[Coolshaymin]

Tails gave a small groan at the sight that it was at the very top. Granted alphabetical order would suggest that but it was still annoying. While Tails could try to fly up there, he was not sure if he would be able to fly that height given he had the tendency to get tired while flying. Tails did not join Paula flying up, still thinking on something. What was with the flying books in the area anyway? Were they like some security system? Would flying trigger their attack? Tails stood on the ground as he contemplated the weird books before hearing Paula shout and looked up to see Paula getting chased by the flying books. It seemed his guess was actually right... not that it made this any less weird.

"I doubt a-" Tails began in response for a ladder, ignoring the echo until he heard running. Turning around he noticed the ladder he was doubting running right at him to which he instinctively curled up and rolled out of the way. "... Nevermind," Tails said as he was once again corrected by this really bizarre section of the library. Tails watched Paula climb a ways as well as the books before concluding it was safe. Tails started to climb the ladder after Paula. "Could be worst... Not going to say how because I should not give this section any ideas but it could be," Tails replied.

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"Yeah I guess...Let's start climbing." Paula said as she begun the climb towards the top part of the shelf, wondering how long it will take for her and Tails to actually make it to the top, she hopes that they will be quick on climbing and getting the book, if the book was there, well it was detected on the miles electric. "This wont take long anyway." Paula said as she climbed.


An hour later...




It took time, but Paula had almost made it to the top spot of the shelf. "Look Tails were almost there." Paula said as she pointed towards the spot where the ladder came from, after a few climbs Paula had made it to the spot, however she was shocked to find the Eagleland History book was gone. "It must be around here somewhere...Maybe its further in." Paula said as she climbed into the spot and crawled into the bookshelf. "It could be worse...We could be still dangling for our lives on that ladder." Paula said to Tails as she continued to crawl, finally she saw something at the other end of the shelf and crawled towards it to find...




A small Spider lair with a few eggs scattered about, there is a huge web in the centre of the lair that contains books, one of them was the Eagleland History Book titled "The History of Three Great Country's: Eagleland, Foggyland and Chommo Year 200X to Year 210X" there appears to be other books trapped in the web also but it was unknown how they got there. "The book, I'll just grab it..." Paula said as she tried to grab the book off the web...However that just made...Her upset. As Paula managed to pull the book off the web she turned back to Tails. "We got it...That was actually easy, hmm I wonder what strong spider brought these books here?" Paula said as she soon heard a growl from behind her, as Paula turned...She soon found her answer.

"Oh, looks like its here!"



As the spider revealed herself to be Gohma the Arachnid Queen, she landed in front of the exit to her small lair, blocking the two from escaping, Paula ran towards it and slammed her eye with her frying pan. "I don't think your planning to kill us for wanting a book!" She said to Gohma as it crept towards Paula who took a few steps back, ready to attack it whenever it strikes.

"You first...Or we can stop this fighting and you can let us go?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails climbed after Paula and found the climbing taking much longer than expected. The tower seemed to get larger the more they climbed as if it was never going to end. Tails must of seriously underestimated the size of this thing but there was absolutely no way he could of flew this distance. Tails took a second to look down and found the height really absurd. Tails was by no means afraid of heights mind you, flying was kind of a huge hobby of his and never had a problem with high places. However given the size of the town hall this was really ridiculous to be in here... not to mention the time and resources that went into this bizarre section.

Tails looked back up to notice Paula climbing inside the book case since the book was apparently missing. Tails almost considered waiting outside but Paula may need his help so following may be necessary. Tails waited for it to look like Paula made it before gripping the book case edge and pulling himself up while curling into a ball. It was like this that he rolled into the inside of the book case. On the other side, Tails uncurled and fell to the ground of the strange entrance... that was quite unexpected.

It seemed to be be converted into some weird kind of Spider's Den. Tails looked around and saw no signs of an actual creature inhabiting the place. Tails then looked back and eyes widened as the creature showed itself behind Paula. It then went to block the entrance to the tight enclosure. Tails stepped back and watched the creature even as Paula striked.

Tails quickly came up with an idea of how to get out of this situation. This was the perfect time to try and make use of the Chu² Bomb he remade for Li. He only brought a few with him because he has not had a chance to finish that many yet. "Okay, I will try to distract her. If it works we should try to make a break for it," Tails whispered to Paula as he pulled a mouse shaped bomb out of his hammer space. Tails then sat the Chu² Bomb on the ground before it came to life and moved on it's own. The mouse shaped bomb moved over to a random book caught in the web before moving up the wall and then pushing itself against the books that were there to try and dislodge it for it to make an escape hole. Tails hoped the bomb made a higher priority for the Gohma so they could make a run for the exit.

