err... who am i?-Yep, it's getting ugly. She's not panicked right now; she's just scared and guilty beyond belief. Oh yes, the story is far from over and the last chapter was not plan 'B'. That's just a little something Yuja did for fun. His part of the deal will be coming into play real soon and it won't be pretty. That he does.
Little Miss Bump-Thanks! I'm glad you liked it! –blushes- Yep, she's going home now. Oh, she's not going to get kidnapped, but the trouble for the Tracy family is not even close to being over yet. Yep, they are going to fuss over her big time and want to keep her in a box for the rest of her life. : P Thank you. Yep, it is. It is inspiration for this story that is keeping me from my NaNoWriMo novel and for a period my history paper. : P Yep, you will defiantly be seeing more soon.
Gilian 101-Oh, the weight of it all will hit her in this chapter and the next when she explains all that happened to her family. Then she will freak. And she's is defiantly going to need all the support she can get. Aw, thanks! You make me blush! Oh! Oh, oh oh! –jumps up and down- You just gave me a brilliant little plot twist idea! –huggles- you are a genius! You will be getting your request, it just won't be for a while and from the idea your brilliant suggestion just gave me, it is going to be serious. But don't worry, there will be plenty of fluff to follow it. XD Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it , cause it is fun to write. That it is. –blushes – Thank you and you will see an update very soon.
Pinkranger888-Yeah, it is very creepy. No, it seems she can't. Well, I'm glad you're mad at him but you may not be after this chapter. She'll get home safe; they all will. For now. :P That they are. Oh, the cat scaring him is a very good thing. It got him to leave and the reason why it scared him is in this chapter.
Chapter Twelve- Filling in the Blanks
September 7th, 2024
Not long after returning to the island found the Earth bound Tracy's in Jeff's office, while John listened in on one of the monitors. All of them were still dirty from the chaos they had helped to clean up in Cairo for none of them had yet to get cleaned up and change, though Onaha and Tin-Tin had dropped off a tray of muffins and glasses of water before heading back to bed. The Tracy patriarch sat in the chair before the desk while Scott was perched on the edge of the desk a few feet away. Virgil, Gordon, and Alan sat down on the couch in the room, all of them watching as Evelyn as she leaned against the mural.
"So this deal he made with the Hood and Saadia is the reason he invited you to Amarna in the first place?" Alan asked, summarizing all that she had told them so far into a single sentence. Evelyn heaved a heavy sigh and nodded, looking down at the floor underneath her feet.
From where he sat at the desk, Jeff heaved also heaved a sigh as he shook his head. "I knew there was something about that man I didn't like."
"If I had just come home when you sensed something was wrong with him," Evelyn paused, shaking her head and scoffing as she looked towards the ceiling. "None of this would have happened. Egypt wouldn't be in a state of panic, all those that are dead would still be alive, Kyleigh and Narmer wouldn't have been captured, and we wouldn't have a three thousand year old corpse walking around that has a vendetta against me because he thinks I'm a reincarnated princess!"
When Evelyn was finished yelling, she leaned her head back against the wall and closed her eyes, panting for her outburst. All but John looked at her incredulously. Virgil blinked a few times before asking, "What was that about a mummy?"
She opened her eyes and looked towards her younger brother as she pushed herself away from the wall. "The tablet that Ness had me read from," she began. "Was an excerpt from the Book of the Dead. So when I read it, I brought to life the corpse of Yuja."
"Yuja?" Scott repeated. "Wasn't he one of the guys in your dream?"
"Yes," Evelyn replied as she began to pace across the room. "Saadia walked up to him with no fear and he called her Meritaten, to which she replied that she is the women reincarnated and I have to say she does look like the women I saw in my dreams. And they both seem to think I am Henuttawy reincarnated."
"And Meritaten was the women that killed Henuttawy," Gordon stated, his green eyes going wide at what that would me if they thought she was the princess. "So…."
"They all want me dead," she finished softly, stopping where she stood in the middle of the room. The rest of the family paled at the thought of her being killed. "And Yuja wants me dead for he thinks I'm Henuttawy, and it was for his hand in her murder that he was subjected to the Hom Dai."
