Frankie vs. the Mummy's Menace by Frank Lampard

Author:Frank Lampard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

But the passage seemed to go on forever. Frankie checked over his shoulder and saw the ball was picking up speed. He saw Medhi just ahead of the boulder, throwing back panicked glances. Then Frankie stopped.

“Dead end!” he cried.

Frankie spotted dim light at the side of the tunnel. Another passage.

“In there!” Frankie pointed.

Louise skidded to a halt and jumped into the narrow gap. Charlie went after her, then Max. Frankie followed, squeezing his body through.

“Wait for me!” yelled Medhi. But he was too big. He couldn’t fit. The ball kept coming and the robber looked terrified. “Don’t leave me!” he begged.

Frankie grabbed Medhi’s arm. With a tug, he heaved him through the gap just as the crushing boulder rolled past and slammed into the wall ahead. It blocked the passage completely.

“You saved my life!” said Medhi.

Frankie wiped the sweat out of his eyes and took in the chamber around them. It was a square, and a smoldering torch rested in a metal loop above the door they’d come through. The room was completely bare apart from another stone soccer ball in the center. Louise looked around. “We’re trapped!” she said. “There’s no way out.”

Max did the same, sniffing. “She’s right.”

Frankie took the torch from the wall and ran it along the walls, looking for a hidden doorway. Nothing. But as he lifted the torch to the far wall, he saw it wasn’t bare like the others. It was covered in carved symbols in neat columns and rows.

“Hieroglyphs!” said Charlie, proudly. “What do they say?”

Medhi looked at his feet. “I’m afraid I can’t read.”

“There must be a way out,” said Frankie. He touched the wall. It didn’t feel as cold as he expected. “It’s not stone,” he said. He rapped it with his knuckles and heard a hollow sound. “Wood!”

“I’ll get us out,” said Medhi. “Let’s throw the ball at the wall and smash through it. Stand back, everyone!”

“Are you sure this is a good idea?” began Louise.

Medhi picked up the ball, and at the same moment dust showered down from the ceiling.

Then the roof began to inch closer.

“What have you done now?” Max whined. “You’ve set off another trap.”

Medhi hurled the ball at the wooden wall, but it didn’t even make a dent.

The ceiling shifted again, pressing down.

It’s going to crush us! thought Frankie.

Medhi picked up the ball and threw it again with the same effect.

“I think we need a Plan B,” he said.

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