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Chapter 2: The waiting room of judgment

Carter POV.

Well… that was unexpected.

Whatever that was it finally passed and Sadie and I were able to get back onto our feet. Looking around the training room, there was nothing out of the ordinary that the stage wave caused and everything was still in it place. It looks like it only affected us than anything else in here, but what of the rest of the house.

Quickly, Sadie and I raced out of the training room and head for the railing of the second floor and looked down at the Great Room. Everything seemed to be okay in here to; we saw both Felix and Cleo down below, fine, but looked confused about something. Even Khufu looked a little lost about something to, forgetting his Doritos on the floor at the foot of Thoth's statues. Pushing off the railing, Sadie and I raced down to the main floor and to the Great Room as everyone suddenly gathered there. Many of the trainees looked confused while some of the younger ones looked scared, other than Felix. Even Walt and Jaz were among the group.

"Is everyone okay?" Saide asked.

A few murmurs that sounded like 'yeah' came from the trainees, a little shaken up still.

"What was that?" Julian asked, staring at me as well as everyone else. Why were they all staring at me, even Sadie was staring at me, as if waiting for an answer from me, which I don't have. Why the heck would Sadie think I know what just happen?

"I'm… I'm not sure." They all then began to panic a little. "But that doesn't mean we're not going to find out! We'll all split up and do a check of the house. It could be that someone is trying to get through the magical barriers outside the house and possible found a way to pass them. If you see anything strange or someone that doesn't belong here, don't approach them by yourselves, come find me or Sadie if you can, got it?"

"Got it."

"Okay." Sadie stepped in. "This is what we are going to do, we'll spilt up into four groups and each group will take a floor…"

I tuned Sadie out after that as she made the groups. Khufu was the only one that didn't join the group, still sitting by the foot of Thoth's statue and looked up at it as he scratched his head. The force seemed to have disturbed everyone here in the house, both human and animal. Though I wondered if Philip of Macedonia felt it to, being a shabti and all. We should probably go check on him next.

Looking up at Thoth, I was almost tempted to ask Sadie if we should go see the God of Wisdom, to see what he makes of all of this. But then I remembered that stupid test he made me and Sadie to go through to prove to him that Horus and Isis weren't the ones in control. Sometimes I wonder how in the world someone like him can be the god of wisdom. He should be more of the god of big fat jerks that likes to torment kids.

"Carter!"

I nearly jumped out of my skin when Sadie suddenly yelled into my ear, standing beside me. If she yelled any louder I would have gone death.

"Do you really need to yell in my ear, Sadie?" I stuck a finger into the said ear.

She frowned at me. "I won't yell at you if you weren't daydreaming. Now come on we have work to do, everyone else has already left."

"Where are-" I didn't even get the chance to form a sentence before Sadie started yanking me off towards the medical wing.

(B R E A K)

Well, I'm happy to report that we found that house was still secured and nothing from the outside, or inside, tried to get pass the magical barriers. But we still don't know what the cause of the force was, but from what we can guess it wasn't a magical force. After we did a quick sweep of the house, everyone managed to settle down and went back to their daily routines.

Sadie, Jaz, Walt, and I sat in the library at one of research tables, with the court summon letter in the middle. Beside Jaz and Walt, none of the other trainees knows of the summon or the fact that we could lose the warehouse below us. Sadie and I thought it would be best to keep this to ourselves until it was sorted out and only let the elder trainees in on it, Jaz and Walt.

"So June fifth is the deadline?" Walt asked just to be sure he heard it right.

I sighed. "Apparently."

Sadie scowled. "This is so stupid! Why are they doing this now! Not with Apophis coming to get our hides."

"Well," Jaz reached out for the letter and grabbed it. "let's see what else it says. Sadie and I only looked at it briefly last time."

"Something about paperwork, that's what I think it said." I told her.

"That and I guess Amos somehow gave you guys the deed to."

"Since when?" Sadie demanded. "I don't remember Uncle Amos giving us the deed?"

Jaz's eyes moved back and forth on the lower part of the letter. "He gave it to you guys about the day after he left to become the new Chief Lector. It doesn't say much about how after that."

"Okay let's forget how we got the deed for the moment, what are we going to do? From what I read we can't get the legal claim without Uncle Amos being there. And there is no way we can reach him at the moment." I said.

"Even if we wanted to reach him I don't think that he could come and help. Now that he is the Chief Lector he's probably swamp with his duties." Walt pointed out.

"True." I said.

"But if we don't get Uncle Amos to come we'll defiantly lose the house." Sadie added.

"That's sadly true to."

"And then there is the fact you only have June fifth to do all of this, only two weeks away." said Jaz.

I groaned resting my head on the table with my arms crossed over it. "And that to…"

Sadie let out a small yell of frustration. "Why is the universe suddenly against us? Doesn't it realize we're trying to save it!"

