Piper

The six of them sat huddled on the right of the empty burial shroud, watching as Nico lined the top with various tools and gadgets; everything Leo had made. Reyna simply flew overhead on Guido, obviously wanting to stay as far away from this as possible. Previously, she confided in Piper that she might not be able to handle all the grieving vibes, so her solution was this. On the other hand, Piper was stuck on the ground, having to come up with an eulogy for the bloody bastard that Leo was.

She was too devastated for words but she managed to take an agonizing breath and look around at everyone else. Even the grimy faces of the Hephaestus cabin were too much for her; all of them bore resemblances to Leo and his idiotic, noble face. Decidedly, her eyes rested on Jason, Annabeth, Hazel, Percy, Frank and Nico.

Piper held back her tears, lending on the strength Reyna offered.

"This is incredibly difficult for us all- I honestly don't know how to begin describing this insufferable pig. He was the bravest and stupidest person I've ever met and I-" What was that?

She stopped, trying to find the correct words for the huge Celestial bronze shadow diving into the burial shroud. Instead, she screamed, "HE'S THERE!"

She ducked and caught a fleeting glance of Percy and Annabeth yell, "DÉJÀ VU!" before collapsing into giggles while pieces of shrapnel from the burial shroud exploded everywhere.

Leo stood up, looking like an absolute mess with tattered and burnt clothes and soot all over his body. Meanwhile the girl beside him was coughing ashes and dust all over her jeans while Festus creaked and groaned. Jason, Annabeth, Hazel, Percy, Frank and Nico surged forward as if the clouding rise of smoke was a sort of magnetic lure to demigods. Reyna swooped down, landing gracefully on the rubble.

Piper's initial surprise suddenly clouded with an awkward mixture of blind fury and amusement. She stormed forward amidst the mass of burning bits and pieces and ordered, "Slap yourself."

Leo's arm flexed and immediately shot up to his sooty face, slapping himself so hard he fell towards Percy, who jumped aside to let him fall. The girl beside him fell into a sufficient fit of giggles, in which Percy turned with an abrupt start and stared at her.

"C-Calypso?" He stuttered, causing Annabeth to jolt upwards from a brief inspection of the rubble and narrow her eyes at the girl.

"Hey guys," Leo managed, "Calm down there, Beauty Qu-"

"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! YOU KILLED YOURSELF FOR ONE HEROIC SACRIFICE TO DESTROY GAIA- WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AN IRRITATING IDIOT, NOT SOMEONE WHO DOES NOBLE SHIT LIKE THAT! YOU DISAPPEARED FOR 5 MONTHS AND YOU COME BACK WITHOUT ANY FORMER NOTICE THAT YOU'RE ALIVE AND HERE WE ARE BEING SO DEPRESSED AT YOUR FUNERAL AND YOU SUDDENLY POP UP AND YOU ARE SUCH AN ASSHOLE!" Piper yelled with such a seething force that everyone else had to shield themselves from the sheer intensity of her anger. For effect, Hazel made a tall pile of gems emerge right where Leo stood, where he flailed his arms wildly and fell over in a graceless heap, dust and soot billowing from the impact.

"Um, Piper, Hazel, calm down…" Jason mumbled, keeping a distance from them.

"Well, shit on that!" she retorted, not realizing she was still charmspeaking until everyone shuffled towards the toilet.

"Holy Zeus… COME BACK!" she yelled. Calypso, apparently, was the only one unaffected by her words. She winked at Piper as if she'd known her for a millennia and walked over to Annabeth. "I might need a small talk with you."

Hazel glanced at Annabeth and Calypso's backs and stated curtly, "Percy, I think you'd better run," before she continued popping random piles of gems up wherever Leo walked and making pitholes to trip him with the mist. Frank, Jason, Nico and Reyna simply watched in amusement as Piper muttered a string of French, Ancient Greek, Latin and English curses under her breath while commanding Leo to perform self-inflicted harm.

"Percy-JACKSON- you LITTLE SHIT- COME BACK RIGHT NOW!" Annabeth bellowed, running after a panicked Percy with her dagger in her hand and Calypso singing with extreme ferocity, making pebbles rain down on Percy who was running for his life.

Apparently, the rest of the campers were completely satisfied in watching the scene unfold, their eyes darting from Calypso to Annabeth to Percy to Leo and to Piper in amusement.

When Piper, Hazel, Calypso and Annabeth finally calmed down, Piper continued glaring at Leo while Chiron and the cleaning harpies cleaned up the mess of pebbles, gems, soil and rubble. Festus had inched his way to a corner, where his eyes had dimmed a little.

Percy

Percy slowly backed from Annabeth, whose stormy grey eyes were so intensely pissed- as if she was conjuring lighting and thunder, blasting them silently into his mind. Man, she was really creepy when she got mad.

"We need a talk," she hissed, the grey eyes boring into his sea-green ones. She curled her fingers around his wrist and dragged him into the Athena cabin- not a good choice, because her siblings were in the same room. Noting Annabeth's furious glare and the rising blonde strands of hair near her chin, Malcolm quietly slid down his bunk, pretending to grab a book on the shelf while whispering, "Careful, mate," to Percy. It didn't do any good to his nerves either; only reminded him of the impending storm. A scolding from a daughter of Athena wasn't exactly rainbows and butterflies.

It was right in the middle of the room where Annabeth suddenly turned around and punched Percy right in the gut, earning a few cringes from her siblings.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT CALYPSO?" she yelled, enunciating each syllable as sharply as Riptide.

"I thought you knew," he mumbled, "I- I told Leo- I promised I would help him n-no matter what and-and I'm sorry for-" His words were a garbled mess; multiplied with the apology he felt for Calypso and how Annabeth was cursed by the arai and how the gods forwent their promise the easy way while they had to be tormented in Tartarus.

"SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT!" Annabeth shrieked, her eyes scarier and scarier, "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME- I COULD HAVE ASKED THE GODS FOR HER FAVOR, AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO ALMOST DIE VENGING FOR ME WITH THE ARAI BECAUSE I FELT SO PATHETICALLY ALONE, YOU LITTLE- YOU- YOU COULD HAVE DIED FROM ALL THE STUPID CURSES; YOU DIDN'T NEED TO- YOU- BOB AND DAMASEN DIDN'T-" She faltered before she burst into tears. Her siblings shifted their stares back to whatever they were doing beforehand. Malcolm coughed.

"Hey, it's all over," Percy soothed (albeit failingly) when Annabeth glared at him and muttered, "Boys."

Frank

Being the only person who understood, almost first-hand, what Leo had gone through (since he'd actually burnt half of his firewood to save Thanatos, the god of death), he meekly stood in an awkward corner while Piper and Hazel pelted Calypso and Leo with questions, the both of them evidently pissed at Leo but very much pleased with Calypso's presence. Jason stood silently next to him, as if he couldn't comprehend whatever had happened in the past hour.

He'd heard furious yelling, with definite pauses and each rant more prominent and louder than the previous one, coming from the Athena cabin a few minutes ago and just assumed it would be Annabeth. No one would be so dumb as to exacerbate her already fueled anger but Percy. He remembered the two of them in a fit of laughter just a few moments ago; Annabeth was probably on her period.

"Wait, Frank… What?" Jason's blue eyes grew wide open, "You know that much about girls?"

Frank only blushed the shade of blood before becoming a bulldog. He had no idea why; he always found life better as a bulldog. Besides, bulldogs were cute and carefree. He'd had two yelling sessions enough for a day.