Okay-OH MY GODS, IM SO SORRY! When I said that I wouldn't update for awhile, I didn't mean this long, I am SO sorry! Thanks so much for your reviews, guys! And I have Sadie with me at the moment-and she will hopefully be here next chapter as well.

Sadie- Well, it's about time! You've ignored us and all your lovely readers out there for so long-not to mention that I was bored! Do you want to spend 2 months doing nothing and waiting for all the action?

Me-I said I was sorry! Anyway, it's not my fault I have a terrible memory! And I'm sorry you had to go through two months of boredom, but-

Sadie-Just shut up and start the story!

Me-okay, okay! Because of the long wait, this chapter is extra long, and I'm sorry if Carter is OOC-

Sadie-What does OOC mean?

Me-Out Of Character. So, as I was saying, I'm sorry if I got Carter OOC-

Sadie-HOW DO YOU GET MY BROTHER WRONG? Honestly, just make sure he's boring and he loses at everything, and you're good.

Me-Shut up Sadie

Carter

So, where were we again? Right-when Sadie was talking with her new best friend. [Sadie-you said you wouldn't comment!] Zia was practically dragging them behind her. She cleared her throat, and everyone looked at her. I couldn't help admiring her hair, which she had allowed to grow to her shoulders. She stood up straighter, and opened her mouth. Somehow, I knew that this conversation wouldn't end well.

"Amos has told me important news…for all of you." Then she glanced at the new girl and said "With the exception of Taiza." Ah, I thought, so that's her name. "Anyway…Amos told me to tell you all that…you've already trained here enough. You are all going to school to get proper education, minus the younger initiates. You will be going to the…um, Brooklyn Academy for the Gifted. You're all supposed to use your magic to get in. So…Taiza and I will stay here, I'll train her." With that, she grabbed Taiza's hand and dragged her out of the room. Chaos erupted everywhere. Sadie was taking her anger out on the wall. Alyssa was chucking stones and pieces of clay down the side of the building. I figured that eventually one would hit a mortal, but I left her alone. Walt was angrily punching the wall. Chloe was throwing hieroglyphs at the wall, causing it to have a picture of Amos, upon which Sadie would use her Ha-di spell. (I was starting to pity the wall by now) and me? I was glaring at the scribing bowl. I marched over to it envisioned the First Nome. I figured I would find Amos there, and I was right. And he was talking with Zia. I seriously liked her. She was beautiful, strong, and…completely out of my league. I wished that the shabti had been real, but unfortunately, she was a fake. A fake girl that I had a huge crush on. Now I had to start all over, and so far it was looking like she liked Sadie better than me, even though I had rescued her. I walked out of the room. I was too tired to put up with all the protests…I'd send Amos a message tomorrow…maybe a petition, but I knew that he probably wouldn't change his mind.

As soon as I woke up, I saw Zia. She was holding a bucket of water, which she held with one hand against her hip bone. With her other hand, she was slapping me. SLAP. I sat up instantly, just realizing that I was soaking wet. Her bucket was empty. I blinked a few times to get the water out of my eyes, and then stared at her.

"Hi. [Shut up, Sadie. It was the morning, okay?] So…Why did you wake me up?" She stared at me like I was stupid, which I might have been at that point, but I was still in process of waking up.

"You have school." That was when I woke up. I jumped out of bed and looked around frantically.

"What? It started today? What am I supposed to wear?" Zia raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, it started today. I said that last night…although, now that I think of it, you weren't there anymore. As to what you're wearing…ask Sadie." And with that she walked out of the room. But I did NOT want to go talk to Sadie this early. She wasn't a morning person to start with…I wondered what I should wear when I suddenly remembered what she had said a long time ago. That I looked normal [I don't care if you had said almost! I didn't add that for a reason!]. So I threw on a hoodie and sweats. Then I walked downstairs and into the eating area. All the magicians were bleary-eyed, and I was guessing that I was included. School started WAY too early. I sat down at my spot and just happened to look at Khufu while he was tearing apart mosquitoes and shoving them into his mouth. I had completely just lost my appetite. Then Sadie came in. She didn't look very tired, but she looked mad, and wet. Dripping wet. I was guessing that she had gotten the Zia-wake-up-treatment. She sat down with a thud, then glared at me. I stared at her. What did I do? [No, Sadie, I did not do everything. Now, please shut up.] She had a gold shirt on that said Magicians Rule Mortals. I raised an eyebrow at her. Was she seriously going to wear that shirt to school? She looked at Khufu, and then turned a bit green. He saw her look at him, so he scampered over to her side and put a dead bug on her plate. She leaned away and said

"Khufu…GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!" Khufu looked a bit hurt (if it was possible for baboons to look hurt) and quietly went back to eating his mosquitoes. Suddenly Amos walked in-the last person (magician, whatever) that we wanted to see. As soon as she saw him, Sadie jumped up.

