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"Whoa, what is that?" Joe asked since he never saw anything like it before.
"It's a sand storm!!" Frank exclaimed, remembering that he's expired them before.
"And the desert will rise. It is the curse." Richard said as he stared at it, thinking 'oh how wonderful mother nature is helping us bring the curse to life.'
"Unload now!! We need the geothermal sensors!! Abigail ordered her team.
"No!! We must take shelter!!" Rachel exclaimed as the sand storm rolled over them.
"Everybody, back inside the tomb!!" Frank yelled.
Richard and Rachel got to the stairs just as the sand storm hit and blinded everyone.
"Bess!! Nancy!! Where are you?" Joe called out.
"We're over here!! Nancy yelled back, they were not far from the entrance to the tomb when some barrels are blown lose and one crashes into Nancy and Bess, knocking them back into the tomb.
"I'm glad that we're out of that and back in here." Bess commented as they stood up after being knocked all the way down to the bottom of the stairs.
"Me too." Nancy replied as they dusted themselves off.
"Hey is that Richard and Rachel?" Bess asked noticing them.
"Yeah it is. Oh no they've been turned to stone!!" Nancy exclaimed after they got a closer look.
"What did you say?" Biff asked as he Joe and Frank came down the stairs as the girls looked back at them.
"Just see for your self." Bess said pointing, as they came over.
"Oh no!! This can't be!!" Frank exclaimed when he saw his pen pal and his twin sister.
"They've been turned into statues!!" Joe said.
"Impossible!! How can this be?" Abigail asked as she came down to them.
"It's just like it said in the curse." Nancy said.
"And all who enter will be turned to stone." Abigail said quoting the last part of the curse.
"We tried to warn you. Now look what have you done!" Frank said clearly angry.
"We've got to do something." Biff said.
"Stick with the plan. I'm switching to night vision." Tim said as he pushed a button on his sunglasses.
"Copy that. We are live. Awaiting your signal, Dr. Van Derrick. Dr. Van Derrick?" Maria said as Abigail failed to answer.
"Doc, it's now or never." Tim said.
"Alright on my signal." Abigail said after a moment.
"No!! What is it going to take to stop you?" Frank demanded angrily.
"Nothing short of an army." She told Frank before addressing her team "Move out!"
"How 'bout an army of the undead." Frank mutters darkly as he watches Abigail and her team walk through the hole.
"It's all down hill from here." Abigail mutters as they walk deeper into the tomb.
"It doesn't make sense, why would the curse strike Richard and Rachel? They only wanted to protect the tomb." Nancy mused.
"It looks like we have another mystery on our hands." Joe commented.
"No, we don't" Frank said, knowing that they would be shocked and they were, as they looked at him.
"WHAT?!" the others exclaimed in shock.
"I'm sorry guys, but it just too dangerous this time. If anything were to happen to you I'd never forgive myself." Frank told them; inside he was laughing at the looks on their faces.
"But Frank! We've been on dangerous missions before!! Why not this one?" Joe protested.
"I know." Frank said calmly, knowing all of the cases he and Joe have been on in the past.
"But what about Richard and Rachel? We can't just leave them like this." Bess pointed out.
"Come on Frank, we've got to follow them down into the tomb." Joe insisted.
"Maybe there is a way to reverse the curse." Biff suggested.
"There is no curse." Frank mutters softly, as he looks the statues over, before saying louder "Well at least we have Richard's journal, it could help us safely through the chambers. Okay, you've convinced me, let's go in."
Frank took the said journal and looked at the others. They all go in but they all wonder why did Frank say no then quickly change his mind? It was like he was hidding something, but why would he do that? It was clear that Frank knew more than he was telling, it was also clear that he didn't want them to know about it, what ever it was.
"Man, that's one steep drop. I wonder how far down it goes." Bess mussed as she stopped and looked down over the side of the walkway they stood on.
"I don't know, Bess." Joe said as he stopped as well and looked down before he noticed that the others had continued on ahead of them and he couldn't see them any more.
"Come on, the others are way ahead of us now." Joe said.
"Yeah let's go." Bess said as they ran to catch up to the others.
By then Frank, Nancy, and Biff had caught up to Abigail and her team.
"No body move. This is the first trap." Abigail said.
"That doesn't look like Cleopatra." Nancy said looking at the floor in front of them.
"It's not. That's the Egyptian goddess Isis. Her power protects Cleopatra's tomb." Frank explained as Joe and Bess raced in.
"Head's up!!" Joe called out.
"Joe, slow down!!" Frank warned his brother, but it was too late, he and Bess slammed into them and they crashed into Abigail and her team.
"The floor is a trap, so don't move." Nancy told Joe and Bess.
"Oh dear." Bess muttered as the floor started to crack around them.
"RUN!!" Abigail yells and they all run for it.
Joe and Bess run in the opposite direction from the others as the floor falls away.
"Joe Bess are you guys okay?" Nancy calls out to them, from across the room.
"I think so, just a little sore from the crash landing." Joe called back.
"They will be fine, Nancy." Biff assured her.
"I know." Nancy replied.
"This way." Abigail said as she led her team down the hallway they were in.
"See if you can find a way to get over this way." Frank told them as he, Biff and Nancy followed Abigail and her team.
"We'll try!!" Bess called out to them.
Soon Abigail and her team came to another large room that had a balcony that ran around the room which over looked the floor they stood on, with Frank, Nancy, and Biff behind them.
"Hold on. We've got something here." Tim said suddenly.
"There's movement all around us." Maria said.
SB/Kierra: That's it?
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SB/Kierra: That's shorter that the last chapter.
Annie: I know that, but that is the way I wrote it.
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