Carrying torches, O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth made their way down a long, winding, narrow staircase, heading into the bowels of the necropolis, a passageway to hell.
Madylinn and Evelyn followed Imhotep into the underground cemetery. They stopped at the sight of all the big hairy rats scurrying through the mausoleums and over the gravestones. Beni shoved his rifle into Madylinn's back and pushed her forward, earning a yelp from her and a glare from Imtohep.
"Keep moving."
Evelyn gave him a look.
"You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself, always get their comeuppance", she said.
Beni suddenly looked worried.
"Oh yeah? Really? They do?"
"Oh, yes. Always."
Beni looked even more worried, he nervously started chewing on his lip. All four of them walked over the bridge crossing the disgusting detritus moat. Evelyn looked down at it, horrified.
O'Connell and Ardeth were busy digging out a collapsed doorway.
"I 'd take those bigger stones first. Take them from the top, otherwise the whole thing will cave in on us. Come on. Put your backs into it."
The other two turned and gave him an annoyed look.
"Yes, well, you've got the idea. Chop-chop."
Both turned around and started digging again. That's when Jobathan noticed an amethyst scarab on the far wall. He walked over and tried to jiggle it free. It came loose in his hand. He looked at the scarab in his palm. It started to glow. And then something inside it started to wiggle.
"I say, gents! You should come and have a look at this."
The wiggling continued. A long, agonizing beat, and then the scarab broke out of it's cocoon and instantly burrowed into Jonathan's palm. He started to freak out and screamed. The other two turned around.
"What?"
"It's in my arm! My arm!"
O'Connell ran up and ripped the shirt off Jonathan's arm. The scarab was now burrowing up Jonathan's arm.
"Whoa!"
"Do something!"
"Hold him!" O'Connell yelled at Ardeth, who held Jonathan.
"Do something! Do something!"
O'Connell whipped out his butterfly-knife, snapped it open and grabbed Jonathan's arm. Jonathan's eyes widened in terror as the knife passed in front of his face.
"Not that! Not that!"
Jonathan screamed louder, obviously being cut open. O'Connell's hand flicked something away. The scarab hit the floor and immediately started scurrying back towards Jonathan, wanting to finish the job. O'Connell pulled out his gun and blew it away.
The gunshot echoed into the cemetery as Imhotep, Madylinn, Evelyn and Beni stepped-up to the strange altar, where three thousand years ago Imhotep tried to bring Anck-su-namun back to life.
Imothep scowled at the sound and angrily reached into a canopic jar. He pulled out the crusted remains of Anck-su-namun's heart, crushed it to dust in his hand and started reading from the Book of the Dead.
"Shatay Wapay Ku Ra Eck!"
Then he blew the dust against a mausoleum wall. The wall started to come alive. The two women and Beni stared at the wall, the three of them wide-eyed. Two forms emerged from the mausoleum's wall, horrific-looking mummified corpses; Two of Imhotep's long dead Priests. They bowed to Imhotep, then turned and moved off down a passageway.
"Bembridge scholars never wrote about this."
O'Connell helped Ardeth mend Jonathan's wound.
"From now on, don't touch anything. Not a damn thing. Keep your hands off the furniture, got it?"
Jonathan swallowed hard and nodded vigorously.
Imothep prepared the altar while speaking in hebrew. Beni held his gun on her, translating:
"Prince Imhotep wants your heart."
Evelyn blushed, feeling complimented by the handsome prince.
"Tell him, I'm truly flattered... but that it's already taken."
"Evy, I don't think he meant it like that."
Imothep continued speaking while laying the four jewel encrusted canopic jars next to the shattered one.
"He wants your heart and your brain, your liver, your kidneys..."
Evelyn's eyes widened.
"... and how do you say? Those slimy things, in your stomach?
"Intestines."
"Yeah! Them."
Evelyn can't believe it, she furiously turns to Imhotep.
"You only want me for my organs?!"
Imothep looked at her and grins, then raised his hand, but Madylinn stepped in front of her cousin and Imothep backhanded her instead of Evelyn.
Madylinn went down for the count, Evelyn catches her. Imhotep stares st Evelyn, cold, malevolent, then he backhanded her too and turned and walked off into the mausoleums. Beni nervously glanced around, then quickly scurried away.
