The Chain of Fire........

Hi there!

I wrote up a mystery *grins* for you to solve. Look at the clues, piece it together and when you think you have it, send your answer in to me! It doesn't have to be in HTML format. You can just email me the answer. I'll post the winner up when a winner DOES come along..... *sits down and waits. Two hourse, three hourse...............* ect., ect, ect,

Oh yeah.....

MA is the property of DIC Inc. None of the characters that I used below belong to me except for Osiris and Cammi.

Snoring softly in his sarcophagus, Rath twitched back and forth, nightmares flashing across his mind.

"Armon......don't touch the scrolls.......clumsy little...." his moanings went unheard by the others.

A precense seemed to fill the room outside. Mist swirled about, and a figure began to take shape. Nut? Geb? Neither.

Osiris' bandages were beginning to itch badly. She wished she hadn't left Khati with the Prince; it seemed comforting to have the adorable black kitty snuggled at the base of her sarcophagus and purring softly.

Suddenly, a crash followed outside. There was a female's loud shriek of fright, an indignant, disturbed, "Mrrrreeaaowww!" and the squeaking of many sarcophogi opening.

Ja-kal, Armon, Rath, Nefer-tina and Osiris stepped from their sarcophogi, yawning and stretching but otherwise alert and all alarmed.

"What was that?" Ja-kal asked, his voice still hoarse from sleep.

Everybody began speaking at once until finally order was restored. Rath crossed his arms over his chest and muttered sleepily, "I suggest everyone tell their own side of the story. Then we'll see who broke this........uh......MY SCROLLS!"

Indeed, Rath's precious scrolls had been torn and mutilated so that they looked like mere peices of junk lying all over the sphinx. The crash had most likely come from the Osiris' broken vase in the corner; the only momento that she had of home. But that wasn't it. Trunks were lying turned over, the table had been badly damaged and much more.

Suddenly, something moved in the corner. An eye looked out at them. Then, two eyes.

"It's, uh, safe now?"

"Cammi! what are you doing here?" Osiris hissed. A slender figure made from mists slid silently out of the corner. "Huh, guardian of the Gates, scared of noises," Osiris added.

Cammi snorted indignantly. "Just coming over to see you! Jeez..."

Ja-kal sighed wearily. "All right, just everyone tell me where you were and what you were doing.........."

"Eeew," Nefer-tina complained. "The floors got loose wrappings all over it."

"Just get on with it..."

"Khati? How did you get here?" Questioned Nefer-tina. Khati seemed to smile up at them and say, 'I dunno.'

"Hey, look over here," Armon pointed out. "I think Khati destroyed your scrolls, Rath. Her clawmarks are all over the table! And...your scrolls, that is."

"Yes, but Khati WAS near the door when we found her," Ja-kal countered.

"Look people, I have to go soon, so make this quick," Cammi complained. Rath glanced at her, annoyed.

Cammi stepped backwards. "I'll admit to having caused some minor disturbances with magic in the sphinx, but I couldn't have caused ALL of this to happen!"

1. Ja-kal was still in his sarcophagus when the incident happened, although he DID step out once. His bandages snagged in the hinges of his sarcophagus but were scattered nowhere near the area where the MUDDY wrappings were found. He admits that he didn't notice, though.
2. Armon was out getting a drink of water. As the Mummies noticed, he did have loose wrappings around his left arm and right leg. He passed through the spot where the wrappings were scattered and also left peices of his midnight snack, (a ham and lettuce sandwhich,) near the broken vase. However, he claims that he passed right by it without so much as making it wobble.
3. Nefer-tina was in her sarcophagi the whole time but did get up in the middle of the night just after Armon did. She did not have any loose wrappings but DID come back in after rechecking that the doors were all locked with muddy feet.
4. Osiris was out the longest. She stepped out for a breath of fresh air and came back in with loose wrappings AND muddy feet after walking around for awhile.
5. Cammi is a spirit and doesn't have wrappings NOR is capable of collecting mud on her feet. But when she DID come in, she caused some strange things to happen, and all the mummies were already asleep. She is a spirit that has powers beyond her own imagination.
6. Khati was found near the door but could have been frightened by Cammi's sudden appearance and caused some of the damage.
7. Prersley was later found in a different corridor of the sphinx, hiding after having seen Cammi's manifestation. He could have caused some of the damage in his rush to escape and DID have muddy feet when he came in. He does not have any bandages, though.

WHO DUNIT??????