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And did you know - HICCUP HAS GREEN EYES. HARRY POTTER HAS GREEN EYES. PERCY JACKSON HAS GREEN EYES. THEY'RE ALL HEROES.

HICCUP

Hiccup had a strange dream one night.

He was walking in a strange place, that had peculiar and weird objects, with the head of something that had a sign that said HYDRA HEAD NO.1, WOODSTOCK, NY, 1969. Hiccup winced at things that seemed like pickled heads in jars from various creatures (which Hiccup hoped the last one he had seen was a dragon), and marvelled at the strange hero trophies and dented shields and weapons. He noticed a pair of fuzzy cubes on a bronze plaque (Hiccup had seen bronze plaques on Trader Johann's ships before, but only once), that read: STOLEN FROM CHRYSAOR'S HONDA CIVIC, BY GUS, SON OF HERMES, 1988.

Son of Hermes. And what the Helheim is a Honda Civic? Knowing from Percy that Hermes was the Greek god of messengers (and heaps of other stuff), Hiccup instantly thought DEMIGOD! as he walked forward. Maybe I'm in one of those demigod camps Percy and the others were talking about.

But the most disgusting, weirdest and strangest thing Hiccup saw was by the window, sitting on a stool. It was a human female body shrivelled to a husk. She wore a small dress, plenty of bead necklaces, and a headband over her long, black hair (or what was left of the long, black hair). The skin was thin and leathery over the woman's skull, and her eyes were glassy white slits. Hiccup breathed heavily. She must have been dead for a freakishly long time... goosebumps prickled on Hiccup's cold, clammy skin, as he walked forward.

Then suddenly, as Hiccup stifled a gasp, the dead corpse lady sat up, opened her mouth and green mist poured slowly down from it. Hiccup was an expert on weird and sometimes scary, but this? This was new. The mist poured slowly, and hissed like a snake, around the floor, covering Hiccup's lower legs and surrounded him. He was about to bring out his flaming sword, but then he stopped. Even though this was scary, he somehow knew there was nothing dangerous about this lady... all he needed to do was to keep calm and make sure not to turn insane.

Inside Hiccup's mind, he heard these words: I am the Spirit of Delphi, Speaker of the Prophecies of the Phoebus Apollo, Slayer of the Mighty Python. Approach, seeker, and ask.

Before Hiccup opened his mouth, while at the same time noticing the lady wasn't moving her mouth, the voice continued: I know. You need not to ask, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. But first, know the past.

"Who are you - I mean, how do you know my name?" Hiccup managed to ask, shuddering and quivering slightly.

Then the voice said in his head:

"A half-blood of the eldest gods,

Shall reach sixteen against all odds.

And see the world in endless sleep,

The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap.

A single choice shall end his days,

Olympus to preserve or raze."

Then the voice said, Now know the present for the future:

"Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,

To storm or fire, the world must fall.

An oath to keep with a final breath,

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death."

HAZEL

Hazel woke up, rubbing her eyes, then she noticed it was morning. She realised she was in bed. Remembering the Earthborn slamming her down to the floor, then making the world turn black, the last sound she had heard was Frank yelling and orders from the demigods and Vikings, she turned and saw Frank, who, as soon as he saw Hazel was awake, hugged her as tight as he could.

"Oh gods, oh gods, oh gods! Thank Olympus, you're alive!" exclaimed Frank.

"Frank!" laughed Hazel. "You think I'd be dead?"

"Yeah, about that, sorry." Frank grinned sheepishly. "You were out cold for three days. Gothi - the healer - she gave you rest and gave you the best treatment she could do. She's out for a bit, but she'll be back." Then he frowned. "You should thank Hiccup's mother, Valka, too. She brought you here as soon as she saw you injured. She's a pretty cool mother. Anyway... Gods, I was so scared. You had a concussion at the back of your head - don't worry, it can't be seen - and I couldn't bring you... you know," Frank lowered his whisper. "Ambrosia and nectar. How do you feel?"

Hazel felt her head. It still throbbed. The memory of being slammed to the ground hurt and pounded her skull and her brain. She said, "I have a huge headache. This is worse than being seasick. Ow..."

"Don't worry. Finish it quickly though, Gothi will be back any minute." Frank took out a miniscule ambrosia square and Hazel nibbled on it. It tasted of Camp Jupiter food, in New Rome, where she imagined holding hands with Frank beneath the statue of Bacchus. Then she remembered all demigods on the Argo II were public enemies Number 1 through 7, so it didn't taste as good as before. But as soon as she began nibbling it, she instantly felt better. All the pain she had had disappeared, and she felt calmer and better. "I'm better." Then she ate the rest of the square.

"What are the others up to?" asked Hazel.

"The others? They're just being bored out of their mind, or playing some stupid game or telling jokes and stories. Hiccup's had to do some chiefly duty, so he went off with Toothless."

