Mummy 3- Lost and Found.
Summery: Four years after TMR, Jonathan discovers that his daughter, who he hasn't seen in 12 years, has found out about a ritual that involves Anubis, Imhotep, the Diamond of Ahm Shere and one of the carnahan family. But which one?
Disclaimer: I do not own The Mummy or any of it's characters. Samantha is my own character. I would like to own Rick and Jonathan though. If any of my story sounds like anybody else's or if I've nicked any ideas, please tell me, not sue me.
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Chapter 8.
Time seemed to go slowly when everyone saw Samantha falling on her knees. She then slowly turned around to Jonathan said four words and then fall down on the ground fully, pulling out the dagger and throwing it to the side and cluching her stomach. I love you, dad.
"NOOOOO" Jonathan went mad and started pulling away from his captors again, but because they were distracted while watching what was going on, he was able to escape them. He pushed Imhotep out of the way and gathered Sam in his arms, tears still streaming down his face. She was in an awful state, she was losing too much blood and she was too pale for Jon's liking.
A mighty roar rang out from by the alter, from Anubis. He was mad, furious with rage even at Imhotep. "You fool. You got the wrong person. You will now suffer the Hom-Dai over and over again for all eternity for your insulance" With that, he drew energy from the fires of the pillars and made his claws glow. He then ran upto Imhotep, claws raised up and brought them down on him, slicing the ex-high priest into three sperate pieces. Imhotep screamed loudly and started disappering piece by piece until he was no more. The fires nearly went out and the only brightest thing in the hugh room was the Diamond, waiting for Samantha's soul.
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"Come on, Sam. Stay awake. You're gonna get though this, just stay with us" Jonathan was kneeling on the floor with his daughter's head on his lap, stroking her hair gently. Ardeth walked around to the other side of her, and held her hand. His eyes showed that she wasn't going to make it out of here alive. Evy and Rick were holding each other for comfort and Alex was crouching down at her feet, with tears in his eyes that were threating to spill.
"Dad, I'm not gonna make it, you know it, I know it, everyone knows it. But, before I go, I have one last message for each of you. Uncle Rick, I want to thank you for showing me how to use a gun, all that time brought us closer and I'm glad of that. And one more thing, don't go so hard on my dad, he dosen't mean any harm in what he does. It's how he is and nothing really is gonna chance that" Rick nodded slowly and sadly in understandment, giving her one last small smile.
"Aunty Evy, you are one of the most smartest, prettiest and bravest women I have ever had the pleasure to meet in my life. Thank you for my dagger and for letting me live with you. Take care of my dad" Evy just cried even more at these words and buried her head into Rick's shoulder.
"Alex, I want you to have my dagger, it's still on the alter by the Diamond. I know you will put it to good use. You are one of the most smartest kids I've ever met. Be good for your parents and your Uncle John" Alex silently thanked her and turned away to walk towards the alter.
"Ardeth, thank you for putting up with me all those years in the camp and thank you for finding my London family. If it wasn't for you, I probably would never have found them. Take care of everyone at the Med-jai camp. Help Alex find that dagger, we don't know if Anubis is still around" Ardeth, who never really shown any emotions, was crying while silently nodding. He then stood up and walked towards the alter with Alex.
Samantha then finally looked up towards Jonathan, who shows no sign of his crying to stop. "Well, I guess this is it. At least my promise of protecting you is done. I'm sorry we've only seen each other for just over a week since my childhood, but you gotta agree: it was fun" "No, sweetheart. You don't have to say sorry for this, you didn't know this was gonna happen" Jonathan pleaded to her. "I love you so much, dad. I love you all so much, my family. Now I can rest easy I found it. Look after each other, oh and do one last thing for me: stop Anubis" With that said, her eyes went glassy and colourless, her breathing slowed and slowed until it finally stopped.
"NOOOO. Samantha wake up, please come back, please" But Jon's pleas were not answered.
Samantha Carnahan was dead.
