Finally, here's some action for you! I don't own Yugioh or Mummies Alive. And thank you all so much for the reviews! Well, on with the story!

"The many strong tiny horses in this chariot, um, "under the hood" have run out of food," Nefertina informed the rest of the group, as the Hot-Ra rolled to a stop.

"We're out of gas," Presley translated, looking at the fuel gauge. He sighed and fell back into his seat. "What else could happen?" he muttered to himself.

"Whose turn was it to fill up the Hot-Ra!?" Nefertina demanded.

"Well," Armon said, looking nervous, "That's not important. What is important is that I still need my Beefy Burgers!" He looked desperate.

"Okay, calm down both of you," Presley said, as if he were talking to small children, "We can walk to Beefy Burger from here. We'll just have to go inside to order, that's all."

"Alright," the two mummies agreed, pulling their coats a little tighter around themselves as the three of them hopped out of the vehicle.

*******

Jakal could feel himself getting weaker. 'My energy is getting low,' he thought, 'I should head back to the Sphinx.' He turned himself in the air to head back towards his home. He'd been flying around for about an hour, keeping an eye out for anything unusual and thinking. He smiled as he wondered if Rath had gotten any farther on that dream translating. When Jakal had left, the scholar was buried in ancient texts.

But his humor was short lived as he flew over the museum and spotted something below. 'Not now,' he thought wearily. He went in a small circle, keeping his eyes on the ground. 'Well,' he thought, 'It's only a few Shabtis. I shouldn't need help."

Circling lower quickly, he noticed why there were so few Shabtis. They were circling a young woman, who was doing a decent job defending herself. Several Shabtis were in pieces covering the ground.

Jakal pulled up. He couldn't be seen by her! But as soon as that thought crossed his mind, a Shabti snuck up behind the fighting woman, ramming his elbow hard into the back of her head. The woman's eyes rolled into the back of her head seconds before she crumpled to the ground.

Jakal had enough! He spiraled down, colliding with the Shabti's back, feet first. His heel went through the rock creature, so Jakal spun in midair, sending the Shabti flying into more of its kind, shattering them to pieces. Landing on the ground next to the fallen woman, Jakal turned sharply to face the others, pulling out his long bow and drawing back a fiery arrow.

"You shall not harm her," he said in a low voice, but he knew the phrase fell on deaf ears. Shabtis have no comprehension, or even minds, of their own, only a blind will to obey their master.

The Shabtis slowly advanced in on him. Jakal sighed quietly. 'So much for going home,' he thought.

*****

"Why do I have to do all the dirty work..... I'll show him....." mumbled a disgruntled Heka while slithering through the many back streets of San Francisco, "This child he speaks of could be anywhere! And how do I recognize him I ask. Look for the puzzle, look for the puzzle, is all he can say..... One of these days....."

But she didn't get to finish her threat because she had just spotted something shine through one of the window walls of the Beefy Burger on the corner. She quickly slithered to the fast food restraunt and peaked in the lighted place. There weren't many people in there at all, but one group quickly caught her eye. They were talking by the counter, apparently waiting for their orders, and around the shortest one's neck was.....

"Boss," Heka said into a transmitter radio that had been tied onto her tail, "I've found him."

"Good work Heka," came an evil voice from the other side.

*****

Yugi looked up from his Beefy Burger and fries when he heard the door chime ring. He took a quick glance at the figures walking in and then was distracted when Joey stuck fries up his nose.

"That's disgusting," Tea said disapprovingly, shaking her head. Tristan had practically fallen out of his chair from laughter! Joey had crossed his eyes and held up his hands like antlers as well. Yugi couldn't help but laugh too!

Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see.....

"Yugi?" Presley said.

"Presley!" Yugi said happily, "Man we seem to be bumping into each other a lot!"

"Yeah," Presley agreed smiling. Then he spotted Joey. "Uh," he said raising an eyebrow, "Why does, Joey is it, have fries up his nose?"

"Oh," Yugi said, turning back to his friend, "Well, ah....."

"Why not?" Joey said smiling, putting his hands behind his head and leaning back in his chair.

"Because he's a baka," Tea said, crossing her arms.

