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I should probably start writing this chapter now.

OK- second, NONONONONO THIS IS BAD THIS IS BAD THIS IS NOT GOOD - I'M FALLING BEHIND SCHEDULE THIS IS NOT GOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD...

SORRY THIS IS uPLOADED FOUR WHOLE DAYS LATE! I HAD TO MAKE YOU GUYS WAIT SIX WHOLE DAYS FOR A NEW CHAPTER AND THAT IS NOT FAIR IMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRY

UHOHMYSHIFTKEYISSTuck oh no never mind.

Ive had a crazy week, and next week is school camp so no posts on MonTueWed so yeah sorry D: I'll write as much as possible over the weekend I promise! I'll upload a REALLY LONG CHAPTER SOON! IN PAYMENT FOR THE DAYS I HAVE MISSED.

I want to make one thing clear, though. I WILL NOT- UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES- ABANDON THIS STORY WITHOUT TELLING YOU ALL IN ADVANCE. I SWEAR ON THE RIVER STYX. For the sake of more than 400 people :)

This and the next chapter are complicated. They are both Caleo, and I was originally going to post both together, but then I realised that I may as well make this a short oneshot thingie, and the next a really long. See above above. So yeah. They are both Caleo, but some non-canon stuff in the next chapter? Because I ship it? *wink*?

WARNING. For the next chapter, it's going to be really sad and painful. For Leo, and Nico. Emotionally, and possibly physically? Idk, haven't wrote all of it yet. Leo is going to have bad nightmares, and Calypso and Nico are going to try to help. Please do not read if you do not like this stuff.

Warnings for this chapter? Nico logic, by Leo. Girl Leo. Lots of ranting. Fire-shooting gorgons. Kissing.

Enjoy Leo logic (ok so Nico logic that Leo has too, I also like to think that Carter and Alex and Magnus have and use Nico logic as well) and Caleo comfort. Also, Leo is going to refer as Calypso as she/her, but may accidentally use him/his. Calypso would be like that. :)

My name is Aussie, not Rick. I cant own Percy Jackson.

Leo

I was enjoying the whole switched gender thing.

Calypso, however, was not.

But after being female for over 3500 years, watching male heroes leave her on her island alone and cursing their girlfriends, I don't think that he really enjoyed the point of view change.

"LEO! WE HAVE A PROBLEM OVER HERE!"

I sighed and got up from my bench.

"What is it, Cal?"

"ONE OF YOUR FIRE-THROWING PROTECTION THINGS HAS GONE HAYWIRE! ITS DESTROYING THE TREES AND THE DRYADS ARE GOING CRAZY!"

I cursed. "This is the second time today!"

"THATS THE POINT!"

I ran to the entrance of Bunker 9, pulling out a hammer from my toolbelt. Standing just outside the door, Calypso was holding a hose and spraying down the haywire fire-spitting gorgon while hiding with a protective spell. The automation was ignoring his attempts and ferociously throwing fireballs, my design, at the trees.

Percy was standing near the river, bending the water to drench down the trees. The dryads were screaming, disappearing and reappearing to their will, cursing at the machine in dryad language.

"Ouch." Calypso winced and muttered once. "That's gotta hurt."

Calypso, off of Ogygia and living in his, now, own, smaller, four-person cabin, would usually spend his days with me in Bunker 9, tinkering with something or helping me on a project. I was trying to patent-pend a set of drill-bits in the mortal world, to get me some fame and camp some more mortal money. Calypso would work on one project or another, some new wire for her garden or a machine for our camp business. It was keeping us a steady income of drachma. Sometimes she would practice her magic.

She would entertain me with stories of ancient Greece, and I would tell her jokes. She would laugh, sarcastically or no, and occasionally tap, 'I love you' in Morse code.

Sometimes, that scene would make me homesick for my mother.

I was ripped out of my memories as fireballs came hurtling towards me. I was unprepared, and lucky that I had Calypso to make me fireproof clothing.

Unfortunately, the handle of my hammer was not fireproof, and melted slowly.

"Aaah, Hades." I threw it down on a rock and summoned another one from my toolbelt. Running up to the automation, I took a baseball swing at it's face.

Note to self- protective gorgons are not immune to hammers smashing their face.

As Calypso and Percy finished hosing down the trees, some very annoyed dryads came over and chattered angrily at me and Calypso. She cringed a lot, and apologised quite a few times.

Once they were gone, she turned to me. "We should probably get rid of those things."

"Cal, this is only the... 19th time this week!"

"My point."

I groaned. "Fine. I'll make a better version of it yet, though! Monster traps, pits of fire-ooh ohh ohh! Idea! How about trapdoors that sense monsters, and open when they sense them?" I gasped and kept thinking. "What about, we get those monster-trapdoors, and put fire underneath them, so they die when the fall in! Unless they are fire-resistant... there's a sensor for that too. Then we'll put more and drown them! Or have a dispenser that shoots arrows, or! Swords that push out and in that stab the monsters! The the loot that is dropped... will fall down, into a container. So we can still get the loot of war, and some of it is actually useful. And they're INVISIBLE! So they don't see them! Plus we can have some phones or something, that attract the attention of monsters. Use our weakness against them! And put them outside camp, like around the barrier, so that they don't get into the camp or endanger demigods. And only on the forest side so that they don't endanger... the... Cal, you even listening?"

She had zoned out, inspecting the trees and the damage to them. "What? Oh. Yeah, monster traps, pits of fire, arrows, swords. Invisible.

I sighed. "Okay. Fine, we'll get rid of the fire shooting monster detectors. I'm going to start building the monster trap though!"

Calypso smacked her hand against her head. "Leo, how many monsters have been incarnated in the lifespan of those gorgons?"

"Like, four."

"How many of those were monsters that you could have taken out in one stab?"

"Like, three. That one werewolf, that would have taken two."

She sighed. "Leo, what is the point of monster traps?"

"Self defence."

"You could be working on another, more important and influential project! Like that drill-bit set. Or some more swords for the armoury!"

"You know I don't do swords."

"Or a hammer that shoots flames. Or a new series of weaponry, guns, cannons-"

"Demigods don't do guns. And I'm sick of onagers."

"Whatever!" She threw her hands up in the air. "You're a son of Hephaestus!"

"Daughter."

"For the sake of all that is good, Leo-"

I shut her up by pulling her into a kiss.

"I win." I smiled when I pulled away.

"You know that doesn't always work. Like now. You could be-"

I kissed her again.

"Don't make us have a full makeout session." I laughed.

"Wouldn't dream of it." She rolled her eyes.

"Cmon, lets go back to the bunker. I need to work on that drill-bit set that you go on about." I smiled and pulled her back to the workplace.

Thanks for reading, all! Thank you to all that have reviewed! need some new ideas, I have a few ideas, up to about chapter 12, but I expect to write more than 100 :)

Oh, someone asked for a timeline. Here it is.

I'm going to put it in the month it is in, Ima say... this one is in July, right after Leo's birthday (July 7)

Chapter 1. Beginning of June

Chapter 2. End of June

Chapter 3. Start of July

Chapter 4. July

Chapter 5. July

:) there will be snow. And Christmas, and birthdays. Thank you for reading :) *reviewcough*