Hey everyone, Summer here! Here is chapter 3 and finally Leo comes into the story. I know it took me long enough, but here it is, so enjoy.
Chapter 3 - Leo's point of view
I, Leo Valdez, was lost. I know it seems hard to believe, because of my insane awesomeness, but it's true. You see, I was looking for a girl, a new demi-god, that I had to bring back to camp. Chiron made me do it, because now, with the war with Gaea over, I was extremely bored and was entertaining myself by pushing the Aphrodite girls into the lake. I was supposed to go to the bus stop right outside of the woods and wait for the girl, but after 8 hours of walking around through the woods and having not seen a single sign of a bus stop or a girl, I decided I was lost.
I was just about to make a fire and set up camp for the night when I heard an ear piercing scream echo through the forest. I summoned fire from my palms to try and see where the scream was coming from in the night. I spotted a glistening giant lake about 100 yards away and sprinted to it. I heard another scream coming from that direction; this time it sounded even more terrified and desperate. My eyes widened when I reached the lake and saw a 8 headed gianormous hydra screeching in the water. I looked closer and saw that held in the hydra's tail was a girl, who looked pale and horrified, throwing rocks at one of the hydra's heads. She threw one extra hard and it hit the hydra right in one of its eyes. That head hissed at her and snapped at her leg. She screamed out in pain.
Suddenly, I snapped out of it. I had to help this girl. I decided that swimming wasn't an option, because the hydra had the advantage, so I ran around to the other side of the lake and started to climb a tree. Once I reached the top, I was right behind one of the hydra's many heads. Without hesitating, I conjured up a couple of fireballs and threw them at the hydra's head. It stopped thrashing for a moment, and looked confused. I threw another one and the hydra turned and looked at me. "Hey, ugly! Come and get me!" I sneered at the beast. It dropped the girl from its tail's tight grip and hissed at me. Luckily the girl got my hint and was swimming to shore. Relief washed over me for just a second, but then I realized that I had anotherproblem to deal with.
The hydra was still towering over me, just waiting to strike. I hopped down from the tree and started sprinting towards the girl. She was still by the shore, I realized. Once I came closer , I saw that it was because the hydra bit her pretty bad and she probably couldn't walk. When I reached her, I scooped her up into my arms and ran as fast as I could inland, where it was safe from the water monster.
I gently laid the girl down on a patch of soft grass in a clearing I had come to. I leaned against a tree and caught my breath. I looked over at the girl on the ground and found out that she was staring at me. I walked over to her and sat down beside her. "Hey, I'm Leo.", I said. She gave me a small, pained smile. "Thank you, Leo, for saving me." she replied in a soft, almost inaudible voice. Then it dawned on me. Her leg. "Oh crap, your leg! I'm so sorry, I forgot! Here, take this." I reached into my bag and pulled out some ambrosia and handed it to her. She nibbled on it and her eyes widened. It almost made me want to laugh. I remember when I tried ambrosia for the first time, I did the same thing. "Better?", I asked. She nodded. Just then, a new thought appeared in my head. This was the girl that I had to take back to Camp Half-Blood. It had to be. Who else gets attacked by hydras and are brave enough to throw rocks at their heads?
"I guess now would be a good time to ask questions." I suggested. She nodded again, " I've got quite a few." "Go ahead shoot. Ask me anything." I obliged. "Ok #1", she asked, "What was that thing that attacked me?" "Easy. That was a hydra. Huge mythical monster with a gazillion heads." I answered. And that went on and on with questions like "How can you control fire?" and "Why did it attack me?" I ended up having to explain to her the entire demigod process to her. When I mentioned her having a parent that was a god, she shook her head. "I had both my parents. There's no way my mom or dad was a god.", she denied. "As weird as it seems, its true. Your mom or dad probably just got married to a different person when you were a baby." I told her. "I gotta say" she admitted, "that's pretty cool."
Ok, so that's it for chapter 2. I hope I captured Leo's personality right. Please tell me what you think by reviewing! The button's right down there. You know you wanna press it.
TTFN,
Summer