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Title: Mischief Makers and Dragon Riders – The New Demigods
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus / DreamWorks
Disclaimer: All rights concerning the movies reserved to DreamWorks. 'Guardians of Childhood' is property of William Joyce. 'How To Train Your Dragon' is property of Cressida Cowell. All rights concerning Percy Jackson reserved to Rick Riordan for he created the awesomeness that is Nico di Angelo. And everything else related to Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus. Aside from the Gods, they belong to the old Greeks. This fanfiction and its OCs on the other hand are entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.
Warnings: shounen-ai, magic, fluff, hurt/comfort, angst, explicit intercourse, anal, shoujo-ai, hetero
Main Pairings: Nico/Percy & Hiccup/Jack
Side Pairings: Piper/Annabeth, Jake/Will, Frank/Hazel/Leo, Jason/Reyna, Malcolm/Katie, Shane/Lacy, Chris/Clarisse, Eret/Astrid, Fishlegs/Heather, Paul/Sally
Rise of the Guardians Character: Jackson Overland | Jack Frost (Khione)
How To Train Your Dragon Characters: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (Hephaestus), Toothless (Night Fury), Fishlegs Ingerman (Athena), Meatlug (Gronkle), Heather (Aphrodite), Windshear (Razorwhip), Snotlout Jorgenson (Ares), Hookfang (Monstrous Nightmare), Tuffnut Thorston (Hermes), Ruffnut Thorston (Hermes), Barf & Belch (Hideous Zippleback), Astrid Hofferson (Athena), Stormfly (Deadly Nadder), Eret Eretson (Ares), Skullcrusher (Rumblehorn)
OC Dragons: Festus (Leo's Razorwhip), Shadow (Nico's Night Fury), Blueberry (Percy's Golphin), Snowpiercer (Jack's Polar Serpent), Aegis (Annabeth's Silver Phantom), Maimer (Clarisse's Monstrous Nightmare), Trick & Treat (Connor & Travis' Hideous Zippleback), Torry (Lou's Mood Dragon), Trouble (Cecil's Terrible Terror)
Percy Jackson Characters: Perseus Jackson, Nico di Angelo, Annabeth Chase, Malcolm Cage, Katie Gardner, Jake Mason, Nyssa Black, Leo Valdez, Shane McNabb, Drew Tanaka, Piper McLean, Lacy Hunnigan, Mitchell Logan, Clarisse la Rue, Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, Chris Rodriguez, Cecil Rogers, Lou Ellen, Will Solace, Jason Grace, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Tyson, Sally Blofis, Paul Blofis, Mrs. O'Leary, Blackjack
Summary: Camp Half-Blood gains some new campers from the North. A small group of demigods who lived on a secluded island, training and raising dragons. Hiccup, a son of Hephaestus, settles nicely at camp, especially liking Bunker 9 and his new half-brother Leo. He also gets along pretty well Nico di Angelo. Things get decidedly difficult when Jackson Overland, son of Khione, is brought to camp by Percy and Percy and Jack become friends. Both Nico and Hiccup find themselves unexpectedly jealous, possessive and extremely annoyed.
Mischief Makers and Dragon Riders
The New Demigods
Chapter 2: Nico Meets Some Dragon Riders and Jack Finds a Home
Seeing Berk and landing on Berk were two vastly different things. Between them was one big obstacle: A gorgeous black-haired girl on a silver metal-like dragon. With a herd of metal-like dragons surrounding them, all snarling at the Argo II and circling them.
"Stop shooting the awesome dragons!", called Leo out scandalized as Annabeth fired at the beasts.
"They're attacking the ship!", argued Piper annoyed, glaring at her best friend. "What are we supposed to do? Let them eat us, or what? They're clearly hostile!"
The cannon hit one of the silver dragons and it went down with a whine, crashing onto the deck of the ship. Leo instantly pulled Will along, under the loud protests of the son of Apollo.
"He's hurt! Help him", ordered Leo with a glare, looking at the gorgeous, hurt creature.
"I know nothing about dragons aside from how to kill them", sighed Will annoyed. "I don't..."
While Nyssa and Jake were trying to steer the ship out of the way, Piper tried to charmspeak the dragons out of the way and Annabeth was shooting them, Leo was trying to coax Will into helping the hurt dragon and Nico was just watching the scene. He squinted as he watched a beautiful black dragon with a rider dressed in leather join the black-haired female. The dragon gave a bright blue blast that Nyssa just barely managed to dodge. Much to the horror of his crew did Nico jump onto the rail, both hands lifted up as he stared the black dragon dead in the eyes.
