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Chapter 5
"What…was that?" asked Gibson. "I've never seen a monster quite like that one before."
The guards had been stupefied by the amazing defeat of the monster. However, Gibson's voice brought them back to the land of the living, and the urgency of the situation dawned on them. They became somewhat frantic, one hanging on to the blue monkey while another ran inside the temple. When the second returned he held a large red glass lens. He began babbling so quickly that even if Gibson had known the language he wouldn't have understood. Frus shouted at him to slow down, and received an odd look, even though he spoken the same language that he had been using all along. The girl he held looked at him, then said something different. An expression of understanding went over the faces of the guards and the one who had spoken before started again, speaking more calmly. Frus understood some of what was said. The lenses were important for trapping the creatures permanently, and there was something about the temple…he didn't understand anymore. Luckily, the girl helped him again, speaking in another variation of the language, telling Frus that the guard had explained that there were six big temples other than the main one and six lenses, one red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, and one violet.
After the girl finished, a guard told Frus that the same kinds of attacks would be happening all over the planet as the monsters escaped from the other temples. He handed Frus and map and told him that the planet Fiere and perhaps all of existence needed their help. Frus told the others, and they had no choice but to agree to help. The guard said that they should go to each temple and bring back the lenses, along with one of the guards from each temple. They would be given further instructions when they returned.
Frus, Otto, Gibson, and the girl went back through the forest, their reasoning being that it would be faster to backtrack and take the rocket to the different temples than to walk to each of them. Otto looked at the girl and said, "Hello, my name is Otto." The girl just looked at him, until Frus explained. She then responded, receiving a blank stare from Otto.
"She said that her name is Kyrie," said Frus. Gibson also introduced himself, and they continued walking. It didn't take very long for them to reach the rocket. Kyrie looked confused, so Frus explained the concept to her while Gibso and Otto went inside, Gibson saying something about uploading the map into the computer and Otto explaining that with more passengers coming he needed to rearrange some things inside.
After a few minutes Gibson pulled Frus and Kyrie inside. "We need to pick up he pace - there's trouble at home!" he said. Kyrie grabbed onto Frus and he told her not to be afraid. The rocket took off smoothly and they were off to the temple of the orange lens.
Upon landing, they hurried up the temple stairs towards the door. Frus started to tell the guards why they were there, but once again he received an odd look. Kyrie helped him once again, and after showing them the map they were allowed entrance into the temple.
On the way inside, Kyrie explained to Frus what was going on with the language. She told Frus that he was speaking the less common of two dialects, and that she knew both because her mother had spoken the less common one and learned the more common one, but was more comfortable speaking the one that she knew better, while her father spoke the common one all the time.
Suddenly, a roar came from further inside, and the group hurried forward, while Kyrie held onto Frus. They reached the center of the temple and saw a bear made of mist. It was ripping off the head of one guard with its fangs while clawing at another. Otto slashed at it, which did little damage but got it to back up a little. He tried to help the guard who had only been clawed at, but it was clear that he wouldn't make it.
"Take the orange lens," whispered the guard. "Get it to the sun." Then, the guard's head lolled to the side and his eyes rolled back into his head. Otto looked up and saw the lens that the guard had been talking about, and he grabbed it and grabbed the others.
"Get to the door!" cried Otto. They began to run, and the bear roared and followed them. As they neared the exit, the monstrous bear grabbed Gibson and began to pull him back. But before it could try anything, Otto got outside. When the lens was hit by sunlight, it shone brightly and shot a beam at the bear. It began to fade away, and it ran back into the temple. Our heroes followed, and saw the bear slither into a small, gray gem. The other temple guards were just reaching them, and they began to chant a spell of some sort. A pattern of energy wove itself around the crystal, making it obvious that they were resealing the weakened creature inside.
It took only a moment for a guard to agree to go with our heroes, and soon they were on the way to retrieve the yellow lens.
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