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Alex: Aria doesn't like dogs!

Aria: He's been yelling that all day.

Me: Sorry

Aria

I sat next to Alex on the ground in Apollo's shrine. We had decided that it was the best place to go, unless you like dying. I had pretty much fainted and after that Alex decided it might be a good idea for me to eat something. I hadn't objected so there we were, two grimy people sitting on in the middle of a shrine having a serious conversation about how we were going to live while eating popcorn.

Alex took a bite of an apple. "How'd you get stuck down here anyway?"

I rolled my eyes in exasperation. "Kronos."

Alex snorted. "I hate him."

"The feeling is mutual, brother." Kronos's hiss cut into our conversation.

I stood up drawing my knives. Alex did the same, I couldn't help but notice how angry he seemed. His eyes blazed as if he drew energy from his anger, I heard the crunch of gravel and saw a shadow looming behind Alex.

"Alex."

He glanced toward me and his eyes widened suddenly. "Aria! Look out!"

I gasped and lurched forward as a blade stabbed into the small of my back. All I could process was pain, I saw Alex get disarmed and his knives flew over my head. The rest was a blur, I could make out Alex struggling against the force of an Liastrygonian giant. Getting hit over the head and crumpling, but it felt like I was watching an old film that kept freezing. Gathering the last of my strength, I tried to pull myself up. Falling face first into the dirt I coughed raggedly and shuddered.

There was a slight tug around me and I felt the World dissolving. I reached toward my older brother as the monsters picked him up and slung him over their shoulders.

"Alex!" I screamed as I started disappear. He looked up and blinked.

I cried out and a tear fell onto my hand. I tumbled downward and fell out of the Duat and onto a blood red pyramid. I think I might have added to that color with my own blood, which was still streaming from the knife in my back.

My next thought was interrupted when Carter (in Chicken Warrior Form) tumbled over me and down the side of the Pyramid.

"Carter." I called weakly.

"Ah! It's the demigod."

I froze terrified. Then I shook my head and stood up unsteadily. I turned around and faced the god of the desert.

"Set!" I yelled. "You will pay for your treason against the House!"

He chuckled. "And you're going to do that how?"

I glared at him, "I'm an Earth elementalist, idiot."

"So it's you?" He asked mockingly.

I snarled. "That's me, Aria Kane daughter of Osiris god of the underworld, twenty third member of Cabin Eleven at Camp Half Blood, former host of Kronos Lord of Time, Half sister to Alex Hunt, Carter Kane and Sadie Kane, Aunt to Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and Chiron. So tell me, how would you like to be dispatched?"

"Like you have that power, especially in your condition." Set countered tauntingly. "Your just a small afraid little girl."

I snarled, but inside I knew he was right. I was useless. A terrified little girl who wanted to go home and have a real family.

I shook my head. I am Aria Kane, second child of Julius Kane and 20th child of Gaea of the Earth. I will not let his words cloud my decisions.

I took a deep breath and reached into the Duat searching for something I'd lost in the battle with the Hydra. My hand brushed against a plastic bag and I grinned. I pulled and a bag of camp toiletries tumbled into my hand. I reached inside and grabbed the acid stained shampoo bottle. Inside swirled a murky green liquid, shampoo mixed with acid.

"Hey Set!" I yelled throwing the bottle towards him. "Catch!"

Splat!

The bottle caught him in the face as he turned. The muck splattered his face and burnt into his skin, Set made a gruesome sound, like a cross between a howl and a machine getting crushed.

I blinked pretending to be shocked. "Wow you are an awful catcher."

Set growled and tried blink the acid out of his eyes. Which gave me just enough time to draw my knives and attack.

Set saw me out of the corner of his eye and struck back with his arm, I ducked under it and cut into his side. He howled and swung around to face me. I slid between his legs, stood up behind him and stabbed. I was about to duck under another blow but Set saw it coming and hit me square in the chest, The power sent me flying back into half a dozen demons. I groaned trying to stand but fell over instantly.

My breathing was heavy and ragged. "Note to self." I muttered. "Set doesn't use shampoo."

I looked up and saw Carter tumbling down the slope.

Set laughed. "Have a nice trip!" Then he picked up the capstone.

Carter rose, groaning. I tried to run to his aid but a blockade of demons cut off my path.

"Carter!" I yelled slicing through a demon.

Carter staggered up the slope, but before he'd closed even half the distance, Set placed the capstone and completed the structure. Red light flowed down the sides of the pyramid with a sound like the world's largest bass guitar, shaking the entire mountain and making my whole body go numb.

"Thirty seconds to sunrise!" Set yelled with glee. "And this land will be mine forever. You can't stop me alone, Horus—especially not in the desert, the source of my strength!"

"You're right," said a nearby voice.

I glanced over and saw Sadie rising from the air vent—radiant with multicolored light, her staff and wand glowing.

"Except Horus is not alone," she said. "And we're not going to fight you in the desert."

She struck her staff against the pyramid and shouted a name: the last words I'd ever expect her to utter as a battle cry.

Alex: Amber! What happens to me!

Me: Uhhhhhhh

Aria: She does that a lot

Me: Yes I do!

So tell me what should happen to Alex? It took me more than a month to write this, I'm really sorry