Just a little observation:
Meela Nais is the reincarnation of Anck su namun. On The Mummy Returns, Imhotep read from the Book of the Dead and performed the incantations that summoned Anck-Su-Namun's soul into Meela's body. Meela was dead, and Anck-Su-Namun had been reborn. So, we have Anck su namun in this story, but thanks to her appearance some characters think she is Meela.
Have a good reading!
Chapter 1 – How can I live?
On the way to the Scorpion King, the God Anubis has taken Imhotep's powers. To Anck su namun that has changed everything, she was really scared. To Imhotep, they came so far to come back, nothing could stop them.
-I don't want to lose you again! Said Anck su namun, holding him and looking inside his eyes.
He kissed her and left. She screamed no over and over again, but he didn't listen. She cried. How could he do that? It was madness! Was the risk chance of power more important than staying with her? Than their lives and love? For a moment, she felt abandoned and many thoughts crossed her worrying mind Was a child really possible? Imhotep was an undead, but she wasn't She had a young and fertile body. She remembered that a long, long time ago pregnant women from the Pharaoh had the same weakness symptoms as her. It was so hard to be pregnant in that time. Women usually died on childbirth and children didn't last long. She remembered what she had done to Nefertiri and prayed to the gods. Imhotep MUST kill the Scorpion and come back alive. Nefertiri's new brother had arrived asking for revenge. Pathetic thing. At least she would have some distraction.
When Evelyn returned to life, she didn't remember nothing about the gods' decision. She felt the baby was lost but just her past life as Nefertiri was fresher on her mind. Anck su namun was close to kill Johnathan but she interrupted and fought won the battle and Anck su namun ran away from her.
In the end, Rick killed the Scorpion King, But he wasn't safe. He and Imhotep were hanging on the edge of the underworld. Evelyn and Anck su namun could see them at distance. Rick commanded Evelyn to go and save herself. She didn't listen and went to help him. After some time, Imhotep yelled Anck su namun for help. Anck su namun was terrified. She and that whole place were falling apart. Rick wanted her wife to save herself, but Imhotep wanted her to save him. Has she ever mattered to him or just power mattered? When she asked him to stay he left. She loved Imhotep more than anything she ever loved, but she didn't want to die. Not now she could have a child. Every muscle of her body wanted to help Imhotep, but she turned around and screamed no, in tears. Imhotep couldn't believe his eyes. After everything he did to her she left him. She only cared about herself. Tears rolled his eyes. He jumped into the underworld. there was no reason to breath.
Anck su namun dried her eyes and picked up the Book of the Dead. "I will bring him back and everything will be fine again," she thought. but first she had to leave that damned place while she could. She opened it and tried to read. Pieces from the roof felt on the page. She found an incantation that could remove her from there. She read it and closed her eyes. When she opened them, she was in Karnak temple, Safe and sound She looked into her hands… where was the book? No! It couldn't be, she looked around her there was no trace of the book. It remained on the pyramid. She felt despair. She started to scream and she wept. Imhotep was lost. What would she do? She broke a Pharaoh's statue and cried some more. She sat on the floor. After some moments a couple desert men on their camels arrived.
-Lady, are you fine? One of them asked to her. There was no answer.
-Are you hurt? Asked the other, touching the back of her shoulder. Anck su namun unsheathed and dagger and killed him after she fought with the other and she split his throat. She had become a skillful killer. She dressed their clothes, took their money and food and left with their camels. It was a long travel. She could speak English and Arabic thanks to her reincarnation memories, Meela's memories. When she finally got to Cairo she was feeling sick.
She remembered Meela had a house in Cairo. It was going to be her house now. So she went to her house. When she got there people had no doubt she was Meela and looked after her. She would be Meela again now. It wasn't her true identity or life, but at least she was alive, and her baby could be alive too. After the doctor arrived she was sure there was a baby. She wondered what to do. She couldn't raise that child alone, in that society single mothers and their children were despised. She couldn't resurrect Imhotep.
She was going to need a thought hit her like a punch. She didn't want another man but Imhotep. However, her child needed the best chance she could give. After a couple weeks, she received some flowers and a dinner invitation from a man called Edward Crawford. he wrote he was glad about her return and wanted to see her. She dressed an elegant blue dress and met him. Edward was a young archeologist with brown hair and hazel eyes. He was really excited to see her, actually he was already interested in her. He asked about the diggings she had done and listened to her fascinated. Anck su namun could see he was a kind-hearted and ingenuous man. It wasn't long until he fell in love with her and proposed. She accepted it and married him although every time he touched her, she remembered Imhotep. How she wished Edward was dead in the underworld and Imhotep alive with her... In her mind, Anck su namun planned to use Edward Crawford to find Imhotep again and resurrect him.
The first thing the O'Connells did after they came back home was taking Evelyn to see an obstetrician. He was really confused.
-Mrs. O'Connell, are you sure you were pregnant? Asked the Doctor.
-The other exams showed I was.
-She was feeling sick too. – Said Rick.
-Did you have any bleeding? Abdominal pain?
