Mark of Athena
A/N- I'm really soory for the long wait! I don't really have an excuse... But here's the next chapter!
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Chapter 5- Leo
Leo was doing pretty good with the whole Roman camp thing. Sure, there were some downsides, like it being stricter than Annabeth the day the Stoll's had prank called her, from Percy, but that one girl made up for it! She was hot. Smokin' hot. She was in charge. Because, who doesn't like women in power? And when Leo tried to gaze romantically into her eyes before the meeting started, she had slapped him across the face. Hard. He was sure that was going to leave a mark. Just his type.
Leo liked Percy too. Definitely not in the same way he liked Reyna! He seemed like a nice guy, but Leo was questioning his sanity. Exhibit A being the fact that he stood his ground with Annabeth screaming at him. That, and that he'd stood up to Hera, earned him Leo's permanent respect.
Just then, Rachel became surrounded by green smoke, and issued a prophecy. And, in Leo's opinion, it was just as creepy as the last time she'd done it.
"The seven shall travel to Greece and Rome,
They who were lost, shall be returned home.
One who was lost to the earth shall prevail,
And son of the sea shall face great betrayal,
When Wisdom's daughter walks alone,
The mark of Athena burns through Rome."
Percy looked pointedly at Octavian. "There's your proof."
Before Octavian could say anything, Annabeth stood and addressed the crowd. "I guess we know who the seventh demigod is," she said. "Me."
Now that she had voiced her idea, it made sense to Leo. Wisdom's daughter meant a daughter of Athena, or whatever the roman name was, and, as far as he could tell, there was only one in the meeting- Annabeth.
"Unless you have an idea?" Annabeth asked Leo's soon-to-be-girlfriend.
Reyna rose and addressed the crowd. "Romans, and Greeks! We have our seventh member of the prophecy- Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena!"
Leo clapped absentmindedly as all eyes turned to him. "What?" he asked. "We weren't supposed to clap?"
Piper elbowed him, hard, in the ribs. "No," she hissed. Loudly she told the crowd, "Don't mind Leo here. He's a bit... Confused."
"Hey! I resent that!"
"Shut up Leo!" Piper told him, before telling Reyna to continue. She looked at Leo, openly disgusted, before continuing.
"All that remains is to decide what support we shall give the quest, in the form of transportation, food, money, and weapons. Praetor Percy?"
Percy said quickly, "I vote we give the quest food and water supplies for at least a month. Transportation won't be a problem- there's the Argo 2 for that, and it's stocked with all the weapons we'll need. As for money, we'll probably need American, because with our luck, we'll probably need it, some..." He trailed off, looking pleadingly towards Annabeth. She immediately told him, "Drachmas and denarii", and he repeated it to Reyna, who nodded.
Leo thought that it must be nice to have a genius girlfriend.
Reyna nodded. "Centurions! Tell your cohorts to gather enough supplies for- How many people?"
Percy looked thoughtful. "The Seven for sure. We'll have to drop by Camp Half-Blood first, to drop off Rachel and the others," he trailed off mumbling something incoherent.
"Besides, the prophecy says, 'they who were lost, shall be returned home'. 'They who were lost' is obviously Percy and Jason. So, they both have to go home. Jason's done that by coming here, but Percy hasn't. Therefor, we have to go back to Camp."
Reyna nodded. "So, seven people, then?" she asked, and when Annabeth nodded, she called, "Centurions, you have your orders. Meeting dismissed!" before striding swiftly out the door.
Annabeth dismissed the campers, saying, "You guys can go- just don't do anything stupid." Before Connor could open his mouth, she continued, "And, to clarify, that means don't do anything you could get in trouble from. That means when Mr. D was camp director." Several campers looked disappointed, and Leo didn't blame them. From what he'd heard, they had a right to be disappointed.
Most of the campers left, including, surprisingly, Clarisse. Although, now that he'd thought about it, she'd probably fit right in here.
After Annabeth dismissed the campers, Jason ran after Reyna. Oh, he'd better not be going after my girl, Leo thought. Reyna was just his type, and Jason already had a girlfriend!
Leo had seen the pain in Reyna's eyes, though, when she first saw Jason and Piper holding hands. Usually, her face was a mask- devoid of all emotions, but Leo saw when it had cracked, for just a split second. There was obviously some sort of chemistry between the two, and he hoped that it wasn't anything romantic. Because if it was, he was screwed. Again.
Leo was broken out of his musings by a girl's voice asking him, "Sammy?" He turned around to see the speaker- a dark skinned girl, about thirteen, with startling gold eyes and curly brown hair. He thought she was one of the other members of the quest. Leo had met her earlier. Hazel maybe?
"Hey, Hazel," he drawled. "And it's Leo, not this Sammy person."
"Right. It's just that you remind me so much of him..." she trailed off. It was obviously an uncomfortable topic for her, so Leo let the matter drop.
"So, what do you want?" he asked, then cursed silently. It had come out sharper than he'd meant it too.
"Oh, it's just that Percy wants me to tell the prophecy group that there'll be a meeting later. He said something about us getting to know each other better?"
Leo grinned mischievously. "Is Reyna going to be there? 'Cause I could definitely get to know her better."
Hazel smiled slightly at him. "No, fortunately for her, she's off doing paperwork."
"Awww," Leo said, disappointed. Then he got it. "Wait a sec- hey!"
Now Hazel's smile was bigger, and she told him, "Meet us at the Argo 2 in about half an hour. Percy'll be done with his tour by then."
"Shouldn't Jason be showing us around?" Leo asked, confused. He'd seen how well Percy seemed to know his way around Camp Jupiter.
"Oh! Sorry, Jason's leading the tour around Camp Jupiter, while Annabeth shows Percy, Frank and I around the Argo 2. Jason offered to show her around too, but she said she'd rather spend some time with Percy."
"That's because Jason managed to draw her a map of this camp. By now, she probably knows how to get around here better than he does!"
"Wow," Hazel said, gold eyes open in surprise, "She's really smart, then?"
Leo snorted. "She's a daughter of Athena. Of course she is! Just dont ask that anywhere near Annabeth. She's a bit- uptight."
"Really? She doesn't seem like it. She was really nice, actually."
"Really?" Every time Leo'd talked to her over the past few months, it'd ended up with her either mad at him, or ready to challenge him to a duel. He wasn't quite sure which he liked less...
The door flew open and a kid rushed in, panting. He was young; maybe ten or eleven, with blonde hair and grey eyes, and he was panting like he'd just ran a marathon.
"Monsters... Attacking..." he managed to get out. All the demigods immediately sprang to their feet and ran towards the kid, who looked about to collapse.
"Where?" Annabeth asked, all business.
"Near... The-the field of... Mars..."
Annabeth immediately took charge of the situation. "You there," she pointed to a guy with brown hair and blue eyes standing nearby, "Make sure he's okay," she pointed to the kid, recovering on the floor. "Everyone else with me!"
She sprinted out the door, making everyone eat her dust.
When Leo made it through the crowd, and out the door, Annabeth was far, far ahead of everybody else. He ran after her, only to be almost knocked over by an eagle flying by. These Romans sure had strange things going on.
He continued running until he found the statue of Terminus he had left his tool belt at. Leo picked up his tool belt, swung it around his waist, and continued running, pulling out a hammer as he ran.
Leo arrived on scene just in time to hear a girl scream...
A/N- I really don't know when the next update will be, but it should be up sooner!