"Relax Sadie, if we all think together on this I bet we can find something." Walt suddenly said.

Jaz nodded in agreement. "He's right, we just need to put our heads together and think of a way to get around this."

Jaz was right; we just need to put our heads together. With the four us here one of us was bound to come up with something.

So we all thought and thought and thought. But no ideas were coming to mind, until Walt finally came up with something.

"Hey." Walt's face lit up as we looked to him. "In your first recording, didn't you say Zia was a shabti?" he looked to me.

Hearing him mention Zia's shabti made me wince, remembering that the real Zia didn't remember anything from what her shabti knew. "Yeah…"

"Well, what if make a shabti of Amos." Walt explained. "If you guys were fooled into thinking that Zia was the real thing, I'm sure the courthouse would think the same of Amos."

Sadie was the first to speak up, a bright smile on her face. "Walt! That's bloody brilliant! You're a genius."

Walt's face turned a nice shade of red from Sadie's praise.

"One quick question." I said. "Does anyone know how to make a shabti like one of Zia?"

Both Sadie and Walt's faces dropped.

"Forgot about that." said Walt.

We looked to Jaz but her expression wasn't any better. "Sorry."

My sister sighed, looking both frustrated and tried. "Sadly the only shabti we know to make is the one like Doughboy."

Doughboy.

"Then let's ask Doughboy if knows how to make one." I grinned.

Not waiting for a response, I concentrated on my locker number and reached into the Duat for dad's bag and pulled it out. Opening the bag, I searched inside until I found the box that Doughboy was kept in and pulled him out.

"Tell me what you know." I said to him.

Doughboy began to slowly move and then come to life as he glared up at me. "What the heck do you brats want now?"

I just grin. "Tell us how to make a shabti like Iskandar did when he made a shabti of Zia Rashid."

Doughboy grumbled. "It's always demands, demands, demands form you Kanes. It's never to say hello or ask me how the weather is."

"Just answer the question!" Sadie said impatiently.

The little shabti glared at her. "Alright, I'll tell you. But I'm only going to say this once so listen up. First you'll-"

"Wait, wait!" Jaz stopped him, quickly leaving us for a moment to only come back with a pencil and paper. "Okay, go ahead now."

Doughboy made a list of ingredients that we needed to make a shabti like Zia and it was a long list. Most of the ingredients I've never even heard of or had any idea where to get them. These were one of the few moments I'm embarrassed to say that I'm kind of a failure for a magician in the magic department; my skills lie in combat then magic. But Jaz seemed to be the only one that wasn't a little lost with the ingredients that Doughboy was giving us.

It was somehow silently agreed among the four of us that Jaz would be the one to make the shabti.

"Hmm," Jaz looked at the list in her hand once Doughboy was a lifeless wax figure again. "This is some advance stuff, high class magician stuff."

"Can you do it?" Walt asked.

Jaz didn't answer for a moment, still looking over the list, and then looked up at us with a bright smile. "I believe so. It'll take a lot of work and I'll have to go search for some of this stuff, but I believe I can do it."

"Great!" Sadie cheered. "How soon can you get it done?"

She looked over the list again, thinking deeply. "A week perhaps but I think I can get it finish in three days, that is if I put all my time into this and ignore my other projects." She looked to Walt.

Walt smiled. "Its okay, this is more important than me."

"Are you sure Walt, you're important to." I told him.

"Don't worry about me you guys; if we don't do this then we'll lose the house. This comes first before me."

None of us looked convinced, especially Sadie who looked like she wanted to say something but didn't. As much as I hated to say this but Walt was right, the house came first then his problem. We couldn't lose the house.

"Alright, Jaz you start working on the shabti as soon as you can. If you need help don't hesitate to ask us. Tomorrow, Sadie and I will go down to the courthouse to make our appointment." I said.

"Appointment?" Saide looked at me weirdly. "For what?"

"For them to see us. The letter said to make an appointment with them so they can get everything they need in order. We can't show up down there anytime we want, they have a lot of other people they need to deal with beside us." I explained to Sadie.

My sister didn't look to happy but said nothing as she just pouted a bit in her seat.

"Alright." I stood up. "With that all handled and nothing else to discus, I guess this meeting is adjured."

(B R E A K)

Sadie POV.

As much as I hate to say this but Carter handled our little meeting with Jaz and Walt well. He was able to figure out a way, with Walt's help of course, to get Uncle Amos to the courthouse without him really being there. When Carter wants to be he can be a pretty good leader, like I'm going to tell him that.

Now we just have to hope that Jaz will be able to put the shabti together in time. Like she said, it was pretty difficult stuff she was dealing with, something that only high level magicians, like Iskandar, can do. But I have confidence in Jaz and I was sure she can do it. And if she needed any help, we'll be there to help. Or at least I will be since Carter sucks at doing magic.