Evelyn took a deep breath. She remembered Anck su namun.
-Yes… I had.
Rick hold her hand.
-Mrs. O'Connell, the actual exams don't show any pregnancy sign. I'm sorry.
-So, I lost it?
-There are no signs of abortion either. I believe the older exams were mistaken. You had never been pregnant…
He didn't convince Evelyn. She knew her body. She knew she was holding a child and now she wasn't anymore. She knew why.
-She did it again, Rick. She killed someone I loved again! – Evelyn felt miserable. Even in her next reincarnation Anck su namun was able to inflict her pain.
-Sweetheart… - Rick embraced her, placing her head on his chest – I'm sorry… You, We lost it, but we still have each other. We still have Alex. I promise you this: You will never lose me or Alex I won't let that happen. I won't fail again.
They mourned for months and never could have another baby, no matter how they tried.
In the Underworld the Goddess Maat needed to send the Rick and Evelyn's offspring to another world. She couldn't do that alone. Motherhood and newborns weren't her function. She asked help for Isis, the queen of gods; and Hathor the goddess of love. Isis wore rich red clothes and she had shining wings with an elegance that only a queen can have. Hathor was also gorgeous, she had horns that seemed to be made of some precious stone. Her face painted with colors that emphasized her beauty.
-I need your help. – Said Maat - This being has a special destiny. It must be born in another world and then return to the world it should be born. Time will tell her righteous place.
-It seems a conflicting destiny. - Said Hathor.
-This child could be torn between two worlds. – warned Isis.
- I know. – nodded Maat- But this being may be the only way to restore the Order and bring back the Balance once broken a long time ago.
- Fine. I'm all ears. - Said Isis.
-You know the living and the other side better than I do. Please help me to find a good family to it so this being can be born.
-There's a woman… Isis made a spell so they could see a reflection from the world of living. – Her name is Sarah. She and her husband had been trying to have a child for years. I think they would accept.
-A child would bring joy to their lives. –Hathor agreed. – I now shall make her womb fertile, and protect her pregnancy
-I'm going to take it to the otherside. Said Isis spreading her wings.
- I Thank you a lot my queen. Thank you very much, Hathor. - Maat bowed her head.
Isis took off to the world of living and found Sarah she was sleeping. Isis entered her dream.
-Sarah.
Sarah looked at Isis and Maat and got really surprised. What was that? They had wings and a light that shone like a beam of a lighthouse. Sarah was a catholic woman and when she saw Isis and Maat she though they were angels.
-Yes. I am here. - Answered Sarah, moving a lock of her long red hair from her eye, still amazed.
-Do you want to be a mother?
-More than anything in this world.
Isis smiled at her.
-This special child needs a mother to be born. Do you accept to be her mother, protect, raise and love her until she meets her destiny?
-Yes! That's all I want. I will love it forever.
-After eighteen years, this child will leave you to meet another world, one from she can never come back. – Said Maat
-If I am going to be her mother I accept it, I accept her the way she is.
Isis nodded and let the multicolored light that once was in Evelyn's womb follow its way to Sarah's womb. Sarah woke up feeling like the most blessed woman. She started to pray thanking and praising god.
-From Gods to Angels! Can you believe in that? Mortals…
-I think it was because of the wings. – Said Isis. And she and Maat smiled at each other.
Edward Crawford used to spoil Anck su namun, now Meela and his wife, with gifts and all attention he could give her, even after the marriage. 3.000 years ago men used to treat her like a broken object and now she was being treated like a queen. That was new to her, she liked it although she didn't like Edward. She wondered what to do with her husband... Kill him? No, her child needed a father and she needed his help to dig Imhotep out and that would take time... not now. The pregnancy news had made Crawford even more annoying. Now he could only speak about names, buy toys and things for the baby. Deep inside, she felt a little sorry for him. He was a fool, but a kindhearted fool. He really loved her and that baby that wasn't even his too.
-Tell me my darling, Do you think it's a boy or a girl?
-I think I'm going to vomit to death. Said Meela, holding her head.
From the all the toys and things Edward bought, she only liked one. A beautiful little doll dressed like Cleopatra VII. That was precious. She was feeling it was a girl. Her belly was big now. It was difficult to sleep. She remembered what she did to Evelyn and that haunted her mind. To lose her baby was the thing she feared the most. She repeated to herself the baby had resurrected with Evelyn and tried to believe in it.
One night she woke up in the underworld. She saw the Gods from the Judgement.
-Guilty! Sinner! Damned! – Anubis, Osiris, and Thoth were repeating. Osiris seemed to be decomposing while Thoth and Anubis were with their animals' heads. There was blood on Anubis jackal's teeth. She saw a baby crying on the Libra. There was blood everywhere. Ammit was eating a heart. Maat appeared right in front of her:
-Did you really think you would get away with?
Anck su namun woke up with the sound of her own scream.
-Darling, what happened? Was it another bad dream? Asked Edward
- No, It was real.
-What do you mean?
-I have to apologize to the Gods.
