Stuck Together
Chapter 8: Deathville
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********Yuffie's POV**********
I sat there on the ground, useless, as I looked around this forbidden place.
It was dark, but not too dark because for some reason chamber lighted torches were placed on the wall. The walls had writing on them, and there were skeletons hanging on the walls or on the ground. Spiders were crawling to and fro, and I knew I saw a dead coiled snake over in the corner. As I looked back around, a saw one tunnel go into the maze and was dark even with the torches lit.
"Wow," I whispered as I saw Squall still looking around. Then he looked towards me and knelt down.
"Is your leg any better?"
I touched the marks gently, and slightly flinched. "It's better than before," I said as I tried getting up, but Squall's hand went to my shoulder and held me down. "You shouldn't get up yet," he said emotionless as I plunked back onto the dusty ground.
I groaned and asked "Why?"
"We need to get you fixed before you do anything."
"With what?" I said aggravated.
Squall shrugged and looked around. "No, no, no," I said shaking my head, "We're not using any of those mummified things here-"
"They're not mummified."
"Yes they are! Lets think, we're in a pyramid, with dead things all over, writings on walls-"
"Still, we have nothing else to wrap your leg with."
I groaned and looked down at me quickly before saying, "We could use my jacket! I don't want it anyways and it's better than something mummified."
"Fine, but these things are not mummified."
"Yes they are,"
"No they're not."
"Yes!" before Squall could say anything to continue this strange fight, I took off my jacket that was loosely tied around my waist.
I held it out to Squall, "Here," I said. He took it and ripped off the bottom layer that was long enough for my skinny leg. He wrapped it around once, and then he started doing it tighter. I flinched at how tight he was doing it. However, the tighter he was going, the less I felt the pain. I started to not flinch any more, but relax against the wall for I hardly felt the pain; though it was still there.
Once he was done, he tore a skinny piece of the sleeve, and tied it around the cloth that was helping my wound, and he tied it into a knot. He stopped and said, "Try that,"
I did. I got up, and I staggered for a few seconds as I almost lost my balance, but I put my hand up to the wall. I stood there, leaning on the wall, and then pushed off into a standing position. I could slightly feel the pain, but I pushed it a way. I walked a few steps, and realized that I could walk. After walking a few, I ran in circles.
I stopped and stared at Squall. "Okay, I'm better, lets go out." I made my way towards the door but Squall held me back. I looked at him as he shook his head, "The sand storm might still be out there."
I groaned and said, "So then will we just stay here?"
"No, we're going to go down that tunnel," he said as he pointed towards that one mysterious tunnel.
I went back a few steps, "Something's telling me we should stay here until the storm has stopped."
Squall walked forward a few steps and looked back. "You're just saying that because you're scared to go down here."
I shook my head and walked forward next to Squall. "No I'm not. See?"
Squall and I worked our way down the tunnel. Strange writings were on the wall, and the torches that gave off a dim light were revealing little pictures. I looked at some as we walked and I saw pictures of snakes, walls, crocodiles, nets, sand, and trap doors. Then there was this little arrow like thing pointing down towards where we were going.
I quickly turned my head away, wishing that wasn't an arrow that I saw.
I started walking a little closer to Squall. "Why are we going down this tunnel anyway?" I asked as I looked up into his all figure.
Squall rolled his eyes and said, "There-"But he didn't have time to say anything else because all of a sudden, the ground gave away. Both of us fell until we hit the soft sand at the bottom.
I thumped down onto the ground and winced at the pain that my leg gave me. I pushed it away as I saw Squall get up and looked around. I did the same.
We were now in a large room that had several feet of sand. There was nothing else except a narrow tunnel going down a dark hallway.
"That was strange," I said suddenly as I continued looking around. I turned my head several ways until a picture caught my eye. I tilted my head slightly to see what it was. It was something large, like an animal. The whole thing almost blended into the wall, so you couldn't see it. But I knew that I saw large ears and sharp, shiny teeth.
