Chapter Fourteen: Here We Go Again
Hamunaptra Ruins
"Okay, now what the hell does this Horus guy look like?" Chris asked as he handed out weapons to Carlos and
Leon.
Leon took the two MAC-1 Ingram submachine guns and some more ammo for his VP70 pistol and Irons' Desert Eagle.
"Look for a guy with the head of a falcon."
"Got it."
Once they were prepared, they made their way down a long, winding, narrow staircase, down into the bowels of
the necropolis. A passageway to hell.
***
Somewhere in the ruins, Jill follows Imhotep/Alexander into the underground cemetery. She stops at the sight
of all the big hairy rats scurrying through the mausoleums and over the gravestones. Vinny shoves his revolver
into her back, pushing her forward.
"Keep moving," he ordered.
Jill glared at him. "Y'know, bad guys such as yourself always get what's coming to them in the end."
Vinny tried to laugh it off, but then he looked at Jill. "Really?"
"Always."
Vinny looks even more worried, he nervously starts chewing on his lip. All three of them walk over the bridge
crossing the disgusting detritus moat. Jill looks down at it, horrified.
***
In another passageway, our three heroes ran into a giant spider, which Chris used an acid round from his
grenade launcher to kill it.
"Damn. This place gets more disgusting creatures than Raccoon," Chris mumbled.
While he and Carlos were trying to dig out a collapsed doorway, Leon noticed an amethyst scrab on the far wall.
"Wow," he said, walking over to the wall and pulling it out. He looks at the scarab in his palm. It starts to
glow. And then something inside it starts to wiggle.
Leon turned back to the other two guys. "Hey, you guys! Look at this!"
The wiggling continues; and then the scarab breaks out of its cocoon and instantly burrows into Leon's palm,
who begins to freak out and scream.
Chris and Carlos run up and rips the arm off Leon's shirt. The scarab is now burrowing up Leon's arm. While
Carlos is holding Leon, Chris whips out his Bowie knife and grabbed Leon's arm. Leon's eyes widen in terror
as the knife passes in front of his face. Leon screams even louder, obviously being cut open. Chris's hand
flicks the scarab away.
The scarab hits the floor and immediately starts scurrying back towards Leon, wanting to finish the job.
Chris pulls out his Beretta and blows it away.
BANG!
"Bite me," Chris smirked.
***
The gunshot echoes into the chamber as Imhotep/Alexander, Jill and Vinny step up to the strange altar, where
four thousand years ago Imhotep/Alexander tried to bring Anck-su-namun back to life.
Imhotep/Alexander scowls at the sound and angrily reaches into a canopic jar. He pulls out the crusted remains
of Anck-su-namun's heart, crushes it to dust in his hand and starts reading from The Book Of The Dead. Then he
blows the dust against a mausoleum wall.. and the wall starts to come alive.
Jill and Vinny stare at the wall, both of them wide-eyed. Two forms emerge from the mausoleum's wall. Horrific-
looking mummified corpses, two of Imhotep's long dead Priests (more zombies in makeup).
"Kill them," Imhotep/Alexander ordered, "and wake the others!"
***
Chris squeezes through a small crevice in a wall and drops to the floor of a dark chamber. He picks up his
gunnysack and scans the darkness. Something is glittering inside the room. Leon and Carlos crawl in behind him.
Chris notices a shaft of light, high above him, shooting through a small hole in the ceiling and stopping
against a wall next to one of the mirror disks. Chris aims his gun, and fires. The bullet strikes the disk's
pedestal, spinning the mirror into the shaft of light. The shaft of light hits the disk and bounces around the
room from one disk to another, until the whole chamber is lit up. It's an enormous treasure chamber, filled to
overflowing. Everything sparkles and shines. The wealth of Egypt. Chris, Leon and Carlos are in awe.
"Oohh," all three men said at the same time.
I SAID AWE! A-W-E!
"Awe," they corrected, sweatdrops forming on the back of their heads.
Better.
Leon looked around the room. "Can you believe--"
Chris nodded. "Yeah."
"Is it really--"
"Yup."
"Can we take--"
"No."
"Damn it!"
That's when the two mummified Priest-mummies walk in.
