Chapter 8
Hazel POV
Alex asked Samirah, "So, why did you bring Greeks to Alfheim?" At that Jason and Frank started snorting. Piper was quick to notice Alex's discomfort and used a bit of Charmspeak. "Stop snorting, you two."
Both of them stopped but they looked a bit miffed. "How'd you do that?" Blitz asked looking at Piper. "That was Charmspeak. It compels people to do what I say, but I try not to use it unless it's an emergency."
That's when I spoke up. "We'd like to apologize on behalf of our boyfriends, Alex." Piper, "Yeah. They snorted because you kinda mixed up mythology." Piper then turned to the boys and said, "Apologise to Alex right now."
The boys automatically turned to Alex and said, "We're sorry Alex." Alex was grinning now. "That must be handy." Piper had a devious little smirk in her eyes. "Sure is. Its great way to get them to do stuff for me."
Jason looked at her and said, "Don't you even dare." Piper looked like she almost wanted to Charmspeak her boyfriend to do something embarrassing.
Magnus got everyone back on topic. "So if you're not Greek, then you're Roman, right?" Jason confirmed, "Well, almost. Frank, Hazel and I are Roman. Piper's Greek." "Ops. Sorry about that." Alex apologized.
Frank said, "No prob." Alex turned to Sam, "Okay let me try again." She took a breath before asking. "Sam, why did you bring Non – Norse demigods to Alfheim?" Frank answered for her. "Jason said so: We were on a date."
Percy looked at us and asked, "Care to explain?"
"Well," Frank started, "The four of us had a picnic date set up. We decided to go a bit into the forest near the border of camp. There's a really nice flower field so that's where we went."
Jason took it up from there. "We met up and reached the field. We had just finished setting up when Miss Soul Reaper over here came through a portal with a few big flaming giants."
Sam explained her end. "It was a quick job Odin sent me on. Some Fire Giants were causing a ruckus in Nidevllir. When I opened the portal, I didn't realize where I had connected it too."
And before any of you say anything," Sam said looking at the four Norse Demigods "I'd like you all to know that I know it was stupid on my part."It looked like that was exactly what Alex was going to say, but she decided to against it.
I took it from here. "When we saw Samirah fighting, we couldn't leave her to fight them alone. So we ditched the picnic and charged into battle. We beat most of them pretty easy. Though they did call Frank a son of Loki for some reason."
Blitz turned to Leo and asked, "Is this the Frank who can shapeshift?"
"Yep. That one over there." Nico answered, pointing to the Son of Mars in question. Frank waved at him. Magnus explained the situation, "Children of Loki can shape shift too. That's probably why they called him one of Loki's kids."
Percy looked amused. "Hey, maybe we could have a three-way shape-shifting contest." Percy turned his head to look at the three contestants. Alex and Sam gave him a murderous glare. Frank only looked annoyed. "Or maybe not," Percy said quickly.
I had seen what Sam could do and I had no intention of getting on her bad side. Frank turned to the Greeks and asked, "So why are you guys here?" The sunlight had been very harsh but luckily Samirah had a few pairs of sunglasses. Even with them on, the pain was only just slightly alleviated.
"Well, I'm glad you asked!" Leo said dramatically. "We came in search of the mythical stone of power!" Nico joined in. "We were on our way to charge the monster's fortress, when we saw you fine folks being held captive!"
Sam turned to Magnus and Alex and asked through gritted teeth. "You brought Greeks get Hearth's Runestone?!" Alex was quick to answer "It's Magnus's fault! He forgot about his cousin was coming over!"
Sam turned her murderous glare to Magnus. "Didn't I tell you to schedule your time properly?!" Magnus replied, "And didn't I tell you scheduling time doesn't work for me?" Soon I was imaging Magnus scheduling his time for monster attacks. Before it got any worse I stepped in between the two of them. "Hey calm down you two!"
