Coming up the stairs to the ancient temple with Tzekel-Kan and Chief Tannabok ahead with the two boys and eight starlings tired, and Altivo behind them too, they reach the top as the ten catched up, gasping and panting for breath from climbing all the stairs, referencing Kung Fu Panda.
Before the two chiefs look behind, the ten heroes play cool to keep themselves fully energized and charismatic too, with Altivo seen panting when reaching the top also.
The two chiefs then open the curtain to see the entrance to their ancient temple, they see the room is luxurious with pillows and such.
"To commemorate your arrivals, I propose a reverent ceremony at dawn.", Tzekel-Kan plans.
Chief Tannabok then agrees, "Ah, then perhaps I could prepare a glorious feast for you tonight."
"Which would you prefer?", Tzekel-Kan asks the ten.
Tulio and Miguel, along with the girls, then decided, "Both."
"Both is good.", Libby and Miguel settle, all the ten nodding.
Sage also said, "Keeps our popularity strong, you know?"
"My lords.", said Tannabok and Tzekel-Kan, taking turns saying this before leaving the ten at peace.
Outside, as Tannabok and Tzekel-Kan look at the sunny sunset sky, the latter then says, "And so dawns the Age of the Jaguar. Happy new year.", chuckling evilly as the former chieftain listens and nods no in disagreement.
Inside, as the eight starlings look around the ancient temple, they meet up with Tulio and Miguel with a room with multiple thrones, before Libby then finds three more shards on the throne part of the ancient temple, and the eight starlings and two boys then cheer in excitement and success, with Altivo neighing happily as he gallops across the water in the temple room, the other ten dancing unitedly.
"Tulio. Guys. They actually think we're gods and goddesses!", Miguel said to the other nine, Altivo chuckling as the native girl watches the ten talking. "It's an entire city of suckers."
Sage then corrects, "Not suckers, Miguel. Celebrity gods. And you know what it means, guys? We could have an entire community of wishlings too, and positive energy that would last a lifetime, somehow. Or alternatively find out more about this prophecy they're talking about and find the rest of these shards Libby and us are finding."
"We just have to keep this up long enough to load up on the gold and get the heck out of here.", Tulio planned again.
Scarlet wonders, "We were thinking we should celebrate for a while and find more of these shards, but fine, once we're done with the shard finding."
"Tulio, girls, we'll be living like kings and queens!", Miguel and Libby smiles, the latter saying, "I've got three more just now and I've got twelve!"
Charismatically again, Tulio and Sage, Scarlet, Vega and Piper states, "Miguel, Tulio and the Star Darlings!"
"Tulio, Miguel and the Star Darlings!", stated Miguel, Libby, Leona, Astra and Cassie.
The two boys then said, "The mighty and powerful gods!"
"And goddesses!", adds Sage and Libby, before Leona bursts into a small song in excitement, which is a cover of the song Kings and Queens by 30 Seconds to Mars, much to the two boys still posing like gods and the girls liking this tune, due to Leona's singing being astronomical.
Leona: We are the KINGS! We are the QUEENS! We are the Kings...we are the-
"Hello?"
The feminine voice startles the ten and abruptly stops Leona's exciting short song, who gasp a bit, startled, revealing that the native girl said that and giggles.
"Depart, mortal, before we strike you with a lightning bolt.", Tulio warned with Miguel supporting, but the eight other starlings aren't and instead are curious, the native girl humming as she caressed the object she stolen earlier.
Miguel warns again, "Beware the wrath of the gods! Begone!"
"Save it for the high priest, guys. You're gonna need it.", the native girl said.
Tulio said to his friend Miguel, "Miguel, guys, it's not working. Miguel, guys, we've been caught."
"We know. It may be some person that wants to help or something.", supposed Sage.
The native girl excuses, "Oh no, don't worry about me, guys. My only wish is to serve the gods. Remember?"
"Oh. We get it.", Cassie and Astra nod.
Tulio asked the native, "How?"
"Well, if you guys want the gold, then you don't want to get caught, right? You're going to need my help.", the native girl explains.
Sage snaps her fingers, "I knew it."
"What makes you think we need your help?", scoffed Miguel suspiciously with Tulio, but excluding the girls.
Simply, the native girl makes a sound, "Ck-ck. Are you serious?", sarcastically a bit and slyly.
"Looks like I'm not the only girl with this personality.", said Scarlet, Vega nodding and agreeing, with Altivo neighing.
After Tulio stuttered, Sage and Libby ask, "Okay, so, uh, who are you?"
"Yeah, uh, what's your angle?", Tulio asks too.
The native girl then laughed a millisecond and says, "No angle. I want in."
"In?", asks the heroes.
She continued, "On the scam."
"There's no scam. Why would you think there's a- ...Why?", asked Tulio and Sage after chuckling nervously at the beginning, to the native girl.
She then says, "So I can get out."
"I thought she just said she wanted in.", Miguel doesn't get it.
Tulio and Sage explains the idiom, "She wants in so she can get out."
"Aha. Got it.", Miguel said.
Libby also asks, "W-why?", to the native girl again.
"Think you're the only ones who dream of better things? Of adventure? You've got your reasons, and I've got mine. Let's not make it personal, okay? It's just business.", the native said, the ten getting this. "So when you guys are ready to go back to...wherever you came from, I'm going with you."