Then someone hobbled into the room. She was a child - no, small, elderly woman, the size of a dwarf, only a little bigger maybe? She had white plaits and a large staff. She smiled kindly at Hazel and passed her a wooden bowl. Hazel glanced at it and she saw soup. Frank did an 'eat up' gesture behind Gothi's back, so Hazel had a sip. It was super delicious. It tasted like chicken, and it was warm and it touched Hazel's heart. She thought this was even better than ambrosia. "Thank you," she said. Gothi nodded and stirred something in a cauldron or a really big pot, marking strange drawings and runes down on the ground.

She watched little green dragons Hazel thought were kind of cute - Terrible Terrors, Hiccup called them - scurry along the floor, each with a piece of fish in their mouths. It made Hazel regret fighting dragons before, back before Praetor Jason disappeared, Roman demigods didn't know about Greek demigods, and it was all nice and peaceful. She thought of how different the dragons on Berk were different to the dragons demigods fought. On Berk, dragons were best friends. They could ride dragons, train dragons, live with them peacefully. Little thoughts in her head asked her how they could live happily without any of the dragons going wild or threatening to eat them up or killing them.

Frank then cleared his throat, interrupting Hazel's thoughts about dragons, and said, "Anyways, I have to tell you something. It's about the attack with the Earthborn."

"Holy Pluto," she groaned softly. She had to be reminded of the Earthborn after being healed by ambrosia and chicken soup. Seriously? "You had to bring it up now."

"Sorry," apologised Frank, then he lowered his voice again, glancing at Gothi, who seemed to be not paying much attention at all, "But it's not about the Earthborn itself. It's what happened during the attack. You know Hiccup's girlfriend, Astrid? I think she's suspicious of us and you know, our-" he mouthed the words demigod powers. Frank continued to explain how Astrid had muttered 'endangering the island', 'Hiccup you never should have trusted those strange weirdos' and similar, etc, etc. That made Hazel uncomfortable. Camp Jupiter had always told her mortals should never know about demigods, except under exceptional circumstances. Hiccup was a mortal, and he knew already. Another would be disastrous. What if Astrid told the whole village?

"We better be careful," shuddered Frank. "She's on our tail. I first suspected when she heard Percy talking about Gaia. She didn't hear what he actually said, but I'm very sure she wants to know the truth. Over the days, she's been trying to have private talks with Hiccup, and she keeps shooting us dirty looks. Hiccup - well, he's kind of suspicious - but I don't think he's completely sure of what's been happening."

"So... what do we do?" asked Hazel nervously.

"Well, we'll have to lay low for a while," said Frank thoughtfully. "So, you better?"

"I'm fine!" declared Hazel, loud enough for Gothi to hear. She smiled warmly, then hobbled over to Hazel, checking for the concussion, Hazel supposed. She gasped softly, then began to scrawl onto the ground with her staff.

Frank smirked. "Don't worry, Hiccup taught me some Norse runes while you were out cold. So..." Frank read the drawings and the runes. Hazel thought he looked like a cute panda bear as he thought. "Gothi says you can find a cat wearing a Viking helmet... OW!" yelped Frank as Gothi hit him upside the head. "Okay! Okay! Maybe it didn't come out right..." Gothi huffed silently as she pointed to the ground with her staff. "She says you can leave now, but if you feel unwell, you go to a moose wearing boots - I mean, go back to Gothi."

Hazel smiled. "Thanks." She sipped the last of the soup, and placed the bowl down onto the bed, and stood up. She felt like a baby, standing up to learn how to walk for the first time. Her legs felt a little numb as she began to walk, but as she kept on moving, she could feel her legs again. "Thanks again, Gothi," grinned Frank as they waved goodbye and left Gothi's hut.

As soon as they reached the village square, Hazel noticed Hiccup. He seemed to be ordering Vikings around (A little thought of Hazel's said this was a little absurdus - a scrawny man ordering big, beefy men twice his size. She saw him leading children away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd, and then saw him tame a Deadly Nadder who was running wild and stealing the laundry. Must be tough, being Chief, thought Hazel.

Hiccup noticed the two demigods after he gently shoved the Nadder away, and Toothless roaring at the Nadder, probably telling him to behave and go. He waved, and said, "Oh, hey, Hazel! You're awake! How're you?"

"Yeah," replied Hazel. "I'm fine, thanks for asking."

"Well, I have to go - busy today. If you're looking for the others, they're somewhere close here." Hiccup grinned then turned his attention to the twins, who Hazel remembered were Ruffnut and Tuffnut, who were head-butting each other and blocking other Vikings' way.

Hazel looked at Frank. "Nothing's changed much since I was out cold."

