Annabeth walked through New York like she was walking down the catwalk. She had no idea what made her feel so incredibly self assured, but if you felt like that, what else to do with it than profit? She put her hand out to an oncoming taxi, which stopped a little farther ahead. 'Where do you want to go to, ma'am?'

'Brooklyn,' was her answer.

As soon as the taxi dropped her off in front of Brooklyn house (The taxi chauffeur had given her a very weird look when she asked to be dropped off in front of a destroyed building, but he couldn't know it was secretly a magic hide-out), the door flew open.

'Hello, I basically felt your presence from a mile away,' Sadie Kane said. She leaned against the door frame. Annabeth rolled her eyes.

'Yeah, sure, it's not because I send you a text a few minutes ago,' Annabeth answered. She walked to the door. Sadie pouted. 'I already realised you were coming before that.'

'Sure. Can I have a cup of coffee?' Annabeth asked, completely disregarding Sadie.

'So, there was an issue and you wanted my help,' Annabeth summarised. Sadie nodded. Carter walked into the room with a platter filled with coffeecups, teacups and sweets. 'Not just any issue, there is an issue in the first nome, in Egypt,' Sadie remarked. She wiggled her eyebrows.

'Is there any particular reason why you want me of all people to help?'

'There is, but I am first going to explain what is wrong...'

'We could really make use of your critical thinking skills,' Carter talked over his sister. Sadie gave him an angry look. 'Didn't you have a date with Zia?'

'No. So, Annabeth, something is wrong in the first nome,' Carter said, while picking up a cup of tea.

'Yes, and it is very dire situation,' Sadie continued.

'Shut up, Sadie. Amos called us yesterday. Something went missing from the...'

Out of nowhere, a bowl filled with a small layer of water lit up. Amos face appeared. 'Carter! Sadie! Hurry up!' Annabeth sighed deeply and sunk back into the couch. This was going to take some time.

'Amos! We were just talking to Annabeth about the case! We just...'

'No time. Your servants are right outside with the boat. Come here.' He disappeared. Sadie grumbled, grabbed a cookie from the almost untouched plate with food and stood up. 'We'll tell you on the way, Annabeth.' Annabeth shrugged.

'Wouldn't be the first time somebody told me last minute what was expected of me.' She got a scone from the plate and followed her friends outside.

Amos was standing in the room of ages when they walked inside. He was staring at a blue area. Carter let out a yelp, ran up to him and pulled him away. 'Amos! That's dangerous!' Amos looked at him. 'Eh, yeah, it is. But I was trying to find some clues.'

'By maybe being consumed by the wall of ages?'

'It is very important, Carter.' Annabeth coughed.

'Can I please get an explanation that is more detailed than 'Someone important is gone?'' Amos took a deep breath.

'About fifteen years ago, the most powerful magician disappeared...'

'Fifteen years ago!? Why are you beginning with searching right now!?' Sadie exclaimed. Amos gave her a sweet smile that very clearly meant 'darling if you don't shut up right now I'll send you back to Brooklyn.' Sadie understood it.

'We had given her up, to be honest. It made the other magicians afraid, how someone with that power could just dissappear. Yet, now knew signals have reached us. I and a few other people from the first nome have been tracking those signals, but we need people to start and follow them.'

'Alright, I get it,' Annabeth said, although it sounded more like a sigh. 'You want us to go find some person that went missing fifteen years ago. What do we need, is this the whole search party and when do we leave?' Amos snickered.

'I can hear the excitement in your voice, Annabeth. And to answer your questions, we have prepared survival packs, Zia is getting ready a few rooms over and as soon as possible,' Annabeth took a deep breath. She looked at Carter and Sadie. 'Let's do it, then.'

A few hours later, they were walking around an underground tunnel. Zia held her wand in front of them, with a small light on the top. Annabeth was holding the walky talky to her ear. 'Alright, keep going forward...' Amos mused.

'What other direction can we take, Amos?' Sadie asked. Amos sighed.

'Sadie, what if there was a secret door to your right?' Sadie didn't answer to that. Carter stifled a giggle, which him immediately regretted when she pushed him. Carter tried to push her back. This would have become a war in a small tunnel if Zia hadn't turned around to look them dead in the eye and tell them to save it for when they were back in Brooklyn Mansion. They listened, because when Zia is serious about something you listen if you know what is good for you.

The hallway ended in a room about the size of a classroom, except it was round. Zia held her wand higher in the air. 'Amos? What can you see?' Annabeth asked. She heard Amos sigh.

'We can see a few hidden hallways behind the walls. Be careful, we don't...'

'HA-DI!' Sadie yelled, before Amos could finish that sentence. The walls fell down. Carter was already running back into the hallway, but it wasn't necessary - there were no chain reactions, there just appeared four hallways.

'Alright, it worked, so whatever. Which one do we take?' Annabeth slowly said. Amos answered to Annabeth's question: 'We can advise you to walk into the second hallway. We get a really strong signal from that part of the construction...'

'So we walk right into the Lions' mouth?' Carter asked.

'...If you want to see it like that. We remember this specific type of magic as hers'.'

