1O Years Later...

"How far away from Hamunaptra did you say we were?" I whispered, glancing up at Rick.

"Miles."

"How many miles."

"Lots of miles." He whispered, before reaching down and pulling his hand gun out of it's holster.
I groaned silently, before pulling out my own gun, fallowing close behind Rick as he turned down a passage that was covered in a very think layer of cobwebs.

"Come on." He called, reaching up and pulling at the cobwebs, before ushering me through. "Get a torch going."

"Way ahead of you." I called, pulling out a large stick from my pack and a match. Reaching over, I struck it against the wall, igniting it before placing it against the damp cloth at the top of the stick, setting it ablaze. "Here." I called, handing it over to Rick, before we continued down the hall.

"Alcove." I called, pointing ahead of us slightly as Rick walked up to the indentation in the wall, before spinning into it with his gun poised.

"Nothing." He answered back.

"Thank Go...What was that!" I cried out, jumping into him and latching onto his back, as a distant but unmistakable crashing sound cracked around us, fallowed by a sudden wind. "Oh fuck why did I come with you!" I groaned, mustering up my courage and pulling away from Rick.

"Cause you had nothing better to do." Rick answered softly and calmly as we proceeded down the corridor, cautiously and slowly, guns at the ready. "Ready?" Rick called, as we came to a turn in the passage.

"No." I groaned, just as he stepped out and looked down, me behind him, coming to his side. "Nothing..." I sighed relieved as we both uncocked our guns and turned back around, coming face to face with another being in the hallways with us.

"Ah!" I screamed out, jumping back as Rick cried out, watching as Alex fell to the floor, crying out as well. "ALEX!" I screamed, my heart racing, looking down at him as he giggled.

"What were you thinking?" He asked, his British accent making me smile at him. "The mummy'd come back to life?"

"I'll tell you a story sometime." Rick said calmly, reaching down and helping him up.

"What are you doing down here young man?" I asked, reaching over and brushing sand off his shoulders. "It's not safe down here for little boys."

"I'm not a little boy aunty." He snapped up at me, looking exactly like Rick, only far more adorable.

"Ease up. I thought we told you to wait up in the temple for us?" Rick noted.

"B...but dad I saw your tattoo!"

"No buts!" Rick interrupted. "It's dangerous down here Alex."

"But I saw your tattoo!" Alex said again, reaching forward and taking hold of Rick's arm, and pushing up his sleeve.

"You saw what?" Rick asked, as i stepped forward.

"On the wall, by the entrance, there's a cartoush just like it!" Alex explained, unlatching Rick's wrist band and looking down at the tattoo on his skin. "With the pyramid, and the eye, and the two kinds and everything!"

"Really?" I asked, looking down at him amused.

"Yeah." He nodded.

"Okay well...uh, we'll be up to take a look at that in a minute. In the mean time i want you to wait for us up there."

"Bu...but!"

"No!" Rick called, giving Alex a little shove. "Now pick up your stuff and I'll see you in the temple."

"Bu...Bu..." And at that moment, his eyes turned and latched onto me.

"Oh boy, here we go." Rick groaned.

"Aunty!" Alex pleaded, his eyes looking like puppy dog eyes, just smiling up at my sadly.

And my heart instantly melted. "Rick couldn't we just..." Turning, i looked up at my brother, who was not at all impressed. "Fine." I groaned. "Go on now Al." I called, reaching forward and ruffling up his hair. "Go back up to the temple. We'll be up in a minute." I smiled.

"Fine." He groaned, turning around and grabbing his hat.

"Go on." Rick called as we watched him stammer away.

"An...And what should I do?"

"I dunno." Rick called. "Surprise us." He finished, as we turned back around. "Build a better mouse trap." He sighed.

"Rick." I snapped, reaching up and hitting him. "He's trying."

"You're no help. One look from him and it's like you turn into butter." Rick noted, before rolling his eyes at me. "You spoil him."