Her green eyes widened at this revelation. That's it! It explains everything! The locusts, the frogs, the blood to water and the fire and hail! Those that were subject to the Hom Dai would bring with them the Ten Plagues of Egypt if awakened! And I just had to awaken one of the few that was! And then the chest. Oh God. The chest! Please don't let Kyleigh and Narmer open that thing!
"Evie?" Jeff asked, standing up out of the chair and walking over to where she stood, her green eyes wide as she stared into the air in front of her. Her brother's watched her curiously. At the sound of her name, Evelyn blinked and looked towards her father.
"I know why all the strange things have been happening in Egypt," she began, shaking her head as she mentally smacked herself for taking so long to realize it. "Yuja was subjected to the Hom Dai, the worst of all ancient Egyptian curses, one that is said to have never been used because they were so afraid of it. It is said that should the victim of the Hom Dai ever arise, he would bring with him the Ten Plagues of Egypt."
"The Ten Plagues?" Virgil repeated. "As in the Ten Plagues that imposed upon Egypt because the Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go?"
"Yes, those Ten Plagues Virge," Evelyn sighed in exasperation, rolling her eyes in annoyance. Virgil flushed and looked down at the floor. Evelyn noticed this and opened her mouth to apologize for being moody but was cut off by Gordon.
"Well," Gordon began. I'll apologize to him later, she thought as she shifted her gaze from Virgil to Gordon. All eyes in the room watched as he began ticking them off on his fingers as he named them. "We've so far seen locusts, frogs, blood to water…."
"And hail and fire," Evelyn finished for him, all eyes moving from her twin to look at her. "The ones we haven't gotten to are the sun turning black, boils and sores, Gnats, Lice or Fleas, disease killing all livestock and then the last and worst of them all, death of all first born sons of Egypt. The plagues will only stop once he is fully regenerated."
"I know I am going to regret asking this but," said Alan, shaking his head and looking down for a moment before looking towards where his sister stood with their father beside her. "How does he get fully regenerated?"
"There is a chest in Amarna in the tomb where Ness found the tablet with the inscription on it," she began. "From what I figured out of the inscription on that chest is that in order for Yuja to fully regenerate, the chest needs to be opened. He will then kill all those that opened it and assimilate their organs and fluids."
The rest of her family paled further and looked slightly disgusted at the thought of this process. Over on the couch Gordon gagged. Beside him, Alan nodded and looked down at the ground muttering, "I knew I would regret asking."
"Why did he run when he saw that cat at the hotel Evie?" John asked from the monitor on the desk. Five heads turned to look at the monitor at this question before looking back at Evelyn with wide eyes, all of them quite a bit paler then they had been at the revelation that Evelyn had actually seen the mummy face to face at the hotel. Jeff turned back towards Evelyn and placed his hands on her shoulders as he looked down at her. "Did he hurt you?"
Evelyn shook her head as she looked up at her father. "He never got the chance too," she replied softly. Even though he had not gotten the chance to hurt her, he certainty scared her half to death."A cat entered the hallway at that moment and he fled at the sight of it, for cats are said to be the guardians of the underworld."
"He disappeared in a cloud of sand," John added. Scott glanced over at the image of his brother in the monitor. "You saw it?"
"Yes," John replied, nodding as five more faces turned to look at him. "Though from the angle the monitor was on, I wasn't able to see the cat but I did hear it hiss at him."
"If that cat hadn't of shown up," Evelyn began, shaking her head as she looked down. "The city probably would have been destroyed and I would most likely….."
She trailed off, not able to finish the sentence out loud, though she knew the rest of her family had finished it in their heads. Sure she was used to the prospect that something might happened to her on a rescue and she would die, but to actually think about dying now began to scare her. She didn't want to die. There was so much in life she had yet to experience and most of all, she didn't want to leave her family. They needed her just as much as she needed them. With any one of them gone, they would feel like an incomplete puzzle with a piece missing.
Jeff pulled her into a tight embrace, resting his chin upon the top of her head and closing his eyes, thinking about how close he had come to loosing her. Evelyn in turn wrapped her arms tightly around her father and closed her eyes as she pressed her face into her father's chest. After a few moments, Jeff opened his eyes and glanced around the room at his Earth bound sons. He removed one of his arms from around Evelyn, who looked up at him in confusion for a moment before smiling when she realized what he was doing.
