House of Hades
Chapter 1
Leo
Leo stared down at his feet, out of the corner of his eyes he could see Jason pacing up and down, with Piper staring at him worryingly. Hazel, Frank and Nico di Angelo were all seated around the table staring into space. They were seated around the table in the mess hall, plates of food lay out in front of them but nobody had touched it, Leo could sense the grieve of his friends as easily as he could sense the presence of a cool gadget or machine, which surprised him because he usually sucked at sensing peoples emotions. This was the type of time when he would normally crack a joke or try and lighten the mood, but even Leo felt that now was really not the time. He looked at Nico di Angelo and wondered if he could really trust him, the guy, unlike Hazel, really did look like a son of Hades and freaked Leo out, especially with his all black clothes and skull ring and black stygian sword in its sheave at his side, (which Leo had saved from there "attack of the robots encounter" in Archimedes workshop).
But Leo remembered how he had felt when nobody trusted him after he blew up half of New Rome when he was being possessed by the eidolon, and to be honest he was Hazels brother, and if Hazel trusted him then that was good enough for him. Leo remembered what Nico had said about Percy being the most powerful demigod he had ever met, and it was hard to disagree. Jason may have been a son of Zeus (or Jupiter) but he remembered how Everyone at camp half blood had said how without Percy they would not of been able to fight of the Titan army in Manhattan. I mean the guy was offered to become a God, and even turned it down, which sounded crazy to Leo. Still, what chance did he and Annabeth have of not only surviving Tartarus but of locating and closing the doors of death against Gea's most powerful minions. And even if they did succeed, when they closed the doors Percy and Annabeth would still be stuck in Tartarus. And it was all his fault. All because he opened that stupid fortune cookie. Deep down he knew that if he hadn't of opened the cookie, both Frank and Hazel would have died, but that didn't make him feel any better. You will always be the 7th wheel Nemesis had said, and that didn't feel truer than now.
He scolded himself for thinking that way, he was the only one who could navigate this ship and get them to Greece and here he was feeling sorry for himself. No, they would succeed in their quest to shut the doors of death, and he would personally kick Gea's butt for messing with his friends, Leo Valdez style. Leo stood up, "Alright everybody, we need to get back on with our quest, we cant help Percy and Annabeth if were sitting here not doing anything, we need to focus entirely on getting to and shutting the doors of death and getting that giant stature below deck to Camp half blood to stop the Roman invasion." Everybody looked up at him, and for once in his life he felt needed.
Alright guys this is the first chapter, how do you think it is? Please review and any helpful comments would be greatly appreciated! Chapter 2 will be up soon!