Chapter 1
This is going to be the new story now unless you guys really don't like it, I will be doing one couple per chapter, this time round it will be my favourite two people, Magnus and Alex. please do tell me if you want to continue or if you want to have a different story line, anyway ill stop dawdling and get on with the chapter
Side note: most relationships haven't happened yet, except for a select few + there will be a few non-canon ships but hey not everybody's perfect
Thursday 11th February
Magnus POV
Today was like any other day, I woke up, got out of bed, had a shower, got clothes on and checked the mail (yes, I have a mailbox in a hotel) normally there wouldn't be anything for me, but I checked it out of habit, this time round there was a letter, I looked at my watch, 8:43 it read Breakfast starts at 9 so I can read it now I thought, I walked over to my bedside and sat down, the letter was addressed to Mr. Magnus Chase, no address, no notes, just my name. I opened the letter to find an orange piece of paper about A5 size that read
Dear Magnus Chase
You have been invited to the Camp Half Blood prom
You may bring one other person with you
Long Island New York, 14th February
Sincerely
Chiron, camp director
camp half-blood I thought that's were Annabeth goes, I better ask her what's happening I pulled out my phone and put the letter on bed side table, it was a pink s8 with a green case (as you can tell Alex chose the colour scheme) I turned it on to find that I already had a message from her it read
did you get one
She probably meant the invitation I wrote her a quick message
you mean the invitation, yeah, I got one
I sent her the message and a minute later the reply came through
Great! Are you coming?
Yeah, I'll come
Cool, I can set you up with this girl called Reyna, she's great, I think you'll love her, that is if you don't have anybody to come with.
Nah, I got my eye on somebody
Oooh, who is it, do I know them?
I thought for a minute then replied
Yeah, remember Alex
Green haired girl?
That's her
I like her, see you then
I turned off my phone and opened the door, lucky me, Alex was getting out of her room as well, and boy did she look furious.
"hey Alex" I called to her from across the hall, she looked at me and her expression seemed to soften a bit
"not now Magnus" she said her voice was an octave higher than normal though she did walk over to me
"what's up" I asked she looked at me, her eyes were bloodshot, and she had a wobbly bottom lip she looked like she had been crying and was about to burst into tears again, she held out her arms like she wanted a hug I walked forwards and embraced her, she dug her head into my shoulder and started to cry.
"hey, hey, hey" I said rubbing her back knowing full well she wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't serious.
"you wanna go inside" I asked, she nodded slightly still crying into my shoulder I reopened the door and shuffled in, I led her to my bed where she sat on the side, I wrapped my arm round her shoulders and pulled her toward me, she continued to cry for another few minutes and finally looked up at me.
"you wanna talk about it?" I asked, she sniffled and nodded her head, she didn't say anything, just handed me a crumpled note, I began to read it
Alex nobody likes you, you're a freak and you scare the children in the lower floors, even your so-called friends hate you, do yourself and everybody around you a favour and get out of Valhalla, you don't deserve to be here.
Once I had finished reading it I looked back at Alex and she started to cry all over again, it made me sick to think that there were people out there that wrote things like this, I wrapped my arms round Alex again and pulled her close to me, after another few minutes she had calmed down enough to talk
"i-is it true?" she asked her voice almost braking half way through, I pulled away from her and she looked at me
"of course, it isn't" I said, I gave her a smile, but it just seemed to make her cry all over again
"N-nobody wants m-me" she managed to choke out between sobs, seeing her like this broke my heart, and so, I, magnus chase swore to make it better, though knowing me I would just make it worse. She was still crying, and I probably didn't have her attention, but I spoke anyway
"Alex, you are the coolest, most awesome, amazing person I have ever met in my life and some people may not share my view but Mallory, Halfborn, TJ, Sam, Hearth, Blitzen and I do and were your family so that's all you should care about, not some random dicks views, and you are wanted, just you don't know who wants you yet" Alex had stopped crying halfway through my feel good speech and now she was looking at me, her eyes shined a bit from the water in them.
"come here" I said, and I hugged her, this time instead of crying into my shoulder she rested her head on it. We broke away after a few seconds but before I could say anything more she kissed me on the cheek.
