Author's note: Again, not much to say.
I do not own Kingdom Hearts or the Mummy. Kingdom Hearts belongs to both Square Enix and Disney, while the Mummy belongs to Universal Studios.
Chapter 7: The Horror Continuing.
In the middle of the night, Allen looked haunted as he scurried through the streets of Cairo, the Book of the Dead clutched in one arm, and his canobic jar in his other hand, and was terrified beyond belief. He hoped to escape his fate and also to find a way to stop Imhotep and break the curse. He looked around cautionly, becoming more and more terrified by the second.
Just as he entered the Bazaar, however, his attempts to escape fate as been denied as the blue jittery things along with Heartless appeared out of nowhere and blocked his path, threatening ot devour his entire being. As he attempted to turn back, his was quickly surrounded, trapped in the middle by the monsters.
"You're seriously way too easy to find." A sinister voice said behind him. Whipping around, Allen saw that it was Vanitas who grinned evilly, his golden eyes glowing in the darkness of the night, and he held up his Keyblade at the terrified man. "Not only that, I knew the book would be found easier than that stupid weasel of a servant."
"W-what do you want with me?" Allen stuttered in trembling fear.
"Not me." Vanitas smirked. "My boss. Hope you enjoy your trip to the Underworld, because that's where you're going."
Suddenly feeling pressence behind him, Allen turned around to see...a cloaked Imhotep eying him with a grin on his still recovering yet still decaying face. He instantly knew who it was and quickly realised in horror that here was where he would indeed meet his own doom.
Allen gave out a high-pitched and terrified girlish scream.
Meanwhile, Beni had found Allen's office, but couldn't find Allen himself. He couldn't even find the Book of the Dead and made a mess in the entire room by roughly shoving away everything, and pulling out drawers and shaking them until they're empty, but still came up empty handed.
"Well, well, well." Beni stopped what he was doing when he heard a voice behind him. He whipped around and found that Riku, Mickey, Axel, Rick, Jonathan and the woman they met who introduced herself as Tifa, in the doorway as they had just arrived. It was Axel that spoke as he continue, "Doing a little spring cleaning, are we?"
Realising he's in trouble, Beni quickly made a run for it to escape from the others. But Tifa, seeing this guy trouble, quickly took a chair before Rick could and she tossed the chair at the running man's legs spot on and causing him to cry out in pan as he fell to the ground and nearly twisted his ankle.
"Nice shot." Jonathan winced, while Rick went over to handle business with Beni, and Tifa clapped her hands as though she was dusting them off.
"Man, where'd you learn your fighting skills, Teef?" Axel asked, smirking. He had to admit, he was thoroughly impressed despite not having a heart to even be impressed.
"Years of Practice." Tifa answered.
Riku and Mickey in the meantime went over to Rick as he questioned Beni while shoving him into the table and such in slight anger. "You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you, Beni?"
"What friend? You're my only friend." Beni said, but this was lie which Rick saw through and shoved him again.
"What the hell are you doing with this creep, huh, Beni? What's in it for you?" Rick demanded.
"It is better to be the right hand of the devil than in his path. As long as I serve him, I am immune." only to be slammed against boxes in Rick's irritation.
"Immune from what?" Rick demanded.
Riku suddenly realised what Beni was talking about as horrible memories of being used by both Maleficent and Ansem came back, but he shook his head and instead said, "He believes that as long as he works for Imhotep, he'll be safe from being killed by him. But in reality, he was tricked and before he knows it, his fate will be the same as everyone elses."
"How do you know?" Jonathan asked, confused at what the fifteen year old was saying.
The silver-haired teen lowered his head a little and said, "I...sort of had a similiar situation not that long ago, and that was me being stupid and naive."
Deciding not the question Riku about this since they more important things to worry about, Rick dragged Beni over to Axel who summoned his Chakrams, and the former said to the whimpy man, "What are you looking for? And try not to lie to me." holding him up close to Axel's Chakrams that were held up and just one inch from touching his neck.
Screaming, Beni quickly answered, "The Book! The black book they found back in Hamunaptra. He wants it back. He said to me that it would be worth it's weight in gold."
