DINO CRISIS
" I tell you I'm scared, Diego. "Edi
If he had done yet I go around the bench, the gap that had generated walking in a circle would probably swallowed. And this was not the last of which was able to invent ways to externalize their anxiety over their neighbors to the dressing room.
The team had endured for a while '- the bare minimum, actually - but when he started using at the wrong ones two words that he learned playing in the Sicilian Palermo, interspersed with curses of dubious origin Uruguayans, no one had been more willing to listen.
One by one they were paraded before Forlan clapping him on the shoulder as a sign of support.
"It 's all yours," he commented, Maxi, laughing a bit'.
Diego had seen them out one by one, longing to be able to do the same thing, but there was not even to think about it. By Edi who complained continuously for twenty minutes, he could only do two things: listen to him with polite interest, or listen to him devoting all the attention he could muster. In both cases, Edi would still complain because, according to its point of view, you have not listened carefully enough. Diego was beginning to believe that when Maria Soledad had entrusted him with such diligence prior to departure for the World Cup in South Africa, taking care to download them to walk her four suitcases and then run away quickly, he did more to get rid of that not for the sadness of knowing far more than a month.
"Diego, you're not listening to me."
Forlan sighed and rubbed the towel on his head was missing just forget to dry the hair with cold There was the semi-finals and then jump to the head tilt. "Yes, I'm listening. Do you think Ghanaians are doing satanic rituals in their locker room and we should alert the police. "
" The army, "she corrected Cavani.
"Why did not the Holy Inquisition?" Diego combed his hair back and smiled to defuse.
"Not you're taking it seriously," protested the other. "On these things do not mess around."
Diego sighed. One thing worse than Edi Edi was complaining that he could not throw a joke. It was that kind of team-mate who ended up being a headache because you did not do your smiles of encouragement. "Let's Edi, do not overdo it. They'll be just trying to pull in high spirits, after they lost. "
Cavani folded his arms to his chest. "You celebrate when you lose."
"Generally not. Maybe they prefer to get drunk and dance rather than sit in a corner to cry on. I'll tell you, I find a good philosophy. "Edi
but did not seem convinced and snorted. "If you do not believe me now get dressed and come there with me. When you see what they're doing, then you also want to call the army. "
" I doubt it, Edi. "
Although still partially damp hair and lifted his shirt under the sweatshirt, Diego was mercilessly dragged through the corridors the stadium, the locker room at a time adversary from whom, in fact, came a strange noise. "Hear that?" He pointed immediately Edi, peremptory.
There was no doubt of the drums, and he said, even if their hearing of vuvuzela had not been irreparably compromised by an almost constant tinnitus caused by listening to those of continuous damn horns. Now she felt even hum when in fact it was not there. "Yes," he admitted. "But it seems to me music. Nothing but music. They're celebrating. "
" They have cocks blacks, see for yourself! "Protested Edi, opening the door just enough to prove his theories about the catastrophic human sacrifices. "Galli blacks know what it means and means voodoo voodoo? Black Magic! Curses and spells! "
Indeed, the Ghanaian scene inside the dressing room was at least misunderstood. The benches were all leaning against the walls to make room for the center, where he was been set up that you could not describe that as an altar. But then it was so absurd that an explanation would there be to force another. Forlan had never believed that once you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable is the truth. It was more inclined to believe that if the apparent truth was impossible, then you had deleted a bit 'too much. "I think you will be left to take from superstition, Edi."
"I am not superstitious at all," he hissed in the ear so much, pausing only for that moment the rattle of rosary hysterically. "And take this, you never know," he added, passing a second
rosary in his pocket for that circumstance.
Diego is the root of the nose pliers and used the rosary to rub his temples. "Maybe it's just a traditional post-match Ghanaian ...." tried. But when he opened his eyes, Sulley, wearing a kind of sofa cover two meters long and interwoven by a color-blind, took a poor black cock with skill and guts with a knife without a second. Diego raised an eyebrow and swallowed. "A tradition full of blood and guts of dead birds, maybe ..."
