Hashim and Whemple knocked at the door. There was a long time Whemple wasn't serving Imhotep anymore. He was nervous when he saw him and double nervous when he saw Rick was there too.
– Does your father know you're in here? – Rick asked Hashim.
– No, but it's for a good reason – Hashim told him – We came to help.
– We've been reading about the Mirror of Ra – Whemple pressed his glasses – We believe it can work as a portal if we use it with the book of Amon Ra.
– And who are you? – Rick asked him
– My name's Colin Whemple, Sir. – He blushed
Rick looked into Whemple. Last time he saw him, he was helping Imhotep. He knew Whemple was interested in Angelica. He didn't like that one bit.
– So, You think you can send me back through a mirror – Imhotep stared at Hashim.
– No, I only want to get Helena back! – The young Medjai replied.
Imhotep hated Medjais. Every time he saw one of these warriors he remembered the darkness in his tomb which he was condemned to. He lifted his hand and Hashim started to choke.
– Let him go! – Rick pointed his gun to Imhotep.
– Please, I know Medjais are usually hateful but he's different. – Whemple told Imhotep.
– Shut up! – Rick and Imhotep shouted at Whemple.
– I love her… Nobody can… change that! – Hashim hardly spoke.
Imhotep was astonished by that boy's bravery.
– What a hell is wrong with you? They want to help, we need help! – Carlos shouted at him.
– You've been in a forbidden love once, remember? – Anck su namun told Imhotep in Ancient Egyptian. He let go of Hashim.
In the Duat, Angelica, Helena, and Evelyn were walking under a beam of silver moonlight. The air was fresher in there and they could breathe better.
– You need to open up – Helena whispered to Angelica.
– What?
– Your mother. Don't wait until a monster attacks to show you love her, you know.
– I do love her, but – Angelica hesitated – It seems unfair with my first parents.
– Know what's unfair? Losing your parents without letting they know how much you loved them – Helena remembered the accident which killed her adoptive parents. It still hurt. – You can't replace anyone but you can love them all.
– The moonlight is setting, soon it will be morning in here and Ra will come – Evelyn told them.
– And we will have to beat more demons… – Angelica sighed.
– It's my entire fault. I cursed you both. – Helena told them.
– No, it's mine. If I had fought more with the Medjais I'd have defeated that creature easily – Angelica told her.
The moon set. They were in darkness and with heavy hearts now. Evelyn turned to them.
– Before we fell your mother raised her hand to me – Evelyn told Helena – She really wanted to help but I hated her, because of things that happened 3,000 years ago. And that's why we're here. Now, would you mind to stop playing this pointless blame-game, please?
Angelica and Helena nodded at her.
– Wait. 3,000 years ago? Do you know her from past lives too? That's creepy. - Angelica said.
Another tape was floating again. Rick rushed to it. Soon they were watching another old home-made video. In it, Angelica's and Helena's adoptive parents were chatting, happily. Helena and Angelica arrive in the living room. Angelica had a scraped knee and she was crying.
– She fell down. – Helena explained as she bit an apple.
– Were you climbing that huge apple tree again? – Helena's adoptive father asked.
– No! I mean... so, so…
The video was fast forwarded and stopped in a point where Carlos was opening a door.
– Who's there? – Carlos asked.
– Helena, Mom, Helena's mom and… me! – The little Angelica said. The girls were getting ready for a party.
– I think that if you get the road before the sunrise, you will arrive there early – Helena's adoptive mother said. The tape rewound by itself and she repeated the sentence.
– "Get the road before the sunrise, you will arrive there early" – What does that mean? – Carlos asked
– It means they will try to come back with Ra when he rises in the sky – Imhotep replied.
Rick stared at Imhotep and hoped he was talking the truth.
Whemple read an incantation from the book of Amon Ra and the mirror of Ra started to glow. The portal was ready.
– Ra is going to the sky. They need to come to Earth – Hashim said.
– Maybe someone can go to the Duat and lead the way to them – Whemple completed Hashim's thought.
– I'm going – Rick said.
– No, I've written a thousand spells for that place, I've been there once. I know it better than you do – Imhotep told him.
An argument started. Everyone wanted to go, But Anck su namun crossed the mirror first.
– Anck su namun! – Imhotep shouted.
Her reflection appeared in the mirror.
