The Childlike Empress tells Bastian something is keeping her prisoner , and stories have disappeared .
After falling into a secret passage , Bastian is contacted by the Childlike Empress , who tells him of a new threat to Fantasia which is keeping her prisoner in her own castle as well as causing the stories of the ordinary world to disappear and that he must identify and defeat it .
The NeverEnding Story II-COLON- The Next Chapter