Chapter 26: Do not dry clean your immortality!
"Die plaque and gingivitis!" The mummies said together and raised their swords.
The blade that Anck held was getting closer and closer to Evelyn's throat as she saw her life flash before her eyes.
"I read the inscription, Evelyn! Now what!" Jon yelled ignoring the danger of Imhotep in front of him. He also conveniently ignore the danger Rick was in, who was about to get sliced by the guard's swords and Evelyn who was about to get her throat sliced.
Evelyn didn't answer.
Just then the guard's swords turned into toothbrushes and they began to brush Rick's teeth. "This ought to kill that bad breath!"
Rick with about 5 toothbrushes in his mouth tried to say thanks, but it came out as a low gurgling sound similar to Evelyn's.
"Kill him!" Imhotep yelled at the mummies.
"We are busy brushing his teeth Imhotep, sir." A mummy said looking up from his patient.
Evelyn managed to push Anck off of her and Anck fell back and then looked curiously at the spectacle of five guards leaning over Rick each trying to insert a toothbrush into his mouth and Rick trying to talk but only managed to gurgle.
"You can control them, Jon!" Evelyn yelled to Jon. "I think." She said also marveling at the toothbrushers.
"I can?" Jon asked uncertain. Then a bright idea came to him when he saw Anck staring at the guards in amazement. After 3000 years she might need some dental treatment.
Jon got up and Imhotep didn't stop him because he was just yelling "Kill him!" over and over pulling out the hair he didn't have.
"Hey Mummies!" Jon yelled. They looked up curiously and stopped what they were doing.
"I think Anck needs her teeth brushed. Why don't you go brush hers?"
They all looked at each other confused and then over to Anck. She looked at them nervously.
"I think we better listen to him." One mummy said.
"Yeah. He makes more sense than Imhotep did."
"Plus he knows his ABC's . . ."
"Anyone who knows the ABC's must be smart . . ." Another guard said.
"I wish I knew the ABC's . . ."
"I know three letters of the ABC's. They are A, B, and C! Aren't I smart?"
They all marveled at the mummy who said that.
"Well?" Jon interrupted them. They always seemed to get off track. "Are you gonna be mice? Or dentist?"
The mummies looked down at Rick.
"I think his breath ought to be better now."
"You can spit now!" A mummy ordered Rick.
Rick who had nearly drowned by the toothpaste did as he was told. Saliva and toothpaste dribbled down his chin.
The mummies all slunk toward Anck who looked up at them in fear.
"Are you ready for your cleaning?"
"I don't need my teeth brushed." Anck argued half afraid.
"They sniffed near her mouth. "Yes you do. You're breath is almost as bad as his." They said pointing over to Rick. And with that they stalked closer to her. She backed up against the wall scared.
"Wait no!" She yelled as they all bent over her and inserted their toothbrushes into her mouth and started brushing. Anck tried to scream but only managed to choke on the toothpaste and drowned and died . . . again.
Imhotep looked over at her shocked!
"I guess we should have told her to spit . . ." A guard said looking confused at Anck dead on the ground.
Imhotep looked over at Jon and clasp his hand around Jon's neck and lifted him five feet into the air.
Fortunately Rick, who knew how to use a sword a little better chopped at Imhotep's arm that was holding Jon's neck.
It fell and Jon looked at it and quickly got away from the severed arm.
Even Rick looked scared at what he just did.
"Now he's a one armed mummy!" Jon said astonished.
"Need an extra hand!" Jon continued and Imhotep looked over at Jon annoyed. The evil look Imhotep gave him shut him up.
"I will kill you myself mortal." Imhotep announced to Rick.
Rick somehow all the sudden understanding ancient Egyptian answered in English.
"How? You only have one arm?"
"Oh that?" Imhotep said shrugging and picked up his arm.
"That was merely a flesh wound." He said and somehow magically fastened it back in the right place.
Then with both arms he grabbed Rick and threw him backwards.
Jon had meanwhile got up with something he had acquired from Imhotep's robes.
"Evelyn, I've got it!" He yelled.
"What?" Evelyn said not having any idea of what he was talking about.
