"Egyptian"

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Chapter Nine

Imhotep and Anck-su-namun were deep inside the pyramid when they started walking down some stairs, torches in rows either side of them. They reached the bottom of the stairs and as Imhotep stepped on a scorpion design on the floor black shadows engulfed him before finally leaving him. He stood shocked for a moment before trying to use his powers.

The gold ornaments he tried to lift only rattled and Imhotep looked at his hands in horror. "The great God Anubis has taken my powers; it seems he wishes for me to fight as a mortal." He said to Anck-su-namun. They continued down the hall and stopped at a doorway. "I must face the Scorpion King alone." He told her.

Imhotep removed his robes, leaving just cloth covering his bottom parts. "No, you must not!" Anck-su-namun cried. They stared at each other with love for a moment. "Without your powers he will kill you!"

Imhotep grabbed the black book from her hands. "Nothing can stop us. It is our destiny." He said.

Anck-su-namun snatched the book back and placed it on a stone slab, taking his face in her hands. "I don't want to lose you again." She said softly. They kissed and before she could stop him, Imhotep ran through the doorway. "No! No!" She shouted after him.


Meanwhile, out in the desert, Ardeth and his tribes of Medjai stood facing the pyramid. Hundreds of black mounds rose from the sand and they formed into Anubis warriors. It was Anubis's army. Ardeth raised his sword, copied by the men behind him, and then they charged at the army. The army roared before charging at them.


Jonathan approached Anck-su-namun, who turned, sensing his presence. "It's time someone taught you a lesson, wench. This is for my sister." Jonathan said with his fists in the air.

Anck-su-namun smirked at him and approached, leaving the black book on the stone. Alex and Grace snuck around and Alex took the book from the stone.


Rick walked into a room where Imhotep was whacking an enormous gong. Rick charged at him through the flames of the torches and fires with an axe in his hand. Imhotep blocked his blow and they both stood in front of each other. "So, you wish to kill me, and then you would kill him and send his army back to the underworld. This I cannot allow." Imhotep raised his fists.

The ground shook and Rick nearly fell into the pit of souls. He righted himself before he attacked Imhotep, the fight began.


Anck-su-namun hit Jonathan and he stumbled back, hand going to a now bloody lip. "Is that all you got?" He asked pathetically. Anck-su-namun grabbed two knives in answer. "Hurry up, Grace." He called in fear.

Alex held Evy's cold, still hand as Grace flipped through the pages of the black book before finally stopping at a page. "I hope this works." She muttered. "Ahfitelar Ha menree, Sheena co, owwise mesga, coolarah, coolarah, ahmenophus." She chanted.

A golden glow covered Evy's body and her eyes opened.


Ardeth rode his horse, swinging his sword and took off one of the jackals heads. The fight was intense and still going strong and then he got pulled off his horse. He stood to his feet quickly and readied his sword.


Imhotep and Rick's fight was becoming just as intense as the Medjai's fight. Fire pits and torches had been knocked over and they were now locked in a battle with a pair of axes each. They stood with their arms raised; the axes locked together, in front of large, golden doors.

They froze in their position and turned their heads towards the doors as they slowly opened. They looked at each other again before coming to a decision and pushed away from each other, facing the doors. A ginormous half man, half scorpion came out of the doors.

Rick and Imhotep ran in different directions and the Scorpion King followed Imhotep. Seeing this, Imhotep threw his axes into the pit of souls and fell to his knees. "I am your servant." He cried with his arms across his chest.

The Scorpion King stopped for a moment, his tail twitching slightly. "We shall see." He said.

Imhotep lifted his head slightly. "But he was sent to kill you." Imhotep pointed at Rick.

The Scorpion King turned to face Rick and Rick looked startled. "Oh boy." He muttered as the Scorpion King charged towards him. Rick ran and the Scorpion King chased, knocking things over, trying to catch him.


Anck-su-namun ripped Jonathan's coat with her knife and as she went to stab him again a hand grabbed her arm, it was Evy. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" She said.

"Evy." Jonathan cried in relief.

Alex and Grace came round from behind the stone where they had resurrected Evy. "Take Alex and go and help Rick." Evy ordered.

"But-"

"No buts Alex. I'll be just fine." Evy said, her eyes never leaving Anck-su-namun.

Jonathan took Alex's other hand and the three of them left Evy and Anck-su-namun to their fight. "We did it Uncle John, we did it." Alex cheered as they walked down the hall.

"Right Alex, now let's go and help your dad." He said. And the three took to a run to find Rick.

Evy grabbed two knives off the wall before facing her opponent. "Nefertiri." Anck-su-namun tested.

"Anck-su-namun." Evy replied.

Anck-su-namun smiled, knowing Evy had remembered. "Good." She said. And then they fought, just like they had three thousand years ago.


Back in the desert and the Medjai had finished off the last Jackal. Cheers went up and the men rejoiced. Ardeth, however, wasn't rejoicing. He looked around and then ran onto a dune; the men stopped celebrating and followed him.

On top of a distant dune a black mass was descending on them. The army of Anubis had returned. "Allah, help us." Ardeth cried.


Rick stopped in his tracks as he noticed pictures on a wall. He looked at them and spotted a picture of his tattoo on one of them. He pulled his sleeve up and compared it for a brief moment before looking at the rest of the pictures. And in them he saw the golden stick that Jonathan had being turned into a spear. "Okay, now I'm a believer." Rick muttered.

