The Walled City soon came into view as Krystal scanned the area for a place to land. She noticed that the city was truly walled by earth that towered up like the edge of a bowl surrounding it. The Walled City appeared to be a crater indented into Saruia's surface, filled with trees and buildings layered upwards resembling pyramids.

The tallest pyramid building stood in the center of the city, surrounded by a large stream of flowing water that formed a square looping around it. Bridges arched over the clear waters, connecting the central area to open grasslands where two smaller pyramids towered above the ground, one on each side of the central structure.

Just beyond one of the bridges, Krystal spotted a stone platform that seemed like a fitting landing pad. She hovered in her Arwing just above it and descended slowly, gazing out at the chaotic battlefield around her. In every clearing, dinosaurs were locked in combat, occasionally switching targets as they fought for control of the city. Krystal recognized the ferocious Redeye and realized that they were fighting with the Earthwalkers.

She had seen several Earthwalkers on her last visit to Sauria during the Aparoid invasion. The strong dinosaurs were similar to the Thorntails in their long, hefty bodies and walked on four legs, but their backs and tails were not covered in spikes. Instead, they had horns on their noses and several horns on their heads. Their bony neck frills were also lined with spines, and their skin was mostly brown with red and yellow designs on their backs, heads, and leg joints.

As Krystal came to a landing, she opened the cockpit of her ship and leaped out onto the stone landing pad. Her right arm was still far from mending completely, but it wasn't in so much pain that she couldn't fight with it if she needed to. In her left hand, she wielded her magical staff, which was only a fraction of its full length; she had the ability to transform it on command from full length to partial length for storage purposes. The vixen also brought the two Sacred Redeye Teeth, safe in the gun holster on her right hip.

Krystal raced from the landing pad down a stone ramp that led to the earthy ground of the Walled City. She realized that just ahead of her, an Earthwalker was grappling with two ferocious Redeye. They had backed the triceratops into a wall and were taking turns snapping their jaws intimidatingly. Seeing this, nothing could hold Krystal back from unleashing the powers of her staff. She charged her weapon's magical energy and shot herself into the air with a rocket boost, landing between the dinosaurs with a shockwave that forced both Redeye backward.

They charged at her, but she was agile; she ducked under gaping jaws and touched her staff to the first Redeye's cheek, casting waves of ice that froze the dinosaur in a solid block of ice.

The second Redeye snapped at her, but she dove beneath its legs, stabbing each with the tip of her staff on her way through. The tyrannosaurus roared in pain as it spun around to face her. By then, Krystal had already thrust her staff into the ground, causing another shockwave that knocked the Redeye off its feet. Its head cracked against the tough earthy wall surrounding the city and it fell to the ground motionless.

"What are you doing here?" The Earthwalker's voice sounded familiar, but confused. Surely enough, the dinosaur that Krystal had saved was King Tricky, an old friend from her last visit to Sauria and the King of the Earthwalker Tribe. Tricky met Fox on his first adventure to Sauria and became something like his sidekick. They were reunited once again when Star Fox came back to Sauria to repel the aparoids, but a year had passed since then. Tricky sounded surprised to see Krystal so soon after her last visit to his home planet.

The vixen smiled at her friend, hoping that he would not pounce on her like he had when he greeted Fox last time they met; he was an enormous dinosaur, after all. "Looks like I am here to help you fight back," she replied. She surveyed the city around her, a mess of dinosaurs fighting each other. Surprisingly, after taking the most serious damage from the aparoids, the Walled City seemed to have recovered well until the Redeye attacked.

"Tricky, I need you to take me to the Redeye Queen. The Krazoa told me you would know what to do with these," Krystal urged as she retrieved the two Sacred Redeye Teeth and showed them to her triceratops friend.

Immediately, his eyes widened at the sight. "You found the teeth!" Noticing the moss wrapping on Krystal's arm, Tricky hesitated. "Are you alright? If you are injured, the last thing you want to do is take on the Redeye Queen. She is the most fearsome dinosaur known on the planet!"

