Author's Note: Well, the story is finally over. This is the last chapter guys! I really hoped you enjoyed the story and of course reviews are always welcome. I've had a few people ask me if I will be continuing with the sequels so I would like to address that yes I will be. I am not quite finished with Ava. There will be a oneshot of Rick and Evie's wedding and then the second Mummy sequel. Hopefully all of you will be interested in reading both. Thanks so much for reading this story. Now let's wrap it up.

Disclaimer: I own nothing from The Mummy. All rights belong to the writers and creators of the movie.

It didn't take long after that for her, Rick, and Jonathan to find Imhotep. Unfortunately, by the time they did find him he had already started the ceremony to bring Anck-su-namun back. Ava paled when the dried up corpse started moving on the stone slab it was laid out on. "Alright, time to make a grand entrance," Rick said and they all rushed forward.

"I found it, Evie!" Jonathan cried holding the gold book up high in the air. "I found it!" Imhotep spun around to face them.

"Shut up and get me off of here!" Evie screamed struggling to free herself and keep her distance from the moving corpse. Ava and Rick quickly grabbed for the swords that two statues were carrying and charged at Imhotep. Rick reached him first and slapped the knife Imhotep was holding out of his hand, which, of course, just pissed the mummy off. Ava winced as the mummy shouted a command to the mummified priests surrounding him, and although she had no idea what the mummy actually said she guessed it wasn't anything good. She was proven right when the mummies started to attack her and Rick.

"Open the book, Jonathan!" Evelyn ordered her brother as fighting commenced around her. "Open the book! That's the only way to kill him!" Ava struggled to keep the mummies off of her as she battled her way to Evie. Rick, too, was fighting his way through the mummies. Ava raised her sword up and pierced it through two mummies at once before swinging it around and chopping the head off of another. But when she would take one down another quickly came to take their comrades place. She could barely take two steps to the stone slab Evie was laid out on, and Rick didn't seem to be having much luck either. In fact, Rick was on the ground, and Ava watched in horror as a mummy carrying a heavy stone and about to drop it on Rick. She tried to run over, but her path was blocked by mummies. She desperately cut into them, intent on getting to her brother. She had just taken out the last one in her way when she saw Rick grab his sword and cut off the mummy's legs. The mummy fell back with the large stone now crushing it.

Ava took the opportunity she now had to break one of Evie's chains. She didn't have time to get the other and two mummies descended upon her. Suddenly, Jonathan cried out from somewhere in the room. "I can't open it!" he shouted, panicking. "It's locked or something! We need the key!" Ava glanced up in time to see Imhotep tucking the key into his robes and grabbing his knife before targeting Jonathan.

"Jonathan!" Ava cried in alarm and changed direction, heading to save Jonathan instead, but her path was instantly blocked by more mummies. "You have got to be kidding me! How many of you guys are there?!" She began stabbing her way through them, her progress slow.

"What do I do, Evie?!" Jonathan yelled running away from Imhotep. "What do I do?!"

"Read the inscription on the cover!" Evie yelled back, still struggling to break free from the other chain. Rick finally got a chance and broke the other chain, allowing Evie to slide of the stone. As Ava continued to fight she heard Jonathan hastily read through the inscription. Suddenly new players showed up to the game and attacked both her and Rick. She could see in the brief moment when she managed to cut one of her new adversaries down that Anck-su-namun had climbed off the stone slab and was now chasing after Evie.

"Do something, Jonathan!" Evie yelled as she dodged an attack.

"What?" Jonathan asked dismayed.

"Finish the inscription idiot! Then you can control them!" Evie replied aggravated. Ava threw herself across the stone slab so she and Rick were back to back, and could face off the mummies together. They continued to hack away at the mummies, their movements in sync with each other.

"I can't make out this last symbol!" Jonathan cried out.

"Figure it out!" Ava called back as she kicked a mummy away from her.

"What's it look like?" Evie asked from a distant part of the room. It sounded to Ava as if Imhotep's girlfriend was still after her. She wished she could help Evie, but she was having enough trouble taking down her own adversaries.

"It looks like a stork!" Jonathan called.

"Ah! Ah! Ahmenophus!" Evie choked out.

"Yes, I see," Jonathan replied.

"Good, well then do something about it!" Rick snapped. He and Ava were quickly losing their battle. The mummies nearly had them when Jonathan finished the inscription. They froze and Ava sighed in relief as the sword that had been about to run her through halted its movement. Jonathan called out an order to the mummies and they backed off her and Rick and targeted Anck-su-namun instead. Ava winced as she saw them stab Imhotep's mummified girlfriend, and Imhotep screamed in rage.

"Rick!" she cried as Imhotep charged down Jonathan. They both quickly chased after him. Imhotep got to Jonathan and picked him up by the throat. Rick quickly raised his sword and used it to cut Imhotep's right arm off. Imhotep dropped Jonathan and spun around and walking towards Rick. He lifted him up with his other arm and threw him across the room. Ava ran around him as the mummy continued to target her brother.

She knelt down beside Jonathan. "Are you alright?" she asked helping him up.

