Chapter 4: The Lost Island

Rayman ended up in a dark void. He sneezed. He recognized this room; it was the Council Chamber of the Teensies. This was the same area where Rayman had accessed the portal leading to the Fairy Glades earlier! Although it was totally pitch-black in here, Rayman could see the small Teensie standing in front of him. The Teensie had a crown on its head.
"Welcome again, Rayman!" it spoke.
"So," said Rayman, "did you guys figure it out? Are you the real king?"
"Uh...well, we're bit more organized now," replied the King of the Teensies...
...or so he thought. Rayman loked behind him and saw that there were three other Teensies standing behind the Teensie King--and the second Teensie took the crown from the first Teensie.
"From here," spoke the second Teensie, "we can let you enter another world..." Rayman then looked at the portals at the end of this room.
"This portal," continued the second Teensie, walking one of the portals that was still closed, "is the gateway to the Lost Island! However, the trip will demand a lot of energy..."
"How much?" asked Rayman.
"The energy of 90 Yellow Lums," replied the Teensie.
"I've got enough Lums," spoke Rayman, who had a total of 155 Yellow Lums. He showed 90 of his Lums to the Teensies.
"Excellent!" The second Teensie took the energy from these Lums and used it to open up the doorway at the end of the room.
"Prepare to discover a new world..." announced the second Teensie.
Rayman slowly approached the strange energy portal, which was now open. Rayman stopped and stared at it for a few seconds. It was blue and swirly, and shone brightly in the dark chamber. Strange energy noises were coming from it. Rayman, a bit nervous, looked back. This could lead to a very treacherous area...
"Go in! Go in!" the Teensies insisted.
So Rayman faced this odd-looking portal again, and finally hopped in through it. The portal swirled around, making Rayman all dizzy as it transported him into a new world, somewhere far, far away...

When Rayman finally got sucked out of the portal, he landed on the sandy coast of an island area. Rayman knew a lot of islands that were very sunny and peaceful--but THIS unfamiliar island was very cloudy, unpleasant, and the sky was very dark. It had a sort of haunted feel. Rayman shivered. The island was also very rocky. Rayman could hear seagulls squawking in the distance. Tiny, green crabs with sharp pinchers crawled around across the wet sand. There was one palm tree nearby, its leaves swaying in the cold gusty wind of this nearly-empty, seemingly-abandoned island.
This was the Lost Island.
There was a sign in fron of him, which he read. It said, in black letters:

THE SANCTUARY OF WATER AND ICE

"The Sanctuary of Water and Ice...that must be the part of the island that I'm on right now," thought Rayman. "Mmm...I wonder if I'll be able to find one of Polokus' masks here?"
He walked across the coast, leaving footprints in the wet sand. Only Rayman could save the world...but he might need a little bit of help from his friends. Rayman saw that there was a small wooden shack that had been built on this sandy coast. He walked up to it, to see if there was anyone living here who could give him some information about this area...
But as he approached this shack, three Robo-Pirates came out of it!
*play scary music in your head*
"Arrrrrgh!" they yelled, pulling out their powerful guns, each firing three small, red bursts of energy. Rayman dodged these. He managed to get two of the pirates down. Now there was just one more. Before Rayman could shoot his silver balls of energy at the tough Robo-Pirate, it pulled out a giant drill! The drill made a loud, discordant noise as the pirate quickly made a hole in the ground, went down through this hole, and drilled its way to another part of the beach--behind Rayman. It did this very quickly. Then, it started firing rapid bursts of energy from its gun, again. Quickly, Rayman shot back at the pesky pirate. After the pirate got hit by Rayman's shots, it drilled another hole in the ground, dug another underground tunnel, and popped up on another part of the beach, further away from Rayman. From here, the pirate started firing again. Rayman shot back, again. The same process kept repeating several times, until the Robo- Pirate was finally defeated!
Rayman walked further, in search of anything valuable on this spooky, empty island. He came across some grey, rocky ledges leading up to a small cave in the cliff wall nearby. Rayman ran up to there. He climbed up the rocky ledges leading into the cavern. Inside the cavern, Rayman saw there was a huge pool of water! Rayman held his breath, and dove underwater, just to see if there were any Yellow Lums down there. There was an underwater tunnel that he could swim through, and it seemed very long! Would Rayman be able to hold his breath long enough to get through this underwater tunnel? Luckily, there were lots of Blue Lums down here. The magical Blue Lums contained air, and Rayman could grab them if he was low on oxygen while underwater; they'd enable him to breathe underwater longer.