Tulio laughs, which the starlings and the native notice with Miguel, disagreeing, "No, don't think so."
"We eight think so of you joining too for this adventure.", Sage answered.
The native girl then said, "All right, fine. After all, I'm sure you know the proper rituals for blessing a tribute, the holiest days of the calendar, oh, and of course you know all about Xibalba.", chuckling, "Okay. Good luck."
After she says this, Piper then holds onto Sage's arm, signing a bit of romance for both of them potentially as Tulio touches his cheek.
"See you at the execution.", the native girl says, about to leave.
Sage asked, "Execution- What? Wait, ho- Would you- Hold it.", Tulio saying the rest with her, as she, Piper and Tulio come over to the native, who then smile with agreement.
"Deal?", asked the girl.
Before Sage, Tulio and Piper could have an opportunity, Miguel, Libby and Leona interrupt, "Deal.", before the three pause them.
"Not yet. Let's just see how this works out.", Sage and Tulio said to the girl.
The native girl continued, "Uh-huh. Well, then I suppose that means you'll want these back?", holding out the same loaded dice the two had at the beginning.
"The...loaded dice.", Sage supposed, surprised.
Tulio then snatches the loaded dice from the native, asking, "How'd you get those?"
"Where was she keeping them?", Miguel asks too, suspicious.
Piper, Astra and Cassie all supposed at the same time, innocently, "We didn't do it."
"So anyways, what's your name again?", asks Sage, Libby and Leona to the native.
"Call me Chel, your new partner.", she introduced.
Tulio corrects, "Uh, that's partner-in-training.", as Chel hums while going to get the ten's clothes for the celebration.
"Girls. That was-", Libby says, before she, Sage and the others notice the pink starling is holding a red emerald. "Wha? How did that get there?"
Leona ponders, "Maybe Chel gave that to you."
"Yeah. I think it's some kind of emerald that's special here. If there's multiple, we gotta not just by searching and finding like those green shards, but to earn them. Like the boys' gold. If we find them all, there's no telling what will happen.", guessed Sage, before Chel comes back with the boys' clothes and the girls' dresses, Sage's was blue, Libby's was red, Leona's was, indeed, yellow, Piper's was pink, Astra's was purple, Cassie's was reddish-black, Vega's was peach, and Scarlet's was lightning blue.
Chel then said, "Now, put these on. Your public's waiting.", after giving them their clothes.
The two boys, despite the girls loving the dresses for the celebration, then takes off the given clothes and were about to change their clothes by stripping off their shirts first, before Miguel asks, "Do you mind?", to Chel as they began changing, who says no and excuses herself before leaving the ancient temple, censoring the boys changing while the eight other starling girls look away for their privacy, before Chel greets the ten goodbye.
"Mm-mm-mm!", Libby and Miguel liked, as the two, Leona, Astra and Cassie were beside Sage, Tulio, Vega, Scarlet and Piper who are preparing, the former boy wearing a native upper shirt costume, as the two said, "Maybe they should call this place Chel Dorado."
Sage says, "Great idea. But what about El Starado?", bursting into several giggles and a laugh.
"Yeah. She's woo- Whoa, she's trouble! Wait a minute! The little voice, remember the little voice?", asks and realized Tulio. "Ju-ju-just for a second, imagine that you have one. What would it be saying about Chel?", before the girls don't respond, and Miguel purred with a sign of intimacy and romance between Tulio and Chel, with Libby unknowingly smiling to his reaction, before the other boy said, "No. No. Listen. We are partners.", as Miguel copies his sentence as he continued, "We have a plan, remember?"
Miguel got it, "Get the gold. Go back to Spain."
"Yes. And we are pretending to be gods. Now, put Chel in the mix. What is the voice saying?", asked Tulio again before he turns Miguel's head and he faintly says, "Listen carefully..."
Miguel amazed and gasps, with him and the eight girls asking, "Chel is off-limits, hmm?"
"Bravo! Chel is off-limits! Shake on it.", Tulio said to Miguel, who the latter then does a high-five and hand motions, before Tulio starts to change too.
Sage says, "We don't know. Maybe she's involved into something good for once in her life, even romance. We'll ignore this for now. Besides, we're supposed to be gods and goddesses."
"Right. Me and Vega are starting to fall deeply in love with each other.", Scarlet said before, holding Vega for a few moments and slightly nuzzle and canoodle for a bit.
Piper then blurts out, "I fell in love with Sage!", before gasping and covering her mouth, the other girls looking at her as Scarlet and Vega stopped canoodling.
"...Really?", asks curiously Sage.
The meditative starling said, "Uh, I meant...the aromatic plant of your name...that's European, culinary, herbal, wise, and helps me with my meditations.", hiding her secret.
"Okay.", Sage shrugged. "Also, we must avoid giving in to temptation. Only popularity, not temptation. During our search for the rest of the shards and these emeralds.", she then said, while Miguel puts on his native crown and looks at themselves.
Tulio said, "Gods. Goddesses. Oh. This is gonna be tougher than I thought...", changing into native upper shirt costume too.
"Tulio, relax. All we have to do is smile, act godly and follow our lead.", Miguel and Sage relaxes, putting the native crown on Tulio's head.
Sage then said as the nine were led out by Miguel, "Besides, what could possibly go wrong?"