"Trust me; I got this wound from a pretty nasty dinosaur. I think I can handle it," Krystal thought back to her clash with the Sharpclaw tyrant, Scales. She placed the two teeth in her blaster holster and asked again, "so, where is the Redeye Queen?"

Tricky made his way to her side and lowered his back. "Get on; I'll take you through the worst of the fighting. Cover me." Krystal positioned herself on her friends back and he began to take off with a roar. They quickly crossed a stone bridge that arched over the stream flowing through the city, trampling with heavy steps as Tricky galloped into the main clearing.

Soon they approached the central pyramid structure. Its exterior was decorated with red square designs and an image of a sun was displayed at its top. The other side, Krystal guessed, displayed an image of a moon with blue square tiles. The Earthwalkers had a strange fascination with the sun and the moon, she recalled. They were a special race of dinosaurs with the ability to sense magical energies, such as those of the Krazoa Spirits.

As Krystal and Tricky raced past the building, two Redeye charged at them, one on each side. Krystal sent a wave of ice flowing from the tip of her staff, freezing the first of her attackers solid. As the second tyrannosaurus neared, she shot several balls of fire in its direction, glancing off the Redeye's armored scales and only angering it further. As the snapping jaws came toward the vixen, she tilted her body sideways and touched her staff to the dinosaur's face, freezing it as well.

Tricky followed the stone walkway surrounding the central pyramid until he stopped, just in front of a tunnel entrance leading beneath the pyramid itself. The tunnel walls were not formed of dirt, but stone had been built around the walls to secure them instead.

The tunnel must lead to an underground level of the pyramid, Krystal thought. She hopped off Tricky's back and began to take several steps into the underground passage when a roar stopped her in her tracks. Two more Redeye had noticed them and began charging their way closer.

"Krystal, go! I can handle the fight up here. You need to get down there and defeat the Queen; once you defeat her, the Redeye will be forced to surrender." Tricky stood his ground, forcing himself between Krystal and the Redeye.

She hesitated for a moment, afraid to leave Tricky and the rest of the Earthwalker Tribe on their own. "Just go!" Tricky's usually cheeky voice sounded gravely serious, telling Krystal that he was forcing her to leave whether she wanted to or not.

"I'll be right back, be careful!" She called to her friend as she proceeded down the stone tunnel. Before it could darken at the loss of sunlight, the pathway opened into an underground room, lined with stone flooring and walls. The space seemed to be divided into two halves, each lit with a flaming torch. The left torch burned with a red flame and the right torch burned with a blue flame, lighting each side a different color.

Ahead of Krystal, two stone statues rested against the back wall of the room. They appeared to resemble dinosaurs of the Redeye Tribe, but each wore a form of headdress with leaves protruding from the statue's head. The stone figures rose out of the ground from the neck up, each displaying a row of sharp front teeth.

"What do I do with these?" Krystal asked herself while holding up the two teeth that she had collected from Scales. One was colored gold, and the other silver. Krystal wondered if these colors meant anything significant because the statues before her reflected the light of the torches, matching the red and blue glow. The vixen studied the two tall statues closely and realized that each was missing a tooth.

Krystal approached the red statue and climbed the stone platform at its base so that she could reach her arm up to its mouth. With her staff in her left hand, she stretched her injured right arm toward the statue until the gold dinosaur tooth she was holding locked itself inside the figure's mouth. It fit perfectly, so Krystal repeated this procedure with the blue statue. As she fastened the missing silver tooth in place, the walls of the underground room quaked and she quickly backed away.

Suddenly, the tiled stone floor between the two statues lowered itself, revealing another hidden passage leading deeper into the ground beneath the central pyramid. Krystal continued into the depths by passing underneath a raised iron gate between the stone dinosaurs, wondering where it would take her. She had no other choice but to follow the path, hoping that the Redeye Queen was waiting for her on the other side. Fear and anxiety probed at her mind as she followed the passage into yet another room of stone. This time, to her surprise, it was completely empty.

