Max, May and Brock nervously awaited the mummy's attack, while Anubis was baring his teeth and Corphish aggressively snapped his pincers.
The mummy didn't make any impression as if it was intimidated by the two Pokémon's actions. It simply made a step forward... and hesitated.
The tiny bug figurines that were part of the circle that surrounded the humans and the Pokémon suddenly swarmed over the undead's foot... and gnawed it off within seconds. The only remaining thing were the bones.
The mummy stared down at its skeletal foot and seemed unsure how to react.
Even though they were still in danger, Brock couldn't help but grin. "What's wrong? Can't come any closer?"
"Come on, they are already waiting for you!" May teased.
Finally, the mummy reacted. It pulled back its foot and instead, aimed with the lance at the bugs.
"It can't possibly want to spear every single one of them, can it?" May muttered.
That wasn't really what the mummy had in mind... instead, it just moved the bronze tip around the scuttling insects... and May gasped when she saw how they all turned back into lifeless clay, stone and iron.
"Well, now it's up to you guys," May gulped and looked at the Pokémon. "Hopefully Petach wasn't kidding when he said they were really the incarnations of Anubis and Bast..."
They all knew that they had little chances of winning if that wasn't the case. All they could possibly do was throwing with clay bugs at the ancient warrior.
That gave Max an idea. When he saw the bowls with the still burning blue fire within, he carefully picked up a tiny piece of the bandages that the bugs had shredded off the mummy's foot... and threw it into the fire.
The ancient material instantly got consumed by the hot flames.
Max gasped. "Sis, did you see that?"
May nodded. She now knew what to do and picked a Pokéball.
"Combusken, help us!"
"Combusken!" cried her fiery chicken Pokémon as it appeared out of its Pokéball.
May gestured at the mummy. "Combusken, use Ember!"
Combusken obeyed and fired a barrage of small, but hot ember pieces at the undead.
The fire attack was weak... against normal Pokémon. But when faced with an undead creature whose whole body was made of an extremely flammable material, it was an entirely different story.
The fire spread faster than even May could have predicted herself, and within seconds, the whole mummy was ablaze. Only a few minutes later, the fire was extinguished by the snow that was still coming in through the window, and all that remained from their undead opponent was a small pile of ashes.
May stared at the mummy's remains in awe, then she smiled at her fowl friend. "Good work, Combusken!" She then glared at Anubis. "You know, you could have done that yourself!"
Anubis only replied by flattening his ears and giving off a small whine of apology.
Bright flashes from outside and a loud concerto of infernal noises made them all jump in surprise.
"I don't think it's over just yet," Max gulped.
Just then, Ash woke up with a groan. "Oh man, what hit me...?"
"Pika pika!" Pikachu greeted his friend.
Suddenly, heavy blows against the front door could be heard.
"Wha... what's going on?" Ash asked in surprise, jumping to his feet.
"Well, the mummy that attacked you is toast... but who knows how many of those things are out there, arguing which one of them has the honor of killing us first..." Brock muttered.
Ash gritted his teeth. "They're never gonna get me..." he grumbled. "Let's goooo..."
"Ash, wait!" May gasped in surprise when Ash suddenly stormed out of the room and down the stairs.
Ash turned around the corner, ready to attack every mummy with his Pokémon... when he suddenly ran against a young woman wearing a blue uniform.
Officer Jenny looked down at him in worry. "What happened? Calm down! Are you hurt? What happened here?"
Ash sighed in relief when he realized that the 'mummies' that had forcefully opened the front door were no other than Officer Jenny and other members of her police force. "Petach..." he stammered. "On the first floor... and the mummy..."
The policewoman couldn't have possibly understood most of what Ash was uttering, but she still turned around to one of her colleagues and said: "Go and take a look upstairs! One of the windows up there is broken."
The policeman nodded and ran past the young Pokémon trainers.
Ash and the others looked past Officer Jenny and couldn't believe their eyes: There was no sign of any snow storm outside. It was as if the storm had never happened. There was still snow lying outside, but the air was as clean and silent as it had been the morning before.
"So, what exactly happened, you kids?" Jenny finally asked when no one said anything. "Was there a burglar? The neighbors heard strange noises and called us, you know?"
She then noticed the shocked state most of them were in... and that every one of them was shivering. "Are you okay? Shouldn't I call for an ambulance?"
"We... we're fine..." May muttered. Her Combusken watched her with worry, but he wasn't there when she saw how Petach got killed by the mummy's lance.
So it certainly was a surprise when Jenny's colleague came back downstairs... and following him was no other than Petach. His shirt was torn, and he looked a bit exhausted, but otherwise, he was fine.
Jenny noticed the stares of disbelief the children were giving the man and she asked Ash: "Is that him? That Petach guy?"
"Y-yeah..." Ash muttered and swallowed. "That's him..."
But how did that happen? They clearly saw how the lance's tip had pierced his body. No human being could have survived such an injury or even recovered from such a wound in such a short time.
"I suppose I should really call for an ambulance..." Jenny muttered and reached for her walkie-talkie.
But Petach raised his hand and made a reassuring gesture. "I don't think that will be necessary."
Officer Jenny hesitated. Out of the speaker, Ash could hear a voice that was asking for the reason of her call. Jenny stared at the walkie-talkie with glazed eyes, then she shrugged and switched it off.
Petach turned to face the other police officers and smiled. "Everything is fine now, gentlemen! There was a break-in, but the burglar has already fled. The children are not hurt."
And again his words had the same spooky effect: The two uniformed men that had accompanied Jenny looked at each other in confusion, then they shrugged and walked back outside.
Shortly afterwards, the police car that had been standing outside was already gone. Only Officer Jenny's motorbike was still there.
"How did you do that?" May whispered.
Petach smiled. "Oh, that was easy. Manipulating humans is very simple if you know what they really want. Or would you prefer I told them what really happened?"
"But how could you have survived that attack?" Ash asked. "I saw how the mummy stabbed you, with my own eyes!"
"That was just a scratch..." Petach said hastily. "Look for yourself, not a single wound."
Ash wasn't really satisfied with that answer, but he knew Petach wouldn't tell him more right now.
But he really would have had no other chance of asking the Egyptian what happened, because right in that moment, his father's car stopped in front of the house and his parents came in.
"Ash!" his mother gasped when she saw her son standing there, with wet clothes, surrounded by his friends and several Pokémon, and on top of that, with a police bike standing in front of the house. "Oh my god! What happened?"
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