CHAPTER 7
I looked around the room until I saw a man on all fours in the middle of the room.
"H-hello?"
I walked over to the man leaving Evy who was still clutching the wall. I touched the man's shoulder so I didn't scare him, the man jerked around as he started to moan in pain. I started screaming as the man stumbled into the light to reveal his eyeless face, as the man kept moaning in pain I could tell his tongue was gone to.
"H-help me please."
I turned around to look at Evy, I couldn't move as I saw the mummy we had found walking toward Evy.
"P-please help me."
I heard the man stumbling away from us while moaning something inaudible. I started panicking not knowing how to help my sister, I looked around the room some more until I found an unlit torch. I ran and grabbed the torch and held it above my head as I ran screaming at the mummy, I hit the mummy on the back of the head. Everything seemed to stop as the mummy slowly turned toward me, in one fluid motion the mummy had grabbed me by the neck and started at choke me. I tried to pry his hands off me but couldn't do it, I was losing oxygen fast. I heard Evy scream as I started to lose consciousness.
ARDETH'S POV
We had arrived too late; the creature had been awakened and now the diggers where all down in the tunnels. We were looking in the tunnels trying to find the creature and the diggers, we were searching the tunnels when we came upon a man who had his eyes and tongue taken by the creature, the man was motioning behind him and trying to say something but it only came out as a strangled moan.
"Bring him, someone must have interrupted the creature from finishing him off."
We went down the hall way and into the room where a girl was laying on the floor, her chest was rising and falling slowly indicating she was alive but barely. As I approached the girl I noticed it was Amirah, I bent down and pushed her hair out of her face. I pulled her into my arms as I stood up and made my way out of the tunnel. On the way, out we found another man clutching the book that was used to raise the creature. The only other people who made it out was the three-people traveling with Amirah.
"You have awakened the creature which we have feared for over three thousand years."
"Relax, I got him."
I was about to tell them the creature couldn't be killed when the female pushed her way to the front of the group.
"Amirah!"
She came running at us as my men put Amirah on the ground for the women to get to.
"We found Amirah in the tunnels and saved her before she could be hurt anymore
The man who was Amirah's brother came over to Amirah and picked her up in his arms.
"Thanks for saving her."
I nodded my welcome as my men pushed pasted them and went back into the tunnel to hunt the creature, I made to follow but I let my eyes linger on Amirah for a moment longer before I went back into the tunnel.