The Pendent of Ra

Summary- Three weeks after the events of Lost and Found, Samantha Carnahan finds a pendent that could not only bring trouble to the world, but also to her family. She learns about how her parents met and what exactly went on that night when Jonathan left.

Disclaimer- I do not own The Mummy or The Mummy Returns. I do not own any of the characters (Shame!). I do own Samantha, the cat, and the pendent idea though. I hope you like this one. If any bits of the story sound like anybody else's, tell me; don't sue me.

Also, I would like to thank Lucky Fannah for becoming my proofreader and giving me some ideas for this story. She is now my co-writer of this story.

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The Pendent and The Bad Guys.

Samantha and Alex started making their way through the streets to the picture show. They decided to leave early so they could get the best seats and snacks as well. About half a mile from the movie theatre, they became so involved in talking about how exciting the movie was going to be that they didn't see the two pair of eyes watching them from the alleyway.

"Brother, are you sure that's the O'Connell-Carnahan kids? They look different up close then they did further away in the park when we first saw them," the woman asked, uncertainty in her voice.

"Of course. You see the boy? He looks just like his mother, Evelyn O'Connell from the British Museum. The girl I recognize because she has the same blue eyes as her father, Jonathan Carnahan; my old poker partner from University. Do you remember going out with him behind my back? I seem to recall you enjoying it quite a bit", the brother asked her, turning quickly from happiness to anger in a split second.

"Yeah. So what? Just because you didn't like it when you lost against him, didn't mean I couldn't go out with him. Jon was loyal to me, but you had to go and scare him away using two of your biggest mates and told him if he didn't back away from me, you lot would beat him up badly. I still haven't gotten over my feelings for him, you know."

"Fine! Let's just concentrate on the job at hand. We need those brats to find that pendent for the boss, otherwise we're in trouble again"!

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It was late when Sam and Alex came out of the movie looking pleased as punched after seeing one of the best movies they'd seen in a while.

"That was great! The way the pirates were sword fighting was good, but not as good as the sword fighting you, mom and Ardeth does!" Alex stated excitedly on the way home. That made Sam smile, but her smile was cut short when Alex suddenly suggested they race home, running off before Sam could protest. 'If he gets hurt or lost, I'm in big trouble with Aunt Evy!' She shot off after him but slowed when she heard a scream from the alleyway they had passed on their way to the theatre!

Alex was her first and only thought as she ran off down the alley towards the sound of the scream. Sam stopped suddenly when she saw her cousin sobbing with his knees pulled up to his chest and his head resting on them. She walked up to him and kneeled down to hug him. "Don't ever run off like that again! I was so worried! You know that strangers can just snatch you or you can get hurt or …"

She was interrupted when she heard a chuckling behind her. Turning around, she could see a man and a woman step out of the shadows and realized the chuckle had come from the man. He was quite tall, about 5'6" with steel-gray eyes and messy brown hair. He looked like he was in his late twenties and was wearing brown trousers, with a white shirt and a black leather jacket over it. The woman was about 5'5" with soft green eyes and the same hair as the bloke. She wore a black skirt with a black shirt and a black cotton jacket, looking to be about 25 or so.

"What a touching reunion. It's nice to see families back together. So, you must be the daughter of Jonathan Carnahan. Yes, I can see it in the color of your eyes! Only your father has those piercing sapphire blue eyes. And you", he said turning his head slightly to look at Alex, "you must be the offspring of Evelyn and Rick O'Connell. You look exactly like your parents with your mother's eyes and your father's hair. Excellent!" His voice was full of sarcasm, making him, as Sam would call it, 'a smart arse'.

"What do you want with us?" Samantha felt her courage coming back, defending Alex. "I understand your families went on a trip to Hamunaptra and found some treasures. What we want to know is if you have come into the possession of a pendent that my sister and I have been looking for?"

"Why's it so important?"

"You see, we'd love it as a present for our sick mother. She loves the stuff and we thought it might make her feel better." He flashed a cheesy grin that instantly suggested he was lying, so acting on instinct, Samantha went along with it for the moment.

"What does it look like?"

"It is made of pure gold and looks like the Egyptian solar disk that Ra is always pictured with. It even includes the familiar small asp commonly seen in most images found to date. Have you seen it at all?"

He sounded hopeful.

Sam knew of the pendent he was asking about and it just happened to be in her possession. Jonathan had given it to her when they came home from the temple of Anubis, no longer wanting to sell it. Sam kept it in a special box in her room and only looked at it if she felt upset and needed to hold something 'powerful'.

