The Heroes of Olympus: The Black Swordsman

Kirito

I awoke to find myself back outside, lying in the snow. I got up rubbing my head. The Gates had dissapeared and my friends were standing around me as if worried that I had gotten some sort of concussion.

"Hey guys....." I said. "Does anyone else feel like they were just run over by an elephant?"

Hazel gave a sigh of relief while Darren whooped. Percy just looked at me and grinned

"So," said Percy. "Find any good souvineers in there?"

I held up Elucidator. As I held the handle now, the blade seemed to hum with power, as if the blade was now waiting to blow up in a tremendous explosion of fear and power.

"Well from the looks of it." I said. "I think I just got myself a divine weapon."

I got up and swung Elucidator around experimentally. I immediately regretted it, because the moment I swung the sword downward without thinking, a ginormous blast  of black energy enimated from the blade like an amplified swing. The blast tore several hundred trees in the distance to pieces.

One word: scary.

"Now that is so much like Bleach." said Hazel.

Darren looked confused. "I don't get how that's like a cleaning product....."

"Like Hazel said back in Springfield." I said. "We really need to get you to watch some anime."

I turned to look at Percy. "So, did you find that Frank guy you were looking for?"

Percy's expression turned grave. "No, but I did find something he managed to leave behind before they took him away."

Percy held out a piece of paper. On it were the words: Camp Halfblood will be attacked at 12 noon, Thursday.

My insides went cold. I remembered how Echidna said that they were on their way to New York. "That's today.....you don't think...."

Hazel pointed at the sky. The blizzard had ended and one could now see the sky above the Chicago skyline that stood in the distance. The big problem: Aincrad could no longer be seen there. Kronos had begun to awaken.

"You don't think Kronos himself is going to attack the Greek Camp do you?" said Darren. "And how would a giant 100 level castle attack a demigod camp anyways?"

"Aincrad has thousands of kinds of monsters in itself." I said gritting my teeth. "Plus it's got a bunch of super powerful boss monsters as well that would normally take hours to beat even if you assigned multiple people to a monster. There's a chance he might send out a bunch of game monsters at them."

"There's no time to debate this." Said Percy. "We need to find a way back to New York now."

"But the teleporter still needs time to cool off." said Darren.

"I might have an idea......" said Hazel.

Moments later, we were in the car outside of Pomona's ice covered store with Hazel sitting on Arion, who was harnessed to the car with imperial gold chains. Next to me, Tiberius the tiger growled nervously like he thought this was absurd. I couldn't help but agree with him. No way the front bumper of the Leo capacitor  would be able to hold out for so long. But as it so happened I was wrong. Leo must have made that car with some pretty sturdy stuff.

As we passed by all of the east coast of America at who knows how fast, Yui waved her hands up, apparently enjoying a ride which had way too many Gs for our liking. (Darren looked like he was going to have vomit that flew backwards and stick to the back window of the car.)

By the time the car stopped, Everyone but Yui was looking pretty green.

"Okay." said Darren burping. "Someone give that tiger a barf bag before he throws one on Percy and Kirito."