"Heya!"

Another denting sound, but no reaction.

Lypix shifted the weight of her head to her other arm. "I'm starting to think it has no properties whatsoever." She responded quite bored.

Piper frowned, "But it has worked, both of us have seen it twice." "Heya!" She yelled again as she slammed it down on the table.

"Think about it Piper, Icers didn't work, Blazers didn't. Heck, even leechers were unresponsive!"

Piper looked at Lypix, "Well it has to do something."

"Well what prompted it all the other times?" Aerrow asked from the doorway, he was slightly unnerved about Piper and Lypix's increasing friendship since they'd been in the Izumi mines.

Lypix looked thoughtful and rubbed a bruised part of her face, "The first time it was me touching it, the second when they took Piper. As far as we know no one touched it the second time."

Piper placed her hand on her forehead and then thrusted it into the air with the suggestion of an idea. Without saying anything she placed the crystal down and started looking through the bookcase.

"What is it?" Lypix asked rather intrigued by Piper's rabid nature.

"I'll leave you guys to it." Aerrow smiled walking out of the room. He'd wanted them to get along, but now it was just too weird for comprehension.

"No… no… Yes! This one!" Piper yanked out a large book that was obviously well used and old.

"What?" Lypix asked again.

"I thought I read about it some time ago…. Aha! Here." She shoved the book in front of Lypix's face.

"What's a keystone?" Lypix questioned after lifting her head out of the book.

Piper smiled in a way where she knew she was going to enlighten someone. "Normally they have no abilities of their own, and are a bit mythological. A keystone is traditionally used to find a special or rare crystal, like the aurora stone. Almost nothing is known about them, but now we have one to experiment with!"

Lypix frowned and nudged the quiet crystal, "Well how do we activate it?"

Piper looked down at the floor in thought, "I'm not that sure." She glanced at the book, "It says there is a reaction if the crystal, its seeker or seekers are in distress."

Lypix furrowed her eyebrows, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"These crystals are so rare because of the way they are formed."

"That's fine, I get how a crystal could react if another is in trouble, but what on earth has a seeker got to do with anything?"

Piper took in a long breath, "This is a much debated fact and I for one do not believe in it at all, but considering the evidence-"

"-spit it out Piper." Lypix interrupted,

"Some say that keystone crystals are linked to a person, or persons, and they are there to protect or seek out the special crystal that the keystone is involved with."

Lypix laughed, "So people actually believe humans and crystals can be linked?"

Piper remained serious, "Well look at you."

Lypix stopped laughing, "I'm not human."

"Part of you in there must be."

"I'm not human."

"But Darius experimented on-"

"-vampires, yes, but not humans."

"But vampires are made from humans."

"Let's stop this conversation now." Lypix said, almost raising her voice, "I don't like the topic of conversation."

"Fine." Piper sighed, she knew Lypix was always going to be touchy where her blood was concerned.

"So who's the seeker?" Lypix asked.

"Maybe we both are seekers?" Piper theorised.

Lypix grinned, "Well then, shouldn't we both be needed to activate it?"

As Piper and Lypix reached forwards to touch it, a welcoming blue light embraced the room and, just like Skymas, their surroundings changed.

"Whoa…" Piper trailed off at the peaceful green meadow they were stood in.

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto." Lypix answered.

"Why do I have to be Toto?"