About halfway through our story, the guard reentered the throne room, followed by Thor himself. I saw Thor depicted in various Marvel movies, but seeing him in life was beyond anything I could imagine, and I suddenly could see a clear victor in a Thor vs Hulk matchup. (a REAL matchup, not the cheap one from Thor: Ragnarok)
"I was summoned, father?" Thor asked. I turned back to Odin, and got a glance of Clarisse, who was just staring at Thor. Oh for Zeus's sake I thought.
"Yes, my son." Odin answered. "These young heros are Greek demigods. Perseus here is a son of the sea, and Clarisse is a daughter of war."
"Good to meet you both" Thor stuck out his hand for both of us, and we shook it, one at a time, of course. "What is it you need of me, young ones?"
"Well...this will definitely need some explanation, but…" I was interrupted by Clarisse.
"We need you hammer, Thor, sir." Clarisse said simply.
"Not how I would've done it." I said. Thor chuckled.
"I see," He said. "Why is it that Mjolner is needed?" Thor asked.
"Because, son," Odin took over. "The fabled dual-risen titan is rising." At this, Thor's eyes widened.
"Well then, if the hammer is needed, then you must have the hammer." Thor said. "But you must assist me in forging a new weapon at Nidavellir." Clarisse shrieked with excitement at this.
"Oh my Gods yes! We're in lord Thor!" Clarisse said without second thought.
"What's Nidavellir?" I asked. Clarisse looked at me.
"Only where the most sick-awesome, devastating weapons are made!" Clarisse beamed.
"Well then, if you two are in, I shall take us there." Thor got between us, raised Mjolner, and we were sucked into an Asgardian tunnel-tube thing. In mere seconds, we were at the forge planet of Nidavellir, but a problem arose as soon as we got there.
"Seems the dwarfs are on holiday." Thor studied. "No matter. Stormbreaker can be forged by us."
"Okay, but which mold is it?" I asked, staring at a rack of molds on a cart.
"None of those." Thor waved them off. He looked into the metal melting pit and smiled. "It's already in here."
"Well. that's one step down." Clarisse said. "This place have an 'on' button?" Thor shook his head.
"It's powered by that star out there. We just need to put some metal in, and we should be good." We found some metal ingots and dumped them into the pit. They instantly boiled into liquid metal. "Now, Percy, keep the mold aligned, and Clarisse, help me tip the molten metal." We both obeyed, and in no time, we had the metal in the mold. After a bit, Thor ripped open the mold, and Stormbreaker instantly cooled.
"The thing is massive." I noted. It was a good 3 times larger than Mjolner.
"Hence, it will do." Clarisse nudged Thor and whispered something to him. Thor chuckled as he spoke up. "Stork breaker shall serve me well in my hammers place. Now here, use the hammer well." Thor handed me his hammer, and as I took it, I felt powerful...until it nearly dragged me to the ground. Attempting to lift it, it didn't budge. I looked over and saw Clarisse laughing her head off, and even Thor was laughing. Great. Humiliated in front of my friend and a god. Walking over, Thor produced something from his belt. "You two need these." Thor handed us some kind of chain-linked gloves. "Put them on." He said, as he took his hammer back, freeing my hand.
"What are they for?" I asked.
"You need them, or you won't be able to lift Mjolnir." I nodded, internally killing myself for not thinking how we would be able to lift the freaking hammer. Once we had the gloves on, Thor handed over his hammer. It felt about the same as some other war hammers I've tried back at camp.
"Thank you, Thor." I said bowing. Clarisse did the same.
"Of course. I trust you have a way back?" Thor asked. I nodded, and pulled out the return device. "Then I shall leave you to it. Farewell for now, young demigods!" Thor was sucked up by the Asgardian portal tube and was gone.
"You ready Clarisse?" I asked, with no response. "Clarisse?" I called.
"Huh?" I turned around to find Clarisse at a cart of various melee weapons. "Sorry, I was just looking at these freaking awesome weapons!" I rolled my eyes and laughed.
"Okay, yes they're amazing, but we need to get back, War Girl." Clarisse sighed.
"Fine." She said. I gave Mjolner to her, so I could activate the return. I let her slip her hand into mine, and I pressed the button, causing everything to go black.
