20 Chapter 19: I am the Nuclear Option (part 1)

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Hi everyone, I'm back at it. I used the entire weekend to plot out Sea of Horrors.

I decided to make the end goal the same (retrieving the golden fleece) but the journey different. Annabeth won't join the quest this time but 2 others.

Why? I want to keep it fresh.

At the end of this chapter there is a small preview/trailer for the Sea of Horrors.

I see a lot of you like this crossover. Sadly this crossover won't feature a lot of planning and plotting and is more like a extra adventure. However Percy learned how to use Chaos which is awesome in my opinion. Also I have Magnus Chase crossover planned. In that cross-over Percy will be more active instead of tag along and help.

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"You owe me an ice cream!" I told Sadie while we ran.

"Priorities!" Carter yelled while looking behind him to see if someone was following us. No one was...yet.

We ran out of the temple and headed for the obelisk. It was the same thing as in Central Park, nothing special.

"Sadie, you have to open the Obelisk, Carter and I hold off the enemies!" I told her.

"How do I open the Obelisk?" Sadie shouted.

"What enemies!" Carter asked.

"Just try something!" I shouted back at Sadie before turning to face Carter. "Trust me Carter, at this point enemies will show up and try to stop us."

It doesn't matter if you are a demigod or magician.

Just as we reached the obelisk, I heard the slish-ing sound of a magic portal. About a hundred yards down the path, a bald magician in white robes stepped out of a whirling sand vortex.

"That enemy!" I pointed at the man.

The magician regained his balance and spit the sand out of his mouth. Then he spotted us. "Stop!"

"Yeah," I muttered. "Like that's gonna happen."

"Carter, the other Obelisk, is in Paris right?" Sadie asked, looking at the Obelisk with confusion.

"Right. Um, not to rush you, but..." Carter began but the magician interrupted us.

The magician raised his staff and started chanting. Carter raised his sword and I summoned FrostSilver and uncapped Riptide.

"What do we do? Carter asked afraid. "I've never fought before!"

"You can it's probably a hidden skill of yours, oh and trust that imaginary voice in your head!" I shouted back.

"How do you kno…" Carter began.

"It's Horus you idiot, you can Sadie are host for Isis and Horus. Now we must buy time for Sadie to open a portal."

"What!" Sadie yelled.

'I'm not imaginary.' Chaos complained.

'What did we do during the duel?' I asked back, not wanting to have a deep conversation right now. 'With the hologram?'

'Oh, it's the new power you unlocked last summer. You can summon a combat Avatar whith is me which is AWESOME!'

'Why does it look like you?' I asked.

'Duh because you are me and I am you.'

'Because you two share a soul.' Hemera kindly explained. 'The Combat avatar is a physical manifestation of the soul, Egyptian magic.'

'How do I activate it?' I asked.

'Focus on Chaos and how you both are fighting the same battle.' Hemera explained. 'I am not good with magic but it should come relatively easy to you.'

While I was trying to achieve that I saw at the far end of the avenue that the magician had recovered from the teleport.

He raised his staff and called out: "Serve the House of Life!"

The air between us began to shimmer. Waves of heat flowed from the double lines of sphinxes, making them look as if they were moving.

Then I realized they were moving. Each one cracked down the middle, and ghostly apparitions appeared from the stone like locusts breaking out of their shells. Not all of them were in good shape. The spirit creatures from broken statues had missing heads or feet. Some limped along on only three legs. But at least a dozen attack sphinxes were in perfect condition, and they all came toward us, each one the size of a Doberman, made of milky white smoke and hot vapor.

So much for the statues being just statues.

"Fast," I warned Sadie.

"Paris!" She called and raised her staff and wand. "I want to go there now. Three tickets. First-class would be nice!"

The sphinxes advanced. The nearest one launched itself toward Carter, and with sheer luck he managed to slice it in half.

I focused and imagined doing the same as what I did before. Suddenly I was floating in the air in the middle of a holographic giant version of Chaos. It wasn't enormous but still gave me an edge. I saw the sphinx retreat from me with fear in their eyes.

Guess Chaos could be intimidating.

"We can take them." Chaos said confidently.

"You can talk?"

"Ofcourse!" She smiled, and we raised our fist and brought it down on the nearest Sphinx.

It felt good to squash these sphinxes like they were mere bugs.

We were making great progress in decimating their numbers, but Carter was not having as much of a good time like I was and was having trouble fighting off the Sphinx who decided he was an easier prey.

Suddenly the ground shook. The sky darkened, and Sadie yelled, "Yes!"

