Piper strolled through New York city, alone. She had just gotten back from a quick quest. She knew she should be calling Chiron so he could pick her up, but she didn't feel like it. She felt like taking a walk on her own, so she could sort her thoughts for a bit, and find something to eat along the way. She peeked at the shop windows, noticed there was a brand new Limited edition mascara - Drew would be after that soon - eyed the new releases in a book shop, slowly turned around and noticed a few dracaena standing outside a Taco bell across the street.

For a few seconds, Piper felt torn - should she do something about it? Eventually her morals won it from her desire to have a lazy afternoon. She put her hand onto Katropris while walking to the nearest traffic light.

The dracaena had entered the Taco bell when Piper had just crossed the street. She followed them into the Taco Bell. She noticed that the dracanea were trying to hide in the corner of the shop. Piper assumed the mist made them look like just three random old ladies, something nobody in New York (or in any other place for that matter) would pay attention to.

Piper shuffled her way to the end of the queue. She could feel one of the dracaena staring at her. She knew she had been recognised. There were three people in front of her. She heard the dracaena getting closer. Slowly, she got Katropris out. She held it in the right position.

As soon as she felt a slimy hand on her shoulder, she spun around on her toes and stabbed the dracaena right between the eyes. The monster dissappeared in a cloud of dust. Her sisters jumped up and hissed at Piper, who backed away a little. Suddenly, she felt a human hand on her shoulder. 'Help! Stop! This girl is attacking these older ladies!' The dracaena patted their dresses, trying to act like weak older women. Piper pulled her shoulder out of the strangers' grasp. She pushed a few people away and charged towards the other two dracaena.

She was stopped by a man, who picked her up from the floor and held her in a harsh grasp. 'Call the police!' Piper heard someone yell. Oh no. She turned towards the man. 'Hey, won't you let me go? I mean, I was the one who was being attacked...' she softly charmspoke. The man put her back on the floor. 'Please, get a little farther away...' Piper mused. The people back away, giving Piper some space to think and plan her next move.

She twirled around and launched another attack at the dracaena. Sadly, she missed, but she did give one of the dracaena the chance to get a hold of her and put her pointy fingernails closer to Pipers' face than the daughter of Aphrodite liked.

Until the monster just... disappeared. Piper dropped to the floor. She blinked. A tall man covered in a cloak was standing in the restaurant. He waved his hands. Piper felt her muscles relax. She shook her head. The cloaked man reached for her hand and helped her to her feet. '...Thanks,' Piper muttered. The man nodded and smiled. He turned around, grabbed the muscled man by his shoulder, pushed him back and pulled a gun from his jacket.

Pipers' mouth fell open. The Girl behind the counter took a few steps back. The cloaked man snapped his fingers. The muscled man was immediately gone.

The cloaked person turned around to the cashier. 'Two taco supreme menu's, please, one vegetarian,' He asked her. Nobody complained about him skipping the line. The cashier rang the order up and yelled something over her shoulder at the people in the kitchen. She kept her eyes on the stranger the whole time.

Piper had had enough. The dracaena were defeated, the people didn't seem to remember them, but she wasn't sure about whether they remembered that they wanted to hand her over to the police. She got up off of the floor and slowly backed out of the restaurant. She could get something to eat somewhere else. It was New York, there was probably a McDonalds or Starbucks right around the corner.

'Hey!' She heard behind her, when she was a few feet outside of the Taco Bell. She looked over her shoulder. The cloaked man stood by the entrance, with the two taco supreme Menu's. He was looking at her. 'You were the girl fighting the Dranaeca's, right?'

Piper first made sure that she could run before she answered. She gave the man a nod. 'Yes, that was me.' The man pointed to one of his Taco Supreme Menu's. 'I didn't order these just for myself, you know. Demigods need to eat, otherwise you won't have enough energy for monsters coming at you.'

Piper tried to make a assumption about his character. As a daughter of Aphrodite, she wasn't bad it, but people are complicated and sometimes you ended up trusting or distrusting the wrong person. Yet, the guy had destroyed the dracaena, gotten the evil man that tried to strangle her to leave and was offering her a meal with some pretty sound advice she had also heard from Chiron. She decided that she might as well trust him. She was so close to both Camp Half-blood and Olympus that things could not go too wrong.