"What does he want the book for?" Mickey demanded. He had a feeling that Axel's thoery back at the museum was most likely right, but he wanted to make sure just in case the redhead was wrong.
"Oh come on, I don't know-AH!" Beni was cut off when the blades of Axel's weapons were inched closer to his neck and he said truthfully this time, "Something about bringing his dead girlfriend back to life! That's all he wants, the book, I swear." as Rick drew him away from Axel while Beni continued, "Just the book, I swear." before adding to Jonathan, "And your sister. But other than that, nothing else!"
Axel sighed as he lowered his weapons and looked at the group, saying, "See? I told ya that undead guy needed a girl's body to replace his girlfriend's dead body."
Mickey shook his head as he uncomfortably rubbed the back of his neck and said, "Well...I can't say that I'm too happy on what the mummy did, though I have to admit it I know how he would feel if anything happened to my girlfriend. But I wouldn't go as far as doing something like this!"
"Wait a minute..." Tifa spoke up, confused. "What am I missing here?"
"A lot." Riku and Axel both said in unison, and just half a second later a high-pitched and terrified girlish scream was heard from outside, alarming them, Mickey, Rick, Jonathan and Tifa. Beni saw this chance to knee into Rick's stomach and quickly escaped before even Axel and Riku could catch him. Suddenly they and Mickey both felt familiar and power darkness very close by while Beni leaped from the window and crashed into crates down below. When he stood up, he saw what was going on and made his escape since he didn't want to see the poor victum's body.
Riku, Mickey, Axel, Rick, Jonathan and Tifa approached the window and gazed down at the bazaar below and to their horror, Vanitas, a bunch of blue jittery things and Heartless were moving away as they revealled a now dead skeletion of Allen, with the cloaked figure taking both the Book of the Dead and the Canobic jar and stood up. The six of them then realised what just happened and that they were too late yet again.
The five of them knew who the cloaked person was as well, and while Tifa covered her mouth in sheer horror of the skeletion of the dead man, Vanitas also sensed their pressence and looked up before sighing, "Don't look now, but we've got annoying company."
Realising what Vanitas was talking about, Imhotep slowly turned around and recongised five of the group and while he knew the woman with them wasn't who he was intending to capture, he still glared at all six of them. He looked like a zombie with holes in his body, and just a moment later he gapped open his mouth and lets out a large swarm of deadly flies towards the group.
"Uh-oh!" Mickey gasped as he and the others quickly ducked back and slammed the shutters shut just in time, while Vanitas and Imhotep both glanced at each other before moving on, and the Heartless and the blue jittery things vanished, waiting for their masters's next orders.
Riku, Mickey, Axel, Tifa, Rick and Jonathan all glanced at each other, with Tifa saying in utter disbelief while trying to shake the image of the skeletion of Allen and the moving corpse of the mummy out of her head, "I can't believe anyone's capable of doing something like this! Now I can't ignore it!"
"You're welcome to try and help to stop this undead bad guy, if you want." Axel said with a bit of an unusual freaked out expression of his own. Fear was the last thing he had on his mind to feel and he was beginning to think that maybe he was just using this by memory. One thing for certain, he made it clear to himself not to inform the superior about this world.
"W-well, that's two down, and two to go..." Mickey said shakily. He was visibly shaken with the horrors he's been seeing lately that was starting to make him think that Heartless, dragons, ghosts and even giants were not so scary anymore.
Jonathan looked very panicked as he added, "And then he'll come after Evy."
"Let's go!" Riku told them firmly, "The others are now in serious danger themselves!" leading the group back to the hotel now try and save Daniels, Henderson and Evy.
Back in Evy's room, Daniels and Henderson were weary and freaked out, with Evy still locked up in her room. Eventually, the former couldn't take it anymore and grumbled, "To hell with this." before telling his friend, "I'm going downstairs to get me a drink. You want somethin'?"
"Yeah, get me a glass bourdon." Henderson replied, as Daniels called the door behind him which he promised he would get the glass bourdon. But just a few minutes after his friend left, suddenly there was a gust of wind blowing from the opening window and Henderson stood up quickly and drew out his gun.
