The Mummy
Chapter Four
*~A White Rose Petal~*
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A/N: Howdy folkies! I hope that you like this part…Let's all pity Duo shall we? Heh, heh…
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Duo pointed at the man who was selling the camels.
"I want four bloody damn camels! Not all of them that you have!" The man nodded his head no and kept his hand out demanding the money. The small city was alive with noises making it a very lively. Duo looked back at Heero for help. Heero put his hand out and pointed.
"Would you just pay the man?" He yelled. Duo rolled his eyes and cursed a little bit while grabbing the ropes.
"I can't believe how much I paid for these flea bags…" He said mournfully.
"Well you could have gotten them for free…all you had to do was give him your sister." Duo nodded his head at the thought.
"Yes yes…awfully tempting wasn't it?" He said. Right then Relena came up in an Arabian outfit.
"Very." Left Heero's mouth as Relena smiled up at him.
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Duo was closing his hands from how much sand was getting into them. He kicked the side of the camel slighty.
"Filthy buggers…" He said, "they spit, they kick, their fat…" At that moment the warden spit out some of his sandwhich.
"yeah, he agreed." Relena rolled her eyes at them and patted the camel's head.
"Well I think their adorable!" She declared. Duo rolled his eyes at her and Heero didn't pay attention.
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"I'm hungry…" Duo moaned. "How much farther?"
"A few more hours…" Heero said lightly while pushing Relena slightly off his shoulder from where she fell asleep.
"ON CAMELS???" of course the camel that was carrying the warden was the one that should have been pityed.
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A few hours later…
The camels started to slow down from instruction by their riders. On the other side of them was the American's that were on the ship. They all said their quick greetings and made sure to scowl at each other.
"Hey Yuy, nice camel." Beni said from atop his. Heero just pet the camel's head lightly.
"Remember our bet Yuy!" One of the American's yelled. Heero barely showed signs of listening. Relena got a little closer to him.
"What are we waiting for?" She whispered. She heard one of the American's complaining to Beni, wondering too, why they were staying here.
"We're about to be shown the way." He whispered back. As Relena started to look the sky seemed to shift and the clouds moved in an odd way. It looked as though only one part of the desert was getting extremely hotter and sand going all around it. Suddenly it all stopped, and in the once a city started to appear before all of them.
One of the American's set out a 'war cry' and the horses and camels were off. Beni came up to Heero and attempted to push him off the camel but Heero succeeded more when he pulled the side of the saddle making Beni fall off. As Relena passed him she just shrugged slightly.
"It serves you right." She said as she started to go faster on her camel. She kept on making her camel go faster than any of the others and was soon side-by-side with Heero who looked amused at the speed she was going she grinned at him slightly before being forced to pass him as her camel started to go forward even more.
"GO REL, GO!" Duo yelled from his spot that was a little bit behind Heero. Relena made it to the camping site, or Hamunaptra in other words, first.
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As the sun started to rise (they traveled during the night and got there at morning) both groups were putting up their tents and getting ready for their digs in Hamunaptra.
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Heero was getting the rope tighter and made it go around it, and hit the warden who backed up. Heero did it again, on purpose, and made the warden go even farther away…and then he did it again…
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One of the Americans looked at the man that was going to be leading them through the tunnels and instructing them on how to open up the sarcophaguses, and telling them what things mean and so forth.
"Do they know something we don't know?" He asked.
"Their being led by a woman, what would a woman know?" He asked.
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Relena was pointing to one of the statues.
"These are the legs of Anubis! Beneath them we should be able to find the Ah Mune Rah! Anubis' legs go many feet underground from what the Oz scholars say…" She whispered in awe.
"Tall guy." Duo said while looking around at nothing in particular.
"Yeah, no kidding." Heero replied while watching Relena go and grab one of her books. When Relena turned to Duo, who was polishing the mirrors she looked a little aggravated.
"Duo! Those are meant to reflect the sun!" She said.
"So…what are the old mirrors for?" Heero asked.
"Ancient mirrors, you'll see when we get inside.
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Right Before They Went Into The Tunnel…
Heero came up to Relena and handed her a package almost nervously.
"Um…thi-this is for you for when we're, you know, going through…all that…stuff. Got it from one of my American brothens…" He was able to get out while making odd motions with his hands to illustrate his hands. He started to walk away before she could even open it up.
The warden looked amused when Heero passed him up the path to their sleeping site.
Heero scared the warden by giving him a death glare. Relena opened up the package to see that it was a small digging kit. She turned around to grin at Heero only to find that he wasn't there.
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In the Tunnels…
"Look for bugs, I hate bugs!" The warden complained as Heero went into the tunnel.
"Careful." Heero said as Relena followed him into dark tunnel. Duo followed her and waved his hands in front of his nose.
"What is that God awful stench?" He said as the warden followed him. He looked at the warden and got his answer, "oh." And turned around to follow the first two.
