Live or die

Nikki's POV

When I finally I wake up from my unwanted unconsciousness the first thing I notice is that I lie next to a black watered pool and that my hands have been tied up behind me.

Oh for Jesus Christ!

I look up and see Evy chained on the table in front of me and that there's a rotten mummy beside her. Oh oh! I reach for my pocket for my pocketknife and as I get it I immediately start cutting the ropes that hold my hands behind my back. But suddenly I hear a small moan and I look up to see that Evy's also waking up.

''Evy don't look at your left!'' I yell so that she doesn't look at the mummy lying next to her.

''What?'' She says and looks to the left. When she sees it she starts screaming as I predicted. I'm almost ready with the ropes and as I look to the table where Evy is I see the mummies Imhotep has as his servants, I don't know, make a circle around the table.

Then Imhotep himself comes into the camber with the black Book in his hands. He looks at the mummy on the table and says something gentle at it. That's when Evy starts screaming,

''O'Connell! Jonathan!'' I think they're a bit busy right now. The mummies then start chanting something and bowing around the table. That's when something ghostly emerges from the pool next to me and it goes straight to the mummy next to Evy. I'm almost cut off the rope. Then suddenly I hear a horrible demonic scream and right behind it an Evy's scream. I look up and see that the mummy's next to Evy has come to life.

Then Imhotep is next to Evy with a long gold knife in his hands. He raises it above his head as to strike it through Evy's chest. I finally get the rope cut and I run to Imhotep and take his arm so that he doesn't get to kill Evy. He looks at me surprised and simply pushes me off. I stumble a bit and just when I'm about to charge at to him again I hear Jonathan's voice,

''I found it Evy, I found it!'' He yells as he appears at the top of the stairs holding a heavy looking golden book in his hands. That must be the Book of Amun-Ra.

''Shut up and get me out of here Jonathan,'' Evy yells at him, ''open the book Jonathan; it's the only way to kill him. You have to open the book and find the inscription,'' Evy advices him.

''I can't open it. It's locked or something. We need the key Evy!'' he yells.

''It's inside his robes,'' Evy tells to Jonathan pointing at Imhotep who was walking towards Jonathan. Jonathan then runs away with the book seeing Imhotep approaching him. I immediately run to Evy and try picking the chains holding her to the table with my pocketknife.

Then suddenly Rick jumps out and I just barely get out of the way of his sword as he cuts one of the chains holding Evy. Then the mummies start attacking at us. Rick wields his new sword and I just try to keep them away by simply punching them. Which ndoesn't do much.

''What took you so long?'' I ask Rick.

''Sorry, we had a little traffic jam in our hands, '' he answers.

''Where's Ardeth?'' I ask as I punch one of the mummies away from me.

''We had to split up,'' Rick states. We punch kick and hit the mummies and it looks like we're winning. When all the mummies were down, Rick turns to Evy and says,

''Mummies.'' Just when he's about to cut Evy's other chain something grabs his leg and makes him fall down. I look and see a half of the mummy holding his leg and other one starts to keep him still as one whole one tries to squash him with a big stone tablet. I try to run to him, but he cuts the mummy's legs and makes it to fall down with the tablet.

I kick the mummy holding Rick's leg and Rick gets the other one off of him. I help him stand up and he just takes his sword and helps Evy out. We hear Jonathan starting to read the book and just when we're about to get out of there a herd of mummy soldiers come at us.

''Where does these guys come from?'' I ask.

''Oh yeah, this just keeps getting better and better,'' Rick says.

''Do something Jonathan,'' Evy tells Jonathan.

''Me?'' He says

''You can command them,'' Evy tells him.

''You've got to be joking,'' he says.

''Does this look like a time to be joking?'' I yell at him.

''Finish the inscription on the cover and then you can control them,'' Evy explains. Jonathan then leaves hopefully to read the book to get these mummies off of our tail. We back away from the soldiers but then suddenly the female mummy, which was just lying on the table next to where Evy used to lay, attacks Evy. She runs away from the mummy as we prepare to fight off the other mummies.

''Rick if we die here, I'll kill you,'' I say my trademark farce.

''Feel free,'' he answers. He the yells as loud as he can at the mummies, who yell back so much louder.

''Uh uh,'' he shakes his head and grabs my hand as we run away. We run inside the chamber trying to get away. Rick the grabs a rope and cuts it so we rise up as the mummies stay down. Even mummies can't fly. We run to the corridor, but decide to change the way as the mummy soldiers are there also.

We run down the stairs and when we turn around and don't see anything we're taken aback. We then turn around and see the soldiers right in front of us. Rick starts to fight them, but for me I keep running since I don't have any weapon to fight them and I don't feel like becoming a pin cushion today.

I run away couple soldiers on my tail when I hear Jonathan yell something and Evy answering, but that's all I hear or bother to try to hear as I'm too focused on running for my life. I then run straight to the big statue and lean against it. I'm cornered, no way out and I just close my eyes just like back at the legion. The mummies are just about to strike when Jonathan finishes the inscription. I look up and see the blades frozen just above my head.

They then move to position and wait commands from Jonathan. I hear Imhotep yell something at them, but they won't obey. I hear Jonathan giving them a command which I presume to be to destroy Anck-su-namun as he said her name and the mummies start to march towards her and Evy. The soldiers go to her and… well… kill her, if you can say that, seeing as she's already dead.

I turn my head and see Imhotep holding Jonathan by the throat and Rick slashing straight through Imhotep's hand and Jonathan and the hand fall down. Ew. He then throws Rick away by the collar. I run to Rick and try to help him up. Imhotep comes to us after attaching his arm once again and simply pushes me away and grabs Rick. Why doesn't he try to hurt me? He tries to hurt everyone else.

I just run to Jonathan and Evy, who are ready to read the Book.

''Keep him busy,'' Evy yells to Rick as he tries to fight Imhotep off.

''No problem,'' he yells back. Evy then opens the book and turns the pages to find the right one.

''Hurry Evy, hurry,'' me and Jonathan say.

''You're not helping,'' Evy says. Just when Imhotep is about to kill Rick Evy yells,

''I got it. Gagish mol, gagish mal,paradus, paradus!'' We'll see a ghost carriage come down the stairs and they go straight through Imhotep. He tries to catch it but, before he can it disappears. He turns to look at us with fury in his eyes and we just back away as Rick grabs his sword.

''I thought you said it was gonna kill him,'' Rick says as Imhotep starts coming at us. Rick slashes his sword through him and to some reason this time he bleeds real blood.

''He's mortal,'' Evy tells us. Then that means that blow will kill him. Imhotep holds his bleeding gut as he backs away into the pool where he starts to decompose once again. He looks up at us and yells something before he is totally sink in.

''Death is only the beginning,'' Evy translates. But then the walls around us start to sink down.

''Time to go,'' Rick states. We run and as we run across the bridge Jonathan falls down dropping the Book into the pool.

''You lost the book, Jonathan you lost the book,'' Evy says shocked for losing the artifact.

''Come on,'' we all say impatiently to her as we continue running. We run to the treasure chamber and that's when Jonathan stops.

''Could we just…'' he says to us.

''No Jonathan,'' we say as we drag him out of there as the door stats to close. We manage to get out of there, but then we hear a shout behind us,

''O'Connell, O'Connell!'' And we see Beni trying to get to us. Rick tries to help him but the door closes on him.

''Goodbye Beni,'' Rick says as he rises from the ground. We continue our running since the place about to collapse underneath us.

We come outside and we run between the pillars that fall down. Run, run,run! That was about all in my mind right now. We run to the desert to safety and watch as the lost city of Hamunaptra blows up right in front of our eyes. Finally we can catch our breath with an ease. Then suddenly Jonathan yells loudly and makes us all shout. We look at what he was yelling at and see Ardeth on a camel, tired but alive.

''Ardeth, you made it,'' I say to him as Jonathan keeps rubbing his chest.

''Oh thank you, thank you very much,'' Jonathan says sarcastically as he holds his poor heart that probably had a mild heart attack.

''You have earned a respect of me and my people,'' Ardeth tells us.

''Yes, well it was nothing,'' Jonathan says to him waving it off.

''May Allah smile up on you always,'' Ardeth says to us. He the kisses his knuckles and touches his forehead

''And yourself,'' Jonathan says.

''We will meet again,'' Ardeth then says to me.

''Don't worry I know we will,'' I answer to him. He then leaves turns his camel around and starts riding it to the desert to return to his tribe.

''Yes, anytime,'' Jonathan says back to him.

''Stay out of trouble,'' Rick adds.

''He's just leaving us here. Well I guess we go home empty handed. Again,'' Jonathan complains. I pat him on the shoulder as a small gesture of comfort.

''I wouldn't say that,'' Rick says as he looks at Evy.

''Oh please,'' Jonathan says as Evy and Rick share their first kiss.

''I guess you won't get rid of us,'' I say to Jonathan.

''How about you darling, would you like a little kissy wissy,'' he says to the camel, but when he smells the camels breath he changes his mind. I just simply laugh at this.

But I can't help but to smile. After everything we went through we're actually still alive. Tired, yes, scratched, somewhat, but still undoubtedly alive. Rick then lifts Evy to one of the camels and the mounts himself behind her. Jonathan rides next to me on the camel he just tried to kiss and I ride on the remaining camel looking at the setting sun and wondering what life will bring at us next.

The end!