The Mummy


Summary:
It's basically like the original movie EXEPT Rick has a sister named

Esmerelda. The story starts on the boat before the Medjai attack. It will include the following pairings: Rick/Evelyn, Imhotep /Anck – su – namun, and Ardeth/O.C. (implied).

Notes: Big thanks to Linzi, one of my friends, for her support and for reviewing this story. Whatever's in italics is spoken in Arabic, asterisks are thoughts, bold italics are Egyptian; bold is words that are exaggerated, and underlined means two people said it at the same time. This is my first fiction so if you don't like it, too bad, so sad.

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE MUMMY OR ANYTHING RELATED TO IT. ALL I OWN IS ESMERELDA.

Chapter 4: Resurrection

The Americans were flaunting their find – sacred canopic jars – when Eve and Esmerelda showed up. "Look what we found!" "You're in their seat." Benni just shrugged off Rick's comment, so he shouted, "NOW!" Benni moved this time. Eve and 'Elda sat down. "These are scarab skeletons." "Scarabs are flesh eaters. They can live for years feasting on the flesh of a corpse." "Unfortunately for our friend, he was still alive when they started eating him." "So, somebody threw these in with our guy and they slowly ate him alive?" "Very slowly." Esmerelda, feeling uncomfortable between Eve and Rick, stood up. "I'm going for a walk." "Don't wander too far, 'Elda" "I won't, Rick."

Their voices faded away into the night as she walked further away. Thank God she could get away, if only for a moment, so she could think. Why couldn't she forget that man? She'd only seen him once, and yet she was daydreaming like an idiotic schoolgirl. Grow up, 'Elda. What would a man like him see in an orphan like you, anyway? As she looked out into the distance, she noticed a small group of men on horseback. Positive that it was the same group of men from last night, she wondered if he was among them, and silently prayed for him to be thinking of her as she was of him.


Ardeth wasn't surprised the foreigners did not heed his words. Those people were so close to raising the Creatureit was dangerous to let them live. And yet, he wasn't angry. He didn't want to shed their blood – not all of it, anyway. His mind churned with thoughts of the woman with mysterious eyes. Although he'd had only a glimpse of her for a few seconds, she haunted him, he saw her everywhere. From his watch post, he saw someone wander away from the rest of the group. He just knew it was she. Oh, how he wanted to hear her voice, know her name, touch her skin…Stop it, Ardeth. You're a grown man, not some lovesick child. You only saw her once, why should she torment you so? He answered this thought with two simple words, words that were more powerful than any he had just thought. Her eyes.


Esmerelda stirred, rubbing her eyes and groaning as she sat up. She had fallen asleep where she'd stopped earlier. As she began to head back, she heard the Egyptologist shout something about not reading from a book. She ran over to Rick and Eve. "What happened?" "Shh." She was about to tell Rick off when she heard a noise. It sounded like bug wings – thousands of them. Soon, she noticed an ominous cloud approaching over the horizon. As it came closer, she realized - to her horror – that it was a giant swarm of locusts. "RUN!" As they ran towards the entrance to the tomb, they noticed others attempting the same thing, only to be consumed in the dense storm of insects. They just barely made it through the door before Henderson and Daniels shut it.


As they walked through a corridor, the ground suddenly began to shake violently. However, the shaking stopped soon after it started. Afterwards, a mound of sand began to rise out of the ground and beetles burst out of it. "Scarabs!" "Run! Go, now! Go, go, go!" As the group offour ran away, Rick threw their torch behind them, and then began shooting the scarabs in an attempt to slow them down. They came to a bridge with some recesses on either side. They crossed about halfway, and then jumped to opposite sides – guys on one side, girls on the other. As they watched the scarabs run by, Eve and 'Elda fell through a trap door. The men didn't notice they were gone until all the scarabs had passed.


The girls landed in a dark room. Some light shone through, but not much. They spotted Mr. Burns – one of the Americans – standing with his back to them in the shadows. "Oh, Mr. Burns. We were just starting to get scared. We lost the others, and…" While she had been talking, Mr. Burns had turned around, silencing Eve's words – his eyes were GONE! "Aaahhh!" As he began to talk to them, they soon realized he didn't have a tongue either! They began to back up against a wall. Suddenly, they saw it – the mummy they had discovered was walking towards them. They instantly knew where Burns' eyes and tongue had gone. "AAAHHH!"

They tried to back up, but stopped short when they realized they were up against the wall. Eve tried to get Burns to help them, but he wasn't listening. Esmerelda was too scared to do anything. The mummy walked up to them, and then stopped as if he'd just remembered something. He looked at Eve and said, "Anck - su - Namun?" Naturally, both girls knew what he said, but not what he was talking about. The thing stretched out his hand to Eve. "Come with me my princess Anck - su - Namun."

Then, Rick ran in next to them. "There you are! No time to play hide and seek, let's get out of here!" Then he saw the mummy. "AAHH!" "Eve!" Jonathan ran in, followed by Henderson and Daniels, before freezing in their tracks. The mummy looked at Rick and roared - a great, terrible roar. Rick roared back, then cocked his gun and shot the mummy square in the chest. "Come on!" Bringing Eve and 'Elda out of their reverie, he grabbed them and ran. No one other than 'Elda noticed the creature stand up.


AN:
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