Little Miss Bump-Yes, it was close. Oh, she's gonna hurt her alright, just not yet. Yep, all she's got is a bump on the head and some scratches from her tumble down the stairs. No, not it is not and you are very right in that guess. Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. XD
err... who am i?-Oh, the rest of their part in this will be revealed very soon. Oh yes, there is plenty more trouble for them to go through. Not for a while. Well, some of their view is coming up in this chapter but it won't be on the rescue in the last chapter. Oh course I'll keep writing and posting as fast as I can. XD
lissysue85-Nope, she's not going home yet. But she is defiantly going to wish she was. Yes it was and more trouble is still to come. Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. XD
Gilian 101-Insperation for this is on a high right now. Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed them. Well, I'm glad you found them suspenseful for that was what I was going for. Aw, you make me blush! Thank you! Yep, another one soon. XD
Pinkranger888-XD Yep, you were right and yes, he is a jerk. But he will get what's coming to him very soon. Oh, what happened to them will be revealed in about three chapters after this. Oh course I do. Plan 'B'? Well, it's nothing good for the Tracy family that's for sure. XD
Chapter Eleven- Trouble in Cairo
Roughly half an hour after Thunderbird Two had dropped her off at El Aini Hospital in Cairo, Evelyn had been released and was taken to a hotel a block away to get cleaned up while she waited for her father to fly back in Tracy One to take her home. Luckily for her the only injuries she had sustained was a cut on her forehead along with a large bump on the back of her head, that along with the fact she was completely filthy led to her taking an nice, warm shower as soon as she was checked into the hotel. Though her cloths would still be dirty and torn in places seeing as the rest of the clothing she had brought with her was still in Amarna.
Once she was out of the shower and dried off, she took a bottle from the fully stocked refrigerator and sat down on in the middle of the bed. Setting the water bottle down in her lap, she reached underneath the neck of her shirt and pulled out the locket. A soft smile appeared on her face as she opened it and looked down at the picture of her and her brothers that had been taken five years prior on hers and Gordon's eighteenth birthday. After she stared at it for a few moments, she closed it once more and tucked it under her shirt.
Maybe I should have gone home with them, she thought as she reached over to the nightstand beside the bed and grabbed the remote. As she pushed the button on the remote and the television flickered to life, she undid the cap on the bottle and took a sip of water from the bottle only to spit it back out seconds later, not caring at all that it got all over the screen of the television. As she gagged from the coppery taste that was now in her mouth, she lifted up the bottle to where it was eye level before her. Her green eyes widened at the red substance in the bottle before lowering it back down to her lap.
"I'm defiantly starting to think I'm going insane," she muttered to herself as pushed herself up off the bed, took the bottle into the bathroom and began to pour it down the sink. She then turned on the faucet to help wash it down only to gasp at the red substance that poured out of it. She quickly shut the faucet off, set the bottle on the bathroom counter and went back into the main room. She grabbed her bag from the nightstand and pulled out the pouch that protected the monitor. She needed to call John. Something really strange was going on.
Before she could push the second button to call her brother, a strange tremor shook the building. What the? With the monitor in hand, she walked over to the door of the hotel room and pulled it open. Screams sounded in the air as hail and fire fell from the dark clouds over the city. She walked to the railing along the second floor hallway to see the plants in the courtyard had been set aflame and the beautiful fountain that had been in its center destroyed.
The water turned blood was spilt out into the courtyard, where people ran through it to escape the fire only to scream at the sight of all the blood that was around them. As she quickly began to walk down the hallway towards the nearest staircase, she lifted the monitor to eye level and pushed the second button as she walked.
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Up on Thunderbird Five, John stood before the main counsel looking at the monitors all around him. He had just gotten a call from Egypt, luckily from someone who spoke English, shouting over the screams of panic behind him that the water had turned to blood and hail and fire was now falling from the sky in Cairo. Looking at the weather readout for that area, he noted the strange mass of clouds that had formed over the countries capital.
Just as he moved to contact his father and brother's and tell them that they had to turn back, one of the smaller monitors chimed, signaling an incoming call. He pushed the button to accept the call and within seconds the face of his sister appeared on the screen. John immediately became concerned at the look of panic on her face. "Evie, what's going on over there?"
"Tell them to come back John," she replied, glancing away from the screen for a moment as screams sounded around her. She grimaced at something off screen before looking back to her brother. "Its pure chaos here John. All water has turned to blood and fire is falling from the sky."
"I was actually just about to tell them to anyway," John explained. "Hang on a minute Evie."
"Okay," she answered with a nod. John moved to one of the larger monitors a few feet to his right that currently showed the positions of Thunderbirds One and Two on their way back to the island. He pressed the button to establish contact with them. "Thunderbird Five to Thunderbirds One and Two, do you copy?"
"Loud and clear," Virgil responded after a few seconds from Thunderbird Two while from Thunderbird One Jeff responded, "Go ahead John."
"Do you have the Firefly onboard Two?" John inquired.
"Yeah, " Gordon answered slowly. "Why?"
"You are needed in Cairo," he replied, glancing over to the screen that showed Evelyn a few feet away. "Something strange is going on over there. All water in that country has turned to blood and fire is falling from the sky in Cairo."
"Have you heard from Evelyn?" Jeff asked over the communication link. On the screen it showed Thunderbirds One and Two turning around and heading back the direction they had just come from.
"Just as I was about to call you actually," John replied. "Things ar-" He stopped as from the monitor that was showing Evelyn's face came a blood curdling scream. He moved away from the monitor showing the progress of Thunderbirds One and Two, ignoring the questions of concern coming from the connection and moved over to the one that he had been talking to Evelyn on. Her face was gone from the screen and instead he could only see her feet. "Evelyn! What happened?"
