Pinkranger888- Nope, can't keep her down. XD Yep, he and the rest of the Tracy's, along with Kyleigh and Narmer think she is dead. Yeah, he's not doing to good. But he'll get better soon. Once he finds out what it is, he will. Yep, she gets to talk to her and Alan has too. I will. XD
Little Miss Bump- XD I'm glad you liked it. Don't worry, he'll be a little worse for the wear but he'll be okay. As soon as he figures out what it is, that is exactly what he is going to do. Thanks! I know, it drove me nuts! I was starting to go through withdrawals since there was nothing new to read! :P
err... who am i?- Oh, I will. Nope, no good news lately but that is about to change. XD Thank you! I'm glad you like her. And I'm glad you enjoyed that, I loved writing it. Yes, she did mention him, but no, he is not there. He is drifting in the area between life and death, kind of like a waiting room and Lucy went to see him while he was there. Then I hope some of the things I have planned come as a surprise. XD
Chapter Twenty Seven- Resurrected
John lifted his head from Evelyn's still chest at the sound of approaching footsteps behind him. Wiping the tears off his face with his sleeve, he glanced over his shoulder to see Fermat and Kaphiri come to a stop beside where Lady Penelope stood with her arms around Tin-Tin, their eyes red from crying. Tin-Tin looked to Fermat had stopped a few feet away and removed herself from Lady Penelope's arms to go over and hug him tightly. John looked away from them and simply stared down at his sister's body.
As Kaphiri stood back and bowed his head in mourning, Lady Penelope stepped forward and knelt down beside John. She wiped her own face with her gloved hand while the other went to gently grip John's shoulder.
"John," she began softly. He simply continued to stare at Evelyn. "What did she say?"
John lifted his head and looked up at the blond women, his eyes red and puffy from crying. He looked at her for a moment before looking back at Evelyn, his hands working to open the pocket on her pant leg. The Velcro sounded horribly loud in the silence of the square. Out of the pocket, John pulled out a folded up piece of paper that was obviously very old.
John carefully unfolded it and frowned at the words on the paper. Penelope leaned closer to also look at it. She frowned as she ran the words through her mind. The language sounded like Egyptian. She looked towards the sullen Medjai and gently took the paper from John's hand.
"Is this Egyptian?" she asked. Kaphiri stepped forward and took the paper from her hands. They all watched as his eyes went wide after studying in for several moments. He muttered something in Arabic and handed the paper back to John, who was frowning at the small smile on the Medjai's face.
"Allah has clearly blessed you," he smiled. He gestured to the paper in John's hand. "What you hold in your hand, is the English pronunciation of an incantation from the Book of the Dead."
"Book of the-" John repeated, his blue eyes going wide as he processed what the Medjai had told him. "You mean, this will bring her back?"
Kaphiri nodded. "I just wonder how she got a hold of it. The Book was lost almost a hundred years ago."
"I don't care how she got hold of it, I'm just glad she did," John replied. He looked down at the paper in his hands and began to read it aloud. "Ahm kum Ra. Ahm kum Dei."
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Evelyn blinked and whispered, "Mom…"
"Oh, Evie," she cooed, stepping forward and wrapping her arms tightly around her daughter, who happily returned the embrace. The two women stood there for a long while before Lucy released her daughter and turned to look around at those gathered in the room. "Not that I'm not happy to see you Evie, what happened?"
"Saadia stabbed me in the stomach," Evelyn replied. She glanced down at her stomach and shrugged. "Though that's probably obvious from the blood stain."
"It wasn't Saadia, Lucy," her namesake interjected. "It was Meritaten. Yuja used the spell and brought her back completely."
Lucy pinched the bridge of her nose and swore.
"Lucy!" Lin and Evelyn scolded while Rick smiled. His wife caught sight of it and smacked his chest. From her other side, Jonathon snickered as Lucy rolled her eyes at her mother and grandmother. Evelyn turned and glared at her brother.
"What?" he exclaimed. "I didn't do anything! I was merely laughing at how much like Alex she is."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back to the subject please," Evelyn interjected before her namesake could smack her brother. "Meritaten? That's not possible."
"It is possible," he great grandmother replied. "I myself am the reincarnation of Nefertiti, daughter of Seti the first."
Evelyn sighed, her hands clasped in front of her. It explained everything The dreams, the visions, everything. They hadn't been her imagination or the Hood playing with her mind, they were memories. "Then, I really I'm Henuttawy."
"Yes," the former librarian replied. "It will take some time to adjust to the fact that you have lived before, but your family can and will help you get through it."
Beside her, Rick smiled and wrapped an arm around his wife's waist. Evelyn looked up at him and kissed him on the cheek. Ruth's gasp brought their attention back to Evelyn.
"Looks like it's time for you to go," her namesake stated. Evelyn looked down at herself and gasped at her translucent body. Her grandmother then turned to the women that Evelyn guessed was Lin's mother. "Zi Juan, do you have any spell that you could give her that would help Alan?"
The women in the blue robes nodded and stepped up to stand before Evelyn. "Repeat after me," she instructed, before reciting a phrase in an unknown dialect of Chinese.
Evelyn gaped at the women. "Um, I can only speak English and Egyptian. I leave the other languages of the world to John."
Zi Juan chuckled, shaking her head. "It will be fine. As long as most of it is correct, it should work just fine," she replied. "Now, repeat after me."
She repeated the phrase slowly and Evelyn hesitantly recited it back to her. After having her recite the spell twice, Zi Juan smiled in approval. "That will do. Along with the anti-venom, it should rid his body of the toxins the snake injected into him."
Lucy set a hand on Zi Juan's shoulder and gave her a grateful smile. The former witch nodded and moved back, leaving Lucy and Evelyn in the center of the group. Lucy reached forward and set a hand on her daughter's quickly fading cheek.
