Author's note: Another chapter, at your service, fellow readers.
Hey, Amanda27A.g, thanks for your message earlier. It helped me out with the name of the chapter and some ideas.
In a meantime, let's continue on. I don't own anything here.
Chapter twelve: Bad place & Timing for Reunions.
Evy was outside in the courtyard down in a hall, reading a book on how to stop Imhotep, unaware or not paying attention to the dark clouds forming, or the growing numbers of soldiers around, being vigilant.
"Evy!" The woman turned around to find that Serena and Raye had both transformed into Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars again, and the two younger woman came up to her, panting, and before Evy could ask what was wrong, Sailor Moon held her arm in her hands, looking pleading and worried.
"Where's Mr. Burn's room? We have to save him!" Sailor Moon cried out, looking scared and worried.
"Is something wrong?" Evy asked, stunned at the emergancy.
Sailor Mars, who was leaning on her legs, trying to catch her breath, answered, "It's-it's that-that Mummy-"
"Oh Evelyn!" came Rick's voice as the three women turned to see that he has caught up as well.
"Oh, you're still here." Evy smiled, a bit relieved, but then frowned as Rick gave a nervous and worried chuckle.
Rick grinned with a mixture of sheepish and worry, saying simply, "We've got problems."
"Took you long enough." Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars said in unision as well as annoyance. But then a bright lightning flashed, causing the four of them to look up, and to their shock and disbelief, the dark clouds continued, but instead of rain, fireballs rained down from the sky, hitting everything, including the river, in their path.
People were screaming and soldiers were being caught on fire, as Rick led the others back under the covers of the hall, while the fireballs continued to destroy everything in it's path, damaging buildings and ect. It was like a fire-version of Calypso's maelstrom...not that the Sailor Scouts knew about that yet, but Ash and his friends have, but that's also another story in the past.
"This is like out of a bad sci-fi horror movie!" Sailor Moon freaked out, trying not to scream in horror.
The others were speechless, while praying to God that they would be safe from the fire of Chaos, despite that Chaos had been destroyed some months ago in as this was the Legendary Long Year. Suddenly, Beni came running down the stairs that led up to the bed rooms, but at the sight of Rick and the three women, he immediately flinched and tried to retreat back to where he come from. But Rick heard him and turned around, immediately grabbing hold of the whiny-chicken-man and held him against the wall.
"Hey! Beni, you little stink-weed! Where'd you been?" Rick demanded. But before he could get an answer, he and the others were distracted by an unfortunate and familiar roar from above them. Beni took this chance to escape and ran away, while Rick, the Sailor Scouts and Evy all hurried up stairs, while Sailor Mars felt another jolt, and for once in her life, prayed that she was wrong.
The group burst into Burn's room and as Rick had his guns out, carefully looking around, he was stunned in horror, while Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars and Evy gasped as they covered their mouths with their hands in horrified hurt. On the chair, was Burns...or, what was left of him. Now he was dead, very thin skin on his fleshless body, left in bones like a mummy, without old cloths but in his blue robe. Surprisingly, even his hair was still intact.
Gross.
Suddenly, the four of them heard another noise, and looked towards the fireplace, and true to their fears, it was their friend from Hamunaptra, stumbling, and...rejuvenating. He turned to them as more skin covered his bones. He looked a little leased before lifting his head to see them, and he gave them a huge roar.
The women uncovered their mouths, breathing scaredly, while Rick looked pale, as he aimed his guns at the Mummy.
"We," Sailor Moon began, "Are in serious trouble." twitching her eye in horror.
Rick then fired at the Mummy who walked towards them, unharmed, and quickly, Sailor Moon then called upon her Tiara magic and threw it, hoping to at least slice the monster in half, but instead, Imhotep knocked in away which it then hits the bookshelf and then fell onto the ground, turning back into it's normal unglowing form, much to Sailor Moon's horror.
"Hey! You were not supposed to do that!" Sailor Moon accused. "You're supposed to be dusted!"
"I'll try!" Sailor Mars said, forming her fingers together and chanted, "Mars, Fire, Inight!" her fire powers forming before shooting at Imhotep, but again, it didn't do any damage, much to her horror.
Jonathan, Henderson, Daniels, and the other three Sailor Scouts who already transformed secretly without the two Americans knowing, all rushed into the room and stopped short at the sight of Imhotep who decided not to borther with them. He then shoved Rick, Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars back as the trio were flown backwards and crash landed into the others who all collasped onto the floor into a pile.
