This is so depressing, how do I do it? And I didn't realise until after he died that his death is almost identical as Charles.


Leo shot fire from his palms at the giant above him. He looked beside him with his peripheral vision to see the beautiful praetor of Camp Jupiter, Reyna. Her braid had long fallen out and her black hair flew around as she fought with her dagger.

As I turned back to the Giant, a large hand swung and I flew against a wall that was once my Cabin, I know from the rough metals digging into my back. "Leo!" I heard my friends yell. I looked at my friends, focusing on the black haired beauty. The Giant approached, as he was right in front of me.

"For Hephaestus!" I yelled. I caused my body to explode in fire, and I judge correctly, my cabin was filled with gas and oil. It blew up. The giant had scraps of Celestial Bronze and Gold imbedded into him. He crumbled into dust. I fell to the ground, bloody and broken. My friends ran towards me. "Leo!" I saw Reyna on her knees, looking at me. Her eyes were filled with tears.

She grabbed my hand. "Don't leave! Please." I sent a spark though her hand. "You are the Seventh Hero. But you are not the 7th wheel." I whispered to her. My eyes got heavier. "I was." I said as my body went limp.

I saw Hermes gathering souls. "Come Leonardo." He said, his eyes soft, he must have really been upset to be guiding the heroes trying to help him to their graves. "Leo, not Leo Valdez! He's one of the 7!" Someone said. "Quiet Children. The ride to Judgment is long and quiet painful." Hermes said. We walked to a long line of kids on a dock. "You will have to wait for a coin. Your peers above will put them either on your eyes or under your tongue. They will appear when they have left your corpses. It has been an honor, heroes." Hermes said, floating away.

After a few moments, most kids got there coin, but mine still hadn't come. I wasn't that loved, they couldn't still be morning me. Finally, after two more groups of Hermes death row, my coin appeared on my eyes. As I took it off, I noticed it wasn't Celestial Bronze, like the Dracmnas we Greek use, but it was Imperial Gold, like the Romans. Jason would be leading the vengeance line or comforting Piper, and Frank and Hazel hardly know me, so it had to be Reyna.

I went to the boat and handed my coin to Charon. He nodded to me sadly, probably respecting my sacrifice or whatever. I stood before the 3 judges. "He blew himself up to save his group, just like his brother. It is settled, he shall go to Elysian Fields." "Or, Mr. Valdez, you may choose rebirth."

I am not a 'contained' person. But someone died that I had to see. "Can I see someone in Elysian Fields before Rebirth?" "Yes Hero."

I walked towards the golden gate that had just opened. I saw an entire city. I saw people happy. I saw a building that made me cry. I ran towards it and opened the door. There was a woman sitting at the table. "Mommy?" I asked her.

"Me Hermano!" She ran towards me and hugged me. "Me Mamá!" I cried into her soft frame. My mom was here. I breathed in her sweet scent of motor oil and grease. "Mom, I'm so sorry." "For what me Bebé?" "For killing you." I said in a sob.

"You didn't kill me baby. Gaia did, she was afraid of you beating her. But my death made you stronger." "She won in the end though, I'm dead." "You killed a Giant Leo! You did it all on your own, and that's something to be feared." "I guess. Mom, I have to go."

"Go? Go where?" "I chose rebirth. Being dead won't be something I'll be good at." I said, for the first time smiling. "You'll be brave, and always yourself?" She asked me, cupping my face. "Yes Mom." She kissed my forehead. "Go live then."

She smiled to me with tears in her eyes. I turned and left. I walked to the Lethe. "Goodbye Leo Valdez." I stepped inside as every thought was brutally erased from my mind.