The Missing Battle

Having escaped Kohunlich, they returned to their town to prepare for the battle against the town of Calakmul. After much training, strategy planning and other preparations, the time for battle has come. It's finally here, the battle I've been waiting to read. Much time passes though, and nobody appears. Becoming curious, Balam and others go to investigate where the opposing army is. Finding the camp, nobody is there, and everything just seems to be deserted. What? Looking around and finding nobody, the group is about to go back when something appears, a cloud. Not just any cloud, some crazy cloud that strikes down, flashes, and makes people disappear. When this happened to some of the men in the group, Balam thought they had died from the blast. The Serpent Priest though, didn't feel their death, and rather said they had been taken somewhere else. Things now have become more strange..