An ancient pharao's family

A/N: Sorry, i needed so long for this chapter to post. Thank you so much for your reviews. So, here is the next part of my story and i hope you'll like it. And i really need a beta reader again. If someone wants to do it and has enough time, i would like to get a mail. Anyway please review!!

Evy stared out of the window and watched the landscape pass by. She glanced down to see that Alex ,who had placed his head on her lap, had fallen asleep. She smiled and stroke his cheek gently. She loved him so much it hurt and she was more scared than ever that something would happen to him in egypt. They were like 40 miles away from cairo and soon the train would arrive at the station. And neither her nor Rick knew what would happen then.

Rick seemed to brood over the same. The last two hours he had spent with trying to figure out why they were here and where they would go. He hadn't wanted to ask Evy who had been asleep most of them time but now she was awake he could.

"Evy, honey! I was thinking about the why. I mean why did they take us? But I just can't think of any reason yet, do you"?

"No", she sighed quietly. "But there has to be something. They would have been able to kidnap every sciencist and adventure in the world but they take a family. I don't understand it, I just don't", she said and Rick took her hand in his.

"We're gonna figure it out, okay"? He leaned over and kissed her what made her smile again.

"Well, maybe they kidnapped us because of you two. I mean Evy is the reincarnation of an princess and Rick a medjai and your lover, excuse me protector. I'm sure you're the reason again", someone suddenly said.

It was Jonathan who laid in his seat watching them bored. He hated trains and he hated going by them. Rick whirled around. "Nonesene! How should they know? We and Ardeth Bay are the only living persons who know that".

But Evy rubbed her chin and thought over what her brother had said. "Maybe I can find something in my books", she said and grabbed her bag.

Her men looked at her confused. "Books? Where did you get these. I don't think you had enough time to take yours with you when they took you at night", Rick said.

She rolled her eyes. "Of course not. But we have been in a libery, haven't we stupid?" "So, you just took a few books with you and no one noticed"?

"I asked Mr Banister. I said we would get bored on the train so he allowed me. He's even more stupid than you Jonathan", she said and grinnend. Jonathan looked at her and folded his arms in front of his chest.

"That was mean", he said. Rick laughed. "Yeah but true".

She ingored them and her fingers flew through the books, turning over each page. She knew there was something, something she had missed. The answer was near, it was hidden in one of these books. At some point she stopped and smiled contented. She held up her book and pointed with her finger at something, a few sentences.

Rick and Jonathan stared at her and shrugged their shoulders. They couldn't figure out what she had found, niether Rick nor Jonathan were able to read ancient egypt well enough to understand the difficult signs.

She smiled. "Sharks. We've got the year of the sharks, guys." Rick raised his eyebrow. "Sharks in egypt? I mean aren't those suppose to live in the water and not in the desert"?

Jonathan nodded. "This is nonesense Evy!"

She groaned and shook her head, not believing their naivety. "Their names are sharks but they have nothing in common with the animal which live by the sea. Shark is the name of a a ancient egypt creature whose existence have never been able to be proved, until now. These creatures were feared in whole egypt althought they weren't bad at all. They were programmed to protect something or someone of great importance. And they killed everyone who was putting it or him in danger, even if it was a mother or an child. It didn't matter to them because they weren't, they aren't human", she explained and her eyes shone with growing excitement.

Rick and Jonathan stared at her shocked,not even able to comment it in their usual ironical way. "Sharks? I don't think the name is very orginal, is it? Why were people this uncreative? I would have a lot of better names for them", suddenly someone said and they turned around to see Alex being awake.

Evy groaned. "Either it's you or your uncle or your father who makes stupid remarks all the time. Anyway how are you feeling darling"? She asked and looked at him worried.

He sighed and began to walk up and down. He hated it when his mother was worried about him all the time. It made him feel small and helpless and somewhat stupid. So he quickly changed the topic.

"I don't know Mom but what do we know now? Okay, we know that the Sharks are the reincarnations of the ancient sharks from egypt. But why are they back? And why us, I mean we still don't know what all of this has to do with us, right"? He asked thoughtfully.

Evelyn stared at him. "You surely know how to destroy one's hopes Alex", she muttered and Rick laughed quietly. "I'm glad he haven't got your borderless optimism. My son thinks logical and realistic. I like that".

Alex shrugged his shoulders. "Just trying to help", he said and Evy stared at him. "Well done! Now I'm feeling as bad as earlier", she muttered what caused them to laugh. Rick pulled her closer. "Oh Evy, don't worry. It's gonna be okay", he said and kissed her forehead.

Jonathan sat down and rubbed his chin. "Well at last we haven't meet mummies". Alex looked outside the window and again he knew he would destroy their hopes. "Not yet", he said and they turned around to see that they had arrived Cairo. They even could see the first pyramides.

"Here we are again! Good old egypt", Jonatha said and they nodded. Here they were again.

When the train stopped two sharks entered thecompartment. Evy instinctively grabbed Alex's arm and shoved him behind her back and Rick stepped in front of his family. A few seconds later Mr Banister arrived and he grinned as dirty as usual.

