Egyptian Demigods

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“Athena! Nefertiti!” Mom called. Nefertiti called back “Coming Mom!” She turns to me “What do you think I should wear today for Mom’s birthday?” “I don’t know Maybe your pink cami,” I say “What do you think I should wear?” “You should wear your strapless dress, it looks nice on you.” She turns to look for her cami. I turn to look for my dress then I turn and sit down at my vanity to put some kohl on as well as some lipstick.

After I’m dressed and ready to go I walk downstairs to tell Mom happy birthday. “Thanks sweetie why don’t you wash up for breakfast.” Mom says. I washed my hands. I sat down next to Nefertiti. Mom places sahlab and pancakes in front of us. “Thanks Mom,” We say in perfect harmony. “Why don’t we go out to eat for your birthday tonight?” I say “We can go to that new restaurant that looks out over the river.”

We walked to the restaurant. When we got there we asked for a private booth and when we got to the booth, we ordered. Just when we started eating, Mom tensed. “Girls stay here.” She said. She went outside and was having a heated conversation with a stranger. just when she was about to walk away a bomb went off. “Mom!” Nefertiti and I shouted we ran out side but could not find her anywhere. We started calling out her name but she never answered our cries.

Just then a stranger who seemed to look familiar walked up to us. “Hello children, come with me I am your Uncle Carter. Your mom was a descendant of the pharaohs and your dad was a greek god, the greek god Zeus to be exact.”

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Hi, Nefertiti here. As soon as Uncle Carter said that I was like“What? You can’t just walk up to people and drop bombshells like that.” He ignored me and we were sailing in a boat for about an hour before we came to where we were going. On the way there, we asked a bunch of questions. “Where are we going?” I asked, confused about why we were using a boat. “Boston, we should be there in an hour.” Uncle Carter answered, checking his watch. “An hour! That’s not possible. We’re hundreds of miles from New York.” Athena said. When we got to Boston we got out of the boat and followed Uncle Carter to a huge mansion. We walked in the door and gasped there was a huge statue of an egyptian god. The Egyptian god Thoth to be exact.

“This is a safe haven for both Greek Demigods and Egyptian Magicians of the House of Life.” Uncle Carter explained, “Children! Come on out and meet my nieces, Athena and Nefertiti. Don’t be shy, come out and say hello.”

About a dozen children came out. Half of them carried swords or knives that glowed bronze. The other half carried ivory wands and wooden staffs. “Hello,” they all chorused, “Nice to meet you.” Then they introduced themselves one by one. A pink haired girl wearing linen was a magician named Twosret, she was a healer she followed the path of Sekhmet, the lion goddess. A blond haired boy with hair so light it looked white was a magician named Aron he followed the path of Ihy, the goddess of music. A boy named Eros was fair haired and also a magician following the path of Thoth, the god of knowledge. A young boy named Narmer was a magician that made amulets, he followed the path of Horus. The last 8 were Octuplets, all had the same dark hair, their names were Ara (follows the path of Isis), Hannah (follows the path of Neith), Emily (follows the path of Sekhmet, healer), Erin (follows the path of Isis), Jaune (Follows the path of Anubis, the god of funerals), Caleb (Follows the path of Osiris, the god of the dead), Austin (follows the path of Khonsu, the moon god),  Leo (follows the path of Ra, the king of the gods and god of the sun). They were really friendly. After he introduced them all, he asked this baboon named Khufu to show us to our rooms. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out.

I looked down at my sleeping body and wondered what the heck was happening. The winds whisked me away. My Sister can tell you what happened next because as always she was there too. [All right, all right I’ll give you the mic jeez be patient] Nefertiti signing out.

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The worst thing about the beds was the pillows. They were uncomfortable, so I put mine on the table beside my bed. I took my glasses off and put them on the table as well. Then I went to sleep.

It was like I was a ghost floating above my body, I could see myself sleeping below. Then the currents hit. My ghost self was whisked away into the real world. Then the wind stopped blowing.

I was in a dark cavern. Somewhere I could hear voices talking and laughing. Is it ready Cronus? I heard someone ask. ̈Nearly, Apophis.¨ I heard someone, presumably Cronus, answered. Good I want those brats mother properly secured. The voice laughed and laughed until I woke up.

When I did wake up it wasn't much better. There was an egyptian mau on top of me. “Get off me!” I yelled at it. It finally did get off with a lot of yowling and snarling. I sat up and put my glasses on. I went to the closet and all there was to wear were linen clothes. I put some on and went out to eat breakfast. When I got to the table the children we met last night were sitting there. “Hello Athena. Please join us, we were just about to discuss what happened yesterday with your mother.” Uncle Carter said.

