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IV

Leo

Leo rushed below deck straight into the kitchen/dining/living room, "I'm such an idiot!" he exclaimed. "We could have been using this the entire time! I just can't believe I didn't think of it before!" he said, slapping himself on the forehead as he went up to the monitor displaying Camp Half-Blood, in real time. He could see demigods rushing around preparing for a battle, thank the gods! The Romans weren't anywhere to be seen, but it was obvious they were expecting them. There was no sound, but with a little tinkering he might be able to fix it.

Everyone rushed below deck, "Is everything ok? We heard raised voices, we came as soon as we could…" Frank trailed off. He as well as Piper, Nico, Hazel and the coach were all standing there, weapons poised, ready for a fight. When they realised there was no threat they put their weapons away awkwardly, everyone was a bit edgy after losing two people in one day.

"It's ok everyone Leo just realised that he was an idiot and thought everyone had to know" Jason said jokingly. "Would you care to explain why you are such an idiot Admiral?"

"Ok. Annabeth showed me this shield back at camp, she found the design on Daedalus' laptop and had Beckendorf make it. The trick is if any natural light hits it, it can show anyplace you want, as long as you concentrate well enough." Leo said this with a bitter taste in his mouth, Annabeth had shown him the shield before she… Gods! Stop it! You need to concentrate if this is going to work.

"Wait, who's Beckendorf? Also what does that have to do with you being an idiot?" Hazel asked.

"He was the head counsellor for the Hephaestus cabin, and I'm getting to it"

"Was? What happened to him?"

"He sacrificed himself so we could win the titan war" Leo said bluntly.

"Oh, sorry, please continue" said Hazel in a small voice.

"Nah, it's all good, I didn't even know the guy. Anyway! Back to business, the monitors I installed have real time video of the camp."

"No way!" Jason exclaimed, "you didn't…"

"Yes I did" said Leo smugly.

"Could someone please elaborate?" asked Piper looking just as confused as the others.

"Sorry man, can I?" asked Jason with excitement even he couldn't hide rising in his voice.

"Go ahead, Jason Grace, son of Zeus" Leo said in a mocking tone.

Jason didn't seem to notice "If I'm right Leo didn't use cameras for the monitors did you?"

"Nope" said Leo smugly.

"So you modified the technology used in the shield. Wait, how? I thought it bent natural light to show the image"

"Yeah I know, but with some, Leo magic, I was able to modify it to use any source of light, plus a lot of prayers to my dad." Leo said 'dad' batting his eyelashes like a small child asking his father for a new toy.

"Leo that's amazing!" exclaimed Piper.

"Yeah, wait till you see my chicken nugget smoke screen…"

Jason cut him off, "You guys aren't seeing the big picture, with this we can spy on the Roman camp, find out how many of them there are, what weapons they have and where they are, whenever we want!"

"Oh my gods! I hadn't even considered that!" Exclaimed Leo in a sarcastic girls voice.

"Don't be so sarcastic all the time, this is a serious matter it might even our chances against the Romans" said Jason starting to sound annoyed.

"I know, that's only if I can get it to work" Leo muttered.

"What do you mean?" asked Hazel suspiciously.

"Well, I sort of kind of fixed the view to camp half blood. I figured that with so many of us it might overload and not know who to concentrate on, so yeah." Leo had been debating whether or not to fix the view on the monitor for weeks before they left for new Rome, now he was really wishing he hadn't.

"Can you fix it?" asked Piper softly, trying not to pressure him but he knew how important it was that he fixed it.

"Are you kidding me! Of course I can! Heck I'll even put sound on this puppy" Leo said this really hoping he could pull it off.


