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.