A/N: Okay, I am back with a new chapter. Sorry if it took me a while, but life is a bitch :P. As you read this chapter, you may notice I took a few scenes from The Mummy movie series and you will probably see something like that later as well, and there will be spells that are said that are not part of the Mystic Force series, I pretty much just had to make things up, but if you can read backwards, you will be able to understand the spells ;). There may be a few spells that are from Harry Potter later in the future, and I apologize for that if you do see that, it is only because I am having trouble coming up with spells and I don't want them to be spelled out all weird. Remember, I just recently gotten back into this, so I may be a little iffy on some things, and you are all welcomed to criticize and correct me, but please no flames, I find them stupid and immature. I will ask you respectfully for no flames, most of us on here are all adults, so please, let's all act like one.

In this chapter, you will also get to see Daggeron's angry side. It's a little weird, seeing how Daggeron is considered a noble knight and you didn't get to see his angry side much, so I figured I show his angry side a bit here in this and the next chapter. Even a noble knight has his limits ;D.

Summary: Madison Rocca has always been considered the sensible one, the reasonable one who always follows her sister and whatever her teammates do, but when Madison starts having these weird dreams of seeing herself as an Egyptian warrioress in a past life, she begins to learn of a legend that will either bring good or evil to the whole world, and she realizes she has to follow her destiny to become the warrior of Horus. But with Imperious getting help from an old Medjai enemy, will Madison be able to stop their evil plan from ruling over humanity? Then again, the real enemy may be far greater than the priest of Osiris.

Rated: T for violence, language, and sexual references (rating may go up due to either gore or non-consent sex).

Timeline: Between "Dark Wish" and "Koragg's Trail." (I've changed the age to all the rangers, except for Daggeron)

I do not own Power Rangers Mystic Force and The Mummy or their characters. They all belong to Rangers Productions and Universal Pictures.

Enjoy! :)

Chapter Two: A Trip to Egypt

Madison found herself in front of Rootcore about twenty minutes after her strange encounter with the falcon. She was not wearing her normal sorceress uniform when she was in the enchanted Briarwood Forest; she was just wearing her street clothes from yesterday with the blue jeans, white spaghetti strap shirt, the blue sweater, and black converse. She had no desire to wear black or anything heavy to where she was going. If there was anything that she needed, it would be her wand, lots of water, food, and a ride, and it was the reason why she was here. Daggeron and the other rangers would most likely be upset with her, but she had to do this or else she would never get the answer to her dreams and why she was receiving messages through a falcon.

Taking a deep breath, she then entered Rootcore.

Rootcore was a lot darker than it was whenever it was light outside or whenever there was someone who was awake. The lights were off, but the crystal ball was still glowing and the green glow from the shelves was still on, and it made it easier for Madison to see where she was going. She went to the kitchen where it was even darker, and she had to cast a light spell in order to see her way around.

The kitchen in Rootcore was nothing like the normal modern society kitchen where it had a fridgerator, stove, and a sink; instead of a stove, sink, and fridge, there was a firepit where the food was placed to bake, a bucket where they put the water, and a basket that Udonna put a spell on to keep the frozen meals frozen. There was a variety of food, such as bread, turkey, ham, cheese, sausage, flour dough, but there was no water. The only way to get water was to go outside to the well out of Rootcore.

Madison started by duplicating some of the food items she was going to take, grabbing and putting the duplicated food in a sack. She did not know how long she was going to be gone, but she decided to take a few things just in case the trip took longer than expected. She took a loaf of bread, a line of sausage, some cheese, and some ham. Once she was done packing all those things, she was about to leave when she heard a noise that was coming towards the kitchen and from the sounds of it, it sounded like Jenji. Panicking, Madison tried to hide, but the only place she could hide was under the table that was in the middle of the room and having no choice, she went down on all fours and crawled under there. It was then that the cat genie came into the kitchen, humming a tune to himself. Madison figured that he was fixing himself a midnight snack, and it became obvious to her when he started singing a song about food.

"You separate the bread then put the mustard and mayonnaise on the bread…" (1)

He continued to sing, and Madison would have laughed at his antics, but considering the circumstances, she found herself groaning inwardly. She wanted to get to Egypt as soon as possible, but with Jenji here, it will probably be a while until he was finally gone, and Madison couldn't wait that long. She looked out from under the table, seeing how the cat genie had his back turned towards her and she tried to make it out of the kitchen as quietly as possible, but it was in vain. As soon as she reached for the exit, she heard Jenji call on her name.

"Madison, is that you?"

Madison cursed herself for thinking that she could not be seen walking out of the room by a cat, especially in the dark. Sighing, she turned around to face the cat genie, though she found it hard to see him in the dark. "Hey, Jenji…" she greeted nervously.

"What are you doing here so late? And what are you doing with that sack of food?" Jenji asked.

"Um…I-I-I uh…" Madison tried coming up with a good lie. "I was just dropping off some food here, it kinda looked like you guys were running out, so I decided to give you guys some more." She winced, feeling embarrassed by the most lamest lie she just ever told, and Jenji seemed to agree.

