The middle of summer in the Libyan Desert was not Antilles' idea of a good place to work. He pulled his hood up more as he kept watch over the work site. "I swear next time the boss asks if I want to travel, I'm telling him to go to hell." the man said muttering.

The research company he worked for just recieved rights to invstigate the Muzawaka Tombs. They were careful in preserving the past but this was were one of their most skilled workers nearly lost her life. ~I wonder what happened to her. It's been 17 years....~ Antilles thought absently as his eyes fell on the Egyptions that were assigned to their unit. ~And how the hell did she put up with these assholes?~

Quinton yawned as he walked up to Antilles. This was not his most favorite mission, hell he shouldn't have been here, but here he was. In the desert. Wearing black. "I agree with you. And next time, remind me to pack lighter clothes." he said as he shedded his jacket off, showing a plain black T-shirt.

Yuri, who was behind Quinton, laughed. "I warned you! I told you Egypt was hot with a capital H!" He said as he sat beside the poor guy who wanted to kill the boss. "Okay, all I have to remember, is to NOT shot the people who annoy me." he said happily.

"I give you three minutes." Said Quin. Yuri pouted. "Not cool man, not cool." He said.

******

Mina looked at the portal in front of her. It was black and red, well actually, it was rather a mix of colors. They confused and excited her all at once. She looked down at what she wore and smiled. Her witches hat, a long white shirt/dress that fell to her knees, but had room for her tail. A black trench coat, to hide said tail as a just in case measure. Her pack was on her shoulder full of books and supplies.

She prodded the portal and gasped as it sucked her up to her elbow. "CRAP!" She shouted as it pulled her in. And I forgot to leave a note to tell Panic where I was going tooShe thought as she blacked out.

Vector chuckled a little at the three younger members. "Well at least you aren't complaining like John is. He's not happy about taking inventory on everything that is taken out of the tombs."

"Tell me about it." Donny said as he pushed his hair back. "John asked me to get you, Ant. Says he needs a little more muscle with one of the rocks. Same with you Quin."

"And what's so intersting about the item?" Ant said putting his gun on his back.

"It's a big rock. The group he has trying to move it isn't doing a good job and even with his and my help, it ain't moving."

Yuri sighed, "Ya'll a bunch of weaklings." He said as he stood back up, "It's just a rock, if it doesn't move, blow the damn thing up!" He said as he walked towards the site that Donny had said.

Quin sighed, "I have the worst luck..." he mumbled, as he too stood up and followed Donny to the site.

*******

Mina opened her eyes and saw black. Not light, no dark, just pure old black. She was confused, then the black ended and the other side of the portal appeared. She blinked, too much in pain to really understand what was going on. As she approached the portal, she passed out again. Glad my hat is big enough to hide my ears... She thought as she felt the pain end, but it was too late. She was out like a light...in front on a couple of regular humans no less.

"Yeah blow it up...and have John on our asses about destroing the tombs as well." Donny muttered as he and Ant fell in line. Vector was just chuckling.

"What the hell was that?" one worker asked growing scared as a strange glow came from around the rock they were trying to move.

"Chill out." Chris said as he looked at the rock. ~Could this be like what that Atela always researched?~ he thought absently as he put his guns away.

"Becareful!" John said as some rocks began to fall. "Don't get trapped we dont' know whats on the other side of this..."

Quinton looked at the rock curiously, Yuri behind him drew his gun as a just in case measure.

Mina fell from the portal, coughing and wheezing and moaning about something or other. Her hat covered her ears and her tail was covered by hre jacket, but even so, her eyes were slitted green. "Itai..." She muttered, her eyes closing as she curled into a ball, muttereing about the pain.

Both Quinton and Yuri jumped back, surprised and shock evident on there faces.

"What the f.....?" Donny started then got smacked by Chris.

"Watch it." Chris said in warning. He may be younger but he didn't like the language sometimes.

"You ok?" Antilles asked as John watched the workers race out saying somthign about upseting the goddess Bast.

"V's going to like this find..." Donny said as John started to record the incident.

Mina coughed, blood dripped from her mouth to the desert floor. "Remind me not to jump in portals and I'll be just dandy..." She muttered, standing up on shaky legs. She blinked and looked at them, finally noticing that not one of them had an ounce of magical energy. WEll, they could have, but it was well hidden or dormat. Her cat-like eyes blinked and she turned to the one who asked her if she was alright. "Where am I?" She asked, curiousity and fear evident in her voice.

