Here's chapter number 3!
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Annabeth began to read.
'Chapter two: In Which School Sucks, But Leo Gets Compensation.
Leo was bored. He hadn't been this bored in about two years; it was rather hard to be bored when you were fighting for your life almost every day-'
"Very true, man, very true," Conner Stoll agreed and several others nodded.
'-heck every minute of every day come the last months of the war. Now however he was in that monotonous boredom that only school could supply. He had thought that he would be able to last at least an hour before he cracked. But he was not even half an hour into his first lesson, and he was ready to set the place on fire. He didn't see why the titans or Gaea tried to fight the demigods, when just sticking them in a school for a while would have them begging to be killed.'
Some of the gods, including Ares, Zues, and Hera, smiled wickedly whilst the demigods gulped.
'He glanced back at the clock, he would survive the lesson! He had been on the freaking battlefield for Hephaestus's sake there was no way that he was going to let a little thing like a math lesson bother him. He continued to stare at the clock while the teacher jabbered uselessly in the background. Really, who was actually listening? His glaring at the time piece stopped when something blocked his view.
"Mr Valdez, is there any particular reason you are staring as the clock, and not listening to my explanation of angles?"'
"Busted," the campers, at least the immature ones, chorused.
'"I was trying to figure out the exact angle between the minute and the second-hand, but the second-hand keeps moving. So it's kinda hard." Yes! That was an awesome save, Leo thought, there is no way he could be told off for that.
"While I appreciate your quick thinking Valdez, I would rather it were applied to the lesson and not to try and get out of trouble. Perhaps you could tell the class about the angle on the board?"
"Or perhaps not" mumbled Leo. He then looked at the board, and ignoring the sympathetic look that Percy was sending him, assessed the angle there. It didn't seem that hard, so he began to stand up, with a signature Valdez mischievous grin on his face. The teacher had said to tell the class about it, not explain what amount of degrees it was.
"OK class, the angle you can see on the board is a cheese sliced shape angle, typically called an acute angle by those who actually give a damn about math. You will only ever see this particular angle given by teachers to try and confuse you, therefore its probably a decimal answer, like 32.46 degrees. This angle can provide entertainment though, if you know what to do with it, you could join the lines up to make a triangle, and doodle in the shape; or you can imagine that someone you hate is in the corner, and imagine the angle getting smaller and smaller. Another interesting thing to note about this angle is..."'
By the end of that, the demigods, the Sun god, and Hermes were rolling on the floor laughing. A few gods and goddess turned their noses up, but a few of them (including Aphrodite, Hesphestus, Hestia, and a few others), along with Chiron, were smiling in amusement.
'Leo's monologue was interrupted by the teacher's voice. "That is quite enough Valdez, and how you managed to guess the right answer I'll never know."'
Hesphestus's grinned. "My children are gifted in math, science, and problem solving. You may not even be trying and the answer will come to you because most engineers have a talent in mathematics."
'Leo's comeback dissolved in his mouth. That had been the right answer? Sweet! "Sit down Valdez, and let me get on with the lesson". And with that statement Leo immediately fell back into daydream mode.
He had been quite worried when, after asking Percy where Grover was, he had received a blank look, and a deadpanned, "who's Grover", that was until he realised that Grover hadn't started at Yancy Academy till partway through the year, and that Percy didn't know him yet. He tried to laugh it off, with a "hey, just messing with you man." Though he wasn't sure that Percy bought it. He dreaded what would happen the day that Grover and Chiron turned up, which would probably be soon, considering that there were now two demigods at Yancy, not just one. Those set him off on whether he would go with Percy on the quest; or pretend not to be a demigod (that would be kind of hard with Grover's nose though).
Before he knew it the bell had rung again, and he was being dragged out the room by Percy, and on to their English class.
Six hours later, Leo was back in the dorm room, looking through the wardrobe next to his bed. He hadn't realised before that Chaos had filled it for him. Not that he wasn't grateful for it; being stuck with just one set of clothes would really have sucked. He turned to the bedside table, and opened the first draw. There was a letter inside, written in curvy writing that just reminded him of the font setting Edwardian script on word. The letter said...
Leo Valdez
I am grateful that you were wise enough to make friends with Perseus Jackson, which will be useful to you in the future. You must do without your tool belt for a year, till you can go to Camp half blood. This year you must not go there! Wait till Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood and Perseus Jackson have left camp, and then follow them. You must not reveal yourself till the Lotus Casino.
I have left gifts for you in the other draws of the bedside table. I hope you like them. I also took the liberty of removing your dyslexia.