"You know, if you're gonna lie, at least come up with something better than that," he said. "Now, what is it really for?"

Madison sighed, knowing there was no way she would be able to tell another lie. She was never a good liar, anyway. She went back over to the table and set the sack of food on it.

"I am going on a trip."

"A trip? What kind of trip? A three-day trip into the woods?"

"No, I am not going on a trip here in the woods, I am going somewhere else."

"To where?"

"Egypt…"

"Egypt? Are you crazy? That place is like far, far away!" Jenji cried.

"Jenji, shush! Do you wanna wake up the whole place?" Madison snapped. He was very loud when he said that. Despite that she loved Jenji, he was a loud mouth sometimes.

"Sorry," Jenji said a little quieter. "But, Maddie, why are you going to Egypt? That place has nothing but miles and miles of sand. Why on earth are you taking a trip there?"

"I just have to."

"But…the team?"

"I'm sorry, Jenji, but I have to do this, I just have a feeling that this trip is essential and if I don't do it, then something bad is going to happen. This isn't about the team, it's about the world."

Madison wondered where that last line came from. That did not sound like her, it sounded like somebody else. The only reason why she was going on this trip was because it felt important and it would answer all of her questions to her dreams and why a strange falcon was stalking her, she didn't even know the exact importance to this trip, only that it was. She shook out of her thoughts when Jenji asked her another question.

"Well, you're not going alone, are you?"

"Oh, um, I guess," Madison replied, feeling a little stunned by that question.

"You can't go alone, Maddie, it's too dangerous!" Jenji exclaimed. "What if Necrolai or that big bad Imperious attacks you during your trip?"

Madison smiled, feeling grateful for Jenji's concern about her going alone to Egypt.

"I doubt Necrolai and Imperious will be in Egypt, but if it makes you feel any better, you are welcome to come with me," she said, "but I must be going, I don't have a lot of time." She made to leave the kitchen when she was stopped by Jenji again.

"How are you going to get there, though?"

"I was thinking of just teleporting there…"

"But you haven't even mastered the teleporting spell yet."

"Oh, true," Madison said as she remembered the little accident she had earlier today when trying to master the teleporting spell Udonna had taught her and the rangers. "What about Daggeron's magic carpet, then?"

"No, it would take you forever to get to Egypt and back, and who knows what could happen while you are away."

"What would you suggest then?"

"Well, I dunno, it's gotta be something fast and get you there and back as quick as lightening, something like…like…uh…" Jenji began, trying to think.

"Like Daggeron's train!"

"Yeah, something like that—wait, what? No, not like that!" Jenji said, fearing of giving Madison any ideas. It was already too late, though, she already began forming the idea of taking the Solaris train to Egypt and bringing it back before anybody else knew it had been taken.

"Yes, exactly like that!"

Madison looked as if she had the greatest idea in the whole world. She then suddenly grabbed Jenji's clawed hand and dragged him out of the kitchen, heading towards what looked like Daggeron's room.

"Madison, wait, you can't be serious about taking Daggeron's train," Jenji said. "I mean, think about what he would do if you did, he would be furious! You've never seen Daggeron's bad side, but I have. Trust me, it is not pretty."

"Do you suggest Fireheart then? You know he doesn't trust anybody, but Nick, and you said so yourself that the magic carpet will take forever to get to Egypt and back," Madison said. When Jenji continued to look unconvinced, she continued, "Come on, Jenji, I need to get to Egypt tonight, it is real important. I don't know why, but I feel if I don't get there tonight, something bad is going to happen. I need you to trust me."

Jenji looked conflicted for a few moments before finally giving in. "Oh, alright, but don't say I didn't warn you," he said.

"Don't worry, I'll be sure he puts all the blame on me," Madison said. She would hate to see Jenji get yelled at for something that he did not even want to do in the first place.

"You get the water," she said, as she conjured up two canteens and handed them to him, "and I'll get the ticket and morpher."

"Okay, great plan," Jenji said, "that why I don't have to worry about Daggeron yelling at me most of the time."

They both went their separate ways, Jenji to the well and Madison to Daggeron's room. Madison felt herself grow nervous as she came closer to the door of the knight's room, nervous because of getting caught in the act, but also of setting off Daggeron's ire. She has only seen Daggeron utterly disappointed in her back when she and the rangers were getting lazy and taking advantage of their magical powers before Imperious made the Dark Wish. The thought of seeing that disappointed look Daggeron sent her way those weeks ago again filled Madison with shame. What she was about to do would most likely make him not only disappointed, but angry at her. She had no choice, though, for some strange reason.