Chris had his Remmington shotgun out and jacked a round into the chamber. "What the hell are those guys?"
"Imhotep's priests," Carlos replied.
"Okay," Chris said. Then all three men blasted on the mummified priests. Chris blasted one in half with his
shotgun. He doubled over as he saw the legs of the mummy he had blasted in half walk towards them. Chris, Leon,
and Carlos slowly backed away.
Then a combination of mummies and zombies came crawling out the woodwork. Chris placed the Remmington back into
his gunnysack and pulled out his two Berettas. The three worked together, Chris and Leon keeping the zombies at
bay, while Carlos blasted the mummified priests with the Lewis gun.
Then a pack of Cerebrus (the zombie dogs) came running in, wanting a piece of the action. Carlos diverted his
attention from the priests for a moment to deal with the dogs. One of them came through and tried to pounce on
Leon, but he ducked and the dog ended up pouncing on a priest instead.
Two more mummies slowly dig their way up out of the floor. More mummies start coming out of the walls and
crawling out of the piles of gold. Chris had to switch back to the Remmington, since the zombie menace was over
but the mummies remained. Seeing that this was a fight that they could not win, the three men turned and ran
down the passageway.
Then Vinny creeped into the chamber. He stares in wonder at all the treasure. Then he falls backwards into a
pile of jewels and rolls about, laughing maniacally.
***
Jill wakes up, finding herself chained on the altar. The last thing she remembered was that Imhotep/Alexander
had told her through Vinny that he wants her heart, her liver, kidneys, and the 'slimy things underneath her
stomach,' which she guessed were her intestines. When she confronted Imhotep/Alexander about it, his 'response' was to
headbutt her, knocking her out cold.
She realized that there was something on her stomach. When she looked down, she realized that it was a fat
disgusting rat. When she heaved it off of her, she turned...
...and found herself looking into the mummified face of Anck-su-namun's corpse.
Jill's screams echoed all throughout the cemetary.
***
BLAM!
Chris takes out another mummy-priest with the shotgun.
BANG! BANG!
Leon takes out two zombies with head shots with his VP70.
BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!
Carlos shot another Cerebrus dog full of holes. The three men ran down a passageway, zombies and mummies hot on
their heels. The men race around a corner. More mummies. They race around another corner. More zombies.
"This definetly sucks!" Chris yelled.
Click. Click.
Carlos threw the Lewis gun aside. "I'm out!"
"Here!" Chris threw Carlos the Remmington and pulled out the AK-47. They race into a small chamber, and saw
the statue of Horus, standing upright on one side of the wall.
"There he is!" Leon shouted, running over to the statue. "Hello, Horus, old boy."
Chris and Carlos followed suit. Chris looked back and saw that the mummies were gaining. He reaches into his
gunnysack and pulled out a hand grenade (he ran out of dynamite).
Chris pulled the pin and threw it at the door they had come from. "Time to close the door."
The grenade explodes, causing a cave in and blowing mummies and zombies apart. However, before the grenade went
off, a Cerebrus came running in and pounced on Chris. Fortunately, Chris had his assault rifle raised, and the
zombified dog had clamped its teeth onto the assault rifle, knocking the both of them down.
Chris pulled out his Beretta and shoved the barrel underneath the dog's chin. "Bite THIS!" He pulled the
trigger and sent the poor dog's brains all to the ceiling. Knocking the corpse from off of him and yanking the
assault rifle from its mouth, he turns to Carlos and Leon. "I'm okay!"
The three men went to work on the secret compartment.
***
Chained tight to the top of the altar, Jill struggles to free herself, but to no avail. She stops as Priest
mummies start surrounding the altar. Jill is horrified as the hideous mummies kneel down and begin to chant,
which now sounds even more horrific due to the lack of tongues, jaws and mouths in the room.
Imhotep/Alexander steps up to her and Anuck-sa-namun, carrying the black Book Of The Dead. His hand reaches out
and lovingly caresses Anck-su-namun's decayed cheek.
***
Chris and Leon are digging away at the seams of the secret compartment, which starts to give. Carlos
spots another group of rotting mummies coming down a dark passageway, heading right for them.
"Persistent, aren't they?" Leon asked mildly.
