Chapter 28: Dinner and a date!
Rick, Evelyn, and Jon looked around fearfully as the city of Hamanatra began to sink into the ground. Rick ran toward a corner away from the exit of Hamanatra.
"Where are you going?" Evelyn yelled.
"To get my guns!" Rick yelled back.
Evelyn ran after him and grabbed him buy the neck of his shirt.
"We don't have time. This place could collapse at any moment!" Evelyn said and pulled him to the door with the Exit sign over it.
They ran through the library. Jon tripped over the tiny statue of Horus and dropped 'The Guide on how to kill Mummies and stop the Apocalypse, volume 109.'
"You dropped the book!" Evelyn yelled and finally remembered they were in a library. She stopped and looked around with a dazed look.
"Come on Evelyn!" Rick said grabbing her. "If I don't get my guns, you don't get your books."
"But this place has generations of information on ancient Egypt!"
But Rick picked her up and carried her on his shoulder and out of the library.
Next they came to the Magic Graveyard Hamanatra bar.
Jon stopped and said, "Can we just . . . '
"NO!" Both Rick and Evelyn yelled at the same time and managed to drag him away from the bar.
Finally they came to the room full of gold where Beni was trying to drag his sack of gold outside. Jon attempted to help him drag it, but Rick yelled, "Last one outside is a rotten egg!"
Jon ran after Rick and Evelyn not wanting to be a rotten egg.
Another great idea popped into Beni's head. What was the use of gold if he was trapped inside Hamanatra? Besides he had some outside already. So he ran after the other three thinking to himself, "I'm a genius!"
"Vait for me!" He yelled after them. For some reason, he had this strange notion that they would all stop and truly wait for him. But much to his disappointment, they did not.
The door was beginning to close on them. Rick got to it first and helped Evelyn through. Then he followed after her and turned to help Jon.
"Come on Beni!" Rick said as Beni tried to sprint to the shutting door. Unfortunately, he had traded his light jester shoes for hard and heavy golden ones, inhibiting his running abilities. It also didn't help to have so many golden chains around his neck.
In other words, he didn't make it to the door on time and was stuck on the other side.
"Good bye Beni." Rick said remorsefully. "Some good times we had together."
Beni, mad that he hadn't gotten to the other side, cursed in Hungarian. Mad at the other's advantage of making it out of the city, he kicked the door in frustration. Then he turned around and realized that all the gold was still there. He smiled greedily and forgot about his misfortune for a moment.
"Hey Rick!" He yelled through the walls. "Looks like I got all the gold!"
Rick who heard it smiled sadly and answered back, "Hey Beni! Looks like you are on the wrong side of the wall! Goodbye Beni!" And with that said he left.
Beni whimpered as the city fell beneath the ground with him still inside it. It soon became dark because the light switch wouldn't work. When a city falls beneath the sands there does tend to be electrical problems. Beni still somehow found an unlit torch and then somehow managed to light it.
He swung the torch around and then realized if he swung it around fast enough he could write his name. He was having fun doing this for a while until he heard a noise.
Poor Beni didn't hear just any noise. But a bug like noise. He tried to see if there were any bugs but couldn't. All he saw was gold, which didn't seem to glitter as much as it did before.
Then he caught sight of a lone bug on top of a golden statue.
"Are you hear to steal our gold which we have guarded for 5000 years?" The bug asked in a squeaky voice.
"Um . . . No." Beni lied, hoping the bug wouldn't notice he was wearing a whole bunch of gold chains on his neck.
"I don't believe you." The bug said and called its friends.
"We're gonna eat you." It announced happily.
"Vait!" Beni cried waving his arms around wildly.
"I'm with Imhotep! As long as I'm with him, I am immune!"
"We don't like Imhotep. He ate our leader. Besides he's dead."
Beni whimpered scared, thinking this just might be the end. But he had a few more ideas to get out of being eaten. Too bad he didn't remember that it isn't a good idea to try and reason with bugs.
He chanted the Lord's prayer, but that didn't seem to have any affect on the bugs. They began to creep up to him, enclosing him in a circle with no where to run.
He chanted in Chinese, Aramaic, and Hebrew, but still the bugs stalked him. It had saved him once from the mummy, but didn't seem to be working now.
"All I wanted was a date with Anck's sister!" He finally muttered and with that the bugs stopped in their tracks.
"You wanted to date a girl?" The bug on the statue asked.
"Yes." Beni squeaked wondering what that had to do with anything. The bugs were silent for a moment and seemed to be contemplating something.
Then the bug on the statue said, "Well, I'm a girl. You can date me."
"Um. No thank you." Beni said in a polite yet squeaky voice. Even though he had never dated a bug, he didn't really want to now.
"We bugs, don't take no for an answer!" The bug on the statue announced. Then yelled to her friends, "Come on girls! We got dinner and a date!"
Then they all rushed after Beni and began to chomp on him.
Ouch.
_________
Outside Evelyn, Rick, and Jon watched as the city disappeared into the sand that left them out in the middle of no where, well in the desert anyway.
