
+
+fuchsia pathway that leads away from the
+
+cave’s exit.
+
+“So, Synan, what really went on in
+
+that room?”
+
+“Some invisible guy pulverized me.”
+
+“Was it Syrus?” Zoe laughs.
+
+“No. I don’t know who it was.”
+
+Elsie is riding on Synan’s back again.
+
+Skyber is back in its ideya.
+
+So far, Zoe’s monsters are Clawz,
+
+Prisem, and Skyber, and Synan’s are
+
+Monk, Crystal, and Emerald.
+
+Elsie looks back. “Look!”
+
+Zoe and Synan look back. On top
+
+of the cave is the mist-like monster they
+
+saw in the cave.
+
+Zoe looks forward. “Synan, look!”
+
+Synan looks forward. Ahead of them
+
+is a large castle surrounded by a lava moat.
+
+Elsie gasps and jumps off Synan’s
+
+back. Elsie runs toward the side of the volcano,
+
+to a small camp site. There are two people
+
+already there, a man and a woman. They must
+
+be Elsie’s parents.
+
+“Thank you, Synan and Zoe, for
+
+bringing me back to my parents.”
+
+Elsie’s parents walk over to meet
+
+Synan and Zoe.
+
+“Hi. My name is Logan, and my wife’s
+
+name is Alisha.” The father says.
+
+“We’re Synan and--” Synan says. Zoe
+
+interrupts, “And Zoe.”
+
+“Nice to meet you.” The mother says.
+
+“Here, Elsie. Take this book. If you
+
+touch its picture, it will bring us to you, whenever
+
+you want.” Zoe says.
+
+“Thank you.”
+
+“You’re welcome.”
+
+“Well, its been nice meeting all of you,
+
+but we gotta go now.” Synan says.
+
+Synan and Zoe get back on the path
+
+and continue toward the castle. When they arrive,
+
+they see a familiar face sitting on a nearby rock
+
+playing GameBoy.
+
+“Syrus!” Zoe says.
+
+“It’s about time you got here, Synan.”
+
+“What?” Synan says.
+
+“I’ve been waiting for quite some time
+
+for you to arrive.”
+
+“Yeah, well, we had to help Elsie get
+
+un-lost.” Zoe says.
+
+“Zoe. I’m not talking to you, am I?”
+
+“...”
+
+“So anyway, Synan. What monsters
+
+do you got?”
+
+Synan releases all his monsters. Monk,
+
+Crystal, and Emerald.
+
+“Ha, ha, ha. Those have to be the
+
+weakest monsters!”
+
+Zoe releases her Clawz, Prisem, and
+
+Skyber.
+
+“Oh, so you got a Clawz. That’s a
+
+rare one-of-a-kind monster.” Syrus mocks.
+
+“But look at MY monsters!”
+
+Syrus throws TEN Ideya Marbles.
+
+Out of each one comes a monster. Ten
+
+monsters: Monk, Blue Orb, Wizeman,
+
+Jr. Ico, Emerald, Mr. I, Skyber, Octa,
+
+Octo, and Jelly-Fly.
+
+Synan’s mouth drops open.
+
+“And look. Ever seen one of
+
+these?” Syrus holds out what appears
+
+to be an Ideya but its blue instead of red.
+
+“These things will capture any monster
+
+without fail!”
+
+“Whoa!”
+
+“So, Synan. Ready to battle? You
+
+can use Zoe’s monsters too, if you think it
+
+will help. All my monster are level 58/100.”
+
+“Forget it, Syrus.”
+
+“Why, are your monsters at level
+
+3. Oh, no, that was too harsh. I meant to
+
+say negative 3.”
+
+“Hey Syrus! Close your eyes and
+
+press this little square down.” Zoe holds
+
+open a linking book. Syrus falls for it and
+
+links all the way back to the guard towers.
+
+“Sucker.” Zoe says.
+
+“So, this must be the castle of Lord
+
+Wizeman.” Synan says.
+
+“Yep. Must be.”
+
+Zoe releases Skyber and it
+
+carries Synan and Zoe over the wall of
+
+Wizeman’s Fortress. Inside the courtyard,
+
+they hear a linking sound from outside. Syrus’
+
+voice yells “Where did you go you brats?!”
+
+Zoe and Synan try to stop laughing.
+
+“Looks like he also had some linking
+
+books.” Zoe says.
+
+“That’s odd. Syrus has been to every
+
+place on the island, but we never saw him anywhere.”
+
+Synan says.
+
+“Yeah. It is weird, isn’t it.”
+
+Zoe and Synan walk to the center tower.
+
+They walk up the winding staircase to the top floor:
+
+Wizeman’s Keep. Zoe slightly opens the door to peek
+
+in. She hears a conversation going on so closes the door
+
+so that it is just open enough to hear what they are saying.
+
+The voices inside sound like Ico, Sarah, James, and the
+
+last one must be Wizeman himself.
+
+“What is Sarah doing all the way here?” Zoe asks.
+
+“I don’t know, but it looks like we’re going to find
+
+out.” Synan says.

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+Zoe and Synan continue eavesdropping on
+
+Wizeman’s meeting. Wizeman speaks.
+
+“Sarah. You’ve been to all the briefings. I
+
+specifically told all of you to destroy Synan, Zoe, and
+
+Syrus. Yet, they somehow escaped. At least James
+
+put in an effort to follow his orders. You, on the other
+
+hand, gave them access to your books.”
+
+“Yeah, Sarah!” James comments.
+
+“Seal it, James!”
+
+“Sir.”
+
+“So anyway, Sarah. Your misdeeds will not
+
+go unpunished!”
+
+“Yes sir.” Sarah replies.
+
+“We are going to link you into the Cage of Doom.
+
+You know, the black cage dangling over the lava in the
+
+volcano.”
+
+Sarah is silent.
+
+Zoe notices a book fell from its pedestal next
+
+to the door. Zoe opens it. It shows a black cage over
+
+the lava. Zoe hides the book and puts a different book
+
+in its place.
+
+Wizeman comes over to the book. Synan
+
+and Zoe scrunch against the wall. Wizeman picks up
+
+the book and walks back to the table.
+
+“Now, Sarah, Link into the book.”
+
+Sarah notices its a different book. Sarah warps.
+
+She warped to the Book Temple. She knows it was
+
+Synan and Zoe that helped her.
+
+The meeting is soon over. Everyone walks to
+
+the door. Synan and Zoe put one of their hands together.
+
+Between the other hands, they have an ideya marble.
+
+They but their other hands together and get warped
+
+inside. Soon, they hear the silence in the halls. They
+
+decide to return.
+
+They warp back, Zoe sitting on Synan.
+
+Zoe thinks for a second.
+
+“Ewe!!” Zoe jumps off Synan.
+
+Synan is clueless. Wizeman heard Zoe scream.
+
+Wizeman pulls the door open. Synan is against one wall
+
+and Zoe on the other, still appearing to be disgusted.
+
+It was obvious that Zoe was faking her disgustedness, but
+
+Synan was silent.
+
+Wizeman pulls the two into the Keep.
+
+“So. You two are the ones I was trying to annihilate,
+
+huh?” Wizeman is a combination of a few of the monsters.
+
+His head looks like an upside-down Monk head,
+
+with the wings and horn of Mr. I. Under Monk’s
+
+head is the top half of Prisem, upside-down though.
+
+The lightning beam from Prisem is connecting to
+
+Crystal, and lining the beam are four eyeballs with
+
+spikes on each side like an X-Y axis. They are the
+
+defense of Spyke. There is a purple stone with a
+
+black star on Wizeman’s forehead.
+
+“So, it looks like I’ll have to finish you two
+
+off.”
+
+Wizeman prepares for battle. A dark blur
+
+flies out of Wizeman’s purple stone. The black
+
+star is now gone, and in another place getting
+
+larger. It soon takes the form of a monster.
+
+It’s head is rounded and its body is like
+
+a human’s, with claws on its hands and feet. It
+
+has a thick, lizard-like tail.
+
+The blackness of this monster turns into
+
+a thirteen-year-old girl. She has dark hair and
+
+a purple T-shirt and shorts.
+
+“Wizeman! You have no time to battle
+
+these weaklings!”
+
+“What do you mean, Veronica?”
+
+Zoe and Synan remember reading that
+
+Veronica was the third most powerful being in
+
+the universe.
+
+“Sage is ready. Give him the command
+
+to destroy Earth, or he’ll get restless and destroy
+
+the entire universe!”
+
+“Synan,” Zoe whispers, “remember, Sage
+
+can turn into Deity, with a power level of one
+
+million!”
+
+“I know.” Synan whispers back.
+
+“So, Wizeman. Give Sage his orders quickly.”
+
+“But I have to fight these kids first!”
+
+“I hope you know what you’re doing, Wizeman.”
+
+“You better. I know what I’m doing.”
+
+Veronica turns into a shadow again and sinks
+
+through the floor.
+
+“So, kids. You want to die now, or get your
+
+planet blown up?”
+
+“Uhh....” Synan is speechless.
+
+“Too bad! You’re gonna die now!”
+
+Wizeman is about to attack and then the castle
+
+starts to rumble. Wizeman steps back. The floor under
+
+Wizeman cracks, and a large beam flies out of the
+
+floor, defeating Wizeman. The beam goes through the ceiling.
+
+“Synan! We better get out of here!”
+
+“Let’s go!”
+
+Synan and Zoe run down the crackling staircase.
+
+The stairs shatter and they fall down to the staircase below
+
+them. They finally escape the collapsing castle.
+
+Up in the air is a kid, about fifteen years old. The
+
+sky is dark.
+
+Veronica, in the human form, appears next to Synan.
+
+“Looks like Wizeman made the wrong decision. Our
+
+universe is at stake now.” Veronica says.
+
+“I’m assuming that is not a good thing.” Zoe says.
+
+“No. Sage will morph into Deity and destroy the
+
+entire universe.”
+
+Synan and Zoe are silent.
+
+Sage is wearing a long red cape, covering his
+
+body to his feet. His hair is brown. His clothes underneath
+
+the cape are black.
+
+Sage begins the transformation process.
+
+“This looks like the end.” Zoe says.
+
+“It’s been real nice knowing you this well, Zoe.”
+
+Synan says.
+
+Zoe looks at Synan. “What?” Zoe replies.
+
+Synan is silent as he watches Sage transform.

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+Synan, Zoe, and Veronica stand near the
+
+volcano in front of the collapsed castle, watching
+
+Sage’s transformation.
+
+“I suggest you run, kids! Run while you
+
+still can! I’m assuming your death will be less
+
+painful if you’re further away from Deity.”
+
+Veronica warns.
+
+Synan and Zoe run back the way they
+
+came. They run to Logan’s campground.
+
+Elsie greets them.
+
+“What’s happening?” Elsie asks.
+
+“Sage over there will soon transform
+
+into Deity, and then the universe is doomed!”
+
+Synan says.
+
+“What’s the safest way out?” Elsie
+
+asks.
+
+“The safest way, would probably be
+
+the half of the island we are familiar with.
+
+We’ll have to go back through Illusion Cave.”
+
+Zoe says.
+
+“What about the books?”
+
+“We lost the books. The last book
+
+we had is inside the castle. The castle is gone
+
+now.” Synan says.
+
+“As I can see.” Elsie adds.
+
+Elsie and her parents, Synan, and
+
+Zoe run for the exit to Illusion Cave.
+
+They get to the exit and run inside.
+
+The first room they enter is the Gold Room.
+
+A voice greets them.
+
+“Welcome back, Synan!”
+
+“Who are you?!”
+
+“My name is Joseph. Want to know
+
+what I look like?”
+
+“What?”
+
+“Well too bad! So, have you returned
+
+to fight me again?”
+
+“No. The island, no, the universe is
+
+in danger.”
+
+“Well, duh!”
+
+“So, we’re trying to escape.”
+
+“You cannot escape the universe.”
+
+Joseph laughs.
+
+“Whatever!” The group runs past
+
+where Joseph assumedly is. They run through
+
+the winding corridors toward the other side
+
+of the cave.
+
+They run further down, toward the
+
+Book Temple. They all enter. Sarah is not
+
+here. On the desk, there is a book with a
+
+note taped to it. The note reads,
+
+“I left this universe in a retreat to
+
+the other world. If you are wise, you should
+
+follow. I entered this black book.”
+
+Synan picks up the book. The picture
+
+is very dark, and hard to see anything.
+
+“Should we go, or stay to stop Deity?”
+
+Zoe asks.
+
+“I have a plan.” Synan says. The island
+
+is rumbling.
+
+“Elsie. You and your family, enter this
+
+book.”
+
+“Okay.” Elsie and her parents enter the
+
+book. Synan looks through the desk for a book
+
+to Earth. He soon finds it.
+
+“Zoe. Are you staying or going?”
+
+“I’ll stay.”
+
+“Alright, then. Enter this book to Earth.”
+
+“What about you?”
+
+“I’ll follow.”
+
+Zoe warps. Synan picks up the black
+
+book and then warps into the Earth book.
+
+Earth is rumbling when Synan arrives.
+
+They run through the city getting everyone into
+
+the other world. When the city is empty, Zoe
+
+warps. Synan soon follows.
+
+They all meet up in a dark cave in the
+
+other world.
+
+“Synan. I think this was really the
+
+Netherworld!” Zoe says.
+
+“Shh! You’re going to scare Elsie!”
+
+Synan whispers, “and besides, I brought
+
+the book to get back.”
+
+James appears in a hallway. He walks
+
+toward the large group of people.
+
+“So, I guess you two made it alive
+
+after all.” James says to Synan and Zoe.
+
+“James. You can help us save the
+
+universe!” Synan says.
+
+“Oh really. How would that be?”
+
+“Sage has not yet transformed. He is
+
+still human. You can use your mega-monster
+
+powers to stop him before it’s too late!”
+
+“...You got a point.” James says.
+
+“Then will you help us?”
+
+“Sure. Include me in the group.”
+
+“Alright. Let’s get back to the island!”
+
+Sarah walks in. She has a linking book
+
+back to the island.
+
+“Okay, everyone. Use this linking book
+
+to get back to Earth.” Synan tells the Earth people.
+
+“Warp back when the sky lightens up
+
+again.”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+Zoe, Synan, James, and Sarah warp
+
+back to The Land of No Return.
+
+They run to the site where Sage was
+
+seen last.
+
+“Now!!” Synan yells.
+
+James fires a laser beam up at the
+
+transforming Sage.
+
+“No! Don’t!” Veronica yells.
+
+The beam hits Sage.
+
+“What?” Zoe asks.
+
+“You’re just going to piss him off! If
+
+that happens, he’ll get worse and attack the
+
+refuge world!”
+
+“Uh-oh.” James says.
+
+“Look! He’s about to finish! Run
+
+for your lives!!” Veronica yells.
+
+“I hope we didn’t piss him off too
+
+much!” Zoe says.