Too bad he never got the chance to use it(not that it would help him in the first place), because seconds after that a mass of swirling sand came through the window and lifting him into the air as he screamed while his body was twisted and turned and slowly shrivels the life out of him until he was rendered a skeletion and tossed to the floor like a broken doll. The sand then formed into a human shape which was Imhotep who know looked almost human, save for the still mummified mouth as he gazed at the closed doors, instantly knowing who was in there.
He had sent Vanitas to track down Beni since Imhotep himself would be just fine on his own, as he approached the doors.
Evy, having calmed down, decided to have gone to bed and was now sleeping, though she began to toss and turn, unaware that sand began to seep through the keyhole of the locked doors, pouring onto the floor and forming a sand dune which then transforms into Imhotep.
While thinking about his own lost love, Imhotep leans over and kisses Evy who then stirs awake and then she found herself face to face with the mummy sucking the life out of her and she muffled a scream, just as the doors bursted open and the two broke the kiss to find the furious Rick, the angry looks from Riku, Mickey, Axel and Tifa, and the paralyzed expression Jonathan at the doorway.
"Hey! She's not for you, pal!" Mickey yelled out.
While Evy stumbled to the other side of the bed in panic, Imhotep glared at the group and threatened them in ancient egyptain that neither of them understood, but for once Mickey wasn't afraid. Instead, he became somewhat cocky and grinned, "Well, I've got a better present for ya. Surprise!" he held up the pretty white cat from earlier. He made sure to stop and look for the cat, just in case.
The mummy shrieked in fright as the cat hissed, causing Imhotep to scream before he once again turned to a burst of sand and escaped the room through another window, leaving the somewhat tramutized group behind.
"Some birthday present that was." Axel joked after a few moments.
"You alright?" Rick asked to Evy who nodded.
Jonathan on the other hand, thinking that Rick was asking him, replied with a bit of an heaving, "Well, I'm not sure." which earned him skeptical looks from the group including his sister.
Mickey gave the somewhat tramutized cat a pat on the head while saying to it, "Aw, I'm really sorry for doin' that to ya. Everything's gonna be okay." before putting down and let the cat walk away.
"Okay, that's three down and one to go." Riku sighed in guilt, before shaking it away, knowing that time was running out faster than they all knew. "We have to get to the museum and fast."
Everyone else nodded in agreement and while the group left the room to give Evy privicy to change, fifteen minutes later they found Daniels and told him the devastating news of both Allen and Henderson's demises before quickly leaving to head back to the Museum, taking out Heartless along the way while Tifa introduced herself to Evy and Daniels.
When Riku and the others arrived at the Museum, they met up with Ardeth and Terrance who joined about Tifa's appearence and once they got the story that she offered to help with the situation and was slightly tramutized with the situation, they allowed her to join in the investigation on how to stop Imhotep once and for all.
"So let me get this straight." Tifa began as the group made their way upstairs, "Are you saying that this black book that mummy took is the reason why he's moving around in the first place?"
"Yes, well according to legend, the black book the Americans found at Hamunaptra is supposed to bring people back from the dead." Evy explained before admitting, "Untill now, it was a notion I was unwilling to believe."
Rick shook his head and told the woman, "Well, you'd better believe it. It brought our old buddy back to life, and we didn't even read the damn thing. That kid with the black spiky hair did that."
"Yes, well, I'm thinking," Evy continued, "That if the black book can bring dead people back to life,"
Realization dawn to the others and Riku said with a stunned expression, "Then the book you were looking can send the mummy back to the Underworld."
"That I'm willing to believe." Axel thought, with a hint of relief in his voice.
"So that means, all we have to do is find the golden book and use it to make the mummy go away." Mickey realised, with slight excitement.
The group nodded in agreement, but then Mickey, Riku and Axel paused in their steps as they felt familiar darkness. Turning around to the window, their expressions turned dark and serious as they approached the window, with the others following when they noticed the three of them heading there for some reason. When they all arrived at the window, they saw a bunch of Heartless of most kinds make their way towards the entrance of the Museum, along with the blue jittery monsters.
Jonathan gulped, "I don't know where those monsters come from, but so much for the Boils and Sores plauge."
"He's using the Heartless and the Unversed." Mickey realised as he also recongised the blue jittering monsters as well.
