"So I said./ And then I./ I just wish they./ I'm just so stressed./ I need." the hustle and bustle of the villagers speeding past each other while spreading the day's gossip filled the air.

Miguel, Tulio and Chel looked around, searching for a victim or as Tulio called them a 'sucker.'

Suddenly they spotted a quite-old fat man covered in posh-looking clothes who was standing still looking around, most-likely lost or confused.

The three thieves looked between themselves and they all grinned.

"Who would like to do the honours?" Tulio asked.

"I think I can do it," Chel smiled.

Tulio bowed and pointed his hand forwards in the direction of the sucker.

Chel smiled and walked forwards, gaining speed on her pace each second, until she eventually was nearly in a running pace and she bumped into the old fat man.

Chel pretended to fall and she quickly spun around reaching her hand into the man's pocket and she pulled out some money, she quickly hid it and landed on the ground on her knees.

"Oh my, I'm so sorry sir, I was in a rush, please forgive me!" Chel faked an apology.

"Oh mam, are you okay?" the man helped Chel to her feet.

Chel flicked some hair behind her ear and smiled, "I'm fine."

"Good," the man smiled, "Oh and don't worry about bumping into me, as long as no one is hurt."

Chel smiled and nodded, "I must go now sir, thank you."

The man nodded and Chel ran off in the opposite direction she was heading in the first place.

The man look confusingly at Chel as she was going the opposite way but she then eventually merged into the crowd and the man couldn't see her anymore.

Chel ran up to the two boys and grinned pulling the money out in her hand.

"Weldone!" Miguel cheered.

"My girl always gets it done!" Tulio hugged Chel happily.

Miguel glanced at the ground quickly and then looked back at the couple, "Em, yeah."

"Shall we continue finding suckers, then?" Tulio asked his two partners.

Chel shrugged then smiled, she turned to Miguel, "Why don't you choose?"

Miguel blinked in surprise, "Em, well I don't know, Tulio decides what we do-"

Tulio cut in, "Yes, well we're asking you to decide this time."

Miguel looked at Tulio in surprise, "Well, I.." Miguel thought to himself, "Well, with the amount of money Chel was able to steal, I think that will do us a while.so."

"So?" Tulio raised any eyebrow.

"So, how about we look for that thing you were wanting to see before you would explain your plan to us?" Miguel suggested.

Tulio looked at Chel.

Chel nodded in agreement.

"Kay, let's do it," Tulio smiled and led the way with Chel walking beside him hugging him.

Miguel walked beside his two friends, dodging rushing villagers in the process.

The thieves walked down a brick road which was, that day, being used for market stalls to be put up, which explained why there were so many people out, although Barcelona was never a quiet place.

Miguel looked at all the stalls, and listened to all the stall-owners cry out what deals they had on their merchandise.

"Oh look!" Chel cried happily.

The two boys looked at Chel, she was pointing at a stall. The stall sold women's clothes. Chel gazed at it with awe.

Tulio and Miguel in unison raised an eyebrow in confusion.

Chel sighed, "I just want to have a look."

Chel crossed her arms angrily.

"Hey, why don't we all separate and go to stalls that we like? Then we can meet up later?" Miguel suggested optimistically.

"I don't think so," Tulio disagreed with Miguel's suggestion.

"Tulio!" Chel pushed him to the side, "I love Miguel's idea! That means, I can look at clothes, Miguel can look at what he likes, you can look at what you like, it's a great idea! We can split the money I got three ways! Tulio!"

Tulio crossed his arms and shook his head furiously, "No!"

Chel gave up sadly.

Miguel looked at the ground sadly.Then suddenly he just remembered, "Oh well.So I guess you have no interest in the fishing items stall that I spotted back there, then?"

Chel raised any eyebrow and looked at Miguel.

Miguel winked.

Chel smiled and giggle quietly covering her mouth so Tulio didn't see her giggle.

Tulio widened his eyes, and looked back at Miguel, uncrossing his arms, ".Fishing, stall.?"

Miguel nodded, "But I guess if you don't want to split up, then we might as well keep walking around." Miguel shrugged, "I guess it might get interesting sometime."

"N-no! Wait!" Tulio spun around quickly, "Why don't we split up then meet up in one hour's time, then we can continue walking?"

Miguel grinned, "Excellent! Bye then!" Miguel waved then walked off.

Chel jumped up happily; "Yes!" she ran up to Tulio kissed him on the cheek then run off in the direction of the clothes stall.

Tulio looked at Chel and Miguel run off, he waited in silence for a moment, then he looked around, "Where was that fishing stall, Miguel saw?"

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Miguel looked at the stalls as he slowly walked down the road, peering over the ever-growing crowd of villagers desperate to get the bargains first.

He hadn't spotted anything he was interested in yet, he had pasted a children's clothes stall, a bread stall, a vegetable stall and a herbal medicine stall, which only the stupid or the superstitious people would buy from, Miguel continued walking down the road hoping to find something he'd be interested in.

