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We don't really know if Piper, Jason and Leo got a bead, but I say they did, before they left (and the bead shows the Argo II on it)
HICCUP
Groaning and moaning, Hiccup sat up, and glanced around his surroundings. Was he on a boat? It looked like one. He was in a bed. Then he realised, as he reached for his flaming sword, his hands were tied, his whole body was tied up in a coil of rope, and his prosthetic leg in a chain, and his mouth was gagged. Seriously? The faint light coming from outside the small window on the side of the wall made Hiccup guess that it was daytime.
Throb, throb, throb. Pain came pounding into his head. Oh gods... he had been knocked out by one of those seven people. Who were they? Was this... their boat?
"Thank the gods of Olympus you're alive," sighed a girl's voice. "Jason Grace, and Percy Jackson, and Leo Valdez, I will kill you three."
It was a girl, who pressed a switch and light turned on. She had choppy brown hair and multi coloured eyes, and she held a bronze knife (from what Hiccup could tell, most of this group either carried a bronze or gold weapon). Even though she looked as if she tried so hard not to look beautiful and lovely, she was. She looked so beautiful. He wanted to dig deep into those green, then blue, then brown eyes... Hiccup imagined pinching himself. No, he couldn't think that. They tied him up. Plus, Astrid would kill Hiccup for thinking nice about this girl.
"Are you alright?" her tone made Hiccup think that she was deeply concerned. "You were out for the rest of the night."
"Mmmm-mmm." Hiccup's voice was muffled in the gag. The girl said, "Wait, I'll cut those ropes. Holy Aphrodite, I told them not to tie you up and hold you hostage." She untied the gag around Hiccup's mouth, and with one smooth, quick move, she cut the ropes, freeing Hiccup. She removed the iron chain with a bit of lock picking with her knife.
"Thanks very much. You are..."
"Piper McLean. Don't get your flaming sword, please. I want to help. I'm not the biggest doctor on the block, but I think I can do first aid. Let me check if you've got injuries from last night." She smiled, and Hiccup had the sudden desire to throw away his weapons to the sea, tell her she was the best doctor in the world (whatever a doctor was) and hold out his whole body for this Piper McLean girl to check, and to tell her she can help him with anything she wanted.
How can she do that? thought Hiccup to himself, as he regained his senses. Is she taking power over my mind? Is she hypnotising me? No... she can't do that.
"Where's my dragon Toothless?" Hiccup demanded.
Piper sighed. "Leo was trying to see if it had more 'supercool' powers, but then I said we put him to rest on the upper deck. You're in my cabin. We're not barbarians. We're not that crazy nor stupid."
"How about last night?"
"Sorry about that. That was a simple misunderstanding. Some of my friends jump to conclusions quickly. We thought you were the enemy."
"I'm sorry too. I thought you were one of Drago's minions."
Piper opened her mouth, as if she wanted to know who Drago was, but closed it. Hiccup couldn't blame her. Who was Gaia?
Hiccup also wanted to talk about the glowing sword and the glowing bronze sword, and how the boy could disappear, but...
Suddenly, there was a clang, and a curse in another language. At least, Hiccup thought it was a curse.
Piper turned at the door. "Leo Valdez! I told you! No touching our hostage's stuff!"
Hiccup couldn't see Leo Valdez, but he could hear him.
"Aw," said Leo Valdez. "But this shield's cool! Found it in Black Beast's pouch thing. It's not just a shield; it's also a crossbow, a catapult, a bola, rope thingies..."
"Leo Valdez! You put it back!"
"Fine, fine. But this dude' said shield is cool. Don't worry, I'll make identical supercool shields like this one too! Me with the flaming hammer, Jason with the eagle and the lightning bolt background, you with the love heart-"
"LEO!"
"Fine, Miss Beauty Queen."
"Leo Valdez, when I get my hands on you..."
"How 'bout Miss USA? Miss Universe? How about it?"
"Put it back before I lose it!" yelled Piper. "Someone keep this guy at bay!"
"Got it!" said another boy's voice. "Valdez, go and check the ship. I'll check on Hazel."
