A/N: I don't The Mummy. Also, this is my second Mummy story. Exception the gods, whose history I may have skewed a bit to fit the story, unless the name was in the movie, I have made up the Egyptian names.

1933, Thebes, Egypt

Two women, neither older than thirty-three, stood in a tomb; one of them was brushing thousands of years worth of dust off of a wall of hieroglyphics, the other guarding the door with a weapon in hand. As the first woman continued to brush away dust, a hissing sound reached the women's ears.

"Go away!", Evelyn O'Connell said to the snake as she kicked it towards the doorway, causing both Hazel and Rick to duck.

"Those are poisonous, you know!", the siblings chorused.

"Only if they bite you.", Evy replied cheekily.

The brother-sister duo rolled their eyes, but smiled all the same.

"What was all that about, anyway?", Evy continued.

"Aw, nothing. Alex just wanted to show me something.", Rick said as he carried a heavy box over to his wife.

"Was it the symbol of the Medjai on the wall by the entrance?", Hazel asked sarcastically.

"Hole-in-one, Sis. Any idea what it is?", Rick replied.

"No, not really. I only caught a brief glimpse of it. Should I go back to the front and have another look?", the Medjai "queen" asked.

"I wouldn't, if I were you.", Evy spoke up.

"Why not?", Rick asked.

"Because, I overheard the children talking the other night, and Alex seems to think that we're hiding something from him. Amira doesn't understand why you can't let her see her father, and Hala feels like there is something she should remember, but can't. If any of us go in the temple now, before we're ready to leave, they'll only think we're trying to keep them in the dark even more.", she answered, and Hazel's eyes met the floor.

"It's not that I don't want Amira to know the truth, or Hala either. I'm afraid of- why am I telling you this? You already know why I've kept the truth from them!", she exclaimed, and Rick laughed.

"Now, where were we?", Rick asked.

"Hammer and chisel.", Evy said, handing the small tools over to Rick.

"Evy!", Hazel said as she rolled her eyes.

"Oh, all right! We can do this your way, Rick!", and Rick took the crowbar from his wife's hands while his sister chuckled behind him.

The wall (possibly once a door) fell down, and the three walked over it, Evy lightly tip-towing over the scorpions in the next chamber. Rick simply stepped on the scorpions, not caring that they were there. Hazel, meanwhile, was standing behind them on the fallen slab of wall, reading the hieroglyphic inscription.

Two women were fighting, both masked. She only read the first few lines before Rick called her name, but she knew then what the tomb was hiding and why it had been calling to Evy.

Upon entering the room her brother and sister-in-law were in, Hazel saw the golden emblem Evy was transfixed with.

"Isn't that...", she trailed off.

"The emblem of the Scorpion King? Yes, it is.", Evy replied.

"And this is remarkable because..", now it was Rick's turn to trail off.

"Well, he's supposed to be pure myth.", Hazel started.

"And no trace of him has ever been found before, no artifacts, no archival evidence.", Evy finished.

"Maybe they didn't want anybody to find him?", Rick offered, and both women suppressed shudders at the memory of the last time someone was found who was meant to stay hidden.

"Let's open this.", Evy said as she inspected the chest before her.

"I don't know. I have a bad feeling about this.", Rick said, taking his turn to suppress a shudder.

"It's only a chest. No harm ever came from opening a chest.", Evy defended.

"Ha ha, yeah, and no harm ever came from reading a book, and you remember how that one went.", Rick told her, and Hazel had to agree.

"The man has a point, Evy."

Meanwhile, in the temple of the tomb:

While two of the three goons who had entered the tomb searched through the treasures on the ground, three children were lying on their backs on a high wooden platform. Every so often, one of them would take a shot at the most skittish goon's backside. So far, Hala Bay and Amira Bay had both hit their targets and kept quiet. Then it was Alex O'Connell's turn.

The eight year old turned over, aimed, and fired. The goon, Spivey, jumped and howled, making Alex laugh. That resulted in Alex, Hala, and Amira each slapping a hand over Alex's mouth.

"We're dead!", Hala mouthed to her cousin.

After a few minutes of silence, Amira rolled over and took aim, for it was her turn again. With deadly precision and lightning fast reflexes, she let the rock fly. The other goon, Jacques, caught it and smiled at the trio evilly. Then, the whole tomb seemed to shake violently. Jacques was climbing the ladder when Red, the third goon, came running into the temple yelling that it was time to go. Jacques knocked a piece of wood out of place, making the tower wobbled, before running off.

Soon, the trio went toppling into the column nearest to them, setting off a domino effect. A few columns in, they slid off of the column they had been clinging to, and Alex rushed over to the wall to keep the symbol that matched his father's tattoo from getting smashed. Fortunately for the three adults, he was too weak, and it crashed into the wall. Rick, Evy, and Hazel came into the room in a rush of water that had been set off when Evy opened the chest and removed the golden bracelet that had been inside.

Looking at his parents and aunt, Alex spoke up.

"Mum, Dad, Aunt Hazel, I can explain everything!"

A few hundred miles away, at Hamunaptra, an excavation was going on. As a pit of scarab beetles was set fire to, and a body encased in a crystallized jelly-like substance was pulled from the sands, a man masquerading as a digger listened in on the conversation between the people in charge of the excavation.

"No, I have a different chore for you. Where is the bracelet now?", the oldest man in the group asked.

"Well, considering the O'Connells and those Medjai girls all managed to escape with their lives, it's on its way to jolly ol' London.", Red told him.

"Then it is to London we shall go.", and with that, Ardeth knew London was where he would be going as well.

A/N: Hope you liked it, and I will understand if you found anyone a little OOC. Don't you worry your pretty little heads off, Darlings; Ardeth and Hazel (as well as Ardeth and the girls) will be reunited soon, so keep and eye out for it! R&R!