Last Time: Everyone looked into the pyramid for the first time and took their own personal tours. But when Sakura put on a mysterious bracelet, the pyramid began to rumble. Everyone escaped in time…except for Sakura, Madison, and Eriol. They remained stuck inside the pyramid. And to make things worse…the pyramid sunk into the sand. There seems to be no way out!
Curse of the Pyramid: Part 3
Sakura was on her knees and coughing profusely. The rumbling finally came to an end and it was seemingly all over. But the nightmare was just beginning. Sakura was stuck inside the pyramid along with Madison and Eriol. Things got worse, though. It was pitch black inside the pyramid.
"Madison? Eriol?" Sakura called out. "Are you guys here?"
"I'm here," Madison called out distantly. "But where's Eriol? Eriol?"
"I'm over here," Eriol called out. "Where are you? I can't see? Do you still have the flashlight, Sakura?"
Sakura couldn't believe she didn't think of that. She reached inside her pocket and pulled out the flashlight. She turned it on and found Madison was right in her face. The two girls screamed, having scared each other, and crawled back.
"MADISON!!" Sakura cried. "Don't DO that!!"
"You really scared me, Sakura!" Madison wailed. "Eriol, where are you?"
Sakura pointed the flashlight at the door and saw Eriol struggling to open the pyramid's entrance. But it was no use.
"The entrance is jammed," Eriol groaned. "We're stuck!"
"What do we do?" Madison asked fearfully.
Sakura then noticed someone going through her pocket. It was Kero and he pulled out something very interesting. It was Sakura's Clow key.
"Somehow, I knew this would come in handy," he said.
A gleam of hope appeared in Sakura's emerald eyes. "The cards! We're saved!"
Sakura reached in and took out the Sakura Cards that Kero packed. Unfortunately…she remembered that she didn't have all the cards and she didn't check which cards she brought with her. And the cards she found…weren't too useful.
"Dream Card: won't do me any good here. Windy: that might help later. Sand Card: there's enough sand outside. Illusion Card: I don't know about that. Flower Card: what good will flowers do me? Float Card: maybe that'll help later. Fly Card: there's no place to fly in here. Power Card: that might come in handy. Sword Card: there's nothing here to cut."
"I knew you should have checked the cards before we left," Kero growled.
"Anything we could use to actually escape?" Eriol asked bitterly.
Sakura sighed. "I haven't found anything yet and there's only one card left." Then she smiled. "But we might be able to use this one." Wasting no more time, Sakura held up her Clow key. "Key of Clow! Power of magic! Power of light! Surrender the wand! The force, ignite! Release!" Sakura took her wand and took out the last card in her pocket. "Light Card! Release and dispel!"
Eriol panicked. "Sakura, NO!!"
It was too late. Sakura released the Light Card…and was sorry she did. The light was TOO bright. Sakura forgot how powerful Light could be. Light was powerful enough to illuminate the very darkness of night itself. No matter how pitch dark the pyramid was, Light was too much.
"Light! Tone it down!" Sakura shouted. "You're blinding us!"
Light heard Sakura and toned itself down. The pyramid was illuminated enough so that everyone could see their way around. That's when Sakura noticed the closed pyramid entrance. She decided to do something about it.
"Stand back!" Sakura instructed. Then she took out the only other card that would help her. "Power Card! Grant your power to this wand! Power! Release and dispel!"
Sakura felt the power flow into her wand. Then she took a few steps and immediately rushed the entrance. She swung her wand down and pounded on the entrance, cracking it open. Unfortunately…sand began to flow in. It was similar to the way snow flushed in when a cabin was covered by an avalanche. But Sakura knew there was no avalanche. There couldn't be. There was no sand above them…or was there?
Eriol walked over to the sand and stuck his hand in. "We're stuck. There's no way out!"
"B-But we CAN'T be stuck!" Madison panicked. "There HAS to be a way out!"
Sakura was ready to panic also, but she kept her composure. "She's right. There has to be another way out. Let's go!"
Sakura led the way and Eriol and Madison followed. It looked like they would indeed wander through the whole pyramid. They had to, otherwise they wouldn't be able to escape. But why was the pyramid flushed with sand in the first place? Was there something they didn't know?
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Night had fallen. Everyone had reluctantly given up on hopelessly digging through the sand. The pyramid was gone forever.
No! He wouldn't believe that. Tori Avalon refused to believe that his sister was gone forever. There had to be something he could do. So when no one was looking, he left the tent and went back to the site of where the pyramid used to be. The place was empty and there seemed to be nothing he could do. But Tori was armed with a shovel. He would dig that pyramid out if he had to. But he had to help his sister and his friends.
Tori spent the first few minutes digging, but soon he found he wasn't alone.
"Tori?"
Tori looked back and sighed. "I have to do something, Julian."
Julian nodded. "I realize that. Let me help you. I know you want to get them back as much as anybody."
Tori realized that Julian also had a shovel. He smiled. "Thanks. I could really use the help. I'll find that pyramid. Even if I have to dig forever."
Julian started digging, but then made a valid point. "But how do you know how long we have to dig? We don't know how deep that pyramid went."
"I don't care," Tori growled. "I WILL find them! I can't lose them!"
Julian put his hand on Tori's shoulder. "We won't lose them. There has to be a way."
Tori smiled. "Then keep digging. Because this is the only way I can think of."
Tori and Julian wiped their foreheads and kept on digging. If Tori had anything to say about this, his sister and her friends WOULD be found.