"Of course, Frank Zhang. My beautiful ship!" Then Hiccup heard Leo run away.
Piper sighed and turned back to Hiccup. "Sorry. Back to business."
"How about..." Hiccup tapped the bedsheet as he tried to remember. "Sir Aquaman, and Mr Flame Boy? Wasn't he also named Valdez?"
"That was Percy Jackson and Leo Valdez. They're both nice, but... what's your name?"
"Oh, sorry, I forgot. I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third."
PIPER
Piper never knew a person could be named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third.
"Um... did you hiccup?"
The Person called Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third laughed. "No, no, no, that's my name. Hiccup for short."
"Um..."
"Why my parents named me that? Parents believe that hideous names can frighten off gnomes and trolls."
"I don't think trolls exist. Dwarfs do. Do they count?" Piper then thought of the time when Leo told her about the time when dwarfs stole his tool belt, leading onto a wild goose chase.
Then Leo returned, with a huge bloody scar on his cheek and he held Hiccup's shield in his hand, in crossbow mode. "Hey, amigos! You got a seriously wicked shield here. Though you might have to put the damage level on the user low..."
"If you damage that thing, I swear to Thor..." Hiccup growled.
"Leo," said Piper, in a firm tone. "Please put it back. Go help Jason."
Leo walked away, but then came back yelling.
"What?" asked Hiccup.
"My beautiful Argo II - sinking! Hurry! Bail the water! Percy is doing his best, but he needs help!" Suddenly, cold sea water rushed in.
"Okay." Piper stood up and turned to Hiccup. "Want to help?"
"Sure. Thanks."
"You're welcome. We have to hurry! We're on a... sea voyage and we're delayed! Now we're delayed even more!" Piper almost said, We're going to Greece to defeat a super evil earth goddess who wants to destroy the world!
PERCY
Checking the boat for any water was okay. But it was not okay when Leo was playing with the shield that belonged to their prisoner.
"Leo, stop playing the prisoner's shield!"
"Fine!"
"Give it to me!" yelled Percy.
"But I like it! I wanna keep it!" Leo held the shield back away from Percy's reach.
Even Percy thought it was cool, and looked wicked. It was silver, and it had a design of the prisoner's dragon on it, and it had plenty of features. But Leo had to give it back.
"Give it!"
"Finders keepers!"
"You got a cut by the bola thing!"
"Yeah, but I still want to find out what it does! I found out it has exploding green gas-"
"Guys, stop fighting like little kids and look where the boat's going!" shouted Jason, holding his gladius.
CRUNCH.
"All because of a stupid yet awesome shield," muttered Percy.
LEO
Leo hated it when the boat sank. They were delayed by a day and a half. He ran over to Festus.
Great! It might be the Feast of Spes soon! By then, Mother Nature would have destroyed the world! I just wish she was just some Snow White character with the dwarfs and the animals doing her laundry. Then we wouldn't have gone on this stupid quest. Then we wouldn't have the war declared on the Romans. Then we wouldn't have ended up here. And my mum... she couldn't have died.
Festus creaked. "Festus says we're sinking fast! We have to park the Argo II on the shore before it sinks!"
Their hostage and Piper came up on deck.
"Why did you untie him?" asked Percy.
"Seaweed Brain, you can't take him prisoner. After all, it's our fault we're here in the first place, not his," quipped Annabeth.
"Guys," said Piper quickly, "this is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, call him Hiccup for short. Hiccup, these are my friends: Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Jason, Frank and Hazel." She pointed at everyone as she introduced them. "Ask questions later. Hurry before it sinks!"
"Help," came a squeak. "I'm feeling sick." That was Hazel. Leo couldn't still believe that Hazel was Leo's bisabuelo's girlfriend from the 1940s, before she moved to Alaska and died. Leo still couldn't understand why she was always seasick.
"I'll sort that out! Me and Hazel are going to bail water coming from the bow," said Frank, then they left to the bow. "Maybe I'll turn into a sea creature to help..."
