Synopsis
After David Hayes died in a car accident, his widow, Karen, and their children, Emily and Navin, move to a house in the town of Norlen, as Karen can no longer afford to live in the house she owned with David. The house, which has been in her family for years, is large and needs care and attention. As they clean the house, Emily finds a strange amulet in the library where her great-grandfather, Silas Charnon, worked, and puts it on. That night, Karen is kidnapped by a monstrous "arachnopod". Emily and Navin follow in order to save their mother through the basement into another world, Alledia. They are pursued by a mysterious elf but are rescued by a rabbit-like robot called Miskit. Miskit brings them to Silas' house, and they meet his other robots, Cogsley, Morrie, Theodore, Ruby, and Bottle. Emily talks to Silas, who dies soon afterward. Emily is spoken to by the voice of the amulet, which tells her to accept the powers of the amulet in order to save their mother. Emily accepts, despite Navin's disagreement. They then hunt down the arachnopod in a plane with Navin as the pilot, and Emily uses her stone as a defense when Miskit's gun fails. They fail to rescue Karen at first, but the mysterious elf named Trellis reappears and kills the arachnopod, freeing Karen. Trellis attempts to control Emily's mind using a creature named Sybrian and bring her under his control. However, Emily uses the stone to kill Sybrian, and scares Trellis away. Emily brings Karen back to the others, and Cogsley transforms the house into a walking mech, setting a course to find a cure for Karen.
The group journeys into the city of Kanalis, searching for a cure for Karen, whilst servants of the Elf King are searching for them. Miskit informs the group that the people of Kanalis have been slowly turning into animals over the years due to a curse. They meet a humanoid fox named Leon Redbeard who helps them escape from the elves. Leon claims that he has information about stonekeepers, and brings the group to a doctor. The doctor informs Emily that the only thing that can cure Karen is a fruit from the peak of Demon's Head Mountain. The elves, led by Luger (an ally of Trellis,) and Trellis, attack the city, which prompts an evacuation. Emily, Miskit, and Leon travel to Demon Head's Mountain to find the fruit for the cure. Navin parts ways from Emily and Leon, and he meets Balan, a blue-furred bull, who is from the Resistance, a group fighting against the Elf King. It is also revealed that Navin is the commander of the Resistance. They help them repower the robots in the house after they were shut down to prevent the elves from gathering information.
Meanwhile, Emily, Leon, and Miskit make their way up the mountain. Along the way, Leon helps Emily use the amulet better, as well as warning her to not let the stone control her. He also teaches her the history of the Elf King. Emily, Leon, and Miskit arrive at their destination and encounter the Gadoba trees, which are future-telling trees that bear the fruit that can cure Emily's mother. Using her stone's powers, Emily finds a non-poisonous fruit, and commences her journey back to Kanalis. The elves find the Gadobah forest, and burn it down in anger. Emily finds herself at the top of the mountain, where she encounters Luger and the elves. As Luger is about to kill Emily, he is attacked by Trellis, who is unhappy with how Luger treated him. In an effort to fight back, Luger gives up control to his amulet, and he transforms into a giant. Suddenly, Navin and the others arrive at the top of the mountain, and infused with Emily's amulet power, the house-mech defeats Luger. Emily falls unconscious. When she wakes up, she finds her mother back in full health.
Trellis finds Luger in a cave at the foothills of Demon's Head Mountain, and finds that Luger has destroyed the amulet. Luger apologises, and he and Trellis proceed to renounce the Elf King as their commander. Leon suggests that the team should seek out the Council of Stonekeepers, who reside in Cielis, a city that is said to have disappeared off the map. Despite, Leon believes that the city still exists, and that it is hidden in the clouds. The group travels to a city with many airship docks, and they search for a pilot to escort them to Cielis. They find a pair of cats, named Enzo and Rico, who own an airship named the Luna Moth. Before they depart, they run into Luger and Trellis, who are running away from the elf army and the bounty hunter elf, Gabilan, a mercenary who steals the memories of people. The group allows them to come along, and they escape the city. During their trip, wyverns attack the ship, damaging it and taking Cogsley and Miskit. The group stops for repairs, and after some more traveling, they find a flying temple. Trellis and Emily solve a puzzle inside of the temple, as it will unlock the path to Cielis. However, Gabilan attacks, reveals that Luger and Trellis are siblings, and battles them. Emily is able to overpower him, but she shows him mercy and doesn't kill him. After the battle, a young man named Max arrives and claims that he will be her guide and escort to Cielis. Trellis and Luger are taken prisoner, much to the discomfort of Emily.