"I'm supposed to spoil him." I fired back. "And besides, you love it when I spoil him. Means less work for you." I added, as we continued on.

"I suppose your right." He sighed, fallowing me. "Now lets go fine Evy before she goes and desecrated another tomb."

"Right oh." I grinned, as we turned town the corridor, heading towards where Evy was working, entering a room that was lit up by fire light.

"Go away." Evy called suddenly, as i jumped down, just in time for a snake to come flying past my face.

"WHOA!" I screamed, turning quickly to the left to avoid it. "Evy!"

"Sorry!" She called.

"Those things are poisonous you know!" I called out, once again my heart racing.

"Only if they bit you." She pointed out.

"Oh, thank you for that." I groaned, as Rick stepped in.

"So what was all that about?" She asked, as Rick marched over to her tool kit, picking it up and bringing it over to her.

"Oh nothing." I mused, placing my gun away.

"Alex wanted to show us something." rick explained, placing the tool kit down, before chuckling. "I swear, that kid gets more and more like you everyday."

"What you mean," Evy called, turning around to face Rick. "Attractive, sweet and devilishly charming."

"God I hope not." I groaned.

"No." Rick snapped, turning my way before looking back to Evy. "He drives me crazy." Rick explained, before leaning in and kissing Evy. "Now, where were we?"

"Ah yes, my favorite part." I grinned, rushing over to stand near Evy and Rick. "Breaking and entering."

"Hush up." Evy ordered as i laughed. "Right, Hammer and chisel!" She called, turning around fast and coming back up with a tiny hammer and chisel, handing them over to Rick.

"You've got to be kidding me." I laughed as Rick took them in his hands and looked at them as if there were made for a child.

"Oh alright, alright!" Evy groaned, turning back around and grabbing the crow bar. "We'll do it your way."

"Excellent." I smiled.

"Thank you." Rick smiled, taking it in his hands, before turning around fast and slamming it into the large stone door, causing it to slam down onto the ground.

"Excellent work." I smiled, bouncing over to him and patting him on the back, before grabbing a torch and venturing in. "Oh...not so excellent work." I muttered, looking around at all the corpses and then to the floor, which was crawling with scorpions. "Ew..." I groaned, looking back as Evy entered and started dancing her way over top of the scorpions, with me fallowing her.

"Ever since I had that dream, this place is all I can think about." She commented, hopping her way over to the nearest wall.

"Ever since you had that dream i haven't had a decent nights sleep." Rick noted, as he jumped down, walking right over top of the scorpions.

"I feel like I've been here before." Evy said softly, looking up at us. "I know I've been here before."

"But that's kinda impossible." I pointed out.

"Nobody's been here before. Not in the last 3000 years." Rick added. "Unless you count these guys." He said, pointing to the mummy.

"And they don't count." I said, turing to my sister-in-law as Rick joined us at the farthest watt. "At all." I finished, watching as Evy reached up suddenly and took hold of a torch that was on the wall, pulling it down rapidly, as mechanical sound suddenly erupted around us, just as the wall behind us suddenly swung open like a door.

"Oh...great." I groaned, as we backed up.

"Then...how do I seem to know exactly where I'm going?" Evy asked, looking over at us, a worried expression on her face.

"Oh I don't like this..." I groaned, as they ventured into a new series of hallways and corridors, leaving me behind. "I don't like this one bit at all..." Quickly, I started in after them, Rick leading the way, gun out and at the ready.

"What do you suppose is down here?" I whispered to Evy, as we fallowed behind Rick.

"I...I don't know but...whatever it is..." She mused, waving her torch back and forth a few times. "It must be good for it to have been so secretly." She finished, before continuing on into a new room, and then suddenly stopping.

"Evy?" I called softly. "Evy? What's the matter?"

"Did you...feel...what was..." Quite suddenly, she swung her torch to the left, and the room exploded with light.

"What...did you...do..." I whispered, looking around, my eyes wide with shock at the sudden color and brightness of everything that look almost brand new all around us. Everything shinning and bright and clean.

