House of Emptiness:
The club was in the room of Fabian and Eddie, Fabian had just discovered that the last scroll was empty.
"Empty? What do you mean empty?" Asked Amber.
"There is nothing on it, not one word or hieroglyph, nothing nope, nada," said Fabian, showing the club the empty scroll.
"But how can that be?" asked Nina.
"I risked my life for empty piece of paper," said Eddie.
"Maybe it's fake," said Alfie.
"Eddie, you must go back to Egypt and find the real one," said Amber.
"That scroll was near the last location on the map and it was very hard to get," said Eddie.
"The scroll is real, but there's just nothing on it," said Fabian.
"But if we don't know what the last step is, then we can't get the Tears of Gold," said Nina.
"And then we can't save KT," said Aaron.
"Eddie did you find anything like a clue at the location where you found the papyrus scroll?" Asked Fabian.
"Like what?" Asked Eddie.
"What to do with the papyrus, why there's nothing on it," said Fabian.
"No, I just saw the scroll, grabbed it and got the heck out of there," said Eddie.
"Why would you say that?" Asked Patricia.
"Well, this scroll was kind of in somebody else's house," said Eddie.
"You stole the scroll? "Asked Patricia.
"Sort of," said Eddie.
"Sort of? You broke into someone's house and took something without their permission, that is stealing," said Patricia.
"Okay, I stole the scroll," said Eddie.
"Eddie," said Patricia.
"What? I had no choice, we needed that scroll," said Eddie.
"What if you had recognized," said Patricia.
"Don't worry, I was wearing a mask when I stole that thing and swapped it for a fake papyrus scroll," said Eddie.
"And who says you weren't so stupid as to accidentally take the fake one now and the real one is still in Egypt," said Amber.
"That didn't happen, I've done a switch a roo like that so many times, this is the real roll," said Eddie.
"But if this is the real scroll, how come there's nothing on it?" asked Aaron.
"No idea, but we're going to find out," said Fabian.
"We'll have to do that later, We've got to go to school soon," said Nina.
"I'll take the scroll to school, I'll examine it in the chemistry lab," said Fabian.
"I'll bring my CSI kit," said Alfie.
Fabian put the scroll in his bag. A few minutes later, all the residents with Eddie again were sitting at the table for breakfast.
"Eddie you're back," said Mara.
"Yes, I know that myself," said Eddie.
"How was America?" Asked Otis.
"Good, It was nice to see my mother again," said Eddie.
"I don't know if you know, but you have a new roommate," said Jerome.
"Yes, I've already met him," said Eddie.
"I hope you don't mind me sleeping in your room," said Fabian
"No, I honestly like having a roommate again," said Eddie.
"Thank you," said Fabian.
"You know when I look at you I feel like I've known you a long time," said Eddie.
The rest of the club and Joy laughed a little at Eddie's comment.
After breakfast the residents were at school, the club had already gone to class.
"Eddie, was it such a good idea that you said you are with your mother, what if your father calls your mother," said Patricia.
"Don't worry, my parents only rarely speak to each other since they are divorced and they will only talk to each other when it's about me and it's serious," said Eddie.
"It's the same with our parents, they hate talking to each other and when they talk it ends in a lot of yelling," said Amber.
"Amber," said Aaron.
"It's crazy really, they once loved each other so much, so much that they wanted to marry each other, have children," said Amber.
"Amber would you focus for a moment please," said Aaron.
"And now they never agree with each other and they're at each other's throats. When Dad says left, Mum says right," said Amber.
"Amber we get it now, Mum and Dad had a messy divorce, we don't have time to worry about that now," said Aaron.
"Yes, now let's worry about the scroll," said Alfie.
"How come there's nothing on it?" asked Nina.
"We're missing something, but what? "Asked Fabian.
"Come Fabian think very hard," said Nina.
"This is the task that will restore the last gem," said Eddie.
"Isn't that the purple one?" Asked Amber.
"Yes, the purple one," said Nina.
"We restore it and all the gems are restored, then the Mask of Anubis is restored and we get tears of Gold," said Fabian.
"We all know that, we don't need a recap," said Eddie.
"What are we missing, what are we missing?" Asked to Fabian to himself.
"And of course, the final task is the hardest one again," said Amber.
"What is it we're missing?" Asked Patricia.
"I'll figure out what to do, If it's the last thing I do," said Fabian.
"If we don't find this out soon, KT will blow her last breath in 8 days," said Aaron.
"Man, we are really getting into problem after problem," said Alfie.
"Okay, we don't have to look at everything from the negative side now, that'll get everybody down and we don't need that right now," said Nina.
The bell rang. Fabian quickly put the scroll in his bag. The rest of the students sat down and class began.
After a classes it was lunch break, Mara, Jerome, Otis and Joy were in the drama room.
"I finished my interview with Nina," said Mara.
"Good, I'll put the pictures of the benefit concert on the computer later," said Otis.
"You shouldn't include a picture of Fabian, it was in his honor," said Mara.
"That's a good idea," said Joy.
"Otis, do you have a picture of Fabian somewhere?" Asked Mara.
"Yes, I probably still have a good picture of him in my flash drive, but it's still at home," said Otis.
"Can you make sure you get some pictures tomorrow, I'll let Nina pick the best ones," said Mara.
"Excellent plan," said Joy.
"Don't forget, after school in my room for a new meeting," whispered Jerome to Otis.
