Evelyn slowly opened her eyes. Her head hurt like hell and she felt dizzy as she tryed to stand. She looked around the unfimilair room. It wasn't very big at all, and it was totaly empty. Absoluetly nothing was there. Evelyn looked up, aware that that was where the only light was coming from. There was a a hole with thick metal bars across it. She loked closer and saw a familiar sign. The puzzle box would fit in it. That must have been how Imhotep got her in here. It was obvious that it was the only way in or out.
Suddenly, Evelyn was aware of someone else behind her. She spun quickly and saw a huddled down figure in the corner. Evelyn reconized the man right away. "Ardeth?"
Ardeth Bay looked up groggily. He didn't want Evelyn to see him like this. In this weakened condition. He looked away, the pain of his wounds overpowering him.
"My god. Are you all right?" Evelyn moved hastily forward when she noticed that he was injured.
"I will be fine, my friend." he told her, trying to sound strong,"I was not as unfortunate as those two." he gestured towards another corner.
Evelyn just barely held back a scream as she saw two dried out bodies laying next to each other. "The people who woke him up, I take it."
"I belive so."
After she was able to think agian, Evelyn noticed that one of the bodies had a bag tucked under his arm. She turned her attention back to Ardeth and looked over his wounds silently. He was bleeding pretty badly. He looked like he had put up quite a fight before being tossed down here himself by Imhotep.
Evelyn stood up on sore legs and went over and grabed the bag.
"What are you doing, Evelyn?" Ardeth questioned.
"Seeing if they have any bandages. You might bleed to death before we can get out of here." she explained as she opened the bag and started to dig through it. Her fingers hit something hard and smooth at the bottom of the bag. Evelyn pulled it out quickly and a smile imideately made its way across her face.
Ardeth almost laughed out of joy at seeing the puzzle box that Evelyn was holing in her hand. "Thank Allah." he aid under his breath.
Evelyn looked up at the hole. It was probably eight feet up. It was going to take the height of bolth of them to get up there. "I know you're hurt, but I need you to lift me up so I can reach the lock..."
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"Damn it Jonathan! You aren't helping!" Rick almost yelled. They had to come up with a plan to find Evelyn and all Jonathan could do was panic. He waved his hand infront of the Jonathan face as he seemed paralized, just staring past Rick at something. "Yoo Hoo. wake up!"
"Behind--" Jonathan was cut mid warning to O'connell as Imhotep grabed him and through him over Jonathans head into one of the walls.
Rick was slow to get up,"Thanks for the warning, Jonathan." he groaned and scrambled to his gun which had landed about six feet away.
By the time Rick had gotten to the gun, Imhotep had turned into his usual cloud of sand then all together vanished.
"What the bloody hell was that about?!" Jonathan yelled.
"How in hell am I supposed to know?"
Imhotep appeared agian, the book of Amun-Ra was tuck in his arms. He walked painstakingly slowly to a stone that he set the book on. Imhotep put his hand inside his robe, searching for the key. It wasn't there. He knew that he had had it. Was it possible that one of the men who had woken his up stole it back before he killed them? Imhotep let out an aggravated growl then began reading the inscription on the front of the book. He would have to settle for the mummy warriors this time.
All three of them watched at the corpses Rick had slaughtered a few months ago pulled themselves back together. They began advancing on Rick and Jonathan and Imhotep moved to the altar to watch two of his killers suffer through the same thing they had put him through.
Rick and Jonathan were backing up as rapidly as the mummy worriors were coming forwards. Even though they were a bit busy, they bolth notcied Evelyn and Ardeth sneak into the room quietly. Luckily, all of the mummies were to fixated on Rick and Jonathan to notice.
O'connell looked over at Jonathan he indicated with his eyes for Jonathan to run and help Evelyn while he kept the enemies attention. Rick saw an entryway not to far away and sprung for it. With the warriors hot on his tail, it didn't take Rick long to decide that this time, he may not win this fight...
Jonathan hurried for his sister. He hugged her quickly then saw that Imhotep was heading for them. Glancing around for something, *anything* to stall the bastard, he noticed the sword O'connell had used last time laying on the floor. Jonathan grabed it up and held it like a baseball bat, waiting to strike when he needed to. "Run Evie, get the book and read!" he commanded.
Evelyn did as her brother said. Ardeth joined her side with the book in hand. "I'll gain controll of the warriors first." she told them. Evelyn began reading the inscription as Jonathan fought Imhotep best he could. It was working better then they thought it would. She had to move out of the way a few times. It took about ten minuets before she was finished.
Only until they had filled the room back up did Imhotep notice that his army was under Evelyns command. He glared up at her with pure hatred before grabing Jonathan and tossing his effortlessly into a pillar. He started towards the woman to stop her before she stoped him.
"Jonathan!" Evelyn yelled,"Help!!"
Ardeth spoted Rick's weapon bag and ran like crazy for it. He found a long knife and went back to help Evelyn.
Jonathan finally was able to get onto his feet agian as before Imhotep knew he was there he ran up and sank the sword into his back. He knew it wasn't going to kill him, but hey, it would by some time for Evie.
Sure enough, the creatuer spun around and went after Jonathan.
Evelyn made a mad break to get as far away from them as possible. Ardeth held the book as she unlocked it and opened it up. After a little searching she found the page. Ardeth had told her that if she read the line after what she had read, it would make sure Imhotep never came back. She remembered what she had said the first time, but adding the other stuff was deffinately a good choice. She found the incantation and felt relife was over her. She summoned a big breath and loudly read out loud,"Kadeesh
mal kadeesh mal pared oos pared oos! Anak mal pared oos!"
Imhotep looked at her in horror, not beliving he had been distraced enough to let this happen agian. As the chariot raced down the stairs it ran trough every mummy. Every one of them crumbled into a pile of dust except for the leader.
Jonathan sunk the sword that he still held into the mans back.
He turned, the sword still in him, and was about to say something, but collapsed on his last breath.
Everyone in the room had never felt more relived in their lives. It was over. It was finally over.
Suddenly Evelyn tensed up agian. "Where's Rick?!"
"Last I saw him, he was just leaving." Jonathan informed, out of breath, he pointed toward where Rick was last seen.
Evelyn raced as fast as her tired legs would carry her down the long coridor, bolth men right behind her. They almost ran into her as the suddenly stoped, breath catching in her throat at the sight of Rick laying on his back, bleeding heavily from his side. She hurried foreward to him, taking his hand gently as she leaned over him,"Rick?"
"Evie." he half smiled up at her. He was pretty out of it and it was hard to even think let alone speak. "Evie, the other night... I should have... I should have crawled." he told her, almost out of air.
Only she knew what he was talking about and it broke her heart. "No, Rick. You'll be fine. You'll be okay. We just need to get you fixed up."
"Evelyn," he choked out,"You aren't.... going to make it to a hospital in time."
"Rick. You are *not* going to die on me!"
He looked up at her and wanted so badly to kiss her agian. They locked eyes and in just that moment they told each other everything. He gave her another weak smile before blacking out from the pain...
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note: alright, I know it's bad, but fight scenes are just something I'm not good at writing. So forgive me, I tryed. Just give me a day or two to get the last chapter up.