Here is chapter one redone, I hope you like it!

Chapter One

4,000 Years Ago

Thebes, City of the Dead, crown jewel of Seti 1. The Pharaoh is blessed to have the Gods walking among them again. The people rejoiced to have Osiris and Isis running the kingdom once again. Everyone that is except for one, the Pharaoh's High Priest, Imhotep. He is forced to watch the woman he loves controlled by the God. Breaking every word the Pharaoh had promised him. Anger filled his every waking moment, allowing his mind to become weak, unguarded, allowing for a presence to take over.

Imhotep gripped the table he had been standing at as something foreign entered his mind. His vision filled with red, and suddenly he had no control of his body. He began to panic as he struggled to move his hand. He stopped when he heard a chuckle ring through his mind.

*I wouldn't struggle Priest, your body and mind are now mine.*

*Who is this* demanded Imhotep as he struggled again.

*It is I Set, God of Chaos. Your anger at my brother has made your mind weak and the perfect place for me to take over.*

Imhotep fought viciously against the God, but ultimately lost. Set locked Imhotep deep inside his mind, so deep that he was just a shadow. He couldn't see, hear, or feel anything that was going on in his body. He didn't know that Set was lying in wait in the Pharaohs private bedchamber. His eyes glowed red for a moment with anticipation as Osiris and Isis entered the chamber. He waited until they had locked to doors before he stepped out of the shadows.

"Imhotep, my High Priest, what are you doing here?!" demanded Seti/Osiris.

Seth smiled and let his red eyes show for a moment. "I'm here to kill you." Before Seti/Osiris could react Set/Imhotep grabbed the sword from around his waist and used it to stab Seti through the heart, killing him instantly. Isis looked at horror at the body of her beloved. Set/Imhotep smiled at Isis, Isis barred her teeth and turned towards the door.

"Medjai! Medjai!" she screamed, turning back to Imhotep she smiled.

"You will not win Imhotep, I will not give up this host, I'd rather die." With that she pulled out the dagger from its sheath and stabbed herself in the stomach, laughing as she left her host to die. Set laughed in Imhotep's head as he too left his host to return back to the spirit world. Imhotep collapsed like a puppet whose strings had been cut. His mind came bursting from the prison Set had locked him away in. He eyes taking in the sight of body of Seti and the dying body of Ank Su Namun. Set's memory of killing the Pharaoh rose in front of his eyes and Isis stabbing Ank came rushing over his eyes.

Imhotep forced himself to crawl over to Ank Su Namun who was struggling to breath.

"Ank Su Namun" he whispered pulling her head to rest in his lap. "I'm so sorry my love."

"Imhotep" she gasped, reaching up to touch his face. "I know that this wasn't your fault. Know that I love you."

Imhotep cupped her face, "I love you to, Ank. Please stay with me" he whispered caressing her face.

Ank tried to smile but grimaced in pain. "I will be waiting for you in the Hall of Judgment. I will not let Anubis weigh my heart until you are by my side to start the next life."

Imhotep tried to hold back his tears, "No, we will have another chance in this one. I will resurrect you."

Ank eyes widened for a moment before her body went still, the breath leaving her body. Imhotep leaned down and touched his lips to hers, the sound of the Medjai trying to break down the door filled the room. Imhotep's priest ran in through a secret passage. They grabbed at him, struggling to take their master away.

Imhotep resisted at first, but being an unwilling host caught up with him and his vision filled with black and he passed out. Imhotep's priests dragged their master away from the scene, they knew what had happened to their master. They also knew that they would have to hide their master from the wrath of the Gods and Medjai.

They hid Imhotep deep in the city, where few people dared venture. They stood guard, murmuring prayers to Ra, the true King of the Gods. For three days they prayed and burned sacred plants willing their master to wake. Imhotep awoke on the end of the third day, much to his priest's relief. Imhotep immediately got to work, stealing Ank Su Namun's body from her crypt taking her deep into the desert to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead. There he took the Black Book from its holy resting place and went deep into the city to the vault of souls. There he began the spell on bringing his love back, but moments before he succeeded the Medjai came rushing in, stopping him from completing the spell.

The Medjai beat him to an inch of his life for killing the Pharaoh before being transported back to Thebes for judgment by the Gods. Imhotep was forced to silence by the removal of his tongue and his lips glued together, so when the Gods passed their punishment he was unable to defend himself, to tell them that he had been controlled by Set. He was forced to watch as his loyal Priests were mummified alive before he was forced into his fate. He struggled against the Medjai as they strapped him to the table. Trying desperately to tell them to stop. He was ignored as they began to wrap his body in linen, so tightly that he couldn't move his toes. He was tortured more as the Medjai wrapped him up until his arms were strapped to his chest and his face was tightly bound. They completed just as the sun reached its noon position and they laid him in his coffin and left to eat the mid-day meal. Imhotep began to cry as he lay there struggling to move, to breathe through the cloth. He didn't know how long he lay there until he heard the Medjai return. He prepared himself as he heard them began to recite the curse.