O'Connell squeezed through a small crevice in a wall and dropped to the floor of a dark chamber. He picked up his gunnysack and scanned the darkness. Something glittered. Jonathan and Ardeth crawled in behind him. O'Connell noticed a shaft of light, high above him, shooting through a small hole in the ceiling and stopping against a wall next to one of those mirror disks. O'Connell aimed his gun at it and fired. The bullet stroke the disk's pedestal, spinning
the mirror into the shaft of light. The shaft of light hit the disk and quickly bounced around the room from one disk to another until the whole chamber was lit up. It was an enormous treasure chamber, filled to overflowing. Everything sparkled and shone, the wealth of Egypt. The three men were speechless. Then the two mummified Priest-mummies walked in.
"Who the hell are these guys?"
"Priests. Imhotep's priests."
O'Connell pulled the elephant gun out of his gunny-sack.
"Alright then. I never killed a priest before."
"They are evil, cursed, they matter not."
"Well, okay then."
O'Connell fired the elephant gun. Smoke and flame shoot out, blasting one of the mummies, blowing it's upper torso clean off. O'Connell pumped the gun, the huge spent cartridge flipped through the air. He fired again, blasting the other mummy, blowing this one's torso clean off as well. The smoke cleared. The two sets of legs kept walking forward, unaffected by the loss of their upper torsos. O'Connell couldn't believe it.
"Oh come on, gimme a break here."
And then the disemboweled upper torsos started to move, turning over and crawling towards the men, who started to back away.
Imothep turned from the altar as he heard more gunshots echoing out of the passageways. He angrily reached into another of Anck-su-namun's canopic jars, pulled out her crusty liver and crushed it to dust, then quickly started reading a passage from the Book and blew the dust down a passageway.
"Kill them! Kill them all! And bring me the Book of the Living!"
A dusty breeze blew into the chamber as O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth backed away from the mummy pieces. The floor where they were just standing suddenly started to move. Two more mummies slowly dug their way up out of the floor. More mummies started coming out of the walls and crawling out of the piles of gold. All the mummies headed for the three men. O'Connell lifted the elephant gun. Ardeth Ray stopped him.
"My turn."
Ardeth opened up with the Lewis gun, blasting the shit out of the mummies. They kept on coming, even more now. O'Connell opened fire with the elephant gun, pumping and firing as all three of the men back away and haul ass. The mummies and mummy pieces followed them into the passageway. Then Beni crept into the chamber. He stared in wonder at
all the treasure. Then he fell backwards into a pile of jewels and rolls about.
Evelyn woke up, lying chained to the top of the altar. She blinked, then turned her head, seeing her cousin chained to a wall with different clothing.
"Maddy?"
The unconscious girl didn't move. Evelyn turned her head to the other side and looked right into the rotted face of Anck-su-namun's corpse. Evelyn screamed which woke Madylinn up.
The elephant gun fired, blasting flame and smoke. O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth raced down a passageway, a dozen mummies striding after them.
"This whole place is comin, alive!"
The men raced around a corner. More mummies. They raced around another corner. More mummies. Onward they came. Methodical. Relentless. Boxing in the three. O'Connell and Ardeth were firing as they went. Ardeth went empty.
"I'm out", he said.
He threw the machine-gun down and they all raced into a small chamber. The lower half of the giant statue of Horus stood in the middle of the chamber.
"There he is!
They ran up to the base of the statue."
"Hello Horus old boy."
O'Connell looked back at the mummies coming down the passageway. He reached into his gunny-sack and pulled out a stick of dynamite. Ardeth Ray tapped him on the shoulder.
"Allow me."
O'Connell handed him the dynamite and a match, then turned to look at the statue. Ardeth reaches forward and stroke the match off O'Connell's stubbly face. O'Connell yelped. Ardeth lighted the dynamite and threw it down the passageway. They all hit the deck. The dynamite exploded, ripping apart the creatures, causing a cave-in and sealing the passageway with rock and dirt. Now there was only one way out, another dark, creepy passageway.
Chained tight to the top of the altar, Evelyn hopelessly struggled to free herself. She stopped as Priest mummies started surrounding the altar. Evelyn was horrified as the hideous mummies knelt down and began to chant, which now sounded even more horrific due to the lack of tongues, jaws and mouths in the room. Imothep stepped up carrying the black Book of the Dead. His hand reached out and lovingly caressed Anck-su-namun's decayed cheek.
"Anck-su-namun."
O'Connell and Jonathan were digging away at the seams of the secret compartment, it started to give. And that's when Ardeth spotted another group of rotting mummies coming down the dark passageway, heading right for them. O'Connell looked up.
"Damn, these guys just don't quit, do they?"