When she reached the door, she took a deep breath to clam her breathing before slowly turning the knob and quietly stepping in. Daggeron's room was less dark than the hallway because his bedroom window looked toward east and the moon was full tonight so there was a glare of the moonlight through the window, making it easier for Madison to spot Daggeron's morpher and ticket, which was right next to her mentor on the dresser. As Madison silently walked over to the dresser to grab it, she began to feel guilty that she was taking Daggeron's morpher as she saw him sleeping so peaceful. She's never seen him asleep before, especially in his bed, and she found herself thinking how cute he looked with his curly hair all ruffled up from sleep. She quickly snapped out of that thought, though, as she remembered why she was here. Slowly and quietly, she crept towards the dresser and picked up the morpher and ticket. As she did, Daggeron began to stir.

Madison stood still, holding her breath as she feared for him waking up and catching her, but Daggeron just went right back to sleep, making Madison silently breathe out in relief. She then turned, walking out of the room and once she was out in the hallway with Daggeron's bedroom door shut, she let out a huge sigh of relief, glad that was over with—and also glad she didn't get caught.

"Maddie?"

Madison yelped and jumped about five feet in the air, but sighed with relief again when she saw it was only Jenji. "Jenji, you scared me," she whispered as she held her hand over her heart, feeling it pound against her chest.

"Sorry. You've never done anything like this before, have you?"

"When you have your common sense always ruling over you throughout your entire life, you tend to get a little nervous when you do things like this. You got the water, right?" Jenji nodded. "Good, let's go."

They started going toward the exit to Rootcore, ready to leave the tree-like building and as they did Jenji began talking. "Now, Madison, I just gotta tell you again, but when Daggeron finds out about this, he's going to be furious! Are you sure you are willing to risk something like that?" he asked.

Madison could tell he was trying to convince her not to do this, seeing the fear in his eyes, and she felt sympathy for him. If what Jenji said about Daggeron's ire was true, then she would rather have him stay out of it and let Daggeron put all the blame on her. Madison has never seen her mentor angry before, and it scared her to see such a look in Daggeron's eyes towards her, but she found that fear suppressed by a determination.

"I am sorry, Jenji, but I have to do this," Madison responded. "If it really means that much to you, you can stay here, I won't force you to go on a trip you don't want to go on that will get you in trouble. It's your choice in what you want to do, I won't judge you for it."

She continued out of Rootcore, leaving a conflicted Jenji behind.

Jenji was not sure what to do: either go with Madison and provoke the ire of the Solaris knight or stay behind and not get on Daggeron's bad side. He's gotten on Daggeron's bad side before and since then, he has tried to stay on the Solaris knight's good side, but seeing Madison running off on her own with her getting all the blame made him feel guilty. After everything Madison had done for him, he couldn't do the same for her because of his own cowardness, and he could feel the gut-wrenching feeling in his stomach that he oh-so hated when he started feeling guilty.

Sighing, Jenji said to himself, "Oh, Daggeron is going to be furious with me when he finds out about this." He then followed Madison out of Rootcore, catching up with her in time just as she was about to punch the ticket.

"Madison, wait, I'm coming with you!"

"Jenji! Are you sure? I don't want to get you in trouble…"

"To be honest, I'm not, but you gave me that bad feeling where I started feeling bad if you took all the blame if you got in trouble…well, technically, you didn't give me it, I just started feeling bad, but I guess the whole point is that I don't want you to go alone on this," Jenji said. "You did a lot for me, and I want to return the favor."

Madison smiled, feeling good that Jenji was brave enough to go on this trip with her because of his concern for her.

"Besides, did you really think you would be able to operate the train all by yourself?"

"Of course not, that's why I am glad you are coming with me," Madison said with a laugh.

"Wish I could say the same…"

She finally punched the ticket and there was a bright light up ahead. A portal was opened and a sound of a choo-choo was heard as the Solaris train came out, coming to a halt right in front of the blue ranger and cat genie.

"Come on, we have to hurry, somebody must've heard that by now," Madison said as she urged Jenji with her into the train.

"Oh, I just know that I am going to regret this."

Daggeron was known to be a light sleeper, so every little thing he would hear, even if it was an owl hooting outside his window, it would wake him up. The beating that he received from Madison today in training had taken a toll on him, so he had a very tiring day and he found himself in a deep sleep by the time he hit the pillows. Later on that night, Daggeron had stirred from his slumber, and he could've sworn he saw a figure right next to his bed that looked like Madison with his morpher in her hand. He figured it was Madison because he recognized that blue sweater from anywhere. Thinking she was just an illusion, though, he fell back to sleep only to be jolted awake by the sound of a train—his train.

Looking over at his now bare dresser, he realized that what he saw wasn't illusion and that Madison really had his morpher. He threw the covers off of him and got up, grabbing a nearby shirt on the way before running out of his room and out of Rootcore.

"Madison!"

He tried stopping the blue ranger in time, but once he was outside, the train was already moving into the portal hole and, in a flash, was gone.

"Damnit!" Daggeron hardly ever cursed, only when he was extremely upset, and right now he was extremely upset.

"Udonna! Udonna!" he yelled, running back into Rootcore.

"Daggeron, whatever is the matter?" Udonna had come out of her bedroom and into the main room, donned in nothing but a white-lace nightgown and robe, a worried and alarmed look etched on her face. "Daggeron, what happened?"

