FORT BRYDON-CAIRO

After the leader left, everyone packed up their stuff and got out of Hamunaptra. It took them a few days to get back to Cairo and when they did, Isabella and Evelyn immediately changed out of the clothes they've been wearing for the past two days and they changed into new ones. Isabella was sitting in a chair tying her boots when Rick came in and started to pack up her stuff.

"I thought you said you didn't believe in that fairy tales and hokum stuff. Shoo!" Rick said, while saying the 'shoo' part to a white cat that was sitting on the suitcase. Isabella rolled her eyes and picked up the cat. "Having an encounter with a 3,000 year old walking, talking, and decaying corpse can change someone's mind." She put the cat down and took her clothes out of the suitcase and threw them back into the closet.

"Forget it. We're out the door, down the hall, and we're gone." Rick told her, while he put a bunch of other stuff in the suitcase. Isabella picked those up and put them pack in her drawer. "Oh, no, we are not." Isabella said.

"Oh, yes, we are." Rick said, while picking up a stack of books. "Oh, no, we are not. We woke him up and we are going to stop him." Rick put the books in the suitcase and Isabella took them out. "We? What we? We didn't read out of that book. I told you two not to play around with that thing. Didn't I tell you two not to play around with that thing?" Rick said to her.

"Yes, right then, me, me, me, me, I, I, I woke him up, well Evy did, but I intend to stop him." Isabella retorted back to him. Rick put another stack of books in the suitcase while Isabella put the other books back on the desk.

"Yeah? How? Rick asked, " You heard the man. No mortal weapons can kill this guy." Isabella took the books out of the suitcase again and took the typewriter that Rick as about to put in the suitcase. "Then we are just going to find immortal ones." She threw the stuff she was holding on the desk. "There goes that we again." Rick said.

"Look, would you just listen to me? We have to do something." Isabella shut the suitcase which accidentally hit Rick's fingers and he yelled in pain because of it.

"Once this creature has been reborn, his curse is going to spread until the whole world is destroyed." Isabella told him. "Yeah? Is that my problem?"

"It's everyone's problem!" Isabella yelled. "Isabella, I appreciate you saving my life and all, but when I signed on, I agreed to take you and your siblings out there and bring you back. And I have done that. End of job. End of story. Contract terminated."

Isabella looked at him with a hurt look on her face and Rick instantly regretted saying that. "That's all I am to you? A stupid contract?"

"Look, you can either tag along with me or you can stay here and to try and save the world. What's gonna be?" Rick said to her.

"I'm staying." Isabella said, not hesitating one bit. Rick looked at her with his own hurt look on his face.

"Fine." Rick said, walking away from her.

"Fine." she said.

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine." And with that said, Rick walked out of the door.

Isabella crossed her arms and sighed sadly. She couldn't believe him. She's never fought with a guy as much as she fought with him and she's fought with Jonathan a thousand times. But, it was different. Isabella never felt this way for a guy and it's shocking to say that this might be the first time she had feelings for someone.

Isabella paced around the room before Evelyn walked in and saw the upset look on her sister's face. "What happened?" asked Evelyn. Isabella shrugged and sat on the bed. "I got into another fight with him and he said I was basically a contract to him. I mean who say's that? Really?" Isabella continued to rant before Evelyn said something. "Maybe he didn't mean it. You know, whenever people argue with someone, they tend to not say things they don't mean."

Isabella nodded and sighed again. "I know. But, I just can't stop thinking about it. You should've seen the look on his face when I told him I was staying." Evelyn sat down next to her sister and put her arm over her shoulders. "Want to go for a walk?" she asked Isabella and she nodded. They got up and Evelyn walked over to the desk and picked up a few of the books that were on it.

"Really?" Isabella asked her sister once they left the room and they were know outside. "Yes, really. We might need the information on how to get rid of this...thing." Isabella laughed and they continued to walk around. They didn't say much to each other and enjoyed the silence. Isabella was playing with her locket while Evelyn was reading as they past a couple of soldiers.

"Oh, ladies!" Isabella and Evelyn turned around and saw Rick running towards them. "You're still here, O'Connell?" said Isabella, narrowing her eyes at him. Rick laughed humorlessly, "We got problems."

Thunder and lightening struck and meteors started to fall out of the sky. Rick grabbed Isabella's hand and she grabbed Evelyn's hand and they took off running. Meteors started falling on the ground and one of the meteors landed on a soldier which caused him to be burned alive. The group stopped by a staircase and Rick saw Beni, who was trying to get out of there and Rick grabbed him and slammed Beni against the wall. "Beni, you little stinkweed. Where you been?"

Suddenly, a loud roar was heard and it made Isabella jump. Rick pulled out his gun after Beni got away and he grabbed Isabella's hand and they ran up the stairs with Evelyn following them. They went into the room Burns was staying in and they all stopped once they saw him. His body was all decayed and rotten. It looked like he was dried out. Isabella was shocked by the sight.

"Holy shit..." she said, while Evelyn covered her mouth to probably not scream. Which was all Isabella wanted to do right now. She wanted to scream and get the hell out of that room. They looked at the fireplace and they saw the mummy standing there and it looked like that he was getting a new layer of skin, but not human skin. The mummy turned around and saw them. It roared at them while they just stood there looking at it in shock.

"We are in serious trouble." said Rick, while pointing his gun at the mummy. The mummy started to walk towards them and Rick began to shoot at it. The bullets didn't harm the mummy and it just kept walking towards them. Isabella was holding onto Evelyn while Jonathan and the Americans came into the room and they took out their guns as well. The mummy threw Rick across the room once it got closer and Rick landed on the others and that caused them to fall down.

The mummy slowly approached Isabella and Evelyn and they backed up while the mummy talked to them. "You saved me from the undead. I thank you." The mummy looked at Isabella sadly as she closed her eyes and turned her head away. The mummy leaned close as if it was about to kiss Evelyn when suddenly, the white cat that was in Isabella and Evelyn's room, jumped on the piano and the sound made the mummy to look away from the girls. The mummy screamed and it turned into sand and flew out of the room, closing all the windows as it left.

Rick, Jonathan and the other Americans got up after the mummy left. "We are in serious trouble." said Rick.

"Damn right we're in serious trouble!" exclaimed Isabella. Now she was really freaking out.