Ardeth grabbed the elephant gun and a handful of shells and ran off towards the mummies.
"Keep digging!"
O'Connell and Jonathan redoubled their efforts, pulling harder on the seam. The compartment started to loosen, about to give. The last time this happened, salt acid sprayed out. But they kept tugging. The tension mounted. And that was when a skeletal hand bursted up out of the ground and grabbed O'Connell's ankle. Several more moldy hands bursted up out of the ground. O'Connell and Jonathan struggled with the mummies as they crawled up out of the dirt floor. One of the mummies violently shoved O'Connell away. Another grabbed Jonathan by the throat and started to strangle him. A third mummy grabbed at the secret compartment and pulled hard. An intense burst of acid sprayed out of the seam and hit all three of the mummies. The one strangling Jonathan got it in the back and dropped him. All three mummies melted horribly.
Imothep began to read from the Book of the Dead. A large swirling hole started to open in the detritus bog. The two women's eyes widened in amazement and horror.
Ardeth blasted away at the oncoming mummies. over at the base of the statue, O'Connell and Jonathan pulled an ornate chest out of the secret compartment. O'Connell ripped off the lid, reached inside and pulled out a heavy burlap bag. He and Jonathan exchanged nervous and excited looks. Then he reached into the bag and slowly pulled out the solid gold Book of the Living, golden light reflected off their faces as they stared at it in wonder.
The elephant gun went empty. Ardeth took it by the barrel and waded into the remaining mummies swinging.
"Save the girl! Kill the creature!" he yelled.
O'Connell lighted the last stick of dynamite and threw it against the far wall. He and Jonathan hit the deck.
"That's the last one, we better get lucky."
The wall blew. Debris collapsed, but now there was a hole for them to get out. O'Connell and Jonathan raced out through the hole just as the remaining mummies entered the chamber.
Outside, Beni staggered across the sand with a saddlebag filled with treasure. He threw it over the rear of a camel and started to climb up, but he hesitated and looked back at the temple door, licking his lips. And then his greed got the better of him and he quickly climbed down and scurried back towards the door.
Imothep read from the Book. The rotten Priest-mummies rocked back and forth, chanting. Evelyn struggles. Then suddenly, the strange mist wafted up out of the swirling hole and over to the sacred jars, it passed through them and into Evelyn. Evelyn jerked as though she's been electrified.
"Evy!"
The mist passed through her and into Anck-su-namun's body. The chanting priests, swirling hole, wafting mist and Imothep's readings reached a crescendo. Anck-su-namun's crusty eyelids suddenly popped open. Evelyn stared at her in disbelief. Anck-su-namun's rotted head turned and looked at Evelyn with empty sockets. Evelyn freaked out and struggled wildly, then she noticed Imhotep holding the ancient sacrificial knife.
"With your death, my love and I will be invincible!"
He rose it up over Evelyn's chest, about to plunge it down. Evelyn's eyes widened in horror.
"Evy! Stop it! Please don't kill her!"
And that was when O'Connell and Jonathan bursted in. Imhotep spun around and faced them. Jonathan beamed as he held up the golden Book Of The Living.
"I found it, Maddy, Evy! I found it!"
"Shut-up and get us off of here!"
O'Connell grabbed an ancient sword out of a statue's hand, jumped up onto a gravestone and leapt out over the Priests. The Priest-mummies stopped chanting. The mist vanished. Imothep stepped forward. O'Connell stroke the sacrificial knife out of his hand. Imhotep bellowed a command. The Priests
stood up, swords and knives in their hands, they attacked O'Connell.
"Open the book, Jonathan! It's the only way to kill him. You have to open the book and find the inscription", Madylinn yelled.
O'Connell racked and chopped at the attacking Priest-mummies, fighting his way to Evelyn. The skeletal creatures wildly swung their swords, trying to stab O'Connell. Jonathan fumbled with the book, struggling to open it, but he couldn't.
"Well, I can't open it! It's locked or something!"
O'Connell cut two of the mummies in half, then swung his sword down at Evelyn. One chain broke free. Jonathan spots a series of solid gold, four-sided locks along the binder. It hit him like lightning.
"We need the key!"
Imothep grinned, then grabbed the key/box hanging from a chain around his neck, ripped it off and shoved it into his pocket. He picked up the sacrificial sword and headed for Jonathan.
"What do I do, girls!? What do I do!?"
"Read the inscription on the cover!" both women yelled in unison.
