Jason slammed his sword into the ground and the Olympians and campers vanished in a bright flash of light, he fell to his knees to be caught by Reyna. He was then lifted up by Bobby and Orion, the latter saying "sleep on the way sparky, you need to sleep." Jason muttered an insult in Latin which had Bobby laughing. Mari looked from the hanger of her ship which was a larger transport ship with guard, heading the longer route to Chaos City with Zoe, Theseus and Thor being dropped off on the way. Bianca placed her hand on her 'underlings' shoulder saying calmly "they will all be fine Mari, we have our own duty to do."
Nico, Piper and Leo were all wearing Paladin Armour as they stood talking softly for preparing the sector for the Scythe fleet that was on its way with the purpose of invasion. Beledorn was the only planet of any importance which the Scythe knew about, the computers and all backups were loaded onto ships heading to Chaos City with Bianca and the hunters. Percy strode forward, his armour was a simple marine issue from the war, not as good as his prior one but he refused to wear the armour he had been issued as Alpha. Leo had melted it down without even asking and used to make modifications to the immortal campers' armour and weaponry. Annabeth was beside Percy, his arm around her waist as they talked softly. Leo raised an eyebrow as did Nico while Piper smiled brightly and coming over, the couple hugged her. Thalia and Luke also did as well though Luke just nodded to Leo and Nico, Percy giving Nico a one armed hug then fist bumped with Leo saying "we'll be as quick as we can." Leo rolled his eyes as Nico replied solemnly "tell her she was right about Mari." Piper looked at him saying amused "Mari is as old as you, if we count the years in the casino. Otheria herself is ancient, though, all the years she spent sleeping don't really count." Annabeth looked amazed at this then turned to Thalia who shrugged saying "okay. Olympians left yesterday right?" Leo nodded "yep there in Asgard by now. Jason got them part way there so Heimdall could use the bifrost to take them the rest. He's sleeping it off on the way to his assignment." With a brief goodbye Percy and Luke entered the ship which was taking them to their destination and hopefully back. It was the same ship that Nico used to get out of his taken over station, his only words when he handed Percy the command codes were 'try and stay alive.' Thor flew over suddenly, he pulled Percy and then Luke into a tight hug booming out "we must meet again and talk of our war stories my friends." Luke winced; Percy had gone to fire up the engines with Annabeth and Thalia before he could respond so Luke promised to go to Asgard when it was all over and recite his war stories.
Location: Asgardian space: Asgard: BifrostAthena was stunned at the sight of the golden city of Asgard as was Artemis. An old one-eyed man met them with a stunningly beautiful woman with long brown hair and kind eyes, they looked similar to Thor, they introduced themselves as Odin and Frigga and they both gave off a strong aura of power. The orange eyed man who had met them introduced himself as Heimdall then said "welcome to Asgard, Olympians and demi-gods of Greece and Rome." One of Athena's children hesitantly asked about the bifrost and Heimdall replied briefly but blinked when Mark and Jack started rapidly asking questions about Asgard and Thor. Frigga laughed and offered to answer their questions, the two children grabbing onto her offered hands and talking to her rapidly, Zeus and Poseidon shocked at her open acceptance, both being used to their wives hostility to their children.
A black haired woman stepped forwards and introduced herself as Sif, goddess of war and Thor's wife. After the Asgardians were introduced, Athena quickly struck up a conversation with her fellow war goddess. Heimdall just said "you wish to travel to find Loki." Artemis squared her shoulders, her bow in her hands as she replied "yes, to help Zoe, Thalia and the only man I respect." Odin looked at Apollo then said "come, we will host you in my hall, a feast awaits you. When we can pinpoint Loki we will send you." Frigga was merrily entertaining the younger demi-god children as Katie glided forwards and gently picked her youngest sibling up with the littlest daughter of Apollo, then began, with Frigga, shepherding the children to the chariot on which they would be taken to the palace. When she came back, she looked at Sif who said confused "why do you not fight with your friends?" Katie replied honestly "I fought in two wars in two years as a demigod. I'm not Clarisse or Annabeth who are children of deities of war or Percy, Thalia, Nico, Jason and Luke who all are skilled at it. I keep the peace at home until they return though I failed once, and if the enemy comes, I am the last defence." Sif nodded as Katie left with the others, Odin saying with respect "a rare child, one who will stay out of the conflict by choice with dignity and not out of fear." Demeter looked slightly proud at her daughter who was trying to convince Mark and Jack to calm down as Mark had decided he wanted to be carried so had climbed onto her back.
Hera was amazed as she talked to Frigga at the feast, the woman spoke of her husband's illegitimate children with a calm and oddly fond tone as she explained "Odin is my husband but he is also my king and a man. When the demigods had committed their deeds I understood why he had sired them. I will not blame the children." She then proceeded to talk fondly to Mark who had stayed by her side since she had indulged him on the bifrost, the young child son of Poseidon having wormed their way into her heart, Hera noticed then that all the children were being welcomed warmly as were the warriors. The healers out of Apollo's children were talking with their father and an Asgardian goddess while Artemis and Athena had apparently started a conversation with Odin. Sif was with Jack who was showing her his abilities with lightning to her and a few other Asgardians, Frigga just said "children are rare here. We do not venture off Asgard often and even then, demi-gods of our Parthenon rarely come here. Having so many children in our halls is a rare thing indeed." Hera nodded and nodded to Zeus who was talking to Poseidon and Hades. The latter being cautiously accepted as Sif had explained their death goddess rarely came to Asgard as she had a long standing grudge with Thor for an incident that Sif would not mention though she did say it was Thor's fault.
