Author's note: Thanks for the review KingdomWarrior125. I'm glad you like it so far and I will try my best with it. Here's another chapter.
I do not own Kingdom Hearts or the Mummy. Kingdom Hearts belongs to both Square Enix and Disney, while the Mummy belongs to Universal Studios.
Chapter 2: Year of the Scorpion.
It wasn't long before Sora and his friends were welcomed into the home of the O'Connells, where Rick and Evy briefed them about how nine months after Riku, Mickey and Axel left in the demise of the Mummy, Imhotep, that the two got married and a year later gave birth to Alex. The trio then told the group their recent visit to Egypt due to Evy having mysterious dreams that involved possibly her time in Thebes and what not. The worldly travellers also offered to help carry the bags and tings which Evy and Rick thanked them for.
"You've been having those sort of dreams?" Riku asked, frowning in concern. Something wasn't about this what he was hearing, and he was suddenly getting a deja vu to what he felt back in Hamunaptra years earlier.
"Yes, and ever since I've had that dream, that place was all I could think about. It even helped in opening many doors along the way." Evy explained as the group walked through the hallways of their house, which was just as impressive on the inside as it was on the outside.
Rick, who'd been carrying the luggage, added, "Ever since she had that dream, I haven't had a decent night's sleep."
"So, what was it that you guys found? If it's like that stupid book that brought the dead bad guy back to life, then I think it's probably best to leave it alone." Lea asked. He had a bad gut feeling about this and with that experience earlier, he agreed with it.
"We found the Bracelet of Anubis." Evy replied.
"The Bracelet of the what?" Noctis asked, confused.
"She means the God of Egypt. Anubis is very powerful and dangerous." Mickey explained to the Prince. He then turned to Evy and asked, "But uh, where'd the Bracelet even come from?"
The former Librarian explained, "It was once worn by the Scorpion King who was once supposed to be pure myth until we discovered the Emblem and the Bracelet itself inside the chest. It is said to be connected to the lost Oasis of Ahm Shere. That reminds me, I think the bracelet is some sort of guide that can lead to it."
"Sounds like this guy must'a done somethin' that made people want to forget about him." Gladio couldn't help but say, having the similiar bad gut feeling as Lea.
Rick seemed to agree, because he said to his wife while dropping the luggage onto the floor, "Evy, I know what you're thinking, and the answer is no. We got guests and we just got home."
"That's the beauty of it." Evy pointed out with a grin. "We're already packed."
"She sounds very eager and excited to find all these things, huh?" Prompto commented, when he and the other saw that Rick and Evy were about to have a bit of an romantic moment and talk about the said mysterious place.
Riku shook his head with a knowing smile. Some things never chance. "From what I heard, she's been interested in looking for all of the Ancient stuff hidden from the world since she was very little."
"No wonder it was easy to get that book when Xehanort was still alive." Vanitas spoke in Sora's mind again, which made the teen mentally jump. But what the dark embodiment said made Sora freeze.
'Wait. You were there too?' Sora asked, becoming horrified.
"Oh yeah, I was there alright. I was the one who woke Imhotep up from his nap." Vanitas answered, before he scowled angrily, "But thanks to your friends Riku, the King and Axel, he's gone and they beat me up and that was around before I became stuck inside you, Sora."
Sora tried not to let his emotions show, as he mentally critized, 'Good, because there's no way in a million years I'm letting you do that again or whatever else with the Bracelet of Anu-what-his-name.'
"I can't even make you turn around so I can not see that mushy stuff happening right in front of us. All I can to is torment you in your head and in your sleep." Vanitas scoffed before fading, which was a relief for Sora.
"Sora? Are you okay?" Kairi's voice brought Sora out of the mental conversation and the latter realised what she and the rest of their group gazed at him thoughtfully.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine." Sora replied, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
Lea frowned before asking softly so that Evy and Rick wouldn't hear. "Was it you-know-who?" By you-know-who, he meant Vanitas and he didn't think mentioning the dark guy's name around here in the future was such a good idea.
