The time I knew that Anubis and I weren't meant to be together was…different. Let's start with a couple of days before.
Carter, Zia, me, and Walt were fighting the weirdest monster. It had a lion's body, but a scorpion's tail. It's head had horns creature was the size of a two story it was a demon, I thought.
Zia was doing awesome, keeping the horrid monster distanced with her elemental magic. Carter was doing his best to keep up with the demon using his avatar. But we all knew he was too winded to use the power correctly. Walt was using the power of Anubis, trying to wrap the monster in linen,magically , on the other hand, kept tryin to cast spells to make it stop. Ha-di. Ha-tep. Sa-hei. Tas.
Some spells worked, but not for long. The four of us were running out of energy.
People weren't noticing at all. But rarely anyone passed by. Except one girl took notice of what was happening.
"Need some help?" the girl asked.
"I doubt you can help me," I answered. I was looking through a spell book, trying to find another spell.
"I think you need help," she girl was taller than me. Her skin was light and she had long,jet black hair. Her eyes were sea-green, which I thought was gorgeous. She walked straight up to the monster. "Looking for me?"
The girl took out her ring and tossed it in the air. The ring grew into a full size, bronze sword. Was she a magician? She fiddled with her watch, and then it grew into a shield.
The monster tried attacking her with its scrorpion tail. But the girl was too fast. She rolled out of the way, or do backflips.
The girl was a beast in the battle field. If she can't attack, Her shield would block it. She would slash the monster, but it would move. The girl then started climbing the monster. But the demon started bucking. She kept hold though.
The girl got to the monster's head and put her sword straight down the skull. The demon made an agonizing wail. Quite an annoying sound really. The girl then jumped down and landed on her feet. The monster then disintegraded into dust.
"That is how you kill a manticore," she said. The girl wasn't even tired. "Well got to go bye."
"Wait, how did you do that?" Zia said catching up to the girl.
"It's called practice. Now I told you, I have to go!"
We went back to the mansion. The initiates were in their morning classes. The four of us crashed on the couches. Carter,Zia,and Walt immediatley took a nap.
Khufu was a smart monkey. He knew that all of us were tired from fighting that nasty monster. He brought me Jell-O and a bag of Doritos.
I took a nap at the couch. I probably wasn't as tired as they were, but I was still tired.
Isis was now facing me. Her rainbow wings looked radiant that day. She had a smile on her face, like she brought good news.
"I want you to do a favor for me." Isis said
"What is it?" I asked demandingly.
"Tomorrow, the girl you met today will be tied up to a name is Thea .I want you to take care of her until I get there." She replied.
"Why would I do that?" I asked her.
"Because she did something unforgivable." Isis said sternly.
The dream vanished and I was awake. All of them was still asleep.
At bedtime, I went to Carter's room next door. He was admiring a photo booth picture of him and Zia. I thought it was corny yet sweet at the same time that they kept the picture of their first date.
"Don't you knock Sadie!" he screamed.
"Sorry brother dear," I apologized. " I need to tell you something very important." I explained what happened when I fell vision and Isis.
"Wow, and you just said okay?" Carter replied.
"What was I suppose to say?" I asked him
"Why should we keep her a prisoner? How long do we keep her?" my brother answered.
"I didn't know what to say. It was just a shocking bombshell!" I left after that.
I slept like a rock that night. There was no nightmares, or visions. I was just having fun with my mates.
That morning, I found Thea tied up to a chair. Just liked Isis had said. She was doing a good job of untying the knots on her hands. Before she could undone the rope, Zia said Tas. Which made the knots tighten around her hands.
"Come on! I just got those undone!" She screamed.
"Isis herself tied you up for a reason!" Zia said. I guessed Carter told her about it.
"The reason was because I said no when Horus proposed!"
"What? Horus would not marry a mortal!" Zia replied.
"I'm not a mortal. You saw that yourself yesterday. And Horus annoys me so bad. I hate that fat head!Look I'm a king now. Don't you want power that nobody else can give you." Thea mimicked the falcon god pretty good. It didn soung anything like the king of the gods, but it was funny. She made her voice all whinny, I couldn't help laughing.
