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Amidst the Moonlight

By: Crystal of Psyche

Chapter 9: The Mystery at the Museum

Author's Note:  THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!  HERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER FOR YOU!!!!!!!

A dark cloud came over the museum of ancient relics in the middle of the city.  It blocked out all the sun, making it a dreary place.  Everyone had decided that really bad weather was coming so they closed the museum for the day.  Making it seem like a wasteland.

"Hahhahahahhaha!!!!" this echoed through out the area, and finally in front of the Museum appeared a woman.  She appeared to African and had on the outfit of what woman wore in Africa centuries ago.  It was a beautiful color, a bright orange and brown.  In her hand she held a spear as a weapon.

She looked up at the museum and smiled evilly.  Then she peered at the moon that at the phase of the Last Quarter.

"…..soon……" she whispered and smiled even more.

*******

"Morning," Tyson walked into Kitchen and sat down.  Ray, Tolaku, Crystal, and Julia were sitting at the table eating their breakfest.  Ray looked up to greet Tyson.

"Morning, Tys…." He dropped his spoon as he stared at Tyson with wide eyes.  Tolaku, Julia, and Crystal were holding in their laughter.

"What's up with you guys?" Tyson asked staring at their faces.

Ray's jaw nearly hit the table, "WHAT'S WRONG!!!!!!!!  GOD!!!!!  TYSON HAVE YOU LOOKED IN THE MIRROR!!!!!"

"What are you talking about I always look like this in the morning."

Ray fainted, and the girls burst out laughing.  Tolaku was banging on the table.

"I don't know what's wrong with you guys, it must be the milk," he said as he walked off leaving the shocked young man on the ground and the three hysterical young woman in the room.  He was going to go back to his room to go change when he ran into Max.

Max stared wide eyed at him, "………."

"God what is wrong with everybody!!!!!"

"Uh Tyson?"

"WHAT!?!" Max put his hands on Tyson's shoulders and led him in front of the mirror and showed him the horror.

"……….." Max watched very closely at Tyson's reactions.

Tyson seemed to twitch and his pupils got smaller.  The reason being was that Tyson had make-up all over his face.  Eyeshadow, lipstick, mascara, blush, the works; he even had a little pink bow in his hair.  He quickly filled the sink up with water and dunked his head in it.

"Tyson are you going to be okay?"

Tyson took his head out the sink and washed all the make-up off and ripped the bow out of his hair, "Does it look like I'm going to be alright!!!!!!"

"No."

"I'm going to kill those girls!!!!!!!"

"Why do you think they did it?" 

Tyson glared at him, "Only the girls would use make-up for revenge."

"But why?"

~*~Flashback~*~

"Hehee this will show him to pick on us about the bug thing this morning," Crystal chuckled as she took out a bright red lipstick out of her make-up bag.

"I couldn't agree more," Julia said laughing softly.

"What do you guys think?  Does Tyson look good with a bright blue or a darker one for his eyes?" Tolaku said holding up two different colors of eye shadow.

Julia and Crystal looked at each other and shrugged, "Both sounds good!"

The girls giggled and continued with their mission.

~*~Back to the Present~*~

Tyson ran back into the kitchen, "WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THIS!!!!!"

"Simple the whole day you nagged us about the whole spider incident got us REALLY ticked off," Crystal explained smiling.

"And you can't do a thing about it," Tolaku said who was kneeling on the ground next to the fainted Ray.

Tyson eyed them, "And why not?"  Julia giggled and pulled some picture out of her pocket.  They were pictures taken of Tyson after his 'make over.'  Tyson lunged at her, but she dodged and he fell straight on the floor.

She made a peace sign with her fingers and said simply, "Black mail."

"Grrrrrrrr…." Tyson grumbled on the ground.

******

"Did you really teleport yourself to the Grand Canyon?" Crystal asked as she put her hands behind her head.

"Yeah," Julia mumbled.

"What a genius," Tolaku laughed.

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!"

