The Mummy
Part Three
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*~A White Rose Petal~*
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Relena was walking along side Duo over to their ship. Duo was carrying the bags, and Relena's was extra heavy.
"God Relena! What did you pack? You don't need a ton of bricks where we're going you know!" He said glaring at her.
"What?! I only packed twenty!" Duo rolled his eyes and put down two of the bags. "Do you think he'll be coming Duo?" Duo nodded his head yes.
"I know the dude. A word is his word! Besides…he owes you something and I'm paying for the trip!" Duo started to curse a little bit.
"I don't know. Personally, I think he's a rude, filthy scoundrel!" She said.
"Anyone I know?" A voice said from behind her. She gasped. It was Heero but apparently he groomed up a bit before he came. Relena stuttered.
"Um…M-Mister Yuy, can you look me in the eye and guarantee me that this isn't some sort of a…flim flam, because if it is, I'm warning you-" Heero cut her off.
"This isn't a…flim flam, as you call it. I was there and I know where it is. Do you want me to take that bag for you?" He said in monotone. She was surprised that he could do it so easily. She took the bag that she had on her shoulder and handed it to him. Duo put his hand on her shoulder as Heero started to walk away from them.
"Yup. Rude, filthy scoundrel…nothing like that at all!" Relena turned to him and glared at him a little bit but smiled and took it off. She turned around and started to walk onto the boat when she heard a voice that she hated.
"Good morning lady and gentleman." The warden said. Relena showed much distaste of him being here on her face.
"Oh no! What are you doing here?!" She asked. The warden bowed to her a little bit and came back up.
"I am here to protect my investment!" He said. Duo scrunched up his nose when the warden passed him. He mumbled under his breath.
"Take a shower at least once a year please, you might not smell so bad." He said sarcastically. Relena grinned at him showing him that she heard. He smiled at her innocently and she rolled her eyes. She turned around and started to get onto the ship.
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On the ship, one of the busiest rooms of all was the…well it's just the main room! Anyway, five gentlemen were gambling cards. Heero walked in with a bag slung over his shoulder. He nodded his head in acknowledgement of them.
"Hey Heero buddy!" Duo said smoking a cigar (WHAT?!).
"Hey Heero, long time no see." A man said. The other two there said quick hello's and looked back at there cards.
"Hey, Heero, wanna play?" Duo said while looking at the cards he just got. Heero nodded his head no.
"I only gamble with my life." He said (…). The one with black hair looked at him and grinned.
"What if I bet 500 dollars that we reach Hamunaptra before you?" He asked. Heero raised an eyebrow.
"You're looking for Hamunaptra?" He asked.
"You bet."
"And who says we are?" Everybody who was playing cards, except Duo, pointed at…Duo.
"He does." They chorused. Duo looked a little nervous but grinned. Heero glared at him. A man to the side looked over at them. Heero nodded his head at the one who made the wager. The man at the side of the room squinted over at them.
"What makes you so confident that you will reach Hamunaptra before us sir?" He asked.
"What makes you?" Heero answered with a question. The blond haired one sat back in his seat.
"We've got ourselves a man who has actually been there." He said smugly. Duo brought his hand up to answer him back.
"Well it looks lik-" Heero hit him with the bag. "Is-is it my turn? My turn to deal?" He asked looking around.
"You've got yourselves a wager gentlemen," Heero put his hand on Duo's shoulder. "Good evening," He squeezed it real tight making a really big bruise there for the morning. "Duo." He said. He picked up his bag again and went up the stairs and outside to the deck.
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Relena was reading a book when a huge bag fell in front of her.
"Oof!" She said, bringing her book up with her. Heero looked over to her.
"Sorry to scare you." Relena glared at him.
"The only thing that scares me is your manners!" She said. Heero looked her in the eye.
"Still angry about that kiss?" He said. Relena answered him back hotly.