Book 4: The Last Council
Emily has a dream where she speaks with the voice of the stone. The voice says that due to magic working in the walls, it will not be able to speak with Emily while she is in Cielis, and it also warns her not to pass through a certain hallway there. The party arrives at Cielis, but they are split up. Emily, Navin, and Karen are brought to an apartment, while Enzo, Rico, and Leon are left on the streets of the city and are suspected to be followers of the Elf King. Meanwhile, Cogsley and Miskit are saved from a Wyvern's nest by a man named Vigo, an old stonekeeper who left the Council after they forced Silas out. Emily is suspicious of the place, and Leon is surprised at how quiet the streets are. Rico, Enzo, and Leon learn that many of the people in Cielis are "ghosts". Leon breaks Luger and Trellis out of prison, and defeats the guards, who turn to stone upon death. The next day, Emily is woken up and taken to a Garden, where she meets other young stonekeepers. Emily discovers that she is competing for a place on the council, and she protests to Max, saying that she only wanted to speak with them. The council arrives, and tells the stonekeepers that they will enter the Void and face challenges. The stonekeepers are transported to caves, and Emily runs away from monsters called grouls. After escaping, only Emily, Max, and two other stonekeepers remain. They find a room with a children's playground game. The four beat the challenge, and they walk through a hallway- the same one that the voice warned her not to go through. They enter the room and find the Mother Stone, the material that all amulets are made from. The other stonekeepers are revealed to be reanimated and turn to stone, except for Emily and Max. Max is revealed to be working with the Elf King, and retreats with the elves in possession of the stone.
Book 5: Prince of the Elves
A flashback shows Max as a promising advocate for the Guardian Council along with a young Vigo, but his father refuses to allow Max to continue learning as he wants Max to follow in his footsteps, not his grandfather's. Max's friend, Layra, an elf, comes to him when her parents are imprisoned for suspicions that they are on the side of the elf king, despite their contributions. When Max's father expresses disinterest in helping them because of his distrust for elves, Max breaks into Yarboro Prison and breaks them out. He shows them to an airship that will take them to safety. Shortly after taking off, they are shot down and killed by an armed airship. In anger, Max uses his stone to destroy the attacking airship. He is then sentenced to 50 years in the Ice Prison of Korthan, which he escapes from, but dies of the cold. After being resurrected by the Voice, Max has been aiding the elves to destroy the people of Cielis for revenge. In the present, Max and the Elf King visit the Ice Prison. Max frees a giant named Chronos, and empowers him with the remaining piece of the mother stone. Meanwhile, after Emily, Trellis and Vigo assemble as the remaining members of the Council of Stonekeepers, while Navin prepares the resistance for war, as they have found out that the elves were planning an attack on Frontera. Navin and a young woman named Alyson assemble an air fleet, complete with jets and mechs. Max and the Elves attack, destroying many ships. Unbeknownst to everyone except a worried Luger, Trellis is secretly attempting to travel to the past through the void to stop the terrible things that the elves did, which were influenced by the elf king, when he was actually just going into his memories. Emily joins him, telling him they're all in danger. Trellis wakes up to find the airship destroyed and all of them falling, but manages to land everyone safely. He reenters the void to wake up a still-sleeping Emily, and finds they're in the moment Max succumbed to the Voice. They wake up, and so does Max a few miles away. The Voice approaches Max, heals him, and claims that there is work to be done.
