A/N: I don't The Mummy. Also, this is my second Mummy story. Exception the gods, whose history I may have skewed a bit to fit the story, unless the name was in the movie, I have made up the Egyptian names. Also, Isis is the goddess (or a goddess) of healing.
Hazel was mad. No, she was furious. She, Rick, and Evy had left the children alone, downstairs, for no more than ten minutes, and they had already misplaced the key to the bracelet's chest.
"If I don't have that key in my sight in ten seconds, all of you are grounded."
That statement was met with three answers. All three started with an Arabic term.
"Khalla, I don't have it!", Hala declared.
"Am'ma, don't look at me!", Alex stated as he put his hands in front of his chest.
"Mama, I didn't mean to misplace it!", Amira said as her mother searched her pockets for the necklace/key in question.
"Well, you all better start finding it!", Hazel said, turning as she heard the swoosh of robes behind her.
Before words even left her mouth, she had pushed all three children behind her and unsnapped the cuff around her left wrist. The robed figure was Lok-Nah.
"What are you doing here?", she asked.
"Looking for the chest, of course. You're just an added bonus.", he replied, and brave Alex grabbed the chest.
Hazel lifted her hand and felt the magic pulsing through her veins as she spoke to Lok-Nah, "Get out of this house!"
"Mama, now might be a good time to get Uncle Rick.", Amira whispered, but Hazel was not listening.
"Now," Lok-Nah said as more guards surrounded him. "I will just take it and kill you anyway."
"I think not.", said a voice that Hazel had not heard in six years.
"Khal.", Hala said in a whisper.
"What?", Amira asked her, her tone incredulous.
"Ardeth Bay.", Lok-Nah said with a smirk.
"Lok-Nah.", Ardeth replied, obviously not pleased with the situation.
Lok-Nah gave the command to attack as Evy rounded the corned behind Hazel and Ardeth, grabbing a sword from the vase by the archway. Ardeth did not even pull his sword, as Hazel had seized his hand and sent a blast of magic at Lok-Nah, who ducked just in time for it to go right over him and hit his men instead.
Hazel and Ardeth shared a look, and she dropped his hand before telling Evy to take the children away. Ardeth, meanwhile, had begun dueling Lok-Nah sword-to-sword. Pretty soon, however, it had progressed to punches, kicks, and head-butting as well.
Evy was trying to get the three children out of the room, but more men arrived. The fighting resumed, and Hala took it upon herself to look after the two younger children. Alex focused on trying to help his mother, and Amira looked at Ardeth in shock. That was her father, and he was getting the stuffing beat out of him.
"Not bad, for a Medjai.", Lok-Nah said to Ardeth, and Amira froze.
Much like happened to her mother in dreams, Amira saw visions of her past life. She saw the face of Nefretiri, the face of Adom, the face of Isethamia, and the palace of the Medjai. She saw more current visions, such as her parents' magic being used to find the Book of Amun Ra; she saw her parents' wedding; she saw the night that Lok-Nah attacked, and she saw what her mother had done to save her. As the visions came to an end, Amira cried silently. Hazel did not see the tears on her daughter's face, as she was fighting off more attackers.
The last straw was when Lok-Nah managed to slice his sword into Ardeth's shoulder.
Everything she knew, every self-defense move she had ever learned in her short eight years came flooding back to her at full force. Amira ran forward, grabbed the jeweled dagger from her father's belt, and sunk it into Lok-Nah's right arm. She pulled the dagger out and Lok-Nah's hand flew to his bleeding arm. In seconds, he had smacked the eight year old across the face and fled with his men and the unconscious bodies of Evy and Hazel.
"Mama!", Amira cried out at the same time Alex yelled, "Mum!"
Hala ran forward and picked Alex up off of the ground before they made their way to Ardeth and Amira, the latter of which had crawled over to her father, who was leaning back against the wall.
"Babba!", she cried as she crawled into his lap.
"Amira!", Ardeth exclaimed joyously as he hugged his daughter to his chest for the first time since she was but a baby.
At the sound of gunshots, Ardeth was back on alert and told the children to get out of the house. It was there that they met up with Rick and Johnathan. Rick saw Ardeth and Amira, both with blood on them, and his anger flared.
