Ch. 16 What do you want with me?
Soon dinner ended, and everyone went their separate ways, with Felicia, Isabella, and Evelyn going to their bedroom. Felicia sits down on the bed where the three females would sleep. Isabella is looking at herself in the mirror, and Evelyn is in the bathroom taking a shower.
Felicia gently lies on the bed as she silently stares at the ceiling, remembering Ardeth speak about Imhotep. Her hands unknowingly played with the turquoise flower necklace.
' Imhotep. That name somehow gives me goosebumps. And I don't even know if it is a good feeling or not,' Felicia tells herself as she slowly closed her emerald green eyes.
" Bahiti. Oh, how I miss you," Felicia frowned as she begins to hear the velvety male voice from her dream.
' I don't even know why I keep hearing this specific voice. But, somehow, it gives me chills and also makes me feel safe,' Felicia groaned, looking confused.
Isabella turns her gaze to Felicia, seeing her younger sister looking uncomfortable while lying on the bed.
" I know, Cariño. The bed seems uncomfortable. But, we are only going to be sleeping on it for the night since we will soon arrive at the next port, where Rick will take us to Hamunaptra from there," Isabella reassures Felicia.
Felicia opens her emerald green eyes, and she tiredly stared at Isabella. She wanted to tell her big sister what she is going through, but Felicia is scared that the other female will think she is crazy.
" Sorry, Isa. This bed is indeed uncomfortable, and eating the whole buffet is making me go through a food coma," Felicia jokingly responds to Isabella.
Isabella amusingly laughs, and she shakes her head.
" Why don't you shower after Evelyn and then take a beauty rest since tomorrow is going to be a long day?" Isabella tells Felicia.
Felicia nods her head, and she gets out of bed to stretch. Her emerald green eyes blinked when she felt something burning her back. The redhead turns around, and she looks out the window, seeing nothing but the darkness of the night.
" Cariño? What's wrong?" Isabella calls out, sounding concerned when she sees Felicia intently staring out the window.
" It's nothing. I thought I felt something staring at my back," Felicia turns around to stare at Isabella.
" It better not be ese estupido idiota that was touching you," Isabella sternly tells Felicia as she walks up to her younger sister, and she then looks out the window.
Evelyn finished taking a shower, and she then gets dressed in her nightgown to sleep for the night. The dark brown-haired female gets out of the bathroom, and her Hazel eyes blinked when she sees Felicia and Isabella looking out the window.
" Is everything alright?" Evelyn asked, causing the two sisters to step away from the window and look at her.
" It's nothing, My Dear. We wanted to make sure no creep was creeping around, that's all," Isabella softly smiled at Evelyn.
Felicia stood there, feeling a mixture of emotions.
Evelyn's Hazel eyes blinked when she sees Felicia looking uncomfortable.
" Felicia? What's wrong?" Evelyn asked, sounding concerned.
Isabella turns her gaze to Felicia.
Felicia's heart skipped a beat, somehow sensing something coming in their direction.
" Duck!" Felicia shouts as she grabs Isabella's arm close to her, and the two sisters fall to the ground.
Evelyn fell to the ground, and she gasped when she hears the window shattered and something fell to the floor.
The three females' eyes widened in horror when they saw a bottle fell to the floor near them, and it shattered. Felicia's nose scrunched when she smelt something revolting and familiar emitting from the bottle.
" That smell-," Felicia and Evelyn whispered, causing the two to look at one another.
"-Gasoline," Felicia and Evelyn spoke in unison.
" Ugh! What is this awful smell? And why does it smell like gasoline?" Isabella asked, looking annoyed.
" Die! Bride of Demon! Die!" A male voice shouts in Arabic as something gets thrown in the bedroom.
Felicia and Evelyn did not have time to register what the man said when they saw a burning stick getting thrown near them and onto the gas, causing fire to spread.
" We need to get out of here!" Felicia shouts as she grabs Isabella.
Evelyn stands up as well, and she opens the door due to being closes to it.
Felicia watched Evelyn leave the bedroom, and she shouts at her to get Rick and the others. She then helps Isabella to her feet, and the two begin to walk through the bedroom to the door.
Felicia gasped when she felt something pulling her back by the hair. Not wanting Isabella to get hurt or killed, she pushed her older sister out of the bedroom.
" Felicia!" Isabella cries out when she sees a man dressed similar to Ardeth grab Felicia by the hair.
