The next day came. Mike opened her eyes slowly and then rubbed her head. "Ugh... What happened?" she then groaned. "And why do I have a headache?"
"We all had rough night, it seems." Ling-Ling said as he slowly opened his eyes while curled up into a ball on Mike's chest.
"Not so loud," Toot groaned. "I've got a headache the size of Texas."
Tulio and Miguel soon began to wake up next.
"Good morning, my lords!" Tzekel-Kan announced as he appeared with Manco and Huaca came by his sides with innocent smiles.
"He's back." Miguel whispered.
"Oh, no." Tulio face-palmed.
"Mind keeping it down?" Foxxy groaned. "I've got a headache."
"Tell your servants to get up." Tzekel-Kan told Miguel and Tulio.
"Uh, no, no, it's okay, they worked hard last night..." Miguel said. "Uh, ten minute break, guys."
"At least the power's not getting to their heads." Mike muttered.
"No, not ten minutes, we mean now!" Manco told them.
"Ugh, shut up, seriously." Foxxy groaned.
Antonio soon came over to the group with a bunch of cups.
"What do you want?" Wooldoor muttered, a bit grumpily.
"I understand you guys are suffering a bit from the punch, but luckily, I made a cure that I learned last year from my grandfather," Antonio told them. "If you drink these, you'll feel instantly better."
"At this rate, we'll take anything." Mike grumbled.
"Just drink these, and it'll be as if nothing happened." Antonio told them.
They all soon took a drink from their glasses, and it seemed to work like a miracle.
"Hey, these are pretty damn good!" Spanky then beamed. "I feel a lot better."
"I told you so." Antonio replied.
"How?" Clara asked.
"My grandfather is a medicine man, I know a lot of ancient and mystical secrets." Antonio reminded.
"That's pretty smart." Clara smiled.
"Gracias." Antonio blushed.
"Ooh, that was a doozy of a headache..." Clara said. "I don't think I've felt that since my cousin's coronation."
"Bleh?" Mike asked.
"Uh, no, my other cousin," Clara replied. "Princess Daphne from the Kingdom of Uncle King Ethelred."
"Hmm... Interesting..." Mike commented.
Everyone then sat up, feeling a lot better, thanks to Antonio.
"What's going on now?" Spanky asked.
"Not sure, but I don't think I like it so far." Miguel mumbled.
Everyone then got up to go outside to see what was going on.
"And now it's my turn! The gods have awakened!" Tzekel-Kan announced to the people.
The crowd then cheered as Tulio fell to the ground. He then stood back up, clearing his throat which had Miguel do the same thing. Chel and Natalia then came over, throwing flower petals on the ground.
"Hey, girls, what's going?" Mike asked the sisters.
"It's not gonna be good." Natalia told her.
"Thank you." Mike deadpanned.
"This city had been granted a great blessing," Tzekel-Kan continued. "And what have we done to show our gratitude? A meager celebration. The god's deserve a proper tribute!"
The natives then brought in a bag.
Miguel and Tulio seemed to like the sight of the bag so far.
"The beginning of a new era, the dawning of a new age, demands sacrifice!" Tzekel-Kan glared, putting his hand over the bag and cast some magic on it which made a frail man appear from it.
Everyone then gasped in shock.
"They are going to kill that man!" Toot cried out.
The man then looked over at the group. "Help... Me..." he then uttered out to them weakly.
"Eh, he lived a long life, maybe this'll be better for him." Spanky said.
"Spanky!" Mike scolded.
"Hey, it's like my grandma," Spanky replied. "If I forget her birthday one year, it's not like she'll even remember that I forgot."
"We've got to do something." Miguel said.
"At least those guys have a conscience." Mike commented.
"What are we gonna do?" Clara wondered.
"Kick his ass, that's what I'm gonna do." Foxxy replied.
"No. Wait." Antonio warned.
Tzekel-Kan smirked as he was nudging the poor man to the edge of the temple, leading into death.
"STOP!" Tulio soon called out as he came out with Miguel. "This is not a proper tribute!"
"You do not want the tribute?" Tzekel-Kan asked him.
"No. No, no," Miguel said, holding the man by his arms. "W-We want tribute. Uh, it's just that, uh, Tulio, tell him."
Tzekel-Kan then looked to the black-haired man.
"The stars are not in position for this tribute!" Tulio soon said.
