The Mummy
Princess of Egypt
Written by Bookdud3 (Andrew Downs) and Zigwolf (Thomas Lapeyrouse III)
Deep in the Sahara Desert during the Ancient days of Egypt, a bright full moon shined upon a hidden immaculate temple, where a woman's screams echoed out. Amunet, princess of Egypt, bound within a sarcophagus, was being mummified alive by treacherous priests, while the Vizier clutched the Scroll of Thoth (a powerful god-made relic that can resurrect the dead). The priests removed four vital organs from Amunet (each holding a fragment of her soul fragments; her Sheut/ Shadow, Ba/ Soul, Ib/ Heart, and Ren/ Secret Name) and placed them inside canopic jars (which glowed with magical light). Before they could remove her Ka/ Spirit (and thus her last soul fragment), Amunet's eyes flashed with golden energy, the temple shook like an earthquake, and the ceiling began to collapse with chunks of falling debris, killing the traitors. During the chaos, the Scroll magically flew out of the Vizier's hands and into the sarcophagus as the lid fell and sealed it, trapping Amunet. Only four priests managed to escape the collapsing temple, each carrying one of the four canopic jars (which dimmed as they got further from the temple). As they fled and the temple was buried under the desert sands, Amunet's screams roared out into the night.
In 1937, a team of Egyptologists, including linguist Dr. Henry Carter, cartographer Helena Atiz, ex-British soldier Nico Conahan, and Helena's goddaughter Gracie Rashida, searched for the hidden temple. Even though the team had one of the canopic jars from the prologue and a map created by Helena's father, they'd been unable to find the entrance, and time was running out for their excavation. Unfortunately, Preston B. Carnarvon, the excavation's financier, arrived ahead of schedule and informed the explorers that he was ending his funding of their excavation. Though Carter and Helena urged him to give them more time, Preston informed them that they were to shut down the excavation and return to Cairo in the morning.
As the others reluctantly prepared to leave, Gracie (not wanting to be separated from the others and return to her strict all-girls academy in Britain) stole the map and canopic jar when no one was looking and searched the excavation site on her own. After some time of finding nothing, Gracie threw away the map and jar, deeming them useless. However, in the light of the crescent moon, the jar began glowing towards the outskirts of the dig site. Curious, Gracie picked it up, followed, and dug where it shined at its brightest; however, after a few feet, the jar began to shake, and the sand shifted, forming a large hole that she fell into. The sound of the collapsing hole alerted the other explorers, who rushed to see what had happened. After Gracie recovered, she saw that the hole had opened a tunnel leading to the temple entrance. As the other explorers arrived, Gracie excitedly told them she'd found the entrance.
Seeing the door was sealed, Nico brought out a bag of dynamite; however, Carter told him it'd be too dangerous and could collapse the entrance. Instead, he ordered the workers to unblock the entrance, with Nico setting aside the dynamite. Once the entrance was cleared, Carter led the other explorers and several workers into the temple while everyone else, including Preston, stayed outside to handle the artifacts they'd bring out. As they explored the temple, led by the magical glow of the canopic jar, they saw several ancient corpses littering every room they passed. Reaching the main antechamber, they found the room filled with priceless ancient artifacts and a dozen corpses crushed under ceiling rubble, all centered around one large sarcophagus. As the workers removed the rubble, Carter and Helena led the cataloging and extraction of the artifacts out of the temple. Gracie, being given little to do, grabbed a torch to explore more of the temple on her own. Though Nico stopped her and warned her not to leave the group as per Carter's instructions, he let her go after she convinced him that she wouldn't venture far.
As Gracie went on her own, Carter (who set down the canopic jar), Helena, and a few workers opened the sarcophagus. Inside they saw the shriveled and mummified body of Amunet with the Scroll on her chest (an Ankh had been burned onto her chest by the Scroll, and she had no shadow). Carter took the Scroll and read it aloud as he and Helena walked away from the sarcophagus, thinking it might've been a log record and might give them a clue as to what had happened. No one noticed as Amunet crawled out, took the canopic jar, slipped into the shadows out of sight from the explorers, and headed towards the hallway Gracie took. Meanwhile, as she was drawing hieroglyphics and wall paintings into her notebook, Gracie reached a dead end. Turning around to return to the others, she saw down the hall Amunet illuminated by Gracie's torchlight. The mummy was hunched over, breaking the canopic jar, swallowing the organs inside, and regaining her Sheut/ Shadow, which restored her partially to life and reformed her shadow. Gracie, terrified, dropped her torch, which alerted Amunet. As Amunet approached her, slowly and cautiously, Gracie fainted and fell to the ground before Amunet could reach her.
