The Staff of Serapis

The Staff of Serapis

Cover of The Staff of Serapis
Author	Rick Riordan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy novels
Publisher	Disney Hyperion and Puffin Books
Published	2014
Media type	E-book, audio book, paperback

The Staff of Serapis is the sequel to The Son of Sobek and the second book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Kane Chronicles crossover series. It was released in the back of the paperback version of The Mark of Athena on April 8, 2014 and as a single e-book and single audio book on May 20, 2014.

Plot

After failing a job interview, Annabeth Chase is going to the subway to go to Percy Jackson's apartment. She notices, and starts to follow, a monster with a wolf head and a lion head. Annabeth decides to follow the monster into the subway station. As she does not have a weapon, she starts an argument between the two heads. Sadie Kane steps off a train as it pulls into the station, casting several spells on the monster, which runs away. Annabeth and Sadie introduce themselves, and Sadie asks if Annabeth wants to help her walk her dog, "Fido". On the walk, they talk, exchanging information about their different worlds. "Fido" runs away from them, and Annabeth and Sadie are blown backwards by an unknown force. Annabeth picks up Sadie's wand and it turns into a dagger. Sadie tells her to keep it. Sadie then realizes that Fido was heading straight for a "storm". Annabeth doesn't understand, as she cannot see it, until Sadie explains the Duat. They attempt to save the dog from the "storm", but it joins with the wolf-and-lion head monster and adds a dog head. Noticing a man on the top of a building, they realize he is both Egyptian and Greek. Sadie tells Annabeth to distract the god while she figures out his name. She remembers his name, shouting "Serapis" ( an Egyptian/Greek hybrid God created by Ptolemy I). She begins to cast spells, but they have little effect. Annabeth and Sadie begin chanting in Greek and Egyptian to confuse him, before taking his staff. Annabeth destroys the dog head on his staff, vanquishing him.^[1]

Characters

Sadie Kane- The protagonist of the book along with Annabeth, she is a member of the House of Life and Carter's sister. She earlier appears in The Kane Chronicles as one of the protagonists.

Annabeth Chase - The protagonist of the book, along with Sadie, and Percy's girlfriend. She is the daughter of the Greek goddess Athena. She appears in Percy Jackson and the Olympians as a protagonist and in The Heroes of Olympus as one of the protagonists.

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