"It is Madison, she and Jenji took off with my morpher to a parallel dimension."

"What? But why?"

"I don't know, all I know is that both Jenji and Madison are out there somewhere. Call the rangers and tell them to get here ASAP."

"Udonna? Daggeron? What is going on?" It was Clare this time. She came out when she heard the loud noises from outside.

"Madison and Jenji are gone," Daggeron responded as he went back to his room to get ready.

"Gone? Gone where?"

Daggeron did not answer as he continued up the stairs and down to his room. If the rangers were coming, then he wanted to look presentable. He may be a noble knight, but even he didn't like looking like a slob in front of his students. When he came back out, the rangers had already arrived.

"This better be an emergency," Nick said.

"Yeah, it's too late to be fighting evil tonight, I'm too tired," Xander said. "Plus, a good-looking guy like me needs his beauty-sleep." At this, the rangers rolled their eyes at Xander, but they all decided to ignore him this time.

"Will someone please explain to me why we were called here in the middle of the night?" Vida demanded, quite aggravated that she was rudely awakened by Udonna's call. She just wanted to sleep. "Where is Maddie, by the way?"

"I believe that is the answer to your question, Vida," Daggeron responded.

"What?"

"Madison has run off with Jenji into a parallel dimension, we do not yet know which parallel dimension she has gone to…"

"Wait, you can't be talking about our Madison, are you?" Chip asked, interrupting. "'Cause there is just no way that she would do that unless she had a good reason to."

"What other Madisons do you know that are in the team?" The rangers didn't respond, seeing that Daggeron had a point, but they were still in disbelief. "And even if she did have a justified reason in taking my morpher, she had no right to take it without my permission."

"So are you saying that Madison took Daggeron's morpher and left into another dimension just like that?" Nick asked Udonna.

"I'm afraid so."

"But that can't be possible," Xander said. "I mean, this isn't like Maddie, she wouldn't do something out of the blue like this."

"Yeah, I know my sister, she is the common sense one out of this whole team," Vida said, determined to believe that Madison would not do something such as taking Daggeron's morpher and going into a different dimension. It just wasn't like her to do something like that, it sounded like something Vida would do, but definitely not her common sense sister.

"Whether you believe it or not, rangers, it was Madison who did take my morpher and now we have to find out which dimension she is at," Daggeron said.

"But how do you know it was really Madison who took your morpher? Did you actually see her take it?" Nick asked.

"No, not exactly…"

"Then how do you know that she took it?"

At this, Daggeron glared at his student. "Do not challenge me again, Nick," he snapped, getting a little irritated by the red ranger's stubbornness by now. "What other proof do you have besides her not being here?"

"Rangers, I know this is difficult to comprehend, especially with you knowing your friend so well, but we must not waste time," Udonna said. "We have to find Maddie, figure out her purpose of running off, and then bring her home."

Nick and Xander found themselves groaning at the thought of having to work while Chip and Vida remained silent, still in disbelief of Madison's actions.

"Great, this is going to take forever, and I got to open up the store early in the morning," Nick muttered before the whole team started working.

The first thing that both Madison and Jenji felt when they stepped out of the Solaris train was the heat of the sun shining down on the land and the humidity in the air. Being born and raised in California, Madison was used to such humidity, but this weather was unlike anything she had ever been through before. The heat could be almost described as scorching hot that just wearing the thin blue sweatshirt made her sweaty as she started walking. Even the heat started taking effect on the walking, talking cat genie Jenji.

"Urgh, the heat here…feels more like a thousand baking ovens have been turned on," he complained. "Next time we go on a little trip, I pick the destination."

Up ahead, they could see a huge temple that was decaying from the years of abandonment with pillars laying on the ground and pieces of statues missing, but it still looked wonderful to Madison, even if it wasn't to it's former glory. There were a couple of palm trees around the temple, but there was also a blue river that was flowing right beside it that Madison assumed was the Nile River. Madison memorized every little detail of the area, finding a familiarity around the place. She could not yet explain it, but she felt as if she had been here before. She was then taken out of her trance by Jenji.

"I'm sorry, Jenji, did you say something?"

"Yeah, I said let's get moving," he said. "The sooner we get out of this place the better. By any chance do you know where you are going?"

Madison looked back at the temple for a few minutes before pointing in a specific direction. There seemed to be a side entrance in the temple and as they walked towards it, they saw two statues of one of the Egyptian goddesses that Madison realized was the goddess Bas. The statues stood at each side of the entrance and as they looked in the entrance, Madison and Jenji saw it was a tunnel and it was very dark. Once they stepped inside, they were overwhelmed by the darkness. It was so pitch black down the tunnel and it was very difficult for Madison to see where she was going. She would have asked Jenji to be her eyes, but she wasn't sure if she should trust a fraidy cat to lead her around, so she took out her cellular-like wand instead.

"Thgil."