"Stop it!", called Nico out as loud as he could. "We don't mean you any harm, Night Fury! Stop attacking us and let us talk, okay? See, we're taking care of the hurt dragon, because we didn't want to hurt him. We're only defending ourselves here, so how about we just stop shooting at all?"
"If you don't mean harm, what do you want?", asked the Night Fury suspiciously.
The mighty black beast flew up to the ship to hover in front of Nico, under the wild protests of his rider. Nico slowly reached one hand out to pat the Night Fury's snout, causing Annabeth to scream like the dragon was going to bite his hand off. Instead, the dragon just blinked slowly.
"My name is Nico di Angelo, I'm a son of Hades. We're all demigods", replied Nico honestly. "We're here to request your assistance. We're not here to cause trouble, I swear."
"...Is he... is he talking to the dragon?", asked Piper worried. "Has he gone crazy?"
The rider, caressed the Night Fury's cheek, leaning down. "What do you say, buddy?"
The Night Fury chirped, or that was what it sounded like to the others. "He's telling the truth."
The Night Fury turned tail, heading toward Berk, whining high-pitched which caused the silver dragons to all follow, even under the protests of the female rider. Nico climbed off the rail and motioned for Nyssa and Jake to bring them down. They did, but everyone was still staring at Nico. Even by the time they landed and climbed off the ship to face the two riders and their dragons. The black dragon instantly walked over to Nico to sniff his hand.
"Toothless seems to trust you", stated the male rider, removing his helmet to reveal a handsome brunette guy with deep forest-green eyes. "I'm Hiccup Haddock, this is my friend Heather."
"Like I said, I'm Nico. Those are Leo, Nyssa, Jake, Will, Annabeth and Piper", introduced Nico, patting Toothless between the ears. "We're here because we want to ask for your help."
"What kind of help?", asked Heather suspiciously, straightening as she stood next to Hiccup.
Nico stiffened a little as other armed demigods approached. A chubby blonde guy with a very round dragon came to stand half behind Hiccup and Heather, a vicious looking blonde girl flanking Hiccup on his other side, as well as a short, sturdy looking dark-haired guy with a monstrous red dragon, while two long-haired blondes were flying on a two-headed dragon above them.
"We're demigods from the US", butted Annabeth in, coming to stand next to Nico. "We were send by the gods to bring you to our camps so you can teach us, and others, how to... train a dragon."
"Oh, well if the gods order us to", snarked the blonde girl next to Hiccup viciously.
"Astrid", hissed Hiccup, glaring at her. "Let them continue, will you? We don't want to fight."
"Neither do we", assured Piper now as she joined Nico and Annabeth. "You in Europe have been... relatively unaffected by the past two wars, but even you must have noticed. Especially the second war that took place in Athens and Rome for the greater part."
"I know Europe is like... tiny to you Americans, but it'll surprise you to hear that we're not that up to date and affected by what happens in other countries", stated Heather unimpressed.
"Heather, honey, please don't be so hostile", pleaded the blonde boy next to her. "And yes, we did hear about the Giant War. Mother Gaia rising and revolting against the Olympians."
"Fishlegs is right", confirmed Astrid, arms crossed over her chest. "We heard about it. Through the rumor mill. Not because you Americans came and, I don't know, asked for our help, even though you came to our continent to wage a war. But now you ask for our help?"
Annabeth surveyed the area. She could see a village not far away and she realized that this island – Berk – was like Europe's New Rome. A city completely safe for the demigods. It figured that there was some kind of safe haven for demigods in Europe too; not every single parent raising a kid alone could afford to send their child all the way to the US, like Silena's father or Clarisse's mother.
"We weren't aware of your existence", stated Annabeth plainly. "The gods were never the most communicative bunch and I'm sure you know that. We're Greek demigods, we weren't even aware there are Roman demigods until the Giant War. We never knew there were demigods in Europe. If we had known, we would have requested your help. We would have done a lot of things different if we would have had the knowledge we have right now. As things are, we only now learned about you and we're here to reach out to you. Dragons have fled the US when the wars brewed up, most likely because they are peaceful creatures. Now that the wars are over, dragons returned. And Lord Hephaestus said that... the way we were trained, American demigods would just kill dragons for the sake of killing monsters, even though there is a peaceful way of dealing with them. He said he has a son here, on Berk, who is a master in dragon taming. We're here to ask you to teach us how to tame dragons so no innocent dragons have to die because neither knows how to deal with the other."