Carlos grabbed the shotgun and reloaded it. "You two, keep digging."
Chris and Leon redouble their efforts, pulling harder on the seam. The compartment starts to loosen. It is
about to give.
Then, just as Chris was about to pry the seal free, Leon looked up...and saw something on the ceiling.
"Chris," he shouted. "MOVE!"
Chris does what he says, leaving his crowbar in the seam. Something drops down in front of them, hissing
softly. To Chris, it looked like someone was turned inside-out. "What the hell is THAT?"
"It's a Licker," Leon explained.
"You sure?" Chris asked.
"Pretty sure. Claire and I fought these things back in Raccoon City."
"Made me wish I was still around there. Speaking of which, where IS Claire?"
Their conversation was interrupted when the Licker screeched and was preparing to leap at Leon with its claw,
when Chris saw that he had left his crowbar in the seam. He raised his assault rifle, and fired a single round.
The round missed the Licker completely...
...and struck the crowbar, prying the seam loose.
Chris guessed right. Just like what had happened with the diggers back at the Anubis statue, salt acid sprayed
forth from the seams, and caught the Licker in the back just as it jumped at Leon. When it landed, the Licker's
back was almost gone.
Leon wrinkled his nose. "Eww."
While Carlos continues to blast at the incoming mummies, Chris and Leon pull an ornate chest out of the secret
compartment. Chris rips off the lid, reaches inside and pulls out a heavy burlap bag.
He and Leon exchange nervous, excited looks. Then he reaches into the bag and slowly pulls out the golden Book
Of Amun-Ra. Golden light reflects off their faces as they stare at it in wonder.
The shotgun goes empty. Carlos throws it to the side and pulls out his scmitar. "Go! Save Jill! Kill the
creature!" he shouted as he threw himself into the mummy horde, swing and hacking at the mummies.
Chris digs into his gunnysack, this time pulling out some C4 and a detonator. After combining the two, he set
the timer and threw the explosive against the far end of the wall. Then he and Leon hit the deck.
BOOM!
The explosive blew a hole into the wall, allowing them to escape. Carlos was still busy slicing the mummies in
the corridor.
Hamunaptra Ruins
"Okay, now what the hell does this Horus guy look like?" Chris asked as he handed out weapons to Carlos and
Leon.
Leon took the two MAC-1 Ingram submachine guns and some more ammo for his VP70 pistol and Irons' Desert Eagle.
"Look for a guy with the head of a falcon."
"Got it."
Once they were prepared, they made their way down a long, winding, narrow staircase, down into the bowels of
the necropolis. A passageway to hell.
***
Somewhere in the ruins, Jill follows Imhotep/Alexander into the underground cemetery. She stops at the sight
of all the big hairy rats scurrying through the mausoleums and over the gravestones. Vinny shoves his revolver
into her back, pushing her forward.
"Keep moving," he ordered.
Jill glared at him. "Y'know, bad guys such as yourself always get what's coming to them in the end."
Vinny tried to laugh it off, but then he looked at Jill. "Really?"
"Always."
Vinny looks even more worried, he nervously starts chewing on his lip. All three of them walk over the bridge
crossing the disgusting detritus moat. Jill looks down at it, horrified.
***
In another passageway, our three heroes ran into a giant spider, which Chris used an acid round from his
grenade launcher to kill it.
"Damn. This place gets more disgusting creatures than Raccoon," Chris mumbled.
While he and Carlos were trying to dig out a collapsed doorway, Leon noticed an amethyst scrab on the far wall.
"Wow," he said, walking over to the wall and pulling it out. He looks at the scarab in his palm. It starts to
glow. And then something inside it starts to wiggle.
Leon turned back to the other two guys. "Hey, you guys! Look at this!"
The wiggling continues; and then the scarab breaks out of its cocoon and instantly burrows into Leon's palm,
who begins to freak out and scream.
Chris and Carlos run up and rips the arm off Leon's shirt. The scarab is now burrowing up Leon's arm. While
Carlos is holding Leon, Chris whips out his Bowie knife and grabbed Leon's arm. Leon's eyes widen in terror
as the knife passes in front of his face. Leon screams even louder, obviously being cut open. Chris's hand
flicks the scarab away.
