Calypso laughed, the musical sound lost in the strong wind. But Leo heard it faintly, and turned around to gaze at the beautiful girl behind him. Her long brown hair flowed out behind her, and for the first time, she looked happy. Well, of course she was. She'd just gotten off of her lifelong home and prison, Ogygia.
"You doin' all right?" Leo yelled back with a grin. She smiled back.
"Of course! How did you ever find my island again, you stupid boy?"
"Hey, hey. I can't be that stupid if I found my way back, can I?" He replied. She laughed again, and this time Leo could hear it. He swung his leg over the top of Festus's back so that he was facing her. She was shocked.
"What are you doing? Don't you have to drive this thing?"
"Hey! First of all, he's not a thing. He's a he. And second of all, he can fly by himself." Leo patted Festus's metal back and sighed, listening to the squeaks and clicks coming from him. "I'm sorry, buddy" he replied to whatever the dragon had said. He listened to another chorus of strange sounds. "He says that he wants you to apologize to him." He said, looking at Calypso. She scowled.
"Why do I have to?"
"Because he doesn't like when people call him a thing. A thing that needs someone to fly him" he said. "He's not. I'm not his driver. He may be a machine, but he's an amazing friend. So say sorry." He stared at her, trying to be threatening. Trying to ignore the fact that she looked absolutely gorgeous when she was sitting on the back of a metal dragon. He ultimately failed. Now he was just staring at her. Now what was he supposed to do? He was so entranced that he didn't even notice he was on fire. Until Calypso screamed and nearly fell into the ocean. He lunged forward and grabbed her by the arm with one hand, and the waist with his other. Then he realized how close he was, and that he was touching her. And she realized that he was still on fire.
"Leo! Your hair's still on fire!" she said, and laughed. Laughed while she was laying on her back with her head hanging over the open ocean. Leo couldn't believe it. But he did see an opportunity. He let go of her arm and she shrieked.
"LEO! Don't you dare!" He smirked.
"Say you're sorry." He ordered.
"What? No! You can't do that!"
"Yes I can" he said, and let go of her waist.
"No! Leo! Stop!" She yelled, grasping for a handhold. Leo grabbed her hand and she held on for dear life.
"Think of this as…a trust exercise" he said slyly.
"What? What do you mean by-"
Leo jumped off of Festus, taking Calypso with him. They both yelled, Calypso in shock and fear, and Leo in exhilaration. They had been flying above the clouds, so for a moment they couldn't see anything as they dropped through a white puffy cloud and came out soaking wet. What Calypso also didn't see was the golden dragon swooping down below them. So she kept screaming, and wrapped her arms around Leo, holding on tightly. Leo smiled faintly and said, "I know this is going to sound really awkward, but you're going to need to spread your legs a bit more." She stared at him with her mouth open. "Just do it! Like-now!" Hesitantly, she spread her legs, and Leo did too. "I see the ocean, Leo! I might be immortal, but I can still get hurt! Please-" she squeezed her eyes shut and after a moment…"Ah!" She exclaimed as Festus swooped down and they landed on his back. She opened her eyes, and realized that they were only a few inches apart from each other. Leo just hoped his breath didn't smell too bad. She obviously didn't, she smelled of cinnamon and vanilla, as always.
"Oh my gods, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, Festus. You're not a thing, I'm sorry I said you were. You can fly on your own, I know. Don't ever do that again, Valdez. Ever." She was panting hard, her hair a mess around her head. Leo thought she looked even hotter like that. They both realized that their arms were still wrapped around each other, and quickly pulled away. They sat in silence for a while, hearing nothing but the wind whistling past. After a while, Leo realized that she was shivering. Her light blouse was fine on the tropical island of Ogygia, but here it didn't protect her from the elements at all. He reached out his arm and hesitantly put it around her shoulders. She moved so that she was sitting sideways on the dragon's back, and slowly leaned into Leo's chest. She looked up at him.
"You're warm." She mumbled. She lay her head onto his chest and sighed. He stroked her hair as she slowly drifted off to sleep. He leaned back against Festus's neck and closed his eyes.
Leo woke up to a sequence of whirrs and creaks. "We're here" he translated sleepily. "Wait, where exactly is here?" He sat up, careful not to wake Calypso, who was still laying against him. "Ohh" he said, as he looked around. "Oh no. Not good."
A/N: Yah, I know. Not that good. For some weird reason it won't save my indented paragraphs, so that's why it's not indented. Sorry…Also, it wrote a very long sequence of letters and numbers after each sentence when I uploaded it. So, yeah, dunno why it did that, but there might be a few typos bc I had to delete them 1 at a time…anyone else have these problems? I have written 3 stories so far, and this is the only one that had problems.
