Chapter 1
It has now been five months since Alex (Alexandrea) had left England and her job as a butt-kicking police detective to spend more time with her 'cousin' and help his Egyptian guardians defeat their enemies in San Francisco and at least six months since she finally found her six friends after being separated for eight years.
Although they get to hang around malls, play games and learn lots of cool Egyptian stuff from the guardians, strangely enough, Alex and her friends were starting to get bored with their lives in San Francisco.
"Hey guys, do any of you feel…well…bored?" Alex asked her friends who were all watching T.V. while eating popcorn at their big apartment. She was wearing a black top with a panther design on it, black jeans, black leather boots and a black leather jacket.
"Yeah, bored to tears!" Raven shouted with a gloomy face. She was wearing an ocean blue top, a pair of navy blue jeans, blue leather boots and a light blue denim jacket. "What should we do you guys?
"Oh I know, we can go to 'Netherland' and see Peter Pan and Wendy," Eddie joked. He was wearing a red hoody, red trousers and orange sport shoes and was petting Blaze, his magical falcon.
"Yeah but we always have to sneak past the scary pirates," Raven sarcastically said with an even gloomier face.
"You know what we should do, we should go out and do something exciting and adventurous," Alex said while stroking Gigi her black cat.
"Yeah like go to the zoo, or the aquarium!" Katelyn then said with a big smile on her face. She was wearing a green top, dark green jeans, green boots and a red jacket. Instead of an answer, they all just stared blankly at her. "What?"
"No you guys, I mean like going to some other part of the world and have fun over there," Alex explained.
"You mean leave San Francisco?" Kyle asked while playing with his 'Gameboy'. He was wearing a white top with an ice crystal design on it, blue jeans with a snow crystal design on each leg, white sport shoes and a blue denim jacket.
"Yeah, I mean because we're like so bored now since we've quit our jobs, defeated that old 'Beetle-head' and saved the world; we hardly go out anywhere," she explained to them. "I think it's time to have some fun!"
"Well you do have a point I guess and plus there are malls all around the word calling my name!" Raven while in a dreamy state.
"And plus, we could fight more crimes again and learn to make more scientific experiments!" Riley said looking all excited. She was wearing a black top with a yin/yang symbol on it, white jeans, black boots and a black jacket.
"And learn more new languages and about other people's culture," Amber said now thinking about it. She was wearing a white top with a yin/yang symbol on it, black jeans, white boots and a white jacket.
"And hack into more top-secret files," Eddie said since he just loved hacking into computers. "Long as I don't get caught by the police and get put in the slammer!"
"And play on new video games," Kyle shouted gleefully.
"And learn some more new fighting skills; I might even learn meditation," Alex said who was sitting down on the sofa and cleaning her Egyptian knives.
"MEDITATION!" her friends shouted with shock.
"Well as you all well know I've been getting restless at night because of all these same nightmares and I sometimes get a lot of stress," she said to them truthfully.
Ever since Alex came to San Francisco, she's been having the same nightmares of what had happened to her eight years ago when she and her friends were fighting this evil wizard named Sarnamain early in the morning. They almost succeeded in defeating him until he used his magic to push her over the cliff, making her fall into the sea.
Luckily, she did survive (since she's allergic to water) but was found by fishermen who found her floating in the water at the coast of England. Seeing that she was still alive but unconscious, they took her to a hospital where she was in a coma for three days. When she woke up at the hospital, she had no memory of her past or who she was. Since the people at the hospital couldn't find any record of her, she ended up being put in an orphanage and ended up being adopted a few days later by two lovely couples who gave her the name 'Stephanie' and raised her for five years before they died from a terrible car accident. Her friends thought that she was dead until eight years later when they met each other in a theatre in Hollywood.
"I say you think too much about the past Alex, just let it go will you!" Gigi complained while licking herself clean.
"That's why I should take meditation or something so I could calm myself and try to forget about the past even though it's quite hard to do that," Alex explained.
"Yeah good idea Alex; and another good thing about going somewhere is that we might be able to camp out in the woods and sleep under the stars," Katelyn said with that dreamy look.
"Yeah I don't think so," Amber said with a look of disgust. "We prefer staying in a hotel."
"But why!?" Katelyn asked looking really disappointed.
"BECAUSE WE HATE THE WOODS!" they all shouted at her.
"All right you guys, all right! No need to shout out loud!" she shouted back looking annoyed. "So when should we go then?"
"How about tonight?" Alex asked the others. "We could start packing this afternoon and leave around seven."
"But what about the others, shouldn't we tell them that we're leaving before we go off," Raven asked who liked the idea of going but not liking to leave without saying goodbye.