In the main antechamber, Carter, confused, finished reading the Scroll and told Helena that it wasn't a log record but a spell scroll. Suddenly, everyone stopped as they heard the dead bodies moan and move. Outside, the crescent moon turned into a full blood moon, and dark storm clouds surged with blood-red lightning. Over the horizon, a massive swarm of undead locusts spilled out over the dunes heading for the campsite and temple, where they started attacking everyone outside, who fled into the temple. Back inside, the previously dead bodies began to rise and attack the explorers and workers. As several workers were killed, Carter and Helena managed to escape while Nico shot his way through the undead; however, Carter and Helena were separated from Nico and took different tunnels. Meanwhile, several undead rushed at Amunet, who killed them while protecting Gracie. Hearing more undead approaching, Amunet grabbed Gracie and covered her in her mummy wrappings on her back before crawling along the walls and ceiling towards the exit.
As Nico and several workers fled the undead, many were picked off one by one. As he ran, Nico ran into Preston, who demanded to know what was going on before a hand shot out of the darkness and grabbed Preston. Nico tried to save him, but Preston's terrified face triggered Nico's WWI PTSD, and Preston was dragged away, screaming into the darkness. Just as Nico was about to be killed by more undead, Carter and Helena arrived and saved their friend. As Carter, Helena, and Nico ran, Helena asked Nico where Gracie was. When Nico told her that he'd let Gracie go off exploring on her own, Helena angrily yelled at Nico, asking him how he could just let Gracie wander off like that. Carter pulled her off him, telling her that arguing wouldn't save Gracie or help them escape.
Reaching another large chamber, the explorers stopped as Amunet suddenly dropped in front of them from the ceiling. Startled, Carter and Nico shot at Amunet, who attacked back. However, Helena ran between them to stop the fight and pointed out that Amunet had Gracie wrapped up on her back. Before the explorers could make sense of what was going on, more undead poured in from the halls. As Amunet and the explorers fought against the undead swarms, the Scroll was knocked away from Carter. Seeing the Scroll, Amunet pushed her way through the undead, grabbed it, and ran off down a hallway. Helena chased after Amunet for Gracie, but as more undead poured in and separated the princess from them, Carter grabbed her hand and led her and Nico down another hallway toward the temple exit.
Along the way, the explorers found Preston, wounded and unconscious, lying on the ground and Nico lifted him onto his back. When they reached the entrance, Carter saw Nico's bag of dynamite and lit it, exploding the chasing undead and sealing the temple entrance behind them. Elsewhere, Amunet ran down a corridor as several undead chased her and Gracie, coming to a dead end. Seeing light shine through a crack in the wall, Amunet drilled into the hole with her wrappings to open it up before pushing Gracie through and crawling after. Just as Amunet exited the hole, the dynamite's explosive shockwave caused the hole to collapse behind her.
Safe outside, Carter and Nico took a breather before they heard shouting. The two turned back to the hole that led to the temple and saw Helena as she called out for Gracie and looked for a way back inside. Quickly Carter rushed to stop her and sadly told her that Gracie was trapped inside and probably dead. Helena screamed out in desperation before turning to Carter and attacking him, saying it was his fault for reading the Scroll. After getting her anger out, Helena calmed down and fell into Carter's arms, tired, exhausted, and in mourning for her goddaughter. After she was done, Helena, Carter, and Nico, with Preston on his back, returned to the tents, grabbed whatever supplies they could find, and drove away headed back to Cairo.
Elsewhere, Gracie woke to find Amunet hunched over her. Gracie screamed at her and ran away from Amunet, who scurried away and hid behind a boulder. Gracie stopped and watched Amunet for a moment before she cautiously approached her, holding out her hand to show she meant no harm. After Amunet accepted her hand, Gracie asked her who she was. As Amunet struggled to remember, her eyes glowed with golden energy. Amunet screamed, grabbed the sides of her head, and fell over in pain as the memories returned to her. One was of herself, younger, and her father looked out over Ancient Egypt as he told her that it'd be her responsibility to protect her home and people when she became queen. Then she saw her father on the throne being attended to by the priests as he looked ill. Another memory flashed with Amunet crying over her father's deathbed. Lastly, the Vizier entered her chambers telling her it was time for her coronation as queen, with Amunet holding back tears.