"Yeah...I'll explain later." Sora nodded, turning back to Rick and Evy who by now were close to each other.
"...Sounds good." Evy whispered.
"Sounds too good." Rick added, pushing his wife back a bit immediately afterwards. "What's the catch?"
"Supposedly it's the resting place of Anubis's army." Evy answered.
"Anubis's Army!?" Sora's group exclaimed, shocked.
"Ah, great. I knew there was a downside to this." Lea groaned in dismay.
Rick nodded in agreement, "And I knew there was a catch. There's always a catch!" before following Evy up stairs, which prompted Sora and the others to follow.
"And uh, this army is connected to this Scorpion King guy?" Prompto asked, half-curious, half-worried.
"Commanded." Evy corrected, "And he awakens once every 5,000 years."
"Right. And if someone doesn't kill him, he's gonna wipe out the world." Rick finished, much to everyone else's surprise.
"How did you know?" Donald asked, skeptically.
"I didn't, but that's always the story."
As the group ascended the stairs, Evy continued to explain, "The last known expedition to reach Ahm Shere was sent by Ramses the Fourth about 3,000 years ago. He sent over a thousand men."
"Why do I get the feeling they were never seen again?" Noctis sumised.
"How did you know?" Evy asked, surprised again.
The young man shrugged, "Lucky guess."
"Rick, have I mentioned about the Pyramid of Gold?" Evy asked her husband this time.
"Twice." Was Rick's answer.
"Gold Pyramid?" Donald repeated, his interest perking up and his eyes beginning to twinkle at the word of 'Gold', which had Sora roll his eyes and shake his head with a knowing smile. Given the events on last year's first visit to Agrabah, or last year for him and his group since they were seven years in the future, when they, Goofy, Aladdin, Abu and Iago went into the Cave of Wonders to find something very expensive and impressive just to buy Jafar's Lamp so seal it up, Donald had went hypnotized over a large Ruby Abu and Iago attempted to steal from the cave.
"Yeah, it's supposedly located somewhere in the Oasis deep in the jungle." Rick explained briefly, not catching on Donald's growing gleeful expression.
Thankfully Mickey did, because he scolded at his Royal Magican, "Donald! Don't even think about it." which instantly snapped Donald out of his daze and he shook his head to bring himself back into reality.
Riku shook his head with his own knowing smirk. Good thing Donald wasn't with in Hamunaptra, other than the placing being dangerous and all, but also due to the now gone Treasure Room that would've driven him into stealing as much as possible. Come to think of it, it did resemble to the Treasure Room in the Cave of Wonders.
The rest of the worldly travellers chuckled, as while Evy continued as they and Rick passed paintings and statues on the second floor near the staircase which overlooked the first floor below. "Alexander the Great sent troops in search of it."
"Hooray for him." Lea muttered under his breath sarcastically.
"So did Caeser." Evy continued.
Rick scoffed, "Yeah, look what happened to his career."
"And Napoleon."
"Yeah, but we're smarter than him. And taller too."
"Exactly. That's why we're the ones that are going to find it." Evy smiled as she had climbed up a ladder and looked through the books on the shelf.
"I'm not too sure about this." Kairi thought while Rick and Evy talked, turning to her friends. "I have a horrible feeling that something is about to go wrong."
Sora nodded in agreement as he placed his hands on his hips, "You and me both, Kairi."
"Just hope there aren't any scarabs or somethin' more dangerous this time." Mickey thought, shuddering at the memory of those things back in Hamunaptra.
"Scarabs?" Goofy asked, puzzled.
Lea answered before the King or Riku did, though even he was very uneasy in remembering this, "Yeah, they're blue little beetles that...uh, well...eat people for breakfest, lunch and dinner. Those things can even get into your skin and into your head."