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When John disappeared from the screen, Evelyn continued walk quickly to the staircase a few feet away. She reached the stairs and began to hurry down them towards the courtyard, where while she had been talking to John someone had been bit by a fireball and had jumped into the blood to try and put out the fire that covered their body.
Glancing down at the screen to see that John had still not returned, she reached the bottom of the stairs. As she moved around the wall that separated the hallway to the rooms on the ground floor from the courtyard, she let out a bloodcurdling scream as she came face to face with Yuja.
"Thank you for resurrecting me Henuttawy," he growled. As he stepped towards her, she stepped back towards the stairs a few feet behind her. From the screen that had dropped to her side when she reached the bottom of the stairs, she heard John yelling. "Evelyn! What happened?"
"You are the reason I suffered the Hom Dai," he began as he stepped towards her. Evelyn continued to move back towards the stairs behind her, the yells of her brother not being heard as she stared at Yuja in horror. "Now, I will make you suffer as I did. Until like me, you are dead. But unlike me, there will be no way for anyone to resurrect you."
"I am not Henuttawy," she said, shaking her head as he continued to come closer. Her feet hit the bottom stair and she screamed as she fell onto the stairs behind her. The monitor in her hand landed face up next to her, giving John a view of Yuja as he continued to approach her as she now lay sprawled on the stairs. On the screen, John's blue eyes widened at the sight of Yuja walking towards his sister.
"HISS!"
Both Evelyn and Yuja looked over to the doorway of the nearest hotel room, whose door was wide open and golden tabby cat was standing there hissing at Yuja. The hair on the cats back was on end and its tail puffed up as it hissed at the corpse. Yuja's undead eyes widen as he spots the cat. His decomposed mouth opens wider then humanly possible and he shrieked. Yuja spun around before turning into a cloud of sand as a harsh wind blew through the hallway. Evelyn closed her eyes and turned around towards the staircase to avoid getting sand into her eyes.
She sat there with her eyes squeezed shut for a few moments until John's yelling got her attention. She turned back around to see Yuja was no longer in sight. The fire and hail had stopped falling and the dark clouds had disappeared. The blood from the broken fountain in the courtyard was now nothing but steaming water. The cat now sat in the doorway, its fur still puffed up and now coated with sand. Evelyn swallowed. "Where is your owner? I want to kiss them for bringing you."
"Evelyn!" John yelled. Panting, Evelyn picked up the screen as she adjusted herself into a more comfortable position on the stairs. John was once more extremely pale as he looked at her in concern. "Are you alright?"
Evelyn shook her head. "I just want to go home," she replied softly as she looked down at the face of her brother.
"Hold on a second Evie," John said before disappeared from the screen again. She could her him talking indistinctly and assumed that he was talking to the rest of their family. He reappeared a few moments later and gave her a small smile. "Good news. Thunderbird One has already landed in the hotel parking lot. Dad's on his way to find you right now and Thunderbird Two is landing in the hospital parking lot."
"Thank God," she muttered, leaning back on the stairs and closing her eyes. She didn't care right now if someone noticed her disappear into one of the 'birds, she just wanted to go home. Though in the current chaos that reigned in the city, it was doubtful that anyone would be paying that much attention to one young American. They would be too busy paying attention to themselves and their own families.
"Evie?" John asked after a few minutes. The screams in the courtyard around her diminished as people began to grab their things to leave, or go to the hospital a block away. Evelyn opened her eyes and raised the monitor back to eye level. "What was that thing?"
"That would be a mummy," she replied. "That I brought back to life when Ness tricked me into reading an excerpt of the Book of the Dead."
"I thought that's what I saw," he said quietly, mostly to himself then to her as he glanced away from the screen for a moment. He then looked back at her a moment later looking confused. "Wait. What do you mean you brought him to life?"
"I mean dad was right about Ness," she replied. She opened her mouth to continued but was cut off by the sound of quickly approaching footsteps, footsteps that sounded very familiar. "I'll talk to you later John."
"Okay," he answered. The screen went black as from around the wall separating the stairs from the courtyard the familiar figure of her father appeared. With the monitor in hand, she pushed herself up off the stairs as Jeff spotted her and took in her appearance from behind his helmet. Though it was clear she had just showered since her hair was still slightly damp, she was once more covered in a layer of dirt.
As soon as Jeff reached her, he pulled her into his arms and held her tightly. Evelyn in turn wrapped her arms around him and hugged him just as tightly as she rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes, relishing in the warmth and feeling of protection she felt whenever she was in her father's arms.
As the two parted, Jeff placed his hands on her shoulders as he looked down at her in concern, though at the moment she couldn't see his face. "Are you alright?"
Evelyn shook her head as she had a few minutes before when John had asked her the same question. "No," she muttered, looking down for a moment at the monitor in her hand before looking face up at the helmet that hide her father's face, in which she could see the pale and filthy reflection of herself staring back down at her. "You were right about Ness."
"We'll talk about that once we get home," he said softly, using he gloved hand to brush her damp and sand filled bangs off to the side. "Come on. Let's get you home, where you can get cleaned up and get something to eat."
"Okay," she answered. Keeping on hand on her shoulder, he began to lead them in the direction of the front of the hotel, outside of which Thunderbird One sat with mobile control set up not too far from it as they worked to put out the various fires that had started in the city. Evelyn's sense of guilt began to grow at the thought of all the damage caused and all the people hurt and killed by something she had brought back to life.