"Our riders have searched the entire spread of the cliff, there's no sign of anyone," a Skybax rider told David. David nodded like he wasn't heart broken inside. He had to find his brother, for himself and for his father. And he had to find Amelia, for Marion. There had been no luck tracking down the T-Rex, no luck on the cliff, or the villages at the bottom of it. No luck, no bodies. They had to be somewhere. The ledge wouldn't have supported them, so their being in the passageway was impossible. Plus it grows pitch dark ten feet it, they wouldn't dare try it.

"The ledge that fell, was it found at the bottom?" David asked. The Skybax rider nodded to him.

"It was in quite a few pieces put we found it. The red substance was blood…" she said and David exhaled with worry.

"Dammit Karl, where are you?" David asked under his breath.

The door to the house opened and a bucket filled with water was placed inside of the small house, and then the door was closed at locked again. Amelia walked over and picked up the bucket. She sneered at the guards on the outside she couldn't see, but wanted to sneer at them anyway. She carried the bucket over to the bed were Karl lay on his stomach. She tore off some of the wrap she had put around the cut on his leg and dipped it into the cold water. Karl had removed the shirt and the five holes on his back was an unpleasant sight. Amelia rung most of the water out of the cloth and set it on his back. He flinched in pair and dug his nails into the grass mattress.

"I know it hurts," she told him with sympathy as she dabbed more water on his wounds.

"You're a god…" he said. She frowned and squeezed some of the water onto the back of his head. He turned his head to face her angrily.

"I'm not a god. I'm sick. My father didn't leave, he died. My sister wasn't sick," she informed him.

"You have scales…"

"I'm sick! Alright? I'm not nor shall ever be a god! So if you want me to continue helping you with your wound leave it alone," she yelled at him. Karl sighed and then flinched in pain a bit.

"He seems to think you are," he said.

"Yes well he's been living in this cave for too long."

"Thousands of years ago, in a place called Egypt, the rulers were thought to be gods themselves, even though they were just human."

"So?"

"So they had absolute power, no one questioned them, because everyone thought they were gods," he told her and they were silent.

"Egypt, isn't that where those pyramid things are?" Amelia asked him. He nodded.

Marion was still flipping through the pages of an ancient book, looking for the symbol on the egg. Every now and then her eyes would drift to the maps and she would wonder how the search for Karl and Amelia was going. She didn't want to worry, worrying wasn't going to help anyone. Besides there was enough worrying going on around here anyway, she had to be strong. What she wondered about David, and how he was doing. Marion sighed.

"Do one thing at a time," she reminded herself and continued to look through the pictures and books, carefully looking for the design written on the egg. A waterproof capsule on the shore? How? Why?

Karl was sitting up carefully and Amelia unraveled the cloth from her other calf. Carefully and tightly she wound the cloth around his shoulder blade until the wound was well covered and the cloth ran out. She tied it off and asked him how he felt. He grumbled in reply and she smiled.

"You'll be weak for sometime," she told him as she walked over and picked up his shirt.

"I got the blood out, and I'm sure a tailor in Waterfall City can fix the holes flawlessly," she said giving him the shirt. She watched as he painfully put it on. He straightened it and rubbed his shoulder a little.

"So what do we do now?" he asked her.

"Well there are two guards outside the door, no windows, and the only way out of this place we know is three miles to a giant cliff. And you're in no condition to climb up rock for 50 feet…" she said and he sighed.

"I don't like being "kept," " he complained.

"I don't like being a god."

"Hey why don't you talk to these guards of ours. To them you're as much a god as Valde is."

"I'm not a god, Karl."

"They don't know that."

"So what, you want me to go out there and start ordering them about? I don't know how to be a god."

"How much can there be to it," Karl said standing up, "you go out there, throw a few orders around, a few threats. They'll probably listen to you."

"Or eat me…"

"They wouldn't eat a god."

"Yes that's right. They'd eat you…" Amelia said and Karl's eyes widened a little.

"I'm spoiled goods."

"I don't even want to know what you mean by that."

David sighed preparing himself for what he was about to do. He was going to tell everyone that Karl and Amelia were gone. The entire Skybax patrol had been searching for days now. Up and down the cliff, for miles in every direction. There was even a patrol following different T-Rex's, looking for anything. He wanted to tell Marion, Zippo, and Earhart before he told his father. He thought he'd start off reminding them that the search was not going to end, it just won't be made so hopefully. He sighed once more before entering the room. The sight of the Matriarch surprised him for an instant.

