Chapter 1

Hello all, my apologies for the first one (it was terrible) anyway I'm hoping this one will be a bit better (it probably won't though). Anyway a special thanks to I'mwastingmylifeinhere for inspiring me to do this (your awesome!) anyway without further ado let's get on to the story!

Magnus POV

The morning had been normal, at least as normal as you could get in Valhalla, he had woken up, undressed and showered, he didn't bother with brushing his teeth the magic in Valhalla just kept it clean for you (magic was handy) he heeded out into his bedroom and grabbed a pair of trousers some pants and socks, he had manged to put his trousers on and was in the process of putting on his second sock when he heard a knock at the door

"who's there" he yelled and a second later the door opened and Alex stood at the doorway, he was wearing a green pair of jeans (where would you even find those?), a pair of pink and black trainers with the logo Blitzen's best on the side of them. To top of the ridicules outfit he wore a pink hoodie with the image of a pot on a turn table with the slogan underneath pot for life. Trust Alex to find the strangest of clothing. He was just getting the other sock over the ankle when Alex spoke

"can I come in?" he asked,

"yeah sure come here" there was an awkward silence while Alex stepped and noticed that magnus didn't have a shirt on, if magnus wasn't concentrating on his other sock he would have noticed a light dusting of red cover Alex's face. He quickly looked away and approached Magnus, a few seconds later Alex was sitting on the bed next to him the weight of the other boy weighing down on the mattress and making the creek.

"you came to tell me something?" I asked

"uh-yeah" Alex stuttered, "we have a surprise for you, the others sent me to come and get you" I gave him a strange look as if saying after all that has happened to us you think you can surprise me? But I got up grabbed a T-shirt and put it on as Alex led the way out.

Alex POV

I had just reached the door and knocked when the thought struck me, what if he's still asleep, or even worse in the shower but before he could think about running away quickly he heard Magnus yell from inside

"who's there" I opened the door and looked in, his room was much the same as mine, it was in the shape of an X with a lounge, a games room, a bathroom and a bedroom, each in one of the corners, in the middle of the room there was a grassy area with a tree reaching for the skylight. And then he noticed Magnus, he was sitting on the bed, bent over trying to put on one of his socks, he had a pair of blue jeans on he looked up further ready to inspect what shirt he had on except he didn't have one on. I could feel my face getting hot and I looked away trying not to get caught staring at his bare chest, which by the way was amazing, shut up brain, he thought but his brain did not comply and instead brought up some fantasies I had had about Magnus, my face turned even redder and I spoke up,

"can I come in" I asked

"yeah sure, come here" boy did I want to go over there, I wanted to go over and hug Magnu-no, no, no I thought as I headed over to him. I couldn't help but stare at the way his muscles rippled under his skin, did all 16-year-olds look like this? Probably not. He sat a close as he could next to Magnus without It looking weird. The bed creaked under him, a new line of Magnus related thoughts entered his mind but he quickly pushed them out of his mind as Magnus spoke.

"you came here to tell me something?" he said with a questioning tone as he turned and looked into Alex's eyes, god I could stare into those eyes all day, I looked away,

"uh yeah" I managed to spit out "we have a surprise for you, the others sent me to come and get you" Magnus gave me weird look, it looked like he was trying to fart. Then to my disappointment Magnus put a shirt on and walked out the door

Magnus POV

At this point he didn't think that anything could phase him now due to all that he had been through, but, as he turned the corner to the reception desk, he was stunned in front of him where two people, a boy with black hair swept to the side in such a way that showed he didn't care what other people thought of him, he had sea green eyes and a manor of ease around him, Magnus immediately liked him. When his gaze drifted over to the girl standing next to him it took him a second for him to realize who she was, she had blond hair that reached her shoulders and then stopped, she had startlingly grey eyes and was currently chatting to Hunding the bellhop. When she heard me around the corner she had turned to look at me, the expression on her face was one of joy and happiness as she ran over and hugged the breath out of me.

"hey cuz" I manged to gasp out, she pulled away with a big smile on her face

"Hi Magnus" she said, the dude at the entrance walked over, judging by how close he stood next to Annabeth it was probably Percy, I stepped back to be side on with Alex, I and introduced them to each other.

"Alex, this is Annabeth, daughter of Athena and a generally smart person" she stuck her hand out and Alex took it gratefully and shook, after they broke apart, Annabeth introduced her boyfriend before Magnus could.

"and this is my dork of a boyfriend, Percy" the boy smirked in a lovingly teasing way

"yeah but I'm your dork" he spoke in a deep voice but with a coy tone to it, when he noticed Annabeth standing awkwardly with a blush creeping on her face his smirk grew into a grin. Annabeth then spoke up

"so you're the famous Alex Fierro? Magnus has told us a lot about you." It was then Magnus's turn to blush. I had been texting Annabeth for weeks beforehand talking about how he felt about Alex, so basically Annabeth could ruin my relationship with Alex in a few words.