"you're the best Magnus" she said her voice was still shaky but it was getting stronger all the time, if she noticed me go bright red, she didn't let on she got up and I followed suit. While we were walking to the door I decided to ask the question
"hey Alex, can I ask you a question without you killing me" I asked, heat rising in my cheeks even before I had asked the question
"I can't make any promises, but I'll try not to" she said, that's the best offer I had ever gotten so now was my chance
"so, um, you remember Annabeth right" I asked she narrowed her eyes at me
"yeah" she said slowly
"well at their camp, their having a prom, and well I've been invited" I said hoping she would understand what I was getting at, she didn't
"cool, who are you taking, there's that girl in floor 17 that really likes you" I blushed thinking about what had happened that day, it hadn't ended well for me.
"no, I wasn't going to ask her" I said rubbing my neck, she was really not making this easy for me
"I was kind of wondering if you would want to come with me"
She looked at me as if I had hit her
"you want me to come, you mean as friends, right?" she asked
"yeah, as friends" I said quickly and looked away quickly to hide my blush, if I hadn't I might have noticed the look of disappointment plastered on Alex's face.
Alex POV
Breakfast had gone quickly, there was the normal teasing and boastfulness, apparently TJ had slipped this morning and had impaled himself with his rifle, I filled that knowledge away for later, during breakfast Magnus had also said that he would need to see me at the reception desk with packed bags as soon as I could get there, I agreed and a few minutes later I was in my room, I went about picking up clothes and possible things that I would need for the flight, garotte-check, neck pillow-check, litre bottle of water-check, the list went on. Finally, after about half an hour I had everything that I needed, all packed into a carryon bag, I left my room and walked down to the reception area, Magnus was already there, and he was talking to Hunding the bellhop
"what do you mean there are other gods? How come I have never heard of this camp half-blood?" his voice was loud and questioning like he couldn't believe that there was another set of gods, to be honest one set is hard enough two is harder, and apparently there were roman and the Egyptian gods too.
"they don't like to advertise themselves, anyway Hunding have you booked our tickets?" he asked, I set my case down next to his and asked
"tickets?"
"were going by plane" he said, I knew that Magnus never gone on a plane before, so I raised an eyebrow at him
"you're going on a plane" I asked
"yes, here are your tickets, and bring me proof that these Greeks exist" Hunding said as he handed us a piece of paper. Magnus reached out to take but I took it out of Hunding's hand before Magnus could get a chance.
"if you take it you'll lose it" I said to him, he grumbled but agreed that he would
"Hunding what transport have you arranged for us to get to the airport?" I asked him
"there is a taxi waiting for you outside" he said still looking confused at the fact that there were more than one set of gods
"thanks, Hunding see you soon" I said as we walked out of the hotel
when we got to the airport we were late, the staff rushed us through quickly to get us on our plane on time when we sat down Magnus's face still looked worried, at first, I thought that it was just that we were late but now his fingers were digging into the chairs armrests and he looked like he had been swimming, I put my hand on his and he seemed to relax a bit
"we haven't even taken off yet, don't worry" I said, that just made him seem to worry more.
"look, if you get through this entire flight without screaming" I said, I paused thinking about what I could give him that would be worth his while. "I'll give you a kiss" he looked at me
"really" he asked, was it me or did he sound kind of hopeful
"probably not" I said, "but it's the best offer you're going to get" he grunted but he did seem to relax a bit more, or at least until we got to the runway
Magnus POV
Don't scream, if you don't scream Alex might kiss you, don't scream that's all I could think about the entire way to the runway, when we did get onto the take-off strip, I closed my eyes shut and squeezed Alex's hand as hard as I could, I really didn't care about how Alex saw me, she was one of the few people I was actually myself around so, she knew how much of a little baby I was. And then, the plane accelerated. My head snapped back against the headrest
"fuck me" I said a bit too loudly Alex mumbled something, it sounded like she had said gladly but I would never know. The plane started to lift off the ground and I clenched her hand tighter. I closed my eyes and tried my best not to scream or to start crying, I didn't know which one would be worse, but I was sure that if I did either of those things, Alex would throw me out the door of the plane. I started to think of happy things, cat videos, falafel Alex this morning when she kissed me. I could feel a blush spreading across my face when I thought of that and looked out the side of the window to try to hide it, bad idea, in front of me the Boston skyline disappeared below me and was soon replaced by clouds, I turned my head back to Alex who was currently looking at me expectantly
"how are you this calm?" I asked
