Disclaimer: The Bartimaeus Trilogy does not belong to me. It belongs to the brilliant Jonathan Stroud.

This takes place after the third book!

Bartimaeus POV _
Aaaaggghhh yeeesssssss. The feeling of the Other Place on my essence was intense. I felt my essence mix into the essence of others. [1 I know you humans may find this wierd but we are for all purposes one entity in the Other Place] I was back home yet a part of me longed to be back on Earth. I knew Natheniel was gone but Kitty would be all alone. [2 That kid and Ptolomy were quite alike once you got down to the basics. I was wondering what would happen if they both met each other. My money was on them being rivals.] But after pondering I realised that in the end even if I wanted to help I couldn't go back to Earth even if I wanted to.

Then a feeling hit me, I was being summoned back to Earth. As my essence rushed down to Earth I decided to take Natheniel's form out of respect. [3 Though mind you I did add some of Ptolomy in my form. Mainly his eyes and hair.] As I took form I saw the sleek body of Kitty Jones and I was glad. I didn't show this though and appeared in a flash of fire. Then in the most cutest voice I could make I said "Well I'm glad you summoned me Kitty, I thought you forgot all about me!" Then I forced my inhuman Ptolomy/Natheniel mix to look offended. But when I saw what I thought was Kitty step out of the shadow I closed my mouth and turned into a serpent. [4 She stepped three centimetres from the edge of the pentacle. I was hoping she would make another step so I could leave unimbarresed.]

"What did you say foul demon." came the voice of the Kitty look alike that had summoned me. "Nevermind that, however pitiful demon I need you to listen very carefully. Inside the city is a vault and inside it is this countries most precious items. The commoners police and the magicians demons gaurd it with their lives. Inside it is an amulet which holds Nouda. I need you to take it and give it to me so that I may release Nouda on the garbage that calls themselves the government. I will summon you one week from now. Now begone!""Wait a moment..." I began [5 I liked masters that went straight to the point but I hated my current one right now.] "BEGONE!" Commanded the magician. With that I set off to locate the vault.

As I was flying I looked around and saw a man running from the police. As I passed him I thought I saw something familiar about him so I followed him around. Man that guy was good and he lost the police in a matter of minutes and just as he was going to turn into an alley I transformed into Ptolomy and confronted him. When I saw his face my jaw dropped. [6 Not literally. Sometimes you humans can be so dense and full of yourselves.]
Standing in front of me was Natheniel.

OOOH CLIFFHANGER ALREADY

This is titled echoes for a reason and first to guess why gets 5 chapters dedicated to them! (chap2,chap5,chap7,chap9 and chap11)

This is a mini chapter because I wanted to see if people liked my writing.

R n R please.

And I will be responding to any questions.