Kairi immediately covered her mouth with her hands in a soft gasp of horror, while Noctis and Sora shared alarmed glances, Prompto looked ready to be sick, Gladio and Ignis shared a disgusted and shocked glances, and Donald and Goofy both looked ready to pass out, as Goofy muttered scaredly, "Gawrsh...!"
"Yeah, but Imhotep is twice is bad. You don't even want to know what he was capable of doing." Riku added, and Mickey nodded in an afraid agreement.
Fortunately, this not so great reminisce of that experience and the brief conversation between Rick and Evy were interrupted when on the first floor, Alex called up as he carried a heavy iron chest, "Mom! What do I with this chest? This sucker weights a goddamn ton."
"Alex, watch your language!" His mother scolded disapprovingly.
"...Rather weighty, this." Alex amended as he placed the chest onto the nearby table and mentally sighed in relief. But as he turned away to join his parents and their friends, there was an unlocking sound which had him turn back towards it in confusion. Something odd was inside there and his curiosity got the better of him. It wasn't long before he opened the chest with the star-shaped key that was also worn as a necklace and as he lifted the lid, he was amazed at the sight of a golden bracelet; the Bracelet of Anubis.
"Whoa..." Alex breathed in awe. So this is what his parents had found in that temple. Further curiosity getting the better of him, Alex picked it up and placed it onto his wrist. Immediately, the bracelet clamped shut on him, much to his shock and surprise.
Then he found himself looking at an image of the three Great Pyramids at Giza and gazed at it in awe and confusion. It was like out of those projector movies but much cooler. Then the image began racing across the desert and he could've sworn he felt it, before it stopped at to the large temple which he recongised as Karnak before it vanished completely.
Suddenly remembering that his parents, Alex hurriedly tried to take it off, but it was held tightly on his wrist, like glue.
"God! How do you get this thing off!?" Alex grunted to himself.
Back on the second floor...
Rick was flipping through a book while asking his wife. "Evy, that first dream you had was six weeks ago, wasn't it?"
"I think so." Evy replied, wondering why Rick was asking and why it was connected to the book he found.
"Your dreams just happen to conidice with the Egyptain New Year." Rick replied, showing Evy and Sora's group page he found, and the chapter's title was, 'The year of the Scorpion.'
"Year of the Scorpion?" Sora blinked, puzzled.
Evy, seeing this, smiled, "That's right. What a coincidence."
Riku frowned, however. This was more than a coincidence. Plus he had sensed something very dangerous about the bracelet despite not having seen it yet due to it being inside the chest which was locked.
"Uh, I don't think looking this up is such a good idea." Lea pointed out to Evy, apparently having the same thought as Riku did. "In fact, looking for the Oasis is a bad idea too, given what happened back at that Dead City place."
"Yeah, they say curiosity killed the cat." Gladio agreed, while giving both Noctis and Prompto a small scolding glare which had both younger men shrug cluelessly and Ignis shake his head in slight amusement.
"Gladio!" Kairi scolded.
"They're right." Rick agreed, still to Evy. "All I'm saying, is that let's be cautious. Evy, if anything happened to you, I'd never forgive myself. Besides Jonathan, Riku, Mickey and now their friends, you and Alex are the only thing that matters to me."
The worldly travellers were touched by Rick's words and all smiled. It had been very sweet of the man to love his family and care about other people he'd come to know as friends, even those he only just met. To Sora, it made him think of himself and all of his friends. Though when the group saw that Evy and Rick were about to kiss, they wisely turned around to give them privacy...
Only to come across the sight of, uh, um...er...lacy nickers hanging on the corner of a closet which made all of them blush heavily in embarrassment and instantly turned, with Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Donald and Goofy placing their hands over their eyes apologetically and sheer embarrassment, as did Noctis and Prompto while the others just shut their eyes tightly.
It was only when Evy spoke again that their embarrassment and apologetic forms changed to confusion. "Those nickers are not mine." She said as she and Rick had also caught sight of the nickers.