Isabella went to grab her gun, and her dark brown eyes narrowed when she sees the mysterious stranger pulling their gun out and aiming it at her.
" Go! Go! Get Ricky!" Felicia shouts as the mysterious stranger shot at Isabella, but it missed her by cutting a piece of her hair.
Isabella, horrifying, stared at the mysterious stranger, and she then looks at Felicia with guilt.
" I will be fine," Felicia reassures Isabella, and she sadly watched her older sister run away.
Evelyn runs through the hallway, looking scared, and she enters the bar when she hears Rick's familiar laughter. She steps inside the room, and she sees Rick, Jonathan, and Ardeth playing poker against Bernard, David, and Henderson.
" Rick!" Evelyn cries out, grabbing all of the men's attention.
Rick's blue eyes blinked when he hears his name, and he turns his gaze to Evelyn, looking surprised to see her barefooted and wearing a cream-colored nightgown that covers her whole body.
" Evelyn! What's wrong?" Rick asked as he stands up, and he takes off his jacket, putting it over Evelyn's shoulders.
Tears started to fall from Evelyn's Hazel eyes.
" Eve?" Jonathan calls out, sounding concerned when he sees his younger sister in tears.
" Where's Isabella and Felicia?" Ardeth asked when he sees Evelyn is alone and looking scared.
Evelyn nervously stared at Ardeth, and she opened her mouth to say something, but she gets cut off by Isabella.
" Ricardo!" Isabella shouts, and she enters the room.
Rick looks away from Evelyn, and he turns his gaze to Isabella. His blue eyes narrowed when he sees his older sister looking scared.
" You need to save Felicia. Men dressed like Ardeth has taken her hostage," Isabella firmly tells Rick.
Ardeth's cold yet warm brown eyes widened when he hears Isabella informing Rick that men dressed like him have taken Felicia hostage.
' It can't be,' Ardeth lightly bites his lips, looking conflicted.
Rick then turns around to stare at Ardeth as he pulls his gun out, and he aims it at the other male.
Surprisingly, Bernard stood up, and he also pulled his gun out, and he aims it at Ardeth.
Seeing Bernard having his gun out, Henderson and David also decided to join, and they pulled their weapons out, and they aimed it at Ardeth.
" Ricardo!" Isabella shouts when she sees Rick aiming his gun at Ardeth.
" What exactly do you want with my sister? And why have your men taken her?!" Rick shouts at Ardeth.
Bernard sternly stared at Ardeth since he also wants to know why the other male's men have taken Felicia hostage.
Isabella glanced at Ardeth, looking conflicted because she isn't sure what exactly is going on, and she does remember him telling her that he is a good friend of Felicia.
" Ricardo! Put your gun down. Felicia seems to know Ardeth and trusts him. And he knows and trusts her too. Even though I recently met this handsome gentleman, I can tell that he does not want to harm Felicia," Isabella gently puts Rick's arm down.
" What do your men want with Felicia?" Rick sternly asked Ardeth.
Ardeth calmly stared at Rick, and he then turns his gaze to Isabella.
" Isabella. Tell me, did this man had a Hook as a hand?" Ardeth calmly asked Isabella.
Rick and Bernard raised an eyebrow at Ardeth's question.
Isabella stays quiet as she recalls the man holding Felicia's red hair with a regular hand. Her dark brown eyes widened when she now remembers seeing a hook by his side.
" Yes! Even though everything happened so fast since he started shooting at me. That man did have a hook as a hand," Isabella informs Ardeth and the others.
Ardeth's demeanor darkens when he hears that the hooked man had shot Isabella. His cold yet warm brown eyes narrowed as they changed into a violet-purple color, and he then runs out of the room.
" Wait! Where are you going?" Rick shouts as he runs out of the room.
" Hey! I am coming with you!" Bernard shouts as he follows Rick and Ardeth.
" Should we go help, Bernie?" Henderson softly asked David.
" We do need the kid alive for this trip," David mumbled, looking annoyed as he and Henderson run out of the room.
" Ardeth! Who is that guy that shot Isa and has Felix captive?" Rick shouts as he runs up to Ardeth, and the two ran next to each other.
" The one who shot Isabella and has Felicia captive is a man named Hook. I banished him and his men since they heard that Imhotep's bride had come back to Egypt. And the first thing Hook said is that he is going to kill the girl so that she does not awaken Imhotep since he and his men are afraid Imhotep will destroy the world," Ardeth firmly tells Rick.