O'Connell swung his sword down again. Evelyn now
had one hand and one leg free. More mummies attacked O'Connell and forced him back. Jonathan quickly started translating the cover inscription. He started to backpedal through the cemetery, clutching the golden book, wide-eyed, as Imhotep moved in on him. He tripped and fell on his ass. Imhotep charged forward. O'Connell slashed another chain. Only one more left holding Evelyn. Jonathan sat up and quickly looked back at the cover.
"Rasheem... Rasheem oola... Rasheem oola Kashka!"
Imothep raised the sacrificial sword, about to kill Jonathan. And that was when some doors opened and a group of armed mummies marched through the door.
"Oh boy."
O'Connell decapitated a mummy and looked at the armed mummies.
"Oh yeah. This just keeps gettin, better and better", he mumbled.
Imothep left Jonathan and headed for the giant statue. O'Connell leapt over and with one last swing of the sword, freed Evelyn from her chains. More Priest-mummies attacked, forcing him away. Evelyn jumped off the altar and started to head for O'Connell, when a skeletal hand grabbed her, spinning her around. It was Anck-su-namun's rotted corpse. Evelyn reacted.
"Hey guys! It would be great... IF YOU COULD GET ME FREE FROM THIS THESE CHAINS!!!!!"
Imothep looked up at Anubis, pointed to O'Connell, and in ancient Egyptian commanded him to attack. Anubis moved for O'Connell, stomping over mausoleums and through the detritus moat on his way. O'Connell quickly backed away.
"Do something, Jonathan!"
"Me?"
"You can command them."
"You have got to be joking?"
Evelyn is backing away from Anck-su-namun.
"Finish the inscription on the cover, idiot! Then you can control them."
"Oh, right."
Anck-su-namun attacked Evelyn. Evelyn fend her off as best she could. Jonathan quickly looked back at the hieroglyphs on the book cover, fumbling badly under the pressure.
"Ummm, Hootash im... Hootash im now what is this last symbol here?"
"Hurry up Jonathan!" Madylinn yelled when she saw Anck-su-namun's corpse getting closer to Evelyn.
"I can't figure out this last symbol."
"What does it look like!?"
Anck-su-namun grabbed Evelyn by the throat. The armed mummies cornered O'Connell, who turned to run up the stairs, but got blocked from some of the armed mummies. Jonathan stared at the inscription, slightly oblivious.
"It's a, uh, a bird... a storck!"
Madylinn saw her cousin getting strangled by Anck-su-namun.
"Ahmenophus!"
"Oh, yes, I see."
The armed mummies pointed their weapons at O'Connell who stumbled and fell down.
"Uh, Hootash im Ahmenophus!"
The armed mummies instantly froze in their tracks just as they were wanting to make the final blow. O'Connell slid free of their weapons which were raised.
"Fa-Kooshka Anck-su-namun!"
Evelyn shoved Anck-su-namun away,
Anck-su-namun looked to the side and opened her fetid mouth to scream just as the armed mummies came up to her and stabbed her several times. Imothep shrieked in rage and horror, then turned and angrily headed for Jonathan. Jonathan, sitting on his ass, quickly backpedaled on his hands and heels. O'Connell leapt to his feet, the sword in his hand and ran for Imothep, who grabbed Jonathan, lifted him up, ripped the golden Book of the Living out of his hand and pinned him to a wall. O'Connell ran up and swung his sword at Imhotep. He sliced Imhotep's right arm off. It dropped to the ground, still clutching the Book of the Living. Imhotep dropped Jonathan and spun around, facing O'Connell, who grinned.
"Okay pal, let's see how tough you are without your right arm."
Imothep grabbed O'Connell with his left arm and threw him half way across the cemetery. O'Connell slammed into a gravestone, bounced off and crashed to the ground. He shook it off.
"Alright,... so he's left handed."
Imothep was already striding towards him. Jonathan lifted up his hand, he had the key/box back. He smiled at the two women.
"Girls, I got it!"
Evelyn ran for Jonathan.
"Go help Maddy getting her free, Ill handle the Book."
Jonathan ran up to his cousin and found her in ancient clothing.
"Don't you dare drool okay? And now please get these chains off of me!"
