Greek Runaway

Πενήντα οκτώ(Fifty Eight)

3rd Person's POV

"Jed? Octavius!" Larry yelled calling for them.

"Jedediah!" Ahkmenrah called.

"Octavius!" Katalina said as the looked on the floor for them.

"Jed!" Nicky yelled.

"Octo!" Atilla yelled. They looked down the hallway they had been chased out by the dinosaur, they saw a red piece of fabric fluttering above the air vent. They all ran to where the fabric was.

"Oh, no. Is that Octavius's cape?" Nicky asked. They all ran to the vent to find out it was Octavius's cape.

"Nicky." Larry said as he knelt down to pick up the vent grate.

"Yeah." Nicky said helping him. When the grate was off Larry knelt by it yelling out to Jedediah and Octavius.

"Guys?"

"Gigantor!" Jedediah was faintly heard.

"Jed?" Larry yelled again.

"They won't last long in those heating vents, Lawrence." Teddy said.

"At their size, they'll bake like tiny little scarabs in the Sinai." Ahkmenrah said. Everyone turned to look at him. Katalina lightly hit his stomach.

"Στάση!(Stop!)" She yelled at him.

"Too dark?" He asked making everyone nod.

Inside the vent Jedediah and Octavius flew through the air and hit a filter making them stop. Jedediah was pinned upside down against it.

"This is the end, boy! This is the last roundup!" Jedediah yelled.

"Hold my hand!" Octavius yelled back to Jedediah.

"Why?"

"Never mind." Larry broke the glass screen blocking the controls of the air vents, and turned the heat off.

"We're a long way from home, boy." Jedediah said as they fell. "Did you ask me to hold your hand?" Jedediah asked.

"No." Octavius said sternly. He walked away as Jedediah looked at him smugly.

"Jedo! Octo!" Atilla yelled into the vent. He looked up at Larry in defeat.

"They could be anywhere between here and the intake vent." Nicky said. Dexter jumped into the little hole on the floor.

"What do you see, Dex?" Larry asked.

"You know he's a monkey, Lawrence. He can't talk." Teddy said to Larry.

"No, but he can fit." Larry said getting up and looking around. "Nicky... give me your phone."

"Why?"

"For Dex."

"I don't understand one thing that's going on here." Lancelot said looking confused.

"I don't, either. Dad, what's going on?" Nicky asked.

"I'm sort of set up to track your phone." Larry admitted.

"You're sort of set up to track my phone? You track my phone?"

"Yeah, I'm your dad. I'm looking out for you."

"No. No. Hold up. 'Spying on' is not the same thing as just looking out for someone." Nicky said annoyed.

"You'll get it back, I promise. But right now, it's going on the monkey's back." Larry said and tied a string to Nicky's phone. "All right. Dex, come here." Then tied it around Dexter's waste. "Thanks, man. Listen. I need you to go down there and find them, all right?" Dexter chirped a little. "Think you can handle it? Good man. Stay safe." Larry said and Dexter went to try and find Jedediah and Octavius.

They group then followed Dexter through the app on Larry's phone, tracking Nicky's phone.

"I think it's right here." Larry said looking at his phone.

"'Right here.'" Lancelot copied Larry. "Classic. The gift of laughter. Thank you, Dangly Bells." Lancelot walked so he was standing next to Larry. "First quest?" He asked.

"Not exactly." Larry answered.

"I thought you said we were going to Egypt."

"We are, but we got to do this first." Larry explained.

"That's not how a quest works. A quest is one thing. It's not, like, 'Holy Grail and a monkey.'" Lancelot said, teaching Larry how to do a quest.

"Yeah, well, my guys are missing and Dexter's gonna find them."

"What is the quest? Gold? Fountain of Youth?" Lancelot asked.

"Magic tablet. It's that thing Ahk is holding." Larry said pointing to Ahkmenrah who was holding his tablet and holding Katalina's hand. Ahkmenrah nodded at Lancelot.

"It shouldn't be too hard to take it from him. He seems well-toned and lean... but weak and distracted by that girl. It would be like taking candy from a feeble Egyptian baby." Lancelot whispered to Larry.

"No, we're not trying to take it, we're trying to fix it. There's something wrong with it. It's kind of complicated." Larry briefly explained.

"It might be less complicated if you stopped following a chimpanzee."

"He's not a chimpanzee, he's a capuchin." Larry said agitated. Lancelot stopped walking to let Teddy, Ahkmenrah, and Katalina catch up to him.

"The fool seems agitated."

"That's often his way. But I assure you, he's no fool." Teddy said.

"If he is no fool, prove it." Lancelot said quizzing them.

"He saved this tablet from being stolen." Ahkmenrah said.

"He kept the tablet from being used by his evil brother to destroy the world." Katalina said. Lancelot looked back at Ahkmenrah.

"Is it true what he says? The tablet that you carry is magic?"

"It is, indeed. Everything around you has come to life tonight for the very first time... all because of this tablet." Ahkmenrah explained proudly.

"Amazing. Then they're not real?" Lancelot asked pointing to statues.

"They're as real as any of us." Teddy said.

"Yes, but we're real people. They're just things. And they don't even know. They must be unbelievably stupid."

"It can be confusing at first."

"Hello, frog! Keep hopping! You're real!"

"Guys, I think we're gonna have to cut through Asia." Larry said walking into another room. Lancelot walked away from them.

"Not a clue." Teddy said.

"None." Ahkmenrah agreed.

"Clueless." Katalina said. Then they all followed Lancelot into the Asia part of the musuem.