Finally out of school and had to start the next chapter. I would've been posted, but I was sick and still am. I hope you like.

The next morning I woke up in a mood. Everyone still decided to go back into the tombs instead of listening to the man that gave us a warning and I'm sure he was to come back with his people if he knew we were still here. They were protecting something and I knew that if we leave now nothing will happen, but no. That's why I was trying to talk them out of it.

"Are you all just idiots? People were killed last night. The man told us to leave." I said while they got ready to head back down to open the sarcophagus.

"You're worrying for nothing, Azzy. They are probably long gone by now." She told me holding her head from the drinking last night. She was up, but the alcohol got to her.

"She's right. Before you know it, we'll find the treasure…" Evy gave him a pointed look, "… and Evy's book… and leave before you know it."

I huffed and turned from them. "Fine, but if something bad happens do not come running to me." I walked away from them and to Rick. He was standing by the hole that we went down yesterday. He threw the rope down. "Hello, Rick." I said with a frown, clearly upset.

"Aziza." He tilted his head. "What's with the long face?"

I stared at him. Should I tell him that almost kissing Evy pissed me off? Or how about going down by that creepy sarcophagus that gives offs this dark aura. Maybe I should ask him if wants to leave Jonathan and Evy here and move back to America with me. So I said, "It's nothing. I just don't like the way this place feels."

He nodded his head understanding what I meant. "I know what you mean. I would leave, but your friend saved my life. Both of you did."

"But you were only supposed to show us the way. Why are you helping?" I asked him forgetting my anger for a moment.

He sighed while looking at Evy and Jonathan coming towards us. "…some years ago I made a vow to protect the one I cared about. And I plan on keeping that promise." He said and looked me in the eyes.

I grabbed the rope, "Maybe they do not deserve it anymore." We both knew he was talking about our wedding vows. We made our own. Just thinking about it made me want to cry. I climbed down the rope ready to get the day over with even though it just begun.

I sat down worriedly on a stone block while Evy, Jonathan, and Rick worked on opening the sarcophagus. They wouldn't listen to me so I had to stay here and hope nothing will happen.

Rick and Jonathan pulled the coffin out and dragged it to the wall with Evy in tow. "Oh, I've dreamt about this since l was a little girl."

"You dream about dead guys?" Rick said.

I got up and walked over to them as Jonathan put in the key. I stood next to Evy not wanting to get too close. I gripped her arm when the coffin fell open and a mummy popped along with dust. We all screamed from the sudden appearance.

"Bloody hell…" I said and took a step closer.

"Oh, my God, l hate it when these things do that." She said and I had to laugh at her.

"Is he supposed to look like that?" Rick asked.

"No, I've never seen a mummy look like this before. He's still- still—"

"Juicy," Rick, Jonathan, and I said together. "That seems impossible, but I guess there's a first for everything." I say.

"He must be more than three thousand years old and, well, it looks as if he's still... decomposing." Evy said.

"Hey, look at that. What do you make of this?" Rick pointed to the top. We all go over and kneel beside it.

"Oh my, they're scratches..." I place my hand over the marks. "From his fingernails… buried alive." I mumble. My hand touches the marks. A pain ran up my hand and to my arm. I jumped back frightened. What in the world is happening to me?

"And he left a message. Death is only the beginning.'' Just as she said it we all looked at the mummy in wonder.

Shaking my head, I got up from my spot. "That's it." I dusted myself off. "I'm going somewhere… that's not here." I grab a torch from the wall to hurry out of the room. Evy was going to stay and study the mummy, to try and discover who it was. She should look for her book so we can leave.

The other places in the city underground had little to no interest to me. There was no need for treasure or finding lost artifacts. I came into this big room where they had the mirrors. It also contained a table big enough to lay a person on. I was going to explore it when someone came up behind me.

"Are you sure you want to be here by yourself? You might get lost." Rick said looking past me and into the room.

I smiled. "Well I know a certain person would have come to save me," I turned to him and walked out the door where he stood. He had a thoughtful look on his face. "You have a question for me."

"You always could read me like a book," he walked behind me as we began to leave, "Whatever happened to the Everest's? I haven't seen them in a year."

"Oh, they moved back to their home in America." I had left before they appeared. Had my own house. "I don't know when though. Never got to talk to them." I stopped in my walking. "And why do you care, Mr. O'Connell?"

He sighed and leaned against the wall. "You're still my wife."

"That didn't seem to matter last night. I heard Evy. If you want to worry about someone it's her. She has the tendencies to get herself in trouble." He started to say something, but begun to walk away.

His hand grabbed my arm and made me stop. Rick stood behind me saying, "If you would have finished listening you would've known that we didn't kiss. Drunk or not, I wouldn't kiss her again."