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+Synan and Zoe run from the site where
+
+Sage is about to finish his transformation into
+
+Deity. Zoe summons Skyber to fly them over
+
+Illusion Cave. Synan sees the mystical monster
+
+from inside the cave slowly following them,
+
+keeping it’s distance. Skyber drops Zoe and
+
+Synan in the Book Temple. Sarah and James
+
+are already there.
+
+“How did you get here so fast?” Zoe
+
+asks.
+
+“It’s called a linking book!”
+
+“Oh yeah, right.”
+
+“We need to get away from this world
+
+before Deity destroys it!” Synan says.
+
+“Synan. I know how to stop Deity.”
+
+Sarah says.
+
+“How?”
+
+“In the other dimension, there is a
+
+powerful rock called the Star Stone. If each
+
+piece of the stone is united, you will have
+
+more power than Deity, and you will be
+
+granted one wish.”
+
+“Really...” Synan says, skeptically.
+
+“Really. Use this book to enter the
+
+Warp Room inside the volcano. The warp
+
+will get you to the other side.” Sarah says,
+
+and gives them a purple book.
+
+The title reads “Warp Chamber”
+
+Synan and Zoe warp. They soon
+
+enter a dark and gloomy room. A small
+
+square-shaped hole in the top allows red
+
+light from Emerald’s Crater above. A
+
+book to get to the Book Temple lies on
+
+a pedestal behind them. Ahead of them is
+
+a large circular stone structure with a silvery
+
+film-like material.
+
+Sarah warps into the room behind them.
+
+“I forgot to tell you something!”
+
+“What is it?” Zoe asks.
+
+“When you get to the other side, you
+
+will meet an undead monster. He is Unamed.”
+
+“Unnamed?” Synan asks.
+
+“No, his name is Unamed.”
+
+“Right...”
+
+“So anyway, he’ll guide you to the
+
+other dimension.” Sarah mumbles under her
+
+breath “I hope...”
+
+“What do you mean ‘guide’”? Synan
+
+asks.
+
+“You don’t just instantly get warped to
+
+the other side. You have to go through the Gap.
+
+It’s a complex maze. The maze is called the
+
+Eternal Corridor.”
+
+“Eternal?” Zoe asks.
+
+The ground in the room rumbles and the
+
+book to Book Temple falls off it’s pedestal.
+
+“I must return now. Please help us stop
+
+Deity. Find the Star Stone and get back here
+
+immediately!” Sarah says.
+
+“Alright. We will.” Synan says, almost
+
+too confidently.
+
+Sarah picks up the fallen book and warps
+
+back.
+
+“Okay, Zoe.” Synan says.
+
+“You go in first.”
+
+“No, you go in first!”
+
+“I told you to first!”
+
+“Well, you’re the girl so you go in!”
+
+“Well, if you’re brave enough, you’ll go
+
+in first.”
+
+“Alright. We both go at the same time.”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+Synan and Zoe hold hands and walk into
+
+the silvery water.
+
+They are soon standing in a large twisting
+
+tunnel. The floor is moving up toward the ceiling
+
+and the ceiling is moving toward the floor. They
+
+slip on the spinning tube.
+
+Synan gets up and starts pacing on the
+
+middle of the tunnel. Zoe is still slipping around
+
+on the tunnel’s wall.
+
+The entire area is multicolored and constantly
+
+changing. Synan looks up and down the tunnel,
+
+but sees nobody.
+
+“Are we the only one’s in here?” Zoe asks.
+
+“I think so.”
+
+“Umm... maybe you should think again.” Zoe
+
+looks down the tunnel. An odd squid-like monster
+
+comes flying toward them. They run away from the
+
+monster. They come to a room. The walls are lined
+
+with more spinning tunnels. They just came out
+
+from one of six in the room. On the floor and
+
+ceiling are also some spinning tunnels that go vertically.
+
+The monster is still after them.
+
+It’s head is round, but pointy on the bottom
+
+and goes to a sharp point on the top. It has six long
+
+thick tails with three red stripes spread across each
+
+one. The end of it’s tail is like a metal spike.
+
+Zoe and Synan decide to turn down another
+
+tunnel. Two more monsters are coming from it. They
+
+are soon surrounded. Zoe steps back and slips down
+
+into the tunnel on the floor. Synan tries to help her get
+
+up, but the spinning wall of the tunnel pulls him down,
+
+too. They fall down the tunnel and soon enter another
+
+room identical to the one they were in, but less squids.
+
+They continue falling through millions of the same room.

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+Synan and Zoe continue falling into the
+
+endless expanse. Somebody catches them and
+
+brings them into one of the rooms. Synan and
+
+Zoe look at their rescuer, and aren’t too
+
+delighted with what they see--a dead person.
+
+Synan and Zoe scream and almost fall
+
+back down the tunnel, but the thing pulls them
+
+back. It is wearing dark purple, torn up clothes.
+
+It’s arms look like a dead person’s. Under it’s
+
+hood in the darkness glows two red eyes. It
+
+is holding a dimly lit lantern.
+
+“H-h-hi...” Synan says, frightened of
+
+the thing.
+
+“Hello, I am Unamed. I have been dead
+
+here now for fifty seven years, fourteen months,
+
+and twenty-two days. Oh, and as of right...now,
+
+three hours, forty-six minutes and thirty seconds.”
+
+Zoe and Synan have a look of dread on
+
+their faces.
+
+“So anyway, did Melissa send you?”
+
+“Melissa? Who’s that?” Synan asks.
+
+“Duh! She’s the book writer from
+
+The Land of No Return!”
+
+“Uhh, I believe that would be Sarah.” Zoe
+
+says.
+
+“Oh, that’s right. Melissa was the book
+
+writer from the good old golden days. Why when
+
+I was your age...”
+
+“Please. We don’t need another old timer
+
+story. Just guide us to the other side.” Zoe says.
+
+“No, no, no. You have to hear my story.”
+
+Synan and Zoe have an evil look in their
+
+faces.
+
+“I had to walk twenty miles to school
+
+through ten feet of snow up hill both ways.”
+
+“Yes, yes, yes. We heard ALL the stories
+
+of the ancient Aztecs.”
+
+“Fine. Be rude. You can find your own
+
+way to the other side.”
+
+“No! We were just kidding!” Zoe says.
+
+“Oh, alright. I’ll get you to the other side.”
+
+“Yea!”
+
+Unamed guides them through millions of
+
+winding tunnels.
+
+“Where are all those squid things at?” Zoe
+
+asks.
+
+“Squids? Oh, I know what you’re talking
+
+about. Well, I’ve been here a number of times. I
+
+know their normal patrolling pattern. You shouldn’t
+
+have to worry about them.”
+
+“Okay, good.”
+
+They continue down more tunnels. The
+
+guide turns them down one tunnel and a large squid
+
+monster is there to greet them.
+
+“Uh-oh.” Synan says.
+
+“Let me fight this thing!!” Zoe throws an ideya
+
+marble.
+
+“No, don’t!” The guide yells.
+
+Clawz appears out of the marble and does
+
+a flame-thrower attack on the beast.
+
+“What?” Zoe says.
+
+“In each one of those tails is a powerful poison.
+
+The poison contains every single disease and virus known
+
+to your dimension and Jackal’s dimension!”
+
+“Jackal’s?” Synan asks.
+
+“Yes. The other dimension has been taken over
+
+by Jackal.”
+
+Synan is silent.
+
+“Who is Jackal?” Zoe asks.
+
+“I don’t know. He’s more powerful than the monster
+
+you know as Deity.”
+
+“Really?!” Synan says.
+
+“Yes. This squid here is more powerful than Deity.
+
+This squid has a power level of 9,999,999.”
+
+“Wow!” Zoe says.
+
+“It’s elemental types are, from main power to least
+
+power, Water, Psychic, Earth, and Fire.”
+
+“Wicked!” Synan says.
+
+“So, anyway. I don’t think this thing here is going
+
+to kill us. Let’s move on.”
+
+As Unamed is about to move, the squid whips
+
+a tail forward and pierces him. The other five tails follow.
+
+Zoe covers her eyes. One tail stops and stabs
+
+Clawz. After Unamed is assumedly dead, the monster
+
+stabs Clawz over and over.
+
+Clawz drops to the ground, lifeless. Zoe opens her
+
+eyes.
+
+“Noooooo!!!!!!!”
+
+The squid seems quite satisfied and moves on.
+
+Unamed gets back up. Clawz slips down into
+
+the spinning tunnel in the floor. Zoe watches in
+
+horror as her first monster ever plummets deeper
+
+and deeper in this eternal abyss.
+
+Zoe turns to Synan and mourns for the
+
+dead Clawz. Unamed looks down the spinning
+
+tunnel at the lifeless corpse of Clawz.
+
+“We have to go, Synan and Zoe.” Unamed
+
+says.
+
+“Okay.” Synan answers. “Zoe?”
+
+Zoe is asleep.
+
+“Alright, Zoe. I figured out when Elsie was
+
+faking it. It’s not going to work for you!”
+
+“Synan... she really is asleep.”
+
+Synan sighs. Unamed begins walking. Synan
+
+ends up carrying Zoe like he did Elsie in Illusion
+
+Cave.
+
+“The portal to the other side should be right
+
+ahead.” Unamed says.

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+Synan, Zoe, and Unamed continue
+
+walking through the Gap. After the brutal
+
+death of Clawz, Zoe is very quiet.
+
+“The exit should be right up ahead,
+
+guys.” Unamed says. They turn and walk
+
+down another tunnel.
+
+“There’s the exit!” Unamed says.
+
+“But, nothing’s there.” Synan says.
+
+“Exactly. The exits are always hidden.”
+
+“Oh.”
+
+“Come on. Walk through and get
+
+to the other side.”
+
+Synan and Zoe walk down the hall
+
+and soon vanish. They appear in the same room
+
+that they left. The book to get back sits on
+
+it’s pedestal ahead of them.
+
+“I don’t get it. We’re back where we
+
+started.” Synan says.
+
+Zoe just shrugs and picks up the book and
+
+warps. Synan follows.
+
+They both meet up in the Book Temple
+
+again.
+
+“Sarah!” Zoe says her first word in quite
+
+some time.
+
+“Zoe, I thought you and Synan were captured
+
+by Jackal.”
+
+“Who the hell?” Synan says.
+
+“You know, Jackal! The one who defeated
+
+Deity and took over the island!”
+
+“Jackal?” Zoe says.
+
+“Yes. So, how’d you escape?”
+
+“Well, we’re from the other dimension which
+
+Deity is about to destroy.” Zoe says.
+
+“And we need the Star Stone that only exists
+
+in this dimension.” Synan adds.
+
+“The Star Stone? I thought that was in your
+
+dimension.” Sarah says.
+
+“Our dimension??” Zoe says.
+
+A dark shadow appears at the gate to the temple.
+
+The shadow takes the form of Veronica.
+
+“Alright, Synan and Zoe. You thought you were
+
+going to get the Star Stone, right? Ha, you can’t fool me.
+
+I know everything!”
+
+“Then what happened to my Clawz?” Zoe says.
+
+“Your claws? What, did they break? Hahaha...”
+
+“You don’t know anything!!” Synan says.
+
+“Oh, okay. Three of the Star Stone halves are
+
+in your dimension. One is with me. The last one is with
+
+Jackal.”
+
+“Take us to Jackal!” Synan says.
+
+“I don’t know, Synan. If Jackal defeated Deity,
+
+it might not be too wise...” Zoe says.
+
+Sarah throws a book at Synan’s face. “There!”
+
+Synan opens a book. Inside is what appears to
+
+be the location of Wizeman’s Fortress, but there is a
+
+giant crater that goes out to where the lava moat was and
+
+in the center floats an island. Sky Island. But the Lightning
+
+Temple is now a small Castle.
+
+Syrus warps into the Book Temple.
+
+“Hey Synan!”
+
+“What are you doing here?!”
+
+“Do you think I could miss an adventure like this?
+
+No way!”
+
+“Why did you follow us?”
+
+“Because I could. I captured a really powerful
+
+monster back there in the Gap! Beat that, Synan! I bet
+
+you couldn’t even fight one!”
+
+“What monster is it?!” Synan yells.
+
+“I ain’t telling you!”
+
+“You better tell us!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Hey Zoe. Could you mind NOT entering our
+
+conversations uninvited?”
+
+Syrus takes out a purple book and warps.
+
+“Ha!” Sarah says, “That book must’ve been
+
+from your dimension. He just warped his little ass back
+
+there!”
+
+Synan and Zoe enter the book to Jackal’s Castle.
+
+They arrive next to the large crater.
+
+“Synan, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Zoe
+
+says.
+
+“We’re going to have to fight Jackal eventually to
+
+get that stone. Might as well be now.”
+
+“Okay. I hope you’re right.”
+
+“...me too.” Synan says. Zoe summons Skyber.
+
+Skyber flies them over the castle wall and into the
+
+courtyard.
+
+“Looks like this is the place...” Synan says.
+
+“Hey, look over there! In the corner!” Zoe yells.
+
+In the corner sets a pile of golden treasures and jewels.
+
+“Wow!” Synan’s eyes get real big as he dives into
+
+the pile.
+
+“Synan, wait!”
+
+“Come on, Zoe! It’s fu--” Synan chokes
+
+on one of the jewels. He manages to recover it.
+
+It is a small purple stone, about the shape of a
+
+cube. It’s edges and corners are rounded.
+
+“Cool!” Synan says as he pockets the
+
+jewel. Zoe pulls Synan out of the gold. They
+
+both stand at the entrance to the tower. Synan
+
+slowly opens the creaky door. Rust particles break
+
+off the old hinges as the door makes its way open.
+
+Inside is a familiar object: The green crystals that kept
+
+Sky Island floating.
+
+Along the walls are all the writings from the
+
+Lightning Temple. A locked gate prevents them from
+
+going higher in the tower, so they decide to go lower
+
+instead. They soon get to a small underground cavern.
+
+Steel bars are placed in the ground covering smaller
+
+caves.
+
+“Hey! Over here! Get us out!!” A voice says.
+
+Synan and Zoe go to the cage. The people inside look
+
+exactly like Synan, Zoe, and James.
+
+“James?” Synan says.
+
+“How do you know my name? Oh wait, everyone
+
+does! I was a real famous villain here. For a time, at least.”
+
+“Where is the key?” Zoe whispers to the Synan
+
+inside the cage.
+
+“I don’t know. Maybe Jackal has it.”
+
+“Jackal again. How powerful is Jackal?” Zoe asks.
+
+“More powerful than Deity, that’s all I know.”
+
+Synan notices that the Synan inside the cage has
+
+a necklace on. It’s a purple stone almost identical to Synan’s,
+
+but there is black leather holding it in place.
+
+“What is that purple stone?” Synan asks.
+
+“Hello! It’s called a Dark Stone! James has one. It
+
+gives you mega-monster powers. I still can’t figure it out,
+
+though.”
+
+“Dark Stone... Isn’t that what Wizeman had?” Zoe
+
+asks.
+
+“Wizeman had one. That’s how Jackal escaped into
+
+the world.” James says.
+
+“Well, we’ll try to get you out of there!” Zoe says,
+
+“Come on, Synan. We need to find Jackal.”

