Visionary Kiss I & II & III

Visionary Kiss II 18


INT. CASBAH - DAY


Three shot glasses clinked together. O'Connell, Jonathan and Henderson slugged 'em down, all three of them instantly spit out the liquid.


Half of the bar spit out their drinks as well.


"Sweet Jesus! That tasted just like .li " " Henderson looked down into his shot glass.


"Blood." Rick then looked at the others. If pole even ven more nervous as they all stared at him.


"And the rivers and waters of Egypt went red and were as blood."


Jonathan could see a look of realization pass over O'Connell's face.


"He's here" With this Rick jumped away from the bar and ran for the door.


"Who's here!?" Jonathan suddenly realized the answer and so he too jump up and ran in dir direction of the door.


"The guy! The Priest! THE MUMMY!"

EXT. BRITISH FORT COMPOUND - DAY


Lightning flashed as Rick raced across the compound panic stricken, knocking several soldiers out of his way.


"Evelyn!! EVELYYYYNN!!!"

EXT. BRITISH FORT COURTYARD - DAY


Evelyn calmly stepped into a courtyard carrying a handful of books, talking to Willow who herself had a handful of them as well.


A blast of thunder and lightning scared the women who both jumped and dropped half of their books. Suddenly a hand grabbed Evey. She jumped again and dropped the rest of her books. To find out that it was only an out of breath O'Connell.


"We got problems."


A barrage of hail and fire slammed into the courtyard causing them all to jump back.


Nearby a water fountain burst into steam.


A wooden trellis caught fire.


They ran under the eaves as soldiers, servants and camels ran in every direction, trying to avoid the maelstrom.


"He's here! I saw him! That thing is here!"


"The creature!? Are you sure!?"


Rick gave Evey an incredulous look and gestures at the hail and fire, "Pretty sure!"


Then it all came to a stop. Everything still as death.


They froze as they heard a blood curdling scream coming from the living quarters directly above them.


They raced up the stairs all except Willow.


She already knew what they would find. She had been able to stop the hail and fire, but this was something she c not not stop.

INT. BURNS' QUARTERS - DAY


O'Connell and Evelyn raced into the room, past the Servant who ran out screaming. They skidded to a stop as they spotted Burns, or what was left of him, lying dead on the floor.


The body was shriveled to half its original size, drained of all organs and liquids.


To say they were shocked would not even begin to describe the things that they felt as they heard a loud moan and noticed Imhotep standing on the far side of the room.


Rick drew his gun.


Willow walked into the room, now able to see as the ummy regenerated. A thick skin formed over powerful new musculature. His tendons rippled.. Bones now reformed bulged.


His mouth opened to an inhuman size as he moaned and cried out. Apparently in severe pain.


Then it was over and he looked like an incredibly muscular, corpse-like vision from hell. Willow could only think about that scene from the `Terminator` movie that Xander loved so much. It would have made her friends laugh.


Not her friends from this time. She was thinking about friends that were not born yet and would not be born for a long time. She was stopped as Rick spoke "We are in serious trouble."


Imhotep started to move towards them, staring at Evelyn.


"Back off, creep"


But the mummy never stopped. So Rick opened fire. Blasting at Imhotep. Bullets ripped through his body, but the mummy didn't seem to mind.


Now Jonathan, Henderson and Daniels ran into the room.

All were stunned at the sight.


O'Connell stepped forward, throwing a right hook, punched Imhotep in the face. Except his fist got stuck deep inside the mummy's head.


Again shock was written on Rick's face as he quickly yanked his fist back out.


The area of the mummy's face, the part that had been in contact with Rick's fist quickly degenerated and decayed, right down to the bone, as if O'Connell's hand instantly infected it.


Imhotep angrily turned , grabbed Rick and with no effort, threw him across the room and into the men, knocking them all down. As he now looked down onto his hand, the one that had touched O'Connell he could see that it started to shrivel and decay.


He again turned towards Evelyn who was still standing at the same spot. Frozen. Too afraid to move more than a little closer to the wall, terrorized.


"You saved me from the undead. For this, I shall make you immortal."


Evey could see Willow move behind his back and then he moved closer, about to kiss her with his decayed face.


But before he could touch her face, there was a hissing that made him turn around to look into first a pair of green eyes that he knew and then glanced down into another pair the same color that made him shrink back.


Willow moved closer, the hissing white cat in her arms.


The balcony doors blew open. Imhotep started to spin into a blast of wind and sand and swirled out the doors.


And he was gone.


O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan and Daniels stood transfixed. Henderson horrified, kneeled next to Burns' shriveled body.


"The curse the curse."

INT. MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES - DAY


The whole group of men followed Evelyn and Willow across the Ramses Museum.


"There's only one person I know who can possibly give us some answers."


They rounded a corner and came upon the Curator, who was talking with Ardeth Bay. Causing everyone to stop.


And then both groups screamed, "YOU!"


Rick and the American's quickly drew their guns, making Ardeth just scowl.


The Curator nodded his head, "Miss Carnavon, Miss Rosenberg. Gentlemen."


"What is he doing here?"


"Do you truly wish to ? Or? Or would you prefer to just shoot us?"


Everybody tensed, guns raised. Then O'Connell un-cocked his .38.


"I just saw my fist vanish into some guy's head." He slid his gun back into his shoulder-holster, "I'm willin' to go on a little faith, here."


"You will not believe it." The Curator and Bay shared a look with Willow. Theirs held the question if they should tell and hers the answer.


"Try me."

INT. RAMSES MUSEUM - MOMENTS LATER


Everyone was assembled around the tomb display of Seti the first. Willow was even able to recognize his chariot and sword. The one that Imhotep his high priest had used to kill him.


The Curator had even gone so far to sit in Seti's throne, which made Willow raise her eyebrow at him.


"We are part of an ancient secret society, the cult-of-the-Mumia, and we have a sacred mission, passed down through thirty-nine generations. For over four thousand years we have guarded 'The City Of The Dead' we are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world."


"And because of you, we have failed." Ardeth Bay growled his eyes fixed onto Willow.


"And you think this justifies killing innocent people!?" Evelyn was not as calm as the rest of the group.


"To have stopped this creature? Yes!"


"Okay, let's cut to the chase. He's afraid of cats, what's that about? " Rick asked still remembering the way the mummy had screamed.


"According to the ancients, cat's are the guardians at the gates of the underworld."


"Imhotep will fear them until he is fully regenerated, and then he will fear nothing." Willow added causing them all to turn to look at her. At least until Daniels who was totally wigged-out, looked at O'Connell.


"Right! And ya know how he gets fully regenerated?! By killing everybody who opened that chest and sucking us dry! That's how!"


"Yes, the creature must first try and regenerate, and then he will attempt to resurrect the one he has loved for more than four thousand years." The curator had no emotion in his voice as he told all this, causing Daniels to shudder even more.


"Anck-su-namun."


The Curator and Ardeth Bay looked at Evelyn, thunderstruck. Again the eyes of both men found the redhead, thinking that she would have to tell them about the things that had happened.


"In the necropolis, when I saw him, alive, ...walking, he called me Anck-su-namun. And then in Mister Burns' quarters he tried to kiss me."


"It is because it was you who read from the Book. He has chosen you to be-the human sacrifice needed to regenerate the body of Anck-su-namun."


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