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Lara stepped off the plane followed by an eager Abbey. Lara confidently strode up to the customs desk and opened her luggage revealing her entire arsenal for the whole world to see. At first the poor officer just stared at the special in front of him. Lara waited until Abbey jabbed her in the ribs. She mercifully produced a license that gave her international permission to carry all of the weapons displayed in front of the officer.
Exiting the airport, laden with bags, Lara turned to Abbey and asked
"So do you want to go to the dig site first or do you want to get to the hotel."
Abbey just smiled
"Dig site it is."
Lara gave her bags to an attendant and hailed a cab. An hour later Lara and Abbey steeped into the valley of kings where a chamber larger and better protected from the elements than the rest, had been discovered. A man with short blonde hair walked up from behind a group of struggling workers, desperately trying to hall the heavy cover stone that prohibited anything larger than a camera probe to enter.
"Hello Lara" he said with a heavy American accent (yes we do have one all you high and mighty yuppies)
"Well if it isn't Lara Croft still pretending to be a photo journalist."
Lara turned and smiled
"Hello Alex, no actually I'm here as an expert on Egyptian traps and hidden devices, what about you still an archeologist?"
Abbey stood in between Alex and Lara uncomprehending she raised an eyebrow at Lara and scrutinized Alex
Lara, quickly picking up on the hint, turned to Abbey and said
"Abbey this is an old friend his name is Alex West" turning to Alex said "Alex this is my daughter Abbey."
Alex smiled "nice to meet you Abbey" he said extending a hand
"Nice to meet you too Mr. West."
Lara leaned to Abbey who was almost the same height and whispered "you don't have to be so formal he's one of us."
Abbey eagerly took his hand and shook it vigorously.
"Well" Alex said pulling his hand back "let's go over and see how things are going."
When the three of them worked with the hired hands they were able to lift the cover stone away.
As the dust cleared Alex looked at Lara and with a bow said "Ladies first."
Lara smile wryly and walked ahead with Abbey on her heels Alex marveled at how controlled and collected Abbey looked hr would have thought the girl excited and anxious but he remembered who had raised her; one of the best tomb raiders in the business. He was about to go in with them when the ground gave a violent heave and the entrance collapsed.
Lara walked into the tunnel, eyes flicking around the chamber she could only see a few feet from the door the sun providing the only light. She heard Abbey climbed in after her. This should be a god test of her skills this seems to be rather tame compared to some things I've done she thought to her self.
Abbey climbed in after Lara being careful to watch the tiles she stepped on. Both of them stumbled when the ground heaved Abbey fell down into the tunnel falling on Lara and both of them tumbling done into the chamber Abbey screamed when the entrance caved in and everything when silent around them.
"Abbey!" Lara shouted and everything went black
Abbey Where are you please answer me!" she shouted.
Abbey coughed somewhere behind her and croaked " I'm over here mom but there's a stone on my arm and I can't get it off by myself."
Lara fumbled with her pocket until she found a flare and lit it she saw Abbey thought the debris a large stone block on her left arm up to the elbow. Abbey moved a little but flinched and stopped.
Lara ran over to her using a crow bar left over from the worked and used it to lift he stone enough for Abbey to slide out. Lara surveyed the wound, there was a long, deep gash going form Abbey's wrist to her elbow on the outside but the bleeding had already slowed so Lara simply washed to wound and bandaged it. Abbey turned to Lara and said
"Well I suppose we should see if there is another way out, huh?" asked Abbey
"Yes we should but we should be even more careful obviously this place is more heavily guarded than I had previously suspected." Lara replied
Abbey nodded and got up pulling out her halogen flash light scanning the floor and other tunnels for trip wires. Abbey and Lara walked for a few hours with little happening and eventually Abbey's flashlight ran out of batteries forcing them to rely on flares alone.
"Hey Abbey get another flare ready this one's almost out." Lara called over her shoulder.
Abbey fumbled in her pack and dropped the flare when the other ran out
"Dammit" Abbey swore scrabbling on the floor for the lost flare.
Lara put a hand on Abbey's shoulder and Abbey stood up then she heard it, a low rumbling Growl coming from the end of the hallway.
"Abbey don't move." Lara Whispered into Abbey's ear.
Good or bad cliffy do tell me and I will write sooner.