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+Synan and Zoe leave the dungeon and go
+
+upstairs. They soon get back to the main lobby.
+
+They continue walking. They pass many rooms
+
+that’s purpose is unknown. The stairway comes to
+
+an end.
+
+“What happened?” Zoe asks.
+
+“I don’t know. The staircase just ended.”
+
+“Hey, look!”
+
+In the darkness, a small green glowing
+
+object shows in one of the shadows. Synan
+
+touches the green light. It presses into the wall.
+
+The entire wall opens into the ceiling
+
+quickly. Synan and Zoe run through and it
+
+slams behind them.
+
+Synan and Zoe look forward into the
+
+room. It seems to go on forever. All the terrain
+
+is red and black, like a checkerboard.
+
+There are millions of steep pointy hills
+
+everywhere. A pitch black street navigates through
+
+the unknown land. They black pathway soon
+
+fades into the ungodly ground around it.
+
+“What is with this place?” Synan says.
+
+“Really. I didn’t think the castle tower
+
+was wide enough to hold such a landscape.”
+
+“Hey, what’s that?” Synan points toward
+
+one of the hills ahead of them.
+
+This hill is unlike the rest of them. This
+
+hill has a less pointy top, like a plateau. Atop the
+
+hill is a golden chair, like the throne of a king.
+
+Three floating objects circle the chair.
+
+They are like golden pots, but are filled with
+
+fire. Blue fire.
+
+“Uhh, hello!!” Synan yells.
+
+No answer from the mountain.
+
+“I don’t think they’re up there...” Zoe
+
+says.
+
+An evil jester-like laugh echoes through
+
+the area. Zoe and Synan glance back and forth,
+
+fully alert.
+
+“Synan! Up in the air!” Zoe yells.
+
+Synan looks up. In the sky above the
+
+throne is a head above a cape. The head has
+
+a purple face, and a red jester hat with four
+
+spikes. Three black stripes stretch down each
+
+spike. Golden bells dangle at the ends.
+
+The monster drops his cape, but it still
+
+hovers around his body. He doesn’t have a
+
+body. Purple hands and feet also float around.
+
+“Who are you?!?!” Synan yells.
+
+“I... am Jackal!” The monster responds.
+
+“So, you’re Jackal.” Zoe says.
+
+“But, what are you?” Synan asks.
+
+“The Evil Trickster from Beyond!”
+
+“What the hell?” Synan says.
+
+“Oh, I’m sorry. What part of that don’t
+
+you understand?”
+
+“Uhh...” Synan pauses.
+
+“Now, I assume you want a demonstration
+
+of my power. I have as much power over this world
+
+as a human has over their dreams. If they’re lucky
+
+to control it that well, anyway.”
+
+Synan is silent.
+
+“You’re bluffing!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Bluffing, am I? I am the creature that
+
+disrupts your games, exposes your schemes, and
+
+spoils your dream pleasure.”
+
+“Liar!” A voice says, “You just described
+
+The Shadow! Not The Trickster!”
+
+Synan and Zoe cannot identify where it
+
+came from.
+
+Jackal holds his hand flat. A clearish rectangle
+
+appears in front of it. The translucent object becomes
+
+solid and looks like a card. The Ace of Hearts. The
+
+card leaves Jackal’s hand and flies over the landscape.
+
+Synan and Zoe soon see who it was.
+
+He looks like a ten-year-old boy. He is
+
+standing on a hilltop. A Dark Stone is around his
+
+neck on a leather necklace. A golden flickering
+
+flame soon appears around the strange kid. He
+
+holds out his hand and catches the razor-sharp card
+
+with ease.
+
+“Who do you think you are?” Jackal asks.
+
+“My name is Kail. I have come from the
+
+future.”
+
+“Why? Have I really taken that much power
+
+over the world?”
+
+“No. Sage’s current condition here is fatal.”
+
+Zoe whispers to Synan.
+
+“Fatal? Jackal must have alot of power after
+
+all.”
+
+Synan nods.
+
+“Sage is also from the future. Forced to
+
+the past, he was enslaved by Wizeman. Passed
+
+by as a ‘science experiment’.”
+
+“There is nothing you can do here,
+
+Kail.”
+
+Veronica appears in human form next
+
+to Kail.
+
+“Jackal. This intruder has entered our
+
+world from the future. I am sorry I could not
+
+terminate him immediately, but his power level
+
+surpases mine by twenty-five fold.”
+
+“Ahh, so this kid has spunk, eh?”
+
+“A little too much if you ask me.” Veronica
+
+says.
+
+“Let’s take care of him then.”
+
+Synan notices something about Kail.
+
+Through a rip in Kail’s shirt from a battle before,
+
+there is a mark under Kail’s shoulder.
+
+“That mark...” Synan says.
+
+“What about it?” Zoe asks. Jackal flings
+
+four cards at Kail. He deflects each one.
+
+Synan lifts up his right sleeve. Zoe sees
+
+an identical mark on Synan as the one on Kail.
+
+“What’s with the marks?” Zoe asks.
+
+“Everyone in my family has the mark.
+
+It’s something in the DNA.”
+
+“So, what are you suggesting?”
+
+“I’m not sure...”
+
+Kail finally gets slit with a card. Right
+
+across the cheek.
+
+“Kail.....” Synan says quietly.

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+Kail finally gets slit with one of
+
+Jackal’s cards.
+
+“I’ve had enough of you humans!
+
+Prepare to suffer!” Jackal yells.
+
+The entire terrain gets a bluish tint
+
+to it. Veronica warps away, and everyone
+
+begins to float off the ground. Synan looks
+
+up and sees a faint shimmering glow from
+
+above. They are underwater. Zoe, Synan,
+
+and Kail swim upward toward to the surface.
+
+The surface only gets further and further away
+
+from them.
+
+Synan finally runs out of air. He
+
+soon realizes that he can breathe under the
+
+water. Zoe and Kail soon realize too. They
+
+can also speak perfectly under the water.
+
+“Let’s get to the exit!” Zoe yells.
+
+“This way!” Synan says. Zoe, Synan,
+
+and Kail swim along the dark path under the
+
+water. The path just comes to an end, nothing
+
+ahead but more odd-shaped mountains.
+
+“The exit isn’t here!” Zoe yells. Kail
+
+swims over to Synan.
+
+“Synan. I know how to use the Dark
+
+Stone. Since we both have one, we should
+
+stand a pretty good chance against Jackal.”
+
+“How do you use it?”
+
+Kail touches Synan’s forehead. Synan
+
+soon gets a golden flame around him.
+
+“Wow... how did you do that?”
+
+“I made you power up to a mega-monster.”
+
+“How?”
+
+“You are not meant to learn how to do
+
+it yourself yet.”
+
+“How do you know that?” Synan asks.
+
+Kail powers up and flies through the
+
+water back toward Jackal. Synan follows.
+
+“Okay, then I guess I’ll wait here then...”
+
+Zoe says.
+
+Synan and Kail begin fighting Jackal.
+
+Synan notices that Kail has the same fighting pattern
+
+as him.
+
+A portal opens up behind Zoe. Two hands
+
+pull her through. A dark flash flies out of the portal
+
+and abducts Synan and Kail. The portal closes.
+
+Veronica stands with Zoe, Synan, and
+
+Kail.
+
+“Great job you little jerks! You just
+
+pissed off Jackal!” Veronica says.
+
+“Is that a bad thing?” Zoe says.
+
+“You bet it is! Listen, I don’t want any
+
+of you to get hurt. Kail: Go back to the future.
+
+You were not meant to be here. Synan and
+
+Zoe: Go back to your own dimension.”
+
+“But we need the Star Stone! We
+
+cannot go back untill we have it under our
+
+posession!” Synan says.
+
+“Screw the Star Stone!”
+
+Synan and Zoe float up into the air and
+
+soon vanish. They appear in the Warp Room.
+
+“She can’t do that to us!” Synan yells.
+
+“The book! We can get back!” Zoe says.
+
+Zoe runs to the book pedestal. Nothing is there.
+
+The cave begins to rumble. Small drops
+
+of lava drip down the small hole in the ceiling.
+
+“We have no choice, Zoe. We have to
+
+go through the portal.”
+
+The silvery vortex flickers on and off
+
+for a while and then stays on for a little longer.
+
+“The portal is closing. We have to go
+
+now!” Synan yells.
+
+Zoe and Synan jump into the portal
+
+just before it shuts down for good. They soon
+
+arrive back in the Gap.
+
+Unamed is here waiting for them.
+
+“Unamed! I’m glad to see you!” Zoe
+
+says.
+
+“You better be. I haven’t seen any of
+
+you at all.”
+
+“What do you mean? You guided us
+
+yesterday.” Zoe says.
+
+“Oh, no. That must’ve been another
+
+Unamed.”
+
+“So, will you guide us back?” Synan
+
+says.
+
+“Ahem...”
+
+Synan and Zoe are silent.
+
+“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!”
+
+Unamed begins to hover away from
+
+them. Zoe and Synan follow closely. As they
+
+walk down one twisting tunnel, Zoe looks back
+
+and sees the squid-like monster. Probably the
+
+same one that annihilated Clawz.
+
+“Synan...” Zoe tugs on his shirt.
+
+“What?”
+
+The monster flies past them and stabs
+
+Zoe, then continues flying.
+
+“Ahhhhh!!!” Zoe screams in pain. She
+
+was stabbed in the left shoulder. Unamed just
+
+continues flying forward.
+
+“We have to get going before we get
+
+lost!” Synan yells. Zoe slides down the side
+
+of the tunnel.
+
+“I can’t get up. I’m paralyzed.”
+
+Synan picks up Zoe and runs to
+
+catch up with Unamed. They soon reach the
+
+other side of the Gap.
+
+Sarah greets them in the Warp Room.
+
+“Welcome back! Veronica told me
+
+you were returning.” Sarah says. James stands
+
+in a cold shadowy corner and watches.
+
+“Zoe got stabbed by a squid!” Synan
+
+says.
+
+“Oh... the squid... It’s name is Snip.”
+
+“Yeah, I bet. We have to help her
+
+immediately!”
+
+“This way!” Sarah takes Zoe and
+
+warps through the book. Synan watches as
+
+James vanishes into a cloud of dust. Synan
+
+follows them through the book.
+
+“Will she be okay?” Synan asks.
+
+“I cannot be sure...” Sarah replies.

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+Synan sits on the hard stone floor next
+
+to Zoe.
+
+“I have an idea. It’s an Ideya, actually.”
+
+Sarah says as she drops an Ideya marble onto
+
+the floor. Out of the bright whiteness comes a
+
+pink jelly-fish flying in mid-air.
+
+“Jelly-Fly, heal Zoe.”
+
+Jelly-Fly flies over to Zoe’s lifeless
+
+body and sprinkles pink powder over her.
+
+Synan looks up into the sky. The
+
+stars a visible. Stars?!
+
+“Sarah... what happened to the sky?
+
+I can see the stars again.” Synan asks.
+
+“Oh, Deity has been stopped without
+
+the use of a Star Stone. I am not sure how,
+
+exactly, but... just seconds after you and Zoe
+
+left the sky returned to normal and the island
+
+was stable again.”
+
+Synan gets a ticked look on his face.
+
+“You had us enter a portal to the
+
+unknown, follow a dead guy, have a severe
+
+death of Zoe’s monster, have to face a trickster
+
+from beyond, and then have to follow a poet
+
+back, and then Zoe gets poisoned by Snip!
+
+And just seconds after we left, everything was
+
+just peachy again!”
+
+“Umm, well, yeah. Pretty much.” Sarah
+
+responds.
+
+“Alright, then make yourself useful.
+
+Send me to where Veronica is.”
+
+“Okay, use this book then.” Sarah hands
+
+Synan a purple book. Inside is a picture of the
+
+wasted castle. Synan warps.
+
+Standing near the ruins, Synan sees
+
+Veronica. Veronica is in the human form sitting
+
+next to Sage.
+
+“Veronica... how did Deity get stopped.”
+
+“I stopped him.”
+
+“You did not!”
+
+“Did too.”
+
+“But Deity is way more powerful than
+
+you are.” Synan says.
+
+“Well, I still beat him.”
+
+Synan walks over to Sage’s body.
+
+Synan opens Sage’s cape and pulls up the
+
+black sleeve underneath. As Synan suspected,
+
+Sage has the same mark as Synan and Kail.
+
+“What do you know about Sage?” Synan
+
+asks.
+
+“Well, Sage was captured from the future
+
+and then Kail came back to rescue him.”
+
+“I saw Kail in the other dimension.”
+
+“Well he’s here on this island right now.”
+
+“He is? Where is he?”
+
+“I last saw him near Emerald’s Crater.
+
+I told him that you were in the Warp Room near
+
+there.”
+
+“Alright.” Synan says as he finds a book
+
+from the rubble and links to the Book Temple.
+
+“Sarah. Get me a book to Emerald’s
+
+Crater.” Synan says. Zoe sits up.
+
+“Synan...” Zoe says.
+
+“Yes?”
+
+“I saw Kail... he took the crater book
+
+and... left...”
+
+“What?!”
+
+“That’s true,” Sarah says, “Kail stole
+
+the book to Emerald’s Crater. I don’t know
+
+where it is.”
+
+“Who’s side is he on?” Synan asks.
+
+“I am not sure.” Sarah replies.
+
+“Then I guess I have to take the long
+
+way to Emerald’s Crater.” Synan says.
+
+“I’m coming too!” Zoe says, trying
+
+to stand.
+
+“No, Zoe. You need to heal some
+
+more. Let Synan go alone.” Sarah says.
+
+Synan leaves and runs toward Crystal
+
+Cave. The doors are wide open.
+
+“That’s odd... These doors are
+
+supposed to stay shut.”
+
+Synan runs in and goes down through
+
+the underground tunnel. Synan takes a right
+
+toward Emerald’s Crater.
+
+Synan soon arrives in Emerald’s Crater.
+
+Nobody here but a bunch of Emerald monsters
+
+on the rock chained to the center. Synan sees
+
+the entrance to Mr. I’s village. The gates are
+
+closed. On the other side of the ridge a hole
+
+has been busted through the wall. Synan walks
+
+through.
+
+He is now inside Monk’s Secret Garden.
+
+Nothing here but a bunch of monkeys. A small
+
+Monk approaches Synan.
+
+“Hi, what are you doing here?”
+
+“I’m looking for Kail. Have you seen
+
+him?”
+
+“Kail? I’m not sure. But a human just
+
+busted in here a while ago.”
+
+“Where did he go?”
+
+The Monk points toward to Flower
+
+Barrior. Synan walks out. Monk follows.
+
+“He ran down that path way.”
+
+Synan walks down the pathway into
+
+the forest. The path splits up into six different
+
+pathways.
+
+“I lost him!”
+
+Sarah comes up behind Synan.
+
+“I finally found you.. You gotta come
+
+back with me... now!!” Sarah says.

