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Leo rubbed the back of his neck inquisitively as he studied Festus at the helm of the Argo 2. But of course it wasn't the machine that confused him. No, being the son of Hephestus, machines came easily to him. No, it was the girl next to Festus that perplexed him.
Why couldn't girls be as simple as machines? Easy to figure out what was wrong, and all you had to do was tighten a few bolts and - boom - fixed. But no, girls were difficult. This had been a rising issue in Leo's life for as long as he could remember, but nothing had been as confusing as the past week.
Ever since Calypso had arrived on the Argo 2 three days ago with no memory at all, Leo had no idea what to do. Finally he had a chance with a girl, but then he had to leave her island that he had almost no chance of ever finding again. Then she shows up on his ship without a memory. Awesome. Obviously Aphrodite was not on team Leo.
Calypso must have felt Leo's presence, because she let out a loud sigh.
"If you're here to ask more questions, the answer hasn't changed. I don't know." Keeping her eyes on the horizon, she didn't turn to face him.
"I wasn't gonna ask you anything," Leo answered at a dull whisper. He moved closer to her, about 5 feet away. Being slightly to her right, he could see her expression. It was as if she was waiting for the sea to answer all of their questions.
The wind blew her blond hair behind her, exposing her long neck. She held herself high, like she was preparing for battle. "Well are you ready to answer some of mine?"
Confused, Leo stood next to her and tried to meet her eyes, but they were still fixed on the ocean. "Wha…"
"We've met before," she interrupted. It wasn't really a question, but Leo felt inclined to answer.
"Yeah," he sighed.
She faced him and shifted her weight, "I knew it."
"Are memories coming back?" Leo felt a pang of excitement, maybe the memories would all flood back soon. Maybe she would remember their time together.
"No," she sighed. "But I could just tell. The way some of you guys act around me, like there's this big secret.
Leo frowned. He wanted so badly to tell her of their time together. How her stiff personality loosened as time passed. Not that you could actually tell time in Ogygia, nothing, not even time, mattered on that island. All that mattered was her. Even when he was desperately trying to get back to his friends on the Argo, it was all about her.
I guess he was lost in thought, because he was slapped back to reality by a small, beautiful laugh.
She covered her smile with the sleeve of her long purple shirt that she had borrowed from Piper when she arrived. "You drool when you stare," she noted.
Leo didn't even notice that he'd been glaring into the sunset over the ocean. Leo didn't like the changes in his personality. First one of his biggest pet peves, he'd grown to love his ADHD. It kept him busy. The constant drumming of his figures against any flat surface, gone. The smile tattooed on his face, gone. It's like someone drained part of himself from himself. Does that even make sense? He was starting to get a headache thinking about it, when a lion roar startled him.
"Dude!" Leo turned and pushed his back against the railing of the ship. He watched the lion roar at a flock of birds. The birds kept advancing, so the lion swatted all of them down with one paw. It took Leo a second to realize that the lion was Frank, but when that clicked, he reached into his tool belt and took out 2 knifes. "You know how to fight?" he said to Calypso.
She looked at him uneasy with fear in her eyes. "I… I don't know," she stuttered.
Leo handed her one of the knives, "Well, we're about to find out." And together, they ran towards the birds.
At that same moment, Percy and Annabeth ran on the deck. Percy buttoned his pants and uncapped Riptide, "Not these again!"
"What are they?" Piper shrieked, following behind them with Katoptris in hand.
Ignoring her, Annabeth yelled, "Leo, sing!"
"What?!" Leo said while slashing down a bird and burning another one to a crisp.
"Just do it!"
Leo sang his best version of "We Can't Stop" by Miley Cyrus, but it sounded like he was yelling it. It didn't seem to be doing anything, but Leo trusted Annabeth, so he just sang it louder.
"What ARE these?!" Piper screamed again, stabbing another bird.
"And we CAN'T STOP!"
Percy slashed 5 down in one swipe, then yelled to Piper, "Stymphalian birds."
"DON'T YOU KNOW IT'S WE WHO OWN THE NIGHT!"
To that name, Calypso dropped her knife. "I've heard of those," she said quietly enough to where only Leo could hear.
"DANCING WILL MOLLY, DOING WHATEVER WE WAAANTT!"
At this point, Frank changed back to human and was shooting down birds with his bow and arrow.
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