A/N- I'm baaaack! Here's the second installment of A Strange Encounter!
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Disclaimer- All characters, etc. go to the geniuses Rick Riordan and J.K. Rowling. I'm just fritzing around in their worlds.
For a moment, all Sadie could see was white light.
And then darkness.
Sadie slowly opened her eyes. An old, musty smell filled her nostrils. She sat up, rubbing her eyes. Where was she? How had she gotten here?
And then everything came flooding back. King's Cross Station. The weirdly dressed people. Her amulet.
Where in the world had she ended up?
Looking around, she could tell that she was in some sort of old, dark chamber.
With an emphasis on dark.
Sadie reached for her magician's bag, hoping she still had it. Thankfully, her hands easily found the linen bag, which was lying next to Sadie, in the dark. She drew out her staff and wand and was about to cast a quick light spell, when suddenly, a glow started from the other side of the chamber. Snapping her head to the source of light, she gasped when she saw where it was coming from.
The sandy haired man from King's Cross was standing on the other side of the chamber with an odd looking stick in his hand.
And the stick was glowing.
Sadie had completely forgotten about the robed people at the airport! Where they all here?
A quick glance around the room confirmed her fears. The purple haired woman, Hermione, the black-haired boy, and the redhead were all laying on the floor. As Sadie watched, they started to stir.
They were in a rectangular room with limestone walls. It was empty except for the six people inside and a large box, also made of limestone, which sat in the middle of the room. There was an inscription on the box. Sadie squinted her eyes at it. They were Egyptian hieroglyphs!
And suddenly, Sadie knew where they were.
Inside the burial chamber at the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The first emotion Sadie felt was relief. The Great Pyramid wasn't far from the First Nome. She'd definitely make it to the meeting on time now.
But that feeling was replaced by dread and suspicion. How, exactly, had she gotten here? As far as she knew, her amulet couldn't transport people, and she most definitely hadn't brought them here. Had the robed people brought her here? After all, they were apparently capable of magic, though it was quite different from the magic of magicians of the House of Life. (They used sticks!) And if they had brought her here, were their reasons malevolent or benevolent?
Across the chamber, the sandy haired man was also making a mental inventory of the room. When his eyes came to Sadie, he immediately jumped forward, an angry and suspicious look on his face, and pointed his wand straight at Sadie's throat.
"Why did you bring us here? What do you want?"
Sadie held up her hands in a placating gesture, though she was still clutching her staff in one hand so she could use it if worst came to worst, which Sadie was hoping wouldn't happen. She was the third most powerful magician in the world, after Amos, her uncle, and her nerdy brother, but she definitely didn't want to take all these strangers one to five, especially since she didn't know how their magic worked.
"Look," Sadie said in what she hoped was a calming way, "I'm just as confused as you are. I swear on my life I didn't bring us here."
But the man didn't even budge his wand. "What do you have in your hand?"
"What does it look like?" Sadie asked, rolling her eyes. "A staff."
By this time, the other four robed people had woken up and realized what was happening. They, like the man, all drew their wands and pointed them at Sadie.
"What's your name? Are you in league with Voldemort?" The man asked, rapid fire.
"Slow down a bit, would you? And for your information, my name is Sadie Kane, and I am definitely not in league with someone named Moldyshorts. I mean, what kind of name is that?"
At this, some of the wands pointed at Sadie seemed to waver. But the man didn't seem to be appeased. " It's Voldemort. Are you a muggle? Do you know where we are?"
"First of all, I don't even know what a muggle is. As for where we are, I'm glad you asked. It seems as though we're inside the Great Pyramid at Giza."
Hermione's wand(and her mouth) dropped completely, and the other robed teenagers made sounds of surprise. "We're in Egypt?" Hermione asked, wonder-struck.
"What did I just say?"
The man ignored this. "A muggle is a non-magical person.
"Well then, no, I'm not a muggle."
The purple haired woman squinted at Sadie. "And I suppose you're not a wizard, either?"
"Oh, so that's what you guys are!" Sadie said. "And no, I'm not a wizard either."
"You can't be neither a wizard or a muggle!" The woman exclaimed.
"Actually, you've got that wrong," Sadie said coolly. "What makes you think wizards are the only humans that can do magic?"
The woman looked astonished. "You mean… you mean… you're-"
"We'll get back to that later," the man commanded. "How do you know where we are?"
"I read the inscription on the tomb," Sadie said easily. "It says, Here lies the body of the Great Khufu, our esteemed pharaoh, host of Horus, and about a million other titles, and then it continues, let him rule in the afterlife as he did in this world… and a bunch of other random stuff."
Hermione looked in wonder at Sadie. "You read it?! But it takes muggle archaeologists months, even years, to decode that kind of stuff! Even Egyptian wizards can't read Egyptian hieroglyphs that fast!"
Sadie rolled her eyes. "Like I said, I'm not a muggle, as you call them, or a wizard."
For the first time, the sandy-haired man's wand wavered. "So what are you?"
"And how, exactly, do I know I can trust you?" Sadie replied swiftly, looking the man straight in the eye.
"You don't have a choice," the man retorted, just as swiftly, leveling his wand with Sadie's throat again.
The purple haired woman put a hand on the man's shoulder. "Remus, she's only a child. It's alright."
But the man, whose name was apparently Remus, didn't seem about to give up. "I'll give you one last chance.
What. are. you?"
Sadie knew she should probably take the situation more seriously, but she felt a bit miffed about the child statement (although the knew the woman was trying to help), so she replied, biting back a smile, "I'm a human. Duh."
The man's eyes flashed and he yelled, "Petrificus Totalus!"
"NO!" Shrieked the woman, but it was too late. The spell was already flying towards Sadie.
Not thinking about her actions, her body immediately responded to the spell the way she responded to all flying projectiles- she slammed her staff into the ground, casting a forcefield around herself. The spell ricocheted off the forcefield and slammed into the man instead.
The man immediately froze up, as if he was a statue, and fell to the floor. Sadie gasped. Was the spell supposed to do that?
The purple haired woman immediately knelt down besides him and tapped him with her wand several times. "Remus'll be alright," she said to the teens with an air of relief. "But maybe we shouldn't unfreeze him just now," she said, looking pointedly at Sadie.
Sadie was relieved he was fine, too. After all, if he wasn't, well, the other wizards might have perceived it as an act of hostility on her part, even though the man had fired the spell first.
The remaining four wizards stared at Sadie with a mixture of wonder and curiosity. Finally, the black-haired boy spoke. "How did you do that? The shield thing, I mean."
"I cast a spell," Sadie said in a way that made it sound like the answer should have been obvious.
"I've never seen a spell like that." Hermione said. "And how come you have a staff, not a wand?"
"For the last time, I'm not a wizard!"
The redhead spoke up for the first time. "Well then, what are you?"
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