A Lost Love
A/N: Hey everyone, so I'm very used to writing fan-fiction for TV shows but I re-watched the Mummy and the idea came up in my head that I had when I first saw this movie so I figured why not put it on paper, or in this case computer/phone screen. I hope you enjoy I welcome all reviews positive or negative. My first attempt at doing a movie one so bare with me :)
Also, order of siblings is: Jonathan, Rosaleigh, and Evelyn
Thebes, City of the Living, crown jewel of Pharaoh Seti the First... home of Imhotep, Pharaoh's high priest..keeper of the dead...birthplace of Anck-su-namun, Pharaoh's mistress. No other man was allowed to touch her. But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself. To resurrect Anck-su-namun... Imhotep and his priests broke into her crypt and stole her body. They raced deep into the desert... taking Anck-su-namun's corpse to Hamunaptra, City of the Dead... ancient burial site for the sons of pharaohs... and resting place for the wealth of Egypt. For his love, Imhotep dared the gods' anger by going deep into the city...where he took the black Book of the Dead from its holy resting place. Anck-su-namun's soul had been sent to the dark underworld...her vital organs removed and placed in five sacred canopic jars. Anck-su-namun's soul had come back from the dead. But Pharaoh's bodyguards had followed Imhotep and stopped him... before the ritual could be completed. Imhotep's priests were condemned to be mummified alive. As for Imhotep...he was condemned to endure the Hom-Dai...the worst of all ancient curses... one so horrible it had never before been bestowed. He was to remain sealed inside his sarcophagus-the undead for alI of eternity. The Magi would never allow him to be released...for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind...an unholy flesh eater with the strength of ages...power over the sands...and the glory of invincibility. For 3,000 years, men and armies fought over this land...never knowing what evil lay beneath it. And for 3,000 years...we, the Magi, the descendants of Pharaoh's sacred bodyguards, kept watch.
Rick POV...
Me and the other fighters took our positions behind some rocks as the riders got closer to us, then suddenly our general dropped his sword and ran off on his horse, I watched him run then looked at Beni, "You just got promoted." He says to me and I looked back at the riders and aimed my gun
"Prenez vos positions!" I yelled, "Steady!" I ordered, "You're with me on this one, right?" I asked Beni
"Oh. Your strength gives me strength."
"Steady!" I ordered again then the next thing I knew Beni took off running after the general
"Wait! Wait for me!"
"Steady!" I tell the other men as the riders got closer, "Fire!" I ordered them and we all fired our guns taking out a few men then I reloaded and fired again taking out more men as they got closer, then they fired at us and some of my men went down. As I backed up while reloading my gun the riders jumped over the rocks taking out my men with their swords, I got my gun reloaded then took one out. One was getting close to me so I hit him with my gun knocking him off the horse, he began to run at me as I was trying to reloaded but I hit him across the face with the gun then dropped it and pulled out my two pistols shooting one after another making my way closer to the temple and pulled out my other two pistols. To many were coming at me and shooting so I jumped over one of the crumbled ruins and saw Beni standing there, "Run, Beni! Run! Get inside!Get inside!" I tell him and he runs into the temple but I see him begin to close the door, "Hey! Don't you close that door! Don't you close that door!" I yelled at him but he shut it then bullets hit the sides and I ran away seeing a pistol on the ground but when I went to grab it they shot at it making me run the other way. I ran through the ruins and saw more riders come around the other side so I went to my right and reached a statue then stopped and faced them. I close my eyes as I hear them cock their guns, but nothing happened, I heard the horses whine then I opened my eyes to see them take off running the other way. I hear a whispering sound and I faced the statue.
You will die. You will die
I heard something say and I backed away from it then heard a howling sound, suddenly little waves of sand started flying up around me and I jumped moving out of the way and ran towards the desert then stopped, I turned and looked up at the cliffs above me seeing 10 people on horses up top watching me, I looked at them a little longer then continued moving. Whatever was going on here, I sure as hell wasn't coming back.
Rosaleigh POV...
