The Sun and The Moon

Everyone seemed to take a minute to recover from what had just happened. Daniel had just gotten back up to them with two shots of bourbon when he sees Henderson's mangled, dried-out corpse. In shock, he drops the glasses. Rosie wiped her lips and made a grossed-out face. "That creep! Showing up in my dreams and ugh!! I felt bad for him at first now I just wanna punch him" She said and walked over to Evy and Rick. Daniels went over and sat in a nearby chair and leaned forward, trying to soak in the loss of his partner. "We need to get out of here, now," Rick said and took both of the girls' hands but Rosie pulled away from him. Still sort of scared from the dream. That dream had been so random, did Imhotep show it to her? Why was she dreaming about that night? Rick looked at her concerned. "I just need to grab a jacket ok jeez" Rosie huffed and grabbed one of her sister's cardigans. Not having time to change out of the Emerald green silk nightie Evy lent her. "Are you ok?" Jonathan asked. He was worried, she was just bloody assaulted by a corpse who thinks she is his lost wife! How do you think one would feel after that?

"I'm fine. Let's just go" She said and walked out the door after slipping on her boots. She felt a tugging at her mind. It was slight but it was there and she hated it. She would rarely experience this but it was what happened last time when she spent her last night with Rick. SHe had a pulling feeling in her head and then suddenly as it began to get worse, she passed out. She couldn't remember getting her things and leaving that Hotel room in France, and she couldn't remember buying the plane ticket to Egypt. She woke up in another dingy hotel in Cairo. Trying to figure out how she had gotten there in the first place, and too scared to even try to contact rick. She was ashamed to leave him like that. But now she sees that he can finally be happy, even if it was with her sister, he deserved better. Everyone got into Jonathan's convertible and Jon raced away. He honked constantly trying to get people out of the road. Evy sat in between him while Rosie sat neat Daniels in the back seat. It was silent until Evy spoke up "you called me your girl?" she looked at Rick. He was hoping she hadn't even heard that part. He cringed a bit and looked away. "What?.. Oh uh yeah. That was just, you know, a figure of speech" He said sheepishly. Rosie rolled her eyes and watched the two from behind. Both Rosie had to admit, were very stubborn. It was like she had to literally push them to get them to try anything. "I think it wasn't," Evy said with a coy smile on her lips. "Huh? No no it was-   I mean, he threw you across the room! Anyone would have said that" HE said in defense. "Sure Rick, sure," Rosie said and smirked. "Why don't you two just kiss already?" both blushed really hard and evy was a sputtering mess "Rosie!" she was about to lecture her but then Daniels butted in. "Shut up! Will you three just shut up! We have to do somethin! NOW before it's too late!" He said, seating with a pale fear-filled face. Jonathan parked his car and they were here, at the Museum of Antiquities. They all hopped out and ran inside.

A full moon is now down on the bazaar, bustling with activity. Suddenly, a kick-in. The green mist begins to swirl down the and the stalls. The people begin to choke and cough and retch as if hit by severe sickness. --It's too late. Imhotep the mob, his face half rotted off, his happiness. Beni is at his side, very nervous. And then, one by one, the to Imhotep, skin now in boils and SORES.

The whole group joined Ardeth and the Curator in the museum, unbeknownst of the next plague that had already started. Evy strode down the halls with everyone following her, "Last I came to an inscription that mentioned The Book Of The Dead" she said. "That book we found at Hamunaptra?" Daniels asked. Evelyn nodded "Yes. it talked of bringing people back from the dead. A notion I was unwilling to believe," she said. Rick was nothing but serious now. "Well Believe it, sister. That's what brought him back to life" Jonathan struggled to keep up with them. "And now he's going to use it to get his girlfriend back" Rosie piped up "That's what I thought too but I don't think so. His girlfriend killed his wife, why would he bring her back when he keeps mentioning his wife?" She said and they all made a face at her point "ah you are right!" Evy said. "He could be trying to revive his wife instead? Out of guilt maybe?" Rick said and Rosie nodded "He watched her die because of his own mistakes so maybe you are right," Rose said. "How do you know he watched her die? we didn't mention that" the curator asked and Rosie shrugged. "I assumed since she also died when they killed the Pharaoh" She lied. She had no idea how she knew that. Ardeth walked with them, "And if he succeeds, the two of them will bring about the apocalypse" he said and Rosie scoffed, weird feelings that did not belong to her bubbled up in her. "Him maybe, but her, no," she said and Ardeth rose an eyebrow at her. They soon make it to the stairs and Rosie puffed. Running up them and kind of falling behind. "God damn so many...stairs" She puffed out. But everyone ignored her. "what we have seen so far, is merely Imhotep flexing his muscles. only at the moment of Satiah's resurrection will he be invincible. The two halves made whole, the sun and the moon" the curator explained. They reach the display cases. Evelyn quickly opens them.

"I'm thinking that if the black Book Of The Dead can resurrect people

back to life--" The curator got on and finished her sentence "--then perhaps, the Book Of the living can send them to the underworld". Evelyn grinned. "Exactly!" Rick rubbed his eyes and then looked to them "So your sayin' if we find the book made gold--"

"--And read the incantations contained inside it" The curator added.

