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Chapter 2 – Sadie

Carter started hyperventilating as we got nearer to Hades's Cabin... so yeah. It's Sadie. My brother's such a wimp.

And he's too scared to even make a retort to that.

(Shut up.)

Anyways, we finally managed to escape from that Campfire singing thing. I was about to go crazy, cooped up around the flames and singing songs.

The food was good, though. I was told to burn food for Hades because or else he might burn me to a crisp. I didn't doubt it, though it was a bit overrated.

Carter shook a little. "I don't think Hades will like us living in his cabin."

No duh. I stared down at Carter. "I thought you said Chiron made sure he won't explode us?"

"He said he'll try to convince Hades."

I shook my head. "He hasn't killed us yet, and I'll take that as a good sign."

"We haven't stepped into his Cabin yet."

I rolled my eyes, then grinned at Carter. He stared back at me.

I raised an eyebrow. "Well, there's only one way to find out, right?"

Okay, okay. Sorry we took so long to retell the story... though I don't suppose the time period matters that much to you.

Anyways, here's what happened.

Carter, being the chicken he is, lagged behind and insisted he take the recorder as I stepped into the cabin. As soon as I put my first foot in, there was a loud boom and something next to me vaporized.

It was a loud boom. A boom big enough to break a small recorder like ours.

But was it the boom that put our recorder out of order for a while? No.

Carter dropped it.

He freaked, screamed a bunch of Egyptian words, then promptly let go of his hand that was grabbing the recorder.

I always knew he was stupid, and this just proved it.

(Carter, yes, you are stupid. Now stop interrupting.)

Anyways, after I yelled at Carter for dropping our device, I slowly edged my way into the room. I poked my head around the corner and saw Nico sitting on the floor, eyes wide.

"What in Hades was that?" He yelled, "It made me tumble out of my bed!"

Now, facing a death god's son who happens to be the Ghost King, I shouldn't have done what I did. But me, being Sadie Kane, a powerful sorceress, did exactly what I did.

I started laughing.

Like, seriously laughing. Laughing so hard that even Carter, the chicken, poked his head in to see what that was all about.

By this time I was already rolling on the floor, tears slowly dripping from my eyes as I let out large guffaws. Nico stared at me as I pointed at him and tried to speak.

The tips of his ears turned red. I finally caught my breath and looked at Nico. "Sorry."

Nico scowled at me. I grinned back.

"So." I said, looking around. "There's three... bunk beds."

Nico nodded stiffly.

"I guessing we each choose one." I said, ignoring his pointed glares. I jumped on one near the corner. "I choose this one!"

Nico stared at me. "That's mine."

I shrugged. "Why, you want to share a bunk?"

Nico's mouth parted a little. "No." He said quickly.

I grinned as he grumbled a bunch of curses and grabbed his stuff. He eyed me with a glare just as Carter tentatively stepped in. My brother surveyed the mess around him and swallowed.

"This is... your cabin?" He asked Nico. Nico nodded.

"Yeah." He said. "You guys will be staying here. You can have that bunk, and Sadie here..."

I smirked at him as he glared at me once more then licked his lips. "Sadie, your idiotic sister here, will be staying in the bunk she is sitting on."

I glared at him. "Yes."

Carter looked away, fiddling with his thumbs. He glanced outside at the dark clouds and shivered.

"So, we sleep now?" He asked.

"No." Me and Nico said at the same time. We glared at each other and Nico continued.

"Of course not. We explore outside. Night is a child of Hades's favorite time of the day, after all."

"Aren't we breaking the rules?" Carter muttered as we walked silently through the forest, breathing heavily after a close run-in with the harpies. Nico was ahead, his footsteps so light you could barely hear them.

"Yeah, and that just makes it worthwhile." I answered without glancing back at him. Carter huffed.

"Where are we?" He asked Nico. Nico shrugged.

"The forest in our camp. It's where we do some of our training and stuff. The monsters live here."