"David, any news?" Earhart asked him hopefully. David held his hands behind his back and looked down at the floor.

"Nothing good," he said and looked up at them, "they're pulling a lot of patrols off, not all of them, but a lot. The search isn't ending, it's just, uh, not quite as hopeful as it has been for the past few days."

"What? They, they can't! They have to find her!" Earhart said taking a few steps backward in panic. The Matriarch walked over and placed her hands on Earhart's shoulder, calming him. She turned to David.

"Marion mentioned a cave, with a passageway," the Matriarch told him. He nodded.

"Yes. We tried sending some ropers down put, uh, the ledge fell under one person's weight, it's unlikely if not impossible for them to be there," he explained. The Matriarch walked away from Earhart and over to David. She placed her hands on his shoulders.

"They are there David, you must find them," she told him with a caring smile on her face.

"How could you-?"

"They are there, just have faith," she told him and he nodded. He smiled briefly, hope reaching him once again.

"I told the witch doctor I was in love with you. I told the witch doctor you didn't love me too. And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do. He said… ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang-"

"Will you stop singing that!" Amelia yelled. Karl was sitting on the bed and Amelia was sitting on a wooden stool on the opposite side of the room. They had been in the house for four days now and were getting on each other's nerves. Karl sighed angrily.

"I'm just trying to pass the time," he told her.

"Well pass it some other way. That song's getting on my nerves," she said. Karl thought about it for a few moments.

"This is the song that never end-"

"Not that one either!" she yelled at him. He sighed again.

"All right! You give me a song!" he told her. This time she thought about it.

"There was a song that my grandmother always had stuck in her head. Oh what was it… Umm… Oh yes. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, he is-" she started singing.

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe."

"Yes that's it. She could never get it out of her mind."

"She wrote it at the beginning of the Civil War."

"The what? And what does "cool" mean? You keep saying it but not in regards to temperature."

"Cool, it's slang. It means like, neat, interesting, good. To be cool is a good thing," he told her smiling.

"Oh. Now this Civil War thing, I think my grandmo-" she started but the door to the house opened and two dinosaurs walked in carrying spears. They led Amelia and Karl out of the house.

The end of their little trip was back to Valde's throne and the bridge. Karl and Amelia were shoved out onto the bridge and the two dinosaurs took guard at the entrance of the cave. Valde got off of his throne and jogged over to them with a smile on his face. Neither Karl nor Amelia were smiling.

"I've decided to give you another chance," he told them like they should be pleased.

"No thanks," Karl said. Valde's smile faded.

"Shut up, mammal! I was talking to Amelia," Valde said and walked over to Amelia, a new smile on his face.

"No thanks," she said. Valde narrowed his eyes and then burst out laughing.

"Maybe "chance" was the wrong word. "Command" fits better," he told her.

"She's not going to do anything for you," Karl told him.

"I'm going to do something for her," Valde said still looking at Amelia.

"What could you possibly do for me?" Amelia asked him.

"Make you my queen," he said and Amelia and Karl broke out into laughter that echoed off the cave walls. Valde grit his teeth and grabbed Amelia roughly by the arm, she and Karl stopped laughing.

"You should be honored to be the mother of my heirs!" he yelled at her.

"What "heirs?" If she has your kids then who will they marry. Scaly butt over there?" Karl asked laughing and pointing behind him to one of the dinosaur guards.

"That's where you come in handy, mammal. My children will marry your children."

"What children?"

"The children you will have."

"With who?"

"With her," Valde said shaking Amelia a bit. Amelia and Karl looked at each other in disgusted shock.

"You're kidding. There's no way…" Karl said.

"You have been living in this cave for too long!" Amelia said and laughed slightly.

"Either you mate with me and the mammal, or the mammal dies," Valde said pointing to Karl. The two guards walked over to Karl and held the blades of their spears near his neck.

"Wait!" he yelled and Valde and Amelia looked at him, "what if I beat you?"

"What?" Valde and Amelia asked him at the same time at the same tone of shock.

"What if I beat you?" Karl repeated.

"What could you beat me at?" Valde asked him in disbelief.

"Ping pong," Karl answered with a smile.