"What?!" Mike asked, laughing a bit as that was kind of funny.
"Like he says, the stars..." Miguel added. "Can't do it. Not today."
"Ah. Perhaps it is possible I misread, the heavens." Tzekel-Kan said, a bit nervously as they gave him a look.
"Don't worry about it," Miguel replied. "To err is human, to forgive-"
"My lords, may the people of El Dorado offer you our tribute." Chief Tannabok announced, showing some servants behind him with golden treasures.
"Now this is what I'm talkin' about." Spanky grinned as he had golden bricks in his eyes.
"My lords, does this please you?" Chief Tannabok smiled.
"Well, uh, I'll speak for 'em, 'cuz I'm sure as heck pleased!" Spanky replied.
"Yes, very nice. Certainly acceptable." Miguel added.
"Yes, lovely. It'll do." Tulio added.
"The gods have chosen!" Chief Tannabok smiled before looking to Miguel and Tulio. "To Xibalba?"
"No. No." Natalia tried to warn.
"To Xibalba!" Miguel and Tulio proclaimed.
"Oh, great." Chel muttered.
The natives were throwing the gold over the cliff and into the whirlpool, then they all looked at the gold in the whirlpool. Chel and Natalia shared a face-palm with each other. Tulio and Miguel looked a bit overwhelmed as they didn't realize what they had done.
"Hey, girls, um, what are they doing?" Miguel asked the girls.
"They're sending it to Xibalba, the spirit world." Chel glared.
"No, no, no! My gold!" Spanky cried out. "Erm... Uh, I mean, OUR gold."
"Spirit World?" Captain Hero asked.
"We'll take care of it." Natalia said, referring to herself and her sister.
"You're not gonna kill yourselves just for us, are ya?!" Mike's eyes widened. "I couldn't live with myself if that happened!"
"No, no, nothing like that, you wait here, okay?" Natalia replied before going with Chel.
Chief Tannabok gave a small smile as the servants continued to toss the gold away.
"Um, excuse me, Chief?" Chel spoke up as she came beside the man in charge. "The gods have their minds about Xibalba. They wish to bask in the reverence that has been shown them."
"Stop!" Chief Tannabok soon called out to his people.
The natives then stopped throwing the gold in the whirlpool; then a golden plate rolls toward a cliff and Tulio stops it with his foot.
"They wish to bask! Take the tribute to the gods' temple!" Chief Tannabok told his people.
The natives then walked away as Natalia and Chel walked over to Tulio, Miguel, and the others with them.
"Nice going." Tulio whispered before walking off with the others.
"Our pleasure, boys." Natalia smirked.
Tzekel-Kan gave them a look as they soon walked off.
Chief Tannabok seemed to chuckle to him before leaving.
"Smile while you can." Tzekel-Kan growled quietly.
"I win!" Manco smiled to Hucua as they were playing a game with coconuts.
"You cheated!" Hucua replied.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Both of you idiots knock it off!" Tzekel-Kan snapped at them.
"Sorry, Boss..." Manco and Hucua replied.
"Focus," Tzekel-Kan told them. "...Unless you don't want those girls."
"No, we'll pay attention! Honest!" Manco replied.
"Good..." Tzekel-Kan grinned to them. "Just remember to do exactly as I say, and those ladies will be putty in your hands."
There was soon a parade being held for Tulio, Miguel, and the others, and they were allowed to celebrate with them because Tulio and Miguel told them to.
"Well, when I first met you guys, I thought you'd be crooks or trick us or something, but you're actually kinda cool." Mike said to Tulio and Miguel.
"Same with you guys," Tulio replied. "We thought you guys were really weird, but you're not so bad."
"Well, we're all weird in our own way," Mike replied. "But thanks."
"Not bad for a day's work, eh?" Tulio chuckled.
"Not bad at all." Miguel smiled.
"We just became richer than the king of Spain." Tulio smiled back.
"You know, speaking of kings, the chief and high priest seem a bit, uh, tense." Xandir remarked to the others.
"Buenos Dias! Listen, all we have to do, is keep playing the one against the other," Tulio then said. "You know, do a little god dance, chant some mystic mumbo jumbo, dazzle 'em worth some smoke and mirrors and then get the hell back to Spain."
"Um, Tulio, how are we gonna get all this back to Spain?" Miguel replied.
"...Umm..." Tulio paused in thought.
