Okay-so…it wasn't TWO months…more like one…but-

Sadie-AAAAAGH! Did I not tell you to NOT leave me here by myself for a month?

Me-No. You said two months.

Sadie-Well, I meant one month! Besides-do you know how bored I was? I-

Me-Sadie! We already went through this.

Sadie-It doesn't change the fact that I was bored. Thank you readers for not having me wait for TWO months, and I'm quite sure that as soon as athena grl got your reviews she tried to update, but-

Me-I'M SORRY! I was on vacation! I couldn't update, even though I wanted to!

Sadie-yeah, right. Just get on with the story already. And the author would probably like to thank you for reviewing (I'm sure that she's surprised by all the reviews that she's got)

Carter

Fortunately, I got all my homework done pretty quickly. Unfortunately, after everyone got their homework done, they were bored. And trust me; you do not want to meet bored magicians. It ends badly. It doesn't matter what circumstances there are, they end badly. So, I was trying to break up a fight between Walt and another one of the initiates, (I'm pretty sure her name was Zoe) since for some reason she blamed him for eating her homework. Why, I don't know. Walt would never even take someone else's things unless it was important, much less eat them.

So anyway, I stepped in between them, trying to prevent Zoe from throwing a snow ball at him. It worked. Instead of hitting Walt in the face, it hit me. Mostly in my mouth since I was trying to talk at the moment.

Immediately my mouth felt frozen. My tongue started going numb and my teeth burned. I started spitting out snow and yelling, trying to get my mouth warmer. I know, I know, I was probably over-reacting a bit, but I had never eaten snow before, and it was much colder than I thought that it would be.

By this time, the other magicians were gathering around, trying to see what the commotion was. Sadie's head looked soaking wet, and Jaz had tiny little bits of fabric caught in her hair. I had suspected that Jaz had thrown a bucket of water on Sadie, which Sadie had replied with ha-di.

Felix had an army of penguins following him, and our librarian, Cleo, was looking very mad. She was currently yelling at one of our other initiates, something about wrecking a book. I was surprised that Cleo was yelling, usually she's shy and quiet, but she's also very protective about books. Don't ask me why.

Shelby and the other ankle-biters were running around, waving pictures in the air. I was a bit concerned, since Shelby is able to create things by drawing them, so you can understand my reason for being nervous.

After Sadie saw what was going on, she spoke a spell-somethingthaticantremember- and everyone went to their rooms to go to sleep. I ignored it, even though my eyes were getting heavy. Then she said hi-nehm and all the mess that we made vanished, leaving the room orderly and neat.

"Sadie…why did you use the ha-di spell on Jaz?" I said sleepily. She rolled her eyes.

"Brother dear, just go to sleep. Pleasant dreams!" And that was when I blacked out.

The first thing I saw when I woke up was a pillow. On my face. I threw the pillow off my head and looked around. Nobody was up yet, although it looked like school was going to start soon…I looked at the clock on the wall. 8:30 a.m.

I threw my blankets off, and for the first time realized that I was in the 'living room' and on the couch. I jumped up and quickly ate breakfast (which consisted of Fruit Loops and Oreos) and then woke everyone else up. Sadie wouldn't get up (surprise, surprise) so we all just left without her.

Later, after school was out, we were all on the way home chatting and laughing, when the bus skidded to a stop. Everyone pitched forwards, banging their heads on the seat in front. We then proceeded to spin a 360 before resting at an odd angle in the middle of the road. I didn't know what was happening, until I heard a scream. Then another, and another, until all the mortals outside the bus were screaming and pointing at the roof.

"HUMMINGBIRD!" Someone yelled. "GIANT HUMMINGBIRD!" Then they were all screaming about a giant hummingbird. I started to get an idea in my head about what it might be. But it couldn't be-

"FREEEEEEEEAAAAAK!" I groaned. Freak? What was he doing here?

I ran up as fast as I could, opened the door and hopped out. There he was, using the roof of the bus as a nest.

"Freak! Why are you here?" He yelled at me one more time, then jumped down and nudged his head against me, almost making me fall down.

I steadied myself, and then realized that maybe he wanted me to climb on his back. So I hoisted myself up, and before I had the chance to hold on to something, he flew up into the sky.

At the Brooklyn House, Sadie's new friend was waiting for us. [Sadie says that her name is Taiza. Well then, good for Taiza.] As I got closer, I could make out her brown hair and her impatient frown. So far, she didn't seem very nice.

"Well, it's about time!" She called up to me. I really didn't know how to react to that comment, but she just kept talking. "Alright. So, Amos is in trouble, Zia's disappeared and Bast is…let's just say, she's great company." At the news of Zia, my heart almost stopped [And no, Sadie, it didn't actually stop, so stop smiling]. After all that work that I'd done to save her, she just…disappeared? What if she really did send me a distress sign in a potato? Nobody would believe me after last time…And now Amos. What had happened? And now I'd have disappeared from the rest of the magicians…oh, great. Well, this would take a long time to figure out.

One-no, two more things. I got a review from "Rick Riordan" But I don't know if that's actually from him, or somebody pretending to be him. I'm guessing the latter, but I really don't know. I think it says on his web site that he doesn't read fanfics so that if he sees an idea that he likes, he won't write in his book and that person that he got it from…well, you get the idea. But he's already published the Serpent's Shadow (which is really good) so I don't know…and I doubt I ever will. But who knows? And also…PLZ REVIEW! (And this time I won't make you guys wait for a month)

Sadie-Yes, review! I REALLY don't want to have to spend another month with my brother. Honestly, do you think its fun? I don't!