Imhotep's Obsession
By
Darlene Evelyn


Title: Imhotep's Obsession
Author: Darlene Evelyn
Rating: PG. (for now)
Feedback: Please let me know what you think but please don't be rude.
Short Summary: Basically this story picks up a year later after the movies events take place. It's what I'd like to see happen in the sequel. Copyright: All Characters except for Angela O'Connell,Anton,Vinnie,David Richardson, and Lewis Calabar are sole property of Universal Pictures. No profit is being made with this story.



Chapter 1

*~~~London Museum of Antiquities~~*

         "I can't believe it! Do you expect me to believe that you lost all the money from selling your part of Seti's treasure...in a game of poker!!" Evie shouted angrily

         "Oh mum, don't remind me it's hard enough that I won't be able to have a decent drink for a few months" Jonathan replied guiltily

         "Evelyn, calm down the upside to this is that Johnny here will be sober for a while" Rick said with a wide smile of utter jokester.

         "O shut up O'Connell!" Jonathan snapped back angrily

         "Jonathan!! Watch your manners! don't you ever yell at Rick or anyone else like that for that matter you should be grateful that you won't have a drink! Now you won't be so bloody drunk everyday!! as for the treasure..we can't do anything about it now..oh god! " Evelyn said stressfully as she sat down at her desk.

         Without another word Jonathan stormed out of the office and left to go find a lad who could spare a drink or two. Rick suddenly sat down and put his hands on his face trying to conceal the sadness that had just overcome him. Evelyn turned towards him and at the sight of seeing him there almost about to tear his hair out, she sighed.

         "What's wrong?" Evelyn asked softly “Was it something we said?”

         "No...Today is my sister's birthday, if she's alive she'll be twenty one" Rick said sadly

         "Oh Rick, don't worry we'll find her and I bet you wherever she is she misses you just as much as you miss her" Evelyn said as she sat down next to him.

         "I hope so Evelyn, I hope so" Rick sighed as he stood up

         "I have a feeling we'll be seeing her again soon enough" she said happily

         There was suddenly a loud knock on the door and before Evie could answer in came David Richardson, a worker from the museum, a sly, greedy person that really can't be trusted at all. All he loves is money,fame,and women. Very power hungry. He'll do anything to get what he wants. With people like that around you, you have to be extremely careful what you say and Evelyn knew all too well not to say anything obvious.

         "Good news Evelyn! the workers down in Cairo have found Hamunaptra! , well actually the ruins, but still, that plan to search for it worked!" he said excitedly

         "Have they found anything?" Evelyn asked worryingly

         "Yes, in fact they found a book and star shaped thing, but they still don't know what it's for...I wonder what they could be? Perhaps they’ll lead us to the location of treasure what do you think,Evelyn?" David said suspiciously

         "Oh my!!!"

         Evelyn's heart froze and she was left speechless, she tried really hard not to faint. The year had gone so well, and life was great without any troubles and now she couldn't believe this was happening. David looked over at Rick who was also in a state of shock, yet wasn't showing it as much as Evie was. David thought for a while about what the workers had told him and he remembered what the thing was. He wanted to get as much information as possible out of Evelyn, but with Rick there he couldn't. So he decided for honesty as the best policy.

         "The Book of the Dead I think is what they found but they are still looking for the famed Book of Amun-Ra...I wonder if it exists?" David said suddenly remembering what it was the workers had found...he was now getting really happy with this thought.

         "No, get them out of there as soon as you can" Rick said nervously

         "But Why?" David asked

         "Just do it" Evelyn said sternly

         David walked out of the office slamming the door behind him as he left. Rick walked over to the window overlooking the sculpture garden and just stared blankly outside. Everything was happening at the same time and all too fast for him. He couldn't stand it anymore...no matter how strong he was... the thought of Imhotep coming back made him tremble and feel chills every where. In the meantime, Evelyn had slipped out of the office to get some tea and do some errands.

         "What if my sister really is alive? Where could she be? and What's going to happen now?" Rick thought to himself.

         Suddenly he heard a loud clap of thunder and in the horizon he could see the hazy mist of rain. The clouds were rolling in slowly and sure enough it would start to pour any minute. The sound of thunder still made him jump, it was just a fear he had developed over the year. From the outside you could say that Rick had absolutely no weaknesses, but he did, he really did... the love he had for Evelyn and his sister....was his greatest weakness. This was something the rest of the world was not to know about at all. He closed his eyes and listened to the pitter patter of the rain on the windows... but quickly opened them as the rumble of the thunder roared all around and the lightning flashed brightly in the sky.


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         Bam!! David slammed the door hard behind him as he stormed into his office like a bull on a rampage.

         "There is absolutely no way I'm turning back now that we have found the book and Hamunaptra! I will be famous...no matter what!"

         He paced back and forth thinking about his next move. After about ten minutes he finally came up with an idea. Smiling and wanting to jump up and down and shout at the top of his lungs he instead thought to himself.

         "I'm just simply leaving for Egypt the day after tomorrow, but before I do I'll tell Evelyn I called them to let them know, she'll never know that those idiots are still working their asses off for me!"

         He laughed and sat down at his desk to enjoy a cigar and to contemplate his new, and brilliant idea. The weather had gotten worse by the in these past few minutes but nonetheless.... He would be rich...and nothing was going to get in his way...nothing at all.


