Sister (Mummy Fanfiction)

Chapter Seven

Day 4: Part 2 (Night)

Our two camps have joined together now. Rick and Beni were cooking hairy meat over the fire while Jon was making a face over the smell.

"What is this stuff? It smells like our late friend, the Warden." He said, while Rick and Beni exchanged glances and grinned. Jon looked even more horrified.

"You did not!?... We're not!?"

I couldn't help but laugh at him, for being so gullible. My brother's a lot of things, but he isn't no cannibal.

"Rat gizzards. They smell bad and taste worse, but that's the best the desert has to offer." Rick explained to him.

The Americans sat down. Say O'Connell, whadaya think these honeys will fetch back home?" One of them asked, I believed this one was called Henderson.

"We hear you gentlemen found yerselves a nice gooey mummy. Congratulations." Another, which I thought went by the name of Burns said.

"Ya know if ya dry him out, you can sell him for firewood." Daniels said. They start laughing as Evy came and dropped a big pile of skeletons of scarabs down on the ground. I looked up from my book.

"Uh, Evy, why do you have a bunch of old dead scarabs?" I asked, eyebrows raised.

"Scarabs, flesh eaters, I found them inside our friend's coffin. They can stay alive for years living off the flesh of a corpse, or in this case..." She shrugged and looked at the meat that they were roasting. "Famished."

Meanwhile, Jon and Rick looked at the scarabs in horror. "Are you saying somebody threw these things in with our guy, and they slowly ate him alive?" Rick asked.

Evy nodded. "Very slowly." Even I had to admit, if he didn't do something so bad, I would feel bad for the guy.

"He certainly was not a popular fellow when they planted him." Jon said.

"Must of got a little too frisky with the Pharaoh's daughter." Rick added.

I rolled my eyes. "Well not quite. Though getting involved with the pharaoh's concubine, and murdering the pharaoh and then try to bring your death lover ought to do the trick." I muttered under my breath, where no one could hear me.

"According to my readings, our friend suffered the Hom-Dai, the worst of all ancient Egyptian curses, one reserved for only the most evil blasphemers. In all of my research, I've never read of this curse actually having been performed." Evy said.

I nodded. "That's because it actually hasn't other than this one time. After that, they never found a reason to use it on anyone else. And with very good reason" I told them.

"That bad huh?" Rick asked us.

"Yes, they never used it because they feared it so. It's written, that if a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise, he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt." Evy informed them.

"The ten plagues?" Rick asked. "You mean all ten plagues?"

"Like what that Moses guy did to that Pharaoh guy?" Beni asked.

I nodded. "That's one way of putting it." Evy said.

"Let's see, there was frogs, flies, locusts..." Jon started.

"Hail and fire." Burns said.

"The sun turning black." Henderson added.

"Water turning to blood." Daniels inputted.

"And my personal favorite: people covered in boils and sores." Said Jon.

"There is also lice, diseased livestock and death of the firstborn, but I suppose that's irrelevant in this case." I added.

Then men started to exchange worried glances, and Evy just laughed. I didn't join in with her laughter, this was no laughing matter, as it was a very serious matter. The men were right to be scared.

"Fried gizzard anyone?" She asked.

After everyone had eaten, we started to get ready for bed. I was so tired that I went to sleep, the best that I could. It wasn't long before I was awaken though, by Evy's voice, but what she was saying, it wasn't good.

"Ahm kum Ra. Ahm kum Dei." She said.

"Evy! No!" I half yelled as the Egyptologist awoken.

"No! Noooooo! You must not read from the book!" He yelled

Out of nowhere, a piercing whine is heard, coming from out in the desert. We all jumped to our feet as the Americans run out of their tents. I quickly grabbed my bag and put it on my back.

The sound is starting to get louder and closer. And then from out of the darkness a huge wall of locusts swrils into camp and envelops everyone. Rick grabs Evy, and they, Jon and I run for the crevice. "Evy, you have no idea what you've done." I muttered as we ran into the crevice.

Once in Evy was pushed against the wall while I jumped onto the rock with Rick and Jon trying to escape the scarabs. She pushed against one area of the wall, which was a hidden door trap, and she went through, screaming. "Evy! Evelyn?" We called for her, until I pointed out the thing of a hidden door in the wall. They started pushing on the wall until the Americans and some of the others started running towards us.

"Run, you sons of bitches! Run!" Henderson said, as they came a running.

"Go." Rick said, and Jon and I took off behind them, with Rick following us. We watched as one of the diggers was completely ate up by scarabs. "Go! Go!" Ricj yelled. Rick found Evy, as I could hear him from the other hall. "There you are! Will you quit playing hide-and seek? Come on, let's get out of here."

"Evy!" Jon yelled as two of the Americans and I followed him with torches. "Ahh!" He said, dropping his torch, as we lay sights on the mummy. The creature, Imhotep.

The creature started roaring and Rick roared back, and fired his gun. "Move!" He yelled.

"Yeah, right." Jon said, as we followed him, and straight into the main chamber where the Medjai were waiting for us, guns pointed, and I could see the Egyptologist clutching the book and rocking back and forth.

Ardeth removed his scarf. "I told you to leave or die. You refused. Now you may have killed us all." He said, and I couldn't help but to give Evy a glare, as she shrugged. Right now though, I was attempting to get my heart rate under control.

"For you have unleashed a creature we have feared for more than 3,000 years." He continued.

"Relax. I got him." Rick said.

I hit my brother's shoulder. "Rick, it will take more than a mortal weapon to get rid of him." I muttered. Ardeth nods.

"No mortal weapon can kill this creature. He's not of this world." He said, and stepped back as two of his men brought out Burns and handed him back over to Henderson and Daniels.

"You bastard." Daniels said.

What did you do to him?" Henderson asked.

"It was the creature." I whispered, in horror of the sight of what he had done to Burns.

"We saved him." Ardeth said. "Saved him before the creature could finish his work." He said. "Leave, all of you, quickly, before he finishes you all." He looked at me on that last part. He then spoke in Arabic to his men to leave.

"I must now go on the hunt, and try and find a way to kill him." He said, walking out behind his men.

"I already told you, I got him." Rick said.

"Rick! He already told you one time that no mortal weapon can kill him." I muttered.

Ardeth nodded. "Know this, this creature is the bringer of death. He will never eat, he will never sleep and he will never stop." He said. "You should listen to your sister." He gave me a nod and left.

Rick looked at me. "You know him?" He asked. I nodded. "Yes, he was from my tribe when I was a child, one of the villages." I said, "There was an arranged marriage set up." I said, looking at the spot where he'd left. Shaking my head, I headed back outside and over to my horse.