HELLO! It has been forever since I've even looked at this story, I'm currently taking a break from collage, and am hoping to get back to doing the things I loved most, mostly writing. I know it has been forever, so I hope I can do this story justice, please be aware I plan to follow SOME of The mummy's plot line but at certain points I'm going to change a lot of elements within The mummy, because lets be honest WE LOVE IMHOTEP!
As I heard the scream, I started running towards the sound that came from a large path way full of cobwebs. I felt Rick pass me with his pistol raised, ready for anything to appear. As we got closer to the screams, they sounded like the source was running to us as well.
I saw an opening approaching when I saw the warden run out of the door screaming "AAAHHHHA AHHAHAHHA" while continuously grabbing onto his head as he shoved through us and continued to run down the hallway and straight into the wall. As he continued to run I watched as his head started to get ahead of his body, and lower as he slammed his head into the wall, with this impact he just bounced off the wall completely still on the ground.
"Oh my god! Warden, are you ok!" I yelled as I ran towards him as I got closer, I noticed just how still he was. I looked behind me to see the horrified looks from everyone else as they processed what just happened. "When did he leave you guys?" I asked as I got closer to his body, trying to find any answers to what happened during our small time apart. "Honestly, I have no idea. After we left you with the other group, we just weren't paying attention." Jonathan said as he walked over to me. I turned to the others, "we should get above ground, its already getting dark and we haven't made our camp yet." While I wasn't sad, or even upset about the warden's death because honestly, he was a horrible, disgusting man. It was shocking that so short into our journey has already been stained with multiple deaths.
After climbing up the rope I went to find Henderson, and the other diggers to see what has happened since I joined with Rick. While walking towards their camp I heard Rick following me "Where are you going, you should stay with Evy and Jonathan."
"Well too bad, I will decide where I go. Besides I need to talk to a couple people, especially after what has happened between both parties." I said walking up to Henderson and Daniels "Welp, what is the plan for tomorrow?" sitting down beside Henderson "Well once everyone is awake around 9ish we'll go down and see what is in the actual chest. I hope you will join us, especially after what happened with the diggers." "What happened with the diggers?" Rick interjected I looked at Henderson as he answered his question. "Well to be frank, they got their faces melted."
"What the hell do you mean melted" Rick yelled looking at me, "Well after I stayed behind I started looking for the opening for us to start to pry the box out of the statue. Well Allen told us to just let the diggers do it. As they finally got the box out of the statue, they got hit in the face with pressurized salt acid."
"Damn, we're all just getting fucked over with these curses today. We lost the warden today, but we have no idea what happened. By the time we found him he was just screaming than he ran into a wall and just died after hitting the wall with his head." Rick started to stand up and seemed on high alert. I'm going to head back over with Evy and Jonathan." Rick said standing and started walking towards where they were sitting around an open fire already. " I stood, "well I'm going to follow him, but I will be joining yall tomorrow." I said over my shoulder waving back at them. "Sounds good, Good night, Bella." Henderson waved back.
"Damn seems like we've all been having bad luck today," I said to Rick as we walked towards our camp. I looked over towards the horses to the left to see Jake standing with the rest of the horses. "I think I'm going to go and make sure the horses have water." I said as I walked towards Jake When I got to him, I saw a water till already set up for all of them. "Oh well, I'm taking you by my camp either way. I sad as I removed the rope around his head and without help he followed me towards the group. "Bella, what do you think killed him?"
"Honestly, I don't know. After what I saw with the diggers, who knows what kind of traps are rigged inside of there." I said sitting down next on the other side of Jonathan. "Maybe this place really is cursed." Throwing a rock into the fire, as the rock hits the fire the wind picks up in a strange sequence as it blows the fire down, and making the kettles rattle and shake against the rocks.
"Oh, for goodness sakes, you three!"
"You don't believe in curses, huh." Grabbing a stick that was beside the fire and uses it to stir the fire again, trying to make the flames a little stronger.
"No, I don't! I believe if I can see it and touch it. Then its real. That is what I believe." At that I had to roll my eyes. After seeing the big bad things that go bump in the nights. It really isn't that hard to believe that curses are real. I mean Edward believed that being a vampire was curse of itself. As Rick stops poking the fire I watch as his eyes start darting around everywhere, probably on edge after what happened earlier. "I believe in being prepared." While pumping his rifle "Let's see what our friend the warden believed in." He said searching through the warden's satchel. I watched as he uses his hand to search through it "Aah" He yelps while removing his hand and starts putting his finger in his mouth "WHAT" rick yells while throwing the gun barrel towards the bag.
