Disclaimer: The mentioned characters of Mummies Alive belong to DIC International. The character Lyris belongs to the Wind Goddess Mia. The characters Princess Mennehotep and Princess Kara belongs to Trynia Merin. The characters Damia, Girian, and Ranee belongs to me, Sardra Rowen.



I have written this fanfic for my own enjoyment.



The Swords of Ilkan

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She moaned in pain as she tried to drag herself to the entrance of the huge cave. But it was no use. She was dying. Then a shadow fell over her prone form. She looked up at the lean

figure that stood over her.



Damia took off her helmet and knelt down beside her mother.



"Mother?"



"Damia?" Girian asked. "Did you hide the other sword?"



"Yes. Ranee will never get her hands on the Swords of Ilkan," Damia replied as she gently placed Girian's head and shoulders on her lap. "But I have to get you to a healer."



Girian shook her head. "No. I've lost too much blood. I'll not survive the journey."



"But I can't loose you, too!" Damia protested. "First Father and now you."



"Hush, my daughter," Girian said. "If he were here now, your father would've been proud of you."



Then Girian silently closed her eyes and never opened them again.



"Awww, what a touching moment!" a voice sneered behind Damia and she turned and saw Ranee. She stood up to face the evil Amazon.



"You will never get the swords, Ranee," Damia said sternly.



"We'll just see about that!" Ranee snapped.



Both Amazons circled each other, sizing each other up. Then Damia flipped neatly over

Ranee's head and landed behind her. At that moment Amazon guards flanked her.



"Take her away." Damia ordered, pointing at Ranee. Two guards took Ranee's arms and dragged her away.



"I'll will get you for this, Damia!" Ranee yelled. "You hear me? I'll get you!!!!"



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"Hiiiiiiya!" she yelled at her opponent.



They circled each other holding their spears out in front of them. They kept their eyes on each other and thinking that the other would make a move first.



Menne laughed with delight. Holding her spear, its point shaped like a huge teardrop, in front of her she watched how easily Damia welded her own.



"Now, when you fight, always keep an open mind," Damia instructed. "A quick reaction is what counts here."



Damia swung her spear shaft at Menne. The Princess immediately blocked it with her own. The connection of both shafts resounded throughout the entire room.



"Good. Now try to disarm me."



Menne moved her spear underneath Damia's and easily knocked the long spear out of the Amazon's hands.



"Very good. Now try to counter this."



Damia rushed forward, letting out an "Aiieeyyaa!" As she fell upon her, Menne went onto her back. She grabbed Damia's arms with her foot positioned at Damia's abdomen and flipped Damia over her own body. However, Damia caught herself with a backflip.



"That was an excellent move, Princess," Damia got up dusting herself off.



"Thanks," Menne said. "I've been practicing."



"Damia! Menne!" Presley entered the sparring room waving a newspaper in his hand.



"What is it, oh Prince?" Damia asked.



Ja-Kal and Rath entered also. Rath, too, obviously had something in his hand which turns out to be an issue of this month's "Science" magazine. He was anxious to show it to Mennehotep.



"Oh, sorry!" Presley apologized when he saw what Damia and Menne was doing. "I didn't mean to interrupt your sparring."



"Oh, nonsense," Damia laughed. "What do you have there?"



"Take a look at this," the Prince said. Presley hands Damia the newspaper. Damia reads the front page. She gasps and drops the newspaper.



"What's wrong?" Menne asked her friend.



"The Swords of Ilkan have been found," Damia answered. "Well, at least one of them."



"What are the Swords of Ilkan?" Rath asked.



"Huh? What's going on?" Nefer-Tina asked as she and the others walked into the room.



"The Swords of Ilkan are very powerful swords. They are magical. One can open portals and the other can devastate armies. My mother and I hid them long ago," Damia explained. "If they fall into the wrong hands then the entire world is in trouble."



"So if Scarab or Kara gets their hands on them..." Ja-Kal began.



"Exactly," Damia nodded. "I think that it's best that we retrieve this one sword before Scarab or Kara do."



