"Deceiver! Betrayer! Accursed one! Leave this sacred place at once!"

"Uh...any plan for this?" Ted asked as the building began to shake.

He looked around, but the rock outside seemed to still be standing still. He could see Trizel off in the distance, still climbing along the rope. Seemingly unaware of the trembling building behind him.

A particularly strong lurch of the building sent Ted flying onto the ground. He looked up, and a rush of air flew from outside to deeper in.

"I don't think that was aimed at us." Narissa mused as the shaking started to die down.

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"If it was, it took them long enough to sort us out. I mean, you've been here a while now, right?" Lulu said as she reached a hand down to help Ted up. It seemed that the shaking wasn't enough to knock her down.

"Correct. However, Nugget has wandered off somewhere." Sid explained.

"What? How could a chicken cause this much trouble?" Og'drimun asked.

"I wouldn't be surprised," Ted said as Lulu helped him up. "She's surprisingly perceptive about things. Especially when it comes to causing people trouble."

"I didn't really get that from her," Lulu said.

"She is...difficult to deal with." Sid declared. "An aggressive puzzle that refuses to be solved."

"Sounds like you have personal experience with that," Lulu added.

Sid sighed. "She is unreasonable. I tried to facilitate communication logically with her, and she attacked me. She is a very illogical being."

"I'm sure you didn't instigate anything," Narissa said with a small smirk.

There was a loud groaning from deeper inside the building. Like two slabs of stone pushing against each other. As the sound reached them, the eleven-sided pentagon started to glow a bright teal. There was a bright flash from it, and then a small ring of light pulsed from inside the polygon. It started as a small ball in the center, and then reached out to the end of the polygon, before it dissipated and a new tiny ball appeared in the center and repeated the process.