Joey fell back, and out of his chair. Tristan was soon to join him on the floor because he was laughing so hard. The few people that were actually in the fast food place stared at them.

Yugi shrugged. "That's just Joey for ya." He stood up to help his two friends up from off the floor.

Tea looked up at the other two that had come with Presley as Joey pulled the fries from his nose and threw them away. "Hey Presley, who are your friends?" she asked politely.

"Uh," Presley said, looking up at the other two.

The larger one pulled the hat down to further cover his face and the smaller one wrapped her arms around her waist and looked toward the door. Yugi could just see her blue eyes under her hat.

Suddenly her eyes widened and one of her hands flew to the other's sleeve and she tugged hard on it. He was pulled slightly off balance and had to readjust himself before he could answer. "What?" he asked.

The whole group looked at them as the female pointed toward the door, and then at the windowed walls all around them. Yugi looked around, but he could see nothing. But then he saw several red glowing eyes surrounding the restraunt on all sides.

"What is that?!" Joey shouted jumping up. The whole group backed up towards the counter and the one wall that wasn't made of glass, eyes wide.

"Shabtis," Presley answered eyes wide, and a second later there was the sound of breaking glass.

*****

Rath was sure he'd heard a crash outside the Sphinx, and instantly thought it was the Hot-Ra. Abandoning his work he ran toward the front and cautiously looked outside. In the light of a nearby street lamp, he could see no wreckage or any piece of the Hot-Ra anywhere, but he did spot Jakal, on his back, wings and armor scratched up and scorched before they disappeared.

"Jakal! What's wrong!?" Rath shouted, running to his leader's aid.

Jakal stirred as the scholar approached, and allowed Rath to help him up, with one arm around his shoulder. "I....." Jakal started, ".....lost too much power..... I fell....."

"But how did you get in this condition?" Rath asked.

"More Shabtis than I thought," Jakal answered putting his free hand up to rub his forehead.

"You were attacked!?"

"No, no, the woman was," Jakal said.

"What woman?" Rath asked, confused.

Suddenly Jakal seemed to come back to himself. "Oh no! Where is she!?" He looked around frantically, which only made him even dizzier and he would have fell over if Rath hadn't had a good grip on his other arm.

"SHE'S HERE!?!" Rath demanded.

"I couldn't leave her there," Jakal answered wearily.

Rath looked around himself and spotted an arm at the edge of the lamplight. "I think that's her," he said, motioning towards the arm with his head.

"You're going to have to pick her up," Jakal told him, "She's not conscious."

Rath's eyes were wide when he looked at the arm, then Jakal, then back at the arm. He slowly made his way over to the Sphinx and removed Jakal's arm from around his shoulder for him to lean against the wall. Then Rath rushed over to where the woman was. Taking the arm in his hands, he felt a steady pulse. 'Well, she's alive,' he thought to himself.

Stepping out of the circle of lamplight, his eyes adjusted to the darkness. He could see the woman clearly now. Her black hair was covering her face and she was scratched and bruised, and a large bump was protruding out the back her head. He sighed and picked the small woman up; she was rather light.

Making his way back over to Jakal, who put a hand on Rath's shoulder for balance, they went back into the Sphinx.

"Will she be alright?" Jakal asked, worried, when they finally arrived inside.

"She should be," Rath answered putting her on the couch, "Why was she being attacked by Shabtis anyway?"

"I don't know," Jakal answered, "But this isn't good. Scarab must be up to something." Then Jakal realized something. "Where's Ramses!?" he asked, looking around.

"He went out," Rath answered, "Don't worry. Armon and Nefertina are with him."

"But we should help them, especially if Scarab is up to something!" Jakal reasoned. He tried to walk towards the exit, but stumbled and almost fell again.

"No," Rath said, "You are going to recharge. If Ramses did need help, you're in no condition." He crossed his arms, looking very foreboding.

Jakal sighed. "Oh alright," he agreed, "But what about her?" He pointed towards the couch.

"I'll still be here," Rath said, looking over at her, "She shouldn't really be left alone with a bump like that on her head anyway."

"Okay," Jakal said. Then he climbed up into his sarcophagus and immediately fell asleep.

*****

Ishizu felt as if she were floating in darkness until something small and cold touched the side of her cheek. Startled, she opened her eyes to find two huge cat eyes staring into hers.

