Hey guys! Sequel Here. Now, a few reminders before you read this story. This happened a week after the Serpent's shadow, and the book did happen, just with a few minor changes:

1. Sadie never fell in love with Walt. (Sadico, duh!)

2. Heroes of Olympus never happened.

3. The Romans never existed in the first place. They still had demigods, though it was rare, but no Camp Jupiter. (When Rome fell, the entire empire fell, even the legions.)

4. Oh, and most importantly, THE KISS BETWEEN SAIDE AND WALT IN THE END OF THE BOOK NEVER HAPPENED!

Well, that's about it. Enjoy reading!

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Hello, Sadie here.

I'd rather tell you all about how our adventure began first. If I handed the mike over to Carter, your eyes would glaze over from boredom. It's a known fact, but Carter stinks at storytelling.

[Shut it, Carter. You do!]

Anyway, it was just a week after we finally defeated Apophis, thanks to one crazed magician, some less-than-helpful gods, and a shadow. (Don't ask.) The few trainees that we had gathered since our meeting with the Greeks had increased tenfold, with magicians-to-be emerging at our doorstep every day. Not that I'm complaining, but teaching fifty kids is seriously tiring work.

It was a fine day at Brooklyn House. (Yes, we fixed it, again. I still haven't forgiven Percy for trashing my room, though.)Carter and I were busy eating our breakfast, chatting about the usual things: his girlfriend Zia, my boyfriend Nico (a slightly more interesting matter), who had promised to visit me tomorrow, and all that stuff. Some of our senior trainees, like Walt, Jaz, Alyssa, and Cleo, were with us at the table, drumming their fingers on the table and basically waiting for us to finish. Walt kept eyeing me, though he probably thought that I didn't notice. He still had that lovesick look he had on ever since we took Bes' shadow from Neith's temple.

Let me explain. Walt Stone, our resident sau, or amulet maker, was one of the first trainees to appear. He was really good, except for the fact that he was dying from Akhenaton's curse, but that was cured when he became Anubis' host, so we're good on that one. He was very sweet, charming, and not to mention good-looking to. From the moment he saw me, he had convinced himself that I was his destiny, and vice-versa. Even after I explained to him that I already had a boyfriend, he still refused to give up! Under normal circumstances, that would be the type that would make me fall head-over-heels in love with them, but since I already had a boyfriend, other boys would just have to do with friendship. One time, he even had the nerve to kiss me, without my permission! Of course, Nico chose that time to appear out of the shadows, and basically, a very entertaining, but overly destructive, fight occurred between the two. It took some, well a lot, of explaining just to get Nico to calm down. Walt, well he was another matter. He accused Nico of stealing his girl, which resulted in round two of break-each-other's-faces. The little ones that had been present still needed therapy after Nico's skeletons paid a little visit. It was very romantic, like the final battle in those love stories where the prince and the-

Sorry, getting of track.

As soon as Carter and I were finished, Walt immediately took a papyrus scroll from his pocket. It was rather ancient-looking, with the gilded borders, and the yellowing paper. He opened it, and handed to us, namely, me. The moment our fingers touched, Walt shied away. I could've sworn his cheeks had turned a light shade of pink. "Alyssa found this scroll on the front door just last morning. A letter came with it, saying to give it to you directly. After Alyssa showed us, the letter burst into flames. We uh, kinda did a little research first, you know, just to make sure that this isn't some kind of elaborate trap."

I stared at the scroll. It showed practically nothing. I peered closer, and narrowed my eyes. I even put the scroll directly in front of my face, just to see if there was any fine print or something. Nothing.

I handed it back to him. "That's it? An empty scroll? You disrupted our breakfast for an empty scroll, which is basically pretty much useless?"

Walt nodded to Cleo, who then pointed her wand at the scroll, and muttered, "Wpeh."

The hieroglyph for open burned in the middle of the scroll, and Walt handed it back to me. As soon as I touched it, the front layer began to fall like sand off of the papyrus, revealing another layer hidden beneath it.

"For some reasons unknown to us, it could only be revealed by a host of Isis." Walt explained.

