Fate's a Funny Thing

Chapter 10

They had made it safely inside and were roaming around the tunnels of Hamunaptra. Rick had a firm grip on Krista's hand and led the way with his gun in the other one.

"Did you see that!?" Jonathan shouted hysterically, "Grasshoppers! Billions of grasshoppers!"

"That's one of the plagues, right? The grasshopper plague!" Rick questioned looking down at hid wife's terrified face.

Evy scoffed, "This is not a plague. It's generational. Every so many years the locusts of Egypt have a population explosion and they all take flight."

Krista looked over at her elder sister angrily, "Oh Evelyn would you shut up!" she cried, "You were the one that just had to read from that damn sacred book and now we all have to pay for your idiotic actions!" Rick comforted her by wrapping his arm around her and bringing Krista closer to his side.

Evy frowned and was about to tell her off when a sudden loud crash had them all stumble as the ground began to shake and a large sand mound started to grow, then dozens of scarabs began scurrying out.

"Scarabs" Evy and Krista cry out as they once again began to run. Rick let go of Krista's hand and started shooting at them. Once he saw that it wasn't doing much good, he threw his torch.

"Run, Go!" he yelled as he continued shooting at the scarabs. They race up a staircase just ahead of the mass of scarabs.

Rick leapt out onto a pedestal with Jonathan right behind him. Krista, who couldn't make the jump slipped into a grotto on the other side of the narrow stairway and Evy followed her lead. The horrible herd of vicious scarabs scurried between them. Evy leaned back and let out a sigh once the beetles were out of sight. Unfortunately, when she moved, Evy opened a trap door and the wall shifted and opened, moving the two girls into a different room.

Rick and Jonathan watch the scarabs vanish up the staircase, when they turned to look across the way Krista and Evelyn were gone.

"EVY!? KRISSY!?" Jonathan called out in confusion

Evy sat up and moved to help Krista up as well, "Are you alright, Krissy?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Where are we?" Krista asked at they fearfully began looking around.

Evy frowned, "I'm not sure, come one let's see if we can find the others."

They start to feel their way along the dark walls until they rounded the corner and enter a room where the moonlight was shining through the cracks in the ceiling. There was a man standing in the middle of the room with his back turned to the girls, but they still recognize him.

"Mr. Burns." Krista said in relief.

"Thank goodness we found you," Evy spoke up, "We were just starting to get scared."

Krista nodded as she moved closer to the man, "We lost everyone..."

She trailed off as Burns turned to face to the two girls and Krista had to swallow her scream at the sight that was before her. Burn's eyes were missing and he stared at them with empty sockets.

"My eyes, he took my eyes!" Burns' muffled cries of pain were enough to alert the girls that his tongue had also been taken.

Krista backed away in fright, her voice completely leaving her at the sight, while Evelyn screamed in horror and scrambled away, beginning to hyperventilate, she bumped into something causing her to scream again and spin around coming face to face with the mummy, with two fresh eyeballs in his once empty sockets.

Evy screamed again and backed into a wall. The mummy moved towards her, not having noticed Krista on the other side of the room who was trying to stay as quite as possible so as not to attract the mummy's attention.