APLR - 7
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Disclaimer : I make no money nor do I own this. As much as I'd like to … maybe within my own insanity? [closes eyes and sees lawyers waving papers and frightening looking subpoenas] … not even there.
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AN: AND THE WINNER IS………………..Imhotep! Has it really been a month? Darn!
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It was late that night that Evy walked through the camp and "borrowed" the unknown black book from the Egyptologist.
"That's called stealing, you know." Rick muttered from his position laying down hear the fireplace where Evy came with the Book of the Dead.
"According to you and my brother, it's called borrowing." Evy said as she took her brother's key and opened it.
"You know, I thought the Book of Amun Ra was made of Gold." Rick muttered as he sat up.
Harry interjected here, "That isn't the Book of Amun Ra. The Bembridge Scholars had it wrong." he said as he thought about it. "Then again, they also say that the Book of the Dead is in the Statue of Horus but if they were wrong about the Anubis/Horus deal then that is probably the Book of the Dead."
Evy's eyes lit up, "Let's see then."
Harry shook his head, "I'm taking watch. Henderson's sick so I volunteered to take his watch." he said as he picked up his gun, wand and scimitar put them in their sheathes and then got his skeans into their sheathes before going to the edge of the encampment and looked up at the stars.
"If that is the Book of the Dead, watch what spell you read. I don't want to turn into a Gryffin or Sphinx or something." he said before mentally continuing while he walked to the fallen pillar where he sat down. 'Besides, Sphinxes make little to no sense.'
Evy carefully opened the book, "Ah mun ra, Ah mun dai, it speaks of the night and of the day." she explained before she turned a couple of pages of the stone and gold book. She read another paragraph out of it.
Harry frowned as he watched his cousin read from the Book of the Dead. He didn't know why, but suddenly he'd rather be back in England facing frantic fan-girls. Although, the girl part didn't sound so bad when he thought about it.
He glanced out, seeing the Medjai and nodding at them out of respect. He saw a flicker of light in return. Both parties were uneasy about battling - especially when he had his wand in his left hand where it was visible from the campfire light but not obvious to those within the camp.
He frowned as he saw something on the horizon just as he heard the Egyptologist yell out, "NO! You must not read from the Book!"
Harry's eyes widened as he saw the locusts coming. "RUN!" he yelled as his scream awoke many of those resting and he, along with everyone else, ran into the ruins.
He kept with his cousins and Rick as they were separated from the Americans. They turned a corner and out of a mound in the path in front of them…
"Scarabs!" he exclaimed as they turned and ran back in the opposite direction.
"Incendio!" he yelled as a jet of fire flew out of his wand towards the scarabs and ran without waiting to see if any were stopped. He wasn't worrying about any of the damn laws that were out there. He wasn't going to bother with any of their damn Aurors at the moment.
'Actually,' he thought as he ran. 'I wonder how they would react to seeing a flood of scarabs?'
They ran until the path was narrowed and Jon and Rick jumped off onto large stones while Harry pulled Evy into an alcove and protected her with his body. Until they sprung a trap door and fell through.
"Evelyn?" Rick called out.
"Harry?" Jon called out.
"Evelyn!"
"Harry!"
"A trap door got to be here, a switch around here…someplace." Rick assured Jon as they search for it. Jonathon and Rick tried to figure out just how the trap door worked but before they could the Americans ran by them, yelling.
"Run, you sons of bitches, run!" Henderson yelled and Rick urged Jon to run.
"Go, go, go!" A digger fell behind, tripped, and was consumed – his screams echoing behind them.
Meantime, Harry helped Evy stand as they were pulled through the trap door. He and Evy froze as they heard moaning. Harry put his finger to shush his cousin over her mouth as he looked around the rock.
"Burns… bloody hell you had us scared there mate." Harry said, relieved before Burns turned around to face them.
"My eyes… my eyes…" he moaned and Harry was hit with images that pounded into his head like a jackhammer. He clutched his temples and Evy screamed as she finally saw Mr. Burns.
"Harry!" she exclaimed out of concern before she turned and saw… it.
Harry glared through pained eyes and spoke. "Leave her alone!" he yelled out in ancient Egyptian. "In the name of the great Pharaoh Seti, I order you to leave her alone!"
Imhotep paused as he looked over at the one who was yelling at him before he saw the face. "You! Haru!" he accused while Evy backed up against the wall. "You will separate me from Anck-Su-Namun no more!"
If possible, more pain sank through his head. He didn't want to see the visions until he was ready to see them. He barely noticed as Rick and the Americans came by. He didn't hear Rick's comment nor did he notice as the Americans grabbed his arms and half-ran, half-carried him out of the area.
Once they got the surface, he gave into the visions - right in front of the Medjai.
FLASHBACK
Haru looked over at his father, Seti, as he walked along the wall with a man Haru had never seen before.
"Haru, meet Imhotep. My high priest."
Haru glared at the man who stood across from him, "Father, if he is your high priest then I will not object. If you continue to allow such blasphemy for our gods by allowing him to take such a name!"
"Haru, give him a chance." Seti said as he looked at his young son.
Haru turned and looked at the man, "You are my father's high priest but I swear in the name of the god Horus that you will NEVER be mine!"
"Haru!"
FLASH
Haru looked at Imhotep looking at him, the man infuriated him - sorta. He glared before he bowed to his father and ignored Imhotep. Everyone in the court knew that Imhotep had gotten on the bad side of Haru, although no one knew how.
He nodded to his younger brother and older sister before he left the throne room. He went off to find Oded, his weapon's instructor. He needed to vent off some steam.
FLASH
Haru looked into the cold eyes of Imhotep as he looked at him with utter contempt. He was surprised by the man's actions. Wouldn't his lover treat him better?
FLASH
He saw Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun kiss. He could tell that they were careful not to smudge any of Anck-Su-Namun's body paint.
His heart broke and his contempt for the high priest blossomed again.
FLASH
Imhotep drew his sword. "Foolish Prince!"
"MEDJAI!" He yelled out just as Imhotep stabbed him.
Imhotep glared at the Prince before he ran out and Rameses ran into his room with the Medjai.
"Haru!" Rameses called out as he fell to his brother's side.
"Keep Egypt." he gasped out. "Keep our father alive…" he said as he took his last breath and his head fell to the side - Haru, the son of Seti was dead.
END VISION
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"I told you to leave or die; you refused; now you may have killed us all; for you have unleashed the creature that we have feared for more than 3000 years." Rick and the others glance between each other, puzzled while Evy and Jon lean over Harry as he remained on the ground - blood spilling from his nose and onto the white shirt he wore.
"Relax, I got him." Rick insisted.
"No mortal weapon can kill this creature; he is not of this world." Ardeth explains, even as the Medjai Ardeth had sent after Burns returns – the Americans fury becomes obvious.
Henderson growled as they lay Burns, groaning in pain without tongue or eyes, beside his fellows. Henderson took his friend's hands – reassuring him. "You bastard, what have you done to him?"
"We saved him, saved him before the creature could finish his work. Now leave, all of you, quickly before he finishes you all. Yallah! Nimshi! we must now go on the hunt to try and find a way to kill him." Ardeth said as the Medjai raise their guns and go into the ruins, intent on trying to stop the creature.
"I already told you, I got him." Rick affirmed strongly.
"Know this, this creature is the bringer of death, he will never eat, he will never sleep, he will never stop." Ardeth said before he followed his fellow Medjai into the ruins.
Harry looked up at him, 'Ardeth?' he wondered in slight confusion as he looked at the back of the man as he followed his fellow Medjai.
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