Chapter 5; PArt 1

"What do you thinks down there?" I asked, as Fabian and I walked down the narrow bookcase passageway.

Fabian shrugged, leading me, "I don't know; I can't see a thing."

I reached suddenly for my bag, and after digging through it vigirously, I handed him a flshlight.

"Here."

He stared down at the flashlight as he raised his eyebrow, "You carry this in your bag?"

"Once a Sibuna, always a Sibuna. I've been carrying it around for the past year, to be prepared if freaky stuff like this happens." I replied. Truthfully I was more prepared than he knew of,... but that would ruin the story, wouldn't it?

Fabian flicked the "on" button and the flash of light revealed just a narrow hallway, with cemented walls, almost exactly like the one beneath Anubis House.

"This is it: nothing. Why would there be a secret bookshelf if nothing was there to hide?" I asked, as Fabian pressed his fingers over the walls.

Tilting my head and taking a step closer to him, I asked, "Fabian?"

As if he were in a trance, Fabian recited, his voice keeping calm and still, "Mask of Anubis possess the power that ofrce people to cower beneath it's feet."

At that moment another door was opened just as it had for me beneath the house.

"Whoa!" he let out, with exictement. Behidn this panel, hide a mask, decorated with gold and sliver. IT looked as though it were the mask of a cat, I conculded since it had pointed ears.

I shook my head in joy but also in fright.

"That's the mask! The mask that Sekhmet was looking for! She waanted to gain all her power and that is how she could do that! By finding the mask!"

"Should we just...take it? It seems to easy?" Fabian stared indecisively.

"Why not? There's nothing in there that's stopping us. We're safe...right?" Although, I didn't feel safe. There was some suspicion in the atmosphere that I could taste.

Fabian glided his feet through the door as I carefully stepped behind him.

Abrurtly, as I jump back in fear, the door slammed shut forcefully as en evil-like laugh echoed through the emptiness. Fabian was now locked on the other side of the panel while I was outside!

"Fabian! Fabian! Can you hear me? Fabian!" I shouted as I banged on the shut door.

"Nina! Are you okay?" he responded, with the calmness escaping his voice.

Sekhmet, boldly, appeared as if by a flash of wind. "Thank you, you have found my mask for me. Well done!"

I whispered things to myself, assuring me that she was not real and only a figure of my imagination.

"And you even brought me the boy!" she added, approaching me.

"What? Don't touch him! What are you going to do to him?" I shouted, as I heard Fabian mumbled something through the door.

"Well, to restore my full power I needed two things: The mask of Anubis, to make me human again not just a spirit living inside you, and a victim, someone to give me their life for myself to use. I had this all planned out; And you played into my hands." I stood there with my jaw wide open, babbled and confused.

"Don't touch him! Please!" I pleaded, as she sinked through the wall, to Fabian.

"Fabian!" I yelled.

"Ahha! Such young love; it's such a shame he has to die." I could just depict the evil smile growing on her disguisting face.

My heart raced as I gathered the courage to say, "Stop! Take me instead! I'm the Chosen One! Kill me, not him!" Her laugh came to a hault.

"Well then! If I must." she spun around me, floating on air. She could kill me with such ease and without any hesitation.

She wore the mask on her face and raised her hand, shotting a beam of light in my direction.

"Nina! No! No! No! Nina!"

And then everything faded in to a black misty color.