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IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
"So where are we going to be coming up?" I asked. Rick and Jonathon were trying to break open the ceiling with sledgehammers while Evie and I chiselled the walls.
"According to my calculations, we should be coming up right underneath the statue. We'll come up right between his legs." She giggled and blushed. "Oh my."
"And when those dirty yanks…" Jonathon looked at Rick. "No offense."
"None taken." Rick said.
"We'll sneak up and steal the book right out from under them."
"And you're sure you can find the secret compartment?" Rick asked.
"Yes, that's if the Egyptologist hasn't found it yet." I looked around.
"Where has our smelly little friend gone?" I asked.
ANUBIS' CHAMBER - DAY
Beni and the Americans hover around the Egyptologist who has found the secret compartment. The Egyptologist brushes sand off the seams and Henderson tries to pry it open but it stopped by the Egyptologist.
"Seti was no fool." He told Henderson. "Let the diggers open it."
"Yeah sure." He said seeing the intense look in the Egyptologists eyes. "We'll let them open it." He pointed to the diggers. The diggers hesitated, filled with fear. Daniels sighed and pulled his gun out and pointed it at them. The slowly move towards the chest and stick the crowbars into the seams. The other diggers back away and Beni and the Americans exchange looks and do the same.
IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
"So let me get this straight, they redacted your guts and they stuffed them in jars?" Rick asked.
"And they took out your heart as well. Oh, and do you know how they took out your brain?" I asked Rick. Yes, I asked.
"Laurie, I don't think we need to know this." Jonathon said in disgust. Evie was looking at me in amazement.
"They took a sharp, red hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about and the rip it all our through your nostrils." I smiled.
"Ouch. That's got to hurt." Rick said.
"It's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this."
"For the record, if I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification."
"Likewise." Jonathon replied.
"After everything I taught you, that's all you remember?" Evie asked.
"Yes." I smiled.
"I still think it would hurt." Jonathon replied.
"Yeah." Rick replied.
"Oh honestly, you're dead!" Evie said impatiently.
"Still…" Jonathon began.
"Yeah, that'd bring you back to life." Rick smiled.
"You two are worse than a couple of school boys." Evie frowned. That's when a huge chunk of the ceiling fell. I jumped out of my seat.
ANUBIS' CHAMBER
"What was that?" Henderson asked pointing his gun in the direction of the noise.
"Feni." The Egyptologist said. The three diggers pull hard as the Egyptologist screams again. They pull and pull and pull until it come loose and sprays out hot acid on them. It burnt their flesh and by the time they were dead they were half skeletal.
IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
As the dust cleared I got up and walked over to the chunk of rock. It looked quite familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it.
"Oh my God…it looks like, it looks like a sarcophagus." Evie muttered running her hands across the surface.
"Why would they bury somebody in the ceiling?" I asked looking up.
"They didn't, they buried him at the feet of an Anubis. He was either someone of great importance, or he did something very naughty." She said looking at Rick with a bit of fear in her eyes.
SCARAB CHAMBER – DAY
Smelly dropped another amethyst-scarab into his pouch and then greedily pried another off the wall and put it in his pouch- -he missed and this scarab quietly fell to the floor without smelly noticing. The amethyst started to glow and a real scarab crawled out of it. It raced over to Smelly's shoe and vanished inside. Smelly's eyes flew open and he began to scream. Slowly, a large lump, coming from in his leg, crawls up his leg and onto his fat belly, up his hairy chest and into his neck. He desperately tried to scratch it off but it went up into his head and vanished.
IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
Jonathon, Rick and I clear the dirt off the sarcophagus as Evie tries to figure out who it is. I gently brushed my fingers over the incantations engraved into the sarcophagus and over the designs.
"Well…who is it?" Jonathon asked rubbing his hands together.
Evie stared at the hieroglyphic, confused and concerned. "He who shall not be named." She whispered.
"There's some sort of lock here." Rick said brushing the dust off of it. "You say these things are made out of granite and a steel interior."
"Quarried granite with a cobalt lining." I told him.
"Whoever's in here sure wasn't getting out." Jonathon mumbled.
"No kiddin'. Without a key it'll take a month to crack this thing open." Rick frowned.
"A key! That's it! That's what he was talking about." Evie announced getting up and rummaging through Jonathon's coat pockets.
"Who was talking about what?" I asked.
"The man on the barge. The one with the hook, he was looking for a key."