"What the hell are you doing here? Six years of no contact, and then this? Never mind, I don't care about that at the moment. Where in the hell are my wife and sister?", he asked angrily.
"First, I had no idea where Hazel was, so don't you dare blame me for not trying to contact her. For all I knew, Lok-Nah had taken her, and the girls, and she could have been dead! Second, wherever this man is, OUR wives will surely be.", Ardeth said, reigning his anger back in long enough to show Rick a picture of a familiar man.
Amira cocked her head sideways at the photo before turning to Alex.
"Isn't that the curator from the British Museum?"
Alex looked at the photo, as did Hala, and the young boy's face lit up. Hala nodded as Alex vocalized his answer.
"Yeah, that's him!"
"Are you all sure?", Ardeth asked them.
"You better believe it. They spend more time there with the girls than they do at home!", Rick exclaimed, and all five took off for Rick's car.
As they rounded the corner, Rick spoke again.
"Okay, so you're here, the bad guys are here, and our wives have been kidnaped. Let me guess-", Ardeth cut him off.
"Yes, they have removed the creature from his grave.", now it was Johnathan's turn to butt in.
"I don't mean to point fingers, but isn't it your job to make sure that doesn't happen?", he asked.
"The woman who was with them, she knows things, things no living person should know. She knew exactly where the creature was buried." Ardeth told them, and Amira nearly gasped. "We were hoping that she would lead us to the bracelet. Well, she did, and now they have it."
"I wouldn't get too nervous just yet.", Alex said, pulling back his sleeve to show the bracelet on his arm.
"Is that gold?", Johnathan asked while Ardeth spoke of a chain reaction which could bring about the next apocalypse.
"You," Rick pointed at Ardeth, "lighten up. You," now at Alex, "big trouble. And you three," he finally pointed at the two young girls and Johnathan. "get in the car."
As they went down the road, Ardeth apologized to Rick, and they found out about the seven-day waiting period for the rise of the Scorpion King.
"Even if the bracelet was in the chest, it's not as if they could open it very easily.", Amira told her father.
"Why is that, Amira?", he asked curiously.
"Because, when those men came into the room, I saw this on the floor, under the table. Alex apparently dropped it after he opened the chest. I put it on to keep it from the men.", Amira said as she pulled the key from inside the neckline of her dress.
"I guess it's a good thing the necklace-key-thing was temporarily lost.", Alex said with a half-hearted smile.
"If only the creature could still be lost to the world as well! Listen, whomever can kill the Scorpion King can send his army back to the underworld or use it to wipe out mankind and rule the world.", Ardeth stated, wiping the smile off of Alex's face.
"That's bad.", the blonde boy responded.
"But a Medjai can stop him. Isn't that the prophecy, Babba? I saw it on the wall of the tomb the bracelet was in. Unlike some people, I read the whole inscription before it was smashed.", Amira asked, looking up at her father from her place between him and Rick, who was driving.
"Oh, shut it, Mira! Unlike some people, I don't seem to have all of this knowledge about the Medjai and prophecies.", Alex replied with a roll of his eyes.
"Will you two quit fighting for once!", Hala snapped, and both of them listened to the older girl.
Inside the museum, Evy and Hazel woke to find men chanting around what looked like a caterpillar's cocoon.
"They found him, Elle." Evy said.
"Imhotep.", Hazel let out in a whisper.
As Hafez finished the spell to bring Imhotep back to life, both women gulped. The creature let out a roar, and then looked around until Hafez began speaking.
"My Lord, it is the year of the Scorpion."
"You are certain?", Imhotep asked, and Hafez assured him he was.
Just then, the doors opened, and a woman came around the corner. Evy felt swept into another vision, but Hazel felt nothing but hate.
"Anck-su-namun.", she growled lowly.
Soon enough, once it was discovered that the Bracelet of Anubis was not in the box, the woman, Meela Nias, ordered for Evy and Hazel to be killed. Just as they were to be tossed into a fire, and presumably burned to death, Rick jumped through the fire and knocked both women to the floor. He helped them up and over behind some boxes, where he then cut their bindings.
