The Inner World

Hunter Steele has always believed in the stories about the Inner World. He follows his grandfather's journal into a temple where he finds portal leafing into a strange new world.

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Hunter follows the instructions left in his Grandfather's journal in search of a doorway. Searching around a ruin for the place called the Inner World, With the help of his grandfather's journal book. When he enters the ruins, and finds the door his the journal mentioned, he finds a room with a lower area in the middle. some moments later, a mysterious item happens to fall onto his wrist, and a few moments later, enters the Inner World.

He later finds himselves in a forest, and later encounters an invectid and is saved by a girl named Corona, but Hunter flees and then encounters a huge spider and runs away from that too. When he escapes the forest and runs to an edge of a cliff, he can't escape because the spider that Hunter encountered is blocking the only safe way out. He tells Hunter that he is a bad omen to the Inner world and also is surprised to see what is on Hunter's wrist.

After the spider, whose name Hunter learns is Shadow, tells Hunter that the item on his wrist is called a Manacle, and tells Hunter that only people called Spider Riders are worthy to wear Manacles, the Infectid that Hunter encountered attacks Hunter and Shadow, take down the Invectid, and Hunter begins his adventure in the Inner World.

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Featured Characters

 * Hunter Steele
 * Corona
 * Princess Sparkle of Arachna
 * Lily
 * Battle Spider Shadow
 * Mantid
 * Buguese
 * Beerain
 * Stags
 * Grasshop
 * Smashopper
 * Spirit Oracle

Quotes

 * "SPIDER! Ug, oh boy... Ah! Spider!!"- Hunter and Shadow meet for the first time... and a powerful team of warriors is formed.

"Did you just call me gramps?"
 * "I did it gramps! I found the door, I found the Inner World!"
 * —Hunter is exited upon discovering that he found the Inner World, while Shadow is wondering if his should be insulted or confused.


 * "Hey there webster! Chill out!"- Hunter just can't get Shadow's name straight.


 * "Yeah, this has got to be a dream."- Hunter's conclusion upon officially meeting his first Invectid.

"...What's so funny?"
 * "This place is everything gramps said it would be, Aranchna power!"
 * —Hunter and Corona both laugh at the strangeness of their situation, but Shadow doesn't get the joke.

Trivia

 * In the book series, Hunter Steele goes through several stages before he reaches the Inner World.
 * Venus has dialogue in this episode, but is not seen.
 * Grasshop, Beerian and Stags all appear in this episode but only Buguese has any spoken lines.
 * This episode first aired in the U.S. on June 17, 2006, as part of a one-hour series premiere.