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Later, the Hot-Ra was streaking down the highway toward the museum. Inside were four armored passengers (Nefer-Tina in her Cat armor, Rath in his Cobra armor, Armon in his Ram armor, and Lyris in her Jackal armor) plus Presley. Riding beside the Hot-Ra was one of the Nileator jetcycles with Damia (in her Fox armor) at the controls. Flying above them was Ja-Kal (in his Hawk armor) and Menne (in her Ibis armor).



The seven armored figures crept into the museum. They found the display case where the sword was being displayed but the sword itself was missing!



"It's not here!" Damia said. She began to get nervous.



"Easy there girl," Nefer-Tina calmed her friend down.



"Look! What's that?" Armon pointed at a strange glowing red oval sphere as tall as a person a little ways from the display case.



"What do you think it is?" Lyris asked.



"Let's find out." Ja-Kal said. He, Menne, and Damia approached the glowing sphere with caution. At first it didn't seem to do anything threatening but, after a moment, the thing began to glow tremendously. Lightning like shafts snaked out and entwined Ja-Kal, Menne, and Damia, pulling the three of them inside.



"Damia! Menne! Ja-Kal!" Nefer-Tina shouted, leaping toward the sphere. But as she came in contact with it, the sphere shot an electrical charge through the Cat Guardian's body, making her scream in pain. She fell onto the floor with a grunt. Armon helped her back onto her feet.



"Ooooh. Remind me never to do that again." Nefer-Tina groaned.



"We have to get them back." Rath said.



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In another place, a lean figure watched the portal with interest. Something was obviously happening or else the portal wouldn't glow like that. Then with a flash of bright red light three figures appeared in front of the portal. They were very hesitant as they looked at their surroundings.



"Where are we?" Mennehotep asked.



"We're in another realm." Damia replied.



Suddenly, a group of Amazons surrounded the three mummies. Ja-Kal, Menne, and Damia immediately took defensive poses and drew their weapons. Each mummy took their own group of Amazons. The warrior women were easy to defeat. But, then a glowing white orb shot out of nowhere and hit Ja-Kal square in the chest, entrapping him in a high energy nearly-transparent sphere.



"Damia!" a voice shrieked from above. Damia looked up and saw an angry-looking Amazon leap at her, knocking her to the ground. Her eyes narrowed as she immediately recognized the woman with the scar across her temple and underneath her left eye.



"Ranee," she said coldly.



"Ha ha! It's been a long time, Damia." Ranee laughed at the downed guardian. "And you've aged terribly."



Just then Menne ran up to Damia and helped her to her feet. "Damia? What's going on? Who is this Amazon?" she demanded.



"She is Ranee. We were once friends long ago but Ranee started a war against a neighboring group of Amazons who apparently meant us no harm," Damia said.



"Yes, and I would've won if you'd have joined me," Ranee interrupted pointing a shining sword at the two girls. It was one of the Swords of Ilkan. "Take them prisoner," Ranee said to the group of Amazons.



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Rath cupped his hands together and a bright green energy sphere appeared. He let it grow as big as a basketball and then threw it straight at the portal. But as the green sphere hit it fizzled out as if it ran into a magical barrier, which it did.



"It didn't even phase the thing," Presley said.



"Well, it should have," Rath huffed.



Armon raised his golden arm and brought it down upon the portal, but the golden appendage bounced harmlessly off.



"Let me try," Lyris stepped forward and raised her scythe. Then, she brought it down upon the portal, which suddenly reacted and threw the Muse backwards into Armon with a blast of lightning.



"Well, that didn't work." Nefer-Tina replied.



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"How did you get the Sword of Ilkan?" Damia glared at Ranee although she was now in shackles. Menne was in the same situation and surrounded by Amazon warriors. Ja-Kal just watched silently from the sphere.



"Well, let's just say it was a fair catch." Ranee chuckled. "Although I have one sword I will not risk any more warriors to get the second one. I've lost too many already."