"oh, I've just done this a few times before, you get used to it, just wait until we get turbulence" she said, I looked at her and gulped
"t-turbulence, what's that?" I asked, not wanting to know what horror turbulence was
"it's when there is a pocket of low pressure in the air around us causing the plane to drop a bit, kind of like going across a bumpy road but sometimes the dents in the road are a good few hundred feet" I could feel my face paling and by the look on Alex's face she found it funny
"don't worry, that's only in the extreme cases, as far as I know this isn't an extreme case" she said
"that makes me feel so much better" I said sarcastically. For a while I managed to calm down, the air stewardess came by and gave me a cup of water, I had Alex's as well because I had sweat enough to fill a bathtub and I she didn't want me to get sick before the prom, to quote her, it would be a huge embarrassment, anyway it was all going well until the announcer said "we'll be landing in a few minutes" a few seconds after that the plane dipped and at the same time we hit the first bit of turbulence, that with the combined fact that this was my first time in a plane freaked me out
"holly shit" I said then soon after remembering that there were people round me other than Alex
"hey, remember what I said, no screaming" she looked at me and there was amusement sparkling in her eyes
"I'm trying to" I said without any enthusiasm she smirked at me, god I loved that smile.
"just wait a few more minutes we've almost reached the airport" she said, a few minutes of but clenching teeth grinding terror later we landed, the jolt when we finally touched down almost made me yelp but somehow, I managed to keep my mouth shut, when we finally got off the plane relief washed over me
"you owe me a kiss" I said, Alex looked at me
"fine, but later, I want you to at least have a shower before I am kissing you" she said it like it was some meningeal task that she really didn't want to do, which she probably really didn't.
"anyway, we need to get our suitcases now" she said, this bit I was ok with, as long as I didn't need to go on any more planes. When we did get our cases, which took way too long, we left to find our ride
"what does our ride look like" Alex asked
"I don't know, Annabeth just said we would notice it when we saw it" I responded, we looked around the waiting area in the airport when we didn't see anything out of the ordinary we went outside, then we saw something out of the ordinary, among all the normal cars there was one that stood out like a saw thumb, it looked like a Rolls-Royce phantom(2018 version) but it was painted black with flames etched onto the bonnet and covering some of the door, on the side of the door there was also some writing it took me a few seconds to make out what it said, when I did I was confused the inscription read 'hot stuff', along with the peculiar paint job there was a massive wing that poked out a good few feet from the boot. Once I took in the car I looked at the next strange thing there was a kid say fifteen with olive skin, he was wearing a white shirt but the amount of grime and dirt on it made it look grey, along with this he wore a pair of brown trousers with extra pockets on the sides, attached to the trousers there was a weird toolbelt like one you would use in a workshop. Under closer inspection the boy's face was grimy and he wore a surprised expression, probably because there was a dark-skinned girl pressed up against him, she looked thirteen-fourteen with cinnamon brown hair.
"that looks strange enough" I said, and we started to walk over to them when the boy wrapped his hands round the girl's body and puller her closer.
"do you think we should give them a minute" I asked
"no" she said
"you're cruel, you know that" I said but I followed her none the less, when we got to where they were standing I coughed, the girl broke away and looked at us a blush spreading across her face, she wriggled out of the guys arms and straightened her shirt out, the boy just looked at us, no shame on his face and spoke.
"ah, so you're the undead people were meant to pick up, to be honest I was expecting more zombie like people, yknow" he tapped on the car as he spoke, either this kid was naturally hyper, or he was hyped up on enough caffeine to kill a water buffalo. The girl hit the guy lightly
"I'm an undead person Leo" she said but the guy kept on talking
"anyway, my name is Leo, this is Hazel, were here to pick you guys up, you are Magnus and Alex right, I haven't started talking to two random people, have I? god that happened once, it was so embarrassing but honestly how can you tell people apart, but you guys are the right dead people?"
"uh yeah, that's us" I said
"cool, get in, camp isn't that far away he walked over to the driver side door and hopped in the girl, looked at us and said
"sorry about him, he's eccentric, you can put your bags in the boot" she smiled and then got in as well, we walked over to the back of the car and popped the boot, there was a string inside of it that attached the top of the boot to the bottom, presumably to stop the wing from hitting the rear window of the car, we dumped the bags in and got into the car, it was surprisingly comfy and looked, well, like a Rolls Royce, if a Rolls Royce's interior came in red and orange and had an engine sound so loud it made F1 cars jealous.
