The closer they got to it the more despair they felt, and the more sure they were, that this was the first major obstacle. When they were close enough, Matt noticed that there was writing on the obelisks. They all hoped that it was English, and just a riddle, but when they got right in front of it, it wasn't, it read;
"What is this, what language?" asked William looking very confused. "Probably
like, Univistian, or Unigese." replied Damian who was feeling the inscriptions on
the right side. "We will never figure this out." stated Frances sitting down crossed
legged on the path, soon joined by Yeliah. "Maybe there is another way to get
threw." suggested Lyndsey. "Well, we can't climb over because of the pointy
things on top." stated Yeliah while playing patty cakes with Frances. "And the
bars are to close together to slip threw." pointed out William. "So, Carl, what do
we do, you're the leader, the captain, the guider, now guide us." said Damian.
"Well," started Carl. "This writing does look familiar, I've seen it before, but to
translate it would be impossible." "our first obstacle and we're already trapped."
said Matt disappointingly, while leaning on one of the obelisks.
A couple hours went by everyone tried to think of ways to get through, but
no luck. They had brought out the food that they got from Old Lady Liggins, and
ate half of it. Night came, Damian was able to use his jacket, sand and the packets
the food was in, and started a fire with his sun powers, he was able to create one
tongue of fire from his finger and send it to the objects starting the fire. It had
become freezing cold out, so everyone huddled up in front of the fire to get to
sleep, Damian was beside Yeliah, Frances was beside Matt, William was alone,
and Lyndsey was next to Carl. Carl was the last to fall asleep being kept awake by
the attempt to make sense of this language that he indeed seen before.
The next morning, just as the sun was coming up, everyone was awakened by
a girl screaming, well more or less. William awoke and found a lizard on him; he
started screaming, scaring it away and waking everyone up. They finished off the
food, and were now sitting around not knowing what they were waiting for. "This
is crazy; we're going to die." said William kicking some sand off the path. "Oh,
my goodness, look!" shouted out Frances, the moved sand revealed a metallic
object, they all went around it, full of content and hope that they would beat this
game. "Umm, guys, what are you doing?" asked Frances, "It's just a charm I lost."
She finished, as she picked up an "F" charm. All the hope and content they just
had, left them. "What's the point of being so smart if you can't even figure out a
simple thing?" asked Matt hitting the left obelisk. "He's right, I mean isn't there
some math equation to figure this out?" asked Yeliah. "No, there couldn't be, I
mean a language will never be intertwined with mat- oh my, there might, oh my,"
Carl started digging in his head for something. "What?" asked Lyndsey a little
perplexed. "I can't believe I forgot this," started Carl. "It's the easy equation; one
half of 1.21, one half being 1 over 2 and 1.21 being the amount of Giga Watts in a
lighting bolt. You can have a tic-tac-toe board full of letters but since the 1 comes
in and there is no more space you start another one but slightly different because
of the 1, then when it's full you do another, but since there can only be 2, it turns
into an 'X' following the lighting bolt pattern, when it's full, you do another but
slightly different, due to the 1." He finished very proud of his discovery.
"WHAT!" they all called out in shock. "In short, I now know to translate this,
I've figured it out." said Carl walking up to the left obelisk. "That's all we wanted
to hear." said Damian with his arm around Yeliah. "Ok so do it." said William
making a shoeing gesture with his hands. Carl turned around and said, "Umm, ok,
it says, umm." He thought about the writing in his head. "It says, Th, This, is, the,
fi, first, This is the first obstacle, you will, stand, here, you will stand here for quite
a while." Lyndsey cut in "That's for sure." "Yeah," Carl continued, "before, you,
figure, it, out." He now started on the right obelisk. "You, must, say, reborn, back,
wards, then it says it." William said out fast, "then say it, umm, nro-," "NO!
There's a but." Carl shouted but too late. "Nrober!" From behind the gate
appeared three hideous sand creatures with purple armor, they came around the
outside of he gate, from the path five swords popped out, handle facing up. The
three creatures all grabbed one, Carl and William picked up the remaining ones.
Damian pulled out his sword, and they all got into formation. The creatures
attacked; in the midst of fighting Carl tried to translate the obelisk. The one
creature that was fighting Carl was nuts, he span around and sliced Carl's right
arm. William was hit in the shoulder, while Damian, got a small cut in the left leg.
As the battle raged on, Carl kept trying to read. "Once, you." He then dodged the
blade, and stabbed his creature in the stomach, but all that came out was a little
sand. "Once you do, you!" he shouted then spun around almost cutting off his
creatures head. Damian was not as powerful as he was with full sun power, but
was still quite swift with the blade. While William just had unrelenting rage.
"You, have, to, fight," All the girls had backed away as far as they could. "You
have to fight to say!" Carl was then pushed to the floor; the creature raised his
arms, sword pointing down, ready to kill Carl, when he read the last part.
"DEATH DO YOU PART!" At this phrase, the three creatures and the five
swords turned into sand and blew away. The two sides of the gate started to suck
into the obelisks and even though the length of the gates was much longer then the
width of the obelisk, they went all the way in until out of sight. They walked threw
the gate, and saw one word on the back of each obelisk, Carl looked at them and
said "Hmm, they say; Putto Con" When he said this a gust of wind blew and sand
moved away from the outside of the gate revealing some path rapping around the
gate, not blocked by it. "You mean we could have just gone around!" said William
while tending to his shoulder. "I hate this game." said Damian shaking his head.
