THEBES - 2,134 B.C

Thebes. City of the Living. Crown jewel of Pharaoh Seti the First. Home of Imhotep, High Priest of Osiris, Keeper of the Dead. Birthplace of Anck-su-namun. Pharaoh's Mistress. No other man was allowed to touch her. But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself. For murdering the Pharaoh, Anck-su-namun's body was to be cursed. And it was the High Priest, whose duty it was to curse it. Her body was mummified, her vital organs removed and placed in sacred canopic jars. The Book of The Living contained sacred incantations that would send the evil dead on a journey into the dark underworld. The slaves were killed, and the soldiers who killed them were also slain, so that no unholy person should ever know the exact location of the burial site. But there was another book, The Book Of The Dead, which was never to be opened, never to be read, for it contained the incantations that could bring a dead body back to life a most unholy thing. It was hidden at Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, inside the statue of Anubis, so that no such sacrilege might ever disgrace Egypt. But for his love of Anck-su-namun Imhotep was willing to defy the gods. Anck-su-namun's vital organs were still fresh, so a human sacrifice would not need be made. Anck-su-namun soul had come back from the dead! Now all that was needed, was to return her organs to their rightful place within her body. The Priests were condemned to be mummified alive. As for Imhotep, he was condemned to endure the HOM-DAI. The worst of all ancient curses. One so horrible, it had never before been bestowed. By eating the sacred scarabs, he would be cursed to stay alive forever. And by eating him, they were cursed just the same. He was to remain sealed inside hi sarcophagus, the undead for all of eternity. They would never allow him to be released. For he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh-eater, with the strength of ages, power over the sands, and the glory of invincibility. And if he could raise his beloved Anck-su-namun from her place in hell, together, they would be an unstoppable infection upon this world. The Apocalypse. The End.