Rick and Alex had made it into the pyramid by the time we caught up with them.
"They made it. Thank God." Evy said.
"Oh yes. Great. Fabulous." Jonathan said.
I however, wasn't paying attention to them, as I had noticed Imhotep and his lover arrive, and Anuck-Su-Namun walked over to Evy and stabbed her, I gasped and ran over to her. "Evy!"
"No!" I heard Rick yell and then I saw Imhotep throw Jonathan a couple feet.
Rick ran over and caught Evy as she fell. "Evy!" He looked back over towards Jonathan. "Jonathan!"
"Mom!" Alex followed Rick. "You're gonna be alright." He said. "Isn't she dad?" I wrapped my arms around my nephew.
"She'll be fine." Rick said. "She's going to be alright." He looked up at me. "Just get him... Take him. Take him."
I nodded and took my nephew off to the side with Jonathan. We watched as Rick talked to her, but it was clear that Evy died, and I wiped my eyes. Jonathan hugged both of us.
We stood there for the longest time before Rick stood and hugged Alex. "Stay here." Then he hugged me. "I want you to stay here too. Look after Alex." He said. "Please."
I nodded and hugged my brother back. "Of course I will." He looked at Jonathan and walked away, into the temple. And I put an arm around my nephew. "Everything will be fine." I murmured, not sure whom I was trying to convince, him, or myself.
"Try to think of it like this Alex." Jonathan started as we were sitting down. "She's gone to a better place. You know, like it says in the good book."
I hit Jonathan's shoulder. "Not helping." I looked pointedly at him.
"The book." Alex looked up.
"What?" Jonathan asked.
I sighed. "Alex."
"That's it." He said.
"That's what?"
"That's it. Come one, Uncle Jon." Alex said, pulling him up. "Come one Aunt Ali!" He looked at me. "Come on! Come on! That's it! The book!"
"What?"
I shook my head. Sometimes my cousin was clueless. He picked up Evy, and then we walked into the temple. Alex carried a torch, and I drew my sword, because you never know what could be lurking. "You realize of course, that this can only be done by someone who can actually read ancient Egyptian." Jonathan said. "I don't know about you, but I'm a tad rusty." I rolled my eyes at those words.
"Evy's been teaching him, and I can read it too." I informed him, as we stopped as the hall came to an end.
"Now where?" Jonathan asked.
"We go right." Alex said.
"How do you know?" I saw what the wall said. Kasheesh Osirian Nye. That told us which way to go.
"He's right." I said, taking my eyes off the wall, and looked at Jonathan.
"Kasheesh Osirian Nye." Alex said. He shrugged. "Basically, This way to the Scorpion King."
"This just might work." Jonathan said, following me and Alex.
Eventually, we came across the main area, and we saw none other than Anuck-Su-Namun. Jonathan set Evy down and cleared his throat. Coming into view of her. "It's time someone taught you a lesson, wench. Come on."
I sighed heavily and rolled my eyes, grabbing my sword out again, I knew I would have to come to Jonathan's rescue eventually. Even though I knew it was a distraction so that Alex could grab the book. "This is for my sister."
Watching that fight, I had to say was quite pathetic. She was beating him. But he finally managed to strike her, which shocked her. She then got a couple of weapons from a statue and Jonathan grabbed out the first thing he could find. The staff thing in his pocket. I shook my head. I stood in front of Alex and Evy, with my sword drawn, in case something was to happen.
When Alex started reading, she tried to come, but Jonathan distracted her, so she had to turn around to fight him.
"Uncle Jon, Aunt Ali! I don't know what this last symbol is!"
"What's it look like?"
"It's a bird! A stork!"
"I know that one! I know that one!" Jonathan said before I could answer.
"Then what is it?" Jonathan couldn't answer because Anuck-Su-Namun had attacked him again.
"It's Ahmenophus!" I told my nephew.
Alex finished up reading and I sensed something and turned around, still holding my sword, and I saw a light coming from Evy.
