Evi and Adam gaped at the marvelous bounty of gold and jewels. "This is more than old Imhotep could ever get!"
"Too bad Uncle John left so soon." Adam laughed. "Just the right time, before he could wreak everything."
Max seemed to be enjoying the treasure as much as they did. He bounced around playfully, turning every corner to find more and more gold. "What should we do?" Adam said, once he got up the nerve to speak. "I suppose we should go gloat to your grandfather, he'll be so proud of me... I mean us!" she grinned, swiveling around and getting back to the secret door.
Adam looked at her, then to Max. "I don't think he wants to leave yet." he said. "Well, tell him to move his furry butt over here!" she laughed sarcastically, calling Ricks phone. As she finished dialing the number, a low growl came from the opposite end of the room. Evi froze, and immediately dropped the phone. Three wolves came out of the shadows, approaching Max with no caution. "We need to get out of here... Now." she muttered, backing towards the door. Adam seemed ten times more scared than she was. "Max kill them!" he screamed, running for his protection.
The wolves charged forward, and went straight for the small human. Max bared his teeth, and directed their attention towards the shaggy ragtag of a dog. Evi went over, and helped Adam up. They went to the door, only to see the door sealed shut. "What?" they both shouted, panic rising in the air. Adam flipped around to see Max already yelping out in pain. "We have to do something!" he cried, struggling in his grandmas arms. "Uh.. Here!" she said, picking up a jewel from the pile. She threw it at one of the ferocious animals, bouncing off harmlessly. All it did was draw attention from Max to them. "oops." she whispered.
"That was smart Nefartiti." Adam giggled. It quickly disappeared when the wolves' eyes darted at him. "Now what?" he demanded.
"Run, that's what!" she shouted, jumping over the gold. Adam followed her and him by carnivorous beasts. The room erupted into barks, screams, and the clinking of coins against dirt.
"Um- helllo? Evi?" Ricks voice was droned out by all the commotion. "What's all the noise over there? Where's Adam? Where are you? Please don't kill yourselves!"
Rick put down the phone, face full of confusion. "Well, I can't say I'm surprised!" he laughed. He was already down to the bottom, after hours of a steady decent. Rick thought about calling his wife back, but he assumed she could handle things on her own. I'll be regretting that later! he thought.
Unclipping his harness, he peered through the darkness. A little too quiet for his sake. Out of the darkness, the three children popped out, looking like they've been asleep for more than a thousand years. "Woa!" Rick jumped, pulling out his gun(s) from their holsters. Banging of bullets filled the air, but, like any other mummy, couldn't be vanquished that easy. It was three powerful, undead beings against one human. But, unlike other humans, Rick had been through these things three times before. He grabbed a sword from his back pocket and began hacking away at the creatures. Nothing seemed to happen to them. It looked as if no amount of force could bring them down. The undead decedents of the great king had Rick under their control after a long period of struggling. Nicholas came into the scene, smiling coldly at his children's work. "Well done!" he said, "I wasn't expecting you to have the idiot tied up before I got here!"
Evi kicked the hundred fifty point beast off her body, hurling the wolf against the wall. It lay still for a moment, long enough for Adam to prop a chair up over him, trapping the wolf in its spot. "Two down, one to go." Evi breathed heavily, having done most of the work herself. "What's that?" Adam whispered, reaching for a gun poking out beneath the treasure. Evi grabbed it quickly, and pulled the trigger. The last wolf fell over on his side, blood trickling from his chest. "Well, that was certainly fun!" Evi laughed, slumping down in a chair made of solid gold. "Grandma!" Adam shouted, pointing to the farthest wall. "Oh come on!" she groaned, "just one minute!"
Adam went over, and hurriedly tried pulling her up. "You have to see this!"
She reluctantly stood up, and began following her grandson to the back of the room. "What now?" she groaned.
"Right over there." he sighed.
Evi opened her eyes to see a wall of pure gold, covered with different inscriptions. Her eyes suddenly lit up with interest. "Russian is kinda rusty for me to read." she breathed, trying to decipher the message. "What's it say?" Adam said, dying to know its secrets. Evi blew out a sigh of frustration, and got out her book she'd been reading. "Oh my goodness!" she shouted, "this talks about our friend, how he died!"
"Stop calling our enemies friends!" Adam said annoyingly.
"That stone you were talking about! That's how you kill him, the rock has the answers!" she said triumphantly.
"Too bad Jonathan broke it." Adam reminded her.
The wolves, still trapped by the door, began to whine uneasily, like something was coming. "I don't feel good about this." Adam whispered, "They don't feel good about this."
As soon as he said that, the ground beneath them buckled. "Exit. Now." Evi muttered, grabbing his arm. He hurriedly got Max onto his feet, although he was still tired from the fight. Before they could reach the door, everything collapsed. The three of them, plus the wolves and the treasure, fell down into the darkness...
