A small, eleven-year old Krystal walked towards a large building, holding hands with her mother, a statuesque vixen wearing a long robe with gold triangle-like patterns around the neck and the openings for her arms. The vixen said, "This is it, Krystal. Welcome to Krazoa Palace."

Krystal was awestruck. "It's beautiful!"

"Indeed it is. This is the home of the Krazoa Spirits."

"Krazoa Spirits?"

"They are the guardians of our world. They bring life to this world and protect it from evil."

"Cool! But what do they do? What is the extent of their power?"

"When you are ready to become a Krazoa Priestess like me, you will know."

"But if I'm not ready to learn about the Krazoa Spirits, why are you bringing me to their home?"

"Because they created a weapon for you. The weapon has chosen you. Come inside." She walked in front of the door leading to Krazoa Palace and placed her hand on the door that lead inside. The stone door slowly opened, and once the opening was wide enough, Krystal and her mother walked inside. While they were inside Krazoa Palace, Krystal was awestruck at the sheer beauty of the architecture. Everything about it fascinated her as she and her mother walked deeper and deeper inside the palace. After they walked through several hallways through the palace, they walked into a small room with a dim blue light on the ceiling above a pedestal in the middle of the room. In the pedestal, there was a gold staff with blue filigree on its shaft, and the head of the staff was a gold oval-shape with a sapphire in the center. Krystal's mother smiled saying, "Well, go ahead. Pick it up."

Krystal nervously walked toward the pedestal and slowly climbed it. She paused for a moment. She felt that picking up the staff would change her life forever. She took a deep breath, slowly inhaling, then slowly exhaling, then she picked up the staff and released it from its pedestal. Suddenly it sparked in her hands and she jumped in surprise, but didn't let go of the staff. She turned back to her mother.

"That staff has chosen you to be its wielder. Can you feel its power, Krystal?"

Krystal looked at the staff. "I can… It's just like that staffs that you and father wield."

"And that's not all. Follow me."

Krystal followed her mother into another chamber connected to the one they were in. When they arrived there, Krystal stepped onto the pedestal in the center of the room. A blue ghostly being appeared before her. It looked like nothing more than a face with oblong eyes, a dour expression on its mouth, an elongated chin, and either thick strands of hair or tentacles extending out from the back of its head.

"Welcome to Krazoa Palace, child."

Krystal was awestruck at what she saw. "A Krazoa Spirit!? This is amazing! I can't believe I'm meeting one with my own two eyes! But what are you guys, really? I mean, I know you are important to our world and that you're super powerful, but there's more to you than that, isn't there?"

"There is, but you are not ready to learn it yet. For now, please accept our gift, young child." The spirit summoned an aura of energy around Krystal. She started levitating in the air and felt energy welling up inside of her as the light intensified. As soon as the light faded away, the Spirit gently let Krystal float back down. Krystal somehow felt much stronger than ever.

"You have been blessed with our power, child. Use it wisely. For only those with a pure heart can wield the power of the Krazoa. We Krazoa do not take kindly to those that would use our power for evil. But you have a pure heart. You are worthy of our power. You are worthy of our trust." The spirit faded away.

"Hey! Wait! Come back!" But it was too late. The spirit had already faded.

Krystal's mother walked up to her and patted on her shoulder. "Don't feel too upset, Krystal. Your father and I will take you and your brother here to Krazoa Palace again to train you two to use our staffs and your powers."

"Sabre's getting one too?"

"Indeed. Your father and I are hoping that the two of you would become great warriors just like us, Krystal. Courageous, noble, always protecting the weak."

Krystal affectionately started hugging her mother. "I would love to come back here again! You're the best, mommy! I love you so much!"

"...Ever since then, my parents have been bringing me and my brother, Sabre, to Cerinia's Krazoa Palace for training." Krystal concluded the story of her childhood as she and Fox have already finished crossing the bridge and walking up a ramp that led to an entrance to Krazoa Palace. "It was a beautiful place just this Krazoa Palace."

"You know, I think there's an upside to the WarpStone being unable to warp Tricky. Otherwise, he'd insist we'd sightsee. If that phantasm that threatened you earlier weren't here, we'd be fine with that, but considering how dangerous this place is with that thing running around, we have to return the Spirit quickly."