"Where's the bracelet, Rick?", Hazel asked quickly.
"Alex's wrist.", Rick whispered back.
"And my husband?", Hazel added.
"He's the guy up there shooting at those guys.", Rick said, pointing from Ardeth to Imhotep's forces.
"Did the kids find the key?", she asked another question and Evy was handed a handgun.
"Check your daughter's neck. She picked it up when we were attacked at the house so they wouldn't have it. What did they use, acid?", Rick asked in reply, and Hazel nodded.
"Cover me.", she told them, and darted across the room to the stairs when bullets started flying from her brother and sister-in-law's guns. She made it across and went up the stairs, and placed her hand on Ardeth's wounded shoulder. Magic pulsed through her as she healed his wound, and he turned his head to smile at her.
"Thank you, my desert flower.", he said as she took his hand in her own.
"Again?", she asked, referring to the beginning of the attack at the manor.
"On three.", he agreed.
"One. Two. Three!", they counted together before releasing a burst of power that sent most of the cultists flying backwards and into flames.
"Nice shot!", Rick remarked as he and Evy ran up behind them.
"Thanks!", Hazel replied as they ran through the museum to get back outside to the children, car, and Johnathan.
Once there, Evy tried to pull a bench in front of the door.
"Sweetheart, what are you doing? These people don't use doors.", Rick told her as he pulled her away from the door.
They ran back to the car, only to find nobody there. All of a sudden, a double decker bus rounded the corner, and Johnathan was behind the wheel. Alex, Amira, and Hala were at the front window beside him.
"Was there something wrong with my car?", Rick asked.
"Well, I was forced to find an alternative means of transportation.", Johnathan argued.
"But a double-decker bus?", Rick asked.
"It was their idea!", Johnathan replied, pointing at the children.
"Was not!", all three cried at once.
"It doesn't matter! Just get on the bus now!", Hazel screamed as four mummies came bursting out of the museum's walls.
The mummies chased the bus, scaling buildings along the way. Rick, on the second level, was taking shots at the mummies; Ardeth was ready to shoot, and did when one of the mummies jumped onto the bus. Things were going mostly well for the Medjai until the mummy he was fighting scratched him across the chest, leaving huge and bloody gashes. Evy picked up Rick's shotgun, which had fallen to the first level, and shot the mummy before it could inflict any more damage on Ardeth.
After Johnathan decapitated the bus with a low bridge, Rick came down to the first level, and he looked at Ardeth, who had Hazel beside him.
"You okay?", he asked.
"This...was my first bus ride.", Ardeth joked back as a gold light shined from Hazel's hand as she healed the scratches.
Evy kissed Rick, and Alex pretended to gag. He walked to the back of the bus with Amira, who was laughing at Alex's face. Alex bumped up against her, and the key's chain stuck to his jacket. As they tried to unhook it, with no such luck, a pair of arms reached into the bus and grabbed both children.
Rick chased after the car the two had been placed inside, but to no avail. Johnathan tried to be positive, not really dealing well with the two crying women and the crying ten year old girl.
"They won't kill Alex as long as he's wearing the bracelet, right?"
"Of course they won't, but what about my daughter!", Hazel roared.
"As long as she and Alex are stuck together, they will not kill her. Alex would think of that, so he would try to make sure they're stuck together. He's rather good under pressure.", Hala said, and Rick let out a sigh.
"He said that the bracelet showed him the pyramids at Giza and then Karnak. All we have to do is get there first, right?", he asked Ardeth.
"Yes, then Alex will be given the next location by the bracelet.", Ardeth replied.
"Sounds like we're going to need a magic carpet.", Rick said, and Hazel smiled.
"It's time to see Izzy!", she said, unable to not smile as she said Izzy's name.
A/N: Hope you liked it, and I will understand if you found anyone a little OOC. Don't you worry your pretty little heads off, Darlings; Hazel has nothing but sisterly-love for Izzy. I would never dream of breaking her and Ardeth up for good, or for anyone else. If anyone has an idea of what might happen when Alex and Amira separate, PM me your guess. I'll let you know if your even in the ball park, and I'll try to update soon, so keep and eye out for that! R&R!