"What a waste that was!" Jon complained. "We didn't get a single piece of gold or the recipe for that unique tasting beer they sell in the Magic Graveyard Hamanatra Bar. I miss that beer already." None of them saw the big sled attached to the camels with a big black bag full of gold, sort of like Santa's sleigh.
"I wouldn't say it was a total waste." Rick said romantically. Evelyn, thinking he was talking about her leaned over and kissed him because he had minty fresh breath thanks to the guards.
"You're so sweet Mr. O' Connoll."
Rick, who had really been talking about his precious Pea Shooter gun, which he had grabbed on the way out, simply kissed his gun and ignored Evelyn's advances.
Evelyn, who didn't realize the mistake she had made, decided right then and there that they should be married. She looked around to find a priest or a church, but was disappointed to see just sand.
She kissed Rick again and this time steam came out of his ears. Evelyn simply laughed and began kissing him all over his face, leaving lipstick all over him.
"Oh please." Jon muttered. "Get a room." And then he realized that it was impossible to get anything out here in the desert.
He was sad that he didn't have a girl and turned to the camel for support. "How about you and me ol' girl? Will you be my make-out partner?"
The camel simply burped sending a cloud of bad breath his way.
"Phew!" Jon said waving his hand in front of his face. "You're lucky those mummy guards didn't get you."
Suddenly a hand came out of no where and grabbed Jon by the shoulder. He jumped 16 feet into the air and landed with a thud. He turned to see that it was only Are.
"You didn't have to scare me like that!"
"But it was fun!" Are said smiling.
"How was the arm wrestling?" Rick asked Are.
"I won!" Are said proudly showing off a silver amulet with the picture of an arm muscle on it. "After I won, the mummies got mad and simply exploded. Then I waited here for you. Took you long enough! But I did find some new additions to our troops." Are explained and there behind him stood the mummy guards.
"He is descendant from us after all." One of the mummies said.
So Are left them and went off with his new friends. Evelyn, Rick, and Jon took these camels that had stayed there from the very beginning of the trip and had surprisingly not ran off upon the sinking of the city. They rode off into the sunset and still didn't notice the sled full of gold being pulled behind them.
(Star Wars music plays in the back ground. Then a screeching record noise is heard. Then it is replace by Mummy music and the story ends here.)
[Wait! We are still not finished! What about the credits? Or a curtain call? Or special features? Or whatever you want to call it. Stay tuned for these things my faithful followers and have a mummified day.]
Rick, Evelyn, and Jon looked around fearfully as the city of Hamanatra began to sink into the ground. Rick ran toward a corner away from the exit of Hamanatra.
"Where are you going?" Evelyn yelled.
"To get my guns!" Rick yelled back.
Evelyn ran after him and grabbed him buy the neck of his shirt.
"We don't have time. This place could collapse at any moment!" Evelyn said and pulled him to the door with the Exit sign over it.
They ran through the library. Jon tripped over the tiny statue of Horus and dropped 'The Guide on how to kill Mummies and stop the Apocalypse, volume 109.'
"You dropped the book!" Evelyn yelled and finally remembered they were in a library. She stopped and looked around with a dazed look.
"Come on Evelyn!" Rick said grabbing her. "If I don't get my guns, you don't get your books."
"But this place has generations of information on ancient Egypt!"
But Rick picked her up and carried her on his shoulder and out of the library.
Next they came to the Magic Graveyard Hamanatra bar.
Jon stopped and said, "Can we just . . . '
"NO!" Both Rick and Evelyn yelled at the same time and managed to drag him away from the bar.
Finally they came to the room full of gold where Beni was trying to drag his sack of gold outside. Jon attempted to help him drag it, but Rick yelled, "Last one outside is a rotten egg!"
Jon ran after Rick and Evelyn not wanting to be a rotten egg.
Another great idea popped into Beni's head. What was the use of gold if he was trapped inside Hamanatra? Besides he had some outside already. So he ran after the other three thinking to himself, "I'm a genius!"
"Vait for me!" He yelled after them. For some reason, he had this strange notion that they would all stop and truly wait for him. But much to his disappointment, they did not.
The door was beginning to close on them. Rick got to it first and helped Evelyn through. Then he followed after her and turned to help Jon.
"Come on Beni!" Rick said as Beni tried to sprint to the shutting door. Unfortunately, he had traded his light jester shoes for hard and heavy golden ones, inhibiting his running abilities. It also didn't help to have so many golden chains around his neck.
In other words, he didn't make it to the door on time and was stuck on the other side.
"Good bye Beni." Rick said remorsefully. "Some good times we had together."
Beni, mad that he hadn't gotten to the other side, cursed in Hungarian. Mad at the other's advantage of making it out of the city, he kicked the door in frustration. Then he turned around and realized that all the gold was still there. He smiled greedily and forgot about his misfortune for a moment.
"Hey Rick!" He yelled through the walls. "Looks like I got all the gold!"
