The Kane Chronicles - Sequel

Disclaimer: I do not own The Kane Chronicles or Percy Jackson and the Olympians well … I want to.

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Hullo, Sadie Kane here. Yes, I remember we said that the Serpents Shadow was our last recording- okay maybe, I who said it- I'll avoid this part. For now.

Okay, continuing on. For the past few months, I've been very busy, I mean very busy. My schedules were tight. New trainees are arriving and almost no one is helping me train them. Carter and uncle Amos rarely come- Carter being the pharaoh and uncle Amos being the new Chief Lector and all- they barely even have time to visit. Zia too, yes, Zia Rashid, the girl my idiotic brother has a crush on. She barely comes too since she has to help uncle Amos. So that's why I have to take the responsibility (Pshh. Responsibility? What responsibility?) of taking care of the trainees.

Today is a free day for the trainees. Including mine, until Carter and Amos decided to pop in and says there's something we need to discuss. Carter tells me that we can't start until Zia comes. Obviously Carter's choice. So to get rid of time, I decided to annoy my dear brother.

"What do we need to discuss?" I asked, my legs propped at the table.

"For the seventeenth time, Sadie, we have to wait for Zia before you start playing your '20 questions in one breath' thing." Carter responded.

"Tch, whatever. Carter?" I questioned. Again XD

"What now, Sadie?" He answered in an overly annoyed tone.

"Are you and Zia together?" I asked. He tripped and his eyes got wide. It would've been funnier if he was drinking something. He looked like someone dropped an anchor on his head. He regained his posture and cleared his throat.

"Be serious with your questions! Is it that hard to sit quietly for at least for five minutes?" Frustrated Carter said. I rolled my eyes, "Yes, Carter. It is hard. I have this thing called 'humor'. Have you heard of it?" He shook his head in annoyance, "Sadie, yes. I have heard of it. Have you heard of 'patience'? I don't think you've heard of it." I grinned. He does have a sense of humor.

"Why, Carter. I've never heard of it. Care to explain?" I was him smile.

"Patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without acting on annoyance in a negative way; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. Patience is the level of endurance one can take before negativity. It is also used to refer to the character trait of being steadfast. Antonyms include hastiness and impetousness." (A/N: Wikipedia, thank you.)

"Carter, english please?" I asked in a sarcastic voice. He smirked, "It means shut up, stay still and stop bothering me."

"Oh dear brother. You avoided my question."

"What question?"

"Are you and Zia together?" He sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.

"No. You done with your questions?"

"My poor brother still doesn't have the guts to ask her out."

"Shut up."

"BWAHAHAHA! I'm starting to think you're interested in guys." I snickered.

"I do have the guts to ask her out!"

"Hm, really? HAHA." I teased.

"Yes! I-it's just that I have no idea when!"

"Hahaha! Geez, Carter. I have ears too." XD

While Carter was protesting and I was laughing at him, someone knocked on the door. Uncle Amos told us to keep our mouths shut, in which case we followed and he opened the door which revealed Zia. I saw Carter fixing his posture and snickered.

"Zia's here now. Start explaining." I spoke, with my head leaning on my hand.

"Your patience always surprises me, Sadie," Zia grinned but it then faded to a straight line.

"Sadie, Setne's…back,' she sighed.

"He's back with company," Carter spoke, "We don't know what kind of company but we're pretty sure they aren't only Egyptians." I kept quiet and looked at uncle Amos.

"Uncle Amos, say something. I know you know something." He shook his head, "You kids have to find out by yourself. I can't tell you anything more." I felt taken aback.

"What? What if we can't? We'll just let everything go to war and let 'Setne and friends' take over?" I said, adding sarcasm. I wasn't mad. Well, just a bit.

"Sadie, we kind of already have an idea of what his allies are." Carter spoke.

"That's great. Tell me." I spoke with no emotion. Carter sighed, "Remember when uncle Amos accidentally told us about Manhattan having other gods and problems?" I nodded. "The gods there aren't exactly the problem. Look, we received this letter," He said and took out a crumpled ivory colored envelope with a picture of the Empire State building in the seal.

"Why is it crumpled?" I asked.

"It got pressed against other letters." Zia answered. I nodded.

"Did you guys open it already?" Zia shook her head, "We wanted to open it here. You know, feel the surprise together." I laughed lightly. I gave the letter to Carter. "Pleasure's all yours." He raised his eyebrows at me, "You're just giving it to me 'cuz you think something's gonna pop out." I smiled, "What? I'm just being cautious." He shook his head.

He slowly opened the envelope, being cautious with it. He fully opened the envelope, luckily with no: BOOM SHAKALAKA POW BOOM SIS BOOM BAI!

We sighed in relief. Carter slowly took out the letter inside and as soon as he started unfolding it, it quickly flew out of his hand- good thing Zia caught it. She scanned through it and squinted her eyes as if the letter seemed suspicious.

"Impossible," she muttered.

"Zia. We need to read it too. I mean if you're cool with that," I started speaking, "We could just leave the letter to you and let you feel the shock by yourself." She looked at me and gave me the letter, "Read it. It might be some kind of jok-

"No spoilers, please?" I pleaded. She sighed and nodded. I scanned through the letter. Reading again and again to see if I missed anything that said: HAHAHA YOU"VE BEEN TROLLED! But, no.

"Sadie, please read it out loud. You've been scanning and glaring at that letter more than Zia did." Carter spoke. I just nodded and started reading the letter. After I finished reading, I heard uncle Amos heave a deep sigh. "It's finally happening," he murmured thinking we wouldn't hear it.

"What was that?" Carter asked uncle Amos. Uncle Amos looked at us, shocked.

"It's nothing. Let's get back to-

"What is finally happening?" Zia asked, cutting uncle Amos.

"Please don't avoid the question, uncle Amos," Carter said, "We heard you clearly." Uncle Amos sighed, "It's about the… problems in Manhattan."

"What problems? Why'd you hesitate?" I asked and sat up.

"As I said before, I can't tell you anything more. You children have to find out by yourselves," He cleared his throat, "Now if you excuse me, I have to leave." He stood up, dusted his arms and headed for the door. Before he could leave the room, he spoke, "Sadie, we figured that you are much… closer with gods. We would like you to meet him and talk to him, ask for him questions. Just- just don't try to choke that god if he can't tell you more." I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

I saw Carter smiling, a wide grin spread across his face. He looked like the 'Cheshire cat' but worse.

['What're you glaring at Carter? I'm just describing how stupid you looked and that's a compliment' * smiling innocently *]

I looked at Zia who had a smirk on her face. "Which god?" I asked. Her smirk grew wider, "Anubis." I looked at her suspiciously. "Excuse me. What?" Carter stood up and started putting the letter in the envelope then looked at me, "Your boyfriend." I felt my face heating up and tried my best calm voice, "He's not my FREAKING BOYFRIEND, YOU- *clears throat*- Where am I suppose to meet him?" Zia laughed, "You know where he is already, Sadie." I glared at both of them. "Yeah. .HA. You guys are HI-LA-RI-OUS." I sarcastically said and left the library to change.

"So much for being helpful," I murmured as soon as I arrived at my room. I changed into a black tank top, denim jacket and black skinny jeans along with my combat boots. I left Brooklyn House without forgetting my Ipod and wallet. My magic stuff was in the Duat.