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''Amulet'' is a graphic novel series by Kazu Kibuishi published by Scholastic. ==Plot== This story is about a young girl named Emily (Nickname Em) and her younger brother, Navin. They along with their mother, Karen, move to their great-grandfather's house in a town after their father, David, died in a car accident and she cannot afford to pay the rent. The locals believe that the house is haunted, but Karen ignores the rumors. But soon, the family discovers a small door in the basement of the house leading to an alternate version of earth. Here the story takes form. Vol. One: After the death of David Hayes, Karen decides to move her daughter Emily and son Navin to the little town of Norlen so they can start over a new life to forget bad memories. In their new home, Emily along with Navin and Karen begin cleaning the house. While they are cleaning, Emily finds a strange amulet and wears it. That night, Karen goes into the basement and is kidnapped by a monster called an arachnopod. Emily and Navin follow them into another world to save her. Vol. Two: After Karen is poisoned by the arachnopod, Emily and Navin take her to the nearest city to find a cure, but they are being hunted by the Elves. Luckily, they meet a humanoid fox named Leon Redbeard who helps them and teaches Emily some basic lessons of how to wield the amulet's power. Vol. Three: After Karen is cured of the arachnopod's poison, Leon takes Emily and company to search the skies to find Cielis, the legendary city of stonekeepers. To do that, they chartered an airship, and end up with one that is piloted by a crew of two humanoid cats named Enzo and Rico. Along the way, they get an ally in the form of Trellis, the son of the Elf King. Vol. Four: After Emily, her family and her friends find the city of Cielis, they attempt to see the Guardian Council, but they slowly discover that something strange is going on in the city and it concerns the city's most powerful secret. Vol. Five: After Emily and Vigo, the stonekeepers became the last Guardian Council, the city guard begins preparations to fight the Elf Army, but the enemy gets stronger and the Elf King has begun to use the last shard of the Mother Stone to create his own Guardian Council. As both sides prepare to go to war, Trellis and Emily go into the past and find their new enemy Max was controlled by his amulet and faced tough times. Emily then discovers the voice from her own amulet comes from an evil that is more sinister than she could have imagined. Vol. Six: Emily, Navin and their friends continue to battle the Elf King in hopes of defeating him and his forces once and for all, but his loyal servant Max is making it hard for them. The crew journeys to Lucien, a city that has been ravaged by the war. Emily has more enemies there than she realizes and it takes everything she has got to get herself and her friends out of the city alive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amulet (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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