Climb Giant Jack:
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Y/N and Robin broke their hug and turned to stare out at the impressive City of Gold.
"Hey Robin," Y/N spoke up, "Do you mind if I leave you here?"
"Mr. One Eye, this is an ancient city that's over four hundred years old," Robin reminded him. "This is an opportunity for us to learn untold secrets about a civilization that existed centuries before we did."
"I understand that," Y/N said, "And I'm happy that I could help you find something that means so much to you. But like I told you earlier when we fought that mountain guy... I'm standing next to what's most valuable to me in this entire city. You're in your element, so I know you'll be perfectly safe if I leave you down here. But I've got six other Nakama that I can't say the same thing for. I want to make sure they're okay, so I'm going to go climb that beanstalk and see if I can find any of them. We'll meet up afterwards and you can sum up everything that you found down here. That's a history lesson that I'd love to hear."
"Very well," Robin agreed. Y/N nodded then turned and started to head back into the building that they'd come down through. "Y/N..." Y/N stopped in his tracks at the sound of Robin actually calling him by his name and turned back to face her. "Thank you. Thank you for going out of your way to help me find this. It means more to me than you'll ever know."
"Happy to do it, Robin," Y/N replied. "Have fun."
Robin flashed him a fond smile and he darted off into the ruin. Robin made herself a chain of arms and lowered herself down to the ground and began her exploration of the ancient city.
Robin stopped and peered into a dark room and spotted something that was seemingly out of place in the ancient city.
"It can't be!" Robin exclaimed. She darted into the room and stopped to stare up a dark stone structure that had some familiar symbols carved into it. "These are the symbols of the Poneglyphs. And this means that the ancient Shandians were familiar with them. I had thought that only the people who had created the Poneglyphs could read them..." Robin began to decipher the ancient written language that only she could read. "'We shall know the true meaning an utter it to no one. It's our legacy to be the inheritors of history with the sounding of the Grand Belfry.'" Robin stopped and her sharp mind analyzed what she just read. "Noland's old log book said something about the sound of a bell. If the Shandians were familiar with these symbols that can only be because they had seen a Poneglyph before. All the city's ancient writing were destroyed in a fire but my instincts tell me that they were familiar with these symbols because there was a Poneglyph here in the city. It could still be here."
Robin headed out of the dark room and started down the main road. She took the time to marvel at the ancient city around her. It was truly an archeologist's dream.
"There's no question about it," Robin stated, "A Poneglyph was carried into the city and it faced great hostility as a result." Robin's trained eyes scanned the buildings as they went passed. "Shandora, the ancient city fought and fell to protect that Poneglyph. The Grand Belfry is in the middle of the Four Altars... the Poneglyph must be there. That Poneglyph could contain the text of what I've been searching for all my life... the True History. It could be the Rio Poneglyph!"
Robin's face lit up with as she followed the path towards what could be the answer to an age-old question and her life-long dream.
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An hour remained in Eneru's sick Survival Game. Twenty-three people remained. For Eneru's horrifying prediction of seven survivors to be accurate another sixteen people had to fall.
