“I want to show you the giant kodomo dragons we ride like horses. They’re on the other side of the barn.”
I think I want to introduce them to other monsters!
Lockie gasps even louder. “Okay, wait, do you guys want magical ones? We can make a stop.” Her eyes are pleading and she goes to the monster version of YouTube to show a horror movie trailer.
Thorn: “Oh? Dragons?”
Sage: “Ooh, I’d like to see!”
Aiden and Dan nod, too.
I’d like to see the monsters
Robin: “Sure! What kind of magic is in the phones?”
He glances curiously at the screen.
“Not those kinds of dragons. These are land animals and they dig deep holes… There’s also giant scarabs, so I hope your not afraid of bugs. Follow me.”
“Bye, Dan. Bye, Aiden.” Deni waves with a smirk.
Coolio! So they opened books they shouldn’t have and read from them, right?
“They’re enchanted by powerful witches. They don’t need a charge if you keep a moon crystal nearby at least once a week and they can get past most websites with their stupid cookies and blocks and trackers. I’ve even been on the darkest web with this thing.” A trailer for an underwater horror starts playing.
Everyone follows.
Dan and Aiden: o.o
Yes
Robin: “What’s a moon crystal? Also, cookies?”
He looks at the trailer with interest.
Hehe xD
Okay a long short walk later and they should reach the other side! It’s super dark in this part, more like a dungeon just full of dirt and rocks. It looks rather empty other than about ten GIANT komodo dragons chilling on top of some of the rocks like they’re sunbathing in darkness while sleeping.
“Try not to be too loud,” Gio whispers.“If we startle them then they could stampede.”
Magic lights swirl around them and… Poof! They should be transported to a dark hall full of cells… The book they read from probably landed on the ground, just sitting there ominously open.
Lockie explains each thing and her ears twitch at the slight sound of magic before looking around. “Wait… How many of you were there again?”
Everyone stays quiet while looking at the komodos.
Melody and Isaac look around in confusion.
“What just happened?” Melody asks.
Isaac looks at the book.
“Oh…” he trails off.
“In total there was seven, but only me, Melody, and Isaac came with you…”
He notices that Melody and Isaac aren’t there anymore.
“Wait what-”
Smart people!
Some are clicking their sleepy tongues and some are flicking their tails. Some are completely still and some are scratching at the rocks with their long masks like how dogs sometimes run in their sleep…
And then! Pop goes the weasel… Well, scarab. The oversized antennae of a freaking huge scarab beetle pops out from right under… (Pick a character xD).
It looks like they’re in the dank halls of a prison dungeon. It’s mostly quiet with the occasional nearly growl and loud wet sniff…
“…Great… Come on.” She huffs and reaches for his arm to try and pull him in a certain direction.
Hmm…Aiden
Aiden almost jumps when the beetle pops up, but he manages to stay quiet.
Everyone else blinks.
They both look around nervously.
He willingly follows-
The beetle pops out all the way and it’s the size of a horse!
One of the wiry hairy arms with about three inch claws swipes through a few of the bars!
Lockie brings him around and starts looking for anything suspicious. “Keep your eyes open for any open books.”
All four of them continue to stay quiet, but they look at the beetle.
Isaac jumps back, and Melody squeaks.
Robin does exactly that.
The beetle turns to them like a giant panting dog waiting for pats.
“Aww, whose a pretty girl?!” Gio pet her.
Good reflexes!
“Is someone there?” a voice shook.“Please help me,” it whispered again.
Lockie sees a few open books on a table. “Let me check these maybe.” She started to read and shook her head after. “Not these.” She stays to walk again and almost walks past the aisle with an open book chilling on the floor.
“Oh, the beetle likes pets?” Thorn asks.
Aiden continues looking at the beetle, some sort of emotion flicking in his eyes
Isaac glances at the cell.
Melody gulps.
“Hey, Lockie? There’s an open book here,” Robin calls.
Also, sorry if any of my replies have anything confusing for the next few days.
“Yeah. They’re gentle giants. Just stay out of the stink zone,” he chuckled and rubbed one between its beady little eyes. Its pincers moved happily. “Yo, dude, you good?” Gio looks at Aiden.
“Please help.” It sounds like a woman in distress…
“An open book?” She looks and picks it up, being careful to not read it out loud or lose the page… “Well… They’re dead.” She turns the cover to face him. It’s a stereotypical horror cover. “They transported themselves into a prison for magical monsters.”
And you’re good!
Aiden: “What? Oh, yeah…the beetle just reminded me of someone who has a beetle.”
Isaac: “Are you ok?”
Melody: “Wait…why are you in here? What is this place?”
Robin: “What…wait, is there some way to get them out?”
“Oh? Do you have a bug-loving friend?” Gio teases.
“I don’t know,” she whispers. “But there’s a ton of scary monsters. Please let me out.” A thin hand slips through the bars. It looks feeble and human enough…
“Yeah… But they may not like it… We need to read the book and change the choices. Let’s get to defacing.” She pulls a pen out of nowhere and picks up the book to set in her lap on the floor. “Sit.”
Aiden: “Yes. The captain of the pirates.”
Isaac: “O-oh…I’d like to help, but I don’t have a key, we got teleported here…”
Melody: 
Robin does so, glancing at the book.
“I’m sorry, did you say pirates?” He scrunches up his nose in disbelief. “Those aren’t real.”
…Says the literal monster lol.
Lol Melody would be me!
“…Then maybe you could look at the lock? There has to be a way to let me out…”
Okay! We get to write what happens to the above characters lol. Let’s write a book 
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“Okay… So, your friends are totally screwed… How smart would you say they are? Would they fall for the bad guys and their tricks?” Lockie blinks.
Oop-
Aiden blinks.
“They are in Neocrithas. My parents are both pirates, too, and my sister,” he explains.
Melody is increasingly nervous-
Isaac glances towards the lock, but still doesn’t get too close in range of the cell I hope this sentence isn’t confusing-
Robin thinks.
“Melody could probably see through the tricks, or at least be wary. I’m…not sure about Isaac.”
Lol
“…Pirates? With a parrot on the shoulder and an eye patch? They steal from the other sailors and stuff?”
Not confusing at all! 
The lock looks like it could easily be broken from the outside with enough force…
“Do you see a key or anything?” the voice asks.
There’s a shiny glint in the nearby corner that looks suspiciously like a key.
“Hmm… You think he’s the helping nature type?” Lockie asks as she writes that Melody will probably be wary.
Aiden: “I mean, the captain has an eye patch and the first mate has a parrot…we do love gold and stuff but the pirates didn’t really steal from other sailors. We did trade with one of the kingdoms, even. There was one time when they were being controlled by one of Duisternis’s minions–similar to the situation at the animal sancuary that Sage and Thorn mentioned–and attacked the kingdom, but we fought her and they went back to normal.”
Isaac notices the glint.
“Wait, is that…?”
Melody is torn between letting him grab the key or stopping him
Robin: “Yes. He told us about how he gave the ringmaster of the circus some money, and whenever we came across someone needing help, he would be eager to do so. He likes seeing everyone smile, too.”