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Conor Jameson lives in Northern California and up until the passing of his uncle, he enjoyed the life of a normal ten year-old boy. Life takes an amazing turn the evening after his uncle's service, however, when Conor's powerful sense of grief and loss forces a penetration into the realm of the crossworlds, an immense collection of mystical worlds connected by organic "corridors" or portals. These doorways allow creators, champions, seekers, and at the other end of the spectrum, destroyers, shadow warriors, slayers and keepers to travel between worlds as easily as Conor walks between the rooms of his home.
The creators, moved by Conor's suffering, send one of their champions to attend to him. The magical beast, Purugama, a gigantic winged cougar, takes Conor's measure and then carries the boy on a journey he never forgets. Using the corridors, Conor's new mentor gives him the knowledge of life by placing the boy into a handful of dangerous scenarios on different worlds. He learns a great deal, but as he prepares to return home, a horrible destroyer appears and confronts Purugama. The great cougar clashes with Drazian while Conor huddles in the safety of a thick stand of trees. The boy can run or help his new friend, and he is forced into a decision that might mean surrendering his life. The battle and the journey eventually end and Conor finds himself back home in his bed, reliving his amazing adventure.
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Conor's story continues two years after he returns home from his adventures with Purugama. One morning, a powerful creator materializes in his room, summoning him back to the crossworlds for another journey. By failing to properly prepare Conor for corridor travel, Purugama set in motion a series of events which now endanger the entire system. Conor agrees to accompany the Lady of the Light to the Glade of Champions, where he meets a group of giant wild cats, champions of the crossworlds in service to the creators.
Conor must accompany Maya, the Lord of the Champions, on a journey to repair the damaged corridors. At each stop on their journey, he must use the physical and magical powers of one of the champions to face and defeat a destroyer in the service of the Circle of Evil. While Maya attends to the corridors, Conor encounters a mutant dragon, and formless entity in a dead ocean, and the master of darkness in his own castle. Each battle becomes more deadly than the last as Conor and Maya's journey continues. The final battle is a shocking surprise to everyone concerned when one of the champions betrays Conor and tries to destroy him in the forest of forever. |
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After conquering every challenge put before him during his journey with Maya, Conor returns home for a second time. Now a freshman in high school, he meets and falls for an attractive girl two years his senior. They both play varsity soccer, enjoy mathematics, and spend as much time together as they can. In the middle of their first year of high school together, Janine convinces Conor to share the secrets of his astounding physical abilities. At first reluctant to do so, he finally succumbs and tells her about his incredible adventures with the champions of the crossworlds.
After being warned never to reveal any aspect of his association with the creators and their worlds, Conor makes a tragic mistake by taking Janine into his confidence. As soon as he breathes the last words of his description to her, their world erupts violently all around them. Everything they know and love is destroyed, and standing in the center of the turmoil is a strange entity. Unharmed by the raging storm, the peculiar visitor laughs out loud at the two teenagers as they cower in fear. After taunting Conor and Janine, the entity completes the destruction wrought by the storm, imprisoning the entire community and casting both of them down into a bottomless chasm. The only way to right the wrong and save the crosswords is to locate and retrieve the five keys of the creators, secretly placed on certain worlds by the Council of Seven just before they fled their sacred realm. Conor and Janine embark on a bizarre series of journeys, searching for the keys which only Janine can hold. Eventually they locate and secure all five, but others seek them as well, those who will stop at nothing to take them from the two teenagers by any means available.
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A powerful seeker in the service of the creators frees Conor after a lengthy search. He escorts him to the realm of the creators, where the young champion, now sixteen years old, undergoes an extensive rejuvenation under the watchful eye of Gribba, an ezuvex healer from a distant planet. Once rehabilitated, Conor begins an awesome journey through space and time to collect the champions of the crossworlds from their original locations. After many dangerous adventures, the Group of Seven is reunited and stands ready to defend the crossworlds against the immense and powerful armies of Seefra, the master of darkness.
The group of champions, including Conor perched atop Purugama's shoulders once again, travel through a specially designed corridor accompanied by the Lady of the Light. Once they cross the barrier into the shadow world, they are at the mercy of whatever comes their way. They engage a gigantic army of slayers and keepers and an elite division of shadow warriors, all the while fending off the surprise attacks of an invisible force of destroyers, powerful servants of the Circle of Evil.
The journey ends when Seefra is dragged down into the mists at the bottom of the chamber of cells to face a creature so hideous even he fears encountering it. Four of the champions descend into the mists with the master of darkness, only three emerge after the battle is over. The champions and the Lady of the Light return to the realm of the creators mourning their loss but rejoicing in their overwhelming victory over the Circle of Evil.
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Conor and Janine return home after their extensive and tiring journey. After such a lengthy absence, they try their best to resume a normal life. They enroll in a college close to their home in northern California, Conor studying toward a career as a college professor and Janine deeply engaged in chemistry. All seems well for the first year and a half of their academic lives, until one day Conor receives a very strange e-mail from someone he hasn't seen in quite some time.
"Mr. Jameson, very important we meet at once. Very important indeed. Yours, Mr. Hikkins."
This short message launches Conor and Janine off on another amazing journey, this time to try and thwart the Circle of Evil's ruling body from erasing the crossworlds from existence. Their plan is to annihilate every planet in the crossworlds system, thereby ensuring the destruction of Conor, the champions, and the creators as well. Mr. Hikkins, Conor's former mathematics teacher at Mountmoor High School, deciphers the equation used by the Circle of Evil for their plans. He reconstructs the path of each planet destroyed so far, realizing to his horror that the earth lies directly in the projected line and will vanish within the next few weeks.
The creators and their servants try everything to reverse the insurmountable spell placed on the corridors by the Circle of Evil. Nothing in their arsenal will work, however, leading Conor to suggest a course that shocks them into silence. With no other avenues to pursue, the creators reluctantly approve of Conor's plans. While Janine remains behind to help the creators battle the predatory corridor heading straight for earth, Conor and Purugama embark on a journey to find and protect the Author of All Worlds. At the same time, the Circle of Evil sends its last and most ruthless destroyer on an identical mission, except with orders to annihilate instead of protect. The two sides will ultimately clash inside the corridors, on earth, and finally in the realm of the creators. |
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