The Mummy of Yugioh
By: BlackRoseDragonCK
This is a Yugioh version of The Mummy movie. Yami, a young American adventurer, teams up with Tea, librarian of Cairo, to battle an ancient Egyptian evil force. I do not own Yugioh or The Mummy.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Romance/Adventure - Yami Yūgi, Anzu M./Tea G. - Chapters: 8 - Words: 22,192 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 51 - Follows: 13 - Updated: 9/6/2011 - Published: 8/31/2011 - Status: Complete - id: 7341199
1. Hamunaptra
I do not own Yugioh by Kazuki Takahashi or The Mummy written and directed by Stephen Sommmers, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Arnold Vosloo.
This is my second Yugioh cast movie and I'm super excited! PLEASE READ THE CHARACTER LIST BELOW TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE STORY.
Yami: Rick. (I'm not sure if I'm going to incorporate his being a Pharaoh into this fic since it may clash with the original story.)
Tea: Evelyn. (I'm a Revolutionshipping fan. Also, she's not British as Eve was.)
Joey: Jonathon. (Yes, he is Tea's brother in this.)
Weevil: Beni. (they're both worms.)
Yami Bakura (Egyptian version): Imhotep. ( I know that he's a tomb robber in the show and Seto's the high priest, but I couldn't stand to torture Seto. When in doubt, make Bakura the villain. Plus, his name has three syllables like Imhotep.)
Shadi: Ardeth.
Yami Marik: Gad Hassan (warden of the Cairo prison)
Isis: Anck-su-namun
The three Americans: Rex Raptor, Espa Roba, and Mako Tsunami (I purposefully used characters that I though people weren't extremely attached to because of what happens to them.)
The scholar with the "Americans": Zigfried Lloyd
Evelyn's boss, the library owner: Arthur Hawkins
Rick's Irish pilot friend: Solomon Mutou
The Pharaoh that Imhotep and Anck-su-namun kill: Akhenamkhanen (I had to look up the spelling of this name…it's a major pain to type lol!)
There are so many characters I've probably forgotten some in the list, so bear with me! I will do my best to make things clear. I've also attempted to follow the film line-for-line, but some things may be changed, added, or omitted. Also, I will edit cursing because I'm not used to writing with it, so please don't be mad at me for that. I hope you like it and please review! By the way, if you've never seen the movie, the following introduction is basically a flashback of what happened with the villain in the past. Also, it can be a little gory at parts but I'm going to edit most of those bits.
Introduction
Egypt, 1290 B.C.
Thebes, City of the Living…crown jewel of Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen…home of Bakura, Pharaoh's high priest…keeper of the dead…birthplace of Isis, Pharaoh's mistress. No other man was allowed to touch her.
Unbeknownst to anyone, however, Isis and Bakura shared a love so powerful…that they were willing to risk life itself to be together.
One evening, Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen strode into his drawing room to find Bakura's fellow priests clustered about, looking rather guilty. "What are YOU doing here?" he muttered in Egyptian, eyeing them suspiciously.
He proceeded into another room, pushing back the ebony curtain that served as a divider, and found Isis there, standing in a seductive pose beside a statue of a cat. She avoided the king's gaze as his eyes wandered to her upper arm…and glimpsed the smeared make-up on her skin.
"Who has touched you?" Akhenamkhanen snarled, pointing at her arm.
Isis's eyes widened with horror and she glanced at the man responsible, who had come up behind the Pharaoh. Akhenamkhanen turned and was stunned to see... "…Bakura?"
Without a word, the high priest grabbed the hilt of the king's sword and drew it into his own hand. Fearfully, Pharaoh stepped backward…only to be stabbed by his own mistress. Throwing caution to the wind, Bakura and Isis brutally murdered Akhenamkhanen, while the other priests watched in horror.
Suddenly, the gigantic golden doors began to shake on their hinges and shouting echoed behind them.
"Pharaoh's guards!" Bakura murmured, guessing the men had heard their king's agonized screaming and come running.
Isis turned her beauteous gaze to her beloved and cried, "You must go! Save yourself!"
"No."
"Only you can resurrect me!"
The priest turned to look at her…right as the angry guards burst into the room. His loyal priests seized him from all angles, trying to rescue him from the advancing guards while he strove desperately to get back to the woman he loved.
"I won't leave you!" Bakura shouted, striking out at his minions. "Get away from me!"
Isis, however, merely stroked the air in front of the man's face, a sorrowful look in her eyes as he called, "You shall live again! I will resurrect you!"
Finally, the bodyguards arrived on the scene and gaped in horror at their murdered ruler.
The Pharaoh's former mistress stared at them coldly and hissed, "My body is no longer his temple!" before plunging the dagger into herself.
