The group sat in a circle on the main deck of the Invincible. Zidane looked at all the Chocographs and set them in numerical order. Everyone was talking amongst themselves except for Quina and Zidane, who merely stared at the stones. Zidane had become quite interested in his newest journey as they had found more clues. Finally, Zidane quieted the crowd and spoke.
"Okay, guys, since there's 24 Chocographs, we'll all be getting 3 to inspect." He looked around the room to see a few people start to talk but he cut them off. "Yes, I know only 11 of them indicate places in Mist, but I believe that we should probably just inspect them all, anyway. Hey, with the 8 of us, how long can it take?"
There were a few nods of approval as Zidane stood up and started passing out the stones. He passed them out 3 by 3 until he was left with the remaining Chocographs. There was momentarily little sound as the party sat around inspecting each stone with care. Finally, Amarant broke the silence.
"There's nothin' on mine. You're not really expecting to find anything, are you?"
"Sorry, but I don't see anything…" said Vivi, placing the stones down gently.
Aw, man! I couldn't find anything either! I wanted to be the one to find it…" whimpered Eiko sadly.
"Mine have nothing on them as far as I can see," said Freya shaking her head.
"I found nothing, but I'll keep trying if you'd like," said Dagger.
"I have checked mine twice and found nothing," said Steiner.
"Well, I don't see anything, either…" sighed Zidane.
Everyone in the room turned their head to Quina simultaneously.
"……" There was an uncomfortable pause. "…Me find something!" Ahahahahah! Yaay!" Quina then got up and started jumping around the room, practically shaking the ship."
The rest of the group sat staring at Quina, waiting for her to finish her triumphant dance. When Quina had finally sat down, panting from exhaustion, Zidane asked, "Are you done?"
"Me done."
"WELL WHAT DID YOU FIND?!"
"Um…Me lost it."
Zidane slowly buried his head in his hands while the others chuckled. Quina inspected the stone once more. "Ah! Found it again. You wanna know what it say, Zidane?"
"Yes, Quina, please tell us all what the stone says." He replied in a muffled voice due to the fact that he still had his face in his hands.
"Colored stone 13 have real small emblem of Qu race."
Zidane snapped his head up and looked at Quina. "You're kidding me! What's the name of the Chocograph?"
"Forbidden Forest," she replied. "Have picture of lotsa trees with big mountain all around."
"I remember that one! And it's not too far away, either!" Zidane jumped up and onto the pilot's pad and started to head towards the location of Chocograph 13.
"This is getting pretty exciting! I hope we find the golden plate!" said Steiner.
"Platinum Platter," corrected Freya. "and I agree. But the question is…is there even such a thing?"
"I hope so," said Amarant.
Eiko looked at Amarant in surprise. "What is that, Amarant? Do you mean to say that you're actually interested in this?"
"No," he replied. "I just thing it'd be a huge waste of my time if it wasn't."