Team Rocket, who had ran out to escape, only to end up taking shelter, climbed up the balcony to come inside, thinking that no one else would find him, ended up flinching as they recongised Imhotep and the others, and clinged onto each other in horror.
"Somebody do something!" Meowth shivered in fear.
"This is a nightmare!" Jessie shrieked.
"Well, I hope we wake up soon!" James screamed.
Imhotep smirked at the fallen people, before turning to Evy who flinched in fear and she backed away while he advanced on her to the wall, as she was terrifyed.
"You saved me from the Undead." He spoke. "That I thank you." as he leaned over to kiss her.
Sailor Moon sat up and saw what was about to happen, and, feeling fire and anger, immediately stood up and rushed over, despite her Guardians protests and she leaped up in the air for her Moon-Kick attack and successfully kicks him in the face, knocking him away as she then landed in front of Evy and the Moon Princess spread her arms out, protecting the older woman and for the first time since meeting Imhotep, showed no fear, but angry determination.
"You leave her alone, disgusting monster!" Sailor Moon commanded.
Imhotep recovered and glared at Sailor Moon in return, saying, "You have become a warrior, Ruler of the Moon. You shall die." as he then approached again, much to everyone else's horror.
"That Sailor Twerp is history." Jessie shivered.
"Yeah." Meowth agreed.
Just then, James was suddenly stepped on the head, causing the blue-purple haired man to whine like a girl before he collasped onto the floor anime-style, causing his two partners to stare at him in confusion, wondering what just happened.
As Imhotep was about to reach out to grab Sailor Moon's throat, suddenly, he was forced to step back, as a single red rose appeared out of nowhere, blocking him from the two women, much to the Sailor Scouts' surprise as they recongised the rose.
"Could it be...?" Sailor Moon asked, stunned.
"You seek to hurt the innocent for your evil purposes." a familiar new male voice declared. "I will not allow it, you evil undead corpse!"
True to the heroine's thoughts, standing now in front of them as he leaped to protect Sailor Moon and Evy, was a familair tall, young man in a tuxedo suit with a black and red cape, a top hat, a black cane, and a white mask that covered his eyes and white gloves. While the males of the room and Team Rocket were confused on who this new commer was, Sailor Moon and her guardians were stunned to see their hero.
It was Sailor Moon's lover.
"Hooray for Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon squealled happily and lovingly, stars sparkling in her eyes that her future husband as arrived, and is in Egypt as a matter of fact.
Imhotep was now furious, glaring at the new commer in pure hatred. However, just as he was about to step forward again, a sound of a cat caused him to glance around, and saw a pretty white cat stepping on the piano keys to the left(or right depending on the angle of the person) of the room.
Horrified at the sight of the cat, Imhotep gasped in horror, before he turned into a piller of sand before flying away through the window, narrowly missing Team Rocket who screamed and immediately jumped off the balcony and landed with a hard crash landing on the ground anime-style, while Imhotep was gone, and the sky returned to normal.
Everyone stared out at where Imhotep left, all of them forming huge sweatdrops, especially Rick who sat up, with a freaked out look on his face, muttering, "We are in very serious trouble." repeating what Sailor Moon just said moments ago, just adding an extra word on the sentence.
Sailor Moon in the meantime, clinged onto Tuxedo Mask from behind happily and hugging him lovingly, saying, "Oh, Tuxedo Mask! I didn't think that I'd see you again so soon!"
"Well, I was in town when I noticed that something was wrong and I sensed that you were here, in danger." Tuxedo Mask replied, while smiling to see his future wife again after several months since he left for New York for studies. He heard about the recent events, including the two year decrease of age by the power of the Reversed Light by Serena in her letters.
Sailor Venus, who had stood up and approached the three of them, while Evy was still confused, the guardian of Venus spoke to the Princess and Prince, saying, "Ah, 'cuse me, guys, but this, is a bad place and time for reunions."
Serena and Darien both blushed heavily as their faces turned bright red in embarrassment, Sailor Moon letting go of Tuxedo Mask and both chuckled sheepishly with sweatdrops.
"Yeah, we'd better get going and try to stop this nasty mummy." Sailor Moon agreed, as she, her guardians, and Tuxedo Mask all quickly left to find a place to return to their normal forms to join the five adults later on.
