Chapter Ten: Secrets Revealed

Cairo Museum

"What are doing here?" Alfred asked as he, Wesker, Jill, Leon, and Chris walk down the hall of the deserted
museum.

"There's only one person I know that can gives us answers," Jill replied.

The group turn into the Old Kingdom display room and came upon Curator Burton...and Carlos Oliveira talking.
Everybody stops.

"YOU?!" Jill and the other four men screeched.

Chris, Leon and the Umbrella henchmen quickly draw their guns. Carlos just scowls. Barry nods his head in
greeting. "Miss Valentine. Gentlemen."

"What's he doing here?" Jill asked, pointing to Carlos.

"Do you truly wish to know?" Barry replied, "or would you prefer to just shoot us?"

"After what I just saw," Chris replied, lowering his guns, "this had better be good."

"You won't believe me," Barry said.

"Try me," Chris replied.
***
Everyone is assembled around the tomb display of Seti The First. Barry sits on Seti's throne and tells his
story.

"We are part of an ancient secret society," he explained, "and we have a sacred mission, passed down through
thirty-nine generations. For over four thousand years we have guarded The City Of The Dead. we are sworn at
manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world."

Carlos glared at the group. "And because of you, we have failed."

Jill was appaled. "You think this justifies killing innocent people!?"

"Yes!" both Barry and Carlos replied.

"He's afraid of cats," Chris cut in. "What's that all about?"

"Cats are the guardians of the underworld. Imhotep will fear them until he is fully regenerated," Barry
replied.

Carlos' lips were in a grim line. "Then he will fear nothing."

Alfred was now scared. "Yeah, and you know how this guy gets regenerated?"

"By killing everyone that opened that chest," Wesker replied.

"And sucking them dry, that how!" Alfred finished.

Barry nodded grimly. "Yes, the creature must first try and regenerate, and then he will attempt to resurrect
the one he has loved for more than four thousand years."

"Anck-su-namun."

Barry and Carlos look at Jill, thunderstruck.

"Back at Hamuaptra, when I saw him, he called me Anck-su-namun," Jill explained. "And then in Mister Ginovaef's
quarters he tried to kiss me."

"It's because it was you who read from the Book," Barry said. "He has chosen you to be the human sacrifice."

"That's bad," Leon said.

Carlos looked out the window. "We're gonna need all the help we can get." He pointed outside. "His powers are
growing."

Everyone follows Carlos' eyes. The sun is now going into a full eclipse.

"'...and he stretched forth His hands towards the heavens, and there was darkness throughout the land of
Egypt,'" Leon said.

This was not good.
***
Back in Jill's room, Chris looks out a window at the British Soldiers manning the walls. Above and beyond them,
is the eclipsed sun.

Meanwhile, Jill is pacing the foyer. "We must stop him from regenerating." She turns to Alfred and Wesker. "Who
else opened that chest?"

"There was me, Alfred. Nicholai, of course," Wesker replied.

"And my sister," Alfred replied.

"What about Vinny?" Chris asked.

Alfred shook his head. "Not him. He ran out of there before we opened the chest."

Wesker adjusted his shades. "He was the smart one."

"That sounds like Vinny," Chris said.

Jill nodded. "We must find Alexia and bring her back here to the safety of the fort, before the creature can
get to her."

Chris looks at Jill, Wesker, and Alfred. "Okay, Jill you stay here. Wesker, Alfred, come with me."

All three of him yelled out at once.

"The hell with that! I'm not goin' nowhere! We're safe here."

"Yeah, I'm not leavin, this fort for nothing."

Jill was the last. "Who put you in charge? You can't just leave me behind like some old suitcase. REDFIELD!
What are you doing?"

Chris had picked her up and slung her over his shoulder and carried her to her room. He closes the door and
locks it with a key shaped like a spade (another prop from Resident Evil 2). Jill can be heard pounding on
the door and yelling He then grabs Alfred. "This door doesn't open. She don't come out until I get back,
right?"

Alfred nodded. "Right."

Chris turns to Wesker. "Right?"

Wesker nods. "Right."

Chris drops the key in Alfred's hand. "Let's go, Leon."

Leon gulped. "I think I'll stay here."

"NOW!"

Leon was on his feet. "Okay."