Brothers

2012 Part One

Updated 07/17/2020

May 2012

"Are you Perseus Parker?" A woman with brown hair asks. Percy turns from where he was sitting with Annabeth to look at her his guard up.

"Yeah, what is it to you?" Percy asks observing the almost empty beach around them, he reaches for Riptide which is sitting on the blanket beside him. The lady reminded him of the Furies, but there was no reason for Hades to be mad at him at the moment.

The lady looks at Annabeth, "Is there somewhere we can talk privately?"

"Give me a second," Percy replies turning to Annabeth, "she doesn't seem to be a monster."

"No," Annabeth replies casting a curious glance at the lady, "You should talk to her, we don't need any more trouble."

"Who are you, and what do you want?" Percy demands once he has walked over to where the lady is standing.

"My name is Agent Hill, I work with S.H.I.E.L.D. we monitor threats from other worlds. We are gathering a team of 'special' individuals to form a team, a team to stop a man named Loki who stole the Tesseract from us. If unchecked, he could take over the world," Hill explains.

"Okay, but why me, I'm just a college kid?" Percy asks realizing that she is a mortal and wondering how much they knew.

"You and I both know that's not true, you have been at the center of a lot of the most mysterious disasters in the last five years the Mt. St. Helen eruption, the day New York City went silent, and the sink hole in Italy just to name a few. From what S.H.I.E.L.D. has gathered, you can control water and create earthquakes," the Agent replies curtly.

"Most of those weren't my fault," Percy counters, "Anyways I'll help you out, when do we leave?"

"A Quinjet will come and pick you up here and take you to our base," Hill explains, "Here's all you need to know about the team," she hands him a file before walking away.

Percy walks back over to Annabeth, "What was that about?" Annabeth asks.

"She wants to recruit me to save the world. Apparently, Loki is back," Percy explains.

"Wait, like Loki, God of Mischief?" Annabeth asks, "I thought Magnus trapped him?"

"Me to, maybe it's a different Loki?" Percy suggests.

"Quick, make a rainbow," Annabeth says fishing a drachma out of her bag. Percy makes a rainbow and she tosses the coin in, "Oh Fleecy do me a solid, show me Magnus Chase at Hotel Valhalla." The mist shimmers and an image of Annabeth's blond cousin appears.

"Whoa, Annabeth, Percy? What's up," Magnus exclaims looking at the image curiously, "What is this?"

"It's an Iris Message, courtesy of the Greek rainbow goddess. Listen Magnus, is Loki still trapped, or did he escape?" Percy asks.

"Still captive, why?" Magnus says confused.

"Are you positive, because some mortals recruited Percy to help them stop Loki?" Annabeth clarifies.

"Yeah, wait let me ask Alex," Magnus says off, he returns a minute later with Alex.

"Trust me, I would know if Loki was free, he would've bragged about to me in my dreams already," Alex replies.

"Here wait, I have picture," Percy says pulling out a grainy photo from a surveillance camera. It shows a man with black hair and piercing blue eyes holding a scepter with a glowing blue stone.

"Whoever that is, that's not our Loki," Alex replies.

"Ok, but why is there another Loki?" Magnus asks.