We left the museum in a hurry to figure out a game plan for how we would stop the creature and put him back in the dirt where he belonged. I was sitting on the window sill looking out at the beautiful scene before me of the eclipsed sun. I was thinking about this person whom I was told I was: Sahkmet. It felt like a coincidence. However, I kept getting the weird flashbacks. Something did draw me here I will admit but a reincarnation is a little far. I shook the thoughts away.
"We must stop him from regenerating. Who opened that chest?" Evy asked the Americans. She sounded so determined my baby sister was becoming a leader, I smiled thinking about how when we were little she would always cower behind me or come get me to look in her closet for monsters. My sister was growing up!
"There was me and Daniels here." Henderson narrated. I finally learned the other Americans name. I looked back inside at all of them huddled around the table, I caught Ricks eye from across the room. I quickly looked away and back outside.
"And Burns, of course." Daniels filled in after Henderson.
"And that Egyptologist fellow." Henderson continued for him.
"What about my buddy Beni?" Rick asked from his seat.
"No, he scrammed outta there 'fore we opened the damn thing." Daniels filled him in.
"Yeah, he was the smart one." Henderson said looking down at the ground almost as if ashamed he'd been there.
"Well, that sounds like Beni." I said speaking up from my position.
"We must find the Egyptologist and bring him back to the safety of the fort before the creature can get to him." Evy said. I shuddered got the chills for a weird reason.
"They stay here. You three, come with me." Rick announced taking charge pointing at Evy and myself.
"Well hold on! You can't leave me behind like some old carpetbag." Evy argued I knew there wouldn't be any use in fighting him. But gathered in on the protests anyway.
"Who put you in charge?" I asked standing up and walking over to Rick fuming. Quickly he hoisted me up onto his shoulder and walked into the bedroom. He threw me on the bed and turned around to look at my sister. She walked in the room willingly. I gaped at her, what the actual hell Evy?!
"Jonathan! O'Connell!" I yelled as Rick started on his way out of the room.
"Sorry, but he's a bit... tall." I heard my brother mutter. Chicken.
"Coward that you are! O'Connell, you are not leaving me in here! Jonathan, if you don't open this door in one minute flat— " I started to use threats to get my brother to listen. It didn't work to say the least. I quickly pulled out my knives and threw them at Rick just as he slammed the door shut. My knifes landed themselves in the lovely oak door, well...I tried to catch up Rick. God damn Rick.
"That's not very nice Joe." Rick yelled to me.
"O'Connell, you lying bastard." I yelled back to the door.
"This door doesn't open. She doesn't come out, and no one goes in, right?" I heard Rick say. I pulled my knife out of the door.
"Right." That was Daniels.
"Right?" Rick asked again.
"Right." Henderson this time spoke up.
"O'Connell!" I yelled trying one more time.
I eventually realized no one was going to let me out of the room. Rick had taken my guns off me when I was on his shoulder. I turned around and glared at Evy wondering why she just willingly gave up and just sat there like a carpet bag. Ugh my family was nuts.
"Anck-su-namun." I heard someone whisper.
I opened my eyes a crack just to see what was going on. When I did I opened my eyes to find Imhotep above me with a knife aimed at my stomach. I quickly grabbed the knife from underneath my pillow and stabbed him in the arm, he looked surprised at first, he showed no pain. He was not pleased with me at all. He dropped the dagger he was holding and grabbed my arms and threw me into the wall, the knife still in his arm. My head hit the wall and I lost my vision for a moment. When the color faded back into view I saw The mummy walked up to me again, he pulled my knife out of his arm and grabbed my neck lifting me up against the wall holding the knife near me, ready to slit my throat. I heard Evy screaming as she tried to pry the mummy off me.
"Hey, get your ugly face away from her!" Rick exclaimed sounding very pissed. Imhotep looked up at Rick distracted for a moment.
"Hey! Look what l got." Rick raised his arms that had the cat in them. The mummy screamed and faded into dust rushing out of the window. I slid back down the wall catching my breath. My knife clattering on the ground.
"You alright?" Rick asked me as he dropped the cat and strode over to me.
He held out his hand for me to take. I just looked at it for a second. Rick looked into my eyes as if to say come-on-just-take-my-damn-hand. I took it and he helped me up I stumbled a little and he held me in his arms for a bit til I was able to move again without getting dizzy. I wrapped my arms around his torso and we just stood there with him holding me.
"Well, I'm not sure." Jon answered. I rolled my eyes at him. Looking at Evy's face to guarantee that she in face was alright as well. She nodded at me and walked over to Jon to talk to him about what him and Rick had discovered.
"Well, according to legend, the black book the Americans found at Hamunaptra... Is supposed to bring people back from the dead. Until now it was a notion l was unwilling to believe." Evy said as we walked briskly back threw the museum.
"Believe it, sister. That's what brought our buddy back." Rick said with a bite of sarcasm.
"l'm thinking that if the black book can bring dead people to life—" Evy started.
"Then maybe the gold book can kill him." I filled in to Evy.
"That's the myth." She said.
"Now we just have to find out where the gold book is hidden." I said, I had a good feeling about where it was, back at Hamunaptra. I rolled my eyes.
"lmhotep. lmhotep." We heard a ton of voices almost chanting the name. Like robots.
