The Mummy I Survived

Resurrection

The next day, we went back to the sarcophagus to examine it. "Oh, I've dreamt about this since I was a little girl." Evie exclaimed happily as Rick and Jonathan set the sarcophagus upright. "You dream about dead guys?" Rick asked her and she rolled her eyes at him.

I walked forward to examine the sarcophagus closely. Evie was reading the hieroglyphics on it. "Look, his sacred spells have been chiseled off. This man must have been condemned, not only in this life, but the next." Evie told us and I groaned. "Maybe we shouldn't open it." I said hesitantly and they turned to look at me.

Jonathan patted me on the shoulder. "He can't hurt us, he's dead." He told me reassuringly and I rolled my eyes at him. "Gee, thanks, Jon, I feel much better now." I said sarcastically. "Now lets see who's inside shall we?" Jonathan said, turning the key.

The sarcophagus burst open and the mummy burst forward. Evie and I screamed. "God, I hate it when these things do that." She said and I took a deep breath. "They do that a lot?" I asked her nervously. I glanced at the mummy. It looked off somehow. Like he hadn't finished decomposing. "He's still-still-" Evie started. "Juicy." Rick, Jonathan, and I said.

"Well yes. He must be over three thousand years old and it looks as if he's still decomposing." Evie told us, looking at the mummy in wonder. Rick glanced behind us at something. It was the lid of the sarcophagus. "Look. What do you make of this?" Rick asked Evie, who leaned down to look.

There were marks scratched into the stone "My God, these are fingernails." I said, leaning beside her. "Bad luck for him." Jonathan said, glancing at me. "This man must have been buried alive." Evie said and I shivered. That seemed like a terrible fate. "And he left a message. Death is only the beginning." She said and we all turned to look at the mummy. I could have sworn I saw it move.

Later that night,
Evie and I walked towards the campfire. She had found scarab skeletons and we were on the way to tell Rick. As we walked, I glanced over and saw the Egyptologist was holding a book. Evie did a double take at this.

"The Black Book Of the Dead." She whispered to me. She turned to the Egyptologist who was trying to pry the book open.

I glanced at Evie when I saw the same imprint that was on the sarcophagus. "You need a key to open that book." Evie told him. He glared at us before we walked away. "Are you thinking-" I started and she grinned. "Yes, the key can open the book." I figured we could get the book when the man fell asleep.

We reached the campfire. I saw that Burns, Henderson, and Daniels were there. Great. They were always such good company.

"I heard you found yourselves a nice gooey mummy. Maybe you can chop him up and sell him for firewood." Henderson said to Rick, who mock chuckled with them.

I rolled my eyes and went to take a seat besides Jonathan, who looked up and smiled at me. I grinned back as Rick told Beni to move. "You're in her seat." He said, and Beni chuckled. "Now!" Rick said and Beni hopped up, scurrying to sit by the Americans.

Evie smirked and sat down beside Rick. "Look what I found in our friend's sarcophagus. Scarab skeletons." Evie told them. Rick took one from her eagerly to examine it. "Scarabs?" Jonathan asked her.

"Flesh eaters. They can stay alive for years feasting on a corpse." Evie said and I shivered. That did not paint a pretty picture in my mind.

"Unfortunately for our mummy, he was still alive when they started eating him." I saw that the American men looked quite disturbed at this.

"Wait, you found them in the sarcophagus? So these scarabs slowly ate our mummy alive?" I asked, and glanced at Jonathan, who seemed to be scared of the scarabs. "Yes, very slowly." She told us, looking around like she was telling a ghost story. "Well, he certainly wasn't a very popular fellow when they planted him." Jonathan said to us.