Just a bit of planning for the finale, hope you all enjoy.
Please be sure to R/R.
Percy caught up with Annabeth and tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention. "Hey, I was wondering… Would you want to walk with me?" Percy hoped she would say 'yes', but he knew it would take a long time for her not to be scared of him. Whatever Loki did to her when she was with him messed her up, she was terrified of him.
"Uh, sure. Would it be okay if Alex comes with us?" Annabeth asked. He smiled, "Yeah, sure. The more the merrier." Alex followed behind the couple as they started walking together. Percy pointed out some things to Annabeth and let her take her time around it all. It was nearing the evening and the horn was blown to call of the campers to dinner.
Alex and Sam all sat together with the Big Three children. While Annabeth asked Chiron if it was alright if she and her family could be together. He couldn't refuse the girl so for the next few days everything was going great for her and the newly reacquainted family.
However the peace that the family found disappeared when Randolph called his younger brother. "Fred, I know what Loki and Fenrir are planning. You need to get the children together, all of you need to hear this." Fred and Rebecca brought the four Chase children together and the other Demigods that knew of Loki, they all listened to what the eldest Chase member had to say.
And it wasn't good by any means.
"Loki is planning on releasing Fenrir from the island he is currently sealed away on. But to do that he would need a considerable amount of magic. He plans on stealing Sam, Alex and Annabeth's magic. He plans on using the three of them as some sort of offerings of power to him and his son. Fenrir's first target will be Magus, he wants to kill him. This time permanently, but to do that he would need magic to beat Frey's back. Both of them know of the powers at your control. They will be ready for you, so we need to figure out how to stop them before they start Ragnarok." Randolph told his family over the phone.
"Well this just went from bad to worse fast. Okay, Randolph, is there anything we can do?" Magnus asked his uncle. "Perhaps, but it will be dangerous." "All of our lives are at stake, what do we need to do, Randolph?" Annabeth didn't have any time for his riddles.
"The first thing we need to do is kill Fenrir, for good. The only one able to do that is Sumarbrander, Magnus' sword. However the only one who can wield the blade would be a worthy child of Frey. That being Magnus but he can't go to the island alone, that would be a death sentence for him. A child of Loki has to go with him, there is only one person that can withstand the power of Fenrir or Loki's Snake-Charmer ability. Alex, you can control all of the aspects of his magic. You and Magnus need to go to the island and kill Fenrir. That is the only way to stop the Apocalypse from starting." Randolph told them.
Both Magnus and his girlfriend were prepared to kill him, he has been nothing but trouble for them. "Let's go, then. I'm ready to kill this asshole." Alex snarled. 'Wait you can't just go all by yourselves, that is crazy." Sam told her sister and the son of Frey. "We have no choice, Sam. We can finally put an end to this, an end to Fenrir and Loki. Isn't that what you want?" Magnus asked her. "I do, but what about the other Children of Loki out there? All of them will feel their parent die. They won't know what to do, if they find out he or she was a god and try searching for him." Sam reasoned.
"That is true, I mean… Look at what happened with Pan. He faded and his followers and children of the Wild were all lost without him." Annabeth told the others who didn't know what happened in the Labyrinth. "So what would you have us do, Annie?" Magnus asks his cousin.
"What Randolph said about Killing Fenrir, that is a good move. But killing Loki wouldn't be a good idea, especially with such a powerful Clan like ours in the mix." "What do you mean Annabeth?" Rebecca asked her step-daughter. "If Fenrir is killed by Sumarbrander the suspicion will fall on Magnus and our family. If that happens he could be stripped of his powers or be sent to the Void."
"However, there is a way we can avoid that." Annabeth told her family and friends. "How?" Percy asked. He didn't know what Annabeth was coming up with, but whatever it was… It was a really good, really deadly plan.
"Magnus and I go, alone." An uproar was started because of what the Daughter of Athena had just said. "Will all of you shut up and listen?!" She shouted. "I wasn't done. There is a reason I wanted it to just be us. Magnus is the only one who can wield that blade, a blade that can kill anyone or anything, living immortal or dead. So I was thinking, if it was just us, Fenrir would think we would be giving up, surrendering ourselves to him and Loki. We would start to unseal his bindings but before he could escape we both pool all of our magic and powers into Sumarbrander and kill him."
Annabeth's explanation and plan was rolling around in everyone's heads, but there was one thing she forgot about. "What about his Snake-Charmer abilities?" Randolph asked. "We let him control us, Jack can make sure nothing happens to us while he has us." "Are you crazy?!" Jason yelled. "Yes, aren't we all somewhat insane is our own right? Why it would work is because he would think we were surrendering to him, in actuality we will kill him. Loki will feel his death and attempt to break out, that is where the Big Three kids come in."
"Why us?" "You aren't Norse Demigods, he won't be expecting your involvement. More than that, with all but one of the four elements missing he can't control you all." "Why wouldn't he be able to control them?" Piper asked. The blonde smiled at her, Magnus saw this and raised an eyebrow at the female blonde. "Fenrir. That's why he can't control them, right?" Magnus asked his cousin, knowing he was right.
"Exactly, with Loki still feeling the effects of one of his immortal children's deaths he wouldn't be in any right state of mind. That being said I know where we can keep him where he won't be a problem for anyone ever again."
"Where? He's a Norse God." Sam said. She looked to where she knew Percy and Nico were. "Tartarus. We put him in Night's Mansion." Nico and Percy froze in utter disbelief and shock at hearing what she had just said.
"Annabeth, you do realize that we would have to go back down there, right?" "No, we wouldn't, none of us would have to go there." "I don't get it?" Percy said. "Think about it, the only ways into the Pit would be through the Underworld or through the Doors of Death. All Nico and possibly Alex would have to do is go into the Underworld, open a portal to Night's domain and throw him in, no one can escape the pit, especially not a foreign God. That would make it so he never escapes, the Night Mother would never let such a possession go."
Everyone was staring at her like she was insane, she kind of was. They couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth but they all knew it was the best plan they had. However the Gods didn't share that opinion so the King and Queen of Olympus summoned her.
"What is the meaning of this?" Zeus was outraged. "I am trying to make sure another war doesn't happen, more than that, the end of the damn world. If you have a problem with that, suck it up. We are the only one who can pull this off and live through this." She snapped her fingers and Alex appeared to take her back to Camp Half-Blood.
The Gods didn't know what to do because no one in their right mind would ever speak that way to Zeus or Hera. Apparently Annabeth didn't care what they thought. She and the other demigods went along with her plan, Gods be damned.