From his hiding place, Bakura watched his lover's shadow and cringed as he witnessed her take her own life.
In order to resurrect Isis, Bakura and his priests broke into her crypt and stole her body. They raced deep into the desert…taking Isis's corpse to Hamunaptra, City of the Dead…ancient burial sight for the sons of pharaohs…and the resting place for the wealth of Egypt.
For his love, Bakura dared the Egyptian gods' anger by going deep into the city…where he took the black Book of the Dead from its holy resting place.
Isis's soul had been sent to the dark underworld…her vital organs removed and placed in five sacred canopic jars. As he read from the black book and the other priests chanted, the woman's soul slowly rose from the black abyss and floated back to her body. The corpse gasped as new breath entered, officially back to life…but the ritual was not yet complete.
Bakura raised a dagger to plunge into Isis, the last requirement of the spell…only to be grabbed by Pharaoh's guards. They had followed him to Hamunaptra…and put an end to the ritual before it could be completed. Consequently, Isis's spirit rose out of her body once more…and plunged back into the darkness. Bakura screamed in sorrow and anger…as his love slipped from his grasp.
Afterwards, Bakura and his priests were mummified alive. (A.N: I do not follow this next part line-for-line 'cuz this bit in the movie freaks me out and I can't stand to watch it. I'm a bit squeamish, please forgive me lol!) Their tongues were removed, their live bodies wrapped in bandages, and then thrust into a sarcophagus filled with flesh-eating scarabs. This punishment was known as the Hom Dai—a curse which forced its recipient to bear the agony of his wounds for all time by granting him eternal life. When the horrid ritual was complete, Bakura was buried beneath a statue of Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead, and kept under strict surveillance for all eternity by the Pharaoh's guards followed by their descendants, the Maji. They could never allow him to be released…for he would arise a walking disease… a plague among mankind… an unholy flesh-eater with the strength of the ages…power over the sands…and the glory of invincibility.
Hamunaptra, 1923
Hamunaptra….gorgeous ruins of the city of the dead…. Remarkable piece of ancient history…was currently a war zone. The French Foreign legion fought bravely against the marauding desert nomads…but their small, valiant forces were being picked off one by one by the army of gun-wielding, horse-riding foes.
From a distant sand dune, the Maji watched solemnly as the forces clashed over the desert land, knowing that the opponents were completely oblivious to the evil that lay beneath it.
The foreign legion members, Yami and Weevil, gaped in shock when their captain suddenly mounted his horse and deserted his soldiers.
"Looks like you just got promoted," muttered Weevil, a bluish-green-haired guy with large glasses and a screechy voice that reminded one of an insect.
Yami, a very handsome young man with spiky red-tipped black hair and blonde bangs and piercing crimson eyes, nodded and readied his shotgun, shouting, "Prenez vos positions!"
The nomads drew nearer and nearer, bellowing and brandishing their firearms.
"Steady!" Yami shouted then glanced at Weevil. "You're with me on this one, right?"
The bug-like man grinned and replied, "Oh…your strength gives me strength."
That was his attitude…until he turned around and saw the army growing ever closer. Weevil stared for a moment, then took off after the captain, shouting, "Wait for me!"
Yami rolled his eyes, not the slightest bit surprised by his partner's cowardly actions. He then gazed back at the targets. The American adventurer waited until the very last second before shouting at his men to fire.
The guns went off, taking out several enemies on the front line. Unfortunately, "several" wasn't enough, and the Foreign Legion soldiers quickly began to either fall or desert the battle. It was not long before the remaining men were forced to retreat. Yami was standing in the midst of the battle, shooting down the enemy forces and holding extra bullets between his teeth. When his shotgun ran out of ammo, he was forced to resort to his twin pistols, firing at every close-range enemy in sight.
Finally, Yami realized it was futile to continue fighting, so he ran. He caught sight of his partner and gestured toward the open entrance to an ancient temple.
"RUN, WEEVIL, RUN! GET INSIDE!"
Weevil didn't have to be told twice as he ran into the ruins…and began pulling the stone door closed behind him.
"HEY!" the spiky-haired soldier yelled. "Don't you close that door! Don't close that—"
The door slid shut, leaving Yami to fend for himself. Quickly adjusting to the situation, he took off through the temple sight, dodging bullets and leaping over fallen pillars. In his desperate flight, Yami dropped his gun and, due to the barrage of bullets that followed when he attempted to retrieve it, was forced to abandon the firearm. The Foreign Legion member bounded through the sand…but it was futile due to the enemies cutting off any chance of escape.
