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The orange Serlix swooped down to a patch of multicolored flowers surrounding a delicate pond. The green leaves on the trees swished as he landed. He examined the flowers around him, and stopped at a pale yellow one. It was glowing white, and if it were darker he would've found it earlier. Rand summoned Daphne over to him, who had been following behind him about ten feet the whole time.

"Is this the flower you're talking about?" he questioned, only to be answered by a barely distinguishable nod. Daphne explained that he needed to use a special tactic used by the Serlix ancestors. They would chew up the flower, spit it out, and then take some juices from the roots to roll the mushed up petals.

Rand was surprised there were so many other Enchanted Serlixs. "There were way more necklaces in the Serlium available to the population. This one I happened to find laying around in a pile of ashes," the white Serlix explained. "They seem to have been losing to a war of some sort. There were bones and skulls surrounding the whole pile."

He looked at her with a suspiciously interested expression. "Do you think there are any books on this war?" Daphne nodded yet again. "But for now we should get the flower back to the library," she said.

Both of the Serlixs lifted off into the air, a whisp of light following them.

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Blake handed Rand a professionally bound book. It had an oddly large crystal on the cover, and the title was scratched up and wasn't very visible. "They say this was written by the same one who we met today," Blake explained.

Rand opened up to the first page.

I ran into the large throne room and stopped in front of the queen. Queen Amy.

"Your majesty, we need to call off border patrol, there is a large group of Filxs outside!" I huffed. She just simply rolled her eyes at me. "I'm not kidding! They are trying to break the only way we can get back to the Real World!"

Her eyes traveled over to me from her plate of food. "We don't NEED the Real World," she said, puffing a plume of smoke out of her nose. "Well, I guess we should go and protect it. How many are there?"

"About one thousand." She stared at me, as if all the air was knocked out of her. I followed her to the armory of the palace. Queen Amy pulled out her most durable set, and put it on. "Let's go. Evacuate everyone to the palace."

I simply did so. I thought she was just going to take them on in her normal form, but I caught a glimpse of her growing taller and taller. The Hellix? That's still an available transformation? I had thought.

"Come on!" she yelled at them, challenging them to the claws of very possible death. But something occurred that would bring us all down. Literally.

The ground started shaking. "Anyone! FIGHT ME!" All of her power went to her head. The ground cracked into four pieces. Hundreds by hundreds, the Flixs retreated.

I turned to the many Serlixs in the palace. "We need to get you guys into the Real World," I said nervously, not so sure about my plan. I was taking a huge risk of being downgraded to an Officer and not being a Commander anymore. "Follow me!" Luckily Queen Amy was busy basking in all of her power.

About one third of our population got through the portal when her Highness snapped her eyes over to us all. "What are you doing!?" the Hellix screamed. She got down on all fours and swooped me into her paw. I have not come this far to die now. I sliced her paw with my free claws. Amy dropped me onto the floor.

"The portal is breaking! Hurry!" Huge commotion spiraled around the Serlium. Serlixs were trying to get back to the real world. Back to the Serlix Temple. But the portal can't withstand this anymore. Utter chaos is going to consume the whole Serlium. The beautiful pyramids and castles were crushed. Trees were fallen to the floor.