A Lost Love

We pulled into the Royal Air Force base in Giza then got out and walked over to the hill where Winston was sitting drinking tea, "Morning, Winston. Uh, a word?" Rick asked him

"What's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps?" Winston asked Rick

"Not a damn thing."

"Is it dangerous?" Winston asked.

"You probably won't live through it."

"By Jove, do you really think so?" Winston asks

"Well everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you?" Jonathan says and I smacked his arm.

"What's the, uh-What's the challenge then?"

"Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy and save the world." Rick told him and Winston chuckled then stood up.

"Oh! Winston Havelock at your service, sir." He says and looked at us, "Just one problem though, my aircraft only seats two and you have 3 extra passengers." He pointed out and Rick looked at us.

"We can strap these two to the wings." He said and I looked at him

"I am not staying behind on this one O'Connell."

"But Rose..."

"No," I said cutting Jonathan off, "This is my baby sister and I'll be damned if I don't help save her." I tell them and Rick sighed

"Fine, you on the other wing with uh Ardeth here, you're lighter and it won't bring the plane down." He says and I glanced at Ardeth then we headed over to the plane.


"How you doin'?" I heard Rick ask me and Ardeth over the aircraft's engine, I continued to close my eyes, I did not like flying. Suddenly the aircraft took a noise dive and I tightened my grip on the plane, then the next thing I knew we were surrounded by sand that was flying around us. Next thing I knew it was gone but the aircraft started sputtering and we went down. It took me a moment to collect myself then I wiggled out of the straps and stood up just as Ardeth took off his head protection letting his dark curly hair blow freely, I stared for longer then I should have and looked away as I saw him look at me and took my own off freeing my braid.

"Excuse me. Um, a little help would be useful...if it's not too much trouble!" I hear Jonathan yell and saw Ardeth pull the gun off the aircraft and look at it.

"Winston! Hey, Winston!" Rick says going over to the man but he wasn't moving. Rick sighed then looked at us, suddenly the aircraft groaned and started to sink further into the ground.

"Quicksand!" Ardeth yells grabbing my arm pulling me away, "Get back! It's quicksand." He says and we watch as the plane sinks in taking Winston with it. Rick gave him a salute then we made our way to the temple.


"I'd take those bigger stones first." Jonathan says to me, Rick and Ardeth were moving rocks out of our way, "Take them from the top, otherwise the whole thing will cave in on us. Come on. Put your backs into it." He said and we turned to look at him.

"Would you like to help?" I asked him and he cleared his throat.

"Yes, well, you've got the idea. Chop-chop." He tells us and we went back to moving the rocks. Then I hear him scream and we look at him.

"What?" Rick asked him

"It's in my arm! My arm!" He screamed and Rick ripped open the sleeve and we see something crawling under his skin.

"Whoa!"

"Do something!" Jonathan yells and Ardeth grabbed him from behind

"Hold him!" Rick said and pulled out his knife

"Not that! Not that!" Jonathan yelled and Rick sliced into his skin and flung out a scarab, it twitched for a few moments in the dirt then skittered towards us but Rick shot it.

"Jonathan stop touching things." I said to him as I wrapped up his arm.


When we walked into another part of the temple Rick pulled out his gun and shot at a mirror making it hit the others lighting up the room, a room that was full of gold, "Can you see-" Jonathan started to ask as we walked down the stairs.

"Yeah." Rick answered

"Can you believe-"

"Yeah."

"Can we just-"

"No." Me and Rick both said then we hear a groaning sound behind us. We turned and saw hands pop out the the ground then saw mummies crawl out.

"Who the hell are these guys?" Rick asked

"Priests. Imhotep's priests." Ardeth tells him

"All right then." Rick said and they both started shooting at the mummies then Jonathan joined but to many were coming so Rick pulled Jonathan back and we ran to another room.

"There he is! Hello, Horus, old boy." Jonathan says as we go up to the statue while Rick and Ardeth continued to shoot at the creatures. I see Rick pull out a stick of dynamite then light a match off of Ardeth's face.

"Time to close the door." Rick said throwing the dynamite and we all ducked behind the statue as it blew up.


