This is coming to a close guys, because I've forgotten the other tasks I had planned. There's still a few more chapters to go though so don't cry yet!

Chapter 17

House of the Obelisk

"Did that task seem just a bit... too easy?" Sarah asked me as we crossed the bridge. "I mean considering what it's protecting... the other ones we had to re-disable were ridiculous! It took us weeks to do anything and you just did that in a day."

"Maybe it was supposed to be easy," I told her with a shrug. I'd try to be positive, but I'd been having the same doubts. That had gone off practically without a hitch. So why so easy?

The next room made it clear why so easy. "Only the blood of the chosen can open the door," I read from the wall.

"What do you mean?" Felix asked stepping closer. "You can read Egyptian?"

"It's not Egyptian," Sarah told Felix. "Stop being a jerk."

"Um Sarah. It is in Egyptian," Greg repeated. "It's a bunch of pretty pictures. Are you really seeing English?"

"Stop it Greg," Lily replied. "You look like a fool."

"Wait," I told them all. "I have a theory. Who here sees it in Egyptian, "Greg and Felix's hands shot up, but the rest remained down. Personally, I saw Egyptian, yet I could still read it, just like the other hieroglyphics before. Just more weirdness to add to my collection I guess.

"I guess we know who the Chosen of Horus is then," Nick replied slapping Anubis. "Welcome to the club mate."

"So I'm dating the Horution," I told Anubis with a smirk. "Nice name."

"Who said anything about dating?" He cried back.

"You when you kissed me," I reminded him. "Wasn't that basically you asking me out?"

"Well yeah, but I didn't technically ask you out so technically we're not dating."

"Well now we are okay?" I told him grinning widely while everyone else just rolled their eyes.

"Well fine," Anubis was pretending to be annoyed, but his smirk said otherwise.

"Well if you're done with that, which is cute by the way I like Anuce," Lily told us. "What does it mean 'the blood of the Chosen? I don't like the sound of that."

Looking around I spotted something that sent that caused the blood to boil in my veins. A tall obelisk stood tall on a raised platform. Walking towards it I knew what the message meant.

"You have to place a drop of blood. There's the symbol for each god here. You each place a drop of your chosen blood on the side that corresponds with your god."

"But just a drop right?" Lily asked. "Because I really don't want to bleed out."

"Yeah I drop should do it," I assured halfheartedly. I couldn't help but think of the riddle...we'd find the obelisk and now there was going to be a new king, but a new king of what?

"Well Alice isn't here and we need her for this," Nick told reminded. "I say we come back down at lunch tomorrow and do it then. That way if there's another task we'll have time before the solstice."

"No!" I cried a bit too quickly. "I mean it takes to long to cross the bridge... we'd miss afternoon classes, get grounded, and not be able to go down again at night."

In reality I just needed more time to think about the king thing, but the others agreed. Somehow the one they all hated had become the leader. We'd come back down tomorrow night. I had 24 hours to figure out what was really going on. 24 hours until the end.

"What are you thinking about?" Anubis asked me while we were walking back from the library. "You have that pensive look."

"I was thinking that now was a really bad time to get a boyfriend." It was partially true, but only a few of my thoughts had been directed at Anubis.

"Don't worry about it. We'll get the scales tomorrow and the world won't end in two days time. Then you'll be glad you have a boyfriend to celebrate with." Typical cocky Anubis (and maybe that's what I liked)

"Someone's going to get hurt. Someone's going to die because of our actions. I can feel it," I whispered to Anubis.

"I'm sure it's not a real premonition... and if someone dies it's going to be Apophis or Andy. The evil guys always lose Luce. Goodness wins." I wished that was true, but in real lie, maybe not.

"If I'm in charge of Set, who is bad, how can I be good?" It was my deepest fear. More than I worried about the people who I knew would die. More than I worried about this new king. I worried the most about whether or not I was good.

"Of course you're good," Anubis said kissing me on the forehead. "I don't date evil people."

"I thought you thought evil made a girl sexy?" I joked thinking back to his profile. It was only yesterday, but it felt so much longer.

"And I thought you liked having the sun eaten. I guess neither of us told the truth on those forms," Anubis replied with a chuckle. "There was one truth though." He confessed.

"What? You really like evil women?"

"No," Anubis told me quietly. "But at the time they thought you were the Chosen of Apophis and I said that I liked that. I really meant was I liked you."

"Well I'm glad. Because you seem just like the kind of guy to enjoy picnics with the sun being the main dish." I went up to my room with a smile on my face that didn't disappear until I fell asleep and the nightmares started.