There, guys! Chapter seven! And since nobody sent me an OC, then congratulations, Vans321, your OC is introduced in here!

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Disclaimer: I'm not an old man, nor am I named Rick, so I definitely do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or the Kane Chronicles! *sigh*

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"This council is in order." Zeus said formally.

In truth, I was a little miffed that he called this today. I was just about to recreate my game room in Atlantis when an Iris message appeared and stated: "Zeus calls for a meeting. All gods shall be present."

"What is it, brother?" asked Hades from his throne. Like me, he had an annoyed expression all over his face. A lot of other gods, namely Athena, Artemis, and Demeter were curious as to why would my brother do this in the first place. Couldn't he have waited at the solstice?

"Dionysus here," he gestured to the god of wine, "has told me something…only a stupid son of that idiot barnacle-beard could do, as he put it. Now, tell us what it is. I still have an appointment with Gracie-" he got a dirty look from Hera.

"What was that, dear husband?" she asked, smiling, but it didn't reach her eyes. He looked at me for support, but only found rage in my eyes. How dare ha call my son, and more importantly me, stupid? It takes wisdom to control all of the raging waters of the earth, you know!

"Um, er- Dionysus?" Zeus said stupidly.

"Oh yes, well it seems that you son, Poseidon, has found a two young magicians, specifically a brother and sister, and brought them to camp. Well, as you can imagine, it caused quite a stir." He informed.

I looked at him strangely. "So Perseus brought two a son and a daughter of Hecate in the camp. That bothers you?"

Dionysus shook his head. "No, not Hecate's. The ah, how should I put this, other kind of magicians."

It took me a while to process what he just said. My son couldn't be that stupid, could he? Inviting Egyptians to a Greek camp was just like declaring a war on their Pantheon.

I gazed all around the room, and as I expected, All the gods had the same expression as I have: confusion.

Hades looked the worst. He sighed, and slumped into his throne. "If this starts another war, I'm not collecting any more souls."

Ares, on the other hand, looked like an excited puppy at the word war. Typical. "Yeah! Come on guys. Let's bust some Egyptian heads!" He took out his sword, and swung it in an infinity symbol. He licked his lips in anticipation.

"Not so fast, Ares." Zeus grumbled. He sighed, and massaged his temple. Clearly, he had enough of Ares' antics as I have. "I don't need another war. And from what I have heard, they don't either."

"But, it's war! They would have done it!" Ares protested.

"Stop it, son." Hera chided.

"But mother!" Ares whined.

Hera glared at him. He shut up.

Zeus looked at the entire council. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but Ares has a point. Even though we may want peace, the Egyptians will attack in a heartbeat, unless we come to an understanding."

"And unless we solve this problem, another war is a possibility." Athena added.

"So let's ask them." Artemis advised.

Zeus raised his hand, chanting in Ancient Greek, and the glowing forms of Horus and Isis appeared.

"Long time no see, Zeus." Horus said happily. He winked at Athena, who turned beet red. I snickered.

I couldn't possibly let this one slide. "Ooh, does Athena have a crush on Horus?" I cooed.

She glared at me murderously. "Say that again." She said through gritted teeth.

"YOU LOVE HIM! YOU SO LOVE HIM! HA!" I yelled in her face.

"Come here, you! I'm going to kill you!" she threatened, chasing me out of the throne room.

"I'm a god, Owl-head! I can't die! For a goddess of wisdom, THAT WAS IDIOTIC!" I rubbed in her face.

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Ugh. For gods, they act like children sometimes.

Horus and Isis watched in amusement as our goddess of wisdom chased the god of the sea out of the throne room, brandishing a celestial bronze sword and calling him names that I wouldn't dare repeat.

"So…that was entertaining." Horus commented.

"Ignore them. Right now, we have more pressing matters at hand. Two of your magicians seems to have,…trespassed on our territory." I explained.

Isis nodded in understanding. "We know. They are…were, our hosts." She raised her hands, and suddenly two images, one of a boy and one of a girl, appeared floating in the air. "Carter Kane and her sister, Sadie. They study the path of the gods, as well as try to bring back Ma'at, or order, back to the duat."

"They are the House of Life's future." Horus agreed. "I felt the boy's power while he was my eye."

"I felt the girl's too, and it was more powerful than your host's." Isis stated.

"No, carter's more powerful." Horus insisted.

"No, Sadie."

"Carter."

"Sadie."

"Carter."

"Sadie."

"Sadie."

Isis smiled smugly. "See, even you agree with me!"

Horus stared at her in shock. "But, wha- you were supposed to say Carter!" he whined.

"Sorry, son. But those cheap tricks won't work on me." Isis chided.

"Enough!" I ordered. "Look, let's just get to the point. We do not need another war-"

"As do we." Horus interrupted.

I glared at him in anger. "Do not interrupt me, hawk-face, when I'm talking."

"Hawk-face." Isis mused.

Horus looked like he didn't know whom he was going to be angry at, me or Isis.

I cleared my throat loudly, catching their attention. "As I was saying, we do not need another war, and Horus here-" I glared at him again. "-just said that you didn't, either. Now, we will not attack, trick, or capture your magicians in any way, art, or form, as long as you swear to the Styx that you shall not attack us."

"I, Horus, god of war, and the Avenger, swear." Horus agreed.

"As do I." Isis agreed as well.

"Perfect. Then we have an understanding." I said.

Both of them nodded their heads, and left without another word.

Dionysus stood up. "Well then, I shall tell Chiron. We'll keep those children after all" he grumbled.

