Disclaimers: Same as the last two chapters.

Note: This is the third chapter in my first story about Celestia. I hope that this story will not be too long or wander.

Celestia sat in restaurant, waiting for her food to come. It wasn't often that she got to eat out like this, but she enjoyed it when she could. Not that she or Presley could take the mummies much of anywhere. They, as the old saying went, "Stood out like sore thumbs".

The waiter came up to her table with a tray balanced on his arm. He set her spaghetti and bread on the table with her soda. She thought that the soda tasted sort of weird, but ignored it, thinking it was just her. She didn't have this kind very often and didn't know exactly what it was supposed to taste like.

Her mind turned to other things as she ate, such as when she was going to move in with them. It would have to be soon. She also thought about what she would bring with her. Besides the essentials, of course. She couldn't live without her computer, or her Nintendo for that matter. She would bring her collection of novels, her sketchpads, and her pencils. She would also bring her CD player and her favorite CDs.

Her mind then started going off on tangents, so she stopped thinking.

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Thud!'

"Ouch!"

Celestia held her foot in her hands, trying to balance on the other one. Armon poked his head into the room.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah," she replied, gritting her teeth. When the pain subsided, she went back to moving her dresser into place. It was a wooden dresser, probably about five feet tall, with five drawers in it. She had already moved her bed in, with some help from Ja-Kal and a few accidents.

She was envious of the mummies because they couldn't feel pain. At least not physical pain.

Next, she had to unpack her boxes full of clothes and everything else she'd brought with her. The next fun project was going to be setting up her machines and teaching the mummies how to use them without hurting the, or the mummies.

She had a feeling that both Nefer-Tina and Rath would appreciate the Nintendo. Nefer-Tina beause it had a racing game with it. Rath because Nefer-Tina would play the Nintendo instead of crashing the Hot-Ra, or any of their other vehicles. Rath might learn to like the computer, especially if she got him an informative program. She would also have to introduce him to the public library. He would have fun in there. Probably too much fun, she thought.

She decided to tackle the computer first. That would mean running some wire. She took one of the boxes out to the living room and opened it. She carefully took out the CPU and set it up on a card table she had put in the living room. It was fairly old, but had been heavily modified so that it had reached its maximum capacity. It had two hard drives, a CD drive, and, of course, a floppy disk drive. She had brought a few programs with her, but not many.

She clipped her CD player to her belt and played a "Weird Al" CD while she worked. She hooked the monitor up first along with the keyboard and mouse. She then had to deal with running power wires to where the table was.

She hadn't done this before, so she really had no clue as to how it was done, but she could make a pretty good guess. She got some spare wire that she had brought in anticipation of this and walked over to where the TV was. She disassembled the plug and part of the wall, and pulled out some wires. She then spliced the wire in her hand to the one from the wall. She unrolled the wire until it reached the table, then spliced the computer's power cord into it. She stood up and seated herslef in front of the computer. She pushed the power cord and was rather surprised when it didn't blow up in her face. It just refused to turn on.

She worked for another few hours before finally giving up. and going to work on the Nintendo. That was easier to put together since you only had to hook some wires up to the TV and plug it in. She set it up in no time at all and turned it on.

She spent the next hour or so playing Nintendo until her amulet started beeping. She stood up and turned off the game console before running at top speed to the garage.

"With the strength of Ra!" she shouted as she ran. Again, they took the Hot-Ra to where Scarab had Presley.

She pulled out her sword the minute she was out of the Hot-Ra and rushed the shabties, braver than last time. She sliced through the stone men as if they were butter.

Scarab struggled to hold onto the squirming child in his arms, but he would let the young prince go once he had that girl. If this spell worked, he would perform it on the mummies and then he wouldn't have any obstacles standing between him and his goals. He waited until the girl was in range before muttering the activation spell under his breath. She suddenly stopped and looked around for a minute, confused. He then muttered a special command and she walked towards him. He smiled tightly and released Presley when she reached him. The young boy took her hand and tried to lead her away. She pulled her arm from his grasp and knocked him backwards. He backpedaled for a moment before regaining his balance and fleeing.

