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Chapter 3

Elisabeths POV

The light in the sky grew lighter. Night dissolve to dawn, and I stopped my camel once I saw the Americans approach us.

"Good morning Mr Friends." Benni announced. I watch Rick give a nod in agreement.

"What the hell are we doing?" an american asked, in a frustrated manner.

"Patience."

Henderick looked over to Rick and reminded them of the bet.

"Five hundred big one's to whomever reaches the city first." then he looked over to Benni.

"One Hundred of that is yours if you help us." he added

"Oh, it would be my pleasure." Benni praised.

I shook my head. Of course he would agree to help. It was money, and that was all he cared for.

I took my eyes to the direction of Hamunaptra, and my heart was pounding in my ears. I swore to God if I never needed to come back here, I wouldn't...well I knew I was in trouble.

"Get ready for it." Rick said, looking straight ahead.

"For what?" Evelyn asked, curious.

"We're about to be shown the way."

The sun rose over the peaks of the sand dooms. The sudden shadows of wall and dirt hovered as the city revealed itself in morning.

The sounds of men, camels and horses shook me out of my Daze upon the city and I hailed my stick to praise my camel to move as quick as he could.

Far ahead I watched Rick get ahead to Benni. He pulled hard over him then dragged Benni off his camel. As I watched him I slowed my Camel.

"Oh, Please. Ms. McGlothin. I seem to fell off my camel. Give mercy to a small man?" He begged.

I was about to yell at him, but being loyal to his word my Camel came to the rescue. At that moment, he relieved himself in Benni's direction causing him to be drenched in the foul smell. I laughed and patted my camel's head.

"HaHa! Good boy! Benni... From the both of us- Piss off!" Then we were off again. I watched Evy get up to Rick then speed over him into the city and Jonathan praising her for our victory.

Several hours went by and I shielded myself from the sun with my shall and I was cleaning off a Mirror with Jonathan. Evy was adjusting an ancient semi-domed mirror, and Rick was tying a rope to a pillar, purposely hitting the smelly man. I gave him a look to stop.

"Jonathan, you're meant to catch the sun with that!" She asked.

I watched Rick approach Evy in a nervous matter. Wow I thought. He really likes her.

"So, what are these old uh mirrors f-for?" he asked, pushing his hand behind his back, which contained a brown satchel.

"Ancient Mirrors!" she corrected him. "It's an ancient egyptian trick, you'll see." she noted, adjusting the heavy metal.

He reached forward and presented her the satchel.

"Well, this is for you. Something I borrowed from our American brotherin I hoped you might like. ..for when your uh-" he motioned his hands for digging. I smiled and moved over to Evy.

As Rick walked over to the opening, the warden watched Rick in curiousness.

"What are you looking at?" the Warden backed off as I saw inside the satchel was a large variety of digging tools. I smiled as Evy looked back at Rick in thanks.

They both caught eye to eye in a romantic glance, then the warden's voice spoiled the moment.

"Look for Bugs! I hate bugs!"

Rick went down, then Evy, followed by Jonathan and the warden.

"What is that God Awful Stench?" I heard Jonathan announce, and just as he found to be the warden, he wasn't so surprised.

"Come along now Elisabeth! It's not that difficult." Jonathan asked, as I looked down into the dark hole.

My hands shook in fright. Dark spaces were never my strong point.

Flashback

Rick-19

Lisa-14

Rick and I traveled under the sewers to stay hidden from the guards. They almost caught Rick stealing a women's necklace for this girlfriend of the month.

We stopped for a moment to catch my breath, and then the sound of men echoed the tunnels.

"come on!" he said, and took my hand and pulled me along. I found another tunnel and got an idea.

"You take this one. I'll distract the guards." I offered.

He shook his head. "No, they'll threaten you."

"They will believe i'm just a poor child living here. I'll say you went this way. Just Go!" I ordered, pushing him into the next tunnel. He abliged and moved into the tunnel.

I saw the guards coming.

"Little girl, did you see a man pass here?" a guard with a scar above his eye asked.

"Yes, he pushed me and ran that way." I said pointing the other direction. "Please catch him quick! I'm frightened." I said, letting fake tears fall from my eyes.

The men followed foot in the wrong direction and continued. I let a small smile escape my lips and went in the real direction.

I didn't find Rick anywhere and I was afraid to call out his name just incase the guards were to hear me and find him. I followed the path until I came to a clear fork. One left and one right. I took left.

Big mistake.

I was suddenly lost in a labrynth the tunnels, and night had fallen making it difficult to see. I just sat and stopped, knowing any step I took could lead me further away from being found.

"HELLO? Can anyone hear me?" I cried.

Present.

I wrapped my hands on the rope and slid down fast.

"That was fun!" I said with a shaky voice, then stood to ease my shaky legs.

I watched Evy dust away the webs off the mirror and tilted it towards the sun.

"And then there was light." she said, and the light reflected off several mirrors.

"Hey, that is a neat trick." Rick agree'd.

" A sah-netjer." I whispered in amazement.

" A Preparation room." Evy added.

"For what? Rick asked, confused. Evy smiled and said in a spooky voice. "For entering the after-life."

"Mummies my good sir. This is where they made the mummies." Jonathan stated and lit his torch.

We walked down several tunnels until we found the legs of Anubis. It looked amazing, a piece of history right in front of us.

Sounds of muffled voiced echoed in the room. We all leaned against the base, Rick, Jonathan and myself got our guns ready to open fire. We jumped over to the other opening to find our American foe's in similar fire stance.

They let out a relief.

"Scared the bejesus out of us O'Connell." Henderick said.

"Likewise." Rick said and lowered his gun.

" Well, Have a nice day Gentlemen. We have a lot of work to be done." Evy stated.

"PUSH OFF!" The professor proclaimed. "This is our dig site."

"We got here first!" Evy fought.

I saw Benni aim his gun and I rushed to follow along with the other Americans, Rick and Jonathan.

"This here is our statue Friend!" one whom I didn't know his name said, giving a dirty look on his face.

"I don't see your name written on it, Pal!" Rick was not pleasant at this moment and neither was I.

Benni grinned his green teeth at us. "Yes well, there are only five of you and fifteen of me. You're odds are not so great O'Connell. McGlothin."

" We had worse." Rick remembered, pulling his safty off the gun.

Jonathan tried to act tough. "Yeah, Me too!"

"Can I kill Benni now?" I whispered to Rick, he shook his head no.

Evy moved between us and the americans, and motioned for us to lower our guns.

"Let's be nice, Children. If we must Play together we must learn to share."

She looked to Rick and He lowered his gun. I was the last to keep my weapon up and still aimed at Benni.

"You will get yours, Benjamin." I warned, placing my gun back in his hoister. I looked at the Americans and scuffed at them.

"All I see are a bunch of Dogs with their tail between their legs." I stated.

Henderick placed his hand on his heart as if he were wounded.

" Breaking my heart, Beauty."

"That's it!" I almost jump him when Rick caught me half in the air. "Let me go! Rick!" He dragged me along with Evy and Jonathan to another part of this dreadful site.

"You can get him later, When he's asleep." he suggested, I looked at Henderick and he looked questionable whether I would take Rick's advice.

I felt my feet hit the floor once I collected myself. I took a deep breath and shook my arms off of tension. I took a large pick axe asked Evy where to start. She pointed up to the ceiling and I was ready to relieve some stress.

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