"We have nothing to do with that! We're innocent!" Lea quickly said, holding his hands up in defense, and his friends all nodded in agreement.
"...Jonathan." Rick growled in irritation as he knew only one good guess that was the only answer.
"Ugh...you left him to house-sit?" Riku guessed with a groan, while Mickey facepalmed himself in sheer annoyance at the memory of Evy's older brother.
"Who's Jonathan?" Goofy asked.
"He's Evy's older brother and well...not to sound mean, but he's sorta not very bright." Mickey awkwardly answered.
Rick groaned, first answering to Riku's question, "Yes, we left him to house-sit." before gazing at Mickey and added, "'Not very bright' is an understatement." quickly adding Evy, "No offence."
"None taken." Evy replied, shaking her head at disapproval. She knew what her brother was like and she was twice as annoyed as her husband and Riku were.
"I'm gonna go find him." Rick decided immediately, while Evy went to head downstairs.
"I'll go with you." Riku volunteered.
"Me too." Sora added, hurrying to catch up, with Noctis and Gladio deciding to join up.
"Hey guys, we'll met up shortly." Noctis waved to the rest of the group who nodded.
"Hey, whoa! Wait up!" Lea called out, hurrying to catch up. It wouldn't hurt to see Jonathan again and lecture him.
Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Prompto and Ignis in the meantime, followed Evy downstairs where Alex, after many failed attempts to pull the bracelet off and hearing footsteps, quickly hid the bracelet under his sleeve and was about to close the chest before he placed a miniature statue of an 1800's soldier inside and closed the chest, just as Evy was walking into the room, holding the book in her hand and Kairi and the rest of the group behind her.
"Happy to be home?" Evy asked her son.
"Couldn't be any happier." Alex replied, glad that his mother hasn't noticed.
Evy then showed him the book, answering his unasked question, "Year of the Scorpion."
Alex gently took the book and smiled, muttering in admiration, "Neat."
"Thought you might like that." His mother smiled.
"Just like his mother." Ignis whispered to the group who nodded.
"Yup. Sure is." Mickey agreed.
Meanwhile, upstairs, was another man, apparently Jonathan who was a tall, thin man with blue eyes and brown hair. He was dressed in his red and black dinner jacket and shirt with a set of black pants, and an unbound bowtie. After a night out somewhere, Jonathan was holding a gold stick-thingy which he didn't know what it was, but since it was made out of gold, he didn't care, and in his other arm was a beautiful blonde-haired woman.
"So I killed the Mummy and stole his scepter." Jonathan was saying to the woman.
"Oh, so brave." She said, falling for it.
Jonathan grinned, "And rich. Did I mention rich?"
"What makes you think I'm doing here?" Shelia cooed.
However, as the two of them just entered through the door, they were quite surprised that it was already filled with people, ones that Jonathan didn't even recongise. Soldiers in red approached them with unfriendly expressions. Jonathan was instantly nervous, and his date was puzzled.
"Sorry, we must be in the wrong house." Jonathan chuckled.
"I thought you said this was your house." The woman asked.
"No I didn't." Jonathan muttered just as he and the woman were grabbed by the red soldiers.
"Call me!" The woman called as she was shoved out of the room and had the door slammed at her face by the unknown intruders, as an elder man, Hafez who held a dangerous and dark frown approached.
"You're not her husband, are you?" Jonathan asked, nervously.
"No." Hafez responded, not having any time for games.
Being forced and held into a chair, Jonathan quickly responded thinking that these people work for a guy he'd recently got into trouble with. "If you work for Johnny, I was gonna pay him back on Thursday."
"I don't know any Johnny." Hafez grunted, adding sternly as he wanted to get to the point, not caring about sparing any lives. "We are looking for the Bracelet of Anubis."
"Ah, that's good. I'm familiar with the bracelet of Anubis." Jonathan replied, even though he had no clue on why they held him. That meant his sister, brother-in-law and nephew were back from the trip, or maybe they weren't, he couldn't tell. Plus he was stuck, so how was he supposed to know if these people held up captive?
