The Mummy of Yugioh
BlackRoseDragonCK
3. Arrival at the Necropolis
Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Yami Yūgi & Anzu M. - Reviews: 18 - Updated: 09-06-11 - Published: 08-31-11 - Complete - id:7341199
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Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or The Mummy.
Yay! Today worked out better than I thought it would, so I was able to find time to write and publish the third chapter. By the way, I was looking over my second chapter so quickly the other day that I failed to notice several mistakes I made so I apologize for my carelessness (facepalms). Anyway, please enjoy!
Having no luggage or form of transportation, the group of adventurers was inclined to visit a caravan on their way to Hamunaptra. It was a small temporary village, but nonetheless bustling with people of all ages and each traveler quickly got separated from the other. Marik was being chased out of a tent by a group of furious veiled woman, all shouting in Arabic, while Joey haggled with a seller of camels.
"I only want four! Four!" he shouted. "I only want four, not a whole freakin' herd!"
The seller, however, insisted that it was either all or none.
"Mutou, can you believe this guy?" the blonde growled.
Irritated, Yami put his hands on his hips and snapped, "Just pay the man!"
"Oh for heavens sake!"
Joey grudgingly pulled out a handful of bills, muttering, "Can't believe the price of these fleabags…"
Taking two of the camels' reins, the spiky-haired guide smirked and replied, "You probably could've gotten them for free. All you had to do was give him your sister."
"Yeah… tempting ain't it?"
Just then, Tea appeared among a group of cooing women and Yami stopped dead in his tracks. She was dressed in a black dress with gauzy dark sleeves and a front decorated with silver sequins. A light ebony veil encrusted with silver beads rested atop her chocolate hair and just above her nose, making her sapphire eyes sparkle in the desert sun.
Taking in the young woman's beauty, Yami thought back to her brother's last comment about her being "tempting" and murmured, "…Awfully…"
After the supplies had been sufficiently replaced, the travelers set off into the desert with their "herd" of dromedaries.
"Never did like camels," Joey complained. "They smell, they bite, they spit…"
On cue, Marik spat grossly into the sand.
"Oh, I think they're adorable!" Tea exclaimed, scratching her camel's head affectionately.
She glanced back at the warden, laughing as he began to sing in Arabic.
They rode for many arduous, heat-exhausting miles and kept going, even when the sun had completely set. Dozing off, Tea's body began to lean over until her head was resting on the shoulder of her nearest companion—Yami. He smiled and gently steadied the brunette into an upright position so she would not fall off her camel, shushing his own creature as it began to grunt noisily.
Marik had also fallen asleep and was snoring obnoxiously, so Joey hit him in the chest with his riding whip, waking him up instantly.
Yami stared at them in amusement, then gasped when horse whinnies sounded in the distance. He turned to see…the Magi watching him from a distant sand dune.
"This one is strong," Shadi murmured, as the small caravan proceeded.
At dawn the next morning, Yami and the others soon met up with Weevil and his group.
"Hello, my friend," the bug-man greeted, flashing an oily smile. Both teams lined up in a neat row, watching, waiting for….SOMETHING to happen on the desert horizon.
"What the heck are we doin'?" Rex demanded to know.
"Patience, my good friend, patience," was Weevil's answer.
Rex continued, "Remember our bet, Mutou. First one to get to the city gets five-hundred bucks."
Glancing to their guide, Mako added, "One hundred of those bucks is yours if you can help us win that bet."
"Oh, my pleasure." Weevil then turned to his ex-partner and snickered, "Hey, Mutou…nice camel."
The unruly-haired soldier simply smiled and rubbed his dromedary's head. He then straightened up and muttered to his party, "Get ready for it."
"For what?" Tea cocked her head.
"We're about to be shown the way."
All eyes were fixed on the desert as the sun slowly rose, painting the sky blood-red….and as if the desert itself were merely an illusion, the blurry image of an ancient city materialized in the sand.
"Will ya look at that…" Rex breathed.
"Whoa…" Mako gasped. "Can you believe it?"
Espa smiled. "Hamunaptra."
Yami, however, seemed slightly apprehensive, saying, "Here we go again…"
Finally, when the necropolis was clearly visible, all riders let out a collective, "Hyah!" and the race to Hamunaptra began. Yami rode up beside Weevil's horse, urging his grunting camel onward. Not to be outdone, the spectacled cheater grinned nastily and began hitting his rival with his riding wip.
"OW!" the soldier yelped, shielding his head from the blows with a stinging arm. Fed up, Yami grabbed the man's collar and said, "So long, Weevil," before throwing him off his horse and onto the ground. (A.N: payback for Weevil messing up the train in season 4 and making Yami and Tea fall off the cliff into the desert!)
"It serves you right!" Tea grinned at the nearly trampled man. She urged her camel onward, catching up with Yami, and eventually passing him all together as her ride suddenly gained a burst of speed.
"Whoo-hoo!" Joey punched the air in triumph. "Go, Tea! Go!"
And with that, the small group of heroes on their spitting, smelly camels, outran the group of scoundrels with their majestic horses.