"Nope, never seen it before. Now if that's all, we really must be going home now." She helped Alex to his feet and started steering him towards the opening of the alleyway. But she was blocked by a strong arm and dragged back until her face was in front of the man's face, a nasty look of barely controlled rage staring back at her.

"Listen to me! We'll be keeping our eyes on you to see if you're telling the truth! If you're lying, you better tell your family to watch their backs, especially that father of yours! And you can tell him this! Because of his charm, my sister here is still in love with him and he better keep away from her or else! I'm warning you - you better take me seriously!"

He pulled back his fist and smashed it right into Samantha's nose, a horrible reminder to prove he was not to be taken lightly. A sickening crunch could be heard echoing throughout the alley. He then pushed her into a puddle of filth and mud, indicating to his sister that it was now time to leave. When they left, the woman turned her head and mouthed the word 'sorry' to them, her face somber and somehow concerned. Alex, shocked and afraid, finally got the feeling back into his legs and ran to his fallen cousin who was currently sitting up in the mud and holding her now bleeding nose.

"Are you alright, Sam?" Alex asked, clearly alarmed.

"Yeah, apart from the blinding pain in front of my face, I'm just peachy". Samantha was now getting good at the art of sarcasm, hearing it so often from her father Jonathan and Rick.

"Come on, we better get home before your mother kills me for getting you home late. We'll deal with my nose at home. You have any tissue I could use to help stop the bleeding?"

Alex found some in his jacket pocket, passed it to her and then helped her up. They then made their way home, being wary in case the siblings decided to attack them again.

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"Where are they? They should have been home AGES ago! If anything's happened to them, I don't know what I'll do!" Evy panicked, pacing the floor in the living room. She, Rick, and Jonathan were waiting for Samantha and Alex to come home with Rick and Jon sitting on the couch watching Evy pace back and forth in front of them. They had just come home from Jonathan's doctor appointment concerning his shoulder injury and had found Evy in a bit of a panic. Feeling somewhat dizzy from watching her wear a hole in the carpet, Jonathan was the first to speak up.

"Evy, you know Sam would never let anything happen to Alex. Besides, I suggested she take her dagger with her in case anything happened. They probably got a little side tracked, that's all."

"I hope you're right." Evelyn still looked worried, obviously deep in thought.

"But maybe we should go find them! You know, drive around town and see if we can spot them …" She was cut short when the big front doors opened and closed with a tremendous bang, scaring them, causing all three of them to jump.

Evy felt her anger rising again and walked into the front hall to yell at Sam and Alex for being late.

"Do you know what time it is? I've been worried SICK …" Evy was unable to continue when she saw the state of her niece and son standing before her.

Alex had a look of fear and concern on his face, his jacket and trousers being ripped and dirty with mud. Samantha was caked in mud, but the thing that worried Evy was the red tissue that Sam was still holding under her nose. Evy wasn't sure, but she thought she saw the first signs of two black eyes developing on Sam's beautiful face.

"What happened to you two? What happened to your nose?"

Sam just looked at her calmly, her voice sounding rather nasal. "Perhaps it would be best if Alex and I get cleaned up and have my nose looked at before we tell you, Uncle Rick, and Dad what happened."

After Jonathan walked up to them, concern for them written clearly on his face, and inspected his daughter and nephew himself, Sam and Alex got into clean clothes and had a bath while Rick rang for the doctor to see if they were both going to be all right. Alex was fine, but Sam had to have her nose taped in its natural position in order for it to heal properly. She complained all the way through the procedure until Jonathan told her it would heal much quicker and turn out straight and lovely with being set and then taped into place.

When the doctor left, the large family made themselves comfortable in the living room, Sam sitting with her father on the couch and her cat Sheba sitting on her lap having a good fuss. Alex sat on his mother's lap with Rick, too worked up to sit, standing behind the chair they occupied.

The two cousins then began to relate their story from the beginning, supplying every detail of the ordeal.

"The strange thing was that they knew Uncle Jon more than the rest of us, from I think University", Alex said. "He said Uncle Jon was his old poker partner and that he went out with his sister, that woman that was with him."

His parents looked shocked at this news, as did Jonathan. But Jon had more of a look of astonishment that these people that attacked and threatened his daughter and nephew knew him!

"Do you know who they are, Uncle Jon?"

"Sorry Alex, but I had a lot of poker partners back then and went out with plenty of sisters." Jonathan wasn't very proud of this fact, but it needed to be said.

