It was 7am in the morning, and Prince Sean was first to wake up. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and dragged himself out of bed. He pulled on his black boots and jammed his sword into his belt. He then woke Mieu and Wren up, but as he went to wake up Lyle, his bed was empty!

"Oh, no... Not again... I think he's up to something." Sean muttered as Mieu and Wren pulled themselves out of bed.

"What's up now, Prince?" Mieu asked.

"Look," Sean replied, "Lyle's done a runner." Mieu looked slightly angered, but then she asked Wren to try and find Lyle.

"Let's check the room. He might have hidden somewhere for a joke." Wren said. He used his internal GPS to search for Lyle, and lo and behold, he found him in seconds. Like he had said, Lyle had hidden somewhere for a joke. He paced over to the wardrobe and opened the door.

"I know you're in there, Lyle!" Wren said loudly, and Lyle came out of the wardrobe, a pair of ladies' knickers on his head. Normally, Sean wouldn't laugh at anything, not even the funniest joke in the universe, but for once, he found the knickers on Lyle's head amusing, so he began to chuckle. Mieu, on the other hand, looked very stern. She didn't think it was funny at all.

"Prince Sean, you're laughing at something very silly. Stop it." Mieu said sternly, clapping her hand over Sean's mouth. Meanwhile, Wren was having difficulty removing the knickers from Lyle's head.

"Stay still for a moment! You've got a pair of knickers on your head!" Wren said, holding Lyle's arm in one hand and trying to grab the knickers and throw them off his head with the other. But every time Wren said 'knickers', Lyle laughed more and more and dodged Wren's hand more and more until he collapsed to the floor in a fit of uproarious laughter. Finally Wren was able to grab the knickers and throw them out the window, where they landed on an old man's head. Several passers-by were in stitches.

"Whoops..." Wren muttered as he helped Lyle to his feet. Mieu removed her hand from Sean's mouth and the prince calmed down.

"I've never seen you laugh before." Lyle said.

"Well, you know... having a pair of knickers on your head can make anyone laugh. Except Mieu." Sean replied, clearing his throat. Mieu calmly pointed out that Lyle had an embarrassing wet patch on his pants. He'd wet himself with laughter.

"Oh no! I've not brought a change of clothes!" Lyle panicked.

"Where are those knickers?" Mieu asked. Wren replied that he'd thrown them out the window. Mieu sighed and said that Lyle would have to go out with what he had on.

"What was it with the knickers?" Wren asked.

"Well, I was going to suggest that Lyle wears them until his pants and undies had dried off." Mieu replied. Lyle shrank back slightly.

"What? I had no idea where those knickers had been, or if they'd even been washed, but they were still on my head!" Lyle snapped, but no-one took him on. The party collected up all their belongings and departed from the inn, heading for Castle Divisia.

When they reached the gates of the castle, a guard led them through the castle and into the throne room, where the King and several of his subjects were. The party approached the King with some grace, although Sean wasn't showing much grace.

"Your Majesty!" Lyle said loudly, bowing gracefully. The King rose from his throne and strode forward.

"What do you need of me?" the King asked politely.

"We need to know about the clues to Laya's Treasure. Queen Sari of Landen told us that you know something, and you have to tell us!" Sean replied, not so politely. The King shook his head and glared at Lyle.

"Is this young man related to you?" he asked.

"Yeah. He's my grandson." Lyle replied.

"He's not very polite, is he? Does he happen to be a prince? He looks like a prince..."

"You got that right, Your Maj."

"Excuse me, 'Your Maj'? What does that mean?"

"It's short for 'Your Majesty'."

"Very well. So you found out from Queen Sari that I know something about Laya's Treasure, hidden in the Bernink Province? You'll need to get Laya's Pendant first, and that's somewhere in the Frigidia Province, currently inaccessible." Lyle began to wonder. Where was the key to the Frigidia Province?

"So, the key to the Frigidia Province, Your Maj... Where is it?" Lyle asked.

"Beneath the Bernink Province." the King replied.

"What? As in... underground?"

"No, underwater. Not to worry, though!"

"We don't have diving suits!"

"But you DO have a Wren cyborg. Wren cyborgs can transform into an aerojet, an aquaskimmer and a submersible, but you'll need certain parts." After the King had finished speaking, Wren gasped. How could he transform? And why had no-one told him up until now? Sean looked at Wren. Mieu did the same, but her glance was out of jealousy and not awe.

"And where can we find these parts?"

"Well, the parts for allowing your Wren cyborg to transform into a submersible are in a cave to the southwest. Some rebels hide out there, so please be careful." Thanking the King for this information, Lyle led the party out of the throne room, where a guard led them to the gate that went into South Divisia. The party trudged through South Divisia and out into the open grasslands of the Salvadayna Province.

"Now, the King said that the parts were in a cave to the southwest. Let's go." Lyle said, leading the party to the southwest.

"I can transform? Impossible!" Wren said in disbelief as the party made their way to the cave.

"Why are you all shocked, Wren? You should be thinking 'Yay, I can transform!', but you're not! You're acting all weird..." Lyle mumbled to Wren. The cyborg shrugged slightly.

"You see, no-one ever told me that I could transform..." Wren sighed as the party approached the cave. They went inside cautiously, for the inside of the cave was very dark.