DISCLAIMER: I don't own the mummy of the characters. I do own Isis, Dune, and my ideas. Steal them and die. If you're a guy I' castrate you. Yeah. I really will.
After quite a bit of travel we met up with Beni and the Americans. Joy.
"Nice camel, O'Connell." Beni snickered. I just looked at him like he was stupid while Rick patted his camels head.
"Hey, Beni?" He looked at me. "You know you're on a camel too, right?" I smiled innocently while Rick let out a bark of laughter and Beni glared at me.
"You should give your sister a muzzle, O'Connell." Henderson commented, pointing rudely at me with his thumb.
"And you should keep your fingers from pointing. You might lose one or two." I hissed. I didn't like being treated like a dog. I looked at Rick and saw he had a look that said he might take Henderson's advise.
"You try it and you're puppy chow." I said throwing a small, and evil, smile at Rick while gently petting Dune's head. Dune sighed in content with the petting.
"What the hell are we waiting for?" Burns asked rudely. I let out a short laugh while Beni told him to be patient.
"We're about to be shown the way." Rick told them.
"Here we go." I sighed. I tightened my hold on Dune and prepared for the run.
"Remember O'Connell, $500." Henderson smiled.
Suddenly, like a forming mirage, the city of Hamunaptra formed in the distance. We all took off at once with us pulling into the lead. I kept even with Rick as we thundered on toward the City of the Dead. Beni pulled up next to Rick and began to hit him with the camel whip. Rick pulled Beni down between the camels. I pointed and laughed at Beni who threw a string of Hungarian curses at Rick, for pulling him down, and me, for laughing.
Evy pulled ahead of Rick with a laugh and entered the city first.
"Go, Evy! Go!" Jonathan cheered.
Dune barked happily, feeling the excitement in the air, but as soon as we entered the city behind Rick he became quite. Something wasn't right in the runes. Both of us could tell.
"Oooookay. This is worse then last time." I whispered to Dune. Talking to animals may seem crazy to some but we were in a city that wasn't really supposed to exist so I really didn't care.
We set up camp and began to get ready to enter the temple. Jonathan was cleaning the mirror, most likely to see himself, Rick was tying the rope we'd be using to climb into the hole that served us as a entrance, Evy was 'teaching us', and I was looking into the hole uneasily.
"You're coming too." I said, pointing at Dune. He perked his ears up then darted for our tent. "Damn," I cursed. He was fast and I didn't feel like running.
"Come on." Rick called. He then jumped into the hole with the rope keeping him for falling. I gave a sigh while rubbing my eyes.
"Hey? Evy?" I called. She looked up. She was about to go in. "Can I stay up here? I'm really tired and I need to keep an eye on Dune."
"Yes you can, but next time you are coming down with us." she told me with a smile. I nodded and watched as they entered the hole one by one.
I walked over to my tent and looked in to see Dune under my blanket. "You don't have to go in." I laughed. His nose poked out from under the blanket then he squirmed out and jumped at me.
I laid on my side and stroked Dune's head gently. He leaned into my hand and curled up next to me. I was kept awake by worry about this trip. Hamunaptra wasn't supposed to be found. It was that simple. There was something about this place that made my blood run cold and make animals panic. Rick felt the same way but didn't acknowledge it like I did.
I must of dosed of because the next thing I knew was that Evy was shaking me awake telling me the Warden was dead.
I yawned and sat up.
"Dead?" I asked. She nodded and told me what happened as we walked to the fire. "I told you this was a bad idea." I hissed to Rick. He just sighed and conversed with Jonathan and Evy while I looked into the fire. Dune sat next to me and leaned on me for support.
"Wait here." I heard Rick say. I listened and I stood up and heard the whinny of horses and the yell of men from the Americans camp. I picked up my gun a followed with Evy behind me.
We came to the Americans camp and saw chaos. I shot at the men on horseback and growled when I ran out of bullets. This was not my day.
I ducked as a sword swung at my neck. I reached up and grabbed the mans arm, causing him to fall from his horse. I twisted his wrist and yanked the sword from his grasp. He reached behind him and found another sword and swung downwards at me. Holding up the sword in my hand I blocked the oncoming blade while Dune latched onto the mans leg. He was shook off roughly and laid sprawled across the sand. We continued to trade blows for a bit before we once again locked blades.
We were stopped mid fight when Rick held up a lit stick of dynamite. The leaded retreated reluctantly and ordered his men to leave but not before giving us a warning, "You have one day. If you are not gone by then we will kill you."
"That just proves old Seti's treasure is under us somewhere!" Henderson exclaimed.
"No. Those are desert people. They treasure water, not gold." Rick said, but the Americans didn't hear. They were busy talking.
"You think we could, ah, join forces for the night?" Burns asked.
I ignored them and walked to my tent where Dune went after Rick picked up the dynamite. I entered the tent and sighed.
As my head hit the pillow I felt Dune curl up next to me once again as I fell into the peace of sleep. I knew it wouldn't last long. It never did. The funny thing about peace was that it was ripped away when it's most wanted.