"God!" I heard Squall exclaim behind me. I turned around and saw him looking at something with his gunblade raised. I looked where his eyes were looking at and saw a mound of sand. It was moving and was at least about my length. It was like a mole going through the ground, and the ground lifted up as the mole continued its journey. Except in this case, the mole was big and it was sand.
My hand reached for my belt, but as soon as I did that, the mound went down. It was gone.
"What was that?" I asked, still looking around, just in case.
"Squall looked at me and said "I don't-"he yelled and I saw him go down into the sand.
"Squall!" I yelled. He was gone in the sand and was nowhere to be found. I ran over to where he used to be and saw nothing. "Squall!" I screamed again, hoping he would hear.
"Yuffie!" I turned around and saw Squall pop out of the sand and run towards me. His whole body was covered in this dry yellow sand and his black leather clothes were now polka dotted in yellow spots.
"We gotta go now!" He took my hand and we ran towards the tunnel that was far away.
I heard a loud grunting sound and turned my head and saw the large mound coming toward us. I yelled and ran faster, slightly feeling pain in my lower leg.
Frightened, I took Squall's hand in mine and held on tightly. He grasped back firmly and we continued running. The tunnel was getting closer, but so was the mound.
The grunting sound came again, and when I turned my head, I saw the mound right at our feet.
"Hurry!" I yelled as we ran faster. Squall's firm grip on my hand started getting tighter and tighter, but I didn't care. I just kept my mind on the mouth of the hallway that was now getting close.
The next thing that happened was like in slow motion. I tripped over a large rock, and fell face first into the sandy ground. Squall and my hands came apart and Squall stopped and looked towards me. "Yuffie!" he yelled as he ran to me, but it was too late. The mound of sand swallowed me up.
I couldn't see anything. I had to close my eyes right away because sand would've gotten in my eyes. But I could feel my self with sand around me. A grunting sound was heard VERY close to me and I freaked out. I would've screamed, but I couldn't open my mouth or else sand would've gotten in.
I then felt something clammy and hard touch my legs. I shook violently and started 'swimming' somewhere. Anywhere, as long as I was away, from-from whatever was near.
I kept 'swimming' until I felt air. "Yuffie!" I felt arms around me and I opened my eyes and saw me out of the sand. Sand was all around me and I could barely open my eyes. I closed them again as sand entered them for sand was all around my eyes and eyelids. "I can't see," I said.
"Hold on Yuf," Squall said and he pulled me out. He picked me up bridal style again and started running. I felt him run and I snuggled in closer to his chest to feel safer. I started rubbing my eyes as I heard the grunting sound again. I shook a little and then opened my eyes as soon as I knew all the sand was gone.
Squall ran into the hallway with me in his arms. As soon as we were as far away from that room, he put me down and I stood up, brushing the sand from myself. I wiped my hands again and looked at Squall. He was panting slightly and he was looking towards where that room was.
"Do you know what that was?" I asked. He looked towards me and shook his head. "No, but that was close, especially for you."
I felt shivers down my spine then. "We should have never gone down the hallway. We should've just waited for the storm to stop."
"Okay, I get it. Come on, let's try and find our way out of here." We started walking down the narrow hallway and paintings were on the wall again. I paid no attention to them for I was more transfixed into watching every step I took.
"Squall?"
"...Leon"
"I'm having a strange feeling again."
He didn't say anything. After taking a couple more steps, we came up to a fork.
I groaned and looked towards Squall. I looked back and said, "We shouldn't go separate."
"I know,"
"I know you know, I'm just saying,"
After a moments pause I said, "Lets go right." I started making my way but Squall said, "Do you think that's the right way to go?"
I stopped and nodded.
Squall started walking towards the left, "Then in that case, we'll go to the left."
He started walking down, and growling in frustration, I followed.
This hallway was narrower. Only a few torches were down this one, and I had creeps going down my spine and butterflies in my stomach.
"We should've gone right-"
I stopped, for the floor collapsed again. I yelled as we went down, Squall below me. He grabbed onto a rope hanging from the ceiling, and then grabbed my arm as I came down. I grabbed onto the rope and hung there as Squall hung on the same rope right next to me.
