Piper
After so long, I can't believe we're actually home. I just wish Leo could be here with us. That mischievous little smile, the curly hair, the ADHD, and the machines he made were gone forever.
Well... maybe not forever. Hazel had pulled me aside and told me something had felt different about his death. There was no way he could've taken the physicians cure, the potion that me, Jason, and Leo had made Asclepius brew for them, that would cure anything, even death. Hazel had obscured the mist and made it look like I had the bottle, when Leo had done... whatever with it. Nobody knew what he had done with the bottle except himself. He had told Frank and Hazel and that was it. If he came back... no, I wouldn't get my hopes up. He was dead. The Oath to keep with a final breath line was about him. Everyone knew that he had sworn on the river Styx to come back to get Calypso from her island prison of Ogygia. An oath on the river Styx had to be kept. Only twice had it not been kept, and the people who had made it were gods. Zeus and Poseidon; one sired Thalia, who was now the lieutenant of the hunters of Artemis, and the other sired Percy Jackson, the son of the sea God. Over by the lake, Percy a was canoeing with his brother, Tyson. Tyson was a Cyclopes, so he was about 6'7. He also weighed about a ton. Percy was using his power over water to keep the boat afloat. Tyson was the best rower in the camp, and he was using his strength to paddle so hard, the water splashing behind him hit Alliea, the daughter of Demeter behind him. Alliea yelped, and Tyson yelled "Sorry, pretty lady!".
Alliea blushed and snuck a glance over at Ella, Tyson's girlfriend, a harpy with red feathers. Ella was absorbed in her book, however, and didn't notice. Alliea breathed a sigh of relief, as Ella tended to attack people who might be remotely interested in Tyson. Percy crossed the finish line and stood up in his canoe, arms above his head. This promptly made the canoe flip over, and Percy came up grinning and whooping. He righted the canoe and swam over to the shore. I smiled and went over to the Aphrodite cabin. Lacey was there, picking up some photos that had gotten strewn on the floor. "Hey Lacey, let me help you with that."
"Sure," she said, scooting over to give me some room. "You know, I never got to thank you about getting Drew out of the counselor spot."
"That's okay, Lacey."
"Well, thank you. It means so much to me. Drew was a big meanie." She said, pouting. "At least now that you took out that stupid 'rite of passage', then I don't have to break Brady's heart. People were telling me that I was stupid, and that I would never actually break his heart cause I was actually in love with him. Well, we're the children of the goddess of love! We should preserve love, not break it down."
"Thanks. Really, it was nothing. All I did was-" I was cut off by the conch horn sounding.
"Lunch time." Said Lacey. "We can talk later. Thanks again, Piper."
"Your welcome." I said. I got up and walked after Lacey into the pavilion. As I ate and laughed at Lacey's corny jokes, I noticed that the Hephaestus cabin was looking very depressed. Jake Mason, the head counselor, was making half hearted jokes, trying to cheer them up, like "How many Cyclopes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" And "why did the Colchis bull cross the road?", but it did no good. They were depressed that Leo was gone, and now that the solution to the cabin's curse was dead, they were worried their curse might be back, too