I do not own The Mummy or any of the plot or characters. However I do own Lexi.
Story start
Later that night I decided to walk around the ruins for a while. I made sure to stay far away from the statue of Anubis. I've had enough of seeing that statue the past few days. It especially does not help my mental stability by hearing the voice of Anubis in my head from time to time. It does not help one bit, instead it just drives me crazy. I sighed as I started walking back to camp.
However a loud groan and the wind picked up around me. I could hear my boss yelling not to read from some book. I frowned and quickly ran to the campsite. I saw Evelyn holding a big ancient book in her arms and Dr. Chamberlain looked like he was about to piss himself. I wished he would, but not right now. I had a bad feeling about all of this, especially when I heard the sound of a thousand bugs heading our way.
My eyes grew wide and I quickly ran in the opposite direction of the locusts. "Go into the tombs," Anubis ordered and my eyes widened in fear. I don't know if I would rather just stay out amongst the locusts and take my chances than go into those dark tunnels. "Do as I command," Anubis yelled in my mind and I clenched my jaw as my ears rang from his loud voice.
"Fine, I'll go in the stupid tomb," I yelled in my mind. I was the first person to run into the tomb and I felt like a stumbling fool in the darkness. "A light would be nice," I yelled frustrated as I accidentally ran into a wall.
"Lexi," Rick's voice yelled behind me as I could hear him, Evelyn, and Johnathon running up behind me. "Thank god, someone has a light," I yelled when I saw Rick had a torch. "Smart guy," I thought as I realized that I had not anything on me to light a torch.
"Over here," I yelled and soon they were around me. I sighed as Evelyn pulled me into a hug. "I'm so glad you're safe," she said before letting me go. I looked at her confused before giving a little smile. I ruffled her hair and let out a laugh at her expression. "Thanks, glad you're safe too, so what do we do now?" I said as I looked around the tunnel we were in. This place gave me the creeps, big time.
Everyone was silent as I looked to them for an idea. I sighed and slapped a hand to my forehead. I was about to say that we should check and see if the locusts were gone, but a loud rumble from underneath our feet stopped me. I jumped back in surprise and stood closer to Johnathon. Rick held the torch down close to the sand and we all saw a large mound forming underneath the sand.
Out of the sand came scarabs, tons and tons of scarabs. My eyes grew wide in fear at the flesh-eating bugs. "Run," I yelled and we all took off running. I was at the lead of the group. Johnathon was pretty close behind me. I guess that he must be good at running away if he is such a sneaky pick pocket. "Maybe I should ask him to steal for me," Anubis said in my head about Johnathon. My eyes narrowed and I yelled in my head, "Don't you dare touch him."
Anubis tsk tsked me and then I felt pain erupt in my shoulders. I bit down on my bottom lip until it drew blood, because I was holding in my scream of pain. Soon we ran out onto some ramp. Johnathon and Rick jumped off on some pillar tops and Evelyn and I jumped in front of this wall that was not attached to the ramp. I sighed when all of the scarabs were not able to get to any of us.
Evelyn leaned back against the wall behind us and I leaned over on my knees to take a breather. A scream penetrated my ears and I quickly spun around. Evelyn was falling through the wall, which I now realized to be a hidden door. "Evelyn," I yelled as I reached for her hand, but I was too slow. The door closed in on her and kept me from saving her.
"Open," I yelled frustrated as I pushed, kicked, and leaned on the wall. It did not budge one bit. The scarabs disappeared and Johnathon and Rick helped me try and open the hidden door. "It won't open," I yelled frustrated at the door and scared for Evelyn. "I have to find her," I thought as my sense to protect her. True, I barely knew the woman, but she seemed like a friend to me and I do not have many friends.
"Where are you going?" Johnathon yelled as I ran down the ramp.
"I have to find Evelyn, now," I yelled before disappearing from Rick and Johnathon's line of sight. I heard Rick swear before I ran too far away from them. I prayed that I did not run into any scarabs as I ran through this dark tomb looking for Evelyn. Now I really wished I had grabbed a match or something from Rick before running off.
"Evelyn," I yelled as loud as I could. I was answered by only silence. "Anubis, can you help me?" I yelled getting more scared for Evelyn by the minute.
"Hmmm what was that slave?" Anubis asked coyly. I ground my teeth before letting go of my pride for a few seconds. "Please help me find the girl master, I don't want her to die," I said in a submissive tone. It made me want to smack myself for submitting in this way, but if it helped me save Evelyn than I'll do it.
"Good Kanika, yes I can help you find the girl. Close your eyes until I tell you to open them," Anubis said in a pleased tone. I held in the sigh that wanted to escape and I closed my eyes like I was told to do. My eyes and nose tingled a bit and I frowned in confusion. "Open your eyes Kanika," Anubis said and I quickly opened my eyes and gasped. I could see perfectly in the dark. I could see better now in the dark than I've ever been able to in broad daylight.
My nose also smelled so many different smells. I could smell the scent of death, wealth, betrayal, scandal, murder, love, loss, pain, and beauty. It was so strange. I blinked my eyes a few seconds before breathing in deeply. I smirked when I caught a whiff of Evelyn's perfume. "Found you," I thought as I took off running through the tunnels like it was a walk in the park.
"Do you like my gift Kanika?" Anubis asked with a smirk on his face. I almost paused in my running, but sadly I'm starting to get use to hearing Anubis in my head. "Yes master," I thought in my head before picking up my pace. My eyes widened when I slid to a stop in a large room. Moonlight was streaming down onto a terrified Evelyn and a mummy man was actually standing, walking, and talking. Burns was crawling away and my heart went out to the guy, a bit, but I was too concerned about Evelyn at the moment. "Burns, find safety somehow," I thought as I saw that he could barely speak and his eyes were gone. I felt bad but my heart was telling me to protect Evelyn more than anyone else at the moment.
I had no clue what he was saying to Evelyn, but I could tell that it was freaking her out. "Hey toilet paper dude, leave her alone," I yelled and threw a stone at the mummy. The mummy roared in pain before turning around to face me. "Ewww," was all my thoughts consisted of. However the mummy looked shocked and then surprised.
"Kanika," he whispered before smirking and giving me a small bow. "Evelyn, why is the toilet paper guy bowing to me?" I yelled confused as I inched my way around the mummy and over to Evelyn.
"I don't know," Evelyn managed to get out of her mouth before the mummy looked over at both of us. He was giving Evelyn a pleased look before smirking back at me and showing his respect with another bow. "So confused," I mumbled as the mummy stared at us and took a few steps toward us.
However a ray of light, which was actually a torch, came into view when Rick and Johnathon appeared. Both of the guys were oblivious to the mummy until Evelyn pointed it out. The mummy roared at Rick, and of course Rick roared back the best he could. Any other time I would be laughing hysterically, but that would only be if there was not a mummy moving and speaking in ancient Egyptian to me and Evelyn.
"I say we run now," I yelled before we started running away, well after Rick shot the mummy. I prayed that the gunshot would stop the mummy, but Anubis decided to tell me that the mummy would never be stopped by just bullets. I smiled when we finally ran out of the tombs and into the fresh air. However my smile quickly disappeared when I had blades and guns pointed at my face.