Chapter 4:
Okay, let me fill you in on all the things that just happened, me and Annabeth, my uhhh… girlfriend, met two young demigods, whom at fist glace we believed to be just like us, but they weren't. I knew that something was wrong with them from the start but at first I thought that they were just roman demigods, who had run away from camp Jupiter, to start a training camp of their own, that they called the Brooklyn house.
But after one of the most disturbing dreams ever, in which I was visited by my late friend the old lieutenant of Artimis, Zoë Nightshade.
Then after, two gods named Horus and Isis, whom according to Annabeth are Egyptians. After adding up all the facts, we decided that Sadie and Carter Kane, aka the two demigods that we met were actually Egyptian demigods, not roman and not Greek.
Annabeth and I knew that something had to be done, now that we knew about them we couldn't just go on like nothing happened, we had to first find out if they were dangerous, then find out if they knew anything about us, and if things got ugly, if need be we take them down.
We were sitting in the rec room, which is where the head counselors met to discuss matters like this. I sat uncomfortably in my folding lawn chair at the far left of the ping pong table, while Annabeth explained to Chiron about the new demigods.
Over in the corner I could see Clarisse, who was completely oblivious to everything around her and was tearing off pieces of snausgae to feed to Leroy the stuffed leopard head behind her. Chiron was nodding, and listening calmly as Annabeth sputtered out word after word of perfect detail of our meetings with them.
"-and that was when Percy had his dream," she ended
Chiron raised an eyebrow, "what dream?"
I explained to him about my meeting with Zoë, and then the two gods,"
As I got further and further into the details of the story, that I knew I couldn't stop now, there would be no turning back now, and I ended with how me and Annabeth decided that they were Egyptians.
"Percy," Chiron said sympathetically, "there is just no way, that there are Egyptian demigods,"
He didn't believe us, he thought we were lying, or trying to get attention!
"Chiron, its true every word of it," Annabeth pleaded "I was there I know!"
"I don't, not believe you kids it's just that-" he stopped
"What?"
"You said Carter and Sadie Kane!" he exclaimed
"Yeah…"
"I believe you." He said flatly
"Whoa whoa hold up now, what made you change your mind,"
"There is a man named Julius Kane, who is a famous-,"
"Egyptologist," Annabeth interrupted "of course, how did I not make that connection before, if their last name is Kane, they might be related to Julius, who means that if anybody would be an Egyptian demigod it would be the children of Julius Kane."
I was Sooooooo lost.
"Quickly go find Rachel; we must convene with the oracle, as soon as possible,"
And like clockwork, Miss Rachel Elizabeth Dare walked through the door to the rec room at that very moment.
"I heard my name," she laughed
"So you were spying?"
"What! No of course not, not to mention last I checked I was invited to these things,"
I stood up and walked over to Rachel.
"Oh, oracle of Delphi come forth and answer my question, what do we do about the Kane's and the others in the Brooklyn house,"
Rachel's body tensed and green smoke slithered out of her lips and the Corus like voice that was the oracle spoke from within her:
To the house of Brooklyn you must go
Only invited guests may show
When war breaks out, between both sides
The world will fall like clashing tides
Many die, and few survive
Ranks will change from seven, to five
How the war ends even I do not know
The dead will be buried in the fresh fallen snow
In the land that no man sees's twice
A second chance given, if you'll pay the price
And on the last words Rachel, passed out and fell over, thankfully her attendants were there to catch her. No one said anything for a while until Katy Gardener spoke up,
"What does it mean, only the invited may go? No one was invited."
I shifted uncomfortably, I and Annabeth had both been invited, I didn't like the sound of many die and few survive, but I did know one thing, the land that no man see's twice, that had to refer to Ogygia. The home of Calypso, a girl that I met before the battle of the labyrinth, she is a daughter of atlas that was imprisoned on an island that I had been sent to, after getting shot out of Mount St. Helens. But what was the price?
I didn't know, but I did know that a war was at hand and that although prophecies were never, what we expected, this one was really bad. The oracle herself had no clue how the war would end. I hoped that maybe I could do something, anything to stop it from happening, I lost too many friends in the titan war, and the giants war, I would no t let another war reap the souls of my friends.
Chiron looked at his watch; he frowned, and then looked up solemnly.
"It's time," he said "for you to go and meet the Egyptians,"
With that I grabbed my back pack which had some, nectar and ambrosia, some new shirts and a pair of jeans in it, and cell phone, they were usually bad for demigods to carry, but I had a feeling I might need it. I felt in my pocket, to make sure that riptide was still there, of course it was but I felt relaxed to know that it was. I turned to Annabeth, and she nodded at me, signaling me that it was time to go. With that, we left the comfort of Camp, and went to meet, either certain doom, from the Egyptians or from the impeding war. This was not the summer that I had been expecting at all. I heard yelling from behind me, it was piper one of the new campers that had been with Jason,
"Good luck Percy, you too Annabeth,"
I liked Piper, she was one kick butt daughter of Aphrodite, after she was done, and she hugged Annabeth and came over and kissed me one the check. It felt good to know that I always had friends that cared, but I had a sneaky suspicion, that she that kiss wasn't a normal kiss; it was a good bye kiss. She didn't think I would be coming back, and neither did I.