"My god, what is it!?" Evelyn screamed in response to the whole situation as Jonathan riches back in the bag, "A broken bottle, Glenlivet." He says pulling out the bottle from the bag, making everyone sigh from frustration, but also relief that it wasn't anything dangerous. "It's even twelve years old! Well, he may have been a stinky fellow, but he had good taste." taking a sip from the bottle, making Evy chuckle at the comment. As I was watching them, I heard some of the horses start to get restless from the stables. I looked up at Jake to see that he is on high alert. Something is very wrong. Rick shoves the rifle that he has in his hands into Evy's hands while standing up "Take this. Stay here." He says while walking towards the horses. That is when I heard it. It was quiet at first it was just like someone groaning. "No, wait, wait! Wait for me. Wait!" Evy said as we both started to stand, I grabbed my gun from my holster. "Evy. Excuse me, but didn't the man just say, 'stay here'? Evy!" I watched like a train they tried to stop each other from chasing each other. I ran towards the screaming trying to figure out what was going on when I saw men dressed in black on horses jump across a fallen column screaming and hollering waving swords around waving them at people at camp. "What the fuck is going on! What did we do to deserve this shit!" I screamed as I ran towards some fallen pillars that had broken into the sand. Hoping to hide from the fight when I notice, I had a follower. Jake! He followed me, and he does not help my situation. He sticks out like sore thumb. I grabbed Jake by his mane and started to pull him away from the fight, praying that he doesn't get hurt when I see a man charging at me with his sword raised. He definitely things he is going to get a kill, but he is sadly mistaken. After shooting the man I continued to run with jake, after running across the camp I saw Henderson shooting many of the riders as they were terrorizing the diggers. I ran over to a digger that got trampled by a horse, try to make sure he wasn't hurt or worse. "Come on you have to get up fast" I said pulling him up with my entire body strength. Which wasn't much either way. I got him up "Thank you so much" he said while we ran towards some cover, while running I heard Jonathan "O'CONNELL" while a rider was chasing him. I ran to try to help when Rick tackled the man off of his horse. The man in black draws his sword only in time for Rick to shoot it out of his hands. I saw two men sneaking up behind rick, using my gun I shot them allowing Rick to stay focused on the man when he drew another sword using it to knock rick's gun out of his hand "Why the fuck are you attacking us!" I yelled at the man with my gun fully aimed at him "ENOUGH! We will shed no more blood." "You are the one that started all of this! Don't blame us!" I yelled back, not about to take this man's shit. I've seen scarier things. "Leave, you must leave this place or die!" he yelled glaring at me. "You should never have come to this place. You have one day." I watched has one of his comrades brought his horse, and within a minute we watched as every rider followed behind the leader. "What the fuck just happened!? Why the fuck did they just attack us!" I started panicking realizing they probably have been watching us since we arrived. Looking around I saw all the destruction that the raid caused. Multiple tents were on fire, multiple bodies scattered around the camp. It was a horrible night.
After everything got cleaned up, and somewhat in order everyone decided it would be a good idea if we all slept in a closer arrangement. We were sitting around the open fire, contemplating what to do next. "Are we still going to do as planned tomorrow?" I asked Henderson while throwing little rocks into the fire. "Might as well, we have no new plans. But we do need to be more careful." "Hopefully all that gold in the chest will make this damn trip worth it. This country is so fucking messed up." Daniels commented beside Allen. "While that maybe true. Its not so bad. I've been studying Egypt for a couple years now, and honestly it still feels like a dream I'm hear. You guys can have majority of the gold. I wouldn't mind a couple pieces just so that when I return, at least I won't have to worry about money."
"What would you even know about Egypt. You're barely out of high school, much less a woman. Its weird for someone like to be this interested in Egypt." Allen commented with disgusted look on his face "After I went through a breakup, I decided I wanted to do something amazing with my life, and I found some old books hidden in my library. After I found the book, I got dedicated to finding out more about Egypt as well Imhotep.
"Well, I for one hope to even find some gold. All I've seen so far is sand and rock. I'm starting to lose hope to find any at all." Mr. Burns says walking over to our group with shaving cream still around his face. "Well somewhere down there is where all the ancient pharos used to hide the wealth of Egypt. We should have enough time to see if we can find it."
I turned to him with a smile. "Welp I'm going to head to bed. I want to be well rested for tomorrow. I'm hoping to join both yours and Rick's group during the searches." I said standing and heading for my tent. "Night Bella's" were shouted by multiple people.