I know that I had fallen asleep against Rameses side so how was I now sitting on cold tile? When I tried to move I couldn't leading me to panic a bit before reassurances washed over me but not from Rameses this was Jasper maybe I really was dreaming.

"Morgan?" Rameses asked in my head.

"Rameses your here, I thought I was dreaming." I replied unsure now, a rapping of knuckles on tile caught my attention as bright lights turned on illuminating the once dark room. It was some sort of laboratory closed off from me by a wall of glass, two people who I unfortunately recognized walked into the room one being Dr. Cunning who was focused on a clipboard in hand while the other was Cas with a smug expression plastered on her face. I felt Rameses bristle against my mind not at all pleased while Jasper seemed to be bracing himself.

Cas sat on a counter while Dr. Cunning looked over equipment and files neither sparing a glance my way. My head tilted downwards glance up every couple of seconds as I took an index finger which ignited and began writing on the tile floor. The message was only left there for a minute before my other hand swept the soot away into incomprehensible dust.

In the couple moments it had been there I memorized the message it was a simple one so it wasn't hard. Salem MA. Fear from Jasper consumed my mind as Dr. Cunning began walking over to me before it felt like I was being pushed away. I jolted upright in the tent morning light streaming in through the open door, Rameses was right next to me his fur bristling as he startled awake.

"I'm going to guess you were having nightmares about Dr. Cunning too." Danny said from just outside the tent packing up our camp.

"Sort of, I think I was in his lab and Cas was there too." I replied.

"So you saw it too. I don't think it actually was a dream, I think it was Jasper." Rameses said as he stretched and padded out of the tent.

"So the message in soot was for us you think?" I asked as I got up my muscles protesting but strong enough that I didn't fall.

"What message?" Danny asked looking between us confused.

"Salem, MA. Jasper burned it onto the floor of wherever they were keeping him and erased it before they could see it, if it wasn't for us why hide it." Rameses replied sitting near Danny.

"Well Salem is a town in Massachusetts which is abbreviated MA maybe he was telling us where he was." I told them after a bit of thought since it made the most sense at least to me.

"Alright cool we know where to go but how do we keep Dr. Cunning from killing us when we get there, let alone rescue Jasper?" Danny asked as we all had to consider that Dr. Cunning was way too much for us to take on. It wasn't like he was going to just give us Jasper and send us on our merry way. An idea struck me Dr. Cunning was powerful probably because he had had so much time to learn magic, maybe we needed someone older than even him. I ran back into the tent and pulled out my dad's journal, there had to be some way to call Setehk. Sure enough near the back of the book was a ritual that didn't require too much just incense, sand, and the follower of Setehk's blood all of which I had.

"We can't beat Dr. Cunning but I bet a god could." I told them as I brought the book over for them to see.

"Morgan this is a bad idea Setehk is a god of chaos and violence this can go wrong is so many ways." Rameses cautioned ears flattening against his head.

"If you have a better idea I'm all ears. I'm not exactly looking forward to calling the god who killed my dad and turned my life upside down." I replied unsure what else we could do.

"Wait he killed your dad?" Danny asked.

"Yeah, he summoned some monsters that ripped him to shreds in front of Morgan." Rameses told him I guess he had seen that too from inside the statue.

"Well, if no one has a better idea I'm going to call Setehk you might want to get a fair distance away in case he is just as friendly as last time I saw him." I told them pulling a couple of incense out of my bag and a bowl to collect sand which even here was plentiful. I set them in place before I turned to Danny and Rameses who instead of moving away had come to stand on either side of me.

"If you think I'm going anywhere you don't know me as well as you think you do." Danny told me with a forced smile trying to be brave.

"I don't care if he is a god I'll tear him to shreds if he tries anything." Rameses growled with false bravado. I pulled my dagger out and used it to slice a small scratch across my palm letting the blood fall on the sand as I recited the words from my dad's journal.

