The next morning I wake up to see Evy standing above me.
"Can I help you?" I ask her.
"The key its in your necklace." She tells me in a low tone
"I know, I noticed that last night." I tell her as I sit up.
"Maybe we could get in there and shut the door that way they couldn't get in." she tells me with an inquisitive look on her face.
"What is the door locks on us and we are trapped inside with the key." I ask her.
Just as we walk out of the tent I see a group of e dressed in red with guns pointed at us.
"Johnathon what did you do?" I ask him.
"I am not the cause, this time…" he replys.
"Sarah Worthington I presume?" the first man says.
"I'm Sarah." Evy says stepping forward.
"I do not believe you, bring him forward." The man says
They bring a tied up Kegan with his a scraf around his mouth.
"If you do not tell us the truth then we shall kill him." The man says.
"I'm Sarah." I say stepping forward.
"That seems to fit the description much better. You will lead us into the tomb now." The man says.
"Impossible, it's locked." I tell him as I see more men join him.
"You had to have entered before, our master knows that you did." The man says.
"Master?" Evy questions.
"Yes Master Imhotep, he will be on his way very soon we must have them awakened by then." The man says as he grabs me and pulls me closer to him. Out of the corner of my I see Kegan struggle to get free.
"I see the key is around your neck, if you value your life you will use it." The man says.
The odd men take us to the tomb door and push me down in front of it.
"Hurry up woman." He yells at me.
I sit up slowly and put my necklace against the lock. Nothing happens.
"Why is nothing happening?" the man yells.
He throws me against the wall next to Kegan. I fall against the wall and fall beside Kegan he looks over at me concerned.
"Then you will stay down here until you can open the door. The life of your friends depend on it." The man yells picking Evy up.
He and his men take everyone out of the tomb except for myself and Kegan. I slowly sit back up and untie Kegan and remove his gag.
"Basterds came out of no where. Are you alright?" he asks me examining my face and body.
"I'm fine, I gotta find a way to open that door." I tell him as I slowly slump back down to the ground.
"Hey can ya hear me?" he asks me as he slowly fades into the darkness.
Kegan's POV
I held her in my arms as she passed out. Can't blame her the big brute threw her into a wall. I mean I knew I was rough with her but that was crazy.
"Come on Sarah you gotta wake up, You know about this stuff I don't." I tell her as I try and wake her up.
It's useless. I look at her necklace and see the key is inside some kind of gem. How do they get that stuff in there?
I can't just sit by her, I have to get us out of here with or without her help. I take her necklace off her and lay her down on the sand. I put the necklace down and start to bang on the gem with a rock. That thing is hard as heck.
I tried for what seemed hours. I kept checking on her though making sure she was still breathing. I only had one idea that might wake her up it was a desperate idea but I didn't have any others.
I leaned down over her lips and kisses her with all of my power. She must have thought that I was someone else she kissed me back. I could feel her the warmth of her breath on my lips. Her eyes opened and she must have realized it was me since she stopped kissing but she didn't pull away. She just stared.
"We gotta get outta here or else my men and your family are as good as dead." I tell her as reality pops back into her head.
Sarah's POV
I looked at that darn lock for hours. No way that I tried to fit the necklace seemed to work. Then I did what I should have done in the beginning. I read the wall. Once I read it out loud it turned out to be a spell.
The necklace glowed before me and the gem melted away only leaving the key before me.
"I did it!" I yell.
Kegan comes over and smiles at me. "Alright now lets see whats in there."
I put the key into the lock and slowly turn it. The door slowly opens releasing years and years of dust. We walk inside with a torch that Kegan just lit with his lighter.
We look around and see nothing but a big pool in the center of the room.
"Something ain't right here." Kegan says as we walk further in.
"Your right, there should be treasure or a mummy or something." I tell him as he stops me.
"Stay here lass, any further and we may end up in the pool." He says.
I look down and see we are right at the edge of the pool.
"They aren't going to like this. We have to figure out another plan. Maybe this pool leads to somewhere outside the tomb. Maybe an oasis?" he says looking down at the water.
"How in the world are we going to find that out? We have one good light that works underwater and there are two of us." I tell him as I take out the light.