We loosened up the ropes so the girl could eat. And she could eat. She had two stacks of flapjacks, waffles, eggs, bacon, sausage, oatmeal and three glasses of orange juice.
After she at, Phillip of Macedonia looked facinated by her. Thea started inching toward the pool. No one realy cared since she can't do anything with a crocodile. Or can she?
A bubble of water rose from the pool. In a milli-second, it changed in to a sharp shard of ice. The ice cut free Thea's ropes in one anyone could do anything, the girl jumped in to the water.
"At least she's trap. She can't stay in the water forever." Carter said.
Apparently she could've stayed in the water forever. I would say that 30 minutes passed and she was still at the bottom. I tried encouraging the crocodile to bite her or something, but Thea seemed entertained by the animal.
"Alright who could swim?" Zia asked. No one raised their hands. Egyptians don't really swim. But I knew how.
"I can but I don't have a—" before I could finish, Felix pushed me in the pool. I was going to kill him later.
I swam toward Thea, but before I could get to her, she got to me. She grab hold of my hand, and then I felt dry. Then she pulled me up for breath. Our clothes weren't wet at all.
Before I could react or anything, she grabbed a knife from her sleeve and held it against my throat.
"Just let me leave and I won't harm Sadie's pretty little face."
"You think I'm pretty?"
"Sure." Okay! That I took offense to very harshly.I even heard Carter laugh.
Thea started walking towards the door, but then Horus showed up. With his armor and everything.
Both of them started fighting. Knife to sword. Even though Horus had the upper hand with his weapon, Thea was pretty amazing with a knife.
Carter had to just butt in and hold his stupid sword against Thea's throat.
"Carter! What are you doing?" Horus asked in surprised.
"Helping you!" my brother answered.
"Well you just cheated! You can't help someone when their fighting one on one. That's just rude. So in a way I won since you cheated!" Thea explained. She then disarmed Carter (I didn't know how) and put him in a choke hold.
"Can I go home now?" she asked.
"No you can't! The gods asked me to keep you safe from you know what," he said. "I don't need protection from that! I need protection from you.
A bright light came from the balcony. As if a star had fallen from the sky. The light died down an a dashing boy appeared.
He had sandy blonde hair,fair skin and a blinding playful smile.
"Yes! Apollo, you're officially the best cousin ever!" Thea screamed.
"Thank you for recognizing my awesomeness," he said. Thea rolled her eyes. "But I can't believe I'm saying this, Horus is right,we wanted you to be safe so here you are."
"Why did he do it in a kidnapping way. He tied me up to a chair!" she screamed. Thea let go of Carter. She probably would've malled Horus if her cousin didn't hold her back. She was a fighter though. Apollo had to hold her back by the waist and carry her.
Thea made several stabbing and slashing motions to show what she would've done if she wasn't stopped.
"Dear cousin, just stay here okay. And stay away from Manhattan, until we contact you." He explained.
Apollo left after that. Horus got a sucker punch from Thea. And judging from his face, he looked hurt.
"It's weird. The more you hurt me, the more I like you," he said.
"What ever, where's my jewelry?" Thea handed her a necklace,a ring and a bracelet. She flipped the ring and it turned into her sword.
"Do you guys have any practice dummies?" she asked. Julian activated one of his shabti attacked Thea right away. But she just threw one her knives and the shabti became dust.
Carter volunteered to spar with Thea. During Carter's first attack, Thea disarmed him.
Thea decided to play around. She staretd playing some instruments. Playing jazz and other songs.
She got herslef a guitar and started playing One Thing. As in the song sang by One Direction.
Thea had a clear melodic voice. Beautiful really. Everyone listened in when she sang.
A parachute fell out of the sky and into the balcony. It wasn't attach to a person but a laptop.
Thea hurried to it. It seemed to be hers. She started fiddling around with it.
"They know I'm already home sick." She said
"They who?" Zia asked.