Book 6: Escape from Lucien
Max promises the Elf King that he will kill the other stone keepers once and for all, even though he actually wants to assemble them to kill The Voice inside the void. The elves launch another attack on the resistance fleet, prompting Navin, Alyson, and other young fighters to escape to the ruined city of Lucien. While in Lucien, they are pursued by shadows, which are the same species as Sybrian from the first novel. The shadows claim one of the group as victims, but the others are saved by an elf named Riva, who shows them that the inhabitants of Lucien have moved underground. Navin also finds that other members of the resistance, such as Balan are residing in the underground portion of Lucien. When shadows attack, Riva attempts to evacuate everyone via the underground trains. Navin, Alyson, and Riva's advisor, the robot General Pil, orders them to kill as many shadows as they can, but this is unsuccessful. They're forced to escape to a portal where they borrow mech suits from Pil's parents. They travel to Frontera, the Resistance's base, to attempt to launch an attack on the Elf King's kingdom, Valcor. Meanwhile, the four stone keepers arrive at a memory of Valcor, where the Voice lives. During the confrontation, Chronos is killed, and Max decides he cannot continue on his current path any longer, after being reminded about everything he has done and seeing he was simply a corpse being kept alive by the Voice. The Voice accepts this and takes Max's life away. Before dying, he tells them to visit Algos Island for Trellis. The remaining three stonekeepers arrive in the real world, on an elven ship that is crashing. Trellis proves himself to the elves by using his amulet to create a large bubble shield. Emily, Vigo, Trellis and the others begin a search for Algos Island.
Book 7: Firelight
Emily has a dream where she is younger, and is on a camping trip with her father. Vigo, Trellis, and Emily take the Luna Moth to search for Algos Island. They encounter a supplies station, and decided to stop. After exploring around, they find projections of memories from former people from the station. Emily finds out that the reason Algos Island was not on a map was because the supply station was called Algos Island. Meanwhile, Alyson, Navin, and General Pil arrive at their destination. They sell their mechs for a bad price, so they ask if they can work at a restaurant on air that making a destination at Frontera. Before the restaurant reaches frontera, 2 Elf pilots find them and bring them to Frontera. When Vigo, Trellis, and Emily return to the Luna Moth, they find out that Gabilan was hiding on board, but only because he wanted to help them. He takes Trellis and Emily with him in his submarine. Emily decides to rest, and she has the same dream about the camping trip. She converses with her father, and they discuss how they never were able to go on that trip due to his death. Gabilan, Trellis, and Emily arrive at their destination, and Gabilan shows that he has been storing all the memories he stole in an underwater citadel. Trellis finds the memory he wants to view, and he and Emily enter it. They see memories of Trellis's childhood, and of his father, the Elf King. Trellis tells Emily about when he saw his father remove his mask, revealing that he was just a corpse being used a puppet. As they are about to exit the memory through a portal, Emily sees her father in another one, and decides to follow him. Trellis reluctantly follows Emily. They find themselves following along a suicidal man, who stops his car in the middle of the road. Emily then notices that they are in her hometown, and that the approaching car is her family's. The car crashes, and Emily rushes over to save her father from dying again. Trellis tries to stop her from interfering, so Emily sends a burst of fire from the Amulet to stop Trellis. Emily notices that she is losing control of the stone, and Emily's father reveals himself to be The Voice, who disguised itself to trick Emily. Emily asks Trellis to find her family, before she becomes a firebird. In the real world, Strikerfish possessed by shadows flood Gabilan's citadel. Trellis escapes the citadel with a bubble shield, while Gabilan parts ways with Trellis. Navin, Alyson, and General Pil arrive at Frontera and reunite with Karen, Leon, and the others. The resistance prepare to board a spaceship to a resistance base on another planet, while The voice is in control of Emily.
Book 8: Supernova
Emily is ordered by the voice to wreak chaos on a city. Vigo and Trellis witness Emily, still in firebird form, struggling to kill a man and his son after the man is trapped and tells his son to run, mirroring the death of Emily's father which sent her to Alledia; in fact, Emily actually rescues the man and lets them escape. This gives Trellis and Vigo hope that Emily is still somewhat in control. Meanwhile, in the void, Emily is seen trying to escape The Voice's control. She meets an older version of herself, figures out that the Voice's name is Ikol, and that Ikol wants to get rid of Alledians and all other species so more of Ikol's kind can make Alledia their new home. Navin and Alyson run missions on a new planet, and learn more about the resistance's reach across planets, and prepares to battle an army of shadows. Emily breaks free of Ikol completely, takes full control of the stone, and unlocks powers that she had not learned before. She uses the stone's magic to fly to Valcor, and she unmasks the Elf King, showing that the Elf King is a mere vessel for Ikol to control, unlike Max, who was only working for Ikol. Emily promises that she will defeat Ikol.
