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Chapter 10

Elisabeths POV

The car rolled put to the Museum and I glared at the Curator that awaited for our arrival.

" I want to stay here." I uttered. Rick was just about to exit the car, but then slammed the door shut, causing me to jump.

"Who was it?" He whispered looking at both Madjai men.

I struggled to telling the truth. "I just wanted to stay here. I'll keep the car running."

He nodded and opened the door again, but gripped my arm and pulled me out.

"Rick! Stop!" I tugged my arm out of his grasp and he pulled me closer to the men.

"Who was it? I know you and you don't run unless someone threatened to kill. Who was it?"

I looked at Ardeth, as he stared back at me. When I looked at Mr. Bey, I shook under Ricks hand and he knew immediately from my reaction that it was him. He moved closer to him and the man flinched when Rick brought up his fist to punch him. But I stopped him from hurting the man by catching his fist mid way.

"Don't! We need him to find answers." I stated. I watched Rick remove the man from his grasp and fall to the floor. I started to take a few steps toward him when I felt Ardeth's hand lightly grip my arm to prevent me further.

I removed his grip from my arm and lowered myself in front of this old man. I offered him my hand to help him off the floor. He took it and I watched His lips become a straight line across his face, but in humiliation and shame.

"Please pardon my actions earlier. I wasn't thinking..." He started, but I raised my hand and stopped him.

" No, You weren't. You are to stay five feet away from me at all times." I warned and took a few steps towards Evy and Jonathan.

"Just because I forgiven you doesn't mean you gained my trust."

We moved up a large staircase with Jonathan and Daniels at my side with the Medjai men in front of us. Both Evy and Rick were talking back and forth about what they came here for.

" According to the Legend, The black book is to bring the dead back to life, a notion before now I didnt believe..."

"Believe it sister, It's what brought our buddy back to life." Rick snarled, continuing up more stairs.

"Yes, so now believing the black book can bring the dead back to life…"

"Then maybe the gold book can kill him."

"Of course! It all makes sense now. So in order to find out where the book of Amunrah is..." I started before Evy looked at me excited and finished.

"Then we need to find out where it was buried."

IMOTEP, IMOTEP

All of us retrieved to the large window that outlooked the city to find hundreds of men in the haze of the creatures power.

"Last but not least my most favorite plague. Boils and Sores." Jonathan muttered as the men marched closer to the museum.

"They have become his slaves. So it has begun. The beginning of the end." Ardeth stated in a weird, calm matter.

Evy shook her head. "Not quite yet it hasn't, come on Lisa. We need to find out where the book of Amunrah is truly hidden." She said and pulled me with her to a stone filled with hyrogliphics.

" According to Bembridge Scholars,The book of Amunrah is in the statue of Anubus." Evy said, looking at the words on this stone, reading as fast as she could.

"That's where we found the black book." Daniels said.

"Exactly."

Jonathan laughed. "Guess scholars were wrong."

"Yes! Mixed the book up. Mixed up where they were buried." I added, listening to the crowd try to bust through the doors made me read faster.

"So then the gold book must be inside.." Evy was interrupted by a large bang of the doors. They were getting closer and almost through.

"Come on girl, Faster!" Jonathan's encouragement was more of a fearful cry.

"Paintents is a virtue." Evy softly sang, but no one took it comforting. Especially Rick when several men busted the door open and started making their ascent up the stairs.

"Not right now it isnt."

"I have it! The book of Amunrah is in Hamunaptra inside the Statue of Horrus! TAKE THAT BAMBRIDGE SCHOLLARS!" Evy cheered in excitement, but was soon diminished when we realized how close the slaves were and that we needed to get out of here.

Rick took Evy's hand as Ardeth took mine and ran down the hidden staircase and waited for the slaves to exit the other side. Ardeth never released my hand, in fact, it squeezed tighter. The head radiating between each other made my heart thump in my chest. Once the way was clear we made a break for the doors to see Jonathan started the engine.

