"Sam?" Magnus stood up, kibbeh falling to the ground "Sam, what…?"

Everyone else stood, brandishing weapons.

"I..." Sam licked her lips and took a step back. She obviously hadn't expected such a hostile welcome.

Her eyes darted to the side and she tensed before suddenly a large brown blur pummeled into her.

Now there were two lions, one male one female, wrestling on the ground.

Magnus shouted in alarm "No! She's a friend!"

"FRANK" Annabeth called.

The male lion looked up from the fight and growled low in his throat.

"Get off her, Frank" Annabeth said calmly. ""She's alright"

"You...uh, have a pet lion named Frank?" Magnus asked.

"No"

Where the lion was there was a large burly Asian boy. He looked like a junior commando with an army regulation haircut and fatigues.

"They have a heavily armed friend who can turn into a lion" he said simply.

"Oh. So do I" Magnus said, indicating Sam who had turned back to human as well.

Frank seemed to realize he was now pinning down a human girl because he jumped up blushing.

He coughed and straitened up. "Hazel and I are just visiting. Nico brought us." he looked apologetically at Sam "I thought she was attacking you"

Annabeth helped Sam up "Sorry about that. We can get...jumpy when it comes to visitors. You're a friend of Magnus?"

"Yes. And if he doesn't come with me he's going to die."

"Hold up, hold up" Magnus threw his hands up. "I thought our near death quota had been exceeded this century. How am I in danger?"

"You remember how Odin gave me a special mission?"

"Yeah" Magnus got a sinking feeling in his gut.

"Well, he sent em to Jotunheim, to stop some of my...uncles"

"What…? Oh" he dimly remembered Loki was a giant. His brothers.

"What I didn't know is that Surt let every giant in the nine worlds know Jack is, er, back."

Magnus groaned.

"So every giant in Jotunheim is after me?"

Sam bit her lip again and nodded.

"And they're..."

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

"...Here! Run!"

Sam grabbed Magnus and they all ran. Magnus looked behind and saw a gigantic foot, being heroically fought back by teenagers with swords, spears and arrows.

"He'll destroy the whole camp!" Annabeth cried

"We have to lead him away!" Sam called

Magnus reached for his pendant but Sam said

"Magnus, no! If you let jack out now, he'll bring him back to Surt!"

"So how do we get out of here?"

"You're in luck, kid"

Magnus froze and grinned.

In front of them was a short snazzily dressed man and a tall man in a leather jacket.

Blitz and Hearth

Hearth signed Come. Portal out of here. To the Tree.

Magnus turned to his friends. "Ready to meet a really rude squirrel?"

To be continued…

a/n: To the World Tree! Thank you all for reading and reviewing! And thank you for all the favs you guys are the best!