AUTHOR NOTE

Hi, thank you for deciding to click on this! I'm assuming that if you're reading this you've read the Kane Chronicles and Percy Jackson books. Spoiler alert for The Son of Sobek and The Staff of Serapis. Read on is your ready for it.

CHAPTER 1

Sadie

Hello, Sadie here! I still had this old recorder here, and me and Walt (oh, and you too Carter-see, I don't always forget you!) agree that everyone out there should know about what happened.

I guess it started the first day of high school. I woke up that morning at about 3:30am in a terrible sweat. I found a pillow underneath me instead of a headrest, which I guessed was why I had that ba trip. No, I thought, I won't think about the trip. I got out my iPod and scrolled through my music. I couldn't find any music I wanted to listen to; and when I can't listen to my music, bad things happen.

What was I dreaming of? A woman made of rock with dirt clothes, and a man with stars on his body. They said, "Come to us and no harm will be done to you or your family. Let us turn the world into a world where you don't need to think. A world where mankind can walk with no worries. All you need to do is come to us and give us the gods." I'm like, "Uhh, no! Why would I ever do that?" Then the earth swallows me up and I drop into the sky. That's the point where I woke up. Weird, right?

I go downstairs, and to my surprise find Carter on the couch reading a book, as always (Man, he's such a geek!) "Wow, you're up early!" he says to me. "I thought you would stay in bed until 10 minutes before school!"

"Ha ha, very funny. I thought you would already be doing homework that you don't have!" He was about to respond when Walt came down stairs.

"Hi guys! Why are you up here so early?"

"I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep," I quickly made up.

"I, well… I, I had to wake up early to get some, uh... work done" Carter said.

I looked at him questioning. He is a really bad liar (oh yes, my brother dear, you are).

"Why are you up so early?" I asked. He paused for a moment then said, "I wanted to get an early start on the morning." By now it was about 4:00am.

"Sadie, your hair's a mess! Go get ready," Carter said.

"Why don't you get yourself ready," I retorted.

"For the sake of all of us, how about we all get ready?" Walt said.

"Fine, but only for you, Walt," I said. I got ready-packed my bags, got my emergency gum pack ready, and charged my iPod for a day of listening. By the time I got all of this done, most of the initiates were downstairs getting some breakfast. I took a plate of bacon and threw it all to Philip. Then I started loading a plate with pancakes, eggs, and sausage. I finished eating, grabbed my bag, and went out to the bus stop, ready for a day of adventure.

Percy

I woke up from my dream this morning in a cold sweat. "No, it wasn't her," I thought. "It can't be her. It can't be… Gaea." I sat down again trying to make sense of what I had just dreamed. It was something like, "Kill the gods and I won't kill you or your family...blah blah blah." That didn't really matter to me-what really scared me was that, first of all, Gaea was supposed to be asleep. Second of all, it wasn't just her. There was a man with stars all over his body, like a constellation. Who could he be? How could Gaea be awake? A million questions were going through my head at once. I tried to go back to sleep, but every time I tried, I saw her face looming above me and I woke up again.

I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got out of bed and went downstairs to see…Annabeth? "Hey, Annabeth, what are you doing here?"

"Hi Seaweed Brain. I'm here to tell you about something I've been dreaming lately."

"Is it about me?" I asked playfully.

"No, Percy." Her face got serious. "It's about...well...Gaea."

"So you've been having them too?" I said. She looked at me, surprised, relieved, and sad at the same time.

"You know what this means, right?"

"Yup...we should contact the others. The crew of the Argo II, Reyna, and Nico, too. Tell them what we've seen," I suggested.

"Alright, Seaweed Brain, see you at school!" she said, then walked out the door. I checked the clock and found that it was still only 4:00am. I decided that I would get ready early, since I couldn't go back to sleep anyways. I got dressed, brushed my hair etc., made sure Riptide was safely stored in my pocket, grabbed my wallet with drachmas and mortal cash, and my picture of Annabeth (shhh...don't tell anyone). After this, my mom came downstairs.

"Oh, Percy! I wasn't expecting you to be up this early."

"I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep," I said, which was partly true. She looked at me searchingly but asked no more questions. She made some blue pancakes for breakfast; I ate it up and headed for the bus stop.

"Hey, Percy!" I heard a familiar voice behind me. It was Annabeth and Thalia.

"Hi, Thalia," I said surprised. "I thought you were with Artemis."

"I was," she said; "she let me off for school as long as I don't date any boys, which I don't intend to do anyway." The bus came and we headed to school.