Rudolph the Golden Horned Asgardian
Nah, just kidding! But I could feel the ichor seeping from my head. I quickly willed it to heal, and used the mist to turn the golden ichor soaking my clothes into the colour of blood. I summoned Riptide, and sprinted through the hallways, trying to find someone I knew.
I stopped often, to help free the people trapped under rubble, or take the wounded to the infirmary. The enemy had attacked from all four sides, and I would have sensed them hours ago, had I been at full strength, but my decision to lock away my powers rendered me unable to do so.
"Are you ever not going to fall for that?" I heard a voice say, and then a few loud thuds, as if someone was hitting a wall. Cautiously, I made my way to the glass box room, where the noise seemed to be coming from. I saw Loki taunting his brother, who was trapped inside the cage, while Phil came creeping in, holding a gun that was almost as big as he was.
"Move away please," Phil orders. "Do you like this? We started working on the prototype of this after you sent the Destroyer. Even I dont know what it does. Want to find out?" He asks. I feel a sudden disturbance in the air. I turn to see another Loki silently tiptoeing towards Phil, his stick glowing. In a split second, I realised that he is aiming to stab Phil, and I lunged with lightning speed, parrying his sharp, pointy stick.
His eyes hardened, and he began to fight me, his stick a glowing blur of bright blue energy. After Father's gruelling training, I could easily keep up with him, without even breaking a sweat. "Percy! Move! Now!" I heard Phil yell.
Dropping to the ground, I watched as he turned a lever, and fired the big gun at Loki. A blast of energy shot out, hitting the Norse God and sending him flying. "So that's what it does." He smirked.
"Gah!" Loki spat, rising up. He moved with lightning speed, pressing a button. The cage, along with Thor, fell out of the open hatch under it. "The Midgardians believe us immortal, Thor. Want to test that?" He yelled.
"They might, but I dont, Loki." I said through gritted teeth. "And who might you be, mortal?" Here, I grinned widely, and answered, "So you did not expect me, huh, fellow God? " his eyes opened wide, and he looked shocked. "The name's Jackson, Percy Jackson, God of Heroes, Loyalty and Swordsmanship." The fates had granted me the third domain when i was done with Dad's training.
Loki gulped, before regaining his usual slick smile. "And I am the God of Mischief, Treachery, Lies and Deceit." He said, before jumping out of the hatch from where Thor had fallen.
I turned to Phil and helped him up, before going to the meeting room with him. "Looks like we're even, Jackson." He grinned. "You betcha." I made finger-guns at him. Laughing, we reached the room, where all the Avengers were assembled again, giving me a wierd feeling. "That's deja vu, Perce." Phil muttered, as if he could read my thoughts.
I watched as the idiots started to argue again, and shared an exasperated look with Nat. Together, we yelled, "SHUT UP YOU IDIOTS!!" They shut up. I said, "Anyone have any idea where Rudolph is gonna attack?" Tin dude looked delighted at the nickname, but my attention was drawn to Spangles. "Free energy for the world.... Monument as high as the sky....plastered with your name...."He muttered.
Tin man's eyes widened. "Of course! Stark Tower! Cap, you're a genius!" Even I had heard of his building in New York, and if Loki was attacking there, we would need backup. New York was too big for me to contain the aliens, even with my new powers and the Avengers' help.
"I'll see ya there then, Spangles. Gonna get us some reinforcements." He stopped me. "What kind if reinforcements?" I smirked before answering, "The super-powered kind, of course." I gave him a two-fingered salute, before going out of the room and teleporting to camp. "Aaahhh! Beth, no! Stop it! CHIROOOON! Beth's doing it again!" I heard a yell, that sounded a lot like Leo. That was when I saw Beth chasing Leo around the hearth with a bucket of slime. Every time he tried to light himself on fire, she dumped the gooey slime on him. He looked like a million birds had pooped on him.
Travis and Connor Stoll stood watching and grinning. I had no doubt that they had given her the slime. Seeing her running around, and pranking, I was relieved. Chiron had managed to get rid of the curse, then. Just then, Leo caught sight of me. "Perce, bro you gotta save me from this kid. She's more hyper than Harley!! Please dude, I'm praying to you and everything! Oh Lord Perseus, please save me from this-" I cut him off. "I was planning to, until you called me Lord Perseus.So now...." I flicked my hand, and caused all the slime to be dumped on his head. "That's what you get."
All the campers started roaring with laughter, the more so when out of nowhere, a ton of feathers dropped on top of him, courtesy of Piper McLean. "Attagirl. I taught you well, Beauty Queen." I smiled. She smiled wide when she saw me, and ran up, almost crushing me with a hug. "Glad to see you too, Piper. Now, better let go before Blondie thinks you ditched him for a God." She let go and smacked me upside the head. "Kelp Head." She muttered.
I have her a cheeky grin, before raising my voice. "CAMPERS! PLEASE GATHER AT THE AMPHITHEATRE RIGHT NOW! I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE! GET MOVING, KIDS!! PERSASSY OUT!" (A/N: who got the reference?)Piper shook her head. "You just couldn't help yourself, could you, Persassy?"
We ran down to the Amphitheatre, Beth sprinting next to me. "Hey Beth, how are you? Got claimed?" She shook her head. "I'm fine, been staying in your cabin, Lo-"
"Call me Percy."
"Sorry, Percy."