Edinson his side increased the speed of diction.
Diego grabbed his wrist and dragged him away from the door. "Come on, let's go on."
the last moment, before finally turning around, Sulley crossed his eyes and smiled.
* Diego was sure that he went to sleep because I remember perfectly that he hailed Suarez briefly before entering the room and that the latter had wished him good night. He was sure that he went to Edinson sleep because he had woken up three times almost mad by insisting that Sulley continue to appear in a dream, laughing like a maniac. She had to physically bring him into her bed, tuck and ensure that no Ghanaian who played for Inter would hurt that night.
was certain he had spent the night in his hotel room, so she did not understand how he could now be relaxed under a tree and how it is possible, opening my eyes that morning, the first thing he saw was blue sky and mackerel clouds.
was initially thought to be dreaming, it was something you can count that his sleep was more and again disturbed and therefore possibly suffered from some external influence, but he was thinking too much because this thing was not real.
sighed, rubbing his eyes to ward off drowsiness. Now it so happened in the past that he had drunk so much to celebrate a win by suddenly falling asleep anywhere, even far away from his bed, but there was talk of so much time before, which is suspected of touching the decade. He had a certain age now, drinking left him to break up the kids.
Yet it was lying under a mangrove swamp in the middle of bushes unidentified and, judging by the expanse of green that you crossroads at the eye in every direction, was dispersed into thin air.
If there was one thing worse than waking up in the middle God only knows what the park in his pajamas, was waking up in the middle God only knows what the park without wearing pajamas, but the tightness of his country. And he certainly did not go to sleep dressed like that.
Diego ran a hand through his hair and retrieved automatically from the wrist band with which he held them back in the game. It was obvious that someone had made a joke, there was no other explanation.
The first thing to do was figure out where he was, then back to the hotel and find out who was the fool among his team-mates had seen fit to pull him away from his bed at night to download it in the middle of a field dressed in blue. He had no idea of what he would do to this person, once you understand who he was, but hoped to be able to find a new utility to its trusty tennis racket.
take the first path that could make out and walked trying to speculate. Cavani was excluded a priori because one who celebrated the passage to the quarterfinals in suits did not like jokes - and then going into the jungle where they live sorcerers? Ever! - Lugano and also could be deleted from the list of suspects because, however not withstanding Forlan, had much less goliardic methods to express their resentment. Maxi and Suarez, however, so those who were appropriate candidates. It was two balls and one who was to blame in the locker room for a stupid joke, as they always were.
While convinced that must have been their own, those obtained by running a clump of trees just ahead. "Diego!" Maxi yelled as soon as he saw it, as if they had been away for years when they had seen more than six hours before.
"Then you're alive!" Said Suarez, equally shocked.
Both remained motionless in the middle of the lane, his eyes wide and watery eyes so that Diego was afraid for a moment that would have started crying. But we fell: Good, yes, stupid no.
"Of course I'm alive!" Protested "And you two idiots. What you will be taken here in the lurch in the middle of a. .. a. .. to this place, whatever it is! "
But the answer came as the two threw themselves on him, squeezing it as if it were about to disappear at any moment. The face did not already own alarm clock Pereira was not a pretty sight when he was overwhelmed with emotion. And yes, tears. "You can know what you take them both?" Said Forlan, upset. It was not so sure that it was a joke. Not when Luis embraced him as you would not have him go. Among other things, exactly the same as they were high, having her moist sobs that broke directly in his ears was not a great experience here.
Diego stroked his head with both making half-hearted, hoping that this simple gesture was enough to staccarseli both off and, thank God, it was so. "Okay, now you begin to scare me, seriously. We are all addicts while I was not there or are you crazy? Because if this is the second case is perhaps a virus, and I would avoid taking it. "
" We do not know what happened, "Maxi tried to compose himself, wiping the tears of joy. "We met here all of a sudden."
