Night at the Museum: The Pharaoh's Desert Flower

Kahmunrah

                                                                         TORI'S POV 

   I jumped up and kicked him really really hard where the sun didn't shine. And then ran as fast as my legs could carry me toward the exit of the planetarium. Ahk only paused a moment to sucker punch Imhotep really hard in the gut then came running after me. We ran back toward the Egyptian exhibit where everyone else was gonna meet up to plan an attack on the unsuspecting Imhotep. "Ahk, Victoria. You've escaped! Thank heavens!", Teddy uttered as he saw us rush into Ahk's exhibit. "Ok. We have the advantage now. We have both the sands of time, and Ahk's tablet. We first need a plan to trap Imhotep in his sarcophagus, and seal it shut. Too bad we don't have the portal thing that I threw Kahmunrah into, or-", Larry was interrupted. "Oh yes. That would've really come in handy, Larry Daily of Daily Divices.", a proud confident deep male voice with a slight lisp said from the darkest corner of the room. He was hidden in the shadows, so it was hard to see him. "Kah.", Ahk uttered with slight rage to his voice. "Your brother?", I asked him. He gave me a curt nod and pushed me behind him. "Oh, I see you found yourself a mistress brother. You clearly haven't met me, I'm the better brother.", Kahmunrah said. I snorted from behind Ahk. Ahk was so tense. I understood why. His murderer was in the very same room with him once more. 

  "What do you want, Kah?", Ahk said with fury in his voice. "Let's see, what do I want? Well, for years I've watched you grow up as the favorite. You always got what you wanted. You even got the throne which was my birthright. I was next in line. But our parents chose YOU. The younger brother. Why they did what they did, I could never sort out. I was the oldest. I was the wisest. I was way more qualified than you. Now that centuries have passed none of that matters now.", Kah gave his speech with regret. "So, you could move past this? Both of you? And become friends and allies? The brothers that you should've been?", I spoke up from behind Ahk. Ahk turned to me with with a confused and angry look on his face, "He murdered me, Victoria. In cold blood.", Ahk whispered fiercely. "I'm sorry. I know. But he is your brother.", Ahk stared into my brown eyes for a long time before turning to his brother. "Honestly, Ahk, listen to Your mistress. It has been centuries.", Kah uttered. "Yeah. If I may butt in here for a sec? Lets not forget that he tried to take over the world.", Larry quipped. "Oh please Larry Daily of Daily Divices, that was years ago.", Kah rolled his eyes at him. 

  "Oh.", I thought out loud after hearing that he tried to take over the world, locking him up in his sarcophagus was starting to make more sense. "You still haven't answered my question. What do you want?", Ahk asked, trying to remain calm. Kahmunrah stepped out of the shadows to reveal a zombie looking Kahmunrah, "Well, first I would like my body back, if you don't mind.", Kah said calmly before out stretching his hand toward Ahk,"The tablet, if you will." "What do you think will happen once you get your body back? That I will just learn to trust you?", Ahk spat through his teeth. "It has been over 4,000 years. Get over it.", he sighed. "What do you plan on doing once you get your body back?", I uttered. "Well, ", he paused to read my cartouche, "Victoria, I plan on world dominance, and maybe even an 'End of the World' party, which you all are invited to attend." "Oh, that again.", I whispered. "Tori, love. He can not be trusted.", Ahk whispered from in front of me. I sighed,'Well so much for them making amends.' One of the key things that mattered to me was family. Without it, I would be lost, and sadly it looked like the only thing that stood in the way of Ahk, and Kah's brotherly love was power and control. 

  "Why do you want to take over the world?", I asked Kah. I was genuinely curious. "Because!", Kah spat through his teeth. I tried not to laugh at his lisp speach impediment. It was so hard to take this funny guy seriously. "Why do you want to know?", Ahk asked me. "Well there's always a 'motive'. No one is BORN evil. And evil isn't BORN it's MADE.", I told him. He quickly gained composure and relaxed at my side. Kahmunrah looked puzzled as if trying to understand what I just said. "If we do this, Kah. You will not take over the world. You will stay with us, and we can become the family that you so desperately wanted and deserved. You can not touch the tablet while we restore your body. You need to earn back our trust.", Ahk said calmly. "Why don't I just take the tablet from you and KILL all of you?!", Kahmunrah shouted as he stepped closer. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Ahk just gave you the best proposal to restore not only your body but your heart, and you threw it away just like your reputation! Don't you WANT to be LOVED?", I shouted at him. "I don't want to be loved I want to be FEARED!! As my TRUE reputation proceeds me.", he spat back at me. "Then you truly are lost, my friend.", I said calmly. "No, I'm not lost. I was lost when I fell through the portal of the underworld, but now I have COME BACK!!", Kahmunrah dramatically spoke. 

