Little Miss Bump- There you go making me blush again! Ut I'm glad you enjoyed it. XD I'm glad you liked her and yes, she most defiantly will have one horrible headache. Thanks! I hope too and as always, I will update as soon as I can. Thanks! I hope too and as always, I will update as soon as I can.
Pinkranger888- XD I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thank you. I'll update as soon as I can. Part of me is also sad about it coming to an end, but I also feel a sense of achievement because this story is my longest ever.
err... who am i?- XD I'm glad you enjoyed that. I do that too! I visualize it in my head and then write it and a lot of times when I am reading a story I can visualize it my head like I am watching it on TV. Don't worry; he and Gordon will be saved in this chapter. And he will have his own part in Yuja's death.
I am so sorry it took for long to get this up! Once again real life and seasonal allergies got in the way.
Chapter Thirty- Together Again
The golden blade glanced off Yuja's right hip, only making a tear in his robes and did not deter him from his course towards them. She hurled the second blade towards him only for it to nick his left bicep, making a shallow scratch and not nearly enough damage to stop him. Evelyn groaned as she and John continued to back away from Yuja. Even after three thousand years her aim hadn't improved in the slightest. Yuja grinned at the frustrated Evelyn.
"You may have taken my immortality, Henuttawy, but you and your family will still die," he grinned as he continued to slowly walk towards the siblings.
His grin disappeared and was replaced with a howl of pain and rage as the red beam of a small laser cutter took out a chunk of his left arm. The glowing red beam had been brought down upon Yuja's arm by a furious Scott.
John took advantage of the distraction Scott had provided and grabbed the fallen sword from the dead guard to his right. Yuja clutched the bleeding wound on his right arm and turned towards Scott. Evelyn caught movement out of the corner of her eye and watched as John pushed the curved blade deep into Yuja's upper abdomen.
John let go of the hilt of the sword and stepped back with Scott to stand beside Evelyn. Yuja let out a yell of pain as he removed the sword from his stomach. The blood covered blade clattered to the floor as Yuja fell to his knees, pressing his hands to his abdomen. He looked up at the three siblings before him.
"Have fun in hell, " Evelyn growled after a few moments of his silent staring.
The three of them jumped back a few moments later as Yuja's body fell forward to lay unmoving on the dust covered stone floor. Evelyn sighed after a few minutes of simply watching his body and let her shoulders sag in relief. "It's ov – OMPH!"
Evelyn suddenly felt all the breath knocked out of her as she was roughly pulled into the arms of her eldest brother, who closed his eyes and held her tightly. After the initial shock had worn off, Evelyn gladly returned the embrace. Scott released her after a few moments and held her out at arm's length, scanning her for injuries.
She saw his cobalt blue eyes widen as they landed on the large bloodstain on her stomach. She reached up and removed his arms from her shoulders, taking his hands into hers. "Scott."
"Scott," she repeated when he did not remove his gaze from the stain. She reached up and grabbed his chin, forcing him to look her in the eyes. She bit her lip at the pain and worry she saw in his eyes. "Scott, I'm fine. I swear."
"But….you were….she stabbed," he stammered as he once more glanced down at the stain.
Evelyn smiled fondly at her older brother. "I'll explain it all later. It's a long story and I really don't want to have to repeat it."
Scott nodded slowly before wrapping his arms around her once more. "Okay," he muttered as he rested his chin upon her head.
"Evelyn!"
Scott released her at the yell from Gordon and the two looked to see him running towards them, the chains that had kept him on the alter having been removed by John. Evelyn stepped away from Scott to receive the bone crushing hug from her twin with open arms. Evelyn closed her eyes as Gordon pressed his face into her shoulder, his hands grabbing fistfuls of her flight suit. She felt him begin to tremble as he drew in a breath and tightened her arms around him.
"I'm fine Gordy, I swear," she whispered.
Gordon lifted his head from her shoulder and pulled back to look at her. His emerald eyes were shinning with unshed tears as he looked at her.
"But you should be dead. How are you not dead?" he asked as he wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
"I know I should be," she replied softly, glancing over his shoulder to see John and Scott heading towards the corner where Fermat was handing the backpack with the anti-venom to Virgil. "But I'm not and how that came to be will be explained once Alan is okay and we are on our way home."
"Oh God, Alan!" Gordon cried as he spun around to see that John and Scott were now in the corner, though Scott was helping distract John so the blond wouldn't look at the needle that Virgil was inserting into Alan's arm. His flight suit had been unzipped to reveal the white t-shirt beneath and his arms removed from the sleeves. The top half of the suit gathered around his waist.
Evelyn grabbed Gordon's hand. "Come on."
The twins jogged hand and hand over to the corner their family was in and reached them just as Virgil was pressing a cotton ball to the skin where he hand inserted the needle.
Virgil looked up from Alan's arm to where his elder brother stood a few feet away. "You can turn around now, John. I'm done administering the anti-venom."
John turned around and he and Scott went to kneel down beside Alan as Virgil moved down to bandage to bite. Evelyn and Gordon knelt down across from them, the former of the two sitting closer to where their father sat with the blonds' head in his lap.