"All who?"
"The team," says the defender, but accompanied him off the path and then through the trees from which, apparently, he and Suarez were sticking out. "We woke up here."
Diego followed them more and more perplexed up to a small clearing beyond the trees, which opened at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. Sitting a bit 'where it happened, the players
de La Celeste looked around bewildered. For a moment, Forlan again contemplated the idea of a joke, but it was not possible that all were so good at acting so as to make credible the expressions on their backs. And then, to think of it, in order to get that so much effort to pull it stupid? It made no sense.
"Hey! Look who We found it! "Maxi shouted, waving his arms to attract attention.
eyes of his teammates went wide with surprise and, apparently, for the relief when it came to rest on him. It all came to clap on the shoulder and ask him where he was, who sought him for hours. "We found a few hundred meters from here."
"What happened?" He asked Victorino, making space among others.
Diego shook his head. "Actually I was hoping you told me you. I was convinced it was a joke and that you had all agreed.
"No, when we opened our eyes, we were lying on the ground. "
" What place is? "
Maxi shrugged and shook his head. "We have no idea. If you look over the cliff, you do not see nothing but sea for who knows how many miles. "
" We can not be too far from Johannesburg, "he reasoned.
"It 's what we thought, but ..." Maxi pointed to the jungle around them, the sea, the horizon seemed distant. "I do not remember them so me around the city."
Diego nodded. "We need to understand where we are, first of all."
"Do not tell me" said Lugano, moving a few leaves carelessly and appearing on their right, with a stick in his hand and knee still bandaged after suffered the blow during the game the day before. "What do you think we were doing while you were asleep?"
Diego sighed. "I see that we're all here."
At his side, Suarez cleared his throat, but then looked in his face when Forlan turned to him. All began to shop around looking very busy and the group began to creep a general attitude of not-for-you-tell them. "Well," asked the attacker. Suarez
Someone pushed forward against his will. The first man looked back with regret and then, like it or not, she sighed. "We can not find Edi, Diego."
"he must be here somewhere."
Suarez shook his head. "Those are times that try, but we found only you."
Lugano pointed to the direction from which he had just arrived. "I also in this sort of jungle for at least two miles and there is nothing to begin with, even a house. Less than ever Cavani. "
" Maybe everyone has brought us here, did not lead him, "suggested Muslera, trying to be optimistic.
"Why us and not him?" Churches Lugano.
"Maybe he is behind all this," Gargano realized.
Lugano laughed. "No, I would say not. If so, would not the big hero here, "he spat out, pointing with Forlan a nod. "I say that if I ate wild boar."
"Wild" asked Arevalo, his voice does not really stop. "You say that there are wild boar?"
"Or maybe the brontosaurus," came the voice of dreamy Muslera.
Lugano turned to the door with a look so disgusted that he could disintegrate even looking at him. "First, brontosaurs became extinct long before the great-grandfather of your grandfather wanted you in the yard. Secondly, they were herbivores. "
" Apparently even their are aware of extinction, "ruled Muslera, pointing at arm's length behind them.
The whole team turned around to see the tops of the trees sprout from the head of a creature at least eight or nine feet high. "What the hell is that?" Said Lugano upset, mind the steps of the creature were vibrating the ground beneath their feet.
"I told you, is a brontosaurus," he repeated Muslera fascinated. "Real name Apatosauro, the family of Diplodocus."
"I would rather have the wild boar," of Suarez.
"let us take off from here, is coming on our side," said Forlan, pushing everyone to move to the side, just as the dinosaur trampled on the ground a few dozen yards away. Fernando grabbed that had not moved an inch and pulled him with others. "Come on!"