As the pain from the memories faded, Amunet slumped against the boulder. Gracie rushed to her side, asking if she was alright and what had happened. Amunet pointed to herself and struggled in ancient Egyptian to say her name. Gracie (being fluent in ancient Egyptian from her lessons with Carter) understood Amunet and introduced herself. Amunet (her words becoming clearer as she spoke) asked how long she'd been gone. When Gracie told her she'd been gone for centuries, Amunet, shocked and devastated, fell to her knees, screaming in despair as sand violently swirled around her. Once Amunet calmed down, Gracie approached and asked who she was. Amunet started to say that she was the Queen of Egypt, stopped herself, and then instead said that she was the Princess of Egypt. Amunet then asked if her kingdom still stood, to which Gracie told her yes and that she was from Egypt herself. Amunet asked for Gracie to help her return home and, after returning to the campsite and seeing that the others had left for Cairo, Gracie agreed.
As Amunet and Gracie traveled across the desert headed for Cairo, they passed the Great Pyramids, where Amunet mentioned she'd seen their construction via magic. Amunet explained to Gracie that in ancient times those of the Pharaoh's bloodline could harness powers from the gods and use magic. When Gracie explained that magic was lost to time, Amunet became saddened as she too was something forgotten by time. To cheer Amunet up, Gracie listed off all the wonders she'd see when they reached Giza, such as cars and electricity. As they left the pyramids, a camel rider passed them, saw Amunet's dead appearance, and rode off in fear, leaving one of his camels behind which Amunet and Gracie rode the rest of the way to Giza.
Reaching Giza, Amunet and Gracie left the camel behind at a water trough and stole clothes from a nearby house to disguise Amunet and avoid scaring off others by her undead appearance; though, Gracie did leave behind some money. After Amunet finished changing, Gracie blushed when she saw how human-looking and beautiful Amunet was in her disguise, before stammering that they should move on.
Though Amunet was initially astounded by the modern world as they walked through Giza, her heart sank as she saw what'd changed. Ancient landmarks she'd visited just days before were gone or in ruin, the people she'd grown up with were replaced by strangers, and British Soldiers patrolled everywhere. Amunet had a panic attack with all this change, and her magic acted out randomly; pots and windows exploded, winds rushed from out of nowhere, and dogs and cats barked and hissed. Gracie calmed down Amunet with a song (that Gracie's mother used to sing to her) and took her to a baklava vendor. The sweet treat from her childhood reminded Amunet of home and was the best thing she'd eaten in centuries. As Amunet ate the treat, Gracie explained that though most things from her time were gone, not everything was. With Amunet cheered up, they headed off to cross the Nile to reach Cairo.
Meanwhile, Carter, Helena, and Nico returned to their manor in Cairo, setting up a still unconscious Preston in a spare room. As they unpacked, Helena saw photos from another dig: one was of herself, Carter, Nico, and Gracie's parents, the other was of Gracie's parents and a baby Gracie. Seeing the photos caused her to tear up and apologize for not keeping Gracie safe. Carter searched in his room through piles of research papers and books, trying to find out what had happened in the temple. As Carter angrily threw his research about in anger, Helena entered and comforted him, telling him it wasn't his fault for what'd happened. As the two talked, Nico unpacked and saw all the medals he'd won during his military career and a photo of his platoon, before having a quick flashback of the night he accidentally got his men killed.
Later Carter and Helena were summoned to meet with the Board Members of the Exploration Community at the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. As they left, no one saw Preston left the manor. Arriving at the museum, they met up with Mr. Balderston, the museum curator, who gave his condolences for Gracie's death. During the meeting, the Board reprimanded Carter and Helena, as they'd warned them that searching for the temple would ruin their careers as it'd done to Helena's father, who'd died in the desert searching for it. Helena aggressively defended her father as he was correct in his research of the temple and that they'd found it but was held back by Carter. However, even with Mr. Balderston vouching for them, the Board saw that the number of men killed and the damage and loss of expensive equipment was too much. The Board stripped Carter and Helena of their titles as Egyptologists and banned them from the Exploration Community.