"Uh, Mike, when you lived on that desert island, how'd you get stuff there from your old parents from Manhattan?" Spanky asked.
"I dunno honestly," Mike shrugged. "They usually just sent me stuff in a box that would wash up from the ocean to shore. For all I know, they could've sent it to a boat, and the boat brought the boxes over to me?"
"Why do you ask, Spanky?" Clara then asked the pig.
"Because I just may have an idea." Spanky replied.
Cut to the temple where they are talking to Chief Tannabok.
"A boat?" Chief Tannabok asked.
"Yeah." Tulio nodded.
"Um, we really hate to be ascending so soon, but, uh, some urgent business has come up, you know, family matters, you know, and it's just a bit..." Miguel tried to explain.
"Yeah, family." Tulio added.
"Badda-bing, budda-boom, you know what I mean." Miguel smiled bashfully.
"Oh, we expected you to be staying with us for the next thousand years." Chief Tannabok replied.
"Well, as we say in the Spirit World, there's your plan, then there's the gods' plan." Captain Hero said.
"And our plan, uh, calls for a boat, 'cuz we're gonna ascend kind of in a horizontal pattern at first," Spanky added. "And then we're gonna go vertical, uh, as we get further out to sea."
"Hmm... To build a boat large and glorious enough, would take about a week." Chief Tannabok replied.
"A week? Hmm..." Tulio replied.
"Um..." Miguel paused.
"I wonder how long it would take Tzekel-Kan to do it?" Mike commented.
Um... Three days will be fine... I'm sure we'll survive..." Clara soon said with a small smile.
They soon came outside after talking with Chief Tannabok.
"Three days is not fine..." Tulio muttered as he fiddled with the gold he had.
Chel soon glanced over.
"This is real," Tulio smirked to her, showing her the gold he had. "These... These are the one's problem."
"Oh... Thank you," Chel smirked back, taking the gold from him. "Look, Natalia."
"It's really pretty." Natalia smiled.
Miguel was seen lying down in the gold pile with Spanky.
"Miguel, how are we gonna keep this up for three days?" Tulio demanded.
"You worry too much." Miguel replied as he soon leaped off.
"No, I worry exactly the right amount," Tulio glared as he soon ran to Miguel and grabbed a hold of him. "You can never worry too much. We just have to lie low."
"He's got a point," Mike agreed. "They might get suspicious."
"But guys, this place is amazing!" Miguel smiled. "I mean, I wonder what's-"
"No! Don't even move!"
"Tulio..."
"You're moving!"
"A little, but-"
"Hey! Hey! Hey!"
"Come on."
"Stay!"
"I gotta... I... I just..."
"Just stand there!"
"For three days?"
"They're like an old married couple." Mike commented.
Everyone else nodded in agreement with her.
"All right, we lie low." Miguel suggested.
"No, ah, ah, ah, ah. Promise?" Tulio reminded, putting his right hand up.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah," Miguel replied. "All right, all right."
"Great! Good. Okay," Tulio said before seeing that Chel wore the gold necklaces he handed to her. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to gloat over my gold."
Chel seemed to giggle to Tulio as he soon walked off and started kissing the gold pieces.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Natalia smiled as she walked towards Miguel as he looked out to El Dorado.
"Yes, it is, but it should've been named Natalia Dorado." Miguel smirked.
"Oh, you~" Natalia blushed to that.
Mike rolled her eyes slightly, but had a small smirk.
"You know, you really shouldn't miss it." Natalia said to Miguel.
"I know, but I-I couldn't." Miguel replied.
"Go ahead. I'll cover for you." Natalia told him.
"Oh, good. Thanks," Miguel said before he soon heard Tulio singing in the distance. "So, what happened to Altivo?"
"I don't know." Natalia shrugged to him.
"Maybe he got eaten." Spanky replied.
"Spanky!" Clara glared.
"What?" Spanky shrugged. "Some countries eat horse meat!"
Miguel soon wandered off as Tulio sang to himself.
"Tulio goes for paradise!~" Tulio sang to himself before he noticed something missing. "Hey, what happened to Miguel?"
"I don't know." Natalia shrugged.
"Mm-mm." Chel added.
"He just left." Wooldoor smiled like an idiot.
"Oh, my God, he's gone! Miguel's gone! He's loose!" Tulio soon cried. "What am I gonna do? Oh, no! No!"
