Reading the Legacy of Asgard

Chapter Four

Chapter 4: Meeting the Greeks. Thalia read.

As Perseus rode through the sky in the moon chariot, he couldn't help but chuckle as he thought he must have been the first male to ever set foot inside this thing.

"Yes. I mean besides me, but you are the first male. Count your lucky stars your still alive." Apollo nodded seriously. Artemis just glared at her brother.

Artemis was watching the boy closely. She couldn't deny that she was curious about him and his apparent lack of fear at the situation he was about to walk into.

"Why are you not afraid?"

Perseus looked back over at her and shrugged, "What difference does it make if I am afraid or not. This day was destined to happen regardless and I will not do so like a coward."

Artemis nodded to his reasoning as she looked at him closely again. Despite how much she hated doing it, she did not think herself above mortals as much as her family.

"Really?" Percy said sarcastically. "Couldn't tell at all." Artemis just glared at him.

"Watch it," Artemis hissed. Percy shrugged innocently, before smirking up at the goddess - who just continued to glared at the Norse demigod.

"I owe you an apology for our first encounter. You protected my huntress when you could have simply walked away and I assumed you were the one who attacked her. I am sorry for that."

"Did you just apologize to a boy?!" Apollo smirked. Artemis shot her brother with a arrow to the knee, while the second one landed just inches from his manhood. Apollo gulped and zipped his mouth shut. 

Perseus raised an eyebrow but shook it off and nodded, "Apology accepted. It probably did not look good when you came upon us."

The goddess smiled a bit that he did not hold it against her. She decided to ask some questions that had been bugging her since their first encounter as well as some fresh ones from the night's events.

"How is it that you are here? Didn't the Norse gods fade long ago?"

Perseus shook his head, "No they did not fade. In my world, there are nine realms and this is simply one of them. Access to Midgard, or earth, was lost long ago. My father found a way back but it was only temporary. He met my mother and spent a few years with her but was forced by the All-Father to return to Asgard before access was lost and he was stuck here. He wanted to take me with him but Odin told him I have destiny to fulfill here on Midgard. Despite the protests of the other gods, he left me Mjolnir to help me in my life."

Artemis was shocked but his words. Her family never cared for their children the way it sounded like Thor cared for his son.

"That's not true!" the Olympians with children protested, looking at their children, who just staid quiet, not looking up at their parents and instead found the marble floor better to look at then their faces.

"I rest my case." Artemis said, glaring at the gods with children while the Norse demigods just shook their heads, sadden that children like them didn't even have their immortal parents love.

"And the Valkyries?" She asked.

Perseus smiled a bit, "A gift from the All-Father. My mother died shortly after my birth and they raised me. They have cared for and loved me my whole life as well as trained me since the time I could walk. Odin asked for three volunteers to remain on Midgard as my guardians and those three offered immediately."