"Your friend can turn into creatures?" asked Hiccup, then turned to Piper, who said, "Long story. Ask again later."
Leo ran up to Hiccup and gave him his shield. "Here. Sorry. Percy wanted to give it back to you, but I wanted to keep it, and it brought us to this mess. Anyway," he grinned, "let's steer this baby to shore! Percy - no, Jason, man, can you come and help?"
"Sure!" called Jason.
"Okay. I'll wake up Toothless, my dragon." Then Hiccup left.
Now, Leo wondered what it would be like to ride a real dragon. It was cool, and much better than a bronze one because it was real (no offence to Festus and all other bronze dragons out there), and to have it as a personal pet. Hmmm, maybe Frank can turn into a dragon and I'll ask Piper to charmspeak him to ride me fifty laps around the Atlantic Ocean...
He joined up with Jason and with a large heave, they made it to shore, and they high-fived each other. "Yeah, man!"
They joined up with the rest of the seven, along with Hiccup and his dragon Toothless (Leo regretted calling him Black Beast), and they all jumped off the boat, back to Thor's Beach, where they started. Percy wiped water (or maybe sweat?) off his forehead. "Gee, it's noon already? Good job, gang! But now we're delayed on our... sea voyage." When Percy saw Hiccup's look of confusion he tried to lie and tell the truth at the same time... "Well, we're supposed to be to another Land by August 1st, but... we took a wrong turn so now we're stuck here..."
"It'll take about... three and a half weeks, I think."
"We have to hurry!" said Annabeth. "Oh gods, we have to be by our... destination for our vacation voyage by August 1st!"
"I have supplies in my village," said Hiccup. "We have a blacksmith there, and maybe he knows a thing or two about sinking ships and how to fix them. While you're here, you can stay with us."
"Your village?" asked Frank.
"Yeah, I'm the Chief."
"Okay. Thanks, Hiccup."
"But on one condition - you tell me how Leo can set himself on fire, how... Frank can disappear and how Piper has multi-coloured eyes that keep changing."
PERCY
Percy couldnt believe it.
A mortal had asked them to reveal their demigod secrets.
"Well," Percy tried to explain, "some secrets need to stay secret."
"No secret, no service."
All the other six looked at him. Mortals weren't supposed to know about demigods. The Mist was the magical veil that made mortals interpret things like swords and monsters as baseball bats and normal, regular humans. But this mortal could see through Mist. He saw his sword. And he didn't know who Gaia was. He looked at Annabeth, who nodded encouragingly, mouthing, He can see through Mist, like Rachel. Tell him.
Then he remembered Rachel Elizabeth Dare, their Oracle of Delphi. At Hoover Dam, on the quest to save Artemis and Annabeth, he met Rachel, who saw his lion' story pelt, his sword and the skeleton warriors. At Goode High School, they battled empousai and Rachel saw them, and Percy told her the truth. Maybe...
He turned to Annabeth, who mouthed, Make him swear on the River Styx.
Percy nodded, and gestured to the group that he was going to tell Hiccup, and they all agreed and nodded and gave thumbs-up (well, Leo did). He breathed in deeply.
"Hiccup," he said, "A long time ago, the Greeks and Romans of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome believed in gods."
"Yeah, I've heard tales of these gods, and we've got our own Norse gods," replied Hiccup.
"In the old Greek and Roman stories, well... they fell in love with mortals and had children with them. They were... they are called demigods."
"The Greek and Roman gods are still real," Annabeth chided in. "And even in modern times they still fall in love with mortals and have children with them - modern demigods, or half-bloods. These Greek and Roman demigods have to go to camps to train. Greek demigods go to Camp Half-Blood. They wear orange shirts and they have clay beads." Annabeth, Percy showed their bead necklaces. So did Jason, Piper and Leo. Percy didn't remember them getting necklaces, but then, he was asleep for eight months and he ended up at Camp Jupiter.
