UP UNTIL THE BIG HOUSE COLLAPSED Leo was having a pretty average day. He woke up that morning at 6:00 in the Hephaestus cabin with Calypso snuggled up against him, her arm on his chest. I eased out of her grip without waking her and showered then headed to Bunker 9 to go see Festus, his second true love. The metal dragon clicked when Leo walked in.
"Yeah, it's good to see you too buddy," Leo groaned, still waking up. He walked over to the wall and pulled a fire hose off the wall and hooked it up to a nozzle, "open up," he told Festus. The hose squirted out a gross blackish liquid with occasional green spots in it. Motor Oil and Tabasco. He had filled a huge tank with it and Piper had used her Horn of Plenty to give him a practically endless supply of the hot sauce.
After a few minutes Leo turned it off and went to work on Festus. He loved Bunker 9. Everyone knew not to bug him, only Nico, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Percy, Annabeth, Reyna, Coach Hedge, Calypso and Chiron knew what it looked like but they never bothered him. The bunker was in a cave and it was HUGE but not big enough for Leo, he had made it bigger, at the end of the workshop and its endless supplies of tools he had used minor explosives (Greek Fire, Diet Coke, and Mentos) and built a huge area for Festus. Leo had to be careful when he was working near it, it was about 30 feet deep and 30 feet across, if he fell and the dragon didn't catch him he was dead and he had already used his one life up. He stepped on to the balcony that went over the Hole of Festus and pressed a button on its control panel. It detached from the wall and hovered in the air. It had a workbench, a stool, and a bunch of tools so Leo could work on random parts of Festus without having to even go back to his workbench. Buford would bring him drinks and stuff, he only really had to get off to go to the bathroom. He had been working on Festus for a few hours when Percy raced in.
"Leo!" he yelled over the loud music Leo had playing from the surround sound speakers.
"What?" Leo asked, turning down the music.
"You might want to come see this," Percy cried.
"What? Is someone hurt?" Leo gasped, pulling the balcony up to the edge.
"Not yet," Percy sighed. Grabbing Leo's arm and pulling him out of the cave.
He led them out of the woods and into the clearing that was Camp Half-Blood. Leo almost fell down, some serpent-like creature was lacing itself around cabins trying to eat other campers. Leo and Will were running around trying to jab its sift underside but it just pissed off everything more. Coach Hedge was being his normal self, hitting the creature with his club yelling, "DIE! DIE! DIE!" none of this surprised Leo but over by the Big House a giant glowing person was floating above the farm house.