He finally came to a stall he was interested in, it was a men's clothes stall, Miguel walked up to the stall sliding in-between villagers to reach the front.

Miguel looked through the clothes there was a black shirt with short sleeves and a high collar, Miguel stuck his tongue out in disgust, he placed it back down and he picked up a second shirt which was blue, like Tulio's, it had a high collar and it had ragged sleeves, Miguel hoped that was the style and that the shirt hadn't endured a fight earlier, he raised an eyebrow and smirked placing it back down on the stall table.

He searched around the stall, moving items of clothing out the way, until he spotted a pair of khaki coloured short-legged trousers, like his.

"Well I do need a new pair," Miguel shrugged, "Em excuse me, stall owner? How much does this cost, please?"

The stall owner was sorting out his money; he looked over at Miguel then at the trousers, "4 pesetas."

Miguel nodded and pulled out the money from his pocket then held it out in his hand towards the stall-owner.

The stall-owner widened his eyes, and then grabbed the money out Miguel's hand, "Thank you! Come again!"

Miguel stepped back in surprise then backed off nodding and smiling slightly freaked out by the stall-keeper.

Miguel folded up his trousers then put it in a bag he was carrying which he swung over his back.

Miguel spotted a little sundial beside a church opposite the stalls, he ran up to it and saw that he had been shopping for about half-an-hour.

"30 minutes left then," Miguel stated, he looked around and then continued walking down the road in search of a stall that had something he would be interested in.

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"It's all so beautiful!" Chel smiled while searching through all the clothes, she was at her fourth clothing stall.

So far, Chel has bought two short tops like her-own except one was blue and the other was black with two white horizontal stripes on it and one skirt which was very wide at the end, it was blue and it had black frills at the end of it.

Chel only had a little bit of money left but she was just so excited, they didn't have such beautiful and such a wide variety of clothes in El Dorado, here in Spain, all the clothes were so beautiful!

Chel was very glad that Miguel had managed to trick Tulio into letting them shop in the marketplace!

Chel thought about Tulio for a second, she imaged his face, she loved him so much, she was so thankful that she had bumped into Altivo that day, if she hadn't then she would of never met Tulio, or Miguel, she would have still lived in El Dorado, and she would probably either be dead for stealing the gold or married to the High Priest, he was a desperate man to get respected, she knew that in El Dorado, a man was respected even more if they were married especially with children, the High Priest could of made her punishment for stealing the gold statue head from the temple, marrying him.Thank god for Tulio and Miguel!

Chel smiled gently then continued searching around for clothes.

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"I don't suppose you have a fly that is like a water spider?" Tulio asked the stall-owner curiously with his hand on his chin.

"Yes I do!" the stall-owner pointed to a fly on a little pin-board-like thing that was leaning up against a small rock.

Tulio smiled and pulled the fly off the pin-board-like thing and inspected it.

The stall-owner was very polite and quite enthusiastic, Tulio had noticed, another Miguel, he thought to himself shaking his head

"You don't like it?" the stall-owner asked disappointed.

"Mmm? Oh! Oh no, sorry, no I was thinking about something else, yes I like it, I'll buy it," Tulio explained

"Great! That'll be 2 pesetas, thank you," the stall-owner replied.

Tulio searched around in his pocket and pulled out two pesetas, he passed them to the stall-owned and dropped them in his hand.

The stall-owner smiled politely and Tulio left the stall smiling at what he bought, he quickly sat down on a little bench. He pulled off a bag and searched through it, to see everything he had bought.

He pulled out a box, he opened it and gazed at the little collection of fishing bait flies, he placed his latest bought one in with the rest, he smiled then shut the box, he placed the box on his lap and continued looking through his bag. He then pulled out a couple of oranges for later and a pair of earrings that he had bought for Chel, they were long and silver, with a little crystal at the bottom, he smiled and thought of his love, Chel.

He knew that he was a very lucky man, and that he should always protect Chel. Tulio smiled and packed his bag back up. He stood up and looked around. There was a little sundial beside the bench, he looked at it.

His time was up; the shopping hour was finished, time to meet up with his partners.

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Chel and Miguel were chatting between each other showing what they had bought to each other, when Tulio ran up to them.

"Hey, sorry lost time," Tulio apologised.

Chel smiled and hugged Tulio.

Miguel smiled, "So, em, what did you buy?"

Tulio smiled, "I bought a couple of oranges for later, some flies and." Tulio paused as he pulled his bag off and reached his hand into it, he pulled out a box and handed it to Chel, "For you."

Chel held the box and looked at curiously then she looked up back to Tulio.

"Open it," Tulio urged.

Chel nodded and opened the box, in the box there were earrings, long silver ones with crystals at the end, Chel blushed and covered her widened mouth in amazement.

"Oh, Tulio.They're beautiful!" Chel hugged Tulio then kissed him gently on the lips.

Miguel lowered his head; he wished he had someone to be close with.