Chapter 1:
Magnus POV
"Okay, so what's our plan for today?" I asked my hall mates from floor 19. We were in Valhalla's battle field. Today was a Thursday so we had lindworms, aka dragons entering the field. Halfborn Gunderson answered, "You ask this question every week. And what do I say? I say that we don't have or use a plan except for killing everyone in sight." "Oh, so if I see you can I kill you then?" Mallory Keen asked.
Before Halfborn could answer a loud horn blasted signalling the start of the battle. "Okay boys and girls, this little war is about to get started." Alex announced. Today he was having one of his very male days. Then we all charged killing every person in sight. Halfborn was going for a minimalist approach, wearing nothing but shorts and only two every wicked looking ax. He twirled them in his hands and chopped every einherji within distance of his blades.
Mallory was fighting with her knives, while T.J. was fighting with his bayonet. Alex on the other hand was decapitating 5 people at a time with her garrote. Me, well I was getting better with a sword. Jack was out on a date with a 'smoking hot sword'. The last time I saw Annabeth, I asked her for some tips. Pretty soon she was giving me a full blown lesson complete with its own 1 hour lecture. "Keep wrist flexible. Don't raise your arm above your shoulder. No, you butt! Like this!" Since then I was getting better. I did not want her to look at me like I was a complete novice.
We met Big Lou. He likes to die by decapitation, but ever since Alex came he's been pretty happy. Why you might ask. Well it's because she can oblige to his request of killing him by taking his head. Now Lou seeks out her and Halfborn. We dodged more arrows and took out some einherji with nasty looking axes. I had a few good practice battles and improved my swordsmanship.
We had gone a long way before we encountered a lindworm. By then we were pretty scratched up. Alex cursed and said." I think I can decapitate that dragon." T.J asked "How?" to which Alex replied, "I fly up, land on it, use my garrote and take its head. All you guys have to do is distract it. Simple." "Yeah it's simple alright." I said. I heard stories about the dragons. Apparently they died bravely in battle as well when they were alive. So if by some crazy miracle an einherji did kill a lindworm, it would be resurrected before dinner like the rest of us.
With that Alex turned into a hawk and flew upwards. The Lindworm didn't notice him yet. It was still focused on the hundreds of einherji it was stomping on. Alex managed to get on it without much trouble. He was about to kill it when the dragon finally noticed him. It tried really hard to get Alex off. To distract it I drove my sword in its legs. While it was screaming Alex cut its head off. "Timber!" he yelled. The head squashed a huge group of warriors. The Body fell sideways and crushed more people. Before the body crashed, Alex was already on his way down.
"Nice job argr." Halfborn said. Alex said, "I decide what's manly, unmanly, womanly or unwomanly for me. I hear that one more time and you lose your head." Halfborn said, "Argr." Before he could even blink Alex pulled her garrote and decapitated him. We all just stared at her like "Dude!" She turned around and killed a few more warriors. Then looking at us she asked, "What? Do me a favor and don't sit there and look pretty. "We all said in unison "Yes Sir!" and charged into battle once more.
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Alex POV
After I had been killed, I woke up in my bed. I remembered that Magnus got killed when someone threw an ax at his head, Mallory died with a knife in her heart and T.J died with a bullet to the head. I had a few arrows in my back before I collapsed.
Once I got up, I took a shower and got dressed. During that time I thought about my weird dreams. I couldn't remember everything. But I did remember seeing a place filled with a lot of light, giants, a girl who could pass off as Magnus's sister and a camp. It was pretty weird since my dreams usually consist of more disturbing things like giants in weird bars and bowling alleys. The only disturbing thing about that was seeing what Magnus would like if he were a girl.
I decided to wear my favourite pink rose high tops, skinny lime green jeans and a pink and green argyle sweater vest over a white tee. Looking at the time, I saw there was about 1 hour before dinner. I decided to go check on Magnus to see if he had resurrected yet. If was, I would ask him if he wanted to watch a movie with me.
I opened my door to see Magnus. "What are you doing in front of my door?" I asked him. Honestly the guy would stare at me in such a way it sometimes it made me feel uncomfortable. I heard Gunderson tease him once that he had a crush me. Magnus, having a crush on me? As if!
"I wanted to know if you were willing to come with me to Alfheim. Hearth sent me a message saying he wanted to get back his othala runestone back." Magnus said
"Didn't you say the runestone was in his dad's backyard? And gave the old elf a cursed ring?"
"Yes and yes. That's why he needs help. His dad went paranoid someone will steal his treasure so he got more water nixies and various other security measures."
"Alright I'm in. When are we leaving?" I asked.
"Tomorrow morning." Magnus answered.
"There's an hour before dinner. Want to watch a movie with me? I bought chips, popcorn and soda last time I was in Midgard." I said
Magnus replied, "Sure. I needed an excuse to get out of my room. Jack will not shut up about his date and will not stop singing. My ears will bleed if I have to listen to him for another minute."