"Well looks like just one of us are goin then don't it?" he says with a smirk as he takes the light from me.
"No! You have no idea what's down there? What if you get hurt no one can come down and save you!" I yell at him.
"Ah you do care lass." He give me a smart look.
"Kegan you don't understand, ancient booby traps are very dangerous and-" I start as he silent me with his lips on mine again.
"Don't worry, I'll be back. If they come down before I get back just hide." He says as he dives into the water.
Oh that man! I just want to punch him! I keep looking down waiting for him to come back when I hear the door behind me open wider.
"Well it seems you found your way in, though I must say this room is not what I thought it would be. It had such a lock I thought there was something of great importance in here." He says as he walks to me.
"Just a pool of water, that is all that is in here as you can tell." I say as I try and make eye contact with Rick.
"And where is the other man? Did he abandon you?" he asks me.
"Yes! He must have left when I passed out." I tell him finally making eye contact with Rick.
He looks at me confused and with my eyes I motion to the wall. He looks over and sees the gleaming of metal weapons. He looks back at me and winks.
"So then what is in the water?" the man asks.
"It's a purity pool, the priest and priestess would come here once a month to cleanse themselves." Evy says speaking up.
I look back at Evy now that was a very convincing lie. The man looks down into the pool.
"Only the purist of the pure were allowed to enter it." She says.
The men look deep into the pool as Rick grabs an ax off the wall as Johnathon grabs a spear. I quickly try to run to the wall when the man grabs me and holds me just off the side of the pool.
"I'll drown her!" the man threatens. "I mean it, the gods of the underworld will have her if you don't put the weapons down."
"You can't you need her!" Evy yells at him in protest.
A man goes to Evy and puts a dagger against her neck.
Well this doesn't seem like it is going to work for anyone. I try to think of what to do when the only thing that comes to my mind is truly a last resort.
I manage to push my balance forward and elbow him in his groin. He falls over in pain as Rick holds the ax to him.
"Drop your weapon or your pal here will be the one to meet the gods." Rick threatens the man holding Evy.
Just as he is about to release her the man smiles as we turn around to find five more men enter the room.
"Oh for the love of the bloody pharaoh!" Johnathon yells out.
"They are hiding something, we have to get to wherever that pool leads. That is where the item the master wants is." The leader says slowly standing up.
Johnathon can't stand the silence anymore and against his better judgement starts the fight, he hits the man with the spear and the room breaks into chaos.
Rick fighting with the leader while I manage to run over to Evy's attack and kick him off of her.
"We have to make sure they don't get down there, if Imhotep wants it then its not good." She tells me.
Two men start chasing us around the room as I grab a sword from the wall and start to fight off one. He keeps attacking me and I keep blocking his attacks until I hear Evy scream for help. There at my weak moment he his my sword away and I fall to the ground.
"Pray to the gods, for you shall be seeing them soon." He tells me
"Haven't there been enough reference to the gods from you idiots!" I yell back at him.
He raises his sword and I close my eye in pure terror knowing I am about to die. After a few moments I start to feel a cold wet sensations. Out of morbid curiosity I look up and am very surprised by what I see.
It's Kegan with a sword right above me holds the other man's sword back.
"Get the hell off her!" he yells at the man as he pushes his sword against the other mans.
Kegan continues to fight the man as I slowly sit up just in time to see his sword go through the other man. I really could have gone the rest of my life without seeing that. I look around and see that Rick and Johnathon did a good job of fighting everyone off but I notice the leader and the first two aren't among the dead.
"Are you alright?" Kegan asks me as he comes to my side.
"I'm fine, thanks for saving me." I tell him as he helps me to my feet.
"I found a room on the other side, its not like this one. It's a lot bigger and has three other halls in it." He tells me as he examines my face.
"We have to get down there and find what they were looking for first." I tell him as I look at Rick help Evie off the ground.
"Whatever it is it is probably worth a ton of money." Johnathon says.
The people in the room just look at him in wonder. He shrugs its off.
"Oh you were thinking it too!" he yells to the room.
"How far is the swim?" Evy asks as we all gather by the pool.
