Part 2
Chapter 2
Ricks POV
"Evy, I know what you're thinking… and the answer is no!" I said to Evy as she explained what this bracelet was used for. I knew my wife well now that all she could do was unravel more history.
"We just got home."
She turned to me with a big smile. "Thats the beauty of it, We're already packed!"
I walked to her waving my finger as I marched up to her. "Give me one good reason!"
She softened her eyes and removed my hat. "It's just an Oasis, Darling." She moved gracefully around me and removed my scarf. "A beautiful, Exciting,Romantic…Oasis!"
I thought about what it could be "Oh? White sandy beach, Palm trees, Clear blue water, and one of those drinks with the umbrella's in it"
She smile and moved close to me for a kiss "Sounds good."
"Sounds too good.…WHAT'S THE CATCH?" I asked, pushing her away just as her lips brushed mine.
"Supposively it's the final resting place of Anubus' Army."
I rolled my eyes " Yeah see, There's the Catch, THERE'S ALWAYS A CATCH."
Elisabeths POV
I helped bring in more things to the bedrooms as I followed Alex into the the top of the bookshelf, I can hear Evy and Rick talking about something about Evy's recent Visions.
"Mom! Where do I put this chest? Thing weighs a dang ton!" I heard him complain,even though he wanted to help with the artifacts.
"ALEX! WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!" Evy warned to him from the upstairs bookshelf.
"He gets it from Rick, Evy! You knew this!"
"Lisa, Butt out!" Rick called to me, I waved him a hush up hand and walked over to my bedroom.
I placed my suitcase on the bed and hurried back over to Alex in the looked out of breath as if he just hid something.
"What did you do?" I asked, giving him a cautious eye.
" Nothing. Just set the chest on the table." he answered, then smiled big.
I raised an eyebrow and turned around to see Evy enter with a book in her hand.
"Happy to be home?" She asked Alex and approached him.
"Couldn't be happier!" He said.
"Take a look at this…." She said and handed me a book with a description of the new egyptian new year " The Year of the Scorpion". I handed it to Alex and he read in amazement.
"Neat!" he exclaimed.
Evy smiled and patted his shoulder. "Thought you might like that."
As Alex read, I noticed the chest was missing something. "Alex, have you seen the key to the chest?"
"WHAT?" Evy asked with volume in her tone.
" I must have misplaced it…"
I rolled my eyes and traced back to the hall.
"I'll look back in the entry and the bedrooms." I said and moved to look. for the missing key.
Evy's POV
I dig my hands in every pocket Alex's jacket had.
"Alex, If you've lost that key, You're grounded!" I warned.
He looked around my and shrugged. "I didn't lose it, I just can't find it. There's a difference."
I tickled his side greedily "Well, you better start finding it."
"Good evening." I heard a thick, dark voice call to us. I looked up and pushed Alex behind me. The man wore all red and it made his brown skin appear darker.
" who are you? What are you doing here?" I asked.
" I'm here for the chest" he answered and eyed my son as he pulled it off the table. " give it to me now"
I pulled the sword out of the antique case with other swords and threatened him.
"Get out of my house."
As if on que four more men in red appeared behind me.
" uh mom, now is a good time to yell for Dad now!" Alex warned me, but I motioned him to move behind me.
He approached us and threatened " then I will just kill you and take it anyway."
" I think not!"
I felt a brush on my arm, and I saw black robes and a familiar face.
" Ardeth! What are you doing here?"
" perhaps such questions can be kept for later." he answered then nodded to the enemy.
" Lok Nah"
I knew one thing for sure, Lisa will not believe this.
Ricks POV
I walked into Jonathan's room to find a group of people obviously trying to kill him. One man held a blade to his throat, as a woman threatened him with a poisonous snake.
" Jonathan, I thought I told you no more wild parties."
Jonathan laughed until the blade on his throat silenced him.
" look, knowing my brother in law he probably deserves whatever your planning to do, but this is my house, and I have rules about snakes and dismemberments." I said to them, but in a blink of an eye, the woman threw the snake at me. I caught it and stopped its mouth from biting me.
