Hello! This is my first story :)

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it!

I do not own anything except for my own Characters

1290 B.C.

Isis walked swiftly and gracefully down the hallway, with her long brown hair and her black cloak flowing behind her. Servants gave a bow to her as she walked by but her bright blue eyes were fixed upon a pair of doors that lead to Princess Nefertiri's room, the daughter of Seti the first.

The two Medjai warriors that where standing guard looked at the woman as she stopped right in front of them. She was armed with a sword on her left hip and several daggers down both of her legs, there were other weapons on her body they just couldn't see. She also had the same markings on her face as they did, for she too was a Medjai and the first female to become one as well.

"You are dismissed, the princess shall be with me for the day" Isis spoke to them as she bowed her head in respect. The Medjai did just the same before taking their leave to get new orders from their leader or the Pharaoh himself.

Isis pushed the doors open then closed them when she stepped inside, once inside she wasn't surprised to see Nefertiri still sleeping. The sun hadn't even begun to rise and it was still an hour or so before it would, but one could wait for the sun to begin their training.

"Good morning princess" Isis said loudly when she got to Nefertiri's bed side, she watched as the prince slowly start to wake and sat up when she seen her standing there.

"Good morning Isis" she greeted with a smile.

Isis returned it and began to laugh a little, she could never be in a bad mood around Nefertiri. It has always been that way since they were little girls, they truly did take after their fathers when it came to their friendship.

"Come now Nefertiri, it is time to get ready for the day. Today I will show you no mercy when training, for tomorrow you will duel Anck-Su-Namun in front of your father and his courtiers" Isis told her as she walked out onto the balcony.

"Anck-Su-Namun?" she heard Nefertiri question from inside her room as she got ready for training.

"Yes, what the duel is for, I do not know. What I do know is I want to see that concubine finally have her mouth shut. Maybe then she will remember her place in this palace" Isis told her.

"Maybe father will let you fight her in my place" Nefertiri said as a joke but Isis didn't answer.

Isis was looking down from the balcony at the group of Medjai walking towards the place, with their leader at the front. Isis felt her heart stop every time that she looked upon him, for he was the most beautiful thing she has ever laid eyes on. It was a mystery to her at how she managed to keep her composure every time he was around and not to let any of her feelings slip.

"Isis?" Nefertiri asked when she walked up to her friend, but she was in her own world. Nefertiri let her eyes drifted down to see what had Isis's attention and soon found the reason why, Nefertiri couldn't help but smile and lean against the railing.

"Phoenix is a real man, isn't he?" Nefertiri asked.

"Isn't he just the-" Isis stopped when she realized what she was saying. She quickly looked over at Nefertiri who stood there with a huge smile place on her face, not even she knew of her feelings for the Medjai leader… until now.

"He is what?" Nefertiri asked.

"Nothing let us train" Isis quickly said and walked out of Nefertiri's room.

1923

Hamunaptra, City of the dead.

That is what Alexandra O' Connell was currently looking at as she stood upon on a pillar that had fallen some time ago. She had heard all the stories about this place, some saying that it was real and just lost, while others said it never really existed; she would love to prove those people wrong. She now knew the city was real just as real as death itself, and if she hadn't joined the French Foreign Legion in the first place, she never would have seen it for herself.

Truth be told, the city wasn't her reason for coming here or joining the Legion; her reason for joining was her big brother Rick. They've been together through everything since their mother died and their father left; they were all each other had. And with Rick being the loving protective brother that he is, hated the fact that she joined the Legion.

It is one of Alexa's fears that she would get word that her brother was dead, only to find out later that if she had been there he might be alive. She had nightmares about it and refused to let that happen, so, she made that argument to her brother and told him that there was nothing he could say to make her change her mind.

"Hey Alexa" an all too familiar voice called up to her.

Her bright blue eyes traveled down to her the one man in the Legion she couldn't stand; in her opinion he wasn't even a man, but a weasel. She never trusted him from the moment she set eyes on him and he knew it. The man, named Beni, did everything he could not too angry the woman.