"so, tell us a bit about yourselves we've got about an hour until we get to camp" Hazel said, and so we did. After about forty minutes we had finished telling them about Valhalla, the nine worlds and the Norse gods. Leo asked a question
"wait, so you guys died, just to die again every day for eternity" he asked, until he had said that I hadn't really thought about how silly it sounded.
"yeah, I guess" I said not knowing what else to say
"cool, also I remember you said you were gender fluid, is there like a schedule to it, or what" he asked
"Leo!" Hazel yelled and hit him
"what I was just asking!" he said swerving and getting honked at by several angry drivers
"it's ok, I was going to say anyway, but today I am a girl and no there is no pattern, at least not one that I can find" Alex said, they chatted for a few more minutes before Leo finally said
"were here" I looked out of the window to see the most amazing thing ever, nothing, there was nothing there, just a farm gate connected to a wire fence that led on for miles.
"there's nothing there" I said sounding unimpressed
"just wait" Leo said as he got out of the car and opened the gate we waited for him as he got back in the car and pulled forward, the second the car went past the gate it looked like they were driving through a bubble, suddenly what had been an empty field now became a huge town like area, there were stalls with flying shoes for sale and groups of people gathered round a person doing magic tricks there was what looked like a climbing wall what shook and spilled Lava everywhere, finally my gaze wondered over to a massive wooden sky-blue house Leo noticed me staring and said
"that's the big house, its where you'll be staying, were going there now to talk to Chiron, he's the camps director, he'll get you settled in" I nodded to him and he pulled over next to it and got out, we followed suit, while we were getting out Hazel spoke
" I'll go tell Annabeth that you're here" she jogged of into the distance when we looked back we saw a man in a wheelchair push himself out.
"that's Chiron he'll take you from here" Leo said to us helpfully, we walked over to him and he smiled
"so, you do exist, I was beginning to think that Annabeth had made you up" he said. Alex stuck her hand out and Chiron shook it
"Hi, I'm Alex Fierro and this is my idiot friend Magnus Chase" Chiron regarded me
"nice to meet you, I'm sure you have many questions come inside" after half an hour of Chiron telling us the rules, what meant what and how not to die, as I did that a lot, he led us upstairs and showed us to our room
"this is where you are going to be your room during your stay, if you want to unpack you can do so now, dinner will be in about an hour, I'll send Annabeth to come and get you" and with that he left, I looked at Alex and I said the first thing that came to mind
"the bed is mine"
"no, I want it" Alex said
"I called it first" I retorted back to her
"fine" she said but she had a sly look on her face that made me not want to trust her
"what is it?" I asked but she just smiled at me in a way that made me want to stay as far away from her as possible, she stretched backwards, and her shirt rode up a few inches, I looked away to try and hide my blush, but it didn't work
"what you looking at Maggie" I blushed harder trying to get thoughts of Alex out of my head, it didn't work. She walked up to me and grabbed my face with her hand and forced me to look at her
"this is for not screaming on the plane" she said, and she kissed me
Alex POV
To be honest with you, I had no idea what I was doing, you may think, oh Alex your so cool and pretty of course you've kissed someone before, thanks but actually I haven't ever kissed anybody, or had a relationship, or had friends before Magnus so I set the bar quite high, I walked over to the blushing boy and grabbed his cheeks and said
"this is for not screaming on the plane" and I pulled his head toward mine and I kissed him, his lips were warm but rough, kind of like a soft sandpaper. I pulled away and had developed a blush myself but was consoled by the fact that Magnus too had gone tomato red.
"um I'm going to get my stuff put away" I said slowly and stupidly, god wasn't I the confident one.
"yeah me too" Magnus stuttered, a few minutes later, like Chiron said, Annabeth came around to see us
"Magnus" she cried, and she jumped at him.
"hey cuz" he said looking quite startled at the speed and ferocity Annabeth had lunged at him with.
"I'm so glad you came!" she squealed once she had removed herself from him she looked toward me and stuck out her hand
"you must be Alex, nice to meet you, Magnus has told me a lot about you" she said, I shook her hand and raised an eyebrow at magnus, I smirked when he blushed and looked at the floor, god I was going to have so much fun this weekend.