"Hee hee, but it's funny," she said in a singsong voice.  Julia growled, then looked at the bookstore across the street.

"Hey wait, I wanna look at a book," Julia said as she grabbed Ray's arm and dragged across the street.

"What's up with her?" Max asked, Tolaku just shrugged.

******

"What's wrong Julia?"

"Remember that book you saw in the display?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"That book holds a mysterious power, couldn't you feel it?"

"Why me?  Why not Max and Tolaku?"

"They're Calains, they can't sense that specific type of power."

"Then why me?"

"WILL YOU STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!!!!!!!  I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!"  Ray sulked a little bit while Julia took big breaths, "sorry got carried away."

"That's okay," Ray said as Julia walked up to the cashier.

"There was a book in the window yesterday.  Do you still have it?" she asked the cashier person, the old man nodded.

"Well you see we couldn't sell that book for a long time, so we put it in the window for a day to see if anyone wanted to buy it.  But no one wanted it so we put it back."

"We would like to buy it," Julia said searching through her purse for some money.

"Great!!  That'll be eight bucks."  She handed the old man the money and put the book in a bag.  When they walked out of the store towards their friends Julia turned to Ray.

"We'll look at this together tonight," she whispered pointing to the bag in her arms.  Then their friends came to them, Ray and Julia glanced at each other and nodded.

******

As the group was walking down towards Tyson's place, Ray stopped and everyone walked past him.  Tolaku noticed he stopped and walked to him taking his hand.

"Are you okay?"

His eyes seemed to have glazed over, "There is the muse nearby."  Everyone froze and turned around towards them.

"Your not serious are you?" Max said.  Ray shook his head.

"We should fight them now," Julia said hugging her precious package, "I'm going to teleport to the house real quick who wants to come?"  Crystal, Tolaku, and Max raised their hands.

"All right come back quick," Tyson said as he and Ray stepped back from them.

"Be right back," Julia said before she concentrated on teleporting.

******

It wasn't long before they came back.  Most of them got more suitable for fighting, Max had reclaimed his short swords and Tolaku her bow.  In a sheath Crystal had her sword.

"We're ready," Max said making his wings appear and jumping into the air.

"Wait for us," Tolaku said following his actions.

"Hold on guys," Julia said as she put her hands together and began to concentrate once again.  All of sudden Ray, Crystal, and Tyson felt themselves being lifted off the ground.

"Woah!!!" Tyson shouted as he couldn't feel the ground anymore.

"Calm down, I'm using my powers to make you fly with us," Julia said looking at them; she looked like she was flying like Peter Pan.

"It's in the museum," Ray said looking at the city below them.

"Okay," Julia said as she changed the direction they were going.

******

They landed on the road in front of the museum, and walked inside.  It was so quiet that you could hear their footsteps.

"It feels like we're in one of horror movies," Tyson said as he stared in awe at the surroundings.

Crystal glared at him, "There's no time for joking!"

He hung his head, "Sorry."

"It's about time you fools got here," a mysterious voce said.  In the middle of the huge hall was a BIG skeleton of a T-rex, and on top of it was an African woman sitting on the skull.

Ray stepped forward, "That's Clio, the Muse of History."

Clio smiled evilly, "It is time."  She raised her hand and it started glowing blue then she gently put it on the T-rex's skull.  Everyone stared at it, unsure what to expect.  Then the T-rex MOVED!!!!

It fidgeted and slowly broke out of its bindings to the ground.  Then skin covered the whole entire body, making it look like a real T-rex.

"RRRROOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!" It stepped forward and the gang took a step back.  So terrified that they could barely move.

Clio laughed, "Oh look dinner!!"  Max was looking at its big sharp teeth.  Slobber dripped down from them and he cringed.  The T-rex took another step and the gang took another step back.  It was a showdown between a 30ft T-rex and 6 teenagers.  Let's just pray that their powers will help.

Author's Note: Yeah, you gotta wait till the next chapter. *smiles*

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