"If you call that a kiss." Heero glared a little bit at her and then he rolled open the bag. Relena brought her book back with her a little bit to see what he was doing. She saw knifes, parts of guns and many other things in it. She looked up at him and grinned a little bit.
"Um…mister Yuy, did I miss something? Are we…going into battle?" Heero brought something up and attached it to his gun.
"Lady, there's something there…something underneath that sand." He said, not looking at her. Relena smiled a little more at him.
"I don't believe in scary tales or treasure but I'm looking for an artifact…a book actually. The Ah Mune Rah…it supposed to have all of the incantations in it and all of that from the old kingdom…It's what first fascinated me in Egypt when I was a child…Sort of a, life's pursuit I suppose." Relena caught a small grin on Heero's lips.
"And they say that it's made out of pure gold is, no never mind to you." He said. Relena grinned at him.
"You know you're history."
"I know my treasure." He answered back.Relena had another question form in her head. She leaned forward a little bit.
"Um…by the way…why did you kiss me?" Heero shrugged.
"I was about to be hanged, it seemed like a good idea at the time!" He said. Looking at her. He saw her get angry and get out of her seat and leave. He turned to watch her go. "What did I say?" Heero's attention returned to the dock when he heard something by the barrels. He walked over to them slowly, and then reached his arm in and grabbed someone by the collar. He pulled them out and brought them into the light. A frown came onto his face.
"Well…if it isn't my little buddy Beni," He brought his gun up to Beni's forehead. "I think I'll kill you." Beni put his hands in front of his face.
"Think of my children!" He said. Heero took the gun away so Beni could see his scowl.
"You don't have any children!" He put the gun back to Beni's forehead.
"Someday I might!"
"Shut up! So you're the ones leading the Americans *. I might have known…so what its this time Beni, take them to the middle of the desert and then leave them to rot?!" He asked. Beni moved his head indicating no.
"Unfortunately no…these Americans are smart. They pay me half when I get them to Hamunaptra, half when I get them back to Cairo." Heero nodded his head in fake sympathy. He put Beni back down. Beni looked at him, "You never believed in Hamunaprta, Yuy, why go back." Heero turned around a little bit so that they were facing the camels. Relena was petting one of them on the head.
"See that girl over there? She saved my neck." Relena looked over at them and glared. She turned her back to them and went back into the ship. Beni nodded his head in disbelief.
"You always were more balls then brains." He said. Heero smirked a little bit and chuckled along with Beni for a while. His face became hard and he put his hand to Beni's collar again.
"Goodbye Beni." He said in usual monotone. He picked Beni up and through him over the side of the deck.
"YYYYYYUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYY!!!!!" Beni said which was soon followed by a splash. Heero started to look around the ship, feeling that something was out of place. He turned around and saw wet footprints. His face came up quickly.
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Relena was walking around in her nightgown.
"The colonies were saved by…" She forced something out of her head, or at least tried to. She changed the subject about what she was talking. "In the war peace was what many souls wanted though not all of them…" She closed her eyes again trying to get something out of her head. She put her scarf onto the coat hanger and didn't notice that she missed it. "A girl had an idea for a story and couldn't think of what to write…" She threw the book onto the couch. "Oh geesh, it wasn't that good of a kiss anyway." She stomped over to her vanity and started to brush her hair when she felt a gloved hand go over her neck and mouth.
"Where…is the map?" The voice said. Relena started to try and come up with small excuses to get her out of there.
"M-Map? What map?" She asked. The man had a hook on one of his hands and put it into her flesh a little bit. Relena flinched.
"Where…is the key?" He asked her. Relena started to dart her eyes around the room for an escape.
"Key, key…what key?" She asked. She really didn't know what he was talking about. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Heero come up by the door.
"Get away from her." He said. He shot sending the other man away from her. Relena got off of the seat and ran over to him. It was then that she saw the ship was on fire and her room was full of it. As they walked out of the room her eyes widened and she tried to run back in but Heero caught her.
"The map! We forgot the map!"
"We don't need the map, I am the map, it's all up here." He said pointing to his head. Relena groaned.