"what has he said?" Alex questioned shooting a strange look at me

"oh just, general things" Annabeth "like you being gender fluid, having green hair and a couple other things" like my massive crush I thought. I took control over the conversation before Alex could probe any further.

"anyway Annabeth why are you here?" I asked

"we found out where this hotel was and decided to come and stay for a few days, considering we haven't seen you in a couple months" she replied as if it were just a normal thing to drive to a different state to stay, at a hotel that was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside, with your dead cousin, yeah, my life is getting weird I thought.

"oh cool I'm guessing you're getting some rooms of your own" I asked

"that's what we were just arranging with the man over there" she pointed at handing who was tapping furiously at his keys like he was replying to hundreds of emails at once.

"cool, let's take you to the dining hall before everyone else gets there" then after a second I added "don't worry about your bags, the crows will take them up".

"The what?" Percy asked and gave me funny look.

"c'mon I'll tell you on the way" I said and turned walking towards the dining hall, the others followed suit.

Percy POV

I had been excited to come up to meet Magnus again, because it wasn't that often you got to visit your girlfriend's dead cousin who was alive, but also died every day could you die if you were already dead, apparently you could. All this had been running through his mind as they followed Magnus through the many corridors, though it wasn't long until they reached the hall of the dead (yet another strange name, I had gotten used to those). But When they had reached the archway all other thoughts had left his mind except for one god damn that is one big tree in front of them was a massive semi-circle shaped room, all around the outside there were benches with seats pulled up to them all arranged so that they were pointing towards a tree that was in the centre back wall it had a massive stump, be it about ten or twelve meters thick with branches sticking up in the air a good twenty meters and leaves as big as he was attached to those branches. In front of it there was another bench, it looked grander than all the rest of them, and around it were about six high topped chairs that looked like they were made of pure gold, they had a red carpet like covering on them and elegant engravings of people being brutally murdered on them. He realised that he was standing still and that the others had moved on. He ran to catch up with them to find that Alex and Annabeth were having a hearty chat about the architecture, there wasn't much to talk about considering that the place was mostly made up of spears. Magnus stepped back to walk with me.

"is her hair normally green or does she die it?" I asked. Because you know, I'm awesome at conversation starters.

"yeah, its normally green" he said and then a heartbeat later "and it's he and him unless Alex or I tell you otherwise" my cheeks flushed as he realised his mistake he looked down embarrassed

"don't worry about it" he heard Magnus say, "everybody has made that mistake at some point it's better to do it now than in front of him". Percy silently agreed with him. They all sat down at the table nearest the front just as a large horn blew and thousands of heavily muscled einherjar came bustling through the archway and swarmed the tables.

Magnus POV

Today's breakfast was just like any others, except for the fact that it wasn't. all of my friends were being normal, well as normal as my friends could get, which by the way wasn't very normal. They were all being boisterous and they taunted each other except for Halfborn who talked to Annabeth intensely about smart people things, T.J and Mallory were both giving Percy an arm wrestle Percy though would always win, how you may ask, I had no idea, the kid just managed to have infinite strength, though he drank a lot of water, and being the son of the sea god he thought that might have something to do with it. However he and Alex were pressed up close to each other and every time they went to do something their elbows touched and electricity would run down his arms and into my body making me feel warm and fuzzy inside. That was all normal but halfway through the breakfast the thanes called out a silence so that they could talk. When everyone was quiet and looking expectantly at the thanes table Helgi spoke his voice booming round the room like thunder.

"Vikings please, lend me your ears!" he paused for dramatic effect "as some of you may know, we have some visitors" to that there was some murmuring in the room but is was instantly drowned out by Helgi's loud voice.

"these visitors are not from the Norse Gods, no they are from the Greeks!" at this conversation burst up from the tables but as quickly as it started it died down. "now as an act of kindness they are offering a swimming session for those not wanting to fight the dragons today. a piece of paper will be passed around now, please sign on it you want to join" he then proceeded to sit back down and continue eating. Sure enough a piece of paper was handed to their table and as their table was the first in line the piece of paper was empty, I looked at it before signing my name on, anything was better than dragon day, I passed the paper on and looked back at my food to find that Alex had taken all of my bacon rashes and eggs. He gave me a look as if saying what you going to do about It?

As we were leaving to show Percy and Annabeth to their rooms I saw that the paper had been stuck to the wall, on it where two names.

Alex Fierro

Magnus Chase

From behind me I heard Annabeth say

"go get him"

This concludes my first chapter I don't know how long this will be yet, or if I'll even continue it so tell me whether you like it and if you want more, also tell me if you want anything to happen and I'll try to fit it in. Anyway thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next chapter!