"You got the camera ready?" Andrea asked T.J.

"Yeah." He said.

Tzekel was having a meeting today to discuss his hunt for the four of them, little did they know they know that T.J and Andrea had secretly hooked up the video camera to a projector playing the words that he had said to Manny in his disguised form. Hopefully this would convince some of his followers that he was insane. They waited patiently for everyone to enter the room then they would project the camera.

"Just a few more minutes and then it's game over for that bastard." T.J said.

"You underestimate me T.J." He heard a gruff voice behind him. "Did you really think I wouldn't expect you to tr something like this?"

Before T.J could turn around to see who it was he was sent flying with one punch by Tzekel. He injected him with a needle the contained a fluid, then pinned him down by his throat. T.J found his body unable to move.

"That needle had a drug in there that takes away your ability to move, it's temporary but I doubt it will ware off in time for you to get away." He began to strangle him. T.J forgot how strong of a grip Tzekel had. The intensity of it made it nearly impossible for him to breathe and he found himself going in and out of consciousness. "Now give me the book or I'll crush your neck!"

"Leave him alone!" Andrea said swiping him with her knife.

"Damnation!" He cried. "You'll pay for that slut!"

He released T.J and lunged for Andrea. He held her down.

"Get off me!" She demanded. She was a fighter but this man was much too big and much too strong for her to escape.

"Bitch!" He struck her across her face.

"Leave her alone you bastard!" T.J demanded angrily. He desperately wanted to help her but he couldn't move an inch.

Tzekel had just started strangling her when an arrow hit his arm forcing him to release her.

"You leave her alone!"

It was Frida, Manny, and T.J's grandfather.

"Well look who it is." Tzekel said jerking the arrow out of his arm. "It's the blue haired witch and her demon dog come to seal their fate and I see you brought the old man with you. How nice."

"Stop this now Tzekel before it's too late." T.J's grandfather said.

"Or what? You pose no threat to me."

"No but I do!" T'J said struggling to stand up. "You're not worthy to led this tribe Tzekel, you're a sadist and a false prophet."

"And you would make a better leader?"

"I don't know but I do know that I would do better than you. So I challenge you! If you lose you step down and let me takeover. If you win you get the book."

Tzekel thought for a moment then grinned.

"Deal. But no shaman tricks. Just good old hand to hand combat."

"Fine. I'll meet you in the arena at dawn, be there."

"Oh I will boy." Tzekel said.

The deal was made, the challenge was accepted, there was no backing out of it now. But his friends and grandfather were determined to talk him out of it.

"T.J are you crazy?! You can't beat this guy with out using your stuff!" Manny protested. "He's ten times your size! He'll destroy you!"

"I have no choice Manny, I've already accepted so there's no backing out."

"There is if you fake your death."

"And runaway and go into hiding like I did eleven years ago? I can't just abandon my people again not when they follow this tyrant."

"If they choose to follow him it's their fault! Let them deal with it!"

"I just can't do that Manny."

"T.J have you even fought someone in hand to hand combat before?" Andrea asked.

"Believe or not the work of shamen wasn't all I learned here."

"But...But he's so much bigger and stronger than you. What if he kills you?"

"Oh Andrea are you worried about me?" He said grinning.

"Don't crack jokes this is serious."

"I know, I know it's one hell of a risk but I can't run away. Not this time, not ever again. If I ran this time I know that I could never live with myself."

Despite objections from his grandfather and friends Tzekel was determined to save his home and his people from this mad man. At dawn The two met face to face in an arena while being watched by everyone in the tribe. When a shot rang out the fight began. Tzekel started to mercilessly beat him but the boy responded by japping his finger into his eye and punching him hard into his chest. T.J was a strong fighter but Tzekel had him unmatched in strength. Tzekel grabbed him and slammed him down on a nearby stone making him cry out.

"Oh God I can't look!" Frida said covering her eyes.

"He's gonna kill him! Do something!" Andrea begged Manny.

"No!" T.J's grandfather objected. "If he's helped by anyone outside of the tribe then he will loose."

"But we can't just sit back and let him get pulverized!" Manny said.

"You must not interfere."

T.J suffered one beating after another. He found himself on his knees too weak and hurt to move. Tzekel raised his fist ready for the killing blow when something caught his falling fist. It was T.J's grandfather.