A large yawn escaped from me as I stretch my arms over my head. I didn't realize how late it was until I left the library and saw that it was already dark outside. It makes you wonder where the day has gone when you are panicking about a strange force sweeping over of us and that we're losing the house. Just another day for the Kane family I guess.

Reaching my room, I changed out of my cloths and into my pajamas and hit the sack. As soon as my head hit my uncomfortable headrest, I was out like a light in no time.

Somewhere during the middle of the night, I could feel something pulling at me, pulling at my soul. It was the same feeling I had when my ba went to go see Michel being manipulated by the evil ice cream man, Vladimir, to come after us then focus on Apophis. Like before, this pull at soul seem urgent, desperately trying to take me to somewhere. So I let myself go and let the pull take my ba where ever it needed to go.

Instead of going to the First Nome, I found myself in the Duat, The Land of the Dead to be pacific. Flying nearing a large island with a black temple, I instantly recognized it as the Hall of Judgment, where both my dad and Anubis lived. Knowing that I was going to see both of them it made my heart jump with joy for two different reasons. But when I flew closer, I noticed something odd.

Outside the temple, stood hundreds if not thousands of souls, waiting to go inside but couldn't. Some of the souls seem to grow restless while others seem to grow rather depress by the second. There were some souls that were pacing around in little circles, waiting impatiently to get inside the Hall of Judgment while the rest sat or stand as they waited for their turn. It all kind of reminded me of being in a waiting room of a doctor's office.

Another pull came and took my ba inside the temple and down the Hall of Judgment. But when I entered the Hall, the place was a disaster. If you thought it was bad enough before when Osiris was gone, it was worse. The scale looked ready to fall apart any second of you touched, the ceiling looked ready to crumble down on me, the pillars didn't look sturdy at all, dad's throne looked terrible, and if I'm not careful where I step I might fall through.

Over all, the place looked like a war zone.

At the far end of the hall, I spotted Anubis walking back and forth, looking quite distress about something, while Ammit the Devourer watched him go back and forth.

"Anubis?" I called to him.

Anubis stopped in his pacing and looked up at me, surprised.

"Sadie?" he said in slight shock to see me. "What are you doing here?"

I shrugged, "Don't know, something was pulling me to come here. What has happen to this place? It looks worse when I first came here. I thought that with my dad now merged with Osiris the place would be fixed up.?"

Anubis looked away from me, still looking distress and little edge about something, shifting form one foot to the other. "It's complicated."

I glared at him. "What is?"

"I can't really explain it, but it's nothing for you to worry about. Not yet at least."

"Look Death Boy, I'm not really having a good day today. First, Carter and I get a letter from the courthouse that says we might lose the legal rights to the warehouse we sit on, and then this weird force came and knocked us down-"

"You felt that!" Anubis cut me off, looking stun.

I was a little taken back by his reaction, feeling a little uneasy now. "Yeah…"

He then started cursing in Egyptian, loudly, forgetting I was there for a moment.

"Anubis, can you at least explain to me what the… whatever that strange force was?" I asked.

He didn't look like he was going to answer me until he sighed in defeat. "What you and Carter felt, I fear, is a shift in the balance of Ma'at and Isfet, a shift into chaos's favor. Everyone in the Duat has been feeling these shifts lately, ever since Apophis's been freed. But if you guys felt the shifts I fear that things have become more serious than we thought."

"Is there any way to fix those shifts in our favor?"

He shook his head.

"Great, just another thing to add to the list of 'Things that are going terrible wrong for us.'" I growled out. "And why aren't you doing your job, where is my dad."

Anubis sighed again, suddenly looking tired. "Well, since you can feel shifts now I guess I might as well tell you. The Feather of Truth has gone missing."

I looked at him as if he grew an extra head. "You lost it? How do you lose something like Feather of Truth, especially when you made a big deal of me not losing it?"

"It's not lost it simply… ran off."

"Ran off?"

"Your father is out looking for the feather as we speak so we can continue weighing the souls."

"Don't you guys have a back up one?"

He laughed, but it was a hollow laugh. "I wish we did but unfortunately there is only one Feather of Truth. That's why I was so unwilling to give it to you, that and the feather wasn't really mine to give away either. "

"Because it belongs to my dad." I said.

He shook his head. "Actually it doesn't."

"But you said that-"

"I know what I said and in a way it sort of does belong to Osiris, it's under his watch. But the feather doesn't belong to him, nor me." he explained.

I was feeling a little frustrated. "Then who does the bloody feather belong to?"

"I can't answer that right now and I see you don't have very much time here left." he told me. "Listen Sadie, I need your help to find the feather for me and your father. We believe it's no longer in the Duat but somewhere in your world. If we don't find the feather soon things will only get worse then they already are here, not to mention chaos will keep on growing."

"I want to help but where do I look for the bloody thing?" I asked.

Before Anubis could answer, my ba was suddenly pulled back as I left the Duat and the Hall of Judgment.

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