"Good morning O'Connells! I hope you enjoyed your journey", he said and Rick stared at him angrily. God, how much he hates this face. He'd have loved to jump forward to break his little ugly nose.

Evy laid her hand on his arm to calm him down. The last thing they needed right now was a out of control getting Rick.

Banister stepped forward and smiled, in his hand he held a ancient book. "Alexander, I'm afraid that I need you help with that", he said. They looked at him confused and Alex stepped back instinctively. He wasn't going to help this guy in any way.

"Come here. Now!" Banister said sounding serious. But Evy didn't let him go, she didn't want him do get any closer to this man.

He sighed. "Come on! Do what I tell you you little brat", he yelled impatientely. He didn't have time for such rubbish. When Alex didn't react he lost his temper and reached for his arm to pull him away. But the second that he grabbed Alex, Rick jumped forward and punched him right into the face. You could almost hear his nose breaking.

It all happened so fast. Banister fell down, covering his bleeding face and groaned. "Shit", he sweared. And a shark grabbed Rick and slammed him against the wall, where he sunk to the floor groaning. Evy, Alex and Jonathan couldn't do anything but stared at them in pure panic.

When Evy saw Rick being unconcious she rushed to his side immendiately. "Rick! Rick are you okay"?

Banister saw Alex finally being unprotected and lunged at him. He grabbed him by the collar and shook him. "And now you'll do what I tell you!" He yelled and Alex stared at him with wide open eyes.

He was scared but he tried to be brave after all. After he got over the first shock he began struggling to free himself. "Let me go", he screamed. "I won't do anything."

But he regretted saying that very soon when he saw Rick was again pulled up by a shark and crashed against the wall. "Stop it", Evy cried out and Alex stared at his unconscious father horrified. "No! Dad!" Now, he really was scared. Seeing his Dad like this gave him a fright and that even his mother was losing her nerves didn't comforted him a bit.

Banister smiled, knowing he had found the right way to force him. "Listen to me little Alexander. Either you do what I tell you or I'm gonna hurt your father. I'm even gonna kill him if you want so", he said quietly and grinned satisfied. He realized that this brat would do anything to protect his beloved father.

Alex shook his head. . "O.. okay! What do you want me to do"? He asked. He was ready to do anything just to keep his father save, to see him awake again.

Evy pulled Rick in her lap and stroked his cheek, begging him to wake up. She needed him right now more than ever. She looked at her son and saw how scared he was, not for himself but for his father. And she couldn't think of a meaner way to make a child do what you want it to. That was absolutely horrible and she would have loved to kill this man at once.

Banister sat down and pushed Alex down to do the same. Then he carefully opened the book and laid it on his lap. "Here! Read that", he said and pointed at it. Alex stared at the yellowed old pages and saw that it was written in ancient egyptian. How could this man know that he was able to read that? No other english boy in his age would be able to. So he tried lying.

"I can't read ancient egyptian. I've never learnt it", he lied and looked down. Suddenly Banister who had lost his patience grabbed his neck and pulled it back in a very painful way. Alex whimpered what caused Evy to jump up. "Stop it! You're hurting him", she yelled but was pushed away by a shark who stood between her and her son.

So she wasn't able to do anything. She could only watch this man torturing her child. She glanced over to Jonathan, trying to make out if he would have a chance to reach Alex but realized that he wouldn't be able to. She shook his head when her brother looked at her questioning

"You little bastard, stop lying right now or I'm gonna break your little neck", he hissed and Alex nodded quickly, realizing that it was in vain and looked on the pages to make out what was written there.

"Amun erad serktum meses anchtum berendum", he read out loud quickly.

Banister smiled. "Good. Wasn't that hard, was it? And now you", he said and pointed at Jonathan who rushed to his side. After he'd watched how Banister treated Alex he didn't dare to balk. And all of sudden his braveness disappeared because he felt that this time they wouldn't get out of this too fast.

He stared at the pages just like Alex had done before and he raised his eyebrow in confusion. None of this signs made any sense to him. He already wanted to tell Banister but suddenly the sentence he had to say changed in front of his eyes. All of sudden he could read and understand what was written there.

"Akandi pharo famoses teranda neskinda problani", he read and Evy stared at him with wide open eyes.

Banister grinned satisfied and stood up. "Well done. Get ready we'll get out of the train in 20 minutes", he stated and before he turned around he pushed Alex and Jonathan back on the floor And then he left the compartment and the sharks followed him quickly.

Jonathan helped Alex up and Evy was by his side in less than three seconds. She wrapped her arms around him and held him tight, pressing him to her chest. He buried his face in her neck, not wanting them to see him cry. Once again he realized that he just wasn't that brave like his father, he was far away from that. He was scared to death.

Evy stroke his back and sighed relieved.

"Are you okay Alex"? She asked and he nodded, whipping away his tears. Jonathan patted on his shoulder. "You did great Alex. I wouldn't have been so brave, honestly", he said and Alex smiled a little bit.

