Grian's POV:

Not crashing a plane is surprisingly hard, and it's even harder when you have a random chimera trying to eat my legs, which reminds me, I need to get in shape

It was a rather peaceful drive to the airport. We jumped off the bus and quickly scurried to a lone walkaway. It was rather late so not many people were at the airport.

"Do we need the mist to you know..." Scar pointed at his legs. (Which were in satyr form)

"Yeah, just in case you know." Cleo said and looked at Xb, "You know, you are a son of Hecate; you should be pretty good with the whole mist thing."

"Whoa partner, let me remind you I have never done this mist thing before. I don't know how you even make that happen!" Xb said.

"Imagination!" Beef said jokingly. (I mean he's not wrong.)

"Well yes, but actually no, you got that a hundred percent correct." Cub said, "If you concentrate on the image of Scar not having ugly goat legs, it kind of poofs into reality for some time." (Cub is mean lol.)

"Hey! My legs are beautiful." Scar scowled at Cub.

"Right, uh, I'll try," Xb said, then started just staring at Scar's legs.

A minute (I think) passed by; Scar was starting to look very uncomfortable, "Hey? Xb? You good man?"

Xisuma waved his hand at Xb's face, "I think he spaced out."

Exy (Being the nicest, most gentle person) slapped the dinner out of him.

"What- Ow! That hurt" Xb said snapping out of his imaginary world.

"We'll be short on time here. It's nearly night." Exy said, crossing his arms.

"Ok! Ok! I'm doing it." And he stared at Cleo.

The mist surround her and in a second, she looked well, less dead. (Inside and outside.)

"Whoa, it always feels weird being surrounded by mist." Cleo looked at her now human hands and shivered.

"You rock girl, looking like a true daughter of Aphrodite!" Stress squeaked.

"Agree, I always wondered what you will look like if you were human," Joe said.

Scar's legs were turned, I switched off my wings (Well, it shut itself down, it overheated... again.) Doc was made less robot, Jevin was turned into a human, Wels has actual clothes, Ex and Xisuma did some weird magic thing where they look like they have normal human faces, but you forget the details, and Iskall's robotic eye was hidden.

"Won't this thing beep in the metal detector?" Zed pointed at Doc's robot limps.

"I'll do some magic with the metal detector, also I am not a thing," Doc said.

"Well then, let's go," I said.

We walked to the airport, it looked like any standard airport and we walked up to the lady behind the counter. (Time skip because it is rather boring.)

We were chilling in the lobby waiting for the plane to arrive.

"This is so boring!" Zed said and started pacing around faster.

"Is there anything we can do without getting peoples' attention?" Impulse asked while sitting on a beanbag.

"We can play spoken games like two truths and a lie," Iskall said while rearranging his bag.

"What do you have in that bag? I can smell something very... fishy." Mumbo said.

"It's Swedish fish!" Iskall said, pulling his pack of fish.

"How long do you even have that for?" Ren asked.

"A few weeks, I don't think I can eat it anymore," Iskall said with disappointment.

"Why do you keep it? I can smell it under my helmet!" Xisuma said.

"It makes a good weapon, when I throw a pack of this fish at Ares last year, he kind of... fainted on the spot," Iskall said digging into his bag even more, and somehow bringing out three more packs of fish.

"On second thought, I shouldn't have given Python's weapons to you," Xisuma said.

"Poor Python, he has to wear those too." False snickered.

Jevin looked at the third pack of Swedish fish, "I don't even eat food, but this is making me want to throw up."

"How long has it been in that bag?" I asked, resisting the urge to throw up.

"Like, a year?" Iskall answered while taking off the wrapping.

"What-" I asked but thinking more I decided not to ask anymore.

"Hey, the plane will arrive in like three minutes... what's is that smell?" TFC walked into the waiting area and just froze in the doorway, trying to breathe without smelling the fish.

"TFC! It's the Swedish fish I cooked you a year ago!" Iskall said with a brimful smile.

TFC (Being the wise old man he is) just turned around and walked away.