"You're right, Fox. Let's just return the Spirit and then leave."

Fox and Krystal entered Krazoa Palace, only to find themselves in a very dark room. Fox found it fortunate that he purchased a few fireflies beforehand, so he released one from his FIreFly Lantern, and then he and Krystal, gained a limited view of the room. Krystal noticed a ramp leading upwards, and then the two of them walked up the ramp with the firefly following them. They walked across the room on the scaffolding that the ramp led to, and down a few walkways. By the time the firefly started to give out and fade away, Fox and Krystal noticed a light coming from a crack in the wall. Fox walked up towards that wall and through the crack, spotted a Fuel Barrel on the other side. Krystal asked, "Mind if I take care of this?"

"Feel free, Krystal." Fox took a step back from the wall and watched Krystal work her magic. She concentrated on the Fuel Barrel on the other side of the crack, and opened her hand and laid it flat. A blue glow emanated around the Fuel Barrel and as Krystal lifted her hand upwards, the barrel started floating in the air. Krystal flicked her hand towards herself and the barrel rammed straight the cracked wall, blowing it up. The cracked wall collapsed and the way was open. As Fox and Krystal walked through the new gap in the wall, Fox said, "Nice work, Krystal!"

"Why thank you, Fox." They walked into the new room and the metal circle the Fuel Barrel sat on produced another one. The path ahead had two flamethrowers on the sides of the room. Krystal used her Fire Blast on the switch on the ceiling and once it was activated, the flamethrowers started moving. Fox picked up the Fuel Barrel and he and Krystal took advantage of how slowly the flamethrowers moved and dodged them with ease as they ran to the other side of the room, where another cracked wall blocked their path. Fox threw the Fuel Barrel at the cracked wall, blowing it up. They walked into the next room, where something resembling a turret floated in the far end of the room protected by a force field. Fox and Krystal recognized that there was yet another orb-flame color puzzle just like the one at the Volcano Force Point Temple: A blue orb on the right side of the room and a green orb on the left both had flames that changed colors right in front of them. Fox and Krystal took aiming positions on each side of the room with their staffs. Fox took to the left side of the room aiming at the green orb, Krystal took to the right aiming at the blue one, both positioning themselves so that their Fire Blast shot would go through the flame when they fire it. Krystal waited for the flame on her side to turn blue, and when it did, she fired at the orb, activating it. When the flame on Fox's side of the room turned green, he shot the orb, activating it. With both orbs activated, the force field around the turret disappeared, and they both shot Fire Blasts at the turret until it exploded.

After the turret exploded Fox noticed that there was a pressure switch underneath it, and suspected that it would require a weight for them to get across. He immediately noticed a SharpClaw crate in the room and decided to use it for that weight. He pushed the crate towards the switch, but doing so took up a lot of a lot of energy and by the time he got the crate halfway across the room, he was getting tired, until for some reason, pushing the crate somehow felt easier to him. Fox assumed of course that it was because he built up some strength as he pushed the crate, and that strength gave him a boost to push the crate. But after a quick glance to his right, he realized that Krystal was outright helping him push the crate. Fox gave Krystal a grateful smile as they kept pushing the crate onto the switch. He never would have imagined that Krystal would be strong in the physical sense as well as the emotional one, as to him, she came across as someone who relied on agility and intelligence to win battles Once the crate went onto the switch, the two vulpines stopped pushing and caught their breath. The switch opened the door to the next room and the two foxes walked through it.

The next room had a teleporter platform in the center and at the very end, an elevator-like platform leading them to the next room. As they walked across the room, Fox decided to make some idle conversation. "So, Krystal, how did you arrive at this Krazoa Palace the first time?"

"When I reported to the CloudRunner queen about the distress signal that I detected, she asked one of her subjects, a friend of mine named Kite to help me find the signal. I hitched a ride on Kite's back and we flew all over Sauria, searching for the source of the distress signal, making pit stops to help those in need along the way, even leading to me fending off that ShadowHunter attack I mentioned earlier as well as a few RedEye attacks. One stormy night, as the trail was getting warmer, I stumbled upon General Scales' galleon, where I had my first encounter with the evil general himself. He claimed not to be evil, claiming that he needed to rule the other tribes by fear just so they wouldn't try to fight him." Krystal squeezed her fist which wasn't holding Fox's hand. "But all the power-hungry tyrants I've confronted, and all the ones my parents and other tribesmen confronted have used similar excuses. They become so scared of their own subjects that they are willing to abuse them just to keep them in line. My tribe has always hated those kinds of people, and fortunately, we were never afraid to stand up to them. We courageously confronted any vile tyrant we came across and whenever we sensed the suffering of innocents, we rushed to their aid without hesitation."