Jonathan smiled brightly at her and lifted the key to the book up. "I got it!" he exclaimed.

"Guess those pick-pocketing skills came in handy, didn't they?" Ava replied smiling as Evie ran up and joined them. Ava glance at her. "Are you okay?"

"Oh, I'm fine," Evie said taking the book and key off of Jonathan. "Go help your brother. I'll take care of this part."

"You don't have to tell me twice," Ava replied before running out into the room where Imhotep was once again sending her brother flying. Ava, unthinkingly, jumped up on the mummy's back and tried to strangle him. Imhotep effortlessly grabbed the arm around his throat and threw her off of him. She landed with a hard thud against a statue. She groaned as she rolled onto her hands and knees and shakily climbed back to her feet. Rick had already walked back up to Imhotep and Ava screamed when she saw the mummy begin to strangle Rick. She ran at him and pulled at the arm choking her brother, but he only sent her flying again. This time she could not get up right away. She was barely at an upright position when there was a change in the atmosphere.

Ava turned her head and stared in Evie's direction. She had the book open and was reading from it. Evie glanced straight at Imhotep as she read, "Kadeesh mal! Kadeesh mal! Pared oos! Pared oos!" Imhotep dropped Rick and spun around to face Evie. Suddenly, a ghostly mist rose up and charged at Imhotep, running right through the mummy. Ava watched in awe as the mist took the shape of a carriage and saw that it was pulling Imhotep's spirit away from him. Imhotep ran after the carriage but it quickly disappeared. Ava had just managed to crawl over to her brother when Imhotep spun around and charged at them again.

"I thought you said it would kill him," Rick snapped, annoyed.

"He's mortal," Evie replied. Ava lifted her sword and just as Imhotep reached them plunged it deep into his stomach. Imhotep staggered back a few steps into the muck filled bog behind him. Ava and Rick watched as he began to sink into it. Imhotep glanced up at them, a truly threatening look on his face, and growled something in ancient Egyptian.

"Death is only the beginning," Evie said, translating. Ava shuddered as she remembered that was the same phrase he'd scratched into the lid of his sarcophagus. Without warning the walls and ground around them began to shake.

"Rick?" Ava asked.

"C'mon!" Rick urged and pushed them all forward. Jonathan trips and drops the book into the bog, but keeps going.

"The book!" Evie cried stopping in her tracks. "Jonathan, you dropped the book!" Rick and Evie both went back and dragged her along with them. Ava led them through the winding tunnels of the temple as the ceilings started to sink down towards them. They were dangerously close to the ground as they ran through the treasure room. Jonathan paused in the middle and glanced around at all the shining gold.

"Can't we just…"

"No, Jonathan!" Evie cried as she and Ava grabbed onto Jonathan and pulled him to the exit.

They had all cleared the room when a high-pitched voice cried out, "O'Connell! O'Connell!" Rick and Ava turned to see Beni running at them.

"Just leave him," Ava urged, but Rick bent down and extended an arm as the ceiling lowered.

"C'mon Beni," he urged, but he was too late. The room sealed off with a thud with Beni still inside. "Goodbye, Beni."

"C'mon," Ava said grabbing Rick's hand and pulling him along the passage. The quickly caught up to Evie and Jonathan before the finally, mercifully breached the exit of the temple. They ran out into the hot desert sun, trying to clear the temple and keep moving where the ground tried to suck them down with the temple. Finally they made it to safety and turned to watch the temple sink back into the earth.

Jonathan screamed suddenly and jerked away and they all spun around half expecting more mummies only to see Ardeth Bay atop his horse. "Ardeth," Ava whispered amazed to see he was still alive.

"Oh!" Jonathan bristled recollecting his wits. "Thank you, thank you very much!" Ava laughed at the frightened expression on the Brit's face.

"You've earned the respect and the gratitude of me and my people," Ardeth declared as if he hadn't just given them all a heart attack.

"Yes, well, it was nothing," Jonathan said waving it off, and chuckling softly. Ava stared up at him with a soft smile on her face.

His dark eyes met hers. "May Allah smile upon you always," Ardeth told them and started to turn away before glancing back at her and then Rick. "You watch after her."

"No worries about that," Rick assured him throwing his arm around her shoulders. Ardeth nodded and rode off into the desert. Ava watched him go knowing she would never see him again. Her heart ached at the thought.

"He's just…leaving us here," Jonathan remarked staring after the desert man.

"We've got a way out of here," Ava replied motioning to the three camels that stood nearby.

Jonathan sighed. "Well, I guess we go home empty-handed…again."

"I wouldn't say that," Rick said staring intently at Evelyn who smiled up at him. They leaned in towards each other and kissed.

"Oh please," Jonathan groaned.

"Give it a rest," Ava muttered as she swung herself onto a camel. The others joined her shortly after, Rick and Evie sharing a camel, and they made their way back to Cairo. But Ava knew they wouldn't be staying there. She wasn't sure what the future had in store for her, but she knew this time she'd be leaving Cairo with her brother and her new friends. That the new twist her life had taken was sure to lead her to a brand new grand adventure.