"Nina!" Fabian kept shouting her name over and over again as if it would make her reappear.

"Fabian!" Mara cried. "Where did she go? What just happened?" Fabian didn't say anything. He was too upset. "Fabian, tell me what is going on!?"

"We have to find her," Fabian said. "We have to find her"

"Fabian listen to me!" Mara said.

"I have to find her," Fabian paced around the room. "I'm not leaving until I find her. I can't believe this happened again!"

"Again?" Mara asked. Mara grabbed him by his shoulders. "Fabian, look at me, you need to calm down okay? Now take a couple of deep breaths" He breathed in and out. "Better?" He nodded. "Good, now think. What do we need to do?"

"We need to get out of here," Fabian said. "We'll come back later with the others."

"Sounds good," Mara said.

"We'll have to figure out another way out," Fabian said. "The power of the locket will only work for Nina"

"Really?" Mara asked. "This whole thing just gets weirder and weirder."

"Lets look for a hidden door or something." Fabian said.

"How do you know there's a hidden door?" Mara asked.

"There's always a hidden door" Fabian said. He looked at the wall.

"Ok, then" Mara said. She turned to check out the other side of the room. She tripped over a rock and stumbled into the wall. She felt it move slightly.

"Fabian, I think I found something" Together, they moved the piece of wall away revealing a staircase going up.

"Where does this go?"

"I'm assuming up," Fabian snapped

"Fabian, I know you're upset..."

"I just lost my girlfriend again" he said. "i'm more than upset." They made their way up the staircase.

"Ow!" Fabian hit his head on something. It was a small door. Opening it, they found themselves outside standing towards the top of the pyramid. They had a clear view of the sunset.

"This view is amazing!" Mara said.

"Nina would love it! Fabian said. They made their way towards the bottom.

At Anubis House, Joy was in her room working on something for the Jackal. There was a knock on her door.

"Go away Mick!" Trudy walked in. "Oh sorry Trudes, I thought you were-"

"I know sweetie" Trudy said. "Are you coming down for dinner?"

"Is Mick in?" Joy asked. Trudy nodded. "I think I'll skip dinner tonight then" Trudy sat down on the bed.

"Did you want to talk sweetie?"

"Its just that, I thought Mick was starting to like me," Joy said. "We were running together and he looked like he was having fun while I was helping him train. But then I heard him telling Jerome that there was nothing going on, we were just friends."

"Well you can't avoid him forever," Trudy said. "Hiding in your room for the rest of your life won't help."

"I pretty much just want to avoid boys for the rest of my life," Joy said. "They're just bad for me."

"I'm sure that's not true."

"I finally think I have a chance with Fabian, I have to leave the school." Joy said. "I come back, he has a girlfriend. They break up, I try to make a move & he basically shoves me off to the side."

"I thought you and Fabian are friends" Trudy said.

"We are, but that doesn't change the fact that I suck with boys" Joy said. "Me and Mick are the only single people left in the house and it seems he just wants to keep it that way."

"I wouldn't be too sure about that," Trudy said. "Boys can be funny about how they show they care. Are you sure you won't come down for dinner?" Joy shook her head. "Well if you're hungry later, come down & I'll make you a snack"

Downstairs in the dining room, Mick was eating. Trudy came in.

"Is she not coming down?" he asked.

"I'm afraid not," Trudy said. "She's pretty upset."

"I don't know why though," Mick said. "What is it that I'm supposed to have done?"

"She's afraid that you don't fancy her," Trudy said.

"But I do. She's not like most girls. She's the first girl besides Mara that would help me train."

"Then you should tell her that" Trudy said.

"I already apologized" Mick said.

"its going to take a lot more than sorry Mick," Trudy said. "You need to show a girl you care, make her feel special"

"I'm not good at that sort of thing. I always ruin it." Mick said. "Will you help me?"

"Of course, but you're going to do most of the work." she said.

"Thanks!" Standing outside in the hall Joy had been listening to what they said. She smiled when she heard Mick say he cared, but she was going to make him work hard to prove it.

In Egypt at the hotel Eddie was pacing outside waiting for Fabian to get back. He was trying to tell himself. that what he had seen wasn't true. But when Fabian and Mara appeared without Nina, he knew it was.

"You saw?" Fabian asked. Eddie nodded.

