Act 4

"Don't even go there about my sense of direction, Mia," Ivan warned. They had been walking for three hours, and now had absolutely no idea where they were going. So they had reverted to Plan B---wandering around cluelessly. Hey, it was the best plan they had. Mia rolled her eyes. "Whaaaatever." She looked back to see two specks in the distance, the two specks being Isaac and Garet.

"They are the slowest people on Weyard!" she said.

For once, Ivan agreed with her. "You're telling me?" he said. "I had to go through the whole Kolima Forest with those two snails!" Ivan shuddered. Bad memories.

"Really?"

"Yes."

"I'm glad I wasn't there."

"You should be."

They looked up from this conversation to catch sight of the Dekhan Plateau in the distance. Wow, sometimes wandering cluelessly actually works! Sometimes. Most of the time it just gets you even more lost. But that's not the point. Anyway, Mia and Ivan finally arrived at the entrance to the Dekhan Plateau. They looked back at the two specks in the disance again. "Do you think we should wait for them, or go in this week?" Ivan asked.

"Let's go," Mia answered.They entered the plateau, only to have Mia step on cracked earth and fall. "Ahhh!" she yelled. Then there was a thud. Where Mia had fallen, there was a big hole.

"Mia?" Ivan called. "Mia?" He started to panick. Not because he was worried about Mia, but because she had the map. And we all know about Ivan's non-existent navigation skills. "Where'd she go?" Mia emerged from a staircase. Who's the person who puts these staircases and puzzles everywhere, anyway?

"I'm not Garet, you know," Mia said, half annoyed, half amused.

"Good point," Ivan said. "Anyway, let's get moving." They moved on to the next area, a place with lots of stone pillars. However, they didn't notice that some of the pillars were cracked. Pretty much everything in the Dekhan Plateau is cracked, but anyways...Ivan jumped onto a cracked pillar, only to have it collapse under him. "Ugh."

"That's gotta hurt," Mia said.

"You bet it does. Why don't you try it?" Ivan replied.

"No thanks, I don't think so."

"Oh, but it's so much fun! Not." With that, Ivan pushed Mia onto a cracked pillar. Not a wise thing to do. It made Mia very angry. And we know what happens when Mia gets angry.

A few minutes and several whacks from Mia's ankh later, they had passed the "Area of the Cracked Pillars" and moved on. They spotted a Djinn on a ledge above them. "Look, isn't that a Mars Djinni?" Mia said.

"Well, seeing as it isn't a Mercury, Venus, or Jupiter Djinni," Ivan said sarcastically, "I'll say, yes, it's a Mars Djinni." Mia rolled her eyes. They climbed a ladder (who puts all this stuff here?) and tried to approach the Djinn, only to have it run away. They repeated this process until, finally, they fell into a hole and ended up in a cave full of cracked earth, and the Djinn not too far away. Mia tried to catch it, only to have it Pound her to the floor below.
"Well, that obviously isn't the way to do it," said Ivan, when Mia came up again. "Maybe we should try sneaking up on it.

"It's carrying something special," Mia said.

"No...really?" said Ivan.

Mia whacked him with the ankh for his sarcasm. Eventually, they managed to sneak up behind the Djinn and defeat it, also earning the item it was carrying--the Pound Cube.

"They really have to come up with better names for these things," Ivan said.

"For once, I agree with you," Mia replied.

"Let's go, shall we?"

"Yeah."

They waited at the end of Dekhan Plateau for Isaac and Garet.

Two weeks later...they still hadn't arrived.

"How slow can they GET!" yelled Ivan and Mia.