The O'Connell Mummy Legacy (F for M Aztec Mummy, any gender writer)

[LamentingQuill]

Okay, I adored the Mummy trilogy, some people didn't like the third, but I think it made an excellent point that there were mummifications going on all over the world, not just Egypt. The story rocked too.

Anywho, the year is 1966, Evie Zi O'Connell, daughter of Alex and Lin,  is a chip right off the old block... intelligent as hell and way too into archaeology for her own good. Her parents briefly considered discouraging her from pursuing what they personally knew to be a potentially very dangerous field on many levels... but then they had to think back and remember what happened when Alex's family tried discouraging HIM... and how miserably that backfired...

Invited on a dig to open up this huge newly discovered tomb with a family friend in what used to be Mesoamerica, deep, deep in the jungle...

Perhaps the folks Evie went with were intending to cash in on a royal treasure said to be squirreled away in the sealed temple, perhaps a chest adornment like this one here... that has the power to bend the owner's subjects to his will, perhaps he was their prince when he was still alive and this chest adornment was an ancient gift from their Gods meant to help maintain order and and structure in the kingdom... but the prince abused it terribly, causing his people to beseech the god of punishment and justice, Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli, for aid...

Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli gave them a window of an hour where the prince and his treasure held no sway over them... they rose up against him and executed him... the Gods as one placed a curse on the prince and his treasure, he would lay in his tomb, rotting and unable to move, speak or see, but he would be fully conscious mentally... forced to wallow in his despair and budding insanity for all eternity... so long as the tomb remained sealed anyway...

For whatever curse takes away, it must also give something in return... when the chest piece is removed from the sarcophagus, the seal of the tomb would break... but that would not be enough to restore the prince, he must consume the souls of six human sacrifices to fully regenerate himself... he will obtain immortality, invulnerability to mortal weaponry and powers very similar to what we saw Imhotep use.

As for keeping Evie, perhaps it begins as mere vanity, she's beautiful and exotic compared to the women he's seen before... perhaps it grows to getting a raging hard on for her strength of will and courage, perhaps Evie is just too much like her father and while she isn't invulnerable to the power of his treasure, she has resistance to it's power he's never encountered before... who better to be his consort than a woman the refuses to be a doormat?


The tomb would look something like this and would expand like crazy underground, created by the Gods to be serve as a prison. The deepest chamber will contain a 6 foot tall statue like this one in the shape of the Aztec god of punishment and blind-folded justice. (I couldn't find any statues of Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli, so just put a chiseled blind fold on this statue and we'll call it good).
Imbedded in the chest of the large statue is the chest piece spoke of in the fragments of tablets and things the explorers had found before... but when they begin chipping away at the statue to take the chest piece... the stone begins to crack all over the place...

It's then Evie's former family friends turned captors now listened to her about the inscription she tried warning them about before on the statue's crown... however too late it was to take back the grave mistake done...

The inscription upon the crown read this:

'Here rests the tyrant prince, punished to languish in eternal torment for his crimes... beware, when plate is removed from the sarcophagus, the tyrant will rise and become an even greater menace than before. Six he must consume to be whole... you have been cautioned. Misfortune suffered from not heeding this warning is ones own doing... the Gods will not hear you...'

There was more inscription as the base of the statue... but in the chaos that follows, Evie unable to get it it right away as she is trying to outrun and hide from the tyrant prince's minions that have also awakened.


Figured the prince would look a lot like this here