A light appeared at the tip, but it was very dim, so Madison said, "Thgil maximus." The light suddenly became brighter and she was able to see down the hallway where, faintly, she could see a dead end. Normally, when somebody would see a dead end, they would turn back around, but for some reason, that did not seem to stop Madison from continuing to walk down the tunnel.

"Uh, Madison, are you sure you know where you are going?" Jenji asked. "'Cause it looks like there is a dead end back there."

"For some reason, I seem to know exactly where I am going," Madison muttered. She continued down the hallway, dragging Jenji with her. They reached the end of the tunnel, and Madison stared at the wall for a few minutes.

"Madison, there is nothing back here, perhaps we should turn around," Jenji said.

"No," Madison said, shaking her head as she continued to look at the wall intently, "there is something behind here."

"How do you know?"

"I dunno, I just do."

She looked around the wall until she looked to her left where she saw a fire stick hanging on the wall. She came towards it before grabbing it and pulling it down as if it was a lever. There was a loud sound before the wall suddenly opened as if it was a door, making Madison and Jenji jump back in fright.

"How in the heck did you know that?"

"I have no idea, I just seem to know exactly where I am going."

"Well, lead the way. I wanna get outta here as soon as possible."

Madison opened the wall-door a little wider where they both could see another chamber that was pitch-black, but it was not as dark as it was in the hallway. There was a single ray of light that was shining down on what looked like a large circular plate, but it was still pitch black. Madison realized what the circular plate was, remembering what the resource told her about some of the ancient tricks the Egyptians used, and pointed her wand at it.

"Evom."

The spell hit the circular plate and it moved a foot down and suddenly light appeared all around them. Once light appeared in the chamber, they were greeted by a sight that stunned them completely, not really believing what they were seeing. 'Maybe bringing Jenji here was a bad idea,' Madison thought, for she knew that treasure was Jenji's number one weakness.

There was treasure everywhere in the chamber: pile upon pile, there were gold and silver items, such as weapons, statues, silverware, jewelry, all kinds of silver and gold items. Madison was in awe to see such a large amount of treasure. She's never seen gold and silver up close and personal, except maybe in jewelry stores, but there was nothing to compare the riches she was seeing right now, they actually looked real. This room of treasure would probably put all jewelry sellers to shame and as she looked to Jenji, she could see his hands twitching and knew he was struggling to control his desire to grab some treasure.

"Ah…ooohh…can I just…?"

"No," Madison said. "This treasure doesn't belong to us; plus, this place could have booby traps, I don't want to take any chances."

"Ohh," Jenji groaned. He was disappointed that he couldn't take any treasure with him, but he followed Madison down the stairs anyway and down the maze of treasure. At the end of the steps, they could see another tunnel entrance on the other side of the room.

While they walked, Madison noticed something that was very familiar to her eyes, and she stopped in her tracks, taking a long and hard look at the item. The item she was looking at was a golden statue of a warrior, but it wasn't the golden statue that interested her, it was what was on it that was interesting. On the right front wrist, there was a tattoo on the statue-warrior, it looked to be the exact same tattoo on Madison's left shoulder. She wondered how her tattoo came to be on this statue, but she did not have time to think on it because Jenji interrupted her thought.

"Madison, can we please move on? I am having trouble not being tempted here."

Bidding his wish, Madison moved on, but not before taking one last glance at the tattoo on the statue. Someday, she will figure out what the meaning of her tattoo was.

They finally came to the tunnel and with Madison's wand still lit up, they walked straight into it. They walked straight for a while until they finally made another turn and came across a door that looked to be locked.

"Okay, how about we turn back? 'Cause there is obviously nothing here, but a locked door," Jenji said.

Madison did not reply, for she did not hear him. She started to feel dizzy and sway a little bit, closing her eyes before she opened them only to be surprised when she saw the room was to it's former glory. The walls no longer looked gray from the years of abandonment, the colors of the hieroglyphs becoming more clear. The floor was no longer covered in sand where the textile was made out of smooth stone. There was a noise as the door ahead was suddenly opened and as it was opened, Madison saw that behind the door was a chamber room, but this one was smaller than the treasure room. Inside the small chamber, there was a small, thin and long bronze chest that stood on an alter. On top of the chest, there was a saying in ancient Egyptian across it and in the middle of it, there was a large circular engraving on it and a dent that looked like it was carved into a pair of bird wings. On each side of the alter, there stood a guard, almost as if they were guarding it for life.

The door was being opened by a woman and she was stepping out of the chamber as she did. Madison could not see the woman's face, for her back was turned to her, but she could see that the woman's garments were warrior-like, so she knew the woman was not of royalty. When the woman closed the door, Madison noticed three little holes on the right center side of the door in a small circle embedded in the door. Here, the woman placed her thumb, middle, and pinky finger in them and started to turn them, almost as if they were a door knob. She turned them right then left then right again before bringing it back to the center, and there was the sound of a clang, indicating that the door was locked. The woman turned, but Madison did not get the chance to see her face because just at that moment, all the paint turned into rust and the walls looked gray and there was sand beneath her feet instead of the smooth stone, making her realize she just had another vision.