Fox and Krystal stepped onto the elevator at the end of the room. "And… Oh, I'm sorry, I got off topic. Anyway, when Scales started tormenting a baby CloudRunner he kept captive, I snapped and tried to confront him. Fortunately, Kite saved my life when Scales threw me overboard and we continued on to find the signal." The elevator reached up to an entrance to an aquarium-like hallway. "It turned out to be from Krazoa Palace, and when I got there…" Krystal could barely bring herself to continue speaking. But she mustered up her willpower to continue talking. "The Earthwalker soldiers… sent to guard the palace... were…" tears started emerging from Krystal's eyes. "...attacked."

Fox hugged Krystal and let her cry on his shoulder. "It's all right. I can guess everything else from here."

"Only one EarthWalker survived the onslaught. And that EarthWalker... " Krystal couldn't stop crying "...sacrificed his life to save mine…"

Fox hugged her more tightly. "It's all right. You've said enough." He and Krystal walked through that sapphire hallway.

"You're right, Fox. I won't let that EarthWalker's death be in vain." The two held hands continued down the hallway and took a glance to their right. That path led to a dead end, so they walked along the path to the left instead. Krystal felt anger welling up inside her. "I hope we find a way to kill this horrendous demon once and for all."

The vulpine duo reached a room with a large fan in the center of the room, and Fox led Krystal to that fan in hopes that they could use it to get to the top of the room. Krystal felt a little nervous at first, but she went with it. They walked up to the fan with Fox moving just slightly ahead of Krystal so that he wouldn't accidentally peek up her loincloth. The fan sent them flying to a very high position in the room, and they floated to another fan nearby, which took them to a higher level in the room. The floor they landed at had a circular structure to it, and they walked along the corridor to another fan that took them to the roof of Krazoa Palace.

When the two vulpines landed on the roof, Krystal couldn't help but be amazed at the beautiful sights she saw on the roof. She was almost tempted to sightsee, but she knew that with that phantasm she barely escaped from lurking about, that would be out of the question. However, she did spot the Krazoa Spirit circle around a large crystal in the middle of a podium at the center of the roof. "Hey! Fox! Take a look! I found where the Krazoa Spirits gather!" She and Fox rushed to the podium and dashed up the ramp leading to the crystal.

Fox looked a little confused. He kind of chuckled to see that there was a large crystal in the center of the podium on the roof. "Maybe this is how you got your name."

"It was. When my parents first met each other, and they first started falling in love, my father told my mother that she was just as beautiful as the crystal on the roof of Cerinia's Krazoa Palace. Years later, when I was born, she christened me with the name 'Krystal.'"

Fox briefly saw the Krazoa spirit fly around the crystal. "A Krazoa Spirit? But how do I get mine in there?"

Krystal snickered at hearing Fox's comment. After a few seconds of laughing, she caught her breath and stood behind Fox, and started stroking his chest. "You make it sound so naughty." Fox blushed intensely, and was so overwrought with embarrassment that he almost didn't notice that it felt like the floor was rumbling beneath them, as a stone bust of a Krazoa statue appeared out of a round plating on the wall of the platform that resembled a pool of water, with a glowing pad appearing in front of it. Fortunately for him, Krystal noticed the rumbling. "Well, that's our cue. Come on, Fox, we have a Spirit to release."

Fox saw that there were odd mechanisms above and below the crystal in the platform. A set of thin, metallic legs circled the upper tip of the crystal from above, while another circled the lower tip from below. And slightly above the upper set of legs was an ominous pair of antennae that circled around the sides of the crystal. "What are those odd mechanisms, Krystal?"

"That's a part of the system for Krazoa Palace that regulates the power of the Krazoa Spirits when they are released, and allows them to use their power to help the planet flourish, as well as getting the SpellStones to function. Unfortunately, there's an ominous side to them as well."