It was known to every man at Hamunaptra that she was a great fighter, better than most of them, but then again growing up on the streets and having Rick O' Connell as a brother, anyone would turn into a great fighter.

"What do you want Beni?" Alexa growled at the man and smirked when she seen him take several steps back.

"Your brother is looking for you, says he needs to show you something" the weasel told her before making sure he disappeared from her sights.

Alexa picked up her rifle that she had placed by her feet before walking down the pillar and back onto the sand. Most of the other soldiers were chatting among themselves seeing how they had nothing to do at the moment. They were all waiting for orders from their Commanding officer who was nowhere to be found. But Alexa knew all too well that what the soldiers were chatting about the treasure that was said to be buried under the sand.

Last thing I want is to be cursed by some treasure Alexa thought to herself.

Normally Alexa wouldn't believe in curses, but there was something about Hamunaptra that made her think twice on it.

"There you are" her brother's voice said from behind her, making her practically jump out of her skin.

Her waist long brown hair ended up smacking her brother in the face when she turned around fairly fast. She gave him a small glare then a smirk when she seen him rubbing his cheek from where her hair hit him.

"That stings" Rick said while watching his sister chuckle.

"That's what you get for scaring me half to death, anyways, that little weasel said you wanted to show me something?" she questioned as she lifted her rifle up so it now rested on her shoulder. Rick gave a small smile before reaching into his pocket and pulling out what looked like a puzzle box to her.

As she looked closer she saw that it had writing on the sides of it, hieroglyphics to be more precise. Too bad she couldn't read hieroglyphics but whenever they got out of Hamunaptra it shouldn't be too hard to find someone who could.

"Where did you find this?" she asked as she grabbed it out of her brothers hand, she looked at it closer then turned it ever so slightly and watched as it opened up.

"By one of the statures, that piece of paper inside is a map with Hamunaptra down in the corner" he said. Rick then took the map out and opened to show Alexa what he meant, he had to think this would be worthy something back in Cairo.

"How many people do you think would love to get their hands on this? I mean, the ones who don't already know where it is like we do" Alexa said while handing the box back to her brother.

"Too many, but maybe if their offer a good enough..." he trailed off knowing that she got what he was saying. Alexa gave a laugh and pushed her brother lightly before wrapping her arms around him and giving him a hug which he gladly returned.

She loved her brother more than anything on this Earth.

The bond they have is what every brother and sister should have, or so Alexa believes, she couldn't stand it when she seen brothers and sisters fighting over some little thing that ended up tearing them apart.

Yes, she would be the first to admit that her and Rick had fights over stupid things but they would never let them tear them apart. Even the big fights they had, like Alexa joining the Legion, it was just about them caring about each other too much to let the other die on their own.

One day, when Alexa was fifteen and Rick seventeen, Alexa got into some trouble with some older boys when she tried to steal their money. Since she was smaller than them, she manage to get away by dodging around the people in the street but soon the boys caught up to her and gave her quite the beating. Alexa was sure that they would have killed her if Rick hadn't showed up at that moment and saved her ass.

"You know I love you, right?" Rick said to her and gave her a kiss on top of her head.

"I know same goes for you" Alexa said.

The moment between Rick and Alexa was cut short when one of the soldier's that was on watch starting yelling about an army heading towards them. Rick and Alexa jumped onto a nearby rock and looked out towards the desert and what they seen made their hearts stop on the sport.

There were thousands of Tuareg warriors armed with guns and swords racing towards them, and Alexa was pretty sure they weren't coming for a friendly drink. Alexa now held her rifle with two hands and started running towards the wall as Rick started yelling orders, telling the men to get ready to fight.

It didn't take long for Alexa to reach the wall, drop to her knee and take aim at the army. She knew in the back of her mind that they were all going to be die, there was no way they could take on this army and live. There wasn't even many soldiers there, maybe a hundred or so, nothing like what they needed right now, but Alexa for one was not going down without a fight.

Alexa glanced over when Rick dropped to her right and Beni to his right; they both aimed their guns just like her and waited for the order to fire. But the order never came from their commanding officer, not when she seen him running away from the fight out of the corner of her eye.