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+Synan links back to the Book Temple
+
+with Sarah.
+
+“Zoe’s gone!” Sarah yells.
+
+“Where did she go?!”
+
+“I don’t know. I just came back from
+
+the castle and Zoe wasn’t here.”
+
+“Zoe!” Synan calls.
+
+No reply.
+
+“Hey, look!” Synan goes through the
+
+blanket Zoe was sitting on. A purple book is
+
+found. In the window is a small temple in the
+
+forest. “Maybe she went into here!”
+
+Synan links. A small temple surrounds
+
+him now. Synan goes through the exit and down
+
+a long pathway.
+
+“Zoe!” Synan calls through the forest.
+
+No answer.
+
+Synan follows the pathway farther.
+
+It splits into six again.
+
+“Synan!”
+
+Synan turns and sees Syrus.
+
+“I just got another really rare monster.
+
+It was in poor condition but I fixed him up
+
+with my Jelly-Fly.”
+
+“Can I see your new monster?” Synan
+
+asks.
+
+“No way! It’s real powerful to survive
+
+the attack it went through.”
+
+“Please?”
+
+“No!”
+
+“Can you at least tell me what it’s
+
+name was?”
+
+“Uhh, I think it started with a...NO!”
+
+“Freak.” Synan says.
+
+“Well, I have to get going. I’m searching for the elemental barrier keys.”
+
+“Oh, look all you want. I have all of them.”
+
+“Give me the keys!” Syrus yells.
+
+“Give me your new monster!”
+
+“No! Give me the keys!”
+
+“You’ll only get them if you give me your monster.”
+
+“Forget about it then.”
+
+“Good. Have you seen Zoe?”
+
+“Zoe? Yeah, she was with Veronica a while ago.” Syrus replies.
+
+“Veronica? Where did they go?”
+
+Syrus points. “That way.”
+
+“Okay.” Synan walks down the pathway
+
+that Syrus pointed to. The pathway goes right into
+
+the side of the volcano and ends.
+
+“What the...?”
+
+Synan looks for any secret switches or
+
+anything. A person walks up behind Synan.
+
+“Hey, Synan!”
+
+Synan turns around. The person he is
+
+looking at is... Kail.
+
+“Kail?”
+
+“That’s right.”
+
+“How do you know my name?”
+
+“Somebody told me.”
+
+“Who?” Synan asks.
+
+“I don’t know.”
+
+“Okay.” Synan looks at the mark on
+
+Kail’s shoulder. Synan points to it.
+
+“What’s that?”
+
+“That’s my birth mark-- I mean, burn
+
+mark.”
+
+“Really.”
+
+“Yep.”
+
+Synan lifts up his sleeve to reveal the
+
+same mark. “That’s funny, I have the same
+
+mark. I don’t recall ever being burned.”
+
+“Oh, umm, well, you see....”
+
+“Who are you? Tell me the truth.”
+
+“That is not important now. You’ll
+
+find out some day.”
+
+“Kail! Tell me!”
+
+“No!”
+
+“Yes!”
+
+“I said no! Now if you’ll excuse me,
+
+I have to get back to my time machine.”
+
+“Time machine?” Synan asks.
+
+Kail pulls a rock from the mountain.
+
+A hidden passageway opens. Kail walks
+
+inside. Synan follows. They soon come to
+
+a lit-up room. Around a stone cylinder stand
+
+Zoe and Veronica.
+
+“Zoe!” Synan runs to Zoe. Kail is
+
+confused.
+
+Syrus walks into the room.
+
+“Hey, Syrus!” Veronica greets.
+
+“Hi.”
+
+Zoe notices Kail standing in the shadows.
+
+“Synan, why is Kail here?”
+
+“He led me in. He said his time machine
+
+was in here.”
+
+Veronica turns to Kail. “Oh yeah, Kail.
+
+About your time machine: The Monks pulverized
+
+your time machine.”
+
+“Damn those things!!” Kail yells.
+
+“Watch your mouth!” Zoe says.
+
+“I can warp you back to the future if you
+
+want, Kail. I’m sure your parents miss you.” Veronica
+
+says.
+
+“But I can’t return without Sage.”
+
+“Synan and Zoe will understand.”
+
+“What?!” Synan and Zoe say together.
+
+“They are Kail’s parents... oh wait...”
+
+Kail punches Veronica in the arm.
+
+“Great going!” he yells.
+
+“All right. I’ll brainwash these two, and send
+
+them and Syrus back. I’ll send you to the future,
+
+and...”
+
+James appears.
+
+“...and free James.”
+
+“Alright!!” James yells.
+
+“Prepare yourselves, guys.” Veronica says.

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+Synan, Zoe, James, Syrus, Veronica, and
+
+Kail stand around the cylinder, hands joined.
+
+“I will now send Synan, Zoe, James, and
+
+Syrus to Earth. I will return Kail to the future.”
+
+Veronica says. Before anyone realizes what happened,
+
+Synan, Zoe, James, and Syrus sit in a grassy field
+
+back on Earth.
+
+“We’re back!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Yes! We survived!!” Synan adds.
+
+“I haven’t been on Earth for years.” James says.
+
+“Kids...” Syrus says.
+
+They walk to the city. The place is much more
+
+lively this time of day. What time is it?
+
+Zoe and Synan walk into the Ideya Shop.
+
+“Hey, kids! Welcome back!”
+
+“Umm, hi.” Zoe says.
+
+“Hello.” Synan says.
+
+“So, did my Warp Marbles help you at all?”
+
+“You have no idea.” Synan and Zoe say
+
+together.
+
+“Well, I’m sure I do have some idea.”
+
+“Nope. None.” Synan says.
+
+“What do you mean?” The old man says.
+
+Zoe points out the window. The old man
+
+looks out.
+
+“Oh, that’s The Land of No Return. I’ve been
+
+there before. What, do you think I invented those
+
+marbles?”
+
+“You acted like it.” Synan says.
+
+“Hey, look at all this.” Zoe says, standing by
+
+a newspaper rack. All the head lines are covered in
+
+stuff about The Land of No Return.
+
+“Floating island puzzles investigators”
+
+“Strange monsters beam down and attack
+
+civilians.”
+
+“The entire thing is a hoax -Vatican Police”
+
+Synan picks one up. It reads “Three missing
+
+kids are reported to have been beamed to the
+
+floating object.”
+
+“Looks like people will believe our story
+
+after all.” Zoe says.
+
+“You bet they will.” A girl walks into the
+
+shop. She has blond hair and blue eyes.
+
+“I’m Sarah Croft, bookwriter of Vatican
+
+City.” She shakes Synan’s hand.
+
+“Sarah....” Zoe says.
+
+“I have written a story based on you two.
+
+I have all the descriptive facts about you.”
+
+Zoe gets a worried look on her face.
+
+‘Does she know that I like Synan?’ Zoe thinks.
+
+“Yes, she does, Zoe.” A thirteen-year-old
+
+girl walks up behind Zoe.
+
+“What? Can you read my thoughts?” Zoe
+
+asks. The girl replies.
+
+“Yes, Zoe. I know you like Synan. I’ve always
+
+known. You liked him since first grade.”
+
+“Zoe?” Synan asks.
+
+“No! Stop it! It’s not true!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Please, Zoe. Stop it.” She says.
+
+“Make me then.”
+
+“Ahem... allow me to introduce myself. My
+
+name is Veronica. I know everything there is to know
+
+about everything, including your little secrets about
+
+Synan.”
+
+Zoe’s face is beet red.
+
+“Hehehe!” Synan says.
+
+“Oh my. I gotta go, a future boy is returning
+
+again. He’s after Sage.” Veronica says.
+
+“Kail, right?” Synan asks.
+
+“How did you... oh wait, I forgot to brainwash
+
+you. Well, I really gotta go!” Veronica vanishes in a
+
+flick of light.
+
+Synan and Zoe go back to the neighborhood.
+
+Synan and Zoe first go to Zoe’s house. Zoe’s mom
+
+greets them.
+
+“Zoe!” The mother says, “Where were you??
+
+You have been gone for days!”
+
+“The Land of No Return.” Zoe answers.
+
+“The what of what?”
+
+“The Land of No Return. We have a professional
+
+book writer making a story about our quest.”
+
+“Oh. And is this the boy you always talked about?”
+
+The mother says, looking at Synan.
+
+“Mom......” Zoe gets red again.
+
+“He’s cuter than you said he was.”
+
+“Okay. Well, I’ll be back.” Zoe says.
+
+“You promise?” Her mom says.
+
+“Yes.”
+
+Synan and Zoe leave the house. They walk over
+
+to Synan’s house.
+
+“Hey, Synan. I thought you were going
+
+to go shopping for me.” Synan’s mom says.
+
+“Yeah, well. I didn’t.”
+
+“Then you better go and finish shopping.”
+
+“Okay. Whatever.” Synan and Zoe go
+
+outside.
+
+“I don’t feel like shopping. How horrible.”
+
+Synan says.
+
+“Awe....” Zoe says.
+
+Synan looks evilishly at Zoe.
+
+“Then let’s go somewhere.” Zoe says.
+
+“Like where?”
+
+“Follow me.” Synan follows Zoe. They
+
+stop by some boulder just outside the city. Synan
+
+looks at The Land of No Return. A helicopter flies
+
+to it.
+
+“Synan...”
+
+“Yes?”
+
+“Will you...umm...”
+
+“What...?”
+
+“Go out with me?”
+
+“Sure.”
+
+Zoe seems relieved.
+
+“Okay. Good. I was too embarrased
+
+today, so I thought I should go and ask.”
+
+“Oh.”
+
+Zoe sees a group of Monks throwing
+
+helicopter parts over the edge of the island.
+
+“Take that you dirty humans!” a Monk
+
+yells.

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+Syrus lives in an apartment building in Vatican
+
+City. He spends all his time walking around town
+
+with his friends.
+
+Syrus walks by a small building. The name of
+
+the building is a strange word: “IDEYA.” As Syrus
+
+walks by, a voice comes from inside the building.
+
+“Syrus, come here!”
+
+Syrus walks into the shadowy building. A
+
+dark, shady old man in a black tunic is inside.
+
+The old man speaks.
+
+“Have you seen Synan lately? He wants me
+
+to keep him up-to-date on my newest inventions.”
+
+“No, I haven’t seen him. Sorry.”
+
+Just after Syrus finishes talking, a girl from
+
+school enters the room. She is just one year younger
+
+than Syrus. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
+
+Her name is Zoe.
+
+“Actually, Synan is on vacation,” Zoe says,
+
+“He’ll be back in about four days.”
+
+“And you would care because...?” Syrus
+
+asks.
+
+“It’s none of your business why I would
+
+care where he’s at.”
+
+“Yeah, okay. You fifth graders are weird.”
+
+Syrus walks toward the door. The old man stops
+
+him.
+
+“Syrus, before you leave, do you want to
+
+see my new invention?” The dark figure says.
+
+Syrus folds his arms as he listens.
+
+“I call it the Ideya Marble.” The mysterious
+
+old man pulls a Red and Shining object from the
+
+pocket on his tunic. “These will absorb the atomic
+
+makeup of an object it touches. The object will
+
+then be returned when the marble hits the floor
+
+again. I’ll give you ten of them.”
+
+The old man gives Syrus ten of the red
+
+marbles. He also gives ten of them to Zoe. Syrus
+
+leaves the building. Zoe also leaves. As Syrus
+
+walks down the sidewalk for a little while, he
+
+hears a scream from behind him. Zoe screamed.
+
+Syrus turns around and runs toward the
+
+sound. He gets to the edge of the city and sees
+
+Zoe and some kind of blue alien. Zoe is being
+
+lifted off the ground and toward the sky.
+
+Syrus jumps at the blue monster but
+
+instead gets caught in the trap that Zoe is in.
+
+As they float to the sky, Syrus loses
+
+consciousness. He regains sight after what
+
+seems to be not very long at all. He is looking
+
+straight up at a starry sky.
+
+Syrus sits up and looks around. He is
+
+in a fenced-in area. The ground is all purple,
+
+and on one side with no fence is the edge of
+
+a floating island. Syrus crawls over and looks
+
+off the edge. They are miles away from the
+
+Earth. Syrus stands up.
+
+There are two guard towers. Syrus
+
+sees Zoe leave just as the gates close behind
+
+her. Syrus runs toward the gates.
+
+A shadowy guard stops him. “Please
+
+remove any mirrors, slingshots, or throwable
+
+objects.”
+
+“Why do you need a mirror? Do you
+
+want to break it??” Syrus comments.
+
+“Just do it or die you little punk!!”
+
+“Screw you! What kind of law are
+
+you under her?”
+
+“Wizeman’s law. Now give me the
+
+requested objects.”
+
+“Never.” Syrus brushes the purple
+
+dirt off his jeans.
+
+“Then you shall feel the wrath of
+
+The Land of No Return!” The guard pulls
+
+out a small radio reciever and begins
+
+speaking into it.
+
+“We have a 24-14 crisis here.
+
+Spyke-012334 requesting backup.”
+
+Syrus gives the guard the finger.
+
+Before he can put it back down he is
+
+blasted fifteen feet away. A figure slowly
+
+hovers toward the ground. Suddenly a
+
+slight scream occurs as a golden-yellow
+
+flame appears, lighting up the person.
+
+He looks like he’s 12, maybe 13. He’s
+
+wearing a white T-shirt and blue shorts.
+
+On the shirt is a stretched “W” in red.
+
+He has a short head under a
+
+yellow helmet. His evil eyes are
+
+stretched along the bottom of the
+
+helmet.
+
+“Syrus, I presume? I am James.
+
+Having trouble already, are we?” James
+
+says, his shirt rustling as the golden
+
+energy blows by him.
+
+“How do you know my name?”
+
+Syrus asks, climbing back to his feet.
+
+“Believe me, I have my
+
+sources.” James’ energy field vanishes.
+
+James walks over to Syrus and searches
+
+him, revealing ten ideya marbles.
+
+“He’s clean.” James gives the
+
+marbles back. The gates open and James
+
+shoves Syrus through. James  slowly lifts
+
+off the ground mumbling “Man, you’d
+
+think his three-day nap would be helpful.”
+
+“Three days?!” Syrus yells, almost
+
+too loudly. James continues floating away,
+
+as if he didn’t hear Syrus at all.
+
+Syrus hears the guard speaking,
+
+“Please remove all slingshots, mirrors, or
+
+throwable objects.” He then hears a
+
+familiar voice “I don’t have any.” It’s Synan!
+
+Syrus decides to wait here for
+
+Synan.

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+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.

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+Syrus just knocked down the wrong
+
+person. It obviously wasn’t Kail! The person
+
+gets up to their feet. In the gloomy moonlight,
+
+Syrus can barely make out who it is. The person
+
+is a girl, a little taller than Syrus is. She has
+
+brown hair, maybe black, but he can’t really
+
+tell in the dark. The girl speaks.
+
+“You should watch where you’re going!”
+
+“Sorry. Did you see a boy run past
+
+just now.”
+
+“I don’t know. Who are you looking for?”
+
+“Kail.”
+
+“Oh, yeah, he just went by here. My name
+
+is Veronica Creel. What’s yours?”
+
+“Creel? Are you related to Synan?”
+
+“Oh, so you know Synan. You’re Syrus,
+
+right?”
+
+“Yeah.”
+
+“So Synan is here. Kail is probably afraid
+
+Synan will ruin his plan.”
+
+“What is his plan?”
+
+“Kail came to find Sage. Did he tell you
+
+that?”
+
+“I don’t remember.”
+
+“Anyway, he’s heading to the castle.”
+
+“Oh really.”
+
+“Yep. Well, I’d like to stay and talk, but
+
+I have things to do. See you later, Syrus!”
+
+Veronica turns and runs down a pathway.
+
+“Wait!” Syrus runs after her. After a short
+
+while of walking, the trail ends at a small stone temple.
+
+Syrus walks inside. There is a purple book here. Syrus
+
+opens the book. Inside is a small panel where Syrus
+
+sees a rotational view of a circular golden building.
+
+Syrus’s hand is attracted to the picture,
+
+drawn to it. When his hand almost touches, tiny golden
+
+sparkles appear in the space between his hand and the
+
+picture. Startled, Syrus jumps back. The book vibrates
+
+and slams shut. Syrus turns and runs out the door.
+
+He is back in the intersection in the forest.
+
+To his left is the entrance where he entered the
+
+forest. Ahead is the dead-end at the mountain where he
+
+met Kail. To the right is another pathway.
+
+Syrus walks down the pathway to the right. He
+
+walks for a few minutes in the darkened forest. He can
+
+hardly see a thing!
+
+Syrus comes to a smaller intersection. He
+
+can go straight forward or go down a pathway to
+
+the left. To the left, Syrus sees a faint light and some
+
+voices and quiet music. Syrus decides to walk down
+
+that pathway.
+
+As he continues down the path, the light and
+
+music grows louder. He shortly arrives in a small clearing
+
+next to the mountain. Syrus takes a look around.
+
+At the top of the mountain, there is reddish
+
+smoke exiting from the volcano. He is in a small clearing
+
+in the forest. On the side of the mountain is a black
+
+doorway with a large keyhole. In the middle of the
+
+clearing is a bonfire with Monks gathered around it.
+
+“Wow, a garden full of Monks!” Syrus says.
+
+A Monk notices him.
+
+“Halt! Who goes there?”
+
+“Syrus.”
+
+“We don’t know any Syrus! Send him to the
+
+volcano!”
+
+“No, wait!”
+
+“Wait? Why?”
+
+Syrus drops an Ideya Capture. The monk he
+
+captured earlier appears.
+
+“Oh, you’ve returned one of our Monks! I
+
+guess you can stay here for as long as you want. The
+
+specific monster you captured always wanted to explore
+
+the island. He might want to stay with you when you decide
+
+to leave.”
+
+“Okay, cool.”
+
+Syrus wanders around the clearing. There’s not a
+
+whole lot of interest around here. Up in the trees surrounding
+
+the clearing are millions of wooden bridges and treeforts.
+
+Syrus assumes that’s where the Monks live.
+
+Syrus spots a rope ladder. He goes over to the
+
+ladder and climbs up. He climbs to a wooden platform about
+
+twelve feet from the ground. He begins to crawl across one of
+
+the bridges to make sure it’s safe. To his surprise, these
+
+bridges are sturdier than he expected! He stands and crosses
+
+the bridge. He comes to one of the treeforts. The doorway is
+
+very small! Syrus begins to crawl into it.
+
+“Hey!” A Monk yells from below, “Syrus, that hut
+
+is empty. You can stay in it tonight.”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+After Syrus is inside, he realizes he couldn’t sleep
+
+in something so tiny. He’s practically curled in a
+
+ball next to a small window. These huts are so
+
+small!