"My nightlight!" Jon said holding it up proudly. "Imhotep had my nightlight!"
"We'll bring it over here so we can see this book and defeat the mummy!" Evelyn said fiddling with the book.
They plugged Jon's nightlight into an outlet that just happened to be there and started turning pages of the book.
Meanwhile Rick and Imhotep were wrestling in the Hamanatra Wrestling Tournament.
"Keep him busy!" Evelyn instructed Rick. Rick who was getting thrown onto the floor and jumped onto answered wearily, "No Prob."
"I call that Scarab Bite!" Imhotep yelled jumping on top of Rick digging his elbow into Rick's back.
"And this is my own special move." Imhotep said lifting Rick from the floor. "It is called 'The Mummy's kiss'." Imhotep said opening his mouth really wide.
"AHHHH!" Rick yelled. "He's gonna kiss me!"
"No I'm not!" Imhotep assured. "That's just what the move is called. Now I will suck the life out of you like I did to your friends."
By that time Evelyn had read some gobbily gook from the book. Imhotep suddenly felt a chill go through his body. He dropped Rick on the ground while Rick rubbed his now tender neck.
Suddenly the room went dark and a chariot floated down the staircase. A man wearing a black hooded cloak was driving it. He stopped right next to Imhotep.
"Are you Imhotep?" The hooded figure asked.
"Yes." Imhotep said uncertain.
"I'm here to pick up your immortality." The hooded figure said.
"What for?" Imhotep said fearfully clutching at his chest.
"I think it is time for some dry cleaning."
"Oh." Imhotep said "In that case . . ." And took out a piece of paper with the word "immortality" written on it. "Here you go."
The hooded figure extended his boney hand and clutched the piece of paper and it burned to a crisp.
'Hey! You just burned my immortality!" Imhotep yelled.
"I'm sorry sir, I forgot to tell you that you can only get your immortality dry cleaned once and we confiscate it after that."
"Then what's the use of getting it dry cleaned in the first place?"
"I'm not sure sir, but there can be no substitutions or refunds. If you have any complaints you'll have to take it up with the board of directors in hell."
"I don't think I want to." Imhotep said fearfully.
"OK sir. That will be 500 gold pieces."
"But I don't have any gold pieces."
"You can substitute your soul for the gold pieces if you like."
"Oh, Ok then." And Imhotep took out another piece of paper with the word "Soul" written on it and gave it to the hooded figure.
"Thank you sure it was nice doing business with you." And with that the chariot rode off. Imhotep focused his attention back to Rick and noticed everyone was staring at him surprised.
"What?!" He asked.
"You just sold your soul!" Evelyn answered in disbelief.
"I did?" He said. "I did!" He realized and ran after the chariot yelling, "Wait. Come back! I didn't mean to give you my soul!"
The chariot went through the wall and Imhotep tried to follow but couldn't and banged himself on the wall.
One word came out of his mouth and it was, "Ouch!"
Imhotep turned around angrily. "This is all your fault!" He ran after Rick vengefully. "You tricked me into selling my soul and dry cleaning my immortality."
Rick dropped his sword and ran like a coward.
"Rick!" Evelyn scolded. "Where are you going?"
But Rick didn't have time to answer because Imhotep had tripped and fell onto the sword.
"Ouch!" He said again and clutched his wound.
Then he made all these noises like a rabid squirrel and fell into some water.
"OHHHH!!!!!! OWWWWW! NOOOO! I can't die! I'm not supposed to die! I wasn't put in this story to die! WAS I? WAS I?"
They all looked at him sympathetically.
"I guess you were." Evelyn admitted.
"Tough luck, Old Mum." Jon said waving to the mummy.
The mummy began to rot and looked like he did when he first woke up.
He sank waist deep into the water. "I did it for Jonny." He said.
"WHAT!" Jon yelled shocked.
Imhotep shook his head, "I meant to say, I did it for Anck!"
And with that Rick, Evelyn, and Jon watched him sink into the water as he continued to rot.
"That's what you get for staying out in the sun too long." Jon said uselessly.
