A.N.: Hey there all, sorry for the long wait but I've been really busy over the past few months, and then I fell ill a week ago- thanks to my middle son! Also I nearly lost my Mother and Younger Sister to a car accident back in England - luckily they walked away from the accident but the car was a total write-off. The car had belonged to my deceased Grandfather who bought it back in 2000 and he passed away from Cancer in 2001. Everyone in my family has told them that the only reason they walked away from the crash was because my Grandfather was watching over them like a Guardian Angel. I am just happy that I didn't have to fly back there to make Funeral Arrangements, and that everyone is safe and whole.
I will be writing the next chapter soon and it will be up once it is completed so don't be too surprised if it takes a while... Jazz has been a butt head about his parts in this story so far and I'm now ignoring him.
End of Authors Note and back to the Chapter:
Back in Egypt somewhere...
As we were traveling along the sandy roadways, I was listening to Sam and Simmons talking inside Bumblebee over Jazz's Comm. Link which they were keeping open between them so that we could converse with each other and not need a pair of walkie-talkies to do so.
"Okay, let's go over it again." came Simmons voice over the radio an before Sam could say anything I rattled off the riddle that Jetfire had given us.
"'When the dawn alights the Dagger's Tip,the Three Kings will reveal the doorway.' That's what he said. You know what it means?" I added to the rest of the group to see if we could get a few different views on this, I mean it really is annoying, we knew where and what the 'Dagger's Tip' was but the rest of it was currently kicking our afts.
"No, what does it mean?" came Simmons again and then Sam's voice could be heard answering in a negative, "I have no idea."
Everything was going slightly better once we had rested and taken a quick bathroom break as well as eating a few energy bars and trail mix packs, and rinsing them down with a few bottles of water from my pack that I had removed from Jazz's trunk when we stopped.
We were now back on the road heading towards the 'Dagger's Tip' and the riddle that Jetfire had told us was still giving me a hard time - almost to the point that I almost missed the chatter over Jazz's radio from Bee's passengers of, "Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Checkpoint. Checkpoint. I don't have my passport."
"Passport!" the guard called out as he walked down the stairs from his viewpoint and once he made it to where I could see him better, my mind automatically for whatever reason started playing the Oompah Loompah song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from back in the '80's.
Shaking my head I reached into my bag and pulled out my Military ID, along with my Passport and hoped that that was all they would require from me. We pulled up in front of Bee's Alt. Mode and showed our paperwork whilst explaining in fluent Arabic that everyone in the cars behind us were with us on a trip to see historical sites. Hoping that everything went as I had hoped Jazz and I were allowed through the barricaded checkpoint and stopped a few feet on the other side so as to wait for the others.
Listening in via Jazz we could hear everything that was going on back with 'Bee and the group. "They got cameras at the top." That had to be either Leo or Sam stating a fact about checkpoints here in the Middle East and I just hoped that we didn't get made by INTERPOL because of some idiots in the cars.
"All right, chill. This is espionage now. I can handle it. These are my people. I'm one-thirty-sixth Arab." came the voice of Simmons, he and I were going to have a looong conversation later about keeping stuff like this secret from those of us who could us this information to better our situation. It didn't take me long to to start laughing though as I heard Wheelie muttering, "Great, a fricking Munchkin. Little people are mean. Tell him he's tall."
I felt Jazz's form stiffen at the comment by Wheelie about little people being mean and to tell him he was tall. I gently murmured to him that he was just the right height for being my Guardian and that he was just as dangerous as Prime, Ironhide or Ratchet when fragged off. After hearing him acknowledge that I was right about that, we settled back in to listen to the rest of Simmons' conversation.
"Me and my family. This is my family. This is my son, my other son, my daughter and my Cousins in their cars behind us." I tried soo hard not to laugh when he indicated that Mudflap and Skids were transporting his cousins. "We're tourists, from New York." he added as if that would do anything and what surprised me was the fact that it did in fact work.
"New York?" asked the guard as if he couldn't believe it was possible. "Yes. Yes." was the excited reply from Simmons and I could barely see Sam and Leo's heads nodding like those bobble-head toys for your dashboard.
"Fifty kilometers." came the response from the guard, and by this point I was gawping at the fact that Simmons had effectively lied his way through a checkpoint in another country... Maybe he did have a few uses that didn't include being bait for a Decepticon.
"You look like the guy that runs my falafel stand. Thank you very much. I know. I know you from somewhere." Said Simmons as 'Bee pulled forward and drove through the checkpoint to meet up with me and Jazz. Hoping for no further comments from anyone I laughed when I heard the guard yell out behind us, "Go, Yankees!"