"Hey, that's mine!" Jonathon yelled as Evie walked away with the treasure Jonathon had found on a dig down in Thebes. Evie quickly unfolded the treasure and it formed the exact same shape as the lock. She looked up at us and smiled. That's when the shouting began.
"Down there." I yelled taking out my gun and running in the passageway.
"Laurie!" Rick shouted. "Wait, be careful!"
"Smelly?" I said stopping. He right over me and kept going. Evie, Jonathon, Rick and I watched his as he ran right into a wall and killed himself.
"Oh my goodness." Evie shouted clinging onto me for support.
BASE CAMP – NIGHT
"What do you suppose killed him?" Evie asked Jonathon. They were snuggled up on one side of the fire and I was on the other side of Jonathon drinking some booze.
"Did you ever see him eat?" Jonathon asked.
"Seems the Americans had a little misadventure of there own today." Rick shouted walking over some rocks. "Three of there diggers died."
"What?" Evie said astounded.
"How?" I asked.
"Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid. Some sort of ancient booby-trap." Rick told us.
"Maybe this place really is cursed." Jonathon muttered.
"Yeah." I mumbled. A gust of wind blew throughout the camp making the fire flicker.
"You three!" Evie said angrily. She was scared.
"You don't believe in curses huh?" Rick smiled sitting down beside her.
"She doesn't believe in much." I slurred.
"That's not true! No. I believe if I can see it and I can touch it, then it's real. That's what I believe." Evie spat.
"I believe in being prepared." Rick smirked cocking his rifle.
"Let's see what our friend the warden believed in." Jonathon smiled sticking his hand in the bag. He felt around for a while and then screamed. He tore his hand out of the bag and Evie squealed.
"What, what is it?" She asked closing her eyes.
"Seagrams!" He smiled happily pulling out a bottle. "He may have been a smelly fellow…but he sure did have good taste." I stood up and swerved around. Yes, I was drunk.
"Let's go." I said running. Evie looked at me concerned.
"Stay here." Rick warned grabbing his gun and running behind me.
"Evie! Didn't the man say stay here?" Jonathon shouted running after us.
AMERICAN CAMP - NIGHT
The American camp was under siege as two dozen Mumia riders galloped through, firing rifles. Several Diggers were killed as they ran away. The Americans leap out of their tents firing randomly. They managed to kill multiple Riders. I narrowed my eyes and laughed as Daniels got shot; he spun, fell, and kept shooting. Henderson and Burns ran to his aid, blasting away. I ran into someone and guess who it was.
"Going somewhere Beni?" I muttered.
"You're drunk. Oh, too bad we are in a dangerous situation cause if we weren't I'd take advantage of you right now."
"Even when I'm drunk I still don't want you." I smiled drunkenly.
"Laurie, you found our friend." Rick said from behind me.
"Why yes I did! DRINKS ALL AROUND!" I smirked. Rick groaned.
"Where ya going Beni?" He asked.
"Just looking for you both." He smiled nervously.
"C'mon friend." I smiled dragging him back to the fight.
"Why do you like to fight so much?" Beni asked us as he struggled against Rick's strong grip.
"It's fun." Rick smiled.
"I just look good doing it." I smiled and fell over someone. Henderson.
"Ya'll right Laurie?" He asked. He sounded concerned too.
"Hell yes." I smiled taking my gun out. "Now, let's fight!" I added jumping up.
"I love her spirit." Henderson smiled as I ran away and shot someone.
"That's not all you love about her." Burns said.
"Shad up and shoot."
"O' Connell where are you?" I asked. Suddenly, he jumped out of a crack in the wall and pounced on a mumia rider.
"Good show." I smiled stabbing a man with my dagger. The two of them slammed around the ground kicking, punching and biting each other. Rick tries to pull out his gun but the mumia kicked the gun out of his hand. I looked around and saw Evie. A man was heading towards her and I panicked.
"Shoot him Evie!" She looked at me and shot the guy. The horse pushed her and she fell into a sand dune.
"Let 'em have it boys!" Jonathon shouted taking another swig of his seagram. The four diggers shot the men and Jon smiled.
"I say, good show."
"Leave this place!" I spun around and squinted to see who was talking. It was the mumia. "Leave this place or die!" He galloped away and we were safe. For now. Rick blew out the fuse on the dynamite that he had lit and ran over to Evie.
"You alright?" He asked helping her up. It was beautiful.
"Yes…fine, thank you." She smiled looking into his eyes. He held her close.