"It's beautiful," asked the porter, making lead away, his eyes fixed on the dinosaur.
the first four tall brontosaurus followed that, one after another, past the tree line and settled quietly in the clearing and ruminants than a minute was their first. The boys burrow alongside each other at a safe distance, the more shocked than frightened. With the exception of their goalkeeper who would likely encounter during the brontosaurus, happily embrace, if only Forlan had the left arm. "They're dinosaurs," he hissed Lugano. "Fucking dinosaurs."
"If nothing else, we determined that this is not Johannesburg," said Victorino, looking for a pretext to cling to logic rather than start running in circles, waving his arms, that was something not exactly manly from his point of view.
"Yes, but where we are, then?" Churches Lugano.
"I ask, rather, when we are. Those animals should not exist, "he reasoned Maxi.
"In the movie about dinosaurs, there was a researcher-"
"Shit, this is not a movie!" Chimed in Lugano. "It 's the reality, because I'm not playing and I sincerely hope that you're doing it. So, unless that thing is not made of iron and plastic, it's true. If it is true, we must get out of here. "
"Why?" Churches Muslera.
"Because if we are the brontosaurus, maybe there are carnivores," said Lugano, but got no other effect than to make your eyes sparkle even more of the tiny door. "No even know why I replied."
"But maybe they are really fake," ventured Arevalo, continuing to hope that in reality they were actually watching a group of wild boars, but they saw them because of some brontosaurs drugs to which they were subjected without their knowledge during the dinner the day before.
"Want to go to a closer look?" He asked Lugano. Arevalo was silent, as expected. "The sensible thing to do is get out of here."
"I agree," nodded Forlan, turning finally to the group behind him. "But first we must find Edi."
"Finding Cavani?" Churches Lugano. "Cavani is probably still in his room to rattle off her rosary."
"Maybe, maybe not," said the attacker, "but around here there are also meat eaters as you say, then we do not go there until we are sure that he is not in danger."
"And where do you put our security ? "The Lugano did this.
"We would do the same thing for you,
captain," said Forlan.
Lugano stared a long time, but then gave up. "Let's move."
* order to understand where they were, the first thing to do was to reach a high place and get a clear idea of the place. Lugano had seen a hill in the distance during the formation lap that led him alone, so they headed in that direction, Captain with Forlan and Suarez to open the line to close it. Muslera had been placed in the middle, in order to Forlan, because he kept stopping every few steps to try and hoping to see half a brontosaurus's paw.
They reached their goal about halfway through the afternoon and once at the top of the hill, the first thing they did was throw himself on the ground in four of clubs to catch my breath, as Forlan was so good as opposed to stay for two minutes before they arrived where they were coming. In comparison Tabarez to him was a piece of butter.
"See anything?" Churches Suarez, turning her head in the direction of his friend.
Forlan looked around, get a hand to shade his eyes. "It 's an island," he said.
"What?" Said Suarez, rolling on his stomach and then getting hard. Around them lay a thick mangrove jungle, but beyond that, just sand and sea everywhere they looked.
"It is not possible," someone murmured. "Johannensburg is located in the hinterland."
"And the dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago," said Abreu, who had been her long hair matted and woven leaves the queue which had done in an attempt to keep them in order. "Perhaps it's to review what we know about this situation."
"How do we find Edi?" Churches Suarez, turning to look at Forlan to his left. "This place is huge. It could be anywhere. "
" If there is, "said Lugano, approaching. "We are not sure that he's done here in the jungle. Maybe now if he is laughing behind our backs. "
" No, it's here, "said Diego, who continued to scan the horizon, blue eyes lost in the distance, as if he saw something that eluded them completely.
"And what makes you think? Smell the scent, are you? "Churches Lugano ironic. "Or maybe it's a telepathic bond between strikers? You feel it too, Luis? "
Suarez spared to respond, because of allegations of Lugano and the way he had done enough to want to to pass it through the first carnivorous dinosaur that would have met. All the way up to it had done nothing but complain about the hot weather, insects, the fact that objectively they were walking into thin air, and probably to nowhere at all. Nothing new compared to any training day but for some reason, was even more exhausting and struggled with breaking down the foliage sticks of luck.