Jeff extended the opened arm towards his sons, who quickly stood from where they were sitting and walked over to their father and Evelyn. On the screen, John smiled fondly at the group hug that his family was currently in, part of him wishing he was down with them to enjoy it too. "I'll talk to you guys later."
Jeff looked up from the group hug around him and smiled at the face of his second eldest son on the monitor. "Talk to you in the morning John."
Gordon, whose arms was one arm was wrapped around the shoulders of his twin while the other his younger brother, glanced over at the clock on the desk before smirking at his father. "It is morning dad."
His brother's rolled groaned and rolled their eyes as Evelyn removed one arm from around her twin and smacked him upside the dead. Gordon exclaimed and glared at his twin beside him. On the screen, John shook his head and muttered a quick good night before the connection was cut and the monitor went black. Jeff chuckled as the twins glared at each other for a few moments before Gordon once more wrapped his arm around his sister. Evelyn's glare disappeared as she leaned her head on her twins shoulder and closed her eyes, smiling on content.
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Just outside the buried ruins of Hamunaptra, disguised as one of the many digs that the late George Carnarvon financed before his death, was where Adrien Ness could be found in the company of the Hood's lackey's Transom and Mullion. He walked into one of the many tents that had been erected on the outskirts of the buried city, having been told to by the Hood and Saadia.
With the way that the two had taken control of the plans that Adrien had helped to concoct and conceal, Adrien found them to be his enemies. And they knew it too, which was why they had asked him to be in this tent with Transom and Mullion, though Adrien did not yet know why he had been told to come here. He saw the chest from Henuttawy's tomb sitting on the rug in the middle of the empty tent. His narrowed his eyes on Mullion and growled. "What is this chest doing here?"
"How should I know," Mullion growled, stepping towards the Egyptologist and towering over him. "I'm lower on the chain of command then you are."
"Don't remind me," Adrien muttered, rolling his gray eyes and stepping away from the man. He then looked towards Transom. "And I doubt that you know what the hell they want us here for."
"You were called to open the chest," called Saadia from just outside the flaps of the tent. Adrien looked incredulously in the direction her voice had come from.
"Are you mad?!" he yelled back to her. He knew about the curse and what would happen to those that opened the chest. Like hell he was going to do it voluntarily. "The only way I am going to open that chest is if you force me."
Where he stood outside the tent beside Saadia and Yuja, the Hood smirked. "That can be arranged," he replied just barely loud enough for Adrien to hear him. Saadia smiled and Yuja grinned in anticipation, both knowing what would come next. The Hood's smirk turned into a twisted smile as his eyes turned blood red and his pupils turned to slits like that of a cat.
Inside the tent, Adrien found himself move forward towards the chest against his will. Mullion and Transom stood a few feet to the side and watched on, wondering why he was being forced to open the chest. And why he was so afraid of what would happen when he did. He was forced to drop to his knees beside it. His arms shook as he desperately tried to keep them from reaching forward to open the chest. He screamed as pain ripped through his skull and his hands pulled open the chest. When opened, a cloud of think black dust poured out of it making it impossible to see.
As the dust began to disappear, Adrien shook his head as he muttered, "No......"
"What was that?" Transom asked, stepping forward to look into the chest. She waved her hand through the dust to see four canopic jars. She reached in to grab one only for Adrien to slap her hand away. She glared at Adrien, though it faded after a few moments when she looked over his shoulder. Adrien frowned in confusion before glancing over his shoulder, his expression quickly turning to one of horror when he spotted Yuja grinning.
As the screams of Adrien, Transom, and Mullion echoed into the night, the Hood and Saadia stood smiling outside of the tent. Neither of the grimaced, or even paid any mind to the horrible sounds issuing from within the tent. With those three gone, who were beginning to always question their orders, out of the way, the plan for downfall of the Tracy family could move forward quickly and smoothly. After a few minutes of nonstop screaming, the tall figure of a man stepped out of the tent, his shaved head shinned in the light coming from nearby lanterns and his skin had a healthy tan. Yuja had regenerated using the organs and bodily fluids of those who had been inside the tent and was now invincible. No more cats would scare him. The only thing that could possibly kill him was the golden Book of Amun Ra.