Storm clouds quickly gathered above within seconds as the wind picked up kicking up sand that battered us. The winds and sand swirled around the bowl of red sand becoming a small tornado that as it cleared revealed a man a very familiar man. In front of me stood Seth as he dusted sand off his shoulder and thunder clapped overhead.

"Seth?" I asked.

"That would be me although you've also been calling me Setehk you gather so many names over milleniums." Seth replied.

"Your Setehk the egyptain god?" I asked trying to reconcile that Setehk had been interfering with my life a lot more than I thought.

"Well yes but that's not why you called me now is it?" Seth replied.

"I need your help to defeat Dr. Cunning and get Jasper back." I told him I had to focus on what was important dealing with Seth being Setehk could wait.

"I told you no more favors." Seth replied with a tilt of his head.

"Then what do you want in return?" I asked.

"I want you to find and destroy Wapasha." Seth spat venomously.

"Wapasha?" I asked trying to place the name, the only one I had known with that name was dad's familiar but he would have died with dad.

"Yes your father's familiar, that fool has been interfering with our family since the Victorian age." Seth growled

"Why does it matter so much to you?" I asked not thrilled to have to go chasing after my dad's old friend.

"Wapasha was the one who told me about your father's betrayal and used your father's death to take his body to use as his own. I don't take well to being tricked let alone as angry as I was with your father even he doesn't deserve to be trapped in his own body while someone else uses it." Seth replied a bit remorseful at the end.

"Dad's alive?" I asked in disbelief.

"No, the body is dead but Wapasha is keeping your father's dead soul inside of the body so he is able to use it for himself. The only thing you can do is free him, in a way this benefits you too." Seth told me

"If I agree to do this you will help us defeat Dr. Cunning and get Jasper back safe and alive?" I asked wanting to make sure he wasn't going to pull some monkey's paw type stuff.

"I agree to help you defeat Dr. Cunning, keep you, your companion and your familiar alive, Jasper I can't make that promise but I will assist you in whatever you decide is best done with him." Seth replied carefully.

"No deal if Jasper isn't included in it." I told him.

"It's not so simple, Dr. Cunning moves fast and you might not be able to save him sometimes it's best to put the dog down." Seth replied.

"I'm not going to give up on Jasper so are you going to help us or not?" I asked.

"My offer stands I will help you but I won't risk your life trying to save someone who might not thank you for doing so." Seth told me extending his hand to me like a business man making a deal.

"I'm going to do everything in my power to save him," I warned Seth.

"I expect nothing less, I'm just not going to let you die for it." Seth replied with a smirk. I turned to Rameses and Danny who both gave a nod of agreement; I took Seth's hand and shook it firmly copper threads wrapping around our hands before sinking into our skin and disappearing. Within moments of the threads disappearing Seth faded away and I had to catch myself as a gust of wind hit me and I felt heavier Rameses started growling at me hackles raised while Danny seemed confused.

"Do you want my help or not cat?" My own voice asked but I hadn't said it.

"Don't worry Morgan I'm going to be as hands off as I can but since Dr. Cunning is a child of Hermes I can't face him directly, instead I will lend you my power and make my moves through you so Hermes won't join the fight." Seth's voice said in my head.

"And you'll leave once we're done." I asked.

"I've been with you since the day you were born, the only difference now is that I am more present than before, but I will be as hands off as I was before once I've held up my end of our deal." Seth replied.

"It's alright guys let's just get this done with." I told Danny and Rameses before my hand moved of it's own accord palm up in front of me. Sand swirled above my palm before solidifying into three bullets that dropped into my hand.

"These are for you they are able to kill a wendigo." Seth said through me holding the bullets out to Danny.

"I don't want to kill Cas." Danny retorted.

"Then don't use them." Seth replied chucking the bullets to him.

"Now then let's get this party started." Seth said before using my hand to snap causing sand to swirl around us blotting out the sun.