AN: Thanks for hanging in there while I wrote this! I know this took a while, but things started to pick up and June is naturally a busy month for me. I assure you I haven't abandoned it, but I have been planning some more fanfictions that I will be writing. But I'm sure you don't care about excuses. Enjoy!
"Let me guess. Spring cleaning," Rick said as he, Kelly, Jonathon, and Adam entered Dr. Chamberlain's office, finding the one and only Beni Gabor rummaging through drawers and tossing papers and books all over the floor.
They had found Dr. Chamberlain's office in the attempt to try to find the Egyptologist himself, since he was the last to be seen with the Book of the Dead, and he was the only other person alive to have opened the chest besides Henderson and Daniels. To their surprise, instead, they found Rick's slimy little weasel of a friend, who was now working for the Creature himself.
Beni had froze when he saw the two American's and two Brit's standing in the doorway, blocking his exit. But with a cowardly whimper he took off across the room towards the window. Before he could get there, Rick grabbed a rickety, old, wooden chair and lunged it at Beni, hitting him square in the back, and sending him straight to the floor with a crash. The chair broke into four splintered pieces around Beni.
"Nice throw," Kelly said, impressed, leering down at the scum on the floor.
"This place is a mess," Adam observed as they all filed into the office.
Rick snatched Beni off of the ground, gripping his shirt, before he could stand. "Come here!" Holding him by the scruff of the neck, Rick stretched his mouth into a sarcastic grin. "You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you Beni?"
"What are you talking about? You are my only friend," Beni whimpered, exhausted.
Rick threw him against a bookshelf. "What the hell are you doing, being friends with this creep? What's in it for you?"
"Probably the gold," Kelly said, looking through the papers strewn about on a desk.
"It is better to be the right hand of the Devil than in his path. As long as I serve him, I am immune," Beni explained smugly.
Rick swung him around and threw him against another bookshelf. "Immune from what?!"
Beni muttered something in Hungarian underneath his breath. Rick shook him.
"What did you say?" He threatened.
"I don't want to tell you, you'd just hurt me some more," Beni whined. Rick swung him back into the center of the room, eyeing the whirring metal ceiling fan above them.
"Tell me what you're looking for, and don't even think about lying to me," Rick growled, lifting Beni up to the ceiling fan, stopping before it could shred his face to pieces.
Beni screamed. "The book! He wants the black book I swear! Imhotep wants it back! He told me it's worth it's weight in gold!"
"And it's one heavy book," Kelly said.
"What does he want the book for?" Rick asked.
"Something about bringing his dead girlfriend back to life. He needs the book...oh, and your sisters," Beni said, turning to Adam and Jonathon. Rick shook him at the mention of Fallon and Evy. "But other than that..!"
"What does he want with Fallon and Evy?!" Adam exclaimed, gritting his teeth.
"Pssh, piss of-"
Rick raised him to the swinging blades of the ceiling fan again and Beni screamed.
"Agh! He needs Evy for the ritual, he needs a body for his dead girlfriend's soul! And he needs Fallon because she's the oracle!"
"What does that have to do with why he needs her?" Kelly asked, striding up next to Rick.
"He needs her to find the book of Amun-Ra, with both books he is unstoppable! With her power she can tell him where and how to find anything he could ever need and want!" He wheezed. Kelly thought she could see his heart pounding through his chest.
Kelly looked at Rick. "What's so special about the book of Amun-Ra other than it being made of gold?"
A scream pierced into the room through the open window. Beni took his chance and kicked Rick in the crotch, causing Rick to drop Beni and bend over. But Kelly was quick to make a grab at Beni. However, he lunged at her face with a face, hitting her square in the cheek.
"Hey!" Adam shouted, coming to Kelly as Beni took off and dove out of the window. As soon as they heard him crash into some crates below they rushed to window, but found something that wished they had rather not seen.
A crowd had gathered into one place but they all stepped back with gasps and screams, leaving one dark cloaked figure standing over something. When the figure stood up, they saw a familiar red fez and white coat, holding a large black book in its thin grisly arms. The face was mangled in the midst of a scream, and Kelly thought she could still hear it. Or maybe it was her brain screaming in horror. Dr. Chamberlain had been found and sucked dry like Burns had. And the cloaked figure standing over it could only be one person.
The figure turned and they could see the face of the mummy staring right at them. The face had more sustenance to it than when they had seen him last in Burns's apartment. Skin was starting to form, and they could make out some facial features. Kelly swore she could hear everyone hold their breath, and knew that all of their hearts had stopped.
The mummy opened it's mouth, stretching it down to an unnatural length. A buzzing sounded was heard and a black swarm arose from his unhinged mouth. Flies crowded around the bystanders, all of them screaming, until with a ghastly deep throated scream sent them flying towards the group looking through the window of Dr. Chamberlain's office. They hastily grabbed the window shutters and slammed them shut to block them from the swarm of flies.
"Well that makes things a little harder," Adam said.
"He has the Book of the Dead now," Kelly added.
"Yeah, and next he'll be coming after Fallon and Evy," Jonathon said as they started to head for the door.
"Alright, Jonathon and I will head straight back to Evy's apartment, you two-" Rick began.
"We'll go to the library to get Fallon," Adam said.
"Maybe she'll have found something on the situation," Kelly said.
AN: I know, such a long wait for such a short chapter. But I assure you I'm already working on the next one and I'll have it up by Sunday. Please Favorite, Follow, and Comment! I really do love comments on what I can do better! Thanks!