*~~~~In Downtown London~~~~*


         Evelyn stopped at the local cafe and bought some tea and cookies for the afternoon. Afterwards she had driven the Dusenberg by the detective's office to check up on her results of finding Rick’s sister. The detective was sitting at her desk reading the newspaper when Evelyn walked in. As soon as Rick had told her about Angela and his past, Evelyn had hired her to search for the lost girl.

         "Hello Miss Carnarvon" said the detective

         "Hello Mrs.Cunningham, do you have any other results from the search?"

         "No unfortunately all I have found is that she had lived in Chicago until she was seven then her parents sent her to a Boarding School here in London" said the detective sternly.

         "Anything else?" Evelyn anxiously asked

         "She escaped from the St. Mary's Boarding School seven years ago and hasn't been seen since, that is all of the information I have so far" she replied

         "Thank you very much detective, keep me informed on the latest news" Evelyn said as she stood up and shook the detective's hand. "Good bye"

         Evelyn then walked out of the office and drove home to clear up her mind, she needed a good rest from all this commotion. Though, her mind now couldn't stop thinking about the plagues, Imhotep,and Hamunaptra. Everything from the year before seemed to be resurfacing in her conscience as if it had happened only yesterday.

         When she got home Jonathan was in the library reading and Rick had just arrived from the museum. Evelyn walked into the library trying not to show her fear, that same horrid fear that had literally consumed her when she had been on the sacrificial alter about to be killed in order to resurrect another. Overall she tried to pay attention and focus her mind on the paintings and the photos of her parents...Now the house was beautifully decorated with things that had belonged to Evelyn's parents, that they had gotten from their digs down in Egypt...it was like a museum of its own.

         "So Rick tells me that some people found Hamunaptra and the bloody Book of the Dead" Jonathan said nervously

         Evelyn sighed and replied "Yes Jonathan some workers have found the Book of the Dead and Hamunaptra....now we have to-"

         "Go back to Egypt" Rick interrupted suddenly

         "What!" Jonathan shouted. "No,no,no way I'm not going back to that messed up country!...there is just absolutely no possible way I’m going"

         "We might find treasure, Johnny...lot's and lot's of treasure...or don't you remember the enormous room full of gold back at Hamunaptra...maybe this time we'll get twice as much as we did last time" Rick said slyly

         "Okay count me in! but if something happens I'm coming straight home...nothing is going to stop me...absolutely nothing!!" Jonathan said earnestly

         "Sure Jonathan..we believe you" Rick said

         While this was happening Evelyn had called the airport to reserve tickets. All of them then walked upstairs and started packing for their trip to Cairo unaware of what was already going to happen. Two hours later they got into the Dusenberg and left for the airport.


*~~~~~Back at David's Apartment~~~~*


         David was looking out his window overlooking the many buildings of London which were wet from the rain. The rain had been on and off for an hour and a half already,but it was actually starting to clear up and become sunny...that's London weather for you.

         "I'm going to Cairo and I will declare that I, David Richardson, have found the Book of the Dead and the ruins of Hamunaptra...I'll be famous!" he shouted joyfully. "That will be my grand moment!"

         There was suddenly a knock at the door and in walked a small boy about age twelve or so scrawny looking and dirty...your typical poor child from the slums of England..sad but money is a necessity to the poor. People will take advantage of them so they do their dirty work..such as spying in this case.

         "Excuse me sir, but I have just found out that Mr. O'Connell,Miss Carnarvon,and Mr.Carnarvon have just purchased some tickets for Cairo today...the plane leaves in one hour"

         "What!! It can’t be! ok.... I'll just have to go with them now won't I, now leave me!!!" he said shouted sternly

         The boy ran out of the room in a flash. David stopped for a moment and looked around at his tiny apartment in disgust he hated it...with all his heart.

         "I will be famous and I'll finally be able to get out of this hellhole for an apartment!"

         He quickly stuffed some clothes in a suitcase and set out for the airport just outside the city of London. On his way there he smiled to himself thinking about one of the workers in particular ....a girl who he had become fascinated with when he had first seen her. Her beauty was unlike any other, he knew he would see her again,but his thoughts now switched and the rest of way they were:

         "Fame, money,and more fame" then he would set his sights on Angela,the girl he had hired to go on the dig down in Hamunaptra.While everyone was busy getting ready to go to Egypt, thousands of miles away something else was getting ready to make a come back too....a very big come back.


         "I can't believe we're going back" Jonathan said nervously as they drove to the airport in the Dusenburg. "I have a bad feeling about this trip"

         "Oh Jonathan please we're worried enough...we don't need your comments to worry us even more." Evelyn said uneasily.

         "Jonathan, nothing is going to happen so don't be such a wimp....and if something does happen well then uh, I'll give you four hundred dollars" Rick said calmly

         "Okay fine it's a deal if nothing happens we're good, something happens I get the money, that is if you don't get killed" Jonathan said seriously

         "Would you two please leave money out this...partly that's the reason of last years frightful happenings, so be quiet!" Evelyn interrupted and said angrily.

         "But mum! We're making a deal here!" Jonathan whined

         "No buts, let's try to have a fairly normal trip without any trouble...now please you two no more talk about money...it always lead to trouble and even worse...death" Evelyn said.

         Rick said "Oh all right, but I still say nothing is going to happen"

         Jonathan shook his head and didn't say anything else, so Evelyn wouldn't get mad at him or Rick. They continued on their way to the airport in silence and David was on the way there coming from the opposite end of town as well. He needed to get on the same plane they did,he needed to know what they were going for...it was something big he knew that much...but what was it? As the sands of the Sahara, not far from the ruins of Hamunaptra stirred, they were all much too late.....and Death was only the beginning.



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