Cautiously, Krystal entered the room and began walking on the tiled floor beneath her. Her heels tapped against the cold stone surface, causing loud echoes to vibrate off the walls of the empty space.

Without warning, a click sounded and the tiles collapsed. The frantic vixen tried to use her staff's rocket boost ability to stop herself from falling, but she was too late. She cried out for help, but heard nothing except her own voice echoed back to her as she found herself falling into a dark abyss of nothingness.

* * *

When Krystal woke, her head was spinning and throbbing in pain. She found herself lying in the middle of an enormous hallway of stone, lit by the yellow glow of the walls themselves. The vixen hauled herself to her feet and retrieved her magical staff that was lying on the ground beside her. She looked upward at the ceiling, arching over five times her own height. I must have fallen through the roof, she thought. My head hurts as if I landed on it... She shook her head to clear it when the ground suddenly began to shake.

The quakes came in rhythm and felt as if the source was approaching. The walls of the hallway trembled more violently with each beat. Suddenly a bloodthirsty roar sounded from around the corner at the end of the hall. Krystal braced herself as her heart pounded uncontrollably in her chest.

This must be the Queen's lair... Just as the thought crossed her mind, a massive tyrannosaurus rounded the corner, more terrifying any creature she had seen before. The dinosaur stood almost as tall as the hallway itself and filled its entire width as it faced Krystal.

This Redeye dwarfed any dinosaur she had seen in her lifetime. Its razor-sharp teeth glimmered like knives in its mouth as it roared, sending echoes down the hallway. A strange gem gleamed from between its two red eyes; the circular object was difficult to view at a distance, but it appeared to be split in half. The top half was bright and red while the bottom was a mixture of silver and blue. Surely, this beast was the Queen Redeye, the ruler of the Redeye Tribe.

"Calm down, Krystal, you can do this," the terrified pilot reassured herself as her heart began racing. She had not imagined her foe to be so petrifying and realized that she didn't have a plan of attack. She had assumed that her staff would be strong enough, but second-guessed herself in the presence of the Queen. With just a moment's hesitation, the tyrannosaurus sent an enormous roar down the hallway and began to charge at her prey.

Krystal took a deep breath and unleashed a volley of fireballs from the tip of her staff, aiming for many different locations on the Redeye's body in the hopes of locating a weak point. Her telepathic abilities had been useful in detecting weaknesses of aparoid enemies in the past, but she could not sense a single target on the Queen. Her mental processes gave nothing away but a thirst for blood and a desire to kill.

The fire blasts glanced off leg, body, head, and eyes as the Redeye Queen continued its charge, unaffected. With a glance behind her, Krystal realized that she had nowhere to run but further down the hallway. At the Queen's speed she would surely be outrun... she had no choice but to advance toward her enemy.

The Queen's jaws snapped just above Krystal's head as she ducked and slid forward, underneath the dinosaur's belly. A massive foot landed inches from crushing the she-fox into the ground as she passed by and ran toward the end of the hallway. The Queen has no way to turn around; she consumes the entire area of the hallway. Where will she go to follow me?

Just when Krystal thought she was safe, she rounded the corner and realized that the hallway continued on in a maze of intertwining paths. She was trapped underground with the Queen, who could use any of the connecting paths to find her.

As the sound of trampling footsteps faded, Krystal headed for an intersection connecting four hallways together, hoping that having sight of four entry points would be to her advantage. She reached the location and a ground-trembling roar pierced through the air, forcing her to shield herself from a gust of wind. The Queen Redeye appeared from around another corner and prepared to charge.

