Alright, here is the second chapter. Hope you like it.

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Chapter Two:

Cairo

"So…what have you been up to lately?" Rick asked as they had reached Cairo and were on their way towards the hotel.

"Guarding the lost city of Hamunaptra," Ardeth answered simply. Rick glanced at the Medjai.

"What for? The mummy isn't there anymore," he said.

"I suppose it has come to be a habit."

"Any family? Wife? Kids?" Ardeth shook his head.

They soon reached the hotel where Evy, Jonathan and Alex were waiting for them. Ardeth smiled and greeted them all. He was surprised over how much Alex had grown; he was almost as tall as his father.

"'ello, mate," Jonathan greeted cheerfully as he saw the Medjai. "Any news about the mummy?" Ardeth shook his head.

"Not this time, my friend. The fact that Imhotep has managed to return once again is beyond all reasoning," he said.

"Reasoning didn't exactly bring him back the other two times either," he heard Rick mumble.

Ardeth ignored the American's comment and went up to Alex.

"Your father told me that you were the one who met Imhotep," he said. Alex nodded.

"Please tell me what happened. Everything that he did," Ardeth continued. Alex seemed to think back on the moment he met with the mummy.

"Well, we were looking through the ruins and I got separated from the others while I examined some hieroglyphs and then I heard how someone went up behind me. I thought it was dad or uncle Jon so I barely paid any attention to him. After I looked behind me I saw his face. He looked human. He just stared at me and then he mumbled something. I couldn't quite hear it all yet it was something about seeking out a Medjai," Alex said, only hesitating slightly at the end of his speech. Everyone was silent, gazing at Ardeth. They all thought the same thing yet they didn't say it out loud.

"He's after me," Ardeth finally said silently, half to himself but the silence in the room made it easy for everyone to hear. Evy went up to him, her dark eyes sad but sympathetic.

"We don't know that for certain. Alex could've heard wrong or he could've meant any Medjai," she said yet it was clear that she doubted her own words. Ardeth shook his head.

"I was the one who helped you defeat Imhotep. I was the one who led the Medjai while he was resurrected," he said. The others were silent again.

"I should leave," Ardeth mumbled and started to move towards the door when Rick suddenly grabbed onto his wrist, right before he managed to grasp the doorknob.

"What do you mean leave? Where are you going?" he asked, looking into Ardeth's dark eyes.

"If Imhotep is indeed after me then anyone in my presence is in grave danger. I must leave," Ardeth explained. Rick frowned.

"Hey, look pal, you risked your life to help us the other times when that guy returned. It's time we returned the favour," he said with a voice that wouldn't leave any room for argument. Ardeth didn't like risking the life of a whole family for his sake yet at the same time he knew that if he tried to leave now, Rick would probably bring him back and lock him into the hotel room. It would be just like the American.

Since Ardeth was not allowed to leave he stayed in a hotel room with the others although he mostly just stood silently in a corner of the room, watching the others and waiting for the high priest to arrive.

He didn't have to wait long. The very same night the high priest himself stormed in through the window and stood right in the middle of the room so that everybody could see him. Ardeth gazed, big eyed, at the high priest and his bronze-like skin that seemed to glow in the poorly lit room. The high priest skimmed the room with his sharp eyes until they fell on the dark corner where the Medjai stood, not moving a single muscle.

He didn't know why yet something in Ardeth told him that the high priest would not kill him. Still the Medjai kept a hand on his sabre, ready to draw it any second if the high priest made a move.

Everyone stared at Imhotep as he silently gazed at Ardeth.

"I found you," he said with a surprisingly gentle voice and began to walk towards Ardeth. Rick was determent to stop him and began to fire his guns at the mummy who didn't even react to the bullets. As both the magazines of the guns were empty Rick threw them aside and instead tried to attack the mummy with his dagger. Imhotep simply just threw Rick aside before he had the time to stab him, much like when you swat away an annoying fly.

By this time Imhotep had reached up to Ardeth and stood so close that their chests almost touched.

"I have been searching for you Medjai," Imhotep said with a soft voice so that only Ardeth could hear him.

"And now you have found me. What is your intention?" Ardeth answered coldly. Before the high priest could answer he got another set of bullets fired at him, this time Alex being the one firing. Imhotep still chose to ignore the bullets and gazed into the Medjai's eyes.

"I think we should find a place where we will not be interrupted," he said and in the blink of an eye he knocked Ardeth out, grabbed onto him and blasted himself into a sandstorm and escaped through the window, bringing Ardeth with him.