Suddenly the shapes of the guard's faces appeared in the water. "Ready for your torture Imhotep?" One of the water faces said. "That was only part of the Big Ouchy, the rest of your torture will begin down here."
Then they pulled him under and the only thing they heard was "bubble, bubble." (Toil and trouble.)
"That's what you get for being bad." Rick said.
"That's what you get for stealing my nightlight!" Jon yelled.
"That's what you get for telling me stupid bed time stories!" Evelyn said.
"Bed time stories?" Jon asked. "How come I didn't get bed time stories?"
"I'll read you some tonight Jon if you want."
"With my nightlight?" Jon asked holding up his precious nightlight.
"Yes."
"Didn't the mummy try and sacrifice you or some thing?" Rick asked scratching his head.
"Oh yes. That's what you get for trying to sacrifice me, I think." Evelyn asked looking at the bubbling water.
Suddenly Imhotep popped out of the water.
"Ahh!" They all screamed and jumped back. You didn't expect Imhotep to die that easily did you?
"I almost forgot to tell you something!" Imhotep said.
"What?" Evelyn said snobbishly.
"Will you just die already?" Jon said annoyed.
"It was some poetry I though of while getting eaten alive by some scarabs thinking only of my beloved Anck."
"OK. Let's hear it." Jon said still annoyed.
"Um. What was it?" Imhotep said scratching his half empty head, because he had rotted again.
"Oh yes! It was this: Death is only the Beginning."
"That's it?" Jon asked in a mean way.
Evelyn hit him.
"What was that for?" Jon said surprised.
"You couldn't even recite the alphabet!" Evelyn replied and then turned her attention to the mummy.
"Does that mean there is a sequel?" She asked.
Imhotep shrugged and fell back into the water making bubbling noises.
"bub bub bub brrrbub."
And they looked at the water pondering his words.
"Ouch."
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Don't worry. That's not the end. There are still more chapters to come. : )
Thank you for reviewing my story but keep on reviewing and you can look forward to a sequel sometime in the future.
Wonder what happened to Beni? Well you'll just have to wait till next chapter.
: )
"Die plaque and gingivitis!" The mummies said together and raised their swords.
The blade that Anck held was getting closer and closer to Evelyn's throat as she saw her life flash before her eyes.
"I read the inscription, Evelyn! Now what!" Jon yelled ignoring the danger of Imhotep in front of him. He also conveniently ignore the danger Rick was in, who was about to get sliced by the guard's swords and Evelyn who was about to get her throat sliced.
Evelyn didn't answer.
Just then the guard's swords turned into toothbrushes and they began to brush Rick's teeth. "This ought to kill that bad breath!"
Rick with about 5 toothbrushes in his mouth tried to say thanks, but it came out as a low gurgling sound similar to Evelyn's.
"Kill him!" Imhotep yelled at the mummies.
"We are busy brushing his teeth Imhotep, sir." A mummy said looking up from his patient.
Evelyn managed to push Anck off of her and Anck fell back and then looked curiously at the spectacle of five guards leaning over Rick each trying to insert a toothbrush into his mouth and Rick trying to talk but only managed to gurgle.
"You can control them, Jon!" Evelyn yelled to Jon. "I think." She said also marveling at the toothbrushers.
"I can?" Jon asked uncertain. Then a bright idea came to him when he saw Anck staring at the guards in amazement. After 3000 years she might need some dental treatment.
Jon got up and Imhotep didn't stop him because he was just yelling "Kill him!" over and over pulling out the hair he didn't have.
"Hey Mummies!" Jon yelled. They looked up curiously and stopped what they were doing.
"I think Anck needs her teeth brushed. Why don't you go brush hers?"
They all looked at each other confused and then over to Anck. She looked at them nervously.
"I think we better listen to him." One mummy said.
"Yeah. He makes more sense than Imhotep did."
"Plus he knows his ABC's . . ."
"Anyone who knows the ABC's must be smart . . ." Another guard said.
"I wish I knew the ABC's . . ."
"I know three letters of the ABC's. They are A, B, and C! Aren't I smart?"
They all marveled at the mummy who said that.
