Hey people! I hoped you liked that chapter. The next one might have a little Zarter in it so… keep commenting!

-Rin

The Bloody… Crown?

Chapter 9

CPOV

Carter here. As you could probably tell, I was not too happy about Anubis kissing my little sister. How is it that he can get so bold after being shy and reclusive for five thousand years? Anyway, Kyori isn't helping. He doesn't think I noticed him trying to create a distraction so that Anubis could eat my sister's face again. Or that I wouldn't notice him covering their hands while they held each other's hands during the night. Right. Since now I'm stupid.

How could Anubis have screwed up so badly that now my sister is a deity, or whatever its called. My dad is going to have to hear about this. And not to mention, Walt, one of our initiates who had fallen for Sadie. She had a little crush on him, and I had hoped she'd give up on that stupid mutt and end up with Walt even though he has a curse that's killing him. We could maybe try to find a cure. But I'd always known that she liked Anubis more, possibly even loved him… now I knew that, unfortunately, I was right.

So after I'd drifted off, my ba decided to take a little trip. It went up to the palace of the gods, which I thought was strange. I hadn't been there since that time Anubis brought us there after we stopped Set from taking the world over the first time. I kept floating until I was in a room that was silver and gold. I mentally sighed and thought, Oh boy, here it comes. And sure enough, the annoying, yet sometimes (rarely) helpful, Horus walked in the room and sat on the couch.

"Sup, Carter?" he said breezily as he snapped his fingers and I got my body back. "Well, I should be sleeping, but someone decided he needed to talk to me." I spat back at him. "Whoowee! Is someone in a bad mood." He said. After seeing that I wasn't amused, he got serious, looked me in the face and said, "What's the matter, Carter? You look like you've been first, pissed off. Then stabbed. So what happened?"

I sighed and said, "That damn dog. That's what happened." Horus didn't need to know the details to get it. He knew that Anubis had done something that had ticked me off, and that ticked him off. "Oh." He said curtly. "What'd he do to my favorite human? I will go down there and kick his-" I laughed and said, "It's not me that he did anything to… its Sadie. And I'm just mad about the outcome." In an instant Isis appeared and said, "What happened to my Sadie? And Horus, don't use that language. I'll make it so you can't talk for a week." Both me and Horus jumped and clutched our chests. Horus said, "M-Mother! Don't do that! You almost gave Carter a heart attack!" but he made sure to check his mouth to make sure he could still talk. Isis just looked at me and repeated, "What happened to my Sadie."

I sat down next to Horus and Isis sat in a chair across from us. I don't know, maybe it's the bit of Horus still in me, but under her gaze I felt secure and scared all in one. Like when my mother was still around. As if reading my mind Isis looked at me and her face softened. She said, "I'm glad you're so comfortable around me. I think of you as my son as well." I smiled at her and said, "Thanks Isis." "No problem. Now tell me what happened to my little human." She said.

I took a deep breath and began. "Ok, so you know how Sadie has a thing for Anubis?" Isis rolled her eyes and said, "That doesn't even cover it…but yes. I do know." Horus growled, "It isn't one sided. That d-stupid mutt is obsessed with her too." I nodded and said, "I know. That's the problem. Lately he's being getting bolder and tonight he up and kissed her in front of me! Then when I gave him a chance to clear it up and back track, he glared at me and said in that annoying voice of his, 'If you're so curious I'll tell you. I think I was kissing her.' Then Sadie of course had to get involved and defended him! I tried explaining how it would never work out between them, but then the worst possible thing happened. Anubis said she's not even human anymore! He screwed up when he gave her a necklace and it changed her!" I was practically yelling now. "Now I can't even do anything about it."

"Carter," Isis said in a soothing voice, "Calm down, for one thing. Now tell me how she isn't mortal." I took several deep breathes, and noticed that I wasn't the only one who was having to take breathes either. Horus had his eyes closed, was taking breathes, and apparently was counting to ten slowly in his head. After I had calmed down a little, I started to explain how Anubis had given Sadie a necklace with part of him in it, and somehow it had gotten attached to her soul and… poof. She wasn't human anymore.

After I got done with that, Isis stood up and said, "I'm going to see if this is true. Now, Horus didn't you have something you wanted to tell Carter?" Then she was gone. Horus looked at me and said, "Oh, yeah. Carter, what I originally called you here for was because I learned something you probably would wanna know." I looked at him and said, "Yeah?" Horus took a breath and said, "I know where Zia is."

There you go, people who crave Carter! I have now added a little Zarter! The next chapter will be short. Sorry. But I need to get back to the main story plot. So! Keep commenting and I'll keep making them better!