I shivered as his arms curled around me. "It's… it's only fair. I did leave." I turned around in his arms and looked up at him. "I'm so sorry. I do not have the right to be so angry with you."

He rested his head on mine. "… Why did you leave?"

I moved from him and stared at the wall. "We should get out of here first."

When we got out the sun was setting. Everyone else was out and doing their own thing. Of course Evy was still inside with the mummy. Jonathan was off somewhere doing only God knows what. I hope he wouldn't get himself in trouble. We couldn't afford that out here.

Rick led me over to where we slept last night. It was good that no one else was here to hear what I had to say. "Now you have to promise me you won't get mad."

"Promise."

"Good."

So I told him when we were back at the sand temple, the last day I got to see him. I retold him the whole story of that day. The men coming in, the story I'd overheard, and what they would do if I didn't leave. When I left I had done some research, well a lot. It took me months to find the information I needed. I've found stories on Aziza, weird that we had the same name. But the best part was finding the picture. There was only a photo copy online. The real one is why I went to the library where Evy worked at in the first place.

First Rick seemed skeptical. He didn't know rather to believe me or not. "Why didn't you bring me with you?"

"Because I didn't trust them," I moved in closer to him. "They followed me until I left. I did not want them using you or the Everest if they found out I came back. I had to be sure." I ran my hand through my hair.

He lifted my face up to look at him. "I'm still angry with you. But I forgive you." There's the Rick I knew. Whenever we were alone he would show me this side of him. "Just next time someone threatens you. Tell me." I nodded my head quickly with a smile. "Of course."

Just then Jonathan pops up out of nowhere. "Here you two are. We thought you were still in the tomb." I didn't notice that it the night was near. Rick started to build the fire. Jonathan leans over to me. "So what's going on between you two?" I snapped my head to the side. "Well I wasn't eavesdropping since you were out in the open with it."

"Really Jon. For once can you not be a pain in the ass. Whatever just happened is none of your business." I told him in an angry whisper.

Rick got the fire going at the right time. Jonathan and Rick started to talk as I stared into the fire.

"Say, O'Connell, what do you think these babies'll fetch back home?" Mr. Henderson says as he comes over with his other companions.

"We hear you boys found yourselves a nice, gooey mummy. Congratulations." Mr. Burns said next.

"lf you dry that fella out, you might be able to sell him for firewood." And Mr. Daniels.

I laughed along with them making them stop. "Well you might as well have an urn." They all looked at me confused. "Well I wouldn't be working in a library and not know the material. Those," I pointed to their finding, "are a part of rituals of ancient Egypt. For those who have wrong, they would take out their organs and put them in jars as punishment." The men held up the jars looking at them with slight disgust.

Evy started walking up behind us. "Look what l found."

"You're in her seat." Rick said to the man on his right that I didn't notice until he said something.

When he didn't move I said, "Now!"

"Scarab skeletons, flesh eaters. I found them inside our friend's coffin. They can stay alive for years feasting on the flesh of a corpse. Unfortunately for our friend, he was still alive when they started eating him." Evy said when we gathered in a circle around her.

I cringed as Evy enjoyed this moment. Okay, the brain was a different situation. No one would want to be eaten alive and slowly at that. I just listened as Evy rambled about the mummy and the Hom-Dai. She first told me about that a week after we met. I was quite curious about the ways of Egypt and what they do with the dead.

"…lt's written that if a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise... he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt."

Later that night I found myself lying down next to Rick. I couldn't sleep since I had too much on my mind. I had my face down, eyes closed. Someone was awaked because the movement of fabric was close to me. I sat up to see Evy looking around.

Trying not to disturb Rick, who was most likely awake, I got up and moved from him. "Evy what are you doing?"

She faced me, "That man has the Book of the Dead. I plan to just look through it before he wakes up."

"No, Evy. I don't care what you believe in. But nothing good would come from opening that book. It's not even the one you were searching for. " I told her while I stood up.

Evy sighed and stood up. "There's no need to worry, Azzy." She walked over to the man with the book clutched under his hands. She gently grabbed it and took it right from under his hands. She came back over and sat it down a small handmade table.

I shook my head and started to walk away. "Go ahead, do what you want." I walked away as Rick said something to Evy. He knew my anger and would stay away.

I was a few feet away when I had then pain rush through my head. I was by some pillars when I heard someone yell, "No!" back at the camp.

The pain caused me to lose focus and I let out a scream and bent over. I could hear Rick calling me, but a noise appeared over the wall of the city. Locusts were flying our way. As fast as I could, I got up and ran to one of the entrances in hope to find my companions inside.