| THE ADVENTURES OF THE O'CONNELL FAMILY Page 7 |
| �ALEX!� Rick yelled as he shot up to a sitting position in bed. They were both temporarily distracted by the sound of something breaking downstairs. �Rick! You nearly made my heart stop! It�s alright, you were just having a bad dream,� Evie said as she tried to calm both his and her own nerves. �Tell me about it. It will ease your mind.� �It was too real to have been a dream. I think I had one of your so called visions. Alex, I have to check on Alex,� Rick said as he jumped out of bed. He unlocked and swung open the bedroom door and nearly ran Jonathan over on his way to Alex�s bedroom. Jonathan looked at his sister with wide eyes. �What�s gotten into him? I was just getting myself a cup of coffee and was going to search for Bonnie. He scared the hell out of me and I dropped my mug.� Evie got a bad feeling. �Jonathan, something�s wrong. We have to look for Alex.� They wasted no time. They ran over to Alex�s room and Rick was opening all the doors down the hallway yelling Alex�s name and finding nothing but empty rooms. Jonathan and Evie searched downstairs. They all met up again in the entry way with no luck. �Maybe he�s gone outside to let the bird go. I noticed the cage empty,� Evie said with hope in her voice. It only took Rick two long strides to reach the door. He threw it open and once again nearly plowed someone over. As soon as he saw him, he knew there was trouble again. The new arriver saw the look in O�Connell�s eyes. �My friend, I fear I have come too late to warn you,� Ardeth said as Rick yanked him into the house. �Damn it!� Rick cursed. �Every time you show up it means there�s big trouble coming our way! What is it this time?� Rachel ([email protected]) January 24, 2002 "Get on your knees!" Nephthys snapped at Alex as they stood out beside the raging Nile. It was a gusty galling day in Luxor, Alex Seth and Nephthys were on the opposite bank in the Valley on the edge of a wadi. Alex did what he was told, and crouched down onto his knees, almost loosing his balance to a sudden gust of wind that whipped past them. There was a crevice in front of him, and this is where Nephthys motioned him to go. Alex tried to get as flat as was possible and he crawled into the one and a half-foot tall hole. He kept his arms and legs as close as possible to himself without using up too much precious breathing space above him. The tunnel just went on forever, about forty feet in it was completely dark, he didn't know whether his eyes were open or closed anymore. He wanted to open them just to make sure that he didn't miss any possible escape route. But he also didn't want to see what was making the deep growling noises ahead of him. It was almost enough to drive anyone mad, all Alex saw ahead of him were the swirling white patterns that you see when you squint your eyes really really hard. They didn't make any sense, which until this point he wasn't trying to make sense of. He knew that the other two were following him, and as sick as it sounded that comforted him. Maybe it was just the absent-minded thought that if they came in with him, what was on the other side of this damned tunnel couldn't be life threatening. About one hundred and twenty feet through the dark abyss Alex started to feel a deep descent, at that point he was able to bring his legs forward and squat, then descend the slope on his feet, with his knees bent. At first it looked like a candle flicker. Alex thought it was just his eyes again. But then it got bigger, until the light was almost blinding. Jean ([email protected]) January 24, 2002 "Rick." Evie scolded, and looked up at the Med-jai. While not tolerating Rick's treatment of the warrior she wasn't too happy to see him either. "Ardeth, explain to us what's happened? We can't find our Alex, and I have a feeling that you may know where he is." "Evelyn, I believe that he's been found out by the evil one." "Imhotep?" "No, Seth and his love Nepthysis. Seth has the ability to change into different creatures, did Alex bring in an animal with him?" Ardeth questioned, looking both from Evie to Rick. "Ya, he brought in a bird. You know...this is strange. That bird showed up when we got here, but I don't really think it was a species that is usually around these parts." Rick mumbled, talking more to himself than anyone else. "That and Jonathan bringing in that woman, I'll bet she has something to do with it as well. Jonathan said that he couldn't find her tonight." Milo ([email protected]) January 26, 2002 At that precise moment, Jonathan wandered into the front room, "Okay what's going on here? I can't find Bonnie anywhere and Alex seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth as well..." Evelyn sighed, "You may be more correct than you think Jonathan." That was when Jonathan noticed Ardeth Bey, he smiled and gave the warrior a good slap on the shoulder, "Why hallo old chap, what are you doing here?" Rick groaned and gave his brother-in-law a glare, "What do you think he's doing here Jonathan? Trimming the hedges?!" |