Chapter 8 – Ruben's plate
It was past 7.
The park was quiet, there was no one around.
Since the last time I was in the park, the trees were already losing their leaves, autumn was coming.
I looked at Ruben, he seemed away.
Jack – Everything ok Ruben?
Ruben – Hum?
Something was definitely on his mind, and I wanted to know.
Jack - I said if everything was ok with you.
Ruben – Yeah… I'm fine.
Jack - But?
Ruben – I… I just can't believe that Sarah is ok… Yesterday she had a serious heart problem… and now…
Jack – I understand…
Ruben– It's not that I'm not happy, of course I am, but…
Jack – Ruben…
Ruben – Never mind me, we should hurry, I want to know what power's I'll have so I can finely beat you in freaking Tekken 5.
Jack – You can get all the powers in the world, but you'll never win me in Tekken 5.
Meryan – So Ruben… you want your powers so that you can beat Jack at Tekken 5?
Ruben – Indeed!Why else would I want it them for? (Smile*)
Meryan – Tch, boys… And jack?
Jack – Yeah?
Meryan – Stop being lame, you might win against Ruben in Tekken 5, but you can't win me.
Jack n' Ruben – Rigggght…. (Laugh)
Meryan – Then it's on, when we have the chance, I'll take you two on.
Jack – It will be my guest to own you.
Meryan – Will see!
Ruben – How about if you two stop talking about how much you will own me and concentrate on finding Tobi?
Meryan – You were the one that wanted to get is powers to own Jack, or have you forgotten?
Ruben – No… but in last ten second I thought that it would be best if we concentrated on finding Tobi.
Meryan – That's just a lame excuse, just like Jack does.
Jack - Hey!
Meryan – Hehe.
We continued searching for Tobi, and after almost twenty minutes, we found him, in the same bench where I first met Meryan, strange…
Tobi – Took you three long enough.
Ruben – Well excuse me for not having powers.
Meryan – You are being lamer than Jack.
Tobi – Haha. Don't worry Ruben, it won't be long now.
Ruben – It's just so strange the idea of getting… powers! But at the same time awesome… I just can't wait for it.
Tobi – Well, about your plate, I've got good and bad news.
Ruben – … Tell me the bad one first.
Meryan – NO! The good one, ask about the good one first.
Jack – I agree with Meryan, ask about the good one first.
Meryan – Oh, tha… wait a minute! Why are you agreeing with me that easily?
Jack – I just you to be happy… until I smack you in Tekken 5.
Tobi – Ho, you guys play Tekken 5 as well? I bet I could own you all.
Ruben – What the hell is wrong today!
Tobi – Something the matter?
Jack – (Whisperings) He's just angry because he get's own by all at Tekken 5.
Ruben – HEY! I heard that!
Meryan – No you didn't.
Ruben - … Anyway, I'll go with Meryan on this one, what are the good news?
Tobi – Well, the good news is that I found your plate.
Ruben – That's awesome! Where is it? ... Oh, I'm not gonna like this…
Tobi - Yeah… the bad news is that it's on the bottom of the lake.
Ruben – Oh, that's not a problem.
All – What?
Jack – Will just ask Meryan here to use her awesomeness powers to retrieve the plate from the bottom of the lake. This is your chance to prove how much of a failu - I mean, good you are.
Meryan – I'll show you the exact contrary of failure, and if you want to see failure, just play against yourself in Tekken 5, I don't even think you can win that way.
Tobi n' Jack – Haha.
Ruben – Can you guys please stop with the non-funny Jack-ó-Meryan Tekken 5 related jokes?
Meryan – Hehe, I guess you suffered enough. Ok, I'll give it a try.
Tobi – Let's go to the Lake.
We went to the lake and we noticed that it had a strange dark glow.
Meryan – What's that dark glow?
Ruben – It's probably from the plate… my plate.
Jack – Ready to try Meryan?
Meryan - Of course.
She raised her hands, and pointed them to the lake and concentrated.
Meryan - I… I can see it in my mind, it's definitely the dark plate, I'll try to move it up.
She did some awesome hand movements, and suddenly, moved both her hands up.
Bubbles could be seen on the water, more and more. After a while, we could see something almost emerging out of the water, it was…
Jack – A Land before time DVD?
Tobi – The plate is covering the DVD cover, bingo.
Ruben – What's the Land before time thingy?
Meryan – Whoever made them was probably a fan or something.