Apparently Hafez didn't think of this, because he leaned close, demanding in a low and thinning calm expression, "Where is it?"
"Oh, you're looking here? Well, I have no idea what you're talking about." The whimpy man replied.
"Mr. O'Connell, you are trying my patience." The elder man leaned back.
"O'Connell?" Jonathan asked, before realising that these people were mistaking him for Rick. "Wait a minute, you got the wrong ma-" he was cut off when one of the men in red placed a knife at his neck, threating to kill him, and he quickly lied to make them think he was telling the truth, "Ah yes! Now I remember. I've lost it in a card game."
"For your sake, I hope not." Hafez growled, only to have his eyes onto what Jonathan was holding and suddenly his expression turned from dark into shock. He instantly yanked it out of the younger man's hand and held it, his heart hammering in sheer disbelief. "It can't be!"
'That's my gold stick!' Jonathan grumbled in his mind. His annoyance quickly faded as someone greeted a hello to him and when he looked, he saw awoman who was wearing a black dress and was carrying a basket box, smilling at Jonathan, and the two greeted, before she inquired, "Where's your wife?"
"My wife? Oh, you mean Evy." Jonathan replied, saying random stuff and making a comment on being single. However, his eyes widened in horror, as the woman pulled out a black snake, and held it in her hands, and he knew that he was in trouble.
"Egyptain asps are quite poisonious." the woman said and Jonathan froze, and held a freaked out blank expression on his face.
"It's in a safe downstairs." Jonathan was saying to try and save himself, "The combination is 3-23-58, or it's three-something!" before crying out as the woman was approaching him with the asp, "It's in the safe downstairs! I've told you! I've told you!"
"And your point is?" The woman asked.
"My point is that I've told you so you wouldn't kill me." Jonathan answered.
"When did we make that arrangement?" She asked, as she slowly brought the snake closer to Jonathan who whimpered and squirmed and closed his eyes, bracing himself to be bitten to death by poison...
Only for another door behind the intruders open and Rick, Sora, Riku, Lea, Noctis and Gladio walked in before the six of them slowed to a stop when the group looked up at the unfamiliar people and Jonathan being held captive.
"Hello..." Rick greeted awkwardly and soon scowlingly, before saying to his brother-in-law, "Uh, Jonathan? I thought I told you no more wild parties."
"Well..." Jonathan began, sheepishly and in relief for having been saved...again. "Quite hard when you're popular." He said with a weak smile, before noticing the familiar silver-haired teen and said, "Riku? You look like you only aged by two years, and nice new friends you've got...except for redhead."
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Lea pouted.
"Riku..." Hafez began, as though he and the other people in the room recongised that name. "So you are the boy who has been with O'Connell." He muttered, once again darkly and then turned his gaze to Lea, adding, "And you must be Axel..."
This instantly made Sora, Riku, Lea, Noctis and Gladio even more suspicious of the intruders as they and Rick stood in defense, with Lea demanding with a hard glare, "First off, my name's Lea. Only my best friends call me Axel. Got it memorized? Secondly, how do you know about Rick, Riku and me?"
"It is not for you two or your co-horts to know." Hafez warned.
"What? We're suddenly on your case or somethin'?" Gladio asked half-sarcastically.
"Yeah, what'd we and our friends do to you?" Noctis added, glaring very hard as the urge to summon his sword tingled down his hand.
Sora nodded in agreement, "I'm gonna ask Lea's second question again; how do you know about him, Rick and my best friend Riku?"
"What a brave and daring young man, speaking up to his elder this way." The woman mocked an impression.
The sixteen year old grunted, "Only because you guys have done the wrong thing in the first place, like breaking into somebody else's home and threatening another man's life for no reason!"
Back downstairs...
"Alex, I'm serious." Evy said scoldingly as she searched through Alex's pockets while Mickey and the others lingered, looking around. "If you've lost that key, you're grounded."
