[[Author's Note: If any of y'all have any questions [and it isn't asking about future plot developments], I'll be more than happy to answer 'em! :B]]

You land beings are so weak! I'm disappointed.

Their flight had arrived in Manaus, Brazil. Raptor's show that night at the Teatro Amazonas had to be recalled due to a temporary overflow of illegal ticket sellers, so Raptor used this as another opportunity to gather information.

Cecil, excited that he was in a place with a more tropical climate, began to look around like a tacky, under-informed tourist.

"And why are we in a rainforest? It's not even the Amazon…"
"Shut up, Cecil. Y' always complainin' about everythin'."
"Just wondering. Sure, you'll find a lot of monkeys, and you'll find even more birds, but can you talk bird? I can't talk bird. I can talk robot, though. Back home in Yucatán, I'd be deemed special, since I know so many languages. Maya is my first, with English and Spanish as my second ones. I also know basic Japanese, but I'm not so good with grammar."
"I can tell tha' you're fluent in English," Raptor said, his head aching.
"Thanks!"
"Cecil," Anita said, "he's telling you to shut up."
"She's a teenage girl, and she talks less than you," Lei-Lei pointed out. "I think that's kinda funny."

Cecil fell silent, embarrassed.

"You know," Cecil said, "I've never been in a rainforest before."
"So you say," Anita said, nodding. "Then, how did you meet Huitzil?"
"Those were ruins, Anita. RUINS."
"So, what makes a 'ruin jungle' different form a regular jungle?"
"Ruins, obviously."
Anita said nothing; her opportunity for goodhumored snark at her friend's expense had been shot down.

They were looking through the forest like this, occasionally finding a rock that was covered in slime.
"Eew," Cecil or Lei-Lei would say, and they would proceed to the next section of the forest.

"I still don't know who we could possibly meet in this rainforest. Natives? I'm not sure… What, can you talk to animals? I can't talk to animals."

"Shut up, Cecil," Raptor said as he squinted his eyes, listening for something.

He heard a splash, and Raptor ran in said direction; there was a large pond that seemed to be mush deeper than it was wide.
"Man," Cecil said. "Speaking of, when we're in Scotland, I wanna see Loch Ness. Maybe there's a kelpie or something there."
Raptor did not shut him up, and instead pointed to a series of odd objects.

Around that pond there was what seemed to be a bunch of huge eggs drying in the sun. They were an assortment of colors, and had a reflective, crystalline texture.

Cecil knelt down to examine them, making sure to not touch their surface.
"Wow. They're larger than ostrich eggs..."
"They look like they belong to a dinosaur," Lei-Lei commented.

"What species," Raptor called out, "Woul' be stupid enough t' leave its eggs 'ere?"
"One dedicated to any theory," a voice called out, "that'll guarantee its survival."
A human-esque face was underneath the water, and seemed to be wearing a yellow and green diving suit.

"Uhhhh…" Lei-Lei said. "This guy's a weirdo…"
Raptor was frozen.
"R-Rikuo."

"By drying my eggs, I plan to lower the salt inside them. Their survival will be heightened…"

"Yeh, but what if it hardboils 'em?", Raptor said.
"How can a man," Lei-Lei pleaded sanely, "lay eggs?"
The man rose up, to reveal he was actually some weird aquatic merman-thing.
Lei-Lei froze, staring at the large fin on his head… and his claws.
"O-Oh. Hello."
"I am Rikuo," he said, standing up, "and I will not allow your vicious kind of person to live; the dead must stay dead."

[[Author's Endnote: Just letting you know, I'm not a big Rikuo fan [I like SASQUATCH more than him, and look how much screentime Sasquatch got! : ]. Sorry to any fans of the disgusting, slimy fishman who wishes to further the production of his ugly race. :/]]