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 2
*~~~Near Hamunaptra~~~*
"I can't believe it!" the girl said happily
Lewis rushed over to her and kneeled down beside her to take a look at what
ever had mad
her react the way she did.
"What is it this time Angela? another worthless trinket like the many others
that you've found
so far" he said arrogantly
Following her to Egypt was not what he expected it to be, well how did he
expect to be when
his fiancee was Angela O'Connell. He never quite understood why she loved
to get her
hands dirty while the other girls her age were busy primping themselves up
and going to
grand balls. But he had to be by her side and never let her go...she was his
ticket to wealth
and power.
Angela had found a gold necklace in the form of a winged Isis and on the
back it had sacred
writing. Lewis really didn't care what it said,but she did. Angela had
studied and knew how to
speak and write Ancient Egyptian and Hieratic.
As she read the necklace's
inscription she
remembered hearing the stories that the bedouin people had told the group
of workers.
Something about a damned one that was buried alive and cursed with
something called the
Hom Dai. The necklace read: "The wearer of this shall be able to command
and control the
undead one if he is ever awaken, if it falls into his hands the world
shall experience chaos"
Angela felt a chill go down her back and decided not to tell Lewis or
anyone else for that
matter...this was hers.
"Well what is it?" Lewis asked
"It's uh, uh it's a necklace that belonged to some uh, princess, I'm not
sure who" Angela replied
"I’ll have to research it a bit more"
Lewis quickly stood up and brushed himself off and taking a good look at the
necklace he said
"Then It must be worth a few thousand dollars, why don't you give it to me
and I'll go show the
others"
"No Lewis I'm keeping it, I don't want it to fall into the wrong hands"
Angela replied coldly
"But I-"
"No Lewis I'm not giving it to you, after all didn't you just say it was
just another one of those
worthless trinkets I always find?...oh look over there!!!" she said. Lewis
turned in the direction
she had pointed to and she slipped it into her sack.
"Hey there's nothing there" Lewis said as he turned around
"Oh! well I thought I saw something over there...I guess it was just my mind
playing tricks on me
or something the heat is horrid, I guess it was a mirage". Angela said
sprightly
Little did they know that were being watched by the Med Jai, the descendants
of pharaoh's
bodyguards, who were mounted on their horses high up on a ridge overlooking
the desert.
They had been up there for quite awhile watching the group of workers dig
and walk here and
fro.
"It appears that we have visitors once again" Ardeth Bay said in Arabic
"They shall awaken Imhotep once again if we don't stop them...we have to
kill them" another
Med Jai said
"We shall have to watch them more closely" Ardeth replied sternly
"Let us hope they don't awaken him" were Ardeth's last words before he
turned and galloped
away signaling the others to follow.
Down below a couple miles away Angela was packing up so she could go back
to Cairo to
get supplies. The caravan was not done excavating but they had found a lot
of artifacts that
would get them good pay, she would be back but for the moment she was the
only one
leaving in the morning. The sun was just setting and the workers were
sitting around their
campfires talking about their findings and how the next week was the last
before they went
back to London. Well, some were leaving others weren't.
"Oh thank god, finally I'm done packing and tomorrow I'm going back to
Cairo, back to
civilization". Angela said as she zipped up her sack of clothes and tools.
"I'm going with you sweetheart" Lewis said,"Just to keep you safe."
Angela rolled her eyes and said "But Lewis I'm just going to get some
supplies back in Cairo
and getting my clothes washed up, then I'll come right back...I promise"
"No matter I'll go with you, so nothing will happen to you" he smiled
innocently
She walked out of the tent and over to her horse and loaded it onto it.
After she had secured it
on she walked back over to the tent where she pushed Lewis out and closed
it. The entire
day she had been digging and she was just totally burnt out. So the next
thing she did was fall
asleep.
An hour went by and everyone had turned in for the night though
early,but it had been
a long day. This night though, was one filled with mystery and fantasy. For
as Angela slept a
shadow slowly crepted into her tent and slowly seeped into her mind filling
it with images of
unknown places and people that she had never seen palaces and great halls
full of elaborate
designs. In the back of her mind she could hear a deep haunting whisper
speaking to her in
Ancient Egyptian.