All – Weirrrrddd.
Tobi – Anyway, here's the necklace.
Tobi handed over the necklace to Ruben, who automatically putted it on is neck.
Meryan – And here's the plate.
Ruben raised his hand to touch the plate, first he hesitated, but after a "oh what the hell" he grabbed the plate.
The power's of the dark plate started to flow in him, we could see a black aura around him, the aura started to shine more, suddenly, a flash, we all turned around, when the flash was gone, we looked back to where Ruben was, but he was gone.
Jack – Ruben?! Where are you!
Meryan – What the hell just happened? Ruben! Where are you!
Ruben – Enough with the crack jokes, I'm right in front of you guys.
Jack – Where?
Meryan – We can't see you.
Ruben – Seriously, that's not funny.
Tobi – Hmm, I think I know what happened.
Jack, Meryan n' Ruben - What?
Tobi – Nice choir… Oh yeah, he turned himself invisible.
Meryan – Are you serious?
Jack – Awesome dude!
Ruben – Whoa… this is so cool, I wonder what other kind of powers I have…
Tobi – OH yeah! That reminds me of some other thing I wanted to tell you guys about.
Jack – And what's that?
Tobi – Exactly was Ruben was wondering about, about we all having more powers.
We all looked surprised.
Having powers was awesome, and now we could have different powers from the ones we had? This was just getting better and better.
Meryan – And how do we get them?
Tobi – According to my research, each one of the chosen ones has five plates, each one of them gives… kinda like an upgrade of our current powers.
Ruben – And how do we find them?
Tobi – I-
Meryan – Sorry Tobi, just one thing, can you tell Ruben how to get out of that invisibility? Because it annoys me the fact that I can't see him.
Ruben – How nice, I found a way to annoy you. But she's right, I want to get back to normal, I can't appear on my house like this.
Tobi – Ok, sure. Just concentrate on it, and it should be canceled.
Ruben – Ok.
I couldn't see him, but he was probably concentrating.
After a few seconds, he appeared in front of us again, relieving in a way.
Ruben – Whoa…
Meryan – You may continue Tobi.
Tobi – Right, I will. As I was saying, I have no idea on how to find the rest of the plates, but I believe that the key to find them, are our current plates, although if that is true, I have no idea how. But we don't have to worry about that now, first, we need to control our current powers.
Jack – You're right on that, we need to control our powers first. But there is one thing…
Tobi – Yes?
Jack – How are we going to find the fifth chosen one?
Tobi – What I have to say now it includes that, and there is still something that I have to tell you about the plates, and this one is really important.
Meryan – Go ahead.
Tobi - Well, I don't know if you know about the story of the plates.
Ruben – No
Jack – Nope.
Meryan – Not really.
Tobi - Well, the story talks about a man named Zerious, he was the one who created the plates a few centuries ago so the fact the plates are all in land before time DVD's, are probably the work of an apprentice to that cause or something. Continuing, according the legend, the ones who the plates reveal and give their power to, are referred as the chosen ones. They will learn to control their powers and will manage to get all the plate pieces, and after all the plates are completed with their 5 pieces, they will be ready to stop the true evil that walks on Earth, called Elvaniar, it says that the chosen ones will face many dangers until that time comes. It also says that the fifth chosen one will be found at their first danger, like a test.
This is why I don't know how to find the fifth one, I have no idea when this so called "test" will happen.
Meryan – Well, all that was said is somewhat accurate, about the plates, about us, about the fifth chosen one.
Jack –Yeah, but… That idea of us having to use our power to hurt other people, it just fells wrong, even if they are bad people.
Ruben – Ok… I was not expecting this…….Who wants to go play a Tekken 5 game?
Meryan – Oh shut up Ruben.
Ruben – Jez, such angriness.
Jack – I agree with Ruben, I was NOT expecting this.
Tobi – (Phone ring) – Oh, excuse me for a minute.
He turned around and started whispering with the person at the phone.
Meryan- This is all so unexpected.
Jack – Indeed. I'm still not ready to all this .
Ruben – C'mon, relax, what's the worst thing that could happen…
Tobi returned to where we were, he seemed serious.
Tobi – Guys, we have a problem.
Jack – What happened?
Ruben – (whispering) Me and my big mouth.
Tobi – I know when the "test" will happen.
Meryan – When?
Tobi – It's happening now.
TO be continued
