Chapter 2
Location: Hotel, just outside Hollywood
The mysterious man drove up to a hotel outside of Hollywood. He had covered the mummy in a long coat and left him in the car. He quickly went inside and got a room. He came back out and drove down to the room. Once there, he helped the mummy inside the room. He set the mummy down in a chair on the opposite side of the room and then walked back over to the door. He shut and locked it. he then turned back to the mummy. He saw the mummy trying to stand up. "Master!" The man rushed to the mummy's side. "Please, conserve your strength." He said, grabbing onto the mummy's right arm. Suddenly, the mummy's head snapped up and it's glowing red eyes stared angrily into the man's eyes. Then, it shot it's left hand up and grabbed the man by throat. It hoisted the man into the air and began choking him. "Master! Master, please!" The man pleaded. The mummy wondered what the man was saying, so he placed his hand on top of the man's head and evil looking red energy crackled through the mummy's hand. This granted the mummy the ability to absorb some of the man's ability to speak and understand English. The mummy questioned the man. "What did you call me and who are you?" The mummy questioned. "I called you master." "Master? Why do you call me that?" "Please, release me. And then I'll tell you." The mummy dropped the man and he hit the floor with a heavy thud. He then began coughing violently. After watching this for a moment, the mummy said 'Speak.' " 'Cough, cough'." "I said speak!" "Just a moment, master, I beg you. Unlike you, I need to breathe." "What was that?" "Ahem. I meant no disrespect, master. I was just stating the facts." "Hmph, fine. Now, tell me, who are you?" The man stood up. "My name is Abasi. I am a descendant of your followers, Master Aapep." "A descendant, eh? So, that explains how you were able to revive me. You knew the crimson heart, the source of my old abilities, would revive me." "Yes, master. And now, it serves as your new heart." "Of course it does. I made it, so I know what it is capable of." "O-of course, master." "Are you afraid of me, Abasi?" "No, master. I am merely in awe. I never thought you would be here, talking with me. And yet, here we are." "Yes. Speaking of here, where is here?" "This place is just outside of a city known as Hollywood." "Hollywood? What sort of name is that?" "It is American, master." "American? What's that?" "Ah, I suppose I should explain." Abasi went through his explanation of what year it was and listed as many things as he could that would bring his ancient master up to date. "Amazing. Thousands of years have passed since I last walked the earth, and yet it only seems like yesterday that the Pharaoh's men mummified me." "I promise you that I speak the truth. The year is two thousand six." "I see." The mummy then slumped over. "Darn it! My strength." "Master, you've just revived. Your still weak." "Then I must do what I said I would do. I must feed on the living." Just then, there came a knock at the door. "Quickly, master, hide." Abasi said as he ushered Aapep into the bathroom. The knock came again. "Just a minute! Please, stay in here, master." "Hmph, fine." As soon as Aapep was safe in the bathroom, Abasi answered the door. Outside stood a beautiful cleaning lady with a housekeeping cart. "Hello, house keeping. We didn't get to stock your room before you checked in. So, please, let me do that now." "Well, alright." The woman brought he cart inside and began stocking everything. Abasi got nervous when she got close to the bathroom. However, she ran out of cleaning supplies before she reached the door to the bathroom. "Oh, darn. I'll have to go get you some fresh towels." "That's fine." Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Aapep weakness, his hunger, was getting the best of him. 'Forget this hiding. I must feed." He opened the door and stepped out behind the cleaning woman. Abasi mouthed the words 'oh no'. The cleaning woman felt a presence behind her and turned around. She jumped at the sight of Aapep. "Oh, I'm sorry, sir. You just caught me of guard. Say, you don't look so good. What's with all those bandages? Are you okay?" "I'm fine, now that you're here!" Aapep suddenly grabbed the woman about her face and lifted her into the air with both hands. The evil looking energy from before began to crackle and Aapep began to drain the life from the woman. The woman writhed in pain as she felt her energy being forcefully drained from her body. Abasi ran over and tried to stop Aapep. "Master, please. Now's not the time for this!" Eventually, Abasi pried loose the woman, who fell to the floor in a heap. She was heavily drained, but still alive. "Oh, darn it. Now what do we do?…Okay, first, we get rid of her." Abasi grabbed the woman and carried her outside. He dumped her behind a tall bush. He then returned to Aapep. "Okay, she can rest up there. But, now, we can't stay here. Somebody's bound to come looking for her…. No time to check out. Come on! Back to the car! We're out of here!" Aapep and Abasi loaded into Abasi's car and took off. As they drove away, Aapep shouted. "That felt great!"
Meanwhile, Alvin sat in his room, reading his book on monsters. He was reading about mummies. He knew everything in the book was probably based on mummies from movies, but he figured looking over it couldn't hurt. He read over a sampling of some of the curses found on some actual tombs. "Man, this stuff is amazing. What I wouldn't give to meet a real mummy."