The two teams set up camp at the ruins and each person began tackling their own task. Unfortunately, the "gamblers" had a team of Arabic workers with them, doing all the hard labor such as moving stones and digging through the sand.
Noticing that the opposing team was off in their own faraway corner of the city, Rex glanced at Zigfried and asked, "Do they know something that we don't?"
The scholar smirked and replied, "They are led by a woman. What does a woman know?" (A.N: Just for the record, I HATE that guy in the movie!)
Climbing around an obstacle course of stones, Tea pointed at a nearby looming monument and explained, "That's a statue of Anubis. Its legs go deep underground. According to Bembridge scholars, that's where we'll find a secret compartment containing the book of Amun-Ra."
The brunette glanced at he brother fiddling with an ancient Egyptian form of lighting and sighed, "Joey, you're meant to CATCH the sun with that."
Yami approached her with a curious expression. "So…what are all these old mirrors for?"
"Ancient mirrors. It's an ancient Egyptian trick. You'll see."
Yami nodded and shifted about in a nervous, awkward manner. He finally held out a leather satchel and stammered, "Uh…h-here this is for…uh…you."
The blue-eyed beauty studied the gift with a perplexed expression as the soldier continued, "Go ahead. It's a gift from our gambling brethren…I t-thought you might like it—you might NEED it when you're uh…yeah." He started to walk away and was met by Marik who was watching his nervous antics curiously. "What are you lookin' at?'
The warden threw his hands up in defense.
Tea watched her red-eyed companion for a moment before finally unfurling the gift he had given her. Her face lit up in delight when she beheld an amazing assortment of professional archeological digging tools.
Yami had just enough time to glimpse the girl's smile, before beaming himself and swinging by a rope down into the tomb.
"We're standing in a room that no one's entered in over three thousand years!" Tea gasped once they were all inside the underground temple.
Joey wretched. "What is that god-awful smell?" His question was answered when he noticed Marik standing beside him.
The cerulean-eyed young woman shifted one of the mirrors in the room. And then there was light," she announced as the light reflected off each of the mirrors, illuminating the entire room.
"Hey…that IS a neat trick," Yami grinned.
Suddenly, Tea gasped, saying, "Oh my God…it's a sah-net jer…"
"Huh?"
"A preparation room for entering the afterlife.'
"Mummies my friend," Joey smiled. "This is where they made the mummies."
The group made their way down a cob-web filled hall and froze when they heard loud skittering through the walls.
"What the—"
"What was that?" the blonde man looked around fearfully.
Yami raised his eyebrows. "Sounds like…bugs."
"I HATE BUGS!" Marik yelped.
They continued through the narrow chambers of the mausoleum until they finally came upon what they were looking for—the legs of Anubis.
"The secret compartment should be hidden somewhere in here…" Tea murmured thoughtfully.
Unfortunately, her investigation was cut short by curious sounds coming from around the corner. Yami handed the brunette the torch and pressed her against the wall. He began inching towards the corner, slowly preparing his pistol until….about twenty guns clicked and pointed at each other as Weevil's team ran into Yami's.
"Geez…" Rex groaned. "You scared the bejesus out of us, Mutou."
"Likewise."
"Hey…" Espa began thoughtfully, eyeing the satchel in Tea's grasp. "The cosmic forces are telling me that that is my tool kit!"
"I don't think so," the spiky-haired adventurer growled, holding his gun on the green-haired man.
"H-have a nice day, gentlemen," Tea stuttered, trying to prevent a shoot-out. "We have a lot of work to do."
"Push off!" Zigfried snapped. "This is OUR dig site!"
"We got here first."
Once again, guns were held up.
"This is OUR statue, friend," Mako claimed.
Yami's ruby eyes narrowed. "I don't seem your name written on it…PAL."
Always one to accentuate his rival's disadvantage, Weevil pointed out, "Yes, well…there's only FOUR of you and FIFTEEN of me. Your odds are not so great, Mutou."
"I've had worse."
"Yeah, me too!" cried Joey and Yami looked at him as if he had two heads.
"Oh, for goodness' sake, let's be nice, children," Tea exclaimed, stepping between the quarrelling parties. "If we're going to play together, we must learn to share." She looked at her guide, placing a delicate hand on his bicep to calm him. "There are OTHER places to dig."
After finding another dig site, the boys set to work with pickaxes while Tea read instructions. "According to the hieroglyphics, we're underneath the statue. We should come out right between its legs."
Joey huffed. "When those darn jerks go to sleep we'll dig our way up and steal that book right out from under their noses."
Swapping tools with the Joey, Yami inquired, "Are you SURE we can find this secret compartment?"
Tea nodded, "Oh, yes, if those idiots haven't already beaten us to it."
It was then that the brunette's sibling noticed that one person was missing from their group. "Where'd our smelly little friend go?"
The aforementioned "smelly man" was currently skulking around one of the ancient corridors, searching for treasure. Marik gasped in surprise when he spied a carving of an Egyptian on the wall, encrusted with strange, shiny navy objects. Using a knife to pry one from the wall, the warden examined it, murmuring, "Blue gold…." before whooping in triumph.