"You!" She glared at him. "You send me to school, ruin my life as a magician, and you have the nerve to show up here? I'm leaving." Then she stormed into the house. It occurred to me that she was right, but that was a bit harsh. Nobody was looking at Amos, and he looked a bit uncomfortable. I felt a bit bad for him, but I avoided his gaze too. Suddenly Walt got up and followed Sadie, not even acknowledging him. I followed suite, as well as the rest of the initiates, leaving Amos by himself to eat breakfast.

The bus ride was terrible. Kids were yelling the entire time, and I had to dodge several wads of gum that were thrown. As soon as I got to school, I was complaining to the principal. And if he didn't listen to me…well, I'm sure I had a spell for that.

Once we got there, we went to the office to get our schedules. Everyone had what they "excelled at" for half the day-which meant that I had Egyptian classes the entire afternoon, since apparently I knew more than the average adult. Not that there was really much more to learn, but I wasn't sure what else to do. Sadie got lucky and had her drama classes for the first half of the day, but what did I get? Math. I sighed as I walked to class; this was going to be a long first day.

At lunch time, everyone ate in the cafeteria. Sadie, from what it looked like, had made a friend and an enemy. She was sitting with a girl who had blond pigtails and braces, which were really shiny. And she was really pretty. Her blond hair shone in the light, and her shirt matched her eyes. Her makeup was perfect, and she walked with a bounce in her step. Sadie was smiling at laughing with her, but every so often she turned her head to glare at another seriously pretty girl. But the other girl looked my age. If you take off all the makeup, of course. She wore skinny jeans and a deep pink shirt that matched her eyes, and I was pretty sure that she had some sort of pink on them. She had a perfect shade of olive skin, and even though her hair was black and frizzy, she had somehow managed to make herself beautiful. She was sitting with some other girls who also looked like they had stepped out of a fashion magazine, and they were ignoring everyone else around them. I was guessing that they were the popular girls here.

I decided to go sit with Sadie since Walt wasn't here yet and I didn't really know anyone else. As I sat down (Sadie ignored me, as usual), but her friend stared at me and grinned widely.

"Hi! I'm Lacy-you must be the brother that Sadie told me about. Carter, right? So, what class do you have?" I glanced at Sadie, then back to Lacy.

"Um…Ancient Egyptian classes." She beamed at me.

"That's cool! I'm in drama with your sister here-by the way, she's so good at it! Did you say Ancient Egyptian-like Ancient Greek? Myths?" I hid a grin before I nodded. But they were only myths to her-to people like us, they were real. A bit to real for my liking though-if they weren't real then my dad wouldn't be recycled right now. He'd be normal.

Just then, Ms. Pink Eyeliner girl came over. Sadie glared at her.

"What do you want, Drew?" Drew smiled at us.

"Why, hon, I just want to make sure that my dear little half-sister is all settled in. With the geeks and snobs, I see." I already didn't like Drew. Inside, I was seething. But that was nothing compared to Sadie, who nearly exploded. Hopefully she wouldn't ha-di Drew. That would end badly.

"And just WHO do you think you are?" Yelled Sadie. The whole cafeteria was quiet. Considering they all knew Drew and how she acted, no one had stood up to her in a long time. Maybe even never. For a moment she looked stunned. Then angry.

"Honey-who do you think you are?" Honestly, If you knew how important I was, then-"

"DREW!" Yelled Lacy. I stared at her. She didn't seem like the type of girl that yelled. "Do NOT say anything! You promised that you wouldn't!" She was practically begging Drew, and she looked super nervous. I didn't know what the big deal was, but she looked like it was the most important thing in the world. Sadie looked at me and shrugged. Then the bell rang. I quickly ran to my next class.

Class was okay, I guess. If you think that re-learning everything that you already have permanently stored in your brain is fun. I could have fallen asleep, but the teacher was really strict and kept yelling at everyone there. Then, just because I wasn't paying attention she wrote some hieroglyphics on the chalk-board, and I could read them, even though that's more Sadie's thing.

On the way back, (we were staying in a hotel for now) Sadie was ignoring me and talking to herself. I caught the words Anubis, hot and dirty shoe. I already knew that she liked Anubis and her feelings and all that, but dirty shoe? I had no idea what she meant. But I'd find out later. For now, I just had homework to do. Yay.

Thanks so much for your reviews, guys! And since I have now read the real Serpent's Shadow, I'm going to have some similarities.

Sadie-Yeah, Carter was OOC. (though I STILL don't know how you do that…)Now, PLEASE-review so that I don't have to spend 2 months waiting for someone to finish making up what's gonna happen! (I also happen to have gotten very good at the ha-di spell…)