"ASHLEY! WAKE UP!"
Ashley jolted awake, her eyes snapping open. "Huh?! Whooza-?! What the-?!" She paused, then fell back on her pillow. "I am so over these wake up calls..." she growled.
She lifted her head up and saw Fangula. "Sorry, Honey." he said. "But Mums is missing!"
Ashley jolted up again. "Missing?! What do you mean missing?!"
"I mean, missing! Gone! Vanished! Not here! That kind of missing!" the count replied. "And his mummy- I mean, his mother is showing up today! We have to find him!"
Ashley sighed, getting out of bed. "Alright, I'll go into town and find him. You and the others stay here in case he comes back."
In Charterville, Mums was in a garbage can behind a building wearing a disguise: a blue Hawaiian shirt, grey sweatpants and a black cap on.
"This should do the trick." said the mummy. "Khfulun will never find me here." But he felt his stomach cavity rumbling, he groaned. "Oh man, I should've stayed for breakfast, I'm nothing but cloth and bones! Maybe there's a place to eat around here."
Mums got out of the garbage and headed to the front of the building and saw a sliding door. He was about to go through when a woman wearing a medical scrub came out first and bumped into Mums.
She looked at him and her eyes widened. "Oh my God," she gasped. "Doctor!" she grabbed Mums and took him inside. "Doctor! I've got a burn victim!"
"What?!" Mums sputtered.
More people in scrubs came in. Mums began to panic, the woman shushed him. "It's okay, I know you're in a lot of pain. It's going to be alright."
A man in scrubs observed the mummy. "Looks like he tried to treat himself. Get him on a stretcher!"
Mums yelped as he fell back on a stretcher. The doctors put stethoscopes and hands all over him, making him giggle.
"I can't find a heartbeat!"
"There's no pulse!"
"Code Blue!"
Another doctor came with a defibrillator. He put the pads over Mums' chest and,
"CLEAR!"
Mums jumped against the stretcher and cried out as the surge of electrical current coursed through his body. He was too in shock to speak.
The doctors still saw a flat line. "Again!"
He zapped Mums again, only harder and longer. Mums shouted in pain. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" He leaped off the stretcher and ran with the doctors after him.