A/N: Okay, the, well, not so long, but awaited sequel to "Scarab Locket" is here! Chapter one begins, if you can't tell, where we first see the O'Connell's in the movie. Oh, and I know that this chapter is really following the movie scene just a little too much, but it's because there was so much dialogue that I couldn't really help but follow it and have Sarah talk in between it. And I think I accidentally had her steal one of Rick's lines. Sorry.

Anyway. Happy reading. The next chapter should come pretty quickly, but I'll have to see where I am on the others. I had started this before I finished Scarab Locket, so that's why this chapter got put up so fast.

And without further ado...

Chapter 1

Familiarity

The one thought going through my mind was "This is a really odd way to bond with your parents." Similar thoughts earlier in the day had been "Most nineteen year old girls don't do this." or "This is not normal." But since when had my life ever been normal?

Evelyn's voice cut through my thoughts. "Could you hand me that brush, dear?"

"Sure mum." I said, and handed her said brush. Yep, most nineteen-year-old girls would not be on an archeological dig with their mother, father, and little brother. They would be at home, doing something with their friends, maybe preparing for college, but something to do with friends. My problem was that I, still, had very few of those. Nine years, and I was still an oddity to these English people, except for my family.

"Mum, should I clear the cobwebs off the edges of the door?" I asked, thinking that it would make it easier for Rick, who would inevitably break the door down, rather than chiseling through it, as Evelyn would prefer.

"Sure, Sarah, it'll make it easier for Rick to chisel." Evelyn said echoing my thoughts, though what she figured he'd do was slightly different than mine, as she began taking off the layers of cobwebs and dust on a picture in the door. I took a brush to the edges of it, and, after removing a ton of dust, from a wide area on the sides, I could see where the edges of the door should be, and dusted only that section.

"Do you hear something?" I paused listening. Evelyn paused too.

"It sounds like Alex and Rick talking." Evelyn said after a few seconds, and we both went back to brushing away dust.

"I don't know why Dad thinks Alex is going to stay in the temple the entire time." I sighed and shook my head. "Every time he finds something, he's going to come running through here to find us."

"I know." Evelyn smiled. "But it's much needed wishful thinking on our part."

After a few minutes of almost dead silence, save for the sounds of brushes moving across the walls, I could hear something else.

"Do you hear that?" Evelyn looked at me, and I nodded, both of us turning behind us, looking down, at an orange, black and white banded snake slithered toward us.

"Go away." Evelyn said calmly, catching the snake with the toe of her boot and kicking it, sending it flying, just as Rick came into the room.

"Whoa!" Rick dodged out of the way as the snake flew by his face. "Those things are poisonous, you know." But then he grinned.

"Only if they bite you." Evelyn replied, smiling. As we went back to dusting off the door, Evelyn started talking.

"Now what was all that about?" She asked.

"Oh, Alex wanted to show me something. Now where where we?" Rick asked. Evelyn dug into the toolbox and held up two miniscule tools.

"Hammer and chisel. Sarah's dusted off most of the edges of the door for you."

Rick took the tools, looked at them, and then gave Evelyn a look like 'you have to be kidding me'. I couldn't blame him, even I would have just knocked it down, but I wasn't too keen on pointing that out.

"Oh alright! We'll do it your way." She gave in, putting the tools back in the box and handing Rick a large pipe.

"Thank you." Rick said. "Watch out Sarah."

I moved out of the way, and he swung, knocking the door down into, what we found upon going in, a circular room filled with mummies, and skulls and bugs all over the floor. I tried not to cringe. I hated scorpions, and spiders. Little spiders were okay, like the ones that you find in your bathroom, or in a barn hayloft, or something like that, but the big hairy ones, like these, freaked me out.

"I feel like I've been here before." Evelyn said, as she tiptoed across the floor to avoid stepping on the bugs. I followed her example, but ended up crushing a few, I still had my dad's lack of nimbleness. "I know I've been here before." She said as she reached the other side of the room.

"No one's been here before." Rick said, puzzled. "Not in at least three thousand years. Except for these guys." He gestured to the mummies.

"Funny, I had that same feeling when we entered the city." I said, recalling the strange feeling I had, the feeling of recognition, a day ago. "And in the temple, but not here."

"But no ones been here." Rick didn't quite understand what we were getting at. "Maybe you had a dream about somewhere that looked like here, both of you. Didn't you both say that you'd been having dreams?"

"Yes, but how do I seem to know exactly where I'm going?" Evelyn asked as she pulled down a lever, and a door, made out of the wall, opened. Rick went in first, and Evelyn and I followed. We had to stoop ever so slightly going into a tunnel, but going through it, and coming out of it, we could stand again. Looking around, I heard Evelyn gasp, and she waved the torch twice. I watched, puzzled, as she looked around, like she could see something we couldn't. She stared at the door intently, like she was memorizing or reading something.

"Hey Sarah, look at these." Rick said, pointing to some hieroglyphs on the door. We walked forward, Rick took the bar and attempted to wedge open the door.