"Unversed?" Riku asked, a little puzzled on how Mickey also knew the name of the blue monsters. Even Axel, who still wanted to get answers from Mickey about Vanitas, was a bit shocked about this reveal as well.
"So it has begun." Ardeth thought grimly, "The beginning of the end."
"No. It's not over yet." Riku told them with determination. Evy and Mickey both nodded in agreement and they and the rest of the group quickly went to continue their investigation to try and find the golden book to stop Imhotep and Vanitas once and for all.
'The boils and sores plauge was so stupid. The Heartless and the Unversed could to much better than a bunch of villagers.' Vanitas thought to himself as he marched along with Imhotep and the nervous Beni towards the Museum where Evy was.
Imhotep then shouted something in ancient egyptian in which the Heartless and the Unversed, under his command while secretly plotting to take his heart which was plunged closer and closer into darkness, made to break their way into the museum for more hearts and to capture Evy and the final victum of the curse needed to restore Imhotep to his human form. The doors were locked and since they acted on instinct, they didn't think to teleport their way in.
"According to Bembridge scolars, the gold book of Amun-Ra is located in the statue of Anubis." Evy said as she and Terrance scanned the tablet while Riku, Mickey and Axel had their weapons summoned, just in case.
"That's where we found the black book." Daniels pointed out.
"I guess they mixed the books up." Mickey thought, while he was starting to becoming increasingly panicked and he knew that he shouldn't be afraid. Otherwise that would just increase the strengths of the Heartless.
Riku was in a similiar position while Evy continued to search, and the doors kept on getting banged by the Heartless and the Unversed outside, and the locks wouldn't hold much longer. He then urged, "Evy, please hurry up!"
"Patience is a virtue." Evelyn replied in a sing-song tone.
Rick gazed down from the floor he and the others were at with Ardeth and Axel, and the three men turned to gaze at the librarian before the former said while shaking his head, "Not right now it isn't."
"I've got it! The golden book of Amun-Ra is inside the statue of Horus!" Evy said, before turning and she gave a big grin of victory as she mentally told the people who rejected her application form, "Take that, bembridge scolars!" just the Heartless and the Unversed finally broke in and began to rampage the room.
"Save the victory party for when the undead guy is gone!" Axel advised as he quickly slashed one Heartless in half that leaped from the ground and towards the group. He burned another with a fire attack at an Unversed next.
Mickey once again preformed his triple air-sulmorsault and used his Keyblade to knock out both Heartless and Unversed in those hits in one of his best speeding abillities.
Riku cleaved three Heartless in one hit with his Soul Eater blade and clashed downward at a fairly large Unversed, before he turned around and stabbed a Heartless right into the chest before it could slice him into pieces with it's own weapon which was an axe for some reason.
Ardeth sliced another Heartless in half with his sword that he brought out, while Rick and Daniels both pulled out their handguns and shot the Unversed into oblivion with just single shots like they normally would.
Tifa punched and kicked at Heartless that attempted to get to her, before she grabbed one and leaped into the air before tossing it down so fast that no one even saw that coming and the Heartless crashed into other Heartless and Unversed into a pile that caused them to become stuck onto each other, while Tifa herself landed back to the others who stared in shock.
Deciding to ask about Tifa's skills later, the group then made a run for it through the back door as Mickey used some power of his light orbs to blast the Heartless and the Unversed away as he went to give the group more time to escape and to avoid Imhotep and Vanitas. They made it outside and made a run for it to find a place to hide and then figure out a way to return the City of the Dead.
Unfortunately Daniels was then quickly surrounded by Heartless and as the group tried to turn back they were surrounded by more Heartless and Unversed that were pushing them away into a corner while he began to shoot at the Heartless until his ammo was empty. He was backed into one corner as Imhotep and Vanitas appeared.
Daniels screamed as Imhotep sucked the life out of him, and Mickey, Tifa, Riku and Evy all turned away in horror at the sight before them while Rick, Ardeth, Jonathan, Terrance, and even Axel all had their eyes widened in sheer horror on what was happening. Even Beni couldn't handle the sight as he turned away slightly from the grusome event.
'Great. I'll be having nightmares for the rest of my life.' Axel thought to himself.
