Chapter 3: A New Map
After our heroes continued shouting "Land" a few times, our heroes managed to find some food by killing some seagulls with sticks made by Chel and cooked them in the fire Miguel had made. Then, they eat the cooked seagulls, now grilled chicken. "This is delicious", said the satisfied Tulio, "Miguel and I saw one of them once on a boat before we got to El Dorado. We were about to eat it until a shark ate it, which sucks." "Lucky for us", said Miguel and finishes the last of his chicken, "we've managed to catch some of them. Thanks, Chel. Now we won't be able to starve any longer." "Don't mention it", said Chel and finishes her chicken as well.
Later that night, while Tulio and Chel find big tree leaves from the palm trees and managed to build sleeping bags by folding them and rolling them at the same time, we see Miguel laying his head on a smooth rock and sees the beautiful night stars. Suddenly, noises came and Miguel hears them. He gets up and ran to the palm tree forest without Tulio and Chel noticing before the two started to hug each other and they spoke. "How about you and me watch the beautiful stars together?", asked Chel seductively, "You and me. Together." "That'll be great", said the dazed Tulio and the two lay next to each other, causing the armadillo and Altivo to groan in disgust.
We see Miguel continuing running into the forest until he stops to hear that there is nothing. "Oh, you fool", said Miguel, "You're just hearing things. I gotta back to the others before something bad really happens." Suddenly, he trips on something and falls to the ground and as he turns around, he sees a skeleton holding a beautiful silver looking rolled paper. "Hello", said Miguel, "What's this?" He takes the silver paper out of the skeleton's hand in which it was holding and when he unrolls it, he could not believe his eyes. It wasn't a piece of paper. It's a treasure map to a new city with two beautiful palaces near each other shown on the right side.
Miguel becomes excited and decides to tell Tulio and Chel about it in the morning. So, he puts it inside his long sleeved shirt and runs out of the palm tree forest as quickly as possible. He then sees him still next to each other and Miguel grins happily before he yawns, now tired and goes to sleep, but not before Alvito and the armadillo stared at him suspiciously. "What", said Miguel, "I was trying to find out where the noises were coming from." He goes to sleep after thinking that the map could lead him and the others to the city Miguel dreamt of the other night. The next morning, we see Miguel trying to poke Tulio and Chel in an attempt to wake up.
They woke up a minute later and they saw Miguel's happy face. "What's so happy about, Miguel?", asked Tulio, now curious. "You wouldn't believe me if I tell you and Chel something", said Miguel. "What do you mean?", asked Chel. Then, Miguel tells the two about the silver map he found last night. "Then, I think that this map would lead us to a city from my dream the other night on the boat", explained Miguel. "But, we don't even know what kind of city it is", said Chel. "Maybe not, but this map does", said Miguel and points to the two palaces, "See those two buildings? They're very huge and has beautiful markings on the top and the bottom." Suddenly, the sun shines on the map, causing it to reveal a writing in an ancient language and Tulio and Chel saw it. "Miguel", said Tulio, "There's some kind of message." Then, Miguel looks at it and stood there puzzling and puzzling before he read a word of the ancient language.
"Nahuatl", said Miguel, "What does it mean?" "Who knows?", asked Chel and sighs before dropping to the ground, "I mean, face it. The place in that dream of yours just doens't exist." As Miguel nearly spent three minutes and he finally figured it out after remembering his dream from the other night on the boat. "Of course", said Miguel. "What is it?", asked Tulio. "It all makes sense now", said Miguel, "Nahuatl is a city and it's the only one from my dream. It even has..." "Has what?", asked Chel and stood up. "Treasure", said Miguel, "Loads of beautiful treasure. What else do you think Nahuatl has, Tulio?" "Um...", said Tulio, "How about lovely ladies and for you to find one of them?" "Yes", said Miguel, "But not only that. It has a kingdom and a king as well. Do you know what that means?" "Oh, boy", thought Tulio, "This journey is gonna get even more dangerous than last time."
Then, Chel has finally got it. "That the gods have been there before", said Chel, "So that settles it then. Pack up, guys. We're going to the city and palace at once. Let's follow that trial!" "Another trail that we blaze!", said Miguel, "What do you say, Tulio?" Tulio smiles and finally agreeds. "Let's do this", said Tulio and we cut to later where our heroes have finally packed what they needed: some of the leftover dead seagulls they killed and some of the fruit they found in the forests that lead to the gates to El Dorado. Then, they got on Altivo and Tulio yells, "CHARGE!", causing the horse to neigh loudly and trotting as fast as he could.
Here comes another chapter and I can't believe I'm actually making two chapters at the same day after starting some work on the story. I'm not saying it's a bad thing or something like that, but it's just so surprisingly intense to make two chapters at the same day.