I was walking through the museum after finishing my tour when I saw Dr. Bey walk out of his office, "Oh Dr. Bey I was just coming to speak with you." I said to him but he kept walking.
"Speak to me about what Miss Carnahan I'm very busy."
"Well sir it's about my dissertation, I was wondering if you looked over it by chance. It's been a month now." I told him and he waved his hand at me.
"Miss Carnahan I am a very busy man, do you know how many dissertations come across my desk each day?"
"Umm..."
"Over a dozen," He said cutting me off, "I don't have the time to look through every single one. Especially ones as tiresome as yours."
"Tiresome? Dr. Bey I don't think my diss..."
"Look Miss Carnahan," He says and we stopped walking, "Between you and your sister I have formed a massive headache. Now you are great at what you know about your ancient history, but I think you should just stick to what you know and stop believing in fairy tales." He tells me and I was just about to open my mouth to respond when we hear a crashing sound come from the library, we looked at each other and headed for it.
When we walked in we saw all the shelves of books knocked over and my younger sister Evelyn standing in the middle, "What the..."
"What-How c- I-H- How-Oh, look at this!" Dr. Bey shouted as we head over to her, "Sons of the pharaohs! Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you two, the other plagues were a joy!"
"I am so very sorry. It was an accident." Evy says to him
"My girl, when Rameses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You... are a catastrophe! Look at my library! Why do I put up with you?"
"W- Well, you put up with me because I can- I can read and write
ancient Egyptian...and I can- I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic... and, w-well, I am the only person within a thousand miles...who knows how to properly code and catalog this library, that's why." Evy says and I bit my lip to avoid laughing.
"I put up with you because your father and mother were our finest patrons. That's why! Allah rest their souls." Dr. Bey said and I looked at Evy, "Now, I don't care how you do it, I don't care how long it takes. Straighten up this meshiver!" He told her and stormed off, once he was far enough I away me and Evy let out a light laugh and I walked over to her.
"What on earth happened?" I asked her as she stopped laughing
"Some idiot put Tuthmosis in the the S's."
"Parish the thought!" I joked and she smiled at me
"I tired to put it back but the ladder, sort of..got away from me."
"Oh Evy, Evy, Evy. Next time climb down the ladder and move it. Goodness little sister your gonna cause Dr. Bey to have a heart attack." I tell her wrapping my arm around her shoulder and we headed to the storage room then heard a weird noise.
"Hello?" Evy asked and we shared a look when there wasn't an answer, I grabbed the torch next to me and we walked further into the room, "Abdul? Mohammed? Bob?" She asked then there was a thudding sound behind us and we jumped. We walked over to the sarcophagus, and just as we were about to peak inside the fake mummy in there sat up making me and Evy scream then I heard laughing, I saw Jonathan sit up from in there, "Have you no respect for the Dead?" Evy asked him as he laughed.
"Jonathan William Carnahan I should kick your arse for scaring us like that." I said to him calming down my heart.
"Of course I do! But sometimes I'd rather like to join them."
"Well, I wish you would do it before you ruin our careers the way you've ruined yours. Now get out!" Evy yelled at him and he started to climb out
"My dear, sweet baby sisters...I'll have you... know...that at this precise moment my career is on a high note."
"High note. Ha! Jonathan, please, I'm really not in the mood for you. I've just made a bit of a mess in the library..." Evy says
"A bit of a mess?" I asked sarcastically
"..and the Bembridge scholars have rejected my application form again. They say I don't have enough experience in the field." Evy says sitting down on one of the statues.
"Well Dr. Bey said that I should focus on being a museum tour guide instead of chasing fairy-tales." I mentioned sitting down next to her.
"Well you know the whole reincarnation thing is a bit far fetched." Evy told me
"It's not far fetched. Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death."
"Yeah, yeah we've heard it before. Besides, I have just the thing to cheer you both up." Jonathan says crouching down next to us
"Oh, no, Jonathan, not another worthless trinket. If I have to take one more piece of junk to the curator to try and...sell for you-" Evy says but he held up a somewhat circular box, "Where did you get this?" She asked him taking it.