This task done and taking the canobic jar from the now dead Daniels, the mummy turned the group, now no longer looking undead, but very much human and he grinned evilly at the group. It was done. He was fully regenerated. Rick, Riku and Mickey all stood in front of Evy in attempts to protect her from the evil man despite knowing that their chances of winning in this battle was slim to none.
"Keetah mi pharos." said Imhotep in ancient Egyptain to Evy. "Aja nilo, isirian."
"Come with me, my Princess." Beni tried to translate. "It's time to make you mine, forever."
Evy glared at him, correcting in annoyance, "'For all eternity', idiot!"
"I was just about to say that, lady." Vanitas said to the woman, for once glad he wasn't the only one who thought Beni was an idiot.
"Koontash dai na." Imhotep continued, extending his hand towards Evy.
"Take my hand, and I shall spare your friends." Beni translated again which made Rick, Riku, Mickey and Axel glare, not beliving the words even for a second.
"Yeah, right." Axel said glaring. "You're lying and you know it." he should know, because he was the best at lying that he could pick up lies from others, even back when he was known as Lea in his teenage years. The only one who could catch on his own lies was Saix who had that skill of picking up Lea's lies when he was Isa in their teenage years.
"We won't let you take Evelyn." Riku told Imhotep boldly. He also mentally crinkled his nose in disgust at the foul stentch the human-formed mummy was giving which somehow got worse now that the latter was fully regenerated. He also mentally hissed in pain as the darkness in his own heart began to react again but he told that darkness to behave itself.
"Well, do either of you have any bright ideas?" Evy asked to Rick.
"I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'." Rick said as he glared at Imhotep. "Give me a minute."
Evy suddenly made a decision and told him, "You better think of something fast, because if he turns me into a mummy, you'll be the first one I'm coming after." and to the group's shock, walks over to Imhotep.
"Wait!" Mickey cried out as he, Riku and Rick made to stop Evy, but Ardeth blocks them since he knew what she was doing despite the difficult decision.
"Don't!" Evy told the group, "He still has to take us to Hamunaptra to preform the ritual."
"She's right." Ardeth agreed, "Live today, fight tomorrow."
Axel shook his head and said to Evy, "Bad idea. You really shouldn't have done that, because he's gonna kill us whether you voulenteer or not, lady."
Vanitas smirked as he approached the group and digged into Jonathan's front pockets and pulled out the key as the latter said childishly, "Hey, that's mine!"
"Thanks for the gift. Got presents for you losers too." Vanitas grinned evilly as he opened up a Corridor of Darkness as Imhotep dragged the now shocked Evy who began to struggle but his grip was too strong for her, and Beni, hesitating, followed. "See you idiots in the Realm of Darkness." Vanitas said as he followed into the corridor before disappearing.
The Heartless and the Unversed then made their way slowy towards their prey who backed up as Rick shouted, "Okay, now what do we do!?"
Riku shut his eyes tightly as he tried to think of something, anything, to get his friends and himself out of his situation, but so far nothing came, and with great guilt and realization, this world was going to fall into darkness, and he and everyone would end up back trapped into the Realm of Darkness and disappear forever. He felt so useless. If only Sora was here.
Mickey then grunted, "Well, desperate times calls for desperate measures!" as he digged into his pockets and pulled out a star-shaped crystal with a lightning bolt onto it, "Everybody gather around me! Just hope this will work!"
"What about my sister?" Jonathan asked as he and the others gathered around Mickey, none of them knowing what the king had in mind with a crystal in his hand.
"If this works, then we'll get her back!" Mickey said, knowing that if this worked, then it was the only way to get out of the Heartless and the Unversed's paths. He then held it up in the air and concentrated hard with his eyes shut tightly.
The next thing the group knew, the crystal glowed in bright light and before they knew it, they were all engulfed and turned into a shooting star like pattern that zipped away, their surprised and shocked screams fading as the light disappeared into the sky and into the distance of the desert. The light also eliminated the Heartless and the Unversed due to being weak against the power of the light.
On it's way towards the City of the Dead.
A/N: We're getting closer to the end of the story. I've cut out some scenes to make sure it wasn't a repeat of "Sailor Moon VS the Mummy". Hope you liked this chapter.