Campsite
Kryptonite
Summary: Alex is now sixteen going on seventeen; it has been about seven-eight years since the O'Connell's were in Egypt. Imhotep makes his appearance.
Rating: PG-13 for later violence
Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever owned The Mummy or The Mummy Returns, though I would dearly love to be in one of them… I want them to make a third Mummy movie…
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" Is the key ready yet?" Evy asked, coming upon Kassidy in the tunnels.
" It'll be ready in the morning." Jonathon and Rick ambled in, following Evy into the winding catacombs.
" So how many are going to be entering the rest of the tunnels?" Rick asked as Jonathon started reading the writing in the torchlight.
" Me, you three, four of the hired help, my father and possibly my brother. Is Alex joining us?" She asked. Evy was about to answer when Jonathon's mumbling voice was heard, causing everyone to pause at the strange words sliding off his tongue. "NO!" Kassidy shouted, diving at Jonathon, knocking him to the ground mere seconds after he finished speaking.
" What the bloody hell." Jonathon sputtered as Kassidy levered herself off of him, heading for the ladder out of the torch-lit hallways. Rick, Evy and Jonathon followed after the girl, exiting into the desert night. Kassidy struck out ahead, running up a sand dune as thunderclouds and lighting flashed and grew around them.
" Mum?" Alex asked, running out of the tent he had been encamped in with Aiden.
" I don't know." She called, chasing after Kassidy. The girl had stopped a few feet from the edge of the sand dune, waiting for something to happen as sand whipped up around them.
" What is going on here?" Rick asked, drawing a pistol as the O'Connell family, plus Jonathon, gathered in a group to Kassidy's right. Aiden and Dr. Johannasen grouped to Kassidy's left and the rest either continued what they were doing in the camp or stayed in their tents, eyes firmly shut.
A figure grew from within the sandstorm and as it solidified and could clearly be seen the 'storm' subsided, the sand settling down where it had been blown. Rick cocked his gun, leveling it at the newcomers' head. In response Imhotep took a step closer.
" Imhotep." Kassidy called, trying to get his attention from Rick. " Imhotep." She called again, louder, when he didn't respond. " Imhotep!" Kassidy shrieked, finally gaining his attention. " Leave them be."
" You know him?" Randall asked, literally quaking in his boots.
" Yes Da. Come on." She sighed, turning to go back down to the dig site. Surprisingly, Imhotep followed her without a word or even a backward glance at the O'Connell's.
" Is anyone else disturbed by this?" Jonathon asked after a few moments in silence. Everyone raised their hands.
" What in the world did you read Jonathon?" Evy asked, rounding on her brother. He cowered back.
" I don't know. I was just looking at the inscriptions on the walls and I started speaking. I didn't have much of a choice."
" Ohh." Evy grumbled, hitting her brother's shoulder with the back of her hand.
" Honey, at least Jonathon was being forced to read. If I remember correctly, 'It's just a book, no harm ever came from a book.' At least you had a choice then." Rick teased, taking slow steps down the sliding sand.
" Do not make me give you a hand down this slope." Evy mumbled, watching her own footing.
" We can leave tomorrow morning. I do need to know who is going to go." Kassidy said, stepping out of her tent at the groups' approach.
" Same group I should think." Evy answered, remember the names that Kassidy had ticked off before Imhotep had appeared in his usual melodramatic fashion.
" Imhotep is coming as well."
" No. The walking corpse stays here." Rick spoke forcefully. Imhotep half stepped out of the tent entrance glaring at Rick.
" Imhotep goes with us. End of discussion." Kassidy answered back, her tone leaving no room for argument. Turning, Kassidy walks back to the tent flap, forcing Imhotep into the tent in front of her.
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" Everyone present and accounted for?" Kassidy asked the next day, adjusting her backpack. A chorus of 'yes's followed her question. Nodding, she led the way down the straight path to the first locked door of three. Evy watched as Imhotep followed the young girl, dressed in modern clothes. " Here we go." Kassidy said, placing the newly fashioned key in the lock.
The door sliding back into the wall followed an audible click. Kassidy gestured for the forerunners to go in front of her. Aiden and Alex followed Rick, Evy, and Jonathon. Dr. Johannasen was to go next but he waved for his daughter to go in front of him. Kassidy's hand wrapped around Imhotep's as she pulled him forward. Just as Randall started forward the door slid shut, closing faster than stone on stone had a right too.
" No!" The group chorused, rushing at the door trying to stop it from closing. A face full of dust awarded them.
" The lock's different." Kassidy spoke sadly when the dust cleared enough for the group to breathe. Evy looked at the lock on the door, running her fingers over it.
" We will continue." Imhotep answered, a hand still attached to Kassidy's.
" No, we're going to wait for them to break through."
" Mr. O'Connell, we tried to open the door with crowbars. The only reason we didn't get them open is because I refused to allow my da to bring dynamite anywhere near the building." Kassidy spoke quietly, leaning tiredly against the wall. " If we keep going there's a good chance we'll find a key that matches this lock."
" Then I guess we only have one choice." Evy answered when it looked as if her husband would remain his stubborn self.
" Yes."
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A/N: Two updates in one day, aren't you just so lucky? I really think this is going to turn out to be a very sketchy story, which should allow me to go back once it's finished and fill in numerous little details. Tell me what you think please.
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