"We don't know how to deal with dragons so chances are we're going to provoke them, they'll attack us and we'll end up killing them in self-defense", added Piper with a pleading look.
"My father send you, then?", inquired Hiccup with a frown.
"Oh! So you're my brother?", asked Leo eagerly, still crouching down next to the metal-like dragon. "I'm a son of Hephaestus too. And so are Nyssa and Jake over there."
"I've never had too close a relationship with dad, but... in the end, he had his way of showing that he loves me", shrugged Hiccup thoughtful. "He says it's best for us to come with you?"
"Not for good", assured Leo with a grin. "You obviously got a cool gig going on here. Just... a couple months maybe, to help us out? Give us some pointers maybe?"
Heather looked between Leo and Hiccup and deep down, she saw a certain resemblance in their unwavering kindness, so she slowly approached Leo and the hurt Razorwhip. Windshear accompanied her human, cooing and nudging her hurt companion on the ground.
"Let me survey the damage", demanded Heather with a slight glare. "I'm an expert on Razorwhips."
"Razorwhip? That is such an awesome name", whispered Leo in awe, patting the hurt dragon.
The dragon cooed and snuggled up to Leo a little, obviously having bonded with the human who kept patting him and making sure he was alright. Heather sighed softly. Those Americans weren't that bad if the dragon in pain trusted one of them. Lifting her head, she looked at Hiccup and nodded. The leader of the riders nodded sharply, relaxing visibly.
"Okay", nodded Hiccup reluctantly. "We'll think about this. But first I need to know why you seem to be able to talk to Toothless here. Why do you possess the dragon tongue?"
"I don't", replied Nico with an awkward shrug. "It's just Night Furies, really."
"Just? Just Night Furies?", echoed Hiccup ridiculed. "What's that even supposed to mean?"
"Well, you know what Night Furies are?", asked Nico, gesturing a little.
"The off-springs of death and lighting!", exclaimed Fishlegs eagerly. "Oh! Death!"
"Exactly", nodded Nico. "Night Furies were created by Hades and Zeus. Probably the only time they ever worked together, actually. Hades formed their bodies from the shadows and Zeus gave them life through the power of his lightning. They're creatures of Hades, so I can understand them."
"Why do you keep saying 'them'?", asked Hiccup. "Toothless is the last of his kind."
"Bullshit", grunted Nico and rolled his eyes. "You do know that the world is a very large place, right? Just because there are no other Night Furies here in Scandinavia doesn't mean there are no Night Furies. This 'last of his kind' thing is so overused, really. Night Furies are creatures of Hades, as I just mentioned. Most Night Furies live in the underworld. It's where I met them, because I lived in the underworld for a couple years. If you really thought that... Toothless here is the last of his kind, then come with us to America and meet other Night Furies. See for yourself what other breeds we may have that don't live here in Europe. I'm sure you're aware there are different species on different continents, so... Aren't you curious to research new dragons?"
Fishlegs and Hiccup looked like little children on Christmas Eve and Nico had to keep from snorting. Annabeth raised one eyebrow, looking impressed over at Nico before straightening up and reaching a hand out for Astrid, who stood the closest.
"I'm Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. We'd be pleased to share our knowledge with you."
"Astrid Hofferson... also a daughter of Athena", replied Astrid, raising one amused eyebrow.
The two blondes looked each other up and down. Both blonde, with cold, sharp, calculating eyes, a well-trained physique. Warriors and strategists at heart. Hiccup looked terrified for a moment at the idea of having two Astrids around, before shaking it off and turning to his... new siblings.
"So, you three are also children of Hephaestus?", asked Hiccup intrigued. "I ever only met one other child of Hephaestus, our local blacksmith Gobber. This is... exciting."
"Yeah. Children of Hephaestus", confirmed Nyssa with a grin, reaching her hand out to shake.
"What about the others?", asked Jake, jerking his head into the direction of the other riders.
"That's Fishlegs Ingerman, also a child of Athena", started Hiccup to answer, pointing at Fishlegs who was now animatedly talking to Annabeth. "Though he's more on the brains and knowledge side of Athena, whereas Astrid is a full-blooded warrior princess."
"Heather, Aphrodite", introduced Heather herself shortly before continuing the treatment.
"Aphrodite?", echoed Leo surprised. "Piper is a daughter of Aphrodite too."
Heather looked up long enough to asset Piper. That daughter of Aphrodite seemed to try and play down her beauty – chopped-off short hair, ragged clothes with holes. Heather understood wanting to be more than just a beautiful face, but that didn't mean they had to try and look homeless. She managed to be drop-dead gorgeous and still kick ass.