"See! That proves it! Old Seti's fortune's gotta be under this sand!" Daniels shouted happily.
"For them to protect it like this, you just know there's got to be treasure down there." Henderson yelled.
"These men are desert people. They value water, not gold." Rick said looking at the ruins.
"I think I had a bit too much to drink." I smiled sheepishly.
"Alcoholic." Rick laughed.
"Where's Jonathon?" Evie asked looking around.
"Jonathon…where are you?" I shouted.
BASE CAMP - NIGHT
"Night." I smiled passing out beside Jonathon. Evie and Rick laughed. Evie was half in the drink herself and the seagram was almost gone. Rick handed her the seagram and she pushed it away.
"Unlike my brother sir, I know when to say no."
"And unlike your brother, I just don't get you." Rick smiled putting the drink down on the floor.
"I know, you're wondering what's a place like me doing in a girl like this?" She smiled looking around.
"Something like that."
"Egypt is in my blood. My father was a famous explorer; he loved Egypt so much that he married an Egyptian. My mother! Who was quite an adventurer herself."
"Ok, I get your father, I get your mother, and I get your brother and…" He looked at me. "I definitely get her, but what are you doing here?" Evie glared at Rick. She was insulted.
"I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure hunter, or a gunfighter! Mister O'Connell But I'm proud of what I am." Evie smiled staggering to get up.
"And what is that?"
"I…am a librarian!" She smiled plopping down next to Rick. She leaned in very close to Rick. "And I am going to kiss you Mister O' Connell."
"No you're not."
"I'm not?"
"Not unless you call me Rick."
"Why would I call you Rick?"
"Cause that's my name."
She gave him a goofy smile and leaned in very close and as soon as she is about to kiss him she passes out. Rick opened his eyes and kissed the air.
IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
Evie slid the key into the lock and gently began to turn the lock. The sarcophagus then opens with a loud hiss. Jonathon and I moaned. We're extremely hung-over. Evie, however, didn't drink that much so her hangover didn't last as long. It was pretty bad though.
"I cannot believe I allowed the three of you to get me drunk." She said angrily.
"Don't blame me; I don't even remember being there." I said.
"Neither do I." She told me. Rick gave her a hurt look.
"You don't?"
"No…why? Should I?" She asked nervously.
"Gee, yeah, you told me it was the best time you ever had." He said giving her a big fake cheesy smile. Evie stared at him in shock, embarrassment and humiliation. That's when the lid crashes to the floor and Jonathon and I grab our heads and moan.
ANUBIS' CHAMBER - DAY
"There is a curse upon this chest." The Egyptologist said.
"Curse my ass, Greg." Daniels said.
"Yeah, who cares." Said Henderson looking at Beni suspiciously. Beni kept looking at Greg, the Egyptologist, and giving him dirty looks.
"Death will come on swift wings to whomever opens this chest." Greg translated. The Americans look at each other, nervously.
"It says, there is one, the undead, who if brought back to life, is bound by sacred law to consummate this curse."
"Well, let's make sure we don't bring back anyone from the dead then, huh?" Henderson told him. The three Americans laugh.
"He will kill all who open this chest…and assimilate their organs and fluids." Greg said in disgust.
"Assimilate their organs and fluids? Ya mean eat 'em?" Daniels asked.
"Precisely…and in so doing he will regenerate. And no longer be the undead, but a plague upon this earth." Greg finished. The wind blows, the torches flicker and Beni and Greg look at each other nervously.
"Ah hell. Let's open it anyway." Henderson said grabbing the chest.
IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
The coffin is dropped right next to Evie and she is very excited.
"Oh, I've dreamt about this since I was a girl!"
"You dream about dead guys?" Rick asked giving her a questioning look. Evie just gave him a look and began wiping the cobwebs and dust off the coffin. Suddenly, she froze.
"Look, all the sacred spells have been chiselled off. The hieratics and hieroglyphs that protect the deceased on his journey into the afterlife, they've been removed. This man was cursed... doomed." Evie told us. I squealed with delight and honestly, I think Rick, Jonathon and I were to excited to care at the moment.
"Tough break." Rick said.
"Yes, I'm all tears." Jonathon said.
"Open it. Let's see whose inside!" I exclaimed.
"I cannot believe you three." Evie frowned. Jonathon sighed and opened the key. He put it in and kept turning and turning it until it clicked. Rick and I pulled on it but it wouldn't budge. Jonathon helped out and it popped off and out popped a skeleton. Evie screamed and I jumped back.