...and right onto the very spot Nicholas, his children, and Rick were standing. The powerful mummy didn't even see it coming. Pieces of gold rained from the sky, clinking onto the stone. The five of them looked up to see two humans, plus a dog, screaming like there was no tomorrow. Rick moved forward, just in time to catch his wife. Adam fell on one of the mummy kids, apparently knocking the poor creature out. He got up instantly, and caught Max before he reached the ground.
Nicholas got up, and brushed the debris off him. "you dare think you can stop me?" he demanded, going for Rick and Evi. "Yes, actually I do!" she said, trying to make her voice sound intimidating. "You do?" Rick asked, looking at her like she was crazy.
"No, but are you gonna tell him that?"
"Yah, we've got something that will knock you dead!" he went along with her theory.
Nicholas looked at them skeptically. He turned to his kids, and muttered in Russian, "as my old high school buddy Imhotep always says, destroy them!"
They lurches forward, full of a new, evil energy. Rick put a protective hand over Adam, preparing for the worst. Before they could get to them though, the three of them froze. For standing on the highest rock, was Jonathan Carnahan. Not only was he back, but we was also holding the pieces of the stone. "Jonathan!" Evi cried, "I knew you would come back!"
"Get him." the mummy ordered, scowling at the uninvited visitor.
"I found it! I found it!" Jonathan yelled, so happy of his success.
"Great, now run!" Rick yelled in return.
"Yes, right. Be right with you!" he gasped at the raggedy creatures climbing below him. "Aren't you ladies the fairest of them all?"
"Not now Uncle Jonathan!" Adam shouted. Jonathan made a b-line to his left, jumping off the rock. "Catch you later!" he laughed back at the confused mummies. He soon reached his family, and reluctantly gave up the stone to Adam. Evi went over to his brother, and gave him a hug. "I just knew you'd come back!" she smiled.
"How could I ever leave you guys?" he laughed.
"We had our doubts." Rick grinned. "But it's good to have you back buddy."
"And you found the stone!" Evi gasped, "Where did you find it?"
"I just entered the catacombs, and there it was! Just sitting there, broken in half, but there!" Jonathan sighed.
"It's the broken in half part that bothers me." Evi said.
"Anyone have any monster glue on them?" Adam giggled.
"Sorry, ran out." Rick grumbled.
Adam stared hard at Max, then lit up. "I have a plan! Or, Max does anyway." he said. "Grandpa, you just need to keep him distracted."
Rick laughed, looking at his wife. "My speciality!"
"What kind of plan do you have in mind?" Evi narrowed her eyes.
"We just need some time, that's all!" Adam said.
"What about me?" Jonathan asked.
"I can't fight three mummies by myself, now can I?" Rick grinned. He grabbed his hand, and took off towards the mummy. Max followed them, leaving Adam alone with Evi. "Wait!" he called after his dog. "I think he wants to go." Evi put a hand on his shoulder. He picked up the two pieces of the stone, and tried putting them together. "It's fits!" he yelled, holding it up.
"But how does it work?" Evi sighed.
"I have no idea!" he looked at it curiously.
"Hey you big bag of bandages!" Rick instantly got the evil rulers attention. He pulled out a curved battle sword, probably from a defeated Medjai. It seemed to glow red with an evil power no Medjai would've ever possessed.
Seeing the deathly weapon made Jonathan rethink the whole saving the world thing. "Can't I just cheer you on?" he asked wearily to his brother in law. Rick glanced back at his wife, his one and only grandson, and knew what he had to do. "Step one of being a Mdjai," Rick smiled. "Never back away from your enemy."
The room seemed to stand still; the air loomed thickly around them. Then, with a familiar and powerful yell, Rick O'Connell charged. Jonathan eventually followed his lead, along with Max.
"Soon you will feel how horrible it is to feel death around your shoulders." Nicholas smile wickedly. Rick didn't have a clue what the undead man was saying, but he didn't like it one bit.
He quickly dodged the blazing sword as it crashed into the stone wall. Nicholas pulled and pulled at his weapon, but it wouldn't budge. Seizing his chance, Jonathan plowed his foot into his back, only to find that to be stuck inside his body. "this is the weirdest thing that I have ever encountered!" he shouted for everyone to know. The mummy turned around, and shook him off angrily. Jonathan was tossed like a bag of potatoes onto the ground. "nice going." Rick growled, having to save his life once again. Nicholas merely threw him over his back and let him fall onto Jonathan. He rose up his sword, preparing for the kill. Max came up behind the mummy, and barked furiously. Hearing this, Adam got up and went to his side. "No Adam!" Evi shouted, taking his arm. "This is his fight."