He began to curse the Gods that condemned him to this fate, until the scarabs were thrown into his coffin, after that he knew nothing but pain. Pain that never stopped, that continued through thousands of years. In those first terrible days he managed to break through his bindings after the scarabs had eaten their way through. Using his finger nails he wrote a message to the Gods. He knew that when he was awoken, for he would someday be awoken that nothing could stop him. Because Death is only the beginning.

Present Day

After all the excitement of the past few weeks the Kane's finally got to ask the question that had been bugging Sadie and Carter. Desjardins had said that their Dad should have died long ago when he was in the City of the Dead. Amos had finally returned to Brooklyn house and Sadie and Carter had cornered Amos with this information.

"So Uncle Amos, do you know why Desjardins told us that Dad should have died in the City of the Dead?" asked Carter.

Amos sighed, "So Desjardins decided to dig up the past. I'm to assume that you will not give this up unless I tell you." Both of them nodded, Amos motioned for them to follow him into the library. Farid looked up from where he was reading a book as the trio entered the library, he smirked at Amos.

"So they managed to corner you."

Amos rolled his eyes at the young man and took a seat motioning for Sadie and Carter to do the same. Farid set down his book and moved his chair closer, he was curious to, about what Desjardins meant.

Amos settled down in his seat and looked at the three before him. "It was about twenty years ago, your father had just graduated college two years prior. He also was considered a full member of the House of Life. Now the City of the Dead is a place called Hamunaptra, the treasure trove of ancient Egypt, all the wealth of Egypt was held in that City. About 4,000 years ago a magician/priest was subjected to the worst of all curses in history, the Hum-Dai. It's an ancient curse that the victim is like a zombie, you don't die but experience more pain than you can imagine. You are kept alive, in magical suspension until you are awaken. But as you set in suspension your powers grow until it's near unlimited, and when you awaken you have power of the plagues that are described in the bible. Your Dad accidently released this magician from his curse and by then he had gathered enough power that he could destroy the world."

"You got to be joking mate," exclaimed Sadie. "What did he do to deserve such a fate!"

"He had the ancient curse casted on him from killing a host of a god, King Seti I, who was Osiris host at the time. It is assumed that the magician thought that after he was dead Isis would release her host and the Magician and Isis host would be together again. But Isis killed her host rather than letting the magician win. When the magician was caught the rest of the Gods punished him by making him suffer the Hum-Dai an ancient curse that was only preformed on that one magician."

"So dad released a mummy in other words," summarized Carter.

Amos smiled slightly "Yes indeed."

Farid looked thoughtful, "So Isis host and the mummy where involved before they received the Gods?"

Amos nodded, "Yes, but the gods didn't really care, Seti and Anck Su Namun, which was Isis host, were engaged, Anck Su Namun was to be his fourth wife. She was the most beautiful, which is why she was chosen. So when Isis chose her out of the wives, they didn't even care that she loved someone else. Of course that changed when they were hosted." said Amos.

"Why did they consent to being hosts?" said Carter.

"Because it was custom for the Pharoahs and one of their wives to host gods" explained Amos. "Also the Gods didn't really give them a choice in the matter, even if Anck Su Namun refused Isis would have taken over, the Gods are not used to being refused."

Sadie nodded, she remembered how Isis had tried to pull the same stunt. "So how did dad get mixed in with all of this?" asked Sadie getting comfortable.

"Your dad had received a letter from an college class mate named Evy Carnahan, whose brother had discovered a map that would lead them to the lost city of Hamunaptra and she wanted your Dad's to help her find it. Julius knew what Evy wanted to find, she and your Dad had been best of friends in college. But to enter Hamunaptra, even today is a danger, it is heavily warded against intruders. What Evy wanted to find was also dangerous for any non-magician who tampers with it" said Amos. "But I'm getting ahead of myself, let me start off at the beginning.

Egypt 20 years ago

Julius knew that he had to talk Evy out of going, the City was warded by spells, powerful ones and there were only certain ways into the city if you managed to bypass the spells. Osiris knows how she found a map, all maps were destroyed over four-thousand years ago.

But he would straighten all of this out when he arrived at Cairo prison, where Evy said to meet her. Apparently Jonathan didn't get the map by honest ways as usual. But he hoped and prayed the map was fake for the horror this trip could cause. He wished that Jonathan would just keep his hands out of other people pockets!