"On a dig down in Thebes. My whole life I've never found anything. Please tell me I've found something." Jonathan says and Evy opened the box and unfolded a piece of paper that showed a map
"Jonathan."
"Yes?" He asked her
"I think you've found something."
"You see the cartouche there. It's the official royal seal of Seti the First, I'm sure of it." Evy pointed out to Dr. Bey as we stood in his office.
"Perhaps."
"Two questions. Who the hell was Seti the First, and was he rich?" Jonathan asked and I rolled my eyes.
"He was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty... said to be the wealthiest pharaoh of them all." I tell him
"Good. I like this fellow. I like him very much."
"I've already dated the map. It's almost 3,000 years old. And if you look at the hieratic just here...well, it's Hamunaptra." Evy pointed out
"Dear God, don't be ridiculous. We're scholars, not treasure hunters. Hamunaptra's a myth told by ancient Arab storytellers...to amuse Greek and Roman tourists." Dr. Bey told her
"We know alI the blather about the city being protected by the curse of a mummy...but Evy's research has led us to believe... that the city itself may have actually existed." I said to him
"Are we talking about the Hamunaptra?" Jonathan asked
"Yes. The City of the Dead. Where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden the wealth of Egypt." Evy says
"Yes, yes, i-i-in a big, underground treasure chamber."
"Heh!" Dr. Bey chuckled
"Oh, come on. Everybody knows the story. The entire necropolis was rigged to sink into the sand on Pharaoh's command. The place would disappear beneath the sand dunes, taking the treasure with it." Jonathan explained
"As the Americans would say, it's all fairy tales and hokum-Oh, my goodness! Look at that!" Dr. Bey says then I see the map catch on fire and he dropped it. Me, Evy and Jonathan ran to it to putting out what we could.
"You've burnt it! You've burned off the part with the lost city." Jonathan tells him
"It's for the best, I'm sure. Many men have wasted their lives... in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra. No one's ever found it. Most...have never returned."
"Come, come! Step over the threshold. Welcome to Cairo Prison, my humble home." The slimy guy in charge told us as we followed him.
"You told us that you got it on a dig down in Thebes." Evy pointed out to him
"Well, I was mistaken."
"You lied." I said
"I lie to everybody. What makes you two so special?"
"We're your sisters." I tell him
"That just makes you both more gullible."
"You stole it from a drunk at the local casbah." Evy says
"Picked his pocket, actually. So I don't think it's a very good-"
"Stop being so ridiculous. What exactly is this man in prison for?" Evy asked the head guy, quite a sleaze ball if you ask me.
"This I do not know. But when I heard that you were coming, I asked him that myself."
"And what did he say?" I asked him
"He said he was just looking for a good time." The man said after hollering for the guards to get the prisoner. Few moments later two guards brought out a man with kind of long brown hair.
"This is the man that you stole it from?" I asked Jonathan
"Yes, exactly. So why don't we just go sniff out a spot of tiffin-"
"Who are you?" The prisoner asked, "And who are the broads?"
"Broads?" Me and Evy asked him at the same time
"I- I'm just a local sort of missionary chap, spreading the good word. But this is my sister Evy and my sister Rose." Jonathan
"How do you do?" Evy asked him
"Oh, well. Guess their both not a total loss."
"I beg your pardon." I said and the man shouted something then began to walk away
"I'll be back in a moment."
"Ask him about the box." Jonathan says to Evy
"Um, we have found-Uh, hello. Excuse me. We both found your puzzle box... and we've come to ask you about it."
"No." The prisoner told her
"No?"
"No. You came to ask me about Hamunaptra." He said to us
"How do you know the box pertains to Hamunaptra?" I asked him
"Because that's where I was when I found it. I was there."
"But how do we know that's not a load of pig's wallow?" Jonathan asked him moving over to the cell
"Do I know you?"
"No, no. I've just got one of those faces." Jonathan tells him and the guy punched him.
"You were actually at Hamunaptra?" Evy asked walking over Jonathan as I shook my head.
