"Honestly..." I moaned, looking at them as they fought back and forth. "Would you two give it a rest! It's too hot for this!"
I watched as Rick and Evy fought back and forth, one packing, the other unpacking the suit, both arguing for what seemed five hours.
"I thought you said you didn't believe in that fairy tales and hokum stuff. Shoo!" Rick said to the white cat that was curled up on the suitcase before Evy reached over and picked it up, and passing it over to me as I sat on the bed where it curled up once again in my lap.
"Nice kitty." I cooed, reaching down and petting it.
"Well I...H-Having an encounter with a 3,000-year old walking, talking corpse does tend to convert one." She exclaimed before shoving more cloths back into the suit case. I simply rolled my eyes
"Forget it. We're out the door, down the hall and we're gone." Rick declared.
"Oh no, we are not."
"Oh yes we are."
"Oh no, we are not. We woke him up and we are going to stop him."
A look of confusion passed over my brothers face as he looked to Evy. "'We'? What we? We didn't read that book. I told you not to play around with that thing. Didn't I tell you not to play around with that thing?"
"Yes, fine then, me, me, me, me, I, I, I, I woke him up and I intend to stop him."
"Oh yeah? How? You heard the man- -no mortal weapons can kill this guy."
"Well maybe we can find some immortal ones?" I suggested, earning a very evil glare from Rick. "Sorry..." I mumbled, before petting the cat again.
"There goes that 'we' again."
"Will you listen to me? We have to do- -" She called out, before she slammed the suit case lid shut, right down onto Rick's fingers.
"You okay?" I called.
"Aaah!" Rick cringed.
"Once this creature has been reborn...his curse is going to spread until the whole of the Earth is destroyed."
"Yeah? Is that my problem?" Rick asked, shaking his fingers.
"Well it is everybody's problem." Evy noted.
"I have to agree with Evy on this one Rick."
"You stay out of this." He snapped in my direction. "Evelyn, I appreciate you saving my life and all, but when I signed on...I agreed to take you out there and to bring you back. And I have done that. End of job, end of story, contract terminated." Rick said angrily, before he suddenly turned to me. "And incase you didn't realize!" He added, before looking back to Evy. "I have my little sister to worry about. So I'm going to pack us up and get her the hell out of her before...god knows what happens!"
"Hey!" I yelled, as he turned back and looked at me. "You keep me out of this!"
"Ellen..." He warned, turning to step towards me.
"That's all I am to you?" Evy said suddenly, and Rick turned back around. "A contract?"
"Look, you can either tag along with me..." Pausing, Rick looked back at me, then back to Evy. "Us!" He corrected. "Or you can stay here...and try to save the world! What's it gonna be?"
"I'm staying."
"Fine!" Rick said.
"Fine!" Evy said.
"Fine! Come on Ellen." Rick snarled, turning around and looking at me where i say on the bed. "I need a drink."
"I'm...staying too." I whispered softly, holding the cat close.
"What?"
"Well..." I looked over at Evy and then back to Rick. "We did do this Rick! It's 'we'! Not her! And I'll be damned if i let that...thing destroy the world."
"No. No, no, no!" He yelled, marching over and grabbing me, before pulling me along with him to the door. "You're coming with me, end of story." He snapped. "And you..." Turning fast, he looked to Evy. "You stay here."
"Fine!" Evy yelled.
"Fine!" Rick called back.
"Fine!" Evy screamed.
"FINE!" Rick bellowed out, marching out of the room and pulling me along with him, before turning back and shutting the door.
"She's not going to be happy with you later on." I noted as he pulled me along with him downstairs.
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"Rick will you let me go?"
"No. You'll just run away. Like you always do."
"Well I have a good reason!" I snapped as we entered the bar, where Rick quickly bumped into a man.
"Oh hey Winston." He smiled, patting the man on the back before pulling me along with him, as I smiled at the man in passing.
"Oh! You know O'Connell." Winston called, fallowing us as we walked up to the bar where Jonathan was sitting. Quickly, I pulled away from Rick and rushed up to the bar where I sat down beside him and smiled, before he reached forward and pulled up a bottle and motioned it towards me. I simply nodded before he went about pouring two shots.
"Ever since the end of the great war there...there hasn't been a single challenge worthy of a man like me."
"Cheers." I said to Jonathan, as we raised out shot glasses and clinked them together, before downing them.
"Yeah? Well we all got out little problems today don't we Winston?" Rick commented before nodded at Jonathan, who began to pour another three shots, just as the man named Winston stepped up and bumped into me.
"Ew..." I muttered, leaning towards Jonathan to get away from the smell that lingered around him or booze and many other things.
"I just wish I could have chucked in with the others and gone down in flame and glory instead of sitting around here..."