"Whatever happened, we're all in," said Forlan, finally turning to look at the captain. When they were next was disturbing to note how they were incredibly similar. "So there must be too. "
Lugano did not seem convinced. "What ...?"
" Well, he's right, "Suarez said, frowning. "There are also reserves!" He stretched his arm towards a group of boys all close to each other that they looked even more out of place around them. "Edinson necessarily have to be."
"According to this logic, the coach would have to be there," pointed out Lugano.
"But the coach is not a player," Muslera murmured.
"We are losing sight of the main problem," he pointed out Victorino, deciding that was enough and that he had been sitting in front of a group of balls, led by a madman and Forlan who clearly would have preferred to go alone Edinson search and leave them all there until he had found. On the one hand it could also understand it, it was difficult to suit everyone. Especially Lugano that was a mission to go against anyone who does not recognize the authority. And Diego, his goodness, did his best to recognize it without success. It was a natural gift to have more charisma than anyone else in there. But it was also a curse. A chicken has only one rooster, one team captain. And Victorino, like everyone else, I just hope they decide quickly which of them should carry the armband. "Whether or not there is or why there should be, is not very important. We have already decided to believe there is. Well, cerchiamolo. Which way? "Widened his eyes in an obvious attempt to tell him to make a move. He was willing to risk their lives, provided they did not stay still sitting there being eaten by mosquitoes as big as a golden eagle chicks.
"I would say to go in that direction, "concluded Forlan, pointing to a rock group practice on the other side of the island. It was huge and round and comes out of the forest like a giant bald head.
"Why?" Churches Lugano, skeptical.
"Why is there that my way if I were alone and did not know where I am," he said.
"Ah, well ..." he sighed
Forlan. "Amid a sea of trees, that is the only recognizable place on the island. At least I'd be in a conspicuous place. "
"And we could follow the Triceratops!" Muslera jumped up, pointing to a long line of those huge beasts that are headed in the right direction.
The whole team looked up to heaven.
* "You know that Triceratops were herbivores? You would not think, given their appearance, and instead it is! "Muslera had opened his mouth when they are put back into gear and now that they walked for about an hour and a half, had not yet closed. "A male specimen can be up to 9 feet and weigh 9 tons!"
Suarez inspired so strong as to be even louder, but could not do much more: they had only one goalie worthy of its name and indeed was what he was babbling for hours. Delete it was beyond question. We expected a semi-final against the Netherlands - he was certain they would return in time to play - and could not possibly play without Fernando.
"They have three horns," meanwhile, was continuing the goalkeeper, regardless of looks bored, murder and generally wishing the death of his companions. "Two supraorbital, which means above the eyes, and a smaller one over the nose. In addition, and this is very interesting, the Triceratops is the sworn enemy of the T-Rex, so if by chance we were to meet now a Tyrannosaurus ... "
" We will give you feed it, so maybe shut up, "muttered ; Abreu, planting in the ground the stick he used to walk with a little 'more force than necessary.
"I was just trying to pass the time in a meaningful manner," pouted Muslera. He would have liked to have a couple of pockets that fit the hands, so, in the absence of those, he merely crossed his arms to his chest like a child of two years.
He enjoyed the silence for a few minutes and stopped just earned only by the sound of heavy footsteps of the dinosaurs before them, then Suarez went up the column from the bottom to reach Forlan who was leading as usual, had not said a word and looking very thoughtful.
"Diego?"
"Tell me."
"I got an idea of how it is possible that we are here," said Luis. Forlan had waited for some kind of reaction, possibly surprise since he was very proud to have had the brilliant idea that was going to expose, but merely Diego to look at him and told him to continue.
Suarez cleared his throat. "I think it is a curse," whispered the plan.