"Don't worry about that, we'll say goodbye to them before we actually hit road," Alex said while rolling her eyes.
"Though wouldn't they think that it's kinda weird that we're leaving in such a hurry and what about the guardians, wouldn't they be a bit upset that you're leaving since you are the Guardian of Basss…yeah what the heck was that dam cat goddess's name again?" Katelyn asked while trying to think hard on the name.
The other just rolled their eyes, shook their head and smiled slightly to each other before looking towards their friend. They've never met anyone like her and that's what they liked about her, though she's sometimes has help them out when they are in trouble. Katelyn was more of the strong 'silent' type since she was pretty strong when it came to fighting though hardly talked much and was mostly not very bright in some cases but she still had a kind heart and was kind to all people, animals and plants. She was excellent when it came to mechanics and putting things together.
"That's true but if they don't like that idea, well, we'll still go," Alex simply replied. "Don't forget, it's our decision and not theirs."
"Yeah I guess you're right, so who's gonna tell them?" Riley then asked.
"Well I'll go and tell my 'cousin' what we've decided, and Raven can go and tell the guardians, once we tell them then we start packing and putting some of our things in the back of my car and then put the rest of the stuff in our trailer which will be carried by Eddie's van," Alex explained.
"Though what about our pets?" Amber asked. "Where are we gonna put them?"
"Yeah you got a point there, where are we gonna put them?" Alex asked herself. "I mean we can't just put a seven wild magical animals in the back of a car, we need to put them somewhere where they can't be seen."
Suddenly, Kyle started making that look, meaning that he had an idea. "I have an idea; we could put a shrinking spell on them and then put them all in a pet carrier and when we finally get to our destination, we can put them all back to normal," he explained to them.
"But we don't know any shrinking spells," Raven said.
"I do; I went through some Egyptian spell books," Kyle said, looking pleased with himself for learning that spell.
"How do you know they even work?" Katelyn asked since she didn't really believe that he could do it.
So to prove that it works, he walked up to his reptile tank, took out Cabro his king cobra, put it on the coffee table and said a few magic words. At first nothing happened but then Cabro started getting smaller and smaller until he was the size of a pencil.
"Okay so you've proven your point, but I bet you can't change him back," she dared Kyle. So without saying anything to her, he mumbled a few magic words and then his snake went back to his normal size.
"Any more doubts before we move on to the plan?" Kyle asked with a superior smirk on his face.
"I've just got one problem, how are we gonna get through security with seven wild animal that have shrunk to the size of a toy truck or something in a pet carrier?" Raven asked with her arms on her hips.
"Uh-hum, don't forget we are taking Gigi with us so all we have to do is put her in the carrier with all the others, as long as they don't bite each other, and when the security people have a look inside; all they see is my cat," Alex explained. "So any objections before we begin?"
"No we're cool," everyone said.
"Then let's start getting ourselves organised before seven," she then said as she got up and got out of the door to meet her 'cousin'.
When she came up to her cousin's house and told them what she and her friends had decided to do, they were first surprised that they were leaving so soon but then they thought that it was for the best since they knew she and the others were more adventurous people.
While Alex was talking to them, Raven went to the sphinx to talk to the guardians. They too were surprised when they heard that she and the others were leaving so soon. But after a long discussion they finally decided that it was best for them to have an adventure again.
Now that was all sorted out, they met each other and they both headed back home to start packing up for the journey.
Few minutes later, at the apartment,
"What should we bring with us exactly?" Katelyn asked Raven while putting all of her clothes and her make-up in her suitcase and her nature equipment and weapons in her lucky camping bag.
"Everything if possible, except for the furniture!" Raven shouted before Katelyn started putting three big camping chairs in her bag!
"That reminds me, what we should do with all of this furniture?" Amber asked while putting her notebook and her science equipment in her back pack.
"We could give most of this to charity and the rest to our landowner," Riley suggested after packing her bags and was now sitting on the sofa eating chips.
"Or we could just get our money back," Kyle said who hated giving things away without getting paid.
"You know something Kyle, you can be right down selfish sometimes," Amber said while glaring at him with angry amber eyes.
"But not all the time," he replied back while glaring back at her with yellow slit eyes.
"CUT IT OUT YOU TWO!" Raven and Alex shouted while glaring at them with their green eyes. After they shouted at them, they immediately stopped fighting.
"So all in favour of giving some of the furniture to charity," Alex said once their eyes turned back to normal. Everyone put their hand up except for the boys.
"All opposed," Raven said as she and the other girls put their hands down. Eddie's and Kyle's hands slowly went up, both looking annoyed that they were being over-ruled. "Okay that's settled then, we give some of it to charity and rest goes to the landowner, agreed?"