Well, as Mina did say, this was the bad place and time for reunions.
The next day, Darien was joined with the group after Serena and the others gave him the details on what was going on and how all of this happened. He agreed to stick around just in case, since he wasn't willing to let his lover put herself into serious danger again.
"So Darien," Mina began as they walked towards the Museum to meet up with Rick and the others, "How come you were here in Egypt anyway?"
"Will, I was assigned to do some extra studies on Egyptain hospitals and how people worked hard on healing people." Darien explained. "I guess this was a bad time to come, huh?"
Serena, who had her arms clinged onto Darien's right arm and walked side by side with him, sighed, "And I tried so many times to call you, but the signal around here is really bad." she then smiled and added, "But at least we get to hang out together before you go back to New York and I end up back in California."
"Right, because you're visiting relatives, huh?" Darien recalled. He then asked, "I heard that Rini came back from the future and is with them too, right?"
"Yeah, she wanted to come, but I managed to talk her into going with Uncle Stu, Aunt Didi and the kids to visit Grandpa Boris instead." Serena answered, relieved that they didn't have any children to try and protect in a place like this, especially now with the situation of the Mummy and all that.
Though Serena didn't tell Darien about her secret mission to help out Sceptile and Grovyle to find the Relic Book before Xenula did, or about the Realm of Darkness to anyone else. She promised not to reveal her new abilities as a Cardcaptor, even though she was only using clone Clow-Cards, considering how Sakura is the real Cardcaptor.
The group meet up with Rick, Evy, Jonathan and the two remaining Americans who were still trying to get over the loss of Burns, and after introductions between them and Darien, while puzzled that Darien and Serena were in fact, engaged, they decided to worry about that later and instead, walked through the hallways of the Museum, discussing on the relations of Evy and the Mummy.
Unforunately, Team Rocket join them after a night of terror, and Serena had to try and keep Darien away from Jessie who immediately fell in love with at first sight, much to the despair of James and Meowth.
"Call me crazy, but I think that Mummy likes Evy." Lita thought.
"Yeah, what was that about?" Rick asked.
"What does he want anyway?" Jessie asked in annoyance.
"There's only one man I know who can give us any answers." Evy replied as she lead the others into one of the rooms.
But as they turned around the corner, shock filled most of the others's expressions, as they not only found Terrance who now wore a long black coat and a red fez, but another man was speaking with him, one that the group didn't think they would see again, the one who somehow knows about the Silver Crystal.
Ardeth Bay.
"You!" Serena shrieked in annoyance, while Rick, Henderson, Daniels and pulled out their guns and aimed it at Ardeth who didn't even flinch.
"Miss Carnahan." Terrance greeted Evy. "Gentlemen. Ladies."
"Who is he?" Darien asked.
"Long story." James muttered, scaredly.
"What is he doing here?" Raye demanded, glaring at Ardeth.
Terrance looked at the taller and younger man, before looking blankly at the others, asking, "Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just shoot us?"
At this, most of the men put away their weapons(since Darien didn't have any, and neither did James), as Rick said, "After what I just saw, I'm willing to go on a little faith here."
"Tell us what you know." Mina demanded.
After everyone settled down in the tomb display of Seti the first, Terrance got down itno business and told them that even he was part of the Medjai while having a job as the head of the Museum.
"We are part of an ancient secret society. For over 3,000 years, we have guarded the city of the dead." Terrance said as he sat down in one of the chairs, continuing, "We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world."
"Now because of you, we have failed." Ardeth concluded, glaring at all of them.
"Hey, don't blame us!" Meowth pointed out, "We didn't know that it'd actually happen."
"Speak for yourself." Raye muttered to the feline-Pokemon.
Amy glared at the two Medjai and questioned, "And do you think it's necessary to take the lives of innocent people instead of warning them of the dangers?"
"To stop this creature? Let me think." Terrance pretended to think, before he and Ardeth both said in unision, "Yes!" as they both looked at Evy and Amy.
"Just one question." Serena raised up her hand, remembering that Imhotep ran away from the pretty and innocent white cat earlier, and asked, "Why is he scared of cats if they are just as in serious danger and probably more afraid of him than anything else?"
"Actually, that might be due to the fact that ancient felines are part of guarding the Underworld, along with that three headed dog Ceberus." James thought, causing everyone to glance at him in surprise. He noticed the others's expressions and sweatdropped, adding, "Well, that's what I learned in history class when I was a little boy."
