I'm sorry for the delay. My computer is still being a pain, but I love it. I finally got the movie to start working so I can get back to writing. I didn't know senior year would be so stressful, but I'm getting through it.
We found the room where Evy could find the golden book. She pointed Rick and Jonathan to where they needed to started. Rick pulled out some tools for the both of them. I walk over and see his bags with the guns and weapons. Something shined from the bag. I dip my hand in and pull out a knife. But not any knife. It was the one I left behind for him. Before I left that day, I had a knife with a black handle with red swirls. It was a gift from the Everest's.
Just then it was snatched from my hands. Rick was glaring at me. "Hands off." He put it back in his bag away from anyone's view.
"You're no fun, just when I thought that you should look for mine." I took the chain from around my neck and pull it up to show him my wedding ring that hung from it. There was a look in his eye. It was the same one he gave me when we were living together. "Let's get to work then." I say and put it back and grabbed a pick axe.
Rick climbed up on a stone followed by me and Jonathan. Rick hit the top making sand start to pour down. I start to hit it next to him and covered my face with the veil from the women in the village.
"According to these hieroglyphs we are underneath the statue. We should come up right between his legs." Evy said circling around them. Evelyn was telling them the location of the book with her knowledge.
"When those damn yanks go to sleep. No offense." Jonathan said and I rolled my eyes. What was the point of saying no offense when you just turn around and offend them?
"None taken." Rick replied as if used to it.
"We'll dig our way up and steal that book right out from under them."
"Are you sure we can find this secret compartment?" More sand poured in as he switched tools.
"Oh, yes, if those beastly Americans haven't beaten us to it. No offense." Evy said hitting the rock with a small tool that I had to shake my head with.
"None taken." He said again.
I sighed, "Can you at least insult him with some dignity? Saying sorry before you insult a person is still offensive."
Jonathan smiled down at me. "Always the one to defend people. You're starting to act like Evy."
I glared at him. "I am not. Evy and I are totally different. I'm a fighter and she's a librarian. No offense." I said while looking at her. Everyone looked at me getting my point from earlier. "What?" I said and going back to the ceiling.
"Where'd our smelly little friend get to?" Jonathan stated and I looked around just noticing that he was gone.
I smiled, "To look for treasure my dear friend. He did want to protect his investment."
Later we all stop for a break. Jonathan was bored and went to go start playing golf, well at least tried. I sat on Rick's other side. He was talking with Evy and I leaned back onto him, unconsciously.
"Let me get this straight. They ripped out your guts and stuffed them in jars." Rick said with disbelief.
"They'd take out your heart as well." She said as a matter of fact.
That's when I jumped in, "You know how they took out your brains?" eagerly wanting to say it.
"Aziza, l don't think we need to know this." Jonathan said trying to make me stop.
I looked at him with a smile then turned to Rick, "They'd take a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about a bit and then rip it all out through your nostrils."
"That's gotta hurt." He said.
Evy said "lt's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this." I nodded my head along with her.
"If l don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification."
"Likewise."
Just then Jonathan hit a rock on the wall causing something to fall down in front of us. I stood up with everyone. "Oh, my God. lt's a-lt's a sarcophagus. Buried at the base of Anubis. He must have been someone of great importance or… he did something very naughty."
Whatever was in there was giving off this dark energy. I held my hand over the sarcophagus and outwardly flinched.
"Well, who is it?" Jonathan asked as Evy and Rick dusted off the top where the inscription was.
''He That Shall Not Be Named.'' She said.
I look over as Rick blew dust off a spot. "This looks like some sort of a lock."
"That looks like a puzzle piece." I graze my fingers over it. "A key…" I mumble the last part.
"Well, whoever's in here sure wasn't getting out."
"It'd take us a month to crack into this thing"
Evy mumbled, "Aziza, you said a key? A key, a key! That's what he was talking about!"
I go to stare back at the big coffin. Feelings of dread just creep into my veins. My hands shook with fear. "Evy this seems like a bad idea. Breaking into a mummy's resting place doesn't seem like the best idea." She looks to me, but she's already made up her mind. She places the key on there and smiles.
Just then a scream alerts us. We all run out of the room. I turn to see Jonathan taking the key and I shake my head, but hoping he would keep it from Evy. In the hall the warden ran past up and ran straight into the wall, an instant death.