"Evy!" I looked at her. She gave me a nod before we looked at the fight between Anuck-Su-Namun and Jonathan. "Take Alex, and go help your brother." She told me. Anuck-Su-Namun had managed to cut him, and was about to finish him off before Evy intervened and grabbed her arm.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" She looked at Jonathan. "Go with Aaliyah and Alex. Go and help Rick."
"But mom..." Alex complained.
"No buts Alex."
"Come on you two." I said, before going after to where my brother was. "She can defend herself."
"We did it Aunt Ali! We did it Uncle Jon!"
"Right partner. Now, let's go and help your dad."
"Rick!" We got there just a few minutes later.
"Jonathan!"
"Dad!"
"It's a spear!" He yelled. "The gold stick thing... It's a... It's a spear!"
"Really?" He looked at it. "Doesn't look like a spear!"
"That's because it opens up into one!"
"Yes? And?"
"Jonathan!"
"It opens up into a spear!"
We heard a roar and saw the Scorpion King. My eyes widened upon seeing him. "Oh... my... Allah." I murmured, stopping in my tracks and grabbed Alex from going any closer. Jonathan and Alex screamed. I grabbed my nephew and we got out of the way. My eyes widen when I saw that creature throw my brother across the room.
I looked at Jonathan and Alex arguing over how to open the spear. I rolled my eyes at them. "Give me that!" I took it away from them. I opened it and upon hearing Evy's words, handed it back to Jonathan to throw it. But as soon as he did, Imhotep caught it.
"Rick!" I called to my brother and alerted him to it. He saw it and leaped in and grabbed it before the throw could hit the creature. Rick was about to fall over the side, but he managed to stab the Scorpion King with it.
"Go to hell, and take your friends with you!" He yelled. He twisted it, and the Scorpion King dissipated. But then everything started shaking.
"We have to get out of here!" I yelled. "Come on Alex, Jonathan!"
"Dad!" We saw Rick hanging over the side.
"Get out of here!" Rick yelled to Evy. To us. But Evy ran over to him.
"Mom!"
"Hang on Rick." Jonathan yelled to him as I held my breath.
Evy finally reached him and pulled him up. I grabbed my nephew and ran with Jonathan on my heels once I saw my brother and Evy running back towards the exit. We got outside the temple, but the oasis was closing in on itself.
I looked up. "Up, we need to go up." I said. I secured my bag over my shoulder and started climbing up the pyramid. Once we got to the top, I reached it first, and Rick handed me Alex and I pulled him up, and once Rick was up, he helped Evy and Jonathan.
"Rick, we're trapped!" Evy said, looking around us.
I looked around us, at everything being sucked in. This was not the way that I wanted to go out. This was not on my list of exciting ways to die. Nothing would be short of a miracle to get us out of here alive.
"Hey!" We looked up and I was never more glad to see Izzy or that dirigible.
"Izzy!" Rick looked at him.
"Come on! Get your butts moving!" He said. "Hurry up! Hurry up! I haven't got all day!" He lowered down and Alex and Evy got on, and Rick moved me in front of him to get on and he and Jonathan hung on, but Jonathan started falling, until Rick caught him.
"Pull him up!"
"Pull me up!" Then something shiny caught his eye. "Wait, put me back down!"
"It's not worth your life, you idiot!"
"Yes it is! Yes it is!" However, he managed to grab it just as Izzy pulled us out of there. Jonathan screamed. "Pull me up! Pull me up!"
We got out of there in the nick of time.
Izzy made a victory sound. "O'Connell. You almost got me killed!"
"At least you didn't get shot."
"Izzy! Thank you!" Evy hugged him and kissed his cheek.
"O'Connell, who the hell you been messin' with this time?" He said, as I looked over the side over at the desert. "Huh?"
"Oh you know, the usual. Mummies, pygmies, big bugs."
I saw something- rather someone- on horseback as we flew over the desert and I smiled knowing who it was, and I felt so much more relief to see that he was alive. And I would see him back in Cairo soon. Just gave me something to look forward to.