Fox shuttered to think what that "ominous side" could possibly be.

Krystal continued. "Like I said before, my tribe detested ruthless, power-hungry warlords that abused their own people as well as other tribes. They used the crystal in Cerinia's Krazoa Palace as a method of sentencing tyrants, murderers, torturers, rapists, and mutilators to slow, painful deaths. We would shove them into a beam that traps them inside that crystal, where they slowly have their life force drained from them, all the while experiencing intense pain and suffering."

"That's… pretty dark."

"True, but if you learned of what those people did, would you feel sorry for them? Now, come along. Let's just release the spirit and leave." The vulpine duo walked down the ramp to release the spirit. But Krystal briefly looked back at the crystal in the center of the roof, shuddering to think of what it would be like to be trapped in it.

As soon as Fox and Krystal approached the statue of the Krazoa that appeared on the perimeter of the pedestal, Fox walked onto the glowing pad with Krystal standing behind him. He dropped to his knees in front of the statue. He felt the spirit strain to leave his body, and he gasped at the strain. Suddenly he convulsed and doubled over, and the spirit came floating out of him, moving towards the statue. The statue shook and seemed to chitter as the spirit resumed its proper resting place, and the eyes began to glow white. Krystal briefly spotted the second Krazoa spirit floating around the crystal in the center of the roof. She was ecstatic to see that the plan was working, and then she tightly embraced Fox, shouting, "You did it!" Fox, whose eyes were no longer glowing blue, gave an embarrassed chuckle, but then the Krazoa statue opened its mouth and a blue light emanated from it. Without any warning, Fox and Krystal were quickly sucked into it. They found themselves in a weird psychedelic mindtrip that felt exactly like the one they felt when the WarpStone warped them to Krazoa Palace in the first place. They felt light-headed. They felt like their bodies were surrounded by nothingness. Until…

Fox and Krystal, all of a sudden appeared back right in front of the WarpStone in ThornTail Hollow. Fox said, "Well, at least leaving Krazoa Palace was easy."

The WarpStone called to the two vulpines. "Right there, kiddies! How was your trip to Krazoa Palace?"

Krystal replied, "I must say it is indeed a beautiful place."

The WarpStone laughed. "That's great to hear! Anyway, Ah've been keeping this back for you. Ready for when yeh needed it." A scarab bag slightly larger than the one that Fox and Krystal previously had slid down the WarpStone's arm and landed right in front of him. Fox eagerly picked it up and took a peek inside. "And it's been pre-filled too. Nice work!"

The WarpStone chuckled, "Yeh cheeky little blighter! Anyway, it's gret to see you appreciate my efforts."

"Well, thanks anyway." Fox turn to Krystal and then asked, "So, Krystal, where to next?"

"Just a second," Krystal replied. She tried meditating to see if her telepathy picked up anything. But then, she started moving her facial muscles in ways to indicate restlessness.

Fox couldn't help but worry. "Is something wrong, Krystal?"

"The CloudRunner Queen. She is in danger. She is being held captive at Cape Claw!" She quickly grabbed Fox's arm. "Come with me, Fox! We have to rescue her! You, too, Tricky!" Krystal quickly dashed towards a tunnel on the opposite side of the village dragging Fox with her, with Tricky struggling to catch up to them. The trio dashed passed two of the large, red mushrooms like the ones back in the ThornTail Hollow Well. Fox groaned, "Not those things again. I hate them." The trio quickly dashed off into the tunnel past the gate, and were on their way to Cape Claw.

Author's Notes: Many fans of StarFox (myself included) have the theory that Cerinia had its own Krazoa Spirits and quite possibly its own Krazoa Palace. A person on the internet named UndyingNephilim is working on a game called Star Fox Event Horizon that actually utilized that theory as Cerinian weaponry used Krazoa powers and the BattleMechs had a Krazoa face on the front. I wanted to incorporate that into this story while also being consistent with Krystal asking that EarthWalker what a Krazoa Spirit was. Also, I know that SharpClaw soldiers existed in the game version of this section of the story, but I wanted to be consistent with Chapter 3 saying they were too afraid to set foot in the Palace.