~ I have to post this here because when I wanted to do it ff.net was acting
in very strange way.
Review for Hearafter to Marxbros: I want to write a really nice review for you. One worthy of your stories. I wish I could praise you with the nice words everybody else can.but in a strange way I am unable to do it and that doesn't mean I don't like them. No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to write a review worthy of Hearafter. But I will do my best, I promise Well, that was the thing I expected the least. I mean, the gods have shown that they are not friendly to Imhotep. Yet Anubis.but I must say that the way Anubis is treated is so unbelievably unfair. Anubis was not a dark god. God of the dead, cemeteries and embalming, yes, evil no. He protected the King and his dead body and verything. And of course the Necropolis. That is the only part I will have to comment negatively on in the movies and in your story. Poor jackal god. ?. Anyway, I will live through it I think. I also liked very much the scene with Imhotep and Ancksunamun. It was wonderful. Also, my strange mind, working in a strange way; gave a strange idea. Ardeth is alone. Anjelika is alone. Oh! Never mind. Nothing. Just things crossing my mind. Oh, and a very large thanks to Lula for betaing this.~
Chapter 8
"What Ardeth, how can that be possible?" "It is, my friend." They all got up and looked at the place where the camp used to be. Rick flexed his tired muscles before speaking.
"It seems that whoever the traitor is, is pretty fast. Faster than we are anyway. They have already gone."
"This is impossible." Heterity mumbled. "We took the quickest way to come here and everyone else would have started later. He either took a longer road, which would make him late or overlook us, but we would have seen him."
"How can we be sure they didn't just change place for other reasons?" Rick asked. His wife moved to the center of the flat terrain and checked around.
"Look. This well still has plenty of water. These people would not leave certainty for something uncertain unless there is. a really serious reason. Heterity, didn't you tell me that you talked about it with Ardeth last night? How can we be sure that everybody was in his bed on that night?"
"Evy, you are a genius." Heterity said admiringly. "Somebody overheard us. And so they moved quickly."
"The morning breeze covered their tracks with sand. and they were here at least 5 hours ago," Ardeth continued her thought.
"Where do you think our pals have moved?" Rick asked looking around.
"Well, I don't think they will pop over the hill." Evelyn said stopping in mid-sentence as menacing people appeared. They approached them from the only side they hadn't checked yet. Evy bit her lips. Rick was the first to speak again.
"They are less than twenty. Do you think we could handle them? Look! Their leader is here and the red-haired pain in the butt. (( that's for Lula ;-) ))"
"Possibly." Ardeth said through his teeth, shooting a look at the women. Heterity was already gripping her scimitar (she had a rather bad relationship with guns of any type) and Evelyn was loading the handgun she had taken from Rick. Four people ready for battle versus twenty probably good warriors. The scale was not leaning their way.
"Very stupid of him to come here himself," he heard his wife's remark by him. When the group of warriors came near his range he raised his gun and shot, hearing at the same time the shots of Rick and Evelyn. Three people fell, while the leader disappeared wisely behind his people. "Coward," Heterity remarked wryly.
Soon they came against them. Despite their effort not to split up, Rick and Ardeth soon found themselves away from their wives. Rick shot in the face a big man, his gun almost making contact with the other's forehead. Then he bent, avoiding a hit aimed for his own head and kicked his opponent's feet. He lost his balance and collapsed clumsily. Rick finished him off quickly. He went for a third clear shot-the man has turned away from him-but his weapon just went click click and didn't shoot. "Damn!" he cursed.
He felt cold metal in his hand and turning, he was surprised to see Ardeth pushing a sword in his hand without looking at him, focused in the battle. Rick lost his concentration just for a moment searching for his wife with his eyes. A sharp pain at his shoulder brought him back to reality. A bullet had buried deep in his flesh and the one who had shot him, a non- native man who looked very much like him was ready to deliver the finishing blow. Rick raised the sword instinctively and the bullet hit the metal producing a hair-raising sound and was deflected.
Now the enemy had been reduced in number and through the gaps of their lines, Ardeth and Rick were able to re-unite with their wives.