Max turned his head up so his eyes matched his opponents. But instead of barking, he did something else. "leave the mortals be, evil king! This lies between you and me." he said in perfect Egyptian. Adam's face froze. "You can talk?"
Max turned his head back to his master, and smiled. "Yes my master. You have been the only one that understood my true power, you are a real friend." he said, now in English.
Evi looked into the dogs eyes, full of a new understanding. "Horus?" she whispered. Max nodded slowly. "I thank you too, Princess Nefertiti."
Adam cracked a grin. "I'm friends with a god!" he smiled. "I told you he was special."
"You must finish putting the stone together! Only then will my task here on this earth will be fulfilled." Max, or Horus, instructed.
"But... How do we do that?" Evi whispered to her grandson. Adam kept looking at his dog. "I think I know a way." he smiled. Adam picked up one piece of the stone, and fingered it in his hands. Much to Evi's surprise, the half stone began to glow, its power twisting around the Russian hieroglyphics. "What did you do?" Evi gasped.
"I don't know! I just touched it and thinked about it!" Adam shrugged his shoulders. "Sometimes I forget you're only seven." Evi smiled. "Um, dog God, we got half of it to glow!"
Horus looked back behind him, and replied, "Only the chosen one can fuse the sacred stone and use its power."
"Am I the chosen one? Am I?" Adam smiled from ear to ear.
"Yes, you are." Horus nodded.
"I grow tired of your lingering, Horus!" Nicholas snapped.
"Before you two do that, might I ask why you hate each other?" Jonathan sighed, so bored he was chewing his own nails. "Tsar Nicholas II was one of my trusted keepers of the stone five thousand years ago. It was my duty to see that the stones power only be used for good, never evil. He betrayed me and attempted to steal the stone. He succeeded, but before he got away, I cursed him so he could never use the stone for its potential." Horus glared at his enemy. "and now you will pay for what you did to me!" the mummy shouted, running for him. Horus jumped up, and landed on his back, baring his teeth. "hurry, put the stone together! I cannot hold him back forever!"
Rick jumped up, having to get more fighting out of his system "common Jonathan, let's go save the day!" he dragged him to his feet. "I'm good right here, thank you!" he grumbled.
"Jonathan!" Evi shouted, signaling him over to her. "Now what?"
"Hold this while I look for the other piece."
"You lost it?" he laughed.
"I haven't lost it! I just can't find it! There's a difference!" she stuck out her tongue at her brother. "Where'd it go?" Adam said, searching blindly on the ground. Adam sat up, shook by a sudden heat wave. He touched his head, it feeling very hot to the touch. "Use your powers" a voice rung in his mind. Adam looked over at Max, who was still fighting viciously with their evil mummy friend. "Use your gift, your mind. Signal to it Adam."
Adam thought his mind was going haywire. First the communicating with dead people, then Max, now the stone. "it's now or nothing" he thought. Adam closed his eyes, and concentrated his hardest. About twenty feet away from him, the second piece of the sacred stone began to glow, this one more vibrant than the last. "Found it!" Adam lunged forward to the object. Unfortunately, the light also attracted more unwanted visitors. Nicholas too saw the glow from across the room, and started for it. "Adam! Watch out!" Evi shouted, seeing a five thousand year old mummy going towards him. He turned around, and hid the stone piece behind his back. "You wouldn't kill a human prodigy, would you?" he grinned sympathetically. The mummy held up his enchanted sword, and Adam took that for a solid yes. He squeezed his eyes shut, preparing for the end. Then, out of the blue, Horus jumped out in front of his master, taking the blow for himself. "NO!" Adam screamed, struggling in his grandmother's grasp. Max fell to the ground, blood seeping onto his fur. The mummy stood there, admiring his work. "I killed the great Horus!" he laughed, forgetting for one moment about his main goal. Rick took the piece from Adam, and put it on top of the other. A blast shook the rocks around, making Nicholas fly back against the wall. "Did your friend ever say anything about how this thing works?" Rick asked urgently.
"He's NOT dead!" Adam cried, taking the now put together stone. "Horus, please help me!" he called him with his mind power.
"You know the spell, send him back to the underworld." a now fainter voice called out.
"But I don't know any spell!" Adam was beginning to panic.
"You guys better hurry!" Jonathan pointed a shaky finger towards the mummy. He was trapped under a pile of rubble, but nothing could restrain him forever. Adam thought and thought about a spell, but nothing came to mind. A new and strange voice flooded into his head, filling it with confusion. "The dream, remember the dream..."
Then everything came into place. Vivid memories from his dream about his grandmother's father came into view. Then, it made absolutely no sense. Now, it was the key for survival. "Cassgen Voneguen!" he shouted at the creature.
"NO!" the mummy shouted, breaking free from the rocks.
"Have fun in the underworld, pal." Evi said.
The mummy froze in his spot, his merciful expression etched upon his face for eternities to come.