I looked around. We were in a room with no other way to get out except up. I looked up and saw the only way out, which is where we came down. Down below was water only. No land, nothing except dirty water. I did think I saw a set of human bones floating in the water, but that might've been my mind playing tricks. The rope we were hanging was old and looked as if it were about to break. But I didn't pay any attention to that.
I held on tight to the rope, afraid to let go and never see daylight again.
"We should start climbing," Squall suddenly said. "You go first,"
"I nodded, not wanting to get into any fights while hanging on a rope that seemed old and worn out.
I dug my boots into the musty rope as my I pulled myself up. Squall stayed below me, and I could feel his eyes on me as I continued my way up.
Growling was heard below me. I stopped, and looked down, hoping it was only Squall. But it wasn't. In the water were six large crocodiles.
I groaned. What luck. Squall looked down at them, and then back up at me. "Keep climbing, they wont reach us." I nodded and continued my way up. I looked down again to see Squall climb up right below me.
Snapping was heard below and my spine shivered. I continued my way up the old rope as I was almost to the top. The snapping sounds continued and the shivers never stopped.
The hole in the ceiling where Squall and I had come from was close now. I was about to reach my hand up and grasp the floor up ahead when I felt a jerk in the rope.
"Hurry up! The rope's going to break!" Squall yelled from below.
I looked up and reached my hand to grasp the floor. I pulled myself out of that room and into the hall in which we previously were. As I climbed up, I noticed the rope coming off of the ceiling.
Squall was climbing up from where I was. "Hurry up! The rope's breaking." I called.
Squall climbed faster and climbed onto the hallway floor. As soon as he did that, the rope came off of the ceiling and landed into the pool of water where the crocodiles were snapping.
"See? We should've went right." I said as I got up. My hands ached from the climbing; I really wasn't good at that.
Squall didn't say anything. He just did a quick glance at me and then Squall and I walked down the hall until we ended up at the fork. We went the other way and hoped that it was better.
It seemed it wasn't, but I didn't say anything. The hall started getting narrower and darker. My spine had prickles and my legs felt like jelly.
I soon started smelling a fowl stench. It smelled like something was rotting away or has been for a long time. I wrinkled up my nose a little in disgust, wondering if it was just my imagination playing tricks on me.
We continued walking and the smell started getting stronger. But as soon as it was really strong, we walked into a large room.
It was tall and had large spider webs and random rotten ropes hanging from the ceiling. The walls were dimly lit with burning torches and the ground was covered with sand. And all around the room was what looked like large boxes.
As soon as Squall and I stepped in, I froze. Those weren't boxes.
They were mummy cases. (A/N: forgot what they were called, hehe, sorry!)
"Sq-squall?" I said. Just our luck to run into these things.
Squall stood next to me and looked down at my tiny figure. "Don't worry, it's not like they'll pop out." He said emotionless.
Both of us stood there, me, scared out of my wits, and Squall standing as tall as ever.
I looked around some more and saw these cases everywhere. But ahead of us I saw stairs going upwards. I started walking towards it when the ground started shaking.
I stopped dead and looked around while trying to keep my balance. The ground shook violently, and the suddenly stopped.
I looked over at Squall, "What was-"I didn't finish. Crunching sounds were heard throughout the room. I looked around and saw the cases sliding open. I shrieked and my hands reached where my shurikens were as Squall got out his gunblade.
My heart started pumping faster as I saw mummies pop out of the cases. They were tall and had their dirty bandages covered all around them loosely. They all walked towards squall and I as we stood back to back. The mummies started limping into a circle around us so we couldn't get out.
I clenched my teeth as I fired Shurikens at various mummies. I hit most of them right in their chest while I hit the others in their eyeballs should be, or in the groins.
But all of the mummies acted as if they didn't feel a thing and each one that I hit started advancing on me. I fired more of my shurikens, wondering if I'd ever run out. I glanced over at Squall and saw him hi9tting them all. He hit one mummy and it's head rolled off to the side. I thought it was dead, but instead, the head magically flew up and reattached itself to the body and advanced on Squall.
