You didn't like to think about it, but you admitted you and your friends did fill the typical characters roles for horror movie victims. Emily the sexy girl. Karen the pure girl. Johnny the jock. Mike the nerd. And... you guessed that made you the fool of the fivesome.
'Lord Anubis,' your previous incarnation told you. 'I feel that your friend Karen has also now chosen to reincarnate with one of us... one who is very special to me.'
'Your wife?'
'Sadly no, she was not among the five of us... but she is still very special.'
'I see. Still, I REALLY want to see my friends before they ALL have this happen to them!'
'I understand Lord Anubis.'
'But seriously, how is this even going to work? People are going to think we're all cosplayers, actors from a movie, or at best, aliens from Mars a few thousand years out of date!'
'When they have become your children, they will believe, they will have faith in you Lord Anubis, they shall believe in you.'
The black fur was spreading more and more over your body, there wouldn't be much of your human form left by the time you found your friends at this rate. You were not sure how much of you was still human.
Then... he saw a snake woman with long dark hair slither into his view from one of the other entries in the impossibly long sections of the pyramid that none besides them had walked in eons.
The snake woman in Egyptian jewelry stops... and looks at him in awe. Then she moves like lighting claws outstretched ... and hugged him fiercely.
"FATHER!" Kebechet cried. "Oh! Sorry... I Know we're not father and daughter in this incarnation... I know I'm still Karen to you... but... I just felt it... I haven't seen you in so long... just waiting... and waiting..."
With the snake woman looking ready to cry tears of joy, shaking... you hug her back. "It's okay dear... I'm here... I won't let anything horrible happen to you again."
"... Thank you father..."