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Jonathan's cries echoed across the room, all the while hugging his daguhter's body, his body rocking with sobs. Rick and Evy were crying on each other, while Alex and Ardeth had made their way towards the alter.
"Poor Uncle John, I wish there was an easier way to deal with this" Alex wished sadly and silently. He and Ardeth found the dagger and was going to make their way back down towards the broken family. But the Diamond glowed even brighter then before, nearly blinding the pair. Samantha's body was also glowing in the same light, until a glowing form of a woman floated out. Her soul. It then sped of towards the Diamond until there was no more light. The Diamond then started glowing a deep blue to show that there was a soul occupied in it. Alex looked at Ardeth and started to reach his arm out to touch it, but something brushed past the alter and snatched the Diamond.
"Success. It may not be the Keeper's soul in the Diamond, but the Protector's is just as powerful" Anubis held the Diamond high above his head as he floated and laughed evilly. The family down below looked at him in amazement, but one person wanted revenege badly. Jonathan got up of his knees, made Sam's body comfortable and walked over to Anubis. "Let my daughter's soul go! Killing her is one thing, but this takes the biscuit"
Anubis looked down at him alone and smilied a sly smile "No, instead let's just see how powerful a weapon this Diamond can be". He shot out a beam of light from the blue glowing gem that struck Jonathan in the chest. He flew off across the room and landed hard on his shoulder. A crunching sound of a dislocated shoulder could be heared and echoed. Evy ran towards her brother and helped him up, minded his shoulder at the time.
Alex and Ardeth saw the whole thing with awe. "We've got to help him. Wasn't there a scroll spell that could neutralises the Diamond's power?" Ardeth looked down at him with the look Imhotep had when Anubis told him about Jon being the Keeper. "Of coruse, when the power has gone, Samantha's soul will go back to her body and she come back to life. We must find that scroll and fast. The only clue I know is that it resides inside the last place we'll think" So they thought and thought until Alex came up with the answer "The Diamond. The Diamond must have a false bottom that can hold the scroll in it. We got to tell the others"
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Anubis cornered Jonathan and Evy into a corner of the room. "Now, maybe I can take your soul and combine the two to make an even more powerful weapon" But he was cut short when gunshots were heard and he dropped the Diamond in front of Jon. Turning round holding his arm, Anubis saw Rick standing there, guns smoking "Leave my wife and brother-in-law alone"
"Fine, then you will die first" The jackel-headed God then muttered a few words, then a sword appered out of nowhere into his hands. He then landed on the ground and started chasing after Rick, who has ran of away from the siblings. "What's he doing?" Evy asked, scared for her husband's life. "He is giving us time to find the scroll with the spell we need. Come on, we better start looking" Jonathan realised. They just got up when Alex and Ardeth ran upto them. "Uncle John, the scroll is in the bottom of the Diamond. The golden base in detatchable"
Jonathan scambled to the nearest big rock and started bashing the bottom of the Diamond on it. Upon hearing this, Anubis stopped his chase of Rick and ran back to the Englishman destorying his weapon. The bottom finally came loose and an anichant scroll fluttered out. Jon was just about to pick it up, when a hand grabbed him by his throat and slammed him againest the nearest pillar "Now you will die for ruining my dream of power" Jonathan's face was starting to turn blue and he was slowly drifting into blackness, but he still awake in just enough time to see Ardeth dig his sword into Anubis's back. The God screamed in agony and dropped Jonathan. He turned around and started fighting the Med-jai chief.
While Anubis was busy, Alex sat next to his uncle and held the scroll out to him. He then gripped Jon's shoulder, which resulted in a gasp of pain from Jon. "Sorry, but look at the scroll, it's in anichant Eygptian. Maybe mom can read it?" But from the battle, Ardeth managed to shout out "No, only the Keeper can read the spell for it to work. Only Jonathan can".
