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!”