"Yeah, I was there."
"You swear?" Evy asked
"Every damn day."
"I didn't mean that-" Evy says
"I know. I was there. Seti's place. City of the Dead."
"Could you tell us how to get there?" She asked him, "I mean, the exact location."
"You want to know?" The man asked Evy
"W-Well, yes."
"Do you really want to know?" He asked again and she moved closer
"Yes." She answered and he grabbed her chin and kissed her
"Hey!" I shouted at him
"Then get me the hell out of here!" The guy tells her and the guards picked him up, "Do it, lady!"
"Where are they taking him?" Evy asked the head guy
"To be hanged. Apparently he had a very good time."
"I will give you 100 pounds to save this man's life." Evy tells the man as we watch the prisoner get walked up the stairs to the noose.
"Madame, I would pay 100 pounds just to see him hang."
"Yahemar!" One of the men by the prisoner shouted then told him something else.
"Of course we don't let him go!"
"Five hundred pounds!" Evy says to him
"Evy." I warned her and the man stopped the guards
"And what else? I'm a very lonely man." The man said and put his hand on Evy's leg but before I could smack him she hit his hand with her clutch then everyone laughed at him.
"Yalla tlak!" The man ordered
"No!" Evy yelled as they dropped the prisoner down
"Ha ha! His neck did not break! Oh, I'm so sorry. Now we must watch him strangle to death."
"He knows the location to Hamunaptra." Evy tells the man and he looked at her
"You lie."
"I would never!" Evy defended
"Are you telling me this filthy, godless son of a pig knows where to find the City of the Dead?" He asked her
"Yes!"
"Truly?" He asked
"Yes! And if you cut him down, we will give you-" Evy says and looked at me as I mouthed a number to her, "Ten percent."
"Fifty percent."
"Twenty." Evy said
"Forty."
"Thirty!" Evy told him
"Twenty-five."
"Ah! Deal." Evy said with glee and I hid back a smile and the man groaned.
"Ahh! Cut him down!" He ordered and the guard cut the rope causing the prisoner to fall to the ground and Evy stood up looking at him.
"Do you really think he's going to show up?" Evy asked us as we walked to the boat
"Yes, undoubtedly, knowing my luck. He may be a cowboy, but I know the breed. His word is his word." Jonathan says
"Well maybe you shouldn't have stolen from him." I pointed out
"Stole is a strong word.."
"Well, personally I think he's filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don't like him one bit." Evy said setting her bags down.
"Anyone I know?" We heard someone ask and we turned around seeing the prisoner standing there but his hair was cut, he was clean shaven and dressed up nice. To be honest I was a little put off.
"Um, hello." Evy says in shock and I smiled at Jonathan
"Smashing day for the start of an adventure, eh, O'Connell?" Jonathan asked him patting his chest then shook his hand
"Yeah. Yeah, smashing." O'Connell told him and checked the inside pocket of his coat.
"Oh, no, no, I'd never steal from a partner... partner." Jonathan says and I shook my head
"That reminds me. No hard feelings about the-" O'Connell mentioned indicating how he punched Jonathan.
"Oh, no, no. Happens alI the time."
"Mr. O'Connell. Can you look me in the eye and guarantee me this isn't some kind of a flimflam? Because if it is, I am warning you-" Evy started to tell him
"You're warning me? Lady, let me put it this way: My whole damn garrison believed in this so much... that without orders, they marched halfway across Libya and into Egypt to find that city. When we got there, all we found...was sand and blood. Let me get your bags." O'Connell told her gathering up her bags and headed up the ramp to the boat.
"Yes, yes, you're right. Filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. Nothing to like there at all." I say to Evy looping my arm through hers and she sighed at me.
"Bright good morning to all." We heard and saw the prison owner walk up to us
"Oh, no. What are you doing here?" Evy asked him
"I'm here to protect my investment, thank you very much." He said and walked up the ramp as well.
"Don't worry about it, if we're lucky maybe he will fall over board." I tell her and she chuckled.
