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The Mummy (Chapter 2)
Friday 2nd March 2018
Shraddha woke up from her sleep. Had herself freshened went for the breakfast. While having her breakfast she saw an accident news. Shraddha was very calm till her uncle asked “Aren’t you worried about your today’s exam?” Shraddha shockingly asked ‘wasn’t it 18 days ago?’ Her uncle replied while pointing towards the calendar ‘My dear, look today is 2nd of March Friday, you have your test today’. Shraddha didn’t said anything stayed quite for a while soon she realized that she had seen this news before the same day. In couple of minutes she realized that time had moved her backward. She reached her college asked everyone about the incident. Every reply came up to be negative. Nevertheless Shraddha gave test like before and returned her home.

Monday, 5th March 2018
Results of the test were out, surprisingly Shraddha came second and Mangesh came first. However all the 10 persons were the same. As per the rules top 10 have to decide where to go. This time Egypt got seven votes despite Shraddha didn’t voted for it. But Mangesh did. Shraddha asked Mangesh ‘aren’t you superstitious and scared to go to places like this?’ Mangesh replied in a monotone ‘Curiosity often takes a person where he or she doesn’t belong’.

As per the contract they took up for Egypt at the dawn of 7th March. Everything was going exactly like the previous time for Shraddha. But however she didn’t purchased that watch, not even she looked for it. It was the last day, they had their tour for ‘The Great Sphinx of Giza’. As expected by Shraddha a sand storm hit them the tour was about to get cancel but then Mangesh did something unexpected. He looked above angrily and screamed and in couple of minutes the storm faded and Mangesh happily said ‘We are all clear’.
Their tour guide Samuel took them inside ‘The Great Sphinx of Giza’ through a gait door. Neha one of the college student flirted with one of the guard while entering, the guard blushed and looked down. Everyone moved forward. Interior of the Sphinx of Giza was a museum, there were artifacts of ancient Egypt. Manish asked about one of the ancient knife to the museum guard, the guard doesn’t said anything but smiled and looked down, that’s where Mangesh came to Manish’s side and explained everything about the knife in the same monotone as before. Everyone were baffled with Mangesh’s knowledge but Shraddha had many questions arising into her mind. After half an hour Mangesh suddenly lost his mind, he broke one of the glass cube grabbed a spear and killed one of the guard, rest of the guards pointed gun at him while some guards comforted the group. Following to this Mangesh didn’t stopped, broke another glass cube grabbed a knife and killed another guard, in defense the rest of the guards killed Mangesh, and evacuated everyone out while the guards and Samuel remained inside.
There was no sun outside everything was dark shops around were closed, 9 of them were alone. In a certain time they saw a car coming towards them. The car stopped Samuel stood out of the car and said ‘you guys are literally too curious, the sun hasn’t risen yet’. Everyone said ‘but we were just inside that Sphinx’. Samuel replied, ‘what the heck, there’s no way inside that Sphinx are you all out of your mind. Everyone confused got back to their hotel rooms. The sun rose and it was the day when they inspect ‘The Great Sphinx of Giza’ but the sand storm cancelled their trip and they were forced to go back, Shraddha screamed where is Mangesh, everyone agreed with Shraddha as Mangesh was killed inside that Sphinx in-front of everyone. Samuel scolded them and yelled, ’who is Mangesh? You were nine students only.’ Samuel showed them their travel history and hotel room info. Everyone were shocked to see that there was no 10th person or so called Mangesh.

To be Continued…