Rick O’Connell walked around an underground room in a very old Egyptian temple with his wife, Evelyn. She studied the country’s temples and its old stories.
Rick and Evelyn met ten years earlier. They found the mummy of Imhotep in Hamunaptra, in the desert. After 3,000 years, Imhotep woke up and tried to kill Evelyn. He wanted to be the king of Egypt first, and then king of the world. But Rick fought with Imhotep and won. The mummy returned to his strange sleep below the ground of Hamunaptra, and Rick married Evelyn.
“Dad! Dad!” a small boy shouted, and ran into the big room.
“What is it, Alex? It’s dangerous down here,” Rick said to his eight-year-old son.
“But Dad, I saw your tattoo near the door up there!”
Alex looked at the tattoo on his dad’s hand. It showed a pyramid with the Eye of Horus * in the center. Rick didn’t know anything about his tattoo. It was there when he was a baby.
“It’s the same as the picture near the door! Come and see.”
“I’ll come in a minute. Now I have to help your mom, and you have to go back up the stairs.”
In a different room Evelyn O’Connell studied a strange picture on a large door. It showed two people in a fight-not men, but beautiful young women. Evelyn couldn’t see their faces, but she thought, “I know’ these women. Where are they from? Where did I see them before? Maybe the answers are behind this door.”
“Rick, come and hid me,” she shouted. “I want to open this heavy door.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Rick said with a smile. His wife used her head, but Rick liked to work with his hands. He quickly opened the old door with his knife, and Evelyn walked into a dark room. It was full of scorpions and mummies.
“I know this place,” said Evelyn.
“You know it from a book,” Rick said. “Somebody closed that door before you were born.”
“No, Rick .I remember it. I know everything about this room.”
*Horus: the old Egyptian god of the sun; he the head of a bird.
Evelyn moved into the next dark room, and suddenly it was 1290 BC. She sews one of the women from the picture on the door. The woman moved –she wasn’t dead! She put a box on a table and closed it. Then she looked into Evelyn’s eyes. Evelyn jumped, and suddenly it was 1933 again.
“Evy, what’s wrong? Did you see something?” asked Rick.
“No, nothing. I’m OK. But look-there’ a box on that table.”
Evelyn walked to the table and looked at the box.
“The scorpion King!” Evelyn cried. “His face is on the top of the box. Let’s open it.”
“Evy, is that a good idea? Wasn’t he a very bad man?”
“Yes, but that was in 4000BC. He’s dead. It’s not dangerous now. It’s only a box!”
Alex was in a big room above his parents. He felt tired because he was bored with his ball game. Then he heard something.
Three men walked into the temple, but they didn’t see the boy.
“Why are those O’ Connells around here?” the man, Spivey, asked.
Three men walked into the temple.
“Lock-Nah told us about them. They aren’t a problem. We have to get the box.” Red, the next man, said.
“But maybe they’ll find the box first. Then Lock-Nah won’t pay us.” The last man’s name was Jacques.
“We’ll kill them and take it.” It was Jacques.
Alex wasn’t bored now. How could he help his parents? He watched the three men. They went down the stairs.
Two mummies in soldiers’ clothes stood in the room with Rick and Evelyn. Rick didn’t like mummies. But these two weren’t dangerous-they were very dead.
“Rick, this is really exciting! I know the story of the Scorpion King. This is his box! Please, open it quickly!”
Rick didn’t like this idea, but he wanted to help his wife. He tried to open the box with his knife, but the top didn’t move. Evelyn closed her eyes, and she could see the room in 1290 BC again. Suddenly, she opened her eyes. She put her hand on the box and turned the scorpion king’s head to the east. The box opened easily.
“Look! It’s the gold Bracelet of Anubis, the god of the dead!”
Evelyn took the bracelet out of the box and showed it to Rick.
“Stop!” shouted Red. He and Jacques and Spivey walked into the room with guns in their hands. “Give the bracelet to me!”
But at that minute, the floor of the temple began to move. The walls started to fall on them. The three men with guns turned and ran up the stairs. Evelyn quickly put the beautiful gold bracelet back in the box and closed it.
“Put the box in your bag, Rick.”
“Let’s leave it here,” shouted Rick. “It’s dangerous!”
“No, it’s important!”
Rick put the box in his bag and ran up the stairs with his wife. Alex was at the top.
“Quick! Come this way,” shouted Alex.
Rick and Evelyn followed their son to the nearest door and outside into the sunlight. The temple fell down behind them.
“That bracelet is important,” Rick said. “It has strange powers!”
♦
Red, Jacques, and Spivey returned to Hamunaptra.
Lock-Nah’s men were busy that night. They looked for Imhotep under the ground in Hamunaptra. Lock- Nah was with the strange, beautiful Meela, and they had a dangerous plan. Meela had the Book of the Dead. Imhotep gave it to her in 1290 BC when her name was Anck- su-namun and Imhotep were lovers in that life. With this book, she wanted to give life back to the mummy of Imhotep. She wanted her lover back.
“We have to have the bracelet. It will take us to Ahm Shere,” said Meela. “And, we have to find Imhotep. With his great powers he can kill the scorpion King and take his soldiers. Imhotep will be king of the world.”
Meela wanted Imhotep’s love. Lock-Nah wanted the gold from the pyramid of Anubis.
Lock-Nah looked up and saw Red, Jacques, and Spivey. But before he could speak, the ground started to move.
“It’s happening again!” cried Red.
The men stopped working and ran away. Thousands of small black animals came out of the hole in the ground and followed them. When a man fell, the animals ate in minutes.
“Get some fire,” shouted Lock-Nah.
The men stopped the animals with fire, and then somebody shouted, “We have it. We have the mummy of imhotep!”
Meela carried the Book of the Dead with her and looked down at Imhotep. She put her hand on the mummy’s hand and smiled. She wanted to love Imhotep again!
Meela looked at Lock-Nah and said, “Now we can begin.”
“Red, give me the bracelet!” Lock-Nah shouted.
“Sorry, boss. No bracelet.”
Lock-Nah’s eyes looked dangerous.
“We have to have the bracelet. Where is it?” he asked.
“Those O’ Connells have it,” Red told him.
“Then we will find them. The bracelet is ours!”
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