The scarab hits the floor and immediately starts scurrying back towards Leon, wanting to finish the job.
Chris pulls out his Beretta and blows it away.
BANG!
"Bite me," Chris smirked.
***
The gunshot echoes into the chamber as Imhotep/Alexander, Jill and Vinny step up to the strange altar, where
four thousand years ago Imhotep/Alexander tried to bring Anck-su-namun back to life.
Imhotep/Alexander scowls at the sound and angrily reaches into a canopic jar. He pulls out the crusted remains
of Anck-su-namun's heart, crushes it to dust in his hand and starts reading from The Book Of The Dead. Then he
blows the dust against a mausoleum wall.. and the wall starts to come alive.
Jill and Vinny stare at the wall, both of them wide-eyed. Two forms emerge from the mausoleum's wall. Horrific-
looking mummified corpses, two of Imhotep's long dead Priests (more zombies in makeup).
"Kill them," Imhotep/Alexander ordered, "and wake the others!"
***
Chris squeezes through a small crevice in a wall and drops to the floor of a dark chamber. He picks up his
gunnysack and scans the darkness. Something is glittering inside the room. Leon and Carlos crawl in behind him.
Chris notices a shaft of light, high above him, shooting through a small hole in the ceiling and stopping
against a wall next to one of the mirror disks. Chris aims his gun, and fires. The bullet strikes the disk's
pedestal, spinning the mirror into the shaft of light. The shaft of light hits the disk and bounces around the
room from one disk to another, until the whole chamber is lit up. It's an enormous treasure chamber, filled to
overflowing. Everything sparkles and shines. The wealth of Egypt. Chris, Leon and Carlos are in awe.
"Oohh," all three men said at the same time.
I SAID AWE! A-W-E!
"Awe," they corrected, sweatdrops forming on the back of their heads.
Better.
Leon looked around the room. "Can you believe--"
Chris nodded. "Yeah."
"Is it really--"
"Yup."
"Can we take--"
"No."
"Damn it!"
That's when the two mummified Priest-mummies walk in.
Chris had his Remmington shotgun out and jacked a round into the chamber. "What the hell are those guys?"
"Imhotep's priests," Carlos replied.
"Okay," Chris said. Then all three men blasted on the mummified priests. Chris blasted one in half with his
shotgun. He doubled over as he saw the legs of the mummy he had blasted in half walk towards them. Chris, Leon,
and Carlos slowly backed away.
Then a combination of mummies and zombies came crawling out the woodwork. Chris placed the Remmington back into
his gunnysack and pulled out his two Berettas. The three worked together, Chris and Leon keeping the zombies at
bay, while Carlos blasted the mummified priests with the Lewis gun.
Then a pack of Cerebrus (the zombie dogs) came running in, wanting a piece of the action. Carlos diverted his
attention from the priests for a moment to deal with the dogs. One of them came through and tried to pounce on
Leon, but he ducked and the dog ended up pouncing on a priest instead.
Two more mummies slowly dig their way up out of the floor. More mummies start coming out of the walls and
crawling out of the piles of gold. Chris had to switch back to the Remmington, since the zombie menace was over
but the mummies remained. Seeing that this was a fight that they could not win, the three men turned and ran
down the passageway.
Then Vinny creeped into the chamber. He stares in wonder at all the treasure. Then he falls backwards into a
pile of jewels and rolls about, laughing maniacally.
***
Jill wakes up, finding herself chained on the altar. The last thing she remembered was that Imhotep/Alexander
had told her through Vinny that he wants her heart, her liver, kidneys, and the 'slimy things underneath her
stomach,' which she guessed were her intestines. When she confronted Imhotep/Alexander about it, his 'response' was to
headbutt her, knocking her out cold.
She realized that there was something on her stomach. When she looked down, she realized that it was a fat
disgusting rat. When she heaved it off of her, she turned...
...and found herself looking into the mummified face of Anck-su-namun's corpse.
Jill's screams echoed all throughout the cemetary.
***
BLAM!
Chris takes out another mummy-priest with the shotgun.
BANG! BANG!
Leon takes out two zombies with head shots with his VP70.
BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!
