Hello all! I promised you a Nina POV, so a Nina POV you shall get. It actually starts the chapter off. I've skipped the bit where she actually visits her Gran and goes straight to the next day. It's still the weekend, so I think I may have added a day that wasn't there in the show (I'm sorry if I did). Anyway, enjoy Chapter three: The Foreign One.

Chapter three: The Foreign One

Nina

The next morning, I woke up before Amber or Callie. It was strange, though, because Callie was normally the first one to wake up. She was probably just tired or something. I got up, got dressed, and went downstairs to see if anyone else was awake. Maybe I could talk to Mara or Fabian or someone to pass the time.

About a half hour later, everyone on Sibuna but Callie was awake, plus Mara and Eddie. Jerome, Joy, and Callie were the only ones still asleep. Just as everyone was settling down for breakfast, something strange happened. A sharp pain shot through my arm in the same spot as my Mark.

I looked around the room and saw that the rest of the Sibunas were grasping at their Marks, too. What was going on? What was Senkarah doing?

What did we do?

Callie

When I woke up that morning, I was still in Anubis House. Holy crap, it wasn't a dream. This was real! I smiled as I got up and made my way to the bathroom to get ready. As I got ready, I hummed the theme song for House of Anubis. For a minute it seemed like nothing could go wrong today. I even retraced the Mark of Anubis on my arm to ensure the other Sibunas thought I was marked.

After I was dressed and my hair was blow-dried, I started brushing my teeth, still humming. I was just setting my toothbrush back on the sink when I saw a black shadow in the mirror. I whirled around and came face to face with my worst nightmare.

Senkarah.

She had been in several of my nightmares before, but I had never been able to imagine just how scary she actually was. She stared at me, a thoughtful expression on her face.

"You are not from here," she said.

I shook my head. "N-no, I'm from America."

"That is not what I meant. You are not from this world, are you, Foreign One?"

"No," I managed to say without stuttering. "I don't think I am."

"But you are here now," she mused. "What trickery have the gods performed, I wonder? No matter, I shall just have to make do."

"Make do with what?" I asked. "And how did you know I'm not from here?"

"All in good time, Foreign One," Senkarah said. "But for now, you are another pawn in my game. I shall have the Mask, and you shall help the Chosen One get it for me. Now give me your hand."

"What?"

"Give me your hand," Senkarah demanded. She didn't give me a chance to do anything; instead she grasped my wrist herself. I felt a burning pain shoot through my arm, a red glow shining from under the spirit's hand.

When Senkarah let me go, the mark on my wrist seemed darker. I immediately tried to rub it off, seeing as my hands were still wet, but the ink wouldn't budge. Senkarah laughed.

"It is not a drawing any longer, Foreign One. You wanted a mark, so I simply gave you one. Go and help the Chosen One, or share her fate."

With that, she disappeared. I felt the blood drain from my face as I realized what was going to happen now. Now Senkarah could hurt me. Now my nightmares could become reality. Now I was going to be cursed along with the other Sibunas tomorrow.

And I couldn't tell them anything.

I couldn't tell them the truth. I couldn't warn them about what was going to come. I couldn't tell them that Vera was working with Rufus. Hell, I couldn't even tell them that Rufus was alive.

This sucked.

After I spent several minutes trying to calm down, I left the bathroom and made my way down to the dinner table, where everyone but Jerome and Joy were having breakfast. The Sibunas were sitting together, their heads close and whispering. When I sat down beside Amber, they all turned to me.

"Are you okay?" Nina asked quietly.

I shook my head. "Senkarah showed up while I was brushing my teeth."

"What happened?" Amber asked before anyone else could. "Did she hurt you?"

"Kind of," I said. "She grabbed my arm and my mark glowed. Then she threatened me. She said I had to help or I'd share Nina's fate, whatever that means."

"She means you'll die too if we don't get the Mask," Nina whispered. "Remember?"

"Oh yeah," I said softly. "I'm sorry."

"You have nothing to be sorry about," Nina said.

"Now what do we do?" Alfie asked, stating the question that everyone was thinking.

"Now we research," I said, using a spur-of-the-moment idea. "Senkarah also said something to me that I didn't understand. I think it might be important."

"What did she say?" Fabian asked.

I whispered to them the short phrase I had read on the TV screen, the spell that had transported me to Anubis House. After I was done, they all looked dumbfounded.

"I have no idea what that means," Alfie said stupidly.

"None of us do, Alfie," Patricia growled. "That's why we need to figure out what it means. So I guess this means that we're spending time in the Library today."

"You guessed right," Fabian said. "After breakfast?"

"Ooh, I can't," Alfie said. "I'm helping Jerome and Amber train for the ping pong tournament."

"Seriously guys?" Patricia demanded. "Ping pong?"

"It's apparently very important," Amber said. "Jerome made me promise."

