Chapter 2

I waited a minute or two after Jonathan and his brother-in-law Rick had left the Inn. I then got up silently from my seat and walked by the shouting and drunken men, I ignored them completely this time as I walked passed the curtain door and looked around for Jonathan and Rick. At first I thought I had waited to long then I saw the two of them several feet away getting into a car and driving off, I smirked, "You won't leave me behind." After saying that I began making my secretive chase.

I followed the two to a rather nice little home, I stayed hidden in the shadows as I watched the two get out of the car, "Jonathan who was that girl you were with at the Inn anyway?" Rick had asked him while they unloaded a few boxes from the back seat of the car.

"Oh she was just someone I had met yesterday, and please don't ask me how I ended up meeting her there for I myself don't even know…it was almost as if she had put some sort of strange mind control on me to make me meet her there." Jonathan said sounding out of breath from carrying the large box he had. Rick looked as if he could not believe that any woman would want to make Jonathan meet them anywhere, I found it humorous I couldn't help but smirk.

Suddenly the door to the house opened and out came the young woman I had seen from before, "Oh your back." She said with a smile and she gave the one called Rick a kiss hello and she took the last box in the car and brought it inside. "You will not believe what was in that box we found Rick." She said as she walked into the house, "Oh goody can't wait to find out Evie." Jonathan said with severe sarcasm as he slammed the door shut. I cursed at him silently for closing the door, now I knew I'd have to get closer to the house so I could see what was going on. I silently crept over to the right side of the house; they were all in the living room as well as a little boy with blonde hair who appeared to be no more then ten years old or so. I then watched them converse, "So Evie what's inside the box, which we nearly died getting." Rick said sarcastically, I was beginning to think sarcasm was the family trait.

"Well, I believe it is the manacle of Osiris." Said the woman with her quaint little British accent.

"Is this a good thing?" Asked Rick skeptically.

"Well that depends on how it is used, although I don't know how it works exactly." Evie said sounding a bit disappointed, although I was thrilled for if they did not know how to use the manacle then I could perhaps gain their trust somehow and retrieve the manacle before any damage was done.

I thought to myself that it was now or never so I chose the now and I appeared at their front door dressed in a navy blue t-shirt and black slender pants with black boots. I wasn't up to date on American or British fashion so I dressed however I thought was appropriate. I then knocked on the door gently, while the three of them passed the manacle around like some toy studying it.

I waited anxiously as Jonathan opened the door, I frowned of all the people to answer the door it was Jonathan. Then Rick came over; he didn't seem to recognize me, "Can I help you young lady?"

"Yes can I come in?" I ask politely trying to appear as no threat; he looked me over once to double check that I was no threat.

"For what?" He asked, I could tell that he found something about me odd, I had to give him credit he was absolutely right about that but I couldn't let him know.

"I wish to talk about your new finding." I said with an innocent smile, it was killing me to no end to be so damn nice cause I wasn't very used to it.

Rick gave me a strange look when I glanced at Jonathan he was a nervous wreck, sweating and mumbling I could tell I frightened him but I didn't know why or how. "What finding? Who are you?"

"The manacle of Osiris." I said flatly as I stared him straight in the eye with confidence so that I could make him understand that I was serious. Apparently Evie overheard everything and she stepped up to me, she glanced at me then she put her hand to her head as if she were in pain.

"Not again." Rick said as he caught Evie as she fell backward, Jonathan and Rick placed her on a chair and I allowed myself in and closed the door. They did not pay attention to me as Evie woke up, "I had another one of those visions." I heard her say softly, that got me a little nervous but I tried to shove it aside for the time being.

Evie then looked at me again, "Who are you? How do you know about the manacle?"

I sighed; I suppose I needed to tell them part of the truth, "Every Egyptian historian knows about the manacle of Osiris and how it once belonged to the Scorpion King. Yet none know what it can cause and do, now that you have taken it from its sacred tomb we must get it out of Egypt for this is the last place on earth it should be."

They all looked at me with faces of worry, it seemed to me that these people have had dealings with Egyptian curses before.

"Please don't say a mummy will come back from the dead." Jonathan said in a whiny voice, my head snapped over to him. I could not believe my ears, "So you are the ones who eleven years ago awoke Imhotep from his grave?"

They all looked at each other then back at me, "So the word was spread then?" Rick asked.

"Not exactly, but I was in Egypt when it happened. I must admit that the reenactments of the ten plagues of Egypt was a dead give away." I say sitting in a nearby chair.

"So you were a little child then." Evie said in a rather curious voice.

I smirked, "Not exactly…although I was eleven years younger then I am now." I say telling the complete truth, I felt that lying would get them and me nowhere. Although everyone in the room seemed a bit confused by my simple response they all nodded their heads.

"So we must leave Egypt?" Evie asked looking disappointed.

"Yes…"

"But what about the oasis and the…"

"Forget it, forget everything that you know goes along with the manacle package cause it'll bring nothing but death, destruction and worse." I say cutting Evie off and ruining her enthusiastic mood.

"How do you know about all that?" Rick asked looking at me suspiciously.

"If Evie can know about it that easily then certainly I had my ways of learning about it too." I say dryly as I looked away from Rick and at the manacle, "so much history is in that thing, so much pain and sadness. If I could've I would've destroyed that thing." I didn't even realize that everyone in the room looked at me after I said what I had been thinking aloud. I just looked up at them and made it seem as if I was talking from illegitimate knowledge based on historical fact.

"If we go back to London then will you come with us?" Evie asked hopefully, "You seem like someone who could offer us a great deal of knowledge and help in the future."

I smiled, "I never had any other thought in my mind."

With that they quickly packed up everything they had and we set of for London, a place that I had not visited in an extremely long time.

All right that's the end of chapter 2, I hope you like it! Please read and review when your done please! Thank you! Bye!