CHAPTER SIX
I fell into my bed roll exhausted and fell asleep almost as soon as my head hit my pillow. Waking up to someone shrugging my shoulder I peered upwards as a yawn erupted from me.
I was surprised that it was Jon not Evy and took a quick, albeit bleary look around our small camp showed me that Evy was still sleeping.
"Yeah Jon?" I asked sitting up and rubbing my eyes with the palms of my hands to get rid of my sleepiness.
"Rick and I have to go take care of business and we didn't want to leave you two unprotected." Jon said.
I nodded my understanding even as another large yawn took over my mouth, stretching I stood up as Jon and Rick walked off.
After a few more stretches I reached down and shook out my bed roll before rolling it back up and placing it down beside my duffel bag.
Evy woke up after I had sat down next to the fire, putting my swords on my back and was re-cleaning all my throwing knives..
After drinking some water Evy and I went together to find a hidden spot to do our business and I found it the perfect opportunity to tease her.
"Well someone must have been up late last night. You haven't slept pass the sun-rise in years." I said nudging her with my elbow gently.
"Oh, be quiet you." Evy said blushing as she gently shoved me back, causing me to chuckle at her embarrassment.
After we did our business and cleaned our hands off as good as we could we went back to Jon and Rick who had returned and made breakfast.
After we ate we went below and finally opened the sarcophagus only to find a coffin within it. I helped Rick and Jon carefully lift the coffin out and set it up right as Evy excitedly watched,
"Oh I've dreamed about this moment since I was a little girl!" She exclaimed happily.
"You dream about dead guys?" Rick asked with a raised eyebrow.
I smirked as Evy ignored him, "Oh look the sacred spells have been chiseled off. This man must have been condemned not only in this life but in the next."
"Tough break." Rick and I said sarcastically at the same time to our surprise.
Jon spoke up as he put the key into the coffin, "Yeah I'm all in tears...now lets see who's inside shall we?"
I stepped back as Jon and Rick started to pull the lid off, watching the lid fly off with interest I leaned forward wanting to know what was in it.
Immediately Rick, Jon and Evy all shouted as the mummy fell forward in the coffin while I involuntarily jumped backwards.
Evy smacked me in the arm for laughing which I couldn't help but do at their reaction after I got over my quick shock.
"Oh I hate it when they do that!" Evy exclaimed.
"They do that often?" I muttered quietly my eyebrow twitching up involuntarily at Evy's statement.
"Is he suppose too look like that?" Rick asked.
"No I've never seen a mummy look like this before..." Evy replied, as she tried to continue, "He's still.. still-"
Rick, Jon and I spoke at the same time, "Juicy."
"Yes, he must be more then three thousand years old and it looks as if he's still…decomposing." Evy said as she looked over the mummy.
Rick nodded and looked away from the mummy only to have something catch his eyes,
"Hey look at that." Rick said pointing to the coffin lid where it was laying where Rick and Jon had dropped it upon being surprised by the mummy's lurch out of the coffin.
We all went over to it and saw something scratched into the inside of the lid.
"What do you make of this?" Rick asked as he pointed to the marks.
"These marks were made by...fingernails." I said mimicking the scratches with my own hands as I continued to speak my thoughts,
"This man was buried alive, and he left a message." I said pointing to the words that Evy read out-loud,
"Death is only the beginning."
We all looked over the mummy as soon as Evy got done reading the inscription left by the decaying corpse, like it was going to come to life and try to kill us.
The wind picked up and it sounded like multiple people whispering, as we all stared at the creepy mummy in silence.
That night as soon as the sun left the sky, I left Jon, Evy and Rick with the excuse that I was going to look around a bit and climbed up the rock face wondering if Ardeth was already there. He was.
I smiled and walked over to him, he met me halfway and what I had planed to be a quick greeting kiss became a long make out session to my surprise and pleasure.
After we finally pulled back we sat down at the edge of the rock face and began to talk about tattoos as he had several on his face and I was curious as to the meaning behind them as he was curious about the tattoos on me that he could see.
It wasn't but three hours later when I felt the wind pickup and heard a voice hollering from the campsite, immediately I stood up.
"I have to go." I told Ardeth seriously as I started to turn to start my climb down the rock face.
"No! Wait, you could be in danger if you go down there now." Ardeth said as he clasped my arm in an attempt to hold me back.
"That maybe, but Evy, Jon and Rick are down there and I will not let them face whatever is happening without me." I said firmly, having no idea what was going to happen next.
I could see that he didn't want to let me go but I pulled my arm out of his grasp and gave him a blistering kiss before I turned and hurried down to our small camp sight.