O'Connell swung his sword and cleaved a big chunk of molten flesh rot out of Imhotep's stomach. On the outside, Imhotep looked human, but on the inside he was still a rotten old mummy. Imothep backhanded O'Connell, knocking him twenty feet back. O'Connell staggered to his feet. Imhotep was right there, clubbing him hard with his left arm. O'Connell spun through the air, slamming into the side of a mausoleum. Imhotep approached, rage in his eyes. O'Connell got up, quickly pivoted and hacked into Imhotep's head. Imhotep grinned and punched O'Connell in the face. O'Connell was thrown back, pulling his sword with him. He bounced hard off the mausoleum, landing on his feet. He could barely stand. Jonathan had already opened the two chains on Madylinn's wrists, his cousin now helping him getting off the chains on her feet with her now freed hands. Evelyn lifted up the heavy gold book, Imhotep's severed hand still clinging to it. Evelyn yanked it off, threw it away, then started furiously working the key into the series of locks, unlocking each of them. Imothep strides forward. O'Connell backs into the strode forward, swung the sword, Imhotep tried to catch it, but it cleaved through his palm and deeply imbedded itself into his forearm.
Imothep ripped the sword away from O'Connell and
casually flung it away. The golden Book of the Living opens with a hiss. Evelyn held it tight as she quickly turned the heavy gold pages looking for something.
O'Connell turned to run, but Imhotep grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off his feet. O'Connell hung there, a dazed mess. Imhotep grinned, said something in ancient Egyptian, then started to strangle O'Connell, who choked, about to die. Jonathan had opened the last chain with Madylinn's help. Then Evelyn turned and faced Imhotep and read an inscription:
"Kadeesh mal! Kadeesh mal! Pared oos! PARED OOS!!"
Imothep pivoted and looked at Evelyn, a look of sheer terror on his face. Then he looked over at the detritus bog, which started to bubble and shift. The swirling hole began to open. And then suddenly the spirits of the Egyptian gods came from the stairs, on a chariot, which went threw Imothep and took his soul with them before vanishing through something that looked like a portal.
"I thought you said it was going to kill him!"
Imothep turned and moved for the little group but ran right into the sword O'Connell held. Imothep raised a hand, which was covered in blood.
"He's mortal", Madylinn said.
Imhotep stumbled back and fell into the detritus bog. They watched as Imothep slowly sank into the fetid swamp, slowly dying and turning into a rotten mummy again. And then, just before his head went under, Imothep looked up at them, grinned broadly and said something in ancient Egyptian.
"Death... is only the beginning", Madylinn translated.
Imhotep's grinning face vanished under the black bile.
Beni staggered across a chamber, straining under the weight of another saddlebag filled with treasure. He spot a large, ornate staff sticking out of a wall. He threw the saddlebag over the staff and collapsed against the wall, exhausted. And then the weight of the treasure pulled the staff down, which started a massive aural chain-reaction. Beni backed away from the wall, wide-eyed, filled with fear. All the walls started to sink into the ground, driven by tons
of pouring sand. Beni turned and hauls ass out of the chamber.
O'Connell, Madylinn, Evelyn and Jonathan looked around as all the walls started to descend. O'Connell grabbed Evelyn's hand.
"Time to go."
As they all ran, Jonathan tripped and fell and accidentally threw the Book of the Living into the detritus bog. Evelyn watched as the golden book sank into the black putrescence.
"Ohh! You've lost the book! Jonathan, I can't believe..."
"Come on!"
O'Connell pulled Evelyn forward and all four of them raced past sinking pillars. They ducked as they ran into a descending doorway.
Beni scampered down a passageway, the ceiling getting lower and lower until he had to crouch. And then he had to stick the torch between his teeth and crawled on his hands and knees.
O'Connell, Madylinn, Evelyn and Jonathan crouch-ran into the treasure chamber. Jonathan skidded to a stop, looking in wonder at all the treasure. Sand rained down on them.
"Couldn't we just..."
"No Jonathan!"
O'Connell and Evelyn grabbed him and quickly pulled him through the mounds of treasure towards
a sinking doorway on the far side of the room. The sound of the sinking walls was deafening.
Beni crouch-ran into the treasure chamber. O'Connell, Madylinn, Evelyn and Jonathan raced past him. He joined them as they ran up a staircase. Heading for a descending doorway, which was already half gone, it was now only four feet high, now three feet high, now two feet. Jonathan dove through the narrow gap. Then O'Connell dove through, he spun around. Evelyn dove, then Madylinn, but she got stuck in the middle, about to get cut in half. O'Connell grabbed her arm and yanked her through in the nick of time. Beni reached through the narrowing gap with his hand.
"O'CONNELL!!"
