Continuing off from what I was mentioning before. Around the same time that all of that was occurring, the spirits were able to sense out a strong and potent source of Dark Magic and made their way towards someplace that they sensed was familiar to them. Upon arriving to were the source was, they came across a startling discovery. They found themselves in the middle of the Aparoid war. From this, they were able to discovered that they traveled back in time into the far distance past. They were exactly 24 hours before the Rifter. From there, they found out that they were in a lot of trouble. They needed to return to the present as quickly as possible.

They returned to the 4 heroes to tell them about this. They also mentioned to them what had been happening, with the Shaman wanting to travel back in time and all and that they needed to return to the present before the Rifter swallows them up. Scattered across the world that they were in were 7 Warp Gems, which were the original Chaos Emeralds given to them by Tikal that they have renamed as such because of the new Chaos Emeralds that were formed. They scrambled to get all of them collected.

Upon reaching the last one, they ran into Neela, who knew about the Rifter and intends to allow the world that they were in to be swallowed up by the Rifter. Fortunately, they were able to get the final Warp Gem back from him and utilizing the their powers and the Master Warp Gem, the original Master Emerald, in the possession of the 5th spirit, they were able to warp the dimension that they were in all the way back to their present. It took a lot of magical energy to warp an entire dimension all the way to the present so they had to receive help from the Teenzie guardians of that world in order to do it.

With the heroes returned to the present, the spirits had the opportunity to lock away Neela inside the Vaults of Light, the magical items that were given to them by Ly as a means to prevent the war that eventually helped in bringing forth the Rifter. However, before she was locked away, she revealed to them a massive Dark secret that is a major plot to the story.

She is a member of a secret organization known as the Descendants of Darkness. They consisted of seemingly ordinary people of many different kinds as well as many different species that share the share the same ancestor: the Shaman Emperor. Their leader was the self-proclaimed wife of the Shaman Emperor whose name will be left on a need to know basis, but you might know who she is. Their goal was to inflict chaos and corruption into each dimension that they were assigned in order to intensify Dark magic within the hearts of the people. They would then collect that Darkness and send it out to expand the rift to the Shadow Realm in order to release the Shaman Emperor so that he could bring forth the Rifter. It is apparent that it is happening again and she believe that the heroes will never be able to prevent it. But they were confident that they will, even more so than that, they had to prevent it from happening otherwise all existence will be erased forever.

After all that was done, Sly and his friends decided to stay friends with the main heroes and provide any help that he can now that his world is part of their present.

The thing about this game was I was very, very resistant over the concept of putting this game into the story. My brother was shoving ideas into my head and I was trying very hard to shut them out. Eventually, I gave in but I added this into the story with my own ideas. My brother wanted to have Fox meet Sly but I had it so that Krystal would be the first to meet him. She did develop sort of a romantic relationship with him but she knew that he was into Carmelita so she held back.

Also, in my story, Krystal doesn't care very much for romance or a love life. Instead, she values friendship above everything else and as long as she has that, she doesn't need anything else. That, to me, is a lot more important than a love life.

I will write more again soon. This story is getting really good and I can't deny that a lot of my ideas are very unorthodox.