Rick raised an eyebrow, looking confused.
" What does Felicia have to do with all of that?" Rick asked, sounding confused.
Ardeth glanced at Rick, and he opened his mouth to say something, but a familiar feminine scream grabbed his, Rick, and the other male's attention.
" Felicia/Felix!" Ardeth, Rick, and Bernard shouted when they heard Felicia's scream.
A bit earlier, Hook looked at his surroundings, and he sees that the fire is starting to consume the bedroom. He then roughly grabs Felicia by the arm as he begins to push her out of the bedroom through the window.
" What do you want with me?" Felicia angrily asked the Hook in Arabic.
Felicia's heart sank when she sees two guys dressed similar to Hook and Ardeth with machetes in their hands.
" Do not plan to run away, Bride of Demon, because my men can chop your whole body to pieces," Hook sternly tells Felicia in Arabic.
' Why is he calling me the Bride of Demon?' Felicia asked herself, sounding confused and looking scared.
Hook roughly pushed Felicia to the railing, and he smirks when he sees two of his men grab the redhead by the arms and pinning her down with her face staring at the murky water since it is nighttime.
" Let go of me!" Felicia screams her heart out at Hook and his two men in Arabic.
" Chief," One of the men gives Hook a machete while speaking in Arabic.
Felicia slowly turns her head back as her emerald green eyes widened when she sees Hook holding a machete and above her head and neck.
" Please! Please! Let go of me!" Felicia begs in Arabic as she begins to cry.
Hook glanced at the turquoise flower necklace that was dangling around her neck.
" DIE! BRIDE OF DEMON!" Hook shouts in Arabic, and he was about to chop Felicia's head off, but he stopped when someone shoots him on the back of his head.
Felicia slowly turns her gaze to the sound of the bullet. Tears fell from her emerald green eyes when she sees Ardeth stepping out of the shadowy portal with Rick holding the gun, which lets her know that he shot Hook.
" Let the girl go!" Ardeth sternly orders the two men in Arabic as his violet-purple eyes intently stared at them.
The two men glare at Ardeth.
Despite feeling scared, they are also furious that Ardeth and Rick killed their Chief, Hook.
The two men looked at one another, and they nodded as they decided to push Felicia off the boat.
" Kyaaa!" Felicia screams as she begins to fall into the murky water.
" Felix! No!" Rick cries out as he starts to run in Felicia's direction.
The two men grabbed their machete, and they start to run towards Rick.
Felicia's fall created a splash in the murky water, causing her to panic since she cannot swim due to an incident when she was younger that caused her to be scared to swim in wet places.
Rick's blue eyes narrowed, and he swiftly shoots the two men on the head, killing them instantly.
Felicia's vision started to blur as she reached her hand out to the only light source of the boat, feeling scared for her life since she noticed the ship began to sail away from her.
Unbeknown to Felicia, a crocodile awakens, and it started to swim towards the redhead, getting hungry.
Felicia slowly closed her emerald green eyes, thinking she is going to die. She did not know why, but something in her heart tells her to call out Imhotep's name.
Rick dives into the murky water, and he looks at his surrounding. His blue eyes widened when he sees a faint view of a crocodile swimming towards Felicia.
' No! No! No!' Rick mentally shouts as he begins to swim towards Felicia and the crocodile's direction.
A single tear fell from Felicia's eyes as her turquoise flower necklace started to glow.
' Imhotep! Save me!' Felicia cries out.
Unbeknown to Felicia, far away, at Hamunaptra, and deep within the city of the dead is a sarcophagus that belongs to the High Priest of Osiris, Imhotep.
Inside the sarcophagus, a couple of sunburned fingers started to twitch underneath the bandages.
" Bahiti," A velvety male voice softly spoke in Ancient Egyptian.
At the Nile river, the crocodile opens its mouth, and it was about to snap Felicia's head off when a massive wave started to push the crocodile away from her.
Rick's blue eyes widened when he sees the crocodile heading in his direction. He swam to the side, and he watched in disbelief when he sees a current push the animal further away from the Nile river. He shakes his head, and he then continues to swim towards Felicia.
Felicia's turquoise flower necklace stopped glowing once Rick reached her. He grabs his younger sister, and he then swims with her to safety.
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