"anyway, ill fill you in on the way to dinner" she said, and we followed out of the door. Annabeth, as promised, took us on a tour around the camp, she explained what everything was, how it got there and how it related to the gods, she even answered some of Magnus's stupid questions, after we finished the tour Annabeth led us to the pavilion where there were about twenty tables each about ten meters long with yet another table at the very back, but this one was laid horizontally instead of vertically and it was only five meters long.
"we used to be able to fit all of the campers into these tables but ever since the titan war the gods have started to claim more children all the time so we have a rota, under 14's first then everybody else" Annabeth said "so we've got about another hour or so before it's our dinner but the children's one should be starting any time around now" and as if on que a conch horn blasted and streams of children started to head towards us
"c'mon let's go introduce you guys to the gang". The gang, was not very impressive, it consisted of three boys, one of which I recognised being Leo and two others, a blond-haired guy and black-haired guy, the tree of them were huddled around something that looked like Jenga but instead of wood it was made from uneven scarps of bronze. Across from them sat two girls, one I recognised as Hazel the other, I didn't recognise but I was sure that I had seen her somewhere, she had brown hair and a pretty face. Annabeth spoke up and their heads snapped round to look at her
"hey guys, this is my cousin Magnus, I told you he was real, and this is his date, Alex" for some reason everybody looked at me, not Magnus, not Annabeth, just me. I stared at them back
"what is there something on my face?" I asked and that broke the ice
"she has green hair" the black-haired guy said, c'mon guys, just because of the hair, have a little respect
"you got a problem with that" I said and glared at him, but it seemed not to affect him
"I mean it's cool and all, but have you thought about the culler blue?" the boy asked, Annabeth cut in
"Percy stop being so rude!"
"just saying" he said
"just saying, blue is a stupid culler" I said, the blonde kid sitting next to him punched his arm and looked at me
"I think you're going to feel right at home here" he said, Annabeth tried to get control of the conversation again said
"anyway, the kid you were just talking to, he's Percy" he waved at us, I looked at Annabeth and was it just me or did she look kind of flustered when she said his name "he's the" she started to say but Percy interrupted her
"coolest and most fabulous person here"
"he likes to think, he's the son of Poseidon and he's most idiotic and annoying one out of all of us" she said, he smirked at her and she definitely blushed
"you already know Leo, he's the son of Hephaestus, the blond kid there, he's Jason son of Jupiter he's pretty much a blond superman" Jason glared at her, but he didn't attempt to argue with her "you already know Hazel she's a daughter of Pluto and Piper over there, she's the daughter of Aphrodite, if you want somebody to do something just ask her" after she had introduced everybody Magnus asked
"so, two of your friends are children of planets, how does that work?" Magnus asked, I contemplated facepalming but felt that it would be unnecessary
"no, that's the roman natures of the Greek gods" Annabeth said like this was normal well used phrase, to be honest it was for people like us. After that we all grouped together and shared stories and whatnot, eventually the conch horn sounded again and we all went to dinner.
Magnus POV
When we were walking to dinner I was talking with Percy, for some reason he had gotten the idea in his head that I was like some sort of cartoonish child from how to train your dragon, the boy confused me but anyway we were talking normally when all of sudden he went quiet
"hey Annabeth, where's Nico?" he asked
"oh, he and Will went to do stuff" she said dropping back with us, Percy grinned
"so, did he follow your advice then" he said, Annabeth began to grin too, I couldn't help but feel like I was missing out on an inside joke
"you think Will's actually going to, yknow" she said
"I hope Will films it" Percy said, at that point I was really confused and decided to pipe in
"what's happening?" I asked
"one of our friends is taking the other out clubbing" Percy said the grin still prominent on his face
"anyway, Alex seems pretty cool, how long you guys been together?" Annabeth asked, I blushed and looked down
"were not going out, she's just here as a friend" I said, if I had been looking up I would have noticed that Percy and Annabeth having a silent conversation, it went a bit like this
We are going to get them together right?
