Thebes, 3000 B.C
Thebes, the city of the living, was the home of Pharaoh Aknankanon the first. The birth place Dartz, the pharaoh's priest and closest friend of the pharaoh. This was also the home of Iona, the pharaoh second wife (His first wife died giving birth to his son, now fifteen,). She was a beautiful mysterious woman whom Dartz fell in love with. One evening, Iona walked to the balcony where Dartz was secretly waiting for her. "Iona I love you with all my heart." Dartz slowly walked to her. Iona looked away for a little then looked into Dartz hazel eyes. "but this is illegal. What if Aknankanon found out?"
"Then I will die for your love." Dartz leaned in and gave a passionate kiss to Iona. His hand brushed her hair off her shoulder and smudged the ink markings on her arms. Just then Pharaoh Aknankanon opened the great golden door. Dartz hid just in time. "What are you doing here my love?" asked Aknankanon. He knew Iona usually never hung out on the balcony unless she was with him. Then he noticed the smudges on her arms. "and how did you smudge the patterns on your arm?" He had a hurt and stern look in his eyes. Dartz ran up behind Aknankanon and grabbed his sword. Aknankanon turned and saw Dartz behind him, his eyes had blood lust behind them. "Dartz! What are you…" His question was cut short by a blade that was driven into his back. "Ahh!" Aknankanon looked towards his wife in shock as Dartz stabbed him again in his chest. Both preist and wife stabbed the pharaoh again and again until they heard banging at the door. "The Maji!" Dartz looked down at the bloody corpse of the Pharaoh. "Go Dartz!" cried Iona "But they will kill you if you stay!"
"You are the only one who can revive me when I die!" Two of Dartz followers pulled him away into hiding. The golden door flew open. The Maji, followed by the young prince, Atemu, stopped at the bloody sight of the pharaoh. "Prince, look away." The visor Shimon ran in and pulled the young prince away from the bloody carnage as tears started to fall from his crimson eyes. Iona started to laugh hysterically. "I'm no longer the pharaoh's treasure." She turned the blade towards herself and plunged the blade into her heart. Dartz witness her demise and tears flowed down his face. Two nights later Dartz stole Iona's body and took her to Hamanatrua to perform a forbidden spell to bring her to life using the book of the dead. But the Maji caught him and sentence him and his followers to be mummified alive (without the prince knowing). Dartz himself was to endure the Hundie, the most feared curse in the Egyptian spell books. The maji and the prince, now pharaoh, swore to watch over the cursed body to make sure he didn't rise from the dead. They knew that if he was to rise from the grave, He will bring the demise of the world and will rule the world with the plague of darkness for all eternity.
Hamanatura, 1920
Joey was in the ruins of an old Egyptian city; his army had marched for weeks and had finally reached famous Hamanatrua, a city said to houses the riches of Aknankanon the first whom was the richest pharaoh in his time. Unfortunately for Joey and his American comrades, they were faced with an Arabian Amry. Next to Joey was a small man named Rex Raptor. He was the guide for the American company. He had long brown hair with white bands and a red hat. Joey really didn't trust him; Rex was a cowardly man and seemed somewhat stupid. "Get ready!" Joey yelled to his comrades, since he was the platoon leader. "You are with me on this right Rex?" Joey questioned. "Oh yea yea, your bravery and strength gives me strength." Joey looked behind him as the newly promoted company commander of the Egyptian, who was trembling on his horse. He turned the horse around and ran away. Joey gave Rex a confused glare. "He just got promoted ha, ha." Joked Rex. Joey just sighed and called out. "Steady!" the Arabian army got closer and closer. Rex hands started to tremble, making his rifle shake. "Screw this I'm getting out of here!" panicked Rex. He got up and ran. "FIRE!" gun shots were fired at the Arabians. They came closer and closer. Then they jumped over the small clay walls of the city. Joey got up and backed up shooting his revolver at the enemy. Then he ran out of bullets. Joey started to run deep into the abandoned ancient city. He spotted Rex opening an ancient stone doorway. "HEY WAIT UP DON'T CLOSE THAT DOOR!" Rex looked up and gave a sly smile. He closed the door on Joey. "F*&K YOU! YOU DAMN COWARD!" he shouted at the closed door. Joey saw five horse men riding towards him firing at him. Joey kept running dodging any bullets that flew at him. Then he reached an old statue of anubis buried up to the hip in sand. Joey knew this was it. He turned to face the five horse men and closed his eyes waiting to be shot to bits. But nothing happened. He opened his eyes to see the horse men riding away in fear. Why the hell did they run away? Joey looked around at the ancient architecture. Damn this is an amazing city…I wander how a desert people build this place? Joey then accidentally kicked up something in the sand. A small hexagonal box was in the sand. Joey picked up the box and looked at the work on it. Hieroglyphs decorated the sides. Well a little souvenir from here never hurts. He placed the box in a pocket. Suddenly the sand started to shift violently around him. "What the!" Joey panicked and ran out of the city, not noticing the screaming face in the sand. On the cliff near by the city, a group of desert people on horses glared down on the city. One of them, who was the leader of the group, glared down on the carnage of the battle field. "It seemed that the secret was not found, hu, prince Atemu." said the girl with short raven hair. Atemu sighed and glare down. " It is a shame all those lives were cut short over the treasure of my ancestors, but yes the secret seems to be safe for now." Though Atemu was young, only seventeen, He was stern and quite a fighter in battle. Suddenly they noticed a blond guy running out of the city. He looked up towards them. "What about him? Should we kill him?" asked Odion. Atemu shook his head. "No…the desert will kill him." Atemu looked out towards the setting sun. His crimson eyes seemed so distant. Kay took note of this. She thought to herself. It seems like he really doesn't what that foreigner to die. She smiled to herself. She knew Atemu has a weakness for compassion. It was just sad to see him try to hide it.