"Saw what?" Mara asked.

"We'll explain upstairs," Fabian said. In Amber's room Amber was anxious.

"Fabian, what happened!" she asked. She'd been crying.

"Im not sure. One minute she was there, and the next she was gone."

"it was the spirit." Eddie said. "I saw it in my vision. I should have gone with you. I would've been able to prevent it."

"So you knew this was going to happen?!" Fabian demanded.

"I didn't know what would happen but if you hadn't been such an idiot and let me go, I could've been able to prevent it."

"She's my girlfriend, I can protect her."

"And you did a fine job of it too," Eddie said sarcastically.

"I'm sure you couldn't have done a better job," Fabian said.

"Meaning?"

"Meaning that just because you're the Osirion doesn't mean you can take me girlfriend" Fabian snapped. Eddie was speechless.

"Is that what you think I'm doing?"

"Will someone please tell me what is going on?" Mara exclaimed.

"Eddie and Fabian are fighting over Nina," Amber said.

"We are not..." Eddie started to say.

"No, I mean with what's going on around here," Mara said. "Spirits? Magic lockets? Osirion? Visions? And what about happened to Nina? Shouldn't we tell Victor that she's gone missing?"

"No!" Fabian said. "that's the last thing we want to do is tell Victor, he's one of the bad guys."

"Ok, I know Victor doesn't have a heart but..."

"There's a lot about Victor that you don't know," Amber said.

"Then someone had better start talking," Mara said.

Nina woke up in a dark, cold room. She had no idea where she could be. She heard something move next to her. She heard breathing.

"Whose there?" she asked.

"Nina?" she heard a familiar voice say.

"Poppy?" she asked moving towards the voice. She found Poppy huddled in a corner. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"No, just kind of shaken up," Poppy said tearfully. "So that spirit ghost thingy got to you too?" Nina nodded.

"Is there any way out of here?" she asked.

"You have to have some sort of special key" Poppy pointed toward the door. Nina went to look at it. They needed her locket to open it.

"No worries..." she said reaching for her neck. Then she remembered she had given it to Fabian to hold onto. "Great, looks like we'll be here for a while. But don't worry, I'm sure someone will find us."

"I don't understand why I'm here!" Poppy said. "One second I was in Jerome's room looking at this weird cup thingy and the next it was dark and then I was here!" Nina thought for a second. So the spirit was after the cup of Ankh. But what did she want with it? She hoped the others were keeping it safe and that Fabian wasn't freaking out too much about her.

Alfie and Piper were making their way back to the hotel for dinner. Piper had been very quiet ever since they had left the museum.

"Are you okay?" Alfie asked. "You look like something is bothering you."

"yeah, I guess you could say that," Piper said. "Its just I'm wondering why these people are so certain they've seen me before. Unless..."

"Unless you have an evil twin?" Alfie joked.

"No," Piper said. "But I have A twin! Come on we have to find Nina and the others."

Back at the hotel, Fabian was standing out on the balcony of his hotel room thinking. Eddie came out and stood beside him.

"Look Eddie," Fabian said. "I'm really sorry for what I said."

"Its cool man," Eddie said. "You were just upset. We all are. But you know, I would NEVER try to take Nina away from you. She's just a friend to me."

"I know..." Fabian said. "I mean its not your fault this is happening."

"What doe you mean?"

"No you would think I'm just being silly."

"Tell me!"

"Well, I read this book from the library a while back that the more the Osirion and the Chosen One spend time together, the closer they'll become."

"You do know that you shouldn't believe everything you read right?"

"Thats not the point" Fabian said. "You don't see what I see. Think about it, when you and joined Sibuna, you and Nina started hearing each others thoughts and then you were able to sense when she was in danger. I can't even protect her."

"This really bothers you doesn't it?" Eddie asked.

"I know it shouldn't" Fabian said. "But I almost lost my girlfriend when she nearly helped Senkhara get through to the underworld and I promised myself I wouldn't let anything like that happen to her again. Sometimes I think she would just be better off without me."

"So basically you're saying me and Nina are destined to be together?" Eddie asked sounding angry and upset.

"its like the universe is pulling you and her together," Fabian said sadly.

"Well the universe needs to understand that its Patricia I want to be with," Eddie said. "Now if only I knew where she was so I can tell her that." There was a knock on their bedroom door and Piper came running in followed by Alfie.

