Carter was very disgusted. A half-dog half-donkey was unsuccessfully trying to bite his face off. His face was drenched with saliva. He mentally corrected Sadie when she had said in their first recording that the worst smell ever was burned scorpion. He yanked his sword off his back after many tries and stabbed the dog-donkey in the chest. The creature made a sound that was a cross between a yelp and a neigh, and fell over dead.
Carter got up and ran as fast as he could, trying to dodge the hundreds of other animal hybrids in the First Nome so he could find Sadie and the other trainees. He turned a corner near a magical cheese amulet market booth (don't ask) and he nearly lost his small breakfast when he processed what he saw. Alyssa was lying in her own blood, one side of her face so charred and scratched it looked like an overcooked burger patty, blood leaking from her serious wound. Carter bent down to feel her pulse, but there was none. He started to tear up, when he heard a voice yelling.
"CARTER!" Sadie yelled. She ran up to him and squeezed him in a hug. "Carter, I can't find Felix, Walt, Alyssa, or Jaz! I've been looking for an hour!"
Carter could do nothing but nod towards Alyssa's dead body. When Sadie looked, she gasped and passed out in shock. Her breathing slowed, and she started to topple. Thankfully, Carter caught her, and he started attempting CPR on her. A strangely wave-like yet human pair of feet shrouded in a curtain of mist walked up to Carter, who was on the ground cradling his sister. He looked up and he felt sleepy and cold, but he nearly passed out like Sadie when he saw the thing's face. The face was a young man's, but his eyes were like an ocean, and his skin was tinted blue.
Carter asked the thing, "Who are you?"
The thing said,"I am Nu, the primordial Ancient Egyptian god of the watery abyss, and therefore the embodiment of the Sea of Chaos. The original mound of land came from my domain. I was alongside Atum the creator god when this world and the Duat were created. The reason I am here is that I recently felt a disturbance. You were the children who execrated Apophis, weren't you?"
Carter responded,"We execrated him a year and a half ago. Why did you wait this long to come to earth?"
Nu replied,"I embody an infinite expanse. Earth is nothing compared to the infinite Sea of Chaos, yet it is the most significant thing within the Sea. I never fancied Apophis, though. Since Chaos no longer has a firm hold on this race of humans, I must destroy it and all its gods and people. However, I will not if you can stop me within forty-eight hours."
Nu vanished in a spray of water. It definitely wasn't ocean water, because when the water touched Carter's skin he immediately passed out. The last thing Carter had heard was a faint cry of pain...from what sounded like Felix.