Chapter 3
Evy and Jonathan told me the story of how they found the man that Jonathan stole the map from and how he would take us to Hamunaptra. I couldn't sleep the night before we were going to depart, all I could do was lay in bed and picture what it was like to go to a dig site and be the first to discover it and be the first to enter the ruins.
The next morning, we were gathered at Giza Port waiting for Rick O'Connell to show up. Evy was complaining about Rick until a man that was clean shaven and had a nice hair cut interjected, this must be Rick, judging by the way Evy stammered and blushed I assumed that Evy had developed a fast crush over him. I smiled and introduced myself as we boarded the boat. Evy and I were sharing a room, I was already dressed in my night clothes when Evy came storming in mumbling about O'Connell and some kiss. "Oh, it wasn't that good of a kiss anyway." I didn't look up from my book until I heard Evy squeal, there was a man dressed all in black holding a hooked knife up to her throat, "where is the map and key." Evy pointed to the table where the map lay, while the man was demanding to know more, I leaned over and grabbed a stick that was leaned up against the wall. I picked it up and ran across the room ready to hit the man, the man shoved Evy down and turned around and grabbed the stick before I could hit him, I let the stick go and backed away with my hands held up in surrender, until O'Connell came bursting into the room yelling for Evy. I run out of the room in front of O'Connell who was pulling Evy by the arm, once we got onto the deck of the boat we were surrounded by the men in black and the American's who had turned a table onto its side and where making weird noises while shooting at the men in black. The boat was on fire and everything was burning rapidly, Jonathan came running over to us as O'Connell picked up Evy and threw her over board, she screamed all the way down until she hit the water. O'Connell turned to pick me up but I held up my hand, "I can jump off a boat myself." I jumped off the boat into the cold water.
We made it to the banks, Evy and I was cold and shivering from the cold desert air. Our night gowns clung to us as we shivered, "hey, O'Connell! It looks like I have the horses!"
"Hey Bennie! It looks to me like you are on the wrong side of the river!"
O'Connell turned away from his yelling match with this guy named Bennie. "We make for a village down the river."
"How do you know there will be a village down the river?" O'Connell picked up his bag that had survived the fire and being thrown into the water and slung it over his shoulder. "This is the Nile, there will be villages about a mile or two apart all along this river. We just need to keep walking until we come upon one." Jonathan shrugged his shoulders and followed along O'Connell, Evy and I were the only ones who lagged behind and that was only because we were having to hobble along with our night dress clinging to us.