Rick and Jonathan started digging at the statue as Ardeth reloaded the shotgun when we heard the creatures coming from another direction, "Damn. These guys just don't quit, do they?" Rick asked

"Keep digging." Ardeth tells them moving forward to fire the gun at the creatures

"Oh! The Book of Amun-Ra." Jonathan says as Ardeth continued to shoot then looked at us.

"Save the girl. Kill the creature." He said and ran into the passageway with the mummies to fight them. Rick moved to grab another stick of dynamite.

"What are you doing we can't leave him." I tell him and looked back into the passageway.

"You heard the man." Rick says and I sighed

"Bollocks." I said and pulled out the sword going into the passageway as well.

"Rose!" I heard Jonathan yell but I was to busy slicing the mummies until I bumped into someone.

"What are you doing here?!" Ardeth asked me and I looked at him.

"Helping you out." I told him and he pulled out his sword too then we both continued fighting the mummies.

"Come on." He said grabbing my hand and we ran down another way running into more of them.

"Bloody hell." I whispered to myself and we started swinging our swords at them. Just then a loud boom sounded knocking us off our feet causing me to land on top of Ardeth, we looked at each other for a moment then I cleared my throat, "Sorry." I said to him and we got up. Something grabbed me from behind and I dropped the sword, "Ardeth!" I yelled

"Duck." He told me and I moved down as best as I could then the mummy let me go and I looked at him, "Are you alright?"

"Splendid."

"We need to get out of here." He says and I nodded picking up the sword then we fought our way through more of them until it started to thin and we killed the last few of them. We both stood there trying to catch our breath then looked at each other. Before I knew it his hands were on my face pulling me into a kiss. I tensed at first keeping my eyes open then relaxed closing them, it sent shock waves through my body and for a reason I can't describe it felt...familiar. He pulled away and we looked at each other, "I apologize."

Still in a daze I looked at him then finally shook myself back to reality, "Um.." I cleared my throat, "No..no it's ok..don't...don't be sorry." I said to him just then the whole temple started to shake and we looked around.

"Come on, this way." He tells me grabbing my hand and we started to run through the passageways and rooms. In the distance of one room we saw a door start to come down, Ardeth let go of my hand and I rolled under it followed by him and we got up then started running again until we saw a light from the outside.

"My siblings! Rick!" I yelled looking behind me and he grabbed my hand again.

"There is no time. I am sure they will make it out." He tells me and we run a safe distance away watching all of Hamunaptra crumple to the ground. We looked at each other then by gut instinct I grabbed the front of his robes and pulled him into a kiss. He put his hands on my face and we stayed like that for a few minutes then broke apart.

"Sorry." I said and he gave a small smile.

"We should go and find the others." He tells me and I nodded. We saw the camels next to us and we each climbed on one grabbing the ropes for the others. We went for a bit then saw the others, I sighed with relief as we got closer. Ardeth put his hand on Jonathan's shoulders causing him to jump and scream making me chuckle.

"Rose!" He says and I hopped down off the camel hugging both him and Evy then looked back up at Ardeth, "Oh and thank you. Thank you very much for the heart attack." He tells Ardeth.

"You've earned the respect and gratitude of me and my people."

"Yes, well, it was nothing." Jonathan said to him

"May Allah smile upon you always."

"And...yourself." Jonathan says and I smiled at Ardeth

"Yes, anytime." I tell him and he smiled back at me then rode away.

"Stay out of trouble. He's just... leaving us here. Well, I guess we go home empty-handed...again." Jonathan says and I shook my head putting my arm around his shoulder.

"I wouldn't say that." Rick said and I see him look at Evy then they kissed each other

"Oh, please!" Jonathan groaned walking over to the camels and I smiled at Evy and Rick then looked into the distance but Ardeth was gone, to be honest it kind of hurt a little.

"How 'bout you, darling? Would you like a little kissy-wissy?" Jonathan asked one of the camels and it groaned at him making me laugh. We all got on ours with Rick and Evy sharing the same one and we headed off going back home.

Would I see Ardeth again? Who knows. All I do know is that we saved the world, and that was the best treasure of all.

A/N: I know this was kind of short and I'll try to work on that with the next story and make it longer...I hope. I do hope you all enjoyed this story though and I look forward to seeing you all in The Mummy Returns where you will finally know why Ardeth seems familiar to Roseleigh.