1933, Egypt, near Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead

Rick O'Connell walked around an underground room in a very old Egyptian temple with his wife, Evelyn and her cousin Madylinn. The two women loved everything about Egypt and could read the old languages. They studied the country's temples and its old stories. Rick and Evelyn met ten years earlier. The both of them, Madylinn and Jonathan found the mummy of Imhotep in Hamunaptra, in the desert. After 3,000 years, Imhotep woke up and tried to kill Evelyn and tried to mate with Madylinn. He wanted to be the king of Egypt first, and then king of the world. But Rick fought with Imhotep and won. The mummy returned to his strange sleep below the ground of Hamunaptra, and Rick married Evelyn. Madylinn was living with them.

"Dad! Dad!" a small boy shouted, and ran into the big room.

Rick swung around frightened.

"What were you thinking, a mummy had come back to life?"

"I'll tell you a story some time. What are you doing down here? I told you to wait for us in the temple. It's dangerous down here", Rick said to his eight-year-old son.

"But Dad, I saw your tattoo!"

Alex looked at the tattoo on his father's hand. It showed a pyramid with the Eye of Horus. Rick didn't know anything about his tattoo. It was there when he was a baby.

"You saw what?"

"On a wall by the entrance. There's a cartouche just like it. With the pyramid and the eye... and the two kings and everything."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Come and see."

"Okay. Well, I'll be up to take a look at that in a minute. In the meantime, I want you to wait for us up there while I help your mom and aunt. Pick up your stuff and I'll see you up in the temple. Go on."

"And what shoulder I do?"

"I don't know. Surprise me. Build a better mousetrap."

"Okay."

"While your mom and aunt go and desecrates another tomb", Rick mumbled.

In a different room, Evelyn O'Connell and Madylinn Carnahan studied a strange picture on a large door. It showed two people in a fight, not men, but beautiful young women. Evelyn couldn't see their faces, but she thought,

'I know these women. Where are they from? Where did I see them before?Maybe the answers are behind this door.'

A snake made its way over the sandy ground.

"Go away."

Madylinn picked it up with her foot and kicked it away, into Rick's direction.

"Those are poisonous, you know."

"Only if they bite you."

"Rick, come and help us", she said, "I want to open this heavy door. By the way, what was all that about?"

"Yes, ma'am", Rick said with a smile", and nothing. Alex wanted to show me something. I swear... the kid gets more and more like you every day."

"You mean more attractive, sweet... and devilishly charming?"

Madylinn bit back a laugh.

"No he's driving me crazy. Now where were we?"

"Hammer and chisel", Evelyn handed her husband a hammer and a chisel and Madylinn laughed at Rick's expression.

"All right, all right", Evelyn gave in, "let's do it your way."

"Thank you."

Rick's wife used her head like Madylinn, but he himself liked to work with his hands. He quickly opened the old door with his knife, and he and the two women walked into a dark room. It was full of scorpions and mummies.

"Ever since I had that dream... this place is all I can think about."

"Ever since you had that dream, I haven't had a decent night of sleep. Besides Maddy was a part of the cause too. A much bigger part."

The last named woman looked to the ground. Yes he was right, she had dreams like Evelyn had too. But she never talked about them not even mentioned them just a bit.

"I fell like I've been here before. I know I've been here before. I know this place", said Evelyn.

"Evy, you know it from a book", Rick said, "Somebody closed that door before you were born and nobody's been here before, not in at least three thousand years. Except for these guys."

Rick motioned to the mummies.

"No, Rick. I remember it. I know everything about this room. So how do I seem to know exactly where I'm going?"

Evelyn moved into the next dark room, with Madylinn close behind when suddenly, for Madylinn it was 1290BC. Everything was bright and lit by torches. She saw one of the women from the picture on the door. The woman moved, so she wasn't dead. She put a box on a table and closed it. Then she looked into Madilynn's eyes. She jumped, and suddenly it was 1933 again. She waved her torch quickly from one side to the other, making swooshing sounds and alerting the other two.

"If you move that fast enough, you can almost write your name."

"Maddy, what's wrong? Did you see something?" Evelyn asked.

"No, nothing. I'm okay. I just... had a vision. Like in my dreams but real. Very real. It was like I was actually here in ancient times."

"Well, if you actually were here... could you show me how to open this thing?"

Madylinn walked over to the huge and heavy door and held her torch to Rick.

"Hold this."

She grabbed the door knob and turned it around, first to the right side two times and then the left one time, before pushing it back. The door opened slowly.

"Now you're starting to scare me. Both of you."

"Well, we're starting to scare ourselves."

When the door opened, the three saw two mummies in soldiers' clothes standing in the room next to a box. Rick didn't like mummies. But these two weren't dangerous they were very dead.

"Look there's a box on that table."

Evelyn walked to the table and looked at the box.

"The Scorpion King!" Evelyn cried.

"That's the emblem of the Scorpion King on the top of the box.

"He's supposed to be pure myth. No trace of him has ever been found before. No artifacts. No archival evidence", Maddylinn said.

"Let's open this."

"Evy, I don't know. I don't have a good feeling about this. Is that a good idea? Wasn't he a very bad man?"

"Yes, but that was in 4000 BC. He's dead. It's not dangerous now. It's only a chest! No harm ever came from opening a chest."

"Right and no harm ever came from reading a book", Madylinn said.

"Remember how that one went."

"Come on we can't stop now."

"Just remember, I was the voice of reason here."

Alex was in a big room above his parents and his aunt. He felt tired because he was bored with his ball game. Then he heard something. Three men walked into the temple, but they didn't see the boy.

"Knock, knock. Anybody home?"

"You two check out out that stuff, see if it's there."

"What is this? Look at the state of this rubbish. The Egyptians never had a clue."

"Look at that stuff. It's all chintz and stuff."

"Look at that. Cheap pottery, this."

"Why are those O'Connells around here?" the first man, Spivey,asked.

"Lock-Nah told us about them. They aren't a problem. We have toget the box", Red, the next man, said.

"But maybe they'll find the box first. Then Lock-Nah won't pay us."

The last man's name was Jacques.

"We'll kill them and take it."

It was Red again. Alex wasn't bored now. How could he help his parents and his aunt? He watched the three men, they went down the stairs.

"Rick, this is really exciting! I know the story of the Scorpion King. This is his box! Please, open it quickly!"

Rick didn't like this idea, but he wanted to help his wife. He tried to open the box with his knife, but the top didn't move. Madylinn, who just stood next to them and watched, closed her eyes and she could see the room in 1290 BC again. Suddenly, she opened her eyes again. She took off a necklace from the soldier mummies and put it the lock that had the same form. The box opened easily.

"Look! It's the golden bracelet of Anubis, the god of the dead!"

Evelyn took the bracelet out of the box and showed it to Rick.

"Stop!" Red shouted.

He and Jacques and Spivey walked into the room with guns in their hands.

"Give the bracelet to me!"

But at that minute, the floor of the temple began to move. The walls started to fall on them. The three men with guns turned and ran up the stairs. Evelyn quickly put the beautiful golden bracelet back into the box and closed it.

"Put the box in your rucksack, Rick."

"I have a better idea! Let's leave it here", Rick shouted.

"It's a bit late for that. It's dangerous!"

"No, it's important!"

Rick put the box in his bag and ran up the stairs with his wife and Maddylinn. Alex was at the top.

"Quick! Come this way", Alex shouted. Rick and the two women followed the boy to the nearest door and outside into the sunlight. The temple fell down behind them.

"That bracelet is important?" Rick said, "It has strange powers!"