So this is a whole nother story. I mean, it wasn't just Egyptian. It wasn't about The House. It wasn't like anything we've ever experienced before. It was another realm, and I can't say we were very familiar with it.
I'm Carter Kane. Egyptian magician. And I've been through a lot, with my sister Sadie at my side. But the story we're about to tell you is completely different.
We were in the mansion when we first got word of her. Another trainee, Blood of the Pharaohs. So Sadie, Bast and I set out to find her. Bast is the Cat Goddess. She was the Cat of Ra, sentenced to fight Apophis, the chaos snake, for eternity, well until our parents came along. My mother opened her post, and set her free, but she was killed in the process. So my father declared that Bast would become Sadie's guardian. Now she was helping us recruit new magicians.
"So who is this kid anyway?" Sadie asked me as we flew over New York City on a boat. Yes, I said a boat.
I handed her the book. "Oh, I see. Well she looks, I dunno…"
"Suspicious?" Bast filled in her sentence.
"Yeah… Suspicious." Sadie inquired.
"Oh please! She's an eleven year old girl!" I rolled my eyes. For once, my sister was being cautious.
[Ow! What is wrong with you?] Sadie just punched me.
"Agh!" Khufu barked. Did I neglect to mention we had a baboon on board?
"Khufu and Sadie are right. There's something strange about this girl." Bast agreed.
"Well we won't find out if you're right if we don't go!" I looked ahead, steering the boat. Suddenly, there was a snarling noise. A giant wolf plucked our boat right out of the sky!
"What the-" I said as we crashed to the ground. "Are you guys okay?"
"No! I am not okay!" Sadie pointed at the wolf and I watched it devour her staff and my khopesh!
"Did that thing just eat my sword?" I didn't believe it. The sword had been, like, incredibly sharp. The huge wolf didn't even seem affected!
"Are you blind?" Sadie screamed. "It ate my staff too!"
After the wolf had finished off our items and a dumpster filled with rotting meat, it turned it's gleaming yellow eyes towards us. It licked its lips and howled this piercing scream. I thought the cops would come running, but I looked around and noticed that time had frozen. None of the mortals moved, or seemed to notice anything!
The wolf started getting closer. It padded towards us, on paws that were bigger than me! It's claws were about a meter long.
"Uh, what do we do?" I was pretty freaked out. If that thing had just eaten my razor blade sword, it wouldn't have any trouble digesting us. I looked over at Bast. Her hair was standing on end. Sadie was frozen. I could tell she was racking her brain for a spell. Khufu was picking up sidewalk rubble the beast had created as it smashed through the ground. He chucked all he had gathered at the wolf, but it opened it's lethal jaws and swallowed the concrete.
Now the wolf was almost on top of us. "Sadie? How's it coming?" I asked.
"I've got it!" Sadie cast a spell. "A'max!" The spell for burn. A flaming hieroglyph hovered
in the air and shot towards the huge creature. The thing opened its jaws again and the hieroglyph was gone. Sadie shot me a nervous glance. The creature proceeded towards us. Soon, it was over us. It glared down, opened its jaws and-
"Swallower! Swallower of spells!" a rough voice rang out. There was a howl, not as piercing as the beast's but just as powerful, and the hideous wolf disintegrated. I looked over where the voice had come from, the shadow of a dark alley. All I saw was a large black body, one that looked like a canine, bright brown eyes, and a white spot on the chest that held a scar that looked like a bolt. The canine flashed it's pearly white teeth at us, and was gone.
We stared in awe at where the dark canine had been.
"Maybe we should go." Bast finally said. "The mortals are beginning to stir."
I nodded and climbed back onto our boat, which wasn't as shaken as I thought. The others followed.
Soon, we were sailing again.
"What was that?" Sadie asked Bast.
"I-I don't know. It wasn't egyptian." Bast replied with a faraway look.
"Well whatever it was, it's gone now." I declared.
"Agh! Agh!" Khufu agreed.
"Didn't that dog thing call it 'Swallower of Spells'?" Sadie wondered.
"Yeah…" I thought. I didn't tell anyone, but I had seen that dog in my latest ba trip. He was running with a wolf pack. They were chasing a moose. Cornered it, dead. As his pack was eating, he turned his head towards me. "Stay away from the key." he had growled. And he returned to his kill.
After a little while, we were hovering over Frederick County, Maryland. I pointed down. "That's her house. Time to go invisible. Sadie?"
Sadie flicked her hand. I looked down. My feet were see through. I landed the boat and Sadie, Bast and I got off. "Khufu, stay here and guard our boat."
"Agh!" Khufu grunted, sounding brave.
We snuck inside, and headed downstairs, where we heard a piano playing. The piece was well done. It was Ode to Joy.
"There she is!" I pointed to the girl sitting at the piano. She was pale, with wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. Pretty tall too. She was wearing glasses, and a purple shirt with jeans. She turned her head towards us.
"I've been expecting you." She gave us a glance and returned to her piano. Two dogs sat nearby. One was golden and the other was black. They were large. The golden one was chewing on a bone and the black one was just resting. Both dogs turned their heads toward us and growled.
"Summer! Bailey! Be nice to our guests!" The girl waved a finger at them. Both dogs resumed their business. I glanced over at Bast and saw her peering at the dogs nervously. Her hair was on end again.
But I was really freaked out when I looked over at the couch. There sat, the big black canine, with his brown eyes and bolt scar.