Fire blast had proven to be ineffective, and Krystal was not exactly sure how Fox had defeated the Redeye King in the past. All she knew was that he had done so with her staff, so she decided that she would test different abilities to identify any weaknesses the Queen might have. She readied herself for the Queen's approach and began to unleash waves of ice from her staff, forming a low icy wall between them. Holding her ground, she continued channeling ice as the wall rose higher.

As the Queen neared the barricade, it was almost her height. Krystal backed away as quickly as her legs would carry her and whipped around to await the Redeye's reaction.

The massive tyrannosaurus lowered her head and burst through the thick wall, hardly suffering any damage from the impact. Instead, as her skull pounded its way through, ice shards exploded from the barrier like shrapnel and sliced through the air toward the fleeing vixen.

Realizing that she was in danger, she thrust her staff into the ground and pivoted on it to create a veil of white light to surround her. As the shards of ice collided with the glimmering veil, they dissolved into tiny grains like sand and passed through it. Fortunately Krystal was unharmed, but she had lost ground. The tyrannosaurus continued its charge and was only several paces from her.

With no way to avoid a close quarter's fight, Krystal charged her staff's energy and propelled herself into the air. She arched her back as she barely soared over the Redeye Queen's nose and impaled her staff into the dinosaur's hide at the shoulder. The sharp tip of her staff was strong enough to penetrate the Redeye's hide, but only the tip pierced through.

Krystal held on as her enemy became enraged, shaking her back and forth. She was thrown violently as the Queen rammed her side into the stone walls of the hallway in an effort to throw her off. Finally, Krystal's staff came loose and she fell to the ground.

She recovered herself slowly, standing up and shaking her worn limbs. Her sliced arm began to sting furiously as she watched the Redeye Queen disappear at the end of the long hallway again. Blood welled from the healing wound as the impact opened it back up. I am getting nowhere with this... Oh, Fox, what do I do? Krystal asked her friend with a silent thought.

As if in reply, the Fox from her visions appeared before her once again. He stood just ahead of her, holding her staff while stepping onto a slightly raised platform that Krystal had not noticed before. Suddenly he jumped and thrust the staff into the platform as he landed with a ground quake. As the platform lowered, the walls of the hallway began to glow and bolts of lightning crackled through the air.

"Is that what I am supposed to do?" She asked in vain as the image before her disappeared and she was alone in the hallway again. Alone, except for her tremendous foe, who had reappeared around the corner she had come from before.

Alright, Fox. I trust you on this one, Krystal thought as she approached the platform and the Queen charged. She paused, holding her ground until the Redeye was in range of the lightning bolts she had just seen. With all her strength, she charged her staff's energy and thrust it into the ground with a massive ground quake.

Lightning burst from the walls and sliced through the air, electrocuting the Redeye in flashes of blue light. Immediately the monstrous creature halted and convulsed in a series of dreadful spasms. As the lightning bolts faded, the dinosaur collapsed to the ground headfirst, landing just inches away from Krystal's feet with a tremendous impact.

She breathed a sigh of relief that her foe had finally been vanquished with the help of Fox. I owe you one again, I guess... The vixen smiled at the thought. I knew that being part of a team was best for us.

Staring at the enormous Queen Redeye, Krystal again noticed the glimmering gem at her forehead. So close now, she could tell now that it was a circular stone, slightly larger than the size of her hand span. It gleamed with both the colors of the sun and the moon, split directly across the center. She was tempted to take a closer look and attempt to touch it, but the sight of the Redeye's teeth persuaded her against it. Instead, she turned away from the gem and looked upward to locate her way out. Surely enough, a hole in the roof appeared, hopefully leading back to where Krystal had come from.

She started charging her staff for a rocket boost when a sudden concentration of thought patterns raced through her mind. The Queen was not dead! The massive dinosaur was opening its jaws behind Krystal for the kill!

