Alucard's Familiar: Okay, here's chapter two. Not nearly as long, but not too short either.

Jonathan: Do we find out who the girl is?

Alucard's Familiar: Read to find out.

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Chapter 2

They stopped in Cairo, the ferry not leaving until the next day, they settled for lounging about a café in the city. Jonathan had wandered off somewhere, leaving the O'Connell's sitting at the café. Rick and Evelyn were discussing things over cups of coffee and Alex listened while idly munching on a muffin.

"I still can't believe you left that girl back there," Evelyn said.

"Look, I'm sorry Evie, but I didn't trust her, and I still don't," Rick explained. "It's bad enough Imhotep is back, it's worse still that he can travel through time and hurt us in other ways. We don't need more people from different time eras who haven't even been through what we've been through telling us things they have no business knowing about."

"I still think you could have at least given her a ride back here," Evelyn said.

"Well I'm glad you're so worried about me but there's really no need to be," came a vaguely familiar voice.

Rick, Evelyn, and Alex looked up to see the girl they had met in the tomb. She smile at them, not moving, just letting her presence be known.

"How the hell did you get here so fast?" Rick asked curiously.

"Oh in the 90s there are roads throughout the desert and cars that are better and faster," she explained. "I've been to see your Medji friend and back again. He gets time sick, it's rather amusing." She chuckled.

"Time sick?" Alex asked.

"It's where you experience déjà vu over and over again until you feel quite nauseas." Ardeth's voice was music to their ears.

"I see you've met our nameless stalker," Rick said. "What are the 90s like anyways?"

"Very fast," Ardeth answered, making Alex laugh.

"I have an idea," said the girl. "How about we sit down and formally introduce ourselves. I then won't be nameless to you and all of you will find out why I am here."

They agreed and they all sat together at the small table, waiting for her to explain.

"My name is Ashley, I am sixteen years old, and the time period I am from is the 1950s. Or at least I am sixteen in the 1950s, and I would like to live to be able to experience them, but that will only happen if I live through this." She smiled at the confusion on their faces. "I am here to make sure none of you die and that Imhotep is sent back to where he belongs. To do this, I was given these, The Silver Manacles of Time and Space, abbreviated as The Manacles of Time." She flashed the manacles on her wrists again, as she had done in the desert.

"There is something you did not tell me," Ardeth cut in, "You said to me that Imhotep wears the manacles as well. There is only one pair of manacles in existence, and they have yet to be uncovered in this era. How is it that you have come by these while Imhotep wears the original pair?"

"My parents…salvaged these manacles in a dig before I was born. This year in fact they find them, but they told no one, not even their closest friends what they had found. They kept them hidden away until I was old enough to receive them on my thirteenth birthday. I have traveled to many different time periods, only to observe mind you and have learned many things. Mainly how to travel." She paused for a moment, thinking of how she was going to explain the next part. "When you travel through time, you end up in the same exact place you left, only so many years into the future or past. Traveling from one place to the other must be done during that time period. I usually go forward in time to travel places. Travel speed is much faster in the new millennium than it is now."

"Yeah, they probably have flying cars by then," Alex said.

Ashley chuckled, "No, but their cars are much more advanced."

"So why is Imhotep trying to kill us… yet again?" Rick asked, getting back on topic.

"Yes, Imhotep," she smiled sheepishly, sorry she had gotten off topic. "As you know, he was one of the Pharaoh's priests, and in being a priest, he had magic. From what I've gathered, Imhotep had a visions of what would happen to him after he died. He wanted revenge. So how do you get rid of it?"

"Get rid of the problem," Rick answered. "So Imhotep came to the future to get rid of us so he can successfully regenerate and destroy the world."

"Wait, but he originally wanted to come back to resurrect Anak-su-namun," Evelyn started. "If he had a vision of us destroying him, then has he seen that Anak will also betray him and let him die?"

"He may have, he may have not," Ashley answered. "All we know is, he's after you, and we have to make sure he doesn't succeed."

"Wait a minute, if he wanted to prevent us from killing him like we did ten years ago, why is he coming here now, to this time period, and not back then?" Rick asked.

"I am not sure Mr. O'Connell," Ashley answered. "I think, if he has seen what is to happen with Anak as well as himself, he wants to let what happened, happen, then eradicate you in the future and he himself would stay here, bringing Anak with him."

"How did you find out about all of this?" Rick asked. "Who told you?"

"That, Mr. O'Connell, is my business," Ashley answered firmly.

"And what makes you think we'll trust you?" Rick asked.

"You don't have a choice Mr. O'Connell," Ashley answered. "Do you want to see your son live to see his next birthday? Your wife to live to see her next anniversary, and for you to live and to spend it with her?"

That hit a nerve, "I guess I don't have a choice under those circumstances."

"I thought you'd see it my way," Ashley said as she stood. "Now, when I left from my time, Jonathan had already been gone. Shall we go prevent it?"

"Jonathan!" Evelyn stood up quickly, "Where is he?"

"In a bar about a block away from here," Ashley answered and Evelyn darted down the street, the four of them trailing behind her. Ashley easily passed up Alex and Rick, scooted passed Ardeth, and caught up to Evelyn, pushing her onto the right path, then pulling her to a stop before she passed the tavern entirely.

Evelyn burst in first, "Jonathan!"

The man looked up from the bar, "Oh, hello old mum. What are you doing here?" Behind him, Imhotep struck.

Ardeth came up and blocked the blade with his sword, "Move away!"

"No need to tell me twice!" Jonathan said as he ducked away and Ashley came up and crosscut the back of the priest's neck. He slumped to the floor out cold.

"He'll stay out long enough for us to get out of here," she said as she jumped off the bar.

"Let's go!" Rick shouted and with that, they darted down the street and out of sight.

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