'... Alright.' She took a few steps forward and took one of the menus out of his hands. 'Thanks.' She opened the box. She took a moment to take in the delicious smell of fresh tacos. 'Hey, these are actually vegetarian. I thought that was impossible, and that the cashier just didn't complain after everything that happened. The man shrugged.

'Not much is impossible to me.' Piper blinked.

'Well... Thanks,' she said, before taking a bite.

While she was focused on her food, the man got a Phone out of his pocket. He swiped to the camera, but instead of taking a photo of something, he swiped further. His screen turned into a Rainbow, which started to leak out of the Phone, until it formed a steady bridge rising above the clouds. Heimdal put one foot onto the Bifrost, hoping to disappear before Piper noticed him.

Piper decided to look up at the stranger for a split second. She almost dropped her taco onto the floor. 'Wait! You are... how... why... did you help?' Heimdal looked over, grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the bridge, before any mortal could notice what was happening.

'It is boring on here, alright? Technically, I don't have to watch out for Ragnarok until it is winter in Midgard for three years straight. Until that, I can go down to any realm I want to do whatever I want, which is often stop criminals at fast food restaurants so that the cashier gives me free food. And I helped you because I could.' Piper took another bite of taco.

'Seems fair... I guess. Except that... eh...' piper tilted her head slightly, wondering how she could say in a nice way that gods generally don't help mortals out a lot much less share food with demigods.

'Most gods don't do that? I just did.' Heimdal whipped his Phone out of his pocket and started scrolling on it. Piper took another bite of taco.

They reached a t-junction, with one part leading to hotel Valhalla and the other leading to Asgard. Heimdals' stuff was laying around in front of it. 'You just let it lay out in the open like this?' Piper asked.

Heimdal shrugged. 'Whether I take it along or I let lay around here, the residents from Hotel Valhalla will steal it for truth or dare anyway.' Piper ate the last bit of her taco.

'They actually do that?'

'Don't act like you Greeks don't steal stuff from Dionysus when he isn't looking.' Piper shrugged slowly, but didn't say anything. She softly snickered.

Heimdall picked up his sword. 'Now. I'll continue standing around here now.' Piper looked at the empty box in her hands. 'That sounds... pretty bland.'

'It is bland until I see someone attack the same McDonalds' in North Dakota again.' He pointed at a spot in America. There was a small McDonalds', laying just outside of a small town.

'That sounds like they know you over there by now.'

'They do.'

Piper laughed. 'How did you know how I was vegetarian, by the way?' She asked. She didn't even noticed that she was talking to the god the way she would have been talking to her siblings in the Aphrodite cabin.

'Freya told me. That one time you barged in here it left quite the impact. I think Freya might want you in Folkvangerm eventually.'

'Alrightie then.' Piper looked down at Midgard. 'How come that you can see everything in such detail? I thought everything would be smaller.' Heimdal walked up to her. Together, they looked at Beijing, which was buzzing with people and vehicles. 'The air works like a magnifying glass.'

'Fancy!' Piper put the box next to her on the floor. 'To be honest, this job doesn't even sound that bad. I mean, you can just see the ever changing world each day and get paid for it! What could be better? I don't think...'

While Piper was rambling on on the bifrost, Jason, Percy and Will were sitting in the dining hall, waiting for both her and Nico to finally return from their respective quests. Jason stood up, walked a few steps, and proceeded to sit down again. He sniffed. 'Eh... they are surely taking their time, aren't they?'

Percy slowly nodded. 'A little too much time. Does Nico Always take so long?' Percy looked over at Will, who was focused on sewing a hole in his camp half-blood shirt. 'Huh? Oh, yeah. Sometimes he ends up in these weird situations. It wouldn't surprise me if he walked into the infirmary at two A.M. and told me he fought a Dragon.'

'Well, you might be alright if your SO missing, but Piper never takes this long!' Jason exclaimed. A few girls looked over from the docks. Percy stood up. 'I'll go get Chiron. Maybe he has heard something?' Will and Jason looked at each other. At least it was worth a shot...