Thanks to the Blue Lums that were scattered throughout the underwater tunnel, he reached the end of the tunnel, at last. He swam up to the surface of the water. He was now in a small room with several crates lying around on the cave floor. He got out of the water and pulled himself up to the ledge where all the crates were lying around. Among these crates, there was a tiny pirate cage on the ground! Rayman shot at it, twice. It broke open! Out came two Yellow Lums! He now had 157 Yellow Lums!
After picking them up, Rayman saw that there was a rope ladder on the wall of the cave. Rayman climbed up the rope ladder. All the top of this ladder, he could reach an opening in the ceiling which led outside to another beach area.
Here, on this cloudy, windy, dark, overcast beach, Rayman saw two small, triangular-shaped bases on the ground, one golden and one blue. Rayman wondered what they were for. There was also a huge, turquoise temple behind the two bases. The two front temple doors had a picture engraved on them, which looked like a picture of one of Polokus' masks! Rayman thought, "I've got to get in there! Will I be able to open this door?"

"No! You won't!" yelled a Robo-Pirate, suddenly popping out of the sand!
"Oh, leave me alone, you stupid pirate!" yelled Rayman angrily. Rayman shot at this Robo-Pirate, and defeated it.
"Phew," gasped Rayman. He still remained clueless about what the two bases were for, and how to open the the temple doors...he was so close to where Polokus' first mask probably was, and he couldn't figure out how to open the temple doors that led there...it was a puzzling situation.
Off to the left, there was another small, wooden shack. Rayman walked up to it, but then he noticed that the door was locked tightly. Again, Rayman was clueless about how to get the door open. He wanted to get into the shack and see what was inside. What if there were some Yellow Lums, or something else in this shack which could help him get further?
"Aaaaaah!" Rayman yelled! "So many closed doors! I'm gonna go crazy!!!!!" He then noticed a second wooden shack, off to the right! He said, "Let me guess, this shack will have a door that's locked, too?" He ran up to this other shack, hoping that its door would be unlocked. It wasn't, either. Rayman groaned, feeling totally doomed. He was stuck. This was really annoying him...
However, he then spotted a gunpowder keg on the porch, on the side of the second shack! Rayman ran up the stairs that led up to the porch, where the keg was sitting. He picked it up and trudged back down the steps and to the front doorway of the shack, carrying the keg in his hands. Then, he blew down the door--KA-BLAMM!!!!!--with the keg. The door exploded! Now, Rayman could at least get inside the first shack. (By the way, on the wall outside the shack, where the gunpowder keg had been, there was also a flap that could spit out more kegs. Rayman would go back and get another keg later, to blow down the door of the other shack. But there was still the conundrum of the turquoise temple doors...how would he get THOSE doors open? They looked too strong to be blown down with just a gunpowder keg. And what were the triangular bases on the ground outside for?)
Inside this shack, there were wooden walls and a small room with a shiny, golden sphere-like object (NOT a Lum!). Then, Murfy suddenly flew in, and buzzed: "Hi again, Rayman! You were looking puzzled earlier about how to open the temple doors. Well, here's a hint. This object you see in front of you right now, Rayman, is a golden Magic Sphere! You can pick up Magic Spheres and place them on top of bases that are the same colour, and then the big temple doors will open!"
Rayman was finally beginning to see what he was supposed to do! He could take this golden sphere outside to where the triangular bases were, and put this sphere on top of the golden base. The other shack probably had a blue Magic Sphere inside, which would go on the other base (the blue one). Then the temple doors would open!
"It's a good thing I'm not colour blind," Rayman said. He then picked up the golden sphere, carried it outside, and slowly placed it onto the base that was golden. The sphere shone brightly in the darkness of the cloudy beach.
It was starting to rain. Quickly, Rayman went to get another gunpowder keg from the wooden shack on the right. He carried it over to the shack on the left, and blew the door down. KA-BLAMM!!!!!
He then ran inside this shack, and sure enough, there was the blue Magic Sphere that he needed! He grabbed it and carried it outside. The rain was now starting to pour harder. He then placed the blue sphere on the blue base. It, too, shone brightly in the darkness. Both spheres were now on both the bases, so this caused the temple doors to open!
Murfy flew back to Rayman and buzzed, "Congratulations on opening the temple doors! Now we'd better hurry through them before we get drenched in this heavy rain!"
So, Rayman and Murfy both quickly dashed through the temple entrance. Inside these empty, abandoned temples, there was a long hallway. It still felt very cold even inside them and there wasn't any light. There were, however, plenty of Yellow Lums scattered everywhere, in the room of the temple, which made Rayman yell, "Yippie!" Rayman grabbed them all. He now had 170! There was also a black doorway in the back of the large room, which seemed to lead into another hallway...so Rayman and Murfy hurried through it.
