Hey people! Ok so here's the next chapter- Leo's point of view. Yeah I'm so happy for this chapter, I was telling a friend of mine my ideas and I had her laughing so hard she was crying. I'm not sure you'll do that but I have hope. So enjoy, and no, I do not have writers block. I've had like five people ask me that- not that I mind. It's just I feel compelled to say if I don't post for a while it's probably because I'm busy at the moment. Any ways thanks for reviewing and I hope you like this chapter.
Leo
"So what have you been up to, Leo?" Jason asked. Leo grinned "Oh, nothing much." There was no way in Hades he was going to tell them about his project yet.
"I know that smile. Percy gets it a lot. Your up to something." Annabeth said as Percy grinned as he played with her hair. "Don't tell them, dude. It'll drive them crazy." Leo laughed "I wasn't planning to."
"It also ends up with Percy almost dying." Annabeth commented as Percy rolled his eyes "That's only happened like… never mind." He said. Hazel watched them, her gold eyes thoughtful. "Hey Hazel, can you turn on the T.V.? I want to check the news." Piper said, leaning back on the couch.
Hazel blinked wide eyes "Huh?" she asked. "It's okay Hazel, I got it." Frank said, getting up from his spot next to her and walking over to the plasma T.V. Leo frowned as Percy asked "When will we get to Camp Half- Blood?" Leo looked over at him, and saw the nervousness and anxiety on his face. He guessed disappearing for eight months and then going back home will do that to a guy.
Leo checked his watch. "About two hours. Maybe less." Percy nodded and Annabeth smiled at him. "Your mom is going to be so happy." Percy winced "That is after she's done yelling at me." Annabeth laughed "Yeah, after that most likely."
The news came on suddenly and they all looked over at the T.V. screen. "Another earthquake shook Rome today. Geologist and puzzled on why these earthquakes keep accruing in Rome and Greece." They all tuned out and looked at each other.
"Gaea is closer to waking." Jason growled. Percy nodded a serious frown on his face. "Yeah. When we get to camp I'll see if I can get in touch with Poseidon. He after all is the god of earthquakes." Jason asked "Why don't you call him Dad or Father?"
Percy's face darkened, and his eyes looked like a sea storm was accruing. It made Leo shiver. "Don't get me wrong, I like my dad. But we're not exactly buddy-buddy." His face suddenly lit up and Leo thought about how quickly Percy's emotions changed. It was kind of freaky.
"I'm not very good friends with my mother either. Most of us aren't. Like Luke hated his-" Annabeth stopped, a pained expression coming over her face. Percy turned his face away from them, but not after he saw the guilty, sad expression on his face.
"You know what?" Hazel suddenly said "I think sense we are all going to be on this boat together for who knows how long, we should put everything out there." Piper raised an eyebrow "Like tell each other about our lives?" Hazel nodded.
"Yes. I only know Jason, Frank, and Percy really. The rest of you I know almost nothing about." Percy nodded slowly. "That's a good idea. We shouldn't keep secrets from each other. Not on anything, our past or present stuff."
"Wait." Leo said hands raised. "Are we going to have one of those stupid Hallmark moments were we all cry and go into like supreme detail about our lives? Because if we are, I'm leaving." They all laughed "Heck no. We'll just tell main details of what has happened in our lives. Deal?" Hazel asked as everyone nodded.
"Okay, who first?" Jason asked. "I will." Frank grumbled. "So basically, I lived with my mom and grandma except a few months ago when I came to Camp Jupiter. My mom died in the war and my grandmother when she was helping us with our quest." He gestured to Hazel and Percy. "And my life depends on a half burned stick. Who's next?" he said.
"Wait, your life depends on a half burned stick?" Leo asked, amazed. Frank frowned "Hera decide I was to powerful being the son of Mars and having ancient Poseidon blood, in which I can shape shift." Leo turned to Percy "That's got to bug you." He laughed.
Percy nodded "I know, it's not fair. My cousin or I guess nephew or whatever gets the cool power." Frank looked at him in a way that said they'd had this conversation a few times. "How is it not fair? You can breathe underwater, cause earthquakes, create tsunamis and hurricanes, and talk to horses and sea animals. And I can just shape shift and I die if my stick burns out." Percy laughed "Whatever, let's just continue."
