Esteban, Zia and Tao find a map inside a temple that will show them the way to another city of gold, but a hooded man named Zares is also on the trail.

With Zhi's village under attack from pirates, the three heroes must escape. Using a bamboo catapult, they launch themselves over the pirates, but Esteban and Tao are captured.

Esteban and Tao only barely escape the fangs of an alligator when a strange man wielding some kind of magic shows up in the pirate camp. Esteban and the man flee into the forest.