It was day four and Sadie was beginning to fear for her brother, more than she had the days prior. He hadn't moved in four days, not even a twitch and it really scared her, even if she wouldn't admit it out loud. Sadie was looking after her brother while their parents judged the souls of the dead. After a few hours, she fell asleep at Carters' bedside.

Sadie woke up, but she wasn't sure why. She could have sworn that someone flashed a light in front of her eyes, but there was only Carter there. That's when she saw it, just barely, a glow that seemed to branch out in an odd way from Carter before it faded away. Sadie was startled by this development and so she decided that it would be best to go get their parents. She had made it to the double doors on the other side of the rather large room before running into someone, who just happened to be their father.

"Sadie…what's wrong?" asked Julius noticing the nervous look on his daughters' face.

"I…light…gone…sleep," replied Sadie stuttering out of breath from the abrupt stop and nerves.

"Sadie…what is it? Calm down, ok?... what's wrong?" asked Julius again, confused as to why his daughter was unable to form a coherent sentence, aside from being breathless for a few seconds.

"Carter," said Sadie lightly, knowing that that was all she needed to say at the moment to get the point out.

They all quickly rushed back to Carters' side, but when they saw nothing they relaxed only ever so slightly. Sadie on the other hand was really worried because she knows what she saw, but was nervous at the fact that there was no trace of what she saw happening at the moment.

"Sadie, there's nothing here," stated Ruby "Why were you so panicked and in a rush?" she asked her daughter clearly not seeing anything wrong.

"Because, I saw something… it came from Carter," Sadie answered pacing around the room now that her heart was racing and she was somehow full of adrenaline.

"Well, what is it you saw?" asked Julius "It may have just been Carters' magic lashing out again."

"It was… well it was different… It was like his magic was branching out…LITTERALLY!" Sadie told them, still not sure what she saw herself.

"What do you mean sweetheart?" inquired their mother further

"I was sleeping… and I thought… well I thought someone flashed a light in my face, kind of like when you get your picture taken, but when I opened my eyes it was only Carter and me. When I looked over at Carter, there was this dim glow that was fading, but it was branching out of his body! Then, that's when I went to go get you." Answered Sadie

"Ok. Is that it? Anything else you noticed?" asked their father

"Yeah I just-…" Sadie stopped

"You just what sweetie?" asked Ruby

"Look…" replied Sadie pointing a shaking finger over to her brother

That's when they all noticed it… a small single branch of light emitting from Carter, and it was forming from his forearm. Then the light formed what appeared to be a lazily drawn hieroglyph and faded faster than it appeared, leaving Carters family sitting their shocked.

"What was that?" asked Sadie worried even more for her brothers' health, was it some kind of virus… a magical disease? She was getting even more worried and anxious the longer her parents sat in silence looking at each other like they had just found out the world's biggest secret.

"I…I'll go get Amos," stated Julius before quickly disappearing.

"Why's dad have to go get uncle Amos?" Sadie asked hesitantly to her mother who had been sitting there only staring at Carter.

"Sweetie, you remember how Iskandar could create hieroglyphs from midair? And how only the most powerful magician can do that?" questioned Ruby

"Yeah? I thought I was crazy when I first saw it." Exclaimed Sadie mildly wondering where this conversation was going.

"Well, we, your father and I think that somehow all of Carters' repressed magic is now manifesting into those little lights and glyphs we saw. The only issue is, is that we have no idea how or why. Why now and not earlier this week?" explained their mother.

"So, dad went to go get uncle Amos because he can do that trick with the hieroglyphs now? And he thinks he might be able to help or at least tell us what the glyphs Carter is somehow creating, he can tell us what they mean?" inquired Sadie further, hoping that she just clarified what she thinks her mother meant.

"Exactly, lets' just hope that this ends soon and with a good ending to it too." Sighed Ruby worried for her son, "I don't even want to see him down here like this… so help me if anything happens…I don't care what your father says I WILL drag your brother back to the living, if that's what it takes for him to live the life he has ahead of him!" exclaimed Ruby

"I just hope he wakes up soon." Said Sadie siting down next to her brother

A half hour later, Julius returned with Amos, who looked scared by the information they were sure he was told about Carters' condition. He was immediately at Carter side with a clear look of worry etched on his face just seeing Carter in his current state.

"What do you think caused this?" asked Amos, needing to start from the basics if he was going to be of any help to his nephew

"We don't know, but we do know for a fact that it is something magical, seeing as it is no know illness in todays' medical field." Replied Julius

As Julius finished stating that, they all noticed another small, barely noticeable branch of light that created another sloppy hieroglyph. They all took note that this one had emitted from Carters' head, and Amos was quick to grab a piece of paper and draw the fading image. When the light was fully diminished, they all looked to Amos waiting for him to tell them what the hieroglyph was; only to see him looking even more upset and actually terrified than the few minutes earlier.

"What? What was the glyph Amos?" asked a rather anxious Julius, seeing his brother face caused him a great deal of fear. Not because he had never seen that look before, but because that look was directed to his son.

"That glyph…the one he just made well…. it's not a good one Julius. Even with how sloppy it was I was able to kind of tell what it was and it is not what I was hoping to see." Replied Amos cryptically. His voice was shaking slightly, but he was proud of his nephew and himself for understanding the hieroglyph and for his nephew for being able to get a one-word message across, even if it wasn't a good one.

"What? … what's wrong…why is it bad?... AMOS!" shouted Julius trying to get his brother to respond out of his deep thought.

"The hieroglyph was a message…sort of… it was one word and I think it means what's going to happen if we don't help him and soon. I could be wrong, but this is Carter were talking about, if he's fighting then he's doing his best and this message is no exception. I think he's been trying to tell you what's wrong...to an extent, but he's getting weak and worse obviously…" Amos lead off

"What's wrong Amos? What's the message?" asked Julius

"the message…his glyph… it means…it means death Julius. I think whatever's wrong is killing Carter" stated Amos gravely with a quiet and shaking voice

"What? But…" trailed off Sadie as she processed what her uncle had just said. Sadie was now beyond terrified at the thought of her brother dying.

"Look, all we can do right now is hope that he can manage to create another hieroglyph, while we wait for that to happen we can look up any known illnesses, curses, and cures that we can find that may be what is causing this problem and a cure that may solve it before…well before time runs out ok?" stated Amos " Also as a way that might help, I think we should consider trying to get the gods to help and possibly look into Carters' memories to see if we can find where this illness started."

"Ok. I'll go and find Thoth, he may know how to get into Carters' memories and let us see them. While I'm at it I'm also going to get Horus and Isis as well, they would want to know what is going on right now, especially with Carter being Horus's host" said Julius before abruptly leaving again

"Hold on Carter, we're trying to help, but you have to hold on for us and help us out ok buddy? We'll save you don't worry." Whispered Amos, praying to all of the Egyptian Pantheon to give his nephew the strength to fight for his life, just a little bit longer.

A/N: Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a review and tell me what you thought. Don't worry the next chapter should be carters point of view for most of the story and I will be using certain elements to incorporate carters' ability to see the dead more within the next chapter seeing as the memory will be in carters P.O.V.