"Last but not least... My favorite plague- boils and sores." Jonathan added in his opinion.
"They have become his slaves. So it has begun, the beginning of the end." The Medjai had joined us.
"Not yet it hasn't." Evy spoke up looking him in the eyes. They shared a look
"lmhotep. lmhotep." They continued. We kept walking towards this big stone slab where Evy and I were going to start reading to translate along with Dr. Bey and Ardeth who was the Medjai leader.
"According to Bembridge scholars, the golden Book of Amun-Ra... Is located inside the statue of Anubis." Evy explained.
"That's where we found the black book." Daniels said.
"Exactly." Evy said matter of factly.
"Looks like the old boys at Bembridge were mistaken." Jon laughed, we both knew they were cheating Evy of an amazing opportunity and quite frankly were missing out since they kept rejecting her application. Evy and I started to translate the stone.
"They mixed the books up. Mixed up where they were buried. So if the black book
is inside the statue of Anubis... Then the golden book must be inside—" Evy trailed off eying the stone. The chanters had burst threw the door of the museum. I read a little faster knowing this needed to be done ASAP.
"Joe." Rick said to me sharply basically telling me to go faster. I hissed at him ignoring his obnoxious beautiful voice.
"Come on, Evy. Faster." Jon urged.
"Patience is a virtue." Evy countered Jon.
"Not right now it isn't." I said while I continued to read.
"Uh, l think l'll go and get the car started." Jon stated and left the building.
"l've got it. The golden Book of Amun-Ra is at Hamunaptra inside the statue of Horus." Evy exclaimed. I stepped away from the stone.
"Take that, Bembridge scholars." I muttered smiling knowingly. My sister was amazing and they needed her, they are going to get an earful from me when I get back to my humble abode. We rushed out of the museum only to be met with a ton of people about 100 meters in front of us.
"lmhotep!" I heard Beni yell to the undead mummy. He stood in the window where we just were. He looked very close to being fully regenerated.
"You're gonna get yours, Beni! You hear me? You're gonna get yours!" Rick yelled back once we were all safely in the car and Jonathan speed off.
"Oh, like l've never heard that before!" I heard the faint voice shout back at us Jonathan drove threw the streets of Cairo like a maniac until we stopped abruptly. What the hell? I looked up from reloading some weapons to see the giant mob of people. Rick decided now would be a good time to slam on Jonathans foot and plow threw the crowd.
"Hang on!" He yelled. We started knocking the group over like bowling pins. However some of them latched onto the car and started to climb in and fights broke out. I threw some punches and threw them out of the car when I noticed Daniels being dragged out by some of the zombies.
"Hey! O'Connell! O'Connell!" Daniels yelled to us. But he got dragged out anyway. Poor guy. All of a sudden the car crashed into some barrels containing water. Rick helped me out of the car, not like I really needed the help though. I noticed Ardeth helping Evy out and Jon stumbling out by himself. Rick grabbed a torch and started waving it at some people to get them to step away from us. All in a moment we were backed up against some building not knowing what to do with these people circling us chanting for the man who wanted me dead.
"lt's the creature. He's fully regenerated." Dr. Bey commentated for us.
"Keetah mi pharos... Aja nilo, isirian." Imhotep said. Rick stepped in front of me a little not knowing what was going to happen next.
''Come with me, my princess. It is time to make you mine forever." Beni translated.
''For all eternity, idiot." Evy corrected him. Not really the best time for that Eves.
"Koontash dai na... Aja nilo." Imhotep said. I struggled with the decision we now needed to make. I looked at Evy.
"Take my hand... And l will spare your friends." Beni translated for us.
"Oh, dear…" Evy said looking to me asking me for help.
"Have you got any bright ideas?" I asked Rick looking into those baby blues.
"I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'." He said glancing back at me twisting around the torch.
"Well, you better think of something fast, because if he turns me into a mummy... You're the first one I'm coming after." I said to him hooking Evy and I's arms together and walking forward in tow with her.
"No…" Rick said, I sense the sacredness in his voice. I could see the anguish in his face as he pulled his gun out and pointed it at Imhotep.
"Don't!" Ardeth grabbed Rick's arm.
"He has to take us to Hamunaptra to perform the ritual." I said, not super worried that I would die but definitely knew it was a possibility.
"She is right. Live today, fight tomorrow." Ardeth tried to console Rick. Rick changed immediately to anger.
"I'll be seeing you again." He promised looking Imhotep in the eyes.
"Evelyn! Joe!" Jonathan yelled to us.
"Hey, that's mine." He said as Beni walked up to him and stole his puzzle box.
"Thank you." He said like the obnoxious little twat he is. Imhotep took a hold of both Evy and I's arms and drug us away.
"No! Let go of me!" I heard Evy yell, while I just let it happen.
"Imhotep." His minions started chanting again following us out
"Good-bye, my friend." I heard Beni say to Rick.
"Come here, you little—" I heard Rick yell.
A feeling of complete and utter horror crossed over my mind. What if I never saw Rick again. I couldn't live with that, but I had to because this was now a reality. I looked at Evy who seemed to be miles away in her mind. I was worried for the both of us. But there was one thing for certain: I would not go down without a fight. Mum wouldn't want that for us.