"Wake up Miss O'Connell"
Charly woke up with a start. Standing over her was Beni. She was still dreaming. She closed her eyes. With her eyes closed she sensed the hard sand beneath her body, the chill in the air, the aches in her back and head. She realized then she wasn't asleep. Beni wasn't in her dream, he was in reality. Charly snapped her eyes open, and found her self again looking at the face of Beni. She crawled back on her hand quickly, trying to escape his glare. She backed up until she hit her head on the wall. She winced in the added pain and put her hand behind her head to protect herself from further injury.
"You shouldn't be afraid, I will not harm you."
"You…you are the man from my dreams…Beni."
"That is true."
"Why are you here?"
"I am here for you."
"You're here for me? How's that?"
"Well he wanted you" Beni pointed to the statue, where the other man from her dream was standing. He still had the handsome strong features he did in her dream and he took her aback. He stared at her intently as Beni turned back to her, " I am here to help him"
Charly was confused; she didn't understand how the two men from her dream where standing in front of her. She blinked at Beni then back at the other man. Then she slowly looked back down at her hands, she wondered how this could be, was her mind playing tricks on her? She reached into her bag, at her hip and grabbed the canteen the English man had given her. She drank slowly, avoiding looking at the two men. Then she put the canteen back in her bag. She straightened herself up and stood.
She looked again at Beni, "What is this all about? What are you helping him with?" she gestured towards the man, "How does it involve me?"
Beni stepped closer to her. The man by the statue began mumbling something. She looked at him then back at Beni, confused. Beni took another step closer to her.
"Do you remember what I told you."
"Told me about what?"
"About the resurrection of a soul into an earthly body." Charly thought for a minute of the strange dreams involving Beni. They were always in her old house in Boston. Jonathan always appeared, always having something to tell her. Then Beni would appear, he was always confusing her. She remembered being in her father's office and there was a book. He told her then, about the spirits, but what did he say?
**"I just finished that book there." He pointed to her father's desk where a large Black book was sitting. It was very large. She looked at book and at the hieroglyphics upon it. As she was looking at it Beni pressed himself up against her and held her in place while he looked over her shoulder at the book. She shuddered as her began to whisper in her ear. "This book is amazing. It talks of how to reincarnate lost souls, how to incorporate them back into the world to an earthly body. Did you know, you could resurrect a spirit with this book? It says the spirit can posses earthly body pushing aside the other spirit. Then it holds the knowledge of both spirits. You do this by distracting the body then a second person forces the spirit in when their guard is down. Isn't that exciting?"**
Charly looked at Beni, there was a strange look in his eyes. She took a step back and nodded "Yeah, I remember." The man by the statue had his eyes closed tightly and was still mumbling to himself, the statue however was now emanating a light blue color, and the eyes seemed to be staring directly into her again. She looked back at Beni, who in returned stepped closer. Charly tried to back up more but found herself pinned against the wall. Beni found this no threat as he stepped closer once again.
"You will help Imhotep kill them?"
"Kill whom?" she asked wearily.
"You brother…and his wife," Beni brought his hand up to stroke her cheek, "his son…and the man you love"
"The man I…what?" Beni stepped closer yet again. Charly began to panic, "Jonathan!" she yelled in Beni's face as loud as she could. He seemed unfazed by it, "Rick! E-" Charly's words were cut off when Beni crushed his body up against hers and assaulted her lips. She heard the man by the statue begin to get louder, nearly screaming in an unfamiliar language. The blue light from the statue grew nearly blinding and a form seemed to step out of it. The form looked exactly like that statue itself. The form floated down and towards her, then there was a sharp pain in her arm and bright flash of light, and for Charly everything went dark.
Jonathan jumped when he heard is name being called. It was muffled and sounded far away, but he had heard it, and it had to be Charly. He heard it not long after he had entered the Temple. He had taken a few steps in, with Ardeth and Rick in tow. He stood in close to the opening of the tunnel; Rick and Ardeth had passed him up and went to the statue at the front of the tunnel.
Rick and Ardeth must have heard the sound too; they had stopped and were looking around, trying to figure out where the sound came from. Then they heard it again, this time it was shorter and sounded more like Rick's name. The three men look at each other, questioning with their eyes if they had heard the same thing. It appeared they had, so they all stood in silence listening again.
Just the Evy and Alex walked in, "Well it was nice of you three to leave us out there t…"
She was shushed in the middle of her statement. Evy drug Alex over to Jonathan, "what is going on?"
"We heard something, it sound like my name, then Rick's."
"Charly?!"
"I hope so."
Evy smiled at her brother and she smiled back. Then they both looked to Ardeth and Rick. They had given up listening for the sound and began to look at the statue. It was only about as tall as Alex, and the gold had slightly dimmed with age, but it was it. The golden statue of Osiris. Ardeth looked and found the symbol of the Med-jai. This was apart of their sacred ground.
"So where is she? Where's Charly?" Jonathan asked Ardeth.
Ardeth ignored his question and began to walk to the sidewall. Once there he began to run his eyes over it thoroughly. The other four could just stare at him as he searched the wall. Finally he found what he was looking for, five small indents in the wall, aligned in a circle. Ardeth put one finger on his right hand in every spot on the wall. The small indents began to glow, Ardeth kept his hand there as a small piece of wall next to him began to slide open. All stared silently as it wall moved, then when finished Ardeth removed his hand from the wall and looked back to his four comrades. "This is the way to the Tomb. It is the only place in Egypt's where a spirit's power is as strong as a humans, so beware.
Ardeth removed his turban, slung his gun over his shoulder and began to head through the small passage way. Rick began to follow him, but Jonathan jumped in front and followed Ardeth instead. Rick, Alex, and Evy followed as well. They walked down a small dark passage for a long time. Then they came to a small room. They all emerge from the passage and stretched out in the room.
Jonathan looked around the room; the only exit seemed to be through the way they came in. "This is great! We are at a dead end! How can we find Charly now?" Jonathan took a step forward, towards Ardeth, and then he felt himself falling.