ANUBIS' CHAMBER - DAY
"Help me." Henderson said. Daniels came beside him and began pulling at it. Beni stared at them his face full of fear. He finally ran for it.
"The curse... beware the curse!" Henderson looked at Daniels and laughed.
"Stupid superstitious bastard." Daniels muttered pulling the lid right off. A black vapour pours out of the chest and they are lost in it.
IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY
"Is he supposed to look like that?" Rick asked.
"No. I've never seen a mummy look like this he's still…still…" Evie said.
"Juicy?" Rick, Jonathon and I suggested.
"Yes, he's more than four thousand years old and still decomposing."
"Look at this." Rick said bending over to read the coffin lid.
"Oh my god." Evie gasped. "He was buried alive." Evie leaned in closer. "And he left a message."
"What is it?" I asked eagerly.
"It says: Death is only the beginning." We all looked at the mummy and chills ran down my spine.
"Where's my gun?" Rick asked all of a sudden.
"What are you going to do? Shoot him?" Jonathon asked.
"If he wakes up, HELL YEAH!" Rick exclaimed cocking his rifle.
ANUBIS' CHAMBER - DAY
As the vapour settled, the Americans gathered around the chest and peered into it. Greg, happily, pulls out a big, black, torn leather book.
"I have heard told of this book, but I never truly believed it existed. This, good gentlemen, is a most priceless treasure."
"I wouldn't trade ya for a brass spittoon." Henderson yelled angrily kicking some sand.
"Yeah, it's supposed to be made out of pure gold." Daniels yelled kicking the chest. It breaks open, unfolding to reveal a lower compartment. Inside, are Anck-su-namun's five jewel encrusted canopic jars.
BASE CAMP - NIGHT
"What on earth is that?" I ask Beni and Rick as I sit down between Jonathon and Rick. At night, we've joined camps.
"Yes, it smells like our late friend the warden." Jonathon said in disgust. Beni and Rick smiled. "No! We aren't…it can't be!"
"Rat gizzards." Beni smiled. "They smell bad and taste worse but that's the best the desert has to offer."
"Hey O' Connell…Carnahan." Daniels said sitting down and waving some gold. "What do ya think these'll fetch?"
"We hear you gentlemen, and lady, found yourself a nice gooey mummy. Congratulations." Burns laughed.
"You know, if you dry him out you can sell him as firewood." Henderson laughed.
"You're a bunch of cocky, gloating bastards." I spat.
"You've got a big mouth." Daniels hissed.
"At least my foot isn't always in it."
"You better shut your trap." He stood up.
"Laurie…" Rick warned.
"What are you going to do if I don't?" I said standing up.
"I'll shut it for you."
"Daniels, you better shut up." Henderson warned.
"Sticking up for your girl eh?" He smirked at Henderson.
"I'm not his girl." I yelled.
"She ain't my girl."
"Sure." Daniels said glaring at me. "He talks about you enough." Henderson hit Daniels and I laughed.
"Evie!" I smiled. She sat beside me and put a bug in my hand.
"Scarabs, flesh eaters, I found them inside our friend's coffin. They can stay alive for years living off the flesh of a corpse, or in this case..." She looked at the meat in disgust. "Famished."
"Are you saying somebody threw these things in with our guy, and they slowly ate him alive?" Rick asked.
"Very slowly." Evie answered.
"He certainly was not a popular fellow when they planted him." Jonathon replied poking a bug and making it explode.
"Must of got a little too frisky with the Pharaoh's daughter." Rick smiled. I laughed.
"According to my readings, our friend suffered the Hom-dai, the worst of all ancient Egyptian curses, one reserved for only the most evil blasphemers. In all of my research, I've never read of this curse actually having been performed." Evie explained.
"That bad, huh?" I asked.
"Yes, they never used it because they feared it so. It's written, that if a victim of the Hom-dai should ever arise, he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt."
"All ten plagues?" Jonathon asked.
"Like what that Moses guy did to that Pharaoh guy?" Beni asked.
"That's one way of putting it." Evie said calmly.
"Let's see, there were frogs, flies, locusts..." I began.
"Hail and fire." Burns said.
"The sun turning black." Henderson told us.
"Water turning to blood." Daniels said.
"And my personal favourite: people covered in boils and sores." Jonathon ended. Everyone shared a nervous look and I laughed.
"Fried gizzard anyone?" I asked pulling a piece of meat off Rick's stick.
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