Most of what this guy said, I didn’t understand. A rogue demigod from Kronos’s army, I’d guess.’ If you’re not a spirit or a monster, you’ve got to be a half-blood. If you were, my sword would’ve passed right through you. ‘Oh, please.’ Camper Boy rose unsteadily, his sword antenna making him top-heavy.
‘I’m gushing blood here! And you started all this by calling me a half-blood!’ He tugged at the rope with his free hand, but of course he couldn’t make any progress.įinally he just sighed and glared at me. Unable to let go of his sword, he looked like he had a single reindeer antler sprouting next to his ear. My magic rope had wrapped round his sword arm, then lashed his hand to the side of his head. My thoughts started to clear, and I wondered why I hadn’t been skewered yet.Ĭamper Boy was sitting nearby in waist-deep water, looking dejected. The pain was still horrible, but the nausea became more manageable.
I fished a piece of papyrus out of my backpack and pressed it against the wound as a makeshift bandage. There was a lot of blood, but I remembered something Jaz had told me once in the infirmary at Brooklyn House: cuts usually looked a lot worse than they were. In the back of my mind, I knew Camper Boy could kill me easily. I dropped my sword and clutched my wrist, gasping for breath, everything forgotten except the excruciating pain. until the moment it isn’t.I threw it and yelled the command word ‘TAS!’ – bind – just as Camper Boy’s bronze blade cut into my wrist. They trap the magician inside a snow globe. With a little extra help from a vulture goddess, the foursome uses an unexpected and potentially life-threatening combination of Greek and Egyptian magic to defeat Setne. Luckily, they show up in time to join forces with the demigods. The fire-breathing snakes flying around him are a dead giveaway too.Įgyptian magic is more Carter and Sadie’s thing. The evil Egyptian magician named Setne is there, too, reading aloud from the Book of Thoth. A freak hurricane sends the mortals hurrying for the mainland, leaving Percy and Annabeth alone on the island.Įxcept they aren’t alone. He’s up to something.įollowing a tip from Athena, demigods Percy and Annabeth travel to Governors Island in New York Harbor. She warns Annabeth that they have to watch out for him. Annabeth and Sadie fight fire with fire, using a combination of their magical specialties to keep monster and wannabe god apart.Īfterward, Sadie reveals that Setne, an evil magician who’s come back from the dead, awakened Serapis. To be fully reborn, he needs to get hold of the monster. Inside, they find Serapis, a once powerful god who drew his might from both Egyptian and Greek magic. The girls follow the strange monster to an abandoned building. A dog head wants to join up, but a young blond girl with a white wooden staff blocks its path.Īnnabeth, meet Sadie Kane, Egyptian magician and one-time host of the goddess Isis. and something tells Carter that it won’t be the last time the two will need to help each other out.ĭemigod Annabeth Chase has seen some weird things on the New York subway before, but the bizarre two-headed monster-one head wolf, the other lion, both stuffed into a long spiral seashell-beats them all. Also unexpected? The teenage boy with sea-green eyes and an orange camp T-shirt wielding a glowing sword.Ĭarter Kane, meet Percy Jackson, Greek demigod and son of Poseidon.Īfter an initial scuffle involving the Fist of Horus and a tidal wave of swamp water, Carter and Percy combine their powers, remove the magical gold necklace around the monster’s neck, and shrink the beast back to size. But he’s barely had time to draw his khopesh when the croc swallows him whole–then suddenly and unexpectedly disgorges him. When a gigantic crocodile menaces Long Island, Egyptian magician Carter Kane is on the scene. Three exciting short stories featuring Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Carter and Sadie Kane!
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