Revealed

Chapter 7 (Will)

The giant bird-headed guy in the middle of the room seemed to glare at us as we passed in front of it. The blonde girl who apparently was Sadie Kane, the magician Annabeth told us about, led us to a library whose doors were right there, but the actual thing was three stories deep. Who would build something like that? e had to go down a long flight of stairs to reach it.  The walls of the library were decorated with pictures of gods, monsters, and people in all different colors. We stopped in front of a table where some sort of small figurine was sitting on a small stool.

"Okay, you're the demigods, right? Annabeth's told me all about you, " Sadie said in a sinister manner that brought chills to my spine.

"Sadie, we're not here to scare them. Thoth said we'd need their help and they'd need ours," An African-American guy said, appearing from thin air and startling me. 

"You're the one scaring them using your magic. I'm not doing anything." Sadie said innocently, then laughed.

"I'm Carter, by the way. Carter Kane. I know I don't look like it but I'm her older brother," he said, reaching out his hand for a handshake. We shook it, open-mouthed.

"Annabeth told me it would be a little different with you guys but I didn't know it would be this weird," Lou Ellen piped up.

"Yeah, talk about weird. Now, the Duat has been compromised. We do not know what happened, but the uppermost layers are crumbling, which is why the mortals can see the truth," Carter stated.

"Umm, excuse me, but what is the Duat?" Cecil asked.

" The Duat exists beneath the surface of the 'waking world' or what you know as the mortal realm, like lava beneath the earth's crust. It does a lot of things, including covering up traces of magic. What you call the Mist is the topmost layer of the Duat," Carter answered, filling i.

"So then our mission is the same," I said. "The Mist is crumbling because Hecate, the Greek goddess of magic, is captured by some other gods and is missing," 

"So we're just supposed to look for her and free her?" Sadie inquired.

"No, there was another quest for that. Mom- I'm a daughter of Hecate- is missing and from what my siblings and I did, tracking her, her last traces were in China" Lou Ellen replied. Carter whistled.

"That's a long way,"

"Yeah, but other people are working on it. Our quest is to free Hemera, the primordial goddess of Day." Lou said.

"Primordial? Why does that word feel like it means something important?" Sadie asked, her fingers drumming the table.

"Primordial goddess means she is a personification of something, this instance being Day," the figurine in front of her came to life, answering her question. I jumped back in surprise and had my bow in hand. I didn't even remember taking it out.

"We're supposed to save The Day? Pun intended, of course," Sadie said.

"Yes. Um, what is this?" Cecil said, shooing away the figurine which was crawling towards him. I only noticed then that it had no legs.

"This is Doughboy. Our dad made him, but he is ours now," Sadie answered.

"He's a shabti. A wax figurine brought to life by magic," Carter supplied.

"Hey, I know about those! Tricky little things. They'll attack you if you didn't put the proper binding spell on them," Lou Ellen said.

"Alright. Doughboy, sleep. We do not need you right now," Sadie commanded, and the little figurine turned back into a figurine. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"So, Day is captured too?" 

"Yeah. By Erebus, the Primordial god of the darkness." I answered.

"Great, just great." Sadie said. "What are we waiting for, let's do something about it!"

"We're still supposed to wait for someone, right?" Carter shushed Sadie.

"Yeah. Magnus. Annabeth's cousin. The prophecy was also talking about another demigod, and we're kinda hoping it was him," I replied.

"Okay then. Let's go play Basketball with the babboon!" Carter said encouragingly. I didn't know what to say so I just went with it.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter! I'm currently on doing this while on data so I'm pretty sure I'm about to run out. 

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