Prince of Serpents

Immediately after the memory was gone, Amy and Dan snapped back into reality. Without another word, Dan went into the bathroom to get ready while Amy took a used guidebook about Rome out of her backpack and began reading on her bed. In about fifteen minutes, Dan was out of the bathroom and the two went to bed, dreaming about that terrible day.

Meanwhile...

The head chef came in and announced that dinner was ready. The prince smiled as he eagerly walked to his supper, named Poule le diner.

"Hurry up, Dan!" cried Amy as she and her brother ran for the exit. They were running from the Starlings as the furious Sinead shouted curses and Ted and Ned were close behind them. Let's go up to speed here. Amy and Dan couldn't find anything in Rome, so they followed the Starlings (for some reason they were allowed back into the contest) to find something. They did, and soon after Dan snuck up behind Sinead, poked her on the shoulder, and took the Starlings' lead, then both Cahills started running before Sinead could say "cell-phone." After a few moments, the triplets realized what was happening and started running after them.

"I can't! Do you know how heavy this thing is?" the impatient Dan shouted back. The lead? It's a jar painted in Roman pictures and numbers. According to Dan, it is also very heavy. Within a few moments, both Ted and Ned caught Dan while Amy went to hide. Dan was brought back to Sinead as she cried,

"And they said you were dead! Why you no-good ^&(*(&^$#%*^(*^(*..." However, she stopped when she noticed how...how hot the Cahill orphan seemed. Sinead smiled evilly as she suddenly threw herself at him, trying to either A) steal the jar or B) get Dan to like her back. Either way, Amy didn't like it one bit. She ran from behind, grabbed Dan and the jar, and pushed him and the artifact into a nearby taxi.

"Go! Hurry! Now!" she shouted as she threw $200 dollars onto the driver's seat. The driver saw the money and zoomed off, leaving the Starlings in the dust. After giving directions to the taxi driver, Amy and Dan arrived at their hotel about ten minutes later.

Amy, exhausted yet again, set the jar down onto her bed, and lay down next to it. Dan, shaking his head slowly, lay down on his own bed, and started taking a giant nap. Amy smiled at her brother, and began thinking about Sinead's actions.

What does she think she's doing? She thought, Throwing herself at Dan like that. She shook her head as she thought, I'm going to need to be more careful as far as the Starlings go. Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard a scratching from inside the jar. She started examing it, and found air holes in the jar, perfectly cut. Strange, she thought as she opened the lid, what could be in here...

Dan woke up from his nap painfully when he heard a high-pitched squeal. The Cahill boy sat up so straight you'd think he was Frankenstein.

"What? What's going on? Are we being attacked by Kabra zombies?" he shouted before he laid his eyes on his sister...and what was in her lap. It was a baby lamb.

It looked up at Dan with eyes that could have paralyzed even the toughest man on Earth. It snuggled into Amy's lap as if she was its mother. Amy, on the other hand, was cuddling with the thing as if the lamb was her own child. She was giggling softly at the sight of the baby animal, and Dan smiled a little. Amy looked up at Dan in pleading.

"Dan, this lamb has to have been in that jar for a reason. We should keep it." The lamb looked up at Dan pleadingly as well, as if agreeing to what Amy is saying. All he could do was let his sister keep it. Because it was his idea for naming their lost goose, Amy was given the oppurtunity to name the new addition to their team. She named her (they checked and it is a girl) Nellie, for Nellie was that comforting and tender.

Later...

Amy, for some reason, kept on getting the shower first. While she was cleansing herself, Dan and Nellie started getting to know each other. As the lamb was learning how to walk, Dan could only grin and say,

"You are something else, you notice that?" With that, he continued examining the jar from which Nellie came from (A/N: oh geez I just not realized how awkward that sounds...well just ignore it okay?) and noticed a particular word on the jar. It stated: Veno Mobrac. It didn't look like part of the original design...in fact, it was written in some beautiful cursive. Dan immediately wrote down the two words, then began working on them, seeming as they looked like anagrams. There was a knock on the door as soon as he started however. Sighing frustratedly and muttering to himself about not getting any time to himself, he opened the door. This time, instead of closing the door because he found no one, or looking down, he was knocked down by a huge force by his feet. He looked around him to find the same one thousand snakes crawling past him and heading for the bathroom door, where Amy was.

"No!" cried Dan as he tried to get up, but then he stopped when he saw that the snakes were stopped by Nellie.

"Baa!" she bleated at the snakes. The serpents glanced at one another, confused, before their leader hissed something and the snakes began crawling all over the little lamb. This happened just as Amy stepped out of the bathroom. She saw Nellie being taken away and immediately cried,

"No!" She started running to help her little pet, but was held back by Dan.

Later...

The prince sighed aggravatedly as the leader explained why they had failed again.

"The lamb would not move out of the way. We could hear the girl sssscream in pain. Obvioussssssly they have formed a bond of sssssome ssssort." Upon hearing this, the serpents' master looked up. So the little lamb and his future bride had a certain bond, did they? The head chef was waiting nearby, while glaring at the baby animal hungrily. The baby animal was shaking very violently, she was completely terrified. The evil cook stepped up.

"Sire, may I take the lamb to dinner?" he asked very pleasantly. Surprisingly, the prince shook his head.

"No. I will take her to a very comfortable place. If this lamb is that important to Amy, then she is that important to me," the prince stated. Mumbling and grumbling, the head chef went back into his kitchen. The leader serpent slithered forward.

"Ssssire, pleassssse, give ussss one more chance. We won't messsss up thisssss time, we promisssse." His master sighed once more as he picked up the lamb.

"Fine. One more chance. But if you mess up this last time, then I won't depend on you for future missions ever again. Do you hear me, Lavika?" Lavika, the leader, bowed his head, then hissed at his team of snakes and they disbanded. The lamb looked up at the prince timidly. He looked down and smiled. The baby animal reminded him so much of Amy. He carried her all the way to a beautiful pen. The baby bleated in happiness and pranced around before she laid down to rest. The prince smiled peacefully as he left the lamb to go eat his dinner.

A/N:

Okay, I know Sinead is a little OOC, but just go with me here, okay? Other than that, can I get a little support here? I'm sorry if this is a little rushed too, but...but...agh I'm so rushed! Please review! Until then!

~storyteller221 :)