She smiled at her father who looked at her in mild disbelief. "Hey dad."
"Evelyn," he breathed out as he reached over and set a hand on his daughters shoulder. "But how?"
Evelyn glanced at John across from her, who gave her a small smile. Jeff looked between the two with a frown of confusion. Evelyn transferred her gaze back to her father as she reached up and grasped the hand that was on her shoulder. "I'll explain later."
"Okay, that's the best I can do for him here," Virgil informed them as he placed the roll of gauze back into the backpack Fermat had given to him. "I can only hope that it's not too late. And we should-"
Evelyn groaned and closed her eyes as she mentally smacked herself. The spell! The spell Zi Juan had given her! How could she have forgotten it? She let out a curse in Egyptian under her breath.
"Evelyn?"
She looked towards Virgil and took in his concerned expression before looking back to the unconscious blond before them. She squeezed her father's hand on her shoulder before moving it to grip Alan's limp hand. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and recited the spell Zi Juan had given her as best as she could. As the last word left her mouth, she opened her eyes to see the confused expressions of her family.
"Was that Chinese?" John inquired.
Evelyn nodded. "Yes, a very ancient from of it," she replied. "It was a spell that, along with the anti-venom, will get rid of all the poison the snake injected into him. Hopefully now he'll be okay till we get home."
"Where did you get it?" Virgil asked as he moved away from Alan's . Jeff removing his hand from her shoulder so the medical officer could kneel beside her. He then pressed two fingers to his younger brother's neck. His pulse was still quicker than normal but not nearly as rapid as it had been.
"I'll-"
"Explain later," John finished as Virgil moved his hand feel Alan's forehead. Evelyn glanced over at John and rolled her eyes at him. Virgil removed his gaze from Alan to look at her. She smiled and jerked her head towards John.
"What blondie said," she teased, receiving a half-hearted glare from John, the corners of his mouth turned upward. Her smile faded slightly as she looked down at the second blond of the family. "How is he?"
"Well, it seems that that spell of yours worked and sped up the anti-venom," he replied. "His pulse seems to be returning to normal and his fever has broken. I think he's just unconscious from exhaustion and dehydration now."
"Oh thank God," Jeff sighed, his shoulders slumping as he ran a hand through his filthy hair.
"Though I think all of you are suffering from that," John added. Virgil glanced towards him and nodded.
He then frowned after a moment and looked back towards Evelyn. "Let me see your stomach."
Evelyn blinked. "My stomach?"
"Yeah, where she stabbed you," Virgil replied, reaching up and scratching the back of his neck as the rest of his family looked slightly shocked at his request. "I want to see it."
"Okay," she shrugged. She pulled her arms out of the sleeves of her flight suit and bunched it down around her hips before lifting up the blood soaked t-shirt she had worn underneath. The skin where the blade had entered her was only marked by dried blood, but the wound itself was long gone. Virgil reached forward and ran his fingers over the flawless flesh just below her bellybutton, shaking his head in disbelief.
"How is this possible?" he muttered under his breath. He pulled away his hand and Evelyn dropped her shirt before his arms wrapped around her and pulled her to him. She sat still for a moment before returning the embrace. He released her after a few moments and looked her in the eyes. "I hope you're not going to make us wait long for that explanation."
Evelyn shook her head and opened her mouth to reply but was cut off by someone calling her name in Egyptian. She looked in the direction the voice had come to see Kaphiri and Taymullah a few feet from the statue blocking the hidden doorway.
She pushed herself to her feet. "I'll be right back," she muttered to her family.
"Thank you Evelyn," Taymullah said as she came to a stop before the two Medjai. "You and your family have earned the respect and gratitude of my people."
"And thank you, Taymullah," she replied, inclining her head towards the chief of the Medjai. "Without your help we may not have been able to succeed in killing Yuja and rescuing my family."
Kaphiri smiled at the young women. "We are once more able to send a few of our people behind you to provide you with what you will need for the night," he informed her. "Though it will not be a many following you as on the way here as we have a second group planned to take Kyleigh and Narmer to Cairo."
"How are they?" Evelyn inquired, feeling slightly guilty that she had forgotten about them.
"Filthy and exhausted, but they are otherwise alright," Kaphiri replied. "Though I have to say that they were quite shocked to see me."
Evelyn chuckled, slightly shaking her head. "That I do not doubt."
"And we have provided a stretcher for you to transport your brother to the ultra lights," Taymullah motioned to the Tracy's behind her and Evelyn glanced back to see Scott, Virgil, and Jeff moving Alan onto a dark cloth stretcher that had been provided to them while John was hugging Gordon. Once Alan was on the stretcher, Jeff turned to Lady Penelope behind him, who promptly embraced the Tracy Patriarch.
Evelyn turned back towards the Medjai and gave them a grateful smile. "Once again, thank you so much."
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As Scott and Virgil got Alan settled on the stretcher the Medjai had provided them, Jeff turned around to talk to Penelope only for him to find the blond agent wrapping her arms around him. Jeff stood still for a moment, surprised at the actions of the young women, before returning the embrace of his good friend.
Penelope pulled away after a few moments and smiled up at him. "Good to see you, Jeff."