Forlàn preferì non rispondere, soprattutto perché nell'ultima mezz'ora gli era tornato in mente Edi; non che se ne fosse mai veramente andato dalla sua testa, ma ora c'era comparso di prepotenza con il rosario in mano as when he insisted that players with repeat of Ghana were doing satanic rituals in their dressing room. Only Forlan who refused to believe that Sulley would have them cursed. First he did not believe it was possible
and secondly that Ghanaian
it was capable. It was a commonplace. How can we believe that all Italians know to make pizza at home. Do not know was that every Ghanaian to make voodoo only because he was from Ghana. Sulley Muntari was a football player. Point. Whatever happened, certainly was not behind him.
"If you think about it," he was saying while Luis "is all perfectly logical. Someone wants to hurt us and sends us into this godforsaken jungle and leave us here to rot among the dinosaurs. All die. "
The entire column of men stopped in front all'esclamazione perhaps a bit 'too high and looked Suarez Forlan with him and frightened eyes.
"We lacked even if what makes him," hissed Lugano.
From the group of men rose a murmur and some blasphemy. "She will not die no one," said Forlan, watching them all one by one, including Suarez who read their accounts that look to do next.
"There are tyrannosaurs," said someone present.
"We will avoid thanks to ..." Diego turned to Muslera.
"Triceratops," suggested smug and proud of the goalkeeper.
"Behold, the Triceratops," the striker nodded. "They know where the danger and avoids it."
Diego waited until everyone had absorbed the news and then, among other things, they had the idea to ask questions and maybe ask again as were over there.
It was not a curse. Sulley had nothing to do and as soon as he put his hands on Edinson, he would have strangled himself with the rosary of Our Lady of Medjugorje as a punishment for having stuck his head in even the suspicion.
* The huge storage rock turns out to be more massive than they had originally thought, in the sense that when you came in they realized they could not turn around within a few hours as they had thought but it would take at least a day. Also, if they were easily convinced to be able to go up, think again because they had found themselves in front of a wall as smooth as glass and inaccessible from any point of view. Lugano is not spared to comment on an idea that had been tremendous and could now also see to camp there because it was dark, and certainly could not continue the exploration.
The boys gathered firewood and organized to create a bed for the night as best they could, that is bad because in twenty, so far as no one had ever done and camping in the last six years of their lives, more or less, had not slept in more than four-star hotels . In the end, a bit 'out of desperation, a bit' to avoid making further ridiculous facing each other, they decided to lay on the ground some huge tree leaf they could find around here and pretend to be comfortable.
Within a few minutes, most of them fell asleep in a deep sleep with such a snore more or less annoying, but Diego could not close my eyes or not wanted. Suarez came up beside him as he sat in front of the fire that had miraculously managed to turn it on and looked at him with the darkness of the jungle that is the crossroads at. For a time 'was silent, not knowing where to begin to engage in the discourse, much less what to do with speech accuracy. He thought that films were often seen such scenes, and people had so many profound things to say in front of a campfire at night, but his head was empty and even if there was something inside that you circled, certainly was not a deep question.
Diego, of course, did not help. In general had always been a silent type, the kind that after preferred to have won something to celebrate rather than trumpeting chest shouting, and in fact took him all around because he was always naked, but now the situation had deteriorated. If it was not involved in organizing the research or try to avoid Lugano, stood in silence, watching somewhere in front of him and was not at all easy to talk to him in this way.
"It's hot here, right?" He began Suarez, in the most possible wrong, probably.
Diego nodded, becoming vaguely aware of the error.
Suarez cleared his throat. "Hey Diego ..."
"If you still suggest the story of the curse, I beg you to postpone at least until tomorrow morning," I immediately stopped, turned toward him with a look tired and his eyelids at half mast. "I do not think we can discuss at this time."
"No, no," he hastened to say Surez. "I just wondered ... what are we really sure that Edison is here? "
Diego took a deep breath.