Without thinking I walk up to the body and check for a pulse, but he was gone. I searched his face to see if there was anything to see any evidence as to why he ran like that. I got up from my position and walked past the others not wanting to be underground any longer.
On the surface it was finally night time. I held a coat around my cloak around my shoulders from the cold air.
"What do you suppose killed him?" Evy said when we were sitting around the camp fire. "Did you ever see him eat?" Jonathan said and I nudged his shoulder, shaking my head at his remark.
I listened to Rick when he came over to tell us about the American and their diggers. I was trying to read a book, but the after seeing the warden dead made me shudder. And the diggers were melted. I didn't exactly approve of going back down there.
"…Maybe this place really is cursed." Saying that, the wind blew around us for a moment.
Evelyn looked at the two of them like they were out of it, "Oh, for goodness' sake, you two!" Rick picked at the fire asking if she didn't believe in curses. I knew Evy she didn't, but I did. "l believe if l can see it and l can touch it, it's real. That's what l believe."
"Seriously, Evy, a curse can be just as real as faith or coincidence." I looked at my hand. "A person cannot just make up a word and give it a meaning. It has to be real. Just like the human race coming up with numbers that weren't here in the first place. It had to come from somewhere my friend." She looked towards me as if debating with herself. But she was too stubborn to listen.
Looking at Rick he picked up his gun, "l believe in being prepared." I shook my head smiling at his old self. We were always prepared for anything… until then.
"Let's see what our friend the warden believed in." Jonathan dug through the dead man's bag. The tension was building up when Jonathan pulled back with a yell scaring Evy and alarming Rick. I shook my head yet again. "Really, you two, Jonathan is being dramatic."
He pulled out the bottle and I stated, "Jonathan, do you really want to put your mouth on that?" That man smelled horrid and was entirely filthy. I wouldn't trust anything he touched. I sat my book down in my bag behind me and stood up. Just as I did that the horses were startled on the American's side. Instantly, I reached for my gun at my hip. Rick handed Evy a gun and I was already behind him. He knew not to protest with me. Evy still got up and Jonathan followed mostly like not wanting to be alone.
We made it to the other side where I left Rick's side and hide behind another wall. The men in black robes were everywhere. Careful not to shoot someone, I shoot the in the shoulder or leg and made the effort not to shoot the horses. I moved around and jumped over the short walls and bodies. I tried to help the others and keep an eye on Evy, but I couldn't see her. When my head was turned for a moment a man came up and sliced my arm with his sword. I glared at the man and kicked his weapon out of his hand and did a roundhouse kick to his face.
Picking up my gun I saw Rick was going head to head with another, knocking each other's weapons away. Rolling backwards Rick got dynamite and lit it. The man called out for them to stop. I stood on Rick's other side close to Evy with my gun pointed at anyone who didn't listen to the man's command. He said we must leave and I was agreeing with him. There's only been trouble since we started this trip. They left eventually and rode off from the city, but they were going to stay close for some reason.
My hands shook as I helped Evy up. It would've been funny to see her on the ground like that, but the danger kept the humor at bay. "Are you okay?"
She nodded, but then stopped when she saw my arm. "You are not!" she took my arm and examines it.
Rick came up behind me. "Zee," He gently took my arm from hers. I looked at him as he wrapped a piece of cloth over the wound. "It's not too deep so you'll be okay." He lifted his head up and my breath hitched.
"See that proves it. Old Seti's fortune's got to be under this sand." They were saying, but I paid them no mind. "For them to protect it like this, you know there's treasure down there."
"No, these men are desert people. They value water, not gold." Rick held me closer to him and I couldn't help but grab his shirt between my hands.
"Gold holds no value if you live out in the desert." I say.
"You know, maybe just at night, we could, uh, combine forces, hmm?" Mr. Burns say.
That night we lay around the fire. Jonathan was out from drinking alcohol. Evelyn was smashed as Rick was teaching her to fight. However, the drink caught up with her and made her lose her balance. During her drunk rambling, I managed to turn my body without them noticing.
Smiling, I closed my eyes. "You know, Aziza, absolutely adores you Mr. O'Connell…" my body tenses as she whispers the last part. I turn my head a little in their direction. "I'm going to kiss you know." With a rush of anger, I turn my head look out into the desert with an ache in my chest.
How was this chapter? Any mistakes I need to fix?