This story has been totally dead, I wrote the first two chapters and haven't even read over it since 2007. Then I visit my cousin, she mentions this Egyptian offshoot of the Percy Jackson books. It's like the mere mention of Egypt activated Ahkmenrah's tablet on the long dead plot bunny and it started chewing on my brain. I never had and never planned to post this online because I thought it was dead. Within a week I had a couple more chapters and a few later scenes written then the flash drive with the only updated copy of it died, so I had to start all over with the 2007 version, but it's still very much alive. As this was written in 2007 and I don't feel like trying to fit it in with the sequels, plus there were so many contradictions in the 2nd and 3rd that I would have gone crazy trying to fit them all together to make sense, this story is set after the first movie and ignores the sequels.

May smiled as she walked up the stairs of the American Museum of Natural History. It had been one month since she had started working there in the museum library and it seemed like the perfect job to her. She was surrounded by history, only had to deal with the few people who came into the library instead of the crowds that came to see the exhibits. Plus she could spend her breaks looking around the museum or practicing reading the hieroglyphs in the ancient Egypt exhibit.

As she got to the door, Larry the night guard was just coming out.

"Hi Larry, have you heard anything from Rebecca lately?" she asked.

"She has about half a dozen towns she still has book signings in before she'll be coming home and she keeps getting asked to do more," Larry told her.

"Well it's a good book, she did really well with it, sometimes it sounds like she was there to witness it all happening. She has so much information that I've never read anywhere else before, it's just an amazing book."

"Yes and she's an amazing women too I just wish she didn't have to spend so long on the book signing tour."

"Don't worry, she'll be home in a few weeks and then you two can start planning you wedding." May pointed out.

Larry smiled and said, "Yes, when I started working here I never thought it would make such a difference in my life. Getting this job was one of the best things that has ever happened to me," he glanced at his watch and said, "You had better get in there before you're late. I'll see you around."

"See you latter, have a nice day."

"You have a nice day too." he told her then headed down the stairs and May headed in to the museum.

May had just gotten to the elevator when she heard tires screeching and people yelling. She ran back to the entrance and was horrified to see Larry lying in the road, one leg twisted at an odd angle and his head bleeding. She yelled to the person at the front desk to call an ambulance and ran out. Luckily there was a doctor in one of the cars that had stopped and he was checking on Larry.

May noticed a little girl who looked about two or three with skinned up knees and hands, crying and clinging to her mother. The mother had tears running down her face too.

"What happen?" May asked the mother.

"My daughter's puppy got off of its leash and ran across the street, before I knew what was happening she ran after it and in front of a car. That man ran out and knocked her out of the way but he couldn't get out of the way fast enough. He saved her life and he could end up dying," she told her.

May put her hand on the women's shoulder, "I haven't known him very long, but I think he would rather risk his own life than see a child get hurt. All we can do now is pray that he'll be alright."

The ambulance pulled up and they got Larry in then left.

That afternoon there was a staff meeting called and they found out that Larry was in a comma and no one knew when or if he would wake up.

"We have another problem, Larry was our only night guard, he hasn't missed a night since he started working here. The one time he had to come in late Rebecca filled in for him and as you all know she when she gets back she'll want to be at the hospital. I don't have time to hire someone else before the museum closes today, so I need a volunteer to take his place until I can hire someone," the director told them.

Everyone seemed to already have plans or some reason why they couldn't stay.

"I could stay, I don't have any plans," May finally said.

The director sighed in relief and said. "Thank you. You can take the rest of the day off to get some rest so hopefully you will be able to stay awake tonight. Be back here by five forty five when the museum closes and I'll tell you what you have to do."

"Alright I'll be here."

That evening after the director had told her what she had to do and was about to leave for the night he said, "Maybe I should see if we have a uniform that will fit you."

May looked down at the colonial style dress that she usually wore to work and said, "I'll be fine in this; there are very few things that I can't do just as easily in a dress as in pants. She smiled and added, "Anyways if someone does try to break in they may think that one of the displays came to life or that I'm a ghost and it could scare them off."

"As long as they haven't seen you coming in here during the day dressed like that it might work. Just try not to burn the place down, I think Larry tried to do that the second night he worked here."

"Don't worry; I'm sure I'll be fine. Is there anything else I need to know? May asked.

"Keep an eye out for cats. I haven't figured out how they're getting in here, but on several occasions over the last few months I've caught cats running around inside. If you see any catch them, lock them in one of the bathrooms and we'll send them to a shelter in the morning," he told her.

"Okay, I'll keep an out for them," she assured him, "See you tomorrow."

"See you in the morning. Good night."

"Good night."

May spent the first few hours in the ancient Egypt room reading one of her books on how to read hieroglyphs and practicing. It was nice to be able to stay as long as she wanted instead of having to get back up to the library after her lunch brake or having the museum close before she was ready to quit. She smiled and said. "I could definitely get use to this, maybe I should tell the director not to bother getting a new night guard or see if I can at least keep doing this part of the time." She said then groaned, "At least I lasted a few hours before I started talking to my self."

May decided to take a break from studying to walk around the museum and make sure every thing was secure. She walked around the room before leaving and stopped by the sarcophagus and said. "I wish these hieroglyphs told why there's no mention of you any where else being a pharaoh but everything that was in your tomb said you were."

Ahkmenrah's tomb and all of the hieroglyphs in it indicated that Ahkmenrah had been a pharaoh, but there was no mention of him in any of the temples in Egypt or any known records anywhere. It had been a mystery that no one had been able to solve since his tomb had been discovered almost seventy five years earlier. May had hoped that if she could read the hieroglyphs she might find something that others had missed or misinterpreted. She had wanted to learn to read hieroglyphs for years, but it was the mystery that had finally made her push her self to learn. So far she hadn't found anything about why there was no record of him being a pharaoh, but there was still a lot that she couldn't read yet.

She walked out of the room taking the long way along one of the walls where the stuff that had been in his tomb was displayed. Along with the usual statues and stuff there was a chariot and even a mummified horse.

While she was walking around checking on things it had started to storm. She didn't mind, she actually liked thunder storms. She just hoped the power didn't go out.

As she was walking passed the lobby the phone rang. She wondered who would be calling so late, it was almost midnight.

She picked up the phone and said, "Hello"

"May is that you"

"Yes, who is this?"

"I'm Nick Daley. Larry's son I just found out that they had someone staying there tonight and I had to warn you, Teddy or Ahkmenrah can explain the rest, but before midnight you have to lock up th…"

There was a bright flash of lightning and a loud bang and the phone went dead.

May hung it up and said. "What on earth was he talking about? And how is a wax figure or a three thousand year old mummy going to explain anything to me."

She started to walk thru the museum to see if she could find anything that might give her a clue as to what Nick had been talking about. As she walked past the African mammal's room she glanced down at her watch it was midnight and she still hadn't figured out what Nick had been talking about.

She decided to head back to the lobby and see if the phone was working yet when she heard growling behind her. She turned around and saw a lion coming out of the African mammal's room. She stood there frozen with fear and disbelief. All of a sudden the lion lunged at her, she screamed and ran as fast as she could, not that she had any idea where to run to. If she tried to get out the front door she would have to stop long enough to unlock it and the lions would catch her before she'd have time to get it unlocked.