The room upstairs was empty. Seeing my chance to investigate, I snuck inside, eager to find out what was being held here. What would be of such importance that it had to be hidden? I thought, taking a few steps deeper inside.
"Leo!" a familiar voice whispered from behind me. "We're not allowed in here. Uncle Peter said!"
"Come on, Madelyn." I smirked, taking my hands off some sort of spherical object next to an elephant figure. "Stop being such a chicken." Where was her sense of adventure?
Slowly, my younger blonde-haired sister slipped into the room while I examined a chalkboard with weird notes on it. A large drawing of a crystal laid on one part, with molecular symbols, equations, a few planets and a floating chunk of rock everywhere else.
Even more strange were these symbols that I couldn't make out. I think most of them were letters, but eight of them seemed unique: a red flame, a dark-blue waterdrop, a brown mountain, a light-blue spiral, a purple star-like symbol, an orange gear, a green leaf and a gray skull. What have you been doing, Uncle Peter?
Turning away from the chalkboard, a tarp caught my eyes. There seemed to be something glowing under there. I grabbed one edge of the tarp and yanked it off, amazed at what I saw beneath it.
"Whoa…check this out…" I whispered. "What is it?" Madelyn asked, moving past the door. "I have no idea."
A cracked-looking circle with four bright green lines around it. Surely, that looked important. A small pentagonal slot, with some sort of prison cell bars just below it, was connected to the circle.
Around the portal rested some sort of toys. A blue crocodile with a crystal bow, a skeleton dog, a dinosaur with helicopter blades, a lion with a red crystal shield, a figure with a staff and hourglass and more. A majority of them had crystal weapons.
I picked up the crocodile and turned it in my hands. "Who are you?" I mumbled to the inanimate figure. At least, I thought it was inanimate when I found it.
The circle suddenly began to glow. Its green lines changed colors to a bright blue. I turned to Madelyn, both of us seeming to realize something. She motioned to the circle, and I nodded back. Slowly, I placed the crocodile on the circle, causing the glow to get brighter.
A bright light shone from the circle, pointing directly ahead of us to form a swirling pattern of stars, almost like a miniature galaxy. Madelyn and I covered our eyes at the light, just as a loud hum came from the circle, and then….BWWWOOOOOOOMMMM!