[For your information, Jake, not all of us have magic angel wings to save us while we fall. That's why I'm scared of flying.]
It was quite possibly the stupidest plan we've ever come up with. And of course, it was the only one. Sadie used a spell and just like that, we were walking the length of the Grand Canyon, looking for something that may or may not have been there. Foolproof.
"Remind me again what we're looking for?" I asked as we hiked alongside the river. It was a fine day; not too hot, not too cold. But boring.
"Basically, the wand will just start freaking out in my hand when we get close. The closer, the more crazy. It's quite silly. But you take what works," Sadie said, keeping her wand out in front of her. I shrugged and on we walked.
"We should make a rap," Jake suggested, out of the blue.
"We shouldn't," Carter shot back immediately as he took his khopesh out of the duat and strapped it on his back.
But no, it'd already been set in motion. Walt started a beat and Jake slightly banged his head.
And then he started, "Six kids from Brooklyn, walking' through this canyon. Looking for the bad guys, Six badasses. Man, we're looking for Set, we're looking for Kamehea, Gabriel is over head and looking out for our guys. Now I'm losing my streak so I do not want to fault, but I gotta turn this over to my god of death Walt."
Me and Sadie were actually contributing, adding beats as well and Zia was laughing as Walt went on, "Uh, I'm not that good at rapping, I probably won't keep this song lasting. Our team is Carter, me, and Zia, Sadie, Jake, and Christina. I'm not really a great rapper, I can hand that to ya, so now I'll pass this beat on to Jake's girlfriend: Christina."
I laughed for a bit and Jake kept giving me that look that said 'come on.' He added on to the beat that Sadie, him, and Walt were making [even though Zia looked like she was getting into it, along with Carter.] I sighed then decided 'Why the duat, not?"'
"Jake is hosting Bastet, Walt's hosting Anubis. Zia's hosting the great god Ra and Sadie's stuck with Isis. Carter is the pharaoh and the leader of this team, next time you probably shouldn't have pinned the rap on me. Can we go back to doing productive things? Or are you going to force me to continue to sing?" I finished with a peace sign and Jake and Sadie were all laughing and smiles, accompanied by Walt. Zia and Carter were smiling and holding hands, like that moment had given them a moment of peace. Jake wrapped an arm around my neck and buried his face in my hair, laughing. I put my hand kindly on his arm and closed my eyes for a second. Then Sadie yelped. Her wand was violently shaking in her hand and pointing at the wall of the canyon. There was a cave, that I couldn't quite see the back of.
"Ah, shitingston," Jake uttered but he pulled a flare [I shit you not] out of his back pocket and threw it in. The red burst quickly filled the cave and, violá, I was proved wrong. It was dark but there stood a set on double doors as large as the cave in the back. We stepped inside the cave and tried to push the door. Nothing. Sadie used an opening spell. Nada. It was Egyptian make by the look of the heiroglyphs and the sandstone. Not the thing you'd find in the Grand Canyon. Sadie ran her fingers over the heiroglyphs as we looked around the cave for something else.
"It's cryptic," She said, "Chaotic, yeah. But maybe not English."
"I speak 33 languages what does it say?" Jake said as he stood next to her.
"Wow, what a guy," She smirked, "Anyways, it says 'Chaos omne.' Got any idea what that means?"
"Yeah," Jake smiled, "It's Latin. 'Chaos is all.' Not creepy at all."
As the words left his mouth, the doors opened inwards. It lead off to a long corridor that was too dark to see down. Jake pulled a torch off of its sconce and Zia lit it on fire. Jake muttered 'total overkill' as more sconces appeared in the light but he ventured down the hallway. Delve head first into the danger seemed to be his motto. But, as it was, we followed right behind him.
