Disclaimer: I wish I owned the Mummy and it's characters, but sadly I don't.
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Sally couldn't sleep well on the back of a camel like the others could. Rick noticed and figured that now would be a good time to continue their earlier conversation.
"So, what's with you and Hamunaptra?" Rick had finally asked. "I mean you're terrified of it." She timidly looked down ay her hands.
"No." she shook her head and refused to meet his eyes.
"Sally?" He moved his camel closer to hers.
"I , um - Can we talk about something else?" She was desperately trying to think of anything other than the city of the dead, and what had happened a few thousand years ago. Just the thought of going to the place where - she couldn't even make herself think of it. It was just so awful what her father had done, and what they had done to him as punishment.
"Fine, fine." he held his hands up in surrender. He knew he wouldn't get anything out of her right now. He looked up and saw the med-jai in the distance, watching them. Sally followed his gaze to the riders.
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When they reached the city it had turned into a race over that little bet Rick and the Americans made. Beni, the American's guide hit Rick with his camel whip. Evie and Sally couldn't help laughing when Rick made Beni fall off his camel for it. In the end though, the Brits won and the Americans had to pay the five hundred bucks.
Sally was one of the last few people who reached Hamunaptra. She had convinced Rick to get them to set up their camp slightly outside the city itself. She declined from joining them in the exploration of the ruins. So she was left completely alone except for the camels. Since she hadn't slept very much on this trip, she decided that a nice long nap was in order.
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While Sally was drifting to sleep, the diggers from the American camp were moving rocks and debris. They were digging through to the doorway of a temple. The Egyptologist was yelling and directing their efforts. Henderson, Burns, and Daniels simply sat around and played poker while Beni smoked. Daniels looked around at all the camels that were roaming around. Most of the beasts had old bags and saddles on their backs.
"Where'd all these camels come from?" he asked no one in particular.
"They belong to the dead. They will wait years for their masters to return before leaving," Beni answered ominously.
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The British group was working next to a narrow hole, at the base of the statue of Anubis' chest and head. The rest of the statue disappeared beneath the sand. Rick tied a rope around a pillar and threw the rest of the coils into the crevice, and was about to rappel down. When he noticed Evie messing around with a large mirror, polishing and positioning it.
"What's the mirror for?"
"Ancient Egyptian trick. You'll see," she replied. O'Connell shrugged, then headed down into the crevice. After him came Jonathon, Evie, and the warden. It was too dark at the moment to see very far ahead of the torch Rick was carrying.
"Do you realize, we are standing inside a room that no one has entered in over three thousand years?" Evelyn was clearly enjoying herself.
"Who cares? I don't see no treasure." the warden's greedy reply ruined the moment for Evie.
"You're welcome to my share of the spider webs." O'Connell retorts.
"And it stinks to high heaven in here.".Jonathan sniffed the foul air, then he looked at the warden and realized he was where the smell was coming from. Evelyn brushed the dirt and cobwebs away from a metal disk. When she moved it into the beam of light coming down from the mirror above. It lit up the whole room as the light went from disk to disk all around the now obviously large room.
"That is a neat trick." Rick said looking impressed.
"Oh my god, It's a preparation room." She was ecstatic.
"Preparation for what?" Rick sounded a bit nervous; he was quickly learning that when she was this excited it was usually something creepy.
"For entering the afterlife." He hated being right sometimes.
"Mummies, my good son, this is where they made the mummies."Jonathon explained mistaking the look on his face for confusion.
Evelyn headed down a narrow passageway. The others followed her. As the four walked slowly through the narrow passage, they heard something quite strange that sounded like it was coming from inside the walls. After pausing, they slowly began to move forward. Then the sounds stopped.
They slowly crept out of the labyrinth and up to the foot of an enormous half-buried statue. The lower half of Anubis. The sound started up again, but it turned out to be the Americans.
"Ya scared the bejeezus out of us, O'Connell."
"Likewise." They were all holding guns except for Evie. The warden was nowhere to be seen, but no one noticed his absence.
"This here is our statue,... friend." Daniels said with a grin across his face. The odds were on his side and he liked that.
"Don't see your name on it,... pal."Rick didn't seem to care about his bad odds, Then, Beni, five Diggers and the Egyptologist stepped out of the shadows, -- all of them were holding guns aimed at O'Connell.
"Ten to one, O'Connell, your odds are no-so-good." Beni gloated.
"I've had worse." Rick snapped back.
"Yes, me too." Jonathan held a tiny derringer and O'Connell gave him a sideways glance. Then Evelyn gently took O'Connell's gun hand and pulled it down.
"Let's be nice, children, if we're going to play together, we must learn to share." She pulled the two men off with her down the hall.
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A/N: I used the original script by Sommers a lot during this chapter, so if it looks familiar that's why. I didn't really feel like rewriting everything especially since it's been done a million times by other people like me who have parts that fit with the original story. I also really like the line, "They belong to the dead," by Beni, just because it sounds so serious and I don't think Beni has a real serious moment in the whole movie. (Not even this one b/c they cut it out of the movie.)