"Diego, I know that you care to Edi, all we want, damn, but if we find out that we are turning empty and we are losing precious time?" The she pointed out. "Today we ate only a couple of mangoes and some pineapple. How do you think dureremo this without bite to the throat? We do not know camp! "
" Once you start looking Muslera like a Creole dish of beef, then I'll stop, "he smiled Diego Suarez but since it did not seem as amused, he returned almost immediately serious. "He's here somewhere. I know. "
" How do you know? "
" I just know, Luis, "insisted Forlan. "I tell you that I I feel in my stomach? I do not know how that works, but I know it's there. How do I know whether or not to sleep in the bed next to my hotel, without waking up. I just know. "
Suarez raised both hands in surrender. Rule number one: never giving up on the field. Rule number two: never mention the possibility of leaving Diego Forlan Edinson Cavani in the middle of a jungle full of dinosaurs. Now he knew. "Okay, okay. I did not mean that I want to let it die ... "
" Luis will not die-"
" No, I know, " Suarez nodded eagerly. "I'm just saying there may not be."
Diego looked bad, very bad. Bad as you can look at a person who never looks bad no one and then eventually decide to do so.
"But there is," he corrected himself immediately Suarez. "Why is your liver so he says, and I want to believe in your liver. But at least we have a plan? An idea? In short, you wanted to come here and we're here, but ... "
Diego pointed to the rock mass behind them. "Circumvent this kind of hill-morrow, and we'll see how it goes."
"Uh, well," Suarez nodded, not at all convinced, but not inclined to want to insist.
"We'll find him," insisted Diego.
The next morning, more than one team had a very large group of people with back pain. They should not have it, of course, because they trained every day, they were hypothetically elastic and tonic, but two reservations and Abreu could not straighten his neck so numb that he could only look on the right. Muslera, however, seemed to have lost none of his enthusiasm and the first thing he did was go directly from Forlan asking for information, totally ignoring Lugano who was standing right there next to it, with its beautiful yellow band from captain to soar on the pale blue shirt.
Diego explained the situation as he had explained to Suarez. Someone even suggested to divide, but it seemed a good idea. Not when the Triceratops had left long before they woke up, leaving them at the mercy of carnivores. It was better to stay together.
around the rocky promontory, which at times looked like a mountain and at times it was beautiful and green as the hills they had left behind, it took longer than expected, of course, because even Diego - In the guise of the great leader - he had no idea what it took to move from one place to another if there was no talk of football fields or tennis courts. So at lunchtime were still half way and were not to lose further slowing Muslera, who had insisted on climbing a tree and look closer at a flying dinosaur.
"It 'a pterodactyl!" She cried without even seeing him. He had enough to hear the cawing in the distance. Ran towards the nearest tree, had taken over the huge hands and then began to climb, regardless of everything and everyone, but especially time that they were losing and the possibility of falling from a tree, killing six meters high.
The huge beast had passed over their heads, making a shadow on the group while not overly large, accepted by the group of curses and surprised by the senseless and embarrassing squeak Muslera, hanging from the branch like a monkey. "You know," began soon after, as he followed the flight of the animal in the sky, "that people use the word to denote all the dinosaurs pterodactyl flying, but in reality is just one of the Pterodactyl many flying dinosaurs? To indicate a general, one should say pterosaur. "
"Get it off!" He screamed at that point Lugano, pointing to his door with a wooden stick somewhat threatening. "Get it off of there or I pull it down with stones," the same Forlan and Suarez
hasten to carry out the order, helping Muslera to return to the ground without crashing head. Lugano, a short distance, it was so tense and angry that seemed on the verge of bursting head. For this they realized that maybe it was all better get a move on. Finally, after hours of walking and Forlan that make you go every ten minutes so that he collapsed on the first rock filled with moss available, reached the opposite side of the mountain, before whom indulged exhausted and ready to beg Forlan to leave them there and go alone to kill them all, if necessary, but not to make them walk more ;.
