"Are we there yet?"

"No!"

"Are we there yet?"

Sapphire sighed. She was about to kill Alex herself so he would just shut up. She found that Lock-nah's anger to be amusing but they had been going on like this for five minutes. Plus, Alex was trying to mimic Lock-nah's tapping fingers. Lock-nah pulled a knife out and it stuck in the table between Alex's fingers. "Whoa nice aim."

"I missed" Lock-nah said as he pulled the knife back out.

"Then the gods are looking after you." Sapphire's glare connected with his. "If you harm Alex, I'll make you regret it."

Lock-nah smirked. "It is you who will regret if you do not behave my sweet." Sapphire froze. Lock-nah starring at her chest for the last hour finally made sense because of that comment. Right now she had the feeling she was safer standing on a high wire with a pit of scarabs beneath her. Lock-nah began to stand up, never taking his eyes off her.

"I have to use the restroom!" Sapphire sighed. Saved by the Alex, She thought. Lock-nah left with Alex. When they were out of sight Sapphire stood up. Since they were headed toward the engine she would head towards the caboose. Even if that was Imhotep's car. She walked slowly at first but when she got into the second car she turned around and saw Lock-nah striding towards her without Alex. She did what her instincts told her to do. She ran for it.

She had managed to get to the next car, the last one before Imhotep's, before he caught up to her. He grabbed her arm and pushed her up against the wall. "A feisty one aren't we?" he said against her neck.

"Nope, I'm one that bites back." She said before bending her head and biting his shoulder. He yelled in pain and dropped her. She ran again but he tackled her halfway threw the car. She screamed for a second as they fell and collided with the floor. She got on her knees and half scrambled half crawled away from him. He reached out and grabbed her ankle and dragged her back until he was on top of her.

"Stay quiet or the boy will be getting a few scars for the rest of his life." He said. His hand slid from her shoulder to her hip and began digging his thumb into it. His lips traveled from her ear to the low neckline of her top piece. He was about to remove the garment with his free hand when all of a sudden he was lifted in the air and thrown against the far wall.

Sapphire sat up and began backing away from him even more. She looked behind her to see Imhotep and Ank. Ank had an unreadable expression but Imhotep's expression was full on rage. "What is going on here?" he practically snarled it.

"My lord. I was merely trying to show our guest a good time." Lock-nah said as he stood up slowly.

"The hell you were." Sapphire said as she stood up and took another step backwards. She lifted a hand to her cheek and discovered a gash on it from being thrown around was bleeding. Imhotep looked at her for a second and was next to Lock-nah in another. His hand wrapped around Lock-nah's throat.

As the man gasped to breathe Imhotep spoke. "I could kill you now without a second thought. You will stay away from Sapphire and not lay a hand on her again." Imhotep paused to look at Ank then Sapphire. "Is that clear Lock-nah?"

"Yes my lord." The man choked out. He was dropped a second latter.

Imhotep walked back up to the women but his focus was on Sapphire. He pulled a cloth from who knows where and put it gently against her cheek and wiped the blood away. "Are you alright Sapphire?" he asked softly.

"I'll live." She said. When he took the cloth away from her face she said "Are you sure we just can't kill him?" she said looking to a frozen Lock-nah.

"No. He may still be of use to us yet" Ank said before Imhotep could respond.

"Fine but I'm not sleeping tonight if he's around" she said glaring at Lock-nah. Imhotep nodded in agreement. Suddenly the train stopped. Ank managed to hold on to a random train pole but Sapphire was headed face first towards the ground. Imhotep caught her round the waist and lifted her back on to her feet. "Thanks" she mumbled.

Suddenly gunshots began and it sounded like it was right above them. "The boy" Imhotep said then turned toward the wall. It opened up to reveal Alex running for his life into an old Egyptian structure with a trail of bullets behind him.

"Alex!" Sapphire yelled and took of after him. Not even caring she was headed for the line of bullets. Imhotep used his powers to lift the men shooting into the air and threw them against a couple of pillars. He then took off after Sapphire. Ank glared at Sapphires form as she disappeared around a wall.

Sapphire had finally managed to catch up with Alex. He looked like he was starring at something over the water in the pool in front of him. His left arm with the bracelet dropped to his side as Sapphire turned him around to face her. "What are you thinking! We need to keep moving! We run after we get there not before! Don't ever do that again without me! Why do you have to be so much like your father!" she said breathless.

Imhotep was stepping through the water towards them. "You should listen to her. I will not be so forgiving the next time you try something like this."

"You? The next time he does something like this I'm finding a cliff and throwing him over it. Then I'm shooting Lock-nah. After that, I'm finding that stupid pyramid and give that scorpion king a piece of my mind about his stupid bracelet."

Alex looked between the two adults. "I'm definitely more scared of her then I am of you." He then walked a bit of ways away and sat down next to the pool.

Imhotep looked at Sapphire with this look of a kid who was taken to a carnival for the first time. "You really haven't changed have you?" he asked.

Her eyes connected with his. "I haven't." she took a step closer so they were only a foot apart. "But it seems you have." Imhotep looked into her eyes and was just hypnotized by their intensity.

"What do you mean?" he whispered. His eyebrows connected together in concentration.

Sapphire opened her mouth but was interrupted by Ank walking up with Lock-nah and her saying "There you are. Lock-nah tie the boy up and get the next destination from him." Lock-nah took Alex away. Sapphire followed him. She looked back only once to see Ank all over him, but his eyes where on her.

So hopefully you like the story so far. It's not going to be as long as a movie obviously because a lot of things are left up to your imagination. I'm thinking this has five or six chapters left. ~C