Iskall sneered at the specter of the old man and put back his Swedish fish.

"Hey, B-dubs you mind...uh..." Xisuma asked.

B-dubs (and Hypno) were snoring on the bench, fully asleep.

"That's strange, they usually wake near lunch to dinner time," Cub said.

Beef waved in front of their face a bit, "Hey, the plane is coming soon, wake up."

Hypno shifted a bit and waved him off, "Five... more minutes."

Xb leaned near them, "It sounded like you when had to go the school, Zed."

"Oh! You did the same!" Zed said, sticking his tongue out.

The airport speaker goes on, "The plane is currently landing, please prepare your tickets." The monotone voice said into the speakers.

"Alright, hey, Hypno you need to wake up," Xisuma said.

"Do you need a speaker?" I asked, pulling out my speaker.

"How did you even get your speakers here?" Doc asked, "Where did you even hide them?"

"Magic," I said jokingly.

I went next to B-dubs ears and turned up the speaker's volume, and being the meme-lord I was, I yelled, "WAKE ME UP, WAKE ME UP INSIDE- CAN'T WAKE UP! WAKE ME UP INSIDE!"

That woke up Hypno and B-Dubs and got the attention of everyone around us, Hypno covered his ears and just yelled back, "SAVEE MEE-"

"What the?" A guy with blue hair asked, stirring up from his nap.

"Sorry about my friends!" Xisuma apologized, "Also, Stress I'm giving these to you." passing Python's now fishy-smelling glove.

"Why me?" Stress asked, giggling under her breath.

"Because you are the least likely to complain about the smell," Ex added, leaning on the wall.

"True, true." Stress said and hid the gloves into her jacket.

B-dubs drowsily said, "Well, let's just go on the plane so I can sleep again."

"You have been asleep for ninety percent of this quest, mission thing," Wels said, pulling out his boarding pass.

"Not really, let's just get on, I hope it'll be a peaceful ride," Hypno said.

Oh, it wasn't a peaceful ride, Hypno jinxed our luck when he said that. (Damn you!)

I was surprised at the fact that it was quite empty in the plane, a few people spread out all over the insides, the number of empty ocean blue airplane seats was ridiculous.

"This doesn't feel right," Zed said.

"Maybe it's because time is wacky, and people just haven't boarded yet." TFC touched his beard wistfully.

"Please all passengers board onto the plane and sit at your assigned seat." A girl with lavender-pink highlights said into the microphone chipped on her uniform.

I was seated on the aisle side, Iskall and Mumbo sat beside me.

Being bored, I pulled out one of those magazine things found in the seat to read. (I saw a really cool watch, too bad I'm poor and can't buy it. Oh wait, I'm a thief.)

After a minute or two, the speaker spoke again, "Before we take off, please make sure all small objects are safe and secure. We will have safely instruction video play on the screen of your seat shortly after this announcement."

The lights on the plane dimmed a bit and the screen booted up, as we are waiting for the video to load, Iskall looked over to me.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"Do you feel safe?" Iskall asked laughter hidden behind his eyes.

Then Mumbo woke up to the sound of me trying to choke Iskall.

"What happened in the two seconds I was asleep?" Mumbo asked, yawning.

"Iskall compared me to a small object."

"To be honest, you're like the second shortest in our group after TFC," Xisuma said from the aside next to me.

"It's not my fault, I was born like this." I winced. Iskall wheezed like a kettle in his seat.

"Please, put your eyes on the screen, the video will start now." The monotone voice said.

The video was like a weird fever dream, it was laid out in the format of a music video but felt like a dance video and has the vibe of animation videos. It... was an experience.

"Well, that was... something," Mumbo said the screen faded to black, and the plane reeled up the engine.

The few other people on the plane were already drifting off to sleep so I decided to take a little nap.

Well, that was until...

"Sir?" A small timid voice said.

I opened my eyes to see a small pale girl with black fading to grey hair standing still near my aisle, her simple pale pink-grey dress stood out from the ocean blue seat.