Suddenly Rick awoke with a groan. He slowly sat up and rubbed his eyes and a few seconds later he saw Evy and in his arms Alex who seemed to cry. He was up at once and rushed to them, his pain was totally forgotten. Something had happened to them while he had been out. He could almost feel it in the air and it made him furious. Would Banister have been there right now he would have killed him without any hestiation.

"Hey! You okay"? He asked and knelt down beside them.

He looked at Evy and she nodded but glanced over to her son and then he grabbed Alex by the shoulders and forced him to look in his face. "Are you okay kiddo? Did he hurt you"? Honestly he didn't want his son to answer this question. He already felt bad enough because he hadn't been able to protect him.

Alex shook his head, no way he would tell his father what Banister had done. He knew that wouldn't do any good, it would make him just angrier. "I'm sorry Dad. I didn't know he was going to hurt you when I said I wouldn't want to help him", he said and really felt sorry. His father almost died because of his stupid pride.

Rick smiled. "Hey, that wasn't your fault okay?" He said and gave him a gentle hook to the chin.

Then he leaned back groaning and wrapped his arm around Evy, pulling her closer. "Are you sure you're okay Hon"? He asked and she nodded again smiling. Now that he was okay again she really felt better.

Rick turned to his son. "What did he make you do"?

"He forced me to read from a book. It was one sentence and I don't understand what it means. I don't get it!", Alex answered and Evy looked at him curiously.

Now that she was sure that he was okay, she really wanted to know what he'd read. She hadn't been able to understand it too well, she had been to worried.

"Amun erad serktum meses anchtum berendum", he repeated. "Dear Grandfather lead me to your treasure."

They stared at him. "Akandi pharo famoses teranda neskinda problani", Jonathan replied. "The chosen ones will return to take what belongs to them".

Alex raised his eyebrow. "What does that mean? What does any of this mean"? Rick looked at Evy, expected that she would know the answer but she shrugged her shoulders. "I have no idea".

Honestly, she had an idea. She had heard that sentences before and it obviously belonged to a old story of an ancient pharao. But she didn't want to tell them yet, not as long as she wasn't sure about it. No, she would figure it out on her own because she knew that the truth would scare the shit out of them. She smiled faintly trying to supress the fear that rised up in her. She had to find a way to save her family and when she was right about the pharao and her theory what Banister wanted them to do then she had to find it soon.

Suddenly the door of the compartment was flung open. Three big sharks stood in front of them. "Time to go", one of them ordered emotionless and they followed that order wihout any request.

Rick took Evy's hand and together with Jonathan and Alex they moved out of the train, followed by the sharks.

Banister smiled brightly, and acted like an excited little child in as toy store. "This is gonna be great", he mutterd to himself. "Soon, very soon it all will be mine".

He turned to the family and grinned. "Okay guys! Everyone get a camel and then our journey through the desert will begin. I suppose it's gonna last oen or two days, so it's not that far away. And please remember this.. any wrong move and you're dead", he said.

Jonathan nodded quickly and so did Evy. Meantime they already knew of what this man was able. But Rick stared at him hateful, trying to keep himself from strangle him. Banister smiled one last time and then walked on.

Rick took a deep breath and stumbled forward when he was pushed by a shark. He whirled around and saw a shark moving towards his son. He pointed a finger at him and shook his head. "Don't you dare to touch my boy", he yelled. The shark loked at him emotionless but he seemd to understand cause he pushed Jonathan instead.

"Walk on", one of them said and Evy grabbed Alex hand and followed Rick. Jonathan stayed behind them, muttering and swearing the whole time. He didn't like this adventure a bit, especially cause this time they had no clue how to get out of it. "Where is that Ardeth Bay if you need him"? He growled and Evy turned around.

"He's not our personal bodyguard, okay? He can't help us out everytime we get in trouble that would be a fulltime job dear brother", she said and smiled faintly. John had to smile himself and nodded. "How true baby sister. But I'm afraid that this time we would really need him, don't we?"

She looked at him and then she shook her head. "Not this time Joanathan. This time he couldn't help us at all", she said quietly.

"Why not"? Jonathan asked not wanting to believe that Ardeth Bay ,who saved them so many times even in the most dangerous situations, wasn't able to help them with this.

"Because even Ardeth doesn't knows everything", she replied. This time I'm the one who knows the most, she said to herself. And that meant that she had to help them out of this disaster just like Ardeth had done it so often.

Rick looked at her and smiled a bit. "We'll figure this out Hon", he said for the third time. She nodded but knew that it wouldn't be so easy like he imagined. His opinion was that you could do anything with a gun, enough bullets and a wife by your side that knew everything about egypt and pharaos.

Once they were on the backs of the camels and started their journey they went quiet. No one was speaking. Each of them was deep in his own thoughts. Rick was thinking how to outwit the sharks to get free. Evy was thinking about why they were here and how she save them all from dead. Alex was thinking about what he had read before and tried to figure out what the hell it meant. And Jonathan.. well Jonathan wasn't thinking too much, he tried to figure out why his sister was such a trouble magnet and why she had married Rick O' Connell.

And so they rode throught he hot and empty desert and one after another they fell into a deep and restless sleep.