"Okay I guess I'll go next. My mom gave me to Juno when I was two to spare herself. I went to Camp Jupiter, was there for years, became praetor, I've been on a couple quest, defeated the Titan Kilos (I think that's right), Juno stole me, erased my memories, I went on a quest with Leo and Piper, defeated a giant with my dad's help, and have been helping Leo build this ship the past few months." Percy nodded, looking impressed "That's amazing, dude. It takes a lot to do all that."
Leo could see Jason was surprised by Percy's compliment. "I'll go." Piper said. "Well, my dad's Tristan Mclean-" all them but Frank and Percy glanced at Hazel, waiting for her to freak out. But she just looked puzzled. "When I borrowed a car from a dealership I got sent to the Wilderness School, were I met Leo and Jason. Well, actually more like a Mist version of Jason." They both blushed at this. "Then I went to Camp Half- Blood, found out my mom was Aphrodite, went on a quest, and when we got back I took the position as head counselor of the Aphrodite cabin."
"Hazel, Leo or Annabeth. Which one wants to go next?" Percy asked. "What about you?" Leo asked him as Percy winced. "My story might take a while." He said modestly. "Okay then, I guess I'll go." Leo said cheerfully.
"Okay, well Hera used to babysit me when I was younger. Tried to barbecue me in my fireplace when I was like one or two once, um, I've known I was going to build this ship sense I was like five, Dirt Lady tricked me to killing my mom when I was trying to protect her when I was sevenish, and sense then I've been running from foster home from foster home till now."
"I'm sorry, Leo. That sucks." Percy said and Hazel nodded. "I'll go then Hazel, then Percy." Annabeth elbowed Percy in the ribs and he frowned at her before smiling.
"I lived with my dad, step mom, and half brothers till I was seven in which I ran away because I didn't feel like they got me. I met Thalia and… Luke then and we ran around killing monsters for a while till Grover, a satyr, found us and took us to Camp Half- Blood. Though Thalia didn't make it, she made her final stand on top of the hill and Zeus took pity on her when she was about to die and turned her to a pine tree meant to protect camp. When I was twelve Percy came to camp, I went on a quest with him, snuck out of camp with him and went to save Grover with him at the Sea of Monsters. Then the next year I got kidnapped and Luke tricked me to holding up the sky, and then the goddess Artemis took my spot, but I was to hurt to really leave, then Percy came along with the Hunter of Artemis- saved us from the Titan Atlas- he did something I'll let him tell you, and we went back to camp. Then the next year we went into the Labyrinth to find Daedalus for my quest. We found him; he gave us pairs of wings to fly away from his tower and his laptop. Then I helped in the battle for Olympus in which Percy defeated Kronos."
"I didn't do anything." Leo heard Percy grumble and Annabeth looked at him. They seemed to be having a silent conversation, and it was silent for a minute. "Hazel, it's your turn." Percy finally said. Hazel swallowed thickly.
"Um, well… I was born in the 1900s around 1960. My mother summoned Pluto and he was amazed by her and offered her one gift. She chose that all the riches in the earth be hers. That curse went to me, so if you see any precious gems and metals suddenly, don't touch them. You'll end up dead or something like that. My mom started to work for Gaea and we moved to Alaska, the realm beyond the gods. Then my mom and Gaea had me raise gems and that stuff and create the giant Alcyoneus, and then I killed myself and my mother, so that Gaea couldn't use us as the sacrifices to raise him all the way." All of them but Percy and Frank were gapping at Hazel. She took a deep breath and continued.
"When me and my mother were being judged I took part of my mother's punishment and we both went to the Fields of Asphodel. I kept my memories and eventually Nico came by. He was looking for his sister Bianca-" Percy winced at this and Annabeth smooth his hair with her hand "but she had chosen rebirth and so he took me. And I've been at Camp Jupiter sense."
"Wow, I had no clue." Jason said, looking shocked. Hazel shrugged "That's because I didn't tell anyone, till Percy and Frank." Frank shivered, as if remembering something horrible.