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Gohma soon pushed Paula to Tails who was planning to use his new chu bombs to distract Gohma. "If you think they'll work then go for it...Because I think she wants us to stay for dinner." Paula said as Gohma slowly edged toward the two, however due to the chu bomb, Gohma watched to see what the bomb did, which dislodged a few of the books on the web she made, this already made Gohma angry so she raced toward the web instead to grab all of the books, giving Paula and Tails time for there escape. "She's distracted...Lets get out of here!" Paula said as she climbed into the tunnel back to the ladder.


After a few minutes Paula was near the ladder now. "I can see it!" Paula said as she reached the ladder, however she soon heard Gohma's growls, meaning that she finished repairing her broken web and was now trying to find her and Tails. "Uh oh...We should climb down, fast!" Paula said as she decided to slide down the ladder...However she slid down a bit too fast. "BIG MISTAKE, I CANT STOP SLIDING...I HOPE THERE'S AWAY OFF OF THIS LADDER!" Paula said as she tried to grab onto the ladder the best she can, however she was slowly losing grip.

"I hope there's a way off of this ladder..."

And right on que a hole was formed at the front of the ladder, when Paula came down she and the history book fell into the tunnel and slid some more, the hole was still open for Tails to go in when he also reached for the bottom. "Now where am I going?" Paula said as she was suddenly shot out back to the middle of the library...Along with the history book.

"Were back in the library...And with the history book to, we couldn't of done it without your chu bombs Tails...Tails?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails was relieved the Gohma took the bait and took off after Paula. Tails grabbed onto the exit and swiftly curled into ball form and rolled through after Paula. It looked like the adventure would be painless at the very least besides a few headaches... That is until Tails uncurled and noticed his momentum carried him too far and past the ladder. The surprised fox then began falling while Paula slid down the ladder. Tails almost started his tails to slow his descent before realizing that would be a very bad idea if the books noticed.

It was a good thing heights were no problem in his world or this was going to hurt a whole lot... When did a hole get there? Did Paula give the strange section another idea Tails could not make out through the turbulence? Regardless, Tails fell through the portal like he was just entering the Earth's Atmosphere before he flew out into the main library like a rocket and his head slammed into a bookshelf and knocked some books out as well as getting his head caught.

Tails pulled back until he could dislodge himself and stumbled backwards. He seemed a little dizzy from the impact as he seemed unable to stand still, struggling for balance. "Yeah, it's a really good idea for me to... uh... create those... explosives. Ugh, now I know how Sonic feels from those long falls. Remind me to never... um... visit that area again," Tails replied before falling over. On close examination he seemed in perfect health, just really dizzy and disorientated.

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Paula watched as Tails landed in the library and crashed into a bookshelf, dropping a few books in the process...As Tails stood up, a mysterious lady appeared infront of him. "Huh!?" Paula said towards the lady who looked towards Tails. "Young fox...Are you going to pick up those books?" She said creepily around Tails, Paula did not like the looks of this lady and soon grabbed all of the books herself to take the fall for her friend. "Oh no...That was my fault lady...I'll pick them up!" Paula said as she placed all of the books back onto the shelf and grabbed her History book. "We got the book Tails, lets read it at the table over there." Paula said pointing to a small table, she walked towards it while the lady groaned.


"Aww...I just wanted to help...Uh oh." The lady said as she suddenly glowed purple. "Crap...Don's potions wearing out...I need another batch of his Human transformation puzzle potion...Now!" The lady said as she was suddenly eloped by the glow.




When the glow vanished, a Re-dead was in her place, it did its signature scream before walking off...Very slowly to search for Don Paolo. Meanwhile for Paula she looked at the title of the book in confusion. "That's strange, it wasn't 210X when i left...Must of been an mistake." Paula said as she opened the book and began to read.

In the 16th century a tribe in the land of Chommo, the first country to be discovered in this world...Set out to find other lands when the issue of overpopulation has reached to enormous proportions, there was also an issue with disease and creatures killing there members, so they constructed a boat. As days turned to months and quickly turned to years, two islands were soon found that were actually very close to Chommo then the tribe thought...These two islands eventually became the land of Fog and the land of Eagles, but to this day they were called Eagleland and Foggyland.

Paula skipped a few pages since they covered history she already knew about, like the four world wars, the two civil wars, the 10 cold wars in a row...She soon came across information about an event that she witnessed herself...Because she had a part in it...

