Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The Red Pyramid AND The Throne of Fire


Sadie Kane and Carter Kane are magicians without knowledge of their own powers and magic. Everything changed on the day when their father got abducted by a red guy. The next day, the police came to the house of their grandparents to ask some questions about the explosion in the museum. After that, their Uncle Amos came and took them to Brooklyn to live with him. When they got there, they learned that the red guy was a god called Set. He had been unleashed along with 4 other gods – Osiris, Isis, Horus and Nephthys by Julius Kane, father of Carter and Sadie. Now that the gods are waking, Set is up to an evil plan. It’s up to the Kanes to stop him. Unfortunately, for Set, they do stop him. But they had to go through a lot of trouble just to get to the Red Pyramid. The Kanes had to pass the First Nome, the main House of Life; they take the Kanes as enemies. At the end, the Kanes found out Amos was hosting the spirit of Set, who also was being used by the Chaos serpent, Apophis. Apophis is breaking free from its cage. In the second book, The Throne of Fire, Carter has a dream where the war god, Horus, tells him the world is going to end in five days and tells him where an artifact is located. Carter realizes he must choose between gods that rules now or Ra, who is the center of Ma’at which balances with Chaos. Carter went for Ra knowing that he may be old and weak but he thought that was his only chance. So they went to the Brooklyn museum to retrieve the first part of the scroll. Unfortunately for Sadie, the scroll and her hand was on fire. The next day, Carter decided to start looking for the other scrolls to complete the Book of Ra. Unfortunately, for Carter, they didn’t. Since it was Sadie’s birthday, Sadie decided to go visit London. Sadie got a real surprise when she got there. The vulture goddess and the baboon god was hosting in the bodies of her grandparents. They want to kill and see if she was worthy enough to wake up the Ra. Fortunately, Bast’s friend, Bes, the dwarf god, got there just in time to Sadie and her grandparents. Unfortunately, for Carter and his friend, Walt, got there after the fight thinking that Bes was abducting Sadie. Bes took them to Russia to get the second scroll to the Book of Ra. At first, it seemed so easy. All they did was run in private territory that belongs to the 3rd most powerful magician, Menshikov. They took the scroll from him and ran out. Unfortunately, for them and mostly Carter, they got attacked by a 2 headed serpent in shape of a U and Carter got poisoned. He was to die in 12 hours. At the last minute Sadie saved Carter with using his secret name. Then they decided on whether to continue to find the Book of Ra or to find a girl called Zia. Then they decided that Sadie and Walt would search for the 3rd part of the Book of Ra in a place called Bahirya. Carter and Bes would search for Zia in her own town that was destroyed, Al-Hamrah Makan, The Place of the Red Sands. Both things were done in a day. Sadie and Walt completed the Book of Ra with a few problems with mummies. They wanted to use the knife Sadie had to open their mouths. Meanwhile Carter and Bes had convinced Zia to go with them with a few problems. As soon as they got there, they got attacked by water demons. As soon as Zia woke up, the Chief Lector and Menshikov were waiting for them ashore. After that they all met up again in Cairo. Then they decided that Zia and Walt would go to the Brooklyn House to protect it. Bes would also accompany them and then meet with the Kanes at the 4th House. The Kanes would go to the Duat to find Ra. When they got to the 4th House, they went looking for Ra and found him. Then they ran all the way to the 8th House, but it was too late. They only got to the 7th House because the 8th House gates were closed. They play a game called senet against the moon god to gain 3 extra hours to get through the 8th House. They won all 3 hours but the Bes ren got devoured by the moon god. They got passed by 8th House and got to the place to find the 3rd personality of Ra. Also it was the entrance to Apophis cage. Desjardins gets there just in time to stop Menshikov who has Apophis in him and execrate him. They got out of the Duat in time to tell everyone, including the invaders, that the path of the gods is the way to survive. Apophis will not be gone for long.

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