When Tao & Esteban discover a hidden capability that enables the Golden Condor to travel through time, they travel through the air & through time to present day New York City.
January 1st,2013. Several thousand feet in the air,a gold shiny object is moving through the sun-lit clouds. As it approaches, it slowly becomes the shape of a gold bird-shaped aircraft, seemingly with no visible means of propulsion,its large wings stationary.
Behind the bird's head is a large glass canopy covering a cockpit large enough for several occupants,but with only seven occupants inside consisting of three children,three adults behind them,plus a large green parrot.
Seated in front,the children from left to right,all twelve years of age, consisted of a brown skinned boy with a shower cap-like mass of black hair with the green parrot perched on his left shoulder. He wore yellow dress-like clothes,
the clothing extending to just below his knees & accented by a wide horizontal orange stripe that went all around his dress. Seated next to him in the middle holding a golden vertical control stick shaped like a snake that protruded from a golden horizontal cylinder shaped console was a Spanish Caucasian skinned boy with a brown hairstyle,
the shape of which behind his head & neck made the hair appear in the shape of a bell while a few locks of hair extended halfway down over his forehead. He wore a white shirt with sleeves of about shoulder length.
Hanging from a length of leather cord around his neck was a gold circular medallion,
& two leather belts worn around the waist of his shirt,one belt positioned at an angle towards a vertical sheath encasing a dagger.
He wore dark blue colored pants,its legs extending halfway to between his kness & ankles.
Sitting to the right of him was a young Incan girl with black hair with three locks of it extending halfway down the middle of her forehead. Two longer lengths of hair on either side extended to halfway down her upper chest,
while the rest of her hair extended to halfway down her back.
The girl wore a gold headband wich was flanked on either side by a pair of blue upward tapering trapezoidal stones attached to the band.
She wore an identical gold medallion which hung down over the the top half of her orange dress ,the dress extending to beneath her kness & upper calves & near the bottom of the dress was a narrow horizontal blue stripe followed by a horizontal wide red stripe & then another identical blue stripe.
Extending from her ankles to halfway up her calves were a pair of white skin tight leggings each topped by a horizontal red band.
Seated behind them were the three adults one of them being the tallest in height.
The tallest of the three adults was a Spanish Caucasian wearing thick black curly hair which extended down the back of his neck to his shoulders.
Two black sideburns on either side of his face extended to mouth height.
He wore a light tan colored shirt partially covered by a light brown sleveless shirt both of which were topped by a large blue cape,the inside of which was red extending to just above his ankles.
He wore a wide black belt around his waist to which was attached a small brown narrow leather pack.
A narrower belt extended at an angle to a sheath holding a 16th century Spanish sword with it's gold hilt visible.
A pair of black leather boots extended to below the man's knees over a pair of light blue colored pants,the tops of the boots folded down exposing some of their brown leather interior.
Next to the man wearing the cape was a second Caucasian man wearing a brown shirt with wrist length sleeves over a a pair of pants that was a slightly darker brown color. He had a long blue piece of cloth around his neck which was tied at the front of his shirt collar,its loose ends hanging over the top half of his upper chest.
He had pepper brown hair in which the sideburns extended to his neck below his chin. Halfway down his face,the sideburns also extended outward to either outer edge of his nose.
A third Caucasian adult set next to him & was shorter than the other two adults,his hair was reddish brown & he wore a red cap. A large piece of yellow cloth surrounded his neck & extended slightly over his shoulders & halfway down the topmost part of his back & halfway down his upper chest.
Underneath the yellow piece of cloth,he wore a gray shirt with sleeves extending to the middle of his forearms,the shirt partially covering a slightly darker gray pair of pants.
This chapter describes the characters from The Mysterious Cities of Gold in the above order as follows:
Tao & his pet parrot Kokapetl known in French as Pichu,Esteban,Zia,Mendoza,Pedro & last,Sancho.