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The next morning Aira woke up early. She grabbed her street clothes and headed out of the ward to the bathroom.
She rubbed her eyes as she walked along. Coulda sworn I heard someone screaming, the girl muttered to herself, Guess someone was watching a movie....
Aira changed out of her pj's and slumped back to the ward. As she got closer to the ward, the screaming grew louder. This is a hospital! Aira got angry at someone being so loud and decided to give them a piece of her mind when she got there.
But the second she threw open the large doors, she realized it was no movie that she heard. Standing in the center of the room was Imhotep and a wiry Egyptian man.
Imhotep was controlling a horde of mummies that were chasing all the patients.
Aira gasped as one grabbed a little child. She took her Parcheesi board and smacked the mummy with it. The mummy turned into dust.
Aira groaned as she picked up the little child and handed him to his mother.
Imhotep whipped around to see her standing there, You! You know where the boy is!
Aira shrank back against the wall, too scared to say anything.
Tell me where he is! Imhotep thundered.
Her voice broke as the giant undead being came closer to her.
She looked around, Jamie was helping the children evacuate and Evy was doing the same, so she did the only thing that comes to mind when you are being approached by a giant undead being. She ran.
She screamed as she ran out of the ward. Imhotep followed in pursuit, tearing up chunks of the wall and flinging them at her.
She weaved her way throughout the hospital running down one hallway, then turning and running down another corridor.
Just as she was almost out of the nearly-torn-to-shreds-hospital, an arm reached out of one of the rooms and grabbed her, pulling her back into one of the offices.
I got her! Oh, master will be so pleased! He laughed in an heavy Egyptian accent.
Who the heck are you? Aira gasped through the hand over her mouth.

Well, bye-bye Benny! Aira grabbed his wrist and made contact with his bare skin, Let me go! Her now-controlled captor had to do as she commanded.
Aira said as she ran out of the building. The dune buggy had already was out front with everyone inside.
Hurry up! Alex yelled, and Aira ran as fast as she could, but Imhotep was hot on her tail.
The great bulk of a man grabbed her arm- SNAP! Her wrist made a horrible cracking noise and pain surged through her arm.
Eat this! Bobby froze Imhotep in his tracks, and Logan jumped out of the car a freed Aira.
As the car screeched away, Evy looked at Aira's wrist.
That's a pretty bad break, Aira, we'll have to get a cast in the next town.
I doubt any hospital would take me now. Aira said angrily.
You did leave the last one in pretty bad shape didn't you? Rick laughed.
I messed up. Aira said looking at her feet.
Everyone messes up. Only the true heroes can try again. Everyone looked at Ardeth Bay. He hadn't said a single thing the entire trip.
Jamie looked over at Aira who was holding her hand so it didn't move. he said, handing her a piece of cloth, Wrap up your wrist.
Aira smiled, What would I do without you squirt?
Jamie shrugged, It's nothing..
I didn't thank you guys for rescuin' me back there! I thought I was dead meat!
We had to Aira! Bobby said.
Really, why?
Bobby smiled, Cause if we didn't you'd come back as a mummy and haunt us!
~*~
After stopping in the next town to get a cast and a bite to eat, the group headed off.
Man! I can't believe there wasn't a McDonalds in the whole town! Bobby complained.
Your lucky that we found a place to eat before I beaned you, Icecube! Logan growled and Bobby was quiet. Bobby had been complaining since lunchtime, and Logan (along with everyone else in the car) was quite annoyed with him.
Aira had wanted to use her powers to make him shut up, but after Alex and Jamie had to hold her back from pouncing on him, she immediately took her turn sitting up on the back of the car where it wasn't squashed. Everyone had enough sense not to argue.
I feel like singing Jonathan exclaimed.
Aira muttered.
No! Seriously? Rick said in a mock surprise tone.
The whole car laughed, and Jonathan sank back into his chair. Aira felt kind of sorry for him (but not much) so she said, Come on! Let's sing!
What are you gonna sing, sprite? You don't see an electric guitar now do you?
Aira blushed. The only time anyone had heard her sing was when she broke into Scott's room and his guitar. The result wasn't that pretty.
How bout The Wheels on the Bus or 100 Bottles of...er...COKE on the wall?
I'll do 100 bottles, sprite, but I rather it was beer..
Logan! This is a G-rated story!

100 bottles of coke on the wall, 100 bottles of coke! Take one down, pass it around, 99 bottles of coke on the wall!
99 bottles of coke later, everyone was pretty tired, even though none of them wanted to stop until they made it to Cairo.
When they saw a cave that marked halfway to Cairo up ahead, they pulled over to the side of the--well-- it wasn't exactly a road. It was more or less a desert, and the dune buggy did have four-wheel drive so...well..anyhow, they set up camp and agreed to have watches.