"Hm?" I asked, trying to reboot my brain as soon as possible.

The small girl asked a question, "Where is the toilet? I need to go but my mom is asleep."

I pointed at the end of the plane and fell asleep.

A few seconds later, I felt a cold hand pulling on my sleeve.

"Sir? Can you come with me? I'm scared that the toilet will flush me down with it." The same voice asked.

A weird fear but alright, we are dumb humans when we were small. (Not going to lie, she sounds so sus)

"Ask False, or Stress or anyone that is a female," I said

"Why would you go with me? It's just a little task." The girl asked, her voice low.

"I'm a male, and I don't think it'll be for me to go with you," I said, my head clearing of the sleepy fog.

"Please sir, come with me, you wouldn't want me to wake up your friends, wouldn't you?" She asked, her face darkening.

At this point, I was getting very suspicious of this girl and I was rather annoyed by her pestering.

"Still, it is not appropriate," I said, trying to keep my voice as monotone as possible.

She stared at me and the colors drained out of her skin.

Wait, I wasn't joking, she turned blown, as in fur color blown.

She turned in a goat, lion snake thing.

"Woah, am I still dreaming?" I asked.

A half-roar and whatever noise goats make (I have to ask Scar what noise goats make, and he went into a one-hour speech. I have no idea how.) Came out of her mouth.

"Oh yes, that's a monster roar, one of a chimera. Uh, guys?" I half yelled.

The snake tail of the chimera reached out and wrapped itself around me and begins squeezing the guts out of me.

"Guys!" I yelled; I was trying to kick the chimera.

The chimera's snake tail and curled his teeth at me, a silence warning at me to stay quiet.

I reached into my bag and finally hit the hilt of my dagger.

"If I were you, I wouldn't try threatening me," I said, I kicked the tail in the eye, stabbed the goat's neck, and kicked Iskall's face.

"Grian! Not cool!" Iskall said, cupping his nose. (I broke his nose, oops)

"Chimaera!" I yelled, then a sudden sense of coldness hit my shoulder, blood rushed to my face and I topped over.

That gosh darn chimera's snakehead bit me and poisoned me.

Iskall sprang into action, woke up Mumbo, and pulled out his sword.

The chimera's snake tail wrapped around me again, but this time, the lion opened its mouth and its gross, wet breath condensates with the soles of my shoe. (EW)

I tried to move my body, but the poison just spread when I tried to do that.

The chimera roared again; my body moved towards the mouth.

My fight and flight instinct kicked in, the poison's effects don't matter to me, I moved around, I kicked, I yelled, I was scared, I was powerless, I was weak. I cried out for help.

"It's just fine, going to be fine. You'll be fine." A voice said in my brain, it was my voice, but it wasn't.

"Calm down and pay attention. Read between the lines." The voice said, so I did the only thing that appeared in my mind. Runaway.

I activated my wings and tried to fly away, the translucent magic feathers collided and cut the goat-like body.

"Grian! Stop moving! You'll get hit by us!" Stress said, her two short-blades in her hands.

The chimera pounded its paws on Stress, and like a bug, she quickly sidestepped the attack.

"Hey, bad lion!" Stress said, looking at the chimera as if it was a puppy that peed on her bed.

The chimera just breathed fire in her direction, Stress dodged it but one of the blue seats caught on fire.

Doc swore under his breath and stated out the obvious, "This is bad."

Iskall tried to stab it, but the chimera continued to swing me around like a lifeless rag doll. (I felt like one too)

"Use your fish!" TFC said. (Take that out of context)

"I don't think that will work?" Iskall said, narrowly dodging a blast of fire.

At this point, the other passengers were waking up due to the noise (I'm surprised they even slept for that long)

Ex swings his hands around, the illusion of his fake face wearing off and a circle of mist surrounding him, "Xb! Help me raise this barrier!"

Xb (Who was charging up his staff) nodded and raised his staff, the cool breeze of the mist concealed everyone's body.