She wasn't really surprise to be honest but turned and gave the commanding officer a dull look as he raced out of sight.

"You just got promoted" Beni said to Rick, with was true; Rick was now in command of the Legion.

"At least our new Colonel isn't a coward" Alexa said as she turned her attention back to the battle that was about to being.

"Steady! You're with me on this one right?" Rick asked Beni.

"Oh, Your strength gives me strength" Beni said then noticed Alexa glaring at him, clearly not believing the words that he just said, before looking back.

It wasn't even ten seconds later that she noticed Beni stand up and start running away just like their Commanding officer did, she could have swore Beni yelled to wait for him.

"Okay, so maybe you were right" Rick said glancing at his sister "you're with me right?

"Only in death with I leave your side...then I will haunt you" Alexa said and took aim at one of the riders as he got closer and closer to the city. She took a few deep breaths, calming her nerves and steadying her hands, she couldn't afford to miss any shots.

"Steady! Fire!"

On Rick's order Alexa pulled back on the trigger and was pleased to see that she hit her target. She quickly loaded another bullet into the chamber of the gun and took aim once more. Each time she fire she hit her target, but it seem that every time she killed one of the them, two of her comrades were being killed.

Alexa cursed when she seen how close they were getting to the city and to them, she had no choice but to back away from the wall so that she could get a few more shots off. She reloaded her gun as fast as she could and took aim one more time, but what she didn't see was the warrior coming up fast on her left. When she did notice she was able to move just in time so that his sword didn't cut off her head.

However, she wasn't lucky enough to get away without a scratch.

When the sword was swung, the tip of it was able to catch the left side of her face as she turned her head away. It seemed like it all happened in slow motion for Alexa, she could feel the blade slice through her skin as if it was nothing. The wound, that would now be a scar if she survived, started at the bottom of her chin and stopped just below her eyebrow.

But she was lucky enough that she got away with her life in that fight, and because she closed her eyes, her left eye was protected, but that didn't help the pain.

She hit the ground and yelled in pain as she covered the left side of her face with her hand. When she pulled her hand away she seen just how much she was bleeding, but she knew that she had to get back on her feet or else she was going to be dead for sure.

The moment she got back on her feet she grabbed two of her pistols and started shooting at anything that was on horseback. Because she could only see out of one eye at the moment she missed some of her shots. When she emptied those two pistols she threw them at more warriors, one just happened to knock a warrior off his horse.

By the time he got to his feet Alexa had two more pistols in her hand and shot the man right between the eyes. She looked around at the battle before her, most of the men where now dead on the ground with their blood flowing into the sand. Her eye quickly moved around to try and find her brother but she couldn't see him anywhere and that caused panic to rise up in her before she started running like hell up the ramp that Beni and their commander left on.

"Rick!" she called at the top of her lungs, and didn't get a reply.

She ducked when she felt a bullet go soaring past her head, she placed her hands on a pillar to jump over it and pressed her back against it. Each time a bullet hit the pillar she couldn't help but flinched, she was sure the bullets would come through any minute now. Instead they stopped for just a second, but Alexa took that chance to stand up and start shooting again until her pistols ran out.

"Alexa!"

Alexa seen Rick jump over the pillar that she hid behind just a few moments ago; it did her heart good to see that he was still alive.

"Let's go!" Rick yelled.

They grabbed each other's hand and ran like hell towards one of the doors that would save them. Beni, who for some reason was still there, stopped and looked back at them.

"Run, Beni! Run!" Rick yelled at him "Get inside! Get inside!"

When Beni got inside Alexa wasn't surprise to see him closing the door on them, she glared at him even more and picked up the pace with Rick.

"Beni, I'll kill you if you close that door!" Alexa screamed at the man but they got there just a second too late. Alexa pounded her fist on the door and then ducked when she heard bullets hit the surrounding rock.

"This way!" Rick yelled over the gunfire and started pulling her with him.