Carlos shot another Cerebrus dog full of holes. The three men ran down a passageway, zombies and mummies hot on
their heels. The men race around a corner. More mummies. They race around another corner. More zombies.
"This definetly sucks!" Chris yelled.
Click. Click.
Carlos threw the Lewis gun aside. "I'm out!"
"Here!" Chris threw Carlos the Remmington and pulled out the AK-47. They race into a small chamber, and saw
the statue of Horus, standing upright on one side of the wall.
"There he is!" Leon shouted, running over to the statue. "Hello, Horus, old boy."
Chris and Carlos followed suit. Chris looked back and saw that the mummies were gaining. He reaches into his
gunnysack and pulled out a hand grenade (he ran out of dynamite).
Chris pulled the pin and threw it at the door they had come from. "Time to close the door."
The grenade explodes, causing a cave in and blowing mummies and zombies apart. However, before the grenade went
off, a Cerebrus came running in and pounced on Chris. Fortunately, Chris had his assault rifle raised, and the
zombified dog had clamped its teeth onto the assault rifle, knocking the both of them down.
Chris pulled out his Beretta and shoved the barrel underneath the dog's chin. "Bite THIS!" He pulled the
trigger and sent the poor dog's brains all to the ceiling. Knocking the corpse from off of him and yanking the
assault rifle from its mouth, he turns to Carlos and Leon. "I'm okay!"
The three men went to work on the secret compartment.
***
Chained tight to the top of the altar, Jill struggles to free herself, but to no avail. She stops as Priest
mummies start surrounding the altar. Jill is horrified as the hideous mummies kneel down and begin to chant,
which now sounds even more horrific due to the lack of tongues, jaws and mouths in the room.
Imhotep/Alexander steps up to her and Anuck-sa-namun, carrying the black Book Of The Dead. His hand reaches out
and lovingly caresses Anck-su-namun's decayed cheek.
***
Chris and Leon are digging away at the seams of the secret compartment, which starts to give. Carlos
spots another group of rotting mummies coming down a dark passageway, heading right for them.
"Persistent, aren't they?" Leon asked mildly.
Carlos grabbed the shotgun and reloaded it. "You two, keep digging."
Chris and Leon redouble their efforts, pulling harder on the seam. The compartment starts to loosen. It is
about to give.
Then, just as Chris was about to pry the seal free, Leon looked up...and saw something on the ceiling.
"Chris," he shouted. "MOVE!"
Chris does what he says, leaving his crowbar in the seam. Something drops down in front of them, hissing
softly. To Chris, it looked like someone was turned inside-out. "What the hell is THAT?"
"It's a Licker," Leon explained.
"You sure?" Chris asked.
"Pretty sure. Claire and I fought these things back in Raccoon City."
"Made me wish I was still around there. Speaking of which, where IS Claire?"
Their conversation was interrupted when the Licker screeched and was preparing to leap at Leon with its claw,
when Chris saw that he had left his crowbar in the seam. He raised his assault rifle, and fired a single round.
The round missed the Licker completely...
...and struck the crowbar, prying the seam loose.
Chris guessed right. Just like what had happened with the diggers back at the Anubis statue, salt acid sprayed
forth from the seams, and caught the Licker in the back just as it jumped at Leon. When it landed, the Licker's
back was almost gone.
Leon wrinkled his nose. "Eww."
While Carlos continues to blast at the incoming mummies, Chris and Leon pull an ornate chest out of the secret
compartment. Chris rips off the lid, reaches inside and pulls out a heavy burlap bag.
He and Leon exchange nervous, excited looks. Then he reaches into the bag and slowly pulls out the golden Book
Of Amun-Ra. Golden light reflects off their faces as they stare at it in wonder.
The shotgun goes empty. Carlos throws it to the side and pulls out his scmitar. "Go! Save Jill! Kill the
creature!" he shouted as he threw himself into the mummy horde, swing and hacking at the mummies.
Chris digs into his gunnysack, this time pulling out some C4 and a detonator. After combining the two, he set
the timer and threw the explosive against the far end of the wall. Then he and Leon hit the deck.
BOOM!
The explosive blew a hole into the wall, allowing them to escape. Carlos was still busy slicing the mummies in
the corridor.