Alex spoke before the two could go at it again. "Why don't we go together?" Hearth signed something and Leo translated for him. "Hearth says, and I quote, Is this not a lot of people to go and get one runestone?"
"I think we could all go," Blitz said. "Besides, the Romans and Greeks can give us some advice before we go get ourselves killed at sea." Magnus and Sam give each other one last glare before saying, "Fine!"
"Okay," Annabeth said, "Now that this is cleared up, can we get going? I have an inter-pantheon reunion to look over." With that said, Hearth leads the way to his house. Along the way, we talked about stuff and before we knew it we were standing in front of a huge mansion.
The mansion was the biggest out of all the houses we had seen on our little walk over. The gates were had a huge A monogrammed on the front. I could tell they were made from gold. Good thing Arion wasn't here. I bet he would have demolished those gates in an hour. Then he'd be running around Alfheim burning off built up steam.
As for the rest of the mansion, it was covered in toilet paper.
I'll give you all a minute to process that. One, two, sixty. Okay, that's a minute.
The house itself was very posh. I think. It was hard to tell through all that toilet paper. We could see seven feet tall giants wearing suits and dresses. They were having what looked like an outdoor wedding reception.
I say wedding reception because I saw a female giantess wearing a beautiful white wedding dress. She and her husband were being dragged all over the place, being dragged over to talk to the various relatives.
"Guys," Magnus said, "Looks like we are about to crash a party."
Piper POV
When I saw the house my jaw dropped. I had seen some really weird things, but this took the cake. But being a daughter of a love goddess, I couldn't help but feel all tingling and warm. I could tell Annabeth felt the same.
"We can NOT and will NOT, barge into their wedding!" I said. I mean who would want their special day ruined. I also had a feeling that the bride would kill us, burn our remains, kill us again, and stomp on us before throwing us in the garbage.
I warn you all right now. Never, and I mean NEVER, mess with a bride. They are the most dangerous thing in the world.
Annabeth was backing me up. "She's got a point." Turning the Hearth she asked, "Instead of charging in there, couldn't we just politely ask to go into where ever the runestone is and quietly comeback out?"
Hearth signed something really fast. Blitz replied. "I get what you're saying, buddy." Turning to us he explained. "Giants are notorious for their tricks. As soon as we get in we need to claim guest rights."
Leo asked what was on my mind. "Why would we do that?" Alex answered, "So they there's a better chance of surviving." Magnus added, "Giants love to twist your words up. So be careful of what you say, or they'll take literally."
Nico said sarcastically," That might be a bit challenging for us." I knew what he meant. The eight of us get very sarcastic when pissed. If you've read our previous adventures, then you'll know what I mean.
Alex looked at him and said, "I wonder, which kind of demigods are more sarcastic? Greek, Roman or Norse?" Magnus looked at her and said, "We can have a contest later." Sam added, "We'll see. We have some guest rights to claim."
With that being said, we decided to ring the door bell. This caught the attention of the giants. Before we rung the bell, everyone was chatting away. After the bell, they all froze and turned in our direction. Then one of them screamed, "Demigods!"
Then before the guests could charge the bride and groom yelled in unison, "STOOP!" The guests froze right there in pure fear. I was really hoping the bride wouldn't chop us into pieces. I got a little bit more scared when the bride and groom started walking towards us.
They stopped in front of the gate and shrunk to the size of a normal human couple. Then they Bride said sweetly, "Please forgive my uncle." The groom added, "He's a bit drunk right now." The bride introduced herself. "My name is Sigrid. And this," she said pointing to her fiancé said, "is Grimar."
They were both very nice compared to the giants they had invited. Sigrid had jet black hair tied in a princess style bun. Her dress was a simple sleeve-less with a sweet heart neckline. The bottom was embroidered with gold.
Grimar was wearing a black dress shirt under a black vest with black dress pants and shoes. He also had a black bow tie around his neck. Griamar asked us with a smile, "Can we help you, fine folks?"