By now it was clear that the O' Connell's were the only ones left alive in the city, not counting the weasel that sealed their fate. All they could do was run and hopefully fine someplace where they could hide, which wasn't going to be easy.

Alexa ran beside Rick as fast as she could, both of them jumped over a pillar that was in front of them and ended up with a face full of sand. The wound on her face got full of it and caused her to cry out in pain as it began to sting badly.

Rick seen one of his pistol right in front of them and made a grab from it but pulled his hand back when the warriors started shooting again. He grabbed his sister by the waist and pulled her back on her feet before they both started running again. But they didn't get very far before around group of Tuareg warriors cut them off forcing them to make another turn, only this time it would be their last.

The O' Connell's came to a stop in front of a statue with a steep hill right behind them that would leave them wide open for target practice if they tried to climb. Seeing that they were done for, Alexa cursed and turned around to face the warriors with her brother.

Rick grabbed her and pulled her into a hug as they both waited for the bullets to rip through their bodies. Alexa buried her head into Rick's chest when she hears the guns being cocked back but to her surprise, the shots never came.

Only when she heard the warriors scream and the horses get frightened did she look at them, but by that time they were gone. Alexa raised an eyebrow at this, what in the world would make them run away like that?

"What's with them?" Rick asked still holding his sister close just in case they came back. Before he could get an answer, both of them heard someone whispering, they let go of each other and looked back at the statue right as they hear the words 'you will die'

Alexa backed away from the statue with Rick right as she heard howling, and then the sand started to come up at the two of them making the both yell. Alexa managed to stay on her feet and watched as a face started to form in the sand, she's hasn't felt this scared in a very long time.

"Rick, let's get the fuck out of here!" she yelled at her brother as she grabbed his jacket and pulled him up to his feet.

Once again the O' Connell's started running like hell to get out of this cursed city, Alexa didn't want to die just yet, but she would rather die in the desert if given the choice, just as long as she was far away from that city. There was something there, something evil, and she had a feeling that whatever was there wasn't meant to be found.

When they got out of the city, Alexa started to lose her strength ever so slightly but it was enough to make her fall to her knees, she placed her hands on the ground so that she didn't completely fall over. That battle and whatever was under the sand took a toll on her; the wound on her face wasn't helping her either. It was full of sand and was only going to be worse if it wasn't treated soon.

"Alexa, come on we have to keep moving" Rick told her as he stung one of her arms around is shoulders and place another around her waist.

"Rick" Alexa said then made him stop when she heard horses in the distance "Rick, I think we're being watched"

Alexa and her brother both turned their heads and looked up towards the cliff, there they both seen ten horses and their riders looking down on them. She didn't know why but she had a feeling one of them was looking at her more than her brother, she just didn't know which one.

"Who are they?" Alexa asked.

"I don't know, but it's clear they don't want us here, or they would have helped us, let's go" Rick said and together they made their way towards the desert was fast as they could.

By the time the sunset neither of them had the strength to go on and Alexa was the first to fall. Her eye was getting worse and worse, and there was nothing around to clean it with, hell, there wasn't even water! But that's the desert for you.

"Rick?" she spoke when she looked over at Rick who was on his side with his eyes close, but still breathing. But her voice wouldn't go any louder than a whisper, she tried once more but this time her voice didn't come at all. She held a hand to her throat before she let herself fall into darkness and have one last dream.

A man dress in black, he rode up beside her and dismounted his horse before kneeling beside her. He carefully turned her over onto her back and carefully looked over the wound that was on her face. Seeing just how bad it would get if left untreated, he went to work making sure that it didn't. He gentle cleans all the sand out of the wound with some water he had with him, then he took some bandages and wrapped them around her eye.

Alexa started to wake up and knew that someone one was beside her but she couldn't see his face. It wasn't covered but it was dark and the moon was behind him and made it even harder to see. She felt his hand go around the back of her head and lifted it up slightly so that she could drink some water.

When he was done his work he laid her head back down and then turned to leave but not before speaking to her in Arabic.

"If you return to this place, I will not save you again"

So that's my first Chapter ^-^ I'd love to know what you thought about it :D