"I'm sorry, who are you?"
Piper was still standing under the tree on half blood hill as the three newcomers stood just outside the protective bubble looking back at her. They couldn't cross beyond the border because they weren't of Olympian descent like the campers could. But they weren't completely mortal either. In truth they belonged to a deferent pantheon altogether.
"My name is Magnus Chase" the young man explained. He gestured to his companions, a girl with a headscarf and the other with green hair, "this is Sam and Alex. We're from Boston. We're looking for Annabeth."
"How do you know Annabeth?" Piper asked suspiciously. She still couldn't understand how they could see her or how they found this place. The mist did a pretty good job of hiding the camp from intruders outside their pantheon, including mortals and most monsters.
Percy came walking up the hill after overhearing a commotion up here, looking up to find their visitors. "Oh hey Magnus" he said waving in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"You know him?" Piper asked.
He shrugged. "We met. He's Annabeth's cousin from Boston."
"I'm also the son of Frey, the Asgardian god of summer. Percy and Annabeth helped save the world once."
"It was a whole thing" Percy said.
Piper crossed her arms. "Asgard? Wait, you're supposed to be demigods? How come I've never heard of you guys?"
"I don't know" Magnus shrugged. "I guess we don't mingle much at social events."
"You know other pantheons exist" Percy reminded her. "Technically camp Jupiter is a separate branch. The then there are those guys out west with ties to Egypt. It's confusing but a thing."
"Why didn't Annabeth tell me about her cousin?" Piper asked him.
"Because I'm her boyfriend?" He offered. Piper gave him a disapproving look so he backed off. "So what brought you here mate?" He asked Magnus cheerfully.
"I need to find Annabeth" he explained. "Things are going back and we think you guys might be in trouble."
"We're all in trouble" Sam interrupted him. "We've been having to fight our way here all day, battling monsters almost every step…"
Definitely demigods then, Piper chuckled.
"I got this" Magnus whispered to his companion, but she pushed by impatiently.
"We believe an asgardian creature has been set loose on your pantheon, one that has the power to enslave the whole city and maybe even your own gods."
"So I need to talk to Annabeth. Magnus insisted.
Piper stepped forward in concern. "Wait, what creature? And what do you mean enslave?"
"We're not sure exactly" Sam told her. "But it's an old spell that's said to be able to dominate the will of all it claims, to raise an army that would rival any kingdom. This thing is so old even Odin has forgotten about it."
"Well, Annabeth isn't here right now" Percy told them. "And we've kind of got a situation of our own."
"What kind of situation?" The one called Alex asked.
"I'm not a hundred percent sure" Percy said looking at Piper, who was deep in thought. "But apparently we have a monster on the loose that rapes people in their sleep before wiping their memory."
The three of them all stared, their eyes widening in shock. "What? Seriously?" Magnus asked.
"It's true, but I'm the only one who remembers" Piper explained. "I'm a child of Aphrodite so anything to do with sex is unfortunately my thing." She then narrowed her eyes at the three of them, asking quietly "this creature you're talking about…how would it enslave an army?"
The looked at each other awkwardly, before Sam stepped forward and replied "we don't know for sure, but one of the translations to the text we were shown claimed it was through mind bending proxies which were created through…fornication. So…"
"It rapes its victims and dominates its mind" Piper finished turning pale. "The weaver… it has Annabeth!"
Magnus's back went up as he stepped forward. He recognized the word she used, just as the others. "You've seen the Weaver? It was here?" He asked her. "It's enslaved Annabeth?"
"Where is it now?" Alex demanded.
Piper felt sick and afraid and determined all of a sudden. "I don't know" she told them, her face hardening. "But I think it's time you explained everything you know!"
After inviting the three Norse demigods across the border they reconvened in the big house. Chiron was out doing the rounds so they had the place to themselves. Piper sat at the head of the table with Percy beside her as Magnus, Alex and Sam took their places at the other end. "So what is this thing?" Piper asked crossing her arms.