Meanwhile, as Amunet and Gracie made their way through Giza, they spotted British Soldiers harassing Egyptian civilians. Furious, Amunet stepped in front of the soldiers and demanded they leave; however, as Amunet can only speak and understand ancient Egyptian, the soldiers ordered her to stand down, or they'd arrest her. Gracie rushed between them and tried to tell the officers that they'd leave but was pushed aside. Seeing Gracie pushed, Amunet, enraged, clenched her fists and golden sand-like energy swirled around the soldiers, whose weapons flew out of their hands before they sank calf-deep into the ground. Sgt. Lyle, the lead soldier, blew into his whistle, calling for reinforcements. Gracie grabbed Amunet's hand, and the two fled as more soldiers chased after them.
Amunet and Gracie ran down an alleyway, losing the pursuing soldiers. Amunet, furious, questioned how despicable men like those could run her kingdom and planned to drive all the British out of her home once she reclaimed her throne. However, Gracie pointed out that she was herself British-Egyptian and that not all British were evil, and if Amunet forced Egypt to return to its ancient ways, she'd be no more than a dictator to her own people. Before Amunet could apologize to Gracie for her outburst, her eyes glowed, and she sensed one of her canopic jars nearby. Quickly she left in search of it, leaving Gracie, confused, to follow after.
The two arrived at a construction site where the entrance to an ancient ruin resided. Though a construction worker told them to leave, Amunet used her magic to hypnotize him (causing his eyes to cloud over) to leave them alone to search through the ruins. When Gracie asked what was going on, Amunet explained that whoever betrayed her had cut out four of her five souls and placed them into canopic jars that'd been scattered across Egypt. For centuries she'd only been kept alive by one of her souls, her Ka (source of magic and life-force), and had been in agonizing pain with the others torn from her. When she was reunited with the soul inside the jar the explorers had - her Sheut (shadow and memories) - that pain had subsided a bit as she was partially restored to life. To fully alleviate her pain and return to being human, Amunet would need to reclaim her Ba (the core of the five souls), Ib (her heart and mind), and Ren (secret name and control over oneself).
Reaching the entrance, Amunet apologized to Gracie for what she'd said earlier about all British being evil. She appreciated all that Gracie had done for her and told her that she wouldn't judge her if she wanted to leave. With a sigh, Gracie told Amunet that they wouldn't find her souls by just standing around and that she couldn't leave Amunet as she promised to help her return home. Amunet chuckled, and the two entered the ruin, lit by Amunet conjuring four torch-sized glowing orbs of lights that hovered in the air around them.
After exploring the ruin, which caused Amunet distress (being trapped in the sarcophagus for centuries has made Amunet afraid of being in the dark and in tight spaces), they eventually found the canopic jar resting in the hands of a dead priest by an eldritch altar. Before Amunet could grab the jar, she and Gracie heard guns being cocked behind them and turned to see that the soldiers from earlier had followed and were aiming at them. Amunet held out a hand to protect Gracie, who pleaded with the soldiers to leave. However, they saw that all the soldiers' eyes were clouded over (as if they'd been hypnotized). The soldiers spoke in unison in ancient Egyptian, ordering Amunet to give them the Scroll or they'd kill her and Gracie. Not willing to give whoever was controlling these men the Scroll, Amunet whispered for Gracie to hide before her eyes glowed with golden energy, and she lunged at the soldiers who opened fire.
As Amunet fought, though, she became overpowered as more bullets riddled her body. Before the soldiers could kill her, Gracie rushed for the jar and tossed it to Amunet, who broke it and absorbed her organ/soul. As the soldiers opened fire on Amunet, sand sealed up her wounds, her body became livelier, and her eyes opened glowing with red energy. The shadows around the soldiers came to life and attacked them, throwing them about like ragdolls or dragging them into the darkness as they screamed. Rising to her feet, Amunet's wrappings circled around the closest soldiers' necks and started to choke them. However, Gracie screamed and begged Amunet to return to her senses and not kill them.
