The Mummy | (Rick X Reader)

Chapter Fifteen

"We are in so much trouble." O'Connell states, we both start shooting watching bullets fly away or sink into him.

We continue to shoot until he gets to close, he picks up O'Connell and chucks him away. He crashes onto my siblings and the other group, or what's left of it. I panic and shove my guns away, trying to reach for a knife. Imhotep backs me up into a bookshelf, I put my hands in front of my face wanting space. He leans in but stops right before the same cat shows up from my room, he screams and turns into sand, going out the window.

"Now, we are in very....very serious trouble." O'Connell says still on the ground.

"It's we now..huh?" I annoying ask him. I go over and lend a hand, he take it and jumps up. "You aren't hurt, are you?" I say looking for anything.

"I'm okay." He says.

"Listen, to stop this, I have an idea of who to ask...or where to go." I look back to Evelyn. "Right, Eve?" She nods with confidence. "Why did Imhotep leave, anyway?" I ask her, she shrugs unable to guess.

"My guess, is that the cat spooked him away." O'Connell says, reloading his gun. "Are you okay? He got close to you, like really close." I rapidly blink, collecting myself from that time.

"Yeah, yeah. Although we can't waste time here, we have to get moving, Evelyn lead the way." She nods and signals everybody to follow her. We arrive to the museum just in time, Eve struts in front of O'Connell and I, while Jonathan meets me by my side.

"What about you?" I give him a confused look while walking, "He seems to like you, I don't think I've ever seen him hurt you either." O'Connell then joins in.

"Yeah, what's with that anyway?" I shake my head and make a grunt towards them.

"Like I've said, I think Eve and I know the only person who can answer this--" Evelyn freezes as I pass by her, seeing the leader from before and the man who runs this place. "Why are you two here?" 

The rest of the men walk in, all pulling out their guns and aiming at the two. I cross my arms as they answer.

"Miss Carnahans, I expected you two to come. So, do you want to know, or do you prefer to shoot us?" He asks, the men lower their firearms peacefully.  "To stop the High Priest Imhotep, we have tried and tried to halt those who rebirth him into our world, over 3,000 years. I know you know that already Ms. Carnahan." His eyes glue to mine, making me looking down in shame. The leader of the group dressed in black rises up to respond.

"You unleashed it, making him probably grateful to you." I scoff and look at him straight in the eyes.

"You excuse my wrong doing for you killing innocent people?!" I walk away from the two men, thinking of a possible answer.

"We'll stop this, and with you of course, you never back down from a fight." I turn and nod, as they keep talking.

"Question?" I spin looking at O'Connell holding up a finger. "Why doesn't he like cats?" The owner of the museum speaks again.

"Cats are guardians of the underworld, when he fully recovers he will not fear them anymore." I bite my lip and go back to my original placing.

"He called me Anuck-nu-namum....and.." I look back to O'Connell but then back to the two men. "He tried to kiss me, in Mr.Burn Quarters. I know the tale, and raises his love from the dead but--what does that have to do with me?"

"It appears, he already chosen his human sacrifice." I slam my hands down to my thighs.

"Bloody hell." I snap and look over to Jonathan. "Stop touching the bow, it is not a toy." He freezes and lowers his hands. 

"Not my fault, you're the sacrifice." He says, I try to charge at him, making him stumble back, O'Connell grabs my waist and pulls me back. I calm down making him release me.

"We have time, he's chasing you and recovering, this means we have extra time. We have to move quickly, it seems his power is moving along quite quickly." We all look up, seeing a glass roof, watching the moon move over the sun.