" Shoot him!" the woman ordered.
I threw the snake at the man with the gun, then caught a knife that was thrown at me, then threw it at the same man. Once I saw the gun I dodged for the bathroom.
" Jonathan?" I yelled trying to find him.
Underneith the bubbles, I found my soaked wet brother in law.
" what did you do?" I gripped his jacket and pulled him from the tub.
" what, me? I didn't do anything!" he claimed, until more bullets fired through the door. " I think?"
I pulled him to the window and we both flew out of the second floor, down a shading and over a fence before the man firing from the bathroom tried to shoot us.
Elisabeth's POV
The sounds of swords shook me away from searching, and rushed into the library. Men in red were attacking Evy and Alex. I found a dead man in red, and stole his blade and pulled a man in red off of Evy. I dueled him, and heard a stranger ask about the chest. 'Who the hell was that?' I asked myself, but kept fighting. I sliced the man and ran for Alex who had the chest, and the man trying to pull it away. My eyes grew with anger once the man threw Alex across the room and held the chest. I was about to stab him when a dark skin man threw in front of me punched me hard against my cheek.
I was dazed for a few seconds and when I got up, my eyes found an unfocused figure in black. I was about to Take my sword to his back when I heard Alex scream.
" No Aunt Lisa!"
I was too late, but the warning sent the figure in black to block my blade with his. I watched match his eyes with mine. I froze in shock realizing the black man was the man I longed for since he left us eight years ago in the desert. My sword fell out of my hands, and my focus came back. His face still as handsome as the last time I saw it.
"Ardeth?"
He grasped my hand and motioned for Alex to follow. We moved quick outside.
" Come, We must hurry, they have Evelyn."
We ran outside, and found Rick coming away from a statue. Several Cars drove out of the manor quickly.
" DAD!" Alex ran and Rick was so grateful he was unharmed. Then he looked at me, and I must have had a bruised cheek cause he went to reach it.
" I'm okay." I said, still in shock.
Ricks eyes moved to Ardeth.
" O'Connell" he said, nodding for his presence.
Rick gripped both sides of his robes and gripped him. " what the heck are you
doing here?"
" Rick!" I warned him.
He released him and asked. " never mind that,why are you here and where are they taking my wife?"
" my friend, I'm not sure. Where ever this man is...your wife will surely be."
Ardeth held a picture of a man in the desert. Alex and I took a double look and recognized him immediately.
" Mr. Hafez" I whispered.
" who?" Rick asked.
" we know him. He's the curator. Works at the British museum." Alex explained.
" Are you sure?" Ardeth asked the boy.
" Oh trust me, thy spend more time there then they do at home." Rick pulled Alex to the car.
" okay, you're here, bad guys are here, and Evys been kidnapped. That only means..."
Ardeth nodded.
" Yes, we believe these men are going to resurrect the creature and the woman that was with them, she know things no one else knew. She knew exactly
where the creature was buried. We followed her here. Now They have the chest, and will try to raise the scorpion king by using the bracelet." he explained to us.
" I wouldn't worry about that just yet." Alex interrupted and revealed that he wore the bracelet of Anubis.
" ALEX!" I said, gripping the bracelet and trying to get it off.
" is that Gold?" I heard Jonathan ask.
" Jonathan! Shut up! We have to get this off!" I said, struggling to get it off.
" when I stuck it on I saw the pyramids of Geezer, then Woosh! Straight across the desert to Carnach!"
I realized that at this point it was too late.
" You just may have started a chain reaction that may bring about the next Apocolypse!" Ardeth explained.
Alex gasped in shock, but Rick sneered at him.
"you lighten up!" then looked at Alex. " you, Big Trouble!" then looked at Jonathan. " You, get in the car!"
I stood in shock of everything. Evy was kidnapped, Alex is wearing the bracelet, and Ardeth is here.
" Lisa." I heard Rick call me but my mind couldn't register movement. I just kept breathing.
