![]() Behind her on the broken tarmac, the black Labrador monster flopped like a fish out of water, its muzzle and paws bound in glowing golden rope.Īnnabeth stared at the younger girl. I don’t fancy being questioned by the police with this thing in tow.’ ‘I know you’re probably in shock, but we need to go. ![]() ‘Yoo-hoo.’ Karate Girl shook her shoulder. To Annabeth’s right, past the train tracks, stood a row of apartment towers so dilapidated they might’ve been make-believe buildings fashioned from old refrigerator boxes. ![]() A few hundred feet to the left, vacant plots and bent chain-link fences gave way to a yellow sand beach dotted with tar and trash. But still – what a disaster.Īnnabeth recognized where she was: Rockaway Beach. Hopefully they’d all fled the train at the Fulton Street station. The cars lay sideways in a broken, steaming zigzag of wreckage that reminded Annabeth of a drakon carcass (unfortunately, she’d seen several of those). About fifty yards away, the subway train had toppled off the track. As her vision cleared, she realized she was lucky to be alive. She felt as if someone was hammering hot nails into her ribcage. until the moment it isn’t.Annabeth managed to sit up. They trap the magician inside a snow globe. With a little extra help from a vulture goddess, the foursome uses an unexpected and potentially life-threatening combination of Greek and Egyptian magic to defeat Setne. Luckily, they show up in time to join forces with the demigods. The fire-breathing snakes flying around him are a dead giveaway too.Įgyptian magic is more Carter and Sadie’s thing. The evil Egyptian magician named Setne is there, too, reading aloud from the Book of Thoth. A freak hurricane sends the mortals hurrying for the mainland, leaving Percy and Annabeth alone on the island.Įxcept they aren’t alone. ![]() He’s up to something.įollowing a tip from Athena, demigods Percy and Annabeth travel to Governors Island in New York Harbor. She warns Annabeth that they have to watch out for him. Annabeth and Sadie fight fire with fire, using a combination of their magical specialties to keep monster and wannabe god apart.Īfterward, Sadie reveals that Setne, an evil magician who’s come back from the dead, awakened Serapis. To be fully reborn, he needs to get hold of the monster. Inside, they find Serapis, a once powerful god who drew his might from both Egyptian and Greek magic. The girls follow the strange monster to an abandoned building. A dog head wants to join up, but a young blond girl with a white wooden staff blocks its path.Īnnabeth, meet Sadie Kane, Egyptian magician and one-time host of the goddess Isis. and something tells Carter that it won’t be the last time the two will need to help each other out.ĭemigod Annabeth Chase has seen some weird things on the New York subway before, but the bizarre two-headed monster-one head wolf, the other lion, both stuffed into a long spiral seashell-beats them all. Also unexpected? The teenage boy with sea-green eyes and an orange camp T-shirt wielding a glowing sword.Ĭarter Kane, meet Percy Jackson, Greek demigod and son of Poseidon.Īfter an initial scuffle involving the Fist of Horus and a tidal wave of swamp water, Carter and Percy combine their powers, remove the magical gold necklace around the monster’s neck, and shrink the beast back to size. But he’s barely had time to draw his khopesh when the croc swallows him whole–then suddenly and unexpectedly disgorges him. When a gigantic crocodile menaces Long Island, Egyptian magician Carter Kane is on the scene. Three exciting short stories featuring Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Carter and Sadie Kane!
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