"You think  it'll send this guy back to hell?" Rick asked, it was like he was going even farther down the rabbit hole. "Correct-" The curator was going to say something else but stopped when he heard a fell few voices in the air. Then soon it got louder and louder. They all rushed over to the upper windows and looked down to see a large crazed mob covered in hideous boils and sores. The mob looked to be in a weird trance as they chanted out "Satiah! Satiah!" it sent shivers up Rosie's spine and her stomach twisted.

Ardeth looked out and said in a solum tone, "it has begun. The beginning of the end" he said and Rosie shook her head, looking at him "not yet cutie" She had a look of determination. She was tired of this. "Come on!" Evy said and dashed back to the display cases. And everyone followed. "Cutie? What does that mean-" Ardeth looked confused, Jonathan shook his head and clapped his shoulder "come on ol chap" the two then followed after the group, but Ardeth still looked confused, mumbling the word under his breath.

Everyone jumped when they heard a large crash come from downstairs. The crazed mob had crashed into the huge front doors. Thank god it was locked. They pounded furiously, throwing themselves at it while chanting constantly. Imhotep solemnly comes up the driveway. Back on the second floor Evelyn and the curator are hurriedly looking through a bunch of stone tablets. Evelyn pulled out a large piece "got it!" she then started to read it. "Got what?" Rick asked and then kept watch on the door that lead to the staircase. Soon they heard multiple windows shatter. "Since the Book of The Dead was the base of Anubis, then according  to this, the Book of The Living should be, hmm ah!" Evelyn the in the and smiles. "What!?" everyone asked at the same time at different levels of stress. "The Book Of The Living, is inside the statue of Khonsu" she proclaimed and the curator continued "Which will be not far to the east of the statue". Rick groaned and shook his head along with Rosie who certainly did not want to go back there. "Don't tell me we have to go back out there?" he asked. "If we want to kill the creature, yes," the curator said.

Rosie jumped at the sudden sound of the two doors bursting open and in came two hideous boil and sore-infested men, charging at the group and screaming. O'Connell and Ardeth Bay grab them and toss them over the railing. The men fly in the air and crash into the cases below. The front doors burst open, and The mob runs into the museum. our heroes haul ass across the balcony and down the staircase. Rosie then looked around as they ran outside and avoided the mob. "Where the bloody hell is Jonathan!" the Crazed mob then started to chant another name. "Imhotep! Imhotep!" as if to get his attention. Jonathan was busy hiding in some bushes near his car. He stepped out and then gasped seeing a group of boil people come over. He quickly came up with a plan and bugs his eyes out, drooling, and chanting out "Imhotep! Imhotep!" The mob runs past him and into the doors of the museum. Jon quickly got into the convertible, started it up and 180's it back over to the bushes. O'Connell, Evelyn, Daniels, Ardeth, The Curator, and Rosie jump inside the car. Beni steps out of the museum and sees them. 

He quickly started pointing and screamed "Imhotep! IMHOTEP!" and then the creature Imhotep looks out of the museum from the shattered upper windows just as the  car peels out. O'Connell stands in the car and points a finger at Beni as they race past him. "You get yours, pal! You hear me!? You're gonna get yours!" all the while beni made a funny teasing face at him "ooh I'm so scared, scared O'Connell" he muttered out. Imhotep literally unhinges his jaw, his mouth lowering to an inhuman size, he lets out one of his horrific, screams. His disease-ridden disciples immediately began pouring out the doors of the museum and chasing after the car.      

They haul ass down the narrow Bazaar street. Crazies start jumping out of stalls and leaping onto the car. O'Connell and the others are pushing them off, Rosie pushed one off her side and as one grabbed her she punched him in the face. "Sorry sorry, I know you are under a control thing but- " she then punched another one who tried to wrap their arm around her. The others were pushing and throwing them overboard. More jump on. Jonathan swerves the car, and crashes through some stalls, knocking them off, but not before they manage to open the back door and yank Daniels out. He tumbles on the pavement. Rosie looked back in panic... She could see him getting up and getting his gun. But then she couldn't see anything of him after the mob moved around him. He shoots at them with everything he's got. He is then backed into a corner, firing his pistol into the hideous rabble, killing several, His gun goes empty. he cursed and then looked at the mob and then he closed his eyes, ready for the mob to tear him apart, but the mob stays back looking at him like vultures. Daniels eyes them, with fear. The mob then suddenly parted like the red sea as Imhotep walks up to Daniels. The cowboy whimpers in fear and tears start to pour down his cheeks. Then he gets an idea, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out his Sacred Canopic jar. He holds it out for Imhotep. Imhotep takes it and grins. Through his tears, Daniels grins back, thinking that he'll be spared. But then was met with the decayed face of Imhotep. The last American Let out a loud blood-curdling scream as he was assimilated. Rosie closed her eyes and covered her ears. Not wanting to hear it. Ardeth looked at her and then put a hand on her back, as a way of comforting her. Rick could see it in the rearview mirror and then looked away. It wasn't like he could say anything, they were history. 

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