Third person once again. Thanks for the reviews, I really appreciate them.

Chapter 7-

"King Tut?" Annabeth stammered. "But you're mortal...I think..."

"Yes, I am, or rather was just as mortal as your fire-haired friend hear, the oracle. You know, in Ancient Egypt, those with red hair were under the dominion of our god Set. Tell me child, what do you know about Set? And forgive my forgetfulness, but your name is Rochelle, is it not?"

"Rachel, sir," Rachel said, amused. "And about Set, well didn't he kill his brother Osiris, the king? Chopped him into tiny pieces?" At the last sentence, Annabeth and Percy shared an almost subconscious glance. They were familiar with immortals chopping each other into tiny pieces.

"True," The King said approvingly. "Very good. But did you know that Set had another side to him? He was also a guardian, the defender of Ra in his daily journey, the only one who could fight off the evil serpent Apophis? My point is that many things have two sides to them. In the same way that Set was both an evil, traitorous deity and the powerful protector of our chief god, so it was that I was born twice. At the same time as my mortal birth here on the ground I was born a god in the heavens above. My purpose for existing always was to be the trainer of the mortal children of the gods, for the gods decided that the ideal trainer would be one who is both mortal and immortal. And so when I was still young, my two forms were combined, destroying my mortal form but rendering me immortal. This is how you know King Tut to have died still in his youth. However, in secret, my tomb, this pyramid, was altered to become the place where the demigods would train. And that is my story. Now, I would like to know yours. Please, introduce yourselves. Tell me why you are worthy to be here." The pharaoh commanded. "How about you begin, Ms. Rachel?"

"Um...I am Rachel Dare..." She said weakly, and looked towards Enrique for help, but he only shrugged and made an apologetic gesture. King Tut chuckled.

"I thought he told you he was to be my translator! Forgive me, when he said that, he meant that I would be borrowing the power to speak your language from him, a luxury I am not able to enjoy on my own quite yet. I am working on it, believe me. I purchased the program Rosetta Stone, but sadly it has failed me. Despite the name, it does not have a default setting of Ancient Egyptian! Sacrilege, utter sacrilege. So for the time being, I must use this method. Now, what I meant was, tell me what makes you special."

Rachel smiled. "I am Rachel Elizabeth Dare, follower of Phoebus Apollo, host of the spirit of the oracle of Delphi." She said grandly.

"Very good. Next?" The king asked patiently. Leo walked up.

"Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus, and check this out," He said mischievously, setting both his hands on fire. King Tut nodded appreciatively. And so it went on.

"Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, official architect of Olympus."

"Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. I have the curse of Achilles."

"Nico DiAngelo, son of Hades, king of ghosts."

"Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares, reigning queen of kick-ass, and drakon-slayer."

"Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, um, I can charmspeak."

"Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, lieutenant Hunter of Artemis."

"Jason Grace, son of...son of Lord Jupiter. I defeated the Titan Krios." Jason finished reluctantly.

"Ah yes," King Tut said slowly, cutting him off. There was a cold glint in his eye. "Yes, I heard there was a child of Rome coming...Anyway, Enrique, would you like to show them their rooms? Yes, of course you would. Come here so I can give you the English again."

"Thank you my liege," Enrique said. Tutankhamen responded in a strange language which Percy assumed to be Ancient Egyptian. Enrique responded in kind.

"Follow me," He said, leading them out of the doors.

…...

They were in one of the upper levels of the pyramid, a journey which had taken them, due to a lack of elevators, a solid twenty minutes. Finally, they reached the dormitories, which were in a long hallway lined with doors on either side.

"Home sweet home," Enrique said with forced brightness. "There's some guest rooms at the end, those are always empty. And Jason and Thalia could stay in the Ra dorm, which is usually just empty, but being that Ra is Zeus' Egyptian form-"

"Hold on," Annabeth said. "Zeus didn't run off to Egypt like the others when Typhon attacked. He was the only one who stood his ground. So how can he have an Egyptian form?"

Enrique sighed. "Annabeth, gods are not like mortals, as I'm sure you know. They can be in multiple places at the same time. Because Zeus was the chief Greek god, the majority of his essence was tied to Greece, and thus he was not able to get away as easily as the others. However, a small portion of his essence was able to slip away, and that became Ra, our chief god. So, Jason and Thalia are able to stay in the Ra dorm."

"Aaaagh!" yelled Piper unexpectedly. She instinctively jumped towards Jason as a crocodile with a monkey riding on it's back walked leisurely down the hallway.

"A crocodile and a monkey walk into a bar...please someone finish it for me." Leo said.

"That is not something you see everyday," Rachel stated. Suddenly, the monkey walked up to Rachel, dropped what looked like a chocolate ball at her feet, turned, jumped onto the crocodile's back, and the two strode off. Rachel bent down to pick up the chocolate.

"Don't eat that!" Leo, Percy, and Nico all said at once.

"Why?" Rachel asked.

"It really is chocolate," Enrique said, laughing. "That just shows that Mentos likes her."

"You named a chocolate-giving monkey Mentos?" Leo asked disbelievingly. Enrique gave him a withering look.

"Anyway, training starts tomorrow, Monday. On Thursday we go raid the scorpion men. Be prepared. I'll be supervising your training."

"Training? Scorpion men? Psssh, they don't sound so tough." Leo said. "You get scorpions in Texas all the time. No big deal."

"Tough enough that my best friend was killed in a raid," Enrique said softly, which shut Leo up immediately. "Well, anyway, good night," He said, turned, and walked down the hallway.

Everyone stared at Leo.