Jonathan, Alex, and Grace ran into the room. "Rick!" Grace and Jonathan called.

Rick turned to them. "Jonathan! It's a spear. That gold stick thing, it's a spear." Rick shouted across the room.

Jonathan took it from his coat and looked it over. "It doesn't look like a spear." Jonathan commented.

"No, it opens up into one!"

"Yeah, yeah." Jonathan agreed blindly.

"It opens up into a spear." Rick mimed with his hands before freezing as he heard something.

Rick slowly turned around to see the Scorpion King behind him. Rick, Alex, Jonathan, and Grace all screamed and Rick ran for his life again. Rick got picked up by the Scorpion King and flung across the room. "Rick!" Evy cried seeing him go as she ran into the room.

"Evy?" Rick said in disbelief as he picked himself up. He moved out of the way as the Scorpion King tried to get him again.

Alex and Jonathan fought over the stick as they tried to get it to open. Anck-su-namun and Evy fought again, in the doorway of the room. Grace spotted Imhotep stalking towards Jonathan, "The spear of Osiris." He said.

Grace's eyes widened, Osiris? She snatched the spear from Jonathan's hands. "Why did no one say this was Osiris's spear?" Grace muttered angrily as her hands ran across the gold, it shimmered at her touch.

"What does that matter?" Jonathan asked as he watched her.

Grace sighed as she read the inscription that had showed itself barely visible on the stick as she touched it. "Akila was blessed by Osiris. She had Osiris's powers." She reminded.

"Quick!" Alex cried. Evy was pushed up against a wall by Anck-su-namun and Imhotep had almost reached them.

Grace twisted the top and bottom of the spear in different directions while saying, "Lazo poorlaree." And the stick opened into the spear.

"Jonathan, throw it! Kill the Scorpion King; send his army back to the underworld!" Evy choked out.

Jonathan took the spear from Grace. "Step aside, Alex. I'm a professional." He said snottily before raising the spear.

Jonathan threw the spear at the Scorpion King but Imhotep caught it in mid air, swinging it around a bit before aiming it at the Scorpion King himself. "The army of Anubis shall now be mine." He said and then he released it.

It flew through the flames. "Rick!" Grace and Evy shouted. Rick leaped forward and caught it, just as Imhotep had.

Imhotep fell to his knees. "No!" He screamed dramatically, with his arms in the air.

Rick rolled with the spear before turning to the Scorpion King just as he jumped at him. The spear entered the Scorpion King's chest, "Go to hell, and take your friends with you." Rick ordered fiercely as he leant back over the pit.

"No!" Imhotep cried again, standing just inches away from Rick and the Scorpion King. The Scorpion King dissolved into black sand.


The army of Anubis was almost on top of the Medjai again. "Till death!" Ardeth cried, copied by some of the others. He readied his sword and the Army swarmed them, black sand went through the Medjai causing them to fall. Then the sand lifted and the Army was gone. Ardeth and the Medjai stood and realised it was over.

Ardeth raised a hand to the sun, praising the Gods. And then black sand shot out from the pyramid, swirling around it. Ardeth watched as Ahm Shere was about to destroy itself, the sand went back into the pyramid and it started to fall in on itself.


Rick and Imhotep fell over the edge of the pit and were holding on by just their fingers as the souls of the underworld tried to pull them in. "Evy, No!" Rick called and Grace looked at Evy. She had a determined look on her face as she looked between Rick and the falling rocks. "Get out of here! Just get out of here now!" Rick ordered.

Evy ran forward, dodging the rocks and dove towards Rick, grabbing his arm. She pulled but the souls were pulling him down even harder. Grace looked at them struggling and knew her sister wouldn't be able to save him on her own.

Before she could even think she ran towards them. "Grace, no!" Jonathan shouted as he held onto Alex. Grace weaved in between the rapidly falling rocks and grabbed Rick's other arm just as he let go.

"Anck-su-namun! Help me! Help me!" Imhotep called desperately as Evy and Grace together hauled Rick back over the edge.

Anck-su-namun looked between him and the rocks. "No." She shouted as she fled the room. Only to trip and fall into a pit of scarabs down the hall, being eaten alive instantly.

"Anck-su-namun." Imhotep muttered sadly with tears in his eyes as he realised she had never truly loved him. "Akila." He called. Grace stopped halfway back to the doorway, Evy and Rick continued on, not noticing she had stopped. "Akila, help me." He begged tearfully.

Grace hesitated. She wanted to help him; he was her father after all. But he didn't help her when she needed it and she knew she couldn't trust him. What's to say he wouldn't kill her family if she did save him? "Grace c'mon! Leave him! We need to get outta here!" Rick shouted at her from the other side.

"Help me." Imhotep begged again, his fingers barely holding on.

Grace looked between her family and Imhotep again before making a decision, she turned to Imhotep. "What, like you helped me when I begged you?" She said bitterly. She shook her head with tears in her eyes as she made the hardest decision of her life, "Goodbye, Father." She continued, calling him father for the first time since she died.

Grace then ran to her family missing Imhotep's sad and regretful look as he chose to let go of the edge and fall into the pit.