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+Syrus couldn’t get any form of sleep
+
+inside those small Monk cabins. Drowsy,
+
+Syrus wakes up. It’s a little chilly outside in
+
+the morning. It’s just after dawn.
+
+Syrus crawls out of the hut. His back
+
+and neck are sore. Syrus joins the Monks
+
+down at the garden. The Monks are very
+
+talkative in the morning. They are speaking a
+
+strange foreign language. A word commonly
+
+used when a Monk joins them is the word
+
+“Shorah.”
+
+Syrus slides in closer to the Monks.
+
+They are gathered around a barely lit fire
+
+eating strange exotic fruits and berries. A
+
+Monk looks up at Syrus.
+
+“Shorah! Thoe kenem?”
+
+“What?”
+
+“Oh, sorry. You’re not from around
+
+these parts, are you? We are speaking in
+
+the Veronican language. Some of us call it
+
+the Monsterish language, but it’s the main
+
+language around here.”
+
+“Oh.”
+
+“Yep. I’ll teach you the basics. The
+
+word ‘Shorah’ means ‘Hello.’ Thoe kenem
+
+is ‘How are you?’”
+
+“Okay. Shorah, Monk! Thoe kenem?”
+
+“Good. You’re catching on.”
+
+“Heh, okay.”
+
+“If you want something to eat, go into
+
+the forest and pick some berries.”
+
+“Okay.” Syrus gets up from the group
+
+and walks into the forest. He picks a few berries
+
+and fruits. Syrus hears a strange sound come
+
+from the garden. He can’t explain what it
+
+sounds like.
+
+Syrus goes slowly to the garden. He
+
+hides behind some bushes and watches. He
+
+sees two humans in the garden. Synan and Zoe!
+
+Zoe is holding a purple book, like the
+
+one Syrus saw in the temple. Zoe is also carrying
+
+a key.
+
+Zoe uses the key to unlock the door
+
+in the volcano. After Synan and Zoe vanish into
+
+the darkness of the mountain, Syrus moves in.
+
+As he enters, a few, maybe three or four, Monks
+
+run out.
+
+Syrus sneaks inside. The garden inside the
+
+volcano looks even better than the one outside.
+
+Syrus hears Synan’s and Zoe’s voices. Soon, he
+
+hears the strange sound again. He begins to run,
+
+and sees Zoe holding the purple book. Synan is
+
+gone. Syrus walks up to Zoe.
+
+“Zoe. Can I warp back, too?”
+
+“No way!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Well, too bad. You’ll drop the book
+
+when you warp, then I can pulverize Synan!”
+
+Zoe holds the book out over the lava.
+
+Zoe glances mockingly at Syrus. Zoe looks
+
+back at the book and puts her hand on the
+
+animated panel. Soon, she vanishes and the
+
+book falls into the lava.
+
+“Damn you!” Syrus runs toward where
+
+Zoe was standing. He looks through the odd-shaped
+
+hole where Zoe dropped the book.
+
+“There!” Syrus sees the purple book.
+
+It’s closed. It is balancing on a small ledge. One
+
+wrong move and it will fall into the lava. Syrus
+
+looks around through the hole on the wall. Above
+
+him in the crater-shaped area he sees a giant massive
+
+rock held in the center by chains.
+
+There is a rope bridge connecting the rock
+
+to the platforms around the side. On the bottom of
+
+the rock is a pure black cage.
+
+Syrus is startled when he hears the flapping
+
+of wings. Shortly after, a strange gray monster
+
+flies down to the other side of the river. It has an
+
+oddly-shaped head with a horn in the middle. It
+
+has wings extending from it’s shoulders, flapping
+
+softly to keep the monster in the air.
+
+It looks at Syrus for a few seconds,
+
+studying him. It then flies lower. It’s wings flap
+
+a gust of air, knocking the book off of the
+
+ledge. Another one of these peculiar monsters
+
+flies down swiftly and grabs the book with it’s
+
+arms.
+
+It flies up to the window. Syrus attempts
+
+to communicate with them.
+
+“Excuse me. Can you hand me that
+
+book?”
+
+“This book? Well, it did fall into the
+
+volcano, you know. We’re the guardians
+
+of the volcano. This book is our property.”
+
+“Then, who are you?”
+
+“We’re of the Koda species. We
+
+know more about the volcano than Mr. I
+
+even.”
+
+“Who?”
+
+“Oh, I guess you haven’t met Mr.
+
+I yet, have you? Oh well.”
+
+“Just give me the book!”
+
+“Why should I?”
+
+“Because... It’s mine.”
+
+“Oh? Then why did you let it fall
+
+into the volcano?”
+
+“A, umm... a Monk kicked me
+
+and I accidentally dropped the book into
+
+the volcano.”
+
+The two Kodas glance at eachother.
+
+They then look back at Syrus.
+
+“Okay then. Here, kid. You can
+
+have it then, if it’s yours.” The Koda hands
+
+Syrus the book. In golden text, the book
+
+title reads “Book Temple.”
+
+“Thank you, Koda.”
+
+“Yeah, don’t mention it. Now get
+
+away! This volcano is my territory!”
+
+“Okay.”

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+The Kodas fly away. Syrus has the purple
+
+book now. The golden text reads “Book Temple.”
+
+Syrus opens the book up. On the first page is a small
+
+panel where Syrus sees a rotational view of a
+
+circular temple.
+
+Syrus holds his hand over the panel. Soon,
+
+small golden sparkles appear between the panel
+
+and his hand. He is suddenly warped to the center
+
+of the building he saw in the book. In front of him is
+
+a girl seated at a desk. She has long blonde hair.
+
+Also in the room is Zoe. Syrus looks at Zoe.
+
+“Zoe. Where is Synan now?”
+
+“Umm...” Zoe makes a signal to the girl
+
+behind her at the desk. The girl hands Zoe a
+
+book. “He went into this book!”
+
+Syrus takes the book. The title reads
+
+“Monster Village”
+
+“He’s cheating! He went there to
+
+capture more monsters than me!”
+
+Syrus steals the book and links
+
+through it. He appears at the entrance to The
+
+Land of No Return.
+
+“Damn kids.” Syrus says. He rubs his
+
+eyes and looks around. He sees the bright
+
+lava-red doors on the mountain. One of them
+
+is open, and closing slowly. Syrus runs for the
+
+doorway and makes it inside just before it closes
+
+and locks behind him.
+
+He is in a small cave. There are lots of
+
+smaller caves carved around the walls of this
+
+place. There is also a most unusual monster here.
+
+It’s body is mostly an oval. The oval
+
+is hollow, but holds a small eyeball inside. Syrus
+
+can’t explain how that works. Unlike Koda,
+
+this monster is red and doesn’t have any arms.
+
+Syrus walks up to one of them.
+
+“Hello. Who are you?”
+
+“Mr. I. We’re expert volcanologists.”
+
+“Really?”
+
+“Yep.”
+
+“What about Koda?”
+
+“Well, they’re the only things smarter
+
+than us, but you get the idea.”
+
+Syrus takes out an Ideya Marble. He
+
+tosses it at Mr. I’s red skin. It bounces off and
+
+falls to the floor.
+
+“What?” Syrus says.
+
+“It appears that your Ideya Capture
+
+is already in use. Did you capture another
+
+monster in it?”
+
+“Yeah, I captured a Monk...”
+
+The red marble glows white. A bright
+
+beam exits the marble and flies away. It flies
+
+down a passageway to a room that’s glowing
+
+red. After a few minutes, the beam returns.
+
+Syrus picks up the marble and drops
+
+it. A Monk appears.
+
+“Oh, so since this marble was used
+
+and it’s monster was away, it sent a beam
+
+out to hunt down that monster.”
+
+“Yeah.” Mr. I says.
+
+Syrus takes out a different marble.
+
+He captures Mr. I with it, and then returns
+
+Monk to it’s own marble.
+
+Syrus walks down the tunnel that
+
+the beam followed. Soon, he’s in a large
+
+cave that’s lit-up red. He suddenly
+
+recognizes this place. It’s the room he saw
+
+earlier, when he looked out the window.
+
+He is in this room, but he’s on
+
+the ledge that he saw earlier. He quickly
+
+spots the rope ladder and crosses it.
+
+The island drops a couple of
+
+millimeters as Syrus steps onto it. The
+
+strange micro-island is held up by large
+
+black chains.
+
+Scattered across the rock are
+
+strange monsters, or combinations of
+
+monsters. On the bottom is a red,
+
+circular-shaped monster. Connected
+
+by a beam of electricity is another
+
+monster, shaped like a three-dimensional
+
+diamond. The diamond appears hollow,
+
+but it’s filled with millions of eyeballs.
+
+Syrus takes out an Ideya
+
+Capture and throws it towards one
+
+of them.
+
+“Man, this island is just full
+
+of these monsters!”
+
+The monster is captured and
+
+the Ideya comes back to Syrus.
+
+A Koda comes up behind Syrus.
+
+“In case you didn’t know, that was
+
+an Emerald that you just captured. Is that
+
+your first monster?”
+
+“No way! It’s my third! I’m not
+
+as naive as you think!”
+
+“Oh, okay, kid. Your third then.”
+
+“Shut up, Koda!”
+
+Syrus takes out an Ideya Capture
+
+and whips it at Koda. Koda holds his
+
+hands together at the wrists and launches
+
+a fireball. The force of the fire launches the
+
+Ideya back at Syrus. Syrus catches the
+
+marble.
+
+“We’re not so easy, Syrus. Not
+
+every monster is as easy to catch as the
+
+ones you have. Let me guess: your three
+
+monsters include Monk, Mr. I, and
+
+Emerald, right? Ha! They’re probably
+
+the easiest to catch.
+
+“Oh yeah? I guess I should try
+
+to capture harder monsters then, huh?”
+
+Syrus says.
+
+“Ha! Don’t make me laugh!
+
+Somebody like you can’t hardly even
+
+catch a cold!” Koda flies away,
+
+laughing mockingly.

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+Syrus stares as Koda flies away. A
+
+dark shadow suddenly covers the rock beneath
+
+Syrus’s feet. Syrus looks up and sees an island
+
+hovering by itself, much like The Land of No
+
+Return.
+
+“That island has to have some kind of
+
+rare monster on it!”
+
+Syrus throws an Ideya at the floor,
+
+releasing Mr. I.
+
+“Mr. I, fly me up to that island!”
+
+Mr. I takes flight. Syrus grabs his
+
+feet and Mr. I flied him up to the island.
+
+As they fly out of the volcano, Syrus
+
+looks back down. He is at a dangerous height.
+
+He sees Synan and Zoe being led by the
+
+bottom half of an Emerald.
+
+“Hey, that Emerald is only the bottom
+
+half! What’s up with that?”
+
+“Emerald is made up of Prisem and
+
+Crystal. That monster is Prisem.” Mr. I answers.
+
+“Oh.”
+
+Soon, the heated fog from the volcano
+
+covers Syrus’s view of them.
+
+Mr. I drops Syrus onto the island. Syrus
+
+is disappointed. All that was on the island was
+
+a small temple. Syrus decides to go in and
+
+have a look. When Syrus tries to open the
+
+yellow doors, he fails.
+
+“The doors are locked!” Syrus yells.
+
+“They would be. You need the Lightning
+
+Key. The Skybers might have it.”
+
+“Skyber?”
+
+“Yeah. Their fortress is right over there.”
+
+Syrus goes to look. On top of the volcano,
+
+next to the mouth, are lots of tall, narrow towers.
+
+There are lots of birds flying around.
+
+“Skyber,” Mr. I says, “is a lightning bird.
+
+If you ever enter Illusion Cave over there, you’ll
+
+need a lightning monster. That cave is so dark,
+
+you can’t see a lit match even if it’s touching you
+
+face. Only lightning is bright enough to light the
+
+way, although it would still be pretty dark and
+
+gloomy.”
+
+“Oh. I should get one.” Syrus says. Mr. I
+
+flies up into the air. Syrus grabs onto Mr. I’s feet
+
+and they fly down to one of the towers.
+
+They land, and Syrus looks around
+
+at the monsters. They look a lot like small
+
+wood ducks. But, the Skybers have a
+
+black diamond on their heads.
+
+“This is awesome!” Syrus throws
+
+up an Ideya Capture and hits one of the
+
+Skybers. The bird is captured and the
+
+marble falls to the ground. The bright
+
+glow still hasn’t faded. The bird then
+
+escapes from the marble.
+
+“Koda was right.”
+
+Mr. I comments, “You may
+
+have to fight the Skyber to weaken it.”
+
+Mr. I does a fireball attack
+
+and hits the Skyber. The bird falls down,
+
+injured. Syrus tries capturing it again,
+
+and this time he’s successful.
+
+“Yes! I have a Skyber!”
+
+Syrus wanders around the fortress.
+
+All these towers are connected by bridges.
+
+Syrus gets to the center. The building on this
+
+tower looks more significant than the rest.
+
+Syrus enters.
+
+Inside are a few Skybers, and
+
+in the center is another one wearing a
+
+golden crown.
+
+“Hello there, stranger! I am the
+
+king of the Skybers!”
+
+“Oh, hi. Have you seen the
+
+Lightning Key?”
+
+“Lightning Key? No, I think I
+
+misplaced it somewhere.”
+
+“Oh, okay.” Syrus says, disappointed.
+
+Syrus and Mr. I leave. Syrus looks at the
+
+volcano.
+
+“Hey, look!” Syrus sees James
+
+fly into the mouth of the volcano. Ico is
+
+following him.
+
+Mr. I walks over to Syrus. “Looks
+
+like James has someone to take out down
+
+there. I guess Ico wanted to help.”
+
+“How do you know?”
+
+“I was watching over the island just
+
+a while before you found me. I saw two kids,
+
+Synan and Zoe. I noticed them enter the volcano
+
+as we were leaving, so I’m assuming James is
+
+after them.”
+
+“Ha! Synan gets to meet James!”
+
+“No, Syrus. He met James earlier.
+
+He and Zoe were fighting James just after they
+
+crossed Hell’s River.”
+
+“Yeah, okay. Hey, look!” Syrus runs
+
+to the other side of the tower. He notices a small
+
+group of humans walking into a cave with Green
+
+Doors.
+
+“Yeah, I know them. The little girl is
+
+Elsie. The other two are her parents, Logan and
+
+Alisha.”
+
+The green doors close behind them, and
+
+they disappear into the darkness inside.
+
+“And that is the Earth Barrier,” Mr. I says,
+
+“but I don’t know how they got it opened. Sarah
+
+has the key.”
+
+“Who’s Sarah?”
+
+“She stays in the Book Temple down there.”
+
+“Oh, yeah. I saw her when I followed Zoe
+
+through that Linking Book.”
+
+“Yep. That’s her.”
+
+“Oh.”
+
+“Hey, Syrus. You’ve seen the Linking Books,
+
+but have you ever seen a Mystery Book?”
+
+Syrus walks closer to Mr. I, who is holding
+
+what looks like a linking book.
+
+“No...”