Hearing Gracie, Amunet snapped back to her senses, loosened her hold on the soldiers, and touched the soldiers' foreheads with her wrappings dispelling the hypnotic hold over them. During this, Amunet saw a glimpse of the past; Preston had met with the soldiers while they were searching for Amunet and Gracie and hypnotized them to kill Amunet and bring him the Scroll. As the vision ended, Amunet saw that Preston was actually an illusion being cast by the Vizier. Coming out of her trance, Amunet released the soldiers, who fled at the sight of Amunet. Seeing Amunet's hands shaking in fear before she fell to her knees exhausted, Gracie helped her up and out of the ruin, taking her to a hotel by the Nile.
Hours later, as Gracie slept sprawled out on the hotel room's single bed, Amunet looked out at Cairo on the other side of the Nile, smiling fondly as she looked out on her kingdom. Suddenly another flashback/memory hit her, this time of her on the throne passing judgment over a prisoner's execution. Though she tried to object, the Vizier urged her to follow tradition, or she'd show weakness. After the prisoner's execution, Amunet cried at the feet of her father's statue, wishing he was there to give her guidance. As the flashback/memory faded, Amunet pulled out the Scroll, wondering what it was and why the Vizier (a dear friend and advisor to her) was sending men to kill her for it. Seeing Gracie having a nightmare, Amunet put the Scroll away and climbed up next to her to calm her down.
Meanwhile, in Cairo, Preston/ the Vizier returned to the explorers' manor with Sgt. Lyle and told them that he'd seen Amunet attacking soldiers in Giza. Preston/ the Vizier urged the explorers to help the soldiers hunt her down and destroy her before she could kill anyone else. The explorers agreed, wanting to avenge Gracie's death. They planned to take down Amunet with elephant-grade tranquilizers before they'd restrain her inside a large steel crate.
The next day as Amunet and Gracie tried to cross the Nile into Cairo, they saw a checkpoint on the bridge with wanted posters of Amunet. Unable to cross the bridge and with more soldiers coming the way they'd come, Amunet led Gracie towards the Nile shore out of sight of the soldiers, where she cast a spell and formed an air tunnel for them to travel under the Nile. As they walked, Amunet told Gracie how she and her father would do this all the time to get away from their duties and watch the sunset under the Nile. Exiting the Nile, they made their way to the explorers' manor but found it empty. Thinking the only other place the other explorers would be at was the museum, Gracie and Amunet quickly headed there. When they arrived, a soldier radioed to the explorers and soldiers, informing them of where Amunet was.
At the museum, Gracie met Mr. Balderston, who told her that Carter and Helena had visited the day before. With relief that she now knew her friends were alive and ok, Gracie went to use the phone to call them to pick her up, leaving Amunet to look at the Egyptian exhibits. Unfortunately, as Amunet walked through the exhibits, she saw all the travesties her kingdom had committed (slavery, war, etc.) and how various countries had conquered Egypt throughout the centuries. Amunet's shock and anger caused her powers to flare out, breaking various exhibits, as she ran off in search of Gracie.
After Gracie left her message, she saw Amunet running to her, panicking and angry, who told her everything she'd found out. Though Gracie tried to calm her down, Amunet (with fists clenched, her shadow growing larger, and the lights in the room flickering) swore that she'd reclaim her throne and return Egypt to its former glory, no matter who stood in her way. Gracie, in shock, begged her to reconsider and not become the monster she saw in the ruins or that everyone saw her as, slamming down one of the wanted posters. Amunet told her that if she was going to stand in her way, then she should just leave. As Gracie, in tears, stormed out of the room, Amunet stared down at the wanted poster, depicting her as an evil monster. Cursing in ancient Egyptian, Amunet went after Gracie to apologize but stopped when she sensed one of her canopic jars nearby.
When Amunet found the canopic jar, she broke the exhibit containing it and absorbed her organ/soul. Amunet doubled over in pain as another flashback/memory hit her, this time of her wishing she could see her father again before the Vizier entered and told her of the Scroll of Thoth. After finding the temple, Amunet found the Scroll but was betrayed by the Vizier, who ordered several Egyptian guards and priests to restrain Amunet and mummify her.