"You will never get your hands on the second sword," Damia growled and with one sweep of her right leg she knocked the warrior women off their feet. She leapt to her feet and rushed at Ranee. But Ranee was ready for her. She pointed the Sword of Ilkan at Damia. A bright, lime green energy blast shot out of the sword tip and hit Damia as she was in mid-run. She fell back onto the ground.



"I will get the second sword. For you, Damia, know where it is," said Ranee. Ranee then aimed the sword at Ja-Kal. "Or I will drain the life forces of your friend here."



"Don't listen to her, Damia. She--oooooh....." Ja-Kal calls out but an electrical surge through his body cuts him off.



"Ja-Kal!" Menne shouted.



Damia closed her eyes. She had to decide. Ja-Kal's life was on the line. Ranee would quickly kill him if she refused. I have to do this, she told herself. Damia opened her eyes again.



"I will retrieve the second sword," she gritted. Ranee was going to regret this, Damia decided from that point onwards.



"I'll go with you," Menne said.



Damia quickly turned toward the princess. "No. It's too dangerous."



Ranee aimed the Sword of Ilkan at the girls' shackles. They easily unclasped and fell to the ground. "She goes," said Ranee. "Two warriors are much better than one."



"Very well. Open the Realm of Ilkan."



Ranee raised the sword again and a scarlet red portal, similar to the one in the museum, appeared. Damia and Menne walked through, all the while glaring at Ranee.



"You won't get away with this, Ranee." Ja-Kal said.



"And what makes you think you can stop me, hmm?" Ranee laughed.



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It is the Realm of Ilkan. In a clearing a bright red light flashed, and in its place stood two female mummies in animalistic armor, a fox and an ibis.



"Damia. This place looks so...so..." Menne couldn't find the right word to describe the Realm they were now in.



"Desolate?" the Amazon supplied.



"Yes. So where is the Sword of Ilkan?"



"You see that statue above those trees over there?" Damia pointed with one claw to the north.



"Uh huh." Menne nodded. "It looks like a sphinx with wings."



"That's where the second Sword of Ilkan is hidden. And that's where we have to go."



They began to walk in that intended direction. It was actually a pretty long journey. First, they cut their way through thick brush. Then, they took the trees, thinking it would be more safer than on the ground. Menne nearly got tangled up in some vines, but Damia cut her free by using the blade on her spear. Finally, the two mummy girls stood at the foot of the Winged Sphinx.



"Damia, can you explain in little more detail who Ranee is and why she has it out for you?"



"Ranee and I were once friends long ago," Damia explained. "But, she was more interested in power than friendship. She got to use that power against a wandering clan of Amazons and invoked a war with them against our clan. She asked me to join her but I refused. She wants the Swords of Ilkan to take over all the Realms. My mother and I hid them from Ranee, but she, my mother, died after that."

The two girls began to climb up the wall using the vines twined there.



"I'm so sorry about your mother. I didn't know," Menne said as Damia helped up onto the elevated platform leading to the entrance.



"That's all in the past, Menne. I failed my mother, but I won't fail again."



"What about Ja-Kal?"



"I won't fail him either."



They both climbed up to a design that looked sort of like an eye. They pushed inward and it revealed an entrance. The two mummies climbed inside.



"The second sword is just beyond that entrance there," Damia pointed with her spear.



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"There's the sword," said Menne eagerly, breaking into a run.



"Menne! Wait!" Damia shouted.



Suddenly, two huge spiked balls came swinging down toward Menne. She quickly ducked as one spiked ball passed over her. Damia threw her chakram at the balls, breaking the chains. The balls crashed to the ground beside Menne, and crumples into human bones scattered all about. Menne shrieked and crawls away from them.



"Be careful," Damia called out. "If one of those so much as touches you, your history."



Menne crawled back to Damia and sat up. "Sorry. I guess I wasn't that much careful." she looks up at her friend. "Are there any more traps here?"



"Not that I know of," Damia shook her head.