"Ah!" she said, jumping up a little, but then immediately regretted it. Her head suddenly felt like it had split in two!

Sitting up and holding herself up with a hand, she rubbed her forehead with the other one. The pain subsided a little, so she opened her eyes again and got a first look at her surroundings.

She was sitting on some sort of stone couch with a television off to the side. The walls and floor seemed to be made out of stone as well.

"Where am I?" she said aloud. She couldn't remember how she'd gotten there, or even why her head hurt so much!

The cat decided this was the time to jump up on her. "Whoa," Ishizu said surprised when the cat landed on her lap. She saw that this cat was a dark grey color with yellow markings on it's face, and the rest of it was wrapped in strips of cloth. Its eyes were looking into hers again, and it wore an expression that seemed to say, "Are you alright?"

"I'm quiet fine sacred cat," Ishizu answered it, petting it's head, "Even though my head does hurt."

The cat purred contently, closing it's eyes and leaning into her hand. Ishizu grinned.

"Kahti leave her alone," came a new voice. Ishizu quickly turned her head to face this new voice, and she saw a.....MUMMY!?!?!

"AAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, making the cat jump off her lap and run out of sight. Screaming sure didn't help the pain in Ishizu's head though. She held her dizzy head, trying to steady it so she wouldn't pass out again.

"You took a pretty nasty hit to the back of your head," the.....mummy said.

"So that's why it hurts so much," she said. Ishizu still couldn't believe she was talking to a mummy, but she was in such a state of shock that she just didn't care anymore. She looked up at him. He wore a tall green hat along with Egyptian garb and a snake pennant necklace. And, of course, bandages.

"So what's going on?" Ishizu asked.

"Here, let me fill you in," the mummy said.

'Man,' Ishizu thought, 'It's times like these that I wish I still had the Millennium Necklace.'

*****

'This is strange,' Jakal thought as he found himself standing within his own dream.

As he looked around his basic instincts told him that this was Egypt, but it was unlike anything he'd seen before! It was.....smaller for one. He could see many strange buildings that glinted in the setting sun and then.....a palace! Now that he recognized! It was the same palace from the repetitive dreams that he and his fellow guardians had been having! But in those dreams, they had only seen glimpses of things and places, but now he was standing here, like it was real!

He suddenly caught sight of his hand in the fading light. It was not pale, dead, or covered in bandages; instead it was tanned but slightly transparent. Looking at the rest of himself he found that he was in his ancient armor, what he used to wear before he died.

Jakal was almost knocked down by a small boy wrapped in a black cloak with a hood covering his head, if the boy hadn't run right through him! He had the strange feeling when this happened, but the boy intrigued him. In the short glimpse of his face that Jakal saw, he thought that he had seen this boy somewhere before, so he decided to follow him up into the palace.

"MY PRINCE!!!!" shouted a young woman that had run up to the prince.

'The prince!?!' Jakal thought, 'What was he doing out in the streets!?' Then he looked back at the young woman. 'She looks like the woman I saved from the Shabtis!' Jakal realized.

"WHAT???? What is it!?!?!?!" the boy shouted. Throwing back his hood, Jakal finally got a good look at him. He had crimson eyes spiky black hair with red edges and blond bangs that stuck out like lightning bolts.

'That boy!' Jakal realized, 'He looks almost exactly like the boy that Ramses met at the museum!'

"The Pharaoh!!!!!!! HE'S....." The woman started, but then her eyes became wide and she fell to the ground.

The prince had rushed over to her and shook her. She didn't move. Then Jakal saw a man standing in his doorway. He had a startling resemblance to Scarab and wore a scribe's attire.

"Stupid girl! This will be harder now than I originally planned! Oh well." The man shrugged his shoulders then returned his gaze back to the little prince.

"Heishin, what did you do!?!?!" the prince shouted, "You didn't....."

"No she's not dead. She just won't be waking up for a while." Heishin smiled evilly. "Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the royals."

Both Jakal and the prince were frozen to their spots, realizing what this man just said. This man had murdered the Pharaoh!!!

Silence is all he got from the boy. Heishin became angry. "Boy!" he spat, "The only reason you are still alive is because I need to know where the Millennium Items are!!! Now WHERE ARE THEY!!!?!!!!!!!"