Cairo, 1923
In the Cairo museum of Ancient antiquities, Tenshi, a young girl around the age of seventeen, was finishing up the last of organizing the 'S' section. "Socrates…Seth volume one, volume two and volume three….and…" She stops and saw a book that wasn't suppose to be with her. "Tutankhamun? Ha what are you doing here? Now where are the 'T's." Tenshi looked behind her and saw the 'T' section. She set down her other books and tried to set the book on the shelf behind her. The ladder she was on suddenly jolted up. "AHH!" Tenshi dropped the book and held on to the rungs of the ladder as it stood completely vertical. "Help…" whimpered Tenshi. She looked down and the ladder lost its balance. She slammed into the book shelf and it toppled into the bookshelf behind it, causing a domino effect. As the last shelf toppled over Tenshi got up from the floor and was panicked about the huge mess she had just made. She took her glasses off. "…oops…" suddenly she heard an angry voice behind her. "WHAT IN RA'S NAME HAPPENDED HERE!?" It was Mr. Shadi. "Oh…M…Mr. Shadi! I seemed to have…Uh…" Shadi was not amused. "Look at this mess! Now I have to set the bookshelves up right and reorganize the books and journals again. Uh… why do I put up with you?" Tenshi was a little agitated with that comment. "Because I know how to read ancient hieroglyphs and hieratic and…and I am the only person in hundred miles who can properly categorize this library that's why!" Then Shadi smiled. "I put up with you because your parents were our finest Egyptologist that's why…bless their souls." Tenshi just sighed and walked out of the library and into the museum. Uhg I know my parents were amazing adventures but I can't even get into a stupid scholars organization! Just then she heard rustling in one of the sarcophagus. "Uhh?" Tenshi slowly walked up to the sarcophagus. Just then a mummy shot upright in the stone coffin. Tenshi jumped up and screamed. "AHHHHH!" then she heard laughing, an all too familiar laughing. "Ryou don't you have any respect for the dead?!" Ryou just giggled. "Of course I do but sometimes I'd rather hang out with them."
"You are going to cost me my job at this rate!" Tenshi was really aggravated now. "Oh dear! What did you do this time?"
"I…I made a bit of a mess in the library and…the scholars turned down my application for the fiftieth time. They say I don't have the experience in the field…Uhhg if only they knew just how much I know! They would beg me to join!"
"But the scholars only allow men into the organization…why would you want to join those up tights?"
"Because I want to prove that I can be just as good as any man in Egyptology! And I know I have what it takes." Tenshi's determination was strong. "Well I have just the thing to cheer you up!" Tenshi suspected another worthless item her older brother wants to sell to Shadi. "Oh no Ryou, I'm not going to try to sell another worthless item to . The last time I did that, it turned out that all you found was an ancient pair of underware." Ryou was unfaced by Tenshi's doubts. "Tenshi this is different I found this on a dig in Thebes!" Ryou took out a hexagonal box with hieroglyphs decorating the sides. Tenshi took the box in her hands and looked at the details. "Wow this is…" she turned the box and it opened the top. Within it was a piece of papyrus. Tenshi took it out and unfolded it. Her eyes grew large in exitment. "Ryou…I think you found something big."