I walked over and sat down. Nefertiti gave me a comforting smile.

“Okay so let's begin, first off your mother is not dead. I have no idea where my sister is but I’m going off first thing after breakfast to find her. Whatever you do do not go into the library. I’m leaving Twosret in charge.” And with that he got up and walked to the edge of the rail and jumped over it.

“Great our uncle just jumped off the balcony and now we have to put up with a bunch of little kids.” I said.

“He’ll be fine.” said Twosret “He just used the duat to travel to wherever he was going.”

“The duat?” Nefertiti asked

“The magical shroud that keeps mortals from seeing magical things.” Twosret explained. “So they don’t start panicking thinking it’s the end of the world. Now we’ve got to get you packed for camp.”

“Camp?” I asked, confused.

“Didn’t your uncle tell you? You guys are going to camp half-blood to be trained as demigods. Then when the summer is over you guys come back here to train as magicians.”

Me and Nefertiti Exchanged a look. Twosret continued “ You guys have two hours to pack pick your clothes wisely.”

Me and Nefertiti went up to our rooms. I thought about what to pack for this camp we were going to, Maybe some band T-shirts and some jeans. I thought. I packed my MP3 player into my suitcase, ‘cause you never know when you’ll need an MP3 player. Once we were all done and packed we went back to the balcony Twosret was waiting.

“Got everything you need?” she asked.

“Yep,” I said.

We went and put everything into the trunk of her car. We went over the brooklyn bridge and the sight was breathtaking, the water glimmered like lights on a Christmas tree, birds flew over head, occasionally swooping down to pick up a few bread crumbs. Soon we were on Long Island Driving down the road. when we stopped there were no indicating markers that there was a camp nearby.

“Follow me.” said Twosret.

We followed her through the woods. As we were walking up a hill, I saw a huge pine tree that seemed out of place in these woods filled with oaks.

“What’s that?” I asked Twosret

“That’s the camp border” She replied “Now I won’t be able to come with you into the camp the magical border prevents that but I will escort you to the border. there should be someone there that can take you down to the Big House. Just try to stay on Dionysus’ good side (then again I don’t know if he has a good side.) and try to listen to the older demigods their tips might just keep you alive.”

“Might?” I asked “Well that’s a vote of confidence.”

“Just do what they ask you to do.” she said.

As we reached the pine tree a boy about 20 years old runs up to the tree to meet us. He had sea green eyes and black hair.

“Hello Percy, how’s Annabeth and the kids?” Twosret asked

The guy, Percy grinned and said “They’re doing good how about you Twosret?”

“I’m good. Here are the kids we Iris messaged you about. Nefertiti, Athena meet Percy Jackson.”

“Hello, I’m Athena” I said.

“Hello I’m Nefertiti” my sister said.

“Nice to meet you both” Percy said.

“All right well I’ve got to go. I’ve got a house full of kids to take care of. See ya later” Twosret took her leave of us.

“Come down to the big house with me you can meet Chiron and Dionysus.”

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“How odd is it that I seem to cause explosions wherever I go.” I said to my half-brother Nico.

“Pretty odd.” He replied.

I had just finished making a ring to help control my powers and when I finished I tried using it.

It exploded from the strain. “Don’t worry you’ll figure it out.” He said. “For now just keep trying.”

“You go on ahead I’ll be there in a few minutes. I have something to do first.” I told him.

I decided to go to the Hephaestus Cabin to ask them if they could help me. “Hey, Leo!” I called. “You in here?”

It was Jake Mason not Leo who replied. “He’s in the forge. You’ll have to ask him later it’s almost dinnertime. So how’s the ring coming along.”

“You mean has it not exploded yet?” I said jokingly. “Would I be here if it hadn’t?”

“Well Leo will be up for dinner maybe you can talk to him, then.” He said.

Just then, the bell for dinner rang. “Speaking of which, let’s eat.” He said.

When we got to dinner there was a surprise waiting for us. “Hello, everyone I’m Nefertiti and this is my sister Athena.” Nefertiti said. After all the introductions were done I went to talk to Leo.

“Hey Leo” I said.

“Hey, Serena. What happened did the ring explode again?” He asked.

“Why does everyone keep assuming that?!” I exclaimed.

“Well did it?”

“Yeah”

At that moment Athena walked up to us. “What’s this ring you guys are talking about?” Athena asked.

Just then a symbol appeared above her and her twins heads.