  "Well, not fully.", I uttered as I gestured at his zombie form, "You were lost a long time ago, when you thought nobody cared." Ahk pushed me further behind him as he backed away from his brother who stepped closer. "I should kill your mistress first, right in front of you. She has an uncontrollable tongue.", Kahmunrah stated as he tried to get closer to me. Larry still had the sands of time, but he hid it somewhere safe where no one would find it. Nicky gulped, knowing he wouldn't stand a chance between a fight with Kahmunrah. Ahk looked at Nicky briefly. Nodding nervously, he unzipped his backpack, and took out the tablet, and handed it to his dad. Larry, calmly but cautiously handed over the tablet to Kahmunrah, who pushed the combination in. The tablet glowed, and then glowed around Kahmunrah whose body was finally restored. "Ah, that's much better.", he stated,"Now, I must get to work." He ran over to the exit of the exhibit and the others except for Ahk and I chased after him. Leaving Ahk and I behind. Ahk looked frustrated, pained, and sad. I gently place a hand on his arm to comfort him. "I'm sorry. I thought-", I began. "Well, you thought wrong.", Ahk walked away from me. "I'm sorry.", I said again as I looked at my shoes. He sat on the stairs of his exhibit, and buried his face in his hands. I quietly walked over and slowly but gently put an arm around him as he cried. 

  After he was done crying, he wiped his tears, and stood up without warning and walked away from me. I just sat there, feeling extremely tired. I breathed out a slow sad sigh, "Ahk, is there anything I can do?" "Just stay out of the way, and try not to get killed.", he said through clenched teeth his back was facing me. I looked at the ground, mortified. I had made things worse. I felt so bad. My run away mouth caused trouble, and it made the man I was falling for angry at me. He walked out of his exhibit, leaving me there. I stayed planted on the steps of his exhibit. A few stray tears fell from my cheeks. After a long sulking on the steps to his exhibit, I got up and walked further into the exhibit and stared at his sarcophagus. I wondered how long he had stayed in his sarcophagus. It must've been horrible. All those years, wondering why your brother would kill you. Not even having an answer. He got his answer tonight. And it was tough seeing him cry. Knowing I had caused it, hurt me deeply. I walked around the sarcophagus, and finally plopped down behind it. Finally the tears came. I must've stayed there for an hour. I didn't know, but it didn't matter. Time was still frozen. 'What is going to happen now?', I thought. It didn't matter. I had screwed things up for everyone with my big, fat mouth. I thought someone who killed their own brother would turn over a new leaf, but it was far from the truth. And now the man I was falling for didn't even want to look at me. I had made him cry. 'Good job, Tori.', I thought. 

  I was useless. A useless human being. Why did I believe that I could ever make a difference? Why did I believe people could change? What was going to happen now? Would I be stuck in time forever with people who probably didn't want to talk to me ever again? I got up and ran downstairs. I quietly stopped at the sight of my mom, my sister, and her friend. I slowly began to walk over to them and let silent tears fall down my cheeks. How was this going to end? Were they going to be frozen forever? I touched my mom's cheek. She was smiling. At least she was happily frozen in time. I hugged her, and sobbed. "I-I wish you could tell me what to do right now. I messed everything up and I don't know how to fix it. I'm falling for a man who I hurt, and he can't even look at me. I know what you would say,", I said as I let go of her and smiled at her, my tears blurred my vision, "You'd say, 'Get him back.' But I can't do that. It's too late. I wish I could unfreeze time, and we could go back to living our normal life, before all of this." I gestured around me. "Cause nothing hurts more than to know that I lost the man I love along with my family.", I said as I wiped away my tears. Then the realization hit me of what I just said. I love him. I love Ahk. But that's impossible. It had only been one night. One night frozen in time. No, I didn't just say that out loud. I wasn't in love with him. I was just getting to know him. That's crazy. You can't fall in love with a man you just met. I looked at my mom and said, "I'm going to fix this." I ran off and searched the entire museum for the others.