'I can't sense it. I can only sense something from the fourth hallway. Wouldn't I feel the magic if she was really powerful?' Annabeth asked. There was silence on the other side of the line. She made eye contact with Sadie. She was clearly thinking 'I would believe you over Amos any day.' She grinned and looked at Zia and Carter, who were seemingly thinking the same, even though Zia looked like she wasn't sure. Together, they walked into the fourth hallway, just like annabeth said.

'What are you doing!?' Amos screeched.

'Trackers can be hacked, my monster senses can't,' Annabeth answered. Amos sighed deeply. Annabeth snickered. 'Man, all people who work with children in the devine world sigh often,' she whispered to the others. Carter and Sadie laughed. Zia sniffed.

'I can feel the magic getting closer,' she muttered. The other three looked at her. Her eyes were shining a little. Annabeth leaned closer to Carter. 'Is that normal?'

'With Zia, almost everything is normal. You'll get used to it.' Annabeth shrugged. She had heard of weirder things and besides, she felt the magic getting closer to.

'Zia, are you sure that we are getting closer?' Sadie asked after fifteen minutes of walking straight ahead.

'I am wondering that too,' Amos said through the Phone. Zia got a dark expression on her face.

'Annabeth was right about this hallway. I can feel it.' Carter and Annabeth nodded.

'I think she's right,' Carter answered. Amos and Sadie didn't respond.

Ten boring minutes later, they hit a roadblock; literally, because there was a magical force field right in front of them, which they sadly only noticed when Carter walked into it. Zia tried to cast a spell to break it - but nothing happened.

Zia's mouth opened a little. 'Wait.' She tried to cast the spell again. 'Stop, why... why doesn't it work?' She sounded like that never happened to her. Annabeth looked around.

'Hm. The magic is really strong...' she muttered. She rummaged through her pocket for a moment, before she found a small rock. She threw it through the hallway. It went straight through the place where the force field should be as well. 'Huh. How does that work?'

'No idea,' Sadie said, truthfully. Zia licked her lips. 'This works different to anything else I have ever seen...' she gasped and pointed at the hallway. Carter, Sadie and Annabeth looked over.

The hallway on the other side of the force field expanded. The back of the hallway lit up. The light had a pretty blue shade. A stairway rose up. On the top, a throne grew out of the ground.

Zia held her wand way to close to her body. 'What...' Carter laid a hand on her shoulder.

Annabeth bit her lip. Sadie grabbed her hand.

In the back of the room, a long and slender woman appeared. She had a sword by her side like Carters,' except that it was glowing in the same shade of blue as the room. 'She totally put a spell on her sword, right?' Sadie whispered to the rest of the group. 'That's... difficult, right?' Zia nodded.

'Yes, because our swords are usually already magical,' she whispered.

The woman walked to the middle of the room. She had one of her hands on her hip, the other one hovered dangerously close to her sword.

When she was halfway through the room, she stopped walking. She folded her arms in front of her chest. 'What are you... children doing here?'

'We... eh... are trying to find someone...' Carter stammered.

'Hey! There is someone standing in front of you, isn't there... Wait, that's her!' Amos yelled straight into Annabeths' ear.

The woman seemed to have heard it too. She straightened her back. 'Is that Amos Kane talking?' She asked. Her voice was affirmative, but her expression softend a little. Maybe because of Amos. Annabeth gave her one nod. The woman gave her a small smile.

'Can you ask me if he knows how to get me out?'

Annabeth gawked at her for a few seconds, before repeating the question to Amos. Amos stayed silent for a few minutes, which, even though really refreshing, wasn't the answer Annabeth wanted. '... Eh, we have a plan, maybe. Zia, Carter, Sadie, can you try hitting it with a destruction spell all at once? Annabeth, stand back, please...'

Annabeth rolled her eyes and turned around. Amos' plan was so easy that it had to work. She walked a little further into the hallway while it sounded like the magicians set off a nuke behind her. She turned around when the rumbling died down.

The woman was now leaning on Carter and Zia. She was trembling.

'How... how far is it?' She mumbled.

'... About thirty minutes. Can you manage that?'

'...I will have to.'

'Now that I think about it, it was weird that you managed to get that force field down so easily. I mean, how strong can you be combined?' Annabeth asked later on, when they were sitting in front of the women's room, waiting for the doctors' report on her health.

'Horus, Isis and Nephthys. At least, I felt Isis' presence in my head,' Sadie answered, before taking a sip of her tea.

'Why would they help?'

Sadie shrugged. 'Maybe she was that important.'

'Than why didn't the gods help her earlier? Force other vessels to go?'

Zia shrugged. 'Annabeth, I know you are the daughter of the goddess of Wisdom and want to know things and all, but we don't know either, all right?' Annabeth took a deep breath.

'Yeah, alright. Well, we'll figure it out, won't we?' It stayed quiet for a few minutes.

Carter coughed. 'Who, eh... Who is the man who is staring at us?' He pointed at the pillar behind Annabeth. Annabeth turned around. Arnaldo was staring at them from behind the pillar.

Annabeth jumped up. 'What are you...' Arnaldo ran away before she could finish her sentence. Annabeth rolled her eyes and sat down again. 'He's no-one. Now, about her magic...'