"Come to me,come to me my princess..set me free and the world shall be
ours"
Angela stirred and turned over ...she loved the sound of that voice,but
didn't know what
was really going on.
"Read from the book, the incantation is the only thing
that will set me free
from this torment, read it and we shall be together forever"
Slowly Angela sat up and crawled out of her tent and walked over to a crate
where the book
and key were located at. She pulled it out and walked over to campfire
where she sat down
and placed it in her lap. Taking the open key she twisted it and opened the
book.
"Okay I have the book but now what do I do? I guess I'll read since I now
lost all chances of gaining sleep....okay here goes" she thought to herself
Without another thought she read the first incantation: "Amun kum ra Amun
kum
day,sep suyea karum...impium mech bya seruway umseta...yatuway yatuway
yatuway"
Suddenly a loud explosion and horrible scream ripped through the silence
catching her
attention and she dropped the book, as she looked up to see the pile of the
once great
Hamunaptra burst up like a volcanic eruption.Chunks were falling back to the
ground landing
with loud crashes.
As this was going on, Lewis an the others were running out
of their tents
looking in the direction of the great explosion. Lewis turned around to
see Angela running
towards her tent. She stopped for a moment and gave him a look like that of
a child saying
"Oops". Everybody turned towards her and gave her looks of disbelief.
"Okay why are you all looking at me like that? what did I do?" Angela asked
"You have released a creature of which we have feared for more than three
thousand year
now you may have killed us all" a voice said from behind her.
"Who...are you?" she asked as she turned around to face him.
"Ardeth Bay and we are the last people you'll ever see in your miserable
lives" he said
With a signal of his hand the Med Jai took out their scimitars and rifles.
More appeared from
behind the dunes and started shooting. There was chaos everywhere, people
running,getting
shot and slashed you name it. Angela took this opportunity to pick up the
book and key then
she ran fast, jumping onto her horse and galloping away but to to her
dismay suddenly getting
cornered by the Med Jai.
"Damn what am I going to do" Angela thought as she turned the horse around
and galloped
back the way she had come from.
"Help me Angela!!!" Lewis was yelling as he was being chased by Ardeth Bey
"Oh damn!" Angela got her horse right behind Ardeth Bey and as she slowly
closed in on him
she stood on her horse and she lunged on him knocking him off his horse.
As they tumbled to the ground Angela managed to pull Ardeth's gun out of his
hands and shot
his scimitar out of reach as he took it out. Somehow he managed to knock
the gun out of her
hand and pin her down to the ground. Angela kneed him in the stomach and
flipped him over
her.Before he could get up she kicked him as hard as she could,but the
second time around
the warrior grabbed her leg and knocked her to the ground. As he tried to
grab her she heard a
voice shout out.
"Go Angela, beat the bloody bastard to a pulp!" Lewis was shouting to her as
he galloped away
on his horse.
"You bastard! and you! what makes you think you can kill me" Angela said
angrily as she
punched Ardeth in the jaw. "You have no right!"
Before he could answer she picked up a stick of dynamite and lid it as she
stood up. Everyone
left looked at her in horror as she swung it over her head as if it were a
toy.
"Okay you guys want to kill...I'll give you kill" she said furiously
Ardeth recognized this same picture...he had seen the same look in the
American's eyes when
they had ambushed them in Hamunaptra...dynamite and all.
"We shall shed no more blood,but leave and never return" he said sternly
Everyone turned towards Angela who hesitantly pulled out the wick from the
stick which
automatically turned off the fuse. All around there was a sound of relief
heard. Even Angela
was thankful that Ardeth had reacted like that...she couldn't believe she
had just done that
without a thought about the consequences.
"What about that thing that you say I set free?"
"We shall kill him and if we can't we shall seek out the help of the one
they call Rick O'Connell"
"Rick O'Connell?,oh my god...he's my-" but before she could continue she was
interrupted by
another shrieking scream.
That's when everyone that was left jumped onto their horses and rode away
into the desert.
Angela was the last to get on her horse and ride away into the mystical
night.
"My brother is alive?" the new thought that had entered Angela's mind seemed
to not want to
go at all...Rick was alive!!!!
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