"Agreed," they all said, including Eddie and Kyle.
"Cheer up you guys, we don't really need anymore money since we're already rich," Katelyn said which was quite true.
"Yeah I guess you do have a point Kate," Eddie said though he preferred to have more money. "But which charity are we actually gonna give them to?"
"Don't worry about that, I've already got that covered," Amber said after talking to someone on the phone. "They're coming over in half an hour to pick up some of the stuff so first things first; we better ask our landowner what she wants."
So they called their landowner to see what stuff she would like and after the call they put the stuff that she wanted in a corner and the rest outside the door. Once they were finished with all their packing and sorting the stuff out for charity, the apartment became almost clean and empty. Few minutes later, the people from the charity came by and took the stuff that was laid out for them, put them in their truck and left.
"Okay guys we've got about two and a half hours before we 'hit the road' so we better put all our stuff in the trailer, find our animals, shrink them and put them in the pet carrier along with Gigi," Kyle said while putting his cobra in the centre of the room with a muzzle around it's mouth.
After they found their entire wild animals (with great difficulty), they then put them all in the centre of the room while Kyle started casting the spell. Once the animals were shrunk to the size of plastic toy, they were then placed in Gigi's pet carrier. Now all Alex had to do was put her cat in the carrier, which was easier said than done.
"Let me just make this clear to you; I'M NOT GOING INTO THAT CARRIER!" Gigi roared at Alex as she ran behind a suitcase while hissing and growling at her.
"C'mon Gigi, don't make this so hard for yourself," Alex warned while trying to catch her cat.
"I don't care, you hear me, I just don't care!" she whinged at her owner while escaping from her clutches.
"Fine then, we'll just leave without you," she threatened while glaring at her cat.
"You wouldn't dare!" shouted Gigi who didn't like the sound of that threat. "And besides, you can't do that!"
"I can and I will, unless you go into the carrier," Alex said while crossing her arms.
"Fine I'll go in that stupid carrier as long as the others don't bite or kick me, especially at my tail," Gigi said as she sulkily went into the carrier.
"Now all we have to do it put some of our stuff in the trailer and then we're ready to go," Eddie said while Alex shutting Gigi and the others in the carrier.
"Hey what should we do about food?" Raven asked while picking up some bags and taking them to the trailer.
"Already got that covered," Riley and Amber said together as they each picked up two large shopping bags packed with food. "We did a little food shopping for the journey while you and Alex went out."
"Well at least we've got that covered, should we buy a couple of pizzas or something on the way?" Alex asked while carrying the pet carrier to her car.
"Sure thing, but I have one question, where are we gonna sit?" Riley asked while taking the two bags she was holding to Alex's car and walked beside her little sister.
"Well Raven's gonna sit next to me in the front of course and Katelyn can be in the back-seat of my car and looking after the animals while Eddie drives his van with Kyle beside him and you and Amber in the back-seat of the van," Alex explained as they got to her car and put the carrier in the back-seat and the shopping in the boot.
"Sounds like a good idea," her sister said.
"Come on we better make sure we've got everything before we leave," Alex said as they both went back to the apartment to get some more stuff.
After thirty minutes of loading the stuff in the trailer and in the boot of Alex's car, they were finally ready to go. All they had to do was say goodbye to their friends, get a couple of pizzas on the way and finally cross over the 'Golden Gate Bridge'.
"Have we got everything?" Amber asked while checking her handbag to see if she forgotten something.
"Yep!" Raven said who was getting bored with Ashley's double checking status.
"Did anyone remember to turn off the lights in the apartment?" Amber asked again.
"Did that just before we left the apartment and I also locked the door and I gave the keys to the security guard so he could give them to our landowner," Alex said while rolling her eyes. "Can we go now?"
"Alright we can go now," Amber sighed while she went into the back seat of Eddies van. "But I only do this in case we forgot something and we could go back and do it before we leave."
"We know sis, we know," Riley said to her sister while she went in the back-seat as well.
"By the way guys, Raven and I both went to the bank and took out some money for each and every one of us so we can buy things while on the journey," Alex said while giving everyone an envelope full of money before going into the driver's seat of her car.
"How much money did you two get for each of us?" Eddie asked curiously as he went into the driver's seat of his van and putting his money inside his jacket.
"Two million dollars," Raven said while sitting next to Alex.
"TWO MILLION DOLLARS!" everyone else shouted with shock.
"You'll thank us someday," she said as she fastened her seatbelt. "So where should we go to start with I wonder?"