Quinton looked slack-jawed at the being in front of him. He assumed that she wore contacts, as there was no way she could have slitted eyes unless she was a genetic experiment. He shook that thought out of his head quick, I need to stop reading so much damn Sci-fi... he thought looking at her closly.

Yuri blinked, a gun in his hands, "Do I shoot it?" He whispered REAL quietly to Quin so the girl wouldn't hear.

The girl eeped, "Don't shoot me! I'm not evil!!!" She said, pleadinly.

Yuri blinked, "what the fuck!"

"You are in Egypt. The tombs near the Dakhla Oasis." Antilles said looking at the strange creatrure.

~What on earth is that thing?~ Chris thought blinking. Donny tilted his head curious but had no real thoughts.

"Chris, Donny, Quin, escort her back to the camp. Yuri no shooting the visitor." John said as he wrote down everything. "Ant you go report to Vector on what's going on. I'll contact the boss and let him know."

Mina growled, or rather hissed, "I'm not going anywhere! I"m from Asa, not this..damn...Egypt place!" She said, crossing her arms over her chest. She sighed and leaned against the wall, which caused her hat to fall off. She cought it quickly, but had no intentio of putting it back on her head.

Where is Egypt? Why can't I sence Panic or anyone. Susan? Marik? Seto-onii-san? She thought as her eyes teared up. Her ears lay flat on her head as she cried. "I want to go home..." She muttered sadly.

Yuri dropped his gun, "Dude! She had...like....EARS! CAT EARS! WHAT THE FUCK!!!" He shouted, falling backwards to the ground. HE had seen and done some weird shit in his life time, but never something like this.

Quinton's eyes widened. Comfort the girl, or yell and shock and pull a Yuri and fall on my ass.. He thought as he watched her ears fall flat on her head as she cried.

John actualy stopped in his writting to stare at Mina. He took out a digital camera and threw it to Donny.

Donny almost missed the camera as he stared at Mina. He shook himself and began to take some pics of her.

Chris blinked and blinked again as Antilles stared at Mina then shook his head. "Woah." Was all the guardsman could say as he fell back.

Chris went over to Mina leaning beside her. "Hey it's ok." he said softly as he reached over to pet her on the head. "We aren't going to hurt you." ~As long as Yuri doesn't start shooting at her, I think we'll be fine at least.~

Mina stopped crying and looked at Chris with sad eyes, "Your not?" She said, as she wipped the last of her tears from her face. Her ears had raised a little, showing how hopeful she was that what he was saying was true.

Quin dropped his gaze and sat down on the floor, "Where is Asa?" He asked her softly.

Yuri blinked, "It talks, it has ears...it HAS to be a genetic experiment or something..." He said, more to himself than anything else.

Mina glared, "I'm not a genetic experiment. I'm a Cat demon. Where I come from Demons are more common then humans as humans tend to die out quickly in my relm." She hissed, showing lethal claws.

"It be well for you, you stupid human, if you don't insult me by calling me an it." She said, huffing, "I'm Mina and I'm female." She said, looking at him coldly.

Yuri and Quinton gapped, "DEMON!" They shouted, shocked.

John and Antilles looked at eachother and nodded. "Get Vector." John said as he continued to write.

"Cool!" Donny said as he finished taking pictures. "A friend of mine always talked about the possiblities of demons and diffrent relms."

Chris patted Mina's ears again. "Woah. Why...how did you get here though?"

"You got to be kidding." Vector said shocked as Antilles told him what was going on.

"Tela was right." Ant said. "We knew she was but this proves her theory."

Mina smilled and purred lighltly, "What's your friends name?" She asked as she took off her coat, she was hot and it bothere her. She stuffed it back in her pack, which was magiced to make anything in there smaller and lighter so it could fit.

Quinton blinked, "I-She has a tail! SHE HAS A TAIL!!!!" He shouted, looking at it. He still couldn't get over the fact that he was talking to a demon.

Yuri smirked, "Yed Quin, it has a tail." He said, though he may have been playing cool, he was just as freaked out as Quinton.

Mina growled, "Do NOT insult me by calling me an it or I'll set you on fire...or zap you with lighting, or better yet, use Lure to make you jump off a cliff to your own doom." Said Mina laughing.

