Chapter 7
Nico POV
Ok. After much negotiating and pouting, I'm back! HAHAHA!
What Leo said was true. We were all falling through the air. I was expecting solid ground. Not the atmosphere. After all that jumping I felt pretty sick. I didn't need the feeling of weightlessness. I almost threw up. Almost.
Magnus forgot to mention to us newbies that we would be free falling through the air. And the dwarf. And the elf. "I forgot to mention!" Magnus screamed. "You can only enter Alfheim from the air!" Annabeth smacked her cousin upside the head. Well-deserved if you ask me.
"Could you have not said that earlier, ya Butt?!" Annabeth said extremely pissed.
"Sorry, sorry!" Magnus apologised in fear of his life. "It sipped my mind! But I thought I mentioned this to you!"
Annabeth took a moment to search her database brain. She must've remembered because she replied, "You did! Gods I need more sleep!" Magnus looked smug and rubbed it in, "Yes you do!"
I turned to look at the others. Leo and Alex had gotten over their initial terror and were now doing flips in the air. "Hey can you do this?!" Leo asked. Then he proceeded to do a triple somersault before doing a quadruple back flip.
Alex grinned in a very devious way. "I can do better than that boy!" She went into a spinning nose dive and did an arc while she was still spinning. She ended with a few back flips. Leo whistled and complimented her. "You're good their Fierro!" Alex grinned and replied, "Thanks!"
I turned to Hearth and Blitz. Blitz looked like a professional sky diver. Too bad he didn't have a parachute. Hearth was in a swan dive position. Then I turned to Percy and Annabeth. Annabeth was sitting with her legs crossed as she fell. Percy was lying on his side.
Now you might be wondering what I did. Well for a minute or two I screamed and cussed. When I calmed down I decided to relax. Soon after another 2 minutes, we started to slow down. Honestly it felt like we were falling down a rabbit hole.
The sunlight turned really harsh. It was getting a bit hard to look anywhere. I put my arm out to block some of the light. I noticed Magnus put on some really dark shades. "The ground is gonna be like a bouncy house!" Magnus explained. "It won't hurt a bit!"
Blitz added to that. "Alfheim is made of sunlight and air! The Patron God in Frey, Magnus's dad!"
Soon we were reaching the ground. Three things happened that I wasn't expecting.
The first thing that happened occurred way before we even landed. Blitz grabbed Hearth and pulled on a cord. Out came a parachute. So much for not having one. Percy and Annabeth started to straighten out once we got a bit lower.
When we were nearing the tree tops, Alex turned into a falcon and then went into another spinning nose dive before landing. Honestly I should have that one coming. She can shape – shift. Of course she would use it to land!
The third thing I did not see coming.
As we were nearing the ground. Leo turned upside down. At the time I thought he wanted to land on his hands in a handstand and do another trick. Instead his hands lit up as he neared the ground. The fire helped him to slow down. Then he did a quick back flip and landed on his feet.
Annabeth and Percy landed on their feet. Magnus and I landed on our butts and skipped a few meters before stopping. As I tried to get up, I got one of the worst headaches I ever had. Percy and Annabeth seemed to feel the pain too.
"This is why you need sunglasses." Magnus stated. "A constant headache." No kidding.
Will always told me I needed to be in sunlight more. Now I could soak in the light and avoid being in it for a week or so. The light was way too strong here. Leo and Alex came jogging over. Both had some shades on.
"Hey Leo? Do you mind sharing?" Percy asked.
"Yeah of course." Leo said passing the three of us some shades.
"Thanks" Annabeth and I said.
"Hey, Leo, are you trying to be the next Iron Man?" I asked, still a bit surprised at his Iron Man impression.
"If you are, you need to set your feet on fire too you know." Annabeth added.
"If I did, then I'd burn my shoes." Leo replied.
"He has I point, you know." Percy said.
"Also I have been practising that in case I ever fell from the sky again." Leo explained with a grin.
"You have?" Alex asked disbelievingly. "Where did you find the height to do that sort of thing?"
"The top of Bunker 9 or the Lava climbing wall." Leo replied casually.
"So where are we?" Percy asked stopping the banter.
We had landed in a manicured front lawn. There was a fountain in the front with a croquet set in the middle. The bushes were perfectly shaped to look like different animals. The flower bed looked perfect. A bit too perfect. The house behind us was a pretty big mansion.
"Who the heck lives here?" Percy asked Magnus.
"I dunno. A middle class family maybe." Magnus answered.
"Middle class? " There was no way I was going to believe that was a middle class home.
"Believe or not kid, but that is a middle class family home." Blitz said from behind.
I turned around to see Blitz, covered in this cloak thing. He looked like a three year old using a table cloth to act as ghost. "Umm, are you okay? Halloween's a long way away." Percy asked. Alex snorted before answering. "Dwarves petrify in light. So he has to use all sorts of covering to avoid that."
"Okay. Sorry, my bad." Percy apologised.
Hearth signed something. Blitz translated for us. "Hearth said we need to hurry up before the Bunkers call the police." Magnus nodded in agreement. "Yeah we should. Though I think they already might have called the police."
"I take it that no one like loiterers." Annabeth asked.
"No they do not." Magnus replied.
We were soon on the main road, with Hearth leading the way. As we were walking I noticed that all the homes were big mansions. Have you ever noticed Rich people they can smell money? Well that scent was everywhere along with different flowers.