A fraction of a second before the large jaws behind her snapped shut, Krystal rocket boosted up and flipped backward. She charged her staff's energy again and thrust it into the Redeye's skull, just above the circular gem on her head. Shockwaves of energy pulsed through the air and through the dinosaur's skull, rattling the Queen's head violently. Finally, when the ground quake ended, the massive tyrannosaurus gave its dying breath and lay still.

Trembling in the force of magical energy, the gold and silver gem popped out of an indent in the Queen Redeye's skull and landed several paces away with a few light bounces. Krystal hopped off the dinosaur's head and retrieved it, in awe at its magnificent beauty. As she held it in both hands, she realized that the top half resembled a sun, with tiny golden triangles around its circumference like the sun's rays. The lower half was mostly colored blue, with a thin silver arc around its edge as if representing a crescent moon.

Whatever this object was, Krystal decided she would take it to King Tricky. Hopefully he would know what its significance was. Gathering herself a second time, the vixen concentrated her staff's magic and launched herself upward, through the hole in the roof and toward the Walled City above.

* * *

Krystal emerged from the stone-carved tunnel and the Saurian sun blinded her for several moments. Her eyes adjusted from the artificial light of the underground tunnel to the natural radiance of the sun and she realized that dinosaurs were still at war on the surface. The tide of battle looked to be shifting in favor of the Redeye; many Earthwalkers bore serious wounds and fought desperately for their lives. Even King Tricky, the leader of his Tribe, was backed against the edge of a small cliff before the river that surrounded the city.

Staff in one hand and gem in the other, Krystal began making her way to help her friend when something magical happened. As the Lylat sun, Sol, struck the gem she carried, the entirety of the Walled City was filled with a brilliant light. A bright, crimson light gleamed out of one half of the gem and a dark, blue light gleamed from the other. At once the clearing around the central temple came to a halt and every dinosaur ceased fighting. They all stared at the vixen and her new stone, taken back by the magical radiance filling the sky.

One by one, the dinosaurs of the Redeye Tribe began to lower their heads and back away in retreat as the mystical lights faded. They had taken this sign as the defeat of their leader, and knew that she who carried the dualistic gem had reigned superior over the Queen. Krystal herself was shocked and became even more curious about the artifact she obtained.

"Well done!" Tricky appeared at her side and congratulated her. "The Redeye have witnessed the defeat of their Queen and have surrendered. The war is finally over!" He nudged his friend playfully in the side, reminding Krystal of the cheeky young dinosaur Tricky was when Fox first met him.

"Thanks," she murmured, not taking her eyes from strange stone she carried. "Hopefully the dinosaurs of Sauria will be safe from the Redeye from now on." She smiled at her friend, but then resumed a serious tone when she asked, "What about this stone is so special? It came from the Queen... Fox said something about collecting the sun and moon stones when he traveled to the Walled City, but this almost appears to be a combination of the two..."

"This stone," Tricky replied, "comes from legend. As you know, no dinosaurs knew of the Queen Redeye prior to these attacks. However, there was in legend a stone of both sun and moon that belonged to a fearsome and terrible monster. The gem was rumored to grant access to a very powerful form of magic, but none had ever seen it and doubted its existence. It is called the Horizon Stone, because the tale says that it must be taken to the place where the sun and moon meet along the horizon."

"The horizon," Krystal repeated thoughtfully. "Where do you suppose that is?"

King Tricky meditated on this thought for a while. Around him, the Earthwalkers in the city had begun to round up the Redeye, herding them down into the tunnels and into their prison below the planet's surface. The tyrannosauruses were defeated and leaderless, marching single file with their heads hanging low.

"Cape Claw!" Tricky shouted, forcing Krystal from her thoughts. "The sun and moon can both be seen on the horizon at Cape Claw. Take the stone there just when the sun dips below the waters and the moon takes its place. After that, I'm not sure what will happen next. Hopefully you find whatever magic is said to be present there, if any such power exists."