Jonathan then looked back at the scroll and started reading the chant. He thought he would mess it up, but the words can flowing out of his mouth easily. As he said this, the Diamond started glowing it's normal colour again. The glowing form of a woman came slowly out of it and shot off towards the body of Samantha, where it disappered. Samantha made no sign of waking or moving, making it seem that Anubis has won.
Jon walked towards his daughter and kneeled down next to her. As his hand brushed her cheek, her eyes slowly fluttered open. Her chest raised up and down slowly. She was alive again.
"Dad? DAD!" She shot up quickly and hugged her father. Jonathan, shocked beyound words, just hugged her back and started crying again. Not tears of sadness, but tears of joy and happiness for seeing his daughter alive and well again. "Come on, let's rid the world of a real problem".
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Ardeth battled feriously, hoping that Jonathan succeded in his task. Anubis took this moment of distraction to swipe his sword down and knock Ardeth's out of his hand. "Anubis, this battle is between me, you and the Keeper" He saw something that his eyes wouldn't have belived. Samantha was standing up, without the stabwound in her stomach though, near Anubis WITH HIS SWORD. "This weapon will do in defeating you. This ends here NOW".
She raised the sword over her head and stabbed it into Anubis's chest, right where his heart is. The God screamed in pain "Damn you. You were ment to die. You have not seen the last of me" Then he gave one last scream of pain and disappered into a pile of dust, which blew away in the breeze.
Sam then looked her step-brothe in the eyes and smiled. It was finally over. "Samantha?" "In the flesh". Suddenly, the temple started shaking. Dust and bits of rock started falling down. "Come on, let's get to the others before this whole building falls on us".
They ran towards where the others were. After saying quick hellos, they ran towards the entrance. Outside, the sunlight glaring down at them nearly blinded them. They ran to a safe distance and watched as the temple sank into the sand, taking the Diamond with it. "The Diamond. I forgot to get it. What if someone-" Ardeth stopped Jonathan there, "There is no point of anyone getting it. It's power has been neutrelised for all time, thanks to you"
"Well done, Jon" "I'm so proud of you" "Way to go, Uncle John" He took these all in but the one person he wanted to see most was Sam. "I thought I lost you. Never do that again or try not to. I couldn't stand to lose you again". "Alright, but I'm not promising anything. Come on every body, let's go home".
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Next day.
Rick, Evy, Alex and Samantha took Jonathan to the doctors to see about his shoulder. It was definatly dislocated and had to go in a cast for six weeks. Ardeth returned to the Med-jai after taking the family safely home, the legend of the Keeper and Protector of the Diamond of Ahm Shere will live on for ever.
When they got home, Jonathan told them he was going upstairs to change, have a bath and have a nap. He was hot, sweaty and tired. He dragged himself up the stairs and wondered into his room. He took his shirt off carefully because of his cast and looked at it in horror. It was caked in blood, not his blood, but Samantha's. As if by magic, she appered at the door.
"Dad, are you alright. I mean, apart from the shoulder?" He turned around with his 'bloody' shirt in his good hand. She saw his horror-stricken face, walked over to him and hugged him. "Dad, it's over now. There's nothing to worry about now" "Yes, but I nearly lost you. I wouldn't be able to live with that in my life if you left me that way".
"Of course you would live with your life still. Aunty Evy and Uncle Rick needs you and so does Alex, no matter what they say. You've got to look after them, it's your duty. Besides, I'm not going anywhere now for a long time, so stop all this fuss, get in that abth and hurry up and get a nap. Aunty Evy says dinner will be ready soon" "Your right. Tell Evy I'll be down in a few hours" Sam gave him a quick peck on the cheek and made her way to the door. "Just think of it this way. It just the first of adventures with me around. That I promise".
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Well, thats that finish. FINALLY! It's taken me ages and now my head hurts from thinking up the whole thing. LOL. The next story won't be up for a while, not until I've a rest from this one. Tell me if you it sucks, I won't mind. Tell you what, I only start the next story when I get ten reviews on this one, promise. From chugirl2526.