The war on Giygas.

And so after the Cold War on Toads and Hares have finished, the three country's and possibly the rest of the world came under threat for what seemed to be an extraterrestrial being from another planet...He called himself Giygas with his name originally being Giegue, with the help of four kids his invasion however was soon thwarted and the kids were safe and sound after the battle against the being...Thanks to a special stone they used to find spots that would allow them to become strong to defeat the being...Called the Sanctuary Stone...To this day the event was known as The War on Giygas...

"Sanctuary stone...The last time i checked Ness had it when he took me back to Twoson." Paula said to Tails, she soon turned the page hoping to find more information...However she was sad to see that the rest of the pages of the book were gone, with the only word on the next page being...

As for the Sanctuary Stone, it...

"What happend to these pages...Dont tell me that arachnid ate a few?" Paula said as she closed the book, now finding it useless, it seems again she was stuck on square one, Paula sighed...Not knowing what to do now...

Or so it seems...

Nearby the table a hand came out from one of the dark covered halls of the library and threw a small Ruby gem across the floor, it rolled under the table and eventually hits Paulas feet, the hand disappeared once Paula took notice of the Ruby and picked it up. "A Ruby?" Paula said, she soon turned towards the path it came from and walked towards it, stopping infront of the hall. "Hello?" Paula called out...

And another Ruby rolled out infront of her.

[Coolshaymin]

Tails pulled himself up after a while and Paula took the blame for him. "Thanks," Tails said, gaining a little bit of his senses back from that knockout... Just in time to see someone change into a redead and run away talking about a potion wearing off... They were out of the History Section, right?

Tails shook it off and followed Paula to the table and sat down next to her. Tails read over Paula's shoulder to be on the same page without a need to read aloud. His hopes fell when the pages dropped short of getting to something new. It would appear they went through that strange world inside a library for nothing.

Then they seemed to be sidetracked by someone messing with some rubies. Paula seemed pretty curious so Tails followed after her. The way the hand disappeared to roll one gave Tails the message. "You think whoever owns these rubies want us to go in there?" Tails asked as more a statement since he was not so sure he trusted this.

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"Yes, we should....And no problem, besides that lady's now...Busy with a potion." Paula said as she placed the two rubies in her pocket and went down the hall to where the ruby's came from. After a few minutes the two came across some stairs that leads to a small tunnel to the right. "I guess the person went through that tunnel." Paula said to Tails as she went up the stairs and through the tunnel, only to find herself in a new room in the library.




A small lounge, although it seems like nobody is around. "Hello?" Paula called out as she walked down another flight of stairs to the lounge and looked around. "Anyone here?" She said looking around, just then a voice called out from a shelf in front of her. "Nope, nobody comes here...Most of the visitors don't even know this lounge exists...Its usually the spot i stay in." The voice called out as a figure moved behind the shelf Paula was looking at, she walked towards it and called out to the voice again. "Oh, sorry if we disturbed you but i think you dropped these two rubies back there." Paula said bringing out the pair of rubies and showing them to the figure behind the shelf, the figure moved to see Paula and revealed himself.




The figure turned out to be tall...very tall then most residents in the Life Sphere, however he did manage to fit in the room...And the Library, Paula looked surprised at the man's height, almost dropping the rubies in the process but she kept a good grip on them. "Woah...You look...Tall." Paula said as the man spoke again to the two.


"Yes i am, it is with my height that i have achieved great things in the past...Even if my job did involve pain...And misery in the past...I am Leder, Paula Jones Polestar and Miles Tails Prower..."

"Wait...How did you know our names?"

"You will learn...In time, but please...Keep the rubies, you will need them soon enough...Now please, before i explain your purpose Paula, do you two have any questions?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails was having enough of this strange adventure but he was going to go through it with Paula until the end. He had a debt to her and besides, he was her friend and abandoning her would be something Tails would not be willing to do. He followed Paula to what looked like a type of lounge... with a really tall man being here... Well, given everything else that has happened. This was pretty normal at least.

Tails had to question why he said no one as if he was no one... But he may be overthinking the freakishly tall man. But things went right back to weird again when he talked about his old job and even knew their names. Tails gave a sigh at how much effort it was taking to mentally handle this chaotic library. "I have two questions. What is up with this strange library section? It seems very counterproductive for a library. And what do you mean by your job involving pain and misery in the past? What IS your job?" Tails questioned.

