Chapter 4- Is It My Heart Or My Sword? 11/30/2016

HEY YA'LL! SO! Sorry im a little late, im haven't really been feeling up to my full… well, lets call it "spunk". Anyway, sorry for being late, and here is my "Weekly" report:
-I Changed my Story from normal to crossovers, so if you came from the crossovers, HI!

-I also looked through the crossovers to seeif there where any story lines like mine, and guess what? I DIDN'T FIND ANY! DO I HAVE AN IMAGINATION!?

-Alyssa's getting a little lusty for tha guy, so if you didn't read the last two chapters, then go read them before some stuff is about to get fucked.

-Last thing; PLEASE LEAVE YOUR SUPPORT! As a writer, its my duty to provide you with entertainment. So please, tell me if your entertained!

ON WITH THE STORY!

My mouth hung open as I stared at the older version of my Curt.

His jawline had become more visible, and he had a curved sword strapped to his back. Even though he had his face to the side, I could see his eyes, which were sunken in and with a hint of sadness and intensity.

"C-Curt?" I called meekly, my mouth still hanging half open. He turned and I saw his face switch from intense to joy to confusion.

"Alyssa!" His eyes sparkled with the same mischief that we had as kids. I ran towards him and hugged him. He chuckled and I breathed in his sweet chocolate scent.

I pulled away and punched him in the shoulder.

"Ow…" He said, although I doubt that it hurt, cause he was very muscular.

"Where the hell have you been the past 4 years? You know, I realize that we weren't allowed to talk, but a LETTER would've been nice!" I yelled into his face. He just kept smirking…

"I missed you too." He said with his winning smile… did I mention how amazing his smile is?

I felt my cheeks heat up as Thalia walked up behind me, her smile widening.

"Well, love birds, ready to get down to get down to business?" I blushed profusely, sure that the vein in my neck was sticking out.

"Yes… I want to know why the hell you stabbed me in the shoulder with a tranquilizer dart!" I whisper shouted.

"You too?" Curt looked at me in astonishment

"Yea, I had to throw a sixteen-year-old threw a portal (Which was fucking hard btw) then I was shot and paralyzed. What about you?" I gestured to his sword.

He shifted uncomfortably, which was impossible, for we were in a tent-tiki.

"Not right now guys, we have an important mission for you two." Thalia jabbed silver tipped arrow into the fire to get our attention.

"Three beasts have been released into the forests, much like the one that you faced Alyssa." I grimaced to think about how Leo transformed into… Lion… Sekhmet! "There are two more loose in the forest, and we… well we don't have the 'Blood of the Pharoahs', or that's what Lady Artimis said." She looked at us skeptically, like we were a disease she couldn't wait to get rid of.

"And you want us to take them out." I guessed. Curt was leaning on his knees, a sure sign he was stressed. About what, I wasn't sure.

"You okay?" I touched his kneecap, and he recoiled at my touch.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." He looked at me and smiled his old smile that used to make me melt to my shoes. Dammit, why was he so cute.

"ehhem!" Thalia cleared her throat and snapped her fingers, gesturing to the black board, which had a poorly drawn stick monster being stabbed by tiny stick figures, one a girl one a boy.

"What? We were listening!" I protested. "You want us to go fight this… whatever it is in the forest and bring back a specimen. Im not that dumb." I crossed my arms and looked at her in the eye.

"Yes… but theres one thing. This monster is-" She paused and searched for a word to describe whatever it was. " it's a hyperborean, but if you defeat it, it opens a doorway."

I leaned in, suddenly interested.

"What kind of doorway?" I asked her. She really wasn't being specific with this.

"We don't know, so you two have to be the guinea pigs to go and see what the hell it is." She saw my open mouthed anger and added, "But it might lead you back to your brother." I closed my mouth and was about to say something when Curt stood up, looked at me and said with an anger that I had only seen a few times, it was a you come do what I say or nothing wil get done type of tone.

He said, "Come back to the Brooklyn House with me Alyssa. Forget your family, you can go get them after you master Hapi. Gods, these four years have been torture without you in them, and if-" He faltered, "If you come back to Brooklyn house with me we could save everyone, everything!" he looked at me with a greedy hunger in his eyes.

I looked at him with disbelief and anger, completely shocked by him trying to convince me to… to leave the only things that mattered to me.

"Who are you?" I asked the man that was obviously changed. Old Curt would never tell me to be disloyal, and would never tell me to "control" my special powers.

"This is not the Curt that I knew four years ago, in fact I don't know you at all."

Curts face fell and he lowered his head. I almost felt bad, but decided its up to him to feel sorry for himself.

"When do we leave?" I turned to a stunned and confused Thalia.

"Umm in about an hour and a half"

"Good."

I stalked out of the room, my eyes watering.

Half an hour later:

"Time to go!"