Even under only the pale moonlight, I could see Carter gulp and his eyes widen.

Wimp. I patted Carter's shoulder.

"Don't worry. You have your younger sister here to protect you."

Carter glared at me. "I can protect myself perfectly fine. Remember I-"

He stopped himself just in time.

Nico glance back curiously at us. Ah, so he was listening. "Remember you what?"

Carter shot me a panicked glance. "Remember I... I beat you at... poker last time, Sadie!"

"No you didn't."

Nico cleared his throat. "What does that have to do with protecting yourself?"

"Look!" I interrupted quickly. "There!"

I pointed at a random bush. As Nico glanced at me, I pretended to inspect the bush closer.

And saw a pair of red, glowing eyes.

"Ah!" I heard Carter jump back as he, too, saw the eyes.

Nico turned to look at the bush. Then his eyes widened and he cursed.

He touched his finger and made a twisting motion. I looked at his had and realized he had a ring on.

The ring turned into a sword. The hilt was black and so was the blade, and it gave off a eerie ring. Nico slashed at the bush.

Something sprung out. It hissed, and suddenly there were a thousand other hisses mirroring it. I looked to the ground, where the hiss was coming from, and jumped.

At least a thousand spiders were crawling at our feet. They all had glowing red eyes and their bodies were a least as big as a tennis ball, if not bigger. The snarled at me.

Carter reached into his bag, which I hadn't even realized he brought with him. He met my eyes and we had a silent agreement.

Protecting our lives was more important than our secret told to Nico. At least we were the only people in the forest, right now, I hope. I didn't think any other people would be out here in the dead of the night.

I took my wand out of my pocket. Pointing it at the spiders, I drew in the air, golden lines tracing the path of my fingers.

"Ha-di!" I yelled. There was a light then a boom as the spiders exploded. Some of their internal organs rained down on my hair and I glanced at it, disgusted.

"Ugh." Carter spat out a hairy leg. "Ew."

Nico had spiders parts dripping from his hair, but he didn't seem to notice. He stared at me.

"Who are you?"

We were sitting on our bunk beds, relaying to Nico about the story of our lives.

I no longer had spider guts stuck to my hair and I was in a fresh change of clothing. Nico was listening with his eyes wide, but he didn't look as surprised as Annabeth.

"Oh." He said after we finished talking, and I swore I heard him mutter 'Romans'.

For some reason, that 'oh' got me offended.

"Oh?" My voice was raised from talking so much. "We tell you the entire story of you lives and you say 'oh?'"

Nico blinked. "What do you want me to say, then?"

I let out a groan of frustration. "You know what, forget it."

Carter cut in. "Wait, Nico, you do know that you can't tell anyone about us, right?"

"Yes." Nico sighed and buried his head in his pillow, leaving me to stare at his spider filled hair. "They would freak. Does anyone else know?"

I shrugged. "Annabeth, Chiron, and Mr.D."

Nico sagged.

"Though after the green and black amulets appeared on our heads, I would think they could be suspicious."

Nico shook his head. "No, we don't study egyptian here. They won't know." Then he turned to Carter. "Hey, how come you know Greek?"

Carter looked at him sheepishly. "My dad taught me a little about it."

"Good." Nico nodded. "Teach your sister about it. She needs to know, or it would be weird."

I glared at him.

"Well." Nico said, standing up and stretching. "We should get to sleep."

I nodded half-heartedly. Carter shrugged.

"But," Nico added as an afterthought, making a face. "I need to get these spider things out of my hair first."

Thank you for your reviews! Now, I need to ask a question, and I need you guys to answer.

Do you guys like the Carter point of view better or the Sadie?

No really, I need your point of views.

Anyways, here are the individual thanks!

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Alejandrita0202 – Thanks! Haha yeah, I normally choose week-ends to update. School days means I have work.

Mothholder ()- Heehee. Sadie is a stubborn one. She wants a bunk, she gets it.

Kaitie85386 – Thanks! Like I said, I usually update on week-ends.

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