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Paula stood there quietly as Tails asked two questions, mainly why this library was so weird and magical and what job Leder had in the past, he just gave two vague answers the fox. "This library is very mysterious...Even I don't know it's strangeness sometimes...Then again I just stay out of those areas." Leder said before speaking again on Tail's other question. "In time...You will know, but If the truth was told here, you two would not like what you would hear..." Leder said which made Paula gulp and spoke. "What do you mean?" She said as Leder remained quiet.

A few seconds later Leder spoke again. "Your purpose Paula...Your...Friend, Ness used to have an orb called the You Sanctuary stone?" He said which made Paula's eyes widen. "The Sanctuary stone? How do you know about that...We used that to record melody's so we could have enough power to defeat Giygas." She said to Leder who quickly mode two steps left to reveal two giant scrolls behind him.


 


"Wow, that was good timing, who made those scrolls?" Paula said as Leder spoke once more. "You, Ness, Jeff and Poo's victory's in the war against Giygas did not go unnoticed...When the time came, The Sanctuary Stone along with another powerful object called The Great Grandfathers Diary was moved to castle that by that time was recently finished building by a clan known as the Osohe...They kept the two items protected for a few months...So it wont fall into the wrong hands...I made those scrolls until the time came...


Unfortunately a tragedy occurred in the clan."

Leder finished speaking once more as Paula looked at Tails as he speaking before looking back at Leder again and asking him another question, this time he was sure to answer.

"What happened to the Osohe clan?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails does not entirely know what he was expecting but he was unsurprised to find his questions not fully answered. If anything, there were more questions than before now but it looks like he can not do much about that. Tails decided it best to listen for now since this discussion seemed to be very one sided in nature. It was obvious this guy was not going to give answers he was not intending on giving. It did feel like it gave Tails more reason to help Paula though. Maybe figuring out this man can help him figure out what he needs to.

What came up next was pretty typical if Tails had to be honest as he had heard it before. Even his world had something similar with the Edchidna Clan that was mostly extinct. Two powerful items were kept under their watch, some terrible event occurs and they disappear leaving said items to fall into the wrong hands... constantly. Kind of makes one wonder what part a guardian has at times. Either way, Tails did not have much to add to the discussion so he kept listening.

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Leder looked at the two again and sighed before speaking again. "Well." He said as he went on a long speech about the Osoho clan, beware this is one of Leders very, very long speeches.

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"Long ago, at an ancient Island, lived a few people In a small village, and a powerful and rich clan known as the Osoho clan, despite there status all members were very nice and helpful to the village folk, because of there kindness they were instructed to keep the sanctuary stone and great grandfathers diary...or GGFD for short, safe from the hands of evil, however due to concerns of theft, the Clan decided to lock the two objects somewhere to keep It extra safe...But they needed to find a location to keep them safe first.

And that was when the castle begun its construction.



After some time had passed the castle was finally built and all members moved in and relocated the two objects into a large vault that could only be accessed by doing a very strange...Yet funny dance.

Are you getting this?"

"Yes."

"Well then, let me continue, things were fine with the clan knowing that the objects were safe, every day a member goes down to the vault...And dance to open it so they can check on the objects to see if they were okay...Of course, soon enough the tragedy happened.

Members of the Osoho clan started to die one by one in mysterious ways, nobody knew why this was happening and it made the remaining members worry, unknown to them the land they built the castle on was known to be cursed and by building that castle and staying on that land, they will be cursed to die for revenge on building on the land...

All the members died...Until it was just the Osoho leader, his wife and his newborn Daughter left in the castle, due to there fears, the three locked themselves in the castle and did not visit the village anymore...They themselves tried to find a new home on the island since other land beyond the island...Were not in a good state...But unfortunately they couldn't find new land or homes to move to...So the three were unfortunately doomed to die like the other members.

Are you getting this?"

"Yes."

"Well then, let me continue...Hope had came for the Daughter however when a mysterious magical tribe had heard of the Osoho family situation and offered them something...They would take there Daughter so she would spared from the curse...However the two must stay behind as they couldn't come with them, after much discussion...And arguments, the couple agreed to give up there Daughter so she can be safe to the mysterious tribe...That night the two watched tearfully as there Daughter and the tribe left to the mountains on the island...So she can start a new life without getting affected by the curse.

The couple soon embraced the curse and a few days later...While walking near a cliff, the two fell to there deaths after slipping from said cliff...The Sanctuary Stone and GGFD still in the vault."

"That's awful..."

"Are you getting this?"

"Yes."