"I guess it's my turn." Percy signed. "Okay, I might as well start." Annabeth took out her knife suddenly and began to clean it. "Really?" Percy asked and she shrugged. "I know most of this stuff. I was there for more than half of it and you told me the rest." Percy rolled his eyes.
With a deep breath Percy began "When I was twelve I was at a museum for a school field trip, Grover, who I didn't know was a satyr at the time was my best friend and Chiron was pretending to be my Latin teacher." Frank interrupted "You mean the actual Chiron? Like trained heroes in Hercules day?" Percy nodded "Yup. Any ways, I was attacked by my math teacher who was actually a Fury, I killed her with Riptide, then I went to camp where I fought a Minotaur just outside the borders and Hades stole my mother. I found out that I was the son of Poseidon, and that Zeus thought I stole his master bolt, so I went on a quest to get it back and my mother." Percy continued with his story, trying to make it sound not like a big deal, though that was hard and Annabeth interrupted a lot saying how something actually went.
Percy told about the Sea of Monsters (Leo laughed at the part where he got turned into a ginepig) and how he saved his Grover from the tux wearing Cyclopes. After that Percy turned pleading eyes to Annabeth "Will you tell about the next quest?" She shook her head. "No. I wasn't even with you guys, and her dying wasn't your fault." Percy's face turned guilty and sad "I should have been the one to go into that thing and destroy it. It was my idea."
"Who are you talking about?" Hazel asked nervously. Percy closed his eyes and signed "Bianca. Nico's sister. The quest to save Annabeth I wasn't supposed to go on, but I felt I had to. For Annabeth and Nico. He was ten at the time and I promised him when I left I would keep his sister safe. Instead when we went into the Junkyard of the Gods one of Hephaestus's old machines went haywire and tried to kill us. I figured out how to destroy it and wanted to be the one to do so. After all, it was risky and I wasn't even supposed to be on the quest. Instead Bianca went, while she destroyed it she died in the process."
There was silence and Annabeth took over for Percy quietly, who was silent and Leo could tell the guy was struggling to compose himself. "So finally they found me and Artemis, and one of the Hunters who was the daughter of him fought him and Percy took Artemis's spot holding up the sky. We tricked Atlas into taking the sky again, but by then the Hunter- Zoe- was dying and we couldn't save her. So Artemis sent her spirit into the stars and now she forever runs among them. You can see her constellation."
"I can take over now." Percy said and continued on with his story. He told how he'd found Nico again and how Nico had finally forgiven him for his sister's death, how he had to clean the stables of man-eating horses, the labyrinth, Rachael Dare (now the host for the Oracle of Delphi), fighting in the area against a Titan, meeting Daedalus, and so on.
He then went on to his next trip to the Underworld were he got the mark of Achilles (he would say his one vulnerable point though Annabeth looked like she knew), and all the stuff in between that and fighting Kronos.
"Kronos was inside a guy name Luke's body. When we got to them, me and Annabeth, I had to make the choice to give him Annabeth dragger to kill for Luke to kill himself and end the war, or not to. I did and Luke, who had also bathed in the River Sphinx and had his own mark of Achilles, and he killed himself. And so the war ended and everyone began to say I killed Kronos when actually Luke did because he killed himself."
Percy shrugged as Annabeth glared daggers at him. "You did kill him. The world would have been destroyed if you hadn't done what you did. You had to trust your worst enemy." Percy looked at her and signed "Any ways, that's my story." Every one stared at him. Jason's eyes were bulging out of his skull; Leo's jaw was probably on the floor with Hazel's and Piper's. And Frank looked shocked.
"You say it like it's not a big deal!" Piper exclaimed. "It's not; really. It gets kind of annoying after a while hearing about yourself and your quest." Percy shrugged.
Suddenly, there was a beeping noise and Leo glanced at his watch. "Approaching Camp Half-Blood." It read and he smiled and looked up at everyone. "We're here." He said.
Okay hope you liked it, it didn't really turn out how I planned. But oh well. And sorry if I got some facts wrong or missed some important details. I just wanted to get this chapter done with like half way through and became kind of careless. But I hope you liked it still and will continue reading. After all they just arrived at Camp Half-Blood and *Hint* Percy gets to go visit a very special someone that was mentioned in this chapter. Ha-ha. I'll post soon probably.