Hello, hello, hello! I am glad to say that I ordered HOH on Amazon and I am in the middle of reading it! I am sorry for not posting, my WiFi has been in and out. I am proud to present chapter six! Keep the review coming, I got them all as I was writing this and it made me smile! Love you guys!

~DB

Leo tried to talk to Piper first. At first Piper went along like it was a joke, but as Leo began vividly describing Daley, she intervened. She thought Leo was suddenly a little crazy from the time spent on his own. Piper soon began actively avoiding Leo because he would get this wild look in his eyes and start rambling on about how she was just alone and how they had to turn back.

After a couple unsuccessful tries talking with Frank, Leo went to Hazel. Maybe she would know something. Daley had a radiated old power like Hazel and Nico, but also something older than both of them. Something like an essence, which could travel for millennium before finding a suitable host.

"Hazel, I met a girl in the mountains."

"There's no one living in the Apennines."

"Hazel, please listen to me. Hear me out. Jason locked me in the infirmary because he thought I was crazy."

"Okay, okay. What happened?"

Leo recalled the story, even about the part where he called her a freak. Then he described the old power she radiated.

"I died in the 1940's. I radiate an old power. But Daley, if she is real, sounds like she radiates ancient power, like an essence. In fact, I have a hunch that she might be an essence and that essence happened the pick her as a host."

"You believe me?" Leo asked.

"Let me do some research and talk with Nico, but if what you're describing is correct Daley Buttons is probably very much real. And if she is, we need to turn around and find her. She could unlock the Athena Parthenos."

Hazel wandered off to find her half brother, Nico. Leo dwelled on Hazel's words. She could unlock the giant ivory statue? Leo crossed the decks and made his way into the lower level. As he passed everyone, they stared at him. They looked at him. Jason scowled even harder at him. His savior had turned him into even more a seventh wheel.

Leo crawled into the Pegasus stables. He sat cross-legged in front of the statue's head and looked. Maybe there wasn't a pressure plate. Maybe there wasn't a button. The only thing Leo hadn't tried was voice activation. He took a deep breath and started pouring his heart out.

"My name is Leo Valdez." He started. "I was just ejected out of my own ship, the Argo II. I landed the Apennines and met a strange daughter of Athena named Daley Buttons. She saved my life. I want you to tell me how to get her back."

Nothing happened.

"You stupid statue!" Leo yelled, kicking it. "She deserves better than to be an outcast! Help me get her back you no good, fucking statue!"

Leo was yelling and crying and his foot really hurt where he had been kicking the statue. He flopped down on the stable's floor and just sobbed. She was gone. She probably wasn't real. He wasn't sure if he was even real anymore.

In a last ditch effort he looked at the statue pleadingly. "Help me." He whispered.

The statue's eyes began to glow.