"This could be where Polokus' first mask is hidden away..." buzzed Murfy. "But I don't even want to think about what horrible beast could be guarding it...maybe an ice dragon, or a giant tarantula, or a yeti..." Murfy shivered. It could have been because he was frightened, or maybe because he was cold.
They ended up in a long hallway which resembled the inside of an icy cavern tunnel. The walls and the ceiling were an icy blue colour. It was chilly in here and felt like the inside of a freezer. Rayman looked and saw that in this ice hallway, there was a very lengthy, turquoise slide which sloped steeply downwards. It looked as if Rayman would have to slide down it. Right now, he was standing at the top of this icy slide.
"You see this slope?" Murfy buzzed. "It's obviously very slippery! Slide with caution! You'll lose control if you turn sideways while sliding, and also you can't use your helicopter hair while sliding."
Then Murfy flew away, leaving Rayman to slide down the long, treacherous slide. Would he find the first mask at the bottom? There was only one way to find out...Rayman hopped aown and slid down it.
"Who-o-o-o-oaaaaa!" screamed Rayman! He was going down really fast! Some wind was blowing in his face as he was riding the icy slide.
There were also many of those bright Yellow Lums to pick up on the way down. Rayman made sure he didn't miss any of them!
It was indeed a long, wild ride. Rayman kept speeding up, sliding faster and faster as he slid down this blue slide. At the bottom, Rayman finally got off the slide, and was now in another, very huge icy room with a giant gap of frozen water in the center. Rayman looked across the gap, and saw on the other side of this gap, a giant, turquoise, triangular- headed monster with very huge fists!
"Grrrrr...I am AXEL," it roared, "Guardian of the Sanctuary of Water and Ice! And if you're trying to get the first of Polokus' masks, you must fight me for it!"
"I knew this was coming..." frowned Rayman. Great fear was building up in Rayman, and he felt uncertain if he could defeat this extremely dangerous-looking beast.
Then Ly appeared in Rayman's mind and gave him some useful advice: "Follow the purple flying targets to get over the gap of frozen water, and shoot the stallactite on the other side."
There were very many flying targets over the great gap. Rayman shot energy at one of them, to create a rope so he could swing across to the next target. He jumped off the first one and quickly shot at the second one before he fell. This made another rope appear, so he could swing over to the third target. There were two more flying targets after that. Axel started tossing some giant, icy balls towards Rayman, in an attempt to knock him off the rope. Rayman almost got hit by one, but he quickly swung to the left to avoid it. When Rayman got to the fifth target, he could now reach the stallactite above Axel's head, and he shot at it. This caused the stallactite to crack, break from the ceiling, and fall onto Axel's head, knocking him out.
"OWCH, that hurts badly!" growled Axel, lying on the ground in defeat!
"Yeah!" yelled Rayman. He then jumped off the stringy rope and glided over to the other side of the gap, where Axel was lying. From here, he went through a tunnel, which led out of the icy cave and to another dark, outdoor area! This small area had grassy ground and was surrounded by turquoise cliff walls. On the ground, there was a strange, brown box. Rayman slowly approached it and shot energy from his fists at it. The box then opened...slowly, some light came out of it...and then, out came a light blue mask. It was one of Polokus' masks!
IT WAS ONE OF POLOKUS' MASKS!
Rayman picked it up excitedly, knowing that he was now one step closer to awakening Polokus and completely eliminating the Robo-Pirate army. When he picked up this mask, he suddenly got automatically teleported to somewhere different!
"HEY! WHOA! Where are we going...?" wondered Rayman in confusion. Everything around him had disappeared!
As it turned out, Rayman got teleported to a mysterious, new world up in the sky. This place looked like a grassy, night-time lake area up high in the sky. The moon shone brightly. There was also a small, brown pedestal on the ground in the center of this area, and on it, Polokus was sitting!
Rayman was still holding his mask he had just found. He walked up to Polokus' pedestal. Polokus looked like a round, green creature with long skinny arms.
"Welcome!" he said in a tired voice. "I am Polokus, the spirit of this world!"
"I know you," replied Rayman. "Ly told me about you."
"I see that you have found the first of my four masks!"
"That's right," replied Rayman, holding it up.
"For now," said Polokus, "I'm always far away, and normally can only speak in dreams...but if you bring me the last three masks, I will completely awaken, and help you to fight the Robo-Pirates." He took the mask that Rayman had found, and put it on the side of the pedestal he was sitting on.
Then, Polokus waved his hands around, creating a magic energy portal.

"This portal will take you back to the earth," Polokus told Rayman. "Be strong, our world's destiny is in your hands..."
Rayman fell through the portal.
He had just given the first mask to Polokus.
Also, the number of Yellow Lums Rayman had in total so far was only 205 out of 999. This would be a very long journey...