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Post by Miso on Jan 15, 2007 9:04:13 GMT 10
Christina moved towards the statue in the alcove and ran her fingers over it. The stone was smooth, glossy and the colours were perfect, as if it defied time altogether. Or perhaps... if someone had planted it there.
"It should be here..." she whispered as she squeezed around the statue and examined it, for a switch, or lever, something.
Nothing. After minutes of fruitless searching she stopped and glared at Anubis. She was sure it was here, in the statue.
She kicked the statue in frustration. And to her surprise, there was a clang. She looked down at the pedestal Anubis stood on, and grinned. The front of the pedestal had fallen off to reveal a hollow space, and in that was a blood stained box made from what was possibly sandstone.
She crouched and grabbed hold of the handle, and pulled. She dragged it out with a lot of effort and fell back, laughing.
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Post by Rankmore on Jan 15, 2007 19:26:16 GMT 10
Jake caught Christina as she fell back, he said to her "did you hurt yourself, are you ok" in a worridly voice.
Jake started to walk back out of the stone temple and towards the ship, after about half hour on non stop walking in the scorching hot sun he reached the X Jet.
Jake aboarded the Jet and went straight for a large drink of cold water, he drunk the water extremly fast, he had about 5 cups before he went and sat down and waited for the others to turn up.
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Post by Miso on Jan 15, 2007 20:51:32 GMT 10
"We've got it!" Christina said as she hauled herself up. "Kurt, can you take this? It's too heavy for me."
It was at that time when the statues at the entrance to the temple and in the alcove came to life. They stepped off their pedistals with a continuous grinding noise of stone on stone. They came towards the three, wielding staffs.
Christina knew it would happen. Something about a curse... And the magic word needed to be inscribed on each of the statues in order to get safe passage.
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Post by I HAVE A NAME. on Jan 16, 2007 11:22:48 GMT 10
Kurt grabbed the box. He disappeared and reappeared in the jet, he put the box down, and was about to leavewhen he noticed a pice of paper stuck on the windsheild, He pulled it off and read it, then ported it and him to where Christina was.
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Post by Miso on Jan 16, 2007 21:34:54 GMT 10
Christina saw Kurt had the note from the windshield and she snatched it off him.
"Thanks Kurt, you're a life saver!" she said quickly as she pushed Samara behind her and backed away from the entreating statues.
"Samara, I need you to burn this image into the foreheads of the statues okay?" she said quickly, passing the girl the paper. On it was an ankh, the Egyptian hieroglyphic for Life. If Anubis was the God of the Dead, then enscribing Life into the statues would stop them, wouldn't it? Theoretically it would, as life was death to the already dead, just as death was death to the living.
((I hope that made sense ^^'))
One of the statues raised its staff and swung down. Christina shot out a jet of extremely high pressured acid, which blocked the staff, but for some reason it wouldn't eat away at the stone. Christina pulled Samara out of the statue's range, and stopped the acid. The staff shot down into the stone floor and lodged there.
"Quickly Samara! Please!"
They were being cornered, and Christina knew it, but she wanted Samara to have a bit of action before they left.
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Post by Dorian, Abby and Samara on Jan 16, 2007 21:47:18 GMT 10
"Samara, I need you to burn this image into the foreheads of the statues okay?"
"Okay..." Samara replied.
The statues began to corner them, so Samara screwed up her face and concentrated on the foreheads of the statues.
After a few moments, the ankh was burned onto the forehead of one of the statues.
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Post by Miso on Jan 17, 2007 22:03:43 GMT 10
The statue froze in mid swing, stopping just inches away from Christina's side. Then suddenly it crumbled to dust.
"That's it Samara, keep going!" Christina said as she shot another spray of acid at the remaining statues. "You can do it!"
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Post by Dorian, Abby and Samara on Jan 17, 2007 22:09:00 GMT 10
Samara concentrated on the rest of the statues, her face still screwed up.
The ankh was burned onto each statue, one by one, but Samara started to get weak.
A blood vessel burst in her nose, and a trickle of blood made it's way down Samaras upper lip, and her vision began to get blurry.
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Post by I HAVE A NAME. on Jan 17, 2007 22:23:47 GMT 10
Kurt noticed the blood. "Thats it. I'm stopping this." He punched one of the statues, Grabbed everyone, and ported past the statues. He picked up Samara and started walking out.
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Post by Miso on Jan 17, 2007 22:51:19 GMT 10
Christina was about to get Samara out of there when Kurt appeared and teleported them to safety, though the statues crumbled behind them.
When they got into the Jet, Christina powered it up and they took off, returning home.
"I'm sorry Samara," she said to the girl. "Horace will get you fixed up when we get back home."
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Post by Dorian, Abby and Samara on Jan 17, 2007 23:05:12 GMT 10
"It's okay," Samara said, "I'm just a little dizzy..."
Samara wiped the blood off, and smiled slightly.
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