Location: Scythe Space: Systiene System: SysteineLuke smiled disarmingly at Thalia as he shrugged off her help to land the ship, entering the Systiene System the two immortal demi-gods looked at the debris from the former inhabited planets, Annabeth saying quietly "how many were there?" Luke replied honestly "the Systiene System had five inhabited planets. The smallest was the capital and Otheria's home world. Look for yourself." He pointed at the half shrouded planet in front of them, its landscape was mostly blackened bar one small continent which was marred by a crater hole which went incredibly deep into the planet, the area was full of asteroid rocks. Percy said "we'll start on the old estate. Rion mentioned it being left untouched during his imprisonment." Luke spoke fondly but with sadness "I remember it. Do you remember when you dumped a lake on Cazar because he had woke you up?" Percy laughed at that then grinning replied "indeed. Remember when Cazar walked into Nico's room once when he and Otheria were in there sleeping?" Annabeth laughed as did Thalia and Luke, Thalia was straight faced as she said "Artemis would not like that." Luke shrugged and kissed her cheek impulsively causing her to blush before she hit him around the head.
As the ship shook they realised Systiene was surrounded by a Scythe fleet, cursing Luke and Percy ran to the controls, having to manually keep the shields online and land further from the retreat than they had planned. They narrowly avoided being seen or crashing into a ship before they landed on the planet's surface but the ship shook when, trying to land outside the city, they were hit by a cannon blast of sorts that had them in a skidding crash. Thalia looked at Percy when the ship stopped suddenly, Annabeth saying "is everyone alright?" Luke said to Percy "why is it that whenever it's you, Theseus or I in a ship, we always crash it?" Percy shrugged but winced, Annabeth then noticed that his sword was digging into his back. Standing up after unlocking the straps, the four looked at the screens of the ship that had not cracked. Thalia saying hesitantly "guys… Does this screen show outside?" Percy turned and looking where she was said "yes that screen does Thalia, why?" Luke went over and then swore in Greek, turning to Percy he said "monsters. Some sort of humanoid things with runes carved into their skin around Ares' height, just as much muscle and probably about as friendly as Zeus is to us when we're in the air." Percy chuckled and then drew Aquarius, it was glowing as Annabeth looked at it, then saw that Percy had spun it around, then stopped when it glowed stronger. Thalia saying sarcastically "the sword, really Kelp head?" Luke shrugged saying "it isn't the most idiotic thing we've done. Let's get to the small house near where we have crashed. There will be something I can hotwire for transport to the estate." Percy nodded and sheathed his sword, Annabeth noticing how the armour clicked slightly as he pushed it in the make shift sheathe. Luke saying thoughtfully "I preferred your old armour." Percy glared at him replying "I prefer my old armour, this stuff is not right."
Exploring the ship to pick up their bags and stuffing medical supplies in them Annabeth couldn't help but notice that, through the windows, Systiene was beautiful and seemed to be… tainted in a way that she did not understand. Percy seemed to edgy on the planet while Thalia and Luke were fine, Percy's eyes held a haunted look, he had seen the system burn because he had lost control of Aquarius then he and the others had been punished for a thousand years. The four met up, Annabeth carrying a small rucksack while Thalia asked "how are we getting out?" Percy smirked as he pointed up, revealing an air shaft, Luke muttering something about 'finally become useful.' Percy ignored him and climbed up, his armour clicking back slightly as he pressed his flesh hand against the screen, the computer opening the air lock, Thalia climbed out next, as soon as she got near the top she jumped up and activated her bow, gesturing for Luke and Annabeth to follow. Luke did so, Annabeth following, despite being an experienced knife fighter Annabeth got the feeling that longer ranged weaponry was better such as a bow or the boys' swords.
The four then looked down to see that the mutant beasts had caught their scents and were starting to circle the ship. Percy just swore quietly then looking around said, "Aquarius is useless, I really don't want to send up a flare to the scythe." Luke activated Thalia's spear and threw it at one of the mutants, impaling it thoroughly so that it went right through, putting one of them out of the coming battle of four against six. Luke drew his sword and when one mutant jumped, he slashed its head off with a single overpowered strike that he didn't even have to stop for before continuing to fight, Annabeth realised that Percy was telling the truth earlier, the higher class Paladins had their bodies enhanced. Thalia just fired arrows at the mutant beings' eyes, sending them scuttling. After they were gone, Percy said "Come on. There's small farm over there; hopefully there will be a functional transport." Percy jumped off the ship followed by Annabeth, Luke looked at Thalia, gesturing for her to go first, she did.