They had made it safely inside and were roaming around the tunnels of Hamunaptra. Rick had a firm grip on Krista's hand and led the way with his gun in the other one.
"Did you see that!?" Jonathan shouted hysterically, "Grasshoppers! Billions of grasshoppers!"
"That's one of the plagues, right? The grasshopper plague!" Rick questioned looking down at hid wife's terrified face.
Evy scoffed, "This is not a plague. It's generational. Every so many years the locusts of Egypt have a population explosion and they all take flight."
Krista looked over at her elder sister angrily, "Oh Evelyn would you shut up!" she cried, "You were the one that just had to read from that damn sacred book and now we all have to pay for your idiotic actions!" Rick comforted her by wrapping his arm around her and bringing Krista closer to his side.
Evy frowned and was about to tell her off when a sudden loud crash had them all stumble as the ground began to shake and a large sand mound started to grow, then dozens of scarabs began scurrying out.
"Scarabs" Evy and Krista cry out as they once again began to run. Rick let go of Krista's hand and started shooting at them. Once he saw that it wasn't doing much good, he threw his torch.
"Run, Go!" he yelled as he continued shooting at the scarabs. They race up a staircase just ahead of the mass of scarabs.
Rick leapt out onto a pedestal with Jonathan right behind him. Krista, who couldn't make the jump slipped into a grotto on the other side of the narrow stairway and Evy followed her lead. The horrible herd of vicious scarabs scurried between them. Evy leaned back and let out a sigh once the beetles were out of sight. Unfortunately, when she moved, Evy opened a trap door and the wall shifted and opened, moving the two girls into a different room.
Rick and Jonathan watch the scarabs vanish up the staircase, when they turned to look across the way Krista and Evelyn were gone.
"EVY!? KRISSY!?" Jonathan called out in confusion
Evy sat up and moved to help Krista up as well, "Are you alright, Krissy?"
"Yes, I'm fine. Where are we?" Krista asked at they fearfully began looking around.
Evy frowned, "I'm not sure, come one let's see if we can find the others."
They started to feel their way along the dark walls until they rounded the corner and enter a room where the moonlight was shining through the cracks in the ceiling. There was a man standing in the middle of the room with his back turned to the girls, but they still recognize him.
"Mr. Burns." Krista said in relief.
"Thank goodness we found you," Evy spoke up, "We were just starting to get scared."
Krista nodded as she moved closer to the man, "We lost everyone…"
She trailed off as Burns turned to face to the two girls and Krista had to swallow her scream at the sight that was before her. Burn's eyes were missing and he stared at them with empty sockets.
"My eyes, he took my eyes!" Burns' muffled cries of pain were enough to alert the girls that his tongue had also been taken.
Krista backed away in fright, her voice completely leaving her at the sight, while Evelyn screamed in horror and scrambled away, beginning to hyperventilate, she bumped into something causing her to scream again and spin around coming face to face with the mummy, with two fresh eyeballs in his once empty sockets.
Evy screamed again and backed into a wall. The mummy moved towards her, not having noticed Krista on the other side of the room who was trying to stay as quite as possible so as not to attract the mummy's attention.
The mummy moved closer to Evy and bent down to look at her, "Anck-su-namun." It wasn't a question, more like a declaration, while Evy just let out a whimper.
Burns let out another moan of pain and reached out for Krista, "Please, help me." And though he tried to be quiet the mummy still heard him and turned to look at where Burns was.
Krista watched fearfully as the mummy's eyes looked from Burn's gripping tightly to her leg on the ground and up to Krista's face. His eyes seemed to widen at the sight of her, and he completely disregarded Evy in exchange for Krista, making his way over to her.
The mummy grabbed the wrist that Burns was using to hold on to her and yanked it away, tossing the man across the room. Krista let out a small squeak of fear as the mummy brought his attention back to her and moved his face closer to hers.
"Kridasha." He whispered looking at her as though he was in awe at the sight of her.
Krista frowned, that was the name she had been hearing calling out to her this whole trip.
"My princess, my love. You have returned to me." The mummy began looking around the room before facing her again, "Where is Abraxes?"
Krista sent him a look of confusion, who is Abraxes? She was terrified that this mummy was going to kill her and she would never see her husband again or live to see her baby. At the thought of her unborn child, Krista's hand came to rest against the swell of her belly.
The movement didn't go unnoticed by the mummy and he stared down at her hand, his eye lighting up as his own mummified hand reached out for her stomach, "Abraxes" he whispered almost reverently.
"The gods have granted us a gift," he stated looking back up at Krista, "This time will be different, my Dasha. We will not be separated again. I will not let it happen."
Krista was confused; the mummy seemed to think she was someone else. Thankfully at that moment Rick came running into the room and saw Evy huddle against the wall fearfully, "There you are! Come one lets get out of here. Where's Kris?"
Evy shakily raised her hand and pointed across the room where Krista was standing with the mummy.
Rick turned around and jumped in fright, "Whoa!" then he noticed that he mummy was standing very close to his wife and cradling her belly, "Hey! Get the hell away from my wife!" The mummy turned at glared heatedly at the man that had interrupted him.
"Krissy! Evy!" Jonathan cried as he ran into the room, only to stop at the sight of the mummy facing them, "Whoa!"
The mummy began moving closer to them, leaving Krista backed against the wall, and unhinged his skeletal jaw, his skinless mouth stretched to an inhuman size as he let out a horrific, primordial SHRIEK.
Evy cried in fright and ran over to Jonathan. Rick shudders, and then he opened his own mouth and roared right back at him, "Ahhhhhhhh!"Then he shot him with his elephant gun knocking the mummy halfway across the room and blowing half his side off.
Rick ran forward and grabbed Krista's hand, pulling her out of the room with the rest of them following behind.
What was left of the group finally made it outside only to be met with the men in black from the day before pointing their guns at them, making everyone stop in their tracks and raise their hands in the air.
The chief stepped forward and pulled the cloth away from his face, "I told you to leave or die, you refused, and now you may have killed us all. You have unleashed the creature that we have feared for more than four thousand years."
"Relax, I got him." Rick told the man, holding Krista close to him.
"No mortal weapons can kill this creature. He is not of this world." The chief informed the group as he motioned for two of his guards to bring something forward. It was Burns. At the sight of the pitiful man, Krista felt tears come to her eyes.
The two men brought him forward and handed him off to Henderson and Daniels, "You bastards!" Daniels spit out.
"What did you do to him?" Henderson demanded.
Krista shook her head, "They didn't do it. The mummy did it to him." She informed everyone sadly as she turned her face into Rick's chest and wrapped her arms around him tightly as tears began to leek from her eyes. Rick returned her embrace and held her tightly to him.
The chief nodded his head in agreement, "We saved him before the creature could finish his work. Leave, all of you, quickly, before he comes to finish you all. We must now go on a hunt and try to find a way to kill him."
Rick huffed, "I already told you, I got him." He insisted.
The chief stopped and looked back, deadly serious, "Know this, the creature will be coming for you. He must consummate the curse. And until he does, he will never eat, he will never sleep, and he will never stop." Then he turned to look down at Krista, "And if I were you, I'd keep a close eye on this one. The creature will do anything to get his hands on her."
And with that he and his men began to leave.