While Amunet was in her flashback/memory trance, a few museum guards tried to help as she was in pain; however, her magic lashed out against them, throwing them away and causing a massive blackout. The explorers and soldiers arrived outside and pushed through the screaming civilians that fled the museum. As Helena and Preston/ the Vizier stayed outside, Mr. Balderston ran into Helena and told her that Gracie was alive and inside, causing her to search through the crowd for Gracie. Once Amunet's flashback/memory trance ended, she saw the destruction she'd caused and heard the approaching explorers and soldiers. Filled with anger, Amunet's eyes glowed with dark red energy as she slipped into the shadows.
As the explorers and soldiers searched for Amunet, she stayed in the shadows on the ceiling, stalking them and taking them out one by one with her wrappings until Carter spotted her. The explorers and soldiers opened fire on Amunet, who battled her way through them, becoming more undead and monstrous as she fought. Eventually, Carter attacked her, but she grabbed him by the throat and roared at him before a grenade threw them both out the window onto the street below.
Outside, the soldiers opened fire on Amunet, even though stray shots injured a few civilians. Amunet rushed to her feet and formed a protective shield with her wrappings to protect the civilians. Telling the civilians to run, Amunet saw that the civilians weren't afraid of the soldiers but were terrified of her. It was then that Amunet saw her monstrous reflection in one of the damaged cars. As Amunet was distracted, a tranquilizer hit her, causing her to pass out. As the soldiers sealed Amunet inside the steel crate and dragged her back inside the museum, Preston/ the Vizier found the Scroll, which had been dropped during the grenade explosion.
As the soldiers dragged Amunet inside the museum to deal with her, a few were posted outside to prevent anyone from entering, forcing Gracie to sneak past them to enter the museum to save Amunet. Inside, the Vizier dropped his illusionary disguise and hypnotized the explorers and soldiers into serving him. Unfurling the Scroll the Vizier read it aloud which restored his life force and youth. As the hypnotized explorers and soldiers restrained Amunet, the Vizier revealed to her that he'd found her last canopic jar. The Vizier explained that he would use her soul fragment, the power of the Scroll, and the pyramids to resurrect an undead army to take over Egypt, returning it to its warlike ways before Amunet's father had brought peace to the land. He needed Amunet to find the Scroll as it was only obtainable by those of the Pharoah's Bloodline, then he would've killed her as he'd done with her father.
As he had all he needed, the Vizier prepared to kill Amunet; however, Gracie caused an explosion, breaking the hypnotic hold over the explorers who released Amunet. The Vizier fled with the hypnotized soldiers and headed for the pyramids, using magic to bring down the museum on top of Amunet and the explorers. Before the crumbling museum killed them, Amunet used her magic to hold the falling debris at bay. However, the combination of her exhaustion from the previous fight and the tranquilizers, her claustrophobia, and her feeling like she'd failed her father and was nothing more than a monster made it difficult for her.
As Carter, Helena and Nico tried to keep the debris from crushing them, Gracie rushed to Amunet. She let Amunet know that even though she felt like a monster who'd failed her father and people, she still believed in her. To Gracie, Amunet had never stopped being Egypt's protector, and if she gave up on everyone she swore to defend, the Vizier would bring death and destruction upon them. Gracie's conviction in Amunet gave her the last bit of confidence she needed to blast away all the museum debris. As Amunet healed, Gracie officially introduced her to the other explorers, and the heroes raced off to catch up to the Vizier and stop him before he could unleash an army of the dead.
Amunet and the explorers raced off in a car after the Vizier, as he and the hypnotized soldiers sped off in another car for the pyramids. Seeing that they'd survived and were gaining on him, the Vizier cast the Scroll's spell, causing the full moon to turn blood red and dark storm clouds to fill the sky. As the heroes chased after the Vizier, bolts of blood-red lightning struck throughout the city, resurrecting countless undead that attacked civilians and chased after the heroes. Amunet tried to get closer to the Vizier's vehicle to grab the Scroll, but undead knocked her out of the car. As the explorers sped off, Amunet told them to meet her at the Nile before using her wrappings to swing from building to building to keep up with them. As she did, she saved civilians in danger from the undead and used her magic and wrappings to kill any undead on her way.
