AN; Ok folks, here's the next chapter, I wasn't going to tell anyone Leo's secret, but I do like the idea recommended by a reviewer called AnimeAngel4ever200 of a conversation between Chaos and Chiron, in which Chaos explains the circumstances. Thanks for that idea! So that is what will happen. But as it is a sort of point in my plot to have Chiron mistrust Leo till book 2, the conversation won't happen soon.

Chapter 6:

In Which Leo Did NOT Steal a Lightning Bolt, But Gets Crushed by a Wall Anyway.

Time skip to winter solstice.

Leo was lying awake, he had this weird feeling that something was about to happen. He had had it all day, but had tried to laugh it off; it couldn't be anything super important. That was until he had seen the calendar on the way to bed. Tomorrow was the winter solstice, and the day everything kicked off. Tomorrow was the day that Zeus's bolt and Hades's helm would go missing. Or rather, would be stolen by Luke.

He had asked Chaos if it wouldn't be simpler to just kill Luke and stop the war before it happened, and had been given a long lecture about how fate must come to pass, and how if the Titans didn't rise now, they'd just rise later on, when the gods were unprepared... ect ect. Suffice to say it was a bad idea. So according to Chaos, for the Titan war, Leo was just damage control, it wasn't until the Giant war he would really start to change things.

Leo took another glance at the calendar; he didn't have anything to worry about, at least nothing that warranted lack of sleep. However if he couldn't sleep, he might as well do something productive...

Prank! Leo leapt out of bed, and after removing a box from his bedside table, made his way slowly to the bathroom, thanking Hephaestus that his balance had improved since he had arrived in the past; being shrunk upset your balance completely. When he reached the bathroom, he opened the box, and selected a dye. Boy's bathroom... Bright pink dye! He smeared some of the thick dye inside the taps, and smirked, every time water came out, it would be pink. He then made his way to the showers, and did the same on every other shower.

On his way back to the dorm, he saw the corridor leading to the girl's bathroom, why leave them out of the fun? Ten minutes later, the girl's taps and showers were sea blue. He stood in the corridor and looked up and down, aware that there would be a patrolling teacher soon. A light came round the corner, and he darted into the girl's toilets of the year above. A brainwave struck Leo, he still had dye... Why shouldn't he make it a whole school prank?

At five am Leo was back in his bed, rubbing his hands and chuckling quietly to himself. He couldn't wait to see people's faces... Especially the staff, he hadn't spared their showers either. It was hard getting to them though, considering each sleep in staff member had an ensuite. It had been easy to disconnect the cameras in the corridors, too easy for a son of Leo's dad. Leo fell asleep with a smirk on his face.

And was woken up by a yell. As Leo opened his tired eyes, he saw a pink haired kid come running into the dorm. "Someone's turned the water pink!" Leo snickered, ah, what a perfect start to the solstice...

Within ten minutes the entire school was in uproar. The headmaster, Mr Leadon, called an assembly, and made the unaffected people sit on one side, and those who had taken a shower this morning on the other side. Leo and Grover had been unaffected, and were sitting next to each other, watching pink-haired Percy join the rainbow on the other side of the hall. Grover and Leo had become pretty good friends after Leo had talked with Chiron, and he knew that Leo was a demigod.

Leo had decided to stick close to Grover today, even after his oath on the Styx, he didn't think that Chiron trusted him, and he defiantly didn't want to be a suspect for the missing bolt. He didn't have 'killed by the gods' very high on his list of spectacular ways to die. Nor did he want it joining 'killed by Cyclops axe' on ways he had died. He knew that Grover would defend him to Chiron, Percy would as well, but as Percy was also a suspect, his defence wouldn't help Leo much.

The head teacher, who no-one could take seriously with his bright green hair, was walking up and down the stage ranting about responsibility, and 'being brave enough to step forward and accept the consequences of your actions'. Leo wasn't really listening, until the head began to say that all sports events and interschool activities would be postponed until the culprit came forward.

Well, that was just not cool. It had only been a little prank... Maybe a big prank, an entire school prank, but it didn't hurt anyone; there was no point in cancelling things. It wasn't like Leo had killed anyone. But then again, if he were standing at the front of the assembly, even with Chiron not here, surely a member of staff would tell him about the prank Leo had pulled, which would further clear his name.

Leo stood up amongst the mutters and groans, and called out to the front, "You know, it's really not fair to punish the entire school for my one little prank." The whispers stopped, and then started again, louder. "You should probably not cancel the sports stuff now, it's not like I'm in any of the teams."


Eleven hours later, Leo was sitting eating tea with Percy and Grover. Everyone had tried washing the dye out of their hair, but Percy was the only one it had worked for, which he found highly amusing. Leo had a month's worth of detentions, which he found completely unfair, all he had done was changed a load of people's hair colour, that didn't warrant a month's detention, surely.

Suddenly a loud burst of thunder made everyone jump, and a number of drinks fall to the floor, and a storm suddenly started outside, with lightning aiming toward the school, the sudden wind caused the glass windows to blow in, and shattered glass fly over the tables by the windows. Then there was a mild tremor in the ground, a mini earthquake around the school that sent more jugs of water plunging to the floor.

The teacher all stood up, and began ushering the students into the gym, as it didn't have any windows, as the storm continued to rage outside, and the shards of glass were picked up by the winds, and flew right to Leo's table; in fact, Leo noticed, and the three of them rushed out the door, they all struck exactly where Percy had been sitting...


Leo was thinking that perhaps Zeus had just discovered the lack of his master bolt. It was just the sort of thing he would do, upon realising that the bolt was missing, immediately blame the brother who has annoyed you recently, and attack his son. Leo had seen the way the glass had tried to attack Percy, how the worst thundering, and harsh winds seemed to be just behind the wall that the three of them were leaning against.

Grover didn't seem to have missed the glass incident either, if the amount of worry in the looks he was sending Percy was any indication. The satyr looked absolutely terrified. By the look on Percy's face, Grover's glances were starting to make him uncomfortable. Ok brainstorm, thought Leo; that was a weird expression to be using now, when there was an actual storm outside... Sometimes Leo hated ADHD, sure it kept him alive, but it was so irritating while it did so. Back to thinking up ways to stop Percy feeling freaked out by Grover, that wouldn't work well in their friendship, and since when had he been a peacekeeper? Got it!

"Hey G-man, stop freaking out, me and Percy are fine, the storm ain't going to kill us." Well thought Leo, with an ear out for the wind outside, it ain't trying to kill me. Percy... Not so lucky. Grover gave a little nod, but still looked at Percy like the ceiling was about to fall on him, Schist! Leo hadn't thought of that.

Leo whispered in Percy's ear, "My old friend, Ryan, had a fear like that; he watched too many shows where people were electrocuted and killed by lightning, every time there was a storm he thought it would happen to him. Or one of his friends." So what if Ryan was completely made up, is proved a point, and Percy wasn't looking freaked out at Grover anymore, so that was a plus.

There was a sudden groaning from above them, and a bit of dust fell from the roof, looked like Grover's fear might be happening after all. Great! Then the doors at the other end of the gym opened and Chiron came through, in his wheelchair, and Mr Brunner disguise. Grover went straight over to talk to him, and he saw Chiron sending suspicious looks in his direction. He sighed; it seemed that Chiron still didn't trust him.

Leo heard the wind swell alarmingly, and heard Chaos in his head, "look out!" He just had time to push Percy away, before the wall collapsed on him; and the world turned dark.