Frozen 3

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Borrowing the helicopter was easy. Getting Piper's dad on board was not.

At the end, Piper chose to give his dad a vial to erase his recent memories since it was all too much for him.

The man still needed to get back to his home though, so Hegde volunteered himself to take him there safely.

Lastly, Thalia iris messaged them and told them to hurry to the Wolf house because Porphyrion was already rising.

So they stole the helicopter and Leo drove it with his hephaestus kid intelligence while Jason told them the history of the wolf house which he didn't even know why he knew.

Finally, they arrived.

At first, Leo thought rocks were pelting the windshield. Then he realized it was sleet. Frost built up around the edges of the glass, and slushy waves of ice blotted out his view.

"An ice storm?" Piper shouted over the engine and the wind. "Is it supposed to be this cold in Sonoma?"

Ivy doubted it. This storm seemed conscious, malevolent—like it was intentionally slamming them. And they knew only one person capable of that.

Jason woke up quickly. He crawled forward, grabbing Piper's seat for balance while Ivy held Leo's. "We've got to be getting close."

"No shit"

Leo was too busy wrestling with the stick to reply.

Below them, the ground was a dark quilt of trees and fog. The ridge of a hill loomed in front of them and Leo yanked the stick, just clearing the treetops.

"There!" Jason shouted.

A small valley opened up before them, with the murky shape of a building in the middle. Leo aimed the helicopter straight for it.

All around them were flashes of light that reminded her of the tracer fire at Midas's compound. Trees cracked and exploded at the edges of the clearing. Shapes moved through the mist. Combat seemed to be everywhere.

He set down the helicopter in an icy field about fifty yards from the house and killed the engine.

Suddenly, they heard a whistling sound and saw a dark shape hurtling toward them out of the mist.

"Out!" Leo screamed.

"What the hades is that?!"

They leaped from the helicopter and barely cleared the rotors before a massive BOOM shook the ground, knocking Leo and her off their feet and splattering ice all over them.

Again, rude.

She got up and helped Leo, who shakily stood up, and saw that the world's largest snowball—a chunk of snow, ice, and dirt the size of a garage—had completely flattened the Bell 412.

"You all right?" Jason ran up to them, Piper at his side. They both looked fine except for being speckled with snow and mud.

"Aha" She said as she shook the snow off her clothes.

"Yeah." Leo shivered. "Guess we owe that ranger lady a new helicopter."

Piper pointed south. "Fighting's over there." Then she frowned. "No ... it's all around us."

She was right. The sounds of combat rang across the valley. The snow and mist made it hard to tell for sure, but there seemed to be a circle of fighting all around the Wolf House.

Behind them loomed a massive ruin of red and gray stones and rough-hewn timber beams. Not gonna lie, the place looked kinda creepy. She could totally believe the ruins were cursed.

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