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[Gaaah, sorry guys, lost internet for the whole night >3< editing this soon after I organize everything that's been going on.]

Calliope

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Callie thought she knew pain. (REFERENCES.)

She'd fallen off the lava rock climbing wall a dozen times. She'd broken her limbs more times than she could count, been attacked by a pack of hellhounds, had to hold off about a dozen dracanae during the Titan war, and like every other demigod, had suffered more than any ordinary human.

Getting her soul infiltrated by an evil minion of Chaos beat all that.

It hadn't even gotten through her skin yet, and she already felt all her power being drained from her. When Carter tossed the shabti, she barely caught it, her senses being dulled by the pure pain. With one sickening wrench that almost made her black out, Callie tore herself away from the shadow sliver. What she was about to do had a 50/50 chance of working. She hoped it would work.

Callie thrust another dagger towards the sliver, making it silently scream in pain. The Celestial Bronze cut through it, but it reformed as easily. This wasn't any physical monster. It was the essence itself. The dagger stalled it long enough for Callie to summon and wrap some twine around the shabti. Her shaky hands managed to tie it into a certain knot - a tyet - and the shadow froze, curious on what she was planning.

"I banish you to the depths of the Duat," Callie reached for the diamond ring on her necklace, tearing off the necklace and scattering the camp beads all around her in the process. "I curse you to suffer sevenfold for as many beads there are on the ground."

There was no magical reaction yet, and Callie mentally had her fingers crossed. "I summon the power of Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom," She pressed the diamond ring into the shabti, the sharp stone cutting easily through the statue.

"Please. If you're alive, if you still exist in this world, and if what you told me was true...we share the same blood from our father. Send me help, brother," Callie thought desperately.

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Kane

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As he was attempting to explain why he was holding a scary-looking copper staff with a glowing emerald to Jaz, Kane felt something tug at him. "Wha-" was all he could let out before he was drawn into the Duat.

Emptiness. Nothingness. This was definitely a weird part of the Duat. Kane still held the staff, even in chicken-headed ba form.

Kane Eversley.

Kane gripped the staff tightly. This day was getting weirder and weirder.

"Who's there?!"

I am your sister's patron.

His breath hitched. "C-callie? She's alive?"

Yes. She needs your help.

Kane found himself laughing dryly. "How do you think I can help her? I don't even know where she is!"

You are blood of the pharaohs, Kane. Hosting gods is easier for you. Your sister, however, is not.

No. It couldn't- "Callie's trying to host a god?"

Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, to be precise. One of the Paths you have favored.

"It'll kill her," Kane realized. His hands were trembling.

With your father's bloodline, yes, it will. Send her your strength, and she may survive.

"How do I know you're on my side?!"

The voice was silent for a moment before letting a ripple of laughter throughout the Duat. I am not on your side. I am on your sister's.

Kane hesitated. Then he let go of the staff, and focused on one thing - sending magic to wherever Callie was.

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Calliope

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Callie thought she was dead. The shadow was only hesitating because it was curious. A moment passed, and it lunged.

That's when the ring glowed so hot, she almost dropped it. It began to melt the shabti. The shadow stopped mid-lunge, and began to writhe in pain.

Got your back, sis.

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[I'll let you guys continue x3]

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shaun started fiddling with the wires inside his glasses. he knew that they worked on the same magic as the bottomless toolbag his idol leo used, but he didn't really trust magic: he would rather build with his own hands. He decided greek fire was two risky, maybe that would go in the pocket catapult he was designing. He sighed. So much to do, so many ideas to tinker with, and so little time. He heard that there was tension between the Ares and Zeus cabin, but he wanted to stay out of it. He wasn't a bad kid, but he didn't feel like intruding on other people's personal issues. His abusive parents taught him that the hard way. He was really happy when he found Camp Half-Blood, as he could be away from his parents, who hated having an adopt alongside their other kid. That kid was cool. Shaun wondered how he was doing. He shook his head a little. The past is the past, and now he had new friends. He shooed all of these thoughts from his head and got back to working. He wanted this done by lunch to show the hephaestus kids he had an edge on them in their friendly rivalry.

