Iris's POV

A piercing whine fills the air as I cling to Evie. Suddenly from out of the darkness a huge wall of locusts swirls into camp and envelops us. Rick grabs Evie and I. We run for the crevice with Jon behind us. Evie goes down first, then me and Jon. Rick comes down last and loads his gun.

"Did you see that!? Grasshoppers! Billions of grasshoppers!" Jon shouts as we get rid of the locusts on us.

"That's one of the plagues, right? The grasshopper plague" Rick says.

"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" Evie tells them.

"So we are safe?" I ask them scared.

"Perfectly safe" Evie assures me. Suddenly the ground in front of us starts to shake and rise up. Hundreds of chattering scarab beetles boil up out of the sand. Start scurrying towards us. I scream with my siblings as Rick shoots them. Evie picks me up and they all start to run the opposite way.

"They're getting closer!" I shout as we ascend a stair case. Jonathan jumps onto a pedestal and Rick jumps onto the one next to him. While Evie jumps up into a grotto on the other side of the narrow stairway. She puts me down and I hid behind her as the bugs pass us by.

Suddenly the wall behind me moves and I fall back grabbing Evie, dragging her down with me. We both scream as we slide down a rock slide. We land on sand in the pitch black. "Are you ok Iris?" she asks me worried.

"Yes, were are we?" I ask her scared as I cling to her arm.

"I don't know, don't let go of my arm" she tells me as we get up. We move to the wall and start to follow it. We soon round a corner. A shaft of moonlight filters in through a crack in the ceiling. A man stands in the middle of the room. "Oh thank goodness, you're one of the Americans, aren't you?" Evie asks him.

Just as we reach him he turns around. It's Burns. Both of his eyes are missing. Evie and I scream in horror as I bury my head into her stomach. We back away and bump into something. Evie turns around and screams picking me up. She backs until I feel the wall. I'm to scared to look at what made her scream a second time.

"Anck-su-namun? Tzipporah?" I hear someone asks and frown. Those were names from Uncle Terence's story. I go to look, but Evie places a hand on my head holding it in place.

"Don't look Iris" she tells me. I nod me head. "Help us,... please,... help us" I hear her say. No doubt to Burns.

"Kadeesh pharos Anck-su-namun" the same man says in Ancient Egyptian. (Translation: Come with me my Princess Anck-su-namum). I feel Evie shiver in fear.  Suddenly I hear someone run up to us.

"Would you quit playin, around! Let's get outta here already!" Ric shouts. I smile, we're saved. "Whoa!" I hear him yell then hear an in human roar followed by a several gunshots. "Move!" I hear him shout and feel Evie run.

"Did you see that? It was walking. The mummy was walking!" Jon shouts. We exit the place and I'm put down. Jon pushes me behind him as I see the black robed guys from the other night.

"I told you to leave or die, you refused, and now you may have killed us all. For you have unleashed the creature that we have feared for more than four thousand years" the leader says.

"Relax I got him" Ric tells him.

"No mortal weapons can kill this creature. He is not of this world" the man tells him.

"Are we talkin, about the same creature? The walking corpse? Really big mouth? Really bad breath?" Rick asks him. Suddenly two robed guys brought Burns forward.

"We saved him! Saved him before the creature could finish his work. Now leave, all of you, quickly, before he finishes you all" the man tells us.

"You're not going to kill us?" Jon asks and I whimper clinging to his shirt. Evie elbows him.

"We must now hunt him down, and try and find a way to kill him, before he consumes the earth. Allah be with us" the man says. He and his men enter the crevice leaving us.

"I want to go home and never read another book" I tell Evie and Jon.

"Never read a book from ancient times" Rick tells me. We mount the camels and leave. I hope they kill the mummy. Though a part of me wished Evie had let me see him walking.

(Anubis' Chamber) Third Persons POV

Beni slowly backs up around Anubis, eyes wide, gun up. He turns around, Imhotep is right there. Beni screams as he backs up into a wall dropping his gun. Imhotep moves forward,  Beni grabs at the chains around his neck. Revealing religious symbols and icons dangle from each chain. He holds the first one up: A CHRISTIAN CRUCIFIX.

"May the good Lord protect and watch over me as a shepherd watches over his flock. And may Satan in all his forms be vanquished forever" Beni says. "No" he says as Imhotep continues to advice towards him. He quickly grabs at the other symbols and icons, holding them out towards Imhotep. One after the other, trying to slow his progress: an Islamic Sword and Crescent Moon necklace; a Hindu Brahma medallion; a small Buddhist Bodhisattva statue. All while blessing himself in Arabic, Hindi, Chinese and Latin.

Nothing works. Imhotep's skeletal hand reaches for Beni's throat. Tears run down Beni's cheeks he's so freaked. And that's when he holds up the star of David and blesses himself in HEBREW. Imhotep stops in his tracks. His hand lowers.

"The language of the slaves" Imhotep says quizzically as he steps back. "I may have use for you. And the rewards will be great" he says in Hebrew holding out a handful of jewels to Beni. Who eyes widen. Imhotep raises his other hand, it holds Anck-su-namun's broken canopic jar. "Where are the other sacred jars?" he demands in Hebrew.

A/N

Gif above of Imhotep roaring.