"Madison, are you okay? You seem kinda out of it, I think maybe we should really get out of here," Jenji said.

"No," Madison said, shaking her head, "I am not leaving until I find what I am looking for. You may leave, if that is your desire, Jenji, but I am moving on." She went toward the door with Jenji following her.

Jenji really wished Madison would just turn around and go back, this place was starting to give him the creeps. Despite his fears, though, he refused to abandon Madison.

The place where the "door knob" was supposed to be was covered in cobwebs, and Madison wiped these off to reveal three tiny holes embedded on the door, just like she saw in her vision. Placing her thumb, middle, and pinky finger in these holes, she started to turn it, just like how she saw the woman did it in her vision: right, left, right, and center. Once she brought it back to the center, there was that clanging sound again and the door opened, making Madison and Jenji jump in fright for the second time.

"Okay, now you're really starting to scare me," Jenji said.

"I'm starting to scare myself," Madison responded.

Back at Rootcore, the rangers were still trying to find out where Madison and Jenji were, but no such luck. Even Udonna was of no help. When she tried finding them in every dimension with her magic through the crystal, ball, her magic did not seem to work because the crystal ball remained blank, meaning that they were not in that dimension or the other one.

"Urgh! Come on, there's gotta be some sort of clue to where Maddie is," Xander exclaimed. "We've looked in almost 50 other dimensions already and we are still no closer to finding her and Jenji than we are to ever getting sleep before work starts."

"Do not give up, rangers, just keep on looking," Udonna encouraged.

"With our luck, I bet you she is not in another dimension, but still in this one, just in another place," Chip said. At this, Vida, who was reading a book on different dimensions, suddenly looked up.

"Wait, that's it."

"What? What's it?"

"What Chip just said," Vida said. "Maybe we are all looking in the wrong places because she is still here."

"How can that be possible, though?" Daggeron said. "We looked everywhere in Briarwood and she is nowhere to be found."

"No, I don't mean here here, I mean here, but someplace else in this dimension." (2)

"Where do you think she would be?" Nick asked.

Vida thought about it for a few minutes before it suddenly clicked. "Oh my God…"

"What? What's wrong?"

"V, is there something the matter?"

"The dreams—Madison's dreams," Vida said. "Last night, I came into Madison's room and found her researching on this Egyptian legend, I can't remember much of what Maddie told me, only that it was about these two gods who fought for the kingdom and one of them got killed and the other became ruler of all Egypt. She mentioned something about a spear, but I turned off her computer and told her that trying to research on her dreams was not important, that trying to protect the world from darkness was. I told her to drink the potion and I left after that, I'm not sure if she drank it or not…"

"Well, if she didn't drink it, shouldn't my dream sage have worked?" Clare asked.

"But what if she didn't drink the potion and just ran off?"

"Hang on, are you saying that Maddie rebelled against what you told her and practically just ran off to Egypt?" Nick asked. "That doesn't sound like her at all, she always follows you and does what you tell her to do. Wherever you go, she goes and whatever you do, she does it."

"I know, but you don't know my sister like I do, there has to be a reason she did this," Vida said.

"Are you certain she did or did not drink the potion?" Daggeron asked. He was eager to find Madison and Jenji, so he could get his morpher back and make sure both of them were alright. He wanted to know for sure if Madison drank the potion or not.

"No," Vida said, shaking her head, "but I can check."

"Then do so, and quickly."

Vida nodded before running out of Rootcore to her home and came back five minutes later. "She did drink the potion," she said as she showed the empty flask, "but there is something else too." She then laid the now burned-up sage on the table with everybody looking at it in shock.

"Madison did that?" Nick said.

Udonna went over and held the sage in her hand, looking at it as if inspecting it before shaking her head. "No, this wasn't done by Madison, this was done by someone more powerful even beyond my and your skills, Nick," she said. "I can feel the person's energy through this spell and they must be very powerful, their power is overwhelming."

"So whoever destroyed the sage told Maddie to go to Egypt?"

"We do not know, we have to figure that out once we find her," Udonna said before turning to the crystal ball.

She waved her hands around before stretching them out to the crystal ball, trying to locate Madison and Jenji. The crystal ball then showed a temple of Egypt where they could see the Solaris train, but before Udonna could go any further, a black cloud appeared.

"Darkness is coming from the forest. Go, rangers! Daggeron, I will send you to Maddie and Jenji."

All the rangers began to run out of Rootcore, except for Vida. "You guys go ahead, I'm going with Daggeron to get my sister," she said.

"No, as of right now, you need every ranger you have," Daggeron said. "You must go with the rangers, Vida."

"She is my sister, Daggeron, I am not abandoning her," Vida replied. "You are gonna have to fight me to prevent me from going with you."

Normally, Daggeron would have gotten even more irate with having a student disobey him, but to be honest, he just did not have the time to argue with the pink ranger. Who knows what could happen in the forest or to Madison and Jenji while they did? He sighed and said, "Fine, you have my consent to go. Rangers, hold off Imperious' minions as much as possible, we will be back with Madison and Jenji as soon as we can."

