Chapter2: The Doors

Jenna and Garet took Kyle and Eolio to the castle. The two young boys told the king and queen what had happened in the forest. Eolio was sent home to his parents while Kyle was forbidden to leave the castle. The king and queen called Ivan, Felix, Sheba and Piers to the castle for a meeting in the banquet hall with them, Jenna and Garet. Meanwhile Kyle snuck out of the up stairs window of his room so he could sneak over to Justin's house. He bumped into Menardi on his way there. She had also snuck out to visit Justin and Megan.

"But we've been forbidden to leave the house by Sheba and Piers," said Justin through his kitchen window.

"Just because they are your guardians doesn't mean you have to listen to them," said Menardi, "And besides, your sister wants to come with us. Right Megan?" Megan looked down at the floor and answered shyly, "I'm sorry Justin but I want to look for him."

"It's settled then," said Eolio.

"Where did you come from?" Asked Kyle. His question was ignored.

"We're going to look for him," Eolio stated, "We're going to need weapons."

"Let's go to Felix's house," said Menardi, "Every one knows all the confiscated items are brought to their place. We could find some thing there that might help us."

"Only fire and Earth adapts can get inside," Kyle reminded her.

"So only me, you and Eolio will go," then she added, "Megan and her brother can go to the weapon's shop to find something to defend themselves with. They can just take stuff. No one is ever there." Megan and Justin left for the market place and Kyle, Menardi and Eolio went to the room in Felix's house where all the confiscated items were stored. There wasn't as much in the room as the children had been expecting. There was a crown that looked similar to the one that Isaac refused to wear, a crystal ball with three white orbs spinning inside it and what looked like a stone black ring of thorns that had a red crystal in its center. There was also a wooden crate that was nailed shut, a glass bottle with a jewel for a cork and what looked like the handle of a dagger. As Menardi and Eolio tried to bust open the crate with out wasting psynergy Kyle picked up the handle. There was a blinding flash of white light. When the light was gone Kyle saw that the handle was now attached to a short but sharp blade. He was surprised of how light the dagger was. In fact, it was completely weightless. His two companions rubbed their eyes. They were now seeing spots because of the flash of light.

"What in the elements was that?" Asked Eolio.

"I'm not sure," said Kyle, "One minute this was just a handle and the next… I think it's made of entirely of mythril. It's so incredibly light!"

"That's nice. You found a weapon. Now can we go? There's nothing up here except this crate I can't get open," wined Menardi. The three children left for the weapons shop to meet up with the other two children. Kyle slipped the dagger into his belt. Megan was holding a sphere while Justin held an ax when the five children met up with each other. Menardi took a short sword and Eolio took a hammer from the shop. They left for the woods in which Saturos had disappeared into.

Every one knew that some where in the forest was a door that they were forbidden by the king to open. None of the children knew what was beyond that door. What they did know was that whatever was behind the door was something disastrous. Since the monster that had attacked Kyle and Eolio had been in the woods, the young prince figured it came from those doors. That meant that, if he was still alive, Saturos was behind the doors.

Sometimes in the night Kyle would awake from a dream about the doors. In the dream the doors would open. Ropes of swirling mist that emerged from within the doors would surround him. The last thing he saw before being swallowed in darkness was two glowing red eyes and part of the frozen skin around the eyes. These doors Kyle had never seen but he knew exactly what they looked like and where to find them. The peculiar thing was the doors that haunted Kyle's dreams were the very same doors that he and his friends were now searching for.