"And Roman demigods go to Camp Jupiter," said Jason. He pulled his purple shirt sleeve and showed his tattoo: SPQR, for Senatus Populusque Romanus, the emblem of Rome, twelve straight stripes that represented his service to the Fifth Cohort and the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, and the eagle - the symbol of Zeus. Frank, Hazel and Percy showed theirs, but each of them had one stripe and different symbols that their godly fathers had: a trident (Neptune/Poseidon), crossed spears for Frank (Mars) and a black glyph for Hazel (Pluto).
"Hang on, look at Percy and Jason," Hiccup pointed out. "They've got bead necklaces and tattoos. How did you get them-"
"Long story," cut in Percy. "Anyway, demigods fight monsters because they let out this kind of aura that monsters can catch the scent of. At Camp Jupiter and Camp Half-Blood, both camps are guarded with borders and magic. So monsters can't get in. We go on quests - stuff like that."
"Are you guys on a quest?" asked Hiccup. "Something to do with... Gaia?"
"Yeah, but our quest is kinda secret."
"I understand."
"Who's your godly parents, then, if you're demigods?"
"Well, this group - we're combined of Greek and Roman demigods. Me? I'm the son of Poseidon, god of the Sea. Annabeth here is the daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom and warfare. Piper is the daughter of Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty. Leo is the son of Hephaestus, god of blacksmiths and fire."
"Gee, if I told Gobber about this Hephaestus person he'd pray to him, make sure all his weapon smithing goes well," Hiccup smirked.
Percy had no idea who Gobber was, but he continued. "And now the Roman demigods. Jason here is the son of Jupiter, god of the sky, lightning, storms, etc. His Greek form is Zeus. Hazel is the daughter of Pluto, god of death and riches. Her dad is in charge of the Underworld and the dead. His Greek form is Hades, though Hades is more of a death god in Greek."
"You have powers over the dead?" asked Hiccup.
"No," replied Hazel. "But my brother does. Nico di Angelo is the son of Hades."
"And Frank is the son of Mars," finished Percy. "Romans call him Mars Ultor, Mars the Avenger. He's the second-most important Roman god. He's the god of war, as well as Athena. His Greek form his Ares." Some bad taste had gotten into Percy's mouth as he said the word Ares, because he had a battle with the war god and barely won the battle and Zeus's lightning bolt, and now that god was his enemy and he cursed Percy. Whenever he needed his sword most, it would fail him. Did Clarisse and her siblings still hate his guts back at Camp Half-Blood? He didn't know."
"Last of all, show me what you can do," pleaded Hiccup. "I'm really curious, that's all."
"Fine." Percy willed the sea to rise as high as a tsunami, then he willed it to go back to normal again. He looked at Jason, and he summoned the winds and he began to fly. Then he summoned lightning and thunder, which flashed and rumbled before going back to normal. Leo cupped his hands and fire danced on his palm again.
Piper explained her charmspeak to Hiccup, and to Percy's bad luck, she tried it on him. "Lower your weapons," she said, "let's just talk."
Then Percy had the sudden desire to throw Anaklusmos, Riptide, out to sea and have a nice long chat and a cup of tea.
Frank grinned and said, "I don't disappear, Hiccup. I can turn into animals. Maybe Toothless would like this. Suddenly, there was a POP and Frank was a dragon exactly like Toothless. Toothless grinned and circled around him happily, until Frank turned back to human, and then Toothless scowled and went back to sleep.
"Okay. You've shown me enough. This way to the village."
"Hold on. We don't know if you're going to tell someone," said Percy.
"I won't!"
"We only told you because we trust you, and I swear on the River Styx that I spoke the truth. You have to swear on the Styx that you must not tell anyone else about our true identities, our parentage and our powers. Basically, anything we said to do with demigods and Greek and Roman gods. You must not tell anyone until one of us gives you express permission. Do you swear on the River Styx?"
"Yes, I do." Hiccup said. "I swear on the River Styx."
Thunder rumbled, sealing the deal.
"What happens if I break it?" asked Hiccup nervously.
"Believe me, you don't want to know," replied Percy.
"Then come now, then," said Hiccup, smiling. "I'll take you to my village. It must be lunch now."
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