Disclaimer: Not mine, never were.
Note:
Again thanx to my sis for showing me how bad of a speller I am. ;) This part
takes place near the end of the movie.
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3000
years later…
"Lock-Nah,
Lock-Nah!" A man yelled riding quickly through the Anu-Tep's camp towards their
leader, his red and black robes billowing out behind him. Rearing his horse back to stop before the
dark skinned man, he hopped off panting heavily. "We…have..received word…from Cairo on… the strange disturbances."
Gasped the man, urgent to tell his leader of the great news he heard. " It was
caused…by…by..Him!" the man finished, not needing to clarify who him was.
"He
has awakened!" Lock-Nah said, shock evident on his face. Finally realizing what he just said he let
out a yell and proclaimed "He has awakened!" for the whole camp to hear. Immediately all motion stopped, then started
again in chaos. People were jumping and
yelling in joy, running around and hugging each other in a great celebration.
Coming
back to his senses Lock-Nah turned to the man who had brought the news they had
been waiting for for almost three thousand years. "How was he awakened?" He eagerly asked wanting to know how their
idol had come back to the land of the living.
"Of
this I'm not sure all we know is that a man named O'Connell and a women were
involved, we also know they have the Book of the Dead with them." The man
finished waiting for a reaction from his leader.
"They
have found the book?" Lock-Nah clarified. The man nodded, confirming his suspicions. "They must have read the
sacred spells to awaken him. Perhaps we should meet these people and thank them
for bringing our glorious leader back."
"I
don't think that would be a good idea, there is one other thing I forgot to um,
mention. There is a Med-Jai with them." The man said sheepishly. "WHAT!"
Lock-Nah bellowed, causing the man to step back. "Their leader, Ardeth Bay, to be exact" the man added slowly backing
away.
Taking
a shuddering breath, trying to calm himself and not succeeding he yelled to a
man standing near a tent. The man ran over, a grin still on his face from
hearing the wonderful news. "How many
of our men are in Cairo?" Lock-Nah brusquely asked Ahan, his second in command.
"Right
now, only three, why?" Ahan asked his smile dropping from his face.
"Prince
Imhotep is in danger, the people that brought him back, a man named O'Connell
and a women are with the Med-Jai chieftain, they may try to send Imhotep back
to the underworld, stop them." Lock-Nah ordered. Ahan ran off yelling to different men to follow him. The group of six, lead by Ahan rode off
towards Cairo to stop those who posed a threat to their great leader.
Lock-Nah
watched the group ride off, hoping they would arrive in time. Turning away, he walked back through the
camp thinking. He knew that if the
Med-Jai already knew of Imhotep's awakening they didn't have much time. They had vowed to awaken Imhotep, just as
the Med-Jai had sworn to keep him dead. Now that they had succeeded, even if it wasn't by their own hands, they
had to keep him alive. With the Med-Jai
already on his tail they needed to act quickly to stop them.
/
They will probably go after the Book of Amun-Ra / He suddenly thought,
realizing a way to keep him alive forever. Gathering men to go with him, they mounted their horses and sped off
towards Hamunaptra. It was a day and a
half's ride away, but he figured if his men in Cairo completed their task they
didn't need to worry. All he and his
group had to do was find the Book of Amun-Ra and destroy it. With that their leader would live forever,
and they could easily destroy the Med-Jai who had delayed their great leader's
awakening for almost three-thousand years.
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Ahan
and his group arrived at Cairo at night, they had ridden hard through the day
and their horses were on the verge of collapsing. Entering the Bazaar they dismounted and tied their horses up and
were about to head down the through the main street when a disturbance down a
side street caught their attention. Ahan signaled for his group to follow him as he hurried down the street
towards a large group of people chanting 'Imhotep'.
The
group slowly made their way through the dense crowd of people a look of
excitement and disgust written on their faces. The crowd of plagued people didn't even seem to realize they were there;
they were absolutely focused on whatever was happening in front of them. Finally getting close enough to see what was
happening, Ahan gasped, for there stood Imhotep, their long dead leader. Behind him he heard the rest of the men gasp
and exchange excited murmurs, at last they had found their prince.
Also
to his delight he saw the Med-Jai, and the man he was holding back he presumed
to be O'Connell. He also saw the museum
curator, who their contacts also believe is a Med-Jai, plus another man whom he
did not recognize. As for the woman he was told about, was being dragged away
from the group by Imhotep.
/
Looks like I don't have to do anything, just watch / Ahan thought, as Imhotep
yelled 'Kill Them' in ancient Egyptian. The mass of slaves quickly surged forward a menacing zombie look on
their faces.
Ahan and his group hastily began pushing
their way towards Imhotep, eager to meet their great leader. Taking one last glance back Ahan saw to his
despair, the O'Connell man jump down a manhole leaving only the curator, who
had pulled out a scimitar and was hacking away at the crowd. Cursing, Ahan took one last look at the man
he worshipped and turned back and began shoving his way towards the center of
the crowd. Finally reaching the
manhole, his men fought back the crowd as he ripped off the manhole cover. Taking one last look back he jumped down
into the waiting abyss and his enemies, followed silently by his men. Meeting his idol would have to wait, his
first duty was to protect him, at all costs.
TBC…
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