House of Baloo 2, 3

20.

Back at Eerie Tower...

"Tippi... Tippi." A voice said.

Tippi makes a weird noise.

"What's the matter, Tippi? You seemed a little out of it there."

"Well... Didn't you just hear something?"

Everyone says no.

"No? All right, then. It's just that... For a second, I thought I had remembered something very important."

The place rumbles.

"..."

"The Void... It looks as though it's gotten bigger. We need to open the door to the next world quickly... Let's hurry."

They go down the elevator.

"Oh ho, you're back." Merlon said.

The team walks up to him.

"Have you seen the sky lately? The Void continues to grow larger. I imagine that some worlds have already started to decay. I wonder how long our dear Eerie and Eiree will be spared?"

"The Light Prophecy doesn't say anything about how long we have?"

"The Light Prophecy was only written to counteract the dark one... As such, it's not truly prophetic, so it's hard to say how long we really have... And yet...I feel confident in saying that we do not have much time at all."

"Well, we can only go forward now. We can't just wait for all worlds to end, can we?"

"No!"

"Of course we can't. I received a message from Nolrem recently... It seems that someone on the outskirts of Eiree has spotted a Crystal Pillar. As you're no doubt seeking the next Crystal Pillar, that is a good place to start. I will go back to the Light Prophecy to look for clues."

Merlon goes into his house. The team return to Eiree. X and the others search around, eventually finding a Crystal Pillar. They place the Pure Crystal  into it, revealing a dark blue door at Eerie Tower.

"At the Duel of the Hundred, the hero will meet with dark powers of purest chaos. If you fall to the Hundred, the chaos world grows and the Purity Crystal fades. And as that happens, the hero will fall to the world where all games are ended."

Nolrem appears.

"That's in the section of the Light Prophecy that I just deciphered. It seems to suggest that if you fail to pass these duels, all worlds will be ruined... And apparently, your lives would be lost along with the Purity Crystal. I know that what I have just shared with you might only serve to discourage you... I still must send you forth, however. It saddens me that I can do nothing else."

"Gee. Thanks."

Nolrem walks off. The team returns to Eerie Tower and enter the dark blue door.

Under the looming shadow of The Void, the world slowly drifted toward demise. But not all hope was lost: two Pure Crystals had yet to be found. Could our daring heroes find them? Or was the world doomed to be devoured? The team ventured through the next door to find out.

The Figures Kingdom

"..."

"Is something wrong?"

"Look.. The Void... It's enormous here... Much bigger than it is in Eerie. This dimension must be very close to destruction... We'd better hurry... We have a Pure Crystal to find."

The team goes through the door ahead.

"I YIELD!" A voice said.

Someone runs up to the door.