She blushed lightly, "Sorry, Chaos must be rubbing off on me..." She said, "But the threat still hangs human." She said and Yuri scowled.

Chris chuckled a little as Donny handed the camera back to John. He pointed to each one as he said their names. "That's John. Donny. Quin. Yuri."

"She's an intersting demon. First I've met in over 17 years." Vector said as he joined the group.

"That's Vector. The head of our unit. And that is Antilles." Chris said pointing to the other two.

Mina's ears perked up, "Pleasure to meet you all. cept Yuri. I'm Mina. A cat demon or rather a Cat mage." She said, smiling, showing deadly looking fangs.

Yuri Scoffed, "A Cat mage? Yeah right!" He said, making Mina glare, then smile widly.

"Yuri...I'm gonna give you one more chance. Stop. Insulting. Me." She said, glaring lightly at Yuri.

"Nope! I don't take orders from its!" He said, smirking. Quinton blinked, "Huh...Yuri...you might want to say sorry..." He said as he backed away from Yuri and Mina.

Mina looked blankly at Yuri, sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "Alright, I'll let you off with a warning." She said, then grinned, "I won't kill you. FIRE BALL!" She shouted as he threw a fireball at Yuri. Yuri blinked, not expecting her to actually beable to do it.

He ended up being on fire and having to be doused with water, curtasy of Quinton.

Vector, John and Antilles were tring hard not to laugh. Chris and Donny on the other hand were laughing so hard they fell over.

"Alright, children." Vector said looking at the younger ones. "Head back to camp and see that an extra tent is set up."

Mina grinned, "Heh! Don't insult me Yuri-chan!" She said, then turned to Donny, "So...who was your friend? The one that belived in diffrent relms and all that." She asked pleasently.

Yuri looked like a drenched rat, and sighed, "I hate it..." HE said, then when Mina glared at him, he quickly changed what he had said, "I mean she!" He said quickly, and Mina smiled and turned back to Donny.

Quinton grinned, "She's got you whipped." He said, laughing.

Yuri sighed, "One of these days I'm gonna shoot her..." He mumbled.

"So he's already said something?" Vector said as Chris left to get the tent set up.

"Sorry, V.' Donny said rubbing the back of his neck.

"It's ok." Vector said smiling at the kid. "She was your friend after all." Donny gave a sly smile. 'Her name was Atela Hoshi. she disappered 17 years ago while studing a necklace we recovred from a dig."

Mina gapped, her jaw dropped, "OH MY GOD! YOU MEAN ATELA-SAMA!! THE QUEEN!!! WOW!!" She said, jumping up and down in joy. "I can't belive she's from here! I mean, she's sooo cool! And was an Awsome leader! She's like, in almsot every history book!" She said happily as she jumped up and down.

Yuri paused, his mouth open wide in shock.

Quinton too paused, "WHAT!" He shouted, loud enough for aliens to hear if they were close to the earth...which meant Mina was now on the ground covering her ears in pain. "Sorry.." he said and Mina shook it off.

Mina's out burst caused John, Ant and Vector to laugh. Donny was laughing but not as hard as the three older guys.

"Sorry, but Atela a queen? Come on. She was hardly a lady." John said as he wiped tears from his eyes.

"Wait...Atela you knew her or at least heard of her?" Vector said gaining control of himself.

"I heard of her and she IS a Queen." Mina said as she pulled out her book on Asa history, including the wars and what not. She put then in Vecotrs arms. "She was a kind and awsome leader along with the King of Rome, Rayku. There fighting skills are un-matched! But when King Rayku got kidnapped or dissapeared, she fell into depression. Some say she sleeps in ruins in the desert waiting for King Rayku to wake her up. Others say she is already awake and is trying to collect her lost memories." Said Mina as she sighed dreamily.

Yuri laughed, "Yeah right. Most likely a fairy tale your telling us." He said laughing. Mina growled, "DO. NOT. MAKE! FUN! OF! THE! QUEEN!" She hissed lunging for Yuri, her eyes red with anger.

Yuri made a snap decision, pulled out his gun and shot Mina in the stomache. Mina's eyes widened as she stopped and looked at the gaping hole, which blood know pooled out of. "Dammit..." She said, "What the hell was that! How did you do that! I sense no magic from you!" She said as her hands glowed white and she set to healing the wound.

