Third person. Sorry about the cliffhanger. Please review.
Chapter Nine-
Annabeth's scream pierced the night. Enrique ran out of the room and grabbed her by the shoulders.
"Are you okay?" He said. She nodded weakly.
"Is that what I think it is?" Annabeth asked. She was referring to a humanoid form that was stuck to the wall, impaled by Enrique's expertly thrown blade. It was about six feet tall and wrapped in head-to-toe white cloth bandages. It was feebly trying to grab at the two people staring at it in horror, but they were just out of reach.
"Yeah," Enrique said numbly. "A mummy. I'm just glad I sensed it in time, if it had gotten into the room, we would have been done for."
"What do you mean, you sensed it?"
"My dad created the processes of embalming and mummification. Thus, I could sense the mummy outside the room. Now that I've got it captured, I should be able to tell where it was coming from and why. I'll be right back, just need to get my walking stick." Enrique ran into the room and emerged a second later, the walking stick turning into a scepter in his hand. The eyes of the scepter began glowing, and so did the eye-area of the mummy. However, a moment later, the light disappeared, and Enrique flinched violently, his wings snapping back and almost hitting Annabeth.
"Watch it," She said.
"Sorry," He muttered, shaken. "It's got some kind of mental block. Whoever sent it doesn't want us to know who they are. I'm gonna have to dispose of it." He grabbed the mummy's hands, and a wave of blue energy ran down the mummy's body, disintegrating it. Enrique wiped the dirt off his palms.
A small crowd had gathered around them by that point, and Percy pushed his way through to Annabeth, followed by Nico and Rachel.
"What happened?" He asked, hugging his girlfriend. "I just heard a scream-"
"There was a mummy-" Enrique began, but Percy cut him off.
"A mummy? Seriously? That's it? Thank the gods, I thought it was something terrible,"
"A mummy is something terrible," Enrique said.
"Honestly? Come on, we've faced Titans and hydras and a giant pig,"
"It might not be as bad as a Titan," Enrique explained. "But they are very dangerous none the less. Ask your friend Nico, he knows." All eyes turned to Nico.
"Yeah," He said hesitantly. "If you can reanimate a corpse of any kind...well they aren't people any more. They don't have souls. They're just like shells, but if you give them a purpose, like to kill someone, they won't stop until it's done. In that way they're more dangerous than a human or monster, because they can't feel emotion and they can't be killed by just anybody. I'm guessing Enrique was able to get rid of it because he's the son of Anubis. It's the same way only I could kill those skeletons so long ago."
Enrique nodded. He turned to the crowd of Egyptian kids, and out of them the strange monkey appeared riding on the crocodile. Enrique got down on his knees so that he could face the monkey.
"You know what to do," He told it softly. It grinned in the maniacal way monkeys do, popped a chocolate ball into its mouth, and rode off on the crocodile with an air of importance. Enrique turned toward the audience, leaning on his walking stick. Immediately, everyone became quiet.
"Someone has attempted to commit murder tonight," He said evenly. "This is an act of high treason. If we find the person, rest assured they will be killed. I would have everyone go back to sleep. You have nothing to fear. There will be a constant night guard patrolling these dormitories."
Reassured, the crowd filed back into their rooms.
"Tell no one what I told you," Enrique breathed to Annabeth as she passed him. He strode off, down into the depths of the pyramid.