Menne approached the short, twisted pillar that held the sword. She just barely managed to touch the handle when sparks of pure energy flew out. Menne gasped, a steps back. Soon, they stood facing a gigantic being made of pure energy. Menne fired a blast of amethyst energy at the being but it just absorbed the blast.



"How can we fight something made of pure energy?" Menne asked. She barely avoided getting hit by a blast from the being, and hid behind a raised platform, joined shortly by Damia.



"What do we do?"



"I'll distract it." Damia says. "You get the sword."



"Sounds easy enough."



Quickly, Damia somersaulted out into the open and threw her chakram at the being. The silver weapon bounced off the being harmlessly. The being, angered by this, grabbed Damia by the waist and lifted her up into the air. At that moment Menne rushed out, unnoticed by the creature, and went for the sword. She took and aimed it at the being that held Damia. Suddenly, a bright, white energy blast shot from the blade and hit the being. It dropped Damia and exploded.



Menne walked over to her friend as she was dusting herself off.



"Sounds easy, huh?" Damia gazed slyly at Mennehotep.



"That was a joke, wasn't it?" Menne asked.



"Ooh! It happens every now and then," Damia said. "We...have a problem."



"Yeah. Like giving the sword to a maniac like Ranee."



"I have a plan that might get us both swords and save Ja-Kal," Damia said.



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Ja-Kal was beginning to get weak. His armor had already fizzled out because the sphere he was being held in was draining his powers. Also, Ranee had been taunting him,and he was getting sick of it. But when all hope was gone a portal suddenly appeared. The Hunter's hopes raised when Damia and the Princess appeared and with the second sword. They still had their armor on.



"Ranee. We have the second sword." Damia held the sword in front of her. "Now let Ja-Kal go."



"Give me the sword first," Ranee replied, holding up the other sword.



"That wasn't part of the deal," Menne protested.



"You dare defy me?!" Ranee became very angry.



"We'll fight for the swords." Damia finally declares plunging her sword into the ground. "No weapons."



"Very well," Ranee agrees, but points her sword at Menne. "But what about her?"



"Princess Mennehotep is a warrior of honor. She will not interfere," Damia says, not taking her eyes off Ranee.



Ranee finally plunged her sword into the ground as well and faces Damia. The two circled each other first. Ranee attacked first. She jump-kicked Damia and knocked her to the ground. But, Damia was up on her feet again and tripped Ranee with a sweep of her leg. She jumped up, intending to pin Ranee, but Ranee moved out of the way ans Damia landed on solid ground.



"Menne! Now!" Damia suddenly shouted.



Menne immediately ran to the sword that was near Ja-Kal's sphere and pulled it out. She blasted Ranee with it. That gave the evil Amazon a daze. Damia grabbed the other sword and created another portal, where it lead, no one knew. As Ranee finally picked herself up Damia jump-kicked and sent Ranee right into the portal. Then as quickly as she created it, Damia closed the portal.



As soon as Ranee disappeared, her Amazon followers ran away. Ja-Kal's sphere prison disappeared. He fell to his knees, weakened. Menne was quickly by his side.



"Are you alright?" Menne asked as she helped him up.



"I will be as soon as I recharge," Ja-Kal replied.



Then Menne noticed that the portal was getting smaller. She looked at Damia who just now picked up the other sword.



"Damia! The portal! It's closing!" Menne called.



Damia put the two swords against each other and aimed at the shrinking portal. A blast of white and lime green energy so powerful escaped that it made the portal grow to a gigantic size.



"Hurry! Take him to the other side." Damia said.



Ja-Kal disappeared through the portal. But Menne, her left foot halfway inside the portal, turned toward Damia, who was creating yet another portal.



"Damia! Come on! The portal won't stay open for long!" she called to her friend.



"I have to get rid of the swords once and for all," Damia called back.



Damia closed her eyes for a moment. "For you, Mother," she whispered to herself. She opened her eyes and threw the swords in the portal as it closed in on itself. Then she ran toward Menne who held her hand out to her. Their hands clasped.



"You did it, Damia," Menne said.



"No. We did it, my friend." Damia smiled.



The End.