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

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+Syrus and Mr. I start to walk the
+
+rest of the way down the bridge over Orb
+
+Lake. Syrus looks to his left, at the volcano. He
+
+sees a cliff up there with a circular building.
+
+“Mr. I, what’s that?” Syrus asks.
+
+“Did you see the teleport chamber on
+
+your way into the island? Well, it teleports you
+
+up to that cliff there. Then you jump off into the
+
+water.”
+
+“That reminds me, is this water safe for
+
+swimming?”
+
+“You bet it is!” Mr. I says.
+
+“Great! Let’s go swimming!”
+
+“Umm, sorry Syrus, but I kinda have a
+
+thing against water.”
+
+“Oh, that’s right, you’re a fire type, aren’t
+
+you?”
+
+“Hehe, yeah.”
+
+“No problem.” Syrus says. “What is a
+
+problem is that I don’t have a swim suit.”
+
+“So what are you going to do about that?”
+
+Mr. I asks.
+
+“I’ll just swim in my clothes.” Syrus releases
+
+all his water monsters as he jumps off the bridge into
+
+the lake. Syrus swims around for a while and then
+
+attempts to open his eyes under the water. Unlike
+
+most water, this water is so clear that seeing underwater
+
+is just as clear as seeing above water!
+
+Syrus swims around under the water and
+
+spots a Blue and Shining Object. Syrus swims over to
+
+it. It is wedged between two rocks. Syrus tries to get
+
+it loose for a while and then swims up to the
+
+surface.
+
+“Octo! Give me a hand down here!”
+
+Octo jumps into the water and swims to
+
+Syrus. Syrus dives down to the blue stone again,
+
+Octo following him.
+
+“Oh, is that what you need help for?” Octo
+
+says. Syrus can’t talk underwater, so he just nods.
+
+Octo uses his strong tentacles to pull the two rocks
+
+apart. Syrus grabs the blue stone and swims up to
+
+the surface.
+
+“Hey Mr. I! Look what I found!” Syrus yells.
+
+“Let me see that!” Syrus throws the stone
+
+up to Mr. I. It hits Mr. I and falls onto the bridge.
+
+A large white beam flies out of the strange
+
+rock and a monster appears. Syrus quickly
+
+climbs out of the water by hanging onto Blue
+
+Orb as it flew up.
+
+“What is that thing?!”
+
+The strange new monster standing
+
+in front of Syrus is like nothing he’s ever
+
+seen before. It looks like a combination of
+
+several monsters. Its head is similar to a
+
+Monk’s head, but upside-down. Out of the
+
+head are large red wings, like Mr. I’s.
+
+Below the head is what looks like an
+
+upside-down Prisem. Connected by a lightning
+
+beam from Prisem is Crystal. Orbiting the
+
+lightning are four eyeballs with spikes in them.
+
+“Lord Wizeman!” Mr. I says, bowing.
+
+“Wizeman, huh? Then what was he
+
+doing CAPTURED at the bottom of the lake?”
+
+Wizeman tries to speak, “Yes, I am
+
+not Lord Wizeman. I am just an ordinary
+
+Wizeman. You can make Wizeman monsters
+
+by just owning each of the monsters that
+
+makes me.”
+
+“Okay, Wizeman. How’d you like
+
+to come with us?”
+
+“Beats being captured.”
+
+“Okay. I’m going to transfer you over
+
+to a red Ideya marble.”
+
+Syrus captures Wizeman in the red
+
+Ideya Capture.
+
+“So, Mr. I. What exactly was that
+
+blue stone anyway?”
+
+Mr. I answers, “Well, if you actually
+
+take time to look at it, it’s an Ideya Marble,
+
+except it’s blue colored. The blue Ideya isn’t
+
+an Ideya Capture, it’s called a Greater Ideya.
+
+Unlike the Capture, the Greater Ideya has a
+
+lesser chance of failing to capture a monster.
+
+A very useful item, but it’s kinda rare.”
+
+“Cool! What untill Synan sees this!”
+
+“You’re really into beating Synan at
+
+everything, aren’t you?”
+
+“You know it!”
+
+Syrus and Mr. I finish walking down
+
+the bridge. When they get close to the end,
+
+a voice yells to them. “Halt!”
+
+Syrus looks and sees the guard he
+
+met when he first arrived on the island.
+
+The guard speaks,
+
+“Where do you think you’re
+
+going, Syrus? You’re not allowed to see
+
+Lord Wizeman! Now turn around and go
+
+back where you came from!”
+
+Syrus gets an idea, and releases
+
+Wizeman from the Ideya Capture.
+
+“Lord Wizeman! Please forgive
+
+me!”
+
+“But I am not Lord--” Wizeman
+
+tries to say, but Syrus elbows him to make
+
+him stop.
+
+The guard glows all white and then
+
+seperates into five circles, all the same size
+
+except one is a bit larger. The glow goes
+
+away and Syrus sees a strange monster. It
+
+is just one large eyeball surrounded by four
+
+smaller eyeballs, each with four spikes in
+
+them.
+
+“Spyke,” Wizeman says, “You’re
+
+supposed to be guarding the island, not
+
+guarding my castle,” Wizeman says, starting
+
+to play along.
+
+“Yes, Wizeman!” Spyke floats away
+
+down the path.
+
+“Now, where were we?” Wizeman
+
+asks.

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+Syrus, Wizeman, and Mr. I continue
+
+walking toward Wizeman’s Castle. It is about
+
+a quarter-mile away from them. The castle is
+
+really large. It appears that it is night time out
+
+now. The ground is such a dark purple, and a
+
+very dark shadow is cast all over the island.
+
+Everything is so quiet out here. The only sounds
+
+are those that come from Syrus and his monsters
+
+scuffing their feet along the light purple pathway.
+
+The only light on the island is coming
+
+from the stars and from Earth’s moon. There is
+
+a faint red glow from the volcano, and the glow
+
+of the lava moat around Wizeman’s Castle up
+
+ahead. They finally arrive at the castle.
+
+“Well, we’re here.” Syrus says, breaking
+
+the dreadful silence. “Let’s break in.”
+
+“Syrus, it’s very late. Maybe we should
+
+camp here untill the morning.” Mr. I suggests.
+
+“Okay, but what if Synan catches up?”
+
+“You already beat him to the castle.
+
+What are you worried about?” Wizeman asks.
+
+“Good point.” Syrus says as he slowly
+
+sinks to his knees in the soft purple dirt. Syrus
+
+lays down, and before long, he is asleep.
+
+Suddenly a voice says his name, “Syrus!”
+
+Syrus quickly sits up. Mr. I and Wizeman are
+
+asleep on the ground around him. Syrus looks
+
+around to see who said his name. In front of him
+
+is the shadow of a human. The figure steps into
+
+the light of the lava at Wizeman’s Castle. It’s
+
+Zoe!
+
+“Zoe?” Syrus says, sleepily. “What are
+
+you doing here?” It is still really dark out, maybe
+
+even darker than it was when he fell asleep.
+
+“Come with me.” Zoe starts to walk
+
+away. Syrus jumps to his feet and follows her
+
+into the darkness. Zoe walks into the shadows
+
+of the volcano, toward another human.
+
+“Watch this, Syrus.” Zoe says. Soon,
+
+the other human quickly lights up in a golden
+
+flame. It’s Synan!
+
+“Synan! You’re... you’re...”
+
+“A mega-monster.”
+
+“No way! How??”
+
+A creaky, leathery finger lands on Syrus’
+
+shoulder. Syrus quickly turns around to see
+
+the most ugly thing ever! It looks like it’s dead,
+
+wrapped in a torn purple cloak, carrying a
+
+lantern. Syrus can’t see his face, but his arms
+
+are so scrawny and leathery.
+
+Syrus screams and backs into Synan.
+
+In an instant Syrus is in a very bright room.
+
+A tunnel, actually. The tunnel is circular and
+
+spinning. The dead monster stands taller.
+
+“I’ll be your guide on your way,
+
+But coming back I won’t play. If to the other
+
+side you wish to go, than follow me and don’t
+
+be slow.” The dead creature says as he begins
+
+to float away. Synan seems to have lost his
+
+mega-monster power suddenly and he and Zoe
+
+run off after the monster. Syrus gets up and runs
+
+after them.
+
+The three of them suddenly stop but
+
+Syrus keeps running. He didn’t stop in time.
+
+Suddenly Syrus falls into the floor through another
+
+spinning tunnel, only vertical and not horizontal.
+
+Syrus screams his lungs out as he falls deeper
+
+and deeper. He can’t tell when he’ll ever stop
+
+falling.
+
+Syrus keeps falling through millions of the
+
+same room. Square rooms, with a horizontal
+
+spinning tunnel on each wall, as well as vertical
+
+tunnels in the ceiling and floor, those of which
+
+Syrus is falling through.
+
+Syrus falls through a room where he sees
+
+Zoe hugging Synan, crying into his shoulder, as
+
+the dead monster watches. Syrus falls through a
+
+few more rooms and sees another dead monster.
+
+This monster looks like Clawz. Mr. I was talking
+
+about Clawz as Syrus was falling asleep.
+
+Clawz looks dead and rotting. Syrus
+
+gives a louder scream as he falls even faster than
+
+the monster’s dead corpse. Suddenly Syrus falls
+
+through the last room and sees The Land of No
+
+Return below him.
+
+He hits really hard at the exact point he
+
+fell asleep.
+
+“Syrus, wake up!” Syrus gets up, frightened.
+
+“It was just a dream.” Syrus says, relieved.
+
+Then, the dead corpse of Clawz crashes right in
+
+front of him. Syrus screams as he wakes up.
+
+“Syrus, are you okay?” Wizeman
+
+asks.
+
+“I’m fine.” Syrus feels around the
+
+ground for any sign of a dead Clawz.
+
+“I just had the worst nightmare.”
+
+Syrus says.
+
+“Yeah, we noticed. You were
+
+screaming in your sleep.” Mr. I says.
+
+It is now morning. The island is
+
+bright. Syrus looks over to where Zoe and
+
+Synan were standing. Nobody is there.
+
+“Are you sure you’re okay?” Mr.
+
+I asks.
+
+“I’ll be fine.” Syrus gets up and looks
+
+at the castle. “Let’s not break in quite yet.
+
+I have a feeling we’ll be meeting Synan and
+
+Zoe really soon.”

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+Syrus is sitting quietly on a rock
+
+near the castle, thinking over what he
+
+dreamt about. Syrus takes out his
+
+Gameboy Color out of his pocket and
+
+turns it on. As he begins playing, he
+
+senses Wizeman and Mr. I over his
+
+shoulder watching.
+
+“You guys got a problem?”
+
+They quickly go and act like
+
+they weren’t watching. As Syrus continues
+
+to play, they come back. Syrus takes out
+
+two Ideya Marbles and drops them. The
+
+monsters are sucked in.
+
+“Takes care of them.”
+
+Syrus begins playing his Gameboy
+
+in peace. The MystSages logo appears on
+
+the screen. The logo disappears and then a
+
+Vortex logo appears. Then the text “presents”
+
+Just as Syrus was about to actually
+
+PLAY the game, a voice speaks to him.
+
+“Syrus!”
+
+It’s Zoe. Synan is with her, too.
+
+“It’s about time you got here, Synan.”
+
+“What?” Synan asks.
+
+“I’ve been waiting here for quite some
+
+time for you to arrive.”
+
+Zoe says, “Yeah, well, we had to help
+
+Elsie get un-lost.”
+
+“Zoe. I’m not talking to you, am I?”
+
+“...”
+
+“So anyway, Synan. What monsters
+
+do you got?”
+
+Synan releases all his monsters: Monk,
+
+Crystal, and Emerald.
+
+“Ha ha ha! Those have to be the
+
+weakest monsters!”
+
+Zoe releases her Clawz, Prisem, and
+
+Skyber. A chill goes through Syrus as he
+
+remembers that dream about Zoe and the
+
+dead Clawz.
+
+“Oh, so you got a Clawz. That’s a
+
+rare one-of-a-kind monster.” Syrus mocks,
+
+hiding his fear. “But look at MY monsters!”
+
+Syrus releases all ten of his monsters.
+
+Monk, Blue Orb, Wizeman, Jr. Ico, Emerald,
+
+Mr. I, Skyber, Octa, Octo, and Jelly-Fly.
+
+Synan’s mouth drops open.
+
+“And look. Ever seen one of
+
+these?” Syrus holds out the Greater
+
+Ideya.
+
+“These things will capture ANY
+
+monster without fail.”
+
+“Woah!”
+
+“So, Synan. Ready to battle? You
+
+can use Zoe’s monsters, too, if you think
+
+it will help. All my monsters are level 58/100.”
+
+“Forget it, Syrus.”
+
+“Why? Are your monsters at
+
+level 3? Oh, no. That was too harsh. I meant
+
+to say negetive 3.”
+
+“Hey Syrus! Close your eyes and
+
+press this little square down.” Syrus does
+
+it and soon is linked to another location.
+
+Syrus appears back at the entrance to the
+
+island. In anger, he whips his Ideya Marbles
+
+into the ground, returning all his monster.
+
+“Wait a minute.” Syrus releases
+
+Mr. I. “Fly me back to the castle.”
+
+Mr. I says, “I can’t do that. It’s
+
+just too far for me to fly. Sorry.”