"They're not dieing!" I yelled as I backed away from the limping mummies. One grabbed at my leg, and I could feel the clammy, dirty bandage wrap around my skin. I jerked away and heard Squall yell, "Run to the stairs!"
He ran and grabbed my hand while both of us ran towards the stairs. I laced my fingers through his and ran fast along with him. I heard low groans come from the mummies who were walking slowly up the steps, reaching out their arms as if to grab us.
The stairs came to a dead end and there was a trap door above us. Squall unlaced his fingers and pushed it open, revealing more light.
"Get up there Yuffie!"
I climbed up and rolled to the side as Squall climbed up as well. He closed the trap door shut tightly, and we looked around, panting.
We were in the room where we started. Across from us was the door that led to the desert, outside of this pyramid.
BANG.
The trap door in which we came through flew open, and the mummies started climbing out of it,. Groaning, as they limped towards us.
Squall and I ran towards the door and tried opening it together.
It wouldn't budge.
The mummies were getting closer to us.
"Push harder, Yuffie!" Squall said through clenched teeth.
"I'm trying!" I yelled, pulling harder. The door creaked open slightly, and the blazing light from the sun peaked throughout the room.
The mummies were just about to strangle us when the sunlight hit them. They all put their bandaged arms over their heads to block out the sun, but it was no use. They started collapsing to the ground one by one.
We pulled the door open, and stepped out into the desert.
As soon as we stepped out, we closed the door with difficulty, shutting away the collapsed groaning mummies.
We leaned against the pyramids walls and stood there panting.
"We're not going into a pyramid again," I said through panting breaths. Squall nodded slightly and said, "Come on, we have to get to those buildings soon."
After we took a break, and we ate some of the berries out of Squalls jacket since we left mine in there, we headed out into the hot blazing desert.
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Sorry it took a little while to write this chappie.
I appreciate all the reviews I've gotten! Thanks a lot everybody!
Next Chapter: Squall gets trapped in Quick sand, how can Yuffie save him?
Chapter 8: Deathville
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********Yuffie's POV**********
I sat there on the ground, useless, as I looked around this forbidden place.
It was dark, but not too dark because for some reason chamber lighted torches were placed on the wall. The walls had writing on them, and there were skeletons hanging on the walls or on the ground. Spiders were crawling to and fro, and I knew I saw a dead coiled snake over in the corner. As I looked back around, a saw one tunnel go into the maze and was dark even with the torches lit.
"Wow," I whispered as I saw Squall still looking around. Then he looked towards me and knelt down.
"Is your leg any better?"
I touched the marks gently, and slightly flinched. "It's better than before," I said as I tried getting up, but Squall's hand went to my shoulder and held me down. "You shouldn't get up yet," he said emotionless as I plunked back onto the dusty ground.
I groaned and asked "Why?"
"We need to get you fixed before you do anything."
"With what?" I said aggravated.
Squall shrugged and looked around. "No, no, no," I said shaking my head, "We're not using any of those mummified things here-"
"They're not mummified."
"Yes they are! Lets think, we're in a pyramid, with dead things all over, writings on walls-"
"Still, we have nothing else to wrap your leg with."
I groaned and looked down at me quickly before saying, "We could use my jacket! I don't want it anyways and it's better than something mummified."
"Fine, but these things are not mummified."
"Yes they are,"
"No they're not."
"Yes!" before Squall could say anything to continue this strange fight, I took off my jacket that was loosely tied around my waist.
I held it out to Squall, "Here," I said. He took it and ripped off the bottom layer that was long enough for my skinny leg. He wrapped it around once, and then he started doing it tighter. I flinched at how tight he was doing it. However, the tighter he was going, the less I felt the pain. I started to not flinch any more, but relax against the wall for I hardly felt the pain; though it was still there.
