Sadie Pov
We took a cab out of the city and out into the country side. Octavian had the cabbie stop at an old decrepit looking gas station and shoved a wad of bills into the man's waiting hand. The cabbie quirked a shaggy eyebrow at the neatly folded wad of new looking bills but only shruged his shoulders and drove off. I turn to Octavian and Dakota only to find that they are already walking off into the woods that nearly surround the gas station.
"Hey! Wait up, guys!" I yell jogging after the two boys, my backpack bouncing on my back. I am again reminded of the magical paraphernalia concealed in my backpack. "Guys I said wait!"
Octavian turns around to say, "You need to keep up, we've got to make it back to camp before night fall, we're close but we need to hurry up."
"Okay, okay." I saw holding up my hands in defense. "It's just… I really, really have to pee. I'll be able to walk much faster if I just go to the bathroom real quick…"
Octavian rubs his temple. "Alright, fine. Just go!" he yells, waving at the woods.
I smile gratifyingly and jog off into the woods. I find a spot hidden behind a thick layer of trees and bushes. I drop my pack on the ground and squat next to it, rummaging around and pulling out every magical thing in my pack.
I pull out my wand, staff, magician's kit, and…. Oh bloody hell. I curse.
I can't believe it! I don't know how I forgot that I was carrying around my amulet!
Carter and I we hot on the tail of Setne and… to even have any hope of catching him, Carter and I had reverted back to using the power of Horus and Isis. I wasn't hosting Isis, thank the gods, but I might as well be with all the power contained in that amulet. I looked around. We were apparently close to camp. I bit my lip and decided I had no other choice but to hide the amulet here.
I dumped the contents of my magician's kit out onto the ground, out of the box I had been using to carry everything in, and stuffed the amulet inside and buried it in the ground next to the tree. I marked the trunk of the tree with a simple "K" and went about opening a door into the duat, like Carter had taught me.
When I was done I was absolutely exhausted but I managed to run back to where Octavian and Dakota were waiting.
"Sorry I took so long, I-"
"I really, do not care!" Octavian scoffed, "let's just get going!"
By the time we reached their camp the sun was setting and I was absolutely drained of energy. I looked around, completely awed by what I saw. Even though the camp appeared to be temporary the tents looked comfortable, strong. There were rows upon rows of tents and tons of kids of all ages milling about. The entire camp was surrounded by a wooden wall, complete with a gate and watch towers.
"We romans are master engineers." Dakota smirked, taking a swig out of his cool aid pouch.
"This way." Octavian commanded leading me through the gates and into the very heart of the roman battle camp. A bunch of the kids sent wary looks towards Octavian and I and some even glared. Only a few seemed to be genuinely pleased with Octavian's presence. So apparently Octavian wasn't well liked even though he clearly held a leading position here.
He led Dakota and I into a huge tent where there was a gathering of other kids, all wearing the same purple S.P.Q.R. t-shirts. All had tattoos on their forearms as well.
"Everyone listen up. I have returned from the city, what is this I hear of those evil dwarves again?"
The kids swarmed Octavian yelling complaints. I was still unnoticed, and I hung back hoping to stay that way.
A tall boy with shaggy brown hair stepped forward and all of the other kids quieted down. "This never would've happened if Reyna was here!" he yelled crossing his arms
The kids echoed their agreement, and Octavian seemed flustered.
"As a matter of fact, this never would've happened with Jason either! You've been telling us all how he's turned his back on us, but the Jason I know would never do that. I think that you've been feeding us lies!"
Octavian's face hardened as the other kids glared at him. "SILENCE! All of you! Jason Grace is a traitor, he's with the Greeks! Reyna is off doing Gods know what! We don't need either of them! This is all the doing of the Greeks, turning us against each other and distracting us from the real problem. The real enemy is the Greeks, not each other!"
Most of the kid's quieted down, seemingly convinced by Octavian, but the Shaggy haired boy remained angry.
"Then what about Percy?" my ears perked up. Could this be the Percy Carter was talking about? "He's a Greek and he never seemed to me like the evil, plotting Greek you made him out to be!"
Octavian's face appeared grim, "well I assume that is because we never really knew Percy Jackson. You never knew him, Nathan."
His tone made it clear that the conversation was over but Nathan still appeared unconvinced. A short blonde girl walked up to Nathan and they shared a knowing look. They apparently both felt the same way about whatever was going on. Her eyes shot up suddenly as if she felt something was wrong.
Her green eyes landed directly on me. "Who are you?" she asked mistrustfully. "Who is she?" she demanded to Octavian.
He turned as if he had just remembered my presence.
"Oh,I- uh…"
I stepped forward. "I'm Sadie Kane," I offered, nodding my head.
"She's a new demigod?" someone questioned.
"She doesn't look very-"
"Look, I'm not sure if she's a demigod yet."
"What!" the girl bellowed. "How could you not be sure? Shouldn't she have come straight from Lupa!"
"We found her in the city," Dakota slurred.
"She's either, one of us or one of them." Octavian finished. "She can see everything after all. What else could that mean?"
"Well, the girl started. "I know one sure fire way to find out."
Okay so I wasn't going to continue this story but I got several requests to do so… so I figured why not!
