I do not own The Mummy or any of the plot or characters. However I do own Lexi.
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"What is the meaning of this?" Evelyn yelled outraged as a blade was placed on my throat. The leader of the desert men, which were unfortunately the same ones who attacked us a while back, stepped forth.
"She must be killed, she is Kanika, Anubis's dealer of death," the leader said angrily as he glared at me.
"Not by choice," I mumbled and pain erupted in my shoulders. I cried out a little bit before biting down on my lip harshly. "Silence Kanika," Anubis yelled and I balled my hands into fists angrily.
"Now, now chaps, what are you talking about? This is Lexi, not some Kanika woman," Johnathon said as he grabbed my wrist and pulled me away from the desert men. I ended up bumping into Johnathon's chest, but Johnathon smiled and held me close to him by placing a hand on my waist.
I gave him a curious glance as to why he was this close to me, but I ignored it when I saw the leader of the desert men pull out his blade. The man ordered some men to go into the tombs, some other men threw Burns over to Daniels and Henderson, and then the leader looked at me with his blade pointing towards me.
"No normal person has glowing crimson eyes like this woman does. Only one woman has eyes such as this, and that is Kanika, Anubis's weapon," the leader said angrily. My hands twitched as I felt a sudden urge to grab my dagger and stab it in this man's gut. I quickly dismissed the thought when I heard the others around me gasp as they stared at me.
"What is it?" I asked confused as I looked up at Johnathon hoping to receive an answer.
"Your eyes really are glowing red mum," he said slightly breathless from fear or shock, I'm not sure. I gasped and backed away from Johnathon and the others.
"That can't be," I said as I looked at my hands. I looked over at the desert leader and he had a smirk on his face. "You die now Kanika," he yelled as he swung his blade at me. I jumped back and grabbed my dagger out of pure instinct to protect myself. The dagger grew to the crimson blade from before and I heard some gasps around me and the leader desert man just glared at me.
"Leave me alone. I'm sorry I killed your men, but they should not have attacked us in the first place. I don't want to fight you, but I will not allow you to kill me just because of someone I was in a past life," I yelled outraged as I held the blade in front of me protectively.
"Don't you touch her," Johnathon yelled shocking pretty much everyone as he stood between me and the blade of the desert man leader. "Her name is Lexi, not Kanika. I don't care if her eyes are glowing red or if her dagger just did something really scary, and you will not lay a finger on her," Johnathon yelled again.
The desert man sneered at me before lowering his weapon. "Leave this place," he yelled before running into the tombs to help his men. I sighed and lowered my weapon, which shrunk back to a dagger. I closed my eyes and they tingled again, which I took as them going back to normal.
"Thank you Johnathon," I whispered as I opened my eyes. I felt tired like no other. After running from locusts, running from scarabs, trying to find Evelyn, having some mummy rise from the dead and call me by my past name, then running once again, having weapons pointed at me, and then having Johnathon stop the guy from fighting me. It was all very tiring.
"You're welcome Lexi, but I think you have some explaining to do mum," Johnathon said as I placed my dagger back in its holster.
"Alright, but let's get somewhere far away from here first," I said as we headed to our camp sites. We packed as much as we could and then we all took off and left the city. I sighed as I sat on top of my camel. I gave it a nice pat on the head as we rode the camels through the desert.
"So what is it you wanted to tell us Lexi?" Evelyn asked tiredly as she rode beside me. Johnathon was on the other side of me and Rick was on the other side of Evelyn. I saw their inquiring looks and I hung my head. "Are you going to tell them? They might hate you after you tell them and they might hate you if you don't tell them. I wonder what will happen," Anubis said in my head.
"Alright I know all of this will sound crazy, or it might not sound that crazy after seeing a mummy come to life and walk around and talk. Well I found out that I truly am this Kanika woman. I mean I was her in a past life, but now Anubis has seemed to find me again and is ready for me to become his slave again. These markings on my shoulders give him control over me to some extent. If I don't do what he wants me to do than I'll feel pain course through me and freeze me with the force of the pain. I know that his might scare you or even make you hate me, but Kanika was a ruthless and remorseless killer in the past. I'm not like that, well not anymore. I've killed people in my time, which I wish I could say that I have not done, but I killed them and that's that. I can't bring them back and I don't want to. I'm trying to change myself and become a better person, but I'm worried that that will not happen now that I bear the marks of Anubis again," I said and took a few deep breaths afterwards.
Everyone around me was very silent as they processed the information. "Please don't hate me," I thought as I looked down at my seat and played with some loose threads.
"Well, well, um, I don't care what you've done. I mean, I don't approve of it, but if you are trying to change than I'll be here for you. I mean, that's what friends do, right Lexi?" Evelyn said stuttering at first and then a strong voice.
My head shot up quickly in surprise as I looked over at a smiling Evelyn. She pulled me into a side hug and my body stiffened before I relaxed. "Thank you," I whispered to her as I hugged her back strongly.
"I think you fight well, so I have no complaints about this, and anyways it doesn't change my opinion about you," Rick said and he sent me a little smile. I nodded back and smiled at him in return.
"Well I'm a little afraid of that red blade you have when your eyes go red, but I don't think you're this bloodthirsty Kanika woman, she's in the past, and you my dear are in the now," Johnathon said. We all looked at him before I cracked up laughing and threw my arms around him in a hug.
"Oh you're hilarious, but thank you," I said as I hugged him. Evelyn and Rick laughed as a small blush appeared on Johnathon's cheeks as he hugged me back a bit. "No problem," he mumbled before I let him go.
"Alright I vote we hurry back to the place you are staying Evelyn and then get away from this place," Rick said and I went to nod but a pain in my shoulders kept me from doing so.
"You are not going to leave until after you have spoken to the priest Imhotep," Anubis ordered.
"Who the hell is Imhotep?" I asked annoyed in my mind. Anubis sighed and I knew he was probably shaking his head at me, but to tell you the truth I didn't care.
"He's the mummy you had a little run in with a little while ago," Anubis said and I had to fight to keep my jaw from falling wide open.
"No way, I'm not talking to that mummy. I don't even know ancient Egyptian," I yelled in my head.
Anubis growled in what I'm sure was annoyance as pain skyrocketed through my shoulders and my head. I whimpered as I held my head. I'm sure the others were giving me confused looks but hopefully they assumed it was all Anubis's doings, which it is.
I opened my eyes when the pain disappeared and I was breathing deeply. "Now you do know ancient Egyptian," Anubis said smugly before leaving my head alone. "Crazy god," I whispered harshly as I rubbed my head.