"I think I know where Patricia is," Piper said.

"Where?" Eddie and Fabian asked at the same time.

"She's here! In Egypt!"

"How do you know?" Eddie asked.

"Twin telepathy," Piper said sarcastically. "It was something the security guard at a museum said. He was so certain he had seen me there before but I told him that was my first time ever stepping foot there."

"Thats definitely weird!" Fabian said.

"Exactly! So if someone who looks like me has been in that museum who could it be?" Piper asked. "The only other person who looks like me!"

"But if Patricia is in Egypt, why hasn't she found us?" Eddie asked.

"And what was she doing in a museum?" Fabian wondered.

"Where have you been?" Amber cried walking in glaring at Alfie. Piper walked away.

"I should go," she said. "I'll see you guys at dinner." When she left, Amber smacked Alfie on the arm.

"What are you thinking?" she asked. "While we're trying to stop a spirit, you're off shopping? Without me?"

"She wanted someone to keep her company," Alfie said.

"Sibuna comes first," Amber said.

"Then think about that the next time you decide to keep a secret from someone"

"I did it because I didn't want anything to happen to you!" Amber said. "I would hate to see you get hurt or worse. I care about you too much to see anything bad happen."

"I know."

"You know?"

"I just wanted to hear you say it," Amber smacked him on the arm again.

"You know worrying isn't good for my skin!"

"Just promise next time you won't keep any more Sibuna secrets from me."

"Promise!" they hugged.

"Well now that you two have made up, can we figure out how to find Nina?"

"Wait, what?" Alfie said.

"Se you you miss out on?" Amber said

"What happened?"

"She got taken away by the spirit" Fabian said.

"Great! Anything else I need to be aware of?" Alfie asked.

"We think Patricia might be here in Egypt." Eddie said.

"What?" Amber and Alfie said together.

"Yeah."

"So what's the plan?" Mara asked walking in. Alfie was confused again.

"Did we mention that Mara knows everything?"

"Oh cool!" Alfie said. "Welcome to the team!"

"Thanks!" Mara said. "I just feel bad because I feel like I'm lying to Jerome by not telling him anything about this."

"Did you guys find anything about Poppy?" Jerome asked walking in and then saw Mara standing there. "I mean..."

"Jerome, you know?" Mara asked. "What about Poppy? I thought she was sick?"

"She is," Jerome said.

"Don't lie to me Clarke!" Mara said. "I already know everything. Where's Poppy?"

"For all we know she could be with Nina."

"Wait, where's Nina?" Jerome asked.

"Before anyone asks any more questions" Amber said loudly. "Let me clear it all up. Poppy is missing, Nina is missing, and Patricia may be in Egypt. Now is everyone caught up?"

"Yeah pretty much!" Jerome said. Mara was quiet.
"Everyone should be downstairs for dinner in five minutes!" they heard Victor call through the hallway.

"We'll figure out what to do later," Eddie said. "We better get downstairs before the Victor patrol comes asking questions"

"Actually Miller," Jerome said. "You and I have something we need to get taken care of, with our dads"

"How did that luncheon go with your dad?" Mara asked.

"Not good!" Jerome said. "But all that is going to change tonight!" He and Eddie left the room.

"I'll see you guys downstairs," Mara said.

"So what now?"

"I don't know" Fabian said. "My girlfriend is missing. I have no idea where to find her and we need her to get rid of the spirit."

"Well as long as it doesn't get any worse, we should be fine right?" Alfie said.

"I don't see how it could get any worse," Amber said.

A moment later, they heard sirens. They were coming from right outside the hotel. Waling to the balcony they saw officers walking into the main lobby.

"I wonder what's going on," Amber said. They walked downstairs. A small crowd had already gathered in the lobby.

"What's going on?" Fabian asked Mara.

"They're looking for a thief." she said. Two officers, the hotel manager, and a security guard were all talking.

"That's the security guard from the museum" Alfie said to Amber and Fabian. The guard turned towards the group.

"That's the thief" he shouted and pointed. "That's the person who stole the Ankh cross!" He was pointing at Piper.

Author's Note: Next chapter should be posted this weekend or sometime next week. Not too many chapters left! Follow me on twitter kdanee2011 for story updates and posts about new stories.

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