Hey guys! I couldn't think of much to write about in this chapter, so I'm so so so sorry that it's really short. I hope you like it anyway! ADVENTURE TIME!
Magnus
I sling my backpack onto my shoulder. My head hurts. Helgi really didn't want us to sleep in, 'cause he sent about seven ravens into my room and poke my head till I finally shooed them away. My hair was a total mess.
There's a knock on the door. "It's-" I don't even finish my sentence before Halfborn swings open the door and shouts, "ADVENTURE TIME!" I stare at him for a second while he stands in the doorway.
"What?" I finally ask.
"Move, Halfborn!" TJ pushes past Halfborn, followed by Mallory and Alex. Alex looks really tired.
"They wake you up?" I ask.
"Yep." Alex says groggily.
"Cheer up, girl!" Mallory says. "You've got a special mission!"
"First of all, it's boy. Second, I know. Helgi made that very clear." Alex rubs his eye with the back of his hand.
"How are we supposed to know when you switch sides?" Halfborn asks inconsiderably.
"Switch sides?"
"Ya. When you change from a girl to a boy and boy to girl."
"I don't know. Find a way." I could tell when Alex walked through the door he wasn't his usual girl self. I don't know how, I just could. Maybe it was because his hair was in his face, and whenever he's a girl it's tucked behind his ear. Or maybe it's that he's slouching, because when he's a girl he's usually up straight.
TJ snaps his fingers in front of my face. I shake my head to come back to reality. I didn't realize I was staring right at Alex.
"You okay?" TJ asks.
"Ya. Just tired."
"You can't afford to be tired." Halfborn pats me on the back, which pushed me about two feet. "You've got a mission!"
"Can't believe they forced us to wake up early." Alex says. "How do we even get into the Bermuda Triangle without a boat?"
"Who said we're going by boat?" Sam's in the doorway. She has on her usual green hijab, along with some jeans, grey shirt, and some sneakers.
"How else are we going to get there?" Alex asks.
"We have pegasuses, remember?"
"Oh ya. Totally knew that." Samirah smiles.
"Come on you two. Hearthstone and Blitzen are waiting."
The three of us head over to the Pegasus stables. Halfborn, Mallory, and TJ said their final goodbyes and went their own separate ways.
Blitzed and Hearthstone are waiting next to some pegasus. Hearth is trying to keep one from nibbling his scarf, while Blitz is petting one on the head. Both Pegasi seem annoyed.
"Finally." Blitz says. "I'd like to talk everyone out of the idea of flying to the Bermuda Triangle."
He's scared because dwarves hate flying. Hearth signs.
"Am not!" Blitzen retorts. "It's just, well, it's the Bermuda Triangle, for gods sake!"
"We'll be fine." Samirah assures Blitz. "It'll take them only a couple of days to fly over there."
"Days?!" Alex asks. "I thought these things were fast!"
A Pegasus whinnies at Alex. Probably saying, and we thought you humans were smart, or something like that.
"You need to take into account weather, stops, monster attacks." Samirah lists off the things we should be thinking about while riding.
Okay, we get it. Hearth signs, annoyed. Are we getting on these things or what?
"Lets go." I say. We all proceed to mount a pegasus. We have to share so that we don't take all of them, so Blitz and Hearth share one, Alex and I share, and Samirah gets her own.
"How come I have to share with him?" Alex asks.
"Because, I'm the one who needs to lead the way." Sam says. "Besides, if he was leading, we'd end up falling into the ocean."
"I'm really feeling the love." I say sarcastically. "Now can we go?"
"Sure." Sam makes her Pegasus fly into the air, all of us in her wake.