Shaking my head as I laughed, I tapped Jazz gently on the steering wheel and he pulled out with 'Bee and the twins driving behind us towards the Dagger's Tip and the Pyramids of the Giza Plateau.
After about two hours and forty-five minutes of driving we reached our destination for the end of the day. There were some tents and other erected buildings for those who were working here during the day to keep the Pyramids as they are now. So we decided that since there was no-one around we were going to borrow the buildings and sleep here where we could have some semblance of quiet and then be gone before the workers arrived the next day.
It was shortly after the sun had descended for the night (about 35 minutes) and a bright full moon was visible in the sky shining with a white brilliance that was the sun's ray reflecting off of it's surface, that I decided to practice a few Katas and then after relaxing somewhat from the stress of the day spent with the minor twins as well as Leo and Simmons, I decided to do a small workout to some of my music.
Jazz was currently in his bi-ped mode and grinned when I reached for my mp3 and chose a random mix of music that included the skills of 'The Piano Guys' playing songs such as the 'Lord of the Rings - full acoustic on Piano and Cello', 'What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction - 5 guys, 1 Piano', as well as the Acoustic version of 'Mission: Impossible - on Cello and Violin with Piano Accompaniment'. After listening to those I heard Jazz laugh when I had the track labeled 'Dance Mix' come up on the player - the reason for his laugh was the track that started up was Psy's 'Gangnam Style' and I had promised him after he heard it for the first time a while back that we would try and do the moves to the dance when we had some down time.
It was to this track that my movements went from calm and fluid to rapid and furious. I was grateful to the beat of it as it gave me something to concentrate on and if I had been able to grab one of my Swords it would have been a blur of metal swinging around me in a dance of death.
After finally calming down from my 'stress relief' (which took all of 4 hours mind you - thank you Leo and Simmons!), Jazz picked me up and sat me on the top of his knee joint so that we could talk face to face like we tried to do after we had moved to my property in New Jersey. We both enjoyed sitting out under the stars - since there were no street lamps near my property to block the natural light, and he would tell me of ones he had visited on his trip here and what I thought of the great expanse that we currently knew about.
It was about 45 minutes after we had finished a short discussion on planets that my mind went back to something I had read whilst learning about my Pagan Deities, that the Egyptian Pharaoh's had built the Pyramids at Giza to mimic the stars on Orion's Belt, in the constellation of Orion the Hunter. It was at this point that we heard Sam and the rest of the group come running up to where we were and start yelling at us that we now knew what Jetfire had been trying to tell us.
Jazz sat me down at their level and I turned to face Sam who was bouncing around now like he had just ingested a huge quantity of chocolate/sugar. "Okay, you see those three stars? You see how the last one touches the horizon? That's Orion's belt, but it's also called the Three Kings. And the reason for that is the three Egyptian kings who built the pyramids of Giza built them to mirror those stars, so it's like an arrow staring us straight in the face." he explained it as best he could, whilst Leo was behind him rolling his eyes as if he was trying to point out that Sam clearly wasn't all there, or he just had a rude wake-up call. Knowing Sam it was probably the latter of the two scenarios so I didn't pay him much attention and listened to Sam.
Once he was done explaining his bit, Simmons looked around and noticed something about the alignment of the stars as the early dawn was just starting to show on the horizon, right where the stars were pointing. "They all point due east, towards Jordan. The mountains of Petra." he exclaimed as Jazz and myself started to collect all our gear up, him sub-spacing some of it for ease of packing up our impromptu camp.
We were all on the road again 30 minutes later, heading towards the mountains of Petra and a hidden secret no-one had expected to ever find, and that included the Cybertronian's traveling with us - it would be a shock to them as well as us at what we would eventually uncover.
And what Grandpa Jetfire had said to me on that bluff before we left him was still buzzing in my mind, I wonder if I should mention it to Jazz? Maybe he could help me figure it out some more. Great there go my stress levels again.
A.N. #2: The songs mentioned in this chapter I have on my laptop and Nintendo DS on an SD Card, I really do listen to them and meditate and sometimes do Katas like Cali did in this chapter. 'The Piano Guys' are awesome and check out their videos on YouTube. They have done revamps of Movie Songs, Classical, and Pop songs - I still think there version of Star Wars was funny... 'Cello Wars (A Star Wars Parody): The Phantom Cellist'.
Any spelling mistakes are my own and I do use a Writing Software called Kingsoft Writer, mainly because it has fewer glitches than Microsoft.