Evy's mind began to reel. She hardly knew Charly. What was important to her? Evy looked around the room and her eye's fell on Jonathan. She remembered the ride on the train in France. "So what is going on between you and my brother?" Evy had said. "I like him, and he likes me. I guess that's it. I guess it began the other night at the party, but we really got together yesterday at the piano and dinner," Charly had replied. The smile and glow on her face reminded her when they first arrived at Hamunaptra, and Rick had given her the "borrowed" tool-kit, she remembered just smiling at how much she was beginning to love this man. Charly had the same look. Evy snapped out of her trance, she knew what to do.
"Jonathan, come here." Jonathan stood wearily against the obelisk watching for a few moments. Then he picked himself up and walked to Evy, keeping his pinned on Charly the entire time. "Jonathan, you need to kiss Charly!"
"What? But I can't…I…" Jonathan was beginning to look sick.
"It's the only way to save her. You have to kiss Charly, so that she can push the other spirit out."
Ardeth began to recite the incantation. Jonathan looked at Charly. He leaned down over her head and out his lips to hers.
Charly had seen everything and heard everything. All she had to do was want to kiss Jonathan enough to push Numanuskcna out, but Numanuskcna had probably heard the same thing through her scream fits. Jonathan got closer. Charly didn't know if she would be able to do it, what if Numanuskcna pushed her out instead, then she would be lost forever. Charly began to panic. Jonathan got closer and looked into her eyes. There was something there, a small spark in those clear blue eyes. Charly was completely enraptured by it. She watched his eyes as his lips brushed upon hers. As there lips met both their eyes closed.
*No! You bitch!* a voice screamed. A blue light appeared around Charly's head, which seemed to glow brighter and brighter. A force knocked Rick, Evy and Ardeth back about five feet from Charly and Jonathan. Alex curled up and covered his head near the entrance. The stream of light grew and rose up towards the ceiling of he large room. A whisper of Egyptian could be heard as well. The light grew as bright as possible before it appeared to blow up and vanish into nowhere.
Rick was the first to move. He got up from where his body had hit the floor, and went to Evy, to make sure she was all right. He then looked up towards Alex who was standing at passageway. Alex made his way over to his beckoning parents and sat with them. Ardeth sat up and looked first at the family, then at the couple in the middle. He smiled at them.
They kissed a moment longer, then broke staring into each other's eyes. Jonathan noticed that the black was now gone and the deep chocolate brown he loved had returned.
"Jonathan…you saved me." Charly said breathlessly, deepening her gaze into his sparkling blue eyes. She began to sit up a bit.
"Yeah…I guess I did."
"Thank you!"
"Well it's…" Jonathan couldn't complete his statement because Charly had thrown her arms around his neck and was deeply kissing him again.
The other's stared happily at the scene before him, except Alex who let out a small groan. They were all too busy to notice the figure that had entered behind them.
"You should not have done that."
Rick knew that voice; he looked straight up to find his old "pal" Beni. "I thought you had died"
"I did die. I know serve Imhotep in the afterlife."
Evy gasped, "Imhotep?"
"Isn't he always the root of our troubles." Rick rolled his eyes at the thought.
"Yes, now you have angered him and you will die for it."
"Like we haven't heard that before!" Rick sneered as he lunged at Beni. Beni disappeared and moved to the opposite side of the room. He looked down at the couple how huddled in each other's arm's on the floor.
"It's too bad about you two" Beni said.
"Oh yeah, why's that?" Charly fought back.
Beni pointed back to the doorway behind them. They all slowly turned around and looked, there in the doorway stood Imhotep. He stood silently surveying the room, and then a girl appeared behind him. She was tall with straight black hair, standing in a long white gown. The moment Charly saw her, she knew exactly who it was, Numanuskcna.
Charly got to her feet and looked into to the eyes of Numanuskcna. The girl glared back at her as she stepped out from behind Imhotep. Then she spoke in Egyptian, "Now you will die along with your friends"
To Charly's disbelief, she understood what Numanuskcna was saying. And to the disbelief she answered back in Egyptian, "Not if I kill you first!"
"Silly girl, I am already dead." With that Numanuskcna threw herself in Charly's direction aiming a small knife at her. She landed on top of Charly, knocking the air out of her, but Charly fought back, grabbing Numanuskcna's wrist and just barely keeping the blade of her skin. Jonathan jumped to save her and found himself being pulled back and into a fight with Beni. Rick and Ardeth both went to head of Rick. Evy stood with Alex watching the fighting.
"Alex, go back to the Temple and stay there!"
"But, mum, I can…"
"Alex! I don't want to hear it, go back to the Temple now!" Alex saw the look in his mother's eyes and headed back towards the Temple. With Alex gone Evy focused her attention of the three different fighting groups. She saw that Charly needed the most help, and ran over to her. However, something caught her eye on the way over, it was the sword Charly had used earlier. Evy ran over and picked it up, struggling momentarily under its weight. Evy got close enough, then swung the sword with all her might, hitting in the Numanuskcna in the head and knocking her to the ground. Numanuskcna kicked up and knocked the sword from Evy's grasp, and soon both Evy and Charly were trying their best to fight Numanuskcna