Shaking his head, deep in thought, Jon continued.

"No, the description of the pair doesn't ring any bells, unfortunately. I personally blame the alcohol for screwing up my bloody memory. But this woman, she didn't do anything to hurt you?"

Sam looked up at his face. "No, in fact she silently apologized to us behind her brother's back as they left. But the weird thing was, she said she still has feelings for you. Is there someone in your past you still have feelings for, Dad?"

Jonathan felt an ache in the pit of his stomach. He was completely at a loss, taken by surprise.

"No, not that I can remember. I mean, if I saw her I might know her, but until I've seen her face, I won't know." Jonathan had become very adept at reading his daughter's eyes and what he saw in those eyes, identical to his own, he tried to read her meaning.

"Why do you ask?"

"No reason, dad, no reason at all."

That was most definitely a lie. Deep down, Samantha knew she shouldn't mind if her father loved another woman, after all, this one did seem really nice and helpful, not to mention she was pretty.

For a reason she couldn't explain, Sam felt this woman would love her father if only he could love her in return. She knew she could come to love a new step-mother, but she was still unsure if any woman her father ever married would be good enough to replace her real mom.

But, no one could replace her mother, Sheba. Her father had told her that much already. If her father ever did love another woman, that woman would have her own special place in Jon and Sam's heart, a different place from the place her mother would always have.

It had been 12 years since Sheba died, and Sam wondered if it weren't time to move on, to put the sorrows of the past behind. She wouldn't be jealous of this new woman, at least she would try not to be, because her father and best friend, Jonathan Carnahan, would keep on loving her forever, no matter what the future held.

"If you do love her, I'm all for you loving her. But, make sure she knows that if she loves you, she loves your daughter too because we are a package deal, never to leave each other. Am I right?"

Jon looked down at Sam, taken by surprise. Her words filled him with happiness.

'Could this mean Sam might be ready to accept another female authority figure in his life?'

Jon could not stop the big grin spreading across his handsome face.

Stepping into Sam's personal space, no longer as hesitant to show her affection, Jon beamed.

"Right, Samantha. I would never leave you alone. Not even for a woman." He grinned boyishly, a sparkle in his eyes Sam realized she seldom ever saw.

"You will live with me as long as you wish, no matter who I'm with or where I go."

They sealed the deal with a long, firm hug, Samantha realizing she had never felt so safe, secure, and so loved in her life. She adored being in her father's strong arms with her head resting in the crook of his neck. He smelled just like she had always remembered, a combination of his cologne, which she loved, and a clean smell that combined with something she could not put a name to, something that could only be described as 'Jonathan.'

Evy then spoke up, not wanting to rush her brother or niece along, but realizing they still had much to discuss.

"Well, now that that's done, what about this pendent they were on about? We must have given it away to a museum or University, correct?"

The guilty looks on her brother and niece's faces told her otherwise. Evy sighed, folding her arms across her chest while trying very hard to hold back a grin.

"Alright you two, where is it?"

Samantha looked at her Dad one last time, before dropping the cat off her lap that rewarded her with a dirty look. She walked up the stairs to her room, slid under her bed and brought out a wooden jewelry box.

The lid was adorned with the Eye of Horus, a gift her Aunty Evy found for her. Opening the box, Sam sighed as she saw inside the only piece of jewelry she had ever owned. A golden pendent of a solar disc with a small asp sticking out of the front of it glittered and gleamed before her eyes, reminding her of the sparkle she had seen in her father's eyes only moments before. She took the pendant out and brought it up to the light, when the light reflected off of it, it sparkled even more and she could feel some kind of power flowing though it, causing her to gasp.

Sam put the box back under her bed and went back downstairs. She showed it to her Aunt Evy who recognized it immediately.

"I've seen this before, in one of my Egyptian books dealing with ancient legends. Hold on."

Evy walked towards her massive bookcase and skimmed along the many titles, until she came to the right book.

"Ah ha! Here it is! She smiled, rifling through the pages at a record pace.

"Now lets see ... Oh my!"

She glanced up from the book suddenly with a look of worry on her face.

"I … I can hardly believe it! This pendant … it is the Pendent of Ra!"

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That's it for the second chapter. If it doesn't make much sense to you now, bear with me. All will be explained in future chapters, but ONLY if I get at least 3 reviews. I would like to thank Lucky Fannah for all the help and extra notes on this story. From chugirl2526.