"Your gonna need to hold your breath for a while" Kegan says as we look down. "Trust me its worth it though."
"Well let's go, better then staying here and waiting for them!" Rick says as he jumps in.
Evy follows and jumps in as well then Johnathon.
"What are you waiting for?" Kegan asks me.
"I'm not what you would call a great swimmer, I have to hold my nose." I tell him embarrassed.
"Really? Alright when we get in hold onto me if you need air just pull on me and I'll give you some of mine." He tells me.
"Why are you doing this? Since when are you so nice to me? I thought you wanted the treasure?" I ask him confused pulling away from him.
"Sarah, listen this really isn't the time to explain just lets do this and if we survive I'll explain alright?" he tells me offering me his hand.
I look at his hand cautiuously. I move forward and take his hand as we jump in the pool together and stay at the surface for a minute.
"Don't panic, if you need me then pull on me. You can see underwater right?" he asks.
"Yeah, that part I can do. We'd better hurry. Wait-" I stop him.
"What?" he asks me.
"Don't let me die." I tell him scared as hell.
He takes me in his hands.
"There's no fear there, you'll be just fine. Now take a deep breath." He tells me.
We both take a deep breath and dive under water. He leads the way when I can see the walls all have drawings on them. I don't have time to read them so I just look forward. I see the way is really long ahead of us. I keep ahold of my breath the best I can.
I look up to Kegan and see he is doing just fine with my hand in his. He keeps pushing forward. I hear a splash in the water and turn around scared. Doing that I lose some of my air. I grab his hand knowing I am almost out of air. He swims to me and sees I am paniced.
He nods his head no probably telling me not to panic then he pushes his face against mine. I feel his lips on mine as he blows some of his air into my mouth then pulls away. I look at him and nod as we both start again.
We finally reach the surface as we both breathe in a rather large amount of air.
"Finally! We were afraid something had happened to you two." Evy tells me as she helps me out of the water.
"I heard someone jump in! We don't have much time." I tell her as we begin to search the room.
"This is just a preparation room. One of these corridors must lead to a burial room." Evy says as she reads the hieroglyphics.
"Well three corridors and five of us. What should we do?" Kegan asks.
"We have to split up, we hurry to the end and then run straight back and report. One of these has to be a dead end and won't lead far whoever gets that run back fast and join one of the other groups." Rick says as we look into the corridors.
"Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel first?" I ask.
"Sarah you and I can read the walls we have to separate just to know where we are going. You go with Jonathon down that hall and Kegan you go down the middle Rick and I will take this one. Be quick as Sarah said we don't have much time." Evy says as she and Rick take off down the first hall.
Kegan looks at me and gives me a wink as he walks down the middle hall.
"Well looks like its just you and me cousin. Are there any mummies down here you know that can come back?" he asks me.
I just shake my head as we start down the last hall. "There is one already on it's way that is what we need to prevent." I tell him.
We walk further when I see something on the wall that shows an edge. I stop Johnathon from walking any further and kick a rock forward and never hear it hit the ground.
"There's and edge there. We got the dead end." I tell him.
"Oh thank god." He tells me with a sigh of relief.
"We have to head back." I tell him as we turn around and run back to the preparation room.
"Alright you go with Rick and Evy I will go get Kegan." I tell him.
"What is it with you and that fellow? I thought you hated each other?" he asks me.
"You know the saying keep your friends close but your enemies closer." I tell him as I start down the middle hall.
I continue to walk for minute when I see a small light. I catch up to the light and see Kegan just a few steps ahead of me.
"Hey, the last one if the dead end." I yell to him as he turns around scared.
"Don't do that. Especially in a tomb!" he tells me.
I walk up to his side when we see a big door.
"What's it say?" he asks me.
I look and see that most of the writing is scratched off.
"I can't tell, its been removed on purpose. Someone didn't want this place to be found." I tell him as I press against the door and it opens.
"Now your starting to freak me out." He says.
"How do you think I feel?" I ask him as we walk forward into another room.
The room is actually rather modest in size but surrounded by gold everywhere.
"I think you found your treasure Mr. Kegan." I tell him looking forward.
Kegan looks over at me and smiles. "I think your right."