"My family of course. The people who raised me," she answered.
She played a video. It was Apollo and a 12 year old girl. Apollo had a bow and sheath of arrows. Then they showed Thea wearing an armor. Soon, her cousin let an arrow fly and it barely passed Thea's armit.
But Thea fell to the ground bleeding.I looked at Thea, she started laughing for no reason.
"I am so sorry," her cousin started saying. "It was just suppose to cut your shirt."
"This proves that I'm better at archery," the 12 years old girl said.
"Shut up! C'mon Thea, let's go get some ambrosia and nectar." He said.
"I got to tell you something," she replied getting up. Thea opened her mouth and more blood came out. She then started rolling on the ground laughing.
"You didn't shoot me! The arrow hit a bag of ketchup mixed with corn syrup!" she explained. The camera person gave Thea a high five. She then wiped some of the fake blood on the lense.
"I loved that day! One of my best pranks ever!" she said.
She started playing a slideshow of the was mostly her and a her family. One was her and a pretty woman, shopping. Trying on different articles of clothing.
Another was her in armor, sparring a man with a buzz cut, leather jacket and a face full of scars.
A couple was her and Apollo in a red convertible Maserati Spyder. She was driving while Apollo was shooting arrows out of the car. The next one showed Apollo driving but Thea was shooting the arrows.
"Where was this?" I asked her.
"Oh, that's my favorite training! Apollo takes me out and we would have target practice while in a moving car!trust me, he was driving pretty fast! Best fun ever!" she answered.
The pictures went on. Some was her on a black horse. Others showed her in a library reading. Some being homeschooled by a lady with dark hair and scary gray eyes. The last one was her and two other girls. They wore matching orange t-shirts. One girl long, wavy red hair. The other had light brown hair and gray eyes. They were behind a red flag.
She closed her laptop and went to the room Carter gave her. Maybe the memories were to much for her.
When it was time for bed, I visited Thea in her room. She was in the balcony. Before she noticed me, Thea seemed to be waving at the moon.
"How you liking your first day?"
"Not bad," she simply replied.
I went to bed that night hoping to be friends with Thea. She seemed to be different. And something tells me that this girl is full of secrets.
Thea's POV.
So, it was all shocking at first. But I lived by myself time to time. And I knew this was temporary. The gods know I would always sneak out or run away to travel. Or maybe go to a party or concert.
Of course I was planning to join the half-bloods. Be with my kind. War was coming, and no one can keep that a secret.
The laptop was full of pictures I never thought I would ever see again. It was full of the fun memories that I thought can only be found in my head.
I found the last picture very sad. I mean I was happy when it was taken. Me and my friends just won capture the flag! And it was hard with the other team full of Ares' kids.
I was born before the oath of the big three. Yes, like Nico di Angelo. Anyway, my father couldn't help me live. But I thought of hunting for the Apple of Hesperides. I wanted to do it alone. But my friends insisted.
So we traveled from New York to San Fransico. We fought monsters here and there, but we managed to survive.
The three of us fought Ladon, the dragon. We were all about to die, but we ate the apple. Except for Olivia. She said it was just time.
Leah and I kept thinking it over and over. She was just 14. How was it her time already?
Leah is now traveling the world. We just keep in touch with each other with skype. She was even happy to find some demigods for Chiron.
The was the only thing that I hated about that laptop. It had a picture of one bad thing. I wondered why it broke than so easily.
In the morning, I was better. Aphrodite sent me an outfit she picked out. The goddess always loved to dress me up.
The closet was just full of pajamas, so I put the clothes on. They were jus tmy regular skinny jeans, blue v-neck sweater ove a whote also managed to send my blue leather converse. Of course I wore my bracelet/shield. Bittersweet, my ring/sword. Necklace/trident. And my camp half-blood bead necklace. I had like 5 beads on it.
When I got down to the Great room, there was hardly anyone there.
I started breakfast without them. I just had some oatmeal. And since I was bored, the landshark song came up in my head.