The mist solidified into a barrier, the few passengers that woke up looked at it and just went back to sleep.

I flagged my wings a bit more aggressively, the chimera was damaged by the magic burning its skin, but it didn't let up.

"How did Bellerophon kill this guy again?" Doc asked Jevin.

"Throw him into the air and feed him dirt," Jevin yelled trying to pull out the fire without flooding the whole plane.

The fire was spreading like mayhem, it was only a matter of time before the flight attendance noticed the smoke.

"We are already in the air! And we don't have the lead!" Joe said, trying to free me from the grasps of the Chimera. (That thing has the muscle memory of a truck)

"Yeet it out of the plane!" Zed said trying to defend himself.

"Nope, too many people here, also one of the passages may get sucked out," TFC said, monitoring the few that were awake.

"Then we fight fire with fire." Zed said, and "Tim" the khopesh lit into flames. (Impulse said he's proud.)

Impulse jumps on that idea, he produced a large flame and started firing at the chimera.

The chimera turned around sharply in the fire's direction, forgetting about the fact that I was still stuck.

The chimera didn't seem to be affected by the fire, but it was still an annoyance to it, it opened its mouth to roar.

At that moment that it opened its mouth, Zed threw flaming Tim into the opening of Chimera.

The Chimera paused its movements, it let go of me and busted into flaming dust.

"I think I burned its guts," Zed said, picking up the still burning Tim.

"It's not over yet!" False said, turning around to the fire spending like... well wildfire.

At this point everyone was awake was screaming about the fire, the flight attendances were trying to calm everyone down.

The speaker came on again, "Due to a sudden event, the plane is now going to make an emergency landing. Please do not panic and stay in your seats."

In which, everyone with at least a quarter of a brain cell began to panic.

Doc muttered some more colorful words I can't say, "What do we do now?"

Joe who was healing my wounds said, "We sink the plane, everyone will be saved, and the fires will be put out."

Xb smiled, "Can I just point out the irony of us crashing a ship, and sinking a plane?"

"Yep, pretty sure the author did this to be intentional," I said. (Welp, there goes the fourth wall. Hi there, readers! I am Grian.)

The alarms blare off, blasting everyone's ears.

Mumbo looked at me, "If this is how it ends, I just want to say to you all, I love you."

Either he was being way too dramatic, or he forgot that Jevin existed.

As the plane crashed into the water, Jevin bubbled everyone and maybe saved us? I don't remember because I blacked out.

The next I remember is waking up on the beach, and the feeling of vomit up my throat.

"Hhh..." I managed to say, my mouth felt dry.

Joe came into my focus, "Don't try to move, the chimera poisoned you pretty badly."

"The... others?" I whispered softly, trying to hide worry. (Hey, that rhythmed)

"They are giving first aid to the other passengers." Joe supported my back as I sat up.

Iskall leaned on a tree near me, he was bandaging some bruises on his arm and said "You're finally awake. The others were getting a bit worried."

I smirked a bit, "Just a bit?"

"Yeah, they are more worried about the police that may come any second." He said, pointing behind him.

A faint siren was heard and less than a few minutes, a single lone cop pulled up.

He wasn't wearing the traditional police costume, he wore pinkish armor with yellow lines around the wrist, he had dirty blond hair and bright yellow glasses sat on top of his head.

"We had a police report of a disturbance in this area, is this true?"

Xb quickly cover some of the non-human Hermits with mist and said, "Well, the plane crashed into the water, is that a disturbance?"

The police looked at Xb in the eyes, "Of course, duh."

Joe held me up, and whispered, "He looks... similar to someone I knew before."

He looked over at Xisuma who was bandaging someone's leg.

"I'll call the ambulance, anyways, my name is Biffa." He said, turning away to make a phone call.

"It is him, Grian? Can you stand on your own?" Joe asked.

I nodded, "Yeah, I think."

He handed me a bottle, and pointed at the cap, "Drink a small amount of this, it's an antidote to stop the poison from sipping into your blood. It tastes bad and makes you vomit though."