Patricia snarled, but eventually we got her to leave the two alone. After breakfast, Patricia, Nina, Fabian, and I made our way to the Frobisher Library. I could barely contain my excitement as we walked inside. The whole place was astonishing. Sarcophagi lining the walls, artifacts in glass cases, dusty books on the shelves. This was amazing!

I was given a few odd looks as I smiled while reaching for a book that seemed helpful, but I ignored it. I was enjoying my time in Anubis House too much, even if it meant being in danger from an evil spirit.

Two hours later, I wasn't so happy. I hadn't found anything! None of the words were in hieroglyphs, so I couldn't translate them using any of these books. It didn't look like the others were having much luck, either.

"Now what do we do?" Patricia asked. "I don't think we're going to find out what those words mean."

"If only they were in hieroglyphs," Fabian said wistfully.

"Sorry guys," I said guiltily. I hadn't thought this through very well. I had assumed that Fabian would be able to figure it out, but he was the hieroglyph guy, not the Egyptian-in-English-letters guy. "Maybe it was nothing. She probably just repeated her warning in Egyptian."

"Yeah," Nina said, though even I could tell she didn't believe what she was saying. "She probably just repeated it. Do you guys mind if I go visit my Gran again? I'm worried about her."

As much as I wanted to stop her, I knew that this was how it had to be. So when Fabian and Patricia gave their consent for Nina to bolt, I also gave her permission. She gave me a hug, strangely enough, but I returned it all the same. After Nina left, I decided to snoop around. Fabian and Patricia left to go back to the house, so I was left alone in the Library.

Jasper came in and said hello before rushing off to some other room, closing the door behind him. I thought he might be talking to Rufus over the phone, thinking that he was still called The Collector, but I couldn't be sure. A few minutes after Jasper vanished into the other room, Trudy walked in with a feather duster in her hand and a smile on her face.

"Oh, hello Callie," she greeted. "I haven't seen you around here lately."

"Hey Trudy," I said, waving from the table I was sitting at. "Sorry I haven't visited, but I've been busy."

"Well, at least you're here now," Trudy said. "If you could spare a minute, could you help me? The glass cases need to be dusted, and I have a spare duster."

I smiled as I reached for the extra feather duster. This was going to be interesting.

Fabian

Something was different about Callie. She was acting weird, even more so than usual. Somehow she knew that the pictograph had been of Hathor when she'd never been able to identify what a pictograph was of before. She knew that the song had been wrong and that we would need a specific one. She had talked to Senkarah though the spirit had never spoken to her before. She was even acting like the whole school was new to her.

I wanted to know what was wrong with her, but I had a feeling that she wouldn't tell me if I asked. So I decided to do some investigating of my own. I took the paper with the words Callie had given us and hid them in my pocket, hoping that I could figure out how to translate them into hieroglyphs, which would allow me to translate them into English.

Yeah, this was going to take some time.

Patricia and I went our separate ways when we got back to the house, her going to talk to Joy or insult Eddie, while I went to go research the Egyptian words. I made my way to my room and turned on my computer. It was time to solve this mystery. Not the one with the Mask, but the one about Callie.

Once I had imputed the long phrase into the translation program I was using, I just had to wait about, oh, twenty minutes or so. The program took too long for my tastes, but it was the only one that would translate things into hieroglyphs. I was the hieroglyph guy, after all, not the Egyptian-in-English-letters guy.

After a while my computer beeped, letting me know that the program had finished. I smiled. Now I could start to figure everything out.

Nina

After visiting Gran and the cab dropping me off at the school, I started walking back to Anubis House. So much was going on that I'd had barely any time to think, and I took the walk back as my time to think about everything that had been happening.

I hadn't even gotten past the brick fence around the school when she showed up. Senkarah. I ignored her and tried to walk past her, but she followed me. Eventually I ended up walking through her, trying to prove a point. She couldn't just push me around. She was a ghost who didn't have any power over me.

But her reaction was worse than I expected. She yelled at me, told me that she had complete power over me, and threatened to curse me.

"Your curse shall be to curse the others," she said with an evil grin.

"What does that mean?" I asked, worry in my voice.

Senkarah just laughed. She disappeared into a black explosion, leaving me alone. I walked back to Anubis House, my thoughts running through all her words could mean.

I couldn't curse my friends.

Could I?

Tada! I even included the part where Senkarah told Nina she was going to curse her friends. It's probably not what she really said, but I think I came close. Next chapter there will be a bit of Jallie (Jerome X Callie) because I think that the story could use it. I'll try to stick to the show as best I can, but since I can't remember how some of the episodes went, I'll just have to make do. There are two episodes that I will be able to write perfectly in line with what happened, however: House of Oblivion/House of Snoops and the finale. Yeah, I'm going to write this until the finale. Thanks for reading!

~C