Again, I looked at the paper, this time in fascination. There were six lines written on it:

Born of Egypt, Greece, and Rome,

The son of Kronos walks eternity alone.

Succeed his father, and take over time,

The greatest of the gods, an immortal divine.

Five that goes shall survive on this quest,

And death the only path taken by the rest.

I handed the scroll over to Carter, my hands still shaking. I didn't know what this meant, but I was pretty sure that whatever this was, it was even worse than Apophis himself. Beside me, Carter read the scroll. Once he was finished, he rolled it up, put it on the table, and said, "A'max."

Walt, Cleo, Jaz, and Alyssa watched the scroll burn in horror. And then they started protesting, and by they, I mean Walt, mostly.

"What was that for, Carter!" Jaz demanded.

"It was some kind of clue, why did you burn it?" Cleo pointed her wand at the scroll, and just shouted "Water!" A jet of water doused the flames, but the damage was done. All that was left of the scroll was a pile of ashes.

"Excuse us." Carter said apprehensively, and pulled me away from the four, who were contemplating on what to do next.

"Let go of me!" I demanded, pulling away from his grasp.

"Not until we're out of hearing range." Carter said.

I rolled my eyes. "Fine. If we absolutely have to, then go to my room."

Carter was taken aback by what I just said. "But you never let me go to your room."

I rolled my eyes, and sighed. "And for obvious reasons." I grabbed his hand, and dragged him all the way to my room. I closed the doors, and the spells that I put started to work.

I sat on my bed. Carter took a seat on one of the sofas that I had in there. I was staring at him questioningly, my mind still buzzing with a million questions. Why did he burn the scroll? And more importantly, what was so important about it that he had to take me away from breakfast and talk to me in private?

"Look Carter. If it's about the cockroach I put in your salad last week, I can explain-"

"It's not about that." Carter interrupted. "Wait, that was you?" he glared daggers at me. I have to admit, his death glares were beginning to look a lot scarier, thanks to Thalia. I was a bit unnerved by the way he stared at me. Since he was Horus' host, Carter still had the tendency to blow things out of proportion, like slice a little sister in half for a little prank. I gulped.

Carter sighed, like he had already suspected it was me. "Never mind that. Did you memorize what was written on that scroll?"

"How could I forget?" It was like the words were seared permanently on my mind. And death the only path taken by the rest, and death the only path taken by the rest, and death the only path taken by the rest…those words plagued my head like locusts. We had just survived a two wars, one an inter-pantheon accident with the Greeks and one with Apophis, and I was not anxious to live through another one so soon. We had experienced many deaths, and their screams and pleas for mercy still haunted me in my dreams.

"The son of Kronos walks eternity alone." Carter quoted from the scroll. "This is bad. Really, really bad." He began pacing all around my room, which kind of annoyed me a bit.

I stared at him, dumbfounded. There was Carter again, telling me things which I have absolutely no clue as to what he was talking about in the first place. I rolled my eyes in annoyance. "Wait, back up. How is it bad?"

"Sadie, remember those stories that Nico told us, you know, about the war of Manhattan?" carter asked. He looked into my eyes seriously, and I knew that whatever this was, calling it bad would be an understatement.

I nodded. "Um, he said that Zeus', Poseidon's and Hades' father rose after being chopped up to pieces, and…" – I scratched my head, trying to remember the details – "Percy somehow, killed him, I guess. What did that have to do with the bloody scroll?"

Carter took a deep breath. "Sadie, that was Kronos, the Greek's lord of Time. He used to rule the entire world, where the mortals lived in agony, but then Zeus dethroned him, and chopped him up into little pieces and cast him down to Tartarus, never to be seen or heard from again." He explained. Leave it to Carter to know all the boring mythology facts. "That was, until Kronos made a return. He invaded Manhattan, and a prophecy was fulfilled that Percy would kill him in the end."

"So that scroll was-"

"A prophecy of the future, yes." Carter agreed. "And if I guessed correctly, the fact that it mentioned Kronos means that we'll have to work with the Greeks again."

Realization came to me. "So that's why you burned it."