Percy quickly asked, "You aren't going to kill us for barging in?"
Sigrid and Grimar laughed pretty hard before they could breathe again. Grimar wiped a tear from his eye and said, "Oh, that's the most funniest thing I heard all day! Pfft. Kill you!" And then he started chocking on his own laughter.
Sigrid explained some stuff. "I don't see why we would. You rang the bell before you came in, unlike all the others who decided to drop by. You see, the elves around here were very startled that there was a giant wedding going on."
Grimar, after finally regaining control, said, "These elves were very pesky. We crossed paths with the mad elf that lives here. One thing led to the next and now he's sitting in the basement with his gold."
Sigrid noticed our faces. She must have seen our, 'You did not just do that' face. She scoffed and said, "We're giving him his meals tough he couldn't have cared any less." Her husband said, "We even offered to marry him to his gold." He snorted before continuing. "We meant it as a joke but old nut had us call down the priest to actually do it. We caught it on video too."
Magnus steeled his nerves and said, "Umm. Wow. Didn't think it gets that bad." Taking a deep breath Magnus continued. "Well, see the elf over here? Yeah, this is more or less his house." Grimar looked confused and asked, "More or less?"
Hearth quickly signed something. Blitz translated it. "Hearth says he grew up here but ran away because parents were ashamed that he was deaf. And we just came here to get something in the backyard." Blitz quickly added, "But he says you can finish your wedding here."
Sigrid closed her eyes and muttered something before exclaiming, "You would happen to be Hearthstone now would you?" Hearth nodded. "Ah, now that makes more sense. You do realize we can't let you in without some kind of payment."
The boys looked pretty skeptical. "What kind of payment are we talking about?" Frank asked. Grimar looked at his wife and an idea seemed to hit them like lightning. Grimar smiled and assured us that they would not require any blood or fights.
"We don't like fighting too much. But as earth giants, we love a good joke. But I promised my wife I wouldn't be playing any pranks today." Sigrid took up the proposal. "We are in dire need of some entertainment though. If you all agree to perform for us then we will let you all get what you came for."
We all came to a silent agreement. We were going to do this. Honestly this is the best thing to ever happen to us. Grimar said, "Our family is fond of singing and dancing."
Leo looked a bit too confident as he said, "No worries! We've been practicing for a talent show anyways. Winner gets the honor and title of 'Best Demigod Entertainer."
Let me explain.
During the last get together between the Greeks and Romans, we decided to have a competition which Percy and Leo named 'Demigods Got Talent'. At first, it was just a way to pass time. But the name stuck soon everyone was pumped up. The prize is still being determined.
Last I heard from Frank The Legion was using every spare moment they had to practice. There would be four judges. Chiron, Reyna, Rachel and surprisingly Athena. The four would be judging the acts.
Back to the present.
Magnus just remembered our original plan. "Before we continue: We claim guest rights."
That sent the newlyweds laughing their butts off. Alex slapped him upside the head. "You just remembered that stupid?" "Sorry," Magnus mumbled. The couple in front of us just brushed it off saying. "Guest Rights have been claimed."
So we followed them to their wedding guests.
Sam muttered sarcastically, "This is going to be soooo much fun."
I did it! I published CH.8! Finally! I have spent the last two weeks or so suffering through an assignment after assignment! I hope you liked this chapter.
Okay I need advice. If you read the chapter you will know it's going to be a talent show thing. I really wanted to see them dance and sing. So I was thinking of having Nico, Leo and Percy dancing to 'Uptown Funk' and Alex singing 'Thumbs' by Sabrina Carpenter. I had a few songs lined up in my head but as soon as I was about to write it I forgot. So I was wondering what you guys would like for the following groups to sing or dance too.
We have Jason and Frank. Then Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel. Another would be Hearth and Blitz. I'm still deciding if I should have Magnus and Sam do a duet or a solo.
I'd be very grateful for some suggestions.
Don't forget to tell me what you think!
