Since I have so many reviews I'll break routine and start this chapter early. Review. Much thanks to all you people who reviewed! Oh and the Percy POV will be shakey. Haven't read the books in a while but it won't be bad.
Edited 7/14/2014
Percy POV
It was a rainy day, but like any other time it rained, it missed us. So I was dueling Nico with Riptide when all of a sudden, I heard an explosion. A big one.
Instantly I went into battle mode from experience. I looked over to the hill where the sound came from to see kids and satyrs were running towards the hill with swords, bows, and flutes. "Percy!"
I turned around to see Annabeth bounding up. "Do you think it is a monster or a demigod?"
I shrugged. "Most likely a demigod."
Nico walked closer, his own Stygian Iron sword ready for battle. "I can shadow travel us over there, to save time." I hadn't really liked shadow traveling the first time, but if we got there quicker...
I nodded. Just as the shadows closed around us, I tried to think of a monster that would be powerful enough to create that big of a explosion.
When the shadows scattered, I saw we were at the top of the hill, beside Thalia's Pine and it was only drizzling rain now. About ten feet away there was a girl of about fourteen years old. She had caramel colored hair with purple streaks in it and was dragging an African-American boy that was bigger than her who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old. There were four guys in black running towards her saying stuff in a different language and waving around...boomerangs?
Suddenly, the girl set the boy on the ground and stood up. She raised her arm and pointed at the guys running up the hill. I saw that in her hand she had an ivory boomerang. "Manges des muffins!" She shouted in a British accent.
The guys in black slowed, looking confused. The girl smiled. Then she took her chance and shouted "Ha di!". Bright gold symbols burned in the air.
Suddenly, the ground exploded underneath the guys at the bottom of the hill and they landed all over the place.
I felt a hand tugging on my arm and looked over to see Annabeth pulling me toward the girl and boy. The girl had fallen to the ground and dropped her boomerang.
Her eyes were fluttering and for the first time I noticed that her eyes were bright blue. Nico and Annabeth went to the aid of the boy. I suddenly heard muttering and looked back to the girl again. "Are you going to kill me?" she asked and then blacked out.
Not knowing what to do, I looked at Annabeth. She had a bewildered look on her face. Knowing that nothing good could come of it if Annabeth was bewildered, I asked, "Annabeth, what's wrong?"
She looked at me, but was muttering something like 'house of life' and 'egyptian'. Then she snapped out of it as Chiron came over the hill with a few Apollo kids following holding stretchers. They looked confused for a second, but ran to the girl and boy and lifted them on to stretchers.
Annabeth and I walked up to Chiron. I turned around to see Nico helping Apollo's kids load the girl on a stretcher. I turned back around to Chiron and saw that Annabeth was discussing quietly with Chiron. Knowing after years of experience, I waited until they finished and Chiron had galloped away towards the Big House to walk up to Annabeth.
"What the heck was that?" I asked her. She was still watching Chiron as she answered me. "Chiron's going to explain at dinner."
Which was in an hour.
This should be an interesting dinner.
When everyone had gotten their food, given offerings, and sat down, Chiron and Mr. D walked to the front. Chiron stamped his hoof to quiet everyone down, but no one was talking, so it was really pointless.
Mr. D was frowning and Chiron looked grim. Chiron spoke first.
"Now, I'm sure that by now most of you have heard of the Egyptian gods before, correct?" Almost every one nodded, including me. I had always been bad at that subject. Chiron continued.
"Like the Greek Gods, they are very much real."
Somewhere at the Ares table a kid spewed his drink all over a girl - who had a striking resemblance to Clarissa - and everyone, excluding Annabeth who looked just as grim as Chiron, gasped as though someone had just said that Mr. D was fat and lazy into a mega phone in his face.
Chiron waited until everyone quieted down.
"They are very old. Before the Greek Gods in fact. And still very...um...powerful," Chiron hesitated, glancing at Mr. D. Mr. D motioned for him to go on.
"Now in Egyptian history a 'House of Life' or Per Ankh is mentioned. That is very real too. It consists of very powerful magicians-" everyone gasped again "- yes, magicians, only they don't do the cheap magic tricks like todays magicians. They can destroy, morph, repair, conjure, heal, and more, along with battle magic. But instead of being children of the gods, they can host gods. I do not know very much about them, but we have reason to believe that the boy and girl that were chased up Half-Blood Hill are magicians, only they are against the House of Life. What persuaded us that they were magicians was what the girl said before she fell unconscious. 'Mange des muffins' is French for - strangely - 'Eat muffins'. It is rather...odd for her to say that. But what really mattered was what she said next. 'Ha di'. It is Egyptian for 'destroy'."
Everyone was processing that in their heads when footsteps echoed on the marble. An Apollo kid ran in out of breath. He said something in a rush of breath to Chiron and Mr. D. Chiron's face lit up.
He turned back to address us. "It appears as though the boy has woken up." He looked towards the shadows. "You can introduce your self now."
Out of the shadows stepped the African-American from earlier. He had a bruise on his forehead and a small cut on his cheek. He looked very tired, worried, anxious, and nervous.
"Um, hi. My name is Carter Kane."
There, I did it. I changed it from saying "egyptian" to "french". My bad on that. Thanks for reading, guys.
