This is going to be fun... (*evil laugh*)
Chapter 4: I Blow up a Toilet
Sadie led me into a large, gym-like room. "So, what do you want me to do?" I asked cautiously as Sadie stood with her back towards me under a basketball hoop.
She whipped around, wand in hand, with a slightly crazed smile. "Defend yourself!" she yelled as the tip of her ivory wand glowed.
Realizing that her methods of teaching were slightly un-orthodox, I did the smart thing and ducked as she shot a beam of electricity towards me. Laughing, she shook her wand and walls began to encase me. I bounced up two sides and jump over the barrier.
I held my hands up in a T. "Time out! How is this going to help me?!" I yelled.
Sadie, thankfully, stopped and explained. "You see, since we defeated chaos, the gods are driven back. But, they are still here, in part, in chosen magicians around the world, probably because there will always be chaos, even though we are not sure what it is. The thing is, godly qualities most commonly show up during battle, as it gives them purpose to show up. Once we figure out who is trying to merge with you, we can train in a more orthodox way. Until then…"
She raised her wand and hieroglyphics appeared on the floor, breaking the tiles away from my feet. I leaped up in the air landed on Sadie's back. "Impressive," she mumbled as she faded into the floor and reappeared above me. "But not good enough."
Without thinking, I thrashed my body and twisted towards Sadie, grabbing her shirt and pulling her up under me. She jumped to her feet, but I sank down and swept my feet under her. However, she mumbled a few words and a figurine of a lion in the corner grew and came to life.
Growling, it pounced on me, driving me hard into the cracking flooring. As I struggled to keep the lion's spit-covered fangs off of me, I felt a small spark down inside me. A gentle force pushed me to reach into the Duat, which I rarely did. Somehow, I found something and pulled it out. Suddenly, a five foot bronze staff with a slightly curved and pointed end found its way into my grip.
"She-wah!" I yelled. Bluish-green hieroglyphics appeared on my hands and up the staff. As soon as I said it, a blue current swept through the room and hit the lion. The lion fell to the ground hard, but to my amazement, it started to snore.
"Good job!" spoke Sadie, "Try to keep going!" She hurled herself at me in a blinding light. I tried to speak something, but a lump got caught in my throat; the staff felt like dead-weight, but felt strangely comfortable in my hands. I hefted the staff up like a spear and jabbed Sadie in the ribs with the butt of it.
She managed to land on her feet, however, and was at my neck in a heartbeat, grasping me in a choke-hold. But I was past thinking about my next move, almost instinctively, I reached out and flipped her over me, switching the staff to my left hand, and pointed the pointed side at Sadie, placing my foot on her heaving chest.
But she wasn't ready to give up yet, because she swiped her wand across the air and I began to float aimlessly away. As soon as I left the ground, true panic rose in my throat. I frantically tried to think of something to do, but I was interrupted by a tug at my gut. It tugged harder and harder the higher I went, closer to the…water pipes.
Without knowing exactly what I was doing, I thrust my hand towards the pipes, and then swiped it downward. As if on command, the pipes exploded, shooting water right towards Sadie, knocking the wand straight out of her hand. Unfortunately, I was successful, as I soon began to fall.
I braced myself for impact, but gladly found myself falling into a wave of water. When I got to my feet and the adrenaline slowed down, the water fell flat and started to leak off. "What was…?" I started to say as a boy burst into the gym, dripping wet.
"SADIE!" he yelled, "What could you possibly have been doing to cause the toilet to explode!"
She hauled herself up. "Don't get your knickers in a twist, Carter, the new recruit and I were just sparring a little. Wait, the toilet blew up while you were on it?" Sadie stifled a laugh.
Carter glared at her. "It's not funny." He stared at Sadie a little harder.
I just realized that I soaked the king of the gods in toilet water. "Sorry," I mumbled apologetically.
Carter tore his glare off of Sadie, and turned his attention towards me. "Oh yeah," he snapped his fingers. "You were the one Sadie picked up earlier! Do you know your path?"
"Umm…" I had no idea. Luckily, Sadie answered before I embarrassed myself further.
"I believe that she is following the path of Nepthys, though it's just a hunch ," Sadie stated, looking at the sleeping lion and the trickling water steadily falling from the busted pipes.
Curious, I silently listened to her. Nepthys was one of the Demon Day gods, born on the fifth day. She was the goddess of sleep, death and lamentation, and known as the Lady of the Night. Nepthys was a river goddess, goddess of the Nile, as well. Other than that, not much was known about her.
"What? Did she choose to follow that path?" Carter questioned, strangely interested.
Before Sadie could answer, I did. "No, I didn't. I honestly don't how I did that stuff," I shrugged, glancing over the mess in the gym.
Carter furrowed his eyebrows, slightly troubled. "Are the gods returning?" he whispered quietly, mainly talking to himself. "Well, I better dry off now," he announced, turning on his heels to walk out, accepting a towel from a monkey in basketball shorts.
I turned my gaze from him back to Sadie. "So," I casually asked, "What next?"
Sadie looked over her shoulder at me. "We train."
If your not starting to figure this out by now then you're a little slow... I know what you're thinking. Don't worry, the Greeks will come in on the next chapter...which I have to write. Until then, review!