I took a small sip, he was right, it tasted really bad.

Joe let go of me and ran to Biffa, and said, "Howdy, Biffa! It's me Joe!" (And I was in the background, puking my guts out in the ocean.)

Biffa looked at Joe with his dull blue eyes, "You must be mistaken, I don't remember meeting you."

Xisuma came along, "Biffa! It is you, it's me, Xisuma!"

Biffa looked confused than shocked, "Wait, woah, you guys grown a lot."

They busted into laughter as if they just shared an inside joke.

"Oh boy, is it great to see you?" Xisuma said.

"What wacky shenanigans got you into sinking a plane?" Biffa asked.

"Uh, a random quest from out of nowhere," Xb said, standing here warily.

"Mom said something about that, oh, by the way, son of Themis," Biffa said, lowing his glasses.

"Very cool, make sense since you are a police officer," Joe said.

Themis, goddess of justice, law, and everything about rules, doesn't like me because I steal stuff a lot.

Biffa adjusted his gloves, "I am guessing you are here because of the quest, need me to tour you around?"

Zed nodded, "Yes, tour time! Wo! Is Mount Olympus near here?"

Biffa nodded, "Yep, the train near takes us there."

So just like that all the hermits packed up and head to the train station.

"Man, this felts like going to high school again," Mumbo said.

"Yes, both times we are heading potential death," Iskall added.

Biffa snickered, "The train arrives in a bit."

He was a cool guy to talk to, and we laughed a lot, it was great!

The train silently arrived, and we got on, we were talking about the quest and he was paying very close attention.

"You must be mad! Going to Phobos?" Biffa said.

Ex nodded, "Otherwise, Nike won't help us."

Biffa said, putting his head in his hands, "No, not that, no one knows where in Mount Olympus he lives in."

"Oh, that's a problem," Cub said.

We got off the train, with Scar squealing about seeing the one and only Mount Olympus.

It was meh. I mean I don't have high expectations for a huge pile of rocks and dirt, but it wasn't what I expected it to be.

"I don't get why you are so excited, Scar," B-dubs said.

Scar was bouncing with joy, "It's beautiful!" (No, it really isn't.)

"I am already feeling my legs turning to jelly," Jevin said.

"Jevin, you're a slime," Hypnos commented.

"Exactly!" Jevin sighed.

Biffa giggled, "Why did I sign up for this."

A boring half an hour of hiking later, still nothing.

I paused the group, "Can we please take a water break?"

Scar looked up, "We're nowhere near the top!"

"Scar, our goal is to find Phobos, not get to the top." Beef said sitting on a rock.

Mumbo looked like he was going to die, "Let us take a break please!"

Biffa looked at us, "You need to exercise more."

Mumbo muttered, "I'll like to see you try hiking in a three-piece suit!"

Biffa held up his hands, "Ok, fine! Though, that sounded more like a date invitation than a challenge."

We got a break, Jevin hilariously show off his Poseidon skills by MELTING into a puddle of blue slime.

I was leaning on a part of the mountain laughing with them when I felt the rock behind my move.

"Woah, guys, the wall is moving," I said.

Jevin solidified into well, Jevin and pushed the rock with some strength, the rock moved a bit. "Woah, hey, Cub! We need you here."

Cub pushed the boulder aside easily; it was a cave of some sort.

Impulse snapped a fire into existence and said:

"Well, what are we waiting for?"

Then, we walked into the darkness.

TLDR:

We crashed a plane, my legs were nearly eaten, poison is now in my blood, and Biffa shows up too.

Author's Note:

I need to stop getting distracted and joining MAPs.

Biffa shows up. Woo!

Yep, all the hermit has now shown up. Even the inactive ones. (Please come back to us, we want you back.)

Now back into writing.

But hey, while you're waiting, check out my channel (shameless plug I know) here's the finished map part I said a bit ago: https://youtu.be/RgCR6btlNNU

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Hm? What?

Another character?

Oh geez.

I got to fix this.

They were never supposed to intervene.