'The Millennium Items?' Jakal thought, 'What's that?'

Jakal was then surprised to see the young boy slowly rise to stand strait up, eyes closed, head down. He felt some strange energy radiating from him.

This seemed to startle Heishin even more than it did Jakal. But what made him jump was when the young prince raised his head, golden eye shining brightly on his forehead. Then the little boy opened his eyes. Instead of the bright crimson, they were pure gold, shining with some intense inner light.

With a voice that wasn't his own, the prince proclaimed, "You are not worthy of the afterlife."

Heishin was pushed into the ground by some unseen force.

The boy held out his hand, palm inches away from Heishin's face. "I, the Pharaoh, BANISH YOU TO THE SHADOW REALM!!!!!!"

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" Heishin screamed in terror. Then he was gone.

The prince's eyes returned to crimson and rolled back into his head as he collapsed to the floor.

Jakal stood in shocked silence until he was suddenly whisked away from that dream and into another one.

Egypt again, yet much more recognizable to Jakal. The spires, courtyard, palace, pyramids that shone in the fading light..... It was Memphis!

Jakal would be able to walk this place blind folded. He raced through the city, heading to the place that was most familiar to him. He came to a dead halt in front of the closed door. Would they be there? Would he be here? This was after all a dream.

Suddenly the door swung open, surprising him. Jakal closed his eyes and held up his arms, preparing for impact, but when none came, he realized that the door went through him.

Jakal opened his eyes to find himself face to face with.....himself! "AAH!" he yelled out of shock, but of course, no one heard him. This was a dream.

The dream him was about to leave until he heard something. "Wait Jakal!" called a sweet voice from inside the dwelling.

"Tia," the real Jakal breathed out, wide-eyed watching his beloved.

The dream him had turned to look at her.

"Don't forget your lunch," Tia said playfully. She handed him a small lunch wrapped in a scrap of cloth.

The dream him held up the cloth, seeing a small handprint on the bottom. "I see Padjet helped make it," the dream him said, smiling.

"We all do our part," Tia said, smiling and bending down to pick up the baby boy.

"No," the real Jakal said just above a whisper, "No, not today. Not this day." Tears started to gather in his eyes as he shook his head slightly.

The dream him kissed his wife gently and then walked towards the door. "I'll see you when I return," he said smiling. Then he left.

"NO!!!!!!!!" the real Jakal screamed at his dream self, "Go back!! Tell her that you love her!!! Tell her you love her and Padjet more than life itself!!!!! Don't you know you're going to die today?!!!!!!!" Tears were streaming down his cheeks now. Jakal squeezed his eyes shut and put his hands to his head. "No! No more!! I know what will happen next!!! Just no more!" He didn't want to see Prince Ramses killed again; he didn't want to see his fellow guardians die again!

But then he heard something new.

"BY THE POWER OF RA!!!!!!!!"

Jakal opened his eyes to find himself in yet another dream, but this one was different. Taking in the new surroundings, Jakal found himself inside Armon's favorite restaurant, Beefy Burger. Except there was something horribly wrong with this picture. The small building was FILLED with Shabtis!

Suddenly, the top half of a Shabti had just flown through his back! Jakal turned around to find Armon and Nefertina in their armor, fighting as hard as they could though the wave of oncoming Shabtis! Behind them was a scared looking group of teens. There were two taller males in fighting stances, fists raised, ready for any stragglers to try and attack them. A shorter male was standing in front of a female, as if to protect her.

'It's the people from the museum!' Jakal realized. Then the Boom-Ra flew over his head, decapitating a Shabti before it returned to the final member of the group.....Presley!

"What's going on!?!?!" the shorter male yelled. Jakal remembered that Presley had called him Yugi.

"Shabtis!" Presley answered, throwing the Boom-Ra out again to hit a couple more of the stone creatures, "There after me again!"

"Again!?!" the female yelled.

"Long story, don't have time!" Presley yelled again, catching the Boom-Ra and preparing for another throw.

"Who are those.....things!?!" one of the taller ones shouted, the blonde one.

"They're my guardians," Presley hollered, "Oh and mummies!"