"So, you are a daughter of Athena? Not Aphrodite? Sure about that? I'm Snotlout Jorgenson, son of Ares", asked Snotlout with a flirtatious smirk and wink. "See those muscles? Pure war god blood."
Annabeth made a disgusted face and Piper glared before violently shoving Snotlout out of the way. "Sorry, but this one is already taken. And a lesbian. Back off, mine."
Before Snotlout could make any more of an ass of himself did the twins land and take a closer look. Hiccup massaged his temples. Taking the twins to America sounded like such an awful, awful idea.
"Those are Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston, children of Hermes...", sighed Astrid. "Beware."
"Oh, we're trained in the handling of tricksters", chuckled Annabeth. "We got plenty of those."
"...Define plenty in a number, please", requested Astrid suspiciously. "Because two are enough."
"An entire cabin of them!", replied Leo with a broad grin.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut grinned like maniacs before high-fiving. Astrid looked around doubtfully.
"What about him?", asked Astrid as she motioned for Will, still taking care of the hurt dragon.
"Will Solace, son of Apollo, nurse to every demigodly ouchie", grunted Will annoyed.
"Apollo?", repeated Fishlegs intrigued. "We have a daughter of Apollo too, she's out healer. A bit grumpy and quite... quirky. Her name is Gothi, she's probably the wisest person in our village."
"I'd like to get to know her", stated Will intrigued. "I'm the oldest child of Apollo in the US."
"...The oldest?", echoed Hiccup disturbed and appalled. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen", answered Will, motioning over to Jake. "My boyfriend there is the oldest child of Hephaestus we have. He's also seventeen. We... lost so many demigods during the wars. And American demigods in general don't have a high life expectancy."
"How about we move this to the village? Have a feast and exchange stories?", offered Hiccup.
"That sounds like a lovely idea", agreed Annabeth very pleased.
/Camp Half-Blood, with Jack and Percy\
"This. Is. A-mazing!", exclaimed Jack excited as he flew through the entire camp. "There is a lake and the forest is beautiful and the... climbing wall with the lava? Strawberry fields!"
Percy grinned amused, looking up from where he sat at the shore in only his swim-shorts. It was the peak of summer and it was so hot he felt like melting. Jack all the while was still wearing the too tight leather-pants and the too hot looking hoodie. But he was also barefoot, just as he had been when running through the snow. Something about Jack was seriously off.
"The guy got as much energy as you and Leo", declared Malcolm with a frown.
The son of Athena collapsed right next to Percy, staring inquisitively at the Sea Prince, who just shrugged. "Yeah, I guess. But he's cool. Cool, hah, that was good."
Malcolm rolled his eyes fondly. "You truly are a Seaweed Brain, aren't you?"
Again, Percy shrugged, before frowning a bit. "Wait. Where is my Wise Girl?"
"Your Wise Girl and her Beauty Queen got themselves roped into a quest themselves after you left", answered Malcolm, pulling his legs up and wrapping his arms around his knees. "They left with the Argo II, Leo, Jake, Nyssa, Will and... Nico. It's been a beautifully calm couple of days."
"Nico left for a quest? Nico? Nico di Angelo? On a quest? Willingly?", asked Percy stunned.
"Who's Nico di Angelo and why do you say his name like that?", inquired Jack curiously.
The white-haired demigod was floating right behind Percy, looking over his shoulder and startling the son of Poseidon nearly to death – and also making him blush brightly. "H—He's a friend."
"You just stammered", pointed Jack out, tilting his head and turning to the blonde. "Hello. I'm Jack. Tell me why Percy is embarrassed. This looks like a fun story and I want to know."
"I'm Malcolm Cage, son of Athena", said Malcolm in ways of introduction. "And Nico di Angelo is the local son of Hades. He's... it is safe to call him a bad boy. The whole black clothes, leather, death and dangerous stuff. Italian, learned how to work his charms. And his charms do not fail when it comes to Percy, believe me. It also helped that Nico spend basically all of both wars protecting Percy. Don't glare at me like that, Percy. Aside from your best friend, your brother and the best trackers aka the huntresses, Nico was the only one actively searching for you. Everyone knows that he was the one who put the curse of Achilles on you, which saved your life on multiple occasions."
"That sounds very interesting", hummed Jack with a mischievous smile.
"Please shut up", groaned Percy, hiding his face in his hands.