We walk forward and see there are no mummies though. I keep searching but the closest thing to a royal coffin is a small box. I walk over and pick it up.
"What is that?" he asks me.
"I have no idea that is why I picked it up." I tell him as I blow dust off the top of it.
"It only has the symbol for the letter "N" on it. Nothing else. That's odd usually it would have the name of whom it belonged to." I tell him.
He looks up at me. "Unless they didn't want you to know whose it was."
We hear running behind use as Rick, Evy and Jonathon join us.
"We better go." Rick tells me.
"Did you find anything?" Evy asks me.
"I found this box, this might have our answer in it." I tell her.
"No mummies though, our hall was a dead end just like yours." Evy tells me.
"Maybe not, come on we have to go to the last hall to get out of here." I tell them as we take off.
We run through the halls to the preparation room and just make it into the last hall as we hear water gurgling.
We keep running and I forget there is an edge as the floor falls beneath us. Everyone begins to yell as we hit what seems to be a slide of some sort with water flowing. The slide takes us outside to an Oasis just like we said before.
"What a ride!" Johnathon yells.
"Really?" Evy asks him. "We have to get out of here."
We all stand up and go back to see the camp everything has been abandoned. We all look at each other confused.
"Where did everyone go?" Rick asks.
We walk forward and see a fire burning and see it's the workers and Kegan's men.
"Oh my god." I say as I turn away into someone's chest.
"This is just a warning, Imhotep can do far worse than this." Rick says.
"This may truly be the beginning of the end." Evy says.
"Then I kindly suggest we get the hell out of here and find someone who can open that bloody box before the end comes? Shall we?" he says as he starts walking forward.
"I really hate to say this but he's right. The faster we find out what is in that box the better." Evy says as she follows Johnathon and Rick follows her.
Now I realize, I can only have my face hiding away from that horrible sight in one persons chest. Kegan. I look up and see him looking down at me.
"Come on lass, we gotta get outta here before we end up like them." He says as I pull away.
Next thing I know we including Kegan are on a plane back to London.
I sit in the plane between Kegan and Evy as she tells me of a legend she heard when she first came to Egypt. I really don't pay attention since I am far too tired to understand. I look over and see Kegan looking out the window and my mind starts to race with questions.
What happened with him and I all the sudden? Why did he risk his neck for me with that guy? Why did he have me hold onto him in the pool? Why did he give me air? Then I also reminded myself he kissed me! I try to shake it off but instead end up falling asleep.
Evy's POV
I try to tell Sarah of the legend I once heard but the poor thing is far too tired to even keep her eyes open. I watch as she falls asleep in her chair. She has been through quite a lot today. I look past her and see Kegan looking at her almost as if he truly does care for her. He sits there as her head starts to turn left and right. He stops her head and leans it on his shoulder then starts to fall asleep himself.
Wait, I thought Sarah said this was the man trying to take over the site. Trying to take over her dig and now here he is being her savior? That made absolutely no sense at all. Was this man hiding something from not only her but us as well. We were all in this together now. I am not about to have my cousin fall for some Scottish adventurer just because he saved her once or twice. Who's to say he even was Scottish? He did have a bit of an accent but it seemed like he was trying to hide it.
My cousin was still young and innocent. She didn't know about men like him.
Sarah's POV
I wake up to the turbulence of the plane. It does work itself out as I look up and see I have my head on Kegan. I can't help but look at him. He is rather handsome. I don't know if I can trust him though. I lift my head up trying not to wake him. He jerks awake and looks at me. Well that plan didn't work.
"You alright lass?" he asks me.
"Yeah, sorry I guess my head decided to rest on you. I didn't mean to wake you up." I tell him as I sit up straight in my chair.
"I put your head there, I was afraid if your head kept moving like that you'd get a really bad headache or worse." He tells me as he straightens himself out.
"Ok what the heck is going on? I think you owe me an explanation?" I confront him.
"I guess ya do" he tells me with a smile.
Alright Sorry This Part Took Me So Long To Put Up. To Be Honest I will still trying to think of what the new O/C Characters looked like. I will give more of a description of them in the next chapter. I hope you are enjoying the story. Please if there are any questions or comments feel free to let me know!