"Good to see you too, Penny," he replied. "And thank you for helping them to get here."
Penelope shook her head. "No need to thank me. They did most of the work," she said, motioning to his children, Fermat, and Tin-Tin behind him. "I was just along to give them a helping hand."
"Okay," Evelyn began as she left the two Medjai and walked back over to the corner of the room that her family stood in. "They have informed me that they will once again be following us on the ground, like they did on the way here. And they recommended we exit through the tunnel. Apparently the mummies I commanded to kill the Hood left a bit of an, um, mess. So we'll go out through the palace to get to the ultra lights."
John blinked in an attempt to rid his mind of the mental picture of the mess the Hood could have been left in. "Which one of us is going to take Alan?" he asked.
"Hmm," Evelyn tapped a finger on her chin as she thought. "How about he goes up with you? Keep him behind someone taller and can calm him down easily if he wakes up."
"Okay," he replied before he and Scott bent down to pick up the stretcher. Tin-Tin led the way, picking up the flashlight she had left behind the statue and flicking it on. After a bit of maneuvering to get the stretcher through the gap, she then proceeded to led them into the tunnel with Virgil not far behind them.
Lady Penelope glanced towards Jeff before walking over to Fermat and setting a hand on the teens shoulder. She whispered something to him as the two began to head towards the tunnel. Evelyn smiled after them before turning around to find her father standing before her, Gordon a few feet behind him.
Before she could even blink, Evelyn was pulled into the arms of her father. She closed her eyes in content was she wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head against his shoulder. She felt him sigh as he dropped a gentle kiss into her hair.
"I'm glad you are alright," he murmured, resting his chin upon her head.
Evelyn tightened her arms around him. In her past life as Henuttawy, though she had loved her family, she had loved Rekhimre more. But what she felt for her family this time around made her see that her feelings for Rekhimre paled significantly in comparison to that of her family. I probably could have lived without him, but I know I cannot live without them, she thought.
"Me too," she responded, opening her eyes and smiling up at him. Jeff smiled at her warmly before pressing a kiss to her forehead.
"Come on," he said, removing his arms from around her and instead placing one around her shoulders. "Let's go home."
Gordon suddenly appeared on her other side. She smiled at her twin and grabbed his hand as the three walked towards the tunnel that would take them to the place. They were met before the statue by a Medjai, who began to led the way up the tunnel with a flaming torch in hand. Evelyn smiled and thanked the man as Jeff removed his arm from around her shoulders and entered the tunnel a few feet ahead of her.
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It did not take them long to reach the palace and from there walked to where they had landed the ultra lights on the east side of the city. The others had reached the ultra light several minutes before them and already had Alan secured in the passenger seat of John's and he was currently working to secure the helmet on the younger blond.
Scott stood beside Lady Penelope and the two were talking to those back on the island using her monitor while Fermat was handing the second helmet from his craft to Virgil. Jeff, who had once more put his arm around his daughters shoulder as soon as they were out of the tunnel, removed it and walked towards Scott and Lady Penelope.
Evelyn led Gordon over to her ultra light before releasing his hand. She lifted up the passenger's seat to reveal a small compartment that held the spare helmet and extra gas. She handed it to her twin before checking the gas levels of the craft. Should be enough for today, though I'll probably have to fill her up before we take off tomorrow morning, she thought as she moved back to the passenger's seat and closed the compartment.
She turned around to see that Gordon had pulled on the helmet and was securing the strap beneath his chin. She looked around to see that John was hitting the switch for gas on the back of his ultra light and Virgil was getting comfortable in the passenger's seat of Fermat's. Tin-Tin was handing her spare helmet to Scott while Lady Penelope did the same with Jeff.
She smiled at Gordon as she walked around the read off her ultra light to hit the switch for the gas. "Ready to head home?" she asked.
He nodded and gave her a tight smile. She simply raised an eyebrow at her surprisingly quiet twin, planning on talking to him later. She looked towards the other ultra lights. "You guys ready?" she called.
At the various confirmations from the other pilots, she motioned for Gordon to climb into the passenger seat before helping him secure the strap across his lap. She then grabbed her own helmet off of her seat and sat down as Gordon pulled on his goggles. After pulling on her own goggles, she reached forward and turned on the monitor. The screen flickered to life to show the others climbing in or finishing the preparations on their own crafts. She waited till everyone had their helmets on before talking.
"I'm just going to use the same route we took to get here so we don't have to worry about plotting a new course," she informed them. "What did those back on the island have to say?"
"That they are glad to see we are okay," she heard her father reply. "And that they are looking forward to seeing us in a few days."
Evelyn nodded. She then reached forward and hit the switch, the engine behind her and Gordon rumbling to life. "Okay," she said as the craft slowly began to move forward. She inserted her hands into the gloves attached to the bar before her. "I'm going to head on up. We'll probably only be able to fly for a few hours, seeing as we are getting low on fuel and carrying a second person will use up a lot more. And when we land for the night, we have cloths for you guys to change into and the Medjai will provide us with food and blankets for the night."
"Okay Evie," John responded as she pushed forward on the bar and the ultra light slowly lifted into the air. "I'm heading up right behind you."