Chaos.
He didn't have dyslexia anymore! That was awesome, and he had been given gifts! Chaos had just risen to the top of his favourite deity list. Well, behind his dad, family loyalty and all that.'
Hesphestus once again smiled.
'He opened the next draw down, and saw a wallet with the initials L.V. in orange thread on the side. He reached into the draw and withdrew it. When he opened it up there were 20 fifty dollar notes inside. He took them out and it refilled instantly. He did it again, and a note appeared.
Though you may be curious Valdez, I will warn you that mistreatment of this gift will result in the wallet no longer being able to refill.
Chaos
Ah, well Leo supposed, it was a good point, and people would get suspicious if he had a ton of money, and nowhere to get it from. He slipped the wallet back into the draw, before reconsidering and hiding it under his pillow. Though most of the other kids at Yancy were rich, he would not put it past some of them to look through his stuff, and make off with his wallet.
Leo gave the next draw a look, anymore awesomeness and he would start to grin like a maniac, ah, what the Hades, he was a maniac. He reached for the next draw. He opened it a saw an orange A6 notebook. Well that was anticlimactic ran through his head, before he picked it up and flipped to the first page. Another note. Chaos sure liked leaving notes everywhere.
Leo Valdez
This notebook is to communicate with me. Everything you write in it will be sent to a notebook that I have, as an alternative to praying to me. Since the Gods can monitor prayer, you praying to a being that had supposedly faded will raise a few eyebrows, especially if I reply.
Don't worry about losing the notebook, it will return to your pocket, as will the wallet. I decided that since that worked well with riptide, I would do it to all the things I gave you.
Now check the bottom draw :)
Chaos
Wow, Chaos put simile faces on his notebook, that was awesome, as was the idea of the notebook, but the simile faces thing was better. Who would have thought that the powerful, serious being would use simile faces.'
Many were snickering at that point.
'Leo peered into the mirror on the other side of the dorm, yep, manic grin was present. Well since he already had the manic grin on, he might as well look in the last draw. As it opened Leo could tell that it was much fuller than the other two draws, it seemed to have a load of folders in. If Chaos had set him homework he would not be a happy camper. Leo opened the first folder, and the manic grin doubled in size. Not homework, defiantly not homework. In the folders were all the designs and blueprints that he had thought out through the war, and hadn't had time to write. Leo was so ecstatic his hair started smoking.'
"What?" Some campers gasped, but Leo urged Annabeth to keep reading before anyone could ask.
'There was no way that he was going to not make them this time around.
He looked at the back of the folder, and there was a sketch that he hadn't drawn. Not a sketch, a map. A map of bunker 9, and directions to... a storage facility. Why the Hades was Chaos showing him a storage facility? He looked closer at the map, and noticed the lists of metal in storage. Celestial Bronze, Imperial Gold, Stygian Iron, and Chaotic Silver. What in Hephaestus's name was Chaotic Silver?
He looked at the writing below the text. An unbreakable metal, highly resistant to heat, and could only be molded in the heart of a flame, by a fire user. Only he could use it, and if it was unbreakable, then he could make weapons for all his friends. No one would be caught unaware this time, Katoptris wouldn't break on Piper-'
The goddess of Beauty straightened. Sure, it could be any girl names Piper, but it didn't stop her from being concerned.
'and Clarisse's spear wouldn't shatter!'
The daughter of Ares and her father froze. Many campers stared at Clarrise with fear and pity as the gods gazed at Ares, awaiting a reaction. But the said god just stared at his lap, turning his knife over in his fingers, and swearing revenge on whoever had killed his daughter, even if it hasn't happened and was never going to happen.
'This was great. Leo's hair had caught on fire-'
"You're a fire user?!" Beckendorf exclaimed.
"Erm... yeah."
"That's awesome!" Shane yelled, bouncing up and down in his seat with excitement. "Can I see?" He asked, hanging off of Leo's arm.
"Okay, little buddy, but back up," Leo laughed and once Shane was at a safe distance, tendrils of fire danced between his fingers and across his palm.
"Wow... Leo, why didn't you tell us?" Jake said, amazed.
Leo smiled sadly. "You'll find out later."
'-and he didn't care, the possibilities were endless... At least he didn't care till he heard a gasp from behind him, and felt his body be doused by water.'
"I'm just glad it was Percy and no one else chose to walk in at that moment. Boy, that would have been hard to explain," Leo chuckled.
"Who wants to read next?" Annabeth asked.
"I will," Grover said, taking the book. "Chapter four: In which an explanation occurs and a goat arrives... well, that's awkward."
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