Malcolm smiled, feeling a little bad for Percy and having mercy on him. "So, are you staying at Hermes Cabin, home for weary travelers, until your cabin is build, Jack?"
"...That's not working out", sighed Jack and deflated a little. "I mean, the Hermes kids are cool and all – already kicked their asses at poker. But they are a little... sensitive when it comes to temperature? They were already freezing up and wearing three shirts after one poker game. This isn't going to work out. I spend one night there and they'll all catch a cold, or worse... And that's why I'm on my own at all times. Most can't handle the cold."
Malcolm frowned confused and Jack used his Shepard's stick to point at the trail of snow on the sandy beach, in the middle of a sunny summer day. Malcolm's eyebrows rose stunned.
"Well, I'm okay with cold", offered Percy after a beat, shrugging thoughtful. "And the cabin is all mine, so you could just crash at my place until yours is done?"
"Being okay with cold and living in a literal ice-cave... is a difference", stated Jack doubtfully.
"I once crashed into the frozen sea in Alaska", countered Percy casually. "Didn't do anything to harm me, because ice is still just water and as long as it's water, it doesn't hurt me."
"It's worth a shot", said Malcolm curiously. "It'd be interesting to see the outcome of this."
"...Okay", nodded Jack reluctantly, looking at Percy quizzically. "It's worth a try, I guess."
"No problem", declared Percy with a grin and stood. "Come on, let me show you my place!"
Jack really didn't understand it. Why was Percy putting so much effort into this? Into him? Trying to coax him into coming here, sharing so much personal stuff to get him here, now even offering him to stay in Percy's home. This was so weird. Jack wasn't used to it. His mom and dad and Mary, they loved him and cared for him. His biological mother, she had at least handed him off to his grandparents who watched out for him. But even by watching out for him, North and Tooth just weren't around at all times. Neither was Aster. Sure, they got along whenever they met, but they didn't meet too often. Aster had other responsibilities.
"Welcome to my cabin", stated Percy as he opened the door, grinning at Jack. "Now yours too."
Jack was in awe as he looked around the very blue cabin. Blue was his favorite color and the sea-theme was very nice. Being so closely linked to ice, Jack hadn't spend much time near the ocean. He already noticed that being out here in the sun for too long was exhausting him. He slowly lowered himself onto one of the empty beds and kept looking around, snow instantly gathering around him. Percy just grinned as he noticed before sitting down too. This was going to be epic.
/Berk, with the quest for the Dragon Riders\
The crew of the Argo II and the dragon riders were sitting together in a circle around a bonfire, barbequing freshly caught and self-prepared meat and singing strange songs in a language neither of the American demigods understood. But all of them were having fun. The self-made beer was probably also helping. It was amazing for the crew to get acquainted with their European siblings. Will had ditched the party early on to follow Gothi into her hut and learn from her old knowledge. It was the first time for him to meet a healer with that much experience, after all. Jake and Nyssa had gone with Gobber to check out the forges and share some of his wisdom. Leo however was curled together next to the slowly healing Razorwhip who got pampered by Heather's Windshear. Heather, half patting Windshear, was engaged in a conversation with Annabeth, Piper and Fishlegs. The two couples seemed to get along quite well, especially after Piper started to playfully tease her half-sister Heather for dating a nerd like Fishlegs. Not in a judgmental way though, like many others in the village had. Just because Fishlegs wasn't the most handsome boy and she as a daughter of Aphrodite was expected to date the hottest guy around. Annabeth however was only half paying attention to the teasing, talking a little with Fishlegs, while also being engaged in a conversation with Astrid and her boyfriend Eret, a son of Ares of the handsome kind. Annabeth and Eret were in the middle of arm-wrestling after Annabeth already beat Astrid three out of five.
"You do not need to defend my honor", argued Astrid a bit annoyed but also a tiny little bit pleased.
"I'm not!", disagreed Eret, chest puffed out. "I'm doing this for my honor! She already beat me twice! That girl is... vicious. Even for a child of Athena. N—Not meant the way it came out!"
He visibly shrank under the twin glares from Annabeth and Astrid. Hiccup chuckled fondly from where he sat with Toothless and Nico – the twins and Snotlout were off somewhere. Hiccup turned to watch how Nico talked to Toothless. Maybe going with the Americans could be interesting.
Author's note: Next chap will have bonding between Nico and Hiccup, as well as Jack and Percy. Aaand the Argo II will arrive at camp, which means Jack and Hiccup meet for the first time and Nico and Percy are reunited! ;)
My next update will be "Queen of Olympus" on Wednesday!