"That's enough Tzekel. Stop now."

"Or what? You'll kill me?"

"If that is what must be done."

"You old fool! You don't have it in you!"

"Don't underestimate me Tzekel because there isn't anything I wouldn't do to protect my grandson."

"Don't make me laugh!" He kicked his crotch away knocking him down. "What can an old blind man do?"

He threw a punch only to have it be caught by the old man who picked himself up and glared at him.

"Much more than you think."

He then sent him flying into the wall. All too soon the two were in an all out brawl much to the amazement of the four teenagers watching them. Despite being blind he had strong hearing that allowed him to sense Tzekel's blows so he could dodge them easily.

"Do you give up?"

"Never! I will not loose to a pathetic old man!"

Suddenly he pulled a dagger from his sleeve and before the poor old man could sense it, Tzekel stabbed him right in his side. The crowd gasped in horror, such an act in this was dishonorable and not allowed. But that didn't stop the mad man from gloating.

"You toothless old fool! Did you honestly think you or that brat of yours could stop me? Now this tribe is mine!"

"NEVER!' An enraged voice shouted. T.J despite being greatly injured stood up and faced his adversary with great anger and determination.

"How are you still able to move?" Tzekel asked confused.

"I think you should be more worried about yourself you swine! You hurt my grandfather in the most dishonorable way imagineable. But if you wanna play dirty so be it! Guys!"

"We're on it!" Andrea said as she flung her spear right into Tzekel's shoulder followed by a claw to the face from Manny, and arrow in the foot from Frida. Tzekel could take down T.J but not him and his friends. Normally the other men in the tribe would have objected but after seeing him mercilessly stab an old blind man during a fight where weapons weren't allowed, they decided to keep silent. The fight ended with T.J giving a hard and nasty bash to his skull.

"Do you give up?" He asked him.

"Yes."

"Good!"

He heard his grandfather cough and rushed to his side. Hus face was getting pale and he was coughing up blood.

"Just hang in there Grandpa." T.J said. "We'll get help."

"Tulio Julian." He said in a whisper. "Did you...Is he defeated?"

"Yes. You're the chief again."

"I don't think sI my boy. I'm afraid you'll have take my place because I-"

"No! Don't you dare finish that sentence! You're not gonna die! You can't die! Please Grandpa! You're all I have left now!" The old man's eyes started to close. "No! You can't! You can't leave me Grandpa! Not now! Not when I've found you again! Grandpa please! Please!"

"I'll try to heal him." Frida said.

"Please! Please save him!" T.J pleaded.

"I'm gonna need help. Is there a doctor or someone like that here?"

"I'm a medicine man." One man called from the audience. He along with several others went to help her. Andrea took T.J away from them because he was in such an upset state. She held him while he cried and comforted him.

"He's gonna be okay T.J." Andrea said.

"He has to be. He's all I have, my parents are dead, my uncle's lost his mind, and my other grandparents are con artists! If I lose him then...Then I'll have no one."

"Shh." She hushed. "Everything will be fine. I promise."

She had never seen him like this before and it hurt her to see him in this state. But he was wrong, if he did lose his grandfather he wouldn't have anyone. He would have Manny, Frida, and he would have her. He would always have her. She continued to stoke his hair and hug him until she felt a familiar squeeze on her bottom.

"Ahh! Creep!" She said smacking him. "Even during your sad moments you're still a pervert!"

"I can't help it. I need the love of a woman to feel better."

"Yeah but do you need the love of a woman's butt?"

"Again it's not my fault! It's my father's! I have my mother's nose but my father's hands!"

"Yeah well touch my behind when I'm comforting you again and you'll lose both your hands and an eye!"

"You know your threats should frighten me but it only makes me more attracted to you."

"Okay you've ruined the moment so I'm just gonna go."

She stood up and left. T.J smiled feeling alot better at the moment.

"Oh yeah she wants me. She wants me bad."

"Dude you're such a creep." Manny said.

"Where did you come from?"

"The trees." He said jumping down from a branch.

"Well she may say she doesn't but she wants me."

"Uh-huh yeah sure. Anyway you'll be happy to know that your grandpa's gonna be fine okay."

"Thank God."

"You wanna see him?"

"Yes please."