'As you see, I like to do some home decorating!' Danu, celtic goddess, told Nico, who was drinking a nice cup of tea and not at all bothered by the thought that there might be people waiting for him. 'I think it is great,' He said. 'It is even better than last time I visited the United Kingdom!' Nico took a deep breath.

'However, I will have to leave soon. There are some things that still need to be done.' Danu smiled and nodded. 'Of course, of course.' She took the tea cup out of his hands. 'Glad you could come. Hope to see you soon!' She said.

'Me too!' Nico yelled over his shoulder, while shadow travelling away to a new place.

He should have paid more attention to what new place. The next thing Nico new, he was in hotel Valhalla, in a room where some people had decided to play knife tennis (Do you not know what that is? Lucky you. You still want to know? Just imagine regular tennis, but replace the balls with knives). Nico ducked. A knife soared over his head. On hands and knees, Nico crawled out of the room.

Only to immediately enter a room where people were making Hot Pockets filled with lava (For no reason whatsoever, except that Odin said it was never allowed and therefore they had to do it). Nico jumped up and ran through the room, which luckily lead to the main hall.

He got out before Helgi, the hotel manager, could really notice he had been there in first place. Nico jolted onto the bifrost, thinking of excuses he could use to trick Heimdal into thinking he totally had the right to be there. He didn't expect the protector of Asgard to be enjoying some nacho's while Piper Mclean was telling a story.

'... Piper? What are you doing here?'

Piper looked up. 'Neeks! Is something wrong?'

'No. Yet, I thought other demigods didn't socialize with gods.'

'I wasn't planning to,' Piper said, shrugging. Heimdal looked at Nico.

'No, you aren't allowed to walk on the Bifrost because it is the only way you'll get your chocolate to camp half-blood before it melts,' he said. Nico pouted. He had only used that excuse once!

'I need to walk on the Bifrost in order to... deliver a newspaper.'

'No, better excuse,' Piper answered.

'What do you know?' Nico mouthed off at her.

'She's right, I need a better excuse, otherwise I'll have to ban you from the Bifrost forever,' Heimdal said, while standing up. 'I am getting fed up with your excuses!' Nico smiled.

'Eh... yeah, yeah, I, eh...'

'You accidently ended up here because you shadow travelled the wrong way, didn't you?' Piper asked. Nico gave her a sour look. '...yeah.' Heimdal gave him a stern look in return.

'You can pass through this time, but don't let me see you here again!' He told Nico. Nico smiled sarcastically.
'Yeah, thanks, lord.'

Piper put his arm around his shoulders. 'I should be leaving too.' She bowed her head towards Heimdal. 'Thanks for the food.'

The god pushed a pass into her hand. 'Here. that way you can enter the bifrost whenever you want.' Pipers' eyes went big.

'...Alright, thanks, lord,' She said, too surprised to think of something better.

Heimdal smiled at her, before turning his eyes back to Midgard. Piper pulled Nico along. 'Come.'

'What the heck did you do today?'

'I decided to make some immortal friends as well,' Piper answered. 'So you are not alone.'

'You so did not decide that and instead it just happened!' Nico said back.

Piper nodded. 'You're right, but does it really matter? Come, we need to go to camp!' Nico sighed deeply. He walked along with Piper, back to camp Half-blood.

They walked into the dining pavilion, hoping there was still a small bit of food left. They didn't find any food. What they did find was their significant others (And also Percy) still sitting in the pavilion, wondering when they were finally getting back.

'Piper!' Jason was the first one to spot them. He ran up to his girlfriend and squashed her in a bear hug. 'Gods! Where were you two? Did you get lost on a new quest!?' Piper hugged Jason back, while trying to shake her head.
'No. We made some friends in heaven.' Jason stared at her.

'...What?'

'What I said.' Jason stared at her. Will put away his sewing work.

'You'll get used to it, Jason,' He muttered, before grabbing Nico's hand and pulling him along.

Percy stood by the side. 'Alright, I guess that quest Chiron told us to do will have to wait until tomorrow?' He asked to the void.