Diego there dropped to the ground one by one as he watched the new edge of the rock and found that it was not as smooth as the other and that there were caves. Two higher, about ten meters high, and a lower, larger than the other two.
"Forget it," addressed him Lugano, get behind.
"It 's a place where it makes sense to look at," answered Diego, his arms crossed on his chest and looking closely to assess how feasible it was to climb the rock above the caves.
"It 's a dangerous place. We do not know what is in there. "
" We may have Edi, "said Forlan.
"Or it could be one of the beasts that like so much to Muslera," said Lugano. "We risk to go in there and leave it to pieces."
"Why you have to be so catastrophic? "
" Because you're crazy, that's why! "said Lugano. Now they were the only two standing in the team and, as usual, were fighting. "You like to be a hero but we are many here, there is only your Edi. And if I'm still the captain of the team, and apparently it is because the band is still here on my arm, the kids will not move from here. "
" I can remember that Edison is part of the team? & Rdquo ;
"I can remember is that perhaps Cavani still at home? "
Suarez, lying on the ground, rolled first one way then the other, moaning loudly. "Mom, Dad, you stop fighting, please?" He took them around. "What we do not want any more?"
Lugano sent him to hell, and Diego could not help but laugh, but before he could again groped to explain its reasons, called them Muslera ; uncertainly.
"Um, guys?" The two
Diego turned simultaneously and found that the goalkeeper she gestured to them to reach a few feet away. Obeyed him just because he was better than being there to fight. "What?"
"Look."
Moving a bit 'farther from the rocky outcrop in front of which were found, the view changed completely and that a moment before had appeared as a hill , was in reality a giant skull with two rock caverns for eyes and a mouth. Lugano made the sign of the cross.
"It 's a skull," said Muslera.
"Or at least it seems. It 's just a coincidence, " Forlan snapped, pulling away before he did Muslera panic, or before seeing some other prehistoric creature. But he was not in time for the others came.
"It 's a skull!" He repeated someone.
"It 's a curse," Suarez came to the office. "You see, Diego?"
Diego sighed. "Okay, now calm down," he said, waiting for everyone did silence before continuing. "That's not a skull and this is not a curse. Curses do not exist and nobody would have ever bothered to sculpt the rock shaped like a skull, is not it? "
" Yes, but ... "
" You can not deny that it could be dangerous. & Rdquo ;
"I do not deny, Sebastian, but I do not want to leave no stone unturned," said Forlan.
Lugano, left again at the edge of the circle that had formed, cleared his throat and then, not content, he climbed on a rock nearby and demanded the attention of everyone. "Diego," he said, directly addressing to Forlan. "I understand what drives you and, believe me, I understand. Everyone will understand, but here's the good of the team at stake. Take yesterday's game, you follow me? I had to leave. I did not want, but I had to because they did not do enough. Often the desire of a player takes a back seat than the whole team. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a comrade. "
" No, wait, "Suarez raised his arm and found the strength to even stand up. "You're not saying that to you once on the bench, has the same weight to leave a teammate in the clutches of the dinosaurs, I hope. "
" We do not know if Cavani is actually here, "pointed out Lugano.
"But you have the same weight," Suarez insisted. "So if I leave you here now because you're a pain in the ass so that the entire team can hear you snorting avoid every four steps and then get more serene to the semifinals, we would be perfectly justified because they would do for the good of
team. "
" No, you do not follow me ... "
" Go Diego, "Suarez said, and ignored Lugano a nod to Forlan. "Recovery and Edi leviamoci here. I'll give you a hand. "
" I'm coming, "he offered Muslera, throwing a dirty look in Lugano, which obviously did not fear anyone but took a bit 'as a surprise considering that, up to that time, was all enthusiasm and screams. Maxi, Arevalo and Victorino followed them with a wheel gun, which had been virtually silent until that moment when he opened his mouth and made him to send to that country Lugano.
Forlan thanked them all with a smile, and six had ventured into the cave.
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