10 Ch10-Marvin the Headless Mummy

Chapter 10 Marvin the Headless Mummy Behind the door was a big, dark room, and it was full of kids. I couldn't see much, but I recognized Neil the nude kid, and Annette, and some other kids from our class. They were just sitting there, like they were waiting for us. It was weird.

In the middle of the room was a big trunk. It was like one of those trunks that pirates used to hide their treasure. Michael asked, "What's in the— But he never got the chance to finish his sentence, because suddenly the top of the trunk started to lift up. A hand was pushing it open! And then this thing got out. It was a mummy — with bandages all over its body! But the weird thing was that the mummy didn't have a head! Well, it had a head, but the head wasn't on top of its shoulders where it was supposed to be. The mummy was holding its head in its hand like a football!

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!" screamed Emily. "It's Marvin!" I shouted. "Mrs. Patty's dead husband! His ghost came to life!"

"He's the Halloween Monster!" yelled Ryan. "We're gonna die!" Michael screamed. "I told you we should have made a run for it!" I shouted. "Bwa-ha-ha-ha!" said Marvin's head. I had no idea how it was able to talk, but it did. It said, "Give me your candy! Put everything in the trunk, or else!" That head didn't have to ask me twice. I ran over and dumped all the candy from my pillowcase into the trunk. So did Ryan and Michael and Andrea and Emily and Neil the nude kid and Annette. I guess that mummy made all the kids turn over their candy,

because there were about a million hundred candy bars in the trunk. "Bwa-ha-ha-ha!" said Marvin's head as Marvin danced around the trunk. "It's mine! All mine! Now at long last I have more candy than anyone in town! My life is complete! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!" "That's what you think!" We all turned to see who said that. A big guy stepped out of the shadows at the other end of the room. He had a crown on his head and a sword in his hand. It was Mr. Klutz, our school principal! "It is I," he said, pointing his sword at Marvin the mummy. "King Louis the

Fourteenth. In the name of France, surrender that candy!" "Over my dead body!" Marvin said. (That was really weird. Everybody knows mummies are dead bodies to begin with.) Marvin grabbed a sword off the wall with the hand he wasn't using to hold his own head. Then he and Mr. Klutz started sword fighting just like in the movies. It was cool. "Get him, Mr. Klutz!" we all shouted. "Kill the Halloween Monster!" Mr. Klutz and Marvin were dancing around, swinging their swords at each other.