"Oh, Miguel is right," Natalia remarked. "You worry too much."
Tulio groaned and complained until Chel soon came up behind him to relax his shoulders a little by rubbing them. "Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, down, down, down, down," he then smiled in relief until he panicked again. "No! No! Big trouble," he then chuckled, and stood up onto the floor. "Whoa! Look, sweetheart, we're on the middle of a con here, walking the razor's edge. On the one hand, gold! On the other hand, painful, agonizing failure! Ahem... I can't afford any tempta-uh, distractions. So, I'm sorry. So sorry," he then took a deep breath. "But perhaps another time? Another place, hmm?"
"Too bad. I'm free now." Chel replied.
"I'm not really sure I trust you." Tulio said to her.
"Mmm, I'm not really asking you to trust me. Am I?" Chel smirked as she stroked her own hair.
"Whoo. 'Kay," Tulio then began to rub her with a small smile. "Ooh, yeah."
Natalia smirked seductively to the other boys. "Perhaps one of you handsome men could give me a shoulder rub?" she then suggested.
"I'll do it!" Captain Hero and Spanky beamed.
"And this would eventually become another story we call El reino del Sol." Antonio said to Mike.
"Uh... What story is that?" Mike asked.
"The Kingdom of the Sun," Antonio translated. "It's the story of a greedy and selfish emperor who soon turns into a llama by his former adviser, and he has to have a village leader help him see the error of his ways so he can go back home and become a human again."
"Neat story." Mike replied.
"I know, it is a very wonderful and traditional story I learned about." Antonio nodded.
"Hm... So I've noticed," Mike commented. "Sorta reminds me of when The Albonquetines told me a story about their people. Some fancy name like Pomuse... This guy came to visit their island a long time ago, probably 50 years ago, and this guy gave them a lot of things... They said when I came to stay with them for the first time that me coming reminded them of that. They always love guests, as long as they aren't invaders."
"Hmm... Interesting." Antonio replied.
"I've had lot of interesting adventures all over that island." Mike smiled from nostalgia.
"I bet." Antonio chuckled a bit.
Natalia then snuck away from the temple to go follow Miguel. Antonio glanced, seeing that, but he didn't say anything.
"So, now what?" Mike asked her Drawn Together family. "What do you guys wanna do?"
"I wanna keep all of this gold." Spanky said.
Everyone else then glared at him.
"That was just a joke," Spanky then said which made them roll their eyes which made him scoff. "Oh, like you're all saints," Spanky scoffed. "Mike, you can't tell me you once found a treasure on that desert island that you wanted to keep to yourself."
"Nope." Mike replied.
"Seriously?" Spanky asked.
"Yep." Mike replied.
"Man, your island adventures are starting to sound pretty boring." Spanky commented.
Mike just rolled her eyes slightly.
"I'm glad you all feel better now." Antonio said to them.
"Yeah, thanks," Mike said before looking around. "Hey, where'd everybody go?"
"Wherever they are, they better keep away from my gold." Spanky said.
"Will you give it a rest?" Mike scoffed to him. "No one's gonna take 'your gold'."
"I was gonna put it into your college fund." Spanky said.
"Sure you were." Mike replied.
"But seriously, where IS everyone?" Foxxy then asked.
"Ling-Ling thought he saw native girls run off." Ling-Ling said.
"But then where's Tulio and Miguel?" Xandir asked.
"Probably chasing after them." Toot guessed.
"Should we go look for 'em?" Mike asked.
"Ah, you can if you want, I'm fine right here." Spanky smirked.
"The pig is right," Captain Hero agreed. "We're fine right here."
The rest of the housemates looked to each other and then dragged them away.
"Hey, let us go!" Spanky cried out.
"This is against the law!" Captain Hero added.
"Yeah, well, I think we can make an exception," Mike said. "There's something funny going on around here, and I wanna see what it is, it's like a mystery, and I love a good mystery."
"So you gonna play DuckTales now?" Spanky smirked jokingly.
"Very funny, but I've been solving mysteries with Mystery Inc and Mama Foxxy a couple of times, so I think I may know my way around." Mike smirked.
"That's my little mystery solver." Foxxy sniffled, wiping a proud tear away from her eye.
"Oh, boy." Spanky rolled his eyes from the heartwarming moment between Mike and Foxxy.
They soon went to explore away from the temple to see if they could find anyone else.