Secrets in the Stones:
Chapter One
The man pounded as fast as he could over the sand dunes, but he was tiring. The man behind him was younger and stronger. But still the man ran. He was not going to let this knowledge he now knew go. Suddenly, he tripped on a rock he did not see on the dunes. He tumbled down the sand.
As he tried to get up once he had stopped rolling, he was knocked down but a butt of a gun. He stared into the eyes of the man who was chasing him. Had been chasing him.
"There are others who know. This secret has been waiting ten thousand years to be discovered. Now it has been, it will be known."
The man kicked him with his boot. He doubled over, moaning. His attacker spoke for the first time, and what he said chilled him to the bones.
"There is no-one left. We have dealt with them. Ten thousand years we have kept our covenant, and we will for another ten thousand years." The man gasped. They had found his men. But they were scattered all over Egypt. How did they find them all?
"The secret will be unearthed." That was all he said, before the man with the gun knocked him unconscious.
Robert Langdon groaned as the phone rang. He had phone calls like this all week, after his gave his lecture on the symbology of Egyptian Mythology.
"Hello. Robert Langdon."
"Mr Langdon, I must speak with you urgently. My name is Dr A. Haseid. I work with the Government on archaeological projects. Some of my men are dead." Robert sat there, puzzled as ever.
"Dr Haseid, why are you calling me? Should not the police be involved with this?"
"Mr Langdon, if you had found one of your colleagues from Harvard hacked into fourteen pieces, in the Great Pyramid of Giza, would you call the police?"
"Fourteen pieces? Like Osiris. Can I guess that a piece of the body is missing, Dr Haseid?" Robert was remembering the story of Osiris, the first story in mythology of someone dying and being brought back to life. His brother Seth had hacked his body into fourteen pieces and scattered them into the Nile. Here they were in the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
"Sir, you guess correctly. It is exactly like Osiris. Would we be able to meet at the Great Pyramid in an hour?" The clock on Langdon's bedside table said 5:40 am.
"Dr Haseid, are you serious? The Great Pyramid in an hour?" He asked.
"Mr Langdon, just meet me there by seven this morning. No one will be working there today, I have made sure of that. Just get here." Dr A. Haseid hung up, and Robert Langdon looked at the receiver, before putting it back down, and pulling on a pair of trousers.
"The final one has been taken care of, my Lord. There is no one left who knew our secret." The man spoke to his master.
"Well done. You are my Son and my wings, Horus." Replied the man in a rasping voice. "But what of Haseid?"
"Mohammed El-Haseid has died, great one of eternity. Before he died, he told me all he knew. Only three people knew the location. El-Haseid himself, an Egyptologist called Horaeru, and one other."
"Who?" the old man rasped angrily.
"His child.