Carter nodded. "I couldn't have them reading the prophecy until we know what to do."

See, we never told our trainees of the Greeks or the demigods. We even convinced that ones that had met Nico, especially Walt, that he was just a very talented necromancer. Amos had suggested it, so that the confusion among the mythologies could be avoided.

"So," I said, throwing up my hands in the air. "What do we do now?"

"We tell them the truth." Carter said gravely.

Walt, Jaz, and Alyssa were waiting for us downstairs. Cleo had gone off somewhere, probably with Khufu. Alyssa was glaring at Carter, while Jaz tried to calm her down. The key word is tried. Small cracks appeared under Alyssa's feet. (She was studying the path of Geb, so that makes sense.) Obviously, she was still miffed about Carter burning down the scroll she found. Her dark brown eyes followed us as we descended down the staircase.

"Guys, before you complain, ask more questions, or maim us, we have to tell you something." Carter said as soon as we reached the floor. He ushered them to the great room, where we spent two hours trying to tell them of the Greeks. It was really taxing work, mostly because they don't want to accept it.

"Impossible!" Alyssa snapped. "If what you're saying is true, then how is there only one sun? Why don't we see Ra's sun boat and Apollo's chariot up in the sky at the same time, then?"

"Ask him that when you meet him. "I groaned. They were not making this easy. "What you need to understand is, the Greeks are real, and they live just over there." I pointed towards the Empire State Building.

"Where, in the Empire State Building? Do they have a penthouse there, or something." Walt asked sarcastically. He was looking at Carter and I like we just came out of an Asylum.

"No. They live on Olympus, obviously." Nico said, coming out of the shadows.

"Oh, just great." Walt rolled his eyes. "The all-powerful necromancer comes."

Nico snorted. "What, what's funny?" Walt demanded.

Carter nodded to me. "Nico here," – I grabbed him by the arm and pulled him in front of the three – "Is not a necromancer; He's the son of Hades, the god of the dead."

Jaz and Alyssa stared at him in awe, like they believed every word. Well, maybe the death energy he radiated could have something to do with it.

"So that explains some of the things he can do," Alyssa said. "Like come out of the shadows."

"Or summon unmummifed corpses to fight for him." Jaz added. She shuddered at the memory.

"Mummies?" Nico scoffed. "Who'd want to summon mummies when you can summon Spartans to fight for you?" he snapped his fingers, and three Spartan Warriors like from that movie 300 sprouted out of the ground. One of them came forward, and knelt in front of him. "It is an honor to serve the son of Hades. What is your command, my lord?"

Walt stared at the Spartans in disbelief. "Did he – did that, thing, just talk!" he pointed at the skeleton hysterically.

"Hey! Show some respect. King Leonidas is the general of my father's army, you know." The skeleton that talked nodded.

"Okay…" Walt said, still staring wide-eyed at the skeletons.

"You may go now." Nico ordered.

The skeletons nodded, and sank to the ground.

"Wow. This is a lot to process." Alyssa said.

Nico turned to us. "Carter, Sadie. Chiron wanted to see you."

"Why?" we asked him at the same time.

He started fidgeting with his skull ring. "Well, you see, Rachel kinda gave another prophecy. Something about-"

"The son of Kronos?" Carter asked.

"Yes. How did you know?" Nico asked.

Carter told him all about the scroll, and the prophecy written inside.

Nico paled, and for a son of Hades, it made him look dead. The only sign that he was still alive was his chest rising and falling. "Oh no. This is bad. Really, really bad."

I rolled my eyes. Oh great, Nico's starting to think like my brother.

So, how was it? Read and review, people! Oh, and tell me if I got Sadie in character. Also, tell me what you think of my prophecy!

And lastly, here are some things I'd like to add to the story:

1. Sadie/Nico/Walt love triangle (hinted here already.)

2. Anubis/Percy/Annabeth love triangle (not sure about this one yet.)

Well, just ideas. Tell me what you think! Oh, and also, I'm almost off to College, so I may not update daily like I used to. Studies first, I always say, so wish me luck guys!