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CarterPOV:
The job was supposed to be simple: sneak into the Brooklyn Museum, borrrow a particular Egyptian artifact, and leave without getting caught.
The first thing we did was send our trainees Jaz and Percy to spen the side window, while Khufu, Sadie, and I examined the big glass dome in the middle of the roof, which was supposed to be our exit strtegy.
Our exit stategy wasn't looking too good.
It was well after dark, and the museum was supposed to be closed. Insted, the glass dome glowed with light. Inside, forty feet below, hundreds of people in tuxedos and evening gowns mingled and danced in a ballroom the size of an airplane hanger. I was freezing from the wind howling againt me.
My sister Sadie wasn't bothered by the cold. She was undoing the locks on the dome while humming along to a song Percy told her.
I snickered. Ever since she met Percy at Washington, she started to care alot more about her clothes and her hairstyle around him.(Oww, that hurts Sadie.)And she was always blushing and speaking strange words to him when they talk.
"You said the museum would bee empty," I complained.
Sadie didn't hear me until I pulled out her earbuds and repeated myself.
"Well, it was supposed to be empty." She'll deny this, but after living in hte States for the last three months, she was starting to lose her British accent."How would I know that there would be people here?"
Khufu tapped on the in his black clothes, it was hard for him to blend in the shadows with his golden fur, not to mention his rainbow-colored nose and rear end.
"Agh!"he grunted.
Sadie pulled out her wand and pointed at the base of the dime. A golden hieroglyph blazed, and the padlock popped open.
We dropped to the ledge outside the third floor, which housed the Egyptian collectian.
Jaz and Percy had done their work perfectly. They'd duct-taped four Sons of Horus statues around the edges of the window and painted hieroglyphs on the glass to counteract the curses and the mortal alarm systen, though Perrcy painted F**K YOU in big bold letter on the wall.
I sighed as we landed right next to them. Percy was one of the best fighters of all of us even Sadie and I can't beat him, he was just too powerful. But he had a strange kind of personality that made people think he doesn't use his brain but he does.
He had sea green eyes that seems to be able to pierce into a persons soul and his windblown hair made him even more good looking, his lean and muscular body made girls want to flock him. He was dressed in dark polo shirt and black jeans, his wind breaker set on his shoulders like a cape and his sword, Riptide was sticking out of his pockets while he listened to his headphones.
I swallowed. Just looking at his sword in pen form made me really nervous, that sword of his had not only beaten Set at the Washington monument, but also everyone at the Brooklyn House had their arse handled by that sword of his. I got my arse kicked by Percy by calling him Perseus, I learned it the hard way to rememder to call him Percy and not Perseus. (Ouucchh!Alright Percy, I'll stop calling you Persues in this recording now, just don't kick my ass like last tiiIIIMMMEEEE!YEOUUUCCHHH!He kicked my arse again.)
Anyway, I was pretty sure Sadie was jelous of Jaz and liked Percy, though she would never admit it because she was too proud to do so.
When we moved towards them, Percy looked up from his position and smiled as he saw us coming. Sadie just blused and started to fidget with her clothes and trying to straighten her hari for the twentieth time since we got here.
Percy cleared his throat."Windows ready."
"Brilliant"Sadie smiled at his after glaring at Jaz.
"Okay," I said before Sadie could glare Jaz to death."Let's start the fun."
The window swung open easily. No magic explosions. No alarms. I breathed a sigh of relief and stepped into the Egyptian wing, wondering if maybe we had a shot at pulling this off, after all (Yeah, right.)