"It's an awfully strange feeling…coming into a room where no one's ever been for over three thousand years…" Relena said in awe. Relena looked around a little more. "We're in the preparation chamber!" She said, a little giggly.
"Preparation for what?" Heero flashed the torch over some symbols on the wall nearest him. There were all sorts of things in the room. All of them were black and looked quite dreary.
"Preparation for the afterlife…" She said it in a ghostly voice while looking over at one of the things that looked sort of like a tub.
"The afterlife?" Heero said standing by her.
"The mummies dude, this is where they made the mummies!" Duo said as he looked for somewhere where he could go farther.
Heero led them into a hall. They heard a skittering sound go by them and stop. Heero looked around a bit.
"What is that?" The warden started to look freaked out.
"Sounds like… bugs." Heero said.
"Huh?" The warden asked.
"He said bugs." Relena repeated.
"AAAHHH, I hate bugs!" they went down another hall and went into another room. Relena immediately saw to large stone feet.
"The legs of Anubis!" She said excitedly. There was a large trunk like stone underneath the feet.
"Now, the book should be hidden in some secret compartment along here." She said pointing at it.
Before anyone could do anything, they heard some dark talking. Heero made everyone follow him and be quiet. He pulled the guns out of the holster and got ready to fire. Duo got out his, that nobody knew he had, and started to do the same. All at once they turned the corner…to find the group of American's and the Egyptologist. They all started to lower their guns.
"Geesh Yuy, you scared the Buh Jesus out of us man." One of the American's complained. Heero just nodded his head stiffly. One of the Americans looked at what Relena was holding and saw that it was a digging kit.
"Hey that's mine!" he said going towards it while Relena. Heero and Duo pointed their guns at him. "Maybe I was mistaken…" Relena was getting a little impatient and decided to intervene.
"Well, good day gentleman, we must get going along here…," She said, trying to get them to leave.
"Bug off, this is our dig site!" The Egyptologist shot back to her. Relena glared at him.
"We-got-here-first!"
"Our site!" They all yelled while pulling out their guns. Relena looked to the floor and saw a small hole. She pushed some dirt into it with her foot and heard nothing, telling her that there was a room beneath them. She looked up mouth a gape and closed it.
"With fifteen of me, and only four of you, your odds are not so great Yuy." Beni said grinning. Heero got ready to shoot.
"I've had worst…" Still pointing his gun at them. Relena went to the side and started to push their guns down lightly.
"Now children, if you want to play together, you must learn how to share…" She looked at Heero, "There are other places to dig." She said. Heero started to put his guns down.
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"According to these hieroglyphics we should be right under hid legs!" She said. "Hopefully we can get to the book before they can…" She said hitting off a chunk of dirt with her hand. Heero was using a pick ax and was doing most of the job. Duo was doing the same with a stick.
"And if those yanks go to sleep we can steal it from under their noses, no offense." Duo said to Heero.
"None taken," Relena nodded her head to what Duo had said.
"Yes, but still…hopefully those beastly American's didn't get to it though, no offense." She said to Heero.
"None taken." Duo looked around and noticed 'one' of their group was missing, not that he really cared but…
"Where's the warden?" The other two just shrugged.
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The warden climbed up the passage. He turned and saw that he was in a new room and there was enough room for him to stand. When he stood up, he saw a bunch of beetle jewels on the clothes on what seemed to be a man with a wolf's head. The Pharaoh (the picture on the wall, I'm not sure whether or not that's right though…) had his hands in the air along with his head.
The Warden brought out a knife and put his fingers over one of the jewels. He pushed the knife under it and then pulled it up bringing the beetle jewel along with it.
"Blue gold…" He whispered as he lowered it into his bag. He put his hands in the same position that the Pharaoh had his.
"A lo lo lo lo lo!" He said. HE started peeling off all of the other beetles and put them into his bag. He dropped one a few feet away but paid no attention to it.
The beetle on the floor started to split open a little bit and soon it cracked out of the shell. Slime all over it. It made a little sound and skittered over to the wardens boot. The beetle made a little hole in it and climbed in. The warden looked down to his boot to see what was going on. His eyes widened and he screamed.
"SOMEBODY! SOMEBODY HELP! HELP!" He screamed. He tried squashing the beetle and punched it. The beetle was under his skin. It climbed all the way up to his face and went into his eye socket. He turned around and ran.
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A/N: I am SO sorry! I didn't mean to get it out this late! I was doing A LOT this summer! I'm also worrying about fair and all of that stuff…::sigh:: I'm thinking about entering this story in fair…do you guys think I shoud? And before I forget, DO ANY OF YOU GUYS KNOW WHO TROWA CAN PLAY????? There is not one really silent person through the show…or for that matter, really like him…I don't want to make a new character though…that would be annoying…I know what it's like, anyway, that's about it…bye!!
~AWRP