Course we are
Cool
When I looked up again I noticed that we were just outside the Pavilion we all sat down at a table near the front, while we were walking Percy had told me that it used to be camp tradition to sit at your cabins table, but that rule had been broken so many times that Chiron didn't bother with it anymore, so everybody just sat where they wanted. Fortunately, or unfortunately, however you wanted to look at it, I had been squished up next to Alex, the amount of physical contact was killing me slowly, every once in a while we would bump arms and I would drop my knife or Alex would drop her chopsticks, yes, you heard right, chopsticks, Leo had bet her that she couldn't eat an entire dinner without using a knife or a fork, and though she was terrible at it, she was persistent, I gave her that. Soon enough though diner had ended, and everybody had gone back to their cabins, except for Leo and Hazel, they sneaked off in the general direction of pier, probably to make out some more, me and Alex though walked back to our room and got ready for bed, I brushed my teeth though TJ had told me that there was no need, Valhalla just kept you healthy no matter what, but I did so anyway, it just felt right. I had taken my shirt off and was about to take my trousers off too when I remembered that Alex was in the room too, I looked up to see Alex sitting on the bed staring at me, her face reminded me of Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, I decided to keep that description to myself because I was sure if I said that aloud I would have to sleep outside.
"your goanna look away or should I-" I said, and she seemed to go an even darker shade of red
"I-I'm good, keep going" she said, I decided not to think on her words too much on her words and I kept on undressing, I had just gotten my jeans off and I was reaching for my pyjamas when Alex walked up to me, I straightened wondering why she would be coming towards me and I started to say
"where are you going" but I was cut off midsentence when she grabbed my head and pulled me into a kiss
Alex POV
Dinner had been fun enough, I was sure I had completely humiliated myself in front of Magnus, at the end I had just resorted to stabbing the food with my chopstick, but Magnus had done worse, much worse. Anyway we were in our room now and Magnus had just come out of the bathroom from brushing my teeth when he started to take his shirt of, I stared, it wasn't like I hadn't seen another boy bear chested before, I had seen Halfborn's chest way to many times for it to be okay, but Magnus wasn't like Halfborn, he didn't slouch over and he wasn't heavily muscled, I mean yes, he looked good, he had a six pack and his arms just wanted me to grab and just ungh, I don't know, squish him? It didn't matter he just looked good. He noticed me staring and he said
"do you want to look away or should I-" my face burned I wanted to look away but his body, it just, it was mesmerising
"I-I'm good, keep going" I managed to stutter out, keep going, I'm good, god I'm such an idiot I thought to myself, and then, he took his trousers off.
Inside my head I was screeching like a fangirl when a couple finally kissed, my instincts went on overdrive and my thoughts reeled at a million miles an hour, god I wanted to kiss him now, I wanted to be with him, I wanted to cuddle him and, well, many other things you guys are too young to understand. In that moment I had a choice, go kiss Magnus now and start a relationship, or sleep on the floor and dream of him forevermore, I decided on the one I like the most, I stood up walked over to Magnus, he started to say something, but I grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss
By the way if you were ever wondering, Magnus is a great kisser, but to be honest, I hadn't, and any experience and I was biased so don't take my word for it. The first second of the kiss I was just kissing him, I thought that maybe I and gone too far and that he didn't like me and that I and just ruined our friendship and it would become really awkward between us, then he leaned in too and started to kiss me back, relief washed over me and then I really started to enjoy the kiss, god I could have stayed like that for days on end and not cared, the world could have ended I wouldn't have cared, all that matter to me was that Magnus was kissing me. After a few more seconds of kissing Magnus wrapped his hands around my waist and pulled me closer to him, in return I wrapped my hands round his back and started to feel the contours of his lats and deltoids. After a few minutes of kissing him he pulled away, he looked into my eyes and spoke
"I love you" he whispered the thought that he had said that to me in real life my heart skip a beat, I had heard him whisper those words to me before in my dreams, I had come up with countless plans of what I would do if he said those words, shag him, marry him, punch him I settled for something much more normal.
"I love you too" I said as I kissed him back.
Please tell me if you think I should carry on, go follow my insta (link in bio) where I will be posting spoilers and possible future plots, and just a side note because I can already hear all the messages complaining about Lazel, I can do what I want, this is my fanfiction, if I wanted to, I could make Percy hate the colour blue and for Leo to become sparkle but from my little pony, my point being, I ship Lazel over Frazel and I aint gonna change it.
