Hey everyone, here is my new story. I am getting into a pattern with my updates, so one story will be updated a week.

Anyways, this story is set in December 2007, just after The Titan's Curse, and during The Red Pyramid.

Enjoy,

~Airrynn

CONFESSION: I DON'T OWN THE PERCY JACKSON SERIES OR THE KANE CHRONICLES.

Chapter 1: Let me Introduce Myself

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Look, if you're hearing this story, we can help you. Bring the package you found to your house (or wherever you're staying, for all I know, you could live in a cave) and light a candle in either a door or window the night of the next new moon. We'll be able to find you after that.

Here's the reason for this message. If you've found this recording, you play a part in one of the two worlds besides the mortal one. You might even belong in both, like us. Aside from the mortal world, there are two different mythological worlds you need to know about. Greco-roman and Egyptian. The stories and deities from these pantheons are still around today. The Greek and Roman gods still have kids with mortals, the Egyptians still have the magic users of the Per Ankh (the House of Life, in case you didn't know), although the gods from that pantheon don't interact as much with the House anymore. Listen to our story, so you can figure out what you're getting yourself into.

My name is Alex Finis. Well actually it's Alexandros, but it's a bit of a mouthful. My twin sister Ariana, [Ow! No need to hit me!] who prefers to be called Ari [there, happy?], are both fourteen. We used to live in Northern California with our mom until we were eleven. Since then we've traveled from place to place for our safety.

Our dad's the Greek god of death, Thanatos (or Letus, if you prefer roman). Modern culture refers to him as Death, the Grim Reaper, or just Reaper. As demigods, we tend to attract monsters because we apparently smell like a tasty snack. That would be enough to attract plenty of danger, but we also have to take into account Mama's side of the family.

If you trace our family tree back far enough, you can see that we're descended from ancient egyptian royalty. One of our royal ancestors is Princess Neferu of the 12th dynasty, the other is Queen Amenartas of the 25th dynasty. This is what the Egyptians call "Blood of the Pharaohs".

Blood of the Pharaohs are people who are descended from the pharaohs of ancient Egypt (duh). We tend to be pretty powerful magicians, and we're often affiliated with the Per Ankh. Mama's bloodline carries the genes of two queens of the ancient world. One of Amenartas' titles was "Chief Prophetess," which was pretty accurate because she was a Diviner. Diviners are magicians who can see the future. Neferu's bloodline was also important because she was descended from the royal clan that founded the fourth dynasty of Egypt.

So when Ari and I come along, we not only get the greek/roman monsters and gods coming after us, we get the egyptian ones too, hence the constantly moving around. Ari and I tend to act as a bridge between both sides when they stumble upon each other. The gods on both ends know about the others, so we only have to help smooth things over between the demigods and magicians.

Okay, now that our kind of sucky purpose in life is all cleared up, I am going to continue with the point of this story:

1) We figure that there are more kids like us, kids from both pantheons, and we would like to offer you our help.

2) We also want to extend our help to anyone belonging to any of these pantheons. We know that the Kanes use a recording like this to help young magicians find them, Greek demigods are found by satyrs, and the Roman demigods are generally found by Lupa, but there are always a few that never make it to where they're supposed to be, which can be dangerous.

3) We wanted to get our story out too, not for recognition (yeah, it's nice, but it's unnecessary) but to add in facts that no one else got, and to give another point of view on the matter.

I'm not going to tell you our entire life story, because it would take way too long, but I am going to give a quick summary up to the point where this story starts.

We've always known about the whole demigods and magicians thing. Once we were old enough to keep a secret, which was about six or seven, we were told the whole story. When we turned eleven, the monster attacks were too much to handle, so we left to protect ourselves and our mom. Our dad is the only god we've met so far, and we've been lucky enough not to run into any demigods or magicians. Well, until this story starts.

Oh, and Ari says I have to tell you this, even if I don't want to, about my er… problem, I guess you could call it. I'm completely blind, but I can manage fine on my own, thank you very much! Demigod senses are enhanced to help us survive the monsters, so as long as I'm not in total silence, I can get around well enough.

So we're going to start the actual story now. It begins in December, a few days before the day we met the Hunters of Artemis.