– I must go. I should have gone with them like Evelyn did. I should have saved you in the pyramid. I didn't and that haunts me every night. I won't let the same happen to Helena. I'm sorry – Anck su namun's reflection said and disappeared.
The sky on the Duat was blood red. The women felt cold. An earthquake started along howls and several disturbing laments. Suddenly a circle of light beamed at the distance, the only light in that darkness.
– It's him! It's Ra! – Evelyn shouted
They started to run but something stopped Helena. She looked down and for her horror, a decomposed corpse was holding her legs and pulling her underneath the ground.
– The cops got me because of you! – The corpse shouted and Helena recognized him. It was Lucky Jay, her dead ex-boyfriend. Helena screamed in fright.
– You bastard! Leave her alone! – Angelica cried as she and Evelyn tried to pull Helena back. Suddenly, Anck su namun arrived and stabbed Lucky Jay several times until he let go of her daughter and got back into the ground.
– Mother! – Helena rushed to Anck su namun
– Helena – Anck su namun hugged her – I came to take you back, follow me I guess I know the way.
– We need to achieve Ra – Evelyn told her.
– Ra is going to the sky, we need to go to Earth. It's near but not the same way. Please, believe me this time.
– We have no choice, mother – Angelica told Evelyn.
– Fine, let's go. – Evelyn said and they all rushed to Ra's direction, fighting and killing the most strange dark demons and creatures on the way to his boat.
When they finally approached Ra's boat, they all kneeled and Anck su namun shouted:
– Oh, dazzling sun! Have mercy on us and concede us passage to the living's world!
The boat stopped and a mysterious voice called them to come inside.
Back on Carlos' apartment, Everyone was frustrated. There was nothing they could do but wait for their beloved to come back. Rick looked at Imhotep who was in dismay. They were even now. Still, they didn't trust each other. But anyway, they both were too worried about their women and daughters to give a single care about each other.
–Carlos, honey… - Carlos heard a sweet voice calling him, it seemed like Sarah's voice and it was coming from the TV. He approached it to listen – You failed and now they are going to die – The voice said.
– No, no, no, please! – Carlos wept.
– Don't listen! Stay away! – Imhotep cried
– You will never see them again! – Something inhuman said.
They all heard loud roars of laughter, and then the TV exploded.
– What a hell was that? – Rick asked.
– You answered your own question – Imhotep told him.
Carlos was hopeless. He sat on the floor, opened a bottle and started to drink from it.
– No sharing? – Rick took the bottle off his hands.
– I caused this. They both should be safe at home!
– Bakir and Anput caused this – Hashim told him.
Carlos had a long breath.
–After Helena's parents died, she was hopeless… She started to date a little trash called Lucky Jay. A rich bastard who enjoyed doing drugs… One night, Angelica got home and told us Helena was going to run away with him. I and my wife went to look for her…
Carlos got up and pressed his eyes. A headache was coming.
– What happened? – Imhotep asked him
– They had a terrible fight… God knows what he could have done if we haven't arrived there… We took Helena home. Lucky Jay was arrested after I punched his lights out.
– So you saved her life. That was good. – Rick told him.
– In that same night, Sarah and I agreed we were going to adopt Helena. – Carlos held his head – Gosh I promised my wife on her deathbed I was going to finish that… And what did I do? I gave up. I surrender to drinking and became this nothing. I even drove my daughter away from me, because she wasn't my blood… Hell! – Carlos smashed a table as he shouted – I should have taken care of them! I should be burning in Duat instead!
– Hey, hey stop it! – Rick held his fist – You're fixing everything now!
– You took care of them when we couldn't. – Imhotep told him.
– You know I learned one thing about being a father... It's never easy! – Rick said the only thing he was ever sure.
– I hate to interrupt but… We have a few hours left until sunrise – Whemple told them – What are we going to do?
– I have one idea – Carlos opened a drawer – Let me just take a painkiller first.
Someone knocked at the door.
– Who could it be? It's passed midnight! – Carlos said.
– I get it – Rick came to the door and opened. He was surprised by who he saw.
– Jonathan! What are you doing here?
A/N: Hey guys! I'm sorry by the late. It has been hard to organize my ideas in this story. I'd like to describe more things but I don't want to write very exhaustive chapters… Well, I'd love to hear what you think! See you soon!