"Does it say anything about opening this thing?" He asked.

I looked at the door, reading.

"No. Its just history, what little I can read is names of Pharaohs or things like that." I said, after I scanned through it.

"You know, if you move that thing fast enough you can almost write your name?" I looked at Rick, wondering what in the world he was talking about, then realized he was talking to Evelyn.

"I just had a vision." She said suddenly. "It was like my dream, but it was real. Like I was actually here in Ancient times."

"Well, if you actually where here, could you show me how to open this thing?" Rick asked. "Sarah says there's nothing on the door about it."

"Okay." Evelyn walked to the door and pulled out a sort of knob-like thing, and turned it, in some sort of pattern that I couldn't figure out, and I guessed that was what she'd been looking at earlier. Pushing it back in, we all gasped, Evelyn and I stumbled backwards out of the way, as the door opened. Pushing it open a little more so we could go through, Evelyn gasped and walked to the end of the room. She pulled some spider webs off a large gold disk. I looked around the room, trying to get a clearer picture of the hieroglyphs on the walls. Never mind the two soldier mummies guarding whatever what was in the chest that sat beneath the gold disk on a table, we had seen plenty of those before.

"That's the emblem of the Scorpion King!" She said excitedly. "But he's supposed to be pure myth! No trace of him has ever been found before…."

"Maybe they didn't want anyone to find him." Rick said, looking at it.

"Let's open this." Evelyn said, examining a chest.

"I don't know, I don't have a real good feeling about this one." Rick said.

"It's only a chest." Evelyn smiled. "No harm in opening a chest."

"Yeah, like no harm ever came from opening a book, remember how that one went?" Rick said. I turned away, suddenly becoming very interested in a pillar. I could think about my dad and uncles by now, but I still didn't like to talk about the particular adventure where I had met my adopted parents. It was like how dad had never liked to talk about sicknesses, and he had avoided hospitals like the plague after my mom died.

"Oh come on, we can't stop now." Evelyn smiled as she turned a key that Rick had found in the lock. The hieroglyphs on the wall were hard to make out. They were fading slightly, and I couldn't read them, as we only had two torches, and that wasn't nearly enough light.

"The Bracelet of Anubis." I heard Evelyn gasp. I turned and walked back to them, now eager to see the item Evelyn held in her hands.

Suddenly we heard, and felt, a deep rumbling from somewhere on the other side of the wall, Evelyn gasped and threw the bracelet back into the chest.

"Well it's a bit late for that, isn't it?" Rick said.

"Put it in your rucksack!" Evelyn said, handing the chest to him.

"Let's just leave it here!" Rick replied, handing it back to her.

"I think it's a bit late for that!" Evelyn said.

"What's the chest say?" I asked, thinking that would help.

"He who disturbs this bracelet, shall drink from the Nile." Evelyn read slowly, having to translate. "Oh that's not too bad." She said, not thinking of several ways that one could interpret that message. I didn't think that the chest was talking about mummies forcing us to drink from the river.

"Mom, I don't know what you're thinking, but judging from the relieved look on your face, trust me, I think that they've thought of worse." I voiced my thought.

We rushed out of the room, and out of the antechamber, and tomb. As we reached the hallway, we heard the loud boom of a wall falling in, and the sight of water rushing in like the floodgates of Heaven had just been opened quickly greeted us.

"Run!" Rick yelled, grabbing Evelyn, who grabbed me, and we took off out of the room, back through the tunnel, and through the tomb that we had uncovered. It was dry in the passageway, but I could hear water rumbling behind us as we flew down the opposite direction. We turned a corner, and I thought there was a sloping path up here, but I was wrong, and we hit a dead end.

"Oh, we're dead." I groaned.

Evelyn and Rick grabbed me, and I was squashed between them in somewhat of a hug as the water hit. We were blown backwards off our feet and hit the wall. I tried to swim upward, but the water kept slamming me against the wall again and again. Strangely, I remembered something that Dad had once said about drowning, 'I'd rather be hung or shot than drown, that's a rough way to die.' That was no help at the moment. Suddenly I felt Rick's hand grab my wrist and pull me up.

"Sarah! Grab onto that bar!" Rick yelled to make himself heard. I grabbed the bar of what was probably a little ventilation hole to let fresh air in, in ancient times.

The water was rising fast and I sucked in as much air as I could, but after awhile could only keep my nose and eyes above water. I could hear Rick and Evelyn talking, but I couldn't hear what they where saying, the roar of the water was too loud in my ears.

Suddenly the walls and ceiling began to rumble, and even I could hear a giant BOOM, from somewhere on the other side of the wall, and I was suddenly jerked out of my grip on the ventilation bars and sucked along with the unbreakable current. I waited to drown, to run out of air, but was surprised when I could feel my face out of water, and realized that we where back in the temple, only the temple now had a large hole in the wall, and the pillars were toppled.

I looked up and was greeted by the sight of a very disheveled and surprised-looking Alex.

"Mum, Dad, Sarah, I can explain everything."