"Well then, let me continue...Soon enough a new clan came to the island...The Fusho clan and this time they were given the job of looking after another object...The Egg of Light...But that was for another chapter, soon enough they moved into the castle and while placing the egg in the vault, the clan found out about the two objects and soon agreed to continue the Osoho's job to look after the objects...

This time however after moving in...The curse did seem to affect the clan...Until during a party, a fire started which burnt the room every clan and guest were in...Leaving no survivors...

After the fire everyone in the village agreed not to go near the castle and It was left to be abandoned and rot...With the three objects disappeared following an event which caused everyone in the island to vanish...

The End."

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Paula got up from a nearby chair she was sitting on so she can listen to Leders story without standing up, and was shocked to know that the Sanctuary Stone and the GGFD might be destroyed following the event he mentioned at the end. "So...Your saying that the Sanctuary Stone and Great Grand Fathers Diary are gone and wont be seen again?" Paula said sounding worried, but the gentle tall old man reassured the girl. "Relax...I...Think It's back at the vault...On the island." Leder said looking around. "But we don't know where the island is...I don't think we'll find It on LI..." Paula said as Leder pointed to her pockets.

"Are you sure now...You Paula, have the two objects that will help you find the island...You and Possibly Tails If he wants can go to the island."

"The Rubies?"

Leder nodded.

[Coolshaymin]

Tails took a seat with Pauala as they listened to the story told by the freakishly tall man. Some tribe was told to protect something so they built a castle to protect it. Seemed like a logical step to take to protect powerful trinkets... Come to think of it... They should really consider a way to keep the Chaos Emeralds more secure... Though a funny dance is hardly a valid security measure to make.

And then there was no surprise as the building grounds for it was cursed. Though Tails hardly believed in such superstitious things like curses... though worlds other than his own has magic... so maybe Paula's world has such ludicrous things as well. Then a daughter was shipped with strangers to avoid the deadly curse roaming them... Which seemed really irresponsible now that Tails thought of it but they probably had little choice.

Anyway, they ended up dying which was really expected by how this story was going. Another group of people moved in to the cursed lands and got cursed as well. They even was so kind as to bring another power of extreme power. Then they died in a party fire... how wonderful...

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Tails took the story into consideration as the tall man finished the tale. Considering someone might still be able to get these powers into the wrong hands there was little choice. He could not let Paula go to that place alone as there might be some danger. Luckily they did not have to search for the item to get there. "If it is okay, Paula, I am going with you. There could be anything at that island and I want to return the favor for helping me with Tails Doll. Besides, I would be a poor friend to let you go alone, huh?" Tails offered.

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Paula took out the rubies to look at them before looking at Tail's, who offered to come with Paula to the island if she gladly wants to. "Sure Tail's you can come, I might ask for another person to come to be on the safe side...But how can these rubies help us find this island?" Paula said looking up to Leder. "I sense a summer home that used to belong to the Osoho's Leaders wife, she used to go there to paint a lot before heading to the Island...One of the things she made before she departed was a sculpture with missing eyes, when two objects are placed in the sculpture eye sockets, It will move and help the user find the island, she made It In case she left and forgot where the Island was ...The Rubies will fit perfectly since they were used before by a member." Leder said which Paula confused.

"Wait, where is the summer house and how do you know this?" Paula said to Leder who shrugged and spoke again, answering only the first question. "It's somewhere on a cliff in Mushroom Ruins...Now, you must go you two to find the island...A great destiny awaits...And all that stuff." Leder said as he pulled a switch, soon two trap doors opened for Paula and Tails and she quickly fell in, "What's happening now!" Paula said as the trap door dropped her off at the front door of the library alone with Tails, Mari soon appeared but only to just put a closed sign on the door before walking away again.

"I still got the rubies...So I guess we better get ready to head off to the Mushroom Ruins, I want to go there as soon as possible...The Sanctuary Stones and the Diary might help me find Eagleland...But I wonder that Diary?"

[Coolshaymin]

Another person did sound good to Tails though anything could go wrong. Still, it will probably be better than this library at least. He was just about to get up from his seat to go and do some final tune ups until a trapdoor opened under him. Tails fell through before he could fly and though he panicked for a second and tried to fly out of the hole, the floor reclosed itself, leaving him to fall.

Tails was then spit out at the entrance where he faceplanted onto the Life Sphere's ground. He dusted himself off as Paula spoke to him or maybe it was herself. "I am not sure what the diary is about but the tall guy acts as if it is important. Anyway, I am going to go make a few more bombs back at the lab. You can find someone to help us. I will meet you there once I am done with a bit of maintainance. See ya, Paula," Tails said before running off in the direction of his lab.