Vector was use to Yuri's antics by now. He glared at the young researcher. "Yuri, put your gun away now!" he said as he opened the book. "Atela was always intersted in magic. She was our lead expert on it concidering she could use it."

Donny's eyes widened as he noticed Mina's blood before he fainted. "He's still not use to the sight of blood...." Ant sighed watching curious as Mina healed herself.

"John, you getting all of this?" Vector asked as he flipped through the book intreged. "And it's Rome not Rein." he said to MIna chuckling.

"I said Rome." She said as she patched herself up. She glared at Yuri and sighed. Can't change here. She thought with another sigh. She was wired and wanted nothing more than to be with Panic and instead she was in a new relm where magic didn't exsist.

Yuri growled, "Yeah! Well next time, tell the damn Cat not to try and kill me." He said as he put his gun away. The cat, Mina, hissed threateningly.

"I could make you kill yourself. It would be easy." She said growling. Quinton covered Yuri's mouth before he could respond. "I'm sorry my friend here shot you. Please forgive him, he's rather...tempermental." He said, sighing. Mina said nothing.

"Quin, take Yuri back to the camp. Now!" Vector sighed as Ant took Donny out.

"This is going to be fun to report to the boss with." John said chuckling.

Mina looked around. The sky was clear, clear blue. The sun was warm and soft and it made her smile. "Mind if I fly for a bit. I won't stray to far..." She said as she pulled a small, minuture looking broom that was black and gold.

She muttered something under her breath and the broom grew larger, to it's normal size. It hovered a good few feet of the ground. Without waiting for a reply, She hopped on the broom and zoomed up to the sky, where she went in a circle, before she just went in random direactions. Looping here and there and zig-sagging after birds...and scaring a few of the workers.

Quin grabbed Yuri, "Yes sir." He said and started dragging back to the camp.

Ant rejoined John and Vector. Vector was reading the book, sitting on a rock while the other two were watching Mina with great interst.

Vector's eyes widen as he stopped at one section on Atela. "John, Ant...remember how we'd joke around with Te about her loyalties being that of a dragon's?"

"Yeah what about it?" Ant asked looking at Vector a little.

"According to this, she is a dragon." Vector said causing John to fall on his ass in shock.

"What the hell? Why was she here then?" John asked when he gained control of himself.

"No clue. I'm still reading." Vector said as his eyes never left the book.

Mina flew down and looked at Vector, then back at her book. "I also have books of species ande demos commons to certain areas. A Book on mosters if you will." She said smiling as she sat her pack down.

She wasn't on the ground, on the contrary, she was a good feet above them. "So...Um...What is Egypt? What's this place called anyway? Reminds me of the Desert near Asa...or was it Rein. I'm not to good with places." She said as she sighed. "Of course, you don't have to worry about Diablo here, maybe Duna, but right now he's harmless." She said smiling. Glad that the damn demon was quite, angry, but quite nonetheless.

"Anywho, Anyone want to fly? YOu'd have to hold on to me cause none of you have any magic that I can sense, right now at least, but it'd be fun. I wouldn't go to fast for you....or at least...I'll try not too..." She said, then looked down at her pack.

"Try not to harm my books. There speacial to me." She said, smiling.

Vector chuckled lightly as John picked up a book to read. "We are researchers and historians if you will, we take great care of anything we come across."

"As for flying, no thank you, Miss Mina. We already have some workers saying you are a servent of the lion goddess, Bast." John said with a small smile.

"Egypt is in a diffrent relm than you are from. The content of Africa." Vector said trying to think of a way to explain it to her. ~I wonder how Te was explained it?~ he thought absently a hint of sadness in his eyes.

Mina blinked as she hung up-side down from her broom. "Whose the Lion godess Bast? She sounds familiar..." She said, blinking. "I think I had a cousin who was a lion demoness. Her name Bast...." She said smiling. "But, she was only a cousin by mating."

Mina suddenly got a really sad look on her face and sighed, "I wonder how everyone is doing...I fogot to tell them where I was going." She mumbled as she listened to Vector try to explain things to her.

"Vec," John said showing him something in his book. It expalined about how Bast tried to take over Atela in their world.

"I see...." Vector said nodding. John took out a few books from his pack as Vector read over what he was shown.

"Here, this may be eaiser than us trying to explain it to you." John said handing Mina the history books.

