A/N: Okay, sorry for the long delay. Here you go, Part II of chapter 6, and I don't own anything, just in case you missed the memo.
Oh and before I forget; italics means they're talking in ancient Egyptian. Ok, now on with the story . . .
Part II
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Rick, Jonathon, and the two Americans, Henderson and Daniels, were out on ledges across from one another waiting for the scarabs to pass.
"Has anyone seen my sister or Sally?"
"No, we can't find Burns either. Something weird is going on here; everybody disappearing, and all these bugs all over the place," Henderson nodded in agreement with his friend.
"We gotta get outta here, man."
"What about my family?"
"He's right. We can't just leave them here to die," Rick said and that settled it between the four of them.
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Evelyn and Sally as it happened were actually quite close to each other. They were so close in fact that they were on parallel halls, heading in the same direction. Only as Sally went along she tripped over what was left of Burns.
She hit the floor and skinned her hands and one of her knees. It took her a moment to realize what she had tripped on. She scrambled to get to her feet and away from the body and broke into a run. She finally stopped at the end of a far off corridor out of breath.
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Evie had heard Sally as she ran. Since she was alone and getting really freaked out she walked in the direction that she thought she heard the footsteps come from. The sound had died away, but she rounded the corner and listened. Then a scream echoed out from the entryway to the nearest room; Evie looked into the room and almost screamed herself.
The Creature was 'assimilating the organs and fluids' of the Egyptologist who was now dead on the sandy floor. Imhotep was twisting and stretching as new skin formed and muscles regained their substance and as he turned around, he made eye contact with the wide-eyed Evelyn.
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The scream of the Egyptologist drew the attention of Rick, Jonathon, the Americans, and the med-jai, including Ardeth who was almost on the verge of starting to panic. They all headed in the direction of the scream with neither group aware of their common goal.
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Sally was only a few yards down the passage from Evelyn and she heard what the others couldn't, Imhotep's voice as he approached the frightened woman.
"You have saved me from the undead. Ank-su-namun." He stepped closer to Evie and smiled to himself. Then he saw a movement out of the corner of his eye.
"Dad, eww, she's my cousin! We do not use family members for human sacrifice." The look of shock on Imhotep's face was matched with Evie's equally stunned expression.
"Shashai?" It seemed that he was unusually short for words, but Sally decided that she should compensate for his speechlessness while she had his undivided attention.
"I'm serious, Dad; I- I'm reincarnated and she's my –– cousin." she was losing confidence at a rather exponential rate.
"Sally, what exactly is going on here and where have you been?" Evie was quickly regaining her composure much to Sally's chagrin.
"Um, well, . . . you see what happened was, um, . . . "she stuttered herself into silence realizing that the two adults were looking at her with an almost identical parental gleam in their eyes that clearly stated that she had a whole heck of a lot of explaining to do.
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Fortunately for Sally, she was rescued from the awkward situation by a rather large group of men bursting into the room. The Americans, the mad-jai, Jonathon, and Rick had banded together after a rather tense meeting at the last intersection down the hall.
