Well, here is my spin off of my story Ma'at that you guys wanted. And this a chapter story then a one-shot. And there will be Sanubis in this as well as a surprise pairing to.

!I DON'T OWN THE KANE CHRONICLES1

Balance of Love

Chapter 1: We get summon for jury duty

Sadie POV.

"What the bloody hell is this?"

"That, I believe Sadie, is court summoning."

"But I'm thirteen! Why would I be summoned to court? I can't be on jury duty, don't I have to be a certain age to do that!"

Jaz sighed next to me. "It's not a jury duty summon, Sadie. They just want you and Carter to come down to the court house to talk about the legal rights of the house."

I looked at her, completely lost at what she said.

"It's just so they know that the paper work is in order and that Amos did give you and Carter the deed to the house." she said.

"But I thought the house was invisible to the public and only magicians can see the house?" I asked, still slightly confused.

"I think they mean the building that the twenty-one dorm sits on."

"And they want kids like us to come down to the courthouse to talk about this?" I said.

She nodded. "Looks like it."

Well ain't that just peachy. As if things weren't complicated enough in my life.

It's been more than a week now since Carter and I risked our lives to finding Ra, facing against baus, enemy magicians, an evil ice cream man, monsters, demons, gods, mummies, and a crazy dead Roman that wouldn't shut up. But of course when we found him and reawaken him, we also release Apophis from his prison as well, something that we were trying to avoid. But with the help of Michel Desjardins, he banished Apophis in the farthest deeps of Duat. With Apophis banished for now, we manage to buy ourselves some time to find a way to full restore Ra back to his full power before the snake returned. The only thing is know we don't know how to restore Ra or how much time we have left before Apophis comes.

The main mission here at the twenty-one dorm has been searching for a way to restore Ra, looking for anything that could help. But sadly we haven't had much luck. And if that wasn't bad enough, Carter and I had Horus and Isis breathing down our necks. They still weren't too happy of Ra's return, gone as far as threatening us that if they defeated Apophis without Ra's help… well, let's say it won't be good for Carter and I.

Things have been hard around here since Uncle Amos left us, becoming the new Chief Lector, and the head of the first dorm in Egypt with Zia. We haven't heard from them for a while since they left after we found Ra. But I suppose no news is good news. Carter and I have continued teaching the trainees here as we become the new leaders of the twenty-one dorm. Too young to be leaders of anything if you ask me, especially when we aren't that very experience in the magic field. But there was no way I was going to admit that out loud, but it's a lot of stress on a thirteen year old girl's shoulder.

And now I get this stupid summon from the court house that wants me and Carter to come in and fill out some stupid paperwork.

I let out a large sigh, falling back onto my bed, throwing my arms over my eyes. "Like I have time to go to the bloody courthouse, I have better things to do then waste my day there!"

Jaz sat on the edge of the bed next to me, looking over the paper that summoned us. "You and Carter need to show up there before the fifth of June. If you don't then you and Carter will lose the rights to the building that house is on."

"I hate deadlines." I muttered.

"You might as well get it done now then wait until later. If you keep putting it off you won't have time to do it in the end." Jaz suggested.

"I guess you're right." I took the letter from Jaz's hand. "I better go find Carter and show him this."

"I think he's teaching at the moment, combat magic I believe."

"Of course."

Jaz stood up, brushing her pants off. "I better go and get back to work. I have a lot work ahead of me. Walt should be a waiting for me in the library."

Hearing Walt's name, my stomach began to turn as I remembered his condition. Aside of the researching looking for a way to restore Ra, I've been looking with Jaz for a way to heal Walt. For days we've been looking through anything that had any information of the priests of Amun-Ra, looking for a cure. But the search has not been going so will.

"Do you need some help?" I asked.

Jaz shook her head. "No, we've got it handled. You should just concentrate on your court summoning and figure out what you and Carter should do."

I said nothing but nodded.

Once Jaz was gone, I was left alone in my room, with the stupid court summon in my hand. I fell back on my bed once more and stared up at the ceiling. Turning my head to the side, looking at picture of Anubis I had in my room, in his jackal headed form.

Since we got Ra back, Carter and I haven't seen or heard from the gods in a long while. We haven't even seen Bast since Sunny Acres, just that we know she is protecting Ra on his nightly voyages. Thinking of Sunny Acres made me depress, knowing that Bes was there, weak and a shriveled up old man. I shook my head, forcing my thoughts on something else other than Bas. Like to dad, he hasn't made contact with us either but he didn't before so I guess it wasn't that much of a bother. But still it was just so strange; to me the gods seem to have suddenly gone quiet. I just wondered what was happening.

Looking to Anubis again, I couldn't help but wondered what he was up to. Was he okay, was he busy, we he thinking of me? That last thought made me snort, why would he be thinking of me anyway, he's a god he has more important things to deal with. I'm just a mortal after, nothing special to him. But if that was the case, why did he kiss me on my birthday. I felt my face heat up as I remembered the kiss we shared, even though it was short and brief, not to mention there two gods right behind me at the time that wanted to kill me, it was the best thing that has ever happened to me.

"Why did you kiss me?" I asked the picture, half expecting you to answer me.

Sighing heavily, I rolled over and stood up from my bed, leaving my room to go find Carter, not caring he was teaching a class. Leaving my room, I headed to the railing of Great Room, looked down to the main floor. I saw Felix and Cleo down below, watching tv with Khufu sitting at the foot of the statue of Thoth, munching on some Doritos.

Looking up at the statue, I stared at Thoth's bird face as it stared right back at me. I couldn't help but feel annoyed with the statue, remembering the time that Thoth almost tried to kill me and Carter during his 'test'. For a god of wisdom I couldn't help but wondered if there was a screw loose in that bird brain of his.

Pushing off the tailing, I headed to the second floor of the house, knowing Carter would be there with his trainees. By the time I made it to the second floor, the trainees were leaving the room where Carter held his lesson, meaning I came at the right time. A few of the other kids waved at me as we passed each other, giving me a 'hi' as I gave one back. I found Carter still inside the room where the lesson was held, cleaning up the messed he made during the lesson.

"Carter. I got a letter for you." I told him as soon as I entered the room, marching up to him.

He looked up at me, looking confuse like always. "A letter?"

I rolled my eyes. "It's that what I just said?"

His face suddenly lightens up. "Is it from Zia?"

I almost hated myself when I had to tell him that it wasn't from her. Every since Carter found Zia and awaken her, their first meeting was not how he hoped it would go, and now whatever relationship they had was a bit shaky.

"No, we got summon to the courthouse. We need to be there before June fifth." I told him, handing the letter over to him.

"The courthouse?" he took the letter. "What for?"

"I don't know something about league claims of the house or something. That's what Jaz said."

Carter looked over the letter and then frowned. "Says here we need someone eighteen and older to accompany us and that we need Uncle Amos there to have the full rights."

"Seriously! Uncle Amos is in Egypt, as the new Chief Lector! He can't be here; he's got enough on his plate."

"If he doesn't come then we could lose the rights to the warehouse that we sit on. We'll be force to give up the house."

"Well isn't that great! Just great! What else could go wrong?" I should have kept my big mouth shut then.

As soon as I said that, a strange force, like a pulse of energy, came and washed over us and knocked Carter and I off our feet and to the ground. I didn't know how to really explain it, it was as if someone pushed me hard from the back and down to the ground and held me there for a while. The force passed and Carter and I were able to slowly get up on our feet again, shakily.

"What the bloody hell was that?"

Duh duh!

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