The three male rangers all nodded before running out of Rootcore while Daggeron and Vida stood side by side, ready for Udonna to teleport them to Egypt.

"Ready?"

"Ready."

"Etarappa ot Egypt."

With a flick of Udonna's fingers, there was a bright white light that went towards the two of them and they disappeared before her eyes, now on their way to Egypt, not realizing that getting back to Briarwood with Madison and Jenji was going to be a lot more complicated than they thought.

Madison and Jenji had opened the door wide and were now in the chamber from Madison's vision and there on the alter was the thin, long chest she saw, but it was now covered with dust and cobwebs and the two bodyguards were nothing but bones, their bodies laying down on the floor as if they had been struck dead or probably died of starvation. They stepped inside the chamber toward the chest and they now stood in front of the chest and as Madison swept a hand over it, she felt a sense of familiarity within the chest, sending a tickling sensation up and down her arm.

"Hey, what's this?" Jenji suddenly said, pointing at something from above the chest.

He was pointing to a bunch of cobwebs, but Madison could tell there was something behind them. Reaching out a hand, she swept the cobwebs away to reveal a circular-like plate that had a familiar symbol on it, the same symbol that looked just like her tattoo. Wanting to be sure if it was the same, though, she grabbed onto the shoulder of her sweatshirt and pushed it down to reveal her Egyptian tattoo, looking at it and confirming that it had the same eye, pyramid, sun, and two falcons. She was beginning to wonder why her tattoo kept appearing everywhere, considering this would be the second time she saw it.

"What does that symbol represent, Maddie?"

"I don't know," Madison responded as she pushed the sweatshirt back onto her shoulder. She had a feeling, though, that she knew exactly what that symbol represented, she just wasn't sure. "Come on, we need to figure out how to open this."

"Does it have a riddle, like the Fireheart?"

"No, it opens with a key."

"Can you try a spell?"

"No, somebody had put a powerful enchantment over it," Madison said, feeling the powerful source of energy through the end of her fingertips. "We have to find the key to open the chest."

"But this place is thousands, probably millions years old, the key is probably lost by now," Jenji said, "unless you wanna look in that huge treasure room, but you said yourself you didn't want to touch anything in there 'cause you thought there was a risk of a booby trap. I say that we just leave. What if this is booby trapped?"

Madison went into deep thought as she tried to think over the vision earlier, trying to remember what she saw until it clicked. One of the guards had a necklace around their neck with a pendant formed into a pair of bird wings. "No, I came here for a reason and whatever is in that chest is the reason why I am here," she said. "One of the guards has the key."

"The guards? You mean, the dead guards?"

Madison nodded.

"But they're dead!"

"One of them has a necklace with a pair of wings around their neck, I need you to go over to that guard," Madison said, pointing to the dead guard on the right, "and try to find the necklace."

"Oh, no way, I ain't touching no dead person, not even bribing me with gold could make me touch that thing," Jenji said. "I'll come and protect you, but there is no way I will touch a dead person for you."

"What if I make an omelette for you when we get back to Briarwood?"

Jenji stopped at the thought of this. An omelette sounded good right now, especially Madison's, she could make one wicked omelette. He didn't want to touch the smelly, dead thing, but he also wanted that omelette.

"Oh, the things I do for love," Jenji said, finally giving in.

"Thanks, Jenji," Madison said with a smile, kissing him on the cheek.

"Don't even mention it…literally," he said as he went to the guard on the right and Madison went to the one on the left.

As she tried searching for the necklace, Madison noticed that the skeleton had a huge gaping hole in the chest as if someone had stabbed him in the heart. She also noticed how bad the skeleton smelled as she gagged at the horrid, rotting smell. 'So this is what death smells like,' she thought. As she shined the light on and around the skeleton, she then saw something shine through the bones behind it. Madison realized that she was going to have to move the skeleton in order to reach whatever was back there. She didn't want to touch the thing at all, but it was the only way.

"Ew, ew, ew, ew," she said as she tried moving it.

The skeleton ended up crashing sideways to the ground with the head falling off and rolling on the ground, nearly making Madison gag. After getting over that fiasco, she went back to looking for the shiny thing until she saw that the shiny thing was half of a wing. Picking it up and dusting the sand off of it, she saw it was the key-like necklace from her vision.

"Jenji, I found it!"

"Yes, finally! I can stop searching this dead guy," Jenji said as they both went back to the chest. "I am never doing anything like that again. You owe me an omelette now."

Madison took a deep breath, trying to steady her heart beats, feeling it beat hard against her chest. This was it, whatever was in the chest could be the answer to her dreams. Madison could feel herself shaking in anticipation. She placed the key on the lock and started turning it until there came a click and the chest popped opened. She opened it wider until she saw what was inside and when she did, she was in awe.