"Shweet." She said as she flipped over, landing lightly on the ground. "These look cool!" She said, grinning and in no time at all, she was half-way through the books. "WOW! YOu guys may not be demons, but you sure are blood thirsty!" She said as she poured over World War 1 and 2 with a wicked grin on her face.

"And these things you call guns look...stupid really. I understand there...positive influence on your war time, but in all honesty. ANd these Nuclear bombs? Look what it does to the wild life and you! It's amazing you haven't died out yet." She said, laughing.

John took down all of Mina's comments, recording her reactions to every little thing.

"To err is human." Vector said sighing. "Though there are quite a few that blood thirsty, there are some of us that would rather keep peace." He said as he went through Mina's book. ~Te went through a lot in just 17 years. I wonder how the hell she's held up?~

"Yeah, but wow. This is all...kinda funny. REminds me of the 100 year Magic war over in the Academy. It was before my time, but whatever. Still neat." She said as she dropped one book and pulled out another on Japanese History.

Soon, she was done with that too and picked up some more history books. "Well, I have to say, ditch the cars. HOrses and all that are just fine for us. We don't have cars. That's why our world is cleaner, smells better too." Sais Mina as she wrinkled her nose in disgust. "WE get by just fine. Althouh, we also have warps, portals and the like so...oh well." She said, shruggin.

"Oh! Sweet! Car Manual!" She said as she poured over that book as well. Absorbing all the information she read.

Vector chuckled. "Remind me not to lend her my car." John said jokinly. "So what are we going to do about her anyway? We will be leaving soon to analize all the data gathered."

"Not sure. Can't get through to the boss right now. He's in a meeting." Vector said as he looked at Mina. "Mina, how did you get here anyway?"

Mina looked up from the Car manual that she was reading for the tenth time. "I poked a portal. It was strange and being a cat, I'm naturally curious. I poked the portal and it sucked me in." She said, shrugging. "They don't usually do that, so this one had to be dormate for years. Not usually that painful either." She said as she dropped the Car Manual on the ground.

Her ears twitched as she looked up and saw a large 747 plane fly by. She growled, "I hate planes. I may have not been in one, but something like that...defies nature.." She said as she sighed and picked up her pack and rummaged through it. In no time at all, she had pooled out a thermos of cool mint tea and took a sip from it.

"I'm a good worker and healer too. I worked at Healers Sactuary before this mess and the King Eric himself visted pleantly of times. Actually, I think that was only because of Susan...who is in denile of her true feelings. Stupid elf." She said with a laugh.

John was loving all this information. Normaly he was the laziest of the researchers but someone that had heard of Atela and was from another relm certianly caught his attention.

"I guess you could call the planes our dragons of this relm." Vector said standing and shaking his head. "That still doesn't explain how Tela got sent there...." he said muttering as he paced. "She knew there was another relm. Finding out she was a queen and a dragon compleatly explains part of her behavior. Even the odd possisions. Blood taint...hmmmm...." he started to talk to himself outloud. (much like Dusk.)

Mina laughed, "Atela was a kind ruler. She had her faults, but doesn't everyone." Said Mina as her ears twitched. She stood up and looked around, sniffing the air as she went. She wrinkled her nose and sneezed, "Gah! Too much!" She said, covering her nose. She looked around again, bored. "I'm bored...." She muttered, and pulled out a large black pot. One suitable for potions, sevrail ingridents and set to makeing a potion for healing.

Accourding to the history books she had read, humans were prone to accidents and she'd rather not waste her presious energy on making sure they didn't get fevers and what not. She smiled happily as she added a root from an oak tree and some mint for taste.

"I got no doubt she was a great ruler. She was my right hand with running the research department here. Hell I think she did run it herself at time." Vector said sighing as he sat down. "Damn kid. I just wish I knew what that necklace had to do with all this.'

John watched Mina start the potion. he didn't take proper notes on this since he was too intreged by watching her. Ant and Chris came by to see what was going on as well. "The tent's set up." Chris said as he sat down.

Mina blinked, "Tent? For what? Oh! Sleeping! That's right! You humans are prone to sickness from exposer." Said Mina as she pulled out a few bottles and started bottling the milky white potion. It's mint smell was appealling and made her smile happily of home.

Her ear twitched lightly north and she looked over there curiously, before hse shrugged, figuring out it was just a bunch of workers bickering over how to approuch the servent of Bast. She wasn't a servent of anybody, so she ignored them.