"My little flyer," she whispered, blinking back her tears. Evelyn let out a choked sob at her childhood nickname that only Lucy had ever used. "I am so proud of you and your brothers. Your father has raised the six of you splendidly."
"I love you mom," Evelyn choked out, tears trailing down her cheeks.
Lucy smiled. "I love you too, Evelyn," she replied. "Tell your father and brothers hello for me."
Evelyn's reply was cut off as a flash of golden light filled the room, and Evelyn Tracy disappeared from the afterlife.
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"Efday shokran amenophus," John read. After he spoke the last word of the spell aloud, the wind suddenly picked up and began to howl as it blew through the city. No sand was disturbed. Golden light began to shimmer around the body before him, reflecting on the faces watching what was happening, their eyes wide as the body before them sucked in a deep breath.
The light and wind faded as Evelyn lay panting in the sand. John laughed and exchanged a smile with those around him as Evelyn's eyes fluttered open. Her eyes stared into the sky for a few moments before glancing over at those beside her. John and Lady Penelope knelt in the sand beside her with Fermat, Tin-Tin, and Kaphiri looking down at her over their shoulders. Evelyn spotted the paper in John's hand and smiled. "I see you found it."
Before she could even twitch, John reach down and gathered his younger sister into his arms and held her tightly, burying his face in her shoulder as tears leaked from his eyes. Evelyn returned the embrace just as strongly. She closed her eyes and smiled. It worked. I'm back. I'm alive. I remember everything. From when I was Henuttawy, from when I was little, and from when I was in heaven. And I remember the spell from Zi Juan to help Alan. Oh my God! Alan!
Evelyn slowly began to release her arms from around John, who lifted his head from her shoulder when he felt her arms begin to loosen. His eyes were red and puffy and tear trails cut through the dust on his face.
"I'm so glad you had that spell," he whispered.
Evelyn smiled. "We'll defiantly have to thank Alex once this is all over. But right now, we have to hurry," she said, removing herself from his arms and beginning to stand. Once she was standing, she helped John to his feet before looking around at the people around her. "Meritaten set her Egyptian cobra on Alan list night."
John's eyes widened before a small frown formed on his face. "Evie, how do you know that?"
Evelyn set her hand on John's arm. "I'll explain everything later," she replied. "Once Yuja, Meritaten, and the Hood are dead and our family is safe."
"Meritaten?" Lady Penelope repeated.
"She really was the women reincarnate, and Yuja brought her back in full last night," Evelyn explained, waving off the odd looks she was receiving from them. "Again, I'll explain later."
John nodded. "Okay," he replied slowly. "Now where did they go?"
"The temple," Kaphiri responded, gesturing to the large building behind them."There is no way to get in there without being noticed."
"Actually, think there may be one," Evelyn countered, turning and heading through the palace gates with the others following slowly behind her, glancing at each other in confusion as they hurried to keep up with Evelyn's quick pace. "It was a passageway only known to the royal family and its entrance in the temple is hidden behind a statue of Anubis."
They followed her as they entered the place, going through what could be called the atrium of the grand building and into another large room beyond it. The doors still left open from when they had traveled to the city to rescue Evelyn and providing a miniscule bit of light to see with.
At one end of the room was a doorway that led who knows where while to the side was a dais, an old and crumbling chair sitting upon it. While following her, John noticed something slightly different with his sister. Nothing major, just the little things. For one, the way she held herself seemed to be almost as how someone royal would hold themselves.
Then there was how she knew something had happened to Alan and that there was another way into the temple. John was knocked out of his thoughts as she headed towards a dark doorway within the palace, its previously hidden door looked to have been cut away with a laser cutter.
"Evie, is this where?" John began to ask as the group stood beside the door, looking down into the pitch black tunnel.
"Yeah, this is where dad and Gordon found me," she replied. "Anybody got a flashlight?"
Tin-Tin sung her backpack off and unzipped it. She reached into one of its smaller pockets and grinned as she pulled out a large flashlight. Beside her, Fermat also pulled one from his. Evelyn glanced down the dark tunnel that she had fallen down almost a week prior and stared into the darkness for a few minutes, her expression contemplative.
"Okay," she muttered to herself before turning back to those who stood behind her. "You guys take one of the flashlights and get to the temple, get them free and get the Book of Amun Ra. And Keep out of sight as long as you can. Kaphiri, get the rest of the Medjai and follow them to the palace after a few minutes."
Kaphiri looked startled at her orders but nodded after a few seconds. He then turned to leave the way they had come. Evelyn then grabbed the flashlight from Fermat's hand and began to the same direction as Kaphiri. Before she could get far, John grabbed her elbow and turned her around to face him.
"Where are you going?" he inquired, holding her arm tightly to stop her from leaving.
"There is something that I have to do," she replied softly. "I'll be fine, John, just focus on getting the Book."
The determination burning in her eyes stopped John from arguing. "Okay," he whispered, nodding slightly before pulling her into a quick hug. He released her after a few moments, though he continued to grip her arm, just not as tightly as before. "Just be careful, okay?"
"You too," she responded as he released her arm. She smiled at him and the rest of those in the room before heading out the door. John watched as her shadow disappeared from the doorway before turning back towards Lady Penelope, Fermat, and Tin-Tin.
Looking at Tin-Tin, he gestured towards the doorway. "You want to lead the way?"
She nodded, flicking on the flashlight. "Okay," she responded before heading into the tunnel.
She shinned the light down on the stairs below her feet as they walked, the light from the doorway behind them disappearing as they continued down beneath the palace, their footsteps echoing in the dark tunnel around them.