The trio quickly made their way back to Thorntail Hollow, where the Queen Earthwalker was waiting for them. "Fox, something is wrong," she began worriedly. "The Walled City has not yet returned to the planet."
"The Krazoa Spirits haven't been gathered to the Temple yet," Sunset explained quickly. "Until they're all gathered there, they can't guide the magic back into the planet to seal it up."
"That is true," the Queen agreed thoughtfully. "But that raises the question, how did this come to pass in the first place? When enshrined and in slumber, the six Spirits create an unbreakable seal around the Heart Chamber, and it is impossible to warp there. How were the Spellstones removed in the first place?"
"The answer to that should be obvious," Fox pointed out dryly. "General Scales must have awakened and absorbed one of the Krazoa Spirits. If he hasn't released it, but is instead tapping its power...that would explain how he's gotten so strong."
"But that is most reckless!" the Queen spoke up worriedly. "To tap the power of a Spirit is to bind your life to its power! If he were to release the Spirit, he would die!"
"Then he has no intention to," Tricky deduced thoughtfully. "He is trying to use the magic of the planet for his own ends. Why would he want the Spirits to put it back together?"
The Queen frowned worriedly. "A valid point. Which means...you will have to battle him for that Spirit, so it can be infused into the Temple. You will have to kill him."
"We were expecting that to begin with," Fox murmured dryly, remembering Tink's plight, and the plight of the Sharpclaws under General Scales' rule. "So we need to get the other five Spirits in place. I've delivered three of them to the Temple already..."
"One is enshrined in the Temple itself," Sunset spoke up. "Mom must have released that one, since there was a Spirit orbiting her when we..." Her voice trailed off as she thought about Krystal's plight, her eyes dropping.
"Well...that's five accounted for," Fox spoke up quickly, trying to distract Sunset's thoughts. "One was in Moon Mountain Pass, one was in the Lightfoot Village, one was in the Snowhorn Wastes...where would the last one be?"
"Well, there's only one place we haven't fully explored," Sunset pointed out. "The Walled City. We were kind of in a rush when we were there last time."
"There is a Spirit enshrined in the Walled City," the Queen pointed out. "And it cannot be the one General Scales claimed, as the world began to break apart before he took the City."
"Then we're off to the Walled City," Fox confirmed grimly. "And from there we'll fly straight to Krazoa Palace." Turning, he led the group to the Ar-Wing before taking off.
As they landed in the Walled City, the King Earthwalker stood on a raised platform on the outside of the central pyramid, flanked by two of his guards. He smiled as he saw the group approaching. "My thanks to you Fox, Sunset, my son. With the Spellstones returned to the Choke, the flow of magic has been contained and the planet is saved. All that is left is for the Krazoa Spirits to be gathered in the Krazoa Temple, and the planet will be restored."
"And the last Spirit enshrined is somewhere here," Fox concluded firmly. "Can you tell us where?"
"I do not know the exact location," the King admitted. "It is protected by magic. Only the light of the Sun and Moon Stones when enshrined in the pyramid will pierce that veil, and illuminate the path to the shrine."
"Then we'll just have to go get those stones," Sunset concluded firmly.
Nodding, the King closed his eyes and focused. Two doors opened, granting access to the paths to where the Stones were.
Heading through the first door into the sun-themed area of the City, the group found several sun-marked stone blocks in an enclosed square area, floating sun images marking where the blocks had to be. However, when the blocks were pushed, they slid along the floor until they were stopped, or until they intersected with one of the floating sun symbols. Pushing a block against the wall into the wall caused the blocks to return to their original position. After a bit of experimentation - and Sunset floating herself up to a higher point to get a different perspective on the puzzle - they were able to complete. This caused a nearby monolith to iris open a circular hole in it.
"Wonder what that's for?" Sunset mused as she floated up to it and gazed through it. As she stared, she saw a reflective sun-disk set in the mountainside...which suddenly blazed with focused sunlight. "Ack!" she cried out, turning away to shield her eyes as a beam of light shot through, causing a path to open in the base of the structure.
"You okay, Sunset?" Fox called out worriedly.
"I'm fine!" Sunset called back. "Just...gonna blink a bit for a while. You go inside and grab the Stone."
Nodding, Fox ducked inside the structure. Tricky hesitated just outside.
"Go on," Sunset insisted. "He might need some fire." Nodding, Tricky ducked inside. Once they were both in, Sunset stood up. "Okay...I think I'm good. I'll see if I can solve the other puzzle while I wait for them. I don't want to go somewhere dark just now..." Turning, she floated over to the other side.
The puzzle proved to be similar to the block puzzle from the sun side, but moon themed and with the blocks and moon symbols in different positions. It took a bit more experimentation both to determine where to move the blocks and how to get them to move as she didn't have as much upper body strength as Fox and her magic slid right off the blocks. By the time she'd managed to solve it, Fox and Tricky had arrived, Sun Stone in hand.
"Just couldn't wait, could you?" Fox asked teasingly, ruffling Sunset's hair and making her giggle. Smirking, he went up the monolith to trigger the Moon Plate, which caused the path to open. "How about you handle this one?" Fox called out, tossing Sunset Krystal's staff. "Have some fun."
Squealing happily, Sunset raced inside, Tricky close on her hooves. Fox shook his head with an amused chuckle.
The first hurdle Sunset encountered inside the Moon Shrine involved gates that raised and lowered in a pattern to block access to the door. Sunset simply floated over them, while Tricky raced in when the gates dropped. The next hurdle proved to be an invisible maze that appeared when the door switch was activated. However, as it was made of magical energy, Sunset was able to sense the pattern and easily found her way through to the end. The final hurdle proved to be a slowly moving circular wall panel with the Moon Stone in the center and a small window that revealed three fireball switches next to engravings representing the phases of the moon. From her studies, Sunset knew which order to activate the switches...and doing so caused carvings of dragon heads to either side of the chamber to exhale frost, revealing a magical path to the Stone.
With the Stone in hand, Sunset and Tricky returned to where Fox awaited them before the trio headed for the Pyramid. Sunset then led the group back to where they placed the Gold and Silver Red Eye Fangs, where places for the Sun and Moon Stone were now revealed. Placing them caused the carvings to rise up further, which made the top of the Pyramid rise up to reveal the Warp to the Krazoa Shrine.
Sunset raced ahead to the warp, only to once more be denied access. "So unfair..." she pouted yet again. "I really want to see what it's like..."
Fox chuckled wryly. "There's really not all that much to see," he pointed out as he stepped into the warp.