Leo's Point Of View

As I made it to the island it only seemed to be more chaotic. It was as if in the week I'd been preparing, they had lost hundreds of nymphs and gained thousands of these undefinable monsters.

Maybe the background had just been a nicer angle of view before, I had no idea. But I didn't have much time to register that, someone ran straight past me, wielding a long golden sword.

Her blonde hair flew behind her as she sprinted, suddenly stopping on her heels. She turned and smiled quickly. "Echo.." I managed, "Gods, I've missed you." Echo's eyes danced with joy, "I've missed you…"

As she turned back around I couldn't help but grin, sure the place was terrorized, but standing here was Echo, the girl I couldn't quite remember after a matter of minutes but loved seeing.

Her face was paler than before, and stained slightly with dirt, but it was still beautiful. Her blonde hair tangled in its small waves looked better than the former. And even though her body was scratched up and thin I didn't mind. It was Echo and she was as okay as it ever seemed to get.

She held her hand up as if to say wait and took off, holding a tight grip on her sword. I was just about to chase after when I remembered the sleeping dog back in the aircraft.

In a hurry, I climbed back in, "Ash..." I started, rubbing the dog softly, "Ash..!" The canine sat up and barked, its tail beginning to wag as he noticed me above him.

I grinned, "Hey, boy." I greeted, patting his head, and giving him a quick scratch behind the ears as he brought himself up. "Come on." I instructed. "There's someone you have to meet."

As we both made our way out, Echo jogged back with a happy grin on her face, the German shepherd barked at her before looking back at me, I nodded to show she was safe, I guess I kind of just figured he'd understand which somehow he did.

Echo crouched down and gave the dog a small stroke as he licked her cheek. I chuckled as Echo pulled me down right by her. We sat there talking for what felt like hours.

I told Echo about my current adventures and she presented to me what had been going on. It seemed awful; a lot of the nymphs had fallen in battle.

After our chat Echo led me over to a nymph reserve. After showing me around the shelter and finding me a room to stay in I thanked her and walked in. Sadly I didn't realize I wouldn't be able to use it for long.

During the night, Echo snuck out to try to fight an enemy camp as they were sleeping. Ash had noticed and proceeded to wake me up, if only I had on time.

It was about five minutes of groaning until I finally forced myself to sit up, the large amount of barking was giving me a migraine. Ash was tucking on the sheets in some sort of panic.

"What is it…?" I asked sleepily, Ash barked once more releasing the blanket from his jaws and running out the door, I hurriedly threw on a shirt, pulled on my jeans, laced up my Doc Martins, and ran after him.

Once I caught up with Ash he nudged towards the door, a few nymphs had gathered up themselves, standing behind us both. Reaching for the door, the nymphs gasped as I pushed it open.

At first I saw nothing, it was just the grassy area we'd been in before, but as my eyes scanned the area once more there she was, camouflaged like always. She didn't look good.

I ran as fast as I could to her side, her body was scratched up, worse than before. A pool of blood had risen up about half an inch off the ground. Echo let out a moan. A spear had been pierced into her side.

Rapidly I crouched by her, I was in shock. I knew I was, but I tried to look into her eyes anyways, barely able to meet the girl's gaze. "Echo…Don't do this to me. I…"

She weakly pushed her finger against my lip, telling me to be quiet. So I shut up. "I…" She started, "I…" She slowly traced her finger on the ground, running it on my shirt. At first I was puzzled, till I looked down at my shirt.

A map had been drawn onto it as her eyes fluttered shut. Echo let out another moan from pain. I had to stay strong, I couldn't let a death hurt me.

Despite, my desperate attempts to motivate myself the anxiety of it all took over. I picked up Echo's sword, something had to be done. As I pushed passed dozens of nymphs, I walked up to Narcissus, "You will avenge her."

The narcissist in front of me didn't bother, and I guess that's why I punched him in the face. I really had no idea why I bothered, he just grunted and ignored me, rubbing his cheek as though he was afraid a mark would be made.

That's when I realized, death wasn't really fair at all. It could happen at any time, but if you were responsible for one's death it wouldn't make much of a difference. The true enemy was fate.

I had to defeat the Titans, if Echo died fighting for her people, I could try too. But I needed help, I needed Nico, I needed Reyna, and I needed everyone else…It all started to seem like a hopeless cause.

A/N: This was mainly a filler. I'm really hoping to actually have some couple interaction by the next chapter. I hope you're enjoying so far! Next chapter should be up soon, reviews help!