(Note: This chapter is mainly about what happened to Mono, Agro, the boy with Dormin's horns and the Colossi.)
As Emon and his men fled the Forbidden Lands, they turned their backs on the oddities which occured there upon their departure. The land ripened, and greenery, vegetation and foliage dotted the landscape. Deer, birds, crocodiles and more began to make the Forbidden Land their homes, and the boy who bore Dormin's horns but Wander's body grew to a great age.
Agro the horse had surpassed even his master, growing to over a thousand years old without physically aging at all. Mono and the boy who resembled Wander died seven years after Dormin was resealed from a massive earthquake which tore a hole in the side of a mountain, revealing a misty path into unknown territory. But Agro lived on.
As centuries passed, the stony remains of the Colossi underwent a transformation as well. The moss and rock faded away, and as the Colossi rose again their stone armor fell apart, revealing them as biological creatures. Valus the Minotaur remained atop its cliff, watching the Shrine of Worship and the rest of the land from a distance. Quadratus the Boar, with its horn healed, left its beachside home and wandered the Forbidden Lands as far as it could, always returning to its beach to sleep.
Gaius the Warrior, unbalanced from the loss of its armor, fell from its platform and was trapped in the valley, unable to escape or climb its platform again. Phaedra the Horse walked calmly around its field, unconcerned by the troubles of its brethren. Avion the Eagle flew from its lake and traveled all over the Lands, going where it wished but, like Quadratus, returning home to rest. Darba the Dwarf, unable to escape its hole, found a tunnel within its home that led to the surface, and so traveled to and fro across the Forbidden Lands.
Hydrus the Electric Eel learned of a passage at the bottom of its lake which led to the ocean, and escaped out to sea, returning every two years for a month to rest. Kuromori the Salamander was content with its coliseum and crawled the walls with glee, although doing so required more effort now that it was flesh and blood. Basaran the Tortoise, grateful for the removal of its heavy and hot armor, traveled around its field of geysers and rested in its cave; it did not concern itself with the rest of the Forbidden Land, of which it did not even know existed.
Dirge the Sandsnake dug tunnels all over the Forbidden Lands, creating an underground web which allowed it to go anywhere it desired. Celosia the Boar raced around in its pit, keeping well away from the flames but enjoying itself quite a lot. Pelagia the Aquatic Lightning went into slumber under its lake for several hundred years.
Phalanx the Skyserpent, like Avion, travelled as it wished across the Forbidden Lands, spending most of its time in the desert and resting once every month. Cenobia the Lion, excited to see a wall crumble from the earthquake and reveal a whole new section of its city, explored for years to come. Argus the Executioner stalked in its valley, never again returning to the city where it had been defeated.
And Malus the Cursed Warrior, while not restored to his human form, was once again able to move and walked across his platform, watching over all of the Forbidden Lands.
Thousands of years passed, and Dormin waited. They had not given up on their desire to escape. Then, a miracle; the bridge into the lands was restored by none other than the tribe that had declared those lands forbidden in the first place. They came in the hundreds and settled all over what was now the Fertile Land.
The Colossi, undisturbed by the appearance of the humans, went about as they had before the humans had arrived (all except Pelagia, who awoke with the human's appearance).
Dormin, intrigued by the opportunity given to Them, watched for a hundred years, and then another hundred, and another, as the humans prospered and scattered across the Forbidden Lands; but never did they even approach the misty path that had been opened by the Earthquake. Then, finally, a girl was born. This girl would decide the future of the Fertile Lands. And her name was...
"...Lexus...hey, Lexus! Wake up!"