Suddenly, she and Alex froze and every molecule of their body started to tingle. They even felt their surroundings freeze.
(Vision)
(Both) We see ourselves in a big room. Think it might be a hospital or something. But wait a minute, what are five colourful monkeys and a young boy doing in here? (Alex) Please tell me that they are not nurses cause if they are, I'm gonna scream! (Raven) I just hope that this is a club for monkeys because that way we can easily avoid it. (Both) Wait a minute, that blue monkey is talking to that boy about something and...WHAT! The monkeys can talk! This has got to be a dream, or a nightmare! (Alex) Okay now that boy is coming up to me, I just hope it's not a hospital. Okay now he's putting out his hand towards me and I'm not so sure weather or not that I should shake his hand. Then he opens his mouth and says "Hi, my name's Chiro".
(Vision End)
Then their vision ended as abruptly as it began which made their eyes blink a bit. They stared at each other for a few seconds looking completely confused.
"Did you have that same weird vision?" Raven asked.
"You mean the one where we were in this strange room with five talking monkeys and a young boy and he comes up to me and says hi," Alex said.
"Yeah that's the one."
"Then yeah I did."
"Did you two just have a double vision again?"Katelyn asked who was in the back-seat of the car.
"Yes Katelyn we did and we've been having that for at least four months you know," Raven said while giving her friend a 'duh' look.
"Yeah I know but I always thought of that as a temporary thing but it never really goes away does it," Katelyn said.
"Well it was first kind of scary and annoying but we're now sort of use to it and plus; it helped us a lot when we were fighting that old 'beetle-head' and looked what happened, he's finally been defeated," Alex said before starting the car up. "Well let's get going then."
After they said goodbye to their friends, they were finally ready to leave San Francisco. Though before they crossed the 'Golden Gate Bridge', they stopped at 'Pizza Hut' and bought a couple of pepperoni pizzas. They also had to buy a plain cheese and tomato pizza because Katelyn was a vegetarian. Plus she refused to have the same pizza as theirs.
"C'mon Katelyn, couldn't you just take the pepperoni off the pizza instead of buying yourself a whole pizza!" Eddie said while looking annoyed once they got out of the pizza shop. "It saves time and money if you do that!"
"But I don't want my hands to smell of meat," Katelyn explained. "Besides, I'm only having half of this pizza anyway so one of you guys can have the rest."
"Well I think Eddie, Kyle, Riley and Amber should share it since me and Alex are sharing one of the pepperoni pizzas," Raven suggested as she got in the front seat of the car.
"Yeah and we can give a bit of our pizza to the animals since they love a bit of pizza, especially Gigi who just loves pepperoni," Alex said as she got into the driver's seat and started the car up.
While driving over the 'Golden Gate Bridge', Alex and Raven were starting to feel something that they've never felt before.
"Do you feel something Alex?" Raven asked while trying to figure out where this power was coming from.
"Yeah and it's starting to freak me out," Alex then said while they came to the end of the 'Golden Gate Bridge' and turned left into the pathway that lead towards the woods.
While Alex was driving through the woods (with Eddie driving behind her), she suddenly saw a strange green light that was hovering in the middle of the road a few meters away. Thinking that the light was dangerous, she immediately came to a halt.
"Hey Alex, why did you stop?" Eddie asked through her walkie talkie wristwatch.
"There's a strange light that's blocking the pathway and I'm not sure if it's safe or not," she explained into her walkie talkie wristwatch. "I think we might have to turn around."
"Hey isn't that light coming towards us?" Katelyn asked.
And sure enough, the light was slowly but surely coming towards them. As it got closer, the green light started swirling inside like it was about to suck something up.
"Okay, that is definitely not good!" Raven said. "I think it's time we turned this car around, pronto!"
Without having to say it twice, Alex immediately started turning the car around.
"Eddie you better start turning your van around cause that light is coming towards us!" Alex shouted into her wristwatch while turning the car still.
So Eddie immediately started turning the van with the trailer around though with great difficulty.
"Hey is there anyway we can get passed that thing without turning the cars around?" Eddie asked since he was having a bit of trouble turning the van and the trailer.
Just then, the light came zooming towards them speeding up as every moment passed.
"What do you think it is?" Katelyn asked, feeling scared.
While the light was coming towards them though, Raven noticed the light had an enlarging hole in the center. It looks like a tube, or a tunnel... or a portal! It was when she looked more closely that she finally realised what it was.
"Oh my goodness, it's a portal!" she shrieked with fear.
Before Alex could respond to her shriek, they were all quickly being sucked in.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" they screamed as they were sucked into the portal. Once they were sucked in, the portal then vanished without a trace.