O'Connell grabbed it, but it was too late. Beni yanked his hand back just as the top of the door crashed to the floor, sealing him in. Beni quickly crawled back down the stairs as the ceiling slammed down behind him. He stood up and looked around with his diminishing torch. All the doorways finished closing. There was no way out, he was trapped. And then he heard something and turned around. Over in the corner, a scarab-beetle stared at him, chittering. Beni waved his flickering torch at the scarab and backed away.
"Go away. Shoosh ma! Shoosh ma!"
He stood in the middle of the treasure chamber as dozens upon dozens of scarabs boiled up out of the floor around him. Beni was absolutely terrified. The scarabs started to move in. And that was when Beni's torch went out, it was pitch black. Then Beni started screaming in horror and pain, the scarabs chittering hungrily.
The temple collapsed as O'Connell, Madylinn, Evelyn, Jonathan and a pack of stray camels raced through the ruins. A sinking crevice dropped out right behind them, chasing them out through the
front gates. The whole place rumbled ominously. They made it down the ramp as more ruins crashed down behind them. A massive cloud of sand and dust billowed out over the wall and into the air. The little group and all the stray camels raced out into the desert.
They stood in the middle of the plateau, surrounded by stray camels. They stared off at the sandy and dusty volcano as it continued to rumble-ominously.
Madylinn's POV
We stood there watching the city of the Dead vanishing, when Jonathan suddenly screamed. We all turned around a saw Ardeth... and the Curator on two camels.
"Thank you. Thank you very much."
"You've earned the respect and gratitude of us and our people."
"Yes, well, it was nothing", Jonathan said.
I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Oh yeah?" I asked laughing.
Ardeth turned to me and gestured for me to follow him. He got down from his camel and went a few meters away and I followed him.
"So the mummy is defeated. What happens now? With us?"
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about."
I saw his expression and stiffened.
"I can't be with you."
"What? I don't understand. What do you mean by that?"
"I'm going to marry someone else when I go back."
"What?... You were engaged the whole time?... Does that mean... you lied to me about your feelings?"
Ardeth stepped up and reached out for me, but I jerked ma arm away.
"Tell me. Are you feeling anything for me?"
Ardeth's looked down to his feet. I straighten my back and scoffed.
"Just as I thought. I wish that you would have let me burn to death or let me drown or that Imothep would have used me for the sacrifice instead of Evy. Than I wouldn't be in this situation now."
I turned and started walking away,
-"Madylinn."-
when Ardeth grabbed my arm. I turned around again, yanking my arm away.
"I trusted you with my feelings! I thought that I would finally have someone that truly loves me and someone who is worthy, taking my virginity! But now I see that there is nothing like love. You're an asshole. I HOPE TO NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN. GOODBYE!!!!"
I walked back to the others with a waterfall of tears in my face. I walked straight to one of the camels.
"Well,... I guess we go home empty-handed... again", Jonathan said.
I saw how O'Connell looked at Evy.
"I wouldn't say that."
Evy returned the look and then she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. O'Connell returned it. I looked away and saw in the corner of my eye that the Curator and Ardeth were on their camels and riding away. My heart shattered into million pieces again when I saw Ardeth vanishing without even one glance back.
Jonathan just rolled his eyes, snorted in disgust and climbed up onto a camel. When the kiss was over, O'Connell and Evelyn shared a smile, but then looked at Madylinn with a look of pity and worry.
"Are you okay?"
"I gave him my virginity", I whined and sniveled.
O'Connell leapt up into the saddle, reached down, grabbed Evelyn's hand and pulled her up behind him. Evelyn wrapped her arms around his waist. He then rode next to me and both of them pulled me into a hug carefully, that I wouldn't fall off of the camel. Jonathan also hugged me carefully.
"Forget him Maddy. Just forget him. If he's treating you like this, then he's not worthy of your love."
I smiled at them all thanking for their understanding and that they cared for me.
"We should all live together in one house. We three will take care of you and help you cope with the pain of your broken heart."
"But how do we afford that?" Jonathan asked.
I looked down to our saddle-bags when I saw something shimmering and smiled at what I saw. The other had followed my eyes and smiled at it too.
"So let us go then."
No ones POV
O'Connell and Jonathan slapped the reins. The camels started to move out. The little group on the three camels rode off into the sunset.
And little did they know that inside of Madylinn's stomach, was growing something, but it stopped when she was rejected, now trapped in a not passing time.
They will go on an adventure again and then...
Will Madylinn be loved again and will the new life be growing again?