In another area of the ancient temple, the opposing team was attempting to force open an ancient chamber.
"Yeah!" Rex rubbed his hands together in anticipation. "Let's get us some treasure!"
"Careful!" Zigfried warned before the over-zealous man could strike the stone wall. "Akhenamkhanen was no fool. I think perhaps we should let the diggers open it, hmm?"
Behind them, the desert workers, none of whom spoke English, were all conversing anxiously among themselves.
Espa nodded in agreement. "Oh, I think we should listen to Mr. Lloyd, Raptor. The force tells me that all is not as it seems with this chamber."
Rex shrugged and replied, "Yeah, sure. Let THEM open it."
The mauve-haired scholar spoke some words in Arabic and motioned the men over. They began prying at the chamber, grunting with effort as they drove their metal tools into the stone. Finally, the covering of the compartment fell away…and the diggers were sprayed with acid from a hidden trap. Espa, Rex, Mako, and Weevil all yelled in horror as the poor men screamed in agony from their horrible chemical burns.
Back at the mummification chamber, the trio of adventurers was currently conversing about mummification.
"So let me get this straight," Yami began. "They ripped out your guts and stuffed them in jars…?"
Tea nodded. "They'd take out your heart as well. Do you know how they took out your brains?"
"I don't think we need to know this…" muttered Joey, who was currently hitting the various rocks in the chamber with a metal pole, as if they were golf balls.
Ignoring her brother's lack of enthusiasm, the brunette continued, "They'd take a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things around and then rip it all out through your nostrils."
"That's gotta hurt," Yami winced.
"It's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this."
The soldier shuddered. "If I don't make it out of here, DO NOT put me down for mummification."
"Likewise," Joey smirked, hitting another rock.
The stone hit off the ceiling and sent part of the roof crashing down along with a strange stone casing.
"Oh my God…" Tea breathed. "It's a…it's a sarcophagus…buried at the base of Anubis. He must have been someone of great importance or…" She met Yami's perplexed gaze. "Or he…did something VERY naughty…"
They began brushing the sand off the front of the casket, trying to reveal the hieroglyphics.
"So, who is this guy?" Joey asked.
"'He that Shall Not Be Named'." Tea read.
Yami blew on a sunken in section of the stone, pushing away the sand and revealing a round, jagged indention.
"It looks like some sort of lock."
The blonde adventurer's forehead wrinkled with contemplation as he murmured, "Well…whoever's in there sure wasn't getting out…"
"Yeah, no kidding," Yami agreed. "It'd take a month to crack this thing open without a key."
"A key…" the blue-eyed beauty's eyes lit up with realization. "A key! A key! That's what he was talking about!
"Who?"
"That strange man on the ferry! The one who attacked me. He said he was looking for a key."
Tea rummaged through her bag and pulled out the artifact Joey had previously stolen from Yami.
She placed it into the indention and it fit perfectly into the shape. Grinning in triumph, the young woman was just about to turn it, when they heard screaming.
Marik rushed into the room, howling in agony, and it appeared that his skin was LITERALLY….crawling. The warden's torment didn't last long, however, as he slammed his head into the stone wall, killing him instantly.
Later that night, the now trio of travelers sat around a campfire, speaking of the late warden.
"What killed him?" Tea asked.
"Did you ever see him eat?" Joey grimaced.
Just then, Yami came walking back to the fire, saying, "Seems that our greedy friends had a little misfortune of their own today. Three of their diggers were, uh….melted."
"WHAT?"
"HOW?"
"Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid…some kind of ancient booby trap."
Joey shivered. "Maybe this place really is cursed…"
As if to confirm his suspicions, the desert wind howled ominously.
"Oh, for goodness sake, you two!" Tea chuckled.
Yami cocked an eyebrow. "You don't believe in curses?"
"No, I don't. I believe if I can see it and I can touch it, it's real. THAT'S what I believe."
"I believe in being prepared," the soldier replied, clicking his rifle.
Eager for a chance to snoop, Joey grabbed Marik's bag and announced, "Let's see what our friend, the warden believed in."
He stuck his hand in the satchel, rummaging about until…"OWW!" he yelled in pain and ripped his hand back.
Tea screamed. "My God, what is it?"
"Uhh…broken bottle. Glenlivet. Twelve years old!" the blonde grinned and popped the top off the wine. "He may have been a stinky fellow, but he had good taste."
Yami chuckled…then his crimson eyes narrowed when he heard horses off in the distance. Worried, the soldier stood up and handed his rifle to Tea, saying, "Take this. Stay here," before striding off.
The girl blinked then scrambled to her feet. "No, wait, wait! Wait for me, wait!"
"Tea!" Joey groaned, chasing after his little sister. "Didn't the man JUST say 'stay here'? Tea!"
Unfortunately, "staying there" would have done them no good….as the Magi were rampaging through the camp.
Uh Oh….Scary guys in black attack! Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please review!
I do not own Yugioh or The Mummy.