Rick who heard it smiled sadly and answered back, "Hey Beni! Looks like you are on the wrong side of the wall! Goodbye Beni!" And with that said he left.
Beni whimpered as the city fell beneath the ground with him still inside it. It soon became dark because the light switch wouldn't work. When a city falls beneath the sands there does tend to be electrical problems. Beni still somehow found an unlit torch and then somehow managed to light it.
He swung the torch around and then realized if he swung it around fast enough he could write his name. He was having fun doing this for a while until he heard a noise.
Poor Beni didn't hear just any noise. But a bug like noise. He tried to see if there were any bugs but couldn't. All he saw was gold, which didn't seem to glitter as much as it did before.
Then he caught sight of a lone bug on top of a golden statue.
"Are you hear to steal our gold which we have guarded for 5000 years?" The bug asked in a squeaky voice.
"Um . . . No." Beni lied, hoping the bug wouldn't notice he was wearing a whole bunch of gold chains on his neck.
"I don't believe you." The bug said and called its friends.
"We're gonna eat you." It announced happily.
"Vait!" Beni cried waving his arms around wildly.
"I'm with Imhotep! As long as I'm with him, I am immune!"
"We don't like Imhotep. He ate our leader. Besides he's dead."
Beni whimpered scared, thinking this just might be the end. But he had a few more ideas to get out of being eaten. Too bad he didn't remember that it isn't a good idea to try and reason with bugs.
He chanted the Lord's prayer, but that didn't seem to have any affect on the bugs. They began to creep up to him, enclosing him in a circle with no where to run.
He chanted in Chinese, Aramaic, and Hebrew, but still the bugs stalked him. It had saved him once from the mummy, but didn't seem to be working now.
"All I wanted was a date with Anck's sister!" He finally muttered and with that the bugs stopped in their tracks.
"You wanted to date a girl?" The bug on the statue asked.
"Yes." Beni squeaked wondering what that had to do with anything. The bugs were silent for a moment and seemed to be contemplating something.
Then the bug on the statue said, "Well, I'm a girl. You can date me."
"Um. No thank you." Beni said in a polite yet squeaky voice. Even though he had never dated a bug, he didn't really want to now.
"We bugs, don't take no for an answer!" The bug on the statue announced. Then yelled to her friends, "Come on girls! We got dinner and a date!"
Then they all rushed after Beni and began to chomp on him.
Ouch.
_________
Outside Evelyn, Rick, and Jon watched as the city disappeared into the sand that left them out in the middle of no where, well in the desert anyway.
"What a waste that was!" Jon complained. "We didn't get a single piece of gold or the recipe for that unique tasting beer they sell in the Magic Graveyard Hamanatra Bar. I miss that beer already." None of them saw the big sled attached to the camels with a big black bag full of gold, sort of like Santa's sleigh.
"I wouldn't say it was a total waste." Rick said romantically. Evelyn, thinking he was talking about her leaned over and kissed him because he had minty fresh breath thanks to the guards.
"You're so sweet Mr. O' Connoll."
Rick, who had really been talking about his precious Pea Shooter gun, which he had grabbed on the way out, simply kissed his gun and ignored Evelyn's advances.
Evelyn, who didn't realize the mistake she had made, decided right then and there that they should be married. She looked around to find a priest or a church, but was disappointed to see just sand.
She kissed Rick again and this time steam came out of his ears. Evelyn simply laughed and began kissing him all over his face, leaving lipstick all over him.
"Oh please." Jon muttered. "Get a room." And then he realized that it was impossible to get anything out here in the desert.
He was sad that he didn't have a girl and turned to the camel for support. "How about you and me ol' girl? Will you be my make-out partner?"
The camel simply burped sending a cloud of bad breath his way.
"Phew!" Jon said waving his hand in front of his face. "You're lucky those mummy guards didn't get you."
Suddenly a hand came out of no where and grabbed Jon by the shoulder. He jumped 16 feet into the air and landed with a thud. He turned to see that it was only Are.
"You didn't have to scare me like that!"
"But it was fun!" Are said smiling.
"How was the arm wrestling?" Rick asked Are.
"I won!" Are said proudly showing off a silver amulet with the picture of an arm muscle on it. "After I won, the mummies got mad and simply exploded. Then I waited here for you. Took you long enough! But I did find some new additions to our troops." Are explained and there behind him stood the mummy guards.
"He is descendant from us after all." One of the mummies said.
So Are left them and went off with his new friends. Evelyn, Rick, and Jon took these camels that had stayed there from the very beginning of the trip and had surprisingly not ran off upon the sinking of the city. They rode off into the sunset and still didn't notice the sled full of gold being pulled behind them.
(Star Wars music plays in the back ground. Then a screeching record noise is heard. Then it is replace by Mummy music and the story ends here.)
[Wait! We are still not finished! What about the credits? Or a curtain call? Or special features? Or whatever you want to call it. Stay tuned for these things my faithful followers and have a mummified day.]