Once he was done, he tore a skinny piece of the sleeve, and tied it around the cloth that was helping my wound, and he tied it into a knot. He stopped and said, "Try that,"
I did. I got up, and I staggered for a few seconds as I almost lost my balance, but I put my hand up to the wall. I stood there, leaning on the wall, and then pushed off into a standing position. I could slightly feel the pain, but I pushed it a way. I walked a few steps, and realized that I could walk. After walking a few, I ran in circles.
I stopped and stared at Squall. "Okay, I'm better, lets go out." I made my way towards the door but Squall held me back. I looked at him as he shook his head, "The sand storm might still be out there."
I groaned and said, "So then will we just stay here?"
"No, we're going to go down that tunnel," he said as he pointed towards that one mysterious tunnel.
I went back a few steps, "Something's telling me we should stay here until the storm has stopped."
Squall walked forward a few steps and looked back. "You're just saying that because you're scared to go down here."
I shook my head and walked forward next to Squall. "No I'm not. See?"
Squall and I worked our way down the tunnel. Strange writings were on the wall, and the torches that gave off a dim light were revealing little pictures. I looked at some as we walked and I saw pictures of snakes, walls, crocodiles, nets, sand, and trap doors. Then there was this little arrow like thing pointing down towards where we were going.
I quickly turned my head away, wishing that wasn't an arrow that I saw.
I started walking a little closer to Squall. "Why are we going down this tunnel anyway?" I asked as I looked up into his all figure.
Squall rolled his eyes and said, "There-"But he didn't have time to say anything else because all of a sudden, the ground gave away. Both of us fell until we hit the soft sand at the bottom.
I thumped down onto the ground and winced at the pain that my leg gave me. I pushed it away as I saw Squall get up and looked around. I did the same.
We were now in a large room that had several feet of sand. There was nothing else except a narrow tunnel going down a dark hallway.
"That was strange," I said suddenly as I continued looking around. I turned my head several ways until a picture caught my eye. I tilted my head slightly to see what it was. It was something large, like an animal. The whole thing almost blended into the wall, so you couldn't see it. But I knew that I saw large ears and sharp, shiny teeth.
"God!" I heard Squall exclaim behind me. I turned around and saw him looking at something with his gunblade raised. I looked where his eyes were looking at and saw a mound of sand. It was moving and was at least about my length. It was like a mole going through the ground, and the ground lifted up as the mole continued its journey. Except in this case, the mole was big and it was sand.
My hand reached for my belt, but as soon as I did that, the mound went down. It was gone.
"What was that?" I asked, still looking around, just in case.
"Squall looked at me and said "I don't-"he yelled and I saw him go down into the sand.
"Squall!" I yelled. He was gone in the sand and was nowhere to be found. I ran over to where he used to be and saw nothing. "Squall!" I screamed again, hoping he would hear.
"Yuffie!" I turned around and saw Squall pop out of the sand and run towards me. His whole body was covered in this dry yellow sand and his black leather clothes were now polka dotted in yellow spots.
"We gotta go now!" He took my hand and we ran towards the tunnel that was far away.
I heard a loud grunting sound and turned my head and saw the large mound coming toward us. I yelled and ran faster, slightly feeling pain in my lower leg.
Frightened, I took Squall's hand in mine and held on tightly. He grasped back firmly and we continued running. The tunnel was getting closer, but so was the mound.
The grunting sound came again, and when I turned my head, I saw the mound right at our feet.
"Hurry!" I yelled as we ran faster. Squall's firm grip on my hand started getting tighter and tighter, but I didn't care. I just kept my mind on the mouth of the hallway that was now getting close.
The next thing that happened was like in slow motion. I tripped over a large rock, and fell face first into the sandy ground. Squall and my hands came apart and Squall stopped and looked towards me. "Yuffie!" he yelled as he ran to me, but it was too late. The mound of sand swallowed me up.
I couldn't see anything. I had to close my eyes right away because sand would've gotten in my eyes. But I could feel my self with sand around me. A grunting sound was heard VERY close to me and I freaked out. I would've screamed, but I couldn't open my mouth or else sand would've gotten in.