Book 9: Waverider
Emily arrives on Lighthouse one to see it overtaken by the Shadows. She free's someone from the curse of the shadow but they claim that they didn't want freedom while Emily protests she just wants to find the control center to reach Typhon. After reaching the control center, she meets Deagle Swift, who with the help of Emilys stone, power a ship down to the planet Typhon. During the flight, she has visions of Ikol attempting to sway her with fake visions of her father. Meanwhile, Trellis, Riva, Vigo, and others break into the Elves King throne room to find Gabilan as the new designated Elf King. Trellis then decides to give up his power to the throne and focuses solely on how to better the world of Alledia. Once Emily reaches Typhon, she uses her powers to free two stonekeepers from their curse, and they in turn, are indebted to her. As they fly off together to get some rest, Vifo leads Trellis, Riva, and one other to a hidden rock quarry where they find Vigo’s old colleague, Ronin. It is revealed that Ronin has already begun reassembling a new Guardian Council, made up of kids named West, Lia, Janis, and Bren. Ronin reveals that she tested her theory that stonekeepers losing control did not spell the end for them, but instead is a phase all stonekeepers should go through to grow. Emily continues to have visions of Ikol, where it's revealed that Ikol serves robot masters who live in a parallel timeline that is only accessible through the power of the stone. Once Emily encounters them, she realizes they are all, including Ikol, from Earth, and created by Silas. Once she wakes up, she is confronted by her future self who gifts her a machine that will lead her to Navin. Meanwhile, Trellis and his crew arrive on Cielis and realize that Cielis has also been overtaken by the Shadows. They soon decide the best cause of action would be to use their collective power to lower Cielis back to its original resting place on the ground. The young kids use their powers, learned through Ronin, to direct Cielis down, which causes the Shadows to flee. Meanwhile, Navin and Alyson climb a snowy mountain and plant a Gadoba tree next to a few others. They then ski down the mountain, and reconnect with the Resistance, who have just issued that they should begin a suicide mission to try and eliminate the Shadows at their source, which Navin and company suspect to be fake. It is then revealed that General Ivus, who made the call, is being controlled by Shadows. He then sends Shadows to overtake Navins ship, and they begin to control the minds of everyone on board, including Navin, Karen, and Leon. Just as they are overtaken by shadows, Emily arrives to free them of their bondages, as they reunite. But their joy is short lived as Ikol begins to form and Emily decides to confront hin directly. She is then thrust into another vision where she denounces Ikol once and for all. After waking up from her vision, it is revealed her actions caused all the Shadows to disappear, and the curse on Leon and other respective citizens of Kanalis to be lifted. She then, with the help of her stonekeeper friends, transport everyone off Typhon and back to Alledia with a Hyperjump. Back on Alledia, each of the four children shift into their giant form to guide Cielis into its resting spot, but Ikol grabs ahold of West's mind, and causes him to loose control. In an act of self sacrifice, Vigo announces to Ikol to take him instead, and Ikol agrees, fleeing the mind of West and consuming Vigo, causing both him and Vigo to disappear. Trellis then decides it would be best to lead Cielis to its proper location through more old fashioned methods instead of relying on stonekeepers giant forms. He is then declared the King of Valcor, and the Elder Stonekeeper of the Guardian Council. The stonekeepers then, together, lead Cielis to its proper resting place as Emily returns to Alledia with everyone from Typhon. They all reunite in Alledia, and after some time to enjoy the peace they found, Emily, Navin and Karen decide its best to return to Earth. They wander back through the paths they took to begin this journey, and end up back at Silas's house on Earth. They attempt to start their car, but with no luck, so they decide walk to town instead.
