DICLAIMER: I am still not Rick Riordan. I am just borrowing some of his ideas for fun.

I didn't get any sleep at all later that night. I just stayed awake, staring at the ceiling. He knows, he knows about me!

This is infinitely bad. The Romans looked as if they were about to go on a quest. Probably back to Camp Half-Blood to finish what they'd started in the first place. I know the Romans legions will tear the camp apart, just to find and destroy me. That's the bad part. I'm not there.

The alarm clock starts beeping at 7:00 AM. I ignore it. Instead, I just close my eyes and try to get some sleep. No such luck. Within 5 minutes, Sadie calls, "Skye! You have to get up right now, or else you'll miss breakfast!"

I almost laugh at that. Breakfast seems so normal compared to what I've been through these past few days.

"I'm coming!" I call back. "Just give me 10 minutes!"

I wearily get out of bed and stumble over to the wardrobe. There is a revolving rack of clothing that made me forget all about my tiredness. How did it know I liked the colours blue and green? I change into a green blouse and a pair of navy blue jeans.

Opening the door, I race out of the room. I didn't want to be late for breakfast. And so of course, I don't watch where I'm going and crash into Nolan at 70 kilometres per hour. He fell onto the ground, and I fell on top of him.

"Sorry, Nolan! I didn't watch where I was going," I blush furiously. I scramble to get off of him.

"It's alright, Skye. I wasn't watching, either." Nolan is extremely embarrassed. Then he got up.

"Mind if I escort you to breakfast in case you get lost again?" He waggles his eyebrows at me.

I roll my eyes. Would he ever let it go? But I let him escort me, anyways.

The breakfast area is a huge balcony overlooking the East River. The balcony includes an extremely long table and a swimming pool. When I wander over to the swimming pool to take a closer look, I discover the inhabitant of the pool; an albino crocodile. I begin to scream, but Nolan says reassuringly, "Skye, don't worry. Philip of Macedonia is a friendly crocodile. He likes eating demons, and bacon."

"N-nice to meet you, Philip," I sputter. I really don't like crocodiles.

"You can sit beside me," Nolan gestures to the chair beside him. I slide into the empty chair. The breakfast looks amazing. I help myself to some apple slices and pancakes.

Just as I reach for the milk, a 15 year old girl sits down beside m. "Hi! Are you new?"

"Yes. I'm Skye. What's your name?"

"I'm Alyssa. Nice to meet you."

"I'm Felix," calls a voice from the other side of Alyssa. "And I like penguins."

"Hey! I met you yesterday!" I exclaim. "You were sitting close to the fireplace and turning it into an Antarctic wonderland." Felix looks unabashed at this.

"Oh, that's normal for him," Alyssa laughs. "Summons them up to the fireplace twice a week. He's the only ice magician we have, which doesn't make much sense, if you get what I mean."

I nod in response. Egypt is a desert, so unless I'm badly misinformed, there is no god of ice or snow.

A bell dings from the front of the table. All heads turn to look at Sadie and Carter.

"Right," Sadie begins. "We have a new initiate, Skye Ellison!"

I blush. Everyone looks around them, trying to guess what I look like. "You'll meet her soon enough at the school dance later today."

Carter starts munching on his waffle, so everyone takes it as a sign to start eating. The pancakes are delicious.

After breakfast, Sadie comes to me and said, "You don't have to go to school. There's no point in going it's the last day."

"Thank you, Sadie." I thank Sadie. I don't think it will make sense if I went for the last day, either.

"But, you're going to have to catch up with our side of things," Sadie continues. "You can start in the library. Cleo can help you."

She walks away shouting, "Felix! Sean! Stop arguing about your textbooks! It doesn't matter because you both have a copy of the same one, yes?"

I stifle a smile, and head for the great doors of the library. The doors open automatically for me, and after I step in, the doors close, loudly. I jump at the noise, and
continue down the stairs.

A girl who has black hair and dark skin is sitting at a desk, talking to the baboon in a purple Lakers jersey.

"Agh!" The baboon is telling her.

"Really, Khufu? Are you sure?" The girl frowns. "So, you're telling me there's an Egyptian and Greek demigod here?"

I feel cold all over. How does the baboon know about me? Maybe Khufu saw me when Nolan gave me an abbreviated tour of Brooklyn House?

"And you say she's here in the library, right now?" At that, the girl tilts her head up. "Good morning, Skye Ellison, daughter of Athena and Thoth. How can I help you?"

"Um, are you Cleo? Sadie said you can help me." I say awkwardly.

"Well, what are you looking for?"

"The Egyptian story of creation, in English, please."

Cleo stands up and walks over to four clay men. "The Story of Creation, English Edition."

I start to think she's crazy when one of the men leap off the table and disappears in a cloud of dust. Coughing, I manage to say, "What are those statues?"

