Legacy of Asgard

Helpful Hesperides

Frank's eyes widened when they landed on Reyna. He flinched slightly at the look of irritation and anger on her face. He slowly managed to compose himself and looked at the Centurion anxiously.

"How long was I out?"

She let out an annoyed sigh, "A few hours. What the hell is wrong with you anyway?"

Frank's face morphed into one of confusion.

"What?"

Reyna's hand drifted to her gladius, "You tried to kill Jack!"

Frank's eyes widened as the memories of everything that happened before his seemingly endless dream came back to him; his dream with Hel and then his apparent failed attempt to kill his best friend.

"I was trying to protect Rome. Hel said he was planning to betray us, and that I had to stop him before it was too late." He tried to defend himself.

Reyna took two quick steps forward and laced a right hook hard into Frank's jaw sending him toppling off the other side of the bed where he crashed ungracefully to the floor.

"You idiot Zhang! She is the enemy. She is working with the Titans you moron. I'll have you executed back in Rome for this treason against a fellow legionnaire!"

Frank slowly rose to his feet, his hand massaging his now painfully bruised jaw.

"I didn't know. And he did lie to us, he's not a Roman." He weakly tried to argue but it only served for further infuriate the already angry Roman demigoddess.

Reyna pulled out her gladius and pointed it at Frank, "I don't care. He is still your superior officer and you do not try to take matters into your own hands; especially when you have no idea what's going on!"

Frank paled at his eyes landed on the tip of the blade less than six inches from his throat.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you here and now for your actions?"

Frank tried to back up but quickly found himself with his back against the wall and an enraged Centurion out for his blood.

"Enough Reyna." A firm voice spoke from the doorway.

Both Reyna and Frank looked at the entrance to find Percy Jackson looking quite alive and well.

"He deserves punishment." Reyna growled.

Percy turned his head slightly and stared at Reyna who found his gaze surprisingly hard to maintain before she turned her head and lowered her blade.

"Thank you Jack." Frank said gratefully.

If Percy heard his words, he made no indication.

"I assume whatever it was Frank went through with Loki, it was a decent punishment." Percy said seriously as he kept his eyes on Reyna. "We still need to get to Othrys and find out what the Titans are doing."

Reyna nodded as she remembered their mission. She could deal with Frank later but they needed to focus on their duty of protecting Rome.

"How do we get back?"

Percy turned to Eir who nodded her head and stepped forward grabbing Reyna and Frank's shoulders before they could react and vanished from the room inside the Montauk beach house.

Percy remained behind taking a moment to collect himself.

Two women stepped out of the shadows of the room, each putting a hand on one of Percy's shoulders.

"You must remain calm Perseus. Rome is the perfect place for you to remain until Hel makes her move." Sigrún said soothingly with a soft squeeze of his shoulder.