Chapter II

Katya

Carter was taken to a different dormitory as me and Sadie, probably because of his gender. I believe she is not sleeping well. I wanted this all to be over. I wanted to go back to see Percy, Annabeth, and Grover. I made flurries of snow come from my fingertips to relax my nerves. Thanks to Amos I could control it. My mother is Khione, goddess of snow, if I haven't told you yet.

I noticed Sadie staring at me through the darkness.

"You weren't kidding when you said that you had ice magic," I smiled softly at her words. "So, why were you at Brooklyn House?"

"Amos is my uncle," I said oblivious to the fact that we were cousins.

"He's our uncle too," she whispered wary of the young girls sleeping next to us.

"Does that mean we are—"

"Cousins? Yeah," she said.

"Goodnight," I said not wanting to think about it. I don't think that she went to sleep though.

I woke up to Sadie's yelling, apparently Zia doused her with water. Water. Percy. Gods I missed him.

Zia was getting Carter and Sadie ready for training. I was to watch. Zia had them duel each other, personally I thought it was a little dangerous. But I was a demi-god who was I to judge?

I noticed that they were progressing far faster than they should. It only took me two days to master Divine Words—but that was because I was a demi-god, according to Amos. The only other way to advance this fast was to—host gods. We needed to get out of here right now, but without making a scene. How do we do that I wonder?

"The obelisk at the, fool! You have five minutes perhaps less, before Desjardins sends orders for your execution. Flee, and destroy Set, The Demon Days begin at sundown. All portals will stop working. You need to get as close as possible to Set before that happens." Zia's voice snapped me out of my planning to get us out of here. She was ordering us to leave? Good enough for me. I grabbed Carter and Sadie and we ran to the obelisk.

As we were reaching the obelisk we saw a magician step out of the portal. We had to get in that one or else the portal would be locked for the next twelve hours. I kept running my inborn battle reflexes helped with this, and the fact that I was being stupid. I let go of Carter and Sadie's hands and ran faster towards the chanting magician. I kicked myself of the ground, spun in the air and my foot came down on the magician's head successfully knocking him out. I stood up and ran towards the closing portal as Sadie and Carter caught up with me we dove into the portal. We quickly stood up covered in sand and looked around to see Bast.

"That was brilliant!" Sadie turned on me. "The way you leapt in the air and came down on his head. Brilliant! You are brilliant!" I laughed and turned to Bast.

We huddled under a government building. It was terrible weather to be in Paris, it was cold, wet, and gray. Bast healed Carter's chest and they talked about her being back and not dead while I spaced out watching the gray clouds swirl around each other.

Suddenly thunder cracked. And I felt myself disappear.

Carter

I looked over to Katya to see her being sucked into the ground. "Katya!" I exclaimed but was unable to move because of my broken rib.

"What happened?" Bast asked.

"She just—dissolved or something I don't know." Bast nodded.

"Katya has something she must attend to we will meet up later."

Katya

I appeared in The Big House in front of Chiron and Dionysus, I was also uncoordinated being teleported across the globe.

"It has come to the gods' attention that you have been associating yourselves with Egyptians." Chiron began. "This is not acceptable."

"Well, my father's side of my family are magicians, and the world is about to end with the awakening of Set, so…''

"You are to stay here and let your cousins handle it," Mr. D said.

"No!" Said an alarmed Katya. "I been associating myself with magicians for years and the gods don't care! Why should they now?"

"We can't have another Hundred Years' War! What would we do then?" Mr. D said.

"The Hundred Years' War was fought—"

"Between the Egyptian and the Greek gods. We cannot have that happening again," Chiron interrupted. "Ever since it ended the Greeks and Egyptians have had an intense rivalry ever since."

"What if I offered myself up as a mediator between the two? I will come in whenever there is a disagreement against the gods I come in, since I am both."

"That seems agreeable. Yes that will be very good, Mr. D why don't you send this young one home?"

"Wait!" I turned to Chiron. "Can you promise me that me two lives will never meet?" I asked.

"No," he said simply.

"Can you promise me that you will do everything in your power to make sure they do not meet? It could cause war. Which is something we don't need," Chiron nodded and I let myself be transported to Olympus.

Katya