After all of them were assembled, i walked to the centre of the Amphitheatre. I told them of the existence of the Norse Pantheon, and about Loki's evil plan to conquer the world. "I'm not forcing you to fight, so dont hate me. There's a group of mortal heroes fighting, along with Thor, and I'm joining them. Any of you interested?"
"I'm in, Prissy! So's Chris!" Clarisse yelled. Jason, Piper, Leo, Calypso and Nico also volunteered. As the rest were getting ready to leave, I heard a gasp. Turning, I saw a symbol floating above Beth's head, coating her in blue-green light. Dad's trident. I grinned. I'm a big brother!!!
"Poseidon," said Chiron. "Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Elizabeth Stark, Daughter of the Sea God." Everyone except me kneeled to her. She looked shocked. Grinning, i hugged her. "Hey lil' sis! Welcome to Cabin 3! Or 0 if thats what you prefer." And that was when I realised what Chiron had said.
"Stark? As in Tony Stark?"I asked. She nodded. "He's my uncle. I've lived with him since Mom died." I motioned to the others to return to their activities, as the volunteers quickly put on their armour. "I'm sorry for your mom, Beth. So how is life living with Tin Man?" She giggled at my nickname for her uncle. "You know him?" I told her the story of how I met the Avengers, and how I joined them. She looked delighted. "Both my Uncle and Brother are Avengers!!!" I laughed, before asking her something.
"How about you and I go prank them once we're rid of Loki?" She nodded eagerly. "See ya later, water girl!" I waved, before teleporting me and my friends to an alley behind Stark tower so as not to alarm the mortals. We ran outside, and saw Spangles. "Hey Cap! Here's a few more who've come to help!"
He turned, saw us, and grinned. "Good job, Percy! Now come on! What are you waiting for? We've got aliens to kill." With a battle cry, we charged into the fight.
Leo yelled, "Flame on!" And lit himself on fire, blasting aliens. Jason did his superman thing, attacking the flying aliens and using the wind to blast others off course. Clarisse and Chris went hand to hand, stabbing the Chitauri with electric spears. Piper and Calypso stood back to back, Piper confusing them with charm speak, and Calypso with her magic, before stabbing them.
I fought beside Spangles, with Riptide, occasionally using the moisture in air, and freezing it to form spikes of ice which shot at the aliens like bullets. The aliens died easily, but the sheer numbers and dodging their advanced weaponry began to tire us out. Our attacks slowed down, and I tried to access my Godly strength, but I could not. Apparently, Godly strength could be used only against Godly enemies.
I saw as Spangles chucked his shield like a Frisbee, cutting off a few heads, when we heard an unearthly screech. Tin Man was leading a huge crocodile caterpillar thing that was over a hundred feet long towards us. Nat, who had been fighting with us, looked up, and said, "I dont see how that's a party, Stark." It seems that they had earpieces. Just then, Green Guy shows up. Blah, blah, blah, he talks a little, before turning into the Hulk and stopping the monster in its tracks.
We gather in a circle, back to back, fighting for our lives. Thor swoops in out of nowhere, Tin Man and Jason land next to me. We go all out till the area is clear. Tin Man throws us each an earpiece. "Call it Cap." He says. "Thor, and you, Blonde kid, you've got the lightning. Fly up there and try to bottleneck the portal. Clint I need eyes in the air, take the Fire kid with you. Tony, Percy, you gotta lead the fight to the rest of us. We will hold the ground. And Hulk," Spangles pointed to the aliens, "smash."
We set off, reenergized, knowing we had a plan. I again formed a skateboard out of water and speeded around on it, sometimes flying into the air to take out a few aliens. Nat suddenly comes up to Spangles. "I'm gonna need a lift, Cap." He nods, and kneels, placing his shield over his shoulder. She takes a run up, and jumps on to his shield as he pushes her upward. The combined force is enough to get her to a passing alien chariot.
We continued fighting, and herding mortals out of harms way, till I heard a wierd, shrill screeching. I looked up to see a missile heading for the city. Just then, I hear Nat in the earpiece. "Guys, can you hear me? I can close the portal!" "Do it." Spangles says. Tin Man interjects, "No wait! I've got a nuke coming in, and I know just where to put it." I realised that he meant to go into the portal, and sacrifice himself.
"Tony, don't. There has to be another way." Spangles says. "There isn't. Tell Pepper and Beth that I love them, okay?"Tony says. "I will." Cap promises. He flies into the portal. We wait a few seconds, before Spangles orders Nat, "Close it." And she does. Just as it it about to close, i see a red and gold blur falling out of it. "Son of a gun!" I hear Spangles mutter. "He's not slowing down!" I yell. Just as Jason puts his hand out to control the winds, the Hulk appears out of nowhere, catching Tony.
He brings Tin Man to us, and puts him down on the ground, ripping his helmet off. "He's gone." I hear Piper say. I step forward to check, when Hulk roars loudly. Tin Man wakes up with a start. "Please tell me nobody kissed me." He starts, and then blabbers about something caller shawarma.
"Later, Stark. We've got a God to arrest." I tell him. Together, we make our way to the upper floors of Stark tower, where Loki lay dazed, in a hole in the floor. Hulk had obviously pounded him into the ground. He opens his eyes, to see a pissed off group of heroes pointing weapons at him, and says, "Can I have that drink now?"
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