"I...I don't know!" She gasped, waving the torch back to the right, before suddenly stepping down and venturing down.

"Wait! Stop!" I gasped in a whisper, rushing after her and grabbing onto her shoulders. "Evy...where the hell are we?"

"We're...we're in the same room only it's..."

"Newer." I whispered, looking around, still unable to believe what i was seeing.

"Yes..." She whispered as we ventured further ad further into the room, before suddenly a sound stopped us.

"Oh God Evy, I knew you'd be the death of me!" I snapped angrily, coming to stand beside her as we looked forward at a large door that appeared to be made out of gold.

"Hush up...just...just stand still and..." Pausing, Evy turned and looked at me. "Hold my hand?" She mumbled.

"Yeah." I nodded. "Yeah." I repeated once again, before reaching down and locking my hand with her's as we stared forward to the door ahead of us, where the sound were emanating, as the door slowly swung open.

Inside was a room, almost larger then the one we were in. And in the room stood two men, guards, standing on either side of some sort of chest.

"What do you suppose..."

"Shh!" I snapped, as suddenly the door was closed by a woman with dark hair. "Look..." I pointed to the door, seeing something that I recognized. "Is that...does that look like what I think it looks like?"

"Oh my god." Evy gasped, watching as a nearly exact replica of the black puzzle box, the one Rick had found in Hamunaptra, the one that had sealed away Imhotep, was used to lock the large golden door that was standing before us.

"Oh crap!" I gasped, as suddenly the woman turned towards us, heading our way just as Rick appeared and walked at her, as everything suddenly faded back to dark and gloomy.

"What...the...hell.." I gasped, looking around.

"Hey?" Rick called, turning and looking at us. "Since when did you two become holding hand buddies?" He asked, looking down at our hands, still linked together.

"Where did it...why did we..." Slowly, I turned to Evy and gulped. "Do it again." I said, and Evy nodded, before moving the torch around from side to side rapidly.

"You know," Rick called, as he stood in front of the door, trying to open it and peering over at us with a confused expression on his face. "If you do that fast enough you can almost write you name."

"I just had a vision." Evy called, before glancing at me. "We...we just had a vision. It...it was like my dream but...but it was real. It was like we were actually here in ancient times."

"Yeah..." I agreed, still feeling a bit shaken up. "Everything was new and clean and...not dusty." I explained, looking around

"Well, if you actually were here, could you two show me how to open this thing?"

"Alright," I called, stepping up to the plate. "Hold this." I said, handing my gun over to him before I reached down and grabbed hold of the lock. "Here goes nothing..." I sighed, glancing back at Evy before pushing it in, turning it to the right twice, then back to the left once, and then pushing it back in, causing the door to open.

"Alright now you're starting to scare me." Rick said, glancing at myself and then to Evy.

"Trust me, I'm way ahead of you on that front considering what I just..saw." I gulped, turning and looking at Evy once again.

"Come on." Rick called, handing me back my gun, before swinging his torch into the room and slowly venturing in. "So...what else did you...see?" He asked, glancing back at me for a moment.

"Umm...well a woman shut the door."

"That's how we knew the lock combination." Evy added.

"Yeah and...we saw this room."

"Well...what's in here?" He asked stopping short and looking back at me.

"Well there were two men guarding a box but I'm sure they...oh my god!" I gasped, as Rick turned back around, his torch shinning down onto the two bodies of who I assumed were the men who Evy and I had seen . "Well...there you have it." I sighed as Evy marched past me to the cobweb covered body's, before reaching up and brushing one off of a large medallion.

"That's the emblem of the Scorpion King." She explained, looking up at the large golden plate that stood before us. "He's supposed to be pure myth. No trace of him has ever been found before. No, no artifacts, no archival evidence."

"Remember what happened last time we acted like a myth wasn't real?" I asked, looking to Rick and Evy, who stared back at me. "Yeah, a mummy rose from the dead, tried to make you his undead bride, and tried to take over the world."