" Elisabeth?" I felt a soft grip on my shoulders and brown eyes matching mine.
" Are you alright?" he asked.
I nodded, realizing I had to get it together. I walked into the car, and Alex scooted close to me and gripped my hand. I gripped it back and smiled down at him then whispered.
" I knew you were hiding something!" I told him, but he smiled back at me as if nothing serious was happening.
Ricks POV
" Alex, I have a big job for you!" I said, looking at him. He got all excited and raised off the seat. " I want you to stay here and protect the car."
He sunk back down and frowned. " protect the car? Dad, Just because I'm a kid doesnt mean I'm stupid!"
I frazzled his hair. " I know!"
He smiled and giggled " Dad!"
" if you see anyone run out screaming,it's just me." Jonathan said, groaning at the thought of going inside.
" maybe you should stay too." I suggested, and he was all for it.
" Now you're talking!" he added.
Ardeths POV
O'Connell, Elisabeth and I moved to the trunk of the car and Rick unraveled a case of Guns.
Lisa pulled out the revolver, and three boxes of bullets.
" you want the shot gun?" He offered, but I preferred the Thompson. I pulled rows of Amo and strapped them to my chest. While observing, I noticed a Medjai
tattoo on O'Connell wrist.
" if I were to say to you 'I'm a stranger traveling from the East to seek that who is lost.' "
He glared at me then answered " I would reply that 'I am a stranger traveling from the west and it is I whom you seek' how did you?" he said but I noted to his tattoo. " what? This? This was slapped on me when I was orphaned in Cairo with Lisa."
" it is a symbol, a protector of man,a worrior for God, a Medjai!" He shook his head in disbelief.
" sorry, you got the wrong guy."
Evys POV
Something startled me awake. A large fire blazed and heated this space. I looked to my right to see the museum curator. They were carrying a large crystal inside
was whom I feared to be the creature.
" oh my god, they found him." I whispered to myself. They chanted and large pieces of crystal shattered and the creature arose.
My eyes caught glimpse of a woman, and I was pulled into a vision of her back in time, then back to now.
She was Anuksunamun reincarnation, The princess which Imotep planned to bring her spirit back.
They exchanged more words and the woman pointed to me.
" HER?"
" she is a gift, to kill for bringing you back to the underworld."
Men forced me to stay on the board, and the creature ordered my death.
" BURN HER!" the woman declared.
I was lifted into the air and I was almost thrown into the fire. I let out a loud scream, then I saw my husband jump over the flame and catch me. He pulled me over the side and untied my hands, handed me a gun, then we both stood side by side firing.
I found Ardeth and Lisa shooting with us and we migrated back to the upper floor as the creature summoned more guards to attack us.
" oh no! Not these guys again!"
We ran up several flights of stairs and left the building. I wanted us to try to get a few minutes ahead and ran back to pull a heavy table on the doors.
" Honey! These guys don't use doors." Rick warned me and pulled me away from the museum.
Elisabeth's PoV
We ran back to the car and saw both Jonathan and Alex were gone.
" where are they?" I asked.
Suddenly a large double decker bus rolled to us and I found Jonathan at the wheel.
" what's wrong with my car?" Rick asked cautiously. Evy and I ran inside the bus as they kept arguing.
" we were in need of transportation"
" A double decker bus?" he yelled.
Jonathan pointed to Alex " his idea!"
Alex's eyes were wide in shock. "was not!"
" we don't have time for this! Get in!" I yelled and Ardeth and Rick got in and watched as Mummies ran and crushed over Ricks new car.
" oh I HATE mummies!" he groaned. Ardeth pulled put his machine gun and asked.
" glad to see me now?"
" Just like old times huh?" Rick added, Climbed the stairs.
" keep Evy and Alex safe." I told him. He nodded and moved towards them.
I pulled down a window and took aim. I shot for the mummies in the back as Rick shot for the ones about to attack the bus. One mummy Rick missed and swung onto the bus. I screamed as he scratched my arm to snatch me off the bus, but Ardeth was by my side and shot away the mummy's legs.