"Rotting of boredom and booze..." Right whispered, finishing Winston's sentence with him as we picked up out shot glasses.
"Cheers!" Winston called, reaching forward and grabbing Jonathan's shot. "Oh well! Back to the air field!" he called, before reaching up and patting Rick and Jonathan on the back and brushing up against me. "Haha!" He called, before turning away.
"Tell me," Rick started, as Jonathan started to pour another drink for himself and me. "Has your sister always been..."
"Ah yes." He chuckled, before Rick could even finish.
"Well..." Turning slightly, I watched as Henderson and Daniels appeared at the bar. "We're all packed up but the damned boat doesn't leave till tomorrow."
"Tail set firmly between your legs I see." Jonathan called, before he and I lifted out glasses and took a drink.
"Yeah well you can talk you don't have some sacred walking corpse after you."
"He looked to be after all of us if I'm not mistaken." I snapped angrily, before finishing my drink as Jonathan reached up and poured me another.
"Easy up there cowgirl." Henderson called, leaning on the bar and looking at me. "Don't want you getting too tipsy there and giving me a very nice farewell."
I smirked at him, leaning forward onto the bar as well, to get a better look at him. "Oh well...I'd probably have to get a lot more tipsy seeing as that would probably be the only way I could pretend to enjoy it."
"Ouch." Daniels called, chuckling and Jonathan smirked down at me, before reaching up and patting me on the back.
"Hey." Henderson called, looking less than pleased as he turned his attention to Rick. "You're sister always been so..."
"Might not wanna finish that sentence." Rick warned. "So uh...how's your friend?" He asked softly, turning to Daniels.
"He had his eyes and his tongue ripped out." Daniels explained. "How would you be." He snapped, turning around and leaning down onto the bar, before we all did the same.
"Dear god..." I mumbled. "If there's anything we can do...anything at all." I offered, reaching over and placing a hand on Daniel's shoulder.
"Don't think there's much anyone can do for him..." He sighed, before pulling away an walking off.
"Well." Jonathan called, each of us with drinks in hand. "Guess there's not much left to say is there?"
"Not really..." I mumbled, leaning into Rick.
"Good luck boys." Rick called, holding his shot glass up, before myself, Jonathan and Henderson clinked out glasses together and took a drink.
But as soon as the liquid hit my mouth, I bent forward and spit it out. "What is that?"
"Sweet Jesus!" Henderson called, as he reached up and swiped his mouth. "Taste's just like..."
"Blood..." Rick finished as he stepped forward and dropped his glass, looking at the fountain in front of him, which now ran red.
"Oh God!" I gasped.
"And the rivers and waters of Egypt ran red." Jonathan called. "And were as blood." He finished.
"He's here..." Rick called, before turning around fast and grabbing hold of my hand, racing out of the bar fast as we burst out into the open and headed towards out room, only to find Evy walking about, with books in her hands.
"Oh Evelyn!" Rick called, letting go of my hand as he rushed towards her.
"Oh so you're still here?" She called, turning and looking at him.
"Ah, heh, we've got problems." He explained as i reached them, just as thunder clapped against the sky, before balls of fire suddenly stormed down everywhere.
"Move." Rick called, pushing me forward and grabbing Evy as we made our way along, watching as large balls of fire landed down around us, igniting people and burning everything in their paths.
"We gotta go!" I called, turning fast to run up the stairs and crashing into none other then Beni. "You!" I called, as he started to race back up the stairs.
"HEY!" Rick yelled, spotting Beni. "Beni you little stinkweed, where've you been?" Rick yelled, just before the loud thundering roar arose from upstairs.
"What...was that?" I yelled, not even caring that Beni was racing away from us.
"Come on." Rick called, pulling out his gun, as i fallowed suit before we raced upstairs and into a room, where Rick took the lead and stepped in first, my second and Evy third.
"Oh god!" I called, as Rick stopped in front of me, as Evy gasped as we laid out eyes on the remains of Burns, before a cracking sound pulled our attention away.
"Oh shit." I called, pulling my gun up and watching as the mummy's joints started locking back into place, as what appeared to be new muscle grew on his limbs, making him look more whole as he turned and faced us, howling.
"We are in serious trouble." Rick called as the mummy stepped forward and we opened fire.
"Evy!" I heard Jonathan yell from behind us as the mummy got closer and closer, before rushing forward and picking both myself and Rick up, and sending us flying backwards into Jonathan and the American's, before i quickly started to scramble back up.
"Evy!" I cried out, watching as the mummy leaned down towards her.
The unmistakable sound of a piano flew into the room, catching us all off guard as we turned and looked to see the cat, walking across the keys.
The mummy's roar rose up and cried out into the room, before he turned into a sand storm and flying out the window.
"We are in very...serious...trouble." Rick finished, looking over at me, as I nodded.