Inside the chest, there was a sword that was made out of pure gold, the blade and hilt being made out of it. On the blade, there was an engraving on it in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the hilt was made out of a falcon head. It looked exactly like it did in Madison's dreams, and she somehow knew what this particular item was.

"What…what is that?" Jenji asked. "Is that made out of real gold?"

"It is the scimitar of Horus…"

One moment, Daggeron and Vida were in Rootcore and then the next, they found themselves standing in front of the temple along the Nile River where they knew Madison and Jenji were. They spotted the Solaris train right away, but there was no sign of Madison and Jenji, so they knew that they must be in the temple. As they walked, they began to feel the heat as much as Madison and Jenji did before.

"I've heard of the tales of Egypt, but I never thought it would be so hot here," Daggeron said as he wiped his forehead that was already forming with sweat.

"It's very beautiful here, though," Vida responded.

Even for someone who knew very little about Egyptian history, Vida had to admit that the architecture of the temple was beautiful and grand, despite it starting to decay from the years of abandonment. Daggeron agreed with her with a nod, but he was more concerned about Madison and Jenji and getting back his morpher.

"Daggeron?"

"What?"

"Is it just me or does it look like the current is getting stronger?"

Daggeron looked to the river, seeing what Vida meant. The river that was once flowing smoothly was now getting stronger and looked as if it was heading towards the temple, but it also looked as if the current was rising as well, alarming Daggeron as he realized that the temple was about to be flooded by the river.

"We have to get to Maddie and Jenji, now!" Daggeron said.

He and Vida then started running. They ran as fast as their legs could carry them into the temple and as they ran into a chamber that was filled with nothing but sand and pillars, the wall to their left suddenly broke and water rushed out into the chamber along with a soaking wet Madison and Jenji.

After a few minutes of starring at the sword in awe, there was a sudden noise and the whole temple suddenly began to shake and sand started falling from the ceiling.

"Oh, oohh, what's happening?" Jenji said.

Realizing that a booby trap was placed on the chest, Madison quickly shut the chest.

"It's a bit late for that, don't you think?"

"Come on, let's go," Madison said as she grabbed the necklace, putting it around her neck and then grabbing the chest.

"We are taking that thing with us?"

"Come on, Jenji, run!"

"Oh, I knew this was a bad idea to begin with," Jenji said as they both started running.

They started running in the direction they came from, but they were quickly stopped by the rushing of water from the Nile River coming towards them.

"Water? Oh, I hate water!"

Madison then dragged Jenji the other way, running as fast as they could go away from the water, but as they made the only possible turn there was, they came to a dead end. Realizing that this was probably the end for them, they turned back around only to find the water was already upon them and were now struggling for air. Both the blue ranger and the cat genie fought their way up to the surface, the current being too strong, but when they finally did, they breathed in the open air deeply. The water was filling up fast and already their feet was ten feet above the ground. They held onto the bars in the hole on the ceiling while Madison held onto the chest with her other arm, but there was not a lot of time left, so they had to think of something fast.

"Maddie, go into your megazord form!" Jenji said.

"I can't! My megazord is too big!" Madison cried. "Even if I tried, it wouldn't fit through all the tunnels and you would be dead by the time we get out of here."

"Oh, we are so dead!"

The water was now filled up to the top and they had no means of air supply. Both Madison and Jenji were running out of air very quickly, so Madison did the only thing she could think of. Taking out her morpher, she yelled out a spell under water, and the wall broke. The water rushed out along with Madison and Jenji, washing them out onto surface and into air, and the both of them were relieved to find themselves still alive and breathing. They choked and coughed out of the water before finally breathing in the open air.

"Urgh, I am never ever coming here again!" Jenji said as they both got up from the now wet, sandy ground. He shook himself dry, getting more water on Madison.

"Thanks," Madison said sarcastically. "Come on, let's get out of here." But she suddenly froze when she realized that both her and Jenji were not alone. Right in front of them on the steps, there stood Daggeron and Vida. While Vida looked relieved to see her sister, Daggeron looked furious.

"Uh oh…uh, hi, Daggeron," Jenji said nervously.

Madison suddenly began to wish that she was facing death instead of the angry look Daggeron was sending her way, she just knew that she was in deep trouble now.

A/N: Oh, cliffhanger, sorry about that, I'm terrible I know lol ;). Stay tuned for the next chapter, it will come up as soon as possible, right now I am busy with other stuff, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter :).

(1) Sorry, but that was the best thing I could come up with :P.

(2) Some of you will mostly be confused by this since in Briarwood Forest, the rangers step into a "parallel dimension," but I personally did not see them stepping into a different dimension, just stepping into an enchanted forest.

BTW, I forgot to do this last time, but here are the current ages of the rangers in my story:

Nick: 21

Xander: 19

Chip: 19

Vida: 18

Madison: 18

Daggeron: 23 (though, technically, he probably should be about 43? But hey, it's all part of the curse, so he is physically a young man, but he has the mentality of an older man)

Up next: Chapter Three: The Medjai...a chapter all of you readers should definitely look forward to ;D.