Originals/Books/Syrus/31-DEITY.txt

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+Syrus stands near the gates of the
+
+mysterious island. Mr. I begins flapping his
+
+wings and takes flight. Syrus hangs onto
+
+Mr. I’s feet and he lifts off of the ground.
+
+Mr. I and Syrus slowly ascend from the island
+
+and rise over the volcano. Through the red, foggy
+
+smoke, Syrus can see Wizeman’s Castle.
+
+“Go!” Syrus says. Mr. I begins to soar
+
+over the mountain. Syrus looks down and notices
+
+that the ground is shaking.
+
+“Mr. I, what’s going on?” Syrus says.
+
+“I’m not sure... wait! It must be
+
+Sage!”
+
+“Sage? You mean that person that Kail
+
+was looking for?”
+
+“Yes. Kail didn’t tell you much about
+
+Sage. Or Veronica, even.” Mr. I says.
+
+“Yeah. The only thing I’ve noticed is that
+
+they all have Synan’s last name.” Syrus says.
+
+“There is much more than that, but I
+
+can’t explain it now.”
+
+They are now floating directly over the
+
+crater in the volcano. Syrus looks ahead and sees
+
+that the castle is shaking more violently than the
+
+rest of the island. The walls of the castle crack
+
+and begin to collapse.
+
+Syrus looks closer at the castle. Suddenly,
+
+a huge beam of light shoots up through the center
+
+of the castle. The castle begins to explode from
+
+the top out. Bricks and debris are flying away from
+
+the castle. Soon, the center tower in the castle
+
+is completely annihilated. The four guard towers
+
+are also badly deteriorated.
+
+The rocks from the castle are flying away
+
+at an amazing speed. Mr. I and Syrus dodge most
+
+of them. One rock is flying straight toward Mr. I.
+
+Mr. I is almost bashed in the face by it. Syrus takes
+
+out Mr. I’s Ideya Capture and returns him to it,
+
+leaving Syrus falling toward the mountain below.
+
+Syrus hits the rocks on the volcano hard,
+
+and begins to roll and tumble down the mountain.
+
+A big rock petruding from the mountain’s surface
+
+saves Syrus’s fall. Syrus has an almost-perfect view
+
+of the castle from here.
+
+Syrus looks around, towards the castle.
+
+In front of the castle, Syrus sees Synan and Zoe.
+
+Another girl is with them. Veronica!
+
+Veronica looks up at the mountain, at
+
+Syrus. How did she know he was there?
+
+Syrus looks up into the beam of light. A
+
+boy, maybe 15, is hovering up there. He is wearing
+
+a blood-red cape. His hair is brown, and the clothes
+
+under his cape are black.
+
+“So, this is Sage.” Syrus says. He moves
+
+closer to where Synan and Zoe are, so that he
+
+can hear them.
+
+Zoe says, “I’m assuming that is not a good
+
+thing.”
+
+“No,” Veronica answers, “Sage will morph
+
+into Deity and destroy the entire universe.”
+
+Syrus listens to that statement. ‘Sage will...
+
+morph? Into Deity?’ Syrus could already sense the
+
+strength and evil in Sage. But that’s not even his
+
+full form.
+
+Syrus looks up at the evil man in the sky.
+
+‘How can he be human?’ Syrus thinks, ‘I have
+
+never seen any human with that kind of power.
+
+Well, James is an exception, but he probably
+
+isn’t human either.’
+
+Syrus hears footsteps behind him. Syrus
+
+sits up and looks. Kail is standing there. Kail
+
+crouches down behind the rock with Syrus and
+
+watches.
+
+“Kail.”
+
+“...What?” Kail responds, after a short
+
+delay.
+
+“Is that what you were searching for?”
+
+“Yes. I was hoping to rescue him before
+
+Veronica could give him that kind of power.”
+
+“Veronica made him what he is?” Syrus
+
+asks, skeptically.
+
+“Yes. They used several magic stones
+
+on him.”
+
+“Magic stones?” Syrus asks.
+
+“Yes. There are several kinds of magic
+
+stones on this island. They all do different things.”
+
+“Go on.” Syrus says.
+
+“Well, the Dark Stone gives a human
+
+or monster the mega-monster power. James has
+
+one. Have you met James?”
+
+“Yeah.” Syrus answers.
+
+“Well, James has a Dark Stone. That’s
+
+what makes him have a yellow flame and give
+
+him his power. They trained Sage with the
+
+Dark Stone, so that he could move up to the
+
+Ultra-Monster level. That is where Veronica is.”
+
+“Veronica is Sage’s brother. My sister.
+
+Since Sage is older than her, she decided to
+
+put Sage through even more training. Sage
+
+eventually graduated to a Hyper-Monster.
+
+That’s even more powerful than Veronica.”
+
+“At the hyper-monster level, Veronica
+
+decided that Sage could stand the power of
+
+the Light Stone. The Light Stone has so much
+
+power that a normal human would most likely
+
+spontaneously combust if they tried to use it.”
+
+Syrus comments, “You know, for a
+
+ten-year-old, you sure have a big vocabulary.”
+
+“Yeah, well. No interruptions. So
+
+anyway, with the Light Stone, Sage got even
+
+more power. He then went beyond the level
+
+of a hyper-monster. At that point he had
+
+enough power to destroy several universes.”
+
+“Veronica then gave Sage the magical
+
+stone of Deity. At Sage’s power level, he
+
+could easily stand the stone’s extreme powers.
+
+And that’s where we are now.”
+
+“Where are we?” Syrus asks.
+
+“Watching Sage transform into a
+
+being too powerful for even him to control.”

Originals/Books/Syrus/32-RETREAT.txt

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+Synan and Kail continue to watch up
+
+on the mountain. Syrus hears Veronica.
+
+“I suggest you run, kids! Run while you
+
+still can! I’m assuming your death will be less
+
+painful if you’re further away from Deity.”
+
+Syrus observes Synan and Zoe run
+
+back the way they came. Veronica looks up
+
+at the volcano. Kail ducks down out of view.
+
+“Syrus and Kail! You’d better run
+
+too!”
+
+“Dang, she caught me!” Kail yells.
+
+“You knew I would,” Veronica says,
+
+“Now get going. Now!”
+
+Syrus and Kail jump down the
+
+mountain and land at the bottom. They start
+
+running after Synan and Zoe. Syrus and Kail
+
+run around the curve of the mountain and see
+
+Synan and Zoe. Synan and Zoe are now with
+
+three other people. They are the people that
+
+Mr. I told Syrus about: Logan, Alisha, and
+
+Elsie.
+
+“Wait up!” Syrus yells. They don’t
+
+hear him. Syrus and Kail keep running after
+
+them. Synan’s group runs through a lime
+
+green door. Syrus runs after them. They
+
+follow Synan into a room filled with gold.
+
+A voice says, “Welcome back, Synan.”
+
+“Who are you?” Synan asks.
+
+“I’m Joseph. Want to see what I
+
+look like?”
+
+“What?”
+
+“Well too bad! So, have you returned
+
+to fight me again?”
+
+Syrus dosen’t know where the
+
+voice is coming from, or who said it.
+
+“No. The island, no, the universe is
+
+in danger.”
+
+“Well, duh.”
+
+“So, we’re trying to escape!”
+
+“You cannot escape the universe!”
+
+Joseph laughs.
+
+“Whatever!” Synan yells. The group
+
+runs past where Joseph assumedly was. Syrus
+
+and Kail start running after them, too. The
+
+group quickly escapes the maze and makes
+
+their way to the Book Temple. The group runs
+
+inside. Syrus and Kail watch them from outside.
+
+Sarah is not at the temple. Synan picks
+
+up a note off of the desk, and reads it aloud:
+
+“I left this universe in a retreat to the
+
+other world. If you are wise, you should follow.
+
+I entered this black book.”
+
+Synan picks up the book and opens it.
+
+Syrus can’t see anything from outside the temple.
+
+“Should we go, or stay to stop Deity?”
+
+Zoe asks.
+
+“I have a plan.” Synan says. The island
+
+is rumbling.
+
+“Elsie. You and your family, enter this
+
+book.”
+
+“Okay.” Elsie and her parents enter
+
+the book.
+
+“Zoe. Are you staying or going?”
+
+“I’ll stay.”
+
+“Alright, then. Enter this book to Earth.”
+
+“What about you?”
+
+“I’ll follow.”
+
+Zoe links through the book. Synan follows.
+
+Syrus and Kail run inside and they link through
+
+the black book that Elsie went through. They
+
+appear in a dark cave.
+
+“Man, is this the netherworld?” Syrus
+
+asks.
+
+“Yes, it is.” A voice says. Syrus turns
+
+around. It’s Sarah.
+
+“Oh, Sarah. The keeper of the book
+
+temple, right?”
+
+“Yes.”
+
+“Why did you leave first? You’re
+
+supposed to stay in the temple untill the last
+
+possible time.”
+
+“Whatever you say, Syrus.”
+
+Lots of people begin linking into the
+
+dark cave. Everyone that Syrus knows from
+
+Earth is in here. Lastly, Synan and Zoe arrive.
+
+“Synan, I think this was really the
+
+Netherworld!” Zoe says.
+
+“Shh! You’re going to scar Elsie.” Synan
+
+whispers, “and besides, I brought the book to
+
+get back.”
+
+James appears in the hall way and walks
+
+toward the group of people. James, Synan, and
+
+Zoe start talking amongst themselves. Something
+
+about James using his mega-monster power to
+
+stop Sage before he transforms.
+
+Sarah hands Synan a book. “Use this book
+
+to get back to Earth,” Synan tells the Earth people.
+
+“Warp back when the sky lightens up.”
+
+“Okay.” They all reply.
+
+Synan, Zoe, James, and Sarah link through
+
+a book to The Land of No Return.
+
+“I wonder what they’re up to.” Syrus says.

Originals/Books/Syrus/33-SNIP.txt

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+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.

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+Syrus and Unamed continue on.
+
+They’ve encountered a couple of Snips
+
+up to this point.
+
+“So, Unamed, what kinds of
+
+monsters are in the other world?” Syrus
+
+asks.
+
+“Mostly the same as in your
+
+world, kid.”
+
+“Okay. I only have one Ideya
+
+Capture left.” Syrus says.
+
+“Let me see that. That’s not
+
+an Ideya Capture, it’s a Greater Ideya.”
+
+“Oh, yeah. I forgot.”
+
+“How could you forget? Where
+
+did you find it?”
+
+“Under water.”
+
+“Ha! Figures. Some unsuspecting
+
+swimmer probably dropped it. Was
+
+anything inside?” Unamed asks.
+
+“Yes, Wizeman was inside.”
+
+“Wizeman? Your Lord Wizeman
+
+was inside?”
+
+“No, not Lord Wizeman. Just
+
+another Wizeman.”
+
+“Oh.” Unamed says. Distracted
+
+from talking, Syrus slipped into a hole in
+
+the floor and started to fall. Syrus screams
+
+for help. Syrus just keeps falling through
+
+millions of the same room and tunnel. He
+
+sees several Snips on his way down.
+
+Syrus has gotten used to the fall
+
+by now, so he stops screaming. Syrus
+
+falls through a room and sees Zoe hugging
+
+Synan, crying.
+
+‘This is just like that dream.’ Syrus
+
+thinks. Synan and Zoe don’t see Syrus.
+
+They are facing away from him.
+
+‘Then that means...’ Syrus looks
+
+down and sees a pathetic clump of an
+
+orange monster covered with blood and
+
+a purplish poison. Syrus catches up with
+
+the monster. He detects that it is still alive.
+
+Syrus takes out his Greater Ideya
+
+and captures Clawz. Shortly afterword,
+
+Unamed catches Syrus out of mid air.
+
+“Thanks, Unamed!” Syrus says.
+
+Syrus releases the nearly-dead Clawz.
+
+It’s breathing is pathetic. Syrus releases
+
+Jelly-Fly.
+
+“Jelly-Fly! Heal Clawz!” The
+
+jellyfish flies over Clawz and sprinkles
+
+some pink healing spores over Clawz.
+
+Soon, Clawz gains his strength back.
+
+“Hey, Clawz! It’s me, your
+
+trainer!” Syrus says. Syrus dosen’t
+
+expect Clawz to believe him, but
+
+apparently Clawz suffered amnesia
+
+from the attack.
+
+Clawz gets up and runs to
+
+Syrus.
+
+“Heh, heh, heh. I got another
+
+rare monster.”
+
+Syrus returns Clawz to it’s
+
+Greater Ideya.
+
+“Syrus, I’m happy for you
+
+catching your pathetic new monster,
+
+but we really have to get going!”
+
+“Okay. Wait, how did you
+
+get down here so fast?”
+
+“I have my ways. Now let’s
+
+go!”
+
+Syrus follows Unamed.

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+Syrus and Unamed have been walking
+
+all night. It was all night according to Syrus’s
+
+watch, anyway. Time doesn’t seem to fly by in
+
+this place. Unamed faces Syrus down one last
+
+tunnel.
+
+“This is the exit, Syrus. Walk down
+
+this tunnel.”
+
+Syrus does what he’s told, and slowly
+
+walks down the tunnel. Suddenly, a bright
+
+flash comes over Syrus, and he appears back
+
+in the dark room which he left.
+
+“This is the other dimension!” This
+
+time, Syrus actually takes time to look around
+
+the room. There is a square-shaped hole in
+
+the ceiling, allowing a faint red glow from
+
+Emerald’s Crater to light up the room. On the
+
+wall opposite the portal is a pedestal with a
+
+book on top.
+
+The book is opened. “Synan and Zoe
+
+must have gotten here already.” Syrus puts
+
+his hand on the picture and warps into the
+
+Book Temple. The sky is back to normal. Syrus
+
+can see stars again. This must mean that he
+
+is in the other world, where Deity wasn’t wound
+
+up.
+
+“Syrus!” Sarah is sitting at the desk.
+
+“What are you doing here?”
+
+“Err, umm...” Syrus clears his throat and
+
+talks in his best voice. “My name is King Syrus.
+
+I have come from the other dimension to rule
+
+over this world!”
+
+“Syrus, hello? You’re FROM our
+
+dimension!”
+
+“What?”
+
+“I can tell by looking at you. The humans
+
+in this dimension have a slightly different look to
+
+them.”
+
+“What?? Unamed sent me back to where
+
+I came from?”
+
+“Oh, so you met Unamed. Yeah, I told
+
+him to send you back here.”
+
+“Damn incarnation!” Syrus curses.
+
+“Swearing won’t help any, Syrus. I know
+
+Synan and Zoe can completely handle whatever
+
+happens to them.”

Originals/Books/Syrus/36-GAMEBOY.txt

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+Synan has been sitting against a wall
+
+in the Book Temple for a few hours. Sarah
+
+has been sitting at her desk writing studiously.
+
+“Sarah, can I get up now?” Syrus asks.
+
+“No, you can not.” Sarah says.
+
+“Why not?”
+
+“You know why. Never swear in my
+
+temple again.”
+
+“Come on, Sarah.”
+
+“No. Now just sit there and be quiet.”
+
+Syrus is really bored. He’s been doing
+
+nothing but complaining all this time. Syrus takes
+
+out his Gameboy and starts playing. Sarah can’t
+
+hear the sounds from the Gameboy.
+
+Syrus is playing a game made by
+
+MystSages, inc. The game is called Cain’s Quest.
+
+It is about a kid who is mistakenly sent to a
+
+strange island. Syrus hasn’t gotten very far into
+
+the game yet.
+
+As Syrus continues playing, he notices
+
+some major similarities between this game and
+
+real life. Sarah looks over at Syrus.
+
+“Are you playing Cain’s Quest?”
+
+“Yeah.” Syrus answers.
+
+“Did you know that Veronica wrote
+
+the plot for that game?” Sarah asks.
+
+“She did not.”
+
+“Bet.”
+
+“Okay, how did she?”
+
+“She knows everything, remember. She
+
+wrote that plot about what was going to happen
+
+in the future. When you’re done with your quest
+
+on The Land of No Return, you beat that game
+
+and see for yourself.”
+
+“Sarah, I swear you’ve lost it.”
+
+“Hey! No swearing! Now you have to
+
+stay there for ten more hours.”
+
+“Uggh!”
+
+“Don’t start with me!”
+
+Syrus sits, quietly playing his game.

