Chapter 9

"Pst, pst. Saerth are ready. Repeat, repeat, Saerth are ready. Can you hear? Can you hear me, Anubis?" Sadie definitely have watched too much movies, because she's acting like some FBIs or Secret Agents to the point of view of Percy and Annabeth. The worst is, Anubis was just like Sadie.

"Yes, I can hear. Turn left at the second corner, dig until you have reached a golden ball, pick it up. Repeat, repeat. Turn left at the second corner, dig until you have reached a golden ball, pick it up." Anubis had already searched for some information.

"Okay, we are done, we picked it up, what do we do? Repeat, repeat, we picked up the ball." Sadie was giggling when she was saying, but she still doesn't understand what does the golden ball has to do with finding Amy and Roseanne.

"STOP doing this! Anubis, we can hear you clearly. Sadie, he can give us perfectly. So stop playing the game. We have things important to do. No more discussion. PERIOD!" Obviously, Annabeth doesn't have patients to listen to any more of Anubis and Sadie's nonsense repeating.

"Okay… now…" Anubis gave up, but his sentence has been interrupted by the scream of Sadie's.

"Wow, this is soo cool! Where are we going! AAAAAHHHHH!" Even Percy was enjoying the ride the the golden ball has take them to. When they finally touched the hard, soil floor, the sound of Anubis appeared beside their ears.

"I can see that now you have finally reach the Great Door. Look around, and you'll find a small black door at the end of the Egyptian writing." Anubis became seriously and led them to their next step. "Now, I'm searching on .com for cheats to get through the door. Remember, do not enter the Great Door, or you'll be facing the same challenge Amy and Roseanne met, and that is not FUN!"

"I can see the door, but I don't think I can push the door." Percy said slowly while pushing the door, "neither of us three can open the door." And now Sadie, Percy and Annabeth are doing their best they can but no use.

"Ma'at!(AN. To Egyptians, especially gods, would say Ma'at instead of what we say "Gosh/God/Goodness") Can you guys just listen to me, and let me finish my sentences." Anubis apparently become angry, but he soon started telling us what we should do. "Okay, I can't find any shortcuts to open the door in easier way, the website is block by the Internet here. But I have found something like prophecy. Follow me, read it in this way."

~Everyone's saying Greeptian (the language of mixture of Greek and Egyptian)~

(AN. Because Greeptian was too hard to pronounce and write down, so I just translate into English to make better for everyone)

Black is the source of good,

Left no disgrace in your mood.

Black provide sufficient food,

Remains still to understood.

Anubis has used back his jackal accent when reading something as important as this, and that doesn't sound GOOD.

"What does it mean, Anubis, can you explain it clearly?" Sadie loves to ask everything until she gets it.

"You know, actually I can explain to you after you are back, after all, you only need it to open the door." Anubis replied to Sadie when the door cracks open. But Anubis was wrong, they need the prophecy later.

"Lucky me that I've brought my flashlight, this tunnel is really dark." Annabeth said while looking around, she's the first one to step in, "and this place is WET!" Wet is not what Annabeth afraid of, but sometime, if there's water in a dark, small valley, it usually means that somewhere would have a bunch of spiders. And that is what Annabeth AFRAID of.

"Keep on going, we still have something to do, just hope Amy and Roseanne wasn't in trouble, and we'll be in time when we reached there." Percy was trying to encourage Annabeth to be brave, not knowing he sound funny with the echo in this cave-like road.

"Wait, I think I've stepped on a dry land, at least it is solid, not muddy." Annabeth whispered to make sure her voice doesn't sound like a man. "You know, I was thinking about one problem, but we might be in danger about this place."

Even without the echo sound, Annabeth sounds like man because of her tone. Sadie wondered, I would love to see Clarisse when she's here. (AN. All the characters are being introduced to people in this story, so even if they are in different book) But she still more worried about this place being dangerous, after all, even Anubis is scared of place. He has seen dead people for so many times, even help them to do the mummification, why is he afraid of a black, kind-ish wet place.

