Annabeth walked over to Sadie, smiling. As she put her coat over a chair, she said: 'Sadie! Long time no see!' Sadie smiled back, in a way that always made her look slightly villainous. 'You're right. Brooklyn house has been busy the last few weeks. There is always someone who accidentally explodes the kitchen sink.'
Annabeth laughed, getting flashbacks of that one time Jason and Leo basically exploded the entire kitchen in Camp Half-blood. 'I know what you mean.' Annabeth picked up the menu, and started looking through the different types of cake the restaurant sold. 'You said that this was a good restaurant.' 'Oh, it's great. They have good chocolate cake.' Annabeth pointed at her menu, and wanted to say something, but an waiter came up to their table. 'Girls, would you like to order?' He asked. Sadie nodded. 'For me, one tea with sugar and a piece of chocolate cake please.' Annabeth put down her menu. 'Apple pie with coffee for me, if that is possible.' The ober nodded, took their menus and walked away.
'This is good cake. You were right.' Sadie rolled her eyes. 'Of course. I am pretty much always right.' Annabeth sighed. 'I thought that was my job, being right.' Sadie shrugged. 'Guess you thought wrong.' Annabeth giggled, but soon her smile vanished. 'I feel like there is something nearby.' Sadie straightened her shoulders. 'I feel something too.' Both girls looked around, checking the area. Annabeth waved at the ober. 'The check, please,' she asked, with her head not really by what she was saying.
After the girls payed the bill, they finished their cake, still feeling really on edge. After they were done, Annabeth left a tip for the waiter and they walked outside. 'Where could a monster be hiding in here?' Sadie shrugged again. 'Literally everywhere. One of those dogs might be what we are looking for...' she hadn't even completely finished her sentence, when suddenly one of the dogs started growing and charged towards them. Sadie got her wand out of the Doeat, while Annabeth pulled out her dagger.
Annabeth attacked the monster straight on, while Sadie used her destructive magic. Annabeth got a solid hit in the hellhound's chest, and ducked away just in time before Sadie's hieroglyph hit the monster. It quickly turned into dust, and the girls ran further down the street. 'What was that, and do you think there are more monsters?' Sadie asked her friend. 'That was hellhound, and I am sure there are more monsters around,' Annabeth said.
There were lots and lots of other monsters around, almost all of them Greek, accept for one weird presumably Egyptian monster neither of the girls recognized. After four hellhounds, three harpies and five telchines, Annabeth got exhausted of running around. 'Where do all of these things come from?' She asked to no-one in particular. Yet, a man reacted: 'they would be mine, Young lady.'
He stepped out of the shadows. He smirked villainously, even though he wasn't as good in it as Sadie. Sadie rolled her eyes. 'Are you going to give some long speech about why we should join you on the dark side, or are you just going to attack us?' 'I would like to explain my motivations, if the young ladies don't mind,' the man said through a smirk. 'Actually, I do mind,' Annabeth said, while charging towards the man.
'You know, I came here to get some rest, and this is not what I have in mind when I think of 'rest,' Annabeth went further. She had already worked the man to the ground, while Sadie fended of some weird monsters in the distance. The man growled. 'Sadie, I might need your help!' Annabeth shouted. Her friend came over, and whispered a single word. A blue hieroglyph lighted up before her, and while Annabeth jumped out of the way, the man got trapped in a magical net. He screamed as loud as he could, but it didn't matter. He was caught.
'I am still surprised whenever I see this house, you know,' Annabeth said while she and Sadie were taking to man to a few prison cells downstairs. 'You can't throw me in a cell!' The man whined. 'Of course we can't. We will send you to Egypt first thing tomorrow morning, and they'll figure out what you were trying to with Greek monsters over there,' Sadie explained to him. The man cursed as loud as he could, while the girls walked upstairs again.
'So. Pretty relaxing in the first twenty minutes am I right?' Sadie asked her friend. Annabeth smiled. 'Sure was. We should do this more often.' 'We say that everytime.' 'True.' Annabeth smiled and waved as she walked away. She shook her head when Brooklyn house was out of sight. 'That more pantheons can exist in the same world,' she mumbled to herself as she walked over to Manhattan.