Reading the Legacy of Asgard

Chapter Twelve

"Alright." JJ said, marking the page and closing the book. "Whose next?"

"I will read." 

"Chapter 12: Frank Breaks the Fourth Wall!" Cassie read.

Last chapter...

Garmr kept up his slow pace. Percy raised Mjolnir to the sky as thunder rumbled loudly overhead. Lightning struck the ground erratically making Garmr hesitate. Just as Percy prepared to hurl his mighty weapon at the monster, he felt a sharp pain in his back. His eyes widened as he heard Reyna gasp. His eyes slowly went down to his chest where the tip of an arrow was poking out his skin.

"Why are we reading this again? We already know?" Ares whined, causing everyone expect Zeus and Dionysus to roll their eyes before Athena spoke up.

"Its just a recap, incase, say we decided to have taken a break before reading again."

"Oh..." Clarisse and Frank exchanged looks and shook their heads at their father.

The Norse demigod stumbled forward a few steps, the ability to breathe fading fast as the arrow went right through his left lung.

"What have you done?" Reyna screamed.

Percy slowly turned. He guessed where the arrow came from but refused to believe it until he laid eyes on his best friend Frank Zhang with his bow in hand and a look of fear on his face.

"Frank?" Percy said in utter shock. "Why?"

Frank's face hardened. "I had to, Perseus. For the legion, for Rome."

Just as Percy fell to the ground in a pool of his own blood, so did Frank, when he was punched by Reyna.

"You idiot!"

And then there was nothing. Darkness.

Now...

"Finally, moving on." Again the same group rolled their eyes at the god of war. Cassie decided it would be best to ignore him and move on with the reading.

Reyna turned after unleashing all her anger and fury onto Frank's pudgy face and watching him crumple to the ground in an unconscious heap and ran to Percy's side. She could see the blood quickly pooling around his body. She checked his pulse which was there but faint and fading. She looked at the arrow unsure of what to do. She looked around but the monstrous hound had vanished from the area leaving her alone with a dying Percy Jackson and unconscious dumbass son of Mars.

She put a hand on the arrow trying to figure out how best to remove it but stopped herself. She was a warrior, not a medic.

Then the truth hit her, she didn't know what to do. She couldn't help him. She was going to sit there useless and watch him die. The one demigod who could save them from this Norse goddess and the first boy she had kissed in her short yet difficult life. Despite the less than loving kick to the groin she gave him the night before, she wasn't even angry about the lies. She knew they were necessary and even if she wouldn't admit it to herself, she had been excited to see where things went with this mysterious and powerful demigod.

"Oh, really?" Percy teased, causing Reyna to blush and muttered about stupid book stealing thoughts.

"You weren't supposed to find out, ever." Reyna mumbled, but it was heard by everyone.

"Yeah, well we ended up together anyway didn't we?"

"Yeah, no thanks to Tartarus." Reyna muttered angrily, causing Bellona to nearly fly into a panic attack when she heard that.