Krystal nodded and the two walked together toward her Arwing. They crossed the stone bridge over the rippling stream below and sadly realized it was time to part ways. "Goodbye, Tricky," Krystal reached forward and threw her arms around his neck. "I'm sorry that I couldn't bring Fox to see you. I will be sure to send him your regards."

Tricky agreed, leaning his massive head in towards his friend. "Thanks, hopefully next time. I always look forward to seeing you guys!"

As Krystal turned away and headed toward her ship, she heard Tricky shout one last goodbye. "Take care of Fox for me! I'll make sure things are cleaned up around here so you can come back on your honeymoon, I promise!"

The vixen didn't even turn around to grace that comment with a response. She began to feel uncomfortably warm under her fur and blushed, waving with one hand and continuing on without looking back.

Stupid Tricky... Why does he always have to say something about Fox and me? With her staff strapped to her belt and the Horizon Stone in her hands, Krystal climbed into her ship and started its engines. The Arwing ascended into the sky and she cast one last glance down at Tricky as a smile began to form on her face. Maybe one day, Tricky. Maybe one day, she thought to herself.

The vixen input the coordinates for Cape Claw into her ship's computer and began to soar toward her destination. She thought she had passed the Cape before on her way to Thorntail Hollow, and remembered the wooden signpost from earlier. The two locations must have been close together, as the cape was only a short fly away from the Walled City.

Krystal knew that she had reached her destination when she spotted crystal clear waters and sandy beaches down below. Cape Claw appeared to be a hollow similar to Thorntail Hollow, with high earthy walls surrounding it on all sides except for one edge that opened up into the waters beyond. Krystal located a small patch of sand capable for landing and descended to the ground.

The vixen hopped out of her Arwing and surveyed her surroundings. The hollow was almost entirely filled with water like bowl of the crystal-clear liquid. Off to the left, a pathway sloped downward from the trees, connected to a bridge leading to an enormous stone structure built into the wall. The enlarged stone face of a Krazoa Spirit protruded from the rock and its mouth opened up like an entryway. Krystal knew that this led to the Ocean Force Point Temple, the location of the two water Spellstones. Here they rested, under the eternal guard of the Krazoa Spirits themselves.

Across the water from where the Arwing was resting, a small fortress was positioned on the sandy beach. It was armed with a cannon, but there were no enemies operating it. The beach was perfectly peaceful and harmless. Beyond the never-ending waters and tall palm trees, Krystal noticed the sun lowering itself in the sky. Time was running short, and she would have to take the Horizon Stone somewhere important. She just wasn't sure where that was.

"Well, I have to start somewhere," she decided as she paced down the beach toward the horizon line, carrying her stone in her hands as she approached the water. Several feet outwards, wooden platforms had been built in a square formation, rising up from the water as platforms. "This area will serve as an excellent lookout point," the she-fox told herself and braced to dive into the water.

With a light splash, she leaped into the water hands first. The icy cold stung the moss-covered wound on her arm, but she had to swim across, hoping soon she would be able to treat her cut more efficiently aboard The Great Fox. Krystal kicked with her feet and paddled forward with until she reached a ramp of wooden logs leading to the top of the platforms. She shook the water from her drenched fur and space suit and stared into the ocean while she walked up to the top of the slope. It was absolutely beautiful, witnessing the sunset over the still waters of Cape Claw. Alright, I'm here... Now what do I do?

Krystal held the Horizon Stone to face the ocean as the sun dipped into the water. Suddenly, just as the last bit of sunlight sank below the water's surface, a bright flash of light appeared and reflected off the stone. Krystal almost dropped it as it became filled with magical energy and a light pulsed from it, causing the waters below to churn and ripple.

Krystal's eyes widened and wind began to blow, chilling her still wet body to the bone. Still, she refused to release the Horizon Stone as something rose from up out of the sea; a miniature island of rock burst through the water and settled itself just above the water's surface. Surely, Krystal thought, this was where the Horizon Stone was telling her to go.

