Mark of Athena

Leo

"Leo, you okay?" Piper asked, eyes full of concern. I nodded half-heartedly and sighed. Why does Hazel look so familiar? Why do I care? What's happening to me? Piper smiled warmly and plopped on my bed. "There's something wrong, I can feel it." I looked away embarrassed. I will never talk to an Aphrodite girl about my feelings. I mean Pipers cool and all but her moms Aphrodite, what am I supposed to do?

"Leo, do you know where- Oh, hey Piper!" Jason interrupted. Thank Gods, now I don't have to talk about my feelings!

"I'm on it!" I said a little too quickly, and stormed out the room. I had no idea where I was going. I passed Annabeths room, the control room, and the pilot's room, (a.k.a. Leo's Lounge!) and stopped at the end of the ship, ignoring everyone's greetings. I stared at Camp Jupiter thinking about Hazel. Her dark eyes, her curly long hair- no! I don't even know her. What am I thinking- horses, cupcakes, 1900's! How do I know this? I flicked fire through my hands back and fourth, then fourth and back not knowing what I was really doing until I accidentally set the bench on fire. I quickly put it out and set out for breakfast.

"Hey Leo!" Annabeth called out, holding Percy tightly against her side, like making sure he wasn't going to dare look at any other girl besides her. Annabeths hair was in the usual ponytail, and the usual Camp Half-Blood shirt was on.

"Hey Annabeth, Percy" I replied dryly looking at the floor. Percy smiled warmly and nodded. They walked together to the Mess Hall in silence, Annabeth distracted by all the architecture, Percy trying very hard to do the same. It was the first time I noticed the SPQR tattoo Jason has on his arm, except Jason has an eagle and 12 lines, while Percy has a trident and 1 line. Interesting. My ADHD got the best of me and I blurted out.

"Hey Percy, what's up with you're tattoo."

"Yeah, I was wondering about that two." Annabeth added. Percy flashed his intimidating tattoo, which gave me the chills, and made me want to run all the way back to New York.

"Oh this?" Percy asked "Oh it just means I've done one year of duty or something like that." Annabeth laughed and looked at Percy with an amused smile, which led to a confused look on Percy's face. Getting the hint she tried to explain to him that he should know what it means. Her speech went on for about ten minutes until she finally finished.

"And that's why you should know!" Annabeth ended. Percy just nodded, obviously not knowing what she just said. Reyna came over. (The really hot but scary leader person) and just nodded at Percy. He looked like he completely understood what she meant.

"I gotta go." He said to Annabeth, " I got praetor stuff to do, see you at the Mess Hall."

"Yeah, see you." She replied disappointedly clutching her fists tightly, like she wanted to punch something… or someone. Percy sprinted after Reyna, and left Annabeth and I alone in awkward silence.

"Sooo…" I started.

"Don't even talk to me." She cut me off. I raised my hands in surrender and had a slight smirk on my lips,

"Whaaateveer you say master!" I replied mockingly. She answered with a glare and stomped away. I walked on until I spotted Piper. She saw me, and her whole face lit up like a Christmas tree, but just not with colorful lights and things. Piper motioned for me to come over. I obeyed and skipped to Piper remembering my old self for a second.

"Someone's happy!" She greeted me. I just nodded trying to hide my confusion, or she'll want to talk about feelingsagain.

"Shall we frolic to the Mess Hall?" I asked holding my arm out.

"We shall!" She answered. Once we finally reached the Mess Hall; we sat next to Annabbeth, Hazel and Frank. Percy, Jason and Reyna were still nowhere to be found.

"Where's Percy?" Piper asked. Annabeth's face twisted into pure anger and jealousy.

"I. Don't. Know." She growled sounding very much like a child of Ares. Then her face softened a bit after a minute of scary silence "Sorry" She sighed, "I'm just- just worried that… never mind." Then she went back to her cranky self and glared at her corn. I let a small smile escape just for one millisecond, but that was enough for her. Annabeth growled and stabbed her bread, probably pretending it was me, and turned away. Once Percy returned all the tenseness around washed away.

"Hey Wise Girl!" Percy joked behind her. Annabeth jumped and smiled at Percy.

"Shut up Seaweed Brain!" She laughed. Annabeth was so much nicer when Percy is around! When she doesn't look like she wants to stab someone with her knife she actually looks really pretty.

"Hey Percy!" Hazel chirped looking away from her eggs, "What took you so long. You missed like half of breakfast!" Frank nodded in agreement. Just after he did that Reyna, and Jason came over.

"Hey Reyna!" I said hopefully, while a fire blazed across my hand "You look hotter then ever." Hazel, and Frank both jumped at my little fire and cowered away, while Jason cringed at my words. And Piper cringed at Jason cringing. Reyna just scowled and sat down looking important.

"As you can see, we must get this quest going soon." She announced nodding at everyone." We all know who's going right? Percy, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Annabeth, Frank, and…" She scowled again "Leo" I smiled proudly and gave my best superman pose.

"You're going to Rome then Greece, find Nico in the process, and find the Doors Of Death then save the world." We all nodded in agreement, some more slowly than others (Hazel) Reyna made it sound so easy, but it so isn't!

"Okay we will pack some supplies to go, then leave tomorrow at the crack of dawn." Annabeth continued, we all nodded in agreement once again and headed out.