As the explorers headed for the bridge, they fought off waves of undead that piled onto the car. As the Vizier crossed the Nile bridge, he destroyed it with magic. As the explorers slowed down as the bridge was destroyed, Amunet told them to keep going, and Gracie slammed on the gas. Just as they reached the bridge, the other explorers freaked out as they were about to crash, but Amunet landed on the car and used her magic to split the Nile, allowing them safe passage across. Though slowed down, they made it across and eventually out of Giza, driving through the desert after the Vizier. Unfortunately, a bolt of lightning hit their car, causing Amunet and the explorers to bail before it exploded. Amunet and the explorers hurried for the pyramids as the swarm of undead rushed behind them.
Atop the middle pyramid, the Vizier used the magic of Amunet's canopic jar to destroy the tip, creating a flat area and an altar from the debris. The Vizier placed the Scroll on the altar, and the pyramids glowed with strange eldritch runes. The moon appeared as if it were an eclipse, and more bolts of lightning rained down around Amunet and the explorers as they ran, with the undead swarm increasing in number and gaining on them. When they finally reached the base of the pyramid, they quickly ducked for cover as the hypnotized soldiers opened fire on them. Carter managed to talk them out of shooting long enough for Amunet to dispel their hypnosis. Though there was some tension between the soldiers and Amunet, they agreed to help when they saw the approaching undead swarm.
As the soldiers and explorers fought off the undead swarm, Amunet climbed the pyramid to face the Vizier, while Helena had Gracie hide for her own safety. Though the hail of gunfire killed many undead, some made it through and killed several soldiers. When Amunet reached the top, the Vizier told her she was too late and that only by destroying the Scroll could his spell be stopped, to which Amunet accepted, and the two fought. The swarm became too much below, and the explorers and soldiers climbed the pyramid for higher ground. To give them time, Nico set off explosives to take out as many undead as he could, though he died in the process. As they fled, Helena tried to have Gracie follow her to safety but found that Gracie was gone. As Amunet and the Vizier traded magical blows, Gracie snuck her way for Amunet's canopic jar.
The Vizier defeated Amunet, but before he could kill her, the explorers and soldiers arrived and shot at him. With the Vizier distracted fighting them, Gracie grabbed the canopic jar and threw it to Amunet. Enraged, the Vizier blasted Amunet off the pyramid and stabbed Gracie. As Amunet plummeted, she crushed the jar and absorbed her last organ/soul fragment. Just before she fell into the climbing swarm of undead, Amunet's eyes opened, glowing with golden energy. As the Vizier readied to kill the explorers, a powerful sunbeam from Amunet hit him, who had flown back to the top. In a last-ditch effort, the Vizier channeled the Scroll's power and sent a powerful blast at Amunet, who fired back another sunbeam, overpowering him. Though at the cost of ever seeing her father again, Amunet destroyed the Scroll, destroying all it'd resurrected (the Vizier and legions of undead).
With the threat defeated, Amunet rushed to Gracie's dying side, who Helena was cradling in her arms. As Amunet cried for her friend's death, the Ankh on her chest glowed, and glowing hieroglyphics traveled across Amunet's arms to Gracie. The residual magic from the Scroll inside Amunet healed Gracie's wound in blinding light and brought her back to life. As she awoke, Gracie told Helena and Carter that her parents said hi.
With the world saved, Amunet, the explorers, and the surviving soldiers celebrated at a bar, where Carter confessed his love to Helena, and Amunet saw a vision of her father. The two had a tearful goodbye, and the Pharoah said he was proud of her. As Amunet left the bar, she stopped when she heard Gracie's voice. Gracie asked what Amunet would do now. Amunet told her that she didn't know, but she'd be there when her people needed her. Gracie kissed Amunet, making her promise that the two of them would one day meet again. Gracie watched as Amunet walked off into the sunrise, having finally found her place in the world as Egypt's new guardian.
Post Credits Scene - Sometime later, on a dark cloudy night on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Amunet sat in a bar eating some baklava before quickly pulling her hood up as two British soldiers pass her by. From the radio, Amunet heard the news of WWII approaching. As she prepares to leave the bartender tells her to be careful as it looks like a storm is coming. Thanking him Amunet takes her baklava and leaves. Unknown to her though, a young girl dressed in black Victorian gothic clothes watches her from the other side of the bar and follows her as she leaves, a cruel grin on her face, revealing sharp fangs. With anticipation for what she has planned for Amunet in the future, the girl says, "Let the games begin."