Unwrapped: An Urban Fantasy Adventure (Werewolves vs. Mummies Book 3) by J.A Cipriano

Author:J.A Cipriano [Cipriano, J.A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Published: 2015-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Wake up, Thes!” said the thing shaking me violently from my slumber. The last thin wisps of dream left me before I could grasp even the faintest tendrils of its memory. My eyes fluttered open revealing Khufu floating before me. He was faded and washed out looking and had no legs. Instead, his lower half sort of tapered off into a wispy gasp of smoke, reminding me of a genie freshly conjured from a lamp.

“For my first wish, I want to go back to sleep,” I mumbled, trying to turn away, but found I couldn’t move a muscle. Pain welled up in me as I struggled and twisted to no avail.

“Yeah, you do that,” the mummy replied, crossing his insubstantial arms over his chest. That was when I noticed a thin golden thread trailing from his belly button off into the distance like a metallic umbilical cord. “I’ll just leave you to be slowly devoured by the nether beast.” He turned away from me and made like he was going to walk off, which was quite a trick since he had no legs.

“Nether beast?” I asked stupidly. “What’s a nether beast?”

“It’s a name I made up to describe the monster currently eating you. It sounds cool, eh?” Khufu asked, turning back around and gesturing at me with one hand. “Besides, things are so much scarier when they don’t have names at all. You’re welcome.”

My gaze followed his gesture, and I realized I was wrapped up in a thin pink membrane with blue veins pulsing across its surface. I shrieked in fright and tried to flail and tear myself free, but I was stuck fast.

“Um, how do I get out?” I asked, almost keeping the high-pitched whine of terror out of my voice.

“You don’t. You slowly dissolve over the next millennia or so.” The mummy shrugged. “Unless you have some Egyptian fire. They don’t like that.”

“I don’t know what that is, but do you have any?” I cried, still struggling uselessly within the fleshy confines of the nether beast. It was like trying to break free of super stretchy, super sticky silly putty.

“It’s like Greek fire but way cooler.” He grinned and pointed what looked like a silver watering can at me. He shook it once and droplets of clear fluid spattered across the pink flesh of the creature trying to slowly digest me.

It shrieked loudly enough to make me wish I couldn’t hear so well because I was pretty sure that nails on a chalkboard wasn’t supposed to cross that many spectrums of sound. The scent of burning flesh filled my nose as it spat me across the pink cavern like an unwanted wad of chewing gum. I hit the spongy earth with a wet thwap and lay there for a moment, all sorts of discombobulated as the mouth of the nether beast slowly retreated beneath the surface.

I lay there, trying to brush sticky saliva off my body and failing miserably as a horrible thought struck me. I was

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