AN: Yay Alexia is awake! Hope that makes everyone happy. To pineapplegoddess: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And thank you! To Kairi14ole: there will be some but I honestly don't know how much. To Rukia-chappie: yes she is! And its okay. I'm used to it lol. To wildcat717: is this soon enough? To jayna prime: well now we know lol. To TheAnnoyingOne97: you are starting to make me worry with all your evil laughter… but then again I'm laughing evilly too so… To ninatheninja: well he will be able to tell but only after his powers have fully returned to him, and since he hasn't consumed any humans yet, his powers aren't complete. To blackrosewitch1996: hahaha! I thought it was a good idea. To Saiyuo12: thank you! To IluvOdie: Yep!
At first it seemed that they might actually be able to escape the mummies as Jonathon pulled the bus out onto the streets, not slowing down for even a second. But that was quickly proved wrong as the mummies rounded the corner and let out some sort of roaring hiss and took chase.
Alexia grimaced as the mummies ran on top of Rick's car, squishing it like it was nothing causing her friend to practically start weeping.
"You needed a new one anyways." Alexia said as she moved to the door of the bus and tried to aim at one of the mummies. Pulling the trigger, she fired and cursed.
"Jonathon think you can drive a little more smoothly?" She yelled up to him as she quickly reloaded her shotgun.
"Oh I hate mummies." Rick snarled as he readied his gun.
"Glad to see me now?" Ardeth asked him.
"Just like old time huh?" Rick replied while Alexia shot him a glare.
"NO!" she snapped still angry with him despite the situation.
Rick just rolled his eyes and ran up to the top level of the bus leaving Alexia and Ardeth to defend the bottom.
"Perhaps you would like to talk about it?" Ardeth said as Alexia took aim and shot again at the mummies, this time managing to clip one in the shoulder even though it didn't slow it down.
"Oh so now you wanna talk." Alexia growled, shooting again.
"I know what happened angered you." Ardeth said, pausing when two mummies started to run on the buildings beside them.
"No really?" Alexia snapped. As much as they probably need to talk, now wasn't exactly the time.
"Alexia…"
"Don't you Alexia me buster!" Alexia snarled whirling on Ardeth.
"Now, now you two not in front of Alex." Evy tried to cut in, causing Alexia to glance at her.
"Yeah Ardeth not in front of the kid." Alexia said, ending the conversation and returning her attention to the mummies. "Besides I've got bigger fish to fry at the moment." She mumbled quietly to herself.
At that moment one of the mummies swung in and knocked her to the ground. Before she could react Ardeth shot it to pieces, and the legs fell off of the bus.
"Are you okay?" he asked as he helped Alexia up and pulled her close into him, wrapping his arm around her waist.
Alexia smiled at him and pulled herself out of his grip. "Suck up." She said. The excitement of the situation was getting to her making her smile a dangerous one. Despite it appearing that she was being nice, Ardeth knew he was still in very very deep water with her. For a moment he almost prayed that the mummies would kill him so that she couldn't later.
Alexia moved away from Ardeth and towards the front of the bus to give Evy a quick hug since she hadn't managed to earlier.
"You okay?" She asked her.
Evy nodded, but then pointed behind Evy towards the back of the bus.
Turning Alexia saw half of a mummy beating the crap out of Ardeth before trying to take a swing at Alex.
Alexia frowned and pulled Alex out of harms way not a moment to soon.
With a snarl the mummy came after her, swiping at her with its hands.
"Now that's not very nice!" Alexia said as she ducked and kicked it back into one of the seats. She could here Rick having trouble with a mummy on the upper deck and hoped her friend was okay.
At the moment she had half a crazy mummy to deal with, and it had just grown very long nails.
"Turn! Turn, turn, turn, turn!" Evy yelled to Jonathon.
Nodding Jonathon made a sharp right, tossing Alex into Alexia, and the mummy away from Ardeth.
As Alex and Alexia tried to stand again, Evy grabbed a shotgun that had landed outside the window and shot the mummy as it tried to kill Ardeth.
After the mummy was blown to pieces, (completely this time) Alexia giggled and hugged Evy.
"Aren't shotguns great?" She asked her slightly shaken friend, before going over to Ardeth and slugging him in his uninjured shoulder.
"Ow! What was that for?" He snapped causing Alexia to glare at him.
"We need to talk."
He groaned but nodded.
With him agreeing to talk later, Alexia knelt down and started to check his wounds, whistling at the damage.
"That thing got you good." Alexia said as she pulled some of the fabric out of one of the cuts. She smirked when Ardeth flinched. "You big baby."
A roar from above them, reminded Alexia that their little adventure wasn't over just yet.
Glancing out the front window she smiled and ran up to Jonathon as he avoided hitting a car.
"Jonathon go under the bridge!" she yelled
"But we won't fit!" he yelled back.
"We will just enough." She replied before racing to the back of the bus and yelling up the steps to Rick.
"Rick! Get ready to duck!" she shouted.
"What?" Rick yelled back before cursing and hitting the mummy that was trying to strangle him, in the face and dropping to the floor.
With a screech the bus tore under the low bridge with just enough room to give Rick the safe place he needed.
Feeling fresh air on his back, Rick cautiously stood up and made his way down the stairs.
"Next time, how about a better warning?" Rick said to Alexia as Evy and Alex raced to hug him while Jonathon found a place to pull over and stop the bus.
AN: Two chapters so soon! I must be feeling nice. And just out of curiosity. Who wants Alexia with Ardeth and who wants her with Ihmotep… I wanna know (though it won't change how I'm writing the story.)