" Thanks." I said and ran for the front of the bus. He was just reloading his gun when a leg less mummy attacked him. I ran for him, but the mummy attacked both Ardeth and I swinging side to side. Sharper nails grew from his hand and swiped at Ardeth. Evy shouted for Jonathan to turn and in seconds the bus threw all of us to the right of the bus. I ran for my gun that fell over, but when I made it to the front of the bus, I found Ricks shot gun. I pulled it in. I saw my warrior about to surrender in a scream of death, but I fired three shots into the mummy and the pieces flew out of the window at the end.
We made it to The middle of the bridge when Rick came down from the second level.
He noted to Ardeth who had several deep scratches on his chest. " you alright!"
He nodded and added " this...was my first bus ride."
I laughed and looked him over. I ripped my sleeve and pressed it to his chest. "keep pressure."
I forgot about the scratch on that arm, but his hand lifted it to see the damage. " I'm fine. It's nothing." I assured him.
He placed his other hand on my swollen cheek and I placed my hand over his.
" I am in ur debt, for saving my life." he noted.
I laughed once and brought his hand down " we're even, for debts past due...eight years to be exact."
He looked sad, and i saw the sorrow in his eyes. i decided to take his hand away and stood.
" I'm gonna check on Alex. Stay here, keep pressure." I told him and moved to the back. I walked off the step and checked out the bus. I let out a breath and looked back at Alex with a smile.
" just another day, right Alex?" I asked.
" don't we know it?" he said.
I had both hands on the metal bar handles, when strong hands grabbed me and something pressed to my mouth. I screamed, but it sounded like a muffled moan. The hands pulled me, trying to get more men on the bus.
" get the boy!" they whispered.
'no!Alex' I thought and fought to keep my strength, but something fuzzed my head, and I grew weak. I felt my eyes close, but the noise of a child's scream took me out of the funk. I thruster my head back and it crunched the head behind me. I was dropped on the floor and more hands gripped me and pulled me into a car. My eyes closed again, but this time the fog took me.
Ricks POV
" Dad!" I heard and moved quickly off the bus and saw Lisa being lifted off the ground and my son thrown in after her.
" Alex!" I yelled and rushed for the cars. The bridge was rising and I didn't make it. I couldn't save them.
"Alex!" I cried, watching as both my Son and my best friend were driving away.
When I got back, I found one of the men in red on the ground, trying to stop his bleeding nose. I lifted him and threw him against the bus. " where are they going?"
" where ever the bracelet shows them. There is nothing you can do about are gone. You couldn't save them." he laughed.
I was so angry I shoved him into the bus and watched him collapse to the ground.
I turned to see my wife with tears in her eyes. I collected her into my arms as we both shed tears. I rubbed her arms and kept whispering that we would get them back.
" please, do not fear for your son. They can not hurt him al song as he has the bracelet." Ardeth said.
" Alex is wearing the bracelet?" Evy asked in fright. I tried to explain that he saw pyramids and carnach.
" and when they get there, the bracelet will show the rest of the journey." Ardeth assured, but Evy thought of what could happen.
" if we don't make it to Carnach before they do we won't know where they'll go."
I thought about how to get to Carnach fast. " I think we need a magic carpet."
"What about Lisa? Imotep will still believe she is a Goddess." Jonathan remembered, and that reminded Rick and Ardeth.
"She will protect Alex. I don't think they will hurt her, if he is with them. They need him to tell them where they need to go." Ardeth suggested.
I nodded and agreed, bringing everyone back to the bus, cause we only had hours before we could get to Izzy.
Sorry for the long delay! I was procrastinating for the longest time, and I know I cut out the scene in the car, but It's just too much dialogue that wouldn't fit in with adding Elisabeth. Please comment and let me know what you think! Review and more chapters come! Thank you to all who favorites, alerted, and placed me in ur favorite Authors! Without you, I wouldn't be updating or writing!- Lisa b green