18 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

"MacGowen?"

Ardeth meet the best pilot from America. He'd been staying here for almost three years. For the first time, Arthur MacGowen also like Evelyn, Jonathan and others american trespassing the place.

MacGowen tell Ardeth his intention and what brought him in Egypt, with trust. Ardeth allowed MacGowen lived in. Sometime he'll travel back to his birth place.

Since that. Both men Ardeth and MacGowen becoming friend. "Can you fly this again?" ask Ardeth to MacGowen.

"Where you heading?"

"Hamunaptra".

"I know that place".

"So, you heard".

MacGowen nod his head. Look over Ardeth shoulder where Jonathan standing behind him. "He's the trouble?"

"His sister. The creature have her in there".

MacGowen rose up from chair. He walk towards Jonathan in smile. "Welcome home. Where there always the journey to begin with". Snickering, he turn to Ardeth. "Shall we?"

Sahara day. Way off across the desert, a large sand races over the dunes. The sandy whirlwind comes to a stop and starts to dissipate.

Evelyn sudden ejected out of it, she land in a dune. The swirling sand condenses and form into Imhotep. He walk passed her, standing middle of the desert, he looks up into the sky.

Listening carefully.

Evelyn shakes the sand out of her hair and looks at him. "Oh my God". She breathing. "I'm back to Hamunaptra".

She hear the plane in the sky and look up. "Jonathan?" Her face look weird. Imhotep look up the sky, then he turn to her.

"Would be amazing if I use my powers to shake them down". He smile. "This tongue makes me talk like an Americans".

Imhotep turn back to front. His eyes on the view.

Meanwhile. "I suggest your not throwing inside my plane. Are you afraid of height?" MacGowen ask Jonathan. "That could be normal".

"What can be normal if you see my this!" Jonathan crawled on top of the plane wing. "You tied me in here!"

"That why I ask. Don't throwing".

Ardeth move a bit from his seat. "Arthur always got my back when I need him. His american plus japanese. He can cut all of you in half with one sword stroke, just like mowing the lawn. I would advise not getting killed by him. His sword traps the souls of its victims".

"That was nice to hear". said Jonathan. "I'm suggest you better watch your driving this plane".

"I'd tell you to fasten your seat belts, but I was too cheap to buy any". MacGowen look at Jonathan. "You'll be just fine". He looked on his right. "On your right 2 o'clock did you see it?"

The three man looked at their right side wheres MacGowen pointed.

"She can't hear you but she know why we here. For her". He look closely. "What's that man doing, is it him you two gentleman talk about".

"On his behalf I'm introduce you that man is the creature, Imhotep. The Pharaoh adviser back three thousand years ago, he died that years. With his returning, he claimed what he has".

Ardeth eyes on Imhotep and Evelyn behind him.

"Good luck with that. Here we GO!" He sudden pulled the handle down drown the plane makes Jonathan scream without stopping, MacGowan then steady the plane back to normal after heard him.

"Eh?"

Ardeth breathing. "Don't do that again". Jonathan whom almost passed out, his hand clawing. "He'd will cursed you for that, MacGowen."

Jonathan scream. "You almost got me killed!" Jonathan barking at him. MacGowan ignored him.

As for Imhotep and Evelyn. She jumped on his back. Both them struggling, Imhotep demand Evelyn to let him go. She chocked him.

"What are you trying to do. There here for me and if you trying to hurt them or killed them, dare me I killed you too".

"If you riding my back I kill them to. What the different".

Above the sky. MacGowen look down with weird face. He look over his shoulder. "Why your sister riding piggyback on him. What is wrong with her?"

"Trying to kill him. I think".

Imhotep gently push her down the land from his back. Terrified as she look at his anger face.

"Stay!"

Imhotep's jaw unhinges, his mouth opens to an inhuman size, he lets fly with another one of his horrible shrieks, and a massive wall of sand rises up out of the desert.

Up at sky, Ardeth watches the desert below him come alive and rise up towards the plane. MacGowen looks over the side and sees what's coming. He laughs, throws the throttle, and puts the plane into a dive.

"Hang on, men! Sure you gonna love this ride".

The sandstorm chases the diving, twisting plane getting closer and closer, about to engulf it. Ardeth looks back into the blinding sand and sees a giant faces forming inside the sandstorm. It's Imhotep.

Grinning.

Ardeth grabs the Lewis machine-gun, cocks the bracket and fires, blasting away at Imhotep's giant face inside the sandstorm.

Imhotep's face begins to laugh, then his jaw unhinges, his mouth opens wide, and he engulfs the plane. MacGowen blindly fights for control, elated.

"We're going down!"

The plane spins inside the blowing sand. Engines roaring wind howling. Jonathan and Ardeth screaming.

MacGowen havlock laughing. "Here I come, laddies!" Ardeth braces himself for impact, Evelyn leaps to her feet and runs over to Imhotep again.

"Stop it! You'll kill them!"

"Kiss me if you want to see them alive".

Imhotep pulls her close to him, her beautiful eyes stare into his shockingly intense ones. He kisses her passionately.

Evelyn's eyes widen, she letting his tongue inside her mouth as she enjoy his kiss on her lips. She sudden forget what she been kissing him.

Stunned and mesmerized, then she pushes herself away and falls back into the land. Imhotep laughs.

"You, IDIOT!" She look up where the plane at.

The plane smashes over a dune, rolls over and crashes upside-down into another dune. The sand swirls as Ardeth falls out of the gunner's compartment. The left wing is jammed into the dune. Jonathan hangs upside down.

"I'm, ALIVE! I'm ALIVE!" He scream. "Next time let me be the pilot".

Ardeth helped him down then stares on MacGowen who still laughs. "Lucky we're still alive. Best playground desert we've ride for. Lets do this again".

Evelyn kicked Imhotep legs as he suddenly stumbled on the land in shocked, he look over his shoulder where she attacking him.

"I killed you!"

"You've tried already." Snickering. "Would you like to try again?" He mocked her.

"I will. And this time I'll make sure you regret it!" Imhotep lean closer to her. "What are you doing?"

He wrapped his arm around her body then leaned in to kiss Evelyn. Imhotep then put Evelyn into a trance that enabled her to see herself in her past life as Princess Nefertiri.

As Evelyn was in her trance, she saw Imhotep not as a mummy, but as his living self, whole again. His mortal life.

Her eyes look around the place, which she in the Pharaoh place as she the daughter of Seti I. She then kissed him deeply, Imhotep smile between their passionate kiss.