"I've been turning everything into a 's a landshark, it's a shark that's on land motherf**ker." I notice the kids are starting come out. I still continued to sing. Or should I say recite? " If you want to turn youself into a landshark, you'll need a hand. And if you don't have one, then you're f*cked. You're going to take you hand and put it on your back. Like a fin! And now you're a land shark! In a middle of an awkward conversation,nope, land shark! You'll never f*cking catch me b*tch!"
Everyone started laughing. Carter and Sadie seemed to have come in during the final verse.
"What in the world is a landshark?" Sadie asked.
"It's a shark that's on land, motherf**ker!" I said.
Evryone started their breakfast. The song was still in their heads.
I went with Carter to his Problem Solving class or whatever. He even asked me to participate with his class.
"Today, you have to open the box in front of you and retrieve the item inside." Carter explained. It seemed way too easy for a challennge. "Begin!"
I went to the side of the box where the hinges were. I had no file, so there was one way to open it. Pick the lock.
Hermes taught me many times how to pick a lock. Even hot-wire a car. Anyway, I activated my trident (I haven't used it in a long time). I also got a bobby pin from my hair. Hermes also told me to carry some around. So I stared picking the lock with my right hand, and got my weapon ready with my left.
When I opened the box (18 second! New record!), one of those clay warriors appeared. I simply stabbed it in the back and it turned to dust.
The item in the box was an ice cream sundae. I loved ice cream! So I ate my prize with ease.
"Good job Thea! You're free to go," he said. I looked at the other kids. Some were fighting the clay warriors and others were still trying to open the box.
I couldn't believe it. With all the magic they could do, they could've done it faster than me. Maybe it was enchated or something.
Sadie's POV
So in the morning, we found Thea rapping a bout a landshark. I had no clue what that was.
"What's a land shark?" I asked her.
"It's a shark, that's on land, motherf*ucker," she relied. Everyone laughed. Jaz was happy to explain it. Apparently it was in the beginning of the song.
It was a funny song after all.
The day went on. It was boring. But every place Thea was, after she leaves, it was full of talk. How she was smart, funny, kind and witty.
Everyone seemed to like her a lot. Talk about Thea was all over the mansion. You can't enter a room and not here what she done.
The next morning, she had a flask in her hand. I was hoping it wasn't alcohol. I mean, when the sun just rose.
"Have you seen Walt?" she asked.
"He should be down here soon enough." Like on cue, he was right next to me.
"Take this," Thea advised him.
"Why?"
"Your burning flesh smells horrible."
"What do you mean?"
"That god inside your body is burning your flesh. I could smell it from here."
"How do you know that?"
Thea put her hand on her back. Like a fin.
"Landshark. Well I have a nose like a shark. I can smell a drop of blood miles away. But yeah, I can smell you body burning. So hurry up and drink!"
Walt drank the potion pretty then brought something covered in a tarp. It looked like a ody. Hopefully she didn't kill anyone, I thought.
"Your little god friend can use this as a host." She took of the sheet. "Class A automaton!" It was pretty impressive. It was a robot with the shape of human. But there wasn't an color. Just pure bronze.
"Automatons would usually do whatever you programed them to do. but this can provide physical body for your god. High tech cooloing system, and state of the art, promising not to malfunction."
"Where did you get it?" Carter asked.
"A cousin. Or was it a cousin's friend?"
The automaton started changing forms. It was starting to look like Anubis. Tousled black hair, chocolate brown eyes, pale skin. Even his regular dark clothing was the same.
"Thank you so much…" he said.
"In case you haven't been paying attention, my name's Thea slayer,Consumer of the Apple of Hesperides,daughter of Poseidon." She answered.
"You have a lot of accomplishements," he replied.
"The list goes on, really," she added.
"What do you mean daughter of Poseidon." Carter asked.
"My dad's name is Poseidon."
"Like the greek god?"
"They don't know do they?" Thea asked Anubis.
"No and don't tell them," he replied.
"Don't tell us what?" I demanded.
"That people started naming their children after greek mythology gods. I was like dad, I can't believe grandma and grandpa named you sad in my opinion."
