This story takes place in the first Mummy movie. I do not own anything! This is my second fanfiction.
Jessy O'Connell was browsing through the Cairo museum library, searching for books on ancient Egyptian curses. Refusing help from the librarian, she searched for hours before finding an old, worn book, titled "The city of the dead" in Egyptian. It was clear to her no one has touched this section of the library for many year, judging from the dust that has collected on the top of the books. Just as Jessy was about to pulled the book out, she heard a muffled yelp and a crash followed by another then another. She turned just in time to see the whole 10ft book case tipping over. Quickly taking the book, she ran out the way. One by one all of the bookshelves toppled over like domino's. In the chaos, Jessy could see the librarian standing in the middle of the room. "...oops" she heard her whisper.
A man in a brown suit waring a red Fez came into the room "Look at this! Son of the messiah! Give me frogs, flies, locust, anything but this! Compared to you the other plagues were a joy!" The woman faced him. "I'm sorry, it was an accident." she said, going to pick up a few of the books. "When Ramesses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You, are a catastrophe! Why do I even put up with you?!" he asked rhetorically. "Well, you..you put up with me because I can...I can read and write ancient Egyptian. Um, I can decipher hieroglyphs and hieratic." Her expression turned from flustered to utterly annoyed. "And I am the only person within a thousand miles who knows how to properly code and catalogue this library!" she said, waving her arms around.
Jessy felt uncomfortable just standing there, but they were standing right in front of the door. Walking past them now would only make the situation more awkward. Still, the two were unaware of her presence. " I put up with you because your mother and father were are best patrons, Allah rest their souls." the man said. A sad look came across both their faces. He shook it off and said "I don't care what it takes, I don't care how long, straighten up the disaster!" he turned and left the room.
The woman went to pick up some of the books when she finally saw Jessy sitting at a nearby table. "Oh, dear. Um, excuse me, miss?" she said, walking over to her. Jessy had decided to flip through the book while she was waiting. "Yes?" she answered. "I'm terribly sorry about the mess. You wouldn't have happened to be in here when the shelves fell, would you?" Jessy really didn't want to cause her any more trouble. "Yes, but I'm fine, really. I actually..."
A loud thud from a nearby gallery interrupted her. "What was that?" the lady asked. "I don't know." Jessy said, getting up from the chair. "Let's go find out." she said, walking to the open doorway. The room was very quiet and dark, the only light came from the flickering fire torches around the whole room. Jessy picked up a torch and walked around. The woman mimicked her actions. "Abdul? Mohammed? ...Bob?" she called out. Jessy realized what the room was supposed to resemble, the Ramesseum. Statures of dog-headed men, tombs and tall pillars were all around. They both heard another thud coming from a open stone coffin. The woman was closest to it and went to look in. She shrieked as a mummy jumped up from it's sarcophagus. Jessy jumped back and yelped. "Ah, hahahahaha!" a voice came from behind the dried up mummy.
"Have you no respect for the dead, Jonathan!?" she shouted at a man sitting inside the coffin . Grinning, the man put his arm around the mummy as if he was an old friend, not a thousand year old dead body. "Right now, I only wish to join them." he said. "Well, I wished you'd do it sooner rather then later before you ruin my career like you've ruined yours." she snapped back. "My dear, sweet, baby sister, I'll have you...know that at this particular moment, my career is at a high note" Jonathan said, climbing over and out of the coffin. "High note? Ha! You've been scrounging around the desert now for five years, and what do you have to show for it? Nothing! Now, please Jonathan, I've made a bit of a mess in the library and..."
"Hello there." Jonathan had finally noticed Jessy standing there. "Uh, who are you exactly?" he asked. "Jessy O'Connell." Jessy held out her hand. "Jonathan Carnarvon" he shook her hand. "Pleasure to meet you" The woman huffed loudly, "Excuse me, but I think this is rather important. I'm so sorry, miss O'Connell, that you were involved in one of my brothers childish pranks. You really must forgive him, he didn't get enough attention as a child." she said, glaring at her older brother. "Oh, I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Evelyn, Evelyn Carnarvon." "It's nice to meet you." Jessy said, feeling rather out of place. "Well, I must be off then. May I check out this book?" she said, gesturing to the book she has been holding onto the whole time. "Yes, yes of course!" Evelyn said.
"Wait, wait!" they heard Jonathan protest. " Before you go, Evy. I found something that might be useful." He dug through his pockets eagerly. "Oh no, not another worthless trinket. Jonathan, if I have to bring one more piece of junk to the curator to try and..." Jonathan held a small black box in front of Evelyn's face. "sell for you...? Jonathan, where did you get this?" she asked, taking it out of his hands and inspecting it. "Uh, on a dig down in, uh Thebes. I think." he said, watching Evelyn toy with the box. Jessy was interested as well, she swore she'd seen something just like it somewhere. It was almost like some ancient puzzle box. "All my life I've never found anything, Evy. Please tell me I found something." he whined. The box suddenly sprang open, almost mechanically. "...Jonathan." she said. "Yes?..." "I think you found something." Inside was a folded sheet of golden papyrus. Evelyn slowly pulled it out. Jessy finally recognized the box "...Rick?" When Evelyn carefully opened the paper, both women inspected it.
"It's a map." They said in unison. "We must take this to the curator." Evelyn said, excitedly.
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