Without hesitation, she dove from the wooden platform and into the deeper waters ahead. She began to paddle toward the new island until finally she climbed onto it, pausing to rest her worn muscles. After journeying, fighting with dinosaurs, and finally swimming, she was beginning to feel exhausted.

The island was very small, with only enough room for two small circular objects to rest on it; one was a round indent in the rocky surface, approximately the size of the Horizon Stone. The second was a larger stone pad that rose up from the surface, similar to any of the teleportation pads found within the Krazoa Palace, only this one looked different. Instead of shining a brilliant yellow color, it appeared dull and grey, as if it was inactive.

An idea popped into Krystal's head. "I wonder..." she failed to finish her thought as she placed the Horizon Stone inside the smaller circular indent. Surely enough, it fit perfectly and the teleportation pad came to life with an intense glow. Krystal didn't know where it would take her but decided to step onto it and began to feel the world slip away. She found herself spinning in the depths of space and almost became dizzy with the effects of teleportation as darkness consumed her and the galaxy revolved in motion around her.

* * *

When Krystal woke, she realized that she was alone in a small round cavern. The walls were lined with the light of several glowing torches and a gleaming yellow stalactite hung from above. Directly below the center of the earthy cavern, a strange design glowed from the floor. As Krystal approached it, her staff began trembling violently from within her gun holster and a green light enveloped it.

I know this feeling, she thought. Fox told me this was how he learned all of my staff's powers for himself. But can there be another power that even I don't know? Krystal took her weapon from its sheath and held it above her head. With a jolt, beams of magical energy rained down from the tip of the stalactite and shot into her weapon. It continued to glow and vibrate as it was infused with energy, until the last of the bolts were absorbed and the magical energy-flow ceased.

"Congratulations, Krystal. You have learned another of your staff's hidden powers." The voice of the Krazoa spoke inside her head.

"What do you mean? Does my staff possess more powers that even I am unaware of?" Krystal spoke in the silence, still in a state of bewilderment. She was sure that she, as her staff's master, had learned all of its abilities. Apparently there was even more magic within that was yet to be discovered.

"Dinosaur Planet is a home to many unsolved mysteries, including those involving your staff," the Krazoa answered. "However, the time has not yet come to unravel them. You and your staff are connected to this planet in a way that you can't yet comprehend."

Krystal's heart froze, now feeling desperate for answers. "Connected? How?" Making a sudden realization, the vixen added, "I've known of the Krazoa Spirits before arriving here; they thrived on my home planet, in far greater numbers than the six that exist here..."

A harsh wind blew inside the cavern, extinguishing the lights the lined the walls as the Krazoa Spirit echoed, "Now is not the time for this matter! You must defend the Lylat System from the darkness that has arisen from the shadows. The power that you have learned is your staff's reflector ability. Prior to now, you have only been able to evade projectiles while stationary by placing your staff to the ground; now you will be able to deflect almost any incoming long-ranged attack back toward its source while moving. This is a very powerful magic, and will serve you well in the wars you face against Andross' armies."

Krystal was hardly surprised that the Krazoa knew about the resurgence of Andross' forces. They were very wise and powerful magical entities, with knowledge beyond her understanding. The knowledge shared by the Krazoa regarding the planet and her staff lit a fire of curiosity in Krystal, and her heart ached to learn more. But she had a mission to complete, and knew that she must return to her friends, the Star Fox Team.

"Thank you," the vixen bowed her head and meditated on her thoughts of the Krazoa. "I will use this new power well in the defense of myself and my allies. For now, my journey here is at an end. The Star Fox team needs me; it is about time I return to The Great Fox and return home."

With a last look around the earthy cavern, Krystal retreated toward the teleportation pad that would take her back to Cape Claw's waters. After such a long, exhausting mission, she had never felt so ready to return to the wars and dangers threatening Corneria and to return home to her friends, especially Fox McCloud.