Thalias voice boomed throughout the camp, and I grabbed my khopesh and slung it over my shoulder. I thought about how angry Alyssa looked when I asked her to come with me back to my home. I'm still confused by how it was so easy it was for her to turn me down, but she would never leave that damned 7 year old. Its as if she completely forgot how we fought together as kids, how we both survived on pure willpower. Then I went off to Brooklyn House, a 'school' for training young Egyptian magicians who are being 'housed' by gods and goddesses. Im a guard, since my sword represents my rank as an officer it means that I have to protect our god, Ra.

Alyssa is… Well, she's amazing. Her blond hair, green eyes… her loyalty to random strangers. It's amazing to me how incredible and perfect she is. It's not a secret that I've had a crush on her since we were eight, when I found her and her brother in the forest. I sighed and touched my lips remembering that one night, my first kiss. Then… I screwed it up by leaving her and Jack alone.

Shes not like us Curt. I felt Isis wake up from a long nap (inside my brain, of course), I respect that you love her, but… you know what you came here to do.

"No…its what the Per Ankh (House of Life) wants to do," I grit my teeth as I felt our connection waver. Here's the thing; you cant be the eye of a goddess if you don't see, well, eye to eye. She stayed quiet after that.

"WHILE WE'RE YOUNG CURT!" I heard Thalia scream.

I winced; sure that I was going to get a beating by one of the huntress's on the way out of my personal tent. The huntresses of Artimis weren't the nicest around men.

"I'm coming!" I called, pushing my khopesh into my scabbard and brushing out into the cold.

"C'mon. Thalia wants us over by the main tent." Alyssa said as she brushed past my shoulder. I had to do a double take as her sweet scent wafted over me. A mixture of cinnamon and apple, and that's not all. Although she was only wearing a green hoodie and jeans, it looked amazing. Her hair fell in exactly the right spots, and her freckles looked like Nut, the Egyptian sky goddess. Her eyes were the most stunning things about her. They had this love in them and loyalty that never wavered, even in the worst of times.

I followed her in a daze and stared at her blond curls, but I was quickly pulled away when we reached large tent at the end of the row.

Thalia stood outside of the tent, and she didn't look very pleased to see us so late.

"What took you so long, Johnson?" she scowled.

I rubbed the back of my neck nervously and said, "I slept in?"

Thalia rolled her eyes and walked into her tent, like she had dealt with annoying guys before, and it wasn't really her favorite hobby.

"I'm getting your weapons for today, because Alyssa lost her cane in the hyperborean attack, and Curt…"

Thalia looked at me up and down, like she did know what to do with me.

"Your fine for now." She seemed to look at my sword and glare at it, but it was so fast, I almost thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Almost.

"Lets go." She turned and another huntress handed her a large grey backpack, which she tossed on her shoulder. Then she threw Alyssa a large dagger, which I thought made her look very sexy and dangerous.

"Whats this metal? I had it on my old dagger, but I never figured out what it was." Alyssa asked Thalia, who had her back on us to fix something in her blade.

"Its Celestial Bronze, mined from the heart of mount Olympus. Extremely rare. Extremely dangerous." She looked at Alyssa like she was going to challenge her, so I cut in.

"Um, when are we leaving? Its getting dark." I adjusted my sword straps on my back.

"Now." Thalia smiled as a dog the size of a tank barreled through the trees, panting and huffing.
"WHAT IS THAT!?" I drew my sword and pointed it at the dog, expecting it to growl and bite me, but all it did was roll over on its stomach. Well, that's good too.

"That," Thalia said, "Is a –"

"Hellhound" Alyssa finished, with a tone in her voice that said, burn it please.

"How did you know that?" I asked. Alyssa was never the study type.

"I ran into a lot of monsters trying to get to the village," She said regretfully, "Sometimes they were Greek, sometimes Egyptian."

I looked at her in amazement, wondering how the hell she managed to survive.

"Hop on!" Thalia called from on top of the Devil Dog.I looked at her like she was crazy and yelled,

"What the Hell! There is no way on—"

"Her names Mrs. O'Leary, its fine!" Thalia rolled her eyes as me and Alyssa shifted uncomfortably.

Finally, after two minutes of coaxing by Thalia, we hopped onto Mrs. O'Leary, sweating nervously.

"Alrighty then! Everyone bucked up!" She glanced back at us and smirked.

"Where are the goddamn seats?!" I screeched. Im not proud of it, but Ms. O'Leary looked like she was going to pounce into the air, so judge me if you want.

"Its just an expression! YAH!" She hit the side of Ms. O'Leary's head and we sprung off into the forest.

Hey! So I know this chapter was kinda short, but I wanted to emphasize the huntresses and Alyssa's appearance. Anyway, if it helped, I'm going to include Jacks' perspective in the next one!

Ily!

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