Leo rearranged the groups, he sent Coach Hedge to help Hazel and Frank with stock take and sent Jason and Piper to do a damage report and make sure the Athena Parthenos was secure. He went to work, opening the control panel and fiddled with wires till his fingers went numb. Out of his belt came so many bronze nuts, bolts, and wires Leo couldn't count, screwdrivers, hammers and at one point in time an electric circular saw. Piper bought him food but he didn't have time to eat it, he worked for so long that by the time he was finished he didn't have enough strength to stand. He flopped onto his back, exhausted and promptly fell asleep.

Sadly his dreams didn't consist of fluffy bunnies, unicorns and rainbows. He stood at the edge of the pit which Annabeth and Percy had fallen into. Below him the voice of his least favourite goddess laughed in the darkness. "Sacrifices. Beautiful sacrifices to wake the goddess." He looked down and saw what he hadn't seen when he had first been there, Percy held onto a tiny ledge with Annabeth holding his spare hand for grim death, they were frozen in time. "When the time comes Leo Valdez will you be able to make the ultimate sacrifice for your friends? Would you be able to die for them?" She asked him in her stone scraping on stone sounding voice.

Leo wanted to blow fire into the pit or kick something but he couldn't move, so he mustered as much courage as he could and yelled, "As long as it brings you down dirt face. Because of you I understand sacrifice, I'll do what I need to when the time comes."

In response she laughed. A long cold rattling laugh, as if he had made a really funny joke, it really didn't boost his confidence.

All of a sudden the ground beneath him crumbled and he fell into Tartarus.


He sat up before he was fully awake, his head slammed into something hard and not only did the force make him fall back down but there was a yelp and a crash off to his right. He sat up again, slowly this time and opened his eyes, he was in the sickbay. Hazel was flat on her back on the ground beside his bed, "You're awake I see" she said, rubbing her backside and she got to her feet.

"Yeah, are you ok?" he asked rubbing his head.

"I should be the one asking you that, but yeah I'm fine. I didn't expect you to sit up so suddenly, you scared the daylights out of me plus you give a mean headbut." She was breathing heavily so he, must have done a good job on the scare o meter.

"Sorry, why am I here?" he asked, last thing he remembered he had lain down for a nice nap after finishing... Something. He couldn't remember what, gods that's weird.

"We found you on the ground in front of the monitors, you'd slipped into a coma. Do you remember?" she asked him, with true concern in her voice.

"Wait, yeah, the monitor, I was trying to fix it. Wait, what do you mean a coma? What happened?" he asked, completely confused.

"You worked for two days without eating, drinking or leaving the room. We tried to get you to eat but it was like you were on auto pilot. We found you on the floor passed out from exhaustion about two days ago, we tried to wake you up but you wouldn't. Jason even zapped you a few times, we gave you as much Nectar and Ambrosia as we could without you burning up."

"Oh" said Leo with a small voice. "Wait, are you telling me I missed four whole days? The trip to camp is only a five day trip, does that mean…"

"We're one days from camp. It's was odd, we've had no attacks so far just smooth sailing, are you strong enough to stand? We've had sound on the monitor but we don't know how to navigate, we need to know what the Romans are up to."

Leo threw back the sheets and got to his feet only to fall over on top of Hazel. She managed to hold his weight, "Sorry" he muttered.

"It's ok, come on lets go", they hobbled out of the sick bay and slowly made their way to the kitchen/dining/living room.

Piper looked up and sighed with relief, "Oh thank gods you're ok! You had us all worried."

"Yeah! What were you thinking! We've already lost Percy and Annabeth, what would we do without you? Huh, did you think how we would feel if you croaked?" scolded Coach Hedge. He was really worked up and Leo was worried that he was going to have him drop and give him 20, instead he did something that made Leo wonder if he was still asleep. The coach rushed up and hugged him, pulling away he said to them "I'm responsibly for you lot, when any of you get hurt it's my fault. So stop getting hurt! Now come on Valdez, let's get this puppy working, we'll smash those Romans!"

Leo was momentarily stunned but he manage to get himself together enough focus the monitor on the Romans. The image showed Octavian, and he was leading the Romans into battle with the Greeks.