Flames were bursting spontaneously in front of my eyes as I rode Gale over the sky. I heard the cries of soldiers as they were shot down by Apollo's arrows and Ares' war cry as he led his children into battle.

"C'mon Gale, lets go." I said to my faithful pegasus. He took me his over the chaos and farther away to where there were no more sounds of war. Recognizes my destination I told Gale to drop down.

"Good boy." I said to him after I hopped of his back and tossed him an apple. I then turned around to the old creaking familiar house .

I went to the porch and traced the letters on the pillar.

C + L

forever

I then took a deep breath and went into the house. It was stuffy and everything had been covered in hand dragged against the wall until I stopped at a frame.

I took it off the wall and looked at the family. A woman, a man, and a boy.

I traced my fingers on the boys face as my eyes filled up with tears.

"You're not suppose to be here." A voice said.

I drop the frame and unsheathed Méra to the strangers throat. The gleaming celestial bronze gave me enough light to see the man's face. His dark brown eyes gleamed with humor but his face looked as if there was none left.

"You have Méra.." He whispered sadly.

"Who are you! And how do you know my dagger!"

"Because I made it.. for mi amor…" I removed Méra from the mans throat partially realizing who he was.

"And as for your other question, I am Leo Valdez, now who are you?"

" That knife… it means daybringer.. it was my wife's.. my sunshine.." Leo said sadly.

" So you knew my son, Joseph?" Leo said as he tinkered with metals on his desk.

"He went by Jay, but yes I knew him."

" And I suppose he gave you Méra, didn't he?"

I nodded.

Leo smirks and laugh and murmurs to himself.

"And you said your name was?"

I hadn't said my name in so long I stumbled to remember it.

"Claire." I finally said.

"Well I'm sorry Claire but whatever you came here for I can't help you." Leo said moving to another part of the room to tinker with something else.

"But you don't even know what I'm asking—"

Suddenly there was a loud boom from above.

Another bomb.

"You want to end that." Leo says pointing above.

"But there's no way.. it's too late.." He says sadly.

"But it's not!" I pleaded.

"There have been rumors, that you have a machine that can stop this!"

Leo shakes his head.

"No, I can't... it's too risky.." he says throwing a piece of metal across the room.

"You can't or you won't! Because here I am ready to risk it all because there's nothing I could loose while you sit here in your bunker hiding out with your toys!" I yell furiously.

"I can't! I can't do it! I can't fix this!" Leo yells back turning over his work table then collapsing to the ground.

"I can't fix it.." he said while his voice cracked.

I step forward and bend down to his levers.

"If we do this, I can save Jay, your wife.. everyone." I whisper.

Leo meets my eyes.

"If we do this, you might not make it back." he says softly.

"Not much better than what's going on here." I say bluntly.

"Very well… I will help you."

"My invention is a chronology warp apparatus." Leo says revealing the machine under the tarp.

"So…it's a time machine." I say bluntly.

Leo scratches his chin.

"Well yes I suppose but it sounds better when you use my name for it." he says shrugging.

"Right. So where I do need to go to soo all this.." I point above me.

"From happening."

Leo ponders this for a moment.

"Well that's easy, exactly 32 years ago from this day, the day after the Giant War ended." he says with certainty.

"And what am I supposed to do when I get there? and how am I suppose to drag around a gigantic time machine—"

A loud boom came from above us… but it wasn't the bombs.

Leo looks up with panic.

"They found us." he whispers.

"Hurry!" he says as his eyes filled up with fear.

He ushers me into the machine where I sit down in the seat and put a seatbelt on.

"This will take you where you need to go.." Leo says to me as he plugs in coordinated and and a location. The navigator reads Camp Half Blood.

"Leo Valdez and C1223! Surrender now!" A voice says above getting closer and closer.

"What am I suppose to do! And how all by myself!" I say panicking.

"Trust no one fully but yourself, and you'll know what to do, trust me." he says the. closing the screen door and then pressed a green button.

"Launching in 10...9..." A robotic voice counted down.

"See you on the other side.." Leo says with a sad smile as the basement door is busted open and the Empyreans came in with blazing firepower.

Leo went ablaze fighting them back but they were too strong.. and he knew it.

He turned to me with tears and his eyes and mouthed.

Bring back Jay..

I nod quickly as he smiles, as if he's finally in peace. He raises his hands up as his flames die out just as the Empyreans thrust a sword through his back.

I screamed and yelled as tears flowed down my face. The Empyreans turned to my direction and move towards me but we're too late as I flashed away in a blinding light, and the last thing I saw was darkness.

During this hiatus I should explain to you all what's going on. My name is C1223,but you can call me Claire. I was part of a project called Project Demigod, original I know, where they experimented on demigods for years trying to make the perfect weapon. If you don't know who they is then take a good look in the mirror… for those of you with an IQ higher than an ostrich then you would know I'm talking about mortals, your kind. The mortal government took regular mortal fetuses and infused them with demigod blood giving them the same powers that actual demigods have, and I'm one of them. I was infused with a demigod whose parent was Aphrodite. I was trained to be manipulative, seductive, and.. persuasive. I was the top of my class until they realized that my kind was too..sentient. They realized that we didn't want to go out and kill their enemies but would much rather be spending their time drawing with crayons or something. So, they recycled the program.. and by that I mean they killed us all but I was lucky enough to escape. So they then tried again, and made a better version. Bionic machines that could care less about drawing with crayons but only there for one person. To annhilate. Little did the mortals know that Frankenstein's monster qoild kill his creator. They were named the Empyreans. The Empyreans started destroying everything, the demigods, the mortals,everything. Leading to the gods' interven but even rhey couldnt stop them. Now, it is my mission to stop this from ever happening. Sure I might die trying or successfully remove myself from the timeline but if that's the sacrifice I have to make, then fuck it.. time to go save the world.

Chap 1! Reviww! PM!