I then felt something clammy and hard touch my legs. I shook violently and started 'swimming' somewhere. Anywhere, as long as I was away, from-from whatever was near.
I kept 'swimming' until I felt air. "Yuffie!" I felt arms around me and I opened my eyes and saw me out of the sand. Sand was all around me and I could barely open my eyes. I closed them again as sand entered them for sand was all around my eyes and eyelids. "I can't see," I said.
"Hold on Yuf," Squall said and he pulled me out. He picked me up bridal style again and started running. I felt him run and I snuggled in closer to his chest to feel safer. I started rubbing my eyes as I heard the grunting sound again. I shook a little and then opened my eyes as soon as I knew all the sand was gone.
Squall ran into the hallway with me in his arms. As soon as we were as far away from that room, he put me down and I stood up, brushing the sand from myself. I wiped my hands again and looked at Squall. He was panting slightly and he was looking towards where that room was.
"Do you know what that was?" I asked. He looked towards me and shook his head. "No, but that was close, especially for you."
I felt shivers down my spine then. "We should have never gone down the hallway. We should've just waited for the storm to stop."
"Okay, I get it. Come on, let's try and find our way out of here." We started walking down the narrow hallway and paintings were on the wall again. I paid no attention to them for I was more transfixed into watching every step I took.
"Squall?"
"...Leon"
"I'm having a strange feeling again."
He didn't say anything. After taking a couple more steps, we came up to a fork.
I groaned and looked towards Squall. I looked back and said, "We shouldn't go separate."
"I know,"
"I know you know, I'm just saying,"
After a moments pause I said, "Lets go right." I started making my way but Squall said, "Do you think that's the right way to go?"
I stopped and nodded.
Squall started walking towards the left, "Then in that case, we'll go to the left."
He started walking down, and growling in frustration, I followed.
This hallway was narrower. Only a few torches were down this one, and I had creeps going down my spine and butterflies in my stomach.
"We should've gone right-"
I stopped, for the floor collapsed again. I yelled as we went down, Squall below me. He grabbed onto a rope hanging from the ceiling, and then grabbed my arm as I came down. I grabbed onto the rope and hung there as Squall hung on the same rope right next to me.
I looked around. We were in a room with no other way to get out except up. I looked up and saw the only way out, which is where we came down. Down below was water only. No land, nothing except dirty water. I did think I saw a set of human bones floating in the water, but that might've been my mind playing tricks. The rope we were hanging was old and looked as if it were about to break. But I didn't pay any attention to that.
I held on tight to the rope, afraid to let go and never see daylight again.
"We should start climbing," Squall suddenly said. "You go first,"
"I nodded, not wanting to get into any fights while hanging on a rope that seemed old and worn out.
I dug my boots into the musty rope as my I pulled myself up. Squall stayed below me, and I could feel his eyes on me as I continued my way up.
Growling was heard below me. I stopped, and looked down, hoping it was only Squall. But it wasn't. In the water were six large crocodiles.
I groaned. What luck. Squall looked down at them, and then back up at me. "Keep climbing, they wont reach us." I nodded and continued my way up. I looked down again to see Squall climb up right below me.
Snapping was heard below and my spine shivered. I continued my way up the old rope as I was almost to the top. The snapping sounds continued and the shivers never stopped.
The hole in the ceiling where Squall and I had come from was close now. I was about to reach my hand up and grasp the floor up ahead when I felt a jerk in the rope.
"Hurry up! The rope's going to break!" Squall yelled from below.
I looked up and reached my hand to grasp the floor. I pulled myself out of that room and into the hall in which we previously were. As I climbed up, I noticed the rope coming off of the ceiling.
Squall was climbing up from where I was. "Hurry up! The rope's breaking." I called.
Squall climbed faster and climbed onto the hallway floor. As soon as he did that, the rope came off of the ceiling and landed into the pool of water where the crocodiles were snapping.
"See? We should've went right." I said as I got up. My hands ached from the climbing; I really wasn't good at that.