"Mummies!?!?!?!" the other four shouted.

"Yeah!" Presley shouted back.

But then there was no more time for talking, as a few Shabtis got past Armon and Nefertina. The taller two threw some decent punches and managed to break a few without ripping up their knuckles too much. But then Jakal noticed a group of Shabtis sneaking up behind the distracted teens.

"LOOK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jakal screamed but to no avail. No one could here him.

Or could they? Both Presley and Yugi turned to look behind them, but it was too late. The Shabtis pounced on the lot of them, knocking all five teens to the ground. This Yugi had only enough time to yell out something, but Jakal missed what it was.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jakal screamed, and then suddenly, he was surrounded by complete darkness.

"What's going on!?" he shouted, hearing his own voice echo as if he were in a very tiny area. Then he realized that he'd woken up!

Taking deep breaths, Jakal tried to calm his racing heart, telling himself that they were only nightmares.

But then his hawk pennant started flashing. Presley was in trouble!!!

*****

"YAMIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yami screamed as he sat up in the hotel bed, drenched in a cold sweat. He was breathing hard, looking around as if he didn't know where he was. But then he realized that he'd just woken up!

"Oh man, that was scary," Yami said to no one in particular, closing his eyes and raising a hand to his forehead. He'd just seen through his dreams what he assumed was part of his own past, and then part of someone else's life. Finally he'd ended up in a fast food restaurant where Yugi and his friends were in trouble!

"But it was only a dream," he assured himself. He opened his eyes again and searched the room more calmly than before.

'Where is Yugi?' he thought, frowning. He continued searching a little more frantically until he spotted a sheet of paper on the desktop next to the bed. It was a note, written in Yugi's handwriting. Yami picked it up and read:

Hey Yami!

If you're reading this, I hope you had a good nap! Anyway, me and the gang are going down the street to this fast food place Ms. Ishizu told us about. We'll bring you back some fries! Should be back soon!

-Yugi

This wasn't a good sign. Yami was starting to feel nervous again.

//Yugi?// he said, trying to reach out through their Bond. He could hardly feel his aibou's light that was always present in him, much less find Yugi.

Suddenly Yugi's voice echoed through his head again, like it had before Yami had woken up. But this time it was followed by maniacal laughter.

That was it! Yami had to find his hikari! He threw on his shoes and dashed out of the hotel room.

*****

"So who are you?" Rath asked the woman he'd been talking to for the last 20 minutes. She was actually a composed and intelligent person, once she had calmed down.

"My name is Ishizu Ishtar," the woman answered.

'Ishtar?' The name had struck a cord in Rath's brain. "Did you say Ishtar?" he asked.

"Yes," she answered, "My family is an old one in Egypt. You wouldn't happen to have heard of us, would you?"

"Well, of course I have!" Rath answered, "I was one of the most educated in my time, and many of the ancient texts were written by the ancient family of the Ishtars!" He thought for a second. "Actually," Rath said quietly, "most of the things I'm studying at the moment were written by the Ishtars."

Ishizu looked up at him from the couch. "Penny for your thoughts?" she said.

"I was wondering," Rath started, "why it says that long ago the family of Ishtar disappeared off the face of the planet?"

"That is because we did," Ishizu said simply.

"What?" Rath asked confused.

Ishizu was about to explain her situation, but was interrupted when Rath's snake pennant started to flash.

"What is that?" she asked.

Rath looked down at his pennant, wide-eyed. But before he could answer, Jakal burst into the room.

"Presley's in trouble!" Jakal said.

"I know!" Rath said, startled.

"No, you don't!" Jakal shouted, and he started to run out of the Sphinx.

"What?" Rath asked confused, following him.

Ishizu, surprised by the appearance of another mummy, sat stunned on the couch for a second, before getting up and racing after the other two.

That's the end of this chapter! Now a couple notes! Jakal's dream of Yami's past is actually a small part from my own story, Past's Collide. I haven't seen Mummies Alive in a while, so Jakal's dream about his past might be a little off. And I'm sorry that Ishizu went a little OOC back there, but I bet you would too if you just saw a walking mummy! Midterms are coming up so it might take longer to post the next chapter (and I'm not even sure what's going to happen next). Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review! Bye now!