Frank shrugged. "No Viking except for Hiccup, Valka and Astrid know that the Earthborn attacked. To be honest, we think it's better that way."

"Wait." Hazel stopped. "Valka and Astrid know about-"

"They don't," reassured Frank, "and we'd have known if Hiccup told them or any other Viking. I think we can trust the guy now."

Hazel sighed. She thought about her brother Nico. He, along with Reyna and the satyr Coach Hedge, was transporting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood. While they were having fun and being safe on Berk, Nico would be risking his life, fighting monsters maybe. If Nico knew what she was doing, she wouldn't be surprised if Nico would be angry.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a female voice saying, "Excuse me. You're blocking the way."

Frank and Hazel turned, and saw an angry Astrid, followed by her Nadder Stormfly. "Well, what are doing, just standing there? Move. Go on."

"You could do with a little 'please', Astrid," replied Frank.

"We're a bit busy, why won't you go with your other... strange friends?" asked Astrid.

Hazel opened her mouth to reply, but Frank held up his hand to stop her. "Our friends aren't strange, Astrid. We told you already - we come in peace. Besides, give Hazel a break. She just woke up. Capish - I mean, do you understand?"

Astrid said, "Just move. I have to tell Hiccup something." She gestured to the young Chief, chasing after some Terrible Terrors stealing some apples.

Hazel sighed, and she and Frank moved to let her pass.

As Astrid passed them with a scowl, Hazel noticed with horror that Astrid had glints of gold in her eyes. She looked at Frank, who nodded and mouthed, I know, Hazel, I know, then they both ran off, to look for the rest of the demigods.

JASON

Jason waited patiently - well, his patience was wavering - as he watched his friends do... stuff.

They were in Hiccup's house. Frank had gone off ages ago to Hazel's sickbed, with ambrosia and nectar. Leo was playing around with a new invention - the Leo Valdez Super Cool Mini Catapult - which had been made out of sticks, and could somehow successfully throw rocks - while at the same time, talk about new upgrades for the Argo II. Annabeth was balancing her drakon bone sword thoughtfully. Percy was napping on the table, talking inaudibly. Piper - well, Piper was holding his hand. In her other hand, she held Katoptris. It showed no visions, but Jason worried. Camp Jupiter could be storming on Camp Half-Blood anytime now...

Piper squeezed his hand. "Don't worry, Jason. I know what you're doing - you're worrying. Don't worry. It'll be fine. We'll stop Gaia. Everyone will be alright, both Greek and Roman and also even Viking." Piper smiled, but Jason suspected part of her lacked conviction in her words.

Valka, who had come down, looked at them. "Aren't you all hungry?" she asked. "If you didn't know, Percy's asleep. Don't you want to eat?"

"No thanks, we're not hungry," replied Leo, as his stomach growled loudly like a dragon's growl. "Forget it, I'm hungry. I haven't eaten breakfast." He put down the Leo Valdez Super Cool Mini Catapult and asked, "Can I have some chicken?"

"We're all here waiting for Frank and Hazel," explained Annabeth.

Valka nodded as she reached for wooden plates and cups. She laid down a plate with chicken and a cup full of water for each of them, and another three plates for Hazel, Frank and Percy. Gently, with the help of Valka, Annabeth moved Percy to the closest bed, still muttering inaudibly ("Don't mind him," Jason heard Annabeth reassuring Valka. "He does it all the time."). Everyone dug in, but then Jason noticed his girlfriend just staring at her plate. "Aren't you hungry, Piper, dear?" asked Valka, throwing some fish into the Stormcutter - Cloudjumper's - mouth. Gods, he'd stayed with the Berkians for a while and he still didn't know the dragons' names? Stupid Jason, he chastised himself.

Piper looked up, and said, "I'm really hungry. But the thing is... I don't eat meat... so... I'm vegetarian... Well, do you have vegetables? You know, peas? Lentils? Pumpkin?"

"I'll go get them, I'll be back soon," nodded Valka, who left the house.

Leo smirked. "Pity, I don't have Leo's Taco Cart with me. Would be really good for Beauty Queen here."

"Shut up, Leo," snapped Piper.

Jason finished his food and tapped against the table. Last night, he'd had a horrible dream - Gaia. She'd said to him, Even if you take shelter with the puny Vikings, you are no match for me... I will rise... How is that, Jason Grace? It's not just you Romans and Greeks and the gods that will fall - it'll also be the whole mortal civilisation, including these Vikings. The Blood of Olympus is coming soon, Jason... You and your Romans may have defeated my son Krios, and Percy Jackson and his Greeks may have defeated my son Kronos, you will still be no match for me. Don't worry, Jason Grace, I'll wake up soon and I'll get a little friends to kill you... This useless quest, you do know that Hera - or Juno - is using you. She can continue to play her little game of chess with Romans and Greeks, but soon she'll find that the Romans and Greeks at both checkmated... You and all of your friends, demigod and mortal, will die, and I will make sure of that. And I have a new little servant to help me...