"Come on girls!" he hollered and motioned to hop in faster. There wasn't enough seats for all of us to fit and I was left with sitting on Ardeth and laying my legs across Mr. Bey and Mr. Daniels.

I heard Benny Scwaking up above to the windows above us. "Imotep! IMOTEP!"

The car flew just as the slaves rushed toward us. Then the echo of a frustrated scream pierced my eardrums and caused both of my hands to cover my ears. We drove down several streets until the vehicle came to a screaming stop. A group of Slaves were in front of us. My heart thumped in fear and I knew what we had to do. I gripped Jonathans Shoulder and leaned my head to his ear.

"Drive Jonathan." I whispered. He turned to me and looked at me as if I had three heads. Rick agree'd and slammed Jonathans foot against the gas.

"HANG ON!" Rick shouted.

To my surprise, the slaves ran to the car instead of away. They obviously didn't care about getting hit. Several men gripped us and tried to pull us out. I took out my dagger from my belt and stabbed one man in the eye. Another on a hand that tried to pull at Daniels. Suddenly, I felt a tug on my braid and then tried to pull me out of the car by the hair.

"AAHH" I screamed as the pulling became more painful. I tried to scratch him away with my nails but he wouldn't budge. Ardeth had to keep his hands on my waist or the man would have succeeded in pulling me out of the car. My back was lifted and I thought I was going to fall out of the car when Ardeth pulled me back. With Ardeth and the Slave pulling me back and forth like a rope, I suddenly remembered my gun on the other side of my belt. One hand kept on his face as the other reached for the gun and pulled the safety off and shot him in the face. Several drops of blood spit on my face and Ardeth pulled me back just as the car crashed into a water well.

Rick was quick to get out, helping both Evy and myself out of the car and away from the slaves. We only got only several feet before we were surrounded. The slaves, however didn't peruse. They stood ground and again repeated the creatures name.

They cleared a path for the creature who traced to sights of mummification to his face or body.

"It's the creature. He's fully regenerated." Mr. Bey stated, expressing no fear in his voice.

The creature spoke in egyptian and I listened to his words. Benny translated " Come with me my princess. It is time to make you mine, Forever."

I scuffed and Evy snarled at him for translating wrong. "For all eternity, Idiot!"

The creature spoke again and offered his hand out. I gasped when I translated in my head.

"Take my hand and i'll spare your friends. The goddess as well."

I shook my head.

"Oh dear…Got any bright idea's?" Evy asked, and turned to Rick.

Rich could have broke the flaming stick as he puffed. "I'm thinking, I'm thinking."

"Best think of something fast cause if he turns me into a mummy, you're the first one i'm coming after." She warned and walked over to the creature and took his hand.

"No!" Rick said and pulled his gun out and aimed it at the creature.

Evy turned and hid behind the creature. "Don't!"

I watched as Ardeth placed his hand on Ricks wrist.

Evy started at him with assurance. "He still needs to bring me to Hamunaptra to perform the ritual."

"She's right." Ardeth said. "Life today, Fight tomorrow."

In frustration, Rick placed the gun back in his holster, pointed to the creature with the flame and gritted through his teeth. "I'll be seeing you again."

The creature pulled Evy with him and shouted to the slaves.

"Kill the men, but take the woman!"

Evy realized what happened and she struggled under his grasp. "No! Get off of me!"

Ardeth heard the creature, and pushed me behind him so Benny couldn't get to me, But Benny was more interested in retrieving the key from Jonathan. The slaves moved closer to us and there was no where for us to go…until Rick found a pothole which lead underground. He pulled Jonathan to the whole.

"What about my sister?" He asked in fear, but Rick assured him. "We're gonna get her back!"

He pulled me out of Ardeths grip and tossed me down to Jonathan who caught me effortlessly. Then Arden came, and finally Rick. Mr. Bey had stayed to save us, and his screams brought tears to mine as we moved down the tunnel.