They chased the young man until his path was blocked and there was no where else to flee. Defeated, Yami squeezed his eyes shut and waited for his execution…but the shots never came. Instead, he heard the men yelling in fear, their horses whinnying accordingly, and the sound of retreating hooves.
Yami's crimson eyes fluttered open and he stared at the terrified, fleeing men in confusion. He gasped as when heard voices whispering in the wind and turned around to see…a large statue of Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead. Suddenly, as if possessed by some supernatural force, the sand surrounding the soldier began to spring up from the ground. Yami scrambled to his feet and took off as fast as he could out of the cursed city. If he had stayed, he would have seen that the ghostly sand…had morphed into an impression of Bakura's face.
Watching the retreating nomads, Shadi, leader of the Maji, muttered, "The creature remained undiscovered."
"And what of that one?" asked one of the other guardians, gesturing to Yami who was running across the desert. "Should we kill him?"
"No…' Shadi replied cryptically. "The desert will kill him."
Three years later, in the bustling city of Cairo, a young brunette woman named Tea Gardner, librarian of the Cairo Museum, was perching precariously on a tall ladder.
"'Sacred Stones'…" she murmured, holding a pile of books in her slender arms and attempting to reshelf them. "'Sculpture and Aesthetics'….Socrates, Seth, volume one, volume two…and volume three…and T—"
She stopped, sapphire blue eyes staring in perplexity at the last book in her grasp. "Tuthmosis? What are you doing here? T…where are the T's…?"
Tea looked at the towering bookshelf directly across from her, finally locating the "T" section. Not wanting to waste time climbing down and repositioning the ladder, the young woman attempted to reach across and put the book in its proper place…but her arm wouldn't reach. She leaned farther and farther until…
"Eeek!" Tea found herself balancing on the two legs of the ladder, staggering dangerously as if she were on stilts. "Oh…help." the librarian murmured.
She screamed as the ladder fell forward and into the bookshelf, knocking it into another…and so the domino effect began, not stopping until every single shelf in the library had been topple over.
The guilty woman stood up, uninjured…but in deep trouble. "…oops…"
To make matters worse, her boss, Arthur Hawkins, arrived on the scene.
"What—How c—I—How—Look at this!" the man stuttered, eyes bugging. "Sons of Pharaohs! Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!"
Tea hung her head shamefully. "I am so very sorry. It was an accident."
Arthur scowled and replied, "My girl, when Rameses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You…ARE A CATASTROPHE! Look at my library! Why do I put up with you?"
The woman shot her boss a look and said, "W-well, you put up with me because I can read and write ancient Egyptian…and I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic…and well…" her eyes lit up with indignation. "I am the only person within a thousand miles who knows how to properly code and catalog this library! That's why!"
"I put up with you because your father and mother were our finest patrons!" Arthur snapped. That's why! Now I don't care how you do it, I don't care how long it takes…straighten up this mess!"
With that, the livid scholar stormed off, and Tea was about to begin the arduous task when a noise from the exhibit in the back room caught her attention. She grabbed a torch off the wall and began to search the artifact-filled room. The girl approached an open casket….and shrieked when the mummy inside sat up straight.
Laughing, Tea's brother, a blonde-haired man named Joey, moved the mummy out of his lap.
"Have you no respect for the dead?" Tea hissed.
"Of course I do!" Joey grinned. "But sometimes, I'd kinda like to join them."
Tucking the ancient corpse back into its place, the librarian muttered, "Well, I wish you would do it before you ruin my career the way you ruined yours, now get out!"
The older sibling chuckled and climbed out of the casket, saying, "My dear, sweet baby sister…I'll have you know that at this precise moment my career is on a high note."
"High note? Ha! Joey, please, I'm really not in the mood for you. I've just made a bit of a mess in the library…and the Bembridge scholars have rejected my application form again. They say I don't have enough experience in the field…"
Joey's goofy expression softened as he glimpsed his little sister's distress. He went to her and took her hands in his. "You'll always have me, squirt," he grinned, leaning his forehead affectionately against her as she began to giggle. "Besides…I have just the thing to cheer you up."
Tea sighed and muttered, "Oh, no, Joey, not another worthless trinket. If I have to take one more piece of junk to the curator to try and…sell for you…"
The young woman's cerulean orbs widened when Joey presented her with a small, circular metal device. "Where did you get this?"
Joey shrugged. "On a dig in Thebes. My whole life I've never found anything, Tea. Please tell me I found something…"
Tea ran her skilled fingers along the surface of the artifact…until it opened to reveal a folded piece of paper hidden within.
"Joey…" she began, a small smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. "I think…you've found something!"
"You see the cartouche there?" Tea pointed out the drawing to Professor Hawkins. "It's the official seal of Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen, I'm sure of it."