"Oh, that's comforting!" She said as he pulled her. After a while, he came over and through the bag with all the weapons and other stuff in it at her. She caught it and the weight sent her into the wall a little bit. Heero started working with his gun a little bit. About three feet away a bullet came through the wall…two and a half feet, another bullet. Two feet, a bullet, one and a half feet, one foot, six inches…Relena pulled Heero over after she got the pattern of the bullets. A bullet went straight through where Heero was standing. He looked at the wall and then at her. He turned around and started shooting. He pulled Relena onto the dock and picked her up. One arm on her back, one arm under her knees.
"Can you swim?" He asked. Relena looked at him strangely.
"Well of course I can swim! …when the time calls for it…" She said. Heero nodded his head.
"Trust me," He threw her off the side of the boat. A few screams were heard and a splash, "It calls for it."
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The warden was jumping up and down, very easily shown that he was scared. When he saw Heero coming up to him, he jumped out in front of him.
"Yuy, Yuy, what do I do?!" He asked. Heero had a small idea in his head…just maybe it might kill him…
"Stay here! I'll get some help!" He said. He started to run the other direction. Some fire spurted out of the door and people rushed passed him. The warden swayed from side to side and noticed that he had been had again.
"ARG!" He said. He turned around and jumped into the river that most people were, he had some difficulty getting over the side.
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The man with the hook looked around a little bit and saw the round box. His eyes widened.
"The key…" He said. He almost grabbed it when he heard a noise from outside the door.
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Duo was running into Relena's room. He didn't know that Heero already get her. He slid into her room.
"RELENA?!" He yelled. He looked around the room and fire came up to meet him. He was about to leave when he saw the round box that he showed to Relena to see what she made of it just a few days before. He grinned and went for it. A hook came down on it before he could reach it. He grabbed the sides of the box and pulled it out of the hook's grasp. He turned around and left. The man with the hook took another way out.
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Duo ran to one end of the ship and noticed that he was stuck and had nowhere to go but the water. He turned around and saw the Americans shooting at the men who were dressed un black.
"Bloody Americans." He said. He saw the man with the hook come out of the door, fire all over him.
"AH!" He said out of shock. One of the American's heard him and turned around. He started shooting the guy who was on fire until he fell back dead. Duo nodded his hat to him.
"Good show chaps." (::inserts giggles here::) Duo said. He threw the box into the air. "And did I panic? I think not!" Fire flew up by him and he turned around and jumped into the water.
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Many of the people who were on the shores were running and swimming over to the two different shores. Relena, Heero, and Duo were heading for the shore on the left, also the one where nobody else was going. Relena sighed a little bit as she started to come out of the water.
"We lost everything! All of our tools, our equipment…" She paused for a bit. "…all of my clothes…" She said.
On the other side of the shore, Beni was running down from the shore and into the river a little bit. He started to raise his hands above his head a little bit to help him get Heero's attention.
"YUY! HEY YUY!" He yelled over the noise of all the people talking. Heero turned to look at him. "LOOKS LIKE I'M ON THE SIDE WITH ALL OF THE HOR~SES!" He yelled. Heero stood up straight and got ready to yell back.
"HEY BENI! LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIV~ER!" He yelled. He saw Beni starting to look a little lost and snorted in disgust at him. He helped Relena up and started to take them to the next town…
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A/N: I'm trying to make each chapter longer than the last one…I hope that you guys like this…yadda yadda…you know what? Fewer peeps reviewed the last one than the first one…are you starting to lose interest in this already?! Geesh…anyway, I can't wait to do the next part…hehe Duo has to buy camels hehehehe!!!! I gotta go now…bye!
~AWRP
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* - Heero is half Japanese in this and half American. He was raised in Japan yadda yadda…some of my fave parts is when they go 'Those bloody Americans' or with the accent 'Those bloody Amedicans' …and the 'No offense' scene… What about Duo? Um…I'll let you work with that…