"Okay," whispered Otis.
"What are you whispering about?" Asked Mara.
"Nothing," said Jerome and Otis.
In the meantime the club was in the chemistry lab studying the scroll, they had examined it with everything in Alfie's CSI kit, but still no text had appeared.
"Nothing, even with Alfie's uv lamp, nothing is appearing," said Fabian.
Suddenly Eddie started yawning very loudly.
"Sorry, are we boring you?" Asked Amber.
"No, I'm just tired, but that's not surprising after everything I've had to go through," said Eddie.
"We're all tired, we've all been through a lot and we all didn't slept that well," said Amber.
"Hey I had to fly from Egypt to Romania and sleep at the airport, then I came back in the middle of the night and had to sleep on a bench at the train station, so don't start with me," said Eddie.
"Maybe it's better if you don't say anything," said Amber.
"Amber, Eddie not this again, we're all tired and we're all glad Eddie's back," said Nina.
"And we don't have time for your umpteenth squabble, we have to find a way to figure out what the final order of the papyrus scroll is," said Aaron.
"And if you hold it up to the fire," said Amber.
"Let's try it," said Fabian.
Fabian turned on the Bunsen burner and held the papyrus scroll close to the flame.
"And is anything happening?" Asked Alfie.
"No, nothing," said Fabian, as he put the papyrus scroll down.
"But what do we do now?" Asked Nina.
"I'm going to keep examining this scroll until I have the answer," said Fabian.
"Then let's hope it's not too late for KT," said Aaron.
The bell rang and break was over, the club left the chemistry lab and headed to their next class.
A few hours later and the school day was over and all the residents were home and had just finished dinner. Everyone went to do something more for themselves and then everyone went to their rooms to go to sleep. Fabian and Eddie were in their room and in bed, Fabian was again studying the papyrus scroll
"It's nice to be sleeping in my own bed again," said Eddie.
"I can understand that very well," said Fabian.
"And it's nice to have you back here in the room, I've missed you," said Eddie.
"I've missed you too, Eddie," said Fabian.
"Even though I'm still getting used to the way you look now," said Eddie.
"Me too sometimes when I look in the mirror, but it's working. The others still don't know that I'm really Fabian," said Fabian.
"And we have to keep it that way for now, because as of tomorrow we only have a week to restore the mask," said Eddie.
"And save KT's life," said Fabian.
"We have a lot to do and it feels that we don't have enough time," said Eddie.
"If only I could figure out what to do," said Fabian.
"That's what we all want," said Eddie.
"Why is this scroll empty?" Asked Fabian.
"I don't know, but like Amber said, it's the last task we have to do, so it's the hardest one," said Eddie
"That you and Amber agree on anything, I'm surprised," said Fabian.
"We may not always get along, but this area's hard to prove her wrong," said Eddie.
"I'm so tired," said Fabian.
"Then go to sleep," said Eddie.
"But I have to figure out what to do," said Fabian.
"I know, but you're not functional as a tired wreck either, both of us could use a good night's rest, said Eddie.
"All right, I'll get right back to work tomorrow," said Fabian.
Fabian put the roll under his bed and went to sleep. And few minutes later everyone in Anubis house was asleep.
The next morning both Fabian and Eddie woke up early, a few moments later everyone from the club walked into the room.
"Didn't have gotten a good night sleep, either didn't you?" Asked Eddie.
"I could barely sleep, knowing that in 7 days it will be the end of my girlfriend's life, if we don't find out soon what's on that scroll," said Aaron.
'Fabian please tell me you found something?" asked Nina.
"I would say that, but then I would be lying," said Fabian.
"Is this the impossible task, is there really nothing more we can do for KT?" Asked Aaron.
Everyone from the club got quiet and even a little sad open on hearing that.
"After all we have done," said Aaron.
"Pile this setback on top of the other setbacks in my life," said Alfie.
"Pile on," said Fabian.
"Fabian," said Nina.
"On top," said Fabian.
"Fabian, you're talking to yourself again," said Patricia.
"I know," said Fabian.
"That you're talking into yourself, good, because I've always found that very annoying," said Amber.
"I'm not talking about that," said Fabian.
"Then what are you talking about?" Asked Alfie.
"I know what we have to do with the scroll," said Fabian.
"What?" Asked Aaron.
"We have to put the papyrus on top of each other," said Fabian.
"Put the papyrus on top of each other?" Asked the club in unison.
"Yes," said Fabian.
Fabian grabbed the other two papyrus scrolls and laid them on top of each other, He grabbed empty papyrus scroll and laid it on top. The papyrus rolls lit up and became one big papyrus roll.
"See, that's the Mask," said Fabian.
"And there is a text, it's hieroglyphics but at least it says something," said Nina.
"Fabian can you read it, what do we have to do?" Asked Eddie.
"It says we have to...," said Fabian.
"What? What do we have to do?" Asked Nina.
"We're not supposed to summon that spirit of the Ankhesenamun, that's not the final task is it?" asked Amber.
"Fabian?" Asked Nina.
"The last task is a test, if we pass the test then we restore the Gem of Love," said Fabian.
"What is the test?" Asked Aaron.
"We must prove our friendship and love to the Mask," said Fabian.
"But how do we do that?" Asked Nina.
"I have no idea," said Fabian.
The club now knew what the final task was, but had no idea how to do it? Will they manage to do the final task within 7 days, hopefully still be saving KT's life in time.