"Yeah, it's.. tragic." Anubis lied. He was horrible. But I have to admit that Thea was an amazing liar. I would've believed her if Anubis didn't say anything.
There was some noise in the junk yard (Right by the mansion). We looked out of the balcony and a dragon with two heads was terrorizing mortals.
Carter,and Thea practically raced to the monster. Anubis joined me to watch them. I would've helped, but I knew that with Thea around, they would have no problem.
My brother summoned his avatar, as usual and cut off it's two heads.
"Carter! What are you doing?" Thea asked, she had her shield raised.
"Killing it! Isn't that obvious!" Carter answered.
"If you cut off a head, two more grows back!" she explains. Right on cue, the dicapitated monster started growing heads. Four in all thanks to Carter.
The dragon blew fire. Thanks to Thea, she was perfectly safe. Carter, well he started coughing in a corner.
Thea started slashing the dragon's body. But the scales must've been pretty strong.
She then started controlling the water. It was like octopus tentacles wrapping around the monster's hurried to one of the heads and stabbed her sword through it. The monster practically disintegrated in contact.
"Still a pretty good Hydra slayer!" she yelled.
"What exactly is a Hydra?" Carter asked.
"Like another race of Dragons. That if you cut off one head, two more grows back!"
"Sorry!" Carter said.
They came in with a conversation that Carter always hated when new initiates come.
"Why does Sadie have an accent and you don't?" Thea asked.
"I was raised American while sadie was raised in London!" my dear brother answered.
She spoke something in a different language. Maybe a curse.
"Was that italian?" he asked.
"No it wasn't, I thought you were the smart one," she replied.
I almost laughed! No one ever called Carter stupid before.
Thea's POV
So, after fighting the Hydra, I chatted with Leah. She was visiting Egypt. Looking for any possible demigods. But apparently the magicians there were mean, so they kept her away from their children.
Tomorrow, she was going to Italy. I was jealous of her, really. I'm stuck here, babysat. And she gets to travel the world.
When she signed off, Anubis popped out of nowhere. I hate when gods do that!
"Who was that?" he asked.
"My best friend," I replied. "I have a life outside of Olympus."
"I'm starting have a life outside of the underworld."
"Good for you then."
I went to my room after that. I had to admit, Anubis was pretty handsome. Except he reminds me a little bit of my cousin Nico.
What was I thinking anyway? Anubis and Sadie were clearly together. Well, everyone talks about their relationship.
I was mad at Aphrodite. How could she put a boy in my life who's copletely taken? But, when I thought about it, Aphrodite would do something like that if she's that bored.
She messed with my brother's love life. As in Percy. Although I had to admit, I got into that Percabeth thing. I feel like shouting it out when they reunite. I'm planning to be there!
My mind went crazy, thinking about Anubis. I managed to stop when it was dinner time.
I had some sushi. People would guess that being a child of Poseidon, I would hate seafood. It's the complete opposite, for me anyway. I was born in New Orleans! Their food is full of crawfish, shrimp, lobster, and other seafood.
The kids would usually play basketball after dinner. But Felix summoned a kareoke machine. He said he waned something different.
Everyone had fun, they weren't really great singeres. But I know that it's all about fun.
At first, no one wanted to go first. So that made me the ice breaker. To get them comfortable enough to sing.
So I decided to sing Beautiful by Christina Aguillera. I loved that song, mostly because of the message. Aphrodite loves to hear me sing it, so I had a lot of practice.
I didn't need the lyrics on the machine. So, I sang like I usualy do. I don't know why people say I had a voice of an angel. I can only hear a plain voice through my ears.
After the song ended, everyone applaud. Feliz sang after me. Then Jaz. After her was Julien, and then Cleo. Sadie sang too.
Everyone pretty much sang. Even up tight Zia! Carter was of course too chicken to sing.
So I sang again. I sang Hot Chelle Rae, Honestly. The message of the song is saying I don't care, I'm just going to have fun. I was hoping Carter would also get the message, and he would sing.