Originals/Books/Syrus/37-LOST.txt

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+Syrus sits quietly playing his Gameboy.
+
+Ten hours fly by quickly.  Sarah looks over to
+
+Syrus.
+
+“Okay, Syrus. You can leave now.”
+
+“Finally!” Syrus gets up and runs out
+
+of the Book Temple. He turns back and looks
+
+at Sarah.
+
+Syrus starts swearing at Sarah.
+
+“Shut up, Syrus.”
+
+Syrus walks away from the Book Temple.
+
+“Ah, now to explore this half of the
+
+island.” Syrus starts walking down the purple
+
+pathway in the opposite direction of the Illusion
+
+Cave. Syrus soon arrives at an ice-blue cave
+
+sticking out of the ground.
+
+Syrus walks over to the blue doors on
+
+the cave. A bunch of Prisems are standing here.
+
+“Halt! What is the super-duper-extremely-
+
+magical-password?” Prisem says, trying to sound
+
+powerful.
+
+“How about,” Syrus says, “Let me in
+
+before I punch the living hell out of you!”
+
+“Fair enough.” Prisem says and unlocks
+
+the door. Syrus walks inside. It is dark inside,
+
+and the walls are lined with Crystals. They all
+
+gaze at Syrus with their gigantic eyeballs. Syrus
+
+gets the chills, and walks more slowly. Shortly,
+
+Syrus loses it.
+
+“STOP STARING AT ME!!!” Syrus
+
+screams. His voice echoes off the walls. “WHAT
+
+IN THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?!” Syrus
+
+yells. Again, all he hears is his own echo. Syrus
+
+is going crazy. “I HAVE TO GET OUT OF
+
+HERE!!” Syrus turns around and tries to get
+
+the door open. It is locked. Syrus screams.
+
+“HELP ME! I’M BEING STARED
+
+TO DEATH! STOP LOOKING AT ME!!”
+
+Syrus is spinning around with insanity.
+
+His foot slips on the stairs and he falls down.
+
+Syrus tumbles down the stairs, into complete
+
+darkness. Syrus gets up. Up the stairs he sees
+
+the dull blue color of Crystal Cave. Down
+
+another tunnel he sees a red glow.
+
+Syrus gets up and runs down toward
+
+the red glow. He’s still going crazy as he runs
+
+toward the ‘light.’
+
+Syrus shortly arrives at the source
+
+of the red light. He is in Emerald’s Crater. He
+
+sees a small hole on the other side of the platform
+
+he’s on. He runs around the crater toward the
+
+hole. He crawls in and finds himself in Monk’s
+
+Hidden Garden. He runs through and sees the
+
+black door.
+
+Assuming it’s locked, Syrus kicks
+
+the door. It easily flies opened, as well as two
+
+Monks guarding from the other side fly into
+
+the air. Syrus gets out to the Monk Garden.
+
+His insanity soon leaves him.
+
+“Ah, freedom!!”

Originals/Books/Syrus/38-MONK.txt

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+Syrus is in Monk Garden, slowly
+
+regaining his sanity. After his sanity comes
+
+back, he decides to show off to the Monks.
+
+“Hey, Monks! Remember me? I’m
+
+Syrus!”
+
+“Nooo, we forgot!” One Monk says
+
+sarchastically.
+
+“Well, remember how I was so
+
+pathetically pathetic last time you saw me?
+
+Well, look what monsters I have now!”
+
+Syrus starts by releasing his Monk.
+
+“Oh, a Monk? Big deal! We have
+
+those!”
+
+Syrus ignores the remark and then
+
+releases another monster: Octa.
+
+“Ooh, he made it to the lake! We
+
+should congratulate him!”
+
+Syrus releases Octo and Jelly-Fly.
+
+“Like we said, he made it to the
+
+lake.” the Monks comment.
+
+Syrus releases Blue Orb. “Look
+
+at this, guys!”
+
+The Monks seem amazed for once.
+
+Syrus continues and releases Ico and
+
+Wizeman. The Monks are really impressed
+
+now. Syrus lets Mr. I out, and then Skyber,
+
+and then Emerald and Clawz.
+
+The Monks are really awed at what
+
+Syrus has captured.
+
+The Monks comment, “And here
+
+we thought you’d never make it as an
+
+LNR trainer.”
+
+“A what?” Syrus asks.
+
+“We thought you wouldn’t know.
+
+A trainer is a human who captures these
+
+monsters and trains them, so that they
+
+become powerful.” a Monk answers.
+
+“And what else do these trainers
+
+do?”
+
+“The trainers compete in arenas.
+
+We have one on this island. It is deep below
+
+the ground. The only way to get to it is through
+
+the Illusion Cave, or there’s a more dangrous
+
+route through Emerald’s Crater.”
+
+“Oh, really.”
+
+“Yeah. A lot of the best trainers
+
+in the world go there. You should go. Your
+
+monsters are pretty strong, especially Clawz.
+
+How did you make Clawz that strong?”
+
+“Well, you see, umm, I don’t really
+
+know.” Syrus says, knowing he didn’t raise
+
+Clawz, and that he stole him.
+
+“Oh, I see. He dosen’t want to give
+
+away his secret! Smart choice, my man!” A
+
+Monk pats him on the back. It’s kinda hard
+
+to do that, considering the Monk has to climb
+
+up on him first.
+
+The king of the Monks approaches
+
+Syrus. “Well done, Syrus. You certainly have
+
+come a long way since that kid that we were
+
+keeping at camp for a night. Great job, kid.
+
+You’re in our Monk Confederation from now
+
+on.”
+
+“Thanks.” The King Monk leads
+
+Syrus over to a small red flower by the edge
+
+of the garden.
+
+“Syrus, this is the Peculier Flower.
+
+We have no idea what it does, but we know
+
+it’s poisonous.” the Monk says. They are
+
+obviously giving Syrus a tour of their garden.
+
+Synan busts out of the black doors
+
+and runs through the garden, into the woods.
+
+“That’s funny, what’s Synan doing
+
+here?” Syrus says.

Originals/Books/Syrus/39-TIME.txt

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+Syrus runs into the forest after Synan.
+
+Synan is gone. Syrus steps on a small purple
+
+book in the ground. Syrus picks it up and looks
+
+through the window. The picture is fuzzy. Soon,
+
+it goes pure black.
+
+“Huh, I must’ve torn the pages or
+
+something.” Syrus throws the book into a nearby
+
+bush. Syrus walks down one of the pathways.
+
+He sees Synan run out ahead of him.
+
+“Synan!” Syrus yells.
+
+Synan looks at Syrus.
+
+“I just got another really rare monster.
+
+It was in poor condition but I fixed him up
+
+with my Jelly-Fly.”
+
+“Can I see your new monster?” Synan
+
+asks.
+
+“No way! It’s real powerful to survive
+
+the attack it went through!”
+
+“Please?”
+
+“No!”
+
+“Can you at least tell me what its name
+
+was?”
+
+“Uhh, I think it started with a...NO!!”
+
+“Freak.” Synan says.
+
+“Well, I have to get going. I’m searching
+
+for the elemental barrier keys.”
+
+“Oh, look all you want. I have all of them.”
+
+“Give me the keys!” Syrus says.
+
+“You’ll only get them if you give me your
+
+monster.”
+
+“Forget about it, then.”
+
+“Good. Have you seen Zoe?”
+
+“Zoe? Yeah, she was with Veronica a while ago.”
+
+Syrus replies.
+
+“Veronica? Where did they go?” Synan
+
+asks. He’s falling for it!
+
+“That way!” Syrus points.
+
+“Okay.” Synan begins walking in that
+
+direction. Syrus slowly follows him to see what
+
+happens.
+
+Syrus sees Synan. Kail walks up to Synan
+
+and they start talking. Syrus is listening. The last
+
+thing he hears is about a time machine.
+
+Kail pulls a rock from the volcano and a
+
+secret passage opens. Synan and Kail walk inside.
+
+Syrus hears that Zoe and Veronica are inside.
+
+So, Syrus was actually right about where
+
+Zoe and Veronica went! Syrus runs inside
+
+before the door closes. James appears. Syrus
+
+joins the group.

Originals/Books/Syrus/40-HOME.txt

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+Synan, Zoe, James, Veronica, Syrus, and
+
+Kail stand around the cylinder in the center, hands
+
+joined.
+
+“I will now sent Synan, Zoe, James, and
+
+Syrus to Earth. I will return Kail to the future.”
+
+Before anyone knows what happens,
+
+Synan, Zoe, James, and Syrus are in a grassy
+
+field on Earth.
+
+“We’re back!” Zoe yells.
+
+“Yes! We survived!!” Synan adds.
+
+“I haven’t been on Earth for years.” James says.
+
+“Kids...” Syrus mocks.
+
+They walk toward the city. The city is much
+
+more lively this time of day. What time is it?
+
+Synan and Zoe walk back into the Ideya Shop.
+
+Syrus and James walk off on their own.
+
+“Hey, James! Wanna come to my house?”
+
+“Sure.” James replies.
+
+James and Syrus go to Syrus’s apartment.
+
+Syrus and his parents have a quick reunion and
+
+then Syrus and James go to Syrus’s room to play
+
+video games. Syrus has all the best video game
+
+equipment. He has things that aren’t even out yet!
+
+Systems more advanced than the
+
+Playstation 2 or the Dreamcast. Syrus’s dad
+
+works in the video game business.
+
+Syrus and James are playing a fighting
+
+game. A voice comes behind them.
+
+“Welcome back, Syrus and James.”
+
+They look back. There are two girls
+
+standing here. One blonde, and one brunette.
+
+The blonde speaks first. “Hi, I’m
+
+Sarah Croft. I know all about your quest on
+
+The Land of No Return, and I’m willing to
+
+write a book about it.”
+
+“And I’m Veronica Creel.”
+
+Sarah continues, “So, Syrus. Did
+
+you finish Cain’s Quest yet?”
+
+“No, not yet.”
+
+“Well, finish it. How much do you
+
+want to bet that I’ll prove that Veronica
+
+wrote that game’s script?”
+
+“Maybe later.” Syrus says.
+
+“Well, if you ever need to confess
+
+your stupidity to me, I work in town now.
+
+My Book Shop is at 3346 Fourth Street,
+
+right here in Vatican City. Stop by if you
+
+want to visit sometime, okay Syrus?”
+
+“Okay.”
+
+Sarah and Veronica disappear
+
+with a flick of light. James comments,
+
+“I think Sarah likes you.”
+
+Syrus gives James a long,
+
+blank stare. “Grow up, James.”
+
+“I know it, you know it.”
+
+“James. Seriously, stop it!”
+
+“No. Come on, ask her out!”
+
+“No!”
+
+“Yes!” James pulls Syrus
+
+off the floor and leads him out of the
+
+apartment. James drags Syrus down
+
+the street toward the address of 3346
+
+Fourth Street. Sure enough, a Book Shop
+
+is here.
+
+The shop is entitled “Sarah’s
+
+Book Temple.” They walk in.
+
+“Hey, Sarah.” James says.
+
+“Hi guys. What’s up?” Sarah
+
+says.
+
+“Syrus here,” James shoves
+
+Syrus forward, “has a little confession to
+
+make to you.”
+
+“H-h-hi, Sarah.” Syrus says,
+
+nervous.
+
+“Hi, Syrus.” Sarah answers.
+
+“Ahem... Sarah, umm, will
+
+you go out with me?”
+
+“Sure, Syrus. I’d like that.”
+
+Syrus is suddenly relieved.
+
+“Wow, Syrus, for being such a
+
+tough guy, you almost choked back
+
+there.”
+
+“Heh, James: Leave!”
+
+“Okay, hehe..” James quietly
+
+leaves. A half-hour passes and then
+
+Syrus comes out of the library.
+
+“So, what happened?” James
+
+says.
+
+“None of your business,
+
+James!” Syrus says.
+
+Syrus looks down the road and sees
+
+Synan and Zoe walking toward them, holding
+
+hands.
+
+“Hey, Syrus! Guess what!” Zoe says.
+
+“Let me guess, you and Synan are
+
+going out now, right?” Syrus guesses.
+
+“Uggh! How’d you know??” Zoe asks.
+
+“It was pretty obvious, but guess what!”
+
+“What?” Zoe asks.
+
+“I’m going out with Sarah, the Book
+
+Temple girl!”
+
+“Good job Syrus!” Synan says, “Maybe
+
+now you can get FREE shipments of Hooked
+
+on Phonics!”
+
+Syrus punches Synan really hard in the
+
+shoulder.

Originals/Characters/README.md

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+## 01-Monk.png
+
+![01-Monk.png](./01-Monk.png)
+
+## 02-Prisem.png
+
+![02-Prisem.png](./02-Prisem.png)
+
+## 03-Crystal.png
+
+![03-Crystal.png](./03-Crystal.png)
+
+## 04-Emerald.png
+
+![04-Emerald.png](./04-Emerald.png)
+
+## 05-Mr-I.png
+
+![05-Mr-I.png](./05-Mr-I.png)
+
+## 06-Spyke.png
+
+![06-Spyke.png](./06-Spyke.png)
+
+## 07-Wizeman.png
+
+![07-Wizeman.png](./07-Wizeman.png)
+
+## 08-Twilite.png
+
+![08-Twilite.png](./08-Twilite.png)
+
+## 09-Ico.png
+
+![09-Ico.png](./09-Ico.png)
+
+## 10-Clawz.png
+
+![10-Clawz.png](./10-Clawz.png)
+
+## 11-Orb.png
+
+![11-Orb.png](./11-Orb.png)
+
+## 12-Octa.png
+
+![12-Octa.png](./12-Octa.png)
+
+## 13-Octo.png
+
+![13-Octo.png](./13-Octo.png)
+
+## 14-Jelly-Fly.png
+
+![14-Jelly-Fly.png](./14-Jelly-Fly.png)
+
+## 15-Skyber.png
+
+![15-Skyber.png](./15-Skyber.png)
+
+## 16-Myst.png
+
+![16-Myst.png](./16-Myst.png)
+
+## 17-Synan-Creel.png
+
+![17-Synan-Creel.png](./17-Synan-Creel.png)
+
+## 18-Zoe-Aidenn.png
+
+![18-Zoe-Aidenn.png](./18-Zoe-Aidenn.png)
+
+## 19-James-Seth.png
+
+![19-James-Seth.png](./19-James-Seth.png)
+
+## 20-Sarah-Croft.png
+
+![20-Sarah-Croft.png](./20-Sarah-Croft.png)
+
+## 21-Syrus-Kirsehn.png
+
+![21-Syrus-Kirsehn.png](./21-Syrus-Kirsehn.png)
+
+## 22-Sage-Creel.png
+
+![22-Sage-Creel.png](./22-Sage-Creel.png)
+
+## 23-Deity.png
+
+![23-Deity.png](./23-Deity.png)
+
+## 24-Jackal.png
+
+![24-Jackal.png](./24-Jackal.png)
+
+## 25-Veronica-Creel.png
+
+![25-Veronica-Creel.png](./25-Veronica-Creel.png)
+
+## 27-Elsie-Korso.png
+
+![27-Elsie-Korso.png](./27-Elsie-Korso.png)
+
+## 28-Logan-Korso.png
+
+![28-Logan-Korso.png](./28-Logan-Korso.png)
+
+## 29-Alisha-Korso.png
+
+![29-Alisha-Korso.png](./29-Alisha-Korso.png)
+
+## 30-Unamed.png
+
+![30-Unamed.png](./30-Unamed.png)
+
+## 31-Snip.png
+
+![31-Snip.png](./31-Snip.png)
+
+## 32-Koda.png
+
+![32-Koda.png](./32-Koda.png)
+
+## 33-Skybree.png
+
+![33-Skybree.png](./33-Skybree.png)
+
+## 34-Skysen.png
+
+![34-Skysen.png](./34-Skysen.png)
+
+## Evolution.png
+
+![Evolution.png](./Evolution.png)
+
+## Flash.png
+
+![Flash.png](./Flash.png)
+
+## Types.png
+
+![Types.png](./Types.png)
+

Originals/Characters/mk-readme.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+rm README.md
+for i in *.png; do echo -e "## $i\n\n![$i](./$i)\n" >> README.md; done

README.md

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+# The Land of No Return
+
+Originals:
+
+* Stories
+  1. [The Book of Synan](Originals/Books/Synan) - chapters 1 to 20.
+  2. [The Book of Syrus](Originals/Books/Syrus) - chapters 21 to 40.
+  3. [The Book of Veronica](Originals/Books/Veronica)
+* Images
+  * [Characters](Originals/Characters)
+
+Original website viewable at: https://www.kirsle.net/memories/lnr/