Serena just looked at him, in confusion. It wasn't until Amy told her, "Serena, cats are known as guardians of the Underworld, keeping an eye on the souls of the dead."
That made sense, now that Serena thought of it. "In other words, the souls of the Underworld are kinda like mice who are prey for cats, right?" she theoried. She then giggled and muttered, "Shoud've brought Luna and Artemis with for back up."
"It's true that he fears them." Terrance stated, but continued, "However, he'll only fear them until he's fully regenerated."
"And then he'll fear nothing." Ardeth finished.
Serena sighed in disappointment, "Rats. It was worth a shot."
"Yeah, and you know how he gets himself fully regenerated?" Daniels bursted out.
"By killin' everyone who opened that chest." Henderson sighed.
"And suckin' them dry, that's how!"
"Jonathan, will you stop playing with that?" Evy scolded at her brother who in the back of the chariot jumped and fixed up the statue Seti the First before him.
Raye then thought of something and told the two Medjai, "When Evy and I saw him alive in Hamunapta, he said something about..." she trailled off, trying to say the mysterious words.
"Well, he called me, Anck-Su-Namun." Evy finished, causing the two Medjai to glance at each other in shock, while everyone else just looked at each other in confusion.
Serena blinked, asking, "Did she say Anck-sa-numoon or whatever, or, Another Sailor Moon?"
"Good question." Jessie blinked in equal confusion.
"It's Anck-Su-Namun, Serena." Raye sighed in exasperation while trying not to lose her temper. "I thought it was Another Sailor Moon too, but I don't think that's the case now that we're mentioning it."
"What could this mean, though?" Darien asked, thinking hard on the situation.
Amy then remembered something and recalled, "If I remember correctly, Anck-Su-Namun, a beautiful Egyptain woman back in the time of Seti the First, was supposed to be his second wife. According to the history books, she committed suicide shortly after his death."
"Maybe she did that because she couldn't handle the loss of him?" Lita suggested.
"Actually," James spoke up again, "I heard that Pharoah Seti the First was Assassinated, and they say that his second wife had something to do with his death."
"Then back in Mr. Burn's room, that Mummy tried to kiss Evy." Serena remembered.
"They're right." Terrance said, "Anck-Su-Namun was to be Seti's wife. But she was the cause of that he was cursed." he looked at Ardeth and added, "Apparently, even after 3,000 years..."
Ardeth nodded, adding, "He is still in love with her."
"Of course!" Amy realized, "The reason why the Mummy was cursed to endure the Hom Dai was because he and Anck-Su-Namun both killed Seti before she killed herself."
Serena then remembered the Book of the Dead and added, "And since that dumb old book Evy read caused him to return to life, maybe he tried using to Book to revive his true love, only to end up punished for his crimes." which, even though the group were stunned at sudden knowlage, all realised that she's right.
It made perfect sense now.
"Well, yes, that's very romantic, but what has that got to do with me?" Evy questioned.
Ardeth realised that Serena was right, and said to Terrance, "The child is right. Perhaps he will once again try to raise her back from the dead, either with or without the Silver Crystal."
"Yes, and apparently he has already chosen his human sacrifice." Terrance said, as he and Ardeth both turned to look at Evy who had her mouth dropped open at this.
"Bad luck, old mum." Jonathan sighed.
"On the countary," Terrance stood up, in thought. "It just may give us enough time we need to kill the creature."
"We'll need all the help we can get." Ardeth stated, staring up at the glass ceiling. "His powers are growing.
Everyone else looked up, following his eyesight to what appeared to be an eclipse forming in the sky.
"And he stretched forth his hand towards the heavens, and there was darkness throughout the lands of Egypt." Jonathan quoted again.
Jessie glared at the Englishman and muttered, "Will you shut up on the stupid ten plagues quotes? It's very annoying."
Serena turned to the two Medjai, but she then felt that there wasn't enough time to ask about how Ardeth knew about her idenity or the Silver Crystal.
One thing's for sure, time was running out.
A/N: Thanks to Amanda27A.g's idea and wanting to see Darien again, yes, I've brought him in for this story, since he didn't make any appearence except in memories in Sailor Moon American Adventures within the Sailor Moon Continuum stories.
But the troubles are not over yet. While the next chapter is in progress, please continue your awesome reviews, fellow readers, and I'll see you again next time.
