Base Camp - Night
Evy, Maggie, and Jonathan are nuzzled up to a campfire, "What do you suppose killed him?" Evy asks breaking the silence between the three siblings.
"Did you ever see him eat?" Jonathan asks her causing Maggie to look at him disapprovingly. She may not have liked him but it's disrespectful to say something about the dead. Rick comes up over some rocks.
"Seems the Americans had a little misadventure of their own today, three of their diggers were killed," Rick says to the siblings causing Maggie to look up at him concerned. She was starting to regret coming to this place.
Evy looks up at him, "How?"
"Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid. Some sort of ancient booby-trap." Rick says sitting down next to Maggie. He grabs her hand.
"Maybe this place is cursed," Jonathan says to the group. A gust of wind blows through the camp. The campfire flickers. Rick, Maggie, and Jonathan share a nervous look. Evy laughs.
"You three!" She laughs.
"don't believe in curses, huh?" Rick asks her raising his eyebrow.
"No. I believe if I can see it and I can touch it, then it's real. That's what I believe." Evy states as a matter of fact.
Rick cocks his rifle, and gives her a big grin, "I believe in being prepared."
"Let's see what our smelly friend believed in, shall we?" Jonathan says. He opens the Warden's pouch. He reaches in and starts scrounging around. And then, Jonathan screams in pain and rips his hand back out of the pouch. Maggie, Rick, and Evy both jump.
"What?! What is it?!" Evy and Rick both shout. Jonathan sucks his finger, then reaches back into the pouch and pulls out a liquor bottle, the top has been chipped off.
"Seagrams!" Jonathan smiles at the bottle, then turns the pouch inside- out and shakes it, nothing but sand is inside it. "Well, he may have been a stinky fellow,....but he had good taste."
Maggie stays silent as Rick and Evy laugh. And then Rick suddenly kneels and sticks his ear to the sand. Evy and Jonathan watch him. A beat. And then a barrage of gunfire is heard coming from the American camp. Rick jumps up and throws the elephant gun to Maggie, "Stay here!" He shouts and takes off running in the direction of the gunfire. Evy immediately gets up, grabs the gun from Maggie, and runs after him. Jonathan grabs a gun, holds the bottle of Seagrams; tight, and dashes after her. Maggie rolls her eyes grabs a gun from her bag and dashes after her idiotic siblings.
"Evy! Excuse me! But didn't the man just say--!" Jonathan yells at Evy chasing after her in his drunken state.
American Camp - Night
Maggie runs in to find a disaster. She can't find her siblings. Great, just my lu-. Maggie gets hit in the back of her legs causing her to fall. She looks up to see a familiar black-robed man. He was dressed like the man from the boat. Oh great she thinks before kicking the man in the knee knocking him down. It bought her time to get up and get into a fighting position. The man was fast to his feet and got up. He goes to punch her but Maggie grabs his arm and flips him over her shoulder. She pins him to the ground, her arm pressed against his neck. Another one attacks her but she kicks him in the stomach and then the head as he falls. The man beneath her breaks away and grabs her hair. Her head gets yanked back as the man brings a knife down to her throat but Maggie catches his arm. The knife slowly gets closer to her neck before she sinks her teeth into his arm. He lets go of the knife and her in pain. Maggie grabs the knife before in mid-air. She then turns around and stabs the man in the throat then pulls out the knife. He falls to the ground bleeding. Dead.
She turns around to see Rick staring at her in amazement, "What?" Rick is so distracted he doesn't see another person sneaking up on him. Maggie quickly notices and throws the knife impaling the enemy in the chest. Rick looks behind him to see the enemy, "Never turn your back on your enemy." Maggie states before turning around and running away.
Rick still stares at her as she leaves, "That woman, I swear to God." He mumbles before chasing after her.
A man on horse gallops into the field taking diggers down with his scimitar. Maggie runs up on top of some rocks, leaps out, and tackles him off his horse. Both of them slam to the ground. Maggie spins up onto one knee and fires, point blank. Blows the scimitar out of the man's hand, "Queen Dahlila?" The man asks. Maggie is about to shoot again when a horse rides up between them. Maggie is about to shoot again when a horse rides up between them. A scimitar swoops down, almost takes Maggie's head off, and misses her by an inch. Maggie leaps up and blows the rider off his mount. The horse bolts. But the man is gone.
Maggie is quickly loading her pistol. She hears something thundering up behind him. He spins around just as the man on a horse swings his scimitar. Maggie instinctively raises her hands to protect her face, the scimitar strike hits her gun, and Maggie's gun flips away. Disarmed, Rick dives and rolls in between the two and suddenly comes up with a stick of dynamite in his hand. He shoves the fuse into a fire. It ignites. He faces the man, towering above him. The two men lock eyes. The fuse continues to burn down. The man points his scimitar at Rick's head, "Leave this place! Leave this place or die!" The man yells to the group. The man gallops off. The remaining riders race after him, vanishing into the night. Rick watches them leave, then turns to the burning fuse, and blows it out.
Rick turns to see Maggie with a stern look on his face, "What were you thinking? You could have been killed! Didn't I tell you to stay put!" He grabs her shoulders.
"Rick, I'm okay! It's okay, I'm okay!" She reassures him. He pulls her into a hug and kisses her head. "Evy snatched the gun from me and before I could even react she took off running," Maggie explains to him. She pulls away and grabs his face, both hands on his cheeks, "I promise I'm okay."
Rick sighs and kisses her head again, "I'll kill your sister."
"Let's not."
A/N: Triple update hope y'all love me again! Also I'm living for my mini twilight reference. Should I change the cover of this book? I might. Also should I do both movies in this book or do two separate ones?
