A.N.- Okay here is chapter 11! I'm really, really, really sorry for not updating during the past couple of nights; I was just too busy with homework and stuff. But anyway, enjoy!
Trixy: This chapter is also a bit on the shortish side.
Skipper: Got any threes, Kowalski?
Kowalski: Go fish, sir.
Me: He-llo-o! I'm trying to do my story, can you please take your game off of my computer desk?
Skipper: Um let me think about that...No.
Me: Sigh, alright. Well, anyway enjoy the chapter everyone!
Chapter 11: Agh! Sandstorm!
(Nobody's POV)
The eight penguins then drive to the human airport and sneak onto a large passenger plane that is flying to Cairo, Egypt. They hide the cars among the luggage and wait as patiently as possible for the end of the flight. George was the least patient of them all; he got air sick and was counting the seconds until touch-down. The flight lasted about five hours. As soon as the plane lands and the luggage compartment opens, the penguins drive off of the plane and start towards Giza. With Rico driving one zoo coup and Lieutenant trying to match his speed in the other car, the penguins make it to the Great Pyramids in less than fifteen minutes. "Okay, everyone, we need to hide the cars before we go so that no one discovers them and blows our cover…or steals them." Skipper says. They then hide the zoo coups in a cactus cluster behind a collection of tall sand dunes.
"Hmm…If I remembah correctly the Great Sphinx of Giza should only be a few minutes slide from here." Lieutenant says thinking.
"Gosh it's hot. Are we investigating at night or day?" Cecelia asks while fanning herself with a flipper.
"At night, of course." Lieutenant replies.
"Then what are we going to do until then? It's like a hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit out here!" she says.
"We're obviously going to become well-roasted penguin delight." George says he too is fanning himself with a flipper.
"No. We aren't going to bake out here…but then again, I don't really know what we should do." Lieutenant says starting to pace.
"Why don't we go ahead to the Sphinx? Then we can at least wait the remaining hours until night in the shade." Kowalski suggests; everyone nods their head in approval. They then all slide over the burning Egyptian sand towards the Great Sphinx of Giza.
(Skipper's POV)
We get about half-way to the Sphinx when it hits. Private is the first to notice it. "Skippah! What's that huge cloud-looking thing ovah there?" he asks. I look in the direction he points.
"HOOVER DAM! Everyone, take cover!" I exclaim. Lieutenant looks into the distance.
"Agh! Sandstorm! Everyone, to the Sphinx! Quickly!" Lieutenant orders. No one argues and slide as quickly as physically possible to the Sphinx. We huddle against the Sphinx's wall and brace ourselves against the sand-filled winds. The storm only lasts a few minutes, but those minutes feel like hours. When the winds cease, we count heads to see if we had somehow managed to lose someone.
"Okay when I call your name; say here." Kowalski says taking out his now sand-covered clip-board. "Skipper?"
"Here." I say. Kowalski puts a check beside my name…or more like picture since he can't read.
"Kowal-oh wait, that's me." He puts a check beside his own name. "Lieutenant?"
"Here." Lieutenant replies. Kowalski puts a mark on the board once again.
"George?"
"I've been standing beside you the whole time; so of course I'm here." George replies.
"A simple here would have sufficed, George." He marks beside George's picture. George rolls his eyes.
"Cecelia?"
"I'm ovah here!" she says. We look up and see her stuck to the top of a cactus. "And I could use a little bit of help, please!" George and I get Cecelia down from the cactus. "Ow!" George then pulls the small part of the cactus that was still attached to her off of her. "Gosh, how I hate cactuses!" she says rubbing her pour tail feathers.
"Let's see…Trixy?"
"Here!" Trixy says. Kowalski nods and checks beside her picture.
"Private?" There is no answer. I look around. Now where could he have gone? I walk near a strange and fairly recent looking sand dune. At the top of it I see a little tuff of a tail wagging franticly. (A.N. - Can penguins wag their tails? I don't know but I'd imagine that they could if they wanted to do so. LOL XD)
"I think I found him." I say and I climb to the top of tiny sand dune. I pull on the tiny tail and pull Private out of the sand. "Private, you do know that you're a penguin and not an ostrich right?" Private coughs up some sand, I could tell he was trying to ignore my comment. Kowalski puts another check on the board.
"Okay and Rico?" Kowalski asks. Rico raises a flipper.
"I ri' 'ere!" Rico says. Kowalski nods.
"Okay then, we're all present and accounted for, Skipper."
"Alright, then why don't we go on into the Sphinx? It'll be dark in a few minutes." I say and Lieutenant nods.
"Yes, let's all enter the Sphinx." Lieutenant says and he walks over to the wall between the Sphinx's two gargantuan front paws. "Now if only I could remembah which brick was the secret passage-way triggah…Hmm." He starts feeling around the wall.
(Private's POV)
I watch Lieutenant carefully as he feels around the limestone bricks. I see one move and he passes right by it. I waddle over to it and press it. Then a staircase appears in the sand behind us, right where Kowalski is standing…or maybe was standing because when the staircase appeared, he is no longer standing and is instead falling down a flight of spiral stairs. Lieutenant looks at me. "How did you do that!" he asks. I shrug.
"I was watching you and the bricks and I saw one move slightly and you didn't appear to see it, so I pressed it." I reply. Lieutenant shakes his head.
"This feels so much like déjà vu that it isn't funny." Lieutenant says. We then all start to waddle down the stairs and into the dark abbess below.