Tulio felt something under him. He was expecting it to be a bed, but I was hard and cold. Beds aren't supposed to feel like that. He opened his eyes, and his vision was blurry for a minute. He looked around and realized he was outside. That was weird. He tried to get up, but felt something restraining him. He looked down and saw ropes around his waist. He'd beed captured. Finally, the sun came out from behind the clouds so he could see better. He was on the cliff that lead down to Shebalba. That was what the people of El Dorado called the spirit world. He looked around him and saw Esmeralda tied to a pole just on the edge of the cliff. He didn't want to yell, but he had to talk loud enough for her to hear him. He was praying that she was alright.

"Esmeralda," he said in a half whisper. She stirred and shook her head. When she looked at him, she gasped.

"Tulio! Oh, thank God. Are you alright? How did you-"

"I'm fine, I'm fine! Listen, we have to find a way out of here. Tzekle-Kan is very dangerous."

"I actually don't think so. Like Pocahontas said, the only power he has is with that thing." She jerked her head to the jaguar in front of the entrance. "If we can find a way to get rid of it, he won't be any match for us. When he got me up here, he didn't know what to do with me so he just tied me up. He doesn't know how to threaten people. He doesn't have anything to sacrifice because there are no gods here."

"Hold on. How do you know all of this?"

"I've been spending a lot of time with Pocahontas. She's so....wise. Anyway, how are we going to do all of this if we're tied up?"

"I don't know yet!"

"Jeez calm down. And you say I'm tense." For that one second Tulio went back to when they were on the boat. She'd had a bad dream, and he gave her a massage. Wow, when he thought back to that, it didn't seem like something he would do. "Hold on a second," she said. She started moving her hands behind her. It looked like she was looking for something in her pocket. She started moving her hands behind her again. Tulio was very confused and thought she looked really weird doing that. Then, he saw the ropes that were binding her fall to the ground. Tulio gave her a surprised look and she held up a knife.

"Where in the world did you get that?"

"I took it from Tzekle-Kan before he knocked me unconcious."

"How did you-"

"I'm a gypsy," she cut him off. "I have my ways." She winked at him. He smiled at her as she cut his ropes. Just as they were walking to the entrance, Tzekle-Kan walked out.

"Trying to escape, are we?"

"Good job, Captian Obvious." Esmeralda was being smart with him. Not a good idea, but she was so sick of him! He swung his hand in the air like he was going to hit her. She was ready to defend herself, but Tulio grabbed his hand before she could.

"You lay one hand on her, and you will be sorry." Her heart skipped a beat. That was so sweet! She couldn't believe someone was actually defending her. If she was in Paris, they would have let her get beaten up.

"And what would you possibly do?" He didn't answer. He supposed that meant he would do nothing. He grabbed Esmeralda by the wrist and walked to the edge of the cliff. She had no idea how strong he was. She was hanging over the cliff, and the only thing holding her up was Tzekle-Kan's hand. She couldn't help it. She let out a terrified scream. After that, everyone was up there. The Chief, Pocahontas, Miguel, and a few other people. He turned around and looked at them. He let out a really creepy laugh and threw Esmeralda on the ground. She rolled a few times on the concrete(trust me, that's really painful).

"Do you all really think you can defeat me." His eyes went green and they heard rumbling behind them. The beast had awakened. The cliff was getting a little crowded, and all of them were kind of nervous about it. As the jaguar was running towards them, it jumped in the air and landed on the cliff. The impact caused the cliff to crack. The part that Tzekle-Kan and Esmeralda were on was about to plunge into the giant swirling whirlpool of death!

"Esmeralda!" Tulio called her name as loud as he could to wake her up. It wasn't fast enough. He saw her fall off the cliff, and he dove over to her to grab her hand. Esmeralda was hanging over the cliff again, and Tulio was holding on with all his strength. Tzekle-Kan was trying to make him let go. He was standing behind him trying to push him down with her. Pocahontas went behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and she punched him square on the nose. The impact caused him to stumble back a bit.

"Nice shot!" said Miguel.

"I think it's time for you to go," she said as she grabbed his shirt. She pushed him off the cliff. The jaguar jumped in after him(stupid rock) and caused Tulio to let go of Esmeralda.

"NO!!!"