Review for Hearafter to Marxbros: I want to write a really nice review for you. One worthy of your stories. I wish I could praise you with the nice words everybody else can.but in a strange way I am unable to do it and that doesn't mean I don't like them. No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to write a review worthy of Hearafter. But I will do my best, I promise Well, that was the thing I expected the least. I mean, the gods have shown that they are not friendly to Imhotep. Yet Anubis.but I must say that the way Anubis is treated is so unbelievably unfair. Anubis was not a dark god. God of the dead, cemeteries and embalming, yes, evil no. He protected the King and his dead body and verything. And of course the Necropolis. That is the only part I will have to comment negatively on in the movies and in your story. Poor jackal god. ?. Anyway, I will live through it I think. I also liked very much the scene with Imhotep and Ancksunamun. It was wonderful. Also, my strange mind, working in a strange way; gave a strange idea. Ardeth is alone. Anjelika is alone. Oh! Never mind. Nothing. Just things crossing my mind. Oh, and a very large thanks to Lula for betaing this.~
Chapter 8
"What Ardeth, how can that be possible?" "It is, my friend." They all got up and looked at the place where the camp used to be. Rick flexed his tired muscles before speaking.
"It seems that whoever the traitor is, is pretty fast. Faster than we are anyway. They have already gone."
"This is impossible." Heterity mumbled. "We took the quickest way to come here and everyone else would have started later. He either took a longer road, which would make him late or overlook us, but we would have seen him."
"How can we be sure they didn't just change place for other reasons?" Rick asked. His wife moved to the center of the flat terrain and checked around.
"Look. This well still has plenty of water. These people would not leave certainty for something uncertain unless there is. a really serious reason. Heterity, didn't you tell me that you talked about it with Ardeth last night? How can we be sure that everybody was in his bed on that night?"
"Evy, you are a genius." Heterity said admiringly. "Somebody overheard us. And so they moved quickly."
"The morning breeze covered their tracks with sand. and they were here at least 5 hours ago," Ardeth continued her thought.
"Where do you think our pals have moved?" Rick asked looking around.
"Well, I don't think they will pop over the hill." Evelyn said stopping in mid-sentence as menacing people appeared. They approached them from the only side they hadn't checked yet. Evy bit her lips. Rick was the first to speak again.
"They are less than twenty. Do you think we could handle them? Look! Their leader is here and the red-haired pain in the butt. (( that's for Lula ;-) ))"
"Possibly." Ardeth said through his teeth, shooting a look at the women. Heterity was already gripping her scimitar (she had a rather bad relationship with guns of any type) and Evelyn was loading the handgun she had taken from Rick. Four people ready for battle versus twenty probably good warriors. The scale was not leaning their way.
"Very stupid of him to come here himself," he heard his wife's remark by him. When the group of warriors came near his range he raised his gun and shot, hearing at the same time the shots of Rick and Evelyn. Three people fell, while the leader disappeared wisely behind his people. "Coward," Heterity remarked wryly.
Soon they came against them. Despite their effort not to split up, Rick and Ardeth soon found themselves away from their wives. Rick shot in the face a big man, his gun almost making contact with the other's forehead. Then he bent, avoiding a hit aimed for his own head and kicked his opponent's feet. He lost his balance and collapsed clumsily. Rick finished him off quickly. He went for a third clear shot-the man has turned away from him-but his weapon just went click click and didn't shoot. "Damn!" he cursed.
He felt cold metal in his hand and turning, he was surprised to see Ardeth pushing a sword in his hand without looking at him, focused in the battle. Rick lost his concentration just for a moment searching for his wife with his eyes. A sharp pain at his shoulder brought him back to reality. A bullet had buried deep in his flesh and the one who had shot him, a non- native man who looked very much like him was ready to deliver the finishing blow. Rick raised the sword instinctively and the bullet hit the metal producing a hair-raising sound and was deflected.
Now the enemy had been reduced in number and through the gaps of their lines, Ardeth and Rick were able to re-unite with their wives.