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She dodged the shabti’s cluainst its clay ar seemed to happen to the warrior, but when it turned to strike, Alyssa just stood there I was about to yell at her to duck, but the shabti missed her completely Its blade hit the floor, and the warrior stu half a dozen tiot close to Alyssa Finally the warrior turned in confusion and staggered to the corner of the rooainst the wall and shuddered to a stop
Alyssa grinned at lyph for Miss"
"Nice one," I said
Meanwhile, Felix found a non-penguin solution I had no idea what type of ht eventually specialize in, but today he went for sirabbed a basketball from the bench, waited for the shabti to take a step, then bounced the ball off its head His ti was perfect The shabti lost its balance and fell over, its sword ar off Felix walked over and stomped on the shabti until it broke to pieces
He looked at ic"
"Fair enough" I made a mental note never to play basketball with Felix
Walt was theto watch He was a sau, a charic ite to do
As for his path, Walt hadn’t decided which god’s od of knowledge He could use scrolls and potions almost as well as Sadie, so he could’ve chosen the path of Isis He ht have even chosen Osiris, because Walt was a natural at bringing inani his ti his options As the shabti approached, Walt retreated If Walt had a weakness, it was his cautiousness He liked to think a long time before he acted In other words, he was Sadie’s exact opposite
[Don’t punch me, Sadie It’s true!]
"C’mon, Walt," Julian called "Kill it already"
"You’ve got this," Alyssa said
Walt reached for one of his rings Then he stepped backward and stumbled over the shards of Felix’s broken shabti
I shouted, "Look out!"
But Walt slipped and fell hard His shabti opponent rushed forward, slashing doith its sword
I raced to help, but I was too far away Walt’s hand was already rising instinctively to block the strike The enchanted ceramic blade was almost as sharp as real rabbed it, and the shabti froze Under Walt’s fingers, the blade turned gray and becaray spread like frost over the entire warrior, and the shabti crumbled into a pile of dust
Walt looked stunned He opened his hand, which was perfectly fine
"That was cool!" Felix said "What alance, and I knew the answer It wasn’t an amulet Walt had no idea how he’d done it
That would have been enough exciteinning
Before either of us could say anything, the floor shook I thought , which wouldn’t have been good Ordonkey curses again
Alyssa yelped "Guys…"
She pointed to the statue of Ra jutting out froodly basketball hoop was cru The Ra statue wasn’t turning to dust like the shabti It was breaking apart, falling to the floor in pieces Then my stomach clenched The pieces weren’t stone The statue was turning into scarab shells
The last of the statue cruan to move Three serpent heads rose fro you: I panicked I thought ht then and there I stumbled back so quickly, I ran into Alyssa The only reason I didn’t bolt fro to me for reassurance
It can’t be Apophis, I told ed, and I realized they weren’t three different animals It was one massive cobra with three heads Even weirder, it unfurled a pair of hawklike wings The thing’s trunk was as thick as h to be Apophis Its eyes weren’t glowing red They were regular creepy green snake eyes
Still…with all three heads staring right at me, I can’t say I relaxed
"Carter?" Felix asked uneasily "Is this part of the lesson?"
The serpent hissed in three-part harmony Its voice seemed to speak inside my head--and it sounded exactly like the bau in the Brooklyn Museu, Carter Kane, it said Give me the scroll
My heart skipped a beat The scroll--Sadie had given it to me after breakfast Stupid me--I should’ve locked it up, put it in one of our secure cubbyholes in the library; but it was still in the bag on my shoulder
What are you? I asked the snake
"Carter" Julian drew his sword "Do we attack?"