Magnus planted his palms on the table before beginning. "I'm not an expert. In fact we didn't even know this existed until Sam got a warning from Odin. Well, if you call a weird dream a warning."
"Gods talking to us in dreams" Percy mumbled. "yeah it's a demigod thing. You get used to it."
"Anyway" Sam continued, "according to Odin there was once an asgardian weapon that was created a long time ago meant to be used to take over opposing nations by enslaving its soldiers, a creature engineered by elves and dwarves working together. But something went wrong and it mutated out of their control and became known as the weaver. It turned on the elves and then used them to infiltrate Asgard. Fortunately hiemdell saw it coming and was able to mobilize a defense and destroy it. The means of its creation were destroyed soon after so it could never be made again."
"So how does this help us?" Percy asked.
"How did it mutate?" Piper asked in turn.
Alex took over explaining "apparently it was infected by a witches lust potion that made it sex mad. It drew tentacles and enslanved its victims through sexual intercourse. It sounds stupid though so I don't think that parts true."
"Really? Cause it sounds like our monster to a tee" Piper replied. "So if this thing and all knowledge of its creation was destroyed, how is it here now?"
"Because of our dad" Sam grumbled. "Loki."
"Your dad as in…"
"Mine and Alex."
"Mom" Alex corrected. "Loki was my mom."
"How does that..?" Percy began to ask until they explained Loki was a shapeshifter, so gender fluidity was simple to him. Something Alex inherited since.
"He got out of his prison a while ago and tried to trigger ragnorok, until we stopped him. At some point since we think he got a hold of one of your gods to recreate the monster hoping it could raise an army to destroy Asgard."
"Why us?" Piper asked.
"After sea boy over there and his girlfriend helped us it put your pantheon in Loki's sights. He probably wants to kill two birds with one stone. Or he just wants payback for what happened."
"The weaver can be created by a Norse god, but it needed the lust factor that mutated it to become what it is" Sam told them. "So the assumption is one of your gods must've factored into that part. We just don't know…"
"Crap" Piper sighed rubbing her eyes. "I knew I felt my mom behind this." She had her theories after remembering her first encounter with the weaver. A sex demon with tentacles, Her moms aura and fingerprints were all over it. "So my mom teamed up with your dad to create a tentacle monster to turn camp halfblood into an army. Of course they did."
"Actually it's more Likely Loki malupulated your mom into working with him" Sam suggested. "Gods aren't known to work well together. And he is a trickster god."
"But why would Aphrodite make something like this anyway?" Percy asked curiously.
"She was bored?" Piper shrugged. "Thought it'd be funny. Wanted to see a bunch of us get raped so she had something to wank to up in Olympus. I wouldn't put anything past her."
"It's better than my theory" Alex muttered. "The recreation process suggests it could've been spawned by the pair after they fucked one another."
Mom could've fucked Loki and given birth to the weaver? "Ew, no!" Piper immediately cringed. She didn't want to be related to that monster in anyway.
"That's all we know" Magnus finished. "So we need to find it! And Annabeth."
"Well like I said before" Percy shrugged. "Last thing I remember was Annabeth was in bed with me and Aphrodite."
The three Norse demigods stared at the two of them while Piper hide her embarrassed red face. But after a few moments she suddenly looked up with wide eyes. "Oh no! Guys, does it have to be demigods the weaver can enslave?"
They all looked at one another and shrugged. "Not really. They could take control of dwarves, elves, mortals, giants, maybe even gods themselves." The light bulbs went off and Magnus suddenly went very pale. "Oh, you think…"
"If the weaver has Annabeth and my mom, they could sneak up to mount Olympus" Piper nodded. "If they get there…every Greek deity could become its prey."
"Loki would have an army of gods to send at Asgard" Sam squeaked, the realist ion of the scope of the danger falling over the entire room.