Ellie, Leon, and Yuffie, were wary. They prepared themselves and slowly creaked open the door. It revealed the ransacked room which was slowly gathering dust. Ellie walked in first, looking around at every piece of furniture that laid around. Yuffie and Leon followed after and began inspecting different things. A bookshelf caught Ellie's eye and she began to go through it immediately - intrigued by their names and descriptions.
"What do you think happened here?" Yuffie asked the group. Leon shrugged, and continued to look around. Ellie stood up with a book she found, looking at its blurb and reading it out to them.
" 'A Guide to the worlds is a dictionary of all the worlds we have discovered thus far. Over 30 pages of worlds and their locations, all for your convenience.' "
Leon turned to Ellie, curious about the book and what worlds it may contain. "What's that about a dictionary or worlds?" He asked.
"It's supposed to contain at least 30 pages, but nearly all of them are missing." She held out the book for them to see, "See. only the first page is here..."
Leon was disappointed, but the information on the first page was still helpful to him. Five worlds were listed on the page, one of which was traverse town. The other four included Twilight Town, The Kingdom, Colosseum, and Merlin's Tower. This opened up completely new possibilities for the trio, deciding on where to go next. "Well at least our decisions are narrowed down. Plus, we might find some of the pages in these worlds!" Yuffie said optimistically.
"I'll keep hold of the book for later. First, lets find out what happened here, and then we can decide where we want to go next." Ellie said, putting the book in a bag she brought with her. "What's that?" She pointed to the teleporter.
"Just looks like a stone slab in the center of the room to me" Leon said. Ellie stood over it, curious about what it was after seeing symbols that were carved into it on the books.
"Can you hand me one of the books with that symbol on it?" Ellie said to Leon. He grabbed one, and handed it to Ellie. She skim read through it, looking for something about the stone. She got flicked through a couple pages and chapters in 'The Book of Relics' until she found a drawing of the symbol, and the teleporter.
"Found it!" She exclaimed.
"What is it?!" Yuffie asked excitedly.
"It's a teleporter, you see?" She presented the drawing to Yuffie and pointed out keywords on the page about it being a teleporter. "It says there used to be hundreds of these spread across the worlds thousands of years ago, but now they've either been lost or destroyed. Most of the ones still around don't work."
"What good is a broken teleporter to us then?" Leon asked.
"We don't know if it's broken yet, Leon." Ellie snapped back. "It says here that some teleporters are activated via stamping a foot. Think it's worth a try?"
"Go for it!" Yuffie implored. Ellie lifted her left leg, and stamped down on the teleporter. Within seconds she was gone in an emerald green beam of light, where she appeared at the Gummi platform. Yuffie and Leon looked at each other in shock, and immediately jumped on one at a time to follow Ellie. When they appeared at the Gummi platform, Ellie was already up on it, looking around.
Leon and Yuffie ran up onto the empty platform. There were markings of a recent take off, but no sign of who. It didn't explain what happened in the tower either, and they hadn't made much progress. "Well at least we now know whoever was here also has their own Gummi!" Yuffie said, like the optimist she was.
"I couldn't find any clue to where they were going, or even a computer to possibly say the last time it was used" Ellie said. None of them felt like their work was finished here, but they knew it was time to move on. With nothing but a glance at each others faces, they started to walk back to their own Gummi.
Jacob sat at the helm of his Gummi, flicking through the notebook and reading the entries made. It was obviously the field report of someone who had been studying the different worlds and all their histories, and it was unfinished. He was trying to decide where to go next with the aid of the book, and there were so many choices. He took a bit of time to decide but eventually found a place that caught his attention: Traverse Town.
"Well, better not waste anymore fuel in this thing, and go check out Traverse Town." He said to himself. He entered it into the navigation computer with the help of the notebook, which had become his 'How To' guide. He sat down, looking forward to arriving at Traverse Town. New Worlds awaited him, and possibly Ellie, whom he wanted to find dearly. It was as if no time had passed by when he arrived at Traverse Town.
He looked out the window at the world with awe, as if Twilight Town and The Tower hadn't been enough. He quickly consulted the notebook once again to land the Gummi. Within no time it was safely on the ground and he was going towards the Town. The air was new, it seemed like everywhere he went there was new air, with a very noticeable change in atmosphere. He didn't think he'd ever get used to it.
When he arrived into town, there was a daunting silence. Nobody was there. There was nothing but locked buildings and cold streets. Jacob expected a tumbleweed to role by any moment now - But there was nothing. Jacob became wary, and started to pace through the streets, which were dark and ominous. Jacob had taken many steps before he realized her could hear steps that weren't his. He stopped.
The footsteps he heard were getting closer to him. He kept his hands ready for summoning his Keyblade, and twisted around on one foot, and saw a hooded figure. He jumped with shock and fell backwards. He started to crawl back as it walked towards him, but he knew it would be inevitable and stopped...
