The Lost, The Stupid, and The Mummy
Chapter 21: Big Bad Bug Lady
Amber looked mournfully at Kaylee's body on the alter where Rick had laid her. She touched her friends face gently before clenching her fist in anger. "I want him dead."
Rick didn't need to say anything. So with one final look at her friend, Amber turned and followed Rick up the tunnel they had come. They followed the path lit by torches on the wall and after a few minutes, Rick spoke.
"I think you should go back and stay with Evy."
Amber, who was in front of him at this point, spun around furiously. "Absolutely not, I know what needs to be done." She turned and continued walking. "No negociating."
Rick caught up to her and spun her around by her shoulder, "Listen to me." Rick snapped staring into her eyes. "This could get dangerous...I mean look what happened to Kay..."
Amber slammed her fists against his chest in fury, "DIED? She didn't asked to die!" She screamed. "Don't you understand, I'm the one that has to do this!" She wretched her shoulder out of his grip, "You go back and be with your family. I don't care if I live or die, I have nothing else to live for." Amber said storming off.
But Rick caught up to her again, but this time grabbed her wrist and pressed her up against the wall, pinning her other wrist under his warm muscular body. "No, you listen to me! You have a father, who's spent years looking for you!" Amber turned her face away in anger as angry tears streamed from her eyes. "I will not let you break his heart or mine."
Amber glared at him, face flushed with anger and frustration. "What do you care! I met you five days ago!"
Rick tightened his grip in fury. "You mean more then that. You and Evy are connected from the past." His calmed alittle bit as well as his grip. "I knew that long before Evy said anything." He admited in a whisper looking away.
Amber's eyes grew wide, "What?"
Rick looked back into her eyes. "I was there, the night Khepri was killed and..."
Amber urged him on. "And..."
"You didn't kill Khepri and niether did Imhotep. Anuck-su-namun did."
Amber shook her head in confusion, "How do you know all this."
Rick relased her from his grasp and took a step back. "I was one of the Meji worriors assigned to protect Khepri and the Pharaoh." He closed his eyes and tried to find the words. "I walked in on you and your mother fighting with Khepri and I tried to stop your mother. But I was too late, she pushed Khepri off the balcony." He opened his eyes. "Then you killed you mother. You killed the Queen."
Amber braced herself on the stone wall behind her and tried to catch her breath. "And what did you do?"
"I hid you, led you out of the palace. I couldn't-couldn't bare to see you get killed for something that needed to be done. Not then and not now."
Amber brought her knees to her chest and began to cry. "B-but we saw Imhotep kill Kaylee. I saw him!" She screamed.
"Alex said he was brainwashed, that's why he looked at her the way he did when she kissed him. Alex said it must have broken the spell."
Amber opened her mouth to answer when slow clapping came from the surrounding silence. Rick and Amber jumped to their feet, spinning around on the spot. "Very clever." Anuck-su-namun appeared out of the shadows.
"You." Amber hissed. "You killed Khepri and now you killed Kaylee!"
She put her hand on her hips, "Well duh." She took slow steps towrds Amber. "I was the rightfull queen." She snapped.
"You're nothing!" Amber screamed suddenly in Egyption. "And you never will be." She whispered in English.
Anuck-su-namun laughed wickedly, "Did you two really think you mattered to me?" She sighed. "I would've killed you after I became Queen anyway."
"You bitch." Rick said and ran at her at full speed.
She snickered and waved her hand, and sent a blue firey orb colliding into Rick's chest.
"Rick!" Amber yelled. She took a step towards his unconcious body, when a scorpian tail lashed out from the darkness. Amber was caught of balnce and fell bakwards. She snapped her head up to glare at the darkness. A human face appeared next to Anuck-su-namun. But it's expression was horribly disturbing, for it wasn't attached to a body.
Anuck-su-namun tossed the severed head in front of Amber who scrambled away from it. "The mighty Scorpian King," She scoffed. "He wasn't expecting a woman to come to fight him." She took a couple more steps and revealed herself fully.
Amber gasped as she realized the Scorpian tail was attached to her. As if she was born with it, it swang side to side as she walked around Amber. "What have you done?"
"I told you, I belong on a throne. I..." She was she stopped her pace around Amber. "Am the Scorpian Queen."
Amber raised her eyebrow, "You are absolutely insane. You're bond to the same curse as he was." Amber looked down with disgust at the head. "You know that right. All someone has to do is kill you and they can send the Army of Anubis back to the underworld."
"In theory, yes." She nodded, then brought her tail up to Amber's chest. "But what are you going to do about it?" Poision dripped from the tip of the scorpian tail and Amber closed her eyes.
"You killed my best friend." Amber said through clenched teeth as she wrapped her hand around the knife she still had in her back pocket. "You really think I'm about to let you take over the world." She lashed out and sliced off the tip of the tail, causing poision to spew out as Anuck-su-namun screamed in pain. Amber stepped back when Anuck-su-namun stepped foreward viciously. "Aw...poor bug lady."
Anuck-su-namun hissed and whipped her tail around, sending the last bit of poision on to Amber's face. Amber howled in pain and hit her knees. Anuck-su-namun bent down and picked up the poision covered dagger. "You were always a mistake. Even back then, I didn't want a child." She whispered. "Now, my daughter. It's time to end your life once and for all." She raised her arm up in the air to plunge it into Amber. Then suddenly she gasped as the sound of metal piercing flesh came over the silence. Amber, through badly burned, looked up at Anuck-su-namun's frozen face. A sword blade protruding from her abdomen. Imhotep ripped the sowrd back and let Anuck-su-namun fall to her knees...dead.