Warriors Vow (The Mummy FanFiction)

Chapter Seven: To Stay and Fight or to Leave and Ignore What Was Done?

Our arrival at the fort wasn't a huge deal, thankfully. Evy and I were given my usual set of rooms, and the others got the rooms left on the same floor, though the Americans demanded to be as far from us as they could get. Their Egyptologist left as soon as he could, saying he had a home that was safer than being with us. As soon as we were settled, I left to go to the stables and let Altair out, figuring he'd rather be free to roam and getting the feeling that Ardeth or his men would find him if he wandered too far out into the desert.

I was heading back to my room when I heard O'Connell and Evy shouting and turned right back around and walked out to the courtyard sitting down at a fountain and playing with the fish swimming in it. I was so lost in my thoughts about the dreams I had been having more often now that I didn't notice a change in the water until a shrill scream echoed around the courtyard, followed by gagging sounds. I shook myself out of the strange trance. I had fallen into and jumped away from the fountain when I finally saw blood instead of water. I shout as I get shoved and tumble into the blood-filled fountain, catching myself in the middle and not falling completely into the blood. I stand from where I was kneeling and step out, wiping my bloody hands off on my top as best I can while thunder cracks across the sky.

"Oh, Evelyn!" I hear O'Connell roar and see Evy walking with a book.

"Oh, you're still here." She says as she turns to look at him with a glare. I walk over quickly as more thunder rumbles.

"We've got problems," I state, looking at the two of them. Evy looks at me with wide eyes seeing the blood on my shirt and is about to ask something when fireballs start falling from the sky. We all run for shelter, and I laugh a little as I think that it is covered in blood doesn't seem so bad now as the courtyard starts to burn. A man was rushing down the stairs to our left, and Beni didn't come back with us.

"Beni, you little stinkweed, where you been?" O'Connell asks, grabbing Beni and shoving him against the wall. He whimpers and looks up the stairs as a roar sounds. O'Connell lets Beni go, and he takes off running as we run up the staircase into the Americans' rooms.

"Oh my god!" I gasp when I see Burns sitting in a chair as a mummy, a scream forever on his face. A wet noise draws our attention away from Burns, and we watch as the mummy twists and turns as his body gains more of a human body again. He is still mostly decomposed and horrifying to look at.

"We are in serious trouble," O'Connell says as he starts shooting the mummy as he stalks towards us quickly, reaching out and grabbing O'Connell, throwing him into Jonathan and the Americans running in. Evy and I back into a bookcase as the mummy turns to us.

"You saved me from the undead. I thank you." The mummy is only focused on Evy as she whimpers in fear and turns her face away when he starts to lean in like he is going to kiss her. The piano plays loudly before he can, and the three of us turn to see my cat, Sandra, walking along the piano keys. Upon seeing the cat, the mummy lets out a scream and steps away from us before spinning in place, turning into sand, and flying out of the window.

"We are in very serious trouble," O'Connell says as all of them sit up. I sink to the ground with a sigh as I feel weak on my knees.

"Let me get changed, and we'll go to probably the only person who could give us any kind of answer," I say as we all look at each other for a long while. I get back up, run to my room, and change out of the bloody skirt and top. I sigh, seeing that the white fabric will be pink now, and toss them over to the garbage. I pull on dark pants, knee-high boots, and then the second set of robes I had been given at the trading post. I leave my hair down and twist half of it into a bun, using a hair stick to keep it in place.

I walk back to the others and grab Evy's hand, pulling her with me, ignoring the blood dried on my hands, neck, and lower jaw. "Let's go!" I urge the Americans to stay rooted in place as we walk off. "We need answers now."