Squall didn't say anything. He just did a quick glance at me and then Squall and I walked down the hall until we ended up at the fork. We went the other way and hoped that it was better.
It seemed it wasn't, but I didn't say anything. The hall started getting narrower and darker. My spine had prickles and my legs felt like jelly.
I soon started smelling a fowl stench. It smelled like something was rotting away or has been for a long time. I wrinkled up my nose a little in disgust, wondering if it was just my imagination playing tricks on me.
We continued walking and the smell started getting stronger. But as soon as it was really strong, we walked into a large room.
It was tall and had large spider webs and random rotten ropes hanging from the ceiling. The walls were dimly lit with burning torches and the ground was covered with sand. And all around the room was what looked like large boxes.
As soon as Squall and I stepped in, I froze. Those weren't boxes.
They were mummy cases. (A/N: forgot what they were called, hehe, sorry!)
"Sq-squall?" I said. Just our luck to run into these things.
Squall stood next to me and looked down at my tiny figure. "Don't worry, it's not like they'll pop out." He said emotionless.
Both of us stood there, me, scared out of my wits, and Squall standing as tall as ever.
I looked around some more and saw these cases everywhere. But ahead of us I saw stairs going upwards. I started walking towards it when the ground started shaking.
I stopped dead and looked around while trying to keep my balance. The ground shook violently, and the suddenly stopped.
I looked over at Squall, "What was-"I didn't finish. Crunching sounds were heard throughout the room. I looked around and saw the cases sliding open. I shrieked and my hands reached where my shurikens were as Squall got out his gunblade.
My heart started pumping faster as I saw mummies pop out of the cases. They were tall and had their dirty bandages covered all around them loosely. They all walked towards squall and I as we stood back to back. The mummies started limping into a circle around us so we couldn't get out.
I clenched my teeth as I fired Shurikens at various mummies. I hit most of them right in their chest while I hit the others in their eyeballs should be, or in the groins.
But all of the mummies acted as if they didn't feel a thing and each one that I hit started advancing on me. I fired more of my shurikens, wondering if I'd ever run out. I glanced over at Squall and saw him hi9tting them all. He hit one mummy and it's head rolled off to the side. I thought it was dead, but instead, the head magically flew up and reattached itself to the body and advanced on Squall.
"They're not dieing!" I yelled as I backed away from the limping mummies. One grabbed at my leg, and I could feel the clammy, dirty bandage wrap around my skin. I jerked away and heard Squall yell, "Run to the stairs!"
He ran and grabbed my hand while both of us ran towards the stairs. I laced my fingers through his and ran fast along with him. I heard low groans come from the mummies who were walking slowly up the steps, reaching out their arms as if to grab us.
The stairs came to a dead end and there was a trap door above us. Squall unlaced his fingers and pushed it open, revealing more light.
"Get up there Yuffie!"
I climbed up and rolled to the side as Squall climbed up as well. He closed the trap door shut tightly, and we looked around, panting.
We were in the room where we started. Across from us was the door that led to the desert, outside of this pyramid.
BANG.
The trap door in which we came through flew open, and the mummies started climbing out of it,. Groaning, as they limped towards us.
Squall and I ran towards the door and tried opening it together.
It wouldn't budge.
The mummies were getting closer to us.
"Push harder, Yuffie!" Squall said through clenched teeth.
"I'm trying!" I yelled, pulling harder. The door creaked open slightly, and the blazing light from the sun peaked throughout the room.
The mummies were just about to strangle us when the sunlight hit them. They all put their bandaged arms over their heads to block out the sun, but it was no use. They started collapsing to the ground one by one.
We pulled the door open, and stepped out into the desert.
As soon as we stepped out, we closed the door with difficulty, shutting away the collapsed groaning mummies.
We leaned against the pyramids walls and stood there panting.
"We're not going into a pyramid again," I said through panting breaths. Squall nodded slightly and said, "Come on, we have to get to those buildings soon."
After we took a break, and we ate some of the berries out of Squalls jacket since we left mine in there, we headed out into the hot blazing desert.
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