No! Celestia screamed to herself as she watched her arm slap Presley and he ran away, frightened. Why am I doing this?

It was like she wasn't in control of her own body. She felt her legs start moving towards Scarab and tried to run back to the Hot-Ra, but her legs wouldn't listen. She felt her arms grip Scarab's armor just before he flew away.

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Celestia watched her body cooking dinner and taking it out to Scarab, protesting mentally all the way. She stopped in front of Scarab and he cupped her chin with one thin hand, tilting her head up so she was looking him in the eye. He gave an evil smile as if some thought was just occuring to him.

"You are totally powerless," he informed her. He left her standing by the table as he ate.

When he was done, he made her sit on his lap. "You will do anything I tell you," he whispered. Then he leaned close and kissed her on the lips.

Ugh! she thought. Yuck! She felt sick as he continued to kiss her. He finally pulled away and made her stand up. He then stood up and led her to his bedroom. . .

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Presley looked over at where Rath was sitting at his scroll table, muttering to himself. He had been doing this, as far as Presley could tell, pretty much constantly since Celestia had been captured.

Presley got up and walked over to check on the tall, thin mummy. "What are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm certain Scarab cast a spell on Celestia. I'm trying to figure out a way to break it."

"I didn't know you cared about her so much."

Rath looked up at Presley, his eyes boring holes through the boy, a frown on his thin lips.

Presley backed up, waving his hands in front of him. "Okay. You don't like her. Forget I said anything."

Rath turned back to his scroll, but something in Presley's question stirred a mirroring question deep inside him. He quickly suppressed it though. He only cared for her as he would for Ja-Kal or Nefer-Tina, as a comrade and fellow guardian. That was why he was working so hard to get her back. That was it. He nodded to himself and went back to work.

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Rath's work was interrupted suddenly by his beeping amulet. He stood up and went to the Hot-Ra. He hopped in as they went off to rescue Presley again. Would that boy never learn common sense?

When they arrived he saw that Celestia stod in front of Scarab, her sword at the ready. Now Rath knew that she must be under some sort of spell. She had a blank look on her face and seemed to be following Scarab's orders. She wouldn't fight against her friends willingly, would she?

When he moved toward her, she suddenly became focused and lunged at him. He barely got his own sword up in time to deflect the blow. She continued attacking fiercely, but her eyes seeme to be pleading with him though she couldn't say anything.

He nodded to her and moved back. She didn't pursue, so he started edging sideways. Nefer-Tina then moved forward, trying to get to the prince. Celestia attacked her as well. Nefer-Tina cracked her whip, trying to tangle the other woman up, but Celestia blocked it and sent it flying back at its sender.

Rath had better things to do than watch Celestia fight her friends. He kept moving sideways, trying to hear what Scarab was saying to control Celestia. While he listened to Scarab carefully, he watched his companions fighting. Celestia seemed to be doing well. She could deflect Nefer-Tina's whip and duck away fron Armon's arm. She couldn't even get ner Ja-Kal, though, seeing as how he was flying above her.

Ja-Kal flew around Scarab in circles, firing arrows down at him. One flaming arrow caught the hem of Scarab's robe and set it on fire. Scarab was distracted momentarily before he changed into his armor. Ja-Kal took advantage of that moment tp swoop down and grab Presley.

Rath noticed that Celestia's eyes went blank again when Scarab was distracted. Then she moved backk towards Scarab and grabbed onto him as he took off.

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Rath sat at his table again, working. He thought he had figured out the spell that Celestia had on her, but needed to veify it. He looked through scroll after scroll before finally finding the right one.

On ce recipient ingested a special potion, then he or she could be controlled if someone said the right spell. He or she would then be under the control of whoever said the spell. Only the controller could release the controlled from the spell.

He wasn't sure how, but he would have to gain control of Celestia during their next fight and bring her home. He had a lot of research to do before then, so he started immediately.