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Sakura, with her wand in hand, walked back into a familiar room. She walked into the room with the golden statue with her likeness. Sakura looked at the statue, still overtaken by its similarity to her, and then she looked at the bracelet on her arm.
"Hey, guys? You don't think this all happened when I put the bracelet on…do you?"
Madison looked at Sakura's arm. "You don't think the bracelet's cursed…is it?"
Eriol scoffed. "It's NOT cursed. It's just a coincidence. That's all it was."
"It's a coincidence we're sealed inside a pyramid?" Madison asked indignantly.
"I don't want to take any chances," Sakura said. "I'll just put the bracelet back."
Sakura knew it was worth a try. She should just put everything back the way it was. But she soon discovered that it wasn't that simple. The bracelet…was stuck.
"Madison! Give me a hand! I can't get it off!"
Madison walked over and struggled along with Sakura. The bracelet was stuck tight. There was no way to dislodge it from Sakura's arm.
"Did you try Power?" Kero suggested.
That seemed like a good idea to Sakura. "Power! Release!"
Sakura released Power. It should have been a simple matter of taking the bracelet off…but it was still stuck. It wouldn't come off.
Eriol was becoming curious. "Even WITH Power, you can't take it off?"
"It's stuck on tight!" Sakura grunted.
Kero thought about that. "Power should be able to take off anything. It's almost like that bracelet is…magically sealed."
Eriol shook his head. "I'm not familiar with that kind of magic."
"It must be some of that Egyptian magic," Madison thought. "But what magic is there in a bracelet? I don't get it."
"Me neither," Kero said. "It's like I said, I'm not one for ancient Egyptian stuff. The only magic I'm familiar with is the magic of Clow Reed. This could be pretty much anything."
"We'll worry about this later," Sakura finally huffed. "Let's just keep moving. There has to be another way out."
Madison took her camera out. "Ok, lead the way."
Eriol groaned. "We're stuck inside a pyramid. Don't you think this is a BAD time to have that thing on?"
Madison looked hurt. "But…I just can't help myself. This feels like such an adventure. I want to get it on tape."
"I just don't get you sometimes," Eriol sighed. "Fine! Let's just go! Lead the way, Sakura."
Sakura walked out of that room and led the way into another part of the pyramid. Lord only knows what could be in here.
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There they were. Tori and Julian were digging through the sand, desperately trying to find a pyramid. It seemed like such a futile task. But Tori was passionate about this. He wanted to find his sister, but it looked like he would ultimately go nowhere. That made Nakuru sad as she watched from the distance.
"What do you think happened to them?" Nakuru asked.
Suppi just floated up in the air, having been in Eriol's suitcase throughout the trip. "It might be one of those Egyptian curses I've read about. For all we know, they might be stuck in there forever."
That hit Nakuru hard. She couldn't picture her life without Eriol. "I want them back, Suppi. They can't just be…gone."
Suppi sighed deeply. "You know what we have to do, Nakuru. We have to call him."
Nakuru gasped. "Suppi, we can't! He'll just worry!"
"It doesn't matter right now," Suppi said. "We have to tell Li. He can't be kept in the dark about this. He has to know."
Nakuru obviously didn't want to tell Li. It's not that he didn't have a right to know. He loved Sakura. He did have a right to know. But Nakuru knew that there was nothing he could do about this, especially if he was in Hong Kong.
"Do we have to tell him, Suppi?" Nakuru pleaded.
Suppi nodded. "You know we do. You have his number, right?"
"His number in Hong Kong? Yeah, Sakura gave it to me. But I just don't want to have to tell him. It'll tear him apart."
Suppi wasn't convinced. "We HAVE to!"
Nakuru sighed and turned around to walk back to the tent. But she looked back one more time to see Tori and Julian still hard at it. They were desperately trying to find any sign of the pyramid. But Nakuru started to wonder…
When Li found out about this…would he be just as, if not more, hysterical?
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"All you had to check was check the cards," Kero kept nagging. "But NO! You said you could handle anything. You said you could work with anything given to you."
"Ok!" Sakura groaned. "I admit it! I was stupid! How was I supposed to know I'd be stuck inside a pyramid?"
"Expect the unexpected," Kero said. That made Sakura's head spin. It sounded like she was ten again.
Sakura stopped when she reached a small chamber full of cobwebs and dust. There was one difference. There was a container in the middle of the room. No, not a container. A tomb. Sakura walked up to the tomb and dusted it off.
"What do you think this is?" Sakura asked curiously.
Her friends came up and examined the tomb. There didn't seem to be anything fancy about it. It was a tomb. But that's when a mischievous grin appeared on Eriol's face.
"I dare one of you to open it."
Madison frowned. "Eriol! I'm not opening a tomb!"
Eriol's grin remained. "Then I'll do it."
Somewhere inside, Sakura felt she should have stopped him. She didn't know why she didn't say anything. Eriol lifted the lid off and opened the tomb. Sakura could see the old mummy. Like all mummies, it was a wrapped-up carcass. Sakura leaned over and almost retched at the sight…and the odor. The festering odor of death.
But then…Sakura's bracelet began to emit a light. The light shot down onto the dead mummy. Sakura almost fell over from the force. She didn't know what was happening, but Madison and Eriol were both set to scream. Then it happened.
The mummy…sat up.
Next Time: It's an Egyptian story. Did you think I could go through the whole story without a mummy? Yes, our three characters encounter a mummy. But somewhere out in Hong Kong, Li Shoran is completely unaware of all this. Will Nakuru and Suppi tell him? And if they do…what'll happen?
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