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That night, I dreamed of Sadie.

We were sitting side by side on the beach. (cliché, I know). She was leaning against me, her head resting on my chest. I was hugging her waist with one arm, and stroking her beautiful hair with another.

"Nico?" she asked.

"Hmm?"

"I love you."

Just as were about to kiss, I was rudely awakened by a wet feeling in my hands. I jumped out of bed on instinct, and saw my clothes floating beside me. I rubbed my eyes, thinking I must still be sleepy, but when gazed around my entire cabin again, I yelled so loud everybody at camp must've heard.

My entire cabin was swimming, literally. Water was seeping into the windows, and my entire cabin was already filled with about three feet of water. My pants and shirt, which I discarded on the ground last night, were floating right beside my bed. The fridge that I used for keeping food for summoning the dead, and occasionally, hiding from someone I pranked, was open, and all the food inside was floating in the water.

"What in dad's name is going on here?" I yelled at nobody in particular. I grabbed my jeans, which was soaked, and put it on. I didn't bother trying to find another pain since I was pretty sure all my clothes were soaked. I put on my shirt, lifted one of the windows, and got blasted in the face with a torrent of water.

I closed the window as fast as I could. Still sputtering, I shadow traveled to cabin three, where Percy and Annabeth were busy making out. Eww.

"What in dad's name was that for!" I demanded. Percy and Annabeth broke their kiss, still gazing into each other's eyes, and said in unison, "What?"

"My cabin is filled with water!" I yelled. I gestured to my soaking clothes. "Percy, I know you did this!" I accused.

"Me?" Percy asked.

"Yes, you!" I pointed a finger at him. "Who else could've flooded my entire cabin in less than a night?"

"Yeah? Well our cabins were filled with skeletons last night, and you don't see me accusing you." Percy said dreamily, still staring at Annabeth's face.

"Agh!You two are impossible! I hope you drive each other mad!" I stomped out of his cabin, muttering a few curses.

As I walked back to my cabin, what met my eyes made me pale. My cabin was freaking gone!

"What the-" I started to say. Then, I heard two campers talking about a cabin on the lake, and I ran full speed towards the lake.

A crowd of people greeted me, along with Sadie. Just seeing her almost made my anger go away. Almost.

"Hey, death boy. You didn't tell me you were moving in the lake." she greeted me. "But what made you put your cabin three feet under the lake, I wonder…" she pondered.

"What?" I asked, confused.

"wait, you mean you didn't do it? Come on, see for yourself, then." She pulled my hand towards the lake.

"Of course I didn't do it! I'm not a son of Poseidon!" I grumbled.

When I saw my cabin, I didn't know if I was going to kill Annabeth or Percy. It was submerged deeply in the lake, with only the roof jutting above the water. An ingenious plan, which I doubt Percy could've thought of himself. This one has Annabeth written all over it.

I just sighed, and shook my head.

"Come on, Nic. Just do you activities. We'll handle your cabin." Sadie whispered in my ear, and pushed me away.

You would think that I would refuse to go, and offer to help, but with Sadie, there is no arguing. I left and did all my camp activities, still in my sopping wet clothes. Thank dad that I didn't get hypothermia.

That afternoon, I finished all my activities early, so I had more free time than usual. I was really excited to spend my day with Sadie. I mean, I never felt happy like this, except that time when we got out of Westover Hall, and I learned that I was a demigod.

I saw her in the archery range, talking with a guy. As I got closer, my heart nearly skipped a beat. She was talking to Cade Parker. My hairs stood on end. I rushed over to them, where Cade was in the middle of telling a joke to Sadie.

"-so Apollo said to Artemis…oh hi Nico." he smiled at me. I gave him one of my famous death glares, which some say rivals Thalia's. Cade and I were naturally enemies. He full out hates me. Once, he even accidentally shot me with an arrow. I sword arm was paralyzed for weeks because of that.

But is that the reason I hated him to be with Sadie? No.

See, Cade has this reputation with him. Although I hated to admit it, he was pretty handsome, with his golden brown hair, tannish skin, gold brown eyes and muscular build, like all the guys her at camp who actually trained. That brought many of the girls here to come flocking to him, naturally. Daughter of Aphrodite, Demeter, and even Athena were always drawn to him.

But what made me hate him was the fact that all of the girls that he ever dated, mysteriously disappeared after a few weeks of dating him. Being the son of the god of the dead, I felt all of their souls depart to the underworld, and all of them only have one emotion: betrayal.

I've never proved it, but I think that he was somehow linked to all those disappearances. But Chiron, Percy, Annabeth, and everybody else didn't even believe me.

"Oh, hi Nico. Do you know Cade?" she asked me sweetly.

"Yeah." I said as coolly as I could. "We've met."

Sadie stood up, much to my relief, and linked her arms to mine. "Bye Cade. See you later." She waved him goodbye.

As we walked away, I sneaked a peek at his expression, expecting to see jealousy or disappointment. Instead, I saw anger. Anger and rage. His eyes were trained on Sadie, like she was his ultimate prize.

"What was that about? The moment you saw him, your eyes turned all moody." She asked.

"Nothing, Sadie. He just has a very…disturbing reputation with girls that he talks to. Don't worry about it." I told her. She just nodded.

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What was that? I asked myself. What disturbing reputation?

I made a mental note to ask Annabeth about that later.

That's it! Tell me what you think, and review!

Anyway, I just finished reading the Serpent's Shadow today, so I was really inspired to write this chapter. Rick Riordan is just flat out AMAZING! Don't you think?