Jade poked half her head out from behind Jackie Chan and stared at the silver statue of Quetzalcoatl, her eyes wide.
"Uncle Jackie!"
"It really is Quetzalcoatl! I saw him in Mexico! Back then, he even..."
Jackie remembered too. Back in Mexico, a white mouse with the Rat Talisman's power had accidentally brought a statue of Quetzalcoatl to life, and Quetzalcoatl had mistaken Jade for a Mayan goddess.
Wangchuan stood before the statue of Quetzalcoatl, his purple moon-phase eyes contracting slightly.
He ran a finger along the serpentine patterns on the silver statue, drawing out a nearly invisible wisp of silver light on his fingertip.
His brow twitched.
"Loke."
"That lunatic."
"That lunatic let all the divine statues loose."
Mr. Thompson wiped the sweat from his forehead and adjusted his glasses.
"Mr. Chan, since you recognize this statue... could you help me look at the others?"
"There's more?!"
"Yes."
He hurried to the other end of the storeroom and pulled open an iron door.
"Over here... there are more."
Jackie followed him over, with Jade and Wangchuan behind him.
"Whoa! Cool!"
The room beyond the iron door was three times the size of the storeroom.
It was filled with wooden shelves covered in sheets of grayish-white canvas.
Mr. Thompson took a deep breath and lifted the first sheet.
A black stone statue appeared.
It had a human body and a lion's head, with bulging muscles and a scepter in each hand.
"This is..."
Before Jackie could finish, Wangchuan spoke.
"Sekhmet."
"Egypt's goddess of war. A lion's head and a human body. Ra's daughter."
"Legend says she once nearly destroyed humanity and only stopped after being made drunk."
Mr. Thompson swallowed and lifted the second sheet.
This time, it was a bronze statue.
It had a human head and a snake's