"Well?" Jon interrupted them. They always seemed to get off track. "Are you gonna be mice? Or dentist?"
The mummies looked down at Rick.
"I think his breath ought to be better now."
"You can spit now!" A mummy ordered Rick.
Rick who had nearly drowned by the toothpaste did as he was told. Saliva and toothpaste dribbled down his chin.
The mummies all slunk toward Anck who looked up at them in fear.
"Are you ready for your cleaning?"
"I don't need my teeth brushed." Anck argued half afraid.
"They sniffed near her mouth. "Yes you do. You're breath is almost as bad as his." They said pointing over to Rick. And with that they stalked closer to her. She backed up against the wall scared.
"Wait no!" She yelled as they all bent over her and inserted their toothbrushes into her mouth and started brushing. Anck tried to scream but only managed to choke on the toothpaste and drowned and died . . . again.
Imhotep looked over at her shocked!
"I guess we should have told her to spit . . ." A guard said looking confused at Anck dead on the ground.
Imhotep looked over at Jon and clasp his hand around Jon's neck and lifted him five feet into the air.
Fortunately Rick, who knew how to use a sword a little better chopped at Imhotep's arm that was holding Jon's neck.
It fell and Jon looked at it and quickly got away from the severed arm.
Even Rick looked scared at what he just did.
"Now he's a one armed mummy!" Jon said astonished.
"Need an extra hand!" Jon continued and Imhotep looked over at Jon annoyed. The evil look Imhotep gave him shut him up.
"I will kill you myself mortal." Imhotep announced to Rick.
Rick somehow all the sudden understanding ancient Egyptian answered in English.
"How? You only have one arm?"
"Oh that?" Imhotep said shrugging and picked up his arm.
"That was merely a flesh wound." He said and somehow magically fastened it back in the right place.
Then with both arms he grabbed Rick and threw him backwards.
Jon had meanwhile got up with something he had acquired from Imhotep's robes.
"Evelyn, I've got it!" He yelled.
"What?" Evelyn said not having any idea of what he was talking about.
"My nightlight!" Jon said holding it up proudly. "Imhotep had my nightlight!"
"We'll bring it over here so we can see this book and defeat the mummy!" Evelyn said fiddling with the book.
They plugged Jon's nightlight into an outlet that just happened to be there and started turning pages of the book.
Meanwhile Rick and Imhotep were wrestling in the Hamanatra Wrestling Tournament.
"Keep him busy!" Evelyn instructed Rick. Rick who was getting thrown onto the floor and jumped onto answered wearily, "No Prob."
"I call that Scarab Bite!" Imhotep yelled jumping on top of Rick digging his elbow into Rick's back.
"And this is my own special move." Imhotep said lifting Rick from the floor. "It is called 'The Mummy's kiss'." Imhotep said opening his mouth really wide.
"AHHHH!" Rick yelled. "He's gonna kiss me!"
"No I'm not!" Imhotep assured. "That's just what the move is called. Now I will suck the life out of you like I did to your friends."
By that time Evelyn had read some gobbily gook from the book. Imhotep suddenly felt a chill go through his body. He dropped Rick on the ground while Rick rubbed his now tender neck.
Suddenly the room went dark and a chariot floated down the staircase. A man wearing a black hooded cloak was driving it. He stopped right next to Imhotep.
"Are you Imhotep?" The hooded figure asked.
"Yes." Imhotep said uncertain.
"I'm here to pick up your immortality." The hooded figure said.
"What for?" Imhotep said fearfully clutching at his chest.
"I think it is time for some dry cleaning."
"Oh." Imhotep said "In that case . . ." And took out a piece of paper with the word "immortality" written on it. "Here you go."
The hooded figure extended his boney hand and clutched the piece of paper and it burned to a crisp.
'Hey! You just burned my immortality!" Imhotep yelled.
"I'm sorry sir, I forgot to tell you that you can only get your immortality dry cleaned once and we confiscate it after that."
"Then what's the use of getting it dry cleaned in the first place?"
"I'm not sure sir, but there can be no substitutions or refunds. If you have any complaints you'll have to take it up with the board of directors in hell."