"I've read many books about Egypt since I know a lot about Greece, and they always said that pyramid, or anything that were build by Egyptian would have a really strong ability of waterproof. This place is definitely one of those, but why is this place wet? If no water can come in, or have any other ways of obtaining water?" Annabeth has said a long speech that everyone went into their thinking positions. Annabeth is worthily to be the daughter of Athena, only the mind of her can think this much when everyone was focusing on what they should do and going to do.

"I could see the importance of this problem, but I have thought about our plan over and over again. I don't have any more confidence in it. There's a mistake that we haven't notice." It is Percy's first time to have second thoughts on to what Annabeth have decide, and that really pissed her off.

"How dare you judging my plan? But if there's really a problem, so I can improve. After these time, I think I'm too old to do the thinking part." Annabeth finish her sentences with a huge bitter taste.

"Okay, so look. I don't mean to make you angry, but what if Amy and Roseanne already know about their power, and they practically went against us. We can't be able to capture them if they are being forced. Their power could destroy the whole Earth with nothing left if they want." Percy slowly pointed out the mistake, not noticing Annabeth has already gone far.

Percy caught up with her and asked her why to be this rude. Percy wasn't so happy with what Annabeth has done to him, usually, she's not that bad mannered.

"What you are talking about wasn't even a problem, it is just your imagination and you are just accusing that they know their power, what if they don't. " Annabeth was explaining the what she called so-obvious-to see truth to Percy, like a teacher is explaining 1+1=2 to a high school student, "Be optimistic, don't think negative."

"Thanks, Annabeth. Now I get it. This is so not what you call a problem." Everyone could hear the spikes in Percy's tone, but how did they become like this? They were so loving before. And that is also what Sadie is thinking about.

Even Percy said that he doesn't think it is a problem anymore, but still, he thought it would be still be a problem if what he assumed came true. His thoughts were interrupted by the shout of the warning from Anubis.

"Percy, Annabeth and SADIE, the place you are standing on is going to fall, RUN!" Anubis is shouting to our ears, our mind haven't comprehensive it fast enough with the sudden sound, that we found ourselves dropped to another tunnel.

A tunnel that is full of yellow wheat, golden sun, and warm air with a scent of lemon taste. Everything just looked squeezed into weird shapes, because everything just look so flat.

"Anubis, what should we do now? I guess we are stuck here, at least …" Sadie is the first one the frightened out, she was asking for help while looking up and found, "THE ENTRANCE IS CLOSED!" If it is not that Percy had caught her, Sadie could have fainted.

"Umm, I'm not sure about where you guys are, but I'm sure you would never get out of it." Anubis said in a lawyer's voice, and that really creeps Sadie out.

"We could never go out, what about my room? My young life?" Sadie nearly screamed out. But just because of that high-pitch sound, a tunnel exit appeared at the end of the tunnel.

"Sadie, look, there's light. That means we could get out." Annabeth's like an older sister who takes care of everything, and calming Sadie down.

"That was easy. My scream is so useful, maybe I can try this trick some other days." Sadie stopped her complain and started appreciate her high-pitch voice.

"But… there's still something that we haven't notice, if that's the end." Percy was back to his thinkingland.

"Ma'at! I was just having a joke on you guys, and you really believed me. Percy, nothing was wrong, at least the Internet says that when there's high-pitch sound around, the exit will appear. Everything is under control." Anubis nearly burst out laugh at the statue of Percy thinking.

"Don't be a Holmes, you are Percy, you are demigod, and nothing would beat you. Let's go!" Although Annabeth was the daughter of Athena, she still likes to be cheerful and doesn't think that much. "And, WAIT UP! Sadie, slow down."

"No, not about that point." Percy was still thinking about the problem he's considering, "the exit seems was always there, only that we found it when Sadie screamed, and also, where is this place. Does the prophecy-like thing has anything to do with the challenge that we might meet after we've stepped in the black door?"