Previously:
"I have a few questions to answer." She looked confused at first but then understood what I was referring to.
"OK. See you tomorrow morning then." She said and headed to our room.
"Come out guys." I said. The 4 of the came out and stood in-front of me with crossed hands.
"You still have a lot to explain sweetie." Piper said.
CHAPTER 13
Answering questions
Piper
"Fire your questions." Perci said to the 4 of us.
"Who is she-" Magnus asked and was about to continue before being cut off by Perci.
"You met her today morning Mag and you ask me now?" Perci replied.
"Answer the question Perci." Jason said.
"I'll reveal it in the meeting that we have today. And also your remaining questions. You should go to sleep." She said and headed off to her room. We decided that we will wait till next morning to get the answers to our questions.
(Time skip- to the next morning)
We were waiting for Perci and the small girl to come. The 4 of us were eager to know the answers whereas Loki was as careless as ever. We decided to ask him about her.
"Loki, who is that little girl with Perci?" Magnus asked.
"Did you ask her who she is?" he said in a bored tone.
"We did." Jason said.
"Then why are you asking me?"
"Because she didn't answer." Alex said.
"Then neither will I."
"Why?" I asked lacing my words with charm speak.
"Because I don't want her to kill me." Wait what?
"You're afraid of her?" Jason asked.
"Of course I am. She is literally a devil when she is fighting and when she is angry, she is the demon of all demons." He said, flinching. Guess he had a bad experience with her.
But why will she kill him for answering us? I was about to retort when we saw Perci and the girl coming towards us.
Perci was wearing a black cat suit same as we saw her yesterday but her hair was braided to one side. She wore black heels and had a silver bracelet to her right hand. She also had a beautiful golden ring with a blue diamond in the center to her right hand.
The girl wore a blue T-shirt matching her eye color and black jeans. Her shoulder length black hair was tied up in a pony-tail. She wore she wore pink sneakers, wore a similar silver bracelet on her right hand and had a bored look on her face. I couldn't help but think that they looked alike.
She mumbled something to Perci who seems to have heard it. "Okay but take Midnight and Blackjack along." She said. The girl ran off enthusiastically with a black cat and a black dog running behind her. Wonder where they came from. Maybe one of the homeless children would've brought them.
"Let's go." She said and rotated her hands in a circle. A large ring with copper colored sparks appeared in front of us.
"What is that?" Alex asked.
"It's a sling ring used for transportation by us, sorcerers." She said and motioned for us to step in. We stepped through to enter into a dark room, the only source of light being the sing ring through which we entered.
"Julia are you still connected?" Perci spoke into her earpiece.
"Hmmm." She said and all the lights went on. The place was amazing. It had sky blue colored walls with some pictures on it. One of them caught my eye. It was Perci wearing a blue long skirt with 2 men- Both were tall and had black hair but the first one was wearing a black tuxedo and had a streak of white hair and green eyes while the second was younger and wore a light grey hoodie and jeans and had sparkling blue eyes- and the small girl- whom she called Bi yesterday-, younger than now but not much. She wore a pink skirt similar to Perci's and the 4 of them were smiling happily like a real family. Perci looked as if nothing sad had happened in her life. The others also noticed and were looking at the photo thinking who they were. Just then I heard a melodious voice with an Australian accent.
"They are waiting outside Angel." Who is this angel and who are 'they'?
"Let them in Julia." Perci said. Julia called Perci Angel? What the Hel is going on?
The doors of the room opened and I saw all familiar faces except 2. I saw Thalia, Artemis, Apollo, Hestia Hades, Nico, Hermes, Aphrodite, Grover, Clarisse, Travis, Connor, Katie, Hecate and 2 women I didn't recognize come in and stare at Perci in shock except Hecate.
"Hello everyone. Welcome to my house." Perci said dramatically.
"Wait. It's your house?" Magnus said.
"Of course silly. Then why else would her pictures be there on the walls?" Alex said hitting Magnus on the back of his head. Jason and I looked at them bored whereas Loki looked at his daughter with pride. Typical parent.
"Perci…" the older of the 2 women- a woman with brown-grey hair and blue eyes said after seeing Perci. The younger, who looked similar to the older but with pure wood brown hair, stood there staring at her.
"We're sorry Perci." The present gods said at once.
"You don't need to be. You didn't do any mistake." Perci said with a sweet smile.
"Perci…I'm sorry that I hurt you so much and-" the same woman started speaking but was interrupted by Perci.
"It's okay Sally. I forgive you but that doesn't mean I accept you as my mother." She must be her mother who abandoned her. Sally Blofis.
"Please. You don't know how much she has been suffering from the past 5 years." The younger one said. Estelle Blofis.
"I can imagine how it feels to be hated by your daughter that's why I forgave her. But if I did the same what she did to me to my daughter, I wouldn't expect a different behavior." She said in a kind tone.
"Perci, will you join my hunters?" Artemis asked.
"It is a very generous offer Lady Artemis but I must refuse because I do not qualify for a hunter and also because I am extremely happy with my life."
"I am very sure you do qualify."
"Let me explain to you what exactly happened after I was banished." She said eyeing the 4 of us. Just then the girl, the cat and the dog appeared out of no-where.
"What did I miss?" she asked.
"Nothing much. I was just about to start with my story." Perci replied. Perci snapped her fingers and suddenly we had ice blue chars next to us.
"Take a seat." She said and sat down. The girl ran up to her and sat on her lap. Perci hugged her from behind. The cat and the dog sat on either side of her chair and lied down. Then she began her story.
Time skip (AN: because I'm lazy to explain it all again so many times.)
After she was done, to say I was shocked would be an under-statement.
"So you're a super spy, assassin, true master of the mystical arts, plus you're married to a guy who is also a super spy, assassin, and sorcerer and have a daughter who is the same." Grover said. She nodded. We all stared at her incredulously except Hecate, Loki and the girl- who we learnt was her daughter, Bianca.
"What do you want us to do?" Thalia asks.
"First Thalia, I want you to meet your brother." She didn't notice us because she was too busy with Perci and also because we never faced them and kept ourselves hidden. There was emotional talk between them and also between me and my mother who finally noticed me. After that was over, Perci said that she will be raising an army of the einherjars and that she will require the help of the gods and the demigods.
"We will do all that we can do Perce." Apollo said.
"Please call me Angel. And also swear on the Styx that any of this should not be known to anyone else. Except the 4 of you of course." She said the last statement to us.
"We swear on the Styx." The other gods and demigods chanted.
"Now that that is done, we should head back to our places and train for the upcoming war." Perci, sorry, Angel said and started moving out but was stopped by Apollo.
"How are you so sure that he is the opponent?"
"I met him myself Apollo and he revealed that he will attack earth through Thanos in the near future."
"But the Avengers killed Thanos." Hermes said.
"They will find a way to reverse what Thanos has done and through that way Thanos will come back though I don't know what it is andso we can't change it also because it would alter fate." Angel said. The gods nodded. They took the others who came with them and flashed out. Angel created another Sling ring and we stepped right outside the entrance to Valhalla. I saw Loki's tense face and heard Angel mutter one thing before entering. "Well, here goes nothing."
AN: That's. A. CLIFFHANGER! As always of course. R&R and also fav. & follow please.
By the one and only- Kavya.S