When I opened my eyes I saw the tunnels and was pulled back to the memory of myself back in the tunnels. Last time I was down here I was lost for two days with no food or water. My breath hitched in fear but I ran as fast as my feet could. When the hollers of the slaves stopped and nothing was heard, we stopped and my breath came in short gasps.

"We need to stay here until the streets clear." Rick stated.

My legs felt weak due to the lack of oxygen I tried to breath in. Then I felt myself fall back against Ardeth.

"Elisabeth?" He asked me and both he and Rick settled me down on the ground.

"I…need….to…. get… out…" I couldn't breath. I was having some sort of attack. Air couldn't get in and my vision blurred.

"Lisa, we can't it's not safe." Rick noted, but looked at me in concern.

"We… get …lost….tunnels…too many… we'll die…Please help me, Rick!" I repeated. It took Rick a moment to figure out what I was saying, then it hit him. He remembered what happened.

Flashback

Ricks POV

It has been two days since I've seen Lisa. She never returned to the house and I grew worried. The last time I saw her was when she saved me back in the tunnels. She would have came out the way we came in right? Unless she was looking for me. I knew the tunnels, but she didn't. Just before Supper, I went back to the tunnels and I retraced my steps and came up short. But then I remembered there was a fork in one of the tunnels and so I went back and took the next. Down there, after a few feet, I found her. She crawled herself into a ball. She was shivering from the cold and her clothes were wet. It had rained yesterday and probably flooded the tunnels.

"Lisa? Lis? Please answer me!" He cried, shaking her violently. She opened one eye and smiled, then closed them again.

"You saved me." she whispered and fell back unconscious.

Present.

Ricks POV

"Lisa, I'm not leaving you. None of us are. You need to calm down and take a deep breath." I told her. She tried to take a breath and drew back a shaky gasp, then another, and soon she was breathing better.

"I don't want to be down here." She cried.

I took her hand and assured her. "I know, but we need to stay alive to save Evelyn. You are the strongest person I know, and Tunnels shouldn't scare you."

Then, The Madjai took his hand and rubbed her back in circles. I would have punched him for touching her, but it seemed to have calmed her down. "I've learned these tunnels, and we are not lost. I know exactly where we are and how to get out." He said, his voice seemed to comfort her. I realized that I really did't like this guy.

"How long do we stay down here?" She asked.

"A few hours. Why don't you rest for a while. We will wake you up when we are ready to move." I said, wiping a few tears away from her cheeks. She laid her back on the tunnel floor and curled into a ball. I winced in the thought of her sleeping in these tunnels again. Jonathan took off his jacket and lifted her head off the ground, placing it under to make her more comfortable.

Once I knew she was asleep, I gripped the Madjai's robes and pointed my finger in his face.

"Don't tough her like that again." I threatened.

"She needed comfort." he spat at me.

" That doesn't mean from you. I will not let you trick her. She's too vulnerable." I said, but he came back at me again.

"I'm not tricking her, I wanted to comfort her. I've fallen for her." he stated.

I felt my eyes widen in shock, then scuffed. " Your kind doesn't love. They kill innocent. If it weren't for her running back to me, she would have been dead under the hand of your follower."

"I swore to you that I would keep her safe, and I've not stopped. Even in Hamunaptra,I didn't even know her name and I saved her from the creature." He defended, but I shook my head.

" Yeah? and what if she is a descendent of the Goddess? That's the only reason. She's just a pretty face to you. Nothing more, and I'm not going to let you hurt her."

"Is that why you've been there for her for so many years? I've seen how you treat her, Like a child. She's a woman, a strong one as you said, and she can decide who she wants to love or hate."

I punched him in the face, but then Jonathan pulled me back.

"Stop this! We need to find my sister! So you two bloats better stop blubbering over Elisabeth. She's a grown woman, and she will make her own decisions."

I moved away from both the Madjai and Jonathan, and took a seat next to Lisa. The creature already took Evy, and I wasn't going to let him take Lisa as well.

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