"Yeah well...maybe they didn't want anyone to find him." Rick added as Evy reached down and dusted off the chest that was before us.

"Let's open this."

"Oh come on." I groaned.

"Evy I don't know, I don't have a real good feeling about this."

"I agree."

"Oh, it's only a chest." Evy said, turning and smiling at us. "No harm ever came from opening a chest."

"Again, I say, remember last time you uttered those words? A mummy rose from the dead, tried to make you his bride and..."

"Oh come on!" Evy called, cutting me off. "We can't stop now."

"Hey just remember, we were the voices of reason here."

"Yeah, even after out little trip down memory lane, I know this is a bad idea."

"For once," Evy smirked, reaching up and taking the crow bar from Rick, before trying to pry open the chest.

"Hun?" Rick called suddenly, stopping Evy as i turned and looked at him. "Let's do it your way." HE suggested, reached over and holding a necklace in his hands, in the form of the same star from the door.

"So it learns." I chuckled as Evy took it in her hands and turned back to the chest, placing the key in it's rightful spot and turning it, causing the chest to open with a gust of dusty air and a snap. "Well, what did we find?" I asked, leaning forward a Evy opened the chest slowly, before peering in.

"The Bracelet of Anubis." Evy said in a shocked whisper.

"The what?" I asked, stepping closer. "Wait, say that again? Isn't Anubis a bad guy?"

"He's the god of the underworld. Keeper of souls. Bringer of Death and..."

"So yeah, basically bad guy!" I snapped as Evy reached in and picked up the bracelet. "Oh, no, no, no! Don't touch it!"

"Evy I think Ellen's right...maybe you should..." Quite suddenly, Rick was interrupted as the ground below as, as well as the walls around us shook violently.

"Oh god..." I groaned, as Evy turned around fast and tossed the bracelet back into the chest, before closing it.

"Well it's a little late for that don't you think!" Rick yelled as everything continued to shake violently.

"Here, put it in your rucksack!" Evy said, picking up the chest and handing it to Rick.

"I have a better idea let's leave it here."

"I vote for that!" I called.

"Well it's a bit late for that!" Evy fire back.

"What's it say? There? On top?" I asked, reaching out and pointing to it.

"Oh...uh...he who disturbs this bracelet shall drink from the Nile." Evy said, finishing the phrase, before looking up. "oh that doesn't sound too bad." She smiled, as a crashing sound erupted in the halls behind us.

"Wanna bet!" I screamed as Rick shoved the chest in his bag, before grabbing hold of Evy's hand as we rushed to the doorway, only to be stopped as a wall of water suddenly appeared, heading right towards us.

"Come on!" Right yelled, veering to the left, pulling Evy along as I fallowed, the water behind us as we rushed down a hallway, before coming to a dead end.

"No! Rick!" I cried out, looking around for some kind of exit.

"Oh GOD!" Evy cried out, as Rick reached out and pulled me into him, along with Evy, just as the massive wall hit us, sending us spiraling around, and out of one another's reach.

Gasping, I breached the surface, looking around and struggling against the current. "Evy! Rick!" I screamed out, just as they popped up beside me.

"There! There! The grate! Go! Swim!" Rick yelled as we fought our way over, reaching it finally as we all reached up and grabbed onto the bars.

"This is bad guys." Rick called.

"We've had bad before!" Evy said.

"This is worse!" Rick noted as the water started to get higher and higher.

"Way worse!" I added, reaching up through the bars and grabbing my last breath before the water started to over flow, and my vision went blurry as water and sand splashed against me as Evy and Rick started to struggle, jerking about just as exhaled and swallowed a massive gulp of water.

And then, everything was rushing past me and we were flying through the water and out into the air, yelling as we flew upwards, before landing down on the sand hard and sliding to a stop right in front of Alex, water all around us, gasping for air.

"GOD!" I screamed out, choking on water as Rick leaned over and slapped my back a few times.

"Mum, Dad, Aunt Ellen, I can explain everything."