The obelisk glowed with purple light, humming with power. Sadie touched the stone and yelped.

Suddenly a sand portal, like before, appeared. She was sucked inside and disappeared. "Sadie!" I yelled.

I deactivated the Combat Avatar and took Carter's hand. As I did so I suddenly felt exhausted, like I had run a Marathon. Guess the Combat Avatar eats up energy. We ran towards the sandhole and jumped into it.

We fell out of the portal down on the street. We were in the middle of a huge public plaza. Rain was pouring down, and the chilly air told me I was no longer in Egypt. Sadie was somewhere close by, yelling in alarm.

A Sphinx was on Carter who was struggling to free himself. I opened my hand to send a fireball at the Sphinx when someone screamed, "Mange des muffins!"

Slice! The sphinx dissolved into smoke. Carter tried to rise but couldn't.

Sadie stumbled over.

Another voice called out. "Carter! Oh god, are you okay?"

I blinked at the other person-the one who had saved him: a tall, thin figure in a black, hooded rain-coat.

What had she yelled: Eat muffins? What kind of battle cry was that? She threw off her coat, and a woman in a leopard-skin acrobatic suit grinned at us, showing off her fangs and her lamplike yellow eyes.

"Miss me?" asked Bast.

"Bast!" Sadie yelled and jumped at the cat goddess, "You are alive!"

She grinned, "Of course I was sweetie," then she looked at me, "I see you brought them back alive."

I nodded,"I promised, the House of Life wanted us dead within an hour."

Bast whistled. "They've gotten friendlier! They used to blast godlings to dust in the first few minutes."

We huddled under the eaves of a big white government building and watched the rain pour down on the Place de la Concorde.

It was a miserable day to be in Paris. The winter skies were heavy and low, and the cold, wet air soaked right into my bones. There were no tourists, no foot traffic. Everyone with any sense was inside by a fire enjoying a hot drink.

"So it's true what he said?" Carter asked while Bast was studying his body to see if he broke something. "Are we the hosts of Gods?"

"Broken rib," she announced, skillfully avoiding the question. "Better now, but you should rest for at least a few minutes."

I was eating some Ambrosia. I wasn't wounded but it helped me with my exhaustion and having Chaos's power I had a higher tolerance towards it.

"Won't the magicians find us here?" I asked.

"I haven't worried about them just yet. The House will assume you teleported somewhere else." Bast answered.

"Why?"

"Paris is the Fourteenth Nome is Desjardins' headquarters. You would be insane trying to hide in his home territory."

I face palmed, "seriously Sadie?"

"But your amulets do shield you," Bast added."I could find Sadie anywhere because of my promise to protect her. But the amulets will keep you veiled from the eyes of Seth and from other magicians."

"So are we truly the host of the Gods?" Sadie asked.

"How'd you know?" Bast tilted her head, much like a housecat would do.

"Percy said the imaginary voices in our heads were Horus and Isis."

I only knew that because they had told me in their previous lives. Still, I pretended to think about it.

"I mean, that makes the most sense right?" I said.

"You made direct contact! That's amazing!" Bast happily exclaimed.

"But how?" Carter muttered.

"Carter," Sadie said. "When the Rosetta Stone shattered, it let out five gods, right? Dad joined with Osiris. Amos told us that. Seth...I don't know. He got away somehow. But you and I-"

"Your amulets." I said and pointed at their amulets.

"Don't tell me to calm down!" Carter suddenly yelled.

Bast frowned. "I didn't."

"Talking to him!" He pointed at his forehead. "This is awful! I am hearing voices."

Sadie swallowed. "How do I get rid of her?"

'Glad we don't have this kind of problem.' I told Hemera.

'Just wait till mom is back.' She said sinisterly.

Bast sniffed. "First off, Sadie, you don't have all of her. Gods are very powerful. We can exist in many places at once. But yes, part of Isis' spirit now resides inside you. Just as Carter now carries the spirit of Horus. And frankly, you both should feel honored."

"Right, very honored," Carter spat. "Always wanted to be possessed!"

Carter turned towards me, "What about you? You are a host as well?" He asked and I suspected that he actually wanted to ask, how do you deal with those annoying voices?

"Well, he's a special case. He is the child of a God but also a host. I can't sense which God or Goddess." Bast narrowed her eyes at me. "Not that I'm not grateful you showed up but who exactly are you?"

"What do you mean?" Sadie asked.

I sighed, "Look Sadie and Carter, what I am about to tell you is something you should never think about in your entire life."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it's confusing. Look, the Greek Gods are real too and they make children with humans called Demigods. I am a Greek Demigod."

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