"They're called shabti; Magicians use them as servants and helpers. The ones on the pedestal here are retrievers. They can take anything that you're looking for and bring it back to you, within reason."

The shabti statue guy came back to Cleo with a scroll in its hands. Cleo takes it and says, "I thank you for your help."

The shabti walks over to the pedestal and hops on again, reverting to solid clay. Cleo hands the scroll over to me and I unroll the delicate papyrus carefully, so I don't damage it.

"Thank you, Cleo," I thank the girl.

Cleo nods. "You aren't coming to school, are you? Well, do come to the dance. It's always wonderful." Then she turns and walks up the staircase to get ready for school.

I settle myself down in a chair and start reading the words on the scroll out loud.

There was a time, long ago, when there was no land. Only the red waters of Chaos ruled.

The most feared of all was the snake god of Chaos, Apophis. Apophis swam in the expanses of Chaos, hoping it would always stay this way. But it was not to be.

One day, a mountain rose from the sea, and on it stood Ra, the god of the Sun. He and his fellow gods created new land, becoming the enemies of Apophis forever.

There was the god of Air, Shu, and he had one daughter, Nut, goddess of the Sky. Nut married Geb, the god of the Earth. They wished to have children, but Ra had received a prophecy that one of their children would become the next ruler of Egypt. In a panic, Ra forbid Nut to have children, but it was too late, for she was already pregnant. Instead, the Sun god forbids Nut to give birth on any day of the year.

But Nut was clever, and she asked Thoth, the god of knowledge and wisdom for help. Thoth played a game of senet with the god of the Moon and Time, Khonsu.
Every time he won, Khonsu have to give him some moonlight. Thoth won so many times, he had enough to create 5 whole new days, and he tagged them on at the end of the year. These days were known as the Demon Days.

Nut gave birth to her children, one per day on those 5 days. Their names were Osiris, Horus, Set, Isis and Nepthys.

Isis wanted to rule Egypt with her brother-husband, Osiris as king and one day, while the Sun god was sleeping, she sneaked into her room and created a poisonous snake from Ra's drool. The snake bit Ra, and he became very sick.

The gods all tried their best to heal him, but no one could. Ra had suspected Isis for a long time, and so he called on her. Isis pretended to cry to see Ra in pain, but
Ra knew she was faking. Ra asked her to heal him, but Isis would only heal him if she received his secret name in exchange. Ra agreed, but only because he was dying from the poison. Isis kept her word to him and healed him. But Ra's secret name gave Isis extreme power over Ra, so extreme that he was forced into retirement, opening the way for Osiris to become king.

And so he did. Osiris was a fair and good king, but his brother Set, who had been the lieutenant of Ra also wanted to become king.

One day, while the gods were celebrating the soon-to-be rebirth of Horus, Set created a beautiful sarcophagus and tricked Osiris to lie down inside of it. Isis saw through his trick and warned her husband, but Osiris didn't listen. When he laid down in it, Set closed the lid and sealed it with molten lead. He smacked his staff on the sarcophagus, and it shattered into 14 pieces, hidden all over Egypt.

Isis ran from the palace, and with help from her sister, Nepthys, she found all the pieces of the sarcophagus and Osiris.

She then resurrected him with help from Nepthys' son, Anubis, god of death rituals, but Osiris could not become a true living being. He was only fit to rule over the dead.

Isis gave birth to Horus, and laid low until Horus was strong enough to challenge Set for the throne of Egypt. After many hard battles, he succeeded and became the King of Egypt…

The scroll is torn here.

"That's it? That can't be it!" I cry out loud to no one in particular. "What about the Chaos snake, Apophis? What happened to him?"

There is a silence charged with static after I say the Chaos god's name out loud, and I shiver. There's something suddenly creepy about the library.

I quickly get up from the chair and stride over to the 4 men on the pedestal. "Can you please find a complete version of this scroll?" I receive only stillness and silence.

I scream in frustration. When I finally calm down from pacing the room and shouting "Darn it!", I look in the cubbyholes to see if there is anything on the different paths of gods. I'm lucky, and I find one written by Sadie and Carter. It's titled Egyptian Gods/Goddesses One-Oh-One: How to survive being a Descendant of Pharaohs.

I smile at the title. Sadie can be so ridiculous. I open the book and thumb through it until I reach the pages to do with "Gods and Their Personalities". I flip to the page about Thoth.

Thoth
The god of knowledge and wisdom. I only really like him because he's the god of baboons. He always pretends to be dumb even though he knows everything.
-Sadie

Sadie, that's not true. He only wants to protect certain dangerous information from our knowledge. Thoth's Path involves a lot of researching and hieroglyphics. Great for the bookworms and scholars of the world.
-Carter

When I finish reading the paragraph, I make my final decision. I'm following my father's Path, and no one can stop me.