"I haven't lost it. I just can't find it. There's a difference." Alex replied.
"Well, you'd better start finding it then." The woman told him.
"Uh, don't you think grounding a kid for not finding a little item is a bit much?" Prompto asked, a bit nervously as he didn't want to make Evy's annoyed mood even worse.
Mickey shook his head before suggesting, "Gosh, we can help ya look for the key, Evy. Right, fellas?"
"It can't be that far, right?" Kairi agreed as she bend underneath the table, already searching. Goofy and Donald were lifting things up and Ignis scanned the floor.
"Maybe you can open the chest with Kairi's Key-"
"Good evening." A dark voice interrupted Prompto, causing him and everyone else to stand and look up to see a large black man in red and gold, standing before them with a sinister smile, one that is considered dangerous. Kairi's group instantly felt darkness within this man and stood in defense, ready to stand in front of Evy and Alex, the latter looking frightened and they couldn't blame the poor kid.
"And you are...?" Ignis questioned firmly.
"None of your business." The dark man replied.
"What are you doing here?" Mickey demanded, glaring at the intruder.
"I'm looking for the chest, of course." Said the man, who is Lock-Nah. Alex quickly took the chest and hid it with him. The man's smile faded and he ordered dangerously, "Give it to me, now."
This instantly made Mickey and Kairi summon their Keyblades, Mickey wielding the Kingdom Key-D, Donald to summon his staff, Goofy to summon his shield, Prompto to summon his gun and Ignis to summon his daggers, while Evy pulled out a sword from a nearby weapons display and raised it in a defense position.
"Ah, the Keyblade. You must be Mickey Mouse." The dark man smirked in a mock impression, which shocked the king and his friends who all glared harder.
"How do you know about me and the Keyblade?" Mickey demanded.
"I know all about you, mouse. Just as I know about your friend, Riku and that pyro, Axel." Answered the dark man.
"Get out...of my house." Evy commanded angrily.
"Whoa, Mom. Maybe not the best idea." Alex said nervously, not liking the dark man at all.
"Alex, get behind Kairi." Evy ordered her son, willing to do anything to protect him and the chest. The group soon found themselves surrounded by more men in red who stood behind the black man. This made Donald and Goofy gulp nervously and Kairi and Prompto back up a little.
"I hate when bad guys have back up." Prompto grumbled, taking careful aim.
Alex nodded in agreement as though he was ready to scream in fear, adding, "Definitely not the best idea. I think it's time to yell for Dad, now."
The man had enough of this, as he took a step forward for a kill, "Now, I will kill you all and take it anyway."
"I think not." Another man's voice joined them. One that both Mickey and Evy recongised as they, their friends and Alex looked behind them while the dark man and his army looked up, with expressions turning into pure shock. The red-clothed men all quickly drew out their swords as the man who'd spoken was dressed in robes of black and white with a short, black mustache and beard that matched his long hair. He had matching tattoos on his face like his sister's but his face was set hard.
"Ardeth?" Mickey asked, surprised. "What're you doing here?"
"Perhaps explanations are best kept for later." The Medjai replied to Mickey, while gazing at the dark man who now smirked. Apparently they knew each other.
"Ardeth Bay." The dark man grinned.
"Lock-Nah." Ardeth replied, not returning the grin as thunder roared and lightning flashed outside.
"You know this guy, Mick'?" Prompto whispered to the King.
Mickey nodded, "It's a long story." while thinking to himself, 'Gosh, me, Riku and Lea owe our friends the entire tale later on when we get outta this mess.'
If they can get out of this mess.
A/N: Sorry for the lack of fights in this chapter. I'll make it up for it in the next chapter because I don't want the first few chapters to be too long, but it's kinda starting to get to that already.
Hopefully I'll be able to update this again sometime next week. If not, then quite possibly after I replace my computer in the very near future, maybe after I've hopefully updated one of my other stories. See you then!