Hamunaptra again

Ardeth's POV

I can't believe I let him take her. All these years I've been surrounded by people, but in reality I was completely alone. I had to be the leader and make the tough decisions and then carry the consequences by my choices, but now I finally met someone I can be myself with. Not the tough warrior, not the leader, but just Ardeth. She didn't expect me to be anything else and she didn't take orders like all my fellow Medjai's, she made me feel normal. And now after all my training I couldn't protect the one thing I finally wanted to protect the most.

After Dr. Bey sacrificed himself back in Cairo we headed to the royal air force of Giza. O'Connell says that there's his old friend who can help us back to Hamunaptra to save Nikki and Ms. Evelyn and stop the creature.

''Morning Winston,'' O'Connell says to an old man drinking tea in the middle of the dessert, ''Oh a word,'' O'Connell then adds. He then explains the situation to the man named Winston. Apparently he's retired army pilot and he, O'Connell and Nikki go way back.

''So what's your little problem got to do with his majesty's royal air force,'' the pilot finally asks.

''Not a damn thing,'' O'Connell answers truthfully to him. After that he looks surprised of O'Connell's outburst.

''Is it dangerous?'' He asks like if he was wishing it to be.

''Well you probably won't live through it,'' O'Connell simply replies.

''My Jo you really think so?'' He asks.

''Well everybody else we've pump into has died, why not you,'' the man named Jonathan says next to me.

''What's the challenge there?'' The pilot asks from O'Connell

''Save the damsels in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world,'' O'Connell answers like it would be that easy. And I don't think Nikki would appreciate to be called damsel. The pilot then laughs and says,

''Winston Havelock, at your service, sir.'' He then leads us to his old plane. Unfortunately it's just two-seated so Jonathan and I are tied to the wings.

By the looks of his flying Winston appears to be bit rusty since he can't keep the plane flying straight. I then hear O'Connell, who sat behind Winston in the plane, whistle and yell to me,

''How're you doing?'' But I don't answer if I opened my mouth I'm quite sure I would get it full of pass by flying sand. We then see a sand hurricane on the distance and it's bigger than normally so it must be the creature. We then see three people fly out of it. That must be Nikki and Ms. Evelyn. As well as the creature's servant.

We see all of them standing down there and the creature is now there also. The creature starts a huge sandstorm and sends it after us. Winston tries his best to outfly the storm, but the storm catches us and we are swallowed by it.

But then suddenly the storm is out. I don't know what caused it, but a good thing it did. I don't think our pilot could manage to keep our plane in the air much longer in that storm. But then suddenly our plane gets on fire as the sand blocked the engine and me have to pull emerge landing.

The plane is totally in pieces after we land. There's no way it could be repaired. We get up from the plane and I hear Jonathan on the other side of the plane complaining something about lack of help. I take the riffle that was attached to the plane and start walking when I hear O'Connell behind me,

''Winston. Hey Winston'' O'Connell says to the pilot, but he doesn't answer. O'Connell checks his pulse and by the look on his face there isn't any. And then the whole plane starts to sink into the sand.

''Quick sand get back,'' I yell at them as I too back away from the sinking sand. We walk further from the plane and watch as it sinks with our pilot in it. After it had sank from our sight we start walking toward Hamunaptra.

Nikki's POV

Imhotep leads us through the dark chambers we didn't come when we were here last time. He looks awfully confident. We walk behind him and Beni walks behind us.

''Get moving,'' he says to us and points the gun at us. When I get my hand on that little rat he's going to regret he was ever born. And I mean literally he will be very sorry for even coming into this world.

''You know nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their come uppins,'' Evy says to him. He first starts laughing, but then he ask seriously,

''They do?''

''Yes. Always,'' I confirm in a very firm voice making it clear that if it were up to me he will get what's coming for him and even more. We then start following Imhotep again down the stairs.

We then hear a shot upstairs and I know it must be Rick and the others. Apparently Evy has the same idea as she smiles and says,

''O'Connell.'' Imhotep then takes some dust in his hand and blows it to the wall as he says something in Egypt and then, suddenly, the pictures, that are actually mummified skeletons, on the wall come to life. We all, except Imhotep, back down a little.

''Bembridge scholars never wrote about this,'' Evy simply says as she holds my arm for support. Imhotep then says something to me which I don't still understand.

''What did he say?'' I whisper to Evy.

''Do not be frighten my flower they will never hurt you,'' she translated.

''Is that supposed to make me feel better?'' I sarcastically ask. The mummies then bow to Imhotep and he bows back. He then says something and points to the direction of upstairs.

''Now what did he say?'' I ask again. I seriously need to start learning ancient Egypt.

''He told them to kill O'Connell and the rest and wake up the others,'' Evy answers.

''That's not good,'' I state to which she nod.

Imhotep then takes some other dust and blows it right at our faces. I accidently breathe in a breath of the dust as it hits my face and my world immediately went black.

Ardeth's POV

We come to a large chamber inside the tomb and O'Connell shoots one of the mirrors near us so that we could have a light. When the room is lighted I can't believe my eyes. This is the treasure chamber of the Fallen Kings. It is huge. I can hear Jonathan's loss of words as he doesn't really know what to say since he simply makes some noises that don't mean anything. We then start walking down the stairs.

''Can you see?'' Jonathan asks as he looks around himself in awe.

''Yeah'' O'Connell simply answers.

''Can you believe?'' Jonathan asks again.

''Yeah,'' O'Connell answers again.

''Can we just…'' Jonathan starts.

''No,'' O'Connell says firmly. I agree these treasures are not ours to take. We then hear a sound right behind us and when we turn we see some mummies coming through the floor.

''Who the hell are these guys?'' O'Connell asks as he points his guns at them.

''Priests. Imhotep's priests.'' I answer to him remembering how the creature had his priests buried with him back in the ancient times.

''Alright then,'' he says as we start shooting at them. We keep shooting them, but there are just too many of them and I honestly can't remember how many priests Imhotep actually had so I don't know how many there still will come at us. We back away from the chamber to the corridor and keep shooting them. Then I hear Jonathan yelling,

''There he is. Hello Horus old boy.'' O'Connell then gives his shotgun to me as he starts digging his bag. In the meantime I keep shooting at the mummies trying to keep them away from us. O'Connell then pulls a stick of dynamite out of his bag. He uses my cheek to light up the match and then he lighted the dynamite and says,

''Time to close the door,'' as he throws the dynamite to the door. We then take cover as the dynamite blows up at the door. We look up and see the entrance sealed for the moment and that's when O'Connell and Jonathan try to open up the hatch so they can take the Book of Amun-Ra while I load the gun. We then hear a sound of mummies on the next corridor.

''Man these guys just won't quit do they?'' O'Connell says.

''Keep digging,'' I say as I go shoot the mummies that have come to line of vision. Then I hear their gasps so I presume they found the Book.

''The book of Amun-Ra,'' I hear Jonathan say. Then I realize my gun has run out of bullets. I turn to look at them and say to them, ''Save the girls, kill the creature,'' as I charge toward the mummies. I have to do this it is for the sake of Nikki and the world. I then see O'Connell light up another dynamite, but for some reason he doesn't throw it.

''What are you waiting for? Get out!'' I yell at them as the mummies make me back further from them. I then hear the dynamite blow up sealing the entrance between me and O'Connell and Jonathan, and then all I hear are the screams of the mummies.