No, Jason thought. Piper's right. No-one on our team is going to die. We'll be fine. We'll defeat Gaia.

But one nagging voice at the back of his head muttered, And if you don't?

We will. Jason's mind kept on ringing with one nagging question - who was this new little servant? Would they have to fight him or her in Athens?

Then suddenly, the door opened and it was Hazel and Frank. Hazel looked fine; Jason was sure she'd taken some ambrosia or nectar. Leo gave whoops, and Annabeth and everyone else grinned, including Jason. Frank smiled, and Hazel waved.

"How're you feeling, Hazel?" asked Jason. He remembered back at Camp Jupiter, Hazel had been a good friend, right up to the point where he had... disappeared. Or, to put it in a more accurate way - Hera (or Juno, she was annoying both Greek and Roman) had taken his memory of his life at Camp Jupiter, and plucked him onto the back of a school bus, leading to an adventure meeting a Greek demigod camp, and a quest to save Hera herself, while also trying to . Yup, a normal day in the

"I'm fine!" Hazel replied happily. "Gothi helped - she's the village healer - and Frank - you know, gave me some ambrosia." She noticed the plates and said, "Don't worry, I've eaten."

Frank grabbed a plate, and ate standing up. He frowned. "But... well, we found out something about Astrid. You know, why she's been a bit -" Frank twirled his finger into circles close to his head to make the cuckoo sign. He told the story, and Hazel chimed in.

By the time they finished, Percy yawned and sat up. "I heard everything that Frank and Hazel said. Wait... she's possessed?" He stood and grabbed a plate and took a swig from his cup.

"By an eidolon," finished Hazel. "I saw the gold in her eyes. And... well, I don't know how an eidolon is here... and how it was able to possess Astrid..."

"What do we do?" asked Leo. "Beat the dickens out of the eidolon so it goes out of Astrid?" He made punching gestures and sounds.

Frank stared at Leo as if he was an idiot. "I don't know if we should tell Hiccup..."

"Well," spoke up Jason - he realised that he had just joined the conversation, "would Hiccup believe us?"

"He believed in us immediately when we said we were... you-know-whats!" protested Percy, pounding his fist on the table, which made the plates and cups jump; water poured from Leo's cup onto the table. "Besides, Astrid is Hiccup's girlfriend! I wouldn't like it if Annabeth was possessed by an eidolon and I didn't know!"

Annabeth supressed a smile. "Thanks, Seaweed Brain." Then she dropped her smile. "So... what's your plan?"

"Remember when three of us were possessed? Piper here was able to charmspeak them out." Jason turned to his girlfriend. "You can do it again, can you?"

Piper nodded. "My charmspeak is a lot stronger than that time now."

"Thanks for reminding me that I took a stupid nosedive on the deck and no-one -" Leo glared accusingly at Frank - "bothered to catch me or anything!"

"Well, I'm sorry!" yelped Frank, as Valka came in, holding a plate of vegetables, which were obviously for Piper. While Leo disguised his snickers as coughs and mouthed the words 'Beauty Queen needs her veggies' (and Piper replying by saying 'Shut up'), Valka placed carrots and beans and lentils and pumpkin on Piper's plate. "Here you go, Piper," Valka said. "If you need more, just ask."

"Thanks... Thanks, Valka," smiled Piper, as she dug in. "And um, where's Hiccup?"

"Chiefing," she replied. "He'll be back. Why?"

"We have to tell him something," said Percy.

"If you want I can bring a message for him."

"Well, no - the thing is -" began Leo.

Jason held up a hand to stop Leo. "What we mean is that we have something important to tell Hiccup. Something urgent - but it's also private, so... Sorry."

Valka nodded as Hiccup dashed through the door, panting, followed by Toothless.

"And here's the man himself!" teased Leo.

"Oh gods..." said Hiccup, grabbing a chair - in fact, Frank's chair - which he had offered - grabbed some fish and sighed. "I'm so tired..."

"Hiccup, we've got something to tell you in private. It's urgent," said Hazel.

"Urgent? Private?" Hiccup stood up, and said, "Okay..."

PERCY

Percy and Annabeth jumped up and led Hiccup out of the hut (It took a while, because Toothless wanted to follow). They closed the door, and they walked until they reached behind the house.

"So... what do you want?" Hiccup asked nervously.

"Well, it's about Astrid," replied Percy.

Hiccup frowned. "She's fine. What is it about her?"

"Well-" Annabeth began.

"HICCUP!" A feminine voice hollered. It was Astrid. Percy shivered; Oh gods, oh gods, oh gods, oh gods, her eyes were flashing gold. Oh no...

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