But apparently no. He was still too afraid to sing.
Morning came, and the usual outfit came. I probably looked like a little priss with outfit.
It was a white strapless dress, with black gladiator shoes, and matching black porkpie hat. Aphrodite was kind enough to leave a black blazer (the one for girls of course) to put over the dress.
I couldn't really do anything but watch everyone elsedo stuff. I had a chance to look out the balcony. I could see the Empire State building, my home. And then I looked to Long Island.
Camp was there. Where some of my happy memories rest. Just as I was about to turn around, a ship started to take off.
The war is almost here. As a demigod, I have ADHD. I know, when the time comes, I can't stand by and have fun while everyone is risking their lives.
I had to leave that afternoon. I made an Iris message to Chiron. Blackjack and Porkpie were on their way. (I got to pegasi incase Percy wants to ride Blackjack, I have porkpie).
I sent a message to Ares to send my armor. He was happy that I'm being a rebel and disobey their orders to stay in Brooklyn. If the gods get mad at me, I could always say that Apollo told me to stay away from Manhattan. I wasn't going to Manhattan, not even close.
My armor was just leather. The kind we use at camp.
I braided my hair. So incase I ran into trouble, my long mane wouldn't get in the way.
Blackjack and Porkpire landed on the roof. Their packs had a sleeping bag on them and some ambrosia and nectar.
I was about to climb on the horse's back, Anubis appeared out of nowhere. Scaring the hell out of me.
"Will you stop doing that!" I yelled.
"Where do you think you're going?" he said.
"Berkeley, Oakland area."
"You're suppose to stay here."
"I got a feeling you are a bit of a goodie goodie. Anubis, I can't sit down, and hope that my family would win this war. I was taught that if you can do something to help do it. This will increase the chances of your friends living! I have to go." (Not my best speech, really).
"So you're going to disobey the Olympians!"
"They told me to stay away from Manhattan! I'm going to California! Besides what do you care." Anubis blushed.
"What, you're just going to leave without a goodbye?"
"I left them a message at the great room."
Anubis then hugged me. It wasn't awkward as it sounded. I had a warm feeling in the pit of my stomach. A feeling that I never felt in a long time. Love.
"Thanks for everything. The automaton body and healing Walt." I just nodded. "Be carefull out there Thea. I'll be hoping to see those green eyes of yours one more time."
I smiled and climbed on Blackjack. Ooohh, my lady just had a momment with a kid that smells like carcass. I rode off to the west with the blasted horse annoying me. Porkpie joined in the teasing.
"I'll get you some sugar cubes if you shut up and don't talk about it to anyone else." I offered.
Coffee and doughnuts and you have a deal. So we had to stop at a doughnut shop in Colorado.
We arrived at Camp Jupiter. I turned myself into mist (since I'm mostly water, I can make my particles heat up and turn to mist). I didn't show myself to anyone. Yet.
Sadie's POV
So, I was going out of my room to dinner. I was never the first one to come and eat, but I was super hungry.
I found a pice of paper at the great room as I was passing by. The space was cluttered, yes, but the letter seemed to stand out.
Dear everyone that resides at the mansion,
I'm sorry I couldn't say goodbye in person. But I had to hurry and help my, family. I can't let them face danger alone. Thanks for everything.
Thea Anderson
I hurried to look out the balcony. Searching for her, maybe she hasn't left yet. But towards the setting sun, something was flying away. It was too small to see what it was, but it was surely something.
When the initiates read the message, they had a sudden grim on their faces. They were obviously going to miss Thea. She practically became part of our big family.I have a feeling that I'm going to miss Thea too.
Anubis joined us for dinner. He looked more upset than any of us. I wondered why? They were friends I guess, but he looked more sad than me, or anyone else in the room. I was starting to wonder, did something happened between them?
A couple days passed, everyone still had that touch of sadness in their work. They do their jobs and other work, but they hardly speak. As if Thea's leaving casted a spell on them.
I only knew one thing for sure. Until Thea comes back, it will never be the same mansion again.