"I don't think I want to." Imhotep said fearfully.
"OK sir. That will be 500 gold pieces."
"But I don't have any gold pieces."
"You can substitute your soul for the gold pieces if you like."
"Oh, Ok then." And Imhotep took out another piece of paper with the word "Soul" written on it and gave it to the hooded figure.
"Thank you sure it was nice doing business with you." And with that the chariot rode off. Imhotep focused his attention back to Rick and noticed everyone was staring at him surprised.
"What?!" He asked.
"You just sold your soul!" Evelyn answered in disbelief.
"I did?" He said. "I did!" He realized and ran after the chariot yelling, "Wait. Come back! I didn't mean to give you my soul!"
The chariot went through the wall and Imhotep tried to follow but couldn't and banged himself on the wall.
One word came out of his mouth and it was, "Ouch!"
Imhotep turned around angrily. "This is all your fault!" He ran after Rick vengefully. "You tricked me into selling my soul and dry cleaning my immortality."
Rick dropped his sword and ran like a coward.
"Rick!" Evelyn scolded. "Where are you going?"
But Rick didn't have time to answer because Imhotep had tripped and fell onto the sword.
"Ouch!" He said again and clutched his wound.
Then he made all these noises like a rabid squirrel and fell into some water.
"OHHHH!!!!!! OWWWWW! NOOOO! I can't die! I'm not supposed to die! I wasn't put in this story to die! WAS I? WAS I?"
They all looked at him sympathetically.
"I guess you were." Evelyn admitted.
"Tough luck, Old Mum." Jon said waving to the mummy.
The mummy began to rot and looked like he did when he first woke up.
He sank waist deep into the water. "I did it for Jonny." He said.
"WHAT!" Jon yelled shocked.
Imhotep shook his head, "I meant to say, I did it for Anck!"
And with that Rick, Evelyn, and Jon watched him sink into the water as he continued to rot.
"That's what you get for staying out in the sun too long." Jon said uselessly.
Suddenly the shapes of the guard's faces appeared in the water. "Ready for your torture Imhotep?" One of the water faces said. "That was only part of the Big Ouchy, the rest of your torture will begin down here."
Then they pulled him under and the only thing they heard was "bubble, bubble." (Toil and trouble.)
"That's what you get for being bad." Rick said.
"That's what you get for stealing my nightlight!" Jon yelled.
"That's what you get for telling me stupid bed time stories!" Evelyn said.
"Bed time stories?" Jon asked. "How come I didn't get bed time stories?"
"I'll read you some tonight Jon if you want."
"With my nightlight?" Jon asked holding up his precious nightlight.
"Yes."
"Didn't the mummy try and sacrifice you or some thing?" Rick asked scratching his head.
"Oh yes. That's what you get for trying to sacrifice me, I think." Evelyn asked looking at the bubbling water.
Suddenly Imhotep popped out of the water.
"Ahh!" They all screamed and jumped back. You didn't expect Imhotep to die that easily did you?
"I almost forgot to tell you something!" Imhotep said.
"What?" Evelyn said snobbishly.
"Will you just die already?" Jon said annoyed.
"It was some poetry I though of while getting eaten alive by some scarabs thinking only of my beloved Anck."
"OK. Let's hear it." Jon said still annoyed.
"Um. What was it?" Imhotep said scratching his half empty head, because he had rotted again.
"Oh yes! It was this: Death is only the Beginning."
"That's it?" Jon asked in a mean way.
Evelyn hit him.
"What was that for?" Jon said surprised.
"You couldn't even recite the alphabet!" Evelyn replied and then turned her attention to the mummy.
"Does that mean there is a sequel?" She asked.
Imhotep shrugged and fell back into the water making bubbling noises.
"bub bub bub brrrbub."
And they looked at the water pondering his words.
"Ouch."
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Don't worry. That's not the end. There are still more chapters to come. : )
Thank you for reviewing my story but keep on reviewing and you can look forward to a sequel sometime in the future.
Wonder what happened to Beni? Well you'll just have to wait till next chapter.
: )