As a kid I would tell Bianca I wanted to walk on the moon. Guess I could cross that off my list of things to do before I die. That's because the gravity was insane. It felt like I was moon walking. Once or twice I accidentally jumped a bit too far and landed a good 20 feet way from the group.
I was thankful for the sunglasses. They did help to alleviate a bit of the head ache I was getting. The sunlight was so bright that is pointed out the tiniest of problems.
"Not to pry or anything, but what's your dad like?" I asked. Even though I couldn't see his face, I felt a murderous rage come from Hearth. Magnus looked at me and said, "Excuse me and my language here, but I think I should tell you on behalf of my adopted brother."
"You are excused." Percy said sympathetically.
He took a deep breath and said really fast, "His dad is a f****** b**** with no emotions and an a****** with no shame. The m***** f***** only cares about his c***** street creed."
Take a note here: Leo and I kept it safe for our more sensitive readers.
(Take no offence dear readers, but I really wanted to do that. It won't happen again.)
Magnus looked like he really wanted to punch this guy to the ground. "Easy there Maggie." Alex said soothingly. "I know you want to beat the snot out of him, but take don't you think that's something Hearth should do?"
"If I had a relative like that I would to." I added.
Leo stopped dead in his tracks. "Hey is that Jason, Piper, Frank and Hazel?" Blitz looked in his direction and said "I think Sam is there too." Magnus had a look that stopped between worried and smug. "Hey Hearth, look. They're with our friends Wildflower and Sunspot."
Alex POV
I looked over to where Blitz and Leo were staring. Sure enough there was Sam. Behind her were four teenagers. In front of her were two officers. They looked seriously pissed. "So, Magnus. Do want to go over and say hi?"
Magnus grinned and said to the others, "Well let's go guys." Then he turned to Annabeth and said,"You can introduce us once I save them from those officers. "Annabeth looked at him and asked, "And how do you plan to do that? Stab them?"
"No," Magnus replied as we got nearer. "Use some connections."
"Yo! Wildflower, Sunspot! Long time no see officers." The two officers stopped mid – sentence. The fourteens and Sam turned around. Magnus continued," Didn't I say I would remember you?" The officers visibly paled.
"Uhh, S-son of F-Frey. Nice to see you sir." The first one said.
They looked like plain clothes detectives. They talked with an accent like they popped out of a medieval time period. They had the same shade of platinum blond hair, like Hearth, in a buzz cut.
The one that spoke had Sunspot on his name tag. That meant the other one was Wildflower.
"Uhh, how c-can we help you?" Wildflower asked.
"Could you tell me what these demigods did?" Magnus asked nicely. Before he spoke up the, policemen looked pretty smug. Now they seemed pretty scared. I kind of found it funny. Magnus was like a really big teddy bear. I just couldn't imagine him to be scary.
"Well, the Goldrust family reported a group of 5 teenagers trespassing on their property." Sunspot explained. "For the last time officers," Sam said exasperated, "We didn't even know that was someone's backyard!"
Magnus looked at them and asked, "Did they break anything?"
"No." Wildflower and Sunspot replied.
"Did they hurt anybody?"
"No."
"Did they steal anything?"
"No."
"So you can let them go." Magnus said. "Oh, and I don't want you near any of my friends. Got it?" The officers looked a bit ticked off, taking orders from a kid. But they nodded and replied, "Got it." Magnus turned to us and said, "Let's go guys."
Our group and Sam's group left the officers. I studied the four teens with Samirah. There were two boys and two girls. One of the boys looked 16, maybe 17, had blond hair. His eyes were electric blue and he had faint scar on his upper lip. He wore a purple T shirt with a pair of jeans and trainers. On his forearm was a tattoo I couldn't see properly.
The other boy looked a bit Asian. This guy was probably 15 but he was pretty muscular. The guy wore a purple sweatshirt with the letter SPQR in a gold-ish colour on the back. He wore jeans and combat boots.
Now, on to the girls. The short one was African – American and frizzy cinnamon brown hair. She these golden eyes and a similar tattoo. I got a proper look at it this time. It said SPQR with a glyph with one line beneath it. She wore a purple shirt with a white vest on top. There was a pair of hiking boots on her feet.
The other girl was definitely a Native – American. She had really choppy chocolate brown hair put into little braids. She put a feather in her hair too. Her eyes were kaleidoscopic, always changing colours. This girl was out right gorgeous.
After we had gone a little way, Leo broke the silence. "What the Hades are you guys doing here?"
The blond one spoke, "would you believe us if we said we were on a date?" Leo looked at him and said, "With our luck Jason, I could totally believe that." Samirah turned to us and asked, "Would you guys mind introducing us to your new friends?"
"Right. Sorry Sam." I apologised. Everyone went around introducing themselves. The blonde boy was Jason Grace and the girl with changing eyes was his girl friend Piper Mclean. "Wait," I asked, "Is your dad the Tristan Mclean?" I couldn't help it. I was a huge fan.
"That's him alright." Piper answered. After that that I learned the Chinese boy was Frank Zhang and the other girl Hazel Levesque. Turns out Nico and Hazel were related. "So," I said t Samirah, "Why did you bring Greeks to Alfheim?"
A/N: Okay hope you guys like this! About that swearing bit, I got the idea from watching an episode of an anime called Nanbaka. I just really wanted to do that. Heh heh. Tell me what you guys think. I'll be dishing out another chapter too.
Thanks for the Iron Man idea Thunderwolf7226!
