Chapter 9

Carter

Hello, people of Fanfiction! I apologize for not updating sooner, but I've been super busy. So, before I bore you to death, here's chapter 9!

I had to admit, capture the flag was pretty fun. I enjoyed battling the Hunters, who were very tough to beat. I did miss my Khopesh, but I made due with the long sword I was given.

Everything was going just fine until one of the Hunters, a girl with black hair, started running toward the border. Percy and I immediately abandon the fight and ran after her.

She effortlessly dodged the patrollers at the border, and continued running toward the flag. It was getting dark, so it was extremely hard to see her.

We lost her for a short time, but everyone knew where she was going. We all headed to the spot where we had hidden the flag, and we found her just as she was coming down from the tree the flag was in.

She quickly rolled out of the way and made a break for the border. She was running extremely fast, and we kept falling behind.

Then, I saw the border. She was five yards away, now four. I knew we had lost.

But then, I saw Sadie. She seemed to be focusing on something. A half-second later, she said, "Ha-di," and the black-haired girl went flying. Sadie took her chance and crossed the border, but I knew we had just been exposed.

"What was that?" a girl that was standing next to me said, just as Chiron came galloping up. That's right; he was still a horse-dude. That nightmare was never going to end.

Everyone was staring at Sadie. Chiron was speechless, and I knew he had seen the entire thing. I had no idea how I could explain this. Why, oh why, did Sadie have to ruin everything?

[Don't deny it Sadie! The exact same thing happened last week when you blew up that airplane that was holding twenty civilians. We had to rescue them, and they stepped up airport security because of you!]

So anyway, nobody spoke until the black haired girl walked out of the bushes.

"Holy Zeus!" she said. "I almost flew to Olympus!"

I wondered how she had survived that, but then I thought that all of these people had weird powers, so she must be able to fly or something.

I noticed Sadie trying to back away, but the attention quickly turned back to her.

"I want to see Percy, Thalia, Katie, Connor, Travis, Drew and Will in my office, now." Chiron did not look happy. "Bring Sadie, Carter, Walt, Zia, Seth, Shelby, Jaz, and Felix with you. And Percy, bring Annabeth too."

With that, he galloped away. Everyone started to disperse, except the counselors who had been watching us. They didn't say anything; they just brought us to the Big House.

After we had all gotten settled in one of the huge rooms, Percy walked in. I hadn't noticed him leaving earlier. Next to him was a girl with blonde hair and stormy grey eyes. She had huge scars on her arms and legs, and I realized this was the girl who had almost gotten eaten by the huge serpent.'

Soon after they sat down, Chiron came in. Luckily, he was back in wheel-chair form.

"So," he said, "we are going to need an explanation for what happened during Capture the Flag." He didn't direct the question to anyone in particular.

After a few minutes of total silence, Sadie said, "Shelby, you can tell them."

That probably wasn't the best idea, but Shelby was extremely thorough when she told a story and none of us older kids looked like they wanted to talk much. And, if it sounded weird, which it probably would, we could say it came from a first-grader.

"Finally!" Shelby exclaimed, and then she started the story. "We're Egyptian magicians, and we train at Brooklyn house to use magic! We get to learn spells, how to fight with wands and swords, how to channel the god's powers, and we always get to hang out with our baboon Khufu, our griffin that's named Freak 'cause that's all he says, our huge albino crocodile named Philip of Macedonia, and my pet unicorn, Sparkle. We travel around the world, defeating monsters and visiting the other Nomes. And Sadie and Carter's dad is Osiris, and Walt's got a god inside him too! And the other initiates and I all have blood of the pharaohs, so we can all do magic! And…"

"Whoa, wait, back it up," Annabeth said. "You're magicians, you channel the gods' powers, and you have a pet baboon?"

"Yup," Shelby said happily. "He likes to eat my Jell-O."

"And you go around the world visiting gnomes?" one of the Stoll brothers said. "Why do you have to visit garden decorations?"

"No," Shelby said, talking like they were all two year olds. "We go visit Nomes, you know, with no G. They are all training initiates too, just like Carter and Sadie are."

Everyone looked very confused. They were staring at us as if we were freaks, which we most likely were. But hey, not everything is clear when a six-year-old explains it.

"Well," Chiron finally said, "I think that's enough for one day." Then, to us he added, "You are all free to sleep in the Big House tonight. Connor and Travis will show you to your rooms."

He quickly left the room, with Percy and Annabeth close behind. Everyone else left except the Stoll brothers. They made sure everyone was following them, then showed us where we were going to sleep.

They put all of the boys in one room, and all of the girls in the other. There was only one bed in our room, so we just took off the blankets and slept on the floor.

When I finally did fall asleep, my ba decided to take a little trip.

I found myself in the Throne Room of the Gods. Horus was sitting on his throne, talking to Isis.

"When are we going to attack?" Isis was asking Horus.

"We will attack them at midnight, before they can think to attack us." Isis looked concerned, but she just nodded her head.

"I will go assemble the gods," she said, and then left the room in a flash of light.

I was soon swept to another scene. I saw twelve massive people sitting on thrones in a huge white room. They seemed to be in the middle of a serious conversation.

"Well, when do you think we should attack?" a man with grey hair and grey eyes said.

"I think we should wait," a woman with black hair and stormy grey eyes replied.

"No!" a man with black hair and sunglasses yelled. "We have to attack as soon as we can, or they'll attack us!

"Ares," the woman with black hair said, "you always want to fight. I'm trying to think logically. If we attack now, then they'll have home advantage. We must prepare for them to come to us, then we will surely win."

"I agree with Athena," the man with grey hair said. "All in favor, raise your hand."

Eight of the people raised their hands.

"Then, it's decided," the grey-haired man said. "Iris!"

A woman appeared in the room. "Yes, Zeus?"

"Please send word to all of the gods to come to Olympus immediately." The woman nodded, and then disappeared in a flash of light.

Before I could hear anymore, I was whisked back to my own body.

I was the first person to wake up. It was still dark outside, but every once in a while there was a flash of light. There must have been a storm.

I could hear yelling from the next room over, and guessed Sadie had woken up.

In a few minutes, everyone was awake. After a few more minutes, three guards came and got us.

They took us to a big room with a Ping-Pong table and tons of cool games. The girls were already sitting on a couch, devouring pancakes and bacon.

We sat down next to them and the guards brought us food. They were treating us pretty well, considering Sadie blew someone up.

A moment later, Percy, Annabeth, Chiron (in horse form, unfortunately), and a black-haired boy that looked strangely like Anubis walked in. They were all soaking wet, except for Percy.

They stared at us; we stared at them. Nobody spoke.

"Um…" Percy started. "Do you guys know why there's a giant storm?"

"Well," Felix said, "when hot air is lifted…"

"I think he means something else," Sadie said.

"I think I know," I told them. Every eye turned on me.

"I think the gods might be at war…" I said. "I had a dream last night, and it showed both groups of gods preparing for a fight."

"You had that dream too?" Annabeth, Percy, and Sadie all said at the exact same time.

There was complete silence.

After a few minutes, Percy said, "Well, I think…"

He never got to finish the sentence, because lightning struck the house, and everything burst into flames.

Oooooo… What will happen? Well, I can't tell you. I'll try to post again soon!