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''what are you making?'' luna asked, sheathing her sword bone-slicer.
she crossed her arm's as she leaned against a tree watching him mess around with a pair of glasses.

"nothing, just making some repairs," Shaun said as he hastily put the glasses back on and turned around. He was surprised that he had been snuck up on, which meant either they were really good, or he was just out of it this morning. especially if it was an ares cabin. He had nothing against them, just athena cabin didn't view ares as the stealthy kind. he'd mull over that later. For now, to make some new friends.

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Death and Bolt packed their bags getting ready to travel again, after the talk with Chiron, it had been decided that they would have to hunt down some of the main monster organization, after all, they were the most familiar about fighting monsters, yet, that is, yet Death thought, they had also been instructed to find and escort half-bloods to the camp.

Death litsened to Bolts usual rambling about marshmallows and spaghetti sauce as they exited the border, they waled on and on, "This is gonna take a while.." Death sighed
"And its gonna be fun! As soon as we find spaghetti sauce and the half-bloods, we could dump the sauce onto them!" Bolt said gleefully.
"Ooh boy," Death sighed, and they walked off.

''i'm sorry if i frightened you, i just came from the training arena'' she said pointing back toward's camp.
she looked back at him with a small smile.
''and by the look's of those glasses you were working on... your either a hephaestus kid or an athena kid..'' she muttered curiously.

one of shaun's little helicameras saw death and that spaghetti dude walking off. Shaun didn't really know much about them, didn't even know the other one's name, but they were all in this together. He flipped the heli to combat mode with instructions to follow them. A little help was always good. Maybe he should tell them that though before they zap it out of the sky. He only had 2 of those, and they took a while to build.

he snapped out of his daze and faced luna. "yeah, I'm athena but i like to think of myself as part hephaestus as well… I'm a techie kid, y'know"

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They had lost track of time, but they still walked on,
"Man Im pretty hungry!" Bolt says looking towards a Mcdonalds place, "And look, free wifi!"
"But Bolt- Wifi-" Death begins,
"Yea, thats what Im aiming for! Well bethe bait!" Bolt snaps,
"I see.." Death mutters, "Lets go, here," Death brings Bolts Iphone from his duat locker.

luna chuckled.
''i just know both cabin's love building stuff'' she said.
her head tilted at his glasses, showing a little curiousity.
''can i see those?'' she asked pointing at the glasses.

"i don't have anything against you, but I've had bad experiences with people… um… settingthemselvesonfire BUT i have a copy of them here" *pulls them out* "so you can see where everything goes but theres nothing in there… i would've been sued already if i let everyone see THESE ones." *hands luna the other pair of glasses*

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she looked around the frame's for any button's.
''pretty cool design..'' she mumbled.

thanks, Im almost constantly tweaking the design for things like… *drawls on before realizing luna isn't listening* oh right, sorry. most of the buttons aren't actually on the glasses, you see.

soooo, yeah, i was thinking i would go to the target arena, or maybe the camp store. What about you?

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''which is amazing, no one would suspect this being a weapon'' luna said in awe.

well hey, thats part of outwitting your opponent. It does have some flaws, (i don't use greek fire anymore, that was disastrous) but it works pretty well.

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she folded them and handed them back.
''with being the daughter of ares... i never really was known to be so interested by something like that'' she admitted.

true, sometimes people find hidden passions they never new about. Like this friend i once had, he was this geek who suddenly discovered he was good at basket ball, etcetera you get the point. OOOH! i smell breakfast! let's go!

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she sighed.
''i bet your cabin is wondering where you are'' luna saida s she started walking back to camp.

oh yeah, i forgot! *sprints back to camp*

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she chuckled and sprinted back to camp as well.

Bolt checked on his robo-arm the commands on the heli-thingy, "Camp, we good!" Bolt said.
"What is it doing here..?" Death asked
"No idea!"
Death shook his head and they walked on.