Soft Jazz played as the old Honda Percy had managed to commandeer from his parents trundled down the misty road toward Long Island.
"Carter, can we please play something a bit more...less horrible?"
"Shotgun calls music." Carter countered, from the front seat with Percy.
"That's a stupid rule and you know it."
"Okay you two." Annabeth, sitting next to Sadie, laughed. "You are not arguing all the way to Long Island."
Sadie sighed. She put her headphones in and began to zone out but after a while she turned to Annabeth.
"About this camp..." she said slowly. "I mean if they're anything like the House, they won't like outsiders. So..."
Annabeth grimaced. "Do you remember how I told you we found out about our sister camp last summer?"
"Yeah."
"And how we almost had a civil war?"
"Yes."
Annabeth blew a stand of golden hair out of her face. "This will be a lot worse."
They eventually made it to a large strip of country road. Percy looked out the window with glazed eyes like it was nostalgic for him.
They kept going until they arrived at an enormous pine. In the distance, they could see an old style plantation house. Sadie pointed at it.
"That it, then?" she asked.
"Good. You can see it." Annabeth said.
"And yeah" Percy piped up. "That's Camp Half-Blood."
They parked by the pine tree which Annabeth told them was called Thalia's Pine.
"Why's it named that?" Carter asked.
"Long story." Percy and Annabeth said together.
"Oh."
Annabeth led the way to the plantation house and woke a lanky boy with shaggy brown hair and a mischievous lopsided grin sleeping on the porch swing.
"Travis, tell Chiron I need to see him. Now."
Travis yawned and looked at Carter and Sadie.
"New kids?" he asked.
"Something like that." she agreed.
Travis shrugged and they walked in, Carter and Sadie taking in the room full of arm chairs and books, a big fireplace and a leopard head mounted on the wall.
A door opened and Carter and Sadie's faces changed from curiosity to shock.
"Is...is that a bloody horse man?"
A man with the bearded face and body of an aging professor but the body of a palomino looked down at them, disgruntled.
"I am a centaur." he said.
"But why is he a bloody horse man." Sadie said.
"Sadie, shut up." Carter said.
Suddenly the centaur's eyes widened and he bowed.
"Horus. Isis. It's been some time, my friends." his eyes twinkled and as if just noticing them "And two young magicians. The House of Life has not made contact with Camp Half-Blood in many years."
"This is Carter and his sister Sadie" Annabeth explained. "I know I shouldn't have brought them here without permission..."
"No, indeed."
"But it's an emergency. You see..."
And she explained what had happened earlier that day while Chiron listened on thoughtfully.
"Hmm..." he said. "You say there was Greek on this scroll...could you make any out?"
"Just something about, um, I think the god Amun." Annabeth said.
"Hmmm..."
"What?"
"It's curious...in some thinking, Amun is another aspect of..."
The door burst open and a tall Asian girl stormed up to them.
"Chiron, this is ridiculous, I..." her voice died when she saw Sadie.
They stared at each other for a while before they both screamed and pointed at the other.
"Kane?"
"Tanaka?"
"What's she doing here?"
"What's she doing here?"
They fairly growled in each others' direction as Chiron's eyes gleamed in amusement.
"It's a good thing you two know each other. Because it's getting late and I believe the only cabin with an empty bed is Aphrodite."
Sadie slumped onto her bed resignedly.
"Okay, Tanaka." she grumbled. "This is the line. I don't bother you. You don't bother me."
"fine." Drew spat.
Sadie lied down and went to sleep immediately.
As she drifted off as a ba she saw the Empire State building. Annabeth had told her it secretly was Mount Olympus, where all the Greek and Roman gods lived.
Her spirit floated up and reached the largest palace she'd ever seen, and in the middle was a handsome black haired man she guessed was the king. Zeus.
But suddenly things got nightmarish. A ghostly figure with a goateee and ancient Egyptian clothing walked up to the podium, smiled evily and held up a scroll.
Suddenly Zeus grabbed his head as if in pain and shouted. His body shimmered black, his eyes red and he grew an aura as bright as the sun.
Sadie woke up breathing hard.
"Zeus..." she said with chilling certainty. "Amun is another aspect of Zeus."
A/N: just a note: according to Herodotus, Amun was just a different aspect of Zeus that the Egyptians worshipped so I am rolling with that idea. Anyway thank you for reading/reviewing/ect. and I hope you liked the chapter!