"Perhaps…" Arthur began only to be interrupted by Joey.
"First of all, who was Akhenamkhanen and was he rich?"
"He was the second pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty and said to be the wealthiest one of them all."
"Good. I like this guy."
The brunette continued, "I've already dated the map and it appears to be almost three thousand years old. And if you look at the hieratic just here…well…it's Hamunaptra."
"Dear, God, don't be ridiculous," the professor scoffed. "We're scholars, not treasure hunters. Hamunaptra's a myth told by ancient Arab story tellers to amuse Greek and Roman tourists."
Tea went on, "I know all the blather about the city being protected by the curse of a mummy…but my research has led me to believe that the city itself may have actually existed."
"Are we talking about THE Hamunaptra?" Joey inquired.
"Yes, the City of the Dead where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden all the wealth of Egypt. Supposedly, the Pharaoh could, at will, order the entire necropolis to sink into the sand taking the treasure with it."
Holding the map a little too close to a candle, Arthur added, "Yes…it's all just fairy tales and hokus—Oh! Good gracious" The flame from the candle lit the parchment ablaze.
The Gardner siblings leaped on the map and desperately tried to put the fire out…but it was too late.
"You've burnt it!" the blonde man whined. "You've burnt the part about the lost city!"
"It was for the best," Arthur replied cryptically. "Many men have wasted their lives in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra. No one's ever found it…most have never returned."
The siblings were not going to give up so easily, however, and soon made their way to the Cairo prison.
"Come, step over the threshold!" the warden, Marik Ishtar beckoned them. "Welcome to the Cairo Prison, my humble home."
Glancing around at the countless men in chains and confinement, Tea hissed, "I thought you told me that you got it at a dig in Thebes."
"Well..." Joey began sheepishly. "I was mistaken."
"You lied."
"I lie to everyone. What makes you so special?"
"I am your sister!"
"That just makes you more gullible."
Tea rolled her eyes. "You stole it from a drunk at a local casbah."
"Picked his pocket, actually."
The two were led to an outdoor cell with a door leading to an inner chamber and the brunette inquired, "What exactly is this man in prison for?"
"This I do not know," Marik admitted. "But when I heard that you were coming I asked him that myself."
"And?"
"He said he was just looking for a good time."
Just then, the door inside the cage burst open and several guards restraining a prisoner burst out. He was a young man in his twenties with a mess of tangled tri-colored hair and a thin but muscled, dirty body. He growled as the guards struck him with clubs and dragged him over to the cell bars.
"This is the man you stole it from?" Tea demanded to know.
"Yes, exactly," her brother replied.
"Who are you?" the prisoner asked Joey. His crimson eyes then wandered to the brunette and he added, "And who's the broad?"
"Broad?"
Before his sister could go off on a tangent, Joey said, "I'm just a local guy and this is my sister, Tea."
"Ask him about the box," Tea murmured as Marik's attention was caught by something else. "Uh, hello, excuse me…"
The unruly young man turned to look at her.
"We found your puzzle box and we were hoping you could tell us more about it."
"No."
"…No?"
"You came to ask me about Hamunaptra."
"How do you know—"
"Because that's where I found it."
Joey smirked and moved closer to the bars. "How do we know this isn't a load of chickenscratch?"
The prisoner looked at him and asked, "Do I know you?"
"No…" the blonde replied uncertainly.
In answer to this, the spiky-haired man punched Joey in the nose, resulting in the guards hitting him again with their clubs.
Stepping over her groaning brother, Tea moved up next to the cage and asked, "You were actually at Hamunaptra?"
"Yeah, I was there."
"You swear?"
"Every word."
The brunette's next question came out in a kind of nervous stammer. "C-could you tell me how to get there?"
The prisoner cocked an ebony eyebrow. "You want to know?"
"Well…yes."
"You really wanna know?" he moved closer to the bars.
The young woman was getting excited now as she murmured, "Yes! Yes!"
The red-eyed young man motioned for her to lean closer…then grabbed her chin, crushing his lips against hers in a rough kiss.
"Then get me out of here!" he ordered against her mouth.
Tea stared at the prisoner in shock as the guards struck him, dragging him back towards the inner part of the prison.
"Do it, lady!" he shouted.
Still in shock from the kiss, the blue-eyed beauty looked at Marik and demanded, "